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June 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And greetings and welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
You are tuned to the Rush Limbaugh program, and we're doing open line Friday on Thursday today.
Because I will be out tomorrow.
Roger Hedgecock from San Diego will be guest hosting the program.
So when we go to the phones, the program is yours, meaning whatever you wish to call and talk about pretty much is fair game.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
The email address is Rush at EIB net.com.
You may be aware of the hurt feelings of John Conyers, uh, an esteemed Congressman from uh Michigan.
Uh the other day, the Fox News channel doing a story on the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
They rolled tape of Conyers.
And uh Conyers, of course, got very upset about this.
Uh uh couldn't bel couldn't believe they would uh make such an error.
And of course, the underlying uh offense uh the the that the Congressman Conyers felt was that uh Fox doesn't know the difference uh between uh Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and Conyers, because they're both black, and uh, you know, the this old saw that uh they all look alike.
And then DeConyers is playing on that and demanded an apology.
And Fox has apologized uh uh twice.
Not nearly enough.
I I I think Fox needs to apologize every day for for a while.
I haven't uh and uh I to do uh we maybe even do a you know a tour, um uh an apology tour.
Uh I haven't seen the Fox apology today.
Snerdley said he saw it yesterday.
What time did you see it yesterday?
Uh it's uh the show that's on now.
Well, um I I I I want to apologize uh the Congressman Conyers uh on behalf of the Fox News Channel, since they have not apologized in it.
I I think uh this is something that the Fox uh new news people should uh continually apologize for every day.
Um uh and and uh roll correct tape this time of uh of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, when reporting on the Conyers story, uh, so as not to leave uh any any confusion about this.
It's a horrible thing that happened.
Conyers is uh in fact, I don't think he's accepted the apologies.
They sent somebody even to his office.
Fox sent somebody to his office to apologize.
I don't know if he uh actually is that Mrs. Putin.
No wonder this guy sorry.
Oh, let's move on to immigration uh news here, ladies and gentlemen.
Presidential politics and partisan resentments reached a boil in the Senate on Wednesday night as a heated exchange between Senators Barack Obama and Lindsey Gramnesty erupted on the chamber floor and continued in a nearby corridor.
Vice President Lindsey Gramnesty was disappointed that Barack Obama was trying to amend the immigration bill, thought it would undermine McCain's work.
Uh and and uh, you know, uh after all, the uh the the Republicans are walking to blank and blowing off their base on this.
And Lindsay Gramnesty was a little bit upset that there Barack Obama had offered this amendment.
It doesn't matter what the amendment was, the amendment failed.
By the way, uh uh Mrs. Clinton offered an amendment too.
I don't know what the amendment was, but it failed.
And I'm sitting here asking myself here the the the inevitable Democrat presidential nominee, the smartest woman in the world, gonna have all this power.
She's gonna have this ability to make and shape the Democrat Party in her own image, however, she wants it to look and act, and she couldn't get her amendment passed on the immigration bill.
Hmm.
And I got to thinking, would that ever happen to Bill Clinton on something he really cared about?
Would he allow this kind of embarrassment?
Now, you haven't heard about this because the drive-by is not talking much about Hillary's failed amendment.
Uh, and the only reason they're talking about Barack's failed amendments because Lindsay Gramnesty literally f shouted him down on the floor of the house and followed him out of the chamber and started berating the guy outside the house the uh the Senate uh floor.
And you know, Obama didn't quite know what to make of this.
They have since put it all back together and and uh and and uh smoked a peace pipe over this.
Uh Obama was stunned and uh demanded time to respond.
The notion that his amendment would gut the bill, he said was simply disingenuous.
It's engaging in the sort of history onics that it's entirely inappropriate for this debate.
In a separate interview later, uh Vice President Gramnesty said, I uh I want to go outside to impress upon Obama the danger he was causing for a bill he supposedly supported.
I said I'm very disappointed in you.
I like the guy, he said.
Well, they always say that.
Uh but uh they they said that was just a little misunderstanding.
It's all been put back together too much coffee.
Um people being on the floor too long uh led to the eruption here between uh Barack Obama and Senator Gramnestick.
Uh global warming news.
Droves of cats and kittens swarming into animal shelters nationwide.
Global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.
This is from Livescience.com.
Several shelters operated by a national adoption organization called Pets Across America reported a 30% increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 05 to 06.
Other shelters across the nation reported similar spikes of stray-owned and feral cats.
The cause of this feline flood is an extended cat breeding season, thanks to the world's warming temperatures, according to the group, uh, which is one of the country's oldest and largest animal welfare organizations.
Uh, Kathy Warnick, the uh president of pets across America, said cats are typically warm weather spring tri springtime breeders.
However, states that typically experience primarily longer and colder winters are now seeing shorter, warmer winters, leading to year-round breeding.
Honest to God, this is what she says.
Honest, I it it is it is th this is why amazes me that this movement has i it's so many asinine, irresponsible, laughable claims are made in the name of global warming.
And I wonder and there are intelligent people who buy into this.
And it should have been discredited uh long ago.
And we're not gonna give up on discrediting it, folks, just like we're not gonna give up on killing the uh immigration bill.
Washington Post today.
You talk about a non-story.
Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March of 2004, according to a former senior justice official who told this to senators yesterday.
The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the same program from then Attorney General Ashcroft, who lay recovering from surgery in a hospital.
Comey's disclosures, James Comey were talking about, made in response to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, uh indicate that Cheney and his aides were more closely involved than previously known in a fierce internal battle over the legality of the warrantless surveillance program, which allowed the uh National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and emails between the United States and overseas.
At least they got it right this time in describing what the program was.
It was not spying on Americans.
It never was.
Comey said that Cheney's office later blocked the promotion of a senior Justice Department lawyer, Patrick Philbin, because of his role in raising concerns about the surveillance.
Now, this is being reported as a crime.
This is so what?
He's vice president.
You know, I think he also um urged the military to win in Iraq.
Well, let's impeach him.
He was in favor of a program to help nab the kind of suspects that were nabbed.
The JFK terrorist plot put on page 30 of the New York Times this past Sunday.
So what?
He's vice president.
And so if there's somebody standing in away the program he wants, get rid of him.
He's vice president.
Supported the uh victory in the war, too.
Whoa, what a bad bad man.
Dick Cheney.
Hurricane surge may be nothing new, study says.
Uh surge in major Atlantic hurricanes over the last decade, often cited as evidence of increasing global warming, may not be a surge at all, but a return to normal storm patterns.
Uh using nearly three centuries of hurricane history recorded in Organic storm debris encased in coral reefs.
Researchers found that the frequency of major hurricanes today was about the same as it was during the extended periods from the mid-1700s to the mid-1900s.
There were periods that were just as active as we see now.
Really?
Why is this even news?
There is not one weather occurrence happening on the planet today that has not happened before.
Not one.
There is not one temperature on this planet that has not been reached somewhere else on the planet sometime before.
And we we haven't been measuring temperatures in the 1700s and the 2000s and all this of you know, minus two thousands of rope.
We didn't have thermometers.
Didn't have records.
And if we had had a thermometer, the church would have communicated the guy who said this is the temperature.
At any rate, this this is look at Max Mayfield said last year, this is not global warming.
William Gray said last year this is not global warming.
This is a normal cycle.
But uh now they've got this study, I guess, so the study can back up what the experts have previously said.
Get to your phone calls after this timeout, stay with us.
Yeah, I guess that uh little outreach program uh we have with Iran uh not working, uh ladies and gentlemen.
ABC News is reporting that Iran has been caught red-handed shipping weapons into Afghanistan.
NATO officials say that they caught uh Iran red-handed shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives, and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.
It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing this, said uh former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clark in ABC News concerned.
Well, Richard Clark says, Oh, it's gotta be true.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week at blaming Iran.
Of course he did, because we're trying to make buds with them.
Trying to make nice with them.
He says the U.S. didn't have evidence of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the uh Taliban, but an analysis by a senior coalition official concludes that there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.
So those feel good overtures, hmm.
Must not have worked.
This is an act of war.
And they're doing the same thing into Iraq.
And they're telling us what they're gonna do.
Once again, earlier this week or late last week, Ahmadinejad came out and said the time is running out on Israel.
The clock is ticking, that their days are numbered.
Uh and these guys, you know, we everybody hears them say this.
Ah, he's just some little crackpot over there.
Don't worry about it, Rush.
Nothing's gonna happen.
Okay, fine.
Uh Freedom New Jersey, free Freedom, New Jersey, I'm sorry.
This is Mark, and you're up first in this hour.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Well, Mr. Limbaugh, what an honor and a thrill.
I appreciate it, but I'm I've got to say the three words that I thought I would probably never say to you.
We are irrelevant.
It seems to me that uh we as the conservative movement in this country that you have led extremely well.
We're dead.
No one's listening to us.
You yourself have said that the senators aren't paying attention to us anymore.
You yourself have said that I said they said that.
There was a Washington Post story out that said the senators went home and they didn't find as much anger and disagreement as they thought they would.
I thought it was.
But we know that was a lie.
Well, of course it's a lie because it and they ran a poll that was fraudulent too.
And we've there are other polls indicate.
Look at this, this bill's on life support.
I understand that, Rush, and I'm glad it is.
We we've got but like you'd said in the first hour, we can't let up.
We're gonna be stronger.
But I'm I'm wanting you as our our grand Uba to lead in a stronger voice.
I I think that we need to call these people out by name.
The Republicans in name only that are voting for this bill that would literally kill the Republican Party and and our conservative movement more so in this country.
Uh this bill is garbage, it's trash, and we as conservatives basically are sitting on the sidelines three hours ago.
We're not saying to you.
Who do you think to whoa?
Whoa, hold on.
Why do you not doing anything?
Why do you think that the bill is on life support?
We've been calling, we've been faxing those.
Okay, what we should be in the damn street.
But you just No, we don't do that.
We have more effective ways of if we're in the street, it wouldn't matter.
There are not enough of us going to do that.
That's not how we make noise.
That's we we're not a bunch of malcontent troublemakers that blow up bank buildings.
We don't do, we don't throw paint on people.
It's not what we do.
We are this this is working.
But you're right, we can't stop, we can't give up on it.
But you must have missed the first hour of this program.
Tisk Tisk.
If that's the case, because I'm telling you, if this bill is beaten back, it is a great thing for the conservative movement.
It will send shock waves through both parties, and it will create a vacuum.
The White House has split the Republican Party on this.
There's no question about it.
But there's a good thing, two good things that have happened as a result of splitting the party.
The White House inadvertently is also really, really, really damaged McCain in this.
The second thing is they're creating a vacuum.
Now I agree if the bill passes, and if it gets to the Senate, it gets through the House and the President signs it, yep, it's uh it's a disaster.
Uh but that even that is going to create a vacuum for conservatism to be filled uh or to facuum that would be filled by conservatism in the Republican Party.
So there's there's there's you have to look at every instance and look at the the side that really frustrates you and looks like all is lost, you gotta look at it because you will find good there, and there is good in this, and it's if the bill is killed, uh they're gonna have to go back to the drawing board and come back with something better.
Look, when Harriet Meyer's nomination was uh effectively beat back, we got Justice Alito.
We got a good one.
This time, if this thing is beaten back for and it's being beaten back on substantive reasons, when they go back and rewrite it, if they have any hope of the new one passing, it's gonna have to deal with border security first and nothing else until that is done.
Because that that we have to staunch the flow.
And then you can start talking about what you want to do with the people that are here.
But this bill is so bad on the substance that the people that wrote it didn't ever want us to see it.
But it it has been seen and it has been analyzed, and people know about it.
And if this is beaten back, uh it's it's uh it's gonna be a uh huge, huge thing for conservatism, because conservatism will have been the reason it was beaten back.
Now I know there's some rifts in the conservative movement over this.
You know, some of the elite conservatives uh have uh, you know, ties to uh the business community and so forth.
Everybody's got their pet peeves in this, but uh the the vast majority of the conservative movement is dead set against this thing.
You've got to be a little bit more positive about this.
We're not gonna take the streets.
Uh nobody that I know of is gonna urge people to take to the streets.
This is not how we operate.
We don't want to be looked at and thought of as a bunch of malcontents that show up.
And even when we do protest, they don't cover it, and they certainly downplay the numbers.
So uh just sit back, sit back, this is this is not going anywhere.
Nobody's sitting around doing nothing, and you are not irrelevant.
I don't know how you can sit there and think you are irrelevant when what is happening to this bill is happening.
They couldn't even come up with 40 votes, needing 60 to stop debate on this thing.
They couldn't get closer.
If they'd have gotten the 60 votes, then it would have been, you know, we'd have took.
That basically means the bill is ready to go.
But they and they got so few votes, and I Vinji Harry intends this thing to go down the tubes, I think, for his own political reasons.
He wants the Republican Party split.
He wants the Republican Party taking the criticism of it.
They think that there's a big political winner here for them, because they think the country wants the bill uh and that the country loves Democrats, but those rascally Republicans with those screaming nativists and yahoos on the right defeated the bill, and they think they're gonna be able to make all kinds of political hay out of that, and they have misjudged this because even people in their own party, and even the black caucus in the House has split on on this.
So you're not irrelevant.
Nobody working on this is irrelevant.
This is this is you realize what a fate of compliment this bill was when we started this.
They they negotiated this bill in secret.
Nobody knew what was in it.
La Raza was in there with the Democrats during the negotiations, and they got veto power over elements in the bill.
The Republicans went along well.
I just think the Republicans in the Senate got snookered.
I don't think there's anything more complicated to it than that.
That is some Republicans that think this is going to be the only way we can get these Hispanics.
They actually believe that Prop 187 turned the state of California over to the Democrats.
What stern turned the state of California over to Democrats is uncontrolled illegal immigration.
All those illegals came in, but they're Democrats.
They end up voting.
So some of them do.
What Prop 187 did when the federal judge had overturned it.
He caused Republicans to hell with this and others, and they fled the state, further affecting the demographics.
But the Republicans actually believe that Prop 187 is what just lost California.
The Republican Party lost California all by itself.
And here we are on a cutting edge, El Rushmore.
Living legend, national treasure, doing what I was born to do.
What?
And so are you.
I was born to host.
You were born to listen.
Try this.
This is from the Minneapolis Pioneer Press.
A female worker's immigration status does not bar her from filing a sexual harassment lawsuit, according to a federal judge in Minneapolis.
Maria Torres, a cook at a Perkins restaurant and bakery in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood, accused her boss of making sexually suggestive remarks, touching her and showing up unannounced at her casa house.
For those of you in Rio Linda, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Torres filed a harassment and retaliation lawsuit alleging Perkins started investigating her immigration status only after she complained.
Attorneys for Perkins tried to have the case dismissed, arguing that her suspected status as an undocumented worker barred her and the EEOC from suing.
But the district judge, John Tunheim, refused to throw out the suit.
He found that a ruling that undocumented workers could not pursue civil rights claims on their own behalf would likely chill these important actions.
So, you see, it doesn't matter if you are here in violation of the law.
If you are here breaking the law, you still can go to court, take advantage of all of our nuts-all liberal political correctness out there.
Thank you.
Of course, the business that hired her is also breaking the law.
But there neither is being prosecuted for that.
So uh it just it gets more surreal each day.
Joe in Norfolk, Virginia, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hello there, Rosh.
Hello there.
How are you?
Fine.
Um my my uh my whole point is last week you were talking about choice.
Women have choice.
And uh I have a very good friend who is a prostitute, and she's gotten trapped, she's gotten uh thrown in jail.
Wait, wait, wait, yes.
Yeah, I know.
No, no, wait, wait a minute.
I'm trying I'm trying trying to remember the context here.
It was about abortion.
I s I uh uh you sure it wasn't a caller that called was talking about this?
Was it maybe maybe I'm not sure.
Was it the last call of the day?
Yeah.
Was it from a Republican woman who said she was liberal on some things and like pro-life abortion, she was liberal, but she was conservative on other things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She was urging Republican unity.
Yeah.
Yeah, on the okay.
Uh and during that time.
So you have a choice.
Yeah, so you have a choice about abortion, right?
But you don't have a choice whether to use your body to sell it.
And you know why?
As I was thinking about it, and I it it ran through my head so much.
The Democrats give out money so that poorers can have uh uh abortion, okay?
Yeah.
And a Democrat does not, does not want any um little class person to get rich.
And if a girl can make it and make it good, she's getting rich, so let's throw her in jail.
Let's trap her and throw her in jail.
Well, yeah, yeah, uh, but you see, there's a this is the point that I've always made when when when women or liberals say that uh you can't tell me what I can do with my body.
I you can't, you can't have that kind of we do.
We do you're not allowed to be a prostitute.
We have a law you cannot be a prostitute.
You know, and you and there's a number of other things you can't do with your body.
Um you can't use it to kill somebody.
Unless it is your own baby.
That features.
Uh so we do have these laws.
So the whole argument that you can't you can't tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body, that's that's absurd because we do.
Exactly.
So where's the choice?
I I'm not getting it.
Well, I mean, if you're gonna be a prostitute, don't get caught.
There's plenty of places to go do this, and you get away what I look it.
Uh you really think this woman's being put out because she's trying to get rich as a hooker.
Well, damn, she brings home more than I do, and I'm working.
Well, um, have you thought about going into that line of work?
Uh no, no, no, no.
No.
Sorry.
I I'm not calling a law.
No, no, no.
I was not expressing a desire for any particular answer.
I just is I just was curious.
Uh so I'm gonna still so you your basic point is women don't have choice.
No, I I don't feel that they do.
And you know, it's it's between businesses.
Women run the world.
I I don't understand you you women, women run the world.
They have them just don't know it, but they do.
Well, sure.
I mean, if you're well, then you've got choice.
No, no, Rush, no, we don't.
Come on, what do you think?
Do you want to legalize prostitution?
Is that is that what your point is?
I think if those girls keep themselves clean, go to the doctor, let them do what makes their money.
If a guy wants to buy it, if he can't get it free, you know, then he's got the problem, not her.
And then on the other hand, where where the women rule the war world, that's only because men let them.
It started back with Adam and Eve.
If he shomped on her in the beginning, none of this would have happened.
You know?
I mean, it's just like Globo Wami for crying out loud.
They're getting it confused with evolution, you know.
Uh it's uh it's all a it's the the whole political thing now has come down to stupidity.
Uh what do you think about anything else?
Um, gee, I don't I I I could uh man, I could talk with you for hours.
Well, I told a I'm I'm I'm enjoying this.
Um It's dispitiful though.
It's pitiful to tell somebody that they have a choice, but they don't.
Well, we look there's limits on choices everybody.
There are laws.
There are there are societal norms, there are conscience.
Well, I mean, there's there's there are ever we all nobody has limitless choices out there.
Rush, every time you turn around, they make a new law for something.
Well I I mean, we we're gonna be so bogged down with their laws that there is gonna be no freedom someday.
Yes, that's why that's that's exactly why when Congress goes on recess, it's breathe a sigh of relief time.
Oh, yeah, and half of them are I mean, you you've got men up there who are I I don't care what anybody says, they are the biggest criminals in the world, but yet they sit up there in Congress and make the rules for us.
That is crazy.
Kennedy should have never got away with the shit that he's done in his past.
Oh, gee, where's the where's the deedle button?
Gee, we've all right.
All right, you're losing control out there.
I am.
I'm just I am, I am just losing it.
But you know what?
At least when I talk to you, I keep in some focus.
I listen to you.
I listen to you daily so that I can keep the the little thoughts that cra creep into my head in check.
If you you're you're focused now is what you're saying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, this is.
I'll tell you they get out there, but you know, I try to do that.
It picks back up.
Well, yes, what were you saying?
I said, whenever I get them creeping in, I try to check check back.
Oh, Rush said this, okay.
Well, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Everything get what creeping in?
Those thoughts.
Oh, thoughts.
Thoughts.
No, those are dangerous things for women.
You should you you you should you should be very careful of that.
Okay.
All right.
I'm gonna take a break here a little early, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll be back in uh just a second continuing.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I told you people, I knew this was what was gonna happen, and it has happened.
Dingy Harry took to the microphones after the vote for cloture in the Senate this morning on the immigration bill went down the tubes.
They needed sixty votes to shut off debate and basically end debate and then didn't have the vote.
And they got 33.
So the Senate refused to limit debate on overhauling U.S. immigration law as Democrats urged President Bush to rally Republicans to rescue the legislation.
Dingy Harry appealed to President Bush to twist the arms of Republicans who voted against limiting debate, saying an inability to pass a legislation would produce headlines that the president fails again.
This is the President's bill.
This is a Republican bill.
The bill that's on the floor is not a Democrat bill.
It is a bill that was worked on by Democrats and Republicans in cooperation with the president.
That's why he wants it failing.
That's why he brought the Dorgan amendment back.
I told you this yesterday.
I even told some of my friends who disagreed with me that that's what Dingy Harry was trying to do.
He brings his Dorgan amendment back after it was already defeated two weeks ago, it passes very, very early this morning, shortly after midnight.
And when he said he was going to have this cloture vote today a couple days ago, I mean, the the votes weren't there.
And he knew they weren't there.
He wants this thing to go down the tubes because he won he thinks that this is gonna split the Republican Party wide open.
He thinks that this is gonna sweep the Democrats into a massive electoral victory because he's misreading the tide of public opinion out there on this.
But I t it in fact when I opened the program this morning, I told you, or this afternoon, depending on where you are.
I I said this it it the clear sign the Dorgan amendment coming back was he wants to kill the bill and blame the Republicans.
And he it from his standpoint, whether he's right or wrong, it may be smart politics him to do this because he he knows it's not gonna pass.
So when it when it fails, see these guys, all these people in Washington think incorrectly, but they think that they are judged by us on how many bills they pass.
And when something doesn't went something big and comprehensive fails, why they think the country gets really angry at that.
The truth is that most people are the exact opposite.
Just because a bill fails doesn't mean, oh my God, the country's falling apart.
They didn't get a bill.
But we don't run around talking about did they get the bill today or did they not get the bill.
Unless it's something majorly disastrous like this.
But the uh they're just misreading every.
So they think that they're gonna really be chalked up a big failure to Bush and the Republicans on this, and I knew it.
I knew it.
Once again, folks, this this alone should jack up my accuracy rating.
Another tenth of a point.
Lou in Melbourne, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, thanks.
I wanted to see if I can tie Gary Sheffield, uh John Rocker and Rush Limbaugh into this the whole debate on what Gary Sheffield had said.
I think uh, you know, when John Rocker made his comments about uh New York City in a bad way because of what he said, you know, some of the things he had said were pretty ridiculous, but he had you know basically was debating that you know people were weren't speaking English, he couldn't understand a word of what anyone was saying.
No one's you know, can do it, and he was run out of the league.
Well, but he did he he included other groups that were not uh immigrants.
I mean, he mentioned gays and he he he disparaged practically uh you know the whole mix of population there in New York in uh a couple of sentences.
Yes, and then and then your comments, which weren't about Don McMahon McNabb per se, but they were about uh the media itself, which we could see uh after you if you watched Sports Center last night, you could see the the excuses were already coming out for Gary Sheffield.
Um you were run out of ESPN, which I thought was uh was a bad thing just for comments that you had made.
But Gary Sheffield now makes comments and he's he's a hero, and they found this one guy on ESPN who who is, I guess a Latin player who agrees with Gary Sheffield.
Really, I haven't seen one of those either.
I know Eddie Perez uh with the Braves was angry at what Sheffield said.
Look, you're you're not surprised Sheffield's not being called out on this, are you?
Oh, no, sir.
No, sir.
No, not at all.
I mean, the the way, you know, the media uh i even you know, we talk about the the liberal sports media, or you do on your show and you know, some of the local shows and things like that.
Just in the difference of, you know, most recently when we wolfitz, when he was fired from from the World Bank.
We didn't find out he went to the ethics committee to find out get his advice until after he was fired or asked to leave, I should say, wasn't fired, asked to leave.
Yeah, well, that's another case where nobody stood by him, you know, at the top.
I mean, uh that that that was uh the the Wolfowitz thing was a uh frustrating thing.
Chuck Schumer may as well be running this administration.
Chuck Schumer's running Justice Department, and they were call me and and uh uh Fitzgerald.
I I in fact in fact I've been calling you know Fitzgerald Fitzfong, it's Fitz Schumer.
Uh the guy was demanding investigation, demanding to know the details of the investigation was doing everything that he accused the Bush administration of doing in the uh U.S. attorneys scandal.
But look, Sheffield's protected because he's a victim.
And plus he was talking victimology.
He was talking we're victims here.
We're we're being victimized because we got these Latins coming in and taking our jobs because they're more controllable.
Whoa.
Why, there's still slavery out, and the Libs love hearing that.
Except the slaver now is against the Latinos because the blacks, according to Sheffield, they can't be controlled.
Uh but the Latinos can because it'll be threatened to send home.
So Sheffield is, you know, he's presenting himself as a victim of fewer and fewer African Americans playing Major League Baseball.
He comes up with an explanation.
The Liberals in a drive-by media in the sports pages and so forth.
They swoon.
Because they've been trying to get this subject in the mainstream for a couple years at ESPN.
So it it not a surprise to me, uh that that uh nobody is upset by what he said.
There's different standards for different people here.
Uh different standards for different groups.
Wayne in Morristown, Pennsylvania.
It's great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, good to talk to you, Russ.
Greetings from uh the Allergy Capital of the World.
I didn't know that.
Learn something every day.
Allergy Capital of the World?
Of course.
Our out here in the mountains and the hills.
Uh the the reason I called, I had a question about uh former President George Bush senior.
Um I was I kind of wondering if uh why he hasn't been more in the spotlight on the uh conservative movement, uh the conservative issues, uh you don't hear anything about him uh.
Well, I tell you two answers for this.
One is uh regardless what you think of him, uh he is a uh a man of refinement and decorum, and he is not going to break the unspoken rules about behavior of ex-presidents.
Number two, he is not going to do anything, come out and defend his son that makes his son look weak.
He he's not he's not going to uh in any way get involved uh for those reasons.
His son is the president, he knows what that's like.
He has on a couple of occasions made mention of how mean-spirited the press seems to be, even more so than when he could uh remember it as he remembered it when he was president or even during Reagan.
I don't think it's that much different.
I have you people have forgotten Reagan was the spy.
Nixon, come on.
I mean, it this is just this is a lay of the land and he knows that.
Uh as for uh conservatism, uh he he's really not one.
He's uh he was a Republican.
Uh but he was uh not an idiot, and neither is 43.
I mean, they're not ideological conservatives.
They do some things that are conservative and they do some things that aren't.
Um so you can't say he's a conservative.
I don't mean that as a slight, I'm just being uh accurate in my description.
Quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
A uh quick question to Gary Sheffield of the Detroit Tigers.
Gary, if you're right about all this, why do you still have a job?
Is it because they can control you?
Why do you still have a job, Gary?
I mean, if what you say is right, we'll be back, ladies and gentlemen.
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