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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 I don't want to see that.
Yikes.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush, uh, little under the weather rushes today, and uh we wish him a speedy recovery because he's got to be in here tomorrow and uh set up this week.
A lot of stuff going on, and uh we want to get uh to it.
Here's Wayne in Bellevue, Nebraska in the meantime.
Hi, Wayne, welcome to the Rush Show.
Uh hi, Roger.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
I had called earlier, and I've been waiting a little bit, but basically uh my 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, you know, 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 uh where I am, uh, 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 I'm uh 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 uh in a city that had both Kurds, uh Shiites and Sunnis, and all three of them in Mosul are living in relative peace at the moment, uh, with uh 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, uh 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.
Uh to just leave Iraq as uh Barack Obama is talking, as Barry Obama is talking about now, would simply be uh you know, ridiculous, because uh the the obvious to any observer, the obvious result of simply leaving now is that country would descend into a chaos of uh of tribal and uh religious uh animosity and death.
It would just be chaos.
Don't you agree with that?
Yeah, I 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 what's your solution?
So Wayne, so Wayne, okay.
Understanding all that, Wayne, uh understanding all that, what's your solution?
My solution is I think the surge is a good idea in that it gets twenty thousand more troops over there, and then you just move a hundred thousand 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.
I mean, until you confront the reality of the situation, Carter's legacy is the cause of the problem.
Well, Wayne, and this is what uh the UK papers are saying today is uh is uh Bush's plan that eventually it's war with Iran, and that's what all this uh discovery today of these Iranian weapons in Iraq uh and and exposing that what this is all about is to provide a pretext to uh bring the war into uh into Iran.
By the way, Iran has been uh the the Russians are very quick to get back at us for that action in Afghanistan.
They are supplying the uh Iranians with a uh 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.
Uh they are also uh in many other ways uh giving stuff to Iran to help them survive any such American initiative, for instance, uh anti-aircraft the latest anti-aircraft missiles that are pretty effective against our stealth bombers.
Now, whether uh Bush has any kind of uh counterplan to all that or any plan at all with regard to Iran, we're gonna find out, I guess, in the next couple of uh 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 uh 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 uh to deal with this situation.
All right, uh Wayne, thanks.
Uh Chris in Reading, California, next on the Rush Show.
Hi, Chris.
Hi, Roger.
How are you today?
Good.
Um my question, um, 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 um I've been on on the web and looking at the U.S. veteran dispatch, and they're um promoting a congressman named Duncan Hunter from California, who's a Republican, and um wanted to know if you knew anything about him.
Uh know a lot about him.
Duncan Hunter and I have been friends since the 1970s.
Uh he knocked out a longtime uh Democrat uh incumbent.
Uh he was a storefront lawyer in a poor neighborhood of town here and got elected, and he's been elected ever since the uh late 70s.
Uh he was recently when the Republicans were in charge of the Congress, uh the chairman of the house of the uh House uh Armed Forces Committee, Armed Armed Services Committee, and uh very very powerful pro uh uh pro troops.
Uh his son served, I think two terms, uh two tours in uh in Iraq.
Uh one of those guys, he was a ranger in Vietnam.
He's uh very pro-military, very pro the uh the mission.
And he's uh a very staunch conservative.
Now he's also, along with me, uh and I've made this apology before on national uh radio, I'll do it again, uh, because I'm in the apology mode too, uh, voted for Perot in uh 92.
Uh he's very much against NAFTA free trade, he got a lot of concerns about free trade.
Uh in that respect, I think I've come to the conclusion that I think he's wrong about that, but he's a very 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 uh he's getting out there for the reason that he's gonna offer uh a 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 that they want to look at something we should look at the veteran dispatch uh 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 uh while I'm on the show.
Uh you can respond.
He says, uh Doug says, uh 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 what w and that was what they wanted to do, then you could say you couldn't separate the soldier from the uh mission.
Well, Doug, you've um uh you're as wrong about this as can be.
If I said, say you're a welder, and I said, I support you, uh, but you're a no good welder.
Uh you are uh an an idiot when it comes to welding.
And uh but I do support you, uh, Doug, personally.
Uh you're a good person, but your welding uh simply stinks.
Uh you wouldn't feel very affirmed, I don't believe.
You wouldn't feel the kind of love, the warmth uh that uh that kind of conveys.
So when you say to a guy who's out in combat getting shot at, uh, you're a good person, and I support you as a soldier uh and the sacrifice that you're making, but by the way, I just don't think you should be there uh shooting at other people, and I I really believe the other side ought to win.
I think Doug that that's kind of a demoralizer.
I uh I'm out on a limb here psychologically without the you know requisite training, but I just think as a common sense matter, it probably just is a little discouraging.
Yikes.
Uh by the way, Chuck Schumer's put his foot in his mouth.
Good grief.
Basically, he said, uh 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.
Uh he says, uh well, the first woman, the first black, uh, you don't want to.
That may 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 but tickets uh have to have some balance.
And then when he was questioned about it, of course, this is the kind of thing that uh, you know, Democrats have a a a ritual for.
It's called rehab and apology.
Uh and then he corrected himself.
He said, What uh w well, th my concern really is geographical balance.
In other words, he wants a southerner on there.
So it's kind of it's kind of interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah, he sure he he wants a southerner.
Which one, Chucky, uh, do you think would be good to balance out the ticket?
You know, oh uh Obama and uh and uh Sheetsbird.
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 uh, of course, there was an interesting moment in uh the Iowa swing through that uh Senator Hillary Clinton completed uh last week.
In Iowa, and I've been to Iowa, it's a very interesting uh place when you live in California and go to Iowa.
I landed, didn't we land in we landed in Des Moines in the state, I believe that's the state capital.
And I mean the biggest, isn't that the biggest city out there?
Uh anyway, it's one of them.
And we landed at this airport, and 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 gonna go out there and see what this is all about.
I mean, I'm from California, what do I know?
So I 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.
Uh is there is there an airport?
I mean, is this near the city of Des Moines?
And there was one little building maybe five stories tall, and 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 uh of uh she's all in favor of uh ethanol.
And it's a corn-growing state, and she's oh, you betcha I'm for ethanol.
And uh she says at this town meeting uh 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.
Uh as a senator from New York, Clinton has voted seventeen times against ethanol.
In 2004, Clinton was asked about her unspoke uh 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 uh 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 Hitchcock 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 uh at Pebble Beach.
Uh he'll be back uh tomorrow, I am told, and we're all hoping for that.
Fit is a fiddle.
By the way, the uh perjury trial of uh Lewis Scooter Libby continues, and uh so far as I know, after many, many days of uh trial testimony, uh Libby still can't recall what he didn't do.
And uh that pretty much summarizes the uh testimony.
They are going to call, however, uh Andrea uh uh Mitchell.
And uh apparently they're still trying to uh figure out Andrea Mitchell of uh NBC News is to be called as a witness because in the July 2003, this is the uh outing of uh Valerie Plain as a CIA agent, which turned out not to be against the law.
Now Lewis uh uh scooter Libby is uh being prosecuted for uh lying about something that wasn't illegal.
I'm I'm still I still cannot figure this out myself, and I'm a recovering lawyer.
Uh but Mitchell was widely quoted as saying that uh that quote about who knew that Plame worked for the CIA before the column came out, um 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 Russard 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 uh blowing the whistle and telling the truth about the uh 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.
He just said it.
So the problem is she did say it.
So I don't know.
This issue is getting curiouser and curiouser.
By the way, Rush Limbaugh has been vindicated on so many different levels.
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 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, Why is East Antarctica getting colder?
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 eight percent.
The ice has grown by eight percent how many times have you heard Antarctica that is the Southern pole in this debate about global warming are all you hear about is the Arctic, at least until this last uh snowstorm 146 inches in upstate New York with more to come.
How do you uh I 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 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 uh liberals and socialists anywhere.
What you've got to do is sell a theory that actually uh justifies their taking more money out of your paycheck and regulating more of what you eat and where you drive and how you uh 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 uh coming from yes, Jimmy Carter did get a Grammy yesterday at the uh 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 uh been over so over the Dixie Chicks uh some time back.
So they've switched to the Blue State Grammys to get their insiders' vote, and they got five of them last uh last night.
Uh Jimmy Carter got one just to give you another idea.
It's wonder 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 Limba.
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 uh I want to get to um uh 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 uh landed in Federal Penn uh serious time.
Eleven years for one, twelve years for the other for uh allegedly shooting.
Uh the jury found that they shot a uh an illegal alien drug smuggler down in uh the border in Texas near the Mexican border, uh, and that uh they tried to cover it up uh afterwards.
The facts that have come out uh have been a little different than that.
Uh this uh well known uh he'd been smuggling drugs since age fourteen, he's almost thirty.
Uh his mother said he never went on one of these drug smuggling routes without a pistol.
He's uh uh driving this van, 743 uh pounds of marijuana, and uh he gets um across the border there, they spot him, he's uh he tries to outrun him.
Uh they the he abandons the van, starts running back toward the border.
They uh get out of their cars, these uh 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 uh by the uh by the um bankment embankment there of a canal.
And uh the uh 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 uh the agent saying, Well, this guy's got a gun.
He's gonna fire.
And so they fire on him and they hit him, uh the testimony is in the uh butt.
Um it um isn't clear what actually happened since the bullet didn't uh 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 uh posterior.
So a lot of questions about this trial.
What isn't at question is this.
Johnny Sutton, the U.S. attorney was sent down to El Paso by George Bush.
He was uh is a longtime Bush associate from the governor and even pre-governor days, in front of a judge that was likewise appointed to the 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 uh and to uh 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 uh had now sued the United States government for five million dollars for being shot in the butt for a civil rights violation.
Um, and give and and give the credibility uh 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 gonna segregate, we're gonna protect the they're not gonna be in with the population, which he had to admit twenty-seven percent, twenty-seven percent of the uh of the population in these uh federal prisons is now uh illegally in this country.
So Johnny Sutton, uh the U.S. attorney who prosecuted these guys, made this promise to me on my local program.
Well, first of all, they they they won't go to general population.
Obviously, federal agents have to be protected inside prison and they will be so uh they have to be protected and they will be, except uh Nacho Ramos, one of these agents, was uh put in general population As soon as he got to the uh federal pen in Mississippi and uh was promptly beaten up by uh four or five illegal aliens within an inch of his life.
And the Bush administration said, oh, it wasn't serious.
Uh 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 uh maybe because they didn't file a written report or something, they get five days suspension, which is what the border patrol policy requires, uh, five days without pay.
But I think they ought to be uh uh pardoned, they ought to be put back in the border patrol, they ought to be put back on the border given their demonstrated capability.
Uh and maybe before that they ought to take uh ten 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 uh got uh found guilty by, it is true, by a jury, but three members of that jury said afterwards they were uh buffaloed into unanimous uh decision, they didn't think the guys were guilty of anything.
Um but uh two border patrol agents showed up to uh to uh testify against the defendants.
And uh they're gonna be fired now for changing their stories.
It turns out, and thank you very much to the San Bernardino County Son of the 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 uh agents who testified against Ignacio Ramos and uh Jose Compian,
the two who were who were found guilty, uh that agents had uh uh been given immunity themselves for any uh criminal charges that might have arisen out of this exchange uh in in exchange for their testimony, and that on several of uh 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.
Uh relatives who were border patrol agents were relatives of this smuggler.
So even in the San Francisco Chronicle today, Deborah Saunders uh, I think this is an op-ed piece, uh she says, quote, believe everything the government says about Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compian, who were sentenced to eleven and twelve 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 and 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 uh are not going to be safe in these prisons.
Dana Roerbacher, 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 uh watching, you know, you talk about the the Minimen watching.
The the smugglers are watching every move made by American law enforcement and countering it.
This is um this has gotten so obvious, and this is where I I've just let me throw this in.
Doing justice for these border patrol agents and and in and in effect sending a message of support to all border patrol agents has gotten so obvious that Diane Feinstein is calling for hearings to be held in uh uh one of these committees uh having supervision over the border, and uh she's getting support, and there are going to be hearings.
Carl Levin is in favor of hearings, and today I get this from uh 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 price prosecutors pursued this while other agents received administrative discipline in uh similar circumstances.
Sheila Jackson Lee for crying out loud is uh recognizing the deadly impact uh the the 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 uh agents.
So it is a a crucial uh 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 twenty seven percent of the people are illegal, including those people they put in prison, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
We'll be back with more on the Rush Show after this.
Don't forget to get to Rush Limbaugh.com for the uh Nobel Prize nominee t shirts on sale there at the EIB store.
I'm Roger Hedgecock In for Rush.
Little under the weather rush is today.
I'll be back tomorrow.
Let's say Kathy in Los Angeles next on the phones here.
Kathy, welcome.
Hello.
Hi, Kathy, welcome.
Hi, Roger.
Thank you for taking my call.
I I love listening to you when you fill in for Rush, one of the same 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 uh clients and prospects to.
And and this award show is so much different than the last one.
I I just don't believe they legitimately won five awards.
I mean, well, you're talking about the Dixie Chicks now, we're getting five uh Grammys.
What do you mean it was different from the last one?
How different?
Well, i okay, mostly, mostly people were getting up and leaving.
I mean, by the time if you even watch, at at the at the end of the show, you can see people leaving in droves.
And the last awards show everybody sat there till the last minute.
But after the Dixie Chick's second award, I mean, people in our we had a private suite at Staples, and people were sitting there, 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 that the Dixie chicks getting these five awards actually turned off this blue state crowd, this uh liberal crowd that because they're the ones who voted for them.
I I know I but I can't I can't even begin to tell you how we were looking around going, this is amazing.
We're leaving in drugs.
The last two awards were, you know, very big awards.
I believe it was record of the year or artists of the year, and I think they got both of them, but there was uh there was hardly anybody left.
No kidding.
Half of the of the uh award ha half 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, uh 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 put on our borders, and they're left out hanging they're left out to drive, almost like that movie Tango and Cash.
Yeah.
Where Stallone and uh whoever went to prison on a dirty drug deal and they were set up.
But no politician is speaking with half or twenty-five percent of the passion that you or Rush or anybody speaks of the truth was supporting these guys, at least letting them out on uh, you know, appeal.
Well, nobody and 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 Billbray, another congressman who's very strong on the border, has been making a lot of uh 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's asking for hearings.
Uh Sheila Jackson Lee for crying out loud is asking the state of the Justice Department to look at this.
I think we're going to start getting some uh momentum here.
But there's no one general population, aren't they?
And they're saying these guys are in danger of harm's way.
Since well, since uh Ramos was beat up, he's been taken out to isolation.
And what they did is they put him in a cell twenty-three hours out of twenty-four, uh, 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 in illegal in Mexico.
You go right to prison.
No.
You go to prison and you'd get kicked out of that country.
No no uh no driver's license, uh, no free food, no free medical care, nothing.
You're absolutely right.
In fact, that would that has been my about twenty-five years I've been saying this in a row that if you you 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 uh in Mexico there are no illegals.
I mean, you're illegally in the country, you don't get education.
Kids don't get education, your kids don't get squat, you're kicked out of the country.
You don't have civil rights uh in Mexico to be there and not be legally there.
And yet this is the same government, Mexico, of course, that uh protests every time we try to do something with regard to protecting our country.
They know very well how to protect their country.
Uh Jeff in Climax, Michigan.
Jeff, uh, how's the temp out there today in Climax?
It's uh actually warming up a little bit.
We've been down below zero last week, and we're up above uh zero now.
Up above zero, good for you.
Yeah, so that's nice.
Good for you.
Go ahead.
Hey, um, I just like to say it seems like Hillary Clinton seems to be on a mission to become the first w uh woman president.
And uh I just like to say that I support her a hundred percent.
I just don't support the mission.
Amen.
Uh Jeff, I appreciate the call.
Uh I'm Roger Hedgecock.
We're gonna take a break uh in this is the Rush Limbaugh program on the EIB Network.
Rush back tomorrow now, and so it's stay tuned.
You're a little under the weather today.
We'll be back with the conclusion of the show right after the very own Rush Nobel Peace Prize t-shirt now at the EIB store at Rush Limbaugh.com.
And uh, I don't think you can be driving around without this uh rush babe on board sign either.
All right, uh Roger Hedgecock, Infor Russia and Rush, of course, back uh tomorrow.
We are hope hope hoping uh a little under the weather today after the weekend.
And with 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, uh NBC News uh talking to, as she has uh uh record of doing, talking to the dictators.
Uh and uh and uh you know kissing their posterior in uh various ways that uh only Diane can do.
She's a pro at that.
And uh she has uh in this interview uh which uh was on this morning uh with uh the president of Iran.
My mood, I'm in a jihad, who uh was interviewed by Diane Sawyer, and uh well uh sh they were talking about getting the United States out of Iraq.
Of course.
And in this in this they both agreed.
I mean, they were they were coming to agreement here.
And uh and here is uh Diane Sawyer.
This 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 the diplomatic level.
You're just a journalist.
You gotta love that one.
Here's Diane Sawyer just kissing his butt.
Well, won't you help us out of Iraq?
And aren't you here to help us out of Iraq and get uh America out of Iraq so you guys can win and and and the and the world can be peaceful again once George Bush is defeated?
Well, uh are you here to solve the problems of Iraq?
Well, uh yeah, I I'm hoping you can solve the problems uh Mr. uh I'm in a jihad.
Uh well uh we're gonna have to do this at a diplomatic level.
I mean, you're just a journalist.
You just gotta love that stuff.
By the way, if you saw the video of this interview uh today on NBC, you would have seen that uh Diane Sorr comes into the room to interview uh 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 and 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 um couldn't wait to uh 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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