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June 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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This is Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman from the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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That's rush at EIBnet.com.
You heard about this in English.
This is Philadelphia.
An English-only ordering policy at one of Philadelphia's most famous cheesesteak joints drew a warning Monday from officials who threatened to file a discrimination complaint.
Philadelphia's Commission on Human Relations planned to argue that the policy at Genoes Stakes discourages customers of certain backgrounds from eating there, said Rachel Lawton, the acting executive director.
Joseph Vento is the owner of Geno's Stakes, and he posted two small signs at his shop on South Philadelphia, in South Philadelphia, proclaiming this is America.
When ordering, please speak English.
Now, the acting executive director, Rachel Lawton, of the Commission on Human Relations, said that that violates the city's fair practices ordinance, which prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodation, and housing.
She said it's discouraging patronage by non-English-speaking customers because of their national origin or ancestry.
Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno's, whose grandparents struggled to learn English after arriving from Sicily in the 1920s, said yesterday he's not discriminating and he has no intention of giving in.
I'd say they would have to handcuff me and take me out because I'm not taking the signs down.
He said no customer had ever been turned away because of the policy.
Said he posted the sign about six months ago because of concern over the debate on immigration reform and the increasing number of people in the area who can't order in English.
The historically Italian community has become more diverse as immigrants from Asia and Latin America have moved in.
Rachel Lawton said the restaurant would probably be served with a complaint either yesterday or today.
She didn't return phone calls immediately from Al AP on Monday evening.
She said the restaurant could be ordered to take down the signs or face fines.
The dispute could end up in court.
Joseph Vento said, let them do what they want to.
When it comes, then we'll deal with it.
Can you believe this?
Okay, if he doesn't want people coming in there that can't speak English in order, how's this discriminating?
Why is the onus not on those who want to go into a place of business and access it?
Obviously, I know, I know the regulations.
I'm just telling you, this is another sign.
This is Philadelphia.
This is not a border town.
This is not close to the Mexican border.
This is not San Diego.
This is not Texas.
This is not Arizona.
This is a blue state and a really blue city.
This, don't forget, this is the city.
They're building some giant building there.
I forget what the building is.
Bank building or something.
It's going to be the tallest building in Philadelphia.
And they're going to use non-flush urinals in the men's room.
The union thugs and the pipefitters union weren't having any of that.
They filed a protest and they threatened to go on strike.
Some of the construction workers did.
And the way it was settled, all right, We're not going to take out the flush-free urinals, the flushless, whatever they're called, urinals.
We're going to keep them in.
But the compromise was to let the pipe fitters go ahead and put pipes in anyway, pipes that will never be used.
Pipes that are not even going to be connected will be installed.
So the pipe fitters have worked today.
As Tropical Storm Alberta threatened to strengthen, of course, it petered out.
Were you watching any of the satellite imagery, the rolling satellite imagery with the different images, time-lapse, and so forth?
A gust of dry air burst into this storm and just totally broke up the circular movement of the low.
The circulation, it was amazing where this dry air just blew this storm apart.
It never amounted to what they thought it was going to amount to.
It was just basically a rain and wind event with not much, I mean, hardly any damage whatsoever.
Never mind.
On the eve of this so-called Hurricane Alberto, which is, of course, Spanish or Italian for Albert, as in gore, the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, former president, took to the microphones and predicted yesterday that Republican environmental policies will lead to more severe storms.
He said it is now generally recognized that while Al Gore and I were ridiculed, we were right about global warming.
He was speaking at a fundraiser for the Florida Democratic Party.
It's a serious problem.
It's going to lead to more hurricanes.
Well, then what happened to this one, Mr. President?
How did this thing not amount to much?
How did this thing not meet expectations?
How did that burst of dry air get in there?
Could that burst of dry air have come from the Florida Democratic Party fundraiser you attended?
Could that burst of dry air have escaped the building where you all were in there gabbing and destroy this hurricane?
Just like Jane Harmon and any other Democrat last week, we can't play whack-a-mall in Bandar province.
We can't win this.
We can't do this.
Bamo, he kills our cowie, and then we run in and the president makes a sneak appearance in Baghdad and takes the air out of their sails.
On the eve of the hurricane, supposedly strengthening and wiping out sections of Florida, it peters out right after Bill Clinton predicts worse and worse hurricanes.
This has been the pattern for these poor pathetic Democrats.
But what are the politics of this?
What are the politics of this?
Here is Bill Clinton, whose wife seeks the Democratic presidential nomination versus Al Gore, who is obviously setting up a campaign.
He's obviously using this pathetic little lying movie of his, An Inconvenient Truth, to set up a presidential campaign on, of course, the winning issue of global warming.
Yes.
The winning issue of global warming.
That has rocketed so many people into political power, into political office.
I can't count the numbers.
I've lost track of how many people have made huge careers in politics out of threatening the destruction of the country and the planet on global warming and then blaming their own country for it.
Why, the number of politicians writing to victory on that campaign is too numerous to count.
And yet here's Bill Clinton supporting it.
That means that Bill Clinton at a fundraiser for Democrats in Florida got behind Al Gore and his primary campaign position while his wife is out there toiling away in pantsuits trying to figure out what she can do to get back in the good graces of the fringe kook left that's become the Democrat Party base.
Now I find this fascinating.
I find that this, if I didn't know better, I would say this is a personal undercutting of her campaign by tacitly and vocally and publicly endorsing the number one issue of Al Gore, who is shaping up to be her likely opponent in the Democratic presidential primary.
Keep a sharp eye on this one.
And then to back that up, Al Gore said that he hopes to train 1,000 messengers that he hopes will spread out across a fruited plain and present a slideshow about global warming that captures the essence of his Hollywood documentary and book.
Hey, Al Gore, why in the world do you need 1,000 messengers to trek all over the fruited plane with a slideshow when you've got your movie setting records at the box office, according to several liberal blogs?
Well, now I know, I know that his movie is only on 77 screens, but if you do the math and say it was on 3,000 screens and say, why it'd be a record?
Well, the fact is it's not on 3,000 screens.
It's not on 2,000 screens.
It's not on 1,000 screens.
It's not even on 100 measly screens.
It's on 77 screens, and they're probably using 16 millimeter or maybe even super eight to show this thing.
So he needs 1,000 messengers to spread the word about the climate.
He said yesterday that by the end of the summer, he would start a bipartisan education campaign to train 1,000 people to give a version of his slideshow on global warming featured in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
Hey, if belief in the destruction of global warming and the fact that America is responsible for it is so widely held and widely believed, why do you need to train anybody, Al Gore?
Why do you need to train anybody to run out there and present your slideshow?
This ought to be as easy as counting to five because everybody knows this, right?
Everybody believes that the United States is responsible for global warming and it's going to destroy the planet in 10 years.
Al Gore, speaking to reporters in New York, said this moment cannot be allowed to pass.
I have seen and heard times before when the awareness of the climate crisis has peaked and a few months later it's gone.
I think this time it's different, but I have to say I'm not certain of that.
This is gibberish.
I'll take you back to 1983, 84, 85.
I was in Sacramento.
I was working there, preparing to become the leading radio talk show host in America.
And I'm watching this week with David Brinkley back when it was a good show.
It was a Sunday morning and they had a, doing the subject on global warming and they had this guy Oppenheimer, I think his name is Alan Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer, not sure which, from some Hoify Torhe University.
And he said, we got 20 years.
20 years to fix the planet.
We've got 20 years to reverse this global warming, but this is only six or seven years from the Newsweek cover on the coming global cooling and ice age.
He said, see, that didn't take, that didn't sell, so they had to reverse it.
Because this is not about the climate.
It's about socialists and anti-capitalists getting control of our government and expanding it and raising taxes and taking away your individual liberties and freedoms.
That's all this movement is about.
It's just a vehicle.
At any rate, 20 years ago, 1985, 86, 20 years is all we got.
If we don't reverse this in 20 years, if we don't start now, then it may be too late.
Well, okay, here we are 20 years later, 22, 21 years later, and now we got 10 more years to fix this, according to Al Gore.
You know something else about this?
You take a look at this whole global warming movement, and take a look at the people that the left sends out there to promote this and try to persuade you, like Lori David.
Now, she may well be a nice woman, but she's a dunce.
No diddly squats.
This woman drives in a Prius on the way to the airport to get aboard her G5.
She burns more fuel flying across the country in her G5 than if you had a fleet of hummers, like 10 or 12 of them, and you drove them 3,000 miles every day for a year.
And yet she wants you out of your hummer and get into one of these hybrids while she's putzing around with G5s and polluting the planet and so forth.
But of course, she's exempt because she's on the case and she understands.
She makes up for it by driving a Prius or whatever.
And then you send whoever else these Looney Tunes are that they send out there to make the case.
I mean, they're as bereft as the Democratic Party with their spokespeople Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi.
Who do they think they are kidding?
President Bush is addressing the troops in Iraq.
Well, he did.
They're running a videotape on the cable networks.
We are rolling.
We'll have audio soundbites.
It's really, really powerful stuff he's saying.
Very calm, very relaxed, very sincere, and very sober remarks to the troops in Iraq.
But it is just fabulous.
He's fabulous, telling them how they're involved in something historic.
Thanking them, praising them, telling them that he brings support and love from America to them and thanks for the sacrifice of themselves and their families.
So when we get some bites of this rolled off, we'll share them with you because you really have to hear them.
This is John in Philadelphia.
John, glad you called.
You're up next to the EIB network.
Mega Dittos from Philadelphia.
Thank you.
I just want to let you know, Geno's is packed.
This has done wonders for Joey's business.
People are just dropping money off to show support for Joey.
You're a regular customer at Joe's place?
Yeah, typically Geno's or Pat's, whichever one has the lesser of the line.
But right now, it is absolutely packed at Geno's.
And actually, a little tidbit.
Geno's is also the same place that when Kerry was campaigning, he asked for Swiss cheese, and they looked at him like he had three heads.
Is that the place?
It was where Kerry asked for one of those cheese steaks, and he asked for some kind of odd combo cheese on it, and they had a picture of him trying to eat it, and he could just barely touch it.
If helly was so beneath him to be holding a cheese steak, he just hold your pinky up when you're eating a cheese steak.
Yeah, he's holding his pinky up, just couldn't put his whole, all ten fingers on the eight fingers, two thumbs on the sand.
That's the place it happened, huh?
Yep.
Hubba hubba.
Well, that's, you know, how far from Nick's Roast Beef is Geno's place, Joey's place, because I know they're both in South Philly.
Well, Pat's is right across the street, and then you have Jim's on South Street.
You got Abner's near Penn.
I don't know about Nick's.
Well, it's right off Broad Street.
It's a couple blocks off Broad Street's 18th and Jackson's place.
Does that make sense?
I was there one time and I wasn't driving, so I'm not sure.
I remember the street intersection locations, but regardless, it's a great neighborhood for food.
Well, I appreciate the update.
By the way, I assume, John, everybody standing in line is ordering in English today.
Absolutely.
That's the other thing.
It says, this is America when ordering speak English.
In Philly, they have these people trying to get on them saying it's a legal pickle because you're not allowed to discriminate.
It's not discriminating.
It's just saying, look, this is America when ordering.
We're not denying you food.
We're just saying speak English.
Well, they won't say it's discriminating.
They have the regulations like you have to have wheelchair access.
You have to have bathrooms with wide doors for people in wheelchairs and this sort of thing.
And they'll say that this English admonition falls under the same regulation of making your place accessible to everyone.
Well, he's going to keep the sign up.
Yeah, I gathered that.
Well, he's got guts.
I'm glad to get the on-the-spot report from Geno's in South Philly.
Eric in Corning, New York.
You're next.
The EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I want to get your take on what Rothlessberger did to himself there in Pittsburgh, riding around on the fastest production bike in the world without a helmet when the kids got everything going for him.
You think he was stupid?
Oh, yeah.
What's he doing?
He said he's not a risk taker and he normally rides in groups.
So what's he doing at midnight driving his bike?
No, It wasn't midnight.
It was 11:15 in the morning.
Oh.
I thought it was 11 p.m.
No, no, no, no.
But it's still a good question, though.
I mean, there is a when you become the quarterback of the world champion Pittsburgh Steelers and you're making that kind of money, the club's investing a lot in you, including the idea that you're responsible and you can trust the leadership.
You can be entrusted with it.
And the NFL does not have, in their behavioral and moral clauses and the boilerplate of their contracts, they do not specify activity like you will not ride a motorcycle, you will not do this, you will not do that.
They leave it pretty generic so that it encompasses any number of things.
Now, I know the Steelers are not going to do anything to him.
His injuries appear to be recoverable in the sense that he ought to be able to regain his career.
But look, to me, what is 24, 25 years old?
He's a 24, 25-year-old guy being a 24-25-year-old guy.
There's no helmet law in Pennsylvania.
He says he likes driving around with a hair blowing, wind blowing through his hair.
I think, based on what I have read of how this accident happened, it's apparent they both had a green light.
They're both turning from different streets onto an on-ramp or some other street.
And the woman in the car just didn't see the motorcycle.
When I see a motorcycle, the last thing I, I mean, I never take my eye off of it.
Wherever it's coming at me, if I'm behind it, because I don't think they see, I mean, I don't think they're driving defensively, too.
And they're driving as though nobody sees them.
And he may have forgotten that yesterday.
They're some of the most defensive drivers because they know how hard it is to be seen, even in the daytime.
People are not, especially when you don't see them in a group.
And he was driving alone.
He was between radio interviews yesterday.
He might have been running late and was speeding around, although they say he wasn't speeding at 35 mile an hour speed limit.
But, you know, I think all this hindsight, you can go nuts analyzing this stuff.
24, 25-year-old kid being a 24-25-year-old kid on top of the world.
You know that 24- and 25-year-olds never think anything is going to happen to them.
They have this aura of immortality and power, especially athletes.
And it's just an unfortunate accident.
I don't know what else you can say about it.
You could say, yeah, if he wasn't driving a motorcycle, it wouldn't have happened.
Yeah, if he would have wearing a helmet, it might not have happened.
It might not have been as bad.
Well, what ifs, what ifs?
No, if is for children.
Everybody goes through life and learns from events that happen, mistakes they make.
And the odds are that this will not happen again in Ben Rothlessberger's play and career.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Don't go away.
All right, the videotape of the president speaking to the troops in Baghdad just ended.
I thought I detected some tears at the end.
He was telling him it was an honor to be with them, an honor to speak to them.
It was a great close.
Cookie working on some audio sound bites of the speech the president just made to the troops.
And we'll have that for you as soon as we can.
Went back to the archives, by the way.
Our last caller two callers ago said that John Kerry had his cheese steak at Gino's.
It was not Geno's, it was Pat's.
Pat's is the Democrat place.
And let's see, Geno's is a GOP place across the street, and Kerry went to Pat's to have his cheesecake, and that's where he ordered Swiss cheese.
Normally, it's cheese whiz, maybe some American or provolone, but he ordered Swiss cheese, and the Washington Post ran a picture of him eating the thing, and the whole story is how he just blew it with the whole experience, the way he ate it, the way he ordered it, and they bring in his $75 haircuts and his Boston Brahmin personality and so forth.
Anyway, we'll link to it at rushlimbaugh.com so you can refresh your memories of John Kerry eating a Philly cheesesteak.
It got me to thinking here, folks.
They want to find Geno's because he got a sign up that says, This is America when ordering, please speak English.
In other words, discriminating against customers who can't speak English.
Well, this program airs in Philadelphia and a number of other places around the world as well.
This program airs in Philadelphia, and you have to speak English to get on this program.
We don't have a sign posted.
We don't have any, but I mean, it's clear if you don't speak English, you're not going to get on this program.
I wonder if that exposes the EIB network to any kind of penalty or liability in Philadelphia for discriminating against Philadelphians who cannot access the nation's most listened to radio talk show.
Well, you might say, nah, Rush, come on, you can't do that.
Why not?
This is a federally regulated business broadcasting.
And, you know, the anti-discrimination laws in the federal books are just as onerous as what they might be in Philadelphia.
And you might say, well, they've probably got Spanish language stations in Philadelphia.
Well, I'm sure they've got restaurants in Philadelphia, too, where if you want to go, you know, speak Spanish to order the food, I'm sure they have those specific locales.
And I'm sure that if you don't speak Spanish in those restaurants, you may be out of luck.
Don't know.
Wait and see.
I'm not confident we might not be cited as well, ladies and gentlemen, for being in violation of Philadelphia's anti-discrimination statutes, laws, regulations.
What have you?
Kirk in Lansing, Michigan, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Rush Limbaugh, I feel sorry for you, sir.
I've never heard a person as mean-spirited and nasty.
Now, what's wrong with that individual who doesn't speak English to go into a restaurant and maybe struggle with the language and order a meal?
Wait a minute.
Did you just say that you've never heard somebody as mean-spirited and nasty as I?
That is true, Rush.
What was I mean?
I was coming from on this.
Oh, was I mean-spirited and nasty?
Let me ask you a question.
Would Jesus have walked around Nazareth or Jerusalem with a sign that said, don't talk to me unless you do it in my native tongue?
No.
He went to everyone.
He went to the poor, the homeless, the prostitutes.
He spoke to people in different languages.
He had interpreters there.
And what you are advocating is immoral, inhumane, and in this country, it's against the law, Rush.
You've got to be kidding.
Sir, no, I am not.
What is wrong with Christian brotherly love welcoming in people?
I see nothing wrong with that.
And I have a bit of advice from Gino.
Maybe, maybe if he wanted to show some of that GOP love, because apparently he's the GOP guy, they could have people out in the line telling people how to order English.
Kirk, let me tell you something.
This will explain it.
I do not walk around with an obsessive guilt like you do.
Obviously, as a liberal Democrat, you have to be obsessed with tremendous guilt in order to feel and think the way you do, as just articulated.
I don't have that kind of guilt.
I don't believe my country is mean-spirited and nasty and wrong and needs to bend over and grab the ankles in order to say we're sorry and be accommodating virtually any activity or any behavior.
Perhaps this man and his business perhaps is, I don't have time.
I don't have time to go out and try to understand what people who don't speak the language of this country are telling me.
I've got people that want to get served.
I've got people coming in here.
They're ordering a cheesesteak or whatever else.
I don't have time to try to figure out what somebody who doesn't know the language of this country is trying to say.
So if you want to come in here, learn English.
It's his business.
He can run it the way he wants.
If it hurts him, it hurts him.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
I frankly think the onus ought to be on people.
If you want to go in someplace and order something to eat, learn how to speak the language and read the menu for crying out loud.
Why is it the business owner's responsibility to go out and have interpreters and hire people that can speak all kinds of languages?
And I understand hotels doing this, but in certain cities that have international travelers coming in and out.
But you got to brush up here on your definitions of mean and nasty.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you something else, Kirk.
The thing that surprises me the most, though, about your call is, and it's actually refreshing.
It shows that there may be a cultural shift here taking place that's actually good for the country when you, a liberal Democrat, call here and espouse the virtues of Jesus.
When you call here and use Jesus as an example that we should all follow.
Progress is happening in my country.
Say what it is.
Guy Guy, sorry, Guy, Winterhaven, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
The reason why I'm calling is I'm listening to all this stuff about English first and so on and so forth.
I'm 62 years old.
I grew up in Montreal.
I remember the FLQ.
I remember all the mailbox bombings.
I remember all the separatist movement and so on and so forth.
I remember when I was a kid, it used to be English signs on the buildings and on the businesses.
All of a sudden, it had to be English and French.
By about the middle of the 70s, it was French first.
And then by the 80s, it was French only.
Now it's come back a little bit.
But all I'm saying is, I am seeing with all this adding Spanish to the menus.
And when I drive from Florida back up to Montreal, I go through North Carolina.
I listen to two Spanish radio stations.
I understand a Spanish radio station in Florida.
In North Carolina, I'm not so sure.
But all I'm saying is I see the handwriting on the wall.
It happened to me.
It flipped around.
And the only other thing I'm going to say is that if we went to some other country, Americans will walk into some place in Paris, France, and maybe they might speak English to them, but the chances are pretty slim.
They'd have to order in French.
The guy's got it right.
It says, you said it's his business.
You should order in English.
And all I'm saying is I see the handwriting on the wall.
Well, I know what you're saying, but let's define some terms here, set some parameters as it were.
I know what you're saying about the Balkanization.
And this, by the way, is one of the most, and it's, it's, I think it's just now starting to bubble up over the surface.
This is one of the most irritating aspects of illegal immigration.
And that is because of it, Americans are having to learn Spanish or put up with multilingual signage and so forth and so on, rather than enforcing the notion that English is our official language.
And by the way, it is a compassionate thing.
It's not mean and nasty.
to insist on arrivals in this country who are going to live here to learn our language.
Without doing so, you're never going to realize your potential in this country.
It's just axiomatic.
If you don't learn language as an immigrant to this country, you don't stand a chance of being all you can be, of maximizing the opportunities here.
And to require an English only or English language requirement, learning requirement in this country.
It's a compassionate thing for people that are arriving here.
But the libs, who all of a sudden are citing the experiences of Jesus to us on the phones, are trying to say that it is mean-spirited and nasty for us not to learn their language.
It's just the opposite.
Now, you talk about Paris.
I've been to Paris.
I've been to France, and there are plenty of places there that speak English, restaurants, hotels, and so forth.
But I am not an illegal immigrant when I go to France.
I am a visitor.
I am an American.
Try to hide that last time I was there.
No, I didn't really, but they will accommodate when you go into a hotel or a restaurant and they know that in various times of year, it's the peak of tourist season.
They will endeavor to understand you, and they have people that can.
It is, but this is not, I don't think, I don't think, maybe they are.
If the French are requiring their people to learn various languages of Islam, I don't think they are, are they?
They're blowing it a whole bunch of other different ways, but they're not doing that.
And as Chirock walked out, that's right, he did.
Chirok walked out of the business meeting because French wasn't spoken because the guy used English.
They're very arrogant over there about this.
But I have been to places, on the other hand, I have been to little neighborhood joints.
Friend of mine recommended this last time I went to Paris.
Friend of mine from California recommended this French neighborhood bar restaurant joint, not on the tourist site, not on a tourist beat, and there was no English to be had.
There was no English spoken.
There were no menus in English or whatever, and it was fend for yourself.
Well, yeah, pointed at it.
I knew some French words, not enough, I mean, to carry on a conversation, a little book and so forth.
But no, no, no, I did not order snails.
It was a breakfast place for brunch type.
It wasn't difficult to do.
But I've got enough experience in recognizing enough words to get by.
That's not my point.
The point is you can find places in Paris just like Geno's.
Geno's is not a place where Mark Malek Brown from Great Britain on a tour of Philadelphia would find to go eat.
John Kerry wouldn't find it if he weren't campaigning for something.
He'd have to be drug in there by a campaign.
He wouldn't set foot in South Philly otherwise.
So Geno's is not the kind of place that you would expect international travelers.
It will be now.
It's not the kind of place you would expect international travelers.
We're talking about illegal immigration here, and that is what needs to be pointed out.
After this, my good friends.
Still can't get over it, folks.
You heard it here if you were listening mere moments ago.
Liberal Democrat telling me I was mean and nasty and using as an example, Jesus.
That's got to be considered a victory when liberal Democrats start advocating that we all behave as best we can to emulate Jesus.
By the way, big news out of Washington, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, today told an audience at the Take Back America conference that he was sorry for voting to authorize the war in Iraq.
He called the entire mission a mistake.
He said, we were misled.
We were given evidence that was not true.
It was wrong.
And I was wrong to vote for it.
So he says he was voted both ways.
Remember, I voted for it before I voted against it.
Which vote is he actually saying was wrong?
Does he even know which vote he's saying is wrong?
What is with these people?
Can he not watch what everybody's seeing on television?
Does he not know about the these it's obviously there these people just they're just bending over backwards forwards whatever they can to appeal to their kook base and they're committing suicide They're committing political suicide.
Tom in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm just listening to your speak English part.
And I agree with 99% of everything you said, but I can't, as a Native American, I think everybody in this country that's not native is illegal.
You know?
Really?
Yeah.
That's a tough position you've got.
Yeah, I think they should have closed the borders about 500 years ago.
And Ben Rothlessberger should never have gotten on his motorcycle yesterday.
That's for sure.
But hindsight's always 20-20.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
So you consider everybody who doesn't speak your native tongue to be illegal.
Well, it's more of the traditions.
Like with my father growing up, when he did, he had hot needles run through his tongue for speaking his native language.
And that forcing him to speak English.
Yeah, we long for the good old days.
You know, I look at the illegal immigration and that.
And, you know, something's got to be done about the borders now.
No question of it.
500 years ago.
That's why I say, you know, like 500 years ago.
Yes, let's not repeat the mistake of 500 years ago.
That's an excellent point because we can learn from history.
Had there been adequate border protection 500 years ago, Columbus would have never gotten out of piña colada land.
Back after this, stay with us.
Republicans in the House has scheduled something that really is not common.
They're going to allow a full-floor House debate on the war on terror.
And the Democrats asked for this, and when John Boehner went along with it, we were all scratching our heads.
What the hell do you want to give these people a forum in an election year to do what they're going to do?
Now we understand why.
The Democrats are now upset.
They wanted a debate on the war in Iraq.
And Boehner said, nope, nope, nope.
There's going to be a debate on the war on terror.
The thinking obviously is, let these guys mouth off, especially now.
Well, after the events of the past five days, let these guys mouth off all they want, these Democrats.
Let them demonstrate to the country once again who they really are.
By the way, for those of you out there still interested in this debate here over the English language in America, H.R. just asked me a pretty good question.
How do we run this, the National Spelling Bee?
I mean, that occurs in English.
And look at all the people that are discriminated against not being able to enter the National Spelling B. If they don't speak English and don't write it and read it and therefore can't spell in English, we're discriminating against them.
Shouldn't we have a national spelling bee and let the contestants enter in the language of their choice and then judge who actually is the best speller among our utes?
I mean, it's as absurd as that, folks.
If we're going to change everything else, why not the national spelling bee?
And now that I've given them the idea.
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