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May 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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Hang on here a minute, uh folks.
I gotta read an email real quick.
Oh, this doesn't help me at all.
What the screw it.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to EIB Network and El Rush Bow on Open Line Friday.
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We always leave people wanting more at the end of this program, and we've been doing that for 18 years almost.
It'll be 18 years in um in August.
On Open Line Friday, and I know I haven't I haven't gone the phones yet, but I'm gonna make up for that in this hour.
When we go to the phones, the uh program is yours.
I just got a little note from our buddies at Newsmax, uh, Carl Limbacher and the gang over there.
Uh in 1994, they even in the headline, Pat Leakey Leahy.
Next thing, I'll just wait for him to Senator DePens.
Uh Pat Leakey Leahy in 1994 co-wrote a law that forced telecom carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks, enabling the kind of phone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the NSA terrorist surveillance operation in recent days.
Pat Leakey Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal, saying that they show the Bush administration's treating Americans like terrorists.
Well, I don't know if they're doing that.
Uh, but you guys are treating terrorists like Americans.
Senator Leahy, if you want to know you guys are wanting to extend to them the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights.
The secret collection of phone call records of tens of millions of Americans.
Uh remember, we had this sound by Leakey Leahy holding up USA Today screaming about you telling me that tens of millions of uh Americans are involved with Al-Qaeda.
But according to the Rutland Herald, that's the local paper up there in Vermont, uh Leaky Leahy was singing a different tune twelve years ago when he was pushing the Senate to pass his bill.
It's called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
I suggest to senators, if anybody does want to hold this act up, I hope that at this time next year, neither they nor their constituents nor anybody they know is a kidnapped victim or victim of a terrorist, and have somebody ask why nothing can be done and be told because a law that had probably 99% support in the House and Senate did not pass.
Contacted by the Herald earlier this week, Leahy said there was an important difference between what his law authorized and the actions taken by the Bush administration.
Leakey Leahy said that the law talks of the technology of the interception and what technology can be used to intercept.
It assumes very clearly it can only be done with a warrant.
Some legal experts say, however, that said that assumption is not as clear as Leahy claims.
Analyzing his law in 2003, the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal said Leakey Leahy's bill requires a telecommunications provider to make uh its equipment facilities or services capable of enabling the government without a warrant actually says it to intercept all wire and electronic communications carried with a carrier.
Well, this is no different in Dingy Harry's immigration reform bill he proposed in 1993.
It is the bill that ought to be being debated today.
It really is.
I mean, I what he proposed in 93 makes all the sense in the world.
He's totally abandoned it now.
Leakey Leahy abandoning his own law.
Uh, for the sake of domestic politics as it exists at the present.
You see this story in the Washington Post today, this headline, Afghanistan rocked as 105 die in violence.
What is that headline imply to you?
Oh, yeah, Morty uh Afghanistan rock has 105 die in violence.
Why?
I read that headline and I think, oh no.
We have been dealt a stinging and tragic blow.
Oh no, I thought Iraq's bad enough, and now Afghanistan's Falling apart.
Oh no!
Well, um here are the details.
Between eighty and ninety Taliban fighters were killed in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, according to Afghan, U.S. and NATO officials.
Two sites in Kandahar were struck by U.S. warplanes, including a long-range B-1 bomber, which U.S. military officials said destroyed a compound that Taliban guerrillas were using to stage an attack.
Among the dead were an American police train, uh police trainer killed by a car bomb, a female Canadian army captain, and at least twelve Afghan national cops.
So bad guys took a huge hit.
Eighty to ninety Taliban facts Al Qaeda terrorists, essentially gone.
How in the world?
I mean, you you talk about drive by media, classic illustration here.
Afghanistan rocked, has 105 die in violence.
What if a war going on over there for crying out loud?
And we took out eighty to ninety of the bad guys.
It's a big story.
It's not falling apart over there.
We were not dealt a stinging and tragic blow.
And it's not just the headline, because the opening paragraph, Afghanistan has been rocked over the past two days by some of the deadliest violence since the Taliban was driven from power in late 2001.
As many as 105 people reported killed in four provinces as insurgents torched a district government compound, set off suicide bombs, and clashed fiercely with Afghan and foreign troops.
I swear this is this is this is journalistic uh malpractice.
Absolutely incredible.
All right, I want to go to the uh audio sound bites on what remaining time we have here in this segment, and we'll go to phones right after this.
Uh President Bush yesterday, reporter Julian Malvo interviewed President Bush, and she said, Do you get a sense that there is racism creeping into this immigration debate?
I think it'd be too harsh a judgment to say to somebody who doesn't support a comprehensive immigration plan that they're racist.
I don't believe that.
I do believe legitimate uh I mean citizens have got legitimate concerns, realizing that parts of this border have been open for anybody who wants to come across.
And we've got to stop that.
We must enforce our border.
So for those who call for border enforcement, I think it'd be certainly not a racist statement.
Okay.
Well, good.
Uh now uh on World News Tonight, last night, reporterette and infobabe uh for the drive-by media ABC.
Martha Raditz uh asked the president the fences, uh, which the Senate voted on.
A lot of immigration rights advocates who say those fences just drive illegal immigrants to places where they'll die.
Yeah, no, I understand that.
And uh that's why we need a temporary worker plan, a program.
Uh people are willing to take risks to come here and do it.
But you're putting in a fence in the meantime.
Well, because they're snaking across.
That's part of the fencing is to make sure that we stop flows of people coming across.
And we we we have a we we must enforce our border.
And uh let me finish, please.
There's got to be a comprehensive plan to address border security.
Part of it's fencing, part of it is manpower increases, part of his infrared detection.
Now, some of this is just cockamami liberalism, but a lot of it is just same old thing.
Guilt, but they're gonna die.
If we put a fence up, they're going to die.
Really, it's Twilight Zone time, folks.
It's Alternative Universe Day.
Here, uh alternate universe day on open line Friday.
Uh let's go to big stretch, David Gagory.
Now he's not big stretch, salmon's big stretch.
That's Bush's nickname for these guys.
Bill Salmon's nickname, I think it was big.
By the way, I think we ought to censure Pat Leahy.
He has violated the privacy of millions of Americans with his own bill.
Well, I mean, if we were fighting fire with fire, that's what some Republican would do.
They try to censor Bush over all this stuff.
Remember what's his name?
Feingold?
Censure leaky leahy.
Never happened.
Uh David Gregory says, in the most recent survey, your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon's before he resigned the presidency.
Now you're laughing.
You're laughing.
Let me ask you about your leadership.
I'm laughing.
Why do you think that is?
Uh, because we're at war.
And war unsettles people.
We gotta listen, we got a great economy.
We've had a 5.2 million jobs in the last two and a half years.
But there's an but people unsettled.
They don't look at the economy and say life is good.
They think They know we're at war.
And I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war.
The enemy's got a powerful tool.
That is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people.
And uh and my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it.
Who's just stirred the pot again?
He just told Gregory that he and his buddies are propaganda tools for insurgents and al Qaeda.
Gregory keeps pushing, asking if the American people have rendered a final judgment on him, like Nixon.
Of course not.
I got two and a half years left to be president of the United States, and I intend to get a lot done, including immigration reform.
We've got a positive agenda that is making a difference in people's lives.
I'm also not going to retreat uh in the face of adverse polls.
I'm going to do what I think is right and complete the mission in Iraq.
And I believe a free Iraq is going to make the world a better place.
Remember what we said yesterday, folks.
There is a uh uh uh conservative paradigm still in the country, and and this is you know, we were talking about this in our newsletter editors meeting yesterday.
That is, every second-term president, you can go to find some of them.
Jimmy Carter's in the high twenties.
Uh Bill Clinton himself fell to 37, Ronald Reagan during Iran-Contra 32.
They all stuck to their guns out there, though.
Or well, well, Carter, you know, irrelevant, but Harry Truman did uh and and it it all worked out.
And Bush is basically uh telling the press that uh they can do whatever they want, but he's not gonna react to them.
I gotta take a break, I promise when we come back.
Your calls next up.
And the lunacy just keeps on coming.
Have you uh have you heard of Paynesville, Ohio?
Where is Paynesville, Ohio, Mr. Snerdley?
Are we uh what what part of the uh state?
Is it a Democrat area?
All right.
Snerdley says it's a Democrat area.
Get get this.
Here's the headline City embraces illegal immigration instead of fighting it.
Uh they're gonna have a don't ask, don't tell policy on uh immigrants, illegal immigrants in Painesville, Ohio.
The uh schools send their notes home to parents in English and Spanish.
Banks offer loan programs that allow undocumented immigrants to finance cars, even buy houses.
At a time when some Ohio cities are struggling to deal with growing numbers of illegals, Paynesville, a city of 17,000 people about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland.
Ah, yeah, that explains it.
Uh, is uh is trying to make it work.
So uh we realize there's probably a certain percentage of the population here that's undocumented.
As long as it's not creating a problem, we really don't have the resources uh to be able to worry about it.
So don't ask, don't tell.
Painesville City, Ohio, thirty miles northeast of Cleveland.
Okay, TJ in uh Phoenix, welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Megadeth is rushed from a former civilian contractor that served in Iraq.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Uh you were reading the article regarding uh the uh Ensign bill, the ensign amendment.
Yeah, which um was the uh Social Security issue.
Yes.
Oh, interesting.
I called Senator McCain's office this morning because I could not believe that his quotes were actually for real.
And believe it or not, one of his aides who answered the phone tried to convince me that that the ensign amendment was really inconsequential because it's already illegal that for uh immigrants to receive uh social security benefits anyway.
So it really wouldn't have mattered.
Well uh but McCain opposed it.
Well what he what he did in opposing this amendment was to basically sanction identity theft.
Exactly.
Yeah, just a series of criminal behavior.
First you get the card, then you well, you you you steal somebody's identity or social security number, and you use that to get a bank account and a number of other things, uh, and and yeah, you do pay into social security.
Uh and McCain said they've these people have contributed greatly to this country and and and uh they've built their little nest eggs out there with their families.
Not grant them the benefits that they've uh paid into and so forth.
And so we're this it'd be amnesty, pure and simple.
That's I mean, there's no way to describe this other than that.
Uh-huh.
Get this, though.
Get this, TJ.
Uh, in preparation for your call, yes, Folks, we even do show prep on calls.
We went back.
There's a USA Today story from July 2nd of 2004, almost two years ago.
Headline, U.S. Mexico finalized Social Security Pact.
U.S. and Mexican officials signed a controversial agreement this week that could allow millions of legal and undocumented Mexican immigrants who work in the U.S. to collect U.S. Social Security benefits.
Congress and the Mexican Senate still must approve the agreement, but U.S. lawmakers have routinely approved similar totalization agreements with 20 other countries in the past.
Under the agreement, Mexican workers who have divided their working lives between the U.S. and Mexico would be eligible for partial U.S. or Mexican retirement benefits based on combined credits earned from both countries.
U.S. citizens working in Mexico also would qualify for partial benefits in both countries.
Now to qualify for U.S. Social Security benefits, Mexicans must prove that they've worked in the U.S. at least 18 months.
Payments are made in a prorated basis depending on years worked in the United States.
So I mean, we did this.
I I now distinctly remember reading this back uh and being non-plus, I mean not non-plus.
I was outraged by it.
A social security agreement.
Folks.
I'm telling you we don't know what all is going on here.
We just don't.
All this is designed to distract us, I think.
Jeff in Westwood, New Jersey.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you.
Rush Megadunos.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, but actually I'm from Park Ridge.
I want my hometown uh recognized.
I'm just calling about Harry Reid and the examples he gave are two basic Republican reasons why English should be the spoken language.
You mean Federico and the and the and the maid in the hotel?
Absolutely.
Now the maid, if she was able to speak English, she would do her job much better.
She'd probably move up in the ranks, get higher pay and promotions.
Well, exactly, but you missed the whole point here.
Dingy Harry knows all.
He just pandering to that voting block.
He's he's he's trying to make it sound like it's our fault, and he has an appropriate amount of guilt, and this woman was so uncomfortable because she could only converse in Spanish in America.
And and and so when Dingy Harry's son, fortunately, uh multilingual, we're sure, was able to converse with her in Spanish, uh, why our life changed.
It was a wonderful thing.
Is Federico guy is his PR guy.
We did research on this.
Federico de Jesus.
Uh that means Federico's talking to media all day long.
That means Federico's talking to other senators and their PR guys.
And yet all of a sudden, when Federico has to go to the emergency room, he starts getting to shakes and gets nervous because of uh uh his accent.
And that's even a bigger reason to be in speaking English.
If you go into the emergency room, you want to be able to explain what's wrong immediately.
You don't want to have to wait for an interpreter to show up.
It could be life-threatening.
Uh yep, but that's not the you know, you're you're making a big mistake here.
You're assigning common sense to all that, and there's none of it here.
There's no common sense on 90% of this uh as it's being debated and discussed in the hallowed halls, the hallowed chamber of the uh vaunted August United States Senate.
I got an email from somebody who says, Look, there's a law out there.
I haven't checked this that says emergency rooms have to have translators.
It's required by law in case people come in.
I don't know how many languages they have to be.
I really don't know if this is true.
We will we'll try to find that out too.
Gary in uh uh East Bend, North Carolina.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I've enjoyed your show very much.
Uh started listening just before the first Gulf War.
Thank you, sir.
Great to have you with us.
I'd like to comment on a report that was on Fox News this morning that uh Iranian President Agminajad is going to begin to require Christians and Jews to our colored badges, much like the Nazis did the Jews during the Holocaust.
Yeah, I'm glad you brought this up.
We're supposed to negotiate with these insane lunatics, right?
We're being told we need to engage them unilaterally.
We've got to go talk to these people.
Well, the point I'd like to make is the the parallels between this guy and Hitler in the 1930s are scary, and I believe it's time for the United States and the allies, the true allies that we have to consider seriously consider military action.
We don't have any allies when it comes to the what allies.
Give me an ally over in Europe.
Give me one.
Well, I was thinking more of an ally like Israel.
Oh, yeah.
I think Israel is the only true ally we have, certainly in the Middle East.
In the Middle East, that's true.
Australia's next up.
Brit the Brit, the Brits.
Jordan, Jordan is an ally.
Jordan will join us in the middle of Dubai.
Yeah, we got an ally with Dubai as an ally.
Dubai's an ally.
No, they well, well, that's what we were told.
Dubai's an ally.
We'll take you back to me from April 17th when we come back from this break.
All right, we've done the research, uh, ladies and gentlemen, and uh, it is true if you are a medical facility of any kind that accepts federal funds, then you have to have a translator in there to handle people who are ill-equipped to uh communicate their uh problems, symptoms uh, or what have you.
This is a story from the Charleston, I guess this is South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier.
Uh and they they somewhere in this story it it mentions the fact that this is not really a problem because Hispanics are much healthier than you Americans, and they don't even use the emergency room.
And you Americans, you do.
So don't sweat it.
Okay.
Um you heard right from the previous caller uh uh the Iranian government led by President uh Mahmood Ahmadinejad uh has decided that uh badges will be required for non-Muslims uh in Iran.
Human rights groups, amazingly, uh, are raising alarms over this.
Uh I don't recall human rights groups coming to the defense of Christians lately.
Uh but I guess they've got no choice here.
Uh human rights groups raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian Parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.
This is reminiscent of the Holocaust, said Rabbi Marvin Heyer, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
Iran's moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.
Well, he's right, but he's not the first to say it.
Let's go back to me.
April 17th on this very program.
Churchill had this problem back in the 30s with Hitler.
It's eerie how similar this is.
Hitler was re-arming, he was uh uh engaged in turning his population into a bunch of psychos.
He was creating the Nazi Party, and Churchill's out there warning everybody, and nobody wanted to listen to him, nobody and we got the ear of Neville Chamberlain.
And because nobody wanted to listen to Churchill, nobody thought he knew what he was talking about, because nobody wanted war.
They just don't leave it.
Let him do what he wants to do.
He's not going to attack us, it doesn't matter.
And there's an eerie parallel here because while the Iranians are doing the same thing, a bunch of experts, that's just bluster.
They can't get a bomb for ten years.
We don't need to do, and we've got all these experts in this kind.
If we do anything in Iran, it's gonna look just like Iraq.
It's gonna be a mistake.
The parallels are eerie.
Once again, a demonstration of this program keeping you on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
John in Columbus, Ohio, uh not too dangerously close to Paynesville.
Welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
Yeah, Buck I did as T Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I'm just calling just letting you know I'm 28, and I think I've been paying into my quote unquote nested for 14 years now.
And I don't I'm not gonna see one bit of it, and I don't it's just sort of a smokest thing that any of those uh immigrants are gonna see any of it either.
I think really the Democrats are just trying to give them a little nice cushiony dream to get them in on you know, on the Democrats aren't the Democrats aren't doing anything.
They're just standing around watching the Republicans are coming up with all this gobbledygook.
Well, either way, you know, no one's a very good thing.
The Democrats are reacting to it, but it's it's it's it's McCain and all these republic.
You know, the Republicans are the ones trying to debate this.
Democrats are sitting around watching it.
Now, whether you're gonna have a nest egg or not, uh I I fact, I'll tell you, I I encourage you to think that way and start planning for one yourself.
Oh, yeah, it's not the government's job to save my money for me.
Uh, that's right.
You'd be surprised how many people think that it is, though.
Anyway, um, that's not the point.
Even even even if these uh illegals who engaged in identity theft and fraud in order to get work are granted credits toward their social security for the great contributions they have made, according to Senator McCain.
Whether there's any nest egg for them when they retire is not the point.
But the point is how this is all being dealt with.
I mean, it really is.
I I said earlier, and I mean it, it's not just they're flipping us the bird, folks, they are mooning us.
And it it seems like every with every new day that there is a new public outcry over something, you can count on some somebody in the Senate going, oh yeah, well, take this.
And they come up with something even more outright.
They drop their trousers, and they moon us again.
All right, changing gears, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Bloomberg News Service reporting it, Democrat activist groups that mounted an aggressive campaign against President Bush in 2004 have a new target.
Democrats who support his policies.
A new uh loose network of organizations reigning from uh ranging from women's groups to internet bloggers is pressuring incumbents such as Joel Lieberman of Connecticut and Jane Harmon of California and Melissa Bean of Illinois in some cases by backing insurgent candidates in primary elections.
They're pressuring these people.
The groups charged that these three and other Democrats have been too supportive of Bush on issues like Iraq and trade, and they say they're trying to energize voters disillusioned with a party that's failed to draw clear distinctions with Republicans.
The organizations and uh blogs that identify themselves as the party's progressive wing.
This is this is Cooksville that we're gonna define here.
Move on.org, a coalition of groups that uh raised sixty million dollars and enlisted a hundred thousand volunteers in the two thousand four elections.
A lot of good it did him.
Daily chaos cost how die how do you pronounce this?
Do you know how what?
Cos, daily costs.
A blog that averages twenty million visitors a month.
The guy that runs this thing wrote a book.
Uh 5,000 copies sold.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
So much influence the Washington Post had him write an op-ed.
And then there's Democracy for America, political action committee with 500 affiliates, and the issues they're promoting include setting a timetable for getting out of Iraq, building environmental protections into U.S. trade agreements, cracking down on what they say is price gouging by um oil companies.
Other Democrat news.
Remember earlier this week, I think it was Tuesday, we reported to you that the Democrats were going to have a secret meeting.
Well, it wasn't secret, it was wide open, actually.
They have a meeting where they were going to inject spiritualism into the agenda.
Well, if you have to inject it, it isn't there.
Well, they had their meeting, and it's reported on in today's New York Times religious left struggles to find unifying message.
They had come to all souls Unitarian Church, 1,200 of them, 39 states, to wrest the mantle of moral authority from conservative Christians.
And they were finally planning how to take their message to those in power.
After rousing speeches on Wednesday by liberal leaders like Rabbi Michael Lerner of Takoon Magazine and Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, participants in the new network of spiritual progressives split into small groups to prepare for meetings with members of Congress on Thursday.
At a session on ethical behavior, including sexual behavior, the fifty or so activists talked little about what to tell Congress about abortion or same-sex marriage.
Instead, the Reverend Ama Zenia of First Congressional or Congregational Church in Oakland, California, urged them to talk to one another about their spiritual values and to practice fully our authentic being.
It didn't go well.
For the bottom line here is, folks, um they know what they're up against.
And they know that they're against what the religious right stands for, but as you go through this, they can't agree on what they stand for.
And there's some fascinatingly amusing uh exchanges here in this story.
I want to share some of them with you.
Kimberly Critchon or Crichton, not sure how she pronounces it, a Washington lawyer and a Quaker, uh grew impatient.
She said, I think I think we'd be more effective if we focused on specific legislation.
Are we going to discuss specific policies here?
Ms. Zenia said, what we envision this time is saying that we're a religious voice.
More relationship building, consciousness raising.
The man in the pew in front of Miss Crichton translated, the answer is no.
Since the last presidential election, liberals of various faiths have talked about taking back religion from the conservative Christians who helped bring Bush and a Republican Congress to power.
Yet liberal believers have so far been unable to approach even modestly the success of the religious right and command the attention of Congress.
Sort of like how liberal talk radio is nothing more than a pimple on the on a rear end of a pig.
Turnout at the spiritual activism conference is high, but if the gathering is in any indication, the biggest barrier for liberals may be their regard for pluralism, for letting people say what they want, how they want to, and for trying to include everyone.
That is bogus.
These are the people who gave us political correctness.
You can't say what you want around a liberal, especially if it offends them, then they will try to silence you.
Let people practice what they want, believe what they want.
If if uh you know, if the crocodile of the golf course is their god, let them who are we to judge?
Who are we to say that they're wrong?
Others said, We can't go that way.
No, no, no, no.
We can't include everything in this.
Uh we we got to choose two or three issues that can inspire a movement.
Tony Campolo was there.
Does the name Tony Campolo ring a bell?
Tony, yeah, that's right.
Uh Tony Campolo was uh Clinton's rent a preacher.
And uh we had video at Rush the TV show of the Ron Brown Memorial.
And uh the video was originally aired by NBC.
They aired it once.
We aired it about a hundred and fifty times.
The uh video shows Clinton on the walking into the church now, down the block to go to the church where the where the memorial is for Ron Brown, who uh died tragically in a plane crash.
Uh in Asia, I forget where.
Uh, that's right, on the way to Bosnia, that's right.
It was it was the commerce secretary at the time.
And alongside Clinton was Tony Campolo.
He's a uh man of the cloth from Pennsylvania, the liberal Democrat, but said to be by some in some circles, hilarious.
Well, whatever he was telling Clinton a joke or something, because Clinton was just laughing himself silly, just having a good old time.
And then out of one corner of his eye, he spotted the camera.
And within one half step, Clinton's face went from jocularity to sadness and tears and wiping the eyes.
Meanwhile, Campolo's still telling a joke and laughing himself silly, and Clinton's faking the Campolo just laughed.
I think Campolo starts laughing even more.
I mean, it was the classic illustration of who Bill Clinton was.
Well, Campolo showed up at the uh inject spirituality conference uh in Washington earlier, and he said, Well, we didn't we didn't get on the same page with everyone, and it's about getting on the same page.
The thing the thing about the left is that they want everybody to feel good.
No, they don't.
They want themselves to feel good, and they will harm or hurt anything in order to accomplish that.
They don't want everybody to feel good.
Ronald Reagan wanted people to feel good.
Ronald Reagan made Americans proud to be Americans and proud of their country again.
The left doesn't want that.
It was not a good day for Campolo out there.
He's a Baptist minister.
He explained to the inject spirituality participants in a seminar that many people on Capitol Hill were religious, and that to reach them and to establish authority, liberals should rely on the Bible.
What are they worried about Congress for?
Is Congress going to elect these uh Democrats next time?
You have no right to be a spiritual leader, Campolo said.
If you haven't read scripture, people in Congress respect the book, the Bible, even if they don't know what it says.
If we don't recognize This we don't know squat.
A young man with long hair and a tunic challenged Mr. Campolo.
Said, I thought this was a spiritual progressives conference.
He said, I don't want to play the game of the Bible says this or that, or that we get validation from something other than ourselves.
We should be speaking from our hearts.
I don't know what happened to Campolo.
He didn't hang around long, though, because he's trying to tell.
Look, you guys, if you can inject spirituality and you want to overtake the religious right, it's called the Bible.
And the Liberals, screw the Bible.
I'm not going to believe a bunch of lies told thousands of years ago.
I'm going to get validation from me.
Again, folks, I'm telling you, don't worry.
I mean, the biggest worries are not what the Democrats are going to do.
And they're not, this is not the stuff that is made of winning elections and building movements.
Quick time out.
We'll be back in just a sec.
From the Financial Times, by the way, Rush Limbaugh, your host uh for life.
Not retiring until every American agrees with me, exempting the United States Senate.
I don't think that's possible.
Financial Times, the U.S. Senate looking into allegations that a former Senator Bob the Torch Torcelli urged Baghdad to give a U.S. company lucrative contracts under the oil for food program.
This is the first time a leading U.S. lawmaker has been linked to the controversial UN program whose shortcomings have been an important element of the Bush administration's critique of the UN.
The investigation involves one of the most vivid figures in U.S. East Coast politics, the Torch.
New Jersey Democrat forced to pull out of the 2002 election after being severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for expensing uh accepting expensive gifts from David Chang, a campaign contributor.
Mr. Chang, a Korean American businessman, was found guilty in 2002 of conspiring to violate federal campaign laws, was jailed for 15 months.
All right, what we have here, uh we have David Chang's attorney Brad Simon.
This is uh this is from April 18th of 2000 uh uh one.
Uh David Chang's lawyer listing the lavish gifts that his client gave Torricelli, and we've interspersed this, we've cut this together with Torricelli's denial.
To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never.
Television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, uh, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits at any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
Don't you just love that.
Yeah, so the torch has been linked here to uh the oil for food scandal, folks.
Yeah, let's listen to this again.
14 ready to go again.
Um, listen to this.
It's true.
To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never.
A television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, uh, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits at any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
Now, the allegations against the torch and this oil for food thing are based on Iraqi documents, including diplomatic cables retrieved after the fall of Saddam.
Um and the Financial Times has obtained copies of some of the diplomatic cables.
The source also described the contents of some of the other uh Iraqi documents.
It involves uh a gentleman by the name of uh Hamdoon.
Uh this name rings a bill.
Hamdoon, I'll find I've got to take a break here.
You know what I learned just the other day, too, about New Jersey.
I did I I I'm embarrassed to admit this.
I didn't know that you cannot pump your own gas in New Jersey.
I didn't it there's no self-serve in New Jersey.
And and uh there was a re they're arguing, you know, Corzine wants to maybe establish it because bring the price down a little bit.
And some Republicans said, hell no, I I'm gonna get dressed up in a tux and go out for fundraiser or something.
I don't want to handle a gas nozzle.
All right, folks, having a great time today on the uh open line Friday edition of the EIB Network and a Rush Limbaugh program, program that meets and surpasses all audience expectations daily.
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