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May 22, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
Hiya, folks, and welcome.
Great to be with you, kicking off another brand new week of broadcast excellence, and we are in New York, a high atop the famous EIB building here in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited and asked about tourist locations in all of the city.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is uh 800 282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIB net.com.
All right.
I told you people.
I told you the Da Vinci code was gonna rock.
I told you that audiences would love this movie because the critics hated it.
I mean, the creative this is one of the most amazing uh entertainment media disconnects.
I haven't seen the movie, I've read the book, but it's just a book and it's just a movie.
But I think because the theme was Christianity.
And I think because the entertainment media had such high expectations that the movie would destroy Christianity by totally discrediting it.
They failed to understand it's just a movie.
It's just an entertainment from up from a book.
And the book was a good read.
If you could read it with an open, it's a good read.
What the heck?
I mean, it so uh it it's an all-time international gross for its opening weekend.
And I told you this is gonna be the case, folks.
You go against a conventional wisdom each and every time, and you will win.
By the way, welcome to those of you watching on the uh on the Ditto Cam.
Want to thank John Creeley.
We've done um Oh, you don't want your name mentioned too late now, John.
Actually, I know you do want your name mentioned.
All support staff always want their name mentioned.
They all want to get any act.
Uh John's done a bang up job here in in uh duplicating the camera angle from uh our our Southern Command Studio in Florida uh here to the EIB building uh command center, and it looks pretty pretty close.
I let me zoom out a little bit to get a bit.
Yeah, but it it's uh it's a good job in there, John, and I like it because I'm gonna get fewer and fewer uh email complaints to have to do.
Why is the angle different?
It's I don't know.
Uh it looks like it's in perfect focus to me, too.
Uh Barbaro, the um the uh hoped for once again, uh drive by media gets all caught up in something that hasn't happened yet.
This this poor horse is gonna sweep everything, is gonna set records.
Barbaro is gonna own the horse racing all of a sudden, Barbaro as down and and uh unable to continue.
Surgery has been successful day-to-day thing.
Uh doctor that performed the surgery said uh horse is not out of the woods yet, it's uh still day-to-day thing.
There's a column in the New York Times today.
We care.
But why do we care so much?
It's by Jane Schwartz.
Who's Jane Schwartz?
She's the author of uh Ruffian Burning from the Start, reissued in 2002.
No one wants to see a racehorse breakdown, she says.
The most hardened trainers and the most avid fans seem to agree on this much.
A horse has to win, but nobody wants to see one die trying.
For complicated reasons involving the anatomy and the physiology of thoroughbreds, a serious injury sustained at a high speed too often spells death for a horse.
Then such a breakdown is traumatic for the owner, uh, the trainer, the jockey, the groom, and the uh what?
People are marrying horses now?
I thought they were just having sex with them out in the state of Washington.
This horse was getting married.
Well, no wonder.
Well, most of them work closely with the horse day after day.
What seems to mystify people is why strangers feel the same way.
Since uh this is not a mystery.
It's so easily understandable that it makes this whole op-ed silly.
Since Barbaro's injury early in the preak mistakes on Saturday, the reactions of strangers to his plight, an outpouring of concern and love, raises questions with no easy answer.
Only would this be posed in the in the New York Times.
Why do people care so much about the fate of an animal to which they have no personal connection?
And then here toward the end of the piece, there seems to be uh social pressure against killing an animal, even when that may be the most humane.
Do we ever get pieces like this in the New York Times about Terry Shibo?
Did you quit smoking or something?
Is that why you're in there chewing gum like it's uh gone out of style?
Is it you're trying to quit small?
Isn't that good for you?
All right.
Well, we care about someone, or some I was asking H.R. the question we care about someone or some animal.
Our first instinct is to reject the idea of death.
Most people want to leave not for Democrats.
It's a culture of death.
They're obsessed with it on both sides of it.
Well, on all sides of it.
But here's the last line.
Perhaps perhaps the real miracle, the one that matters to all of us, whether we know it or not, uh, is that so many of us are still capable of caring so much.
Oh, God, gag me.
The New York Times has found somebody that's invigorated because we care.
This is so easy.
Remember those two idiot whales uh back.
This has to be early 90s, late 80s.
Those two whales got caught in uh in an ice floe uh that uh in a in freezing ice.
This is before global warming was really serious.
Ice was freezing around them uh somewhere up on the uh uh northern latitudes, and uh TV cameras, uh helicopters were circling around trying to lead these two whales out of that.
I think it was whales, it was some kind of fish.
Big was it whales, or do you recall what I'm talking about?
It was whales.
And they were, and and the world was captivated by this.
And we were spending resources left and right to try to help these these whales find the route out of the uh ice-locked little lagoon in which they found themselves.
I don't even remember the outcome of this thing, but I remember back then, people why do people care about this?
And it's easy.
Folks, it's really easy.
Barbaro, the horse, and the two whales cannot help themselves.
They are quintessentially in circumstances in both these cases, helpless.
We are good people.
This is not new and it's not going out of style.
We didn't become bad people for a while, and all of a sudden a horse has rekindled our ability to find compassion.
Horse was working hard, horse was doing what it was trained to do, horse was trying to be the best it could be, and it got hurt.
Of course, people are going to be feel bad for this.
We feel bad for any human being that does the same thing, trying it.
But human beings have the innate ability to help themselves.
This horse can't without our assistance, this horse would obviously die.
He may not now, but the the to me, this is so easily understandable, and you can find, if you want to find the definition of compassion, uh, we always have far more compassion and far, and we're willing to be far more helpful to people trying to help themselves and uh trying to do the best.
But but when animals come along and they can't help them, like those two whales for whatever reason could not find their way out of the landlocked uh ice flows that they were in.
So we were trying to help them out.
Uh, same thing with the horse and and any number uh of other animals.
I mean, they're just we our hearts melt, and this is nothing new, and it's uh it's it's just uh that what happened, the horse is a terrible shame, but uh as they say, life happens.
Did you hear um nature happens?
Nature happens.
No, I'm not saying nature is I'm I'm not trying to parallel the old saying it's out there now.
How about how about what the Democratic National Committee tried to do to uh school bus Ray Nagan?
Have you heard about this?
The DNC was working against him.
The DNC was actively trying to defeat Ray Nagan in the mayoral race in New Orleans.
DNC secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the re-election efforts of uh school bus Ray Nagan.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean made the decision.
This is a drudge report exclusive.
Uh Howard Dean made the decision himself.
That and you haven't heard about this.
The drive-by media is not interested in this.
If uh if Landrew were to have Mitch Landry, the Mary Landry's uh brother, uh, and by the way, speaking of this, I mean the reason that that that Mitch Landrew, I mean, this guy was lieutenant governor.
That's a stepping stone to big things.
Took a step back trying to be mayor of New Orleans.
Why is that?
Because Mary Landrew's re-election depends on New Orleans being repopulated with enough liberal Democrats to put her over the edge.
Uh and the stories in the New Orleans Times, Picky Yoon and others say that the reason Negan actually triumphed here is because he has experience as a businessman.
He was in the cable TV business, and he appealed to conservatives in New Orleans, whereas Mitch Landrew is your end, you know, average, you know, uh standard-bearing Uh uh uh liberal.
And just it just wasn't all that appealing.
Uh Howard Dean made the decision himself to back uh Mitch Landrew.
Dean came to the decision uh to back the white challenger over the African American incumbent school bus Nagan, despite concerns among senior black officials in the party that the DN DNC should stay neutral.
The DNC teams uh actively worked to defeat Nagan under the auspices of the committee's voting rights program.
The party's field efforts also coincided with a national effort by Democrat contributors to support Mitch Landrew, who had outraised the school bus Nagan by a wide margin, 3.3 million to just barely 541,000.
Uh preliminary campaign finance reports indicate that many of Landrew's contributors uh or I've said contributions came from out of state.
Uh white Democrat leaders and financiers according uh or including a thousand dollar contribution from Senator Ben Nelson's pack.
He's a Democrat from Nebraska.
Uh the defeat of Mitch Landrew is the latest setback for Dean's office, criticized uh often criticized field operation.
I'm just you haven't seen anything in this in the mainstream press, have you?
Have you seen I mean I mean I know you've seen the fact that the the school bus Nagan won, but have you seen the story that the DNC was trying to defeat Nagan?
You haven't seen it, and you're probably not gonna see it.
Can you imagine if this were two Republicans and the RNC was working to defeat the black candidate?
Now that doesn't happen because in the Republican Party these days, the the future of the party happens to be uh Lynn Swan, Michael Steele, and uh and Ken Blackwell.
and Condoleezza Rice, I mean, a number of rising stars.
It's in the Democratic Party where they sandbag Carl McCaul in New York.
They tried to sandbag School Bus Nagin.
And there are a couple other examples of this.
Just amazing.
And I I uh I wanted to mention this at the top of the program because I doubt that uh you have seen it anywhere.
Scary, scary story, ladies and gentlemen, out of Tampa, Florida.
And I again I'm a little stunned that this one is not getting more play.
Two Saudi men were held without bond yesterday after they were arrested for boarding a scroll bus full of children.
Uh 23 and 20-year-old Saudi men uh were charged with misdemeanor trespassing, were being held at the Orient Road jail after a judge said Saturday she wanted more background information on them.
The two men arrived in the country six months ago on student visas.
They are enrolled at the English language institute, the University of South Florida.
Investigators said they boarded the school bus on Friday, sat down and began speaking in Arabic.
Their behavior concerned the driver, who was the substitute driver who alerted the uh the school district.
The men were asked why they boarded the bus.
Sheriff's spokesman J. D. Callaway said they gave different answers.
They wanted to roll enroll in easier English language program than the one they were in at college.
They wanted to see a high school, and they thought it would be fun.
Those are the answers they gave for boarding the school bus.
Uh friend tried to bail one of them, or both of them out of jail, but the circuit judge Monica Sierra decided to detain him.
Um of these people, I mean, it it one of these guys even had a uh a raincoat or trench coat on over his shorts.
Uh now, folks, you got to be concerned about this.
If this, if this was indeed a test run, uh the they they know how easy it is to get on board a school bus now.
Uh not that hard to do.
Quick timeout will be back at resume right after this.
Telephone number, by the way, 800-282-2882.
We have audio soundbites uh galore here today, and we do have uh Ray School bus Nagan uh Saturday night after his big victory, uh, thanking President Bush.
I want to thank you, Mr. President.
You and I have probably been the most vilified politicians in the country.
But I want to thank you for moving that promise that you made in Jackson Square forward.
We now have three billion dollars for levies.
We have eight billion dollars for incentives.
Top the tape.
How much of that's gonna go to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana caught on tape, folks.
More on that in a moment.
10 billion dollars for housing.
You are delivering on your promise.
And I want to thank you for all the citizens of the city of New Orleans.
Right on, right on, right on, right on, right on.
So Ray Schoolbus Nagin identifying himself as one of the two most vilified politicians in the country.
That's just terrific.
And just to get this out of the way, is to get this out of the way.
A small portion of his commendment audio subject number two.
Here we go.
Climate change is the most more remote than terror, but a more profound threat to the future of the children and grandchildren and great grandchildren.
I hope all of you have.
Now, this is really odd.
Here is Bill Clinton.
Now, this is explainable.
Don't misunderstand.
I know this guy like every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand.
I can explain this, but it's still very odd.
What he said does it's poor internet quality.
What Clinton said was uh why climate change uh is is a most uh I mean more remote than terror, but but uh but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren uh great grandchildren.
I hope all of the you have uh you know what it's gonna take to have great grand-grandchildren.
Yeah, come.
So um he's basically endorsing the Al Gore strategy.
Al Gore is trying to, he's got this movie coming out.
Um it's absurd.
Antarctica ice is actually increased.
This this this just this hysteria on global warming is unsupportable by facts.
It's not even supported by these wacko computer models anymore.
But yet, here comes Clinton endorsing the Al Gore position on this, uh at which uh and Al Gore, by the way, is uh the Democrats are begging this guy to run for president again in 2008, and there are stories about how Hollywood contributors are just salivating at the chance to throw some more money at Al Gore.
The second thing is on the substance of this, uh this is the Bill Clinton who did not go after Osama bin Laden.
And then so now he is explaining why.
Global warming is a bigger threat to the future than terrorism.
So the question on the substance of his comments would be this if global warming is that big a threat, then why did you punt Kyoto?
If global warming is such a big deal, how come you did not sign the Kyoto Protocol?
But I I think I can explain this when he failed to get any support for Kyoto, even from his own party.
He probably said terrorism's a bigger threat to the future than global warming.
We need to go do a Nexus search, cookie.
Find if you can say, uh find if see if you can find uh Clinton talking about the threat of terrorism.
I know we've got Madame Albright in the latter years of the Clinton second term, uh, actually declaring a war on terrorism, and they were sounding the warning bells of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and so forth throughout all of that.
But it's a classic example of Clinton as uh as a great politician.
Who else who else could fail on Kyoto?
Fail on getting Osama bin Laden, and now blame us for both of those failures.
That is the definition of a great, great politician, especially the liberals.
You know, liberal Democrat failures, I mean, they move up in stature.
A couple of media points, and we'll get on to the the latest with uh illegal immigration today, because some hilarious audio soundbites.
Margaret Carlson, where was she?
She was on a hardball Friday night.
She said she's listening to me.
And she said uh that even I couldn't follow the talking points the White House gave me.
And I mean, I she said I tried, but I even I they still don't get this show.
They still don't understand it.
Even after almost 18 years.
Anyway, I saw this this headline in one of my favorite uh newspapers, the uh Palm Beach Compost.
And what was it?
It was Saturday.
Check this headline.
With few jobless employers labor to fill positions.
This is a story about how the economy is so good that employers can't find good people, and it's portrayed as a negative.
Now, if this were a Bill Clinton administration, this would be highlighted as one of the greatest periods of time for job seekers ever.
Why it's so good out there, there are so few openings, or there are a lot of openings because so many people are uh well the the the uh pickings are yours.
You can name your price as an employer because it's a it's a it's a it's a seller's market, and they have to portray this negatively, it's just it's all it's not just the Palm Beach Compost, it's just the whole media.
There was a story yesterday on the front page of the New York Times.
I was f I flew up to Philadelphia yesterday, early morning, and uh so I got up.
I didn't have time to read the stuff on the computers and flight attendant had New York Times.
I gotta put a stop to that.
Um the most dismal doom and gloom.
My guy, would you be better off if we killed ourselves?
Story on how miserable and horrible and rotten it's gonna be to fly on a commercial air flight or airplane this summer.
Uh back after this tiny break, folks.
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You are you're gonna sit, you're sitting there and you're pointing and you're pounding a desk.
Snerdly, you're blaming it on Snardly.
We are inviting people to call, do not yell at them no matter how tempting.
It's probably because you're trying to quit smoking in there and you're more quit smoking on your own time.
Now, listen, listen to this.
Listen to this.
I mean, it's just you know, we know that that that the news by definition is negative.
But it's just it's getting to the point, folks, where it's it's beyond absurd.
First, that story from the Palm Beach Post about how, oh, that's all horrible.
Employers can't fill jobs.
Oh, it's so.
Normally they hate employers.
I mean, if employers are hurting, they would be happy.
Especially if it was Walmart.
Then this New York Times story yesterday, rough summer is on the way for air travel by Jeff Bailey.
Dre breast brace yourself for a summer of miserable air travel.
Planes are expected to be packed fuller than at any time since World War II, when the airlines help transport troops.
Fares are rising, service frills are disappearing.
Log jams at airport security checkpoints loom as the government strains to keep screener jobs filled.
The usual violent summer storms are expected to send the air traffic control system into chaos at times, with flight delays and cancellations cascading across the country.
And many airline employees, after years of pay cuts and added work, say they are dreading the season ahead.
Those workers, and there are about 70,000 fewer of them than in 2002, will be handling more than 100 million more passengers this year than they did four years ago.
The friendly skies indeed, it says.
Everybody's stressed.
Everybody's feeling it, said Brian Hutchinson, a former baggage handler at United Airlines, who now works in a joint airline union program to counsel workers suffering from stress or other emotional problems.
No, we can't drive because the gas price is so high, so we're stuck, folks.
I mean this is nothing new.
This is common, especially during the summer, and to throw weather delays in there?
Speaking of weather delays, ladies and gentlemen, the National Hurricane Center, the NOAA gang, came out with their hurricane forecast today.
Yeah.
2006 Atlanta hurricane season going to be very active, up to ten canes, although not as busy as record-breaking 2005 when Katrina and several monster storms slammed into the uh U.S. Uh for the 2006 North Atlantic uh hurricane season, NOAA predicting 13 to 16 named storms, with eight to ten becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become major hurricanes of categories three strength or higher.
The most damage caused by storms that uh reach category three.
Now, the key paragraph here is this.
Scientists were way off the mark in their forecast of last year's hurricane season.
Season starts June 1 of each year.
And everybody knows that hurricanes starts June 1.
If you don't know it, then you're not paying attention, it's not worth you know speaking to you.
Everybody knows that we're gonna have hurricanes.
Everybody knows that air travel is uh trying, especially in the post-9-11 days.
And yet, and I'm not saying there's a political bias toward this, these kinds of stories.
I'm not it's it's just uh i if you expose yourself to this day in and day out, you would think that what are normal times are in fact harbingers, that all hell is breaking loose, and that we're in the last days.
And we better get our affairs in order.
Because we don't have much time left.
Because the world's gonna end pretty soon.
And women and children and minorities will be hardest hit when the world ends, as they always are.
All right, let's go to immigration.
We'll start with uh you've got to hear this soundbite.
Friday night on hardball with Chris Matthews talking to Bloomberg News's uh uh Margaret Carlson, and Matthews says, Can the President win this bill?
I happen to be listening to Rush Limbaugh that day, who'd already gotten the talking points, and he couldn't go along with it for three hours.
The president did it backwards.
I think a lot of people who are sympathetic to the immigrants who are here and want to find a way to make them legal still want the border secured.
Uh but he did it backwards for his base and isn't convincing to the people who are sympathetic to the immigrants who are here who feel they were seduced to this country, and we have to find a way to make it.
Oh, wow.
So it's it's America's fault that they're here.
Illegal immigrants were seduced.
They were seduced to come here.
And then, of course, I, ladies and gentlemen, got the talking points, but they're so outrageous, not even I could stick to them.
Margaret, Margaret, you know me.
This is unbelievable.
I do not get White House talking points.
I don't know who even sends them out.
We have we're the ones we make talking points, Margaret.
We are the ones that are show prep for everybody else and the rest of the media to follow.
We we do the talking points here.
Uh it just frustrating.
And we got to hear this from Senator McCain on uh Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace question.
You were one of the leaders in a 50 to 49 vote um uh who voted to allow illegal immigrants to collect social security benefits, even if they got their job illegally by forging documents, identity theft.
In other words, you were one of only eleven Republicans who voted for it.
Should we allow illegals to benefit from committing a felony?
Well, they paid the taxes.
Do you want to refund?
At least shouldn't you then if you don't want them to give benefits, they paid the taxes.
They came out of their salaries.
And uh so they contributed, shouldn't should they at least not uh should they be deprived of the taxes that they paid?
I don't think that's very concerned.
So the fact that they committed identity theft and fraud uh is something that doesn't matter.
And of course, if you're gonna have selective application of the law and something like this, no matter what policy you come up with, it's it is uh it's gonna fail.
So Chris Wallace follows up with I don't believe, I don't have to tell you that conservators are saying they broke the law and that they're gonna benefit from that.
The taxes were taken out of their paychecks, it were put into a fund that is a legitimate fund.
Of course they were illegal because they were here illegally.
Yeah, right.
But what we'd like to do over time, and I think uh uh we could do this over time is establish some of these funds back in the country that they came from so that there would be incentives for them to return home.
So collect their Social Security benefits and send the money back.
We've already got such an agreement.
We detailed it for you on Friday.
It happened back in 98 or 2002, I forget which which it was.
Um so now not only are we gonna collect their Social Security benefits, we're gonna we're gonna send the benefits back to Mexico so that they can go back to.
I thought McCain wanted them to I thought he was one of these guys.
They're great, they're needed, they're the backbone of the future of our society.
What's he now talking about coming up with incentives to send them back to Mexico for?
We already got laws that will do that without bribing them with social security money.
And then there's this.
Chris Wallace says, give me an example since you bring it up.
What if what have you done?
What would you admit that you did for political expediency?
I went down to South Carolina and said that the flag that was flying over the State Capitol, which was a Confederate flag, was that I shouldn't be involved in it.
It was a state issue.
It was an act of cowardice.
Act of cowardice on your part, yes.
And you did it because you thought this will help me in the South Carolina primary and do that.
Sure, this this won't alienate certain voting blocks.
And am I lost anyway?
He was anyway.
So he admits to being politically expedient.
Now, this is primarily an attempt to satisfy those on the left who just love people who admit their foibles, just love people who admit their mistakes, just love people who admit they did something wrong.
Because we're all guilty and we're all sinners, and we all do things wrong.
And if we only acknowledge our shortcomings and our deficiencies, uh then we can fully be honest and understand that this is not such a great country after all, which is where this uh heads.
Now there's an argument over how many illegal immigrants are here, and there's a number of different estimates.
Um the U.S. citizenship and immigration services uh from 2003 estimates seven million uh illegals.
The U.S. Census Bureau from 2000 estimates eight point seven million uh illegals.
The Pew Hispanic Center from March of this year estimates between 11 and a half and twelve million illegals, and the Border Patrol Union Local 2544 in Tucson uh says that they're between 12 and 15 million, and Bear Stearns asset management uh from 2005 says that there are 20 million illegals here.
So the uh estimates range from seven to twenty million.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Well, because of this story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
One in seven Mexican workers migrates, and most of them send their money back home.
The current migration of Mexican and Central Americans to the United States, one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say.
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show.
About 15 percent of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States.
One in every seven Mexican workers migrates to the United States.
Mass migration from Mexico began more than a century ago, deeply embedded in the history, culture, and economies of both nations.
The uh current wave began with Mexico's economic crisis in 1982, accelerated sharply in the 90s with the U.S. economic boom, and today has reached record dimensions, with uh hardly anybody understanding an elected positions.
Uh the threat posed by this.
Uh we will continue the discussion.
Other things in the stack, too, as well as lots of uh other audio sound bites.
And we'll be getting to your phone calls ill quickly.
Sit tight, D back just a sec.
I know, I know folks.
Let me say it again uh in response to Senator McCain.
I uh I made the point last week.
I sometimes forget uh, you know, that that uh that I have it in my head that every one of you listens to every moment of this program and that you remember everything you hear uh on this program.
And I know for the vast majority of you that that is true, but there is a new tune-in factor each and every day.
People sampling the program uh for the uh first time.
Generally it's people who cannot believe the outrageous criticism of this program and tune in to see is it really that bad.
Um so let's go back to Senator McCain.
Uh let's in fact uh grab cut five.
Uh that that'll because uh let me let me put this in perspective uh for Senator McCain and the rest of you, because I got some email from people, hey, hey, hey, Russia, you gotta remind them again what he's really talking about.
The taxes were taken out of their paychecks, it were put into a fund that is a legitimate fund.
Of course they were illegal because they were here illegally.
But what we'd like to do over time, and I think uh uh we could do this over time is establish some of these funds back in the country that they came from so that there would be incentives for them to return home.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
Right.
Uh before this he had said explain to Chris Wallace why he was one of uh the senators that voted uh to uh go ahead and allow social security benefits to be paid to people who had used identity fraud uh uh to uh to get their social security number.
And and he said, Well, what are we gonna do about it now?
Well, the the fact is they wouldn't have had those jobs in many cases if it weren't for the fact that they had committed fraud.
And and those those those social security cards with fraudulent numbers uh entrench uh a person into our culture and society in many ways.
Uh they are used to secure insurance, bank accounts, driver's licenses.
Uh and of course, none of these people it was a 50-49 votes.
Senator McCain, none of the others who support this real will will recognize or acknowledge any of the negative aspects of this of these stolen social security numbers.
Uh, maybe if his identity had been stolen.
Maybe if somebody had and and had swiped McCain's social security number and sent him through the pits.
Uh good good point.
Uh Support Staff wants to know which McCain identity are we talking about being heisted?
Uh the Maverick McCain or the new conservative McCain.
Uh either one.
I don't assume that for both identities he has one social security numbers.
Imagine that his social security numbers swiped and that his identity is stolen.
Uh I'll guarantee you he would have an entirely different view of this.
Um if they didn't pay into public school systems through property taxes, and why do they go to the get the benefit for that for free?
Um same with health care.
The the the public is not stupid on this.
Uh this is just so much knee-jerk nonsense out there, and it's all oriented.
Well, they paid into the government and and they've paid those taxes, and yeah, we we must give them uh those uh those those benefits.
Uh it it it strikes me that there's a an element here in Washington that actually does think that the more these people get in and start paying Social Security, the less of a burden the program is gonna be on Congress to have to fix down the road.
Because that's one thing they don't want to they don't want to touch it, as we found out uh recently.
But in order for the to hold that belief, you've you've got to acknowledge, you have to ignore uh that the strain on the uh on the safety net is gonna be far greater than whatever contributions are coming in from these people.
Back to the phones, Bob in uh Sam San Ramon, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome, sir, you're up first.
Rush, what a pleasure always to talk with you.
And God, you put up so many topics, it's uh just unbelievable.
And uh I just wanted to comment actually you brought up Megan and that wasn't my topic, so excuse me.
But I was shocked when I heard him uh announcing all of this stuff and trying to get in league with Bush, but then I realized that essentially he was reminding Bush that he was tinting his ride for twenty-one billion dollars, which was the huge uh amount that was uh gonna be up for grabs there in New Orleans and who was gonna dispense it.
And Negan won.
And uh then I realized what was going on, but uh I that wasn't the my my main topic.
Well, you know, it's amazing that when he made these statements about how he and Bush are the two most vilified politicians in America, the crowd there cheered.
Yeah.
Well that's that's sort of surprising to me.
But I think I was sort of sensing that the crowd was a little uncomfortable because they didn't know where he was going, but uh actually I was calling uh in regard to the uh to the uh to the horse and and the broken leg and and uh these horses are immensely valuable for stud.
Uh uh they made it to the to the world series of horse racing when they're running.
And uh this this horse is worth millions, and that's really why they're repairing the leg.
And in fact, what I found amazing is in the in the news reports they were saying that this horse, even in its current state, is still interested in marriage, which I thought was really interesting.
If if this uh if this horse was a loser, I guarantee you right now it would be in a refrigerator going to France.
Uh and for what purpose?
Food?
That's what they do in France, the causes.
Well, there's no qu look, I know this is this the the stud studue here on the uh on the horse is incredibly high, but that's not that that wasn't the point of the piece.
The point of the piece, why do the general public who will not benefit in whatever stud fees are generated by the owners?
Why is the public so embracing of the circumstances surrounding this horse?
And for this New York Times uh info babe op and uh authors, perhaps the greatest thing is that we all care so much.
The miracle of caring is we've ex-we've we've re-fended kindled, we've rediscovered the uh minimal miracle of caring.
I mean, everybody cares about animals in distress.
It really is uh is nothing new.
But probably too, if the if if this horse had lost if it was a loser horse not expected to win, uh they probably would have taken care of it there on the track uh uh and have been done with it.
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