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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.
Okay.
You have to assure me, Mr. Snerdley, this is legit.
Okay.
Uh.
Uh.
Okay.
Uh.
Greetings and welcome back, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program uh it's in minor state of incredulity.
Uh uh telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, the email address rush at uh EIB net.com.
Uh 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 uh Chuck Schumer and uh consensus, a couple of the things on that.
This is Delbert in uh in Austin, Texas.
Delbert, thanks for the call.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Rush.
Good talking to you.
You bet, sir.
I I have a way how to explain to people how to use one sheet of toilet paper.
Delbert, uh, are you serious about this or you is this a joke?
No, I'm serious about it, and I've 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. Snerdley told me that we've been getting calls from people.
He said he's been in and he told me during the break that we've been inundated with people who say it can be done.
No, no, no, Rush shouldn't laugh about this.
It can be done.
So I was 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 um Ditto cam.
So let me grab the toilet paper.
You just pick off one sheet of it here, right?
That's correct.
All right, I've done that.
I got let me hold it up at one sheet, those of you watching on the ditto cam, there it is.
Now what do I do?
Uh okay, now take that sheet and you fold it in half.
Uh okay, it's perfect square, so it doesn't matter which half I fold.
Hang on, let me I'm gonna make I gotta get this perfect because I don't have much to work with here.
Okay.
Fold it in half.
Done.
Okay.
Wait a minute.
There's a little straggler here.
Here let me rip this off.
There we go.
Okay.
Now now um what's what's next?
Okay, you've got a rectangle now.
You fold that rectangle in half, and you've got a small square.
What oh, s fold the rectangle in half, not in the size of a rectangle, but a square.
Right.
All right.
Uh uh.
Done that.
Looks like it's about an inch and a half square out there, Delbert.
That that's correct.
All right, now I'm holding it up uh 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 the two halves, and you tear off that corner.
Well, it's two cor well, there's four corners.
Okay, the corner that was created that's actually four um the fold corner.
The folded corner, that's correct.
Okay, which one?
The run of the right or the left.
Uh it's gonna be the folded corner that uh there's two folded corners.
I gotta get this right.
There's one corner here, and there's one corner there.
And uh 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.
So, I want you to tear off the corner to where it would actually be a uh hole in the center of the toilet paper when you open it up.
Delbert, this is a joke.
No.
You you're gonna make me put a hole in this?
Yes.
Well, when you tear the corner, you're gonna be creating a hole.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh uh, I don't this doesn't look like it's gonna work.
I'll try it.
We have to go with it 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, see now this uh this is uh well by golly.
No, I've got I've got two half circles on the edge.
Here, let me grab another here.
We got all I got a whole roll here.
That's one done.
Uh 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 gonna get a corner.
The corner that would be the thickest corner where you've got all four corner.
That's what I'm saying.
I got two of the well, oh, the thickest we've got okay.
Oh, let me try.
Maybe I did I rip the wrong, maybe I ripped the wrong corner.
I think you ripped the wrong corner the first time.
Let's see here.
Uh see we're ha ha ha ha!
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.
It's created.
Delbert.
Now, do you see where I'm going?
Now and you you didn't throw away that little corner piece, did you?
Because you need to save that little corner piece.
No, it's it's right, it's right it's right here.
Okay.
You want me to unfold it?
No, you can you know keep the corner, the little corner piece.
You keep it folded up.
All right.
Okay, so you 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 it's a practical way of doing it.
What you're what you're gonna tell me is that toilet paper will never even be damaged, right?
That's correct.
Well, it will at the very end.
So you you Okay, well, I may as well.
All right.
Uh okay, so now you see where I'm going.
You've got your middle finger stuck through the toilet paper.
Yeah, but but I'm I'm not gonna hold it up so people can see that because they get the wrong idea.
Media batters people see that and it'll be all over.
Okay.
So then you use the guy got my finger through it there.
You can see this on the uh on the ditto cam uh right right there.
Okay.
Now you would uh uh see you would use your finger as if uh 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, um uh before before it before 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 gonna 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 that's how you would do it with one piece of toilet paper.
Now I'm I'm not for that at all, but that's that's the only way I can.
Wait a minute.
This you said, people this is you've been doing this for years, you said.
No, no, I said that that's how it that would be a practical way of doing it.
Oh, I oh, I so it is a joke.
You set me up.
I actually and you lied throughout the whole focus.
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.
Well, certainly, you are party to this because you knew this was a joke, and you knew I was gonna 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 video tape.
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, right?
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And we are back on the EIB network, Rush Lynn Boss serving humanity.
I think this is an appropriate time after going through that demonstration with Delbert to move on to the Harry Reed and uh uh.
Chuck Schumer.
Uh situation, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Chuck Schumer was on uh Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday uh and said, You you big guys misunderstood Harry Reid.
Hey, he he he Harry Reid thinks we can win.
Uh Wallace said, Senator Schumer, do you agree that the war in Iraq is lost?
And is that the consensus of Semit 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 gonna 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 they've they've This is an 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 when we all heard him say it.
It's lost, the president's not listening to us.
We can't win.
Uh 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 uh 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 it.
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 info, babe 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, uh, 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 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 infobib at AP.
Will you compromise?
Well, you 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 is 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, uh, many of them will say, no, no, no, that when you're talking about a consensus among scientists about something, you talk about a theory.
And global warming right now is this theory 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 uh you're gonna go to hell if you don't believe in Jesus Christ.
Well, what would their reaction be?
Well, you what do you mean?
Yeah, most theologians agree that that this is true.
Most practicing Catholics, Christians, and and uh Protestants believe if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you go to hell.
How would you like it if I kept 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 well, you would be outraged.
You wouldn't put up what if I said to you uh that George W. Bush had a landslide victory in 2004.
What do you mean, Lance?
Well, consensus of voters.
I mean, if consensus makes it all true, if he had a consensus, it means everybody finally agrees with him.
If 55% an election is is uh is a landslide and a 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 of any of them.
Have more stations, I got more listeners.
Uh you'll agree with me.
I'm 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 uh, you know, where hell is, uh you you change um any number of things, what you have to have faith in, but it's all it's a religion.
Right, right down the right down the uh right down the line.
Here is Barry in Hazel Green, Alabama.
Nice to have you, Barry.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, there's good to hear you from you.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, you the earlier call about the toilet uh paper uh square is in fact to the best of my knowledge true.
Uh my dad was in World War II, and uh he told me when I was about eight years old that uh in the foxholes at the front line had no other choice, and they didn't issue them a roll of toilet paper, they issued them a package of squares like that.
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm getting all kinds of uh notes from people who say it uh in the military it is taught it's uh it's legitimate.
My look at I I don't want to take this any further.
I already got tricked once.
Nerdley's gonna get docked a thousand dollars in his next bonus.
Uh I'd never heard of this.
You know, I've called quick 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 gonna 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 Sheryl Crow.
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, anyway.
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 e 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 uh as a mother of a son who's in Iraq.
I wondered where the outcry of the public was uh when Harry Reid said what he did, and yet they had such an outpouring of love and and everything for the boys and girls who are killed at the college.
And where are the people?
Why aren't they why aren't they outraged and and doing something?
Uh about about dingy Harry?
Yeah.
Well, I don't think a whole lot was made of it in the uh in the drives-by media.
But I I also think the people that would do something about it, what are they gonna do?
People like us don't go protest.
Well, what about calling our representatives and and and really putting forth an effort to to do something?
Well, they're not gonna do anything about it.
I mean uh you you're talking about Republicans, right?
Well, I'm talking about that's for sure.
Yeah.
But I just uh I know my son is there, and to hear something like this is so degrading to our military.
I can imagine.
It what when I heard it last week, I I I um what do you think that your your husband your your your son is there, you said.
Yes.
What do you think it how to fix them all?
I mean, uh 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, uh uh I just here they are, they're putting their lives on the line for these very people.
Well, you 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 a civil war, this is treason.
You get you 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, it's doing what she did, and this guy doing this, and it's just all outrageous.
I want you to 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 that.
You are not alone.
Now the media is not gonna 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 Reed.
You have to the media is uh as agenda driven as any other political group is.
You know, they they 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 uh and all this sort of stuff.
They've chosen sides, it's obvious.
The vast majority of them in the drive-by's, and it's it's uh uh they're they're they're moving forward a specific agenda, and that is an agenda to uh to advance Democrats, pure and simple.
I mean, all of a sudden the news today, there's a story as is illegal immigration, uh, 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's may present problems for Democrats.
Oh, if it's gonna 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.
Uh so a couple four-day weeks coming up.
Paul W. Smith from uh WJR Detroit will be here tomorrow.
And uh who's is it Mark Belling next Monday?
It'll be yeah, I think it is.
Yes, on the 30th, it'll be Mark Belling.
Uh just wanted to remind, because it uh if if you don't know this and you tune in and you I'm not here, some people slit the wrist time, and I want to prevent that as much as uh as possible.
Uh 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 quest uh 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 who gets the right to do that?
I mean, I think Alex Bowl's a nut case.
Should he not have a gun?
I mean, who who gets to say this?
So Obama says stopped 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 and 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 uh eight, 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 uh, you know, million-dollar lawsuits, the tyranny of the ACLU, uh, 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's 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 how 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 uh 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 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.
The lawmaker, no, it's the guns.
It's it's it's, you know, speaking of guns, I don't know if you people saw this over the weekend, but here's a story.
Uh uh if this happened in uh I can't remember the 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 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 nine millimeter 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 OK Corral 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 on, and I'm sure most college campaign have gun-free zones and so forth.
Mrs. Bill Clinton says that she wants her husband to be roving ambassador.
Said that if she is 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 to 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.
I uh you know, but but here's here's the thing.
He has gone around the world.
He's he's how much money's he brought back brought back from Dubai, for instance.
During the 2004 presidential race and the year before, he and John Carr, a bunch of people were all over Europe trashing this country.
Agreeing with the notion that our international reputation's gone to hell.
International reputation's 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 uh uh 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.
Uh Hillary just wants him out of the Oval Office.
He just wants him out of the White House.
She didn't want to be humiliated again.
You know, if everybody knows what he's gonna do.
Let him do it over there where they're covered up.
Nobody'll uh 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.
Negan 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.
Uh 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's dirty now, wait till Cheryl Crow gets her way with the one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit policy.
Uh I am a former resident of Manhattan, and I still have a part-time residence there, and as you people know, and I will be, we'll be doing the program From uh from New York on Wednesday after the super secret meeting about which I can divulge nothing.
Tomorrow I have to uh I have to fly on to New York on Tuesday night.
We'll be doing from the EIB building up there.
Uh 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 that uh 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 eight dollar 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.
The 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 gonna do it.
The proposal that's sure to 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 gonna 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 gonna become a it's gonna 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, but you've got to pay to get in there.
Uh 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.
Uh I think the 59th Street Bridge is still um.
Those three, yeah, 59th Street, the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge, right?
Uh BMW.
Uh though those uh those all have the uh you get in there for but those are already bottlenecked.
And not because of that, they just they just are.
You pay also you people know this that have driven in there, you you put your car in a parking garage.
And the tax, if you if you if you the best way to do that's get a space by the month, but the 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.
Trust me.
If you drive into Manhattan or fly into Manhattan, stay at a hotel, you pay a whopping hotel tax.
So what's one more?
What's one more tax?
Eight dollars to get in there south of 86th Street.
Um I wonder if they're gonna institute these tolls on those three bridges.
Uh uh uh we got a Williams Williamsburg, uh the uh what is it, 59th, Brooklyn, and uh Manhattan.
What about the Williamsburg Bridge?
Yeah Right, Williamsburg comes in for Brooklyn, but it's toll-free.
It's so 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 uh Bloomberg in Manhattan, this eight dollar 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.
Uh and my question was, what what is it is eight bucks 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.
Eight dollars every time you go in there to work and you go in at a lower 86, then you do it to lower the 86 and during peak hours you've got to that's five days if you go in, that's 40 bucks.
That's that that is a significant amount of money.
We we could see the creation here in the free market's the free market, urban coyotes, people willing to smuggle people into Manhattan.
Giant vans with New York City uh workers from outside the city going in there, uh outside of Manhattan to go in there.
Uh it could be a lucrative, lucrative business.
You charge everybody just a couple bucks.
Your van gets charged eight.
Now uh this would lead, of course, if the coyote is discovered with a van load of people.
It's gonna 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 gonna see a we're gonna see a little microcosm there of uh of illegal immigration.
The way uh people are gonna have to get into Manhattan.
This some people's gonna stretch them to the point they're not gonna be able to do it.
Here is Patrick in uh 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 Reed's remark.
I'm wondering if there's a way to look at this as a good strategy as a 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 Reed and Pelosian liberals make it appear to the terrorists that they are dividing us, the longer they're going to wait us out.
What that's what a w who the terrorists gonna wait us out for what?
Well, I think that they're w they're 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 are.
But they're they're waiting for two thousand eight 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 are 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 gonna be dropped by their base.
You got folks.
Oh, this is distressing to me.
Patrick, how long you been listening to this program?
I've been listening since uh 1993.
Oh.
I'm gonna 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 I would not give Liberals this much credit for any kind of thought.
I think that perhaps the GOP or I don't know, even go far to the biggest thing.
No, don't say JF.
No, no, no.
Don't say yeah, say White House.
If the White House, for your theory, this could not be party wide, GOP wide.
No, no, no.
No, 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 gonna go right back to that day and and on 912.
I mean, just think if they did.
If a bomb went off in New York, they don't know that.
They don't think this, especially if a Democrats in the White House, there's no way they're going to think that.
Uh I I don't think I don't think Bush is this uh f has this much guile.
Uh I I I look at I as I say, I appreciate the thought.
Uh they want the money.
They they want to take it to them.
This is this is this is not about letting the Democrats hang themselves and at the expense of the military and uh and all that.
Military is being denied funds here.
Uh that's that's not Bush.
Quickly, Janelle in uh Southwest Washington State.
Nice to have you got thirty seconds, but I wanted to get to you.
Thank you, Rush.
Nice to talk to you today.
I just wanted to bring up the fact that I think so many Americans is 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 uh out of every one hundred Americans that we were able to get the book to, uh, at least forty-five of them would think that George Bush and Carl Rove wrote it.
Even though the byline says bin Laden.
I'll tell you it's been a blast, folks.
We flushed everything, came before us today and got rid of it.
Paul W. Smith tomorrow 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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