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June 9, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
It's Friday.
You know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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You know what?
Let's see.
Let's do audio soundbites 4 and 5.
I want you to hear a couple more.
Well, one more from Major Colwell and then an exchange here, a discussion between Ann Curry and Jim Miklashevsky on the Today Show today.
I already did number four.
I already did number four.
Never mind.
I thought I had this figured out, but I'm obviously somehow I'm confused.
Let me just say, people have been asking, because I thought I had a bite related to this.
People have been asking, what's going to happen to Al-Zarkawi's body?
Will it be sent to his family for burial or what have you?
That's a good question.
If you care what's going to happen, I, of course, ladies and gentlemen, am wondering if Nancy Pelosi and Jack Murthy, Howard Dean, maybe John Kerry will be leading the U.S. delegation to Zarkowi's funeral wherever it is.
Well, I mean, these guys are funeral.
I mean, Clinton may even go too.
They're funeral crashers.
And wherever the body is sent, wherever the funeral is, I mean, remember, they're members of the U.S. Congressman working on the Al-Qaeda Bill of Rights in terms of protecting their civil rights and human rights under the terms of the U.S. Constitution.
So that's a logical question to ask.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, day nine of hurricane season, and it is not all quiet out there.
There is a tropical depression.
It appears to be forming a couple hundred miles east of the Caribbean superpower, Baylize.
This is not far from the Bay of Campiche and the Yucatan Peninsula.
What?
Campechi is the Bay of Campeche.
We had a call.
Okay, so it's not Campiche.
It sounds better.
I wish it were Campiche because it sounds better.
Apparently, it's pronounced the Bay of Campeche.
Whatever.
I've got on my monitor here, I'm looking at the cloud formation.
What am I doing with it?
There it is.
I'm looking at the NOAA Floater 1 here, and I've got the disturbance on the screen.
And the National Hurricane Center has not done a thing with this yet.
They are running models, and the models do indicate the depression forming.
And the models want to develop the system moving northward into the central Gulf and then taking an east and northeasterly turn toward the west coast of Florida.
This is all sometime next week.
But day nine of hurricane season, all is not quiet.
A drive by the Democratic leadership to strip the embattled William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, of his committee post, that'd be the House Ways and Means Committee, has triggered a backlash.
This happened yesterday.
Well, everybody else paying attention to Al-Zarcawhey and his assuming room temperature.
The Democrats were trying to get rid of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Congressional Black Caucus stood up, opposed the move, and said that the Democratic lawmaker deserves a presumption of innocence.
The chairman, a caucus chairman, is Representative Mel Watt of North Carolina.
And he told reporters that some black voters might ask why action was sought against a black member of Congress when there was neither precedent nor rule for it.
Now, haven't we heard that the Democrats, haven't we heard the Democrats accuse the Republicans of running the House like a plantation?
We have heard that said, that that was one of the mantras that the Democrats tried, that the House was run like a plantation.
Well, excuse me, but who is it that seems to be running the Ways and Means Committee and their own caucus like a plantation?
It sounds to me like it is the Democrats doing this.
Now, I know what some of you are thinking.
Okay, Black Caucus is asking for the presumption of innocence for Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
And they're saying that we shouldn't rush to judgment out there.
They don't think anything should happen to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana at all.
Now, I know this is quite a different view that is being taken by Democrats when it came to Tom DeLay.
They wanted DeLay to step down right away after he had been indicted.
But that was because the Republicans caved to pressure to show the Democrats how fair they could be when they were in the leadership.
So the Republicans wrote a rule for themselves that the Democrats have not adopted.
And that rule says that if any of the Republican leadership's ever indicted, then that member will step down from his leadership position.
There was no reason to do this.
It was, again, Republicans trying to show how nice they are, how cooperative, and how fair they would be once they assume power.
Well, all this did was give the Democrats veto power over who sits on the Republican leadership positions in the House.
All you need to go is go out and find a hack prosecutor like Ronnie Earle, come up with this phony indictment of delay, and delay has to resign by virtue of Republican rules.
Democrats do not have that rule.
The Democrats wanted Delay gone.
They didn't care about Delay's presumption of innocence.
And he didn't even have a smoking gun of hidden cash in a freezer or a videotape of accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant.
DeLay hasn't been convicted of anything, and yet he had to go because of this Republican rule.
I mean, they had no doubt.
Delay's guilt.
Yes, no, no question.
Delay got to go.
He's bad for the Republicans.
He's bad for the leadership.
And Jefferson is going to be innocent no matter what happens.
But yet, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to come to the defense today of the Congressional Black Caucus on this.
What happened to Delay is not right, but it was wrong.
But two wrongs do not make a right.
And the Congressional Black Caucus has a point.
And you can even use the Delay story as an example to agree with them.
Delay should have had the presumption of innocence too.
He should not have been forced to resign.
The Republicans should not have thrown him overboard.
There still has been no adjudication of his case, just as there has been no adjudication of the case of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, the Congressional Black Caucus is right, and they know this.
What we have here is an example of Democrats, white plantation liberal Democrats, who at the first sign of trouble will throw one of their black brothers off the bus just like that in order to protect their own image.
Now, some of you might be saying, well, Pelosi's doing the right thing.
Rush, she's acting in the best interests of her party.
Maybe so.
But Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have played the race card their entire political career.
It's sort of like when you live by the photo op, you die by the photo op.
When you live by the race card, you may end up dying by it.
And I am here to tell you today that the Congressional Black Caucus, as a matter of point of law, is exactly right.
There is no charge even yet against Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
There is no trial slated.
There are no charges.
There is not an indictment.
At this stage, there is indeed the presumption of innocence in our system.
And I admire the Congressional Black Caucus for holding the Democratic leadership in the House to feet to the fire on this because a travesty of injustice according to the U.S. system of law is being done to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, by Nancy Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer, and whoever else in that caucus is saying this, but not being quoted publicly.
It's a travesty, and it's a classic example how they use and take advantage of blacks in their own party, in their own organizations.
So the first sign of trouble, get rid of them.
And the Congressional Black Caucus, whatever else you may think of them, is right on the point of law here, and I'm standing firm with them.
Back after this, stay with us.
I do want to play this audio soundbite number five: this discussion between Ann Curry and Jim Miklashevsky today on the Today Show about Zarkawi.
An informant helped lead U.S. forces to Zarkawi at a time when many Americans have lost faith in the intelligence community to penetrate Al-Qaeda's network.
How much of a watershed moment is this?
It's incredible because, you know, intelligence forces in Iraq and in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan have not been able to develop the kind of human intelligence it takes to get at these leaders of al-Qaeda.
This was a big break, except they don't believe that it indicates it's any trend.
Of course not.
Like they're going to tell you that it does so that you can go blab it all over the world, Jim.
For crying out, like, can I say a couple things about this?
Yes, I can, because it's my show.
Number one, we obviously have developed some pretty good human intel, and we've done it by infiltrating al-Qaeda itself.
It may be that some in al-Qaeda are discombobulated and worried.
The thing's going in the wrong direction there.
They may be disconcerted with the way Al-Qaeda is running the show.
Who knows?
But there definitely was an informant or two from inside Zarkawi's own operation.
The second point is: none of this was happening during the 90s.
It was during the 90s, a little bit earlier than that, that the whole notion of human intelligence fell by the wayside as we decided to ramp up high-tech intelligence, satellites, and this kind of thing.
There was also this interesting little law that I think originated during the Clinton years, that the CIA was not allowed to hire the kind of thugs and creeps and human debris that it would take to infiltrate al-Qaeda.
Bob, that's right.
The torch, Bob Torricelli, was behind that legislation when he was a Democrat senator from New Jersey.
And so the CIA was not allowed to make deals and to hire these kinds of people because they were bad people.
And we didn't do business with bad people.
So we had no human intelligence.
All right.
It is apparent to me, and I'm not saying this for the purposes of supporting the administration.
I'm saying this because I mean this in the bottom of my heart and from the pit of my brilliant brain.
It is quite simply this.
This report indicates that we do have, and this incident indicates that we have ramped up human intelligence again, that this administration is taking no prisoners when it comes to winning this war.
And we have evidence that anytime this kind of intelligence is attempted, the Democrats and the liberals in this country do their best to sabotage it and undermine it, be the NSA, the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act, the wiretapping of phone calls from out of the country or into the country involving suspected al-Qaeda terrorists.
That program is being assaulted by people like Arlen Specter, Republican, liberals like Patrick Leahy and Ted Kennedy.
It's why I say we cannot trust Democrats with the national defense and national security of this country because they are not interested in it.
Or if they are interested in it, they are incompetent at it.
It's one of the two, and they fail to recognize the genuine threats.
But this does represent a huge leap forward and advancement in the ability to nail somebody this high up.
This was no symbol.
Zarkawi was no symbol.
He was the commander on the ground.
He was the inspirational and charismatic leader.
He was personally on the battlefield beheading women, children, and others.
They found 17 beheaded heads in cardboard boxes or some kind of boxes near fruit boxes near that so-called safe house where we nailed him with those two 500-pound bombs.
This is huge.
This is great.
Whatever, the special forces involved here, Jordanian help was indispensable.
I'm told that we had incredible tips from detainee reports, i.e. Club Getmo, Abu Ghrab, wherever we're holding these people prisoner.
This is serious stuff.
This is life and death stuff.
It's not a game.
It's not a political issue.
It is a war.
And thank God we've got somebody in the White House who on this issue is standing firm in cement and is not being blown off course by the traditional and typical wind blowing of political opponents.
Jay in Slidell, Louisiana.
You're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I just want to let you know I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller.
I might not be a ditto head, but I have a lot of respect for your intellect.
And even though I might not agree on everything you say, I think you have some of the finest, most biting political satire I ever heard.
The stuff that I was listening to on hold just had me in stitches.
Two points real quick, if I can, Make.
We're down here in southeast Louisiana.
There's about 1.5 million people of us down here that our lives are still not back to normal eight months later.
And I know you're trying to keep the left environmentalists from getting too much of a hand up, but preface some of your levity about the hurricanes, if you don't mind, because we're still in a world of hurt down here.
But besides that, I have one little point that I'd like to make about maybe converting away from oil as much.
And if I yield to your superial intellect, I just want you to let you know that right now I'm only engaging my amygdala and hypothalamus.
Ha ha.
I'm all ears here.
My brain cells and the cerebellum are active and receptive.
Okay.
I think the best point we can make on getting away from oil rather than sooner and later is strictly an economic one.
The companies that are willing to branch out and diversify and move away from heavier-type vehicles and oil combustion are going to be the ones that make more money in the future.
Right.
That's right.
And in the process, the slogan will be to the American people, let's shoot for the bottom.
Let's aim to be the worst we can be.
Well, I think we should be the best we can be if we get out of the way.
No, you don't.
I mean, I know you think that.
I know you think this is a laudatory thing to try to get away from oil right now and so forth.
We've got too much of it left here for it to be practicable.
There's only when we're seriously running out of oil are we going to get into serious alternative fuel discussions.
Right now, the left is hung up on wind power.
They can't find anywhere that'll let them put any of these turbines.
The liberals in Nantucket, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, won't let any of the wind turbines up there.
They want to put them out in the plains of Sandy, or of South Dakota and so forth.
They won't want them there.
Nobody wants to drive around Priuses.
If these hybrids were so big, everybody would be rushing to the store to get them.
By the way, there was a big Prius recall the other day, I don't forget what it was.
But, you know, this is this.
I'm only half kidding here, Jay.
I know your heart's in the right place, and I know your intentions are honorable, and I'm not attacking those, but it's just sophistry to suggest that any of the solutions on the table today make life better, improve circumstances for the American people, or grow our economy.
They do just the opposite.
They will impoverish more people.
They will reduce economic growth, not embrace it.
These are recipes for minimalism.
This is not what the United States of America is about.
It's not what we've ever been about.
We are not a wasteful country.
We are productive and we are efficient.
And the resources that we use end up feeding and clothing and caring for people worldwide who otherwise wouldn't have the ability to build the resources themselves because those people sadly don't have the freedom that we do.
And to sit here and say that we've got to do this and we've got to do this because we're at fault and we're to blame and so forth is something you're sadly falling for by noted scientists like Lori David and Al Gore and Barbara Streisand, who's now going to go on tour.
Barbara Streisand are going to do her first concert tour for the planet in September and October.
It's obviously an election year ploy, but it's just silly.
It's ridiculous and it'll deserve the laughter that it all gets.
When I hear this talk about alternative fuel supply, smaller cars and so forth, I'm telling you what, let me tell you how you Democrats are going to be heard when you say that.
And I'm not joking.
Let's shoot for the worst we can be.
Let's go for bad.
There is nothing in any of these Al Gore's stupid movies.
By the way, folks, you want to hear something funny?
The people putting out Al Gore's movie, you know, they always have these big movie posters.
And Gore's movie poster is a picture of a hurricane forming out of a smokestack.
His name, this is his movie.
He's the narrator.
He's the producer.
He's the star.
His name is nowhere in any of the posters or advertising for this movie of his, An Inconvenient Truth.
Inconvenient Truth, by the way, is what happened to Zarkowi for the left.
But this movie, Inconvenient Truth, features no mention of Al Gore.
You know why?
They tested this.
They tested a movie with Al Gore's name in it to a bunch of audiences, and the studio found that there was no interest in a movie that had any mention of Al Gore in it.
So they took his name off all of the posters and all the advertising.
Let's be the worst we can be.
The Democrats vote for us.
We are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here on the EIB network.
By the way, here is Al Gore and discussion of his movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
This spring, Half-Star Productions will release a feature film about an unemployable former politician's final fall into obscurity.
Which won't shock anybody.
Albert Gore Jr. stars in An Inconvenient Ad.
Telling the same jokes.
I am Al Gore.
I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
Telling the same old story.
Imagine the polar ice caps melting, and then imagine your home floating away with your family sitting on top.
Now imagine that it will happen tomorrow so that my life will have meaning.
Al Gore pretending to be smart for three hours.
We all know that the Earth's temperature has never changed until 10 of the last 14 years.
And this summer is going to be hotter than it has been all year long.
Pearls of wisdom from a twit who flunked out of Divinity School.
Is it possible that we should prepare against other threats besides terrorists like bovine flatulation?
This is by far the most boring film you will ever see.
Global warming is not really a political issue.
I found that out in 2000.
If you love your planet, if you love your children, you must avoid this delusional moron.
My ability to make a comeback is what's at stake.
An inconvenient L in theaters somewhere.
That's right.
It opened in 77 theaters.
It grossed 1.4 million.
And moveon.org out there saying it's the most successful, biggest military movie opening of the weekend, whatever.
Because had it opened on more than 77 screens, it would have been huge.
1.4 million and 77 screens.
I'd be embarrassed to release this statistic.
Have you heard what's happening to Dixie Chicks out there?
Ticket sales.
Their tour is going to hell in a handbasket.
The country music trio, the Dixie Chicks, still taking heat for criticizing President Bush, are weathering sluggish ticket sales in several cities for their upcoming U.S. tour, while early ticket purchases for their first major tour three years generally robust in northeastern cities.
Initial sales have fallen short of expectations in numerous markets, especially in the Midwest and the South.
According to Polestar, dates in Memphis, Tennessee, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, and Fresno, California have been dropped from the tour schedule, while box office sales have been canceled for Houston.
By contrast, the group's latest album, Taking a Long Way, opened atop the U.S. pop chart last week, sold over half a million copies during first seven days, with lots of country music stations denying the chicks airplay.
Box office business is off to a slow start in places where the group has sold out in the past, according to Gary Bongiovanni, the editor of Concert Industry Magazine Polster.
Isn't that John Bon Jovi's real name?
I think it is.
Bon Jovi's real name is Bon Giovanni.
At any rate, Billboard magazine says they're in trouble out there.
They're having to rethink the entire tour at this point.
Clearly, their problems seem to be strongest in the red states.
Those states carried by Bush in the 2004 presidential race.
They once asked Michael Jordan if he would get involved, and he's a big Democrat.
And they asked him, we could really use your help out there, Michael.
He said, look, Republicans buy Nikes too.
You know, why should I go out and anger half the audience?
Dixie Chicks would have been well advised to have learned that.
Madison, Wisconsin.
Jeff, you're up next at Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, a lot, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to go back to the first hour, if I could, a few things that you said that really triggered my brain just going around.
You were talking about a reporter that said, were they shot?
Yeah.
And then you talked about something where I'm sure a lot of Americans feel like you hoped he suffered, Zarkali, I mean, you hoped that he just had the worst experience of his life.
And then it brought me back to Black Hawk Town, where the bad people were dragging our troops through the streets.
And the one question that I didn't hear asked by anybody was, why the stretcher?
Why was he on the gurney?
And I was thinking about how everybody talks about our troops and how horrible they are.
And we were taking the worst possible human being on the earth and putting him on a journey to go where?
If he was alive, obviously we were taking him to give him treatment.
And I just wanted people to know that it's a question that wasn't asked that should have been asked.
That's an excellent point.
I want to remind everybody that I prefaced.
I'm not in favor of violence against anybody, but this guy is an exception.
This guy is just an absolute piece of human debris.
He's a monster.
He beheads people personally.
The idea that we wouldn't kill him after we found him alive, after bombing his safe house, is absurd to me.
But, yeah, the fact he's on the gurney means he's being taken out of there somewhere.
We don't know if he was being taken for medical treatment.
I really don't know that.
All I know is this.
Well, I don't know anything.
Here's what I hope.
And I'll repeat it again.
I hope that we got in there, found the guy alive.
I hope he was begging for mercy.
And I hope he was crying like a baby.
And I hope he was pleading for help in his life and some relief from whatever discomfort.
And I hope that our guys said, you know what?
The last thing we need is for this piece of human garbage to be given the best medical treatment in the world at one of our field hospitals here so that he might recover, if he could have, and then end up on trial like Masawi or Saddam.
I don't know where he was going.
I don't know where they were taking him.
I don't know what the full slate of his injuries were.
I have to think that if you're in a house and two 500 bombs, 500-pound bombs are dropped on your head, you're going to have some pretty severe internal injuries, bleeding, and so forth.
So when they said he looked up and saw U.S. Special Forces and realized that it was the Americans that got him, that he tried to roll off the gurney.
I said, wait a minute, how hurt could he be if he tried to roll off the gurney?
If he tried to roll off the gurney, did they let him roll off?
So he'd hurt himself even more falling off.
I don't know, but I hope so.
But I really do hope it's true that the last thing this person saw as he faded off to the 72 virgins was the smiling faces of American Special Forces in uniform.
I hope the last conscious thought he had was the Americans got me.
That's what I hope, folks.
Bill in Billings, Montana, you're next on Openline Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to change course a little bit.
I was wondering what your take is on the Fed continuing to raise interest rates.
Are they going to take us back to the 80s where we have 21, 22% interest and run a lot of small businesses out based on energy?
I hope not.
I don't think it's going to go there.
I'm glad you brought this up because I am alarmed about this.
There's more than one guy talking.
You've got Bernanke out there talking.
He's the Fed Reserve guy, and he talks.
He says, yeah, we're going to raise rates.
You've got somebody else out there that chimed in earlier this week and said, you know what?
I'm getting worried about where prices are headed.
Prices are dangerously now close to affecting core inflation and price maintenance.
And I can't have that.
Well, that caused a massive, massive sell-off.
People wanted to take their profits out of the stock market.
Look at that, down about 49 points again right now.
I think there's too much talk about this.
In fact, one of the things that concerns me was I thought that one of the reasons that the market went sky high some weeks ago was that Bernanke, they got hold of Bernanke's minutes from his last meeting at the Fed, said he was through raising rates.
And that's it.
That's what I understood.
Yeah, and so now you've got exact reversal under the pretext the economy is overheating.
You know, it has been ever since the Carter administration, the effort has been to ride herd on inflation because nobody wants the circumstances that we had back then.
And so, yeah, they may be a little bit too skittish on this.
And, you know, thinking they can control the economy to that extent is, I think, a mistake, too.
So I hope they slack off.
The low interest rates that we've had have boomed the housing market.
They have boomed, caused a boom in consumer confidence.
They've helped tremendously in the price of goods and services that people buy over time.
And I hope they don't kill the golden goose by just arbitrarily, indiscriminately raising these rates.
I'll tell you, when this was happening, too, there was a lot of attention to this being paid in the 90s.
Inflation, disinflation.
At the time, actually, in the late 80s, early 90s, disinflation was actually what was going on.
There were manufacturers that were unable to maintain a sufficient price above their production cost to make a profit.
Yet we were being told inflation is threatening here.
We got to make sure inflation doesn't run rampant.
And it was just the opposite thing that was happening.
We haven't had any real bad core inflation in years, despite economic recoveries and slowdowns and so forth.
And look, these guys know more about what they're doing than I do, but it does seem that they're causing panic or near panic in certain areas prematurely.
Bill, glad you called.
A quick time out here.
We'll be back.
Is it possible?
Is it possible that Haditha is a hoax?
Clarice Feldman at the AmericanThinker.com thinks it's entirely possible.
Details in a moment.
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This is Sue Ann.
Nice to have you on the program, Sue Ann.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I would like to say thank you so much for suffering the slings and arrows and criticism by saying the things out loud that most of us only say inside of our homes.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate every minute of it.
Well, you're very kind.
Why don't you say these things outside your homes?
I live in California.
You know, I just got an email.
Let me see if I can find this real quick.
Yeah, let me print this out real quick.
It's another woman who has basically the same theme here as your call.
Let me grab it.
Print it.
Print it.
Got it.
All right.
Dear Rush, it's from a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com.
Hi.
I wanted to let you know what happened to me last night when I went out for a drink with the other string players in my orchestra.
I mentioned I've been privileged to be able to speak with you, and they all turned from fun-loving musicians to nasty liberal haters.
I was surprised at the vindictive, ugly language they used to describe what they thought of you, when to my knowledge, none of them has ever listened to you.
My friends are absolutely hopeless, and I despair of ever convincing them of their wrongness.
In any case, I know that you are the bearer of truth to the world, and I will defend you forever.
Best wishes to you.
This is Carol, and she's from Everett, Washington.
I feel the same way.
Well, you guys are very kind.
I really appreciate it.
As I've mentioned once before, all this stuff used to bother me.
When I first started this program back in 1988, for the first four years, I mean, I had no idea how to deal with it, how to respond to it, if to respond to it, how to handle it internally, because nobody had ever said these things about me before.
And these things were being said by people who didn't know me, as you point out, and as Carol points out here, and came to learn that hardly any of them ever listened to me.
So it was simply a result of ideology and differences.
And then I realized that what it was, these people are just living in total fear.
They can't win an argument against us, Sue Ann, on ideas because they're not ideas people.
So what they have to do, their only recourse is to seek to discredit the people that say things they can't defend or can't argue with, can't win against.
And that's what all this is.
It took me a long time to recognize this and take it as a measure of success because nobody's raised with the idea, look, your objective in life is to infuriate people, to make them hate your guts and make them want to do away with you.
Nobody's raised like that.
Well, maybe Zarkowie was.
Who knows?
So it was now, I'll be honest, if it ever stopped, I would be worried.
Well, I have been learning at the Limbaugh Institute since 9-11, and I have never learned so much in my life.
Well, that's awfully kind of you.
You don't know how much I appreciate that.
You really, you really don't.
Well, thank you for everything you do, and you have a great rest of your life.
Thank you, Sue Ann.
You hang in out there, and don't be afraid to leave your house, even out in California.
Things are changing out there.
Not fast enough for me.
Sit tight.
It's happening faster than you know.
That's the whole point.
Just like what's going on in Iraq is much more positive than anybody knows, as evidenced by all the steps necessary to make this hit on Zarcawi possible.
The government being formed.
There's more progress than you possibly can see on the surface here, but sit tight.
It'll manifest itself.
I imagine you're going to be very happy the day after the elections this November.
I hope so.
I bet you will.
Thank you a lot.
I got to move on.
You bet.
This is Kayla in Cedar Rapids.
She's 13 years old.
Hi, Kayla.
Hi, Lefesh.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
I'm a first-time caller, but I'm definitely a loyal listener.
I listen to you every day.
Thank you.
At age 13.
Yep.
I have a question about what people call, quote unquote, the separation of church and state.
We are not allowed, well, to publicly show religion at school.
Yeah, no.
And I did a report on the Constitution in my social studies class on the First Amendment.
And it says that Congress may not impose any law on that concerning your rights in that area.
And so wouldn't that be imposing on your rights, not allowing you to practice religion publicly in school?
Well, I think I get your point.
First off, let me congratulate you at age 13 for reading the Constitution and endeavoring to understand it.
Is this part of your daily activity in school or is your parents behind this?
Nope, it's just my daily activity in school.
Well, hubba-hubba.
That's actually good news.
It says Congress may not establish a law.
What the First Amendment says essentially is that the government shall not establish an official religion that everyone must follow.
That's all it says.
The words separation of church and state are not in the Constitution.
That's, yeah.
You've noticed that having read the First Amendment.
The concept of separation in church and state is an idea that has been invented by the American left in order to expand on what the Constitution says and to say not only is the government not allowed to establish a religion, you can't practice yours in public because it might offend somebody, but it really is a non-sequitur.
The First Amendment does not say anything about you going into school and praying or practicing your religion.
Now, if local communities want to come up together, pass a law states want to do, they can do that, but it cannot violate the First Amendment.
Look, Kayla, can you hang on?
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