May 25, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| You know, we're always trying to help here on the EIB network. | |
| They got an idea to save these two whales out in the San Joaquin Sacramento Delta. | |
| Somebody said send Senator Kennedy out there to jump in to save him. | |
| And if that wouldn't work, I mean, that's the only time Senator Kennedy's jumped in the water than I know of. | |
| Well, never mind. | |
| Somebody said they're humpbacked whales. | |
| Send Bill Clinton live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
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| I am Rush Limbaugh saying more in five seconds than your average host says in a career. | |
| A lifetime. | |
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| And remember, when we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want. | |
| On Friday only. | |
| No restrictions on that. | |
| Bad news for the drive-by media. | |
| The United Airlines 747 with the engine out that was headed to Tokyo has landed safely, Drat. | |
| Story and I'm from their standpoint. | |
| They love crisis, panic, tumult, chaos. | |
| I've had a couple reactions to the I mean, this truly gut-wrenching story. | |
| Uh about uh uh Elise Gazewitz in uh in in Maryland, who um had this pet monkey named Armani and uh animal control people in there uh just came and took the took the animal, took it to the zoo. | |
| This is her pet. | |
| Uh we played the audio sound by she was just devastated. | |
| Uh they passed a new law, so you can't have wild animals in your house after October 1 of 2006 or some such thing, and she's not grandfathered, she got the uh the monkey uh after that clearly distressed. | |
| Um even her little Maltese dog was distressed when the monkey got taken away. | |
| It's probably a playmate. | |
| Uh and we had some people, of course. | |
| Well, why would a woman sleep with a monkey anyway? | |
| I mean, snurdly couldn't envision that. | |
| Well, people sleep with their pets all the time, and I got an email from a guy who said, Rush, come on, the feminists are saying that women, millions of women sleep with pigs every night. | |
| So what what's odd about this? | |
| If a woman wants to sleep with a monkey, isn't that a step up? | |
| The whale that I was trying to remember the name of the first whale that got stuck out there in the San Joaquin Delta, the Sacramento Delta, that that I was convinced became retarded or was retarded, that no matter what they did, they couldn't get this way. | |
| His name was Humphrey. | |
| Humphrey the humpback whale. | |
| They did everything they could, and here's what they finally did. | |
| I remember now to get him out of there. | |
| They had an armada of about 100 small boats and had people pounding on pots and pans. | |
| They drove the whale nuts. | |
| They just harassed the whale and he finally forced him out that way. | |
| Still no takers to my question about why CNN is out scouring the fruited plain, trying to find Republicans who disagree with me on immigration. | |
| I will answer this question if none of you get it right prior to the uh ending of the program. | |
| A related item. | |
| This is uh an AP story by David Border, who was the AP writer. | |
| By a wide margin, the news media concentrated on Democrat presidential contenders more than Republicans during the first three months of this year, according to a study released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. | |
| Campaign stories in newspapers on television, online, and on the radio focused on Democrats 61% of the time and on Republicans 24% of the time. | |
| The Project for Excellence in Journalism regularly monitors 48 different outlets to gauge coverage trends. | |
| But don't look to the political bias. | |
| Don't look to political bias as the most obvious explanation. | |
| Conservative radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity talked about Democrats 75% of the time and Republicans 13% of the wait a minute. | |
| Forget these numbers. | |
| Do you realize what's happening here? | |
| The drive-bys are comparing me to them. | |
| In order to show that they aren't biased. | |
| Well, wait a minute, the drive-by media Looked at Democrats far more than Republicans, so did Limbaugh. | |
| Well, well, well. | |
| Well, but there's a big difference, Mr. Border, and it is this. | |
| We looked at the Democrat candidates critically. | |
| And we look at some of the Republican candidates critically. | |
| The drive-by media looks at the Democrat candidates fawningly. | |
| Hardly any criticism. | |
| And whatever criticism the drive-by media offers Democrats usually comes in the form of advice. | |
| Helpful hints. | |
| Very little criticism in the drive-by media coverage of the Democrat presidential candidates. | |
| It's a uh huge difference. | |
| Speaking of Democrat presidential candidates, this is what's this from? | |
| This is from the uh Missouri Valley Times. | |
| Missouri Valley Times by Todd Dorman. | |
| You get the distinct feeling hanging around Barack Obama's presidential campaign that his heady rock star period is ending. | |
| For a few months after he joined the race in February, it looked like the U.S. Senator from Illinois could do no wrong. | |
| His crowds are in the thousands. | |
| His fundraising was into tens of millions. | |
| Hillary Clinton, we were told, was shaking in her pants suit. | |
| And Obama's meteoric rise. | |
| It had to come to an end. | |
| Of course, the political media that built him up is now taking shots. | |
| He misspoke about the death toll from a Kansas. | |
| If you think Todd, if you think that Obama is getting shots, Union media is taking shots at Obama. | |
| The only shots that Obama's getting are coming from the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times when they question whether he's black enough, or as in the case yesterday, whether he's too black. | |
| Uh if that's if they think he didn't take any shots over this, he did misspeak about the death toll from the Kansas tornado. | |
| But it was mentioned, but I mean it wasn't on the front pages. | |
| They didn't run stories of what an idiot he is, like they would do if Bush had made such a faux pas. | |
| Story also says that Obama's campaign was accused of driving gas guzzling vehicles and his staff took fire for covering up some racy paintings before a fundraiser in an art gallery. | |
| A Kansas City TV station reported that some people were snoozing during one of his speeches, and that was just last week. | |
| See, this is the difference. | |
| Obama's not getting criticized, he's not taking heat. | |
| These are not hits. | |
| These are perfunctory mentions that had a lifespan of less than two hours each time they uh they get mentioned. | |
| Intelligence operatives in the this now, this you know, this is two days or two stories in a week. | |
| We have had an ABC leak of classified information on uh in an attempt to uh destable, destabilize the Iranian regime. | |
| And now CBS revealed on Wednesday that intelligence operatives in the United States and its allied nations have sold Iran flawed technological components in an attempt to sabotage the country's nuclear enrichment program. | |
| In January of 2007, the head of Iran's atomic energy agency said after an explosion at the Natans nuclear facility that some of the equipment had been manipulated. | |
| The explosion destroyed 50 of the plant's centrifuges. | |
| Other evidence has indicated that sabotage was the reason for some of the technical problems that Iran has encountered in its enrichment enterprise. | |
| Sources told CBS that intelligence agencies have altered technical data making it useless. | |
| Well, thank thanks for telling them, CBS. | |
| Thanks somebody's leaking this stuff, and the Department of Justice is making, as far as we can tell, no effort to find out who. | |
| And if they don't make any effort to find out who, it's going to continue. | |
| If there are no recriminations, if there's no consequence for doing this, they're going to continue to leak this stuff. | |
| Um that's one side of it. | |
| The other side of it is, what side are you on here, CBS? | |
| What side are you on, ABC? | |
| I'll never forget the first Gulf Wall. | |
| You know, the bombing started, and you had Bernard Shaw and John Holloman were in the Al Rashid Hotel when the bombing started. | |
| And they're reporting from there. | |
| And they were quaking in their boots. | |
| They finally, the U.S. military got them out of there, brought him back to the United States. | |
| The story goes that the uh the CIA and other military people asked to debrief them. | |
| And Bernard shows, I'm not going to tell you what happened. | |
| I would compromise my journalistic integrity and my uh compromise my uh principles of journalists. | |
| Well, we can't choose sides. | |
| Can't choose sides. | |
| When your own country is at war, you can't choose sides because that is to confound journalistic ethics. | |
| Where do they think the library of their freedom exists? | |
| It exists in the U.S. Constitution. | |
| First Amendment, freedom of the press. | |
| So anyway, here's CBS and ABC now, both in one week, with uh uh publishing stories that clearly damage ongoing efforts to limit the ability of the Iranians to actually ratchet up a nuclear program. | |
| Now, I'm gonna make a wild guess, and I want to tell you up front and stipulate that this is a wild guess. | |
| On this CBS story, uh there there are people in Congress who've probably been told about this program to somehow finagle damaged and sabotaged components to the Iranian nuclear uh program through the Iranian regime. | |
| Uh if that's true, wouldn't surprise me, we'll probably never know, but it wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of Democrat staffers leak this stuff to CBS uh in order to sabotage Bush administration policy. | |
| And if that's true, and again, I'm I'm just engaging here in uh an educated yet wild guess. | |
| If that's if that's true, well, I'm just staffer, it could have been a uh it could have been somebody that's elected, I don't know. | |
| Uh we know senators have leaked, Patrick Lahey has leaked. | |
| That's why his nickname here is DePen, Senator DePenz, Senator Leakey Leahy. | |
| But the bottom line is this I think everybody's trying to make sense of why in the world Democrats are going so bonkers here over Gonzalez, the attorney general. | |
| What he didn't do anything wrong. | |
| Throw aside whether or not you think he's competent or not. | |
| He didn't break any law. | |
| There was no there was no aspect of the firing of those eight U.S. attorney or U.S. attorneys that was illegal. | |
| Well, now that we see what's happening here, Nancy, if I'm right about this in my wild guess, they're going after Gonzalez and going after Gonzalez, because if there is a desire on the part of the Department of Justice, a DOJ, to try to find out who's leaking this stuff, then the Democrats can say, aha, this is payback. | |
| This is nothing more than witch hunting payback, trying to discredit any investigation to find out who's leaking this stuff. | |
| That's what my wild guess is. | |
| Quick time out, your phone calls next after this. | |
| Hi. | |
| How are you? | |
| Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network open line Friday, back to the phones, Dalton, Georgia. | |
| Scott, I'm glad you waited, sir. | |
| Welcome to the show. | |
| Thank you. | |
| It's a pleasure speaking with you. | |
| Yeah, I can imagine. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yeah, it is. | |
| Uh the uh the point that uh I've got to make here, I I am a died-in-the-wool conservative Republican, and I thoroughly disagree with your assessment of the uh immigration issue. | |
| How how's that possible? | |
| I mean how can you uh how can you thoroughly disagree? | |
| I mean that what what I have said about this is as reasoned and right as as it can possibly be. | |
| What what what's your area of disagreement? | |
| Well, I think there's some in uh some uh variance in what you said before about being pro-business, about being uh encouraging uh uh free market system, and what we're talking about is intrusion of the government into businesses, it's uh intrusion of the personal lives, and uh I I I think the rule of law is extremely important. | |
| However, uh this is a misdemeanor that we're talking about, just like a traffic ticket. | |
| Fine should be there. | |
| Whoa, whoa, what's a little what's a misdemeanor? | |
| Being in the country illegally and working? | |
| Being in the country without uh not leaving the country when you're uh coming illegally is uh is a misdemeanor. | |
| You know, uh I've gotten calls from uh from uh you're obviously you an aggregate business. | |
| Uh well, we're in the textile industry here. | |
| We're in the textile industry. | |
| Yeah, and you've been hard hit. | |
| I understand. | |
| Uh you've been hard hit by NAFTA and a bunch of other things. | |
| Uh so I know where you're coming from. | |
| What you you really and I've had calls from from from others like you who are in the ag business uh who have uh even here in Florida who almost said the exact same thing to me. | |
| I you're you're a great conservative rush and all that, but you're just missing our point of view on this. | |
| And I understand your point of view. | |
| I understand cheap labor, I understand uh that's the biggest cost, single greatest cost that businesses have and so forth. | |
| Uh And when but when you start talking free market, you really you really don't mean to insult you by telling this, telling you this, but you really need to read Thomas Sowell's book that I have been uh uh plugging here for the past two days. | |
| It's called basic economics, uh understandable for the average citizen. | |
| It's it's just simple. | |
| And he there's a there's a uh a chapter in the book and a chapter uh a segment of the book where he brilliantly explains how the free market in products is not analogous at all to the free market in immigration. | |
| There's no such thing as a free market in immigration. | |
| Well, i i in your in your in your uh talks over the years, and I've I've been listening to you for many years, your talks, you talk about uh freedom around the world, and and and I am uh I have personally uh known a number of people who are illegal immigrants, legal and illegal, let me make sure I say it clearly. | |
| And uh I I see how our government drives people into uh you know black market economy. | |
| Uh and and uh there's there's a perspective here that I've not heard in any of the media so far, and that's how the uh the immigrant population, legal and illegal, uh, promotes freedom in other parts of the world without without some of the military issues being required. | |
| Uh the think about this for a moment. | |
| If if you have uh well twelve million, according to you institute, twelve million illegals. | |
| It's more like twenty, but we'll use your number. | |
| Okay. | |
| Um let's say there's a large number there, and and they're sending home a percentage of their their wages to their countries. | |
| That is that correct. | |
| A large percentage, like three hundred and ninety seven or ninety-seven billion dollars uh uh in five years. | |
| Well, I think Walter Williams, who knows your so would would agree that that that goes directly to the people, not to the politicians in those countries. | |
| Oh man, you are really going to great lengths to justify the labor force that you want. | |
| This, this, this you're really, really, really abandoning conservatism here to do this. | |
| You are taking free market concepts that exist in goods and product, uh, you know, tangible things, and you're trying to compare it to the movement of human beings that determine a culture, the determinant population, that determine a number of things about a nation's identity. | |
| And you and it the two are not an the fact that they're sending money home is not good for us. | |
| Well, it is it is to the extent that it's not stopping them from coming here. | |
| It's it is not we uh we we gotta stop them from coming here, Rush. | |
| You gotta you gotta secure the borders. | |
| Well, you're telling me you want that to happen? | |
| How how are you gonna get the workforce you want if you get if we stop this? | |
| You specifically want the illegal workforce because they're they're cheap. | |
| No. | |
| No, actually, actually that's that's not true. | |
| The the failure of the government to secure the border is isn't it? | |
| Well, it's not gonna happen. | |
| If that isn't gonna happen. | |
| You don't think so? | |
| No. | |
| There's there's no incentive to stop the inflow in this legislation. | |
| None at all. | |
| They want the bodies because we don't have enough taxpayers down the road to handle all of transfer payments that we got to be to the baby boomers. | |
| That's that this is all about. | |
| This isn't even about immigration. | |
| You don't think it's about uh require you finding a way to to pull those folks in so they legally can can work as yes workers and then and then pay the taxes and pay the few. | |
| It's about that, but it's not about immigration. | |
| There's nothing they they only have to pay the five grand fine and all this and go to the end of the line and go home if they want citizenship. | |
| It's not a it's not about immigrants, it's not about assimilation, it's about getting the bodies in here to do work to pay taxes to be able to pay your and my social security, Medicare, and all the other baby boomers, because we're living longer, and we've had so many abortions in this country. | |
| We've we've short circuited ourselves on warm bodies. | |
| Our birth rate replacement levels are are are not what they should be. | |
| I don't know about you, but I'm not counting on Social Security. | |
| Uh well, I'm not either, but whether we want it or not, we have to get it. | |
| We can't turn it back. | |
| We have to accept it. | |
| I mean, we can give it away once we get it. | |
| My grandfather tried never to accept it. | |
| He didn't need it either. | |
| But the but the point is that we we don't have enough workers. | |
| Right now, the the the payment burden, it takes the the social security taxes of taxes, period, of three employees to pay the retirement benefits, social security benefits of one person. | |
| And if things don't change, that burden's gonna shift down to two. | |
| That means those two people's taxes are going to rise in order to be able to pay. | |
| They're not going to reform these programs because there's too much danger in that electorally. | |
| Uh and so th this is a mad dash to get any warm body they can. | |
| My point is there's no incentive to secure the border. | |
| They're going to say there is, but there isn't. | |
| The legislation itself is evidence of that. | |
| I mean, when you when you're going to allow what, 400 to 800,000 guest workers, you're going to immediately make whatever 12 to 20 million illegals legal, not citizens, legal. | |
| And then you're going to let all of them bring in up to four family members? | |
| We're talking 50 million people here, if this actually happens. | |
| They're not going to like that. | |
| That won't last either. | |
| Here we are on the uh the eve of the Memorial Day weekend. | |
| Probably uh millions of you out there driving around at inflated gas prices, but I they're doing see, they're doing the monkey story up there on MSNBC. | |
| Illegal resident. | |
| Now you tell me. | |
| Look at the cutest little monkeys playing there on a swing. | |
| Look at that's the mother. | |
| That's the woman. | |
| That that's the gazewitz babe. | |
| Um look at the pain that she's at. | |
| She's talking about it now. | |
| This is uh uh this is just woman at her monkey taken away from her up in Maryland, and this is her pet monkey. | |
| Cute, cute, cute little monkey. | |
| Looking at it now. | |
| Look at her. | |
| She just she's she's distressed. | |
| This is a horrible way to go into the Memorial Day weekend for her. | |
| Um illegal resident. | |
| What the hell is this? | |
| You know, why put that up there? | |
| Obviously, MSNBC is trying to tie this to the whole illegal immigration uh debate. | |
| Uh and that woman is harmless. | |
| You can tell that that woman is not harboring this monkey for any illicit purpose, and just uh at any rate. | |
| Orange Park, Florida. | |
| Uh Tony, I'm glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Good afternoon, Rush. | |
| I think I have the answer to your question. | |
| Uh the question of why CNN's out there scouring the country for Republicans to disagree with me on immigration. | |
| That's correct. | |
| What's your answer? | |
| It's because your opinion is more important than the elected Republican leadership to the base. | |
| Wow. | |
| The first stab at it gets it right. | |
| Are you a subscriber to my website? | |
| Uh no, sir. | |
| Well, do you have a computer? | |
| Oh, yes, sir. | |
| Well, you deserve a complimentary one year subscription, so when we finish here, don't hang up. | |
| I will not. | |
| We'll get you on. | |
| And I'm not going to throw in a subscription to the Limbaugh letter one year, and uh but I'm gonna get you a uh Nobel Peace Prize nomination commemorative mug that we uh uh have available for new subscribers. | |
| You are a new comp subscriber, so I'm gonna throw one of those in for you. | |
| I love it. | |
| There's one other aspect, one other possible answer to it. | |
| Uh your answer is correct. | |
| But the other answer is that the these people, like at the media, the drive-by media, are trying to portray people like me who oppose this legislation on illegal immigration as racists. | |
| We're Yahoos, we're nativists. | |
| And uh and and so in in the process of going out and trying to find Republicans who disagree with me, they're trying to marginally make me look marginalized, make me look like I'm so extreme that not even mainstream Republicans in downtown America support me on this. | |
| It's ultimately an effort to discredit me, but you're they couldn't do that, and they wouldn't have to do that if your answer weren't accurate in the first place. | |
| That's exactly correct. | |
| And I'm one of those yahoos with a master's degree, and I'm also Hispanic. | |
| Are you? | |
| Yes. | |
| Uh well, it's great to have you in this audience. | |
| And I uh I'm I'm fly what's your ma what's your master's in? | |
| Uh international relations. | |
| International relations? | |
| What are you doing in uh Orange Park, Florida? | |
| Well, I still have fly airplanes. | |
| You manage an international house of pancakes out there. | |
| That's that's probably it. | |
| Restaurant. | |
| Well, he said he had a master's in international relations. | |
| Anyway, Tony, hang on, we'll get the information necessary to make these comps work and to get the uh Nobel Peace Prize commemorative mug to your doorstep. | |
| Uh Passa Robles, California's next. | |
| This is Richard, and I appreciate your patience and holding on, sir. | |
| And not a problem. | |
| Mega first uh division, big red one dittoes, Rush. | |
| To the point. | |
| This Mexican uh subsidation of c uh corruption bill allowed the Mexican government to remain corrupt at four at uh sends twenty-seven percent of its population north of the border. | |
| That's their poverty rate right now. | |
| So, and if they bring in all the uh people that they can bring in, that's half the Mexican population that will soon be an American legal legal resident of America. | |
| Let's cut to the chase here. | |
| What are you saying here that Mexico is trying to get rid of their undesirables? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| The American people like to have their consumer goods subsidized, cheap agricultural products, cheap textiles. | |
| Supposedly keeps our economy going, jobs Americans won't do. | |
| The Mexicans can, you know, the top ten percent keep sixty percent of the wealth in Mexico, so they get it to maintain their power base. | |
| The Democrats get a new block of voters. | |
| You know, everyone's happy except for the American people that are getting screwed in the deal. | |
| Well, you know, there's a there's a level of criticism out there for us Yahoos, aimed at us Yahoos. | |
| Uh and and uh th that that we are that we are missing the vote on this economically, that uh we're we're just missing and we're caught up in the cultural aspect, and that's when they start to racism and bigots and and this sort of thing. | |
| And I don't know anybody who is afraid to admit that the cultural consequences of this are profound. | |
| But it's not it's not a bias against anybody. | |
| It is a love and respect for the traditions and institutions that have made this country great. | |
| Immigration's always been about assimilation. | |
| This isn't. | |
| I asked the question earlier. | |
| Is a hyphenated American more hyphenated or more American? | |
| You know, is is an Italian American more Italian or more American is just you d using that as an example. | |
| Is it Hispanic American more Hispanic or more American? | |
| And the way we're going now, we've got systems set up that get in the way of assimilation. | |
| Bilingualism, uh we uh affirmative action, uh, all these things. | |
| There are people w there are people that love this country. | |
| There are people that have taken uh steps to understand why it is that this is the greatest collection of human beings operating as a country in the history of human civilization. | |
| In only two hundred years. | |
| Other civilizations have been around for thousands, other countries, nothing wrong with them. | |
| We're no different than them in terms of our DNA and our humanity. | |
| But there's something. | |
| There is something that has set this country apart. | |
| And in addition to our founding documents, it's our distinct culture. | |
| And when people in the past wanted to come here, they wanted to be part of that. | |
| That's not happening now. | |
| So of course there's a cultural component here, because there are people like me and millions of you who want to continue to hand down the country as we inherited it. | |
| So children and grandchildren that follow us will have the same opportunities and more that we had, because we love the country, because we believe in the way it's structured. | |
| We want to preserve it. | |
| And we're dismayed to see so many people who don't have the slightest concern about it. | |
| You know what the problem with and in that regard? | |
| Uh I did a riff earlier in the week on the elites. | |
| Republican elites, liberal Democrat elites, elites are elites. | |
| And the one thing that sets them apart from us on all this is that they never think they're going to be touched by any of this cultural change. | |
| They live in places where this stuff's not going to affect them, and they're not going to see it. | |
| Uh and so they're not going to be touched by it. | |
| The elites, I don't care what ideological movement they're tied to or what political party. | |
| The elites, this is especially true of the liberal ones. | |
| The elites set up these symptoms or these systems and laws for everybody else to live under, and they exempt themselves. | |
| Uh so that uh they they are not punished or penalized with the passage of these new laws. | |
| The same thing here. | |
| They've actually got themselves believing that they're not going to be touched by any of the cultural changes if they even believe that there are going to be any. | |
| Uh and I'll grant that some of them are optimists and think that once you come to America you can't help but become an American. | |
| Well, the problem with that is that we got a lot of Americans who hate America as it's currently structured, and they're trying to tear it down as it's currently structured and rebuild it in their own image, make it a little bit more liberal, make it a little bit more socialistic. | |
| Uh, we know full well there are people in this country who dislike it. | |
| They tell us often, they're on the media all the time. | |
| Uh they're teaching multicultural curricula in schools. | |
| They are lying to young kids about the history of this country. | |
| Uh they're lying about any number of things. | |
| There's no question that there's a battle on for the future of the country as we've known it. | |
| Well, you you you bring an influx of people in where no effort's gonna be made to have them assimilate and join that version of America, and if they're gonna end up actually being tools of the people that don't like this country as it's currently structured and want to change it. | |
| Yeah, that's about that. | |
| And I don't have any problem admitting it. | |
| And I don't have a problem admitting it, that's what the fight is about in large part. | |
| Uh along with, you know, some of the basic elements of the legislation that are just bad. | |
| Here's Ryan in Toronto, Ontario. | |
| Nice to have you with us, sir, from north of the border. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| How are you doing? | |
| Fine, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Good stuff. | |
| Uh I told uh Snurley there that I am one of those Americans, uh, sorry, Canadians that you're talking about. | |
| I want to come to the country to live. | |
| I'm finding it next to nearly impossible. | |
| Uh I would be a definite Republican. | |
| I am a hundred percent conservative. | |
| Uh I come down a couple years times of the year just to soak up the culture, not the illegal immigration culture, the American culture, and I'm finding it next to impossible to get into the country. | |
| So what I proposed, and I'd like your advice on this, is what would happen if I got in the canoe, phoned all the Canadian media and got some American media and tried to paddle across the Niagara River. | |
| Would I get my citizenship then? | |
| I think uh uh well. | |
| You're if you're serious about this, the best thing to do is take a plane to Mexico City and head north on foot. | |
| Or in a car or what have well, I mean, literally, there's there's there's uh I I I think the the northern border is more wide open and so forth. | |
| But your problem's gonna be once you get here, you're you that the the reason this is a great question, because you're you're trying to get here legally and you're running into long lines and the restrictions that we have, correct? | |
| Oh, correct, sir. | |
| And and you're watching all this other go on. | |
| Oh and you're you're obviously educated and skilled and so forth. | |
| You're watching this influx of people who are not educated and have low skills, and so being welcomed with open arms, in fact, almost apologize to for our efforts in the past to keep them out, and your head's probably swimming. | |
| That's correct. | |
| And uh like I said, it it's I'm finding it very tough to get in there. | |
| Even uh there's something I'm sure you're well aware of, uh the U.S. visa lottery. | |
| And being a Canadian citizen, uh, despite uh the many years of friendship we've shared as nations, uh, I cannot even enter that. | |
| But any other country in the world may enter the citizenship. | |
| Uh it's it's it's a shock to me. | |
| The lottery. | |
| Well, I don't know why that is. | |
| Um, as host, of course I'm familiar with everything, but I can't I can't tell you again the answer to why that would be. | |
| That's uh I can only hazard a guess it probably wouldn't be prudent. | |
| Uh hazard a guess about why that's the case, probably having to do diplomatic relations with Canada. | |
| I mean, you know, there are probably a lot of Canadians like come down here just to flee the health care system up there for one thing. | |
| Um that's the point. | |
| We we we what it when it comes to legal immigration, you what you know, you agriculture people who are all for this uh piece of legislation, you ought to go talk to some of the people Silicon Valley in the high tech business. | |
| They would love to be able to expand the, I forget the kind of visas they are. | |
| They would love to expand the visas to get some of the brilliant brains from Asia and India in here to work at their companies. | |
| They claim they can't find as qualified uh uh uh employees in this country. | |
| Some people say, well, they're lying about that. | |
| They just want the cheap labor, these kids from Asia and India and so forth come in here and work cheaper than American college graduates. | |
| Everybody's gonna make that claim. | |
| Uh some sort of criticism. | |
| But we have all kinds of controls on that's the point. | |
| We have a definite limit on the amount of skilled, highly educated people that can get in this country. | |
| It is it's nonsensical. | |
| Uh and I'm just I I'm telling you, I've got this nailed. | |
| It the the the explanation for this is so simple it may be difficult to believe. | |
| I'm not gonna go through it now because of time constraints and because I've mentioned it um before. | |
| I appreciate the call. | |
| Um Ryan, we've got to take a brief time out, be back and conclude uh with a couple more segments right after this. | |
| Welcome back to Open Line Friday. | |
| I am uh Rush Limbaugh. | |
| Documented to be almost always right, ninety-eight point six percent of the time. | |
| This is unbelievable. | |
| HR, where did you where where did you get this uh he faxed out a letter to me from some woman where did how'd they get our fax number? | |
| Oh, uh well, oh, that fax number. | |
| I thought it came to your personal th. | |
| Mr. Limbaugh, my husband just called me and told me that you were bashing Elise and Armani, the lady and her monkey. | |
| It's unfortunate that people like you open your mouth and say things you know nothing about. | |
| I myself have monkeys, and I've had them for ten and twelve years. | |
| They're part of our family. | |
| Let me try to enlighten you on the care and upbringing of monkeys, and she goes on and describes what life with monkeys is like. | |
| So for you to say what you did about Elise was wrong. | |
| You don't know the whole story. | |
| I do. | |
| If you'd like more information, you can contact me. | |
| Uh her name is Sherry. | |
| Sherry, you better talk to your husband and clear out his ears. | |
| It's just the exact opposite. | |
| I have been my gut has been wrenching for this woman, Elise, after I saw the sorry, I listened to her in agony over having her pet taken out of the house here going into Memorial Day weekend. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Wendy in uh Bozier City, Louisiana. | |
| You're uh next on the EIB network. | |
| Hi. | |
| Yes, I just wanted to say uh thank you, Resh, for defending the woman and in her crisis. | |
| I I can't have children of my own, and I have that's actually two Maltese, and they sleep between my husband and myself. | |
| Uh and I I can't I can't understand. | |
| I mean, I can't even uh it's the law. | |
| The monkey is considered a wild animal, and uh they got a law that if she had the if she had the animal before the grandfather, she claims she did, by the way. | |
| But there's an un unanswered question. | |
| Who fingered this woman and her monkey? | |
| Somebody had to call the animal control people. | |
| They're just not scouring the neighborhood. | |
| They knew a monkey lived inside. | |
| I'm sure the monkey was uh tiny and just stayed inside. | |
| Oh, it's cutest little thing you've ever seen. | |
| I've seen pictures of it. | |
| Well, I appreciate your appreciating my sympathy. | |
| Well, I I thank you. | |
| I thank you so much for for uh defending her because nobody ever does. | |
| Everyone thinks that I am crazy, I'm insane, and uh that's not because you have animals, trust me. | |
| Well, that is because I love them. | |
| I I shaved one of my Maltese that had long hair. | |
| I shaved her because I put dresses on her, and people think I'm insane. | |
| Uh they think that I spend too much time uh uh worrying about a trivial dog. | |
| Well, these are my these are my family. | |
| These are my children. | |
| And I'm sure that that woman felt that way about her monkey. | |
| Um she did. | |
| I mean, she that's exactly what she said. | |
| Look, I have to run here. | |
| Uh uh, Wendy, because I gotta close out the program. | |
| This is uh uh interesting. | |
| Uh, you know, uh uh Clinton and Obama have voted no on the on the Iraq funding bill. | |
| Uh and they're and they're clearly just posturing to the Kook Fringe base. | |
| Uh and John McCain has just and not just McCain, a lot of Republican candidates, but McCain has come out and just slammed Obama. | |
| Uh McCain being McCain can't help it. | |
| This is from the politico. | |
| He goes the next step in the statements kicker. | |
| By the way, Senator Obama is a flak jacket. | |
| Uh uh, not a flak jacket. | |
| He's spelling uh uh with a C is uh is how Obama spells it, and that's wrong. | |
| There's no C in Flack. | |
| And then a McCain aide uh said this about Obama after this vote. | |
| Barack Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong. | |
| Now I know those of you in Rio Linda know what a bong is, but you may not know what an RPG is. | |
| Rocket propelled grenade. | |
| This is hot and heavy. | |
| Going into the Memorial Day weekend, McCain's staffer says Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong. | |
| A bong is a uh uh smoke illegal drugs with it. | |
| Uh so it's it's heating up out there, and it's uh getting interesting. | |
| This is you know, like McCain, I think McCain said uh voting voting no on this thing is is uh is it's uh uh incomprehensible. | |
| Uh and he's right. | |
| There is uh no question about it. | |
| I wish I had more time, but I don't, and I gotta I gotta hit the golf course. | |
| I couldn't do a fourth hour. | |
| People have been clamoring for fourth hour. | |
| I promise we'll do a fourth hour ill quico, but I can't I can't do one today. | |
| I have to run. | |
| We'll be back and close it out right after this. | |
| All right, happy Memorial Day out to everybody. | |
| And try for just a brief moment over the weekend to remember what it's really about. | |
| By the way, this political story. | |
| Do you think it's possible that McCain's aide said that Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bomb? | |
| Rather than a bong, and this could be a type of I'm just speculating. | |
| I wouldn't be surprised if there's a correction later on. | |
| All right, folks, I'll see you back on Tuesday. | |
| We got a great best up show on Monday. |
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