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Feb. 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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I did not want to see that.
Fox News has got the inside of Anna Nicole Smith's refrigerator.
I just don't want to see that.
Yikes, Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush, a little under the weather rushes today, and we wish him a speedy recovery because he's got to be in here tomorrow and set up this week.
A lot of stuff going on, and we want to get to it.
Here's Wayne in Bellevue, Nebraska, in the meantime.
Hi, Wayne.
Welcome to the Russ Show.
Hi, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I had called earlier, and I've been away a little bit, but basically, my question or comment is, is basically I hear all the time from basically Republican or right radio talk show people that the Democrats don't have a plan, so therefore anything the Republicans do has got to be better because they're doing something.
But doing something isn't always the same as having a plan.
So I would like sort of your comments on like what would you actually advocate other than us listening to people saying, well, let's do something and they run around like bees versus the Democrats, well, let's just do nothing, which I think their plan is, of course, the world's worst plan in the world.
Well, I guess where I am, you know, I'm no military person, so I can't tell you any military tactics kind of thing, if that's what you're asking.
I'm supporting the president.
I think that David Petraeus proved in Mosul that an anti-insurgency tactics that he employed there calmed down the Shiite-Sunni divide in a city that had both Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis.
And all three of them in Mosul are living in relative peace at the moment with infrastructure being built and jobs coming back and so forth.
Now, if he can do that again in Baghdad and he has the time to do it and he's given the resources to do it, then I think the whole country of Iraq is going to be better off and we will be in a posture to say that we've left Iraq better than we found it.
To just leave Iraq as Barack Obama is talking, as Barry Obama is talking about now, would simply be ridiculous because to any observer, the obvious result of simply leaving now is that country would descend into a chaos of tribal and religious animosity and death.
It would just be chaos.
Don't you agree with that?
Yeah, I agree with that.
I just look at it from a different point of view and that I look at it and I say, you know, the Russians had proof that the U.S. was supplying stingers to Afghanistan, yet they refused to confront the very nation that was causing them eventually through years of attrition to lose and pull out of that war.
We are in the same position now the Russians were then.
Iran has eternity to sit there supplying IEDs, weapons, insurgency, insurgency, how to kill American pamphlets.
So what's your solution?
The real threat is that we're going to be able to do that.
So Wayne, understanding all that, Wayne, understanding all that, what's your solution?
My solution is I think the surge is a good idea in that it gets 20,000 more troops over there, and then you just move 100,000 of them to the Iranian border and you move the fleet over there, and you say, if one more Iranian-made IED goes off, we're going to take out every mosque in Iran, every succession of leadership.
They're going to take out their nuclear plants.
They're going to blow them all up from the sky.
And then it will be very difficult for them to ship those into there.
Let them deal with that at that point.
I mean, until you confront the reality of the situation, Carter's legacy is the cause of the problem.
Well, I mean, and this is what the UK papers are saying today is Bush's plan that eventually it's war with Iran, and that's what all this discovery today of these Iranian weapons in Iraq and exposing that, what this is all about, is to provide a pretext to bring the war into Iran.
By the way, Iran has been, the Russians are very quick to get back at us for that action in Afghanistan.
They are supplying the Iranians with an anti-aircraft carrier missile.
It's a missile the Chinese have, too.
It's a missile that can take out an aircraft carrier and against which I believe we do not have a defense.
They are also, in many other ways, giving stuff to Iran to help them survive any such American initiative.
For instance, the latest anti-aircraft missiles that are pretty effective against our stealth bombers.
Now, whether Bush has any kind of counterplan to all that or any plan at all with regard to Iran, we're going to find out, I guess, in the next couple of months, because Bush is feeling the heat of time now, too.
A lot of time has gone by, and this situation has not been resolved.
And there is, whether he likes it, whether the president likes it or not, there's going to be an effective timetable, and it's called the 08 elections to deal with this situation.
All right.
Wayne, thanks.
Chris in Reading, California, next on the Rush Show.
Hi, Chris.
Hi, Roger.
How are you today?
Good.
My question: I'm looking at the presidential campaign, as you asked, and I'm thinking, you know, Newt's a good choice if I were looking at it right today.
But I've been on the web and looking at the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, and they're promoting a congressman named Duncan Hunter from California, who's a Republican.
And I wanted to know if you knew anything about him.
I know a lot about him.
Duncan Hunter and I have been friends since the 1970s.
He knocked out a longtime Democrat incumbent.
He was a storefront lawyer in a poor neighborhood of town here and got elected.
He's been elected ever since the late 70s.
He was recently, when the Republicans were in charge of the Congress, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and very, very powerful, pro-troops.
His son served, I think, two terms, two tours in Iraq.
One of those guys, he was a ranger in Vietnam.
He's very pro-military, very pro-the mission, and he's a very staunch conservative.
Now, he's also, along with me, and I've made this apology before on national radio, I'll do it again because I'm in the apology mode too, voted for Perot in 92.
He's very much against NAFTA free trade.
He's got a lot of concerns about free trade.
In that respect, I think I've come to the conclusion that I think he's wrong about that, but he's a very honorable guy with a lot of integrity, a lot of common sense, and a lot of experience now in the federal government.
And I think he's getting out there for the reason that he's going to offer conservatives a real choice in these primaries.
So I appreciate you bringing up his name because he is not as well known as the others, and yet he should be from his record.
Yeah, I just think people, if they want to look at something, should look at the Veteran Dispatch website and say not only what Duncan Hunter stands for and some of the stuff that's going on.
Yeah, I agree, Chris.
Thanks for the call.
I did get this email now, response.
While I'm on the show, you can respond.
He says, Doug says, Roger, you keep saying we can't support the troops without supporting the mission.
Of course we can.
You see it all the time.
People applauding troops at the airports, clapping for them at parades.
I support the soldier as a person, someone in the military, as I was.
That doesn't mean that I support what the troops are doing in Iraq.
The troops are there because they were sent there, not because they asked to go there.
Do you really think the majority of troops are asking to go there?
If every soldier had asked to go there and that was what they wanted to do, then you could say you couldn't separate the soldier from the mission.
Well, Doug, you're as wrong about this as can be.
If I said, say, you're a welder, and I said, I support you, but you're a no-good welder.
You are an idiot when it comes to welding.
But I do support you, Doug, personally.
You're a good person, but your welding simply stinks.
You wouldn't feel very affirmed, I don't believe.
You wouldn't feel the kind of love, the warmth that that kind of conveys.
So, when you say to a guy who's out in combat getting shot at, you're a good person and I support you as a soldier and the sacrifice that you're making.
But by the way, I just don't think you should be there shooting at other people, and I really believe the other side ought to win.
I think, Doug, that that's kind of a demoralizer.
I'm out on a limb here psychologically without the requisite training, but I just think as a common sense matter, it probably just is a little discouraging.
By the way, Chuck Schumer's put his foot in his mouth.
Good grief.
Basically, he said, This country is not ready to have a woman and a black on the same ticket.
Public television, can you imagine public television people?
Oh man, the pens were wet here.
He says, Well, the first woman, the first black, you don't want to.
That may be hard.
You know, he says, The American people, I think they would vote for a woman.
I think they would vote for a black, an African-American, but tickets have to have some balance.
And then, when he was questioned about it, of course, this is the kind of thing that Democrats have a ritual for.
It's called rehab and apology.
And then he corrected himself.
He said, Well, my concern really is geographical balance.
In other words, he wants a Southerner on there.
So it's kind of interesting.
Yeah, he's sure he wants a Southerner.
Which one, Chucky, do you think would be good to balance out the ticket?
You know, Obama and Sheets Bird.
I mean, which Southerner are we talking about in the Democratic Party that you'd like to see the balance?
Oh, man.
Okay.
And then, of course, there was an interesting moment in the Iowa swing-through that Senator Hillary Clinton completed last week in Iowa.
And I've been to Iowa.
It's a very interesting place when you live in California, you go to Iowa.
I landed, didn't we land in Des Moines in the state?
I believe that's the state capital.
And I mean, isn't that the biggest city out there?
Anyway, it's one of them.
And we landed at this airport.
What do I know?
You know, I mean, I've never been there.
A couple of years ago, I guess the last time there was a presidential thing, I said, well, I'm going to go out there and see what this is all about.
I mean, I'm from California.
What do I know?
So I flew out there.
We landed at the airport and I looked around.
I came outside to get my rental car, and it was like, you know, 25 degrees.
And I look around, and there's some trees and some farmland.
And I said, where's the city?
Is there a city?
I mean, this is the Des Moines Airport.
Are we that far away?
It's like the Denver airport, which is located in Nebraska.
Is there an airport?
I mean, is this near the city of Des Moines?
And there was one little building maybe five stories tall.
You could see through the trees.
Yeah, it's over there, he said.
Anyway, Hillary goes out there.
And of course, she's all in favor of, she's all in favor of ethanol.
And it's a corn-growing state, and she's, oh, you betcha for ethanol.
And she says at this town meeting in Des Moines, quote, I believe we've got to take a strong stand on limiting our dependence on foreign oil.
We have a perfect example here in Iowa about how it can work with all the ethanol that's being produced here, unquote.
As a senator from New York, Clinton has voted 17 times against ethanol.
In 2004, Clinton was asked about her outspoken opposition to legislation that would double the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive.
The Des Moines Register, the newspaper, reported she was questioned about it.
And she was reported in the register, they said, quote, she, Hillary Clinton, she was momentarily stumped by the question as to why she opposed the ethanol mandate, but then she said she was concerned that it would raise gasoline prices for her constituents.
She said to the Des Moines Register then in 2004, quote, I have to look to first protecting and supporting the needs of the people I represent right now.
In 2002, she signed a letter that read in part, quote, there is no sound public policy reason for mandating the use of ethanol.
See how these things change when you're out there running for president.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh, back with more and your calls after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network.
I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Today, a little bit under the weather after his weekend at Pebble Beach.
He'll be back tomorrow, I am told, and we're all hoping for that.
Fit as a fiddle.
By the way, the perjury trial of Lewis Scooter Libby continues, and so far as I know, after many, many days of trial testimony, Libby still can't recall what he didn't do.
And that pretty much summarizes the testimony.
They are going to call, however, Andrea Mitchell.
And apparently, they're still trying to figure out Andrea Mitchell of NBC News is to be called as a witness because in the July 2003, this is the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, which turned out not to be against the law.
Now Lewis Scooter Libby is being prosecuted for lying about something that wasn't illegal.
I still cannot figure this out myself, and I'm a recovering lawyer.
But Mitchell was widely quoted as saying that, quote, about who knew that Plame worked for the CIA before the column came out, the Novak column.
And she said at the time, quote, it was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community, unquote.
Now, that would indicate that Libby was saying, well, it was either Russert or somebody told me that all the reporters knew about.
So you can't say that the Bush administration conspired to out a CIA agent as punishment for her husband's blowing the whistle and telling the truth about the yellow cake in Niger, if you remember the facts of this rather obscure lawsuit.
Curiously, Andrea Mitchell has recanted that quote.
And when asked about, well, did you say it or didn't say it, has now said that she cannot explain what she said or why she said it.
You just said it.
So the problem is she did say it.
So I don't know.
This issue is getting curiouser and curious, sir.
By the way, Rush Limbaugh has been vindicated on so many different levels that just one more, if you can handle it, one more I told you so.
Nigel Calder, who's the former editor of New Scientist magazine, is quoted in the Times Online, this is the London Times, as saying this, when politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works.
He says, we were treated to another dose of this recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the summary for policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months' time.
They declared that most of the rise in temperature since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.
This guy says, 20 years ago, climate research became politicized in favor, 20 years ago, in favor of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases.
As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for real innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to their research careers.
Enthusiasm for global warming, the global warming scare, ensures that the heat waves make headlines, while contrary symptoms such as this winter's billion-dollar loss of California crops to unusual frost are relegated to the business pages.
And he's right about that.
So he says, one awkward question you can ask when you're forking out those extra taxes for climate change is: quote, why is East Antarctica getting colder?
And he makes a very important point.
American weather satellites have shown no global warming, by the way, since 1999.
And they are showing that the southern ocean around Antarctica has grown by 8%.
The ice has grown by 8%.
How many times have you heard Antarctica, that is the southern pole, in this debate about global warming?
All you hear about is the Arctic, at least until this last snowstorm, 146 inches in upstate New York, with more to come.
How do you, don't you know you just, all you hear about is the Arctic and the polar bears and all that.
The Antarctic is getting bigger.
The ice is getting bigger.
It would not be getting bigger if the carbon dioxide theory of global warming, the greenhouse gas theory, were actually true.
This fellow says it isn't.
It's a matter of rays from the sun.
It's a matter of the sun that goes through its own cycle of getting warmer, getting colder.
And since we're the same distance from the sun, when the sun gets warmer, we get warmer.
Kind of works that way.
Unfortunately, you can't sell that as a way for bigger government and higher taxes.
So that doesn't get liberals and socialists anywhere.
What you've got to do is sell a theory that actually justifies their taking more money out of your paycheck and regulating more of what you eat and where you drive and how you transport yourself.
That, of course, the ultimate reality, the ultimate goal of the entire discussion about global warming.
That's where that's gone and where that's coming from.
And yes, Jimmy Carter did get a Grammy yesterday at the Grammys where the Dixie Chicks got five Grammys.
They had to get it from the insiders of the music business, you know, the Blue State insiders, because country folks have pretty much been over, so over, the Dixie Chicks, some time back.
So they've switched to the Blue State Grammys to get their insiders' vote.
And they got five of them last night.
Jimmy Carter got one, just to give you another idea.
It's one who didn't pick up another peace prize.
No, no, no, that's not going to Jimmy Carter this time.
This year it's going to Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, back with more after this.
He's got a bit of that bug that's going around, but he'll be back tomorrow.
Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush today on a Monday, a very important day, kicking off our week of news.
And I want to get to your calls in a minute, but I want to pick up on something we talked about last week as well.
The Border Patrol agents, the two Border Patrol agents who have landed in Federal Penn a serious time, 11 years for one, 12 years for the other for allegedly shooting.
The jury found that they shot an illegal alien drug smuggler down in the border in Texas near the Mexican border, and that they tried to cover it up afterwards.
The facts that have come out have been a little different than that.
This well-known, he'd been smuggling drugs since age 14.
He's almost 30.
His mother said he never went on one of these drug smuggling routes without a pistol.
He's driving his van, 743 pounds of marijuana.
And he gets across the border there.
They spot him.
He tries to outrun him.
He abandons the van, starts running back toward the border.
They get out of their cars, these Border Patrol agents, and they're chasing him.
And then another one shows up ahead of his route there, this guy that's fleeing.
There's some kind of scuffle by the embankment there of a canal.
And the guy runs away.
And then as he's running away, he's turning back, facing back toward the agents, and his left arm is up in a position that would justify the agent saying, this guy's got a gun.
He's firing on.
And so they fire on him and they hit him, the testimony is in the butt.
It isn't clear what actually happened since the bullet didn't conclusively match either of the guns being fired at this guy.
And by the way, after he was supposedly hit, he kept running into Mexico.
Didn't seem to be stopped by a bullet entering his posterior.
So a lot of questions about this trial.
What isn't a question is this.
Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney, was sent down to El Paso by George Bush.
He is a longtime Bush associate from the governor and even pre-governor days in front of a judge that was likewise appointed to both the state bench and the federal bench by George Bush down in Texas, people well known to George Bush, to put Border Patrol agents trying to do their job in federal prison with the very people that they had put in that prison, by the way, and to rely on the word of illegal alien drug smugglers in testimony, smugglers who had been given green cards,
smugglers who had been given immunity, smugglers who had now sued the United States government for $5 million for being shot in the butt for a civil rights violation, and give the credibility and the honor to an illegal alien drug smuggler and put our Border Patrol agents in the federal pen.
And then furthermore, to promise, well, no, they'd be segregated.
Johnny Sutton promised on my local program in person, he said, we're going to segregate, we're going to protect the ⁇ they're not going to be in with the population, which he had to admit, 27 percent, 27 percent of the population in these federal prisons is now illegally in this country.
So Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted these guys, made this promise to me on my local program.
Well, first of all, they won't go to general population.
Obviously, federal agents have to be protected inside prison, and they will be.
So they have to be protected, and they will be, except Nacho Ramos, one of these agents, was put in general population as soon as he got to the federal pen in Mississippi and was promptly beaten up by four or five illegal aliens within an inch of his life.
And the Bush administration said, oh, it wasn't serious.
You know, he didn't see a doctor for four days.
His civil rights are being violated every day.
So I'm upset about this.
I think it's wrong.
I think the president needs to take a hard look.
I think the president needs to pardon these guys.
Maybe because they didn't file a written report or something.
They get five days' suspension, which is what the Border Patrol policy requires, five days without pay.
But I think they ought to be pardoned.
They ought to be put back in the Border Patrol.
They ought to be put back on the border, given their demonstrated capability.
And maybe before that, they ought to take 10 days for range duty in order to be a little shoot a little straighter next time.
That's kind of my thinking.
By the way, two Border Patrol agents testified against these two, who eventually got found guilty by, it is true, by a jury, but three members of that jury said afterwards they were buffaloed into a unanimous decision.
They didn't think the guys were guilty of anything.
But two Border Patrol agents showed up to testify against the defendants.
And they're going to be fired now.
for changing their stories.
It turns out, and thank you very much to the San Bernardino County Sun, a local newspaper, and the Ontario-based Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
They have been bulldogs on this issue, and they have now come up with the fact that agents who testified against Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compend, the two who were found guilty, that agents had been given immunity themselves for any criminal charges that might have arisen out of this exchange in exchange for their testimony,
and that on several details of this incident, they had changed their account.
So two of the Border Patrol agents who testified against these two who went to prison have now been fired.
A third has resigned from the Border Patrol because of that.
It turns out that the Border Patrol was pretty cozy with this smuggler.
Relatives who were Border Patrol agents were relatives of this smuggler.
So even in the San Francisco Chronicle today, Deborah Saunders, I think this is an op-ed piece, she says, quote, believe everything the government says about Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compillán, who were sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler in 2005, for covering up the shooting and denying the smuggler his rights.
And you still should question whether they should spend a single night in prison, especially among those they once helped put away.
And that is the point that we are making to the president.
You cannot talk about having a secure border and send a signal to every Border Patrol agent that if they cross some mythical civil rights line, if they cross and they get false testimony against them and they get all this stuff happening to them, in fact, their supervisor in charge was on the scene at this shooting and they get charged with not filing a report.
It's the responsibility of that supervisor to file a report.
So it is a, and now we fear for their basic safety.
We fear that these folks are not going to be safe in these prisons.
Dana Rohrbacher, a conservative Republican congressman from Southern California, has said he would introduce an impeachment resolution if these agents are harmed in that prison under the care of the Bush administration, an impeachment resolution from a conservative Republican congressman against this president.
Because in conservatives minds, and in my mind, let me just make this personal, I who support the president in the war on terror as strongly as anyone, cannot reconcile this president's commitment to win that war internationally and at the same time his policies that have virtually left us with an open border with Mexico.
The two do not square.
The two do not come together.
And this idea that we can have a virtual border or we can put the National Guard down there and not have them armed when the Mexicans are and the drug smugglers are arming, they have armed observation posts all the way along this border, particularly in Arizona, where they are watching, you know, you talk about the Minutemen watching, the smugglers are watching every move made by American law enforcement and countering it.
This has gotten so obvious, and this is where, just let me throw this in.
Doing justice for these Border Patrol agents and, in effect, sending a message of support to all Border Patrol agents has gotten so obvious that Dianne Feinstein is calling for hearings to be held in one of these committees having supervision over the border, and she's getting support, and there are going to be hearings.
Carl Levin is in favor of hearings.
And today I get this from Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, who is asking the Justice Department now to investigate why these criminal charges were even brought.
She is questioning why prosecutors pursued this, while other agents received administrative discipline in similar circumstances.
Sheila Jackson Lee, for Crying Out Loud, is recognizing the deadly impact of the deterrence that the Border Patrol agents are feeling, and I've had many of them say this to me, feeling because of what has happened to these two Border Patrol agents.
So it is a crucial issue down here on the border and one that I hope we can get, through the Rush program, get the Bush administration to look at and look at and look at because their guys, Johnny Sutton and that judge, are wrong.
This prosecution is wrong.
This sentence is certainly wrong.
Throwing them into a federal prison where 27% of the people are illegal, including those people they put in prison, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
We'll be back with more on the Rush Show after this.
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I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
Little under the weather rush is today.
I'll be back tomorrow.
Let's take Kathy in Los Angeles next on the phones here.
Kathy, welcome.
Hello.
Hi, Kathy.
Welcome.
Hi, Roger.
Thank you for taking my call.
I love listening to you when you fill in for Rush, one of the sane voices here on the left coast.
Thank you very much.
I went to the Grammy Awards last night, and I will tell you, this is the second year I've been able to go.
My husband gets wonderful tickets to take clients and prospects to.
And this award show was so much different than the last one.
I just don't believe they legitimately won five awards.
Well, you're talking about the Dixie Chicks now getting five Grammys.
What do you mean it was different from the last one?
How different?
Well, okay, mostly, mostly, people were getting up and leaving.
I mean, by the time, if you even watch at the end of the show, you could see people leaving in droves.
And the last award show, everybody sat there till the last minute.
But after the Dixie Chicks second award, I mean, people in our, we had a private suite at Staples, and people were sitting there going, are you kidding?
You could look around.
There was a little bit of applause, but not nearly, you know, the big applause they got, say, for their first award.
So you're saying that the Dixie Chicks getting these five awards actually turned off this blue state crowd, this liberal crowd, because they're the ones who voted for them.
I know, but I can't even begin to tell you how we were looking around going, this is amazing.
We're leaving in droves.
The last two awards were, you know, very big awards.
I believe it was Record of the Year or Artist of the Year, and I think they got both of them, but there was hardly anybody left.
No, no.
And half of the award, the place was empty.
Well, Kathy, I don't think that did show on TV.
I appreciate your call.
I don't think that did show on TV.
All right, Dean in Richmond, Virginia.
You're next on the Rush Show.
Hi.
Hey, Roger.
I listen to what people say, and I watch what they do.
And the politicians, both sides, are just, they make me kind of sick and tired of just listening to them speak with a forked tongue, not supporting these two Border Patrol guys that are putting their lives on the line every day, just like troops but on our borders.
And they're left out to drive, almost like that movie Tango and Cash.
Yeah.
Where Stallone and whoever went to prison on a dirty drug deal, and they were set up.
But no politician is speaking with half or 25% of the passion that you or Rush or anybody speaks of the truth with supporting these guys, at least letting them out on appeal.
Well, nobody that's getting a lot of media attention, I will tell you that Dana Rohrbacher has been making a lot of noise about this.
Duncan Hunter, we talked about before, has been making a lot of noise about this.
Brian Bilbray, another congressman who's very strong on the border, has been making a lot of noise about this.
So the problem is, of course, the mainstream media has been studiously ignoring it.
Now that we're getting some Democrats to understand the problem, Diane Feinstein is asking for hearings.
Sheila Jackson Lee for Crying Out Loud is asking the Justice Department to look at this.
I think we're going to start getting some momentum here.
But there's no general population, aren't they?
And there's no harm's way.
Well, since Ramos was beat up, he's been taken out to isolation.
And what they did is they put him in a cell 23 hours out of 24 with no human contact, and that was the way they were going to protect him.
So it's gotten even worse.
Don't break into Mexico, though.
Don't be an illegal in Mexico.
You go right to prison.
No.
You go to prison and you'd get kicked out of that country.
No driver's license, no free food, no free medical care, nothing.
You're absolutely right.
In fact, that has been my about 25 years I've been saying this in a row: that if you wanted to be completely fair about the border, we would have in this country the same laws with respect to immigration as Mexico does in Mexico.
And then it would be the end of the story because in Mexico, there are no illegals.
I mean, you're illegal in the country.
You don't get education.
Your kids don't get education.
Your kids don't get squat.
You're kicked out of the country.
You don't have civil rights in Mexico to be there and not be legally there.
And yet this is the same government, Mexico, of course, that protests every time we try to do something with regard to protecting our country.
They know very well how to protect their country.
Jeff in Climax, Michigan.
Jeff, how's the temp out there today in Climax?
It's actually warming up a little bit.
We've been down below zero last week, and we're up above zero now.
Up above zero.
Good for you.
Yeah, so that's nice.
Good for you.
Go ahead.
Hey, I'd just like to say it seems like Hillary Clinton seems to be on a mission to become the first woman president.
And I'd just like to say that I support her 100%.
I just don't support the mission.
Amen.
Jeff, I appreciate the call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
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All right, Roger Hedgecock, in for Russia and Rush, of course, back tomorrow, we are hoping.
A little under the weather today after the weekend.
And the kind of a bug that I guess a lot of people have that's going around.
We were talking earlier in the program about Diane Sawyer, NBC News, talking to, as she has a record of doing, talking to the dictators and kissing their posterior in various ways that only Diane can do.
She's a pro at that.
And she has, in this interview, which was on this morning with the president of Iran, My Mood Aymana Jihad, who was interviewed by Diane Sawyer.
And, well, they were talking about getting the United States out of Iraq, of course.
And in this, they both agreed.
I mean, they were coming to agreement here.
And here is Diane Sawyer.
Listen carefully to this question and answer.
Do you think the timetable should be to keep a stable Iraq?
Well, are you here to solve the problem of the American government in Iraq?
I'm hoping that you can help solve the problem in Iraq.
These are some points which must be discussed at a diplomatic level.
You're just a journalist.
You've got to love that one.
Here's Diane Sawyer just kissing his butt.
Won't you help us out of Iraq?
And aren't you here to help us out of Iraq and get America out of Iraq so you guys can win and the world can be peaceful again once George Bush is defeated?
Well, are you here to solve the problems of Iraq?
Well, yeah, I'm hoping you can solve the problems, Mr. I'm in a jihad.
Well, we're going to have to do this at a diplomatic level.
I mean, you're just a journalist.
You just got to love that stuff.
By the way, if you saw the video of this interview today on NBC, you would have seen that Diane Saura comes into the room to interview my mood, I'm in a jihad, and the president of Iran does not touch her, will not shake hands.
I don't know why they send, you know, they send a woman to do this, and this guy, you know, what?
He's looking at a woman.
This guy in his culture, he's looking at a goat.
He's looking at a sheep.
He's looking at a woman.
They're all the same status in terms of that culture.
Yikes.
Anyway, Diane Sawyer couldn't wait to kiss the posterior of yet another dictator.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Thanks, Rush, for the privilege of being in here today.
We'll see Rush tomorrow.
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