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April 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Really?
And it's legit?
You have to assure me, Mr. Sturdley, this is legit.
Okay. Okay.
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We have a phone call.
I want to grab a phone call before we get into the monologue segment of this hour, which deals with Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and consensus, a couple of the things on that.
This is Delbert in Austin, Texas.
Delbert, thanks for the call.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Good talking to you.
You bet, sir.
I have a way how to explain to people how to use one sheet of toilet paper.
Delbert, are you serious about this or is this a joke?
No, I'm serious about it, and I've been taught this, how to save toilet paper all my life, and I will do this just as tastefully as possible.
All right.
Well, Delbert, I was...
Mr. Snardley told me that we've been getting calls from people.
He said he's been inundated.
He told me during the break that we've been inundated with people who say it can be done.
No, no, no, no.
Rush shouldn't laugh about this.
It can be done.
So I went in, I got a new roll of toilet paper from the bathroom, and I was going to do a demo here for people on the Ditto Cam.
So let me grab the toilet paper.
Just pick off one sheet of it here, right?
That's correct.
All right, I've done that.
Let me hold it up, but one sheet, those of you watching on the ditto cam, there it is.
Now, what do I do?
Okay, now take that sheet and you fold it in half.
Okay, it's perfect square, so it doesn't matter which half I fold.
Hang on, let me, I'm going to make, I got to get this perfect because I don't have much to work with here.
Okay.
Okay.
Fold it in half.
Done.
Okay.
Wait, there's a little straggler here.
Hang on, let this off.
There we go.
Okay.
Now, now, what's next?
Okay, you've got a rectangle.
Now, you fold that rectangle in half, and you've got a small square.
Oh, fold the rectangle in half, not in the size of a rectangle, but a square.
Right.
All right.
Done that.
Looks like it's about an inch and a half square out there, Delbert.
That's correct.
All right, now I'm holding it up for people watching on the Ditto Cam.
This is where we are so far in the demo on this.
Okay, Delbert, keep going.
Okay, now you take the corner that was created by folding the two halves, and you tear off that corner.
Well, there's four corners.
Okay, the corner that was created that's actually for the folded corner, that's correct.
Okay, which one?
The run on the right or the left?
It's going to be the folded corner.
There's two folded corners.
I got to get this right.
There's one corner here, and there's one corner there.
And I'm looking at this.
The left corner is the left corner.
If I flip it around, and the right corner becomes the left corner.
Okay, I want you to tear off the corner to where it would actually be a hole in the center of the toilet paper when you open it up.
Delbert, this is a joke.
No.
You're going to make me put a hole in this?
Yes.
Well, when you tear the corner, you're going to be creating a hole.
Okay.
This doesn't look like it's going to work.
I'll try it.
We have to go up in a second then because this.
Okay, I've done that, Delbert.
Okay, now you open the thing back up, and you've got a hole right in the center of the toilet paper.
Well, let's see, now this is, well, by golly.
No, I've got two half circles on the edge.
Here, let me grab another.
Here, I got a whole roll here.
That's one done.
Okay, let me fold it in half.
Yes.
Fold it in half and then fold it again.
I don't see where the hell to rip a corner here that's going to get in the corner.
The corner that would be the thickest corner where you've got all four corners.
That's what I'm saying.
I got two of the.
Well, oh, the thickest.
Okay.
Okay, let me try.
Did I rip the wrong corner?
Maybe I ripped the wrong corner corner.
I think you ripped the wrong corner the first time.
see here uh see we're ah All right, there we go, Delbert.
Well, that looks just big enough for my finger.
That's why I ask, is this a joke?
No, that's exactly what we want.
Now, you open the thing back up.
It's open.
Okay, now you stick your finger through that hole that's created.
Delbert.
Now, do you see where I'm going?
And you didn't throw away that little corner piece, did you?
Because you need to save that little corner piece.
No, it's right here.
Okay.
You want me to unfold it?
No, you know keep the corner, the little corner piece.
You keep it folded up.
All right.
Okay, so now you've got your finger sticking through that toilet paper.
Which Delbert, which finger?
Well, I would probably think the middle finger.
I think I've been set up here.
This is a joke, right?
You've been lying to me this whole call.
Well, it's a practical way of doing it.
What you're going to tell me is the toilet paper will never even be damaged, right?
That's correct.
Well, it will at the very end.
Okay, well, I may as well.
All right.
Okay, so now you see where I'm going.
You've got your middle finger stuck through the toilet paper.
Yeah, but I'm not going to hold it up so people can see that because they get the wrong idea.
Media batters people see that and be all over.
Okay.
So then you use.
Yeah, I got my finger through it.
You can see this on the Ditto Cam right there.
Okay.
Okay, now you would, let's see, you would use your finger as if it was toilet paper.
And you use the toilet paper that's around your finger to clean your finger off.
Well, why don't I just put that back on the fingertip, Delbert, before I do this?
No, no, because we're saving that other piece.
You remember that other little piece of corner that you saved?
Yeah.
Okay, you're going to use that to clean out from underneath your fingernail after you're finished.
Okay, I see.
So this is how it's done, huh?
That's how you would do it with one piece of toilet paper.
Now, I'm not for that at all, but that's the only way I can.
Wait a minute.
You said, people, you've been doing this for years, you said.
No, no, I said that that's how that would be a practical way of doing it.
So it is a joke.
You set me up.
And you lied throughout the whole phone.
I thought you were genuinely trying to help out here.
Well, I am.
So that's how it's done.
All right, Delbert.
I want to thank you so much for contributing to the refined and dignified nature of the program today.
Certainly, you are party to this because you knew this was a joke and you knew I was going to put the toilet paper to do a demo.
And you knew that if you could get a call like this, that I would go through this thinking that I got a wacko who was serious.
And Delbert's not a wacko.
He is trying to show these people away.
I have been totally set up, Delbert, by you and my own call screener.
And it's now on videotape.
What a fool I made of myself here.
All right.
Well, thanks, Rush.
It's a pleasure talking to you.
I'm sure it made your day.
We'll be back in just a second.
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I think this is an appropriate time after going through that demonstration with Delbert to move on to the Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer situation, ladies and gentlemen.
Chuck Schumer was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday and said, you guys misunderstood Harry Reid.
Harry Reid thinks we can win.
Wallace said, Senator Schumer, do you agree that the war in Iraq is lost?
And is that the consensus of Senate Democrats?
Okay, well, what Harry Reid is saying is this war is lost.
In other words, a war where we mainly spend our time policing a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis, we are not going to solve that problem.
The war is not lost, and Harry Reid believes this.
We Democrats believe it.
If we change our mission and focus it more narrowly on counterterrorism, going after an al-Qaeda camp that might arise in Iraq, that would take many fewer troops out of harm's way.
That's what we're pushing the president to do.
That is absolute BS.
These guys want the troops to come home.
This is an emergency circling of the wagons to try to convince the American people that Dingy Harry Benedict Arnold Reed didn't say what he said, but we all heard him say it.
It's lost.
The president's not listening to us.
We can't win.
They're not talking about a different kind of war.
They're talking about no war.
There's not a different kind of war movement.
It's the anti-war movement.
The anti-war movement is headquartered in the Democrat Party.
So Wallace says, Senator Reed said this.
We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.
And you said you look at the polling numbers of Republican senators.
The war in Iraq's a lead weight attached to their ankles.
Senator, is it appropriate to talk about political advantage?
Is it appropriate to talk about polling numbers when you're discussing a war?
There is nothing wrong when the American people signaled on November 6th that they wanted a change in course to work hard for that course.
Will those who continue to follow the president suffer political consequences?
Of course.
That's as plain as the nose on your face.
Well, that's not if we win.
Not if the surge is successful.
They don't think it's possible.
In fact, Schumer as much as said what Harry Reid said.
We can't win this.
He's out there saying they both think we can.
Classic, folks.
Literally classic.
Here's the president.
We go back to Sound by 13.
This is the President Oval Office meeting today with General Petraeus and an Associated Press Infobabe said, Mr. President, Senator Reed says you're in denial about Iraq and that Congress is going to pass a bill that includes a fair and reasonable timetable for withdrawal.
Could you compromise?
Could you accept anything that looks like that at all?
Politicians in Washington shouldn't be telling generals how to do their job.
And I believe artificial timetables of withdrawal would be a mistake.
A artificial timetable of withdrawal would say to an enemy, just wait them out.
It would say to the Iraqis, don't do hard things necessary to achieve our objectives, and it would be discouraging for our troops.
And therefore, I will strongly reject an artificial timetable withdrawal and or Washington politicians are trying to tell those who wear the uniform how to do their job.
He's not backing down.
He's essentially saying that the question was from the Infobabe at AP, will you compromise?
Can't you find a way to compromise?
How do you compromise between victory and defeat?
As I so eloquently and presciently asked last week, how do you compromise between victory and defeat?
Now, we also heard in Chris Wallace's question, Senator Schumer, do you agree the war in Iraq is lost?
Is that the consensus of Senate Democrats?
We had a call about a half hour ago from John in St. Louis who said that there can be consensus in science.
And of course, scientists, many of them will know that when you're talking about a consensus among scientists about something, you're talking about theory.
And global warming right now is this theory.
It is not even that.
It's a religious movement, and its defenders require the fundamental element that all religions require in order to believe it, and that's faith.
They just call their faith consensus.
What if I were to say to all of you leftists, hey, look, you know, there's a consensus around the world, Catholics, Christians, Protestants, that you're going to go to hell if you don't believe in Jesus Christ?
What would their reaction be?
Well, you, what do you mean?
Yeah, most theologians agree that this is true.
Most practicing Catholics, Christians, and Protestants believe.
If you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you go to hell.
How would you like it if I told you you've got to start changing your life and live the life of a good Christian because the consensus of people think it?
What if I told you that?
Your reaction would you be outraged.
You wouldn't put up.
What if I said to you that George W. Bush had a landslide victory in 2004?
What do you mean, Lancelot?
Well, consensus of voters.
I mean, if consensus makes it all true, he had a consensus.
It means everybody finally agrees with him.
If 55% of an election is a landslide into consensus, why then you Democrats have nothing to disagree with?
We've all agreed Bush should be president.
You see how silly this is.
This is why I say a consensus of the American people have made me the most accurate and correct media figure in America today.
I have the largest audience, if any of them.
I have more stations.
I got more listeners.
They'll agree with me.
What I say is right.
You have to accept it, or you're a rush denier.
The same thing in global warming.
It's no different.
It's just you change the nature of the sin.
You change what the Garden of Eden is.
You change where hell is.
You change any number of things, what you have to have faith in.
It's a religion.
Right down the line.
Here is Barry in Hazel Green, Alabama.
Nice to have you, Barry.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello there, Rush.
Good to hear it, brother.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, the earlier call about the toilet paper square is in fact, to the best of my knowledge, true.
My dad was in World War II, and he told me when I was about eight years old that in the foxholes at the front line, he had no other choice, and they didn't issue him a roll of toilet paper.
They issued him a package of squares like that.
Yeah, I'm getting all kinds of notes from people who say it.
In the military, it is taught.
It's legitimate.
Look, I don't want to take this any further.
I already got tricked once.
Snurdley's going to get docked $1,000 in his next bonus.
I've never heard of this.
Call me naive.
This is something about which I'll be happy to be naive.
But I only got one question after going through this demo.
Why do you need the toilet paper?
If you're going to use that technique, pure and simple.
This is absurd.
But I do want to make this pledge, and I want to make it now publicly so that all can hear me.
And I make this pledge, this offer, if you will, to Lori David and Cheryl Crowe.
I will promise to underwrite the rest of your global warming bus tour so long as every appearance, every television show, every concert, every public appearance, you continue to advocate the single square of toilet paper solution to global warming.
And if you will do that, I'll make sure you are heard by more people than your bus tour will even take you to.
And I will underwrite it to make that happen.
I think you need to be heard on this.
More and more Americans need to hear your solutions to global warming, including the single-square toilet paper issue.
Panna, Illinois.
Sharon, thank you for calling.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, Brush.
I just wanted to, as the mother of a son who's in Iraq, I wondered where the outcry of the public was when Harry Reid said what he did, and yet they had such an outpouring of love and everything for the boys and girls who were killed at the college.
And where are the people?
Why aren't they outraged and doing something?
About Denji Harry?
Yeah.
Well, I don't think a whole lot was made of it in the drive-by media.
But I also think the people that would do something about it, what are they going to do?
People like us don't go protest.
Well, what about calling our representatives and really putting forth an effort to do something?
Well, they're not going to do anything about it.
You're talking about Republicans, right?
Well, I'm talking about...
Right.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
But I just, I know my son is there, and to hear something like this is so degrading to our military.
I can imagine.
When I heard it last week, I. What do you think?
Your husband, your son is there, you said.
Yes.
What do you think?
How do it fix them all?
I mean, to hear the Senate majority leader tell them they can't win.
Well, I can't imagine, I can't imagine them laying their lives down for people like that.
And then, you know, I just, here they are.
They're putting their lives on the line for these very people.
Well, that's right, because they're putting their lives on the line for everybody.
It's called freedom.
Right.
And we have the freedom to be stupid and silly.
In this case, it wasn't, you know, you put this back in the Civil War.
This is treason.
You've got a president like Abraham Lincoln dealing with this in a different time in this country.
Well, maybe we better go back to that.
Well, we said, he's doing what she did, and this guy's doing this, and it's just all outrageous.
I want you to take comfort in one thing, and that is I can't tell you how many emails I've got from people who are livid about this.
You are not alone.
Now, the media is not going to go out and interview people and ask them what they think of this.
And if they do, it'll be the people that agree with Harry Reid.
The media is as agenda-driven as any other political group is.
You know, they live this delusion that they're above the fray.
They're above all of this, and they're simply the guarantors of the Constitution and all this sort of stuff.
They've chosen sides.
It's obvious, the vast majority of them in the drive-bys.
And they're moving forward a specific agenda, and that is an agenda to advance Democrats, pure and simple.
I mean, all of a sudden in the news today, there's a story is illegal immigration, the sleeping giant issue, 2008.
What do you mean, sleeping giant issue?
People like me have been warning about this for two years, but there's a story in a Washington newspaper today about how it may present problems for Democrats.
Oh, if it's going to present problems for Democrats, and the drive-bys have to get on it and fix it.
And that's how this all works.
All right, a little programming note here, ladies and gentlemen.
I will be out tomorrow.
I will not be behind a golden EIB microphone tomorrow.
I have a big-time super-secret meetings about which I can not divulge a thing.
And I have another one on Monday.
So a couple four-day weeks coming up.
Paul W. Smith from WJR Detroit will be here tomorrow.
And who's it Mark Belling next Monday?
It'll be, yeah, I think it is.
Yes, on the 30th, it'll be Mark Belling.
Just wanted to remind, because if you don't know this and you tune in and I'm not here, some people slit the wrist time, and I want to prevent that as much as possible.
I know it's devastating, but these things come up.
Barack Obama, Democrat presidential candidate, said Thursday last week that laws should be strengthened to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns.
Well, that leads me to a question, Barack.
Who is to say who is mentally ill?
Isn't that discriminatory?
How discriminatory can we get to sit there and say you're mentally ill, you're mentally ill?
Who gets the right to do that?
I mean, I think Alec Bowl, but Alex Bowling's a nutcase.
Should he not have a gun?
I mean, who gets to say this?
So Obama says, stop the mentally ill from buying guns.
But my question is, and especially based on where we've been on this show today, are we moving into a preparation H society?
Because the Virginia Tech episode shows that everybody's trying to protect their rear end.
You've got the administration down there blaming the law.
You have the lawmakers are blaming the guns, rather than looking at the real problems here.
The real problems are the excesses of trial lawyers, million-dollar lawsuits, the tyranny of the ACLU in political correctness, the ineptness of bureaucracies to actually function.
There's where the problem on these situations really lies.
If you want to go beyond, hey, this guy was just pure evil.
He was not right.
Single episode nutcase, what have you.
But in addition to this list of real problems that I gave you, the excess of million-dollar lawsuits, the tyranny of the ACLU, the ineptness of bureaucracies, we have the double speak of liberals.
And Obama just epitomized it.
We can't allow gun sales to crazy people.
He says, stop mentally ill from buying guns.
Well, okay, great.
I'm all for it.
Except we can't reveal who's crazy.
We can't reveal who's mentally ill because it's discrimination to say somebody is mentally ill.
We couldn't even keep homeless people who can't take care of themselves in places where they were being cared for because they didn't know they were being incarcerated as a violation of their rights.
I had to set them free.
Now, if this isn't one of the great catch-22s of all time, I don't know what it is.
We can't allow gun sales to crazy people, and we can't reveal who's crazy.
Any wonder they want the easy way out?
A bumper sticker, a talking point, a fundraiser?
Are you as amazed as I am they could kick kids out of Duke University for nothing other than an accusation that fit a template?
But they couldn't remove a ticking time bomb from Virginia Tech.
You kick these three kids out of Duke, you fire the coach, but you can't get rid of a ticking time bomb on any university today because everybody's got PrEP H disease.
They're covering their rear.
Well, it's the laws.
No, it's the guns.
It's, you know, speaking of guns, I don't know if a few people saw this over the weekend, but here's a story.
Where this happened in, well, I can't remember this.
I didn't print out the details.
I just printed out the links.
Miss America 1944.
You hear about this?
Miss America 1944 stopped a robbery by shooting out the tires of the getaway car and then held the robbers at her house at gunpoint while she called a sheriff.
What was the great equalizer here?
Her gun.
An Oakland, California pizzeria owner stopped a robbery.
Armed with a pistol, joined by two other men, Hicks tried to rob Piedra inside the popular pizzeria at 89th Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland.
Fearful the assailants might hurt him, his wife and his three children, all of whom were inside the restaurant, he pulled out his 9mm semi-automatic pistol and opened fire.
Killed Hicks was the lead criminal.
Now, the liberals have written about these two stories.
These two stories are detailed on, I think, a UK Times story or some UK paper.
And they start out with these stories as though they were indictments of America as we've lost it.
It's the okay chorale out there.
With guns being used to defend people who are being robbed, attempted robbery, maybe even murdered, attempted murder.
This is not what was present.
And I'm sure most college campi have gun-free zones and so forth.
Mrs. Bill Clinton says that she wants her husband to be roving ambassador.
Said that if she's elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad.
I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton.
Really?
Really?
And she also went on and say, I'm very lucky my husband's been so experienced in all these areas of roaming.
I've been calling him Rover, Roamer, for years.
But here's the thing.
He has gone around the world.
How much money has he brought back from Dubai, for instance?
During the 2004 presidential race and the year before, he and John Kerr, a bunch of people were all over Europe trashing this country, agreeing with the notion that our international reputation has gone to hell.
International reputation is in shreds.
And who is it that's criticizing the country?
It's not George W. Bush.
These guys.
It's Bill Clinton, primarily Clinton, running around any socialist or liberal audience he could find.
He would delve right in and rip this country.
He would go to Dubai and talk to Arab students and rip this country to shreds and come back and talk to some students in New York and say something just the opposite.
He wouldn't tell domestic audiences what he was telling his foreign audiences.
Hillary just wants him out of the Oval Office.
Just wants him out of the White House.
She didn't want to be humiliated again.
You know, everybody knows what he's going to do.
Let him do it over there where they're covered up.
Nobody will hear about it.
New Orleans Mayor School Bus Ray Nagan criticized the cleanliness of Philadelphia after a visit to the city last week.
He said, let me tell you something.
You ought to go to Philly, and you'll appreciate how clean New Orleans is.
Nagan said this Saturday to a crowd of New Orleans residents concerned about the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Fact is, he's apologized now.
He apologized on Sunday for these remarks.
He said he thought he was in Philadelphia.
He was in Camden, New Jersey.
I'm just kidding about this.
I'm just kidding about Camden, New Jersey.
He did apologize, but I'll tell you what, Mayor Nagan, if you think Philadelphia is dirty now, wait till Cheryl Crowe gets her way with the one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit policy.
I am a former resident of Manhattan, and I still have a part-time residence there.
And as you people know, I will be, we'll be doing the program from New York on Wednesday after the super secret meeting about which I can divulge nothing.
Tomorrow I have to fly on to New York on Tuesday night.
We'll be doing from the EIB building up there.
There's a special note to me here saying he would not spend his final term in office pretending that all is fine.
The new mayor, the mayor there, Michael Bloomberg, made a series of Earth Day proposals to improve the environment of New York City, including charging a new congestion fee to drivers who come into parts of Manhattan during peak working days or peak hours during work days.
The $8 congestion fee was one of 127 initiatives included in a sweeping plan by the mayor to help Manhattan cope with an expected surge in population that he said is sure to put a strain on its transportation, housing, and energy systems.
A key objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
Well, I know they've been floating a plan for 20 years, but now they got somebody that's going to do it.
The proposal that should attract the most attention, possibly objection, is one to impose the $8 fee on car drivers, $21 for truck drivers, to drive into Manhattan south of 86.
Well, that's all the tunnels and the 59th Street Bridge.
The only way you're exempt here is coming in through the Bronx, coming in through Harlem or the George Washington Bridge.
Well, guess what's going to happen to those arteries?
I happen to use the George Washington Bridge after I go into my private airport up there.
I use the George.
This place is going to become, it's going to become a toilet.
Now, in Manhattan, you already pay a fee for driving in there.
They let you out for nothing.
Yeah, when you leave, they're happy to wave goodbye to you.
You don't have to charge to leave it.
You've got to pay to get in there on almost all the bridges and the tunnels.
And they call that, for those of you that may be young, they call that a toll.
I think the 59th Street Bridge is still three.
Yeah, 59th Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Manhattan Bridge, right?
BMW.
Those all have the, you get in there, those are already bottlenecked.
And not because of that.
They just are.
You pay also.
You people know this that have driven in there.
You put your car in a parking garage.
And the tax, the best way to do that is get a space by the month, but the parking tax, if you leave your car on the street and you get towed, you pay a huge fine to go get your car if you can find it.
If you drive into Manhattan for the purpose of working, you pay a state income tax.
Hell, if you fly into Manhattan to work, you pay a state and city income tax, even if you don't live there.
Trust me on this, folks.
Oh, trust me.
If you drive into Manhattan or fly into Manhattan and stay at a hotel, you pay a whopping hotel tax.
So what's one more?
What's one more tax?
$8 to get in there south of 86th Street.
I wonder if they're going to institute these tolls on those three bridges.
We got Williamsburg, what is it?
59th, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
What about the Williamsburg Bridge?
Right.
Williamsburg comes in for Brooklyn, but it's toll-free.
So there's four.
Wait a little, not for long, like they say in the NFL.
All right.
Brief timeout back after this.
Stay with us.
By the way, folks, this proposal of Mayor Bloomberg in Manhattan, this $8 entry fee below 86th Street, that's on top of the tolls that you already would pay to go through the tunnels and the bridges.
And my question was, what is it?
$8 plus all the tolls to get into Manhattan.
What is it that illegal aliens pay to get into the country?
And of course, the reflexive answer is zero.
They pay nothing.
But that's not true in every case.
In some cases, the illegal immigrants have to pay the coyote, the smuggler, to get them in.
Let me tell you something.
$8 every time you go in there to work and you go in at a lower 86th, then you do it lower than 86.
And during peak hours, that's five days if you go in.
That's 40 bucks.
That is a significant amount of money.
We could see the creation here.
The free market's the free market.
Urban coyotes, people willing to smuggle people into Manhattan.
Giant vans.
With New York City workers from outside the city going in there outside of Manhattan to go in there.
It could be a lucrative, lucrative business.
You charge everybody just a couple bucks.
Your van gets charged eight.
Now, this would lead, of course, if the coyote is discovered with a van load of people.
It's going to be eight bucks a person if they figure this out.
The city will find a way around this.
And then, of course, the coyotes will have to find a loophole around the new rule.
But we're going to see a little microcosm there of illegal immigration, the way people are going to have to get into Manhattan.
Some people are going to stretch her to the point.
They're not going to be able to do it.
Here is Patrick in Howell, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor and a privilege.
Thank you, sir.
I'm calling with regards to Harry Reid's remark.
I'm wondering if there's a way to look at this as a good strategy, as a chess move of sorts.
The longer that Reed and Pelosi and the liberals make it appear to the terrorists that they're dividing us, the longer that they're going to wait us out, which means the longer that we're there and maintain a presence, and the surge can begin to work.
It's a great gambit, to use the chess term.
I'm not sure I understand.
The longer that Reid and Pelosi and liberals make it appear to the terrorists that they are dividing us, the longer they're going to wait us out.
The terrorists going to wait us out for what?
Well, I think that they believe they're wearing down our resolve.
I think they're probably looking, watching the news, and they're thinking, we're winning.
I mean, I think the terrorists...
I'm sure they think they're winning, but they're waiting for 2008 for a Democrat president.
That's what...
You know, I appreciate the thinking.
I appreciate the theory.
I love thinking people calling this program, but I've got to step in here.
I want, Patrick, hear me on this.
These are liberals that you were talking about, Harry Reid and all these Democrats, Pelosi.
They don't want to win.
Patrick, this isn't.
Do you realize if they are credited with the victory, they're going to be dropped by their base?
You got folks.
Oh, this is distressing to me.
Patrick, how long have you been listening to this program?
I've been listening since 1993.
I'm going to speak in person next Thursday.
I listen to you all the time.
I'm not saying the liberals thought of this themselves.
I'm thinking is the White House allowing them to prolong this idiocy.
I would not give liberals this much credit for any kind of thought.
I think that perhaps the GOP or I don't even go far to say that.
No, don't say GFN.
No, no, no, no.
Don't say GF.
Say White House.
If the White House, for your theory, this could not be party-wide, GOP-wide.
No, I'm not saying that either.
I think just the White House, just Bush, maybe just Rumsfeld, saying, let them think, let the terrorists wait us out because we haven't been attacked since 9-11.
They know if they attack us, we're going to go right back to that day on 9-12.
They don't.
The country was unified.
I mean, just think if they did.
If a bomb went off in New York.
They don't know that.
They don't think that, especially if a Democrat's in the White House, there's no way they're going to think that.
I don't think Bush has this much guile.
As I say, I appreciate the thought.
They want the money.
They want to take it to him.
This is not about letting the Democrats hang themselves at the expense of the military and all that.
The military is being denied funds here.
That's not Bush.
Quickly, Janelle in southwest Washington State.
Nice to have you.
You got 30 seconds, but I wanted to get to you.
Thank you, Rush.
To talk to you today.
I just wanted to bring up the fact that I think so many Americans are so uninformed.
And there's a wonderful little book, or very interesting, not wonderful, but interesting, Messages to the World, Osama bin Laden.
And if I had my way about it, I would require every American to read this to thoroughly understand why we're in this fight.
That's a great suggestion.
My only fear is that out of every 100 Americans that we were able to get the book to, at least 45 of them would think that George Bush and Karl Rove wrote it.
Even though the byline says bin Laden.
I tell you, it's been a blast, folks.
We flushed everything that came before us today and got rid of it.
Paul W. Smith tomorrow.
I have a super secret meeting about which nothing I can divulge.
But I'll be back Wednesday from the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan, sneaking in there before they raise the entry fee to eight big bucks.
See you then, folks.
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