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Why are you holding your right side when you cough?
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but last Thursday, during a particularly bad coughing spasm on this program.
Uh I um I pulled a muscle in my rib cage or did something.
And it last Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday I when I coughed, it was a j horrible stabbing pain.
I think one of the reasons that I have spent so long getting over whatever this is is that because of that I was I was taking cough medicines to suppress the cough to stop the pain, because I then and when you suppress the cough, you're not being productive and getting the gunk out of the bronchial passageways, the bronchial tubes.
And uh it's still, it's it still bothers me, and the doc says it's either that or a cracked rib, and it's gonna be with you for a while.
So um I'm in a somewhat weakened state if attacked by women, which is not a bad state to be.
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Immigrant rights activists yesterday in New York renewed their push to allow legal non-citizens to vote in the Big Apple, a bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the city council since last year.
A related story.
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is touting Congressional Democrats' push to make college more affordable for young people, including those without legal residency.
In a news conference following a meeting recently, Pelosi made reference to the effect of Proposition 300 in California, uh, or rather an Arizona initiative that would pass by voters in November that requires illegal immigrants to pay out of state tuition to attend public universities and community colleges.
Our country does not benefit by our depriving young people of an education.
Um we're not talking about children here, Miss Pelosi.
But anyway, you see what this is all about.
This is I and this is something that I have been warning you people about for many, many moons now that the whole illegal immigrant crowd or the the legal non-citizen crowd, they just represent new voters for Democrats.
Uh they're running out of victims and they need more.
And it is uh the country and its traditions be damned.
These people don't give a rat's rear end about it.
It's just whatever they can do, whatever damage happens to the country in the process of keeping themselves in power, they couldn't care less.
Uh in fact, uh, there's a part of me that thinks that they would love to destroy as many of the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness for countless decades, simply because they don't fit in with those institutions for a whole host of reasons.
In Austin, Texas, last week, the CEO of Apple Incorporated, Steve Jobs, lamb basted teacher unions, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public screws until principals could fire bad teachers.
Now he said this, no doubt in response, because his you know the the school districts and the teachers oh not just a whole bunch of people are crying and moaning to computer companies, give us computers, give us computers so our students can learn.
You know, and jobs isn't a business selling computers and iPhones and iPods and whatever else they're gonna invent there.
And uh he basically stood up and told them, Look at you can put all the computers in the world in there, but if you got rotten teachers, it isn't gonna matter.
He compared scruels to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
What kind of person could you get to run a small business?
He asked, if you told them that when they came in, they couldn't get rid of people they thought weren't any good.
And he got loud applause for this.
This was during an education reform conference.
Yeah, what kind of person indeed could you get to run a small business if you told that person you're stuck with all the incompetence that surrounds you here and you can't do anything about it.
Well, there is a kind of person you could get for that.
A socialist liberal democrat would probably take the job.
As Jobs said, not really great ones will take the job, because if you're really smart, you say to yourself, I can't win in this situation.
In a rare joint appearance, Steve Jobs shared the stage with competitor Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Incorporated.
Both of them spoke to the gathering about the potential for bringing technological advances to the classroom.
Jobs said, I believe that what is wrong with our screwels in this nation is that they've become unionized in the worst possible way.
This unionization and lifetime employment of K through twelve teachers is off the charts crazy.
Now at various pauses, the audience applauded enthusiastically, while Michael Dell sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.
Jobs said, I'm sure that we at Apple just lost some business in this state because I've what I've said.
Earlier in this discussion, Jobs told the crowd about his vision for textbook free screws.
In the future, textbooks would be replaced with a free online information source that was constantly updated by experts, much like the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Now about textbooks.
One thing, just a little aside here, I got a note from um just a just a listener, a student, college student, taking a philosophy of something or other class with a 600-page textbook.
And on page 464, I am cited as a glaring example of something or other in this textbook.
I I forget, I forget what it was about or what, but but uh this is obviously a new textbook.
Point is that textbooks today are written by ideologues.
They're written by leftist activists, as you well know, because they're bought by leftist activists in the um uh in the academic professorial uh ranks.
And so Jobs' idea is to open it up here to uh, you know, a number of online sources.
But look, the bottom line here is when he says, I believe what's wrong with our schools in this nation is that they've become unionized in the worst possible way.
Conservatives and just plain people with any common sense have been saying this for decades.
But do they get put into the headlines of a story?
No.
Only if you're a big lib, only if you're a big Democrat do you get applauded for this kind of talk.
I am happy and proud to be on the same page with Steve Jobs.
The way to put it is I'm happy and proud he's on the same page with me.
If he finds out I agree with him, he might change his mind.
But I mean, this is this is just this is classic.
And this is an AP story.
You know how many average ordinary American people have been saying this?
You know how many political candidates on the Republican side have been saying this?
And when they say it, they get tarred and feathered, and the NEA comes after them.
Jobs says it.
Wow, why we must really think about this.
Why there might be something here that we haven't considered before?
Uh much more soundbites got still our Obama, Obama, whatever stack.
More of Hillary and the uh this Confederate flag business in South Carolina with Hillary is.
I'd say this The time this woman opens her mouth, the best thing she should just shut up because when she opens her mouth, her poll numbers go down, justifiably so.
Anyway, sit tight.
We'll be right back after this.
Big news yesterday for the New York Times.
Senior Al-Qaeda leaders have reestablished control over the terror network and set up training camps in Pakistan.
Citing U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials, the New York Times said the senior officials operating from Pakistan have set up training operations in tribal regions near the Afghan border.
U.S. officials told the Times there's mounting evidence that bin Laden and his deputy Amen Al Zawahiri have been putting an operations center together until recently the Times said the Bush administration had said the bin Laden and Zawahiri were detached from their followers and cut off from operational control of Al Qaeda.
Now of course the time slant on this is if we weren't in Iraq, of course this wouldn't be happening.
We can focus attention on this, we could kill bin Laden it all be over.
Which of course is smoking mirrors.
Here's the thing.
Let's take the story at face value, shall we, just for the fun of it.
It's the New York Times, after all.
Is Jack Murphy right that if the slow bleed policy uh leads to the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops, is Al Qaeda gonna disband these new training groups?
That's what Mertha thinks.
Mertha thinks Al Qaeda will disband in Iraq.
They'll leave Iraq, and it won't come after us.
If we just go w we're the reason Al Qaeda exists essentially.
So if we pull out of her, somebody needs to ask him this.
Will these new Bin Laden and Zawahiri training camps in uh Pakistan simply disband if we get out of Iraq?
What do you think, Libs?
Mike in uh Richmond, Virginia.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, God bless you.
Hey, uh, I just wanted to say uh truck driving and progressive rock dittoes to you.
Uh I want to tell you a little about the crazy world of Arthur Brown.
Uh that is a excellent selection.
An excellent selection for the uh global warming update.
Uh not only not only because it's seductive and alluring uh as a song, just like the arguments of the left off for global warming, but it is also uh if you listen to the lyrics of the verses, it really sounds like a liberal talking down to you.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you if you've never heard the verse, it's it's amazing.
Uh about how you've walked worked hard and you saved and earned, but all of it's going to burn.
And uh, and your mind, your tiny mind, you know you've really been so blind.
Uh it's just perfect.
And not to mention uh the drummer in that band uh was Carl Parnell, who went on to play with Emerson Lake and Palmer.
Well, then you end up you uh you obviously know a little bit about Arthur Brown himself, if you uh if you know about the drummer.
Well, I know some things about Arthur Brown.
I know he's still around.
He's still he's still making music.
Yeah, Arthur Brown was he's British, uh born in England, and he was uh it was he was it was it was part of the sixties movement.
He was a radical.
Um didn't make any money off this song.
He was he was even though it it it sold bazillions of copies, he was had financial problems and so forth.
But uh read a little biography of um of the guy.
Yeah, and he's still around and uh he was a long-haired maggot infested dope smoking type guy back in the sixties, as most of them were in music.
Uh uh, he still is today.
Uh, but well, he's bald today.
Uh that's well, I guess in spirit he is.
Exactly right, exactly right.
Uh may still have maggots, I don't know.
But um I had one just kidding.
I had just one other thing, which is really more of an open line Friday type of question, if you'll bear with me.
Finally, what is I I have been dying to ask you this for years.
Going back into the Clinton years, uh, I remember at one time people were asking if you would consider uh forming and heading up a true conservative party.
And what you said, uh has wrung in my ears for years, that if we ever got to the point where we had a Republican president and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress and the conservative agenda still couldn't get past.
That you would uh give it some thought.
And I was wondering in light of all that has happened, uh, what do you think about that these days?
I I've uh uh uh I don't I I don't remember saying that.
Uh but you can't deny I said it, but I've said so many things over eighteen years.
I'm sure, but if you certainly remember every but I can tell you now that I wouldn't head it up.
I'm not gonna start a third party.
I I'm uh that the third parties are doomed.
I I Well, I I figured that is true because if you were going to do it, you would have done it by now.
That's right.
But uh but considering that uh you should get the memory division on that.
Just uh look it up, but you've got to keep one thing in mind here, and that is I am not in politics.
I talk about it and so but I I don't live in the political world.
I am in broadcasting.
I am in media.
Uh and and those are two totally different worlds.
Uh talking about political parties, political activities, getting elected, getting votes as opposed to acquiring an audience, they're two totally different things.
And uh I uh if if I wanted to be in politics, I would have done so long ago, and I would quit this and go get in it.
Uh and I don't have any desire to uh to do that.
But I appreciate uh your faith in my ability to do so, nevertheless.
Stuart in Moranga, California.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush Megadetto.
And the person I'm I'm ashamed of in the House of Representatives is Tom Lantos.
If somebody was supposed to be the conscious of the house of the House Democrats, the way Joe Lieberman is the conscience of the Senate Democrats, you'd think it was Tom Lantos, who's the only Holocaust survivor in Congress.
Well, uh uh, you know, that I I think I know what you're saying about Lantos, uh, and and he has in the past, when it, you know, when it when it's come to uh Middle East policies, he's been pretty consistent with what you would expect him to be, as you just recited.
But I think the Democrats uh look, Nancy Pelosi's ruling that the Democrat caucus with uh you know with uh with an iron girdle.
And I I really think that the Democrat Party itself is not in charge of its foreign policy.
And by that I mean I think that they really are kowtowing to their their kook fringe, the bloggers, and who they consider to be the base of the party uh in the in in adopting positions uh for the next two years as a means of winning the White House.
I I I think that's what all this is about.
And I I and uh to the extent that Pelosi can get uh uh Lanthos uh to fall in line, shall we say, with the position of the House, because you don't see too many Democrats in the House defecting from her at all.
No, but I agree with you that it's the kook fringe left dominating the party, but you would think a man like Lantos with his personal experience and with his concern for things like the genocide in Darfur would stand up for um the United States doing the right thing in Iraq and and saving innocent people.
Well, he may not he may not equate what's happening in Iraq right now with uh any of his personal experiences.
He might have equated Saddam uh with that, but he may be of the mind now that okay, we got rid of Saddam, that's fine, let these people run their own show and get out of there.
Uh it could it could be genuine.
I I've not paid enough attention to individual Democrats' statements on this.
I just think that I think even if they want to defect, I think I think they got to deal with Pelosi.
If there if Darfur is an important issue to liberals as they say it is, then why is it that only African Muslims killing African Muslims is important and Arab Muslims killing Arab Muslims isn't?
Well, uh I'll let me put it to the answer to it this way.
If George W. Bush had deployed troops to Darfur, the Democrats would oppose it.
Yes.
You're right.
Thank you.
Pure and simple.
The substance of the issue is not what matters to Democrats.
Political opposition on every issue is, and taking that position.
That's uh that's that's their their objective right now, and that's what they think is gonna carry them to even greater electoral victories down the road.
Before we go to the break quickly, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Yesterday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its state house grounds in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand how genuinely intellectually vacant that statement is.
The Democrats are all about unity in this struggle.
Yeah, we saw that in spades over the weekend, didn't we, with all these resolutions.
The only difficulty is that they have a problem, and it's not with the Confederate flag, it's with any banner that would stand for victory.
That's the but I can't believe she would open herself up, unite under one banner while at war while her party and herself are in invested in our defeat in this war.
It's amazing.
You don't have to think about it, ladies and gentlemen.
I do that for you.
Here at the EIB network.
I got an email just.
I can't believe I got this.
I can't believe that there's even one person in this audience who would send me this email.
Not one.
I'm stunned that there is one.
Dear Rush, what's wrong with Brittany Spears?
Uh I can answer the question.
I'm just surprised anybody in this audience cares.
The answer is this.
Brittany Spears hasn't been the same since Justin Timberlake told her to go to hell, and she went out and did it.
It's that simple.
There's it's no more complicated than that.
You can go through all the stuff with her mother and all this other stuff with the kids and this uh this uh quasi rapper Kayfed, but I guarantee you trace it all back to the Mousketeers and uh Timberlake, and he took up with the Cameron Diaz and her Prius.
That was it.
And if anybody sends me an email about Anna Nicole Smith, I'm not even gonna bother to answer it.
I am not gonna waste any precious broadcast time on that circus.
That's just if it weren't for the money involved, no big deal.
Los Angeles Times uh had an interesting piece on the 19th.
This is yesterday by Lewis uh Chude Soke, and I that's hyphenated name, and I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right.
It's titled Redefining Black and centers upon the question of Barack Obama's relative blackness.
Now the main point, according to this guy, is that Osama Obama is not black enough to get the support of the standing black American leadership because of his white Hawaiian African heritage.
By the way, this is a key, and I'm Warner Todd Houston at the Newsbusters had a great bunch of insight on this piece in the LA Times and points out here that uh Obama is not getting the support of the standing black American leadership because of his white slash Hawaiian slash African heritage, and by African this specifically means not African American, but real African heritage.
In other words, it is his real African heritage that is denying him official black status with African American leaders.
Now, Obama is aware of this.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites February 11th on 60 Minutes.
Steve Croft interviewing Obama says your mother was white, your father was African.
You were raised in a white household, yet at some point you decided you were black.
I'm not sure I decided it.
Uh I think uh you know, if you if you look African American in this society, you're treated as an African American.
Uh and uh when you're a child in particular, uh that is how you begin to identify yourself.
Now I this this is amazing.
Uh he's saying he didn't decide his race.
He didn't choose.
He didn't is it was chosen for him.
There's an amazing admission on the part of somebody who wants to be president of the United States to say that kind of self decision is something I had no control over, which led me to say the following uh a couple of days later.
So what do we we conclude here that he didn't define himself as black?
That the way he looks does.
But I'm not sure I decided it.
Well, if you didn't decide it, then how did it happen?
Well, just uh when you look like that, that's what you are.
Well, renounce it then.
If it's not something you want to be, if you didn't decide it, renounce it.
Become white.
Just say so.
He can.
He can say he's white.
He grew up in a white household.
He is.
His mother was white.
But he has said he's not any, he didn't have any say so over this.
Now, this comment of mine, fortunately and laughingly caused all kinds of hysterics in the uh drive-by media.
But I mean, what's the natural reaction to this?
See, the natural the lib reaction is, oh, poor guy, that's right.
You know, we're such a racist bigoted society that we determine how somebody's going to grow up and how they're going to be looked at.
Especially kids.
Our kids are mean-spirited, impolite little bullies, and our kids made Obama feel black.
Well, because his mother was white, he can say, I choose to be white.
It would be kind of interesting if he did.
He could do this.
Why is the automatic assumption is he's black?
It's 50-50 can do what he wants.
He is in charge here.
But we know the answer to all this.
And these comments in a couple days when they show up on the left-wing webs.
Well, this might make the network news tonight.
More fireworks tonight on how Limbaugh's a racist bigot, whatever else.
Jake Tapper, uh, last Friday on ABC's Good Morning America, uh, said this.
There is a feeling among the Obama campaign that a lot of African Americans don't even know that he's African American because they don't know much about him yet, so they're hoping things will turn around in time.
How can this be?
A lot of African Americans don't even know he's African American.
Wow.
Now I'm really confused.
If he is African American based on how he's treated because of the way people see him, how in the name of Sam Hill can there be a whole lot of people who do not know he's African American?
Are they just listening to him on the radio?
Anyway, it's not me obsessed with race.
I'm simply reacting to what Obama's saying, what Jake Tapper's saying, we got this LA Times story, Obama not black enough.
And there have been several of these.
Now, the that the feeling of Obama not being black enough for black American leaders to warm up to is, according to this piece in the LA Times, because of the growing community of immigrant blacks in the U.S. who are not really African Americans in the way that black leaders prefer,
meaning that they aren't Americans, but they are immigrants, and they are immigrants that do not kowtow to black American prejudices and racial political demagoguery, causing black leaders to distrust them.
In other words, Obama's got a problem because he's not African American and therefore not part of the civil rights tradition and the slavery tradition.
He's from Africa.
He's a straight old immigrant.
Actually, it's total discrimination.
The African American leaders are can are discriminating against real Africans.
According to this guy writing in the Los Angeles Times.
Also, and here's another thing.
Stick with me on this.
Because the immigrants are often better educated or interested in being better educated than their native-born African American fellows.
They are also shunned.
Well, we know this to be true, you know, doing well on test scores.
Some people accuse, some blacks are accused of being too white.
Naturally, the author, Chude Soke completely avoids the fact that natural born African Americans are less educated and less interested in education, but the inference is clearly there if the reader is paying attention.
Listen to this.
From the column, a good proportion of immigrants tend to be better educated than African Americans.
They don't have the chip of racial resentment on their shoulder, and exhibit the classic immigrant optimism about assimilation into the mainstream culture.
Now, what can you imply, or what can you infer from reading this?
You can infer that African immigrants, better educated than African Americans.
They don't have the chip on their shoulder because they haven't been raised that way, with the so-called uh slavery tradition and uh and culture, and they come here and they're optimistic.
They've just arrived in America.
They want a better life.
Whereas African American leaders are telling their charges it ain't possible because there's racism in America.
And the only way you can get halfway where you want to go is through us.
And affirmative action.
That's why people like Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swan, and Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, are routinely scorched because they have made it without going through the prescriptions required by the uh African American leadership in this country.
And say, and Obama hasn't either, and this is the reason they are conflicted.
How in the world do you sit there and trash a Condoleezza Rice, a Ken Blackwell, a Michael Steele, uh a Clarence Thomas, and then give uh Obama a pass.
The only difference is he's a lib.
He's a good lib, but still not an African American.
And so now they're writing Times Zell A Times columns on is he black enough.
And they call us the racists.
They say we're the ones preoccupied with race.
And here they're having a hand-wringing session over whether Obama is black enough.
Now, this this writer Chude Soke.
He's a professor at UC Santa Cruz, so his perspective's a bit different than the average person.
His claim that whites exploit these differences is absurd in the general population, even as it might be true in the university setting.
They don't exploit these differences.
You know, the the the pardon the sniffles again.
Here's what he says.
Many whites, however, exploit these differences to magnify the problems of African Americans while avoiding charges of racism.
And because these differences often result in greater employment and more educational opportunities for immigrants and their descendants, they also feed tensions between native and immigrant blacks.
The bottom line here, even though this guy doesn't know he's saying it here, is that immigrant blacks, true African immigrants, posing a problem here.
And Obama is one of them.
Well, he's not a one of them.
He's a citizen, but I don't know if Obama did sell out if he would be called an Uncle Tom.
I don't know that I'm qualified to proclaim that or answer this.
Chude Soke makes another key mistake, common to the university set.
He assumes that black pathology is still all a fault of white people.
He says of immigrant blacks, quote, they also are less responsive to American racial traumas.
As if these traumas are ongoing and still integral to how blacks can fit into white society.
If this were true, then immigrants wouldn't find themselves in agreement with the so-called black leadership in America, who continually fan the flames of race hatred to justify their places of power.
This is exactly right.
So these African immigrants are less responsive to American racial traumas.
Of course, as we stated, these traumas must never end because there's a race business out there.
Just to remind you again, this is a column in the LA Times.
I am reacting to it.
Is Obama black enough?
Apparently, this is Warner Todd Houston concluding here, so blacks do not distrust Obama because he's an immigrant and therefore not black enough.
They distrust him, distrust him, because he's able and successful and smart and educated.
So that's what makes him not black enough.
It's hard to conclude otherwise when you start reading all this this this I'm I'm telling you folks, it is the American left, the drive-by media, who are obsessed with race and gender and everything else that defines us as different on the basis of appearance.
We'll be back in just a second.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry.
I I just have not had a chance to get their exciting lifestyle stack today.
Mr. Snerdley had to uh had to leave early to go get the car washed, and uh he would love this stuff, so I'm gonna save it till tomorrow.
But let me just remind you of of what's coming up in the lifestyle stack tomorrow, in addition to uh whatever else we learn.
Uh men hardwired to ignore their wives, according to latest study.
Why praise can be bad for kids?
Women are chokers.
This is in Slate.com, written by a man, Steve Landsberg.
Studies show that women cave under pressure.
Slate.com, a liberal publication.
Uh survey, sports may not build character.
SUV fatally strikes man in wheelchair.
Uh Minnesota lawmaker wants to tax facelifts and Botox injections.
New York City Councilman wants uh to put the amount of caffeine in everything you eat and drink on menus and labels in New York.
All of that plus more uh from the lifestyle stack coming up tomorrow.
And let's see what else.
Yeah, a couple other things too.
In the meantime, uh, let's uh let's go to Belinda in San Antonio.
I'm glad you waited, Belinda.
Welcome to the program.
Oh my god, Rush.
I wanted to talk to you for years.
You helped me get through college and everything else.
But I'm very uh emotional about this issue.
I'm Caucasian, my husband's African American, and you know what?
You cannot allow society to decide your race.
When you put your children into school, you check the box.
Black, white, whatever.
There is no box for biracial.
Wait, are you white?
I'm white, and my husband's black.
We've been married 25 years.
I have a son.
Okay, okay.
I mean, my kids are all very successful kids.
No, no, question.
When the kids went to school and checked off the box, what did they check?
Well, I had to decide white or black.
Well, what did you decide?
Well, I didn't.
I put other.
And they told me that I had to decide, and I said, I'm not deciding.
I said, I'm putting black or white.
You decide what you want.
So I think that they checked black.
They think they checked black.
Yes, I do.
Uh well, I mean, I look, I understand why that happens.
Uh, sure.
But you can't, you know, we can't bring it back to the body.
That's why it's why it would be it Well, it's why it would be interesting if one of your kids or something like Barack Obama actually said I'm white rather than black, just to see what what the reaction.
You can't be white.
Look at you.
That would be more instructive.
Uh, and and educational for people this country than anything else.
The but the idea that if you're half black or half white, you're automatically all black is uh, you know, that's what Obama's saying.
I'm I'm all black.
Well, that he uses that to his advantage.
You know, until this country gets real about race, and you know, I mean, you talk in realistic terms, but until everybody else in this country gets real about race, then we're not gonna have a real discussion, and people are not gonna be living a quote colorblind society.
Well, that's gonna be a long time in coming because there are many, many institutions, groups, organizations who have no desire for the racial problems that exist in this country uh to be lessened or even put behind us.
And they are the left wing uh civil rights groups who make money off of the race business.
Where would all Sharpton be without it?
Where would the uh Reverend Jacks be without it?
Be right back, ladies and gentlemen.
And it's been great being back, ladies and gentlemen.
Love this more than well, most things in life, most everything else in life, some things exceptional, but regardless, I'll be back and do it all over again tomorrow.