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May 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Now, let me get into another issue because it is topic one out here, and that is the May Day open border protest rally, which in LA and Chicago, a lot of other places last year was hundreds of thousands of people, was 10,000, 20,000 people out here in L.A., a couple hundred down here in San Diego.
Not a big deal.
Until, and again, I'll tie this back to our earlier theme about the fury of the left.
Until a few dozen of the radical activists decided to confront the police to make their point in MacArthur Park.
MacArthur Park is in one of the most dangerous areas of Los Angeles.
It is an area in which you can buy a new identity just a matter of how many dollars you have, a social security card, a green card, what have you.
Oh, the other big, let me interrupt myself.
The other big news, I'm just watching this now on the Fox screen.
The other big news out of California, of course, is that the tanker truck that blew up in the Bay Bridge in Northern California, San Francisco area, the tanker truck blew up and melted a part of the freeway.
If you saw the asphalt all kind of flowing down, it melted the steel that was encased in concrete on the and for and forever, I hope, I mean, get this in your head, forever, did away with the credibility of Rosie O'Donnell because Rosie was the one who was accepting this cuckoo notion that planes running into the towers in New York could never have brought down the World Trade Center.
It had to have been Bush blowing up the building.
It had to be, I mean, number seven, it couldn't possibly have come down by itself, blah, blah, blah.
She said steel doesn't melt.
It's physically impossible for fire to melt steel.
Well, aside from the fact of how steel was formed in the first place, in a fire, as I understand it, I'm not a steel maker, but kind of the way it looks.
The idea that this gasoline tanker truck, in effect, melted the freeway.
Anyway, back to the point.
In LA, there was a classic leftist May Day violent attack on the police.
Everywhere in the world on May Day, when you're in a socialist workers' paradise, there's always parades in which the slaves express their gratitude to their people's masters in the socialist workers' paradises, North Korea and Cuba and the rest that are left, the remnants of this once lofty ideal that slavery could make you free.
This is, and now in the free countries, of course, the advocates of slavery always riot against the police.
So in free countries, you see the police and shields and masks and clubs and water cannon and what have you on May Day.
So the radical communist/slash anarchist, whatever, what have you, who advocate this kind of thing anyway on May Day couldn't help themselves.
They just couldn't help themselves.
They went after the police, confronted the police.
The police, of course, are now under investigation, because that's the way it works here.
Police Chief Bratton, who made a fine name for himself in New York and has fallen as it's a bratfall out here in L.A., has now apologized, has started three investigations because, of course, the police made a fatal error, a fatal error trying to confront the violence of these activists.
The fatal error was they included the press in their clubbing.
They included the press in their clubbing, including the folks who were there, of course, in the press to be mouthpieces for the anarchists and the advocates for open borders.
But in any event, because they hit the press, oh my, it's hit the fan here in L.A. today.
Bratton's been on every, the police chief's been on every station apologizing, pointing out he's doing an investigation.
And no, no, not one investigation.
We're doing three investigations.
My insiders tell me, however, that there was a couple of problems with this PC interpretation of what happened yesterday at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
One of the things that's not being talked about, because of course it leads back to the question of why these people are in the United States, is when the police ordered a dispersal of an unauthorized rally, I mean, they had a permit to rally in a certain place.
They wanted to confront the police, so they went and started rallying in another place, knowing the police would say, hey, you've got to move over to where you have the permit.
And no, no, and they confronted it, so the police had to clean them out.
So it was all set up to happen, including the part of when the police and their bullhorns and so forth ordered the crowd to disperse, said, look, go over and demonstrate where you have the permits over there.
Not over here.
It's over there.
That's why we put it over there.
And they did it in English.
Another fatal error.
Apparently, very few people in the crowd of anarchists claimed they could understand English.
So some of the problems in L.A. are coming your way.
If they aren't in your community already, they're coming your way.
Now, there's another aspect of this, and I was in Washington, D.C. with 38 talk show hosts last week.
Hold their feet to the fire was what we called it, over 500 listeners advocating for border security, advocating in favor of our jailed border patrol agents.
Let's get them freed and jail the illegal alien drug smuggler instead.
We were out there advocating for our point of view of security for this nation, border security.
You work in this nation when you're legally in this nation and not otherwise.
And so we had our point of view and we were expressing it.
In the midst of all that, something rather different was expressed by some African Americans who were there.
Black Americans were there in our group making a point about illegal immigration that I thought I would like to share with you.
And the best way to share it is to introduce you to Terry Anderson.
Terry Anderson is, according to WorldNet Daily, an auto mechanic turned radio talk show host and activist who lives in south central L.A.
And I want to address the issue with Terry in a moment, so I'm just going to set this up for you.
You have heard the president and everybody on down the line who's in favor of open borders and amnesty for everybody who can break into our country.
You've heard him say, look, these illegals are not a problem.
They only take jobs Americans refuse to do.
Terry Anderson has a different view.
Terry, welcome to the Russian Limbaugh Program.
Roger, what do you hear?
What do you say, buddy?
It's very nice talking to you again, my friend.
Always a pleasure.
Again, let me just ask you the question directly.
What is the impact?
You live in south central L.A., where, of course, there have been frequent riots over the years and so forth over issues involving opportunity and discrimination and the rest of it.
What is the impact of illegal immigration in your neighborhood?
We're victims.
We are victims, Roger.
We are victims, plain and simple.
You know, we hear about the victimization of the poor people coming across the border and how the employers victimize them and a lot of other, as we call it on the show, PCBS.
But let me tell you something.
Anybody that has ever tried to find work in construction, hospitality, and even fast food now is a victim.
Number one, the wages are depressing.
Number two, there are some fast food restaurants here in Southern California where a black American or even a white American, and I'll go further than that, a Hispanic American who doesn't speak Spanish cannot work because he, quote, doesn't speak the language of the kitchen, unquote.
We're victims.
So what is the impact, though, of you say you're victims, but what does that mean?
Are you telling me that illegals are taking jobs that otherwise black Americans, or for that matter, Hispanic Americans would take?
Absolutely.
And I don't mean the sniveling, whiny kind of victim.
I don't mean that kind of victim.
I mean the kind of victim who's been victimized and will stand up for his rights.
You know, my wife had never been to Washington, D.C., and you met her when we were there.
She had never been back east before, and she was in awe of the black people working at BWI Airport, at the black people working in the hotels, the black people driving taxi cabs, the black people doing work at the Capitol building.
She was in awe.
We haven't seen that in Los Angeles in 20 years.
20 years, seeing black people doing those type of jobs.
Why?
Is it because we don't want them?
No, it's because we have been pushed out of them.
We cannot get them.
Go to LAX right here.
You won't find any black janitors or any of that anymore.
And there are people who do need those jobs.
There are people at the low end of the scale who do need those jobs.
All of those jobs at LAX are held by Hispanic people who speak no English.
And would you, in terms of those impacts, then, it's not only that they've taken the jobs, but what about the pay?
Well, the pay has been totally devastated, Roger.
I mean, look, I have a friend who's a framer.
He's been framing houses and buildings for years.
Boss came to him one Friday and says, I got to let you go.
These three guys over here are going to work for what I pay you.
Three guys, three guys are going to work for what they pay him.
This guy's in his 60s.
He's an expert house framer.
Can't get work now.
It's been totally, totally dismantled.
Not only can't we get the wage we used to get, we can't even get the minimum wage that they're getting now.
They won't let us have the jobs.
And let's talk about the schools also.
We got these kids.
These kids in these black schools in the black community, which used to be the black community.
There's no such thing anymore.
These kids now are getting a half a day's education because of all the bilingual education.
We had Prop 209 here that was supposed to get rid of bilingual education.
Never happened.
These kids are coming to these schools from these third world countries, and God bless them.
It's not their fault.
They're dumb, but they're coming here and they are illiterate in two languages.
They don't speak their home language and they don't speak this new language of English.
Now, what's going to happen to the American kid who sits in that classroom and has to listen to the teacher trying to get these kids caught up to speed with them?
His education is going to suffer, and it does.
And if you think I'm wrong, you look at the test scores in Los Angeles.
All right, now, Terry Anderson, hold on.
We're going to have to cool off the microphones here and the speakers in the studio as we take a short break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock with L.A. Talk Show host Terry Anderson.
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In for rush, back after this.
All right, he's an American.
He's a black man.
He lives in Los Angeles.
He's a talk show host in L.A. His name is Terry Anderson, and we're talking about illegal immigration and its impact in L.A. You know, I wonder, too, about the impact of what's happened across this country.
But with a quarter of the illegals in this country living in California, it's happened here first and most.
Terry Anderson, tell me about the 14th Amendment.
Tell me about these illegals who come here, have the babies.
The babies are U.S. citizens, and that brings in the whole family.
14th Amendment was meant for my ancestors.
My great-grandfather was a slave in Louisiana.
And the 14th Amendment was meant for him and his offspring, of which I am one, to make sure we have some status in this country.
It has been hijacked by people who are not, quote, under the jurisdiction thereof, as it states in that amendment.
So now we've got these people coming here.
They're having their jackpot babies, and that's what they are, because as soon as they drop the kid, they've hit the jackpot in the United States.
They've got an anchor to the United States.
They may be deported, but they can come back when that child turns 18 because the child's in a, quote, American citizen, unquote.
And that's a travesty.
And just to show you that they don't appreciate what they've gotten, because American citizenship is the greatest gift other than life that you can get in this world.
And they don't appreciate it because they go out in the streets and they get in these large groups and protest against us.
Okay, I came here.
I had my jackpot baby.
Now I demand more.
I want legalization.
I want a job.
I want a guarantee of wages and all this.
I'm going to tell you something, Roger.
This may be a little unPC, but when I saw the police handling those people in the riot down there, I was cheering like it was the Super Bowl.
This was long overdue.
I was like, yes, yes, yes.
Not because of who they were, but because of what they were doing.
And the police says, you know what?
Enough is enough.
This was Wilshire Boulevard, a main thoroughfare through Los Angeles, and they're in the street.
They knocked down a motorcycle officer.
The police have told them to get out of the street, and they didn't do it.
Now, I've been many times at many different things, the beach and other places, where the police came and said, okay, disperse.
You know what I did, Roger?
I dispersed because the police don't play and they're not supposed to, and they don't have time to listen to everybody's story about why they are there.
They say disperse, and the press didn't disperse.
They should have dispersed, too.
I am proud of the LAPD.
All right, Terry Anderson with us.
Now, here's a headline today, Terry, out of San Salvador.
Reuters reporting that the city of Los Angeles is now going to work with the country, Central American country of El Salvador, to help combat violent Central American crime gangs.
Has the city of San Diego been that successful in L.A., a city of L.A. been that successful in L.A. of combating the crime gangs?
We have Special Order 40 here, Roger.
Special Order 40 says the LAPD should not, will not, cannot ask the immigration status of anybody they stop.
You know what this means?
If there's a gang member who's been to the pen, done hard time five, ten years, and been deported, and they see him back on the street a week later, which most of them do come back, they cannot stop this known gang member who's been deported because it would be an immigration stop.
They cannot do it unless he commits another crime.
So we've got to wait for him to murder somebody else.
This is outrageous.
And for them to talk about they're going to work with another country, why don't they come work with some of us Americans?
When do I get somebody to work with me to help my life get better?
I don't get that.
None of us get that.
All we hear is what they're going to do for these new people that we call the chosen people, these illegal aliens who get more than you and I can ever get.
It's not going to work.
They've got to deport them.
That's what they have to do and keep deporting them until they're all gone.
All right, Terry Anderson.
Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You mean to tell me that you're in favor, what, of this, of rounding people up?
I didn't say that.
I didn't say that.
So what do you mean by deporting?
Here's my plan, okay?
And I'm going to put a patent on this when I came up with it five years ago.
It's simple.
We give these people a 90-day amnesty.
90 days.
You got a house you want to sell, sell it.
You got a car you want to sell, sell it.
You got a dog you bought, get rid of him.
You got 90 days to get your affairs in order.
After that 90 days, you become a felon in this country.
You become Dr. Richard Kimball.
You will be a fugitive in America.
And if we catch you, if we catch you, you're going to do a year in jail.
Now, here they come.
We can't put them all in jail.
Well, first of all, you won't have to because a lot of them are going to self-deport before day 89 is up.
But the ones we do catch, we build more tents out there in Arizona.
We let Sheriff Joe Arpaio handle them and we put them in jail one year.
Second time, five years.
Third time, ten years.
Anybody caught in the country after that 90 days will be banned from America for life.
You will have no reprieve.
You can never come back.
We will seize all assets on day 91, any homes, any cars, the used box of pampers, whatever you got.
We're going to take it away from you.
That's how you get serious.
Now, Roger, you tell me what percentage of these people are going to self-deport once they figure out we are serious, the vast majority.
And the rest, you know how we catch them?
We go into the schools.
We make it where they can't medicate.
They can't educate.
Where they can't rent a house.
They can't buy a house.
They can't start a business.
They can't get a job.
What are they going to stay here for?
What's the point of them staying in the United States?
They have to leave.
They will leave on their own.
All right, Terry Anderson.
Now, Terry, just trying to, our tone of civility today, I just wanted to ask you, you're after the illegal aliens.
Now, there's legal immigration in this country.
A lot of people come to this country.
Always have, probably always will.
Are you against people coming to this country?
Legal immigration is good for America, Roger.
Within reasonable numbers.
Those that we can reasonably assimilate.
No, I am not against legal immigration.
No.
Okay.
Now, let's talk about Terry Anderson, the person.
And you mentioned your wife, and you live in a neighborhood there in South Central, right?
Right.
What's happened to that neighborhood?
I mean, does it contribute to your being so impassioned about this?
I mean, what's happened to you in your neighborhood?
That says it perfectly, Roger.
The way I feel, the way I speak, I'm not an actor.
I'm not somebody who can turn this on and off.
I'm angry.
I am angry at what's happening.
I'm angry that my neighborhood now has things we never had before.
We've got houses with four and five families living in them.
We've got houses with five, six, seven, eight cars per house parked on the street.
We've got houses now where people sleep in shifts, come in the night, in the daytime, all day long, and they change families for different times of the day.
We've got chickens running in the street, Roger.
I never had chickens in the inner city before.
I've seen goats tied up in yards.
I see corn growing in the front yard of people's houses.
The house at the corner right here from me had a crop, a whole crop of corn growing in the front yard.
Now, if they want to grow it in the backyard, that's their business.
But, I mean, this is outrageous.
The whole third world has come here.
We got ducks.
We got rabbits.
We got all of this stuff.
It's horrible.
The other thing is, here now these are the things that you're talking about.
All right, Terry, I'm going to have to break.
I appreciate your being with us.
Terry Anderson.
I'm happy to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
We'll be back on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
This is Roger Hedgecock.
We'll be hosing down the microphones here.
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
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Now, I like to figure out how effective we're being in politics by looking at the opposition.
And today I've been taking calls from liberals.
I mean, this is something we, you know, we need to, not only for our own education, but just to get all other kinds of people educated about the left.
And so I always ask people to go to this website to learn more, socialistworker.org.
Socialistworker.org is the official website of the Socialist Workers' Party of the United States of America.
They are unabashedly in favor of taking all private property rights away, making everything the government, because everything good is already the government.
And why shouldn't we have everything good instead of just partially good?
So the whole world would be the government.
And I like to, particularly on this immigration issue, get their take.
They have been particularly after the immigration and customs enforcement raids that have recently taken place under the Bush administration, very recently, after years of inactivity on employer sanctions and trying to make it clear that in the United States, if you're an employer, great, but you employ people who are legally in this country only, which is the law, by the way,
a law that has never been enforced since it was put into the books in 1986.
So this is now Bush, in order to get some kind of support among the conservative base, is trying to use these raids, very well-publicized raids, to, what, at the backpack factory, where was it, New Bedford backpack factory, where the, what was it, 600 employees, 361 of them were illegally in the country.
And they began deportations.
Now, the most surprising thing, by the way, about that raid from all this way across the country, the most surprising thing to me was of the 361, the number one nation contributing to the illegals in our country in that workforce was Portugal.
Huh?
Brazil was on the list in the top five.
Cape Verde, I didn't even know there was a country named Cape Verde.
And I'm pretty good at geography.
I mean, I know where Chicago is, stuff like that.
This is, you know, this is incredible.
The list of nations went on and on and on.
I understand that everyone in the world would like to be an American, no matter what the propaganda is, from the left in this country, from the EU, from crazies like My Mood, I'm in a Jihad, or any of these other people.
Ugo, Ugo, Chavez, any of these, I understand they hate America, but their people don't.
They're trying to break into this country from the most remote corner of this planet.
And that is a good thing in the sense of indicating that we're still on the right path in this country.
But having the people come to this country to create a better American legally is the key.
My ancestors, your ancestors, everybody's ancestors, even the indigenous people's ancestors at some point in time, came to this country, came to this area.
Nobody sprang out of the rocks here, okay?
Everybody came from somewhere else.
Ah, legally to create a better America.
Illegally to begin a life that starts by breaking the law.
The unfortunate aspect of that then is that we get, like interviews I did with this guy who's the head of the prison system in California because we're having this huge overcrowding problem in the prison system.
And Governor Schwarzenegger is talking about, well, I may have to release felons on the street unless we build more prisons.
So let's spend $7 billion spending with more prisons.
And so this guy, I forget his name, Tilton or something like that, James Tilton, is the head of the prison system in California.
So listen to just a snippet of this conversation.
Here it is.
We have somewhere close to 20,000 inmates who we believe will be referred to INS for potential deportation.
Doesn't mean all those will be deported, but certainly the number is roughly 20,000.
Out of how many?
Out of 171,000.
And your overcrowding problem is how much?
I have over 16,000 in bad beds today.
So if we didn't have people illegally in this country in your prison system, there wouldn't be a problem.
Right.
End of discussion.
All right, let's take some calls.
Angie in Beaufort, North Carolina.
Is it Beaufort, North Carolina?
Hi, Angie.
Hello, Angie.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
No, I don't hear Angie.
Okay.
Let's try Evelyn in Irvine, California.
Evelyn, hi.
Hello, Roger.
You had a great guest on there with Terry Anderson.
Thank you.
I want to say another few words about the terrible impact of illegal immigration in our country.
MacArthur Park, where that illegal alien rally was, for $40, $40, you can buy a matricula consular with all of your identification on it, which is a phony card, but it looks real.
Usually they're issued by a Mexican consul.
With that card, you can go to any bank, major bank, open a savings account, and you can send up to $3,000 a day to anywhere in the world and receive up to $3,000 a day from anywhere in the world.
What a boon for drug runners and terrorists.
And the U.S. Senate is fixing to do a guest worker amnesty plan this week.
We all need to call our senators and tell them to stop it.
Well, I agree with you, Evelyn.
In fact, the insight story.
Sorry, go ahead.
Roger, as to the matricula consular, the day after the Madrid train bombing that killed 200 people and injured over 1,000, the L.A. City Council, in its wisdom, voted to accept that matricula consular for ID from anywhere in the world.
Yeah, I know, Evelyn, thank you.
I appreciate the call.
That's exactly right.
Let me give you some insight on the United States Senate right now.
John Kyle is the key senator here from Arizona.
He's a conservative leader.
He has criticized last year's immigration bill for being too lax on enforcement, too forgiving of illegal aliens, allowing them to jump the line ahead of people who've been waiting patiently to be legal in this country.
And Kyle is now doing these pretty sensitive negotiations in the Senate to try to see if we can come up with a bill that will actually, you know, you remember 86.
Ronald Reagan promised us border security, a valid ID so only people legally in this country can work in this country, and amnesty for the people who are here illegally and need to be regularized.
Well, we got the amnesty when the problem was 2.5 million people.
We didn't get the border security.
We didn't get the enforcement at the workplace that only legal people in this country can work.
People legally in this country can work, citizens and otherwise.
So we didn't get those first two.
Consequently, our problem went from 2.5 million people to, what, 12, 15, 20, whatever the number of millions of people is, and nobody seems to know.
We seem to be able to trace a calf from Canada who has mad cow disease, but we can't trace 15 million people that have somehow broken into the country and are mysteriously around.
Crazy.
Melinda in Gainesville, Florida, next on the Rush Show.
Hi.
Yes.
I'm calling about the soundbite you played Hillary's speech about babysitting the illegal immigrants.
Hold on.
Melinda, hold on.
Because people have joined us since then and you're asking about it.
Let me play the clip.
It was part of a speech she gave here in San Diego at the California Democratic Convention.
Here it is.
When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields.
And every harvest season, we had a lot of the migrants who'd come up from Mexico through Texas following the harvest all the way up through Illinois and Michigan.
And the children would go to school with us.
And every Saturday morning, my church group, we'd go out and babysit the younger children so that the older children could join their families in the fields.
All right, Melinda, go ahead.
Yes, I am just saying that there were illegal immigrants.
I lived on a farm south of Chicago, and there was a town maybe 20 miles from us that every summer would bring in a campful.
In fact, you know, we would take our leftover clothes and take it over to the kids.
But there was definitely a camp that came in there every summer of illegal immigrants.
And somebody said, oh, they used combines.
They did a lot of different things.
They had huge asparagus fields that they worked in.
They had they detasseled sweet corn.
They, when farmers would rotate crops from corn to beans, then when it was a bean crop, you had to go in and cut out stray stalks of corn, which was a long, hot, hard day, and they did that.
So I, and I moved from that area around 72, and I lived there probably during the time that Hillary was in Chicago.
And you didn't have to drive very far to see farmland and such at that time.
And now it's all been developed into neighborhoods.
But I don't know how far she had to drive to go babysitting, but there were definitely camps.
I can give you the name of the town where the camp was.
Well, let me ask you, because you lived there, let me ask you, how far was it from Park Ridge that these camps were?
Probably about 80 miles south.
Okay.
So it might have been a little long to go for babysitting.
Well, that was just one.
I don't know if there were others closer to Chicago.
I'm just saying around in the area where I live.
All right, Melinda, I got to take a break.
Thank you.
I appreciate the call.
We'll continue with that to end our immigration theme and your call at 1-800-282-2882 as the Rush Limbaugh Show continues.
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Sylvester in Chicago, Illinois is next.
Sylvester, welcome to The Rush Show.
Hi there.
You know, I've never called anywhere in my life.
But this particular issue, for some reason, it just really bothers me.
I have a couple of points, and I'll hang up after that.
Number one, I don't understand the laws well enough to comment, but I know that illegal means illegal.
So I don't understand, first of all, how you can come and be illegal, which is against the law, have a child when you're already illegal, and then that child becomes legal.
That's point number one.
Point number two, I hear as an African-American, you know, I hear a lot of people speaking out about illegal immigration.
I hear it mainly from Caucasians.
I don't see any of the African-American leaders really speaking out against any of this.
And it's just very discouraging.
It's almost like everyone is in a political game mode, whereas if it benefits me, I'll speak about it.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
And this problem is affecting the black community more so than any because everywhere I go, and I'm in Chicago, if I don't speak Spanish, I got a problem.
I'm speaking in broken English.
And I catch myself speaking in it so often that I'm forgetting how to actually speak like a normal human being.
So I'm just a little frustrated about it.
Sylvester, let me ask you a couple of questions now.
What part of Chicago do you live in?
I live on the north side, but I was raised on the south side.
Okay.
Now, are you finding an impact of illegals in the job market?
Is that what you're saying?
You see, it's very difficult for me to discern.
We're not allowed to ask these questions.
You're not allowed to ask certain questions, so you don't.
But you always wonder when you work with people that can barely speak your language and they don't even take the time to actually even try to learn your language.
It's like they speak all around you in their native language, and that's fine.
And so there's no even push for them to even learn the English language.
So why should you assimilate when there's no pressure from either end for them to, you know, get in line, so to speak?
I mean, I had to learn English.
My parents told me you need to learn English very well in order to get, you know, to understand and be able to communicate well.
But it seems like the immigrants, and it's not just Hispanic, it's all over the place where they come here and they don't even speak in English.
They don't have to.
It's very, it's very discouraging.
And I'm nervous, of course, but I'm just really upset by the lack of leadership from the government, Democrat and Republican.
You know, I just don't see anyone really, really taking any area this serious.
This is what happens.
We have this big movement.
And the only time we get stirred up is when we have a march like we did.
But previously we had a march.
Two, three weeks later, that completely died down.
Nothing else was said about it.
Nothing else was done about it.
Now we're getting back upset about it.
It seems like our politicians just sit on their duck and wait and do nothing.
And, you know, I don't know who to vote for anymore.
I really don't because I can't believe what's happening, nor can I believe what they say because nothing is being done.
All right, Sylvester, first of all, let me thank you for calling.
Let me welcome you to the program, and I urge you to continue to listen because you're going to find leadership and ideas and solutions on this program and on others.
You're going to, I think, find some hope here because I agree with you that on this issue, and in fact, many, many people are saying to me, look, this immigration law reform thing, trying to figure out how to solve this problem, it's not going to be done this year because everybody's playing politics.
Everybody's pulling and hauling for their own agenda.
Neither of these parties find it in their interest to try to solve the problem, and therefore it's not going to be solved.
Well, it is going to be solved if we all stick together and demand that there be a solution, Sylvester, that we don't all feel like we're just inevitably on this road to having our country transformed by people who've broken into the country in the first place.
So I thank you for the call, and I thank you for being there.
Thank you.
Sylvester from Chicago.
A lot of wisdom in those words.
Here's James in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Hi, James.
Hello, Roger.
It seems to me like this whole issue of Democrats being angry and bitter and hostile is a coordinated effort by the entire media to get the American people to think that this new bitterness is tied to President Bush.
It helps support the spend that the American people are against everything Bush does.
And at MediaReform.com, we're leading a revolution of conservative talk show listeners to take our country back from this media rot.
Okay.
He's gone.
All right.
Let's take a short break then.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back after this.
Wow, running out of time, and I didn't get to the SUV that jumped the curb and killed people.
I didn't get to China trying to poison our pets or Wolfowitz or any of these topics that I had.
Okay, so there's only three hours.
That's all I can tell you.
I appreciate the opportunity, Rush, to fill in on the show.
We'll be back tomorrow with Rush Limbaugh on this program.
And just a parting word.
Let me just say again that today we've lost truly a great American.
Wally Sherat was the only one, I believe the only one of the NASA astronauts who was in all three programs, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
He went to the moon, at least he was on the lander, but he was up in the circulating thing.
He went, you know, in our last trip to Florida, I went to the Kennedy Center there, Cape Canaveral, and took the tour.
And they have a Saturn V rocket, I don't know, 300 yards long or something, with all of its portions broken apart in this little tiny capsule at the end of this huge Roman candle.
I mean, that was courage.
That was America at its best, taking huge risks to gain an impossible dream, bringing together technology and idealism and a noble goal in achieving it, and taking enormous personal risks to do it.
Wally Sherraw, dead today in San Diego, a San Diego County resident, one of our original astronauts, one of the truly great Americans that I hope we hold up as heroes.
Among all, I know all the other heroes that you may have in America, and there sure are some strange ones in the Time magazine Top 100, today I'd focus just on one, Wally Sherat.
Goodbye, my friend.
Thanks, Rush.
Rush will be here tomorrow.
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