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July 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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All right, we're back, folks.
Uh short broadcast week for us here at the EIB network here in the Independence Day holiday.
And despite that, the fastest week in media, the fastest three hours in media.
Here we are already at the final hour of the busy broadcast today.
And a special welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam today at rush Limbaugh.com.
It's a sheer delight to have all of you with us.
I can't tell you what a thrill this is every day to be able to sit down here and and uh and tell you what to think about things uh that matter to me.
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Well, it looks like a Texas judge has just handed the Democrats a seat in Congress.
The Texas Republican Party must keep Tom Delay's name on the November ballot, even though he's not running.
A federal judge made the ruling uh today.
Delay resigned on June 9th uh under indictment, won the Republican primary for his district in March, but decided against re-election a month later.
GOP leaders uh want another Republican to replace Delay on the ballot and uh say that state election law allows them to select one because Delay has moved out of Texas.
Democrats sued the Republicans to try to block them from picking a replacement nominee.
Uh lawyers for the Texas Democrats argue that Delay still owns a home in Houston, where his wife Christine lives, and where Delay does spend some time.
Democrats also argued it couldn't be shown conclusively whether Delay would be an inhabitant of Texas on election day on November 7th.
Democrats want delay on the ballot.
Uh they want him on the ballot.
They want his legal troubles on the minds of voters, and they hope to wear uh uh they will be able to win his seat in the 22nd congressional district where the Democrat Nick Lambson is running.
Uh so uh at any rate, it's gonna be on the ballot.
What what what happens?
What happens if Delay gets more votes than the Democrat?
Convoluted, but I know this is this is if you compare this to what happened in New Jersey with Torricelli.
Now, unfortunately, the feds never got there.
They they cited this in New Jersey stream, uh Supreme Court, but uh you know the torch was losing in the polls.
Big.
And the Democrats are getting scared, and they sent Bill Clinton out there to his farm wherever he lives.
And Bill Clinton reminded him what happened to Andrew Cuomo and brought some papers for him to sign with getting out of the race.
Clinton telling him what's good for the party and what's good for Clinton is what torts uh he should do.
And Tor Silly quit.
He resigned.
It was after a date in which the Democrats were allowed to put a substitute candidate on the ballot.
That didn't stop the Democrats.
Well, that's not fair.
They said, we're we're depriving uh uh voters of this state of a choice.
I mean, you can't just say that there's nobody going to be on a ballot.
So uh the case went to the New Jersey Supreme Court.
New Jersey Supreme Court said, you know, this is absolutely right.
This is not fair under our democratic rules.
I mean, you can't say that one party can't have a candidate.
Well, the rules do say it.
If a candidate drops out after a certain date, and it was specified in the law there, then that's tough toenails.
But the New Jersey Supreme Court allowed them to, and and the and the voters of the state didn't even didn't even choose the candidate.
Who was it?
McGreavy did?
Was it McGreev?
Who I think it was I think it was Jim McGreevy who chose the candidate, or the Democrats got together and chose who the candidate was going to be uh to replace the torch, and it was the lout.
It was uh it was Frank Lautenberg who was retired and sipping uh the Pinacoladas clip into coupons, and they and they brought him back, and he's in the U.S. Senate today.
Now look at what happens in Texas.
Delay's name's on the ballot, even though he resigned, and the uh the Republicans I I don't know if they asked for another candidate.
Probably did, but the federal judge said, nope, no way stuck with this.
So Delay who's not running will be on the ballot.
As long as we're discussing electoral politics, Deborah Orin has an interesting piece today in the New York Post, suddenly it looks as if Hillary Clinton is running scared over 2008.
A batch of Hillary Land moves over the past few weeks suggests a nervous Nellie president wannabe rather than a confident Democratic frontrunner.
She hired a lefty blogger and cosied up to anti-war activists by pledging to desert her friend, Senator Joe Lieberman, if he loses a primary over.
Speaking of that.
Speaking of that, I was reading a piece today in the uh New York Sun, Bill Buckley had a column in the New York Sun, and Buckley is largely responsible for uh Joe Lieberman being in the United States Senate, is Buckley and and some buddies of his at National Review got so fed up with Lowell Wiker that they started Buckpack.
And BuckPack was a political action committee that raised funds to actually support Lieberman because they were just tired of Wiker.
Now it's being portrayed out there in some circles that Wiker was uh was defeated because he had moving too far to the right, nothing could be further from the truth.
So Buckley is now he's upset at the way the Democrats are treating Joe Lieberman.
It was just six years ago he's their vice presidential nominee, and now the Democrats are throwing him overboard, throwing him under the bus, like Kofi Annan threw his own kid Kojo under the bus and over the board.
And Buckley writes that uh back in October, he's wondering if if um if he might be somewhat to blame for what's happening to Lieberman, because the 50th anniversary celebration in Bash and Gala was in Washington.
And uh Joe Lieberman was at our table.
I was at Bill Buckley's table and Lieberman was at the table, and I went a wonderful conversation with Lieberman, talked about BuckPack and uh and this sort of thing.
Uh, and there were there were rumblings after this.
What's Lieberman doing there?
Well, Lieberman owed his election in part to Buckpack.
Uh and two friends getting together, and nothing more than that.
And apparently at the dinner, Buckley writes that uh uh uh Lieberman, I forget I who was that Lieberman saw some Republican and they embraced and kissed each other something on cheek, you know, one of these facils, whatever it is, and you've seen these things happen, he's phony baloney plastic banana going.
Wonderful to see you.
Why is he here?
Uh kind of things.
And uh at any rate, Buckley, a humorous piece, but wondering if it could be that Lieberman's prominent display at the National Review bash.
You never know what these leftists.
You never know.
You've got John Kerry throwing uh uh uh Lieberman overboard.
Uh Carrie not endorsing Lieberman in the primary, and their their their basis for this, they say is well, and Hillary too, well, we're gonna support uh nominee of the party.
What's happened, Lieberman's got a Democrat opponent in the primary, and uh the Democratic Party is just they're they're angry at Lieberman because he's uh not at the right position on the Iraq War, and they want to drum him out of the party.
And Lieberman has said, if I lose the primary, I'm running as an independent.
I don't care.
And that's when the Democrats, Hillary and Carey and some others, have said uh, uh, well, we can't support Lieberman in that case.
We uh have to support the party.
Loyal to the party, uh blah, blah, blah.
Never mind their personal friendship, never mind.
He was the vice presidential nominee.
That's right.
The guy at Ned Lamont is big anti-war, oh, huge anti-war guy, uh wealthy Lib Media tycoon.
Uh, and in the last poll there was a six-point differential.
Was he up?
Lieberman's by six over the uh in Connecticut.
I don't know what's going to happen in the in the primary, but I'm gonna I'm just gonna tell you this.
Let's let's play a little game, uh, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Imagine that it's the year 2000.
And let's say liberal Republican Senator John Danforth was running for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
He retired in 94, but I'm just playing a little game here.
Now, imagine further that a bunch of wacko conservatives from the hard right uh uh started to present a real threat of defeating Dan Forth in the primary.
And imagine further that uh then Governor George W. Bush Announced that if this white wing kook wacko happened to win the primary and beat Dan Forth, he'd have no trouble supporting it.
Do you think it'd be covered with as little criticism as Hillary's expressed intention to throw Lieberman overboard is getting?
I mean, if if this were happening in the Republican Party, if a Republican Party, if a president, if a senator, governor, whoever, threw over a loyal Republican senator.
Because he wasn't fitting the Well, I mean, look at what the Republicans did with Spectre.
They hung with him and they're hanging with Link Chafey.
Imagine if they if Bush, can you imagine what Bush, if Bush had gone with Pat Toomey and thrown Spectre overboard?
Do you know what the media would have said about Bush?
But in this case, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and a number of other Democrats are throwing a loyal of very f uh on issues other than the war, this guy has been fabulous for the party, Joe Lieberman, throwing him overboard and signing up with this wacko wealthy lib media tycoon simply because he's anti-war.
This is they're they're operating out of fear because this is what their their base is trying to drum uh Lieberman out, and now you got John Kerry and Hillary Clinton not even with the guts to support Joe Lieberman.
It's just amazing.
If this were happening in the Republican Party, you would be seeing headlines day in and day out, profiles, you'd be what what's going on with the Republican Party?
How come it can't stay unified?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Is the right wing is the far right taking over the party, blah, blah.
When it comes to talking about the far left and this kook fringe base, we still get puff pieces about them.
When they have their conventions, the New York Times, everybody goes out.
Who are these wonderful people?
And who do they meet with in the Senate?
Harry Reed, they meet with Nancy Pelosi.
Uh I didn't get to it yesterday.
I must have four more stories.
Who's running the Democrat plan to win back Congress this year?
It's a piece on Ram Emanuel and Chuck Schumer.
Uh Democrats doing this, everything's oriented toward what are the Democrats have to do to regain power.
And in this case, if they have to show fealty to these nuts and these fruit loops on the anti-war leftist fringe, well, then they'll do it.
And of course, there's no scrutiny of this once.
Speaking of sound by number 10.
I don't know if you saw this list.
You probably didn't see this last night.
Uh uh, she was no good.
Number eleven.
Uh uh Well, no, let me take a break here first.
Some of the stuff I've uh uh is not from last night, and I've got to figure this out first.
And it's time to take a break anyway.
Let me do that.
We'll take a brief time out, come back after this.
Okay, back we are.
Cindy Sheehan on July 4th.
Uh, just a couple days ago in uh in Washington, American soldiers are raping Iraqis.
We are here to declare independence from war and occupation and oppression.
And we are standing in slaughter at our brothers and sisters who can get raped by our soldiers just living, whose families can be killed.
This war is a war crime, and our soldiers trying to survive or committing war crimes.
We need to bring our troops home.
We need to do everything we can to save our soldiers and to save the people of Iraq from our George the Third.
All right, so there you have it.
And this uh reason I'm playing these because I'm I'm wondering if uh, you know, she's out there on her own now.
I'm uh you know, the the drive-by media had her on last night, Nora O'Donnell, but raked her over the coals last night.
Uh uh Cindy Sheehan did not get this favorable kid glove treatment.
She got raked over the coals, and I am under the impression, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the word has gone out that the Democrats realize this woman is not helping us.
She is a liability.
Uh here's an example.
Nora O'Donnell says Americans may hate the war, but they don't necessarily hate the president.
I mean, how do you how do you expect to get change by going around the world and trashing the president of the United States?
Actually, um I don't hate the president either.
And um I don't trust the.
Tell me about stop the tape.
Stop re-recue this.
I just folks, I just want you to understand here that you are if you've ever heard somebody called an airhead, and you're actually what one is, you're listening to one here.
This is this is an airhead.
Uh, Here's the answer from the top again.
Actually, um I don't hate the president either.
And um I don't trash the president.
I trash the president's foreign policy, which is fundamentally and inherently wrong and immoral.
And I don't tell people uh around the world anything that they don't know.
He says a terrorist is somebody who kills innocent men, women, and children.
And there has been over a hundred thousand innocent men, women, and children killed in Iraq on his orders.
Right.
Okay.
Now, in the old days, they loved this, and they would egg her on, and they would have her say more and more of this.
But that's not the way it's going.
Uh Nora O'Donnell says, Cindy, you've just begun a two-month hunger strike.
Isn't this really just more of a publicity stunt?
No, actually it's not.
It's uh a moral re reaction to an immoral war.
Um thousands of people all over the world are joining us, and it hunger strikes have proven to be effective tools in civil disobedience and changing policy.
Uh okay.
Um Airhead.
Uh Nora O'Donnell says, Well why why go stand by side, side by side with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela?
Why do that?
I mean, it sounds like would you rather live under Hugo Chavez than George Bush?
Yes.
You know, Hugo Chavez is not a dictator like you introduced him.
He's been democratically elected eight times, and he's not anti-American.
He has helped the poor people of America.
He has sent aid to New Orleans, he has um sold heating oil to disadvantaged people in America, in the United States of America at low cost.
And he hit the people of his country love him.
And for us to say that we have some kind of influence over Venezuelan policy is wrong.
The people of Venezuela have elected him overwhelmingly eight times, and it's his country, and it's their country, and they should have the leader that they deserve.
Well, what about us?
Elected Bush twice.
Should we not have him?
Anyway, my point in playing this is is that uh I I it may be a little premature to surmise this, but uh my ga my guess is uh uh based on the this Deborah Orin story with Hillary being sort of jittery.
Uh polling data doesn't look good out there.
James Carville had a very defensive piece in the Washington Post on Sunday defending her.
Yes, she can win.
Of course she can win.
Let me tell you how uh type of piece.
Uh I I think that Cindy Sheehan is is going to be cast aside officially now, if not by virtue of appearance, but by virtue of the way she's treated on these on these programs.
And I I, of course, ladies and gentlemen, uh uh uh airheads, you know, show up at a disadvantage.
They really do not and that's her problem from the get-go.
She doesn't know that she's been exploited and used from the uh from the outset.
And I think these people who have exploited her and used her and have created expectations in her own mind and heart about her importance and relevance.
If they just cast this woman aside, there's no telling what she'll do.
They cast her aside and basically say, All right, Cindy, fifteen minutes of fame is up.
Your usefulness uh uh uh has maxed out.
Uh go back to be a nothing in your Birkenstocks.
I don't know what the woman would do.
I know how fleeting fame is.
I know how much average, ordinary loser types desire it.
And when they acquire it, every dream has come true.
And then when it's taken away from them, because they haven't genuinely earned it, then we're talking serious potential psychological problems.
So I am going to take it upon myself in an act of humanity and compassion to see to it that Cindy Sheehan survives as a voice of the Democratic Party and a voice of the left.
I will not allow her to be discarded like a used shoe or an overdone piece of beef from the barbecue grill.
Cindy Sheehan will remain front and center as a face and a voice of the Democratic Party.
Excuse me, the anti-war movement.
Cindy Sheehan uh will indeed live on this program.
Because I have love for humanity, understanding, and compassion.
And I am frankly worried uh what she might do to herself or what otherwise might happen if the Democrats if I'm right, I could be wrong about this.
This is all predicated on my theory that based on this treatment last night, they're getting ready to throw her overboard.
Uh It may be too late to throw her overboard anyway.
I if they think that they can rid themselves of kook identification.
If they think that by throwing Cindy Sheehan overboard, they can they can make the American people think they're not kook, anti-war, anti-American freaks.
It may be too late for that.
But that doesn't mean that they will stop at throwing her overboard.
And I think the process has begun.
And I'm just, you know, folks, we we all have huge hearts.
All of us in the conservative movement, all of us on this radio program.
And I, as an American, with a big heart, boo-boom, boo-boom, ba-boom, am not going to sit here and watch a fellow citizen used and exploited and then tossed away as human debris.
It will not happen.
She will live on this program.
And we're back on the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, highly trained broadcast specialist behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies to New York City and a bus driver.
James, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush?
Yes, sir.
How are you doing, Megan?
Couldn't be thank you very much.
Quick question.
A Republican or Democrat.
You'd probably run as a Republican, you almost have to.
Okay, but uh I don't know.
What do you get the uh denomination?
Uh we got a bad cell phone here, James, and I'm having trouble uh hearing.
I think you asked me about the nomination.
Uh I know look, stranger things have happened.
I I saw that uh he's toying with the idea of becoming president.
And it's a good question.
He used to be a Democrat.
And what?
What?
What are you saying?
I know it doesn't stand a prayer, but but this thirdly says he doesn't stand a prayer, but but the guy used to be a Democrat.
Then when Giuliani became such a successful mayor of New York, uh uh Mr. Bloomberg became a Republican and uh won re-election.
He is a Democrat, with a Republican is his party affiliation.
Uh I can't see him getting in the in the face off against uh Mrs. Clinton or John Kerry or any of any of that bunch, unless all those people you never know.
Folks, you I'm telling you, uh it it's it's like anything else in life.
You never know what's gonna happen, no matter how much you think you do.
You never know.
Now the conventional wisdom is that Bloomberg wouldn't stand a prayer in Republican primary, and I don't see anything to argue against that.
Um by the way, spe speaking of which, and this this is uh I'm not sure what his position on this has been, but I can pretty much I can guess this is a stunner.
New York's highest court rule today that gay marriage is not allowed under state law.
They're gonna have to go in and change state law to make this happen.
The uh Court of Appeals, in a four-to-two decision, rejected arguments from gay and lesbian plaintiffs that their inability to get marriage licenses in New York violated their constitutional rights.
Georgia just did the same.
By the way, uh plaintiff Kathy Burke of Schenectady said it's a sad day for New York families.
Uh Kathy Burkis Connectity raising an 11-year-old son with her partner, uh Tonya Alvis.
Uh my family deserves the same protections as my next door neighbors.
You know, this is a firecracker just waiting to be lighted, but I nobody's stopping these people from getting married.
They want to get just marriage is what it is.
Judge Robert Smith said New York's marriage law is constitutional, clearly limits marriage to between a man and a woman.
Uh any change in the law should come from the state legislature, he said, which a good ruling from the court.
If state legislature wants to change it, people in New York want to change it, let their elected representatives do it.
Uh and if it happens, then it happens.
But you just can't run around and saying, I don't like this, I don't like the way that that's not fair, and do it anyway.
Now, what is Bloomberg's position on uh on gay marriage?
I'm not sure that I recall.
Uh but civil unions, okay, civil unions.
So it's still a it's a I guess they're replaying uh Dan Rather.
Yeah, they're replaying Dan Rather on CNN from last night with Anderson Cooper.
You don't need a tune there.
We've already shared the audio with you.
Remember the urban garden that was taken over by the new arrivals and the illegal immigrants.
And that Darrell Hanna was in a tree.
And they were chainsawing all the trees down trying to get her.
Well, there's an update here.
Workers began bulldozing a 14-acre urban garden yesterday, and ten protesters were arrested as they attempted to stop the demolition.
Eight protesters broke into the site shortly after noon and rushed the bulldozer as it made its way in.
Several demonstrators climbed on but were forced down by security guards, and they were arrested by the police.
One protester chained himself to a bulldozer, and firefighters were called to cut him loose.
Another was arrested for lying in front of the bulldozer, said Dan Stormer, a lawyer for the farmers.
What was once a beautiful set of gardens, if this goes through, will now be a pile of rubble.
Said Stormer, who was the lawyer for the farmers.
They're illegal immigrants, they're squatters.
Farmers, my rear end.
Anyway, there was no sighting of Daryl Hannah.
I don't know where all the celebrities went.
Danny Glover wasn't around.
I don't know where all of these uh people went.
And then there's this from the Boston Globe.
Recent Endicott College graduate Kristen Bradshaw has found the perfect pad.
There's no rent, most of her meals are prepared, and she doesn't have to do much cleaning.
There's just one drawback of sorts.
Her housemate is her mother.
Yes, uh college graduates bringing it all back home, no job, big debts, spur many to seek refuge.
Because the twenty-two-year-old uh Kristen Bradshaw doesn't have money socked away or a full-time job to support herself.
Her only option for the moment is to bunk at home and stow, and she's not necessarily happy about it.
I never thought I'd move back in with my parents.
I feel like I'm taking a step backward.
You are.
Uh in some circles, young adults who ricochet home after college are known as boomerang kids.
They're also called adolescents or thresholders.
Their families are said to suffer from cluttered nest syndrome.
Oh my God, I'd not heard of that.
Have you heard of that cluttered nest syndrome?
You can get that before the kids move out.
Uh anyway, Americans are not alone in this trend.
The British have coined a raw acronym to describe them, Kippers.
Kids in parents' pockets eroding retirement saving.
Now they've got it right.
The Brits have it right.
Phenomenon was first noted in the late 1990s.
Is this the first time the Boston Globes reported on this?
This is what I mean.
This is cutting edge of societal evolution.
We've been on this for a year or more, and the Boston Globe's just now getting around to it.
And let's see.
Oh, I got a lot of grief yesterday.
Uh not a lot, but a fair amount.
In the email over this story, story in uh newsday, push for simpler spelling persists.
When say they and we, W-E-I-G-H, uh, all rhyme, but bomb comb and tomb don't.
Wouldn't it make more sense to spell words the way they sound?
Those in favor of simplified spelling say that children would learn faster and literacy or illiteracy rates would drop.
And of course, I think this is just this is uh uh akin to Senator Moynihan's definition of defining deviancy down.
Okay, we can't teach kids to read, fine.
It's the language's problem, and so we need to make the language easier.
It's not never mind the fact that up until about 20 years ago, 15 years ago, we were able to teach anybody who wanted to learn how to read.
We're able to do it, and we didn't need job centers after people got out of college.
We didn't need job centers after they got out of high school.
We didn't need remedial reading sessions that can learn to graduate and read the diploma.
This is a modern occurrence.
But somehow, all of a sudden now, the language is too tough.
Kids can't spell.
We got to simplify it.
It's uh it's it's it's sort of like what else has happened in this regard?
Uh people have oh, kids can't learn.
Get up too early.
Kids, they stay up late.
You can't expect a kid clubbing.
High school soon, senior and junior clubbing, getting in at one o'clock to get up at seven, and being classed by 745.
Who can't expect that?
I actually think the teachers are the ones that don't want to get up early, but they're blaming on the kids, but regardless.
Um backpacks are too heavy, and of course in Half Moon Bay, California, they had to ban homework because the homeless don't have homes.
And of course, the home where if you can't do homework if you don't have a home.
It was unfair.
Other students got an educational advantage doing homework.
I'm not making this stuff up.
So I got I got peppered with email.
So, Rush, what's wrong with phonetics?
Nothing's wrong with phonetic.
I'm not saying this is not to teach people to read.
This story is about changing the way words are actually spelled.
Like tomb, T-O-M-B would be spelled T-U-M-E.
Toom.
And then well, what somebody might think it's to me.
So how we differentiate.
I mean you want to start messing with the language this week.
Do you do we actually want to start changing the way we spell words to accommodate people who for some reason haven't learned it or are not being properly taught, whatever uh the probably a combination of both.
No, as far as I'm concerned, because what once that starts, you let a bunch of liberals start plowing around in that field, and remember, these solutions are never solutions.
They are just the beginnings of brand new problems.
What else are the liberals going to say is too complicated for people that we need to change?
I mean, you gotta watch it, folks.
There's an all-out assault on traditions and institutions, including the language in this country.
And make no mistake, you think I'm I'm being jocular about this to a certain extent I am, but you travel around and see all the multilingual signs in government institutions.
You tell me that English as a language is not prevailing here.
Well, and it's prevailing, but that there aren't people out there that are trying to um uh uh uh infringe upon its dominance, shall I say.
That this is just simply absurd.
I mean uh what what are we gonna do?
Are we gonna are we gonna spell um wouldn't W-U-U-D-N apostrophe T?
Well, I don't know.
How come there's an L in there, teacher?
Because when I say I don't say wouldn't, and I don't say could I say could.
Okay, fine.
We'll spell it C-O-O-D.
Well, no, that would be cude.
I want to spell it C-U-U-D.
Oh, okay, so that could would become C U U D. Uh K-U-D, right?
Could K-U-D.
Exactly right.
In fact, some of you people that use this kind of shorthand in email, you great on me.
Uh just great on me.
It takes me twice as long to read this gibberish.
As if you just use the language.
What I did basically, Dawn, I basically praised a four-year-old kid for giving a bunch of people a finger.
Because he'd been named Little Mr. Apricot.
And I I said yesterday that if my mother had made me enter at four years old, something like the little Mr. Apricot, and I happened to win it, I'd be f flipping mad too.
A poor kid, 18 years old.
If this hadn't happened, I mean he's gonna be a hero when he's eight.
If he was 18 in little Mr. Apricard, can you imagine the way this kid would have been made fun of?
Oh, look, there's little Mr. Apricot.
He'd be flipping people off his whole life if he hadn't done it when he was four years old.
Besides, it's learned behavior.
And his mother said, so what?
It's just a flip-off.
Just a four-year-old doesn't even know what it means.
He may not, but I doubt it.
I think he does.
He's probably learned the behavior somewhere.
But kudos to the kid.
Who wants to be little Mr. Apri?
Little Miss Apricot, fine.
This little Mr. Apricot business.
This is out in California, folks.
We heard about this yesterday, and Dawn was not here.
She was in airport hell in Atlanta.
It didn't involve customs.
It just involved normal uh rigors of uh commercial travel.
Here's uh Michael in Provo Utah.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Ah, what an honor it is to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Listening to you since the late 80s.
It's been an inspiration throughout my life.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
I really do appreciate that more than you know.
You're very welcome.
Here's my comment what you're talking about with the new spelling and the libs and all that kind of stuff.
It's simply this.
We have seen it before.
We saw it back in the 70s when they came out with new math.
And you're exactly right when you say it doesn't solve problems.
It only creates more.
And how difficult it is for our kids not to even get math because they've changed it and changed it and changed it.
This is just the they're just opening the door now on language and spelling.
You know, that's right.
I was I was close to being victimized by this new math stuff.
I got out of high school, uh, fortunately, in uh 1969.
And uh the new math was just on the horizon then.
But uh I I forget what it even was.
I re I remember hearing people talk and complain about it.
It was supposed to make learning it easier, and all it did was was make learning it harder, and and it ended up a whole generation of kids that didn't learn basics of math.
Uh don't uh don't know how to do division, don't know how to uh uh work in fractions or anything of the sort.
Now I've got calculators and so forth uh have come big on the scene since then.
But I don't know.
I I've forgotten about new math.
You're absolutely right.
Thank you.
Appreciate it, sir.
But uh thanks for the call, and Alan in Detroit.
Uh, welcome to the program, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh megadiddos, Russ.
Thanks, I'm not sure.
I'm just I'm just wondering the liberal point of view that we they advocate that we need a group of people who are underpaid, unpaid under the poverty level, and underhoused and underappreciated because they're doing all the jobs that we don't want to do.
Why don't they call this slavery or indentured servitude?
Uh well, can't call I mean that's can't be honest about this.
Well, I mean, they're such big-hearted people.
And and they're ad aren't they advocating they say our economy will collapse.
That sounds like the South before the civilization.
You know, that is it.
That is an interesting way to look at.
Grab grab uh where where is uh what is the Blueberg bite?
Sixteen.
Grab sixteen.
We got some time.
Let's uh stay on the phone there, Alan.
This is an interesting observation.
Let's listen to Mayor Bloomberg uh Senate Judiciary Committee field hearing in Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
Darn it.
Philadelphia.
Uh testifying about illegal immigration is what he said.
Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders or overstaying their visas, and our businesses broke the law by employing them.
Our city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported.
Alan, it's an excellent point.
Basically, the mayor of New York is saying, we want you underclass people, and we want you here, and we want you to stay that way.
We can't get along without you.
We can't get along with people that work for little or nothing.
We can't get along.
This city would literally crumble.
And we celebrate the fact that they have broken the law in order to that's an interesting take on this.
Basically, advocacy because you're not hearing anybody advocate for these people to do better.
They are wanted precisely for the value they offer.
Um I think that's an excellent point.
Coming from you, thank you, Russ.
Yeah, it's what you're supposed to say.
Alan, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Great to uh to have you on the um on the program.
What else in the in the uh try this news from ABC?
Here's the headline bird dropping survived space launch.
Bird droppings on Shuttle Discovery's right wing edge appear to have survived launch and orbit.
And they have pictures of bird droppings on the right wing on the edge of the right wing.
Uh claiming that um can't get rid of this stuff.
Was that didn't hear what you said.
What did you say?
Well, there's not enough of it to be a uh to be a hit heat shield.
One one other thing here, uh uh ladies and gentlemen uh from USA Today, fat people are not more jolly, according to a study that instead found obesity strongly linked with depression and uh other mood disorders.
Uh this accompanies a story.
Experts debate labeling children obese.
Is it okay for doctors and parents to tell kids and teens that they're fat?
Because if you do that, you might harm their self-esteem.
All right, don't bother telling them that.
Just tell them they're miserable.
You get science and studies to prove it, and don't see a fat kid in a good mood.
Hey, can't fool me, kid.
I know you're miserable.
I read it in USA Today.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can on its way over to the museum uh warehouse, all artifacts secretly housed for the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
A thrill and a pleasure, as always, to be with you.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow on Open Line Friday.
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