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May 15, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
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You have heard now by now in the news, or if you're just joining us, this is the news today that Jerry Falwell has died, a fundamentalist Christian pastor, televangelist, founder of universities and publications, and most famously of the Moral Majority in 1978, which led to the incorporation of evangelical Christians and many other Christians into the conservative camp and to the election, at least in part,
of Ronald Reagan, and the bringing back into the public square of a lot of discussions about Christian, the Christian heritage of the nation, the parts, the part that Christians can play in the public square and the role of Christianity and our Judeo-Christian heritage, a much larger concept, in the forming of America and a forming of our ideals.
He will be, I must say that my prediction is not sanguine on this.
You know, the drive-by media will instantly characterize this as the end of an era of evil excess on the Christian side, of a homophobic form of Christianity that's equal to al-Qaeda.
You know, they'll just go crazy.
You can just hear it coming that the passing of Jerry Falwell will be the final nail-in-the-coffin of the Reagan era from the standpoint of the drive-bys.
And I, you know, and I fully expect that they will drag out every comment and quote that he made that made some of us cringe and, you know, and made many other people think about the role of God in a modern secular society like America's.
And have we gone too far to that secular humanistic side and too far away from the guiding light, particularly when you look at family life?
I mean, I think he had a point about family life that will probably be seen as absolutely true.
But he said things that were endearing to him.
Here's one.
He said, I drive a GMC suburban, and I have since the early 70s.
No global warming problem for the Reverend Falwell.
And he was unabashedly a fundamentalist Christian, believing in the literal truth of the Bible and incorporating that into his daily life, his political life, and an activism that led him to found what is it now, 25,000 people at that Liberty University and the other achievements that he has had in a life that I guess as I get older, I start thinking this way, has been cut short at age 73.
So you'll hear more about the Reverend Falwell, but I think that we can pretty much guess the uses to which his passing will be put by the shameless left in this country.
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Oh, and one more thing about immigration that I want to get to.
And that is I've gotten some answers from all of you, and I appreciate it.
The last time I was on the program a while back, I played a tape we had here from a speech given by Mrs. Clinton here at the California Democratic Party Convention, which curiously veered off into this immigration issue in a personal anecdote, which we, well, let me just play it first and then I'll tell you what we found out about it.
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.
Now, we in San Diego found that to be an appalling statement because when she was growing up, we're talking now about the late 40s, early 50s.
The feedback I've gotten from you in, first of all, we found it appalling because she's talking about babysitting younger kids so older kids can go work in the fields.
What happened to child labor laws?
What happened to liberal Democrats?
What is that all about?
Was that when she was a Goldwater Republican?
I'm not sure quite how to take that.
Moreover, I didn't know a lot about Park Ridge, this Chicago suburb, a rather upscale Chicago suburb where she hailed from.
But most of you have confirmed my suspicion that there wasn't a farm within 50 miles of that particular place that was growing a crop that needed hand growing.
That while there were apparently Mexican migrants and others, particularly from the South, working up to the North on harvesting matters, a lot of it was taken over by machinery over time.
And a lot of it was done by local teenagers.
A lot of it was done by migrant labor that wasn't Mexican or, and in those days, by the way, the Mexican labor was legal because of the Bracero program.
So the whole anecdote, it seemed to me, rested on a rather flimsy notion.
How in the world did workers get anywhere near Park Ridge?
Because most of the farms that I have gotten feedback from you on were many, many miles away.
One guy said, well, we had them all over Michigan.
Well, okay, but were they anywhere near?
No, they weren't.
So I don't know whether there's going to be any follow-up at all, or is this yet another fictional story, one of many, many, many fictional stories that the Clintonistas have put out over the years?
I tend to think that it is.
Now, let's get to this story, and I'm sorry, I don't think that, I think this is another cover-up by the drive-bys on the subject of why pets have been dying in the United States.
The cover story is that some rogue company that they've since put out of business and are prosecuting in China got some kind of wheat gluten, which was added to other elements for pet food manufacturing in the United States.
And it turns out the wheat gluten contained melamine, and that melamine, well, it was accident, one of the cover stories, it was accidentally introduced into the food chain, shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Second cover story, when they figured out that it was deliberately put in, and it's an industrial toxic chemical, that it combined with other chemicals to begin to cause organ failure in your pet, then they began to say in China, well, no, no, no, melamine is actually a very good health food.
It's a mildly toxic.
It can't possibly cause that kind of damage.
We take it all the time here in China.
That article from the Associated Press, and I have it in my hand.
And then they started saying, well, okay, it's serious.
We're going to start making arrests.
We're going to pick up, you know, well, look, there are no private companies in China.
Let me be very clear about this.
They advertise themselves as private.
They sell private shares to some people who are gullible enough to take them in.
No company can exist in China without the approval of the Chinese Communist Party.
Any company that runs afoul of the Chinese Communist Party will be put out of business.
There is no, and many companies have the direct ownership or control by the Chinese military, who derive, quote, profits, unquote, to help mask the exact amount of money being spent on the military by China.
They have an official budget like we do, and then they have something that might be two, three, four times as much, which is the profits from companies that have been taken over by the military directly.
Now, in this case, the wheat gluten, here's what I've been able to find out: the wheat gluten and the melamine was not introduced into the pet food by accident.
It was introduced deliberately because here's what melamine does: it triggers a higher protein count in the wheat gluten than would otherwise be there, enabling pet food people to say, oh, it's got 40% more protein than the rival pet food.
So it's a false protein reading.
The Chinese were deliberately introducing something, and they knew what they were doing, into the wheat gluten that would allow the wheat gluten to be sold at a higher price because it had higher protein content.
That's at least what the test said, when in fact it didn't have the higher protein content.
It had the melamine, which caused organ failure in lots of pets, which caused, oh, this is getting worse.
It caused fish food to begin.
Farm-raised fish may have eaten food now with melamine.
Pigs and chickens now have been found with melamine issues because the wheat gluten, the soy gluten, the rice gluten, these kinds of byproduct, food byproduct products that are coming out of China have been introduced throughout the food chain.
Did China do it on purpose?
It seems that way.
Did they do it to cheat?
Yep.
Did they do it to get more money than they would otherwise get for their product?
Yeah.
Is it going to go away if we get them to accept?
Why don't you have an FDA like we do, and then you'd be protected?
Yeah, right.
And that's the liberal response to the Chinese.
How about prove to us that your wheat gluten doesn't have melamine or soy or rice gluten or any of these products you're selling us, or don't sell it to us?
Turn around in mid-Pacific and send it back to Shanghai, feed it to your pets.
I don't want my dog dying because you guys need to make an extra buck more than you're already making off of us.
So that, and I'm afraid that has not gone, I mean, I have not seen that in many places in the drive-by media, that the Chinese knew what they were doing.
No mistake here when they introduced melamine.
They wanted a protein reading that would allow them to charge more for these products because of the higher protein content that actually wasn't there, that they knew wasn't there.
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It's almost irresistible.
I mean, this was like shooting fish in a barrel to predict that the drive-bys would be making fun of Jerry Falwell within minutes of his death.
CNN talking now about the teletubbies incident.
I don't need to get back into, but they're going to use this death to parody evangelical faith to, from a secular point of view, try to put this whole evangelical movement for conservative candidates back out of the mainstream.
So just get ready for it because Falwell was not without making pretty strange comments sometimes.
And those strange comments are going to be his epitaph.
I mean, it is going, well, it's already started.
And that, as I say, was easy enough to do to predict.
Look, on the Rush Show here, and again, rushlimbaugh.com with all of the details.
We get into a lot of material.
One thing I want to get into right now is there's something about George Bush that I had to continually remind myself.
And that is that he, unlike, very unlike Bill Clinton, he does not live all of his life in public.
Bill Clinton's whole life is in public.
Too much so for my taste, but that's just me.
The real life of George Bush includes a private life, includes things that he does not for political effect.
I mean, he doesn't cry on cue like Bill Clinton did at these funerals.
This is a guy who does things privately because they're right.
Example.
You know, when he vetoed, and it caused the furor, caused the anger and rage to just overflow the banks of its river in the liberal left when he vetoed the timetable, the Iraq funding bill that had the timetable for surrender.
He signed it with a regular black-inked ballpoint pen.
And nobody said much of it.
Close aides knew it was not his usual personalized cross pen that he has.
You have to look at the details.
What is that pen?
The pen he used was a gift from the father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq, who, when Bush met with him and a number of other Gold Star families at the Oval Office, Robert Durga of Uniontown, Ohio, gave Mr. Bush this pen.
And he said that it was a pen he had used to write letters to his son, Marine Corporal Dustin A. Durga, who gave his life for this country in Iraq.
And he said it was just a common run-of-the-mill pen, but I gave it to him and said, quote, Mr. President, if this Iraq supplemental comes down to a veto, I want you to use my pen to do it.
And he said the president looked at him kind of funny for a moment and then said, absolutely.
When the time came for the veto, Mr. Bush had the pen.
And he used it for Corporal Durga.
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Let's go to Solomon in the Rio Grande Valley.
Hi, Solomon.
Yes, hello.
Hi, Solomon.
Welcome to the Russ Show.
Go ahead.
You're on.
Yes, Roger.
I just wanted to comment a little bit on the fence that they're thinking of putting here because, I mean, it does affect us.
I live here in the Rio Grande Valley.
I actually agree with it.
I'm a Mexican myself.
I was born in El Tamirano, in Mexico.
Of course, I'm legally here.
All right?
Just to point that out.
Yeah, and I actually believe that it is actually a great idea.
I have a fence that divides me and my neighbor.
That doesn't mean I hate my neighbor.
That doesn't mean that there's any type of, I don't know, some problem between him.
It's just something normal, you know?
So I actually agree and think that it is a good thing to have a fence.
Now, I also agree that maybe that money can be used for something better.
What do you think?
Well, what do you think?
What would you use it for?
I think that it may be a lot more productive for research, with cancer, maybe problems with AIDS, research.
I think that it could be also more productive if we put it in those hands.
I'm not sure I'm understanding you, Solomon.
Do you think you think the fence is a good idea, but you don't want to spend money to build it?
Yes, I agree with it.
Right.
But I think that it could be more productive.
You know, there are things that are better and some things that are good.
I think that maybe using the money for research will be a lot better.
What happens if we don't build the fence down there?
Well, same thing that happens now will continue to happen.
I know.
And I think that's exactly right.
Hey, I appreciate the call, Solomon.
I appreciate the fact that you're legally in this country, too, and God bless you and welcome.
That's something another trap you don't want to fall into is the trap.
Well, you're just a racist.
You're just a xenophobe, whatever that means.
You know, I thought that was a musical instrument for a long time.
But no, you're a racist.
No, man.
I mean, you know, legal is legal.
Illegal is illegal.
You know, red, white, blue, or otherwise.
If you're legal, God bless you, welcome.
If you're not, get the hell out.
I don't know how much more simple can I make this?
Here's George in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
George, welcome to the Russ Show.
Exactly, Roger.
You just made my point.
When I spoke to your call screener, I said the same thing.
It's either legal or it's illegal.
And that should apply to all citizens equally throughout this nation.
And we're citizens and also people that are here in whatever manner.
And this also applies and should, and this is what irritates probably me and most of the people that I associate with more than anything.
It is not applied equally when politicians enter the fray.
I mean, we're dealing with, you know, I hate to go back to Mr. Bill Clinton, but, you know, in my means of thinking, the man should not be out collecting speakers fees at this point in time.
The man should be sitting behind bars somewhere, irregardless of whether he was a politician or what, or president.
There should be no precedent set by having a man of that caliber out collecting speaker fees and being a voice for this nation that I don't think represents us.
George, thanks for the call.
By the way, this is the day, just to follow up on that point, that the presidential candidates have to disclose their financial situation.
This is the day when John Edwards is going to have to disclose, for example, his role in hedge fund advising.
Is he really Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street extolling greed in private as a hedge fund consultant and in public a populist might as well be from Louisiana Huey Long type guy trying to rally the masses for his nomination?
Just who is the real John Edwards?
Because today we may learn something about that.
Just who is the real breadwinner in the Bill Clinton family?
Is Mrs. Clinton or is it Mr. Clinton?
If it's Mr. Clinton and he's made, as is reputed, $11 million in speaking fees over the last year, can I just tell you something?
And I don't mean to be disclosing anything I shouldn't hear, but in market terms, if $11 million a year is Bill Clinton's value, he is way, way, way under the value that the market allocates to Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Program at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We'll be back with some more out of Kansas and the National Guard after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
All the information at rushlimbaugh.com.
And update now on the issue Rush brought up when it happened.
And you had more information here than anywhere else for a long time.
You know, a little background here.
You know, recapping that Louisiana Governor Blanco, Kathleen Blanco blamed the feds after Katrina and so forth.
I mean, I don't have to go back into all that.
And you know that Democrat governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebilius, did the same, at least tried, by saying right after Greensburg was wiped off the map by that tornado that, well, we didn't have a National Guard troops or the equipment and everything because it's all over in Iraq and it's all Bush's fault and here we can't do.
And of course, it turned out that you don't get that help unless you ask for it and she hadn't done that.
Why she hadn't done it, how long it took for her to do it is still a mystery.
But let me just say that because of that well-known playbook from the left of blaming Bush after every natural disaster because of the lack of resources because of the Iraq war, because Bush lied, you know, the whole mantra.
I went back and looked at the recent catastrophes to find out whether it was true or not.
Did we lack National Guard resources for natural catastrophes in our communities because they were all allocated to the Iraq War?
Well, I haven't found that yet.
Here's what I have found.
I don't have to tell anybody in Florida about firefighting, about the problems there with wildfires.
And I found that in the wildfire situation, the National Guard, the Army National Guard, responded, and the National Guard assets were flown.
In fact, they were flying 67 hours, 445 sorties up to the time I checked on this to combat the wildfires with everything they had, and it was what they would have had.
They've got three helicopters up in Bradford County in the Dairy Road fire.
I got all this list of fires in Florida where the National Guard is working.
No indication that there would have been more National Guard or more assets had there been no war in Iraq.
Georgia National Guard providing 42 troops in response to those fires.
As of May 11, Georgia National Guard, including two CH-47 Chinooks, two UH-60 Blackhawks flown 302 hours, 5 million gallons of water.
No indication that this is less than they will, or more than they would have had.
They've got my goodness, look at this, two Humvees and three two and a half ton trucks right there in Georgia working the wildfires, not in Baghdad.
I never saw that on the drive-bys.
In Minnesota, the National Guard has two of the Blackhawks dropping water on their fires, two fuel trucks with drivers and fuel handlers.
I got this list.
California National Guard and the famous Catalina fire here over the last weekend.
Got troops there and personnel from Pendleton.
Gosh, are there any left in Pendleton?
I thought they were all deployed.
Came up on a hovercraft with firefighting equipment and personnel according to a pre-planned situation where, you know, mutual help.
And they had in the Chinooks there as well.
And 103 civilian firefighters were transported to the island by the Marines.
So in other words, no, Governor and mainstream media, no.
It isn't true that we don't have protection in our communities with the National Guard at the time of national disaster, but you knew that.
See, the thing that gripes me about this subject, and every time we get into it here, you knew that was true.
All you had to do was make a phone call to the National Guard.
Do you have enough assets to handle this firefight in Georgia, this fire in Georgia, in Florida, wherever?
And if the answer is no, hell no, all my Humvees are in Baghdad, then that's the story.
But if the answer is, no, I got my Humvees and my Chinooks and my Blackhawks fighting the fire here in Georgia, then isn't that the story?
And why don't you print it?
Of course, we know why you don't print it.
That study has been gone.
That ground has been gone over and over by Rush Limbaugh here to the benefit of every American who will nowhere else get that information.
Now, one more on Governor Sebelius.
She has appeared, apparently, at a fundraiser for tonight.
She's going to appear tonight, I'm sorry, tonight at a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Kansas, Kansas and mid-Missouri.
This group and some of the other Planned Parenthoods, I've got another story out of Ohio on this as well, is under investigation for illegally concealing child rape and committing illegal late-term abortions.
A former state attorney general there who left office before those investigations could be completed is the quote.
So we looked further into it, and this is the story being investigated in Mason, Ohio.
This is an awful story.
At age 13, she was coerced into sex by her father, forced to share his bed for the next five years.
In November 2004, the repeated rapes resulted in a pregnancy.
Her father forced her to abort.
By then, she was 16.
Taken to a nearby Planned Parenthood, she told a clinic worker about the incestuous relationship, but Planned Parenthood did not report the abuse, condemning her to an additional year and a half of abuse where she was essentially her father's sex slave.
These cases are now cropping up around the country where Planned Parenthood, and you can get back into all the other debates about Planned Parenthood.
Let's focus on this one because I think it's new.
At least it's new to me.
Maybe it's not new to you.
New to me is this idea that when you come in as a young woman to make your choice for abortion and you say, the father's my dad, whose bed I've shared for the last, oh, since I was 11.
They don't report it, which, of course, in most states, I would hope is in all states, not authority on this, but I would hope is in all states, reporting to your medical provider that you've been raped, that you've been the subject as a young underage person to incestuous rape by your father should be something that gets to the authorities' ears fairly quickly, like it's time it takes you to dial 911, I would think.
Apparently, in at least a couple of cases, including the case of the Planned Parenthood of Kansas in mid-Missouri, at whose fundraiser this evening, Governor Kathleen Sebelius will, I'm sure, be as truthful as she was about the lack of resources from the National Guard.
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Tony in Green Bay is next on the Russ Show.
Hi, Tony.
Hello, Roger.
Happy to speak with you.
Thank you for calling.
Say, you mentioned earlier that you knew that there were 9.5 million Social Security numbers which did not match the names.
No, no, I knew that.
Let me just make it clear what I'm saying.
I knew that because that's the reported number from the Social Security Administration.
Okay.
Well, that raises two questions for me.
Go ahead.
The first is, where is the money going?
If some employer is taking money out from the paycheck of an illegal and depositing it or sending it to the government to a stolen number, where does that money go?
Does it go in the middle of the count?
Tony, great question.
Go to the head of the class, get your gold star, sit there with high self-esteem, which has been earned in this case.
Because here's the deal: the government's making money off illegals.
Billions of dollars a year is contributed by employers and the employee because it's deducted from the paycheck in those circumstances where they're not working under the table.
That money goes into the Social Security fund, knowing it's never going to have to be paid out because this guy had a fake name or number, what have you, fake documents.
Tony, it's a great point.
The government isn't necessarily, and I'm not accusing them of anything, but it is an absolute truism that they monetarily benefit in the Social Security Fund by having these workers illegally here.
Does that mean that if an illegal attempts to draw Social Security benefits from a stolen number, that he can't get it?
I remember McCain saying very clearly on the tube that he wanted the illegals to get that money because he said they earned it.
Well, that's the next step.
That's the next step.
You will find people, once there's amnesty, being asked to come back in, verify their employment over those years so that they can qualify for Social Security.
Do you know that as of now, and this again comes from the Social Security Administration, more than 26,000 checks a month are sent just to Mexico, and there are many other nations that get them, to individuals who worked a qualifying amount of time in the United States and are qualifying for that check.
We wonder why this system is in trouble.
Well, two people can't draw out of one Social Security account at the same time.
No.
So if someone has stolen my Social Security number and they're using it, what happens if they draw before I do?
Does that mean I can't get my Social Security benefits?
Can you imagine the problems we face?
Tony, these are the greatest questions that no American yet has asked, and nobody in the mainstream media and nobody running for the Republican nomination wants to face.
Exactly right.
What happens to my number when I worked, say, the 10 or 12 or 15 years, whatever, to qualify, but some other guys work 10 years?
How does the government going to allocate the money that's in my fund under my number?
Can you imagine the nightmare?
Yes, I know.
Well, when I went down to start to draw my Social Security, I asked the question: is it possible if my wife retires while I'm still alive for her to draw on my account and for me to draw?
And they said, no, you can't have two people drawing on the same account at the same time.
You want your wife to get it?
You have to die.
Correct.
That's a hell of a price, by the way.
Yes.
Seems sort of terminal.
But if somebody is already drawing that money and they're an illegal, does that mean that when I go to draw mine, or when, because I'm already drawing mine, but if somebody else goes to draw theirs, they're going to be told, I'm sorry, this is already going to somebody?
Correct.
That's a problem.
Tony, I appreciate you bringing it up.
I've been screaming about this for years, and we haven't gotten anybody's attention yet.
I'm hoping tonight at the debate of Republican candidates, someone will start asking some of these questions to this.
And I hope that, and listen, they've got to be.
Tony, and I appreciate the call and the questions.
As I say, head of the class, let's take a break, and we'll be right back on the Russian Limbaugh program after this.
Welcome back to the Russian Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
Rushback tomorrow, of course, and all the information in the meantime at rushlimbaugh.com.
We're taking your calls at 1-800-282-282.
Little Stevie Wonder there.
All right, now, recapping today's lesson plan class.
First of all, you need to know, and no one else in the drive-by media, of course, is going to tell you this, they're going to hammer, as they have been hammering for every day for the last couple of years, that George Bush's approval rating is way low, that it is, you know, some, what was it last week, 28% or it's 35% or somewhere in between.
Well, now comes a new Gallup poll.
Out today, George Bush at 33%.
And I guarantee you, this will be, again, if it does make the drive-bys, it'll be George Bush at 33, a record low in the Gallup.
Well, it isn't, but it's close.
What they will not tell you is that Gallup also asked the same people they asked about the president, they asked about the Congress.
The congressional approval rating is 29%.
Bush's is 33%.
Congress is 29, down from 37 in January.
Interesting enough, that all these institutions of our government are at record lows, by the way, of confidence of the American people.
Not something that either Democrats or Republicans can be proud of here.
Nobody seems to be breaking out in terms of leading the American public in a way that's going to get popular support in the area where presidents are used to being, at least in the 40s and sometimes in the 50s, and sometimes much higher, as George Bush was right after September 11.
But here are the new Democrats, the new leaders of our country, the ones who are going to lead us out of the war, the ones who are going to lead us out of the economic morass we were in, the rich getting richer and all the rest of that.
What happened to all that?
What happened to the reform?
Hell, new boss, same as the old boss.
According to the WHO, looks like it's about the same here.
This is 29% approval rating for Congress, down from 37% in January.
So that's number one.
Now, number two, I know, because I just broke the $53 to fill up my gallon situation.
I know what you're feeling about the pump prices.
You also know, this has been covered extensively, I don't have to get back into it, that is the lack of refinery capacity in this country, not the lack of oil, plenty of oil, awash in oil in this globe.
It's a lack of refinery capacity that makes the gasoline so high, and particularly here in California.
I couldn't believe we come, well, I mean, I get too far into this, but the highest prices in the country here in San Diego for reasons that caused me to gnash my teeth.
But this is my answer to it.
My answer to it is: you can't go on a one-day boycott, which was the call for today.
You know, don't buy gas today.
I mean, you're going to buy gas yesterday or tomorrow or the day after.
You're going to buy the same gas.
The issue is buying less gas, which I've committed to personally, getting around in some other ways wherever I can.
But the other thing that's important is to go after those people in the oil industry that do us the most harm.
Wouldn't it be, for instance, logical to single out Citco, wholly owned by corporations that are controlled by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, to single out Citco as a station, if you haven't already done this, that you're just not going to do business with?
How many times do you have to listen to Hugo Chavez to understand that your dollars at that pump enable him to do the kind of things he's doing?
And I don't need to go through the laundry list.
So that's another lesson of the day.
And tonight, as the Republican hopefuls gather in South Carolina for the second debate, second round, they're going to get through Britt Hume, hopefully, some more intelligent questions that will expose a little more of the profile of these folks so we can make our comparisons, which is hopefully what debates will do.
And then you can make the choice.
I hope that an extensive amount of time is spent on the immigration issue, not on the phony issues of racism and deportation and what are you going to do?
Round people, not on any of that stuff, on the real stuff.
Are you really going to enforce the border and know who comes across that border?
Are you really going to have employer verification so that Americans and people legally in this country get those jobs and not people who jump the line and jump the fence?
And I'm thinking that beyond that, the question of who's here illegally and what to do with them becomes less of a problem because if there is no magnet of jobs, if there is no way to get across the border, then what's the problem?
People will go back to where they can find some opportunity.
That certainly has been the historical fact in California.
When we've had recessions, illegals seem to just drift back to where they came from.
I know it's kind of hard to drift back to Cape Verde from New Bedford, where you were making backpacks for the military, wherever Cape Verde is.
But, you know, if you got here, you can get back.
Anyway, your thoughts on the Russ Show.
Let me take a short break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, back after this.
Your prayers, please, for those three GIs missing in Iraq out of Fort Drum.
Is it 10th Mountain?
I think it is.
And they are in our prayers for their safe return.
It is, of course, too much to ask that Amnesty International would rush out there to make sure that the Geneva Conventions are upheld.
We also have other items from the Middle East.
This one caught my fancy.
Iranian deputies in their parliament there were gathering signatures among themselves to form an Iranian-U.S. friendship committee.
Seems they want to reach out and have contact with the U.S. Congress.
Now, this makes a lot of sense to me.
I could imagine, because I looked up what is the national sport, I think it's freestyle wrestling in Iran.
So I could see Pelosi versus Ahmedijad or whatever his name is, you know, no holes barred.
I mean, I could, you know, he's going to be, he's going to have an advantage because he doesn't bathe.
She's going to have one because she can't blink, so she can see all the time.
So it's going to be kind of interesting to watch this.
More coming out of Iran.
More to follow up on here at the Limbaugh Institute.
Rush, thanks for the privilege of sitting in.
Rush back tomorrow.
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