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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 gotta tell you, we're of course coming at you from the uh studios of KOGO Radio in uh 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 and just like when r when Russia's out, it all hits the fan.
When I'm out, uh it all hits the fan here in uh San Diego in Southern California.
Uh a federal judge, while I was gone, a federal judge, ordered the removal, the destruction of a cross on top of Mount Soledad uh in La Jolla here in San Diego, uh that has been there since uh 1954 that was erected by the um 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 uh concrete covered with uh granite plaques placed by grateful families commemorating their veteran, uh their uh loved one who served uh in the armed forces of this country.
My father has one there, he 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 uh 1300-year-old Buddha that had been carved into the side of a mountain because it was uh somehow uh desecration of Islam.
Of course, that kind of intolerance was condemned everywhere.
That kind of uh obvious um bias, that kind of obvious uh barbarianism was condemned everywhere, and yet here, right here in California, right here in San Diego, a federal judge says, tear it down.
Teared down a cross.
Well, my listeners out here, I 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 uh then the City Council refused to give the land over.
Uh we went out and got signatures, put it on the ballot.
Seventy-six percent of voters voted yes, transfer the land to the Fed so it can be incorporated into the National War Memorial um the park system.
And uh and still it hasn't happened.
And now a federal judge says tear it down.
Uh we are uh uh if needs be.
I mean, if if a hundreds of thousands of people illegally in this country can turn out to demand their quote rights, unquote.
Uh I don't see why we can't turn out uh to uh demand that the cross stay where it is as it is.
So uh just to tell you that the battles out here in California maybe make what you're going through in your community seem a little little better.
We're 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 twelfth 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 twelfth 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 uh 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, uh, 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. Newdao is declaring the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it claim it claims it contains the word God, oh my.
And um, the appeals court to Ninth Circuit also overturned 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 I f I just fell out.
I'm I'm so you I'm as a Californian, I'm so used to outrage that I think I've become numb to it until something comes along that that proves that I'm not.
This is the week that uh Assemblyman Rudy Bermudes revealed that 31 violent 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 I cannot explain to you.
Released from prison, but but 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 their uh can you imagine being a sex offender?
You're a little bewildered now.
You you want me to go to Disneyland where there's a lot of children.
You're gonna house me at your expense at a hotel room, uh a hotel room near Disneyland.
Have I just died and gone to pervert heaven?
What is this?
Unbelievable.
Assemblyman Bermuda's found out that 259 registered sex offenders live in Anaheim alone.
Nineteen of them in violation of their parole.
Of course, they're going to, you know, where if somebody is saying uh why did you uh in answer to the question, why did you rob banks?
Because that's where the money is.
Why did you go to Disneyland?
Well, I went to Disneyland 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 gonna 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 angel's 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 angel's 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 up, 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 I want to make you feel better about where you are.
Because I'll tell you what, in this state, oh, things are going from bad to worse fast.
I want to get to the NSA issue to the uh 1938 feeling I'm having about Iran and um and into uh how how good the economy is actually doing.
It's um remarkable.
Also about those gas prices.
Oh, yeah.
We've got something to say about that as well.
Taking your calls at 1800-282-2882.
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 KOGO 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.
It's 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 uh says NSA has 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 whom.
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 to uh 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 on 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 uh 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 what is the objection here?
Now, Lindsey Graham, um, 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.
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 um the only part of that that I thought was self-revelatory and accurate was I'm clueless.
I'm clueless.
Yeah.
So uh 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 the uh 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 uh leaving this country to go back to terrorist training camps, coming back and denying it was just tourism.
Uh it was it was ecotourism.
I was there uh to uh to make sure that the gun butts on my 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 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 uh imams and their uh juju bees, whoever they are uh 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 uh did a a wonderful job of reminding people, A, we're at war.
Uh B, we're only targeting Al Qaeda, and C, uh, 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.
Anyway, the United States Supreme Court, uh, when was it?
In ninety seven.
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 uh, you know, TV, radio, everybody in the media, CBS, NBC, uh 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 uh 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 uh on the border, and you'll hear more of that today.
Uh I get uh 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, uh, yeah, we have a massive database.
It's not new.
Uh the uh Republicans in Congress and the Democrats in Congress, including Leaky Lehey, 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 US.
See, there's an article.
It's about mining or something, and I don't uh uh they're 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, nineteen ninety-nine.
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 uh the guy who was kicked off of uh American Idol last night, and I'm just it's so unfair.
So I don't know, was it nineteen ninety nine?
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 um 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.
I uh Danny, I I want to encourage you to come because since all of this uproar, the actual final chapter of this particular ugly story is that the um 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 uh 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 LA County, they'll have to be moved out to rural counties.
Now the rural farmer folks are getting upset.
So we've got 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 it's 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 should uh you know he doesn't want to brag, and I guess uh I want to brag a little bit for him because uh there was a study done, uh survey, of uh 1120 regular listeners to um AM and FM talk radio.
And they were trying to figure out who do listeners really respect, who do they really know?
Well, uh Rush Limbaugh is uh the most uh under the this is the study quote now, quote, the most widely identified radio talk show host in America, ninety-four percent of Americans indicating they know who he is.
Ninety-four percent.
Uh Stern, who's lost uh what, three quarters of his audience now, is uh is is a distant number two, and the rest of them fall off the chart.
So again, it's a privilege to uh be here filling in for Rush at the Limbaugh Institute.
Let's take some calls.
Here's uh Ed in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ed, go ahead.
Uh hello, Roger.
I want to say first, I really enjoy hearing you when you stand in for Rush.
Thank you.
Uh I of course I'm a great Rush fan, but you you're just great and I appreciate listening to you.
The point I want to make is uh having listened to uh all of the uh uh ridiculous things that are taking place in 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 in the public by publishing their names and in some cases even getting their pictures in and various uh publications.
But so long as the people who make these stupid choices uh uh remain anonymous uh as if these decisions are coming down from some god up in heaven instead of human beings, we're gonna continue to have this sort of thing.
I agree.
I agree, Ed, and it's something we're I would argue let let's put some names at least.
Let's publicize who it is that is that uh who are these people who are doing these ridiculous things?
And then maybe we can get them out of public life.
Well, I gr I totally agree with you, and I'm I only mentioned one.
I should have mentioned more.
This uh Superior Court judge Robert Friedman is the one who says uh 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 uh 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.
Um with reference to this uh this quote invitation that uh President Ahmadinajad just issued to President Bush.
Yeah.
Uh what I want to say is, and this has been discussed, uh, there's an article today in the World Net Daily, that uh this letter bears the marks, it bears the pattern of uh what was used by the the invading jihadi Muslim armies within uh the early years of uh the Islamic conquest.
And ironically, uh Iran, you know, ancient Persia, the leaders of Iran were issued an identical letter just prior to their uh having been conquered by the 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.
people are talking and it definitely bears the pattern and it's definitely something that takes 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 Unabomber.
I mean, this is the most incredibly crazy rambling nonsense that I've, it's a wonder he didn't demand that it be published in the New York Times like the Unabomber did.
But what's important is that we focus on his point of view.
What is his point of view?
And 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 get into the president of Iran's mind for a moment because he lives in the 7th 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?
day on Islamic theology.
Because that's exactly where he's coming from.
There isn't any question about it.
In fact, if we miss the point of the letter, if Americans are so caught up in the 21st century that we've missed the 7th 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.
Thank you.
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 Shi'ite Messiah and the Mahdi is actually the twelfth Imam who disappeared in the year 941 as a child apparently while visiting Disneyland.
No no just through that in uh in the year 941 the Imam the twelfth imam I don't know whether it'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 uh 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 uh 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 uh 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 eight hundred two eight two eight eight two 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 uh this is something we should take advantage of.
How?
By uh sending a little bit of a negotiation team to uh talk to the Iranian leadership with the idea of uh showing the Iranian people that we are not the great Satan because the uh as as many people know the Iranian people do not heartily support the uh the current leadership and the current regime in Iran.
Well, some of them don't.
Uh 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 I think that this is a diplomatic opportunity, even though the letter was crude and the and we certainly don't agree with the statement.
I think that uh something should be done that could be followed up.
So what would you say?
So what would you say, Pete?
You're the head of the uh new uh commission to respond to the letter by flying to Tehran and meeting with uh the president of Iran.
Uh, I don't think we should go to that high level of uh of meeting right now because that would lend legitimacy to the government there, but I think we should send uh Secretary Rice to meet uh somewhere in a neutral third country with uh some of the Iranian leadership.
Okay, in other words, to try to foment an alternative uh to try to do a uh uh re uh a reverse uh uh on the on the Mullahs who took over in 79 by by and by getting uh other Iranians to get support.
Well, just to show them that there is an alternative to their to their current government, yes, sir.
We should do that.
Although, you know, I just I don't know how you respond to a letter from the seventh century.
I mean, I think we got to remind this guy that um 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 twenty-first century we are of the of the mind that everyone should be respected and allowed to pursue their own beliefs on an individual level, and the idea that uh you're going to conquer the world for your ideology is uh going to be met uh well with force.
Because that's the only thing he's gonna understand.
You see, this has happened so many times before.
This isn't new, Pete.
Uh we had to have a Polish general save Vienna in what, the 14th century, when the Turks were surging into Europe saying, uh 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 uh students were rioting in France, they were holding up, and even over the last weekend I saw is holding up signs uh saying uh behead the unbelievers.
This is 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 uh set.
Uh it is a very clear accept Islam, repent, you have your last chance.
I've given you what Islam requires, a warning uh 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 Hitchcock, In for Rush, taking a short break.
We have made here at the uh Limbaugh Institute a uh command uh 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.
Uh the thing uh is obviously so preposterous in every respect that it uh just mentioning it, I think is the rebuttal to any credibility to uh to the Da Vinci Code.
Um 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 uh Bush uh 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 DC 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 uh 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 uh with spy apparatus to listen to your conversations.
Now I could save the government money.
It costs about five hundred dollars a day.
I could go ahead and for two hundred and fifty dollars to the government, I would record my own conversation, send this in, and then I would save the other two hundred and fifty dollars.
They could put that towards uh 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.
You're your and I said, Oh my god, I thought somebody was telling 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 the 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 uh moment here on the program.
Again, the uh listening audience uh constantly uh learning from this program and feeding back.
Just great, great stuff, Bill.
That's exactly right.
Um look, on this day in which uh 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 uh election, sort of like a uh uh an Egyptian election.
If you have an opponent, uh they deserve to be in jail.
I mean, it's obviously uh a traitorous and treasonous for someone to have to to oppose uh me.
Uh the pharaoh, uh Mubarak.
Why are we giving why are we giving that guy two billion dollars a year still as uh you know it's a question that nags at me?
Uh the Pharaoh.
Farrell has his own money.
Uh anyway, the Iranian president uh calls Israel an evil regime today, a totalitarian regime.
And um 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 fifty-ninth member.
And by the way, where does one member of the UN get off uh threatening the extermination of another member of the United Nations?
Good grief.
Um I don't know what they're doing at the UN today coming up uh I heard yesterday, coming up with a basket of carrot and stick in order to help the Iranians to come into the twenty-first century.
That isn't gonna happen.
No, all not all Irani, I mean all Iranians.
The the the smart Iranians have left.
Uh the ones who weren't uh quite able enough and they're smart are still there.
Uh 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 uh records of uh 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 uh program know it is not.
Here's uh we're gonna take a break.
Oh, we're gonna 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 uh the federal government is gonna find uh alleged polygamist Warren Jeffs, now on the FBI's ten most wanted list.
They're gonna find Warren Jeff's before they find Osama Bin Laden.
Just a sinking feeling I have about this.
Look, in the next hour we're gonna talk about the a border situation, and uh we're gonna talk with uh Sheriff Joe Arpayo down in Maricopa County, Arizona, where a sheriff's posse is rounding them up.
A posse, the Wild West lives, and we're gonna be talking uh about that to Sheriff uh Joe Arpayo, who's last interviewed on the Limbaugh newsletter, uh on the pink underwear thing and the uh tents and all of that.
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