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July 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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All right, before I get this hour officially going, Aldemont, are you really leaving after today?
All right.
It's two weeks ago, Aldemont comes to me and says, by the way, I'm leaving.
I'm going back to New Orleans to help build the levees and work in the law school business.
And he was angling for a going-away party.
Yeah, it's a good thing we're going to throw one because he's back here today.
Anyway, greetings, ladies and gentlemen, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
It's Friday, and you know what that means.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Lime Friday.
And America's real anchorman in charge of more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We are here at 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Yes, I have a golf trip next week, folks, but don't worry.
It'll be contained within the continental United States.
They will not be visiting any branch of the United States customs.
Still never know.
But who we got sitting in next week.
Does anybody know?
Does it really matter?
Who?
I got Mark Belling.
Okay, Belling on Monday and Tuesday.
Tom Sullivan.
Oh, good.
Sullivan on Wednesday and Thursday.
And Paul W. Smith on Friday from WJR Detroit.
Sullivan from KFBK in Sacramento.
All right.
Moving on to other items in the news.
We have audio soundbites here of a debate between Joe Lieberman and his kook cut and run Democrat opponent, a guy named Ned Lamont, wealthy media tycoon in Connecticut.
Apparently what Lamont is doing is running against Bush and tying Lieberman to Bush.
So Lieberman said...
I know George Bush.
I've worked against George Bush.
I've even run against George Bush.
But Ned, I'm not George Bush.
So why don't you stop running against him and have the courage and honesty to run against me and the facts of my record?
Lamont, not convinced, ladies and gentlemen, said this.
President Bush rushed us into this war.
He told us it would be easy.
We'd be welcomed as liberators, weapons of mass destruction.
And Senator Lieberman cheered on the president every step of the way when we should have been asking the tough questions.
And here we are, what do we do?
I was impressed when Congressman Mertha stood up and he said, stay the course is not a winning strategy.
It's time for us to change course.
It's time for us to start bringing our troops home.
All right.
So this is one thing, and other people are starting to mention this too.
I asked this many moons ago.
A little Indian lingo there.
What in the world do these people think they're doing running against Bush either now or in 08?
He is not on the ballot.
Maybe a way to firm up the Kook base, but I don't know how much more firm the Kook base can be with all this.
It's amazing to watch what they're doing to Joe Lieberman.
He was their Democratic vice presidential nominee and candidate barely six years ago.
Now they're throwing him under the bus and throwing him overboard over the issue of Iraq.
And it's not just people in Connecticut.
This is something that's been engineered in the, I think, in the entire Democratic Party.
Just amazing to me to watch the implosion that is taking place.
And then to see Hillary saying, I'm not going to support him if he runs as an independent.
I'm not going to support him.
They're going after Maria Cantwell in Washington State for the same reason because she's been pro-Iraq war.
They're doing the same thing to her.
You just don't hear about it as much because that's way out there on the left coast.
It's like you don't hear much about the Seattle Mariners or the Seattle Seahawks unless they happen to get to the championship or something.
And people say, who are they?
Maria Cantwell.
Then John Kerry comes out, I'm not going to support Joe Lieberman.
I'm going to support the nominee of our party.
Standing together as Democrats.
Why, that's what I'm all about.
I'm John Kerry, and I'm serving to Vietnam, by the way.
It's just obvious these people don't see themselves the way everybody else does.
Now, after the debate, there was a little analysis, of course, on PMS NBC's hardball, the fill-in host Nora O'Donnell, talking to the Wall Street Journal's John Harwood.
And Nora said, Now, we know Lamont's campaign in many ways has been driven by the Net Roots or the many bloggers who were very supportive.
Isn't it interesting, by the way?
These people are just flat-out loonies.
They are insane kooks, these left-wing blog types.
And yet they are treated with great reverence and great respect and fear in the drive-by media and Democratic Party circles.
And yet let Pat Buchanan run for nomination, let his supporters do their number, and the whole focus is on how insane Buchanan's supporters were, how wacko, how dangerous and so forth they are.
These people are being pumped up as though they are actual factors.
They can't sell books.
They don't generate much of anything other than a bunch of hot air amongst themselves.
But because they're liberals and because they hate Bush, the drive-by media loves them.
So her question again to John Harwood.
Well, we know Lamont's campaign in many ways has been driven by the Net Roots, many bloggers, very supportive of him.
What about that?
What the Net Roots Democrats are trying to do in some ways, they've got their own way of emulating Republicans because in the Republican Party today, conservatives drive the train, they get nominated, and they win elections.
Can these Netroots Democrats win nomination contests and then win general elections?
Conventional wisdom has been that their Democratic liberal base is not large enough to do that.
Let me clue you in, John, to compare the liberal Net Roots, these literally insane kooks, to the conservative base is where you're off base, is where you're missing the point.
It is not a bunch of kooks.
It is not a bunch of extremist wackos, and it's not a bunch of fringe minority members who drive the conservative train or drive the Republican Party train.
So to compare the Net Roots to the mainstream conservatives that dominate the Republican Party is the first mistake that is made.
But again, it's a drive-by media guy, and they've got their template.
And of course, there's no such thing as a fringe liberal, but fringe Republicans are all over the place.
And it just, it's the only problem is there just aren't enough of these liberals.
Can you believe that?
There aren't enough liberals.
Life is so unfair, folks.
There just aren't enough liberals to compete with the conservative in their base operations.
A quick call before we go to the break.
Dale in Toledo, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
I love you, Rush.
You know, in the past, you've kind of made fun of the actor-entertainer people for speaking out on subjects outside of their realm of expertise.
And yet you have a conference with a bunch of entertainer, producer, actors on the effect that 24 has on the social political world.
How do you square that?
Well, really easily, when an actor comes out and starts gallivanting around about global warming or Darfur or Iraq or whatever, that's when I launch into action and question their expertise.
I don't question their right to say it, but I question why in the world anybody gives what they say any weight.
The 24 panel, I don't recall anybody on the 24 panel making a comment about anything other than their show.
I don't remember them making a comment about Bush or Chertoff and how they're running the war on terror either supportively or negatively, positively or negatively.
I don't remember them saying that.
I remember them talking about their show.
I remember two scholars talking about that, the effect of the show on the public.
And I remember Chertoff in the first 20 minutes addressing that same subject.
But as for the 24 people, I don't think they left their venue of expertise.
Well, okay.
And by the way, I'm a member of SAG and Equity.
And you are one of the best actor entertainers who ever came out on the airwaves.
And you're very, you know, you're very funny.
And yet you have expanded your knowledge to everything and done pretty well.
Thank you.
Are you saying that I'm no different there, in a sense, than other entertainers and actors who are out making political statements?
Oh, no, you're a lot different.
And you've, you know, made yourself knowledgeable in these other areas and certainly proved it beyond all shadow of a doubt.
Well, thank you.
I wasn't accusatory.
I just wanted to make sure I understood.
Oh, sure.
And by the way, did Mary Lynn get to go to the Dominican Republic with you guys?
No, Just thought I'd ask.
It was a cigar factory trip.
I can't get over all of this.
It was a R ⁇ R for about a day and a half.
Then we went to the Fuente Cigar Farm and their factory went two days.
We spent with the Fuentes seeing their farm, seeing their charity work, which is amazing.
I described it earlier in the week.
And seeing the actual factory, one of their four factories.
And it was all a big treat.
Some of the guys had not actually been to a cigar tobacco farm or a factory where these cigars are made.
So it was, I mean, that was the reason for the trip.
We went to the Dominican Republic is because that's where cigars are made.
We weren't there for four days, Brian.
We were there for two and a half days for crying out loud.
Got there on a late Friday night, went to bed, got up Saturday, rained all day, saturated dinner Sunday and Monday, went over to cigar farms and the cigar factories.
It was a cigar trip to the Dominican Republic.
I just love all this.
I know Reagan was an actor, and my staff's turning his head never criticized him for being in politics.
I have never criticized Reagan.
Oh, well, let me comment on this actor business because I've evolved a new theory as to explain my old theory and I've evolved a new one to explain why they are what they are and why they do what they do after this.
Stay with us.
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All right, actors.
Now, my old theory, and I haven't fully developed the new one.
It's an ongoing process.
My old theory to explain actors and this never-ending desire on their part to speak out on serious issues.
Just ignore the liberal aspect of it for now because that's its own separate deal.
But just acknowledge that most of them are liberals and they speak out that way.
Why?
Well, the old theory was that here are people who basically go through life pretending to be other people.
And oftentimes they get caught up and typecast as their character rather than who they are.
And they have a desire, like everybody else, to be taken seriously.
And they also have a desire to keep getting work.
And they like to please the boss.
The bosses are of the same political persuasion.
And so wanting to be taken seriously for who they really are, I have always thought was one of the motivations for speaking out on political issues.
Plus, I think a little guilt.
I think you cannot discuss liberalism without including guilt as one of the primary ingredients necessary to make a liberal.
Guilt over everything.
Guilt basically over his or her existence.
Because there's so much suffering in the world.
Why do I have so much?
This isn't fair.
Other people must give away their money to make this just.
The actor never will.
But I think that to the extent that that may be true, there are other things too.
If you look, particularly in recent years, acting is entirely emotional.
Well, got to have some smarts to do it, but it's entirely emotional.
I don't know how many of you have ever tried to actually act and be somebody totally other than who you are, but it isn't easy.
And it's an emotional pursuit in a large degree, much as is liberalism an emotional pursuit.
And then if you examine the characters that they portray, they're either portraying creeps or they are portraying victims.
And when they portray victims such as Karen Silkwood, Meryl Streep, or wasn't Meryl Streep, who was whoever, I couldn't tell you.
Don't remember.
But they're always portraying disadvantages.
I remember when Jane Fonda and Jessica Lang portrayed farm wives in a movie about depression era farming.
They were actually called to Washington to testify on American agriculture problems because they had portrayed characters in a movie.
And I think they actually thought they were experts.
That's the thing.
The acting never ends.
They end up believing they are experts.
Because, of course, they research the role.
And they always find that when they're portraying a victim, somebody's always responsible for the victim being the victim.
And that person is usually not of the same persuasion as, say, a liberal would be.
And it's either an overzealous racist or a bigot or a sexist or a big corporate chieftain, titan, what have you.
And I think that there's almost by osmosis, if you will, a connection.
They actually end up identifying with these characters that they portray.
And I'm talking about even fictional characters, not actual real-life characters they portray.
That's more mimicry and imitation than it is acting.
But still, I think the emotional connection, and they end up falling into this notion that they are the character and that they are victims and that they have a special, now identity with these victims because they have researched the role and they've portrayed the character even, as I say, fictional characters and uh, they end up thinking they've got to do something about it.
Doing the movie is not enough.
We've got to do something about this.
Um, and then, of course, there's the ongoing need for never-ending publicity.
Selling tickets at the box office is as much a factor of what they do, and they hate doing this.
They hate the set tours and interviews, sit down and do interviews with 14 or 13,000 different news outlets over two or three days.
They despise that, but they love being considered serious people, experts, if you will, say as George Clooney portrays himself to be on Garfer.
Or after he goes out and makes the movie Siriana.
Have you watched that movie?
I got it the other day.
I watched it.
And it's a total indictment of the oil industry.
Total, 100% indictment of the oil industry.
And this is what got me thinking about this, actually.
Clooney plays a character that is consultant to the oil industry.
And the oil industry is raping the world.
And they're making deals with the absolute worst scum of the planet.
And they're doing it to rape the American consumer and rape the world consumer and pollute the planet and so forth.
Well, I think when the movie's over, they think they have just engaged in the truth.
And so they're awarded by their peers and they're celebrated by their peers for their great social conscience and so forth.
And I just think the acting never stops.
I think the line gets blurred between reality and make-believe and fiction.
And then when you add the final element, the final element is a fawning, groveling, slavish entertainment media that would just love to be in the actor's inner circle.
Would just love to be one of the buds.
Would just love to hang with them.
Would just love to be on a first-name basis.
As a result, how many really critical profiles of actors do you see?
I don't see any.
Maybe you get a couple of Charlton Heston or Tom Selleck at appropriate times for them.
But for the most part, Sean Penn is lauded as an expert and a hero.
The San Francisco Chronicle has him write a daily diary when touring Iraq to find out the damage American bombs have caused native Iraqi women and children.
It's so horrible.
Well, I have to think that would go to your head if you're rooted in emotion anyway.
That's got to be a pretty big emotional high to be taken so seriously on all this.
So all this fawning press never being criticized.
The movie may get a bad review now and then, but personally, no, you are held up as some great titan and hero.
And I think all of those elements go in and combine to create the political aspect of Hollywood leftist actors.
I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's as far as I've gotten.
Yes, sitting here amidst billowing clouds of fragrant and aromatic first and secondhand premium cigar smoke, this is Joanne in Gainesville, Virginia, and I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to make a point that there are two different kinds of actors involved in politics or there's two different methodologies.
There's Trezand, who flips in and out of the political era.
I'm sorry, I'm so nervous.
And uses her notoriety to influence people.
And then there are the actors like Ronald Reagan or Fred Grandi who actually go in and do the work of politics and they're involved in it.
And, you know, they actually, they spend real lifetime in it instead of flip in, flip out.
Well, that's a good point.
I don't want to be misunderstood.
I don't care who speaks up and says what.
Never going to find me trying to choke off anybody having an opinion about anything.
I'm just trying to explain it to people and explain it to myself.
You know, it's an ongoing question.
I mean, I don't know how many times I've been asked.
You probably have been asked too.
You have probably asked me an email.
How in the world can anybody be a liberal?
I'm sure liberals ask the same thing about conservatives.
Except if they really studied us, they would find substantive answers about why people are conservatives.
But in terms of Streisand and so forth, let her go.
I mean, we got Republicans, a few.
Bruce Willis is out there and Ron Silver.
And they get involved and so forth.
And that's perfectly fine.
But Ron Silver, especially, is a converted lib.
He's done a 180 for a whole bunch of reasons.
And of course, you're going to have a little bit more credibility with me.
Streisand and these other people mouthing off.
Causes are just, they're addictive.
They're seductive to people.
Look, folk, everybody wants to matter.
Nobody wants to have a meaningless life.
And I've never been an actor.
I couldn't do it, I don't think.
Because it is hard to actually pretend you are not who you are and to totally lose yourself and become somebody else convincingly is, well, you may be smirking, but go try it.
That's why they earn a lot of money.
But there's guilt associated with that too.
And that kind of fame, you want to be famous for doing more than just pretending not to be yourself.
Everybody wants to matter.
Everybody wants to have meaningfulness in their lives.
And I would contend that acting could actually be a psychiatric syndrome.
The people who are capable of do it are odd.
It's a very quirky thing to be able to do.
And at the same time, you want to be taken seriously for who you really are, and you want what you really do to matter.
And pretending to be somebody else makes you big on a screen.
It may earn you a lot of money, but does it get you respect other than fawning idolatry from moviegoers?
And I just sometimes think, oh, that's not enough.
And so politics attracts a different kind of journalism, different kind of journalists, and they're going to fawn over you too and take you seriously.
And they may invite you to the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Remember, politics is showbiz too.
It's Showbiz for the ugly.
If you don't believe me, take a look at your average candidate, male or female.
Well, mostly on the left, too.
I didn't want to say that, but we're going for it all the way here.
Kyle, Red Bluff, California, welcome to the EIB Network High.
Mega Farmer Market Dittos there, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I have a question.
What's your favorite brand of cigar there?
I have, that's a tough one because I have a bunch, and if I start listening them, listing them, then I offend friends who make them.
But here goes.
Right now, I am smoking a La Flore Dominicana double Leguero chisel.
The Leguero is the strongest part of the tobacco leaf.
This is dual Leguero.
It's kick butt.
I give these cigars away in member guest golf tournaments to my opponents.
Makes them loopy and dizzy and sometimes nauseous.
They love the taste, but they get loopy for a while.
The Fuentes make a range of cigars from the Opus X to the Don Carlos.
Opus Xs are hard to get because the tobacco is so rare for the wrap-erlief there.
But if you want to start with a short story, Hemingway short story, the Hemingway Classic is a giant cigar, or the Don Carlos No. 2, which is a torpedo shape.
Excellent, excellent cigar.
The Monte Cristo people make a bunch of good cigars.
Ashton, Virgin Sun Grown, any size.
I mean, I'm leaving.
I know I'm leaving people out here that the Partigus No. 10 is a great cigar, but right now I'm smoking the Double DeGuero chisel from La Flor Dominicana.
And I go back and forth with the Opus X and the Don Carlos with the Fuentes.
I see.
Second part of my question is.
You were expecting me.
What were you expecting me to say?
Actually, I've heard you say the La Flor Dominicana before.
But actually, I'm just curious.
I don't have a good shop here in my area.
Is there a way to get it via the internet or say a mail order or something?
Is it good to do?
Do they go bad in the mail?
No, They'll be fine as long as you, you know, I mean, FedEx ship them UPS in a day or two and then properly humidify them when you get them.
No, that doesn't hurt them.
I don't know about mail order because I don't buy them that way.
I've got a place in New York that stocks most of my favorite cigars, a place called Arnold's.
But I think if you just Googled cigars, there's all kinds of great internet mail order cigar places.
I don't want to mention it.
I'm close to thinking JR or something or other, JWR.
I'm not sure which, but there's countless.
You ever in Los Angeles?
No, no, I don't get that far south.
Sometimes I don't blame you.
Because if you ever are, there's a fabulous place called a Grand Havana Club, and it's in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills around there.
And you can actually, they have cigars and cigar lockers, and you can store your cigars.
You can smoke a cigar while eating dinner, while watching giants.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'd have to see that.
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
I was in there back in May, the first part of May.
And there's one in New York, the Grand Havana Club.
And yeah, they've got special dispensations because it's a private club.
And the way they do it, it's a tobacco store first and a restaurant second.
I see.
I see.
The vast majority of their business is done selling cigars.
And so that's the stipulation.
You can theoretically smoke in a tobacco store, but not outside it.
So that's waiting for the smoke Nazis to come get you out of your own house.
I'm surprised.
Hey, let me tell you something.
It is happening.
It is happening around the country.
It was in a stack earlier this week, and I didn't get to it.
I forget.
I want to say it was somewhere in California, but it was an apartment complex.
And apparently you can smoke at the pool and outside at this apartment complex.
And some of the neighbors of a guy or a family in there where there are smokers petitioned the landlord to ban smoking outside the complex inside now because the secondhand smoke was killing them.
Montgomery County, Maryland, has already tried this.
They cited a woman who was 300 feet a football field away from a guy smoking inside his house with the windows closed.
She was in her house with the windows closed.
She claimed she could smell his cigarette smoke from a football field away.
And so the great thinkers that lead Montgomery County attempted to ban smoking in your home.
Now, the way they're going to go about it, and it will happen, is the health Nazis, and there are many different levels of them.
If you have anybody in your home that comes in as an employee, once a week, half a day, won't matter.
If that person comes in and you are a smoker and that person is subjected to your secondhand smoke or the after effects of it, there will probably somewhere be a law that you can't smoke in your own house.
Somewhere this will happen.
We are trending in that direction.
Meanwhile, we're not going to ban cigarettes.
We are not going to ban the sale of them.
A kill.
Secondhand smoke is now preposterous, folks, but they say it's deadly as firsthand smoke.
And the way they talk about cigarettes and tobacco products is it's the most deadly thing out there.
And yet they won't ban it.
They will not ban it.
They need the tax revenue.
I'm telling you something.
I actually think that people who continue to smoke cigarettes, I don't like cigarettes, I think people who continue to smoke cigarettes today are owed the biggest thank you and debt of gratitude by other citizens because they're paying so much of the freight tax-wise in this country.
And they're taking a bunch of arrows.
They're out there being criticized.
They're made to stand outside buildings in the weather and so forth among the original huddled masses have remassed.
And they're now smokers outside public buildings.
Now they're even being gone after and being targeted and so forth.
But they pay the taxes and so forth.
They're risking their lives.
And they are actually the people who we owe a big debt of gratitude to, folks, because they are courageous.
And they're helping defray the public cost of a number of things.
Next time you see a smoker, you should thank them.
And I'm not kidding.
They're paying far more in taxes than you are.
Back after this.
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Moving right along, making history.
Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
Well, I didn't see it.
Snerdley did and just reported it to me.
Joe Biden and Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democratic senator, were on some show on PMS NBC.
And the Infobabe, it wasn't Infobabe, Infobabe Bankerette, well, what about this comment you made?
People caught you talking about needing this Indian accent to go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts.
And what's his face?
Biden said, well, you know, you didn't see the beginning of that.
I was talking about the great influences that Indian Americans have on this country.
30% of Silicon Valley, smartest people in the world.
30% of the population of Delaware.
So Indian Americans, there's the smartest people in the world.
I was praising them.
Oh, said the Infobabe.
Thank you for setting it straight.
Yeah, you called it Snerdley, so it's a done deal and a dead issue.
I still say he's got no chance at the presidency.
Not because of this, but just on general principles.
Atlanta and Jim, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, did you realize, well, you probably did, the ringleader of that bomb plot on the Holland Tunnel was arrested in Lebanon.
That would not have happened if the Lebanese had not first pushed back the Syrians.
And I guarantee you that the Lebanese would not have done that if we had not at first attacked Iraq.
And I think this is another benefit to the Iraq war.
Yeah, you call it the Qaddafi effect.
Yes.
That's a good point, Jim.
In fact, all three of these suspects are in three different countries.
This was the foreign surveillance that everybody, the NSA domestic spying program, where George Bush was spying on you and me.
Exactly.
Jim, this investigation has been underway for a full year.
Amen.
And these Democrats who oppose this, they don't oppose it.
They just want to use it as a political issue and say Bush is spying, but not one of them has suggested canceling the program.
Well, I want to thank the President and our troops for one more benefit to that thing.
Especially New Yorkers ought to be thankful even more than anybody.
That's an excellent point.
I appreciate that.
Jim, thank you so much.
Carolyn in Flint, Michigan.
It's your turn.
You're next on the EIB.
Thanks for taking my call.
I have a question for you.
Shift gears here a little bit.
We're talking about the guest worker program and the Mexicans coming into this country to work.
I've always heard that if a person from another country comes here to work, they get a green card.
Now, how is that different from this guest worker program they're talking about?
I don't understand.
I've always heard a green card for these people that come in to work in our country when they're citizens somewhere else.
What are you trying to say?
They're creating something totally different just for political brownie points?
I'm a little confused.
Are you suggesting that the Senate immigration bill, which grants amnesty to all these people, is no different than giving people that arrive here when we find out about them a green card?
Well, I thought you applied for a green card when you entered this country to work for maybe a country that is based here.
Yeah, well, these are whatever.
Yeah, but these people that we're talking about are not doing that.
I may not be understanding your question here.
I must admit, I'm not a green card expert.
I only carry the black card of American Express.
Well, I'm not a green card expert.
So I'm not going to sit here and try to fake my way through this when I don't know much about it.
But that's why I'm asking the you're talking about temporary workers?
They come here for a while, then they have to leave after.
Right, and they're given a green card to work here.
And I thought that was just part of the system that when you were working in this country and you're not a citizen here, but you do have a green card.
Yeah.
And then when you're younger, and if you want to continue working or living here, then you apply for an extension on that green card.
Yeah.
So maybe immigration or something would have that answer.
I don't know.
Well, somebody other than me, Will, I'm not, I'm still, maybe I'm really confused here.
Are you trying to draw an analogy to the green card program to the new immigration bill that has been essentially not going to go anywhere, but that would grant amnesty to all the 12 million that are here illegally?
Well, anybody here with a green card would not receive amnesty.
They go back to their country that they were born in and citizens of when their time period here working is over.
Right.
But the Senate bill would not have forced anybody, well, if you'd been here under a few years, you would have had to, there was no enforcement mechanism in it.
There was no, you know, they would have to show up and pay fines and then supposedly back taxes, but there was no enforcement to make them do this.
So that bill wasn't going to solve anything.
And what you're talking about are people that are coming here through the legal process and getting a card legally.
If I understand you correctly, the Senate bill could not replicate that by simply finding all these people and giving them green cards because the green card people you're talking about are not illegal in the first place.
Okay.
I guess that's the whole thing.
The person with the green card came into this country legally and applied.
They went through the right sources.
I just don't understand.
If they're going to come here from Mexico to pick crops or whatever, why aren't they giving a green card while they're here and then they return home?
Well, because The people hiring them don't want it known that they've been hired, and the people here don't want it known that they're here.
Oh, okay.
All right, I got you there.
Yeah, yeah.
And so that's it's it's all under the table.
It's slave labor, it's uh it's indentured servitude, and nobody wants to change that.
All right, and talk about slave labor.
Another point I wanted to make was Kathy Lee Gifford and some other people who went close manufacturing and things like that were really raked over the coals a number of years ago because their clothes were being that's right.
Well, that's because Kathy Lee is a conservative and she's a big TV star.
And yeah, that's I remember all that.
Look, I appreciate the call, Carolyn.
Folks, I have to go.
Big broadcast time is over.
Remember, vacation next week, big back a week from Monday.
Great guest hosts all next week.
You'll still miss me, and I'll still miss you.
You'll miss me.
Have a great weekend, folks, and try your best to get by next week.
I know it's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough for me, too.
We'll both miss each other and reunite a week from Monday.
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