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June 7, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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I see the Reverend Sharpton, one of the Justice Brothers, on Fox now commenting on the early release of Paris Hilton, saying it's a slap in the face to other people.
It's unfair.
It's a sign of the justice system works different ways for different people.
But he went out of his way.
And you have to understand this now.
The Reverend Sharpton went out of his way not to criticize Paris Hilton.
In fact, just the opposite.
What he did was, he said he knows her, he likes her.
He even met her once when he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2003.
And nothing about her is just upset with the justice system.
And of course, Barack Obama said there's a quiet riot brewing out there.
And this is going to upset some people.
And I was surprised, I mentioned at the beginning of the program, I was surprised how many people are upset.
I was surprised by how many people care in the first place of paying any attention to this at all.
But that's just me.
Greetings, welcome back.
We're doing Open Lion Friday and Thursday today, folks.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
By the way, I'd like to apologize again on behalf of the Fox News channel to Michigan Congressman John Conyers for an erroneous roll of videotape during a story on Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
They ran tape of Congressman Conyers, and he was righteously indignant, profoundly offended by this, and demanded apologies.
And Fox has apologized a couple times, but I think they apologize every day.
Have you heard about this?
Rob Lowell was in West Des Moines, Iowa playing golf.
And he hit a bird in mid-flight.
He was hitting an approach shot in a fourth hole when his ball hit a goldfinch.
Now, the goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa.
He killed the state bird of Iowa, or killed a state bird of Iowa.
And he broke out in laughter and applause.
He and his golf buddies started clapping and applauding and so forth.
Unbelievable.
Who comes here and kills a state bird?
Only me.
I said, I got my first birdie.
And this is a sensitive Hollywood guy who cares about animals and the environment.
By the way, you want to talk about who lost California.
The Republican establishment thinks that Prop 187 lost California for them.
And of course, California was lost long before Prop 187.
And it's in terms of presidential politics they're talking about.
And the idea that Prop 187 killed it is absurd, but they actually believe it.
Try this.
The State Assembly in California is going to vote probably today or maybe tomorrow on a piece of legislation that's been written by Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, who is a Democrat from Redwood City.
It's over in the Bay Area.
This measure would require buyers of gas guzzlers, which emit high level of greenhouse gases, to pay a surcharge of up to $2,500.
That revenue would be used to reward buyers of more fuel-efficient models with rebates of up to $2,500.
This is Assembly Bill 493 would take effect in the 2011 model year.
Dan Kalb, the policy director for the Union of Concerned scientists of public health lobby sponsored, that it's a bunch of libs, said this will change many people's behavior and more importantly, change the automakers' behavior to make cleaner cars for everybody, which is what they should have been doing all along.
This will penalize large families and the working men and women of California who depend on larger vehicles for their way of life, said Charles Torito, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents Detroit Automakers and Toyota, among others.
So the liberals are who they are.
We have to take things away from people.
In this case, you go out by a Hummer, some big mama like that.
They're going to take $2,500.
They're going to charge you $2,500 additional and give it to people who go out and buy these little lawnmowers with a couple of seats on them.
I saw something on television the other day, PMSNBC, they're doing a promotion called Gut Check America.
And on their website, it says, what keeps you up at night?
Gut Check America is your chance to tell us what really matters in our country and to help determine what topics MSNBC.com covers.
Gut Check America.
What keeps you up at night?
Now, this is a further effort by the drive-bys to keep us all scared and upset.
It has seeped from feminist rhetoric and chickification of the newsrooms into what keeps you up at night.
But I got to, for those of you at MSNBC.com, you need to come up with a new name for this.
Gut check means facing your fears head-on, not allowing them to keep you up at night, covering your head in bed sheets, cowering in the corner in fear, quaking and quivering and jumping at the shadows.
If you are being kept up at night, it's because you failed your gut checks, because you're not having the gut check yet.
You are avoiding it.
I mean, the drive-bys wouldn't know a gut check if it hit them in the stomach.
I mean, you got to see the graphic here.
They've got some metro-sexual guy holding a flag as their graphic.
Stand and be counted.
What keeps you up at night?
What are you worried about?
What's got you scared?
Anyway, Republican presidential news.
The AP's latest national Republican presidential poll is underway on Monday night.
And by yesterday afternoon, some raw numbers began rolling in, and analysts were surprised by the initial take.
If things keep progressing the way they do, some Republicans are in for a surprise, said an AP employee familiar with the statistics that are being broken down.
Apparently, Mitt Romney is moving into a strong number two position, knocking McCain out of it.
We wonder why.
By the way, McCain and who else?
McCain and Giuliani have decided to pass up the Iowa straw poll?
Yeah, okay.
Romney's already 17 points ahead there, which may be why they're doing it.
And they're pulling out of there and not participating, and they're trying to blunt Romney's victory by saying, well, he had a victory over strawmen.
They weren't there.
But it can go the other way, too.
It's not the Hawkeye Caucy, it's just a straw poll, but the two frontrunners backing out and not wanting to play ball because Romney has such a lead, at least in Iowa right now.
The Congressional Black Caucus has dug in its heels in defense of the indicted Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, and they have expressed concerns that a House ethics investigation on Congressman Jefferson's alleged corrupt activities could influence and even poison a future jury trial.
This is reported in the Hill newspaper.
Newt Gingrich says four to one against his running for president.
Have more to say about it.
He's making a speech, I think, tomorrow before the American Enterprise Institute.
And there's a lot of fallout that's happening in the Democrat Party over Edwards.
Get this, some Democrat Party regulars are starting to admit that these are not candidates, but people, power brokers, consultants, this kind of thing.
They're starting to say that Edwards is making them men.
They don't like him personally because he's going in a direction that they don't want the Democrat Party to publicly go.
And that's this class envy business.
The Democrats are that, but that's one of the things they want to keep masked and camouflaged.
And Edwards is being too visible and too open about this class envy campaign that he's running.
And it's got some of them upset.
So there's all kinds of little things going on in the Democrat Party that are not making it into the mainstream of the drive-by media.
I mentioned earlier that Mrs. Clinton, her camp cannot be happy about the latest USA Today Gallup poll that shows Barack Obama one point over.
That's a statistical tie, but I don't think she ever thought Clinton Inc. never thought that Obama would get this close this soon.
So it's going to require some strategical changes in the way they deal with a guy.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
You know, about this MSNBC thing, this gut check business, I guess they have to call it gut check because if they said just what keeps you up at night, the answer would be it ain't MSNBC.
Actually, since it's not a gut check, a gut check is facing your fears head on.
And that's when you get the gut check.
If you don't have a gut check, you're avoiding it.
What they ought to say, are you wetting yourself at night?
Tell us why.
I mean, that's what they're really trying to, you know, if you're wetting the bed, are you so scared you are soiling your though?
Tell us all about it here at MSNBC.com.
By the way, the Justice Brothers, an emergency commercial just arrived demanding it be played during program content sections.
An emergency action update from Justice Brothers.
It is funny.
Well, it's a risk.
It is a risk.
Live commercials out there.
All right.
Here's Dingy Harry.
After the immigration bill failed to get 60 votes this morning, this is what he said.
Why in the world would anyone object to delaying the cloture vote?
But that is what has happened here.
I think that's unfortunate because I told the Secretary of Home and Security, Judge Chertoff, that the message in the newspaper is going to be Democrats support cloture to continue the debate on immigration.
Republicans oppose it.
President Bush fails again.
That's what he wants.
I knew it.
I knew that's what he was angling for earlier this week when he was going to bring this vote today.
Now, it could be that there's an alternate possibility here.
It's not all that likely, but it's possible.
It could be that Dingy Harry actually is trying to scare Republicans into changing their vote and coming out voting for cloture and to get this thing on down the road and pass.
And it could well be that he's trying to light a fire under President Bush over there at the G8.
You know, he's trying to deal with Putin and the missile shield business.
Putin told him where he can put his missile shield, by the way, early today.
Details on that coming up.
But Dingy Harry's out there.
They think that there's good politics in this in blaming this whole thing on the Republicans that it failed.
It's a Republican bill.
It's the president's bill.
Democrats worked on this, so we helped out, but it's the Republicans.
I think he's so misreading this politically, but from his standpoint, whether he's right or wrong on this, from his standpoint, blaming it on the president and Republicans, the failure is good politics.
I also think that they would love to split the Republican Party, which that's already happened.
The president's already done that.
Creates an opportunity, a vacuum.
And it also took out McCain, for all intents and purposes.
John in Milwaukee, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, 15-year daily listener dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Of course.
It's been time well spent.
Two Time magazine covers this past week will just add to, I know I can't add to the host's comments on the subject, but you spoke about religion and politics.
This will clarify for liberals how liberals think about religion and politics.
First magazine cover was Mitt Romney.
Sure, he looks presidential, but what does he really believe?
One week later, in the very next year.
Taking a slap at his religion with his Mormonism, yeah.
Of course.
Very nice cover.
It's a color picture of Al Gore looking off in the distance at probably a shaky future.
And the caption is, The Last Temptation of Al Gore.
You know the reference.
The Last Temptation of Al Gore.
They were talking about his temptation to run.
Yeah.
But they're obviously quoting Martin Scottese's film.
There was a time, and it's long ago, but there was a time back when Time magazine still had vestiges of good old Henry Luce, that it was a pretty down-the-middle magazine.
It's always media.
It's always been pro-Democrats.
I mean, they've thrown all that to the wind now.
It's an agenda-oriented magazine, just like every other drive-by media organ these days is.
Well, I never.
And that's because of me.
Look at, if I hadn't come along, none of this, if I hadn't come along, the liberal media bias wouldn't be as bad as it is.
It would still be there.
But they're pulling their hair out all over the place.
They're now, they've chosen sides always.
Now they're making it obvious.
They genuinely look to Al Gore as the savior of the world.
And if they ever ran a cover that said Obama, what does he really believe?
Or Hillary, what does she really believe?
Can you imagine the hell that would break loose in mainstream media?
It would never occur to them.
Of course it wouldn't.
It would never occur to them.
Of course it would.
Yes, I know.
I mean, remember, Time magazine ran this cover of me.
Is Rush Limbaugh good for America?
Exactly.
Too much democracy out there.
And the following week, they did this cover story on Castro and his efforts to rebuild his lovely island, Paradise Nation.
They called it the Lion in Winter.
Well, let me certify on my behalf that you have been good for me, and I have converted a number of people to your radio show, and some of them like it, and some of them don't.
I appreciate that.
I am a national treasure.
I did not call myself that.
I was called that a couple people email, and I thought, you know, if they're going to honor me by calling me that on email, then I'm going to recognize it.
Of course.
Yeah, it's absolutely right.
John, thanks.
Thanks, Richard.
Great honor talking to you.
Appreciate that.
Thanks so much.
Have a great weekend.
Michael in St. Petersburg, Florida.
You're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Well, you're a national treasure, buddy, and a lot of people's books down here in St. Pete, Florida.
Thank you.
Been listening to you on WFLA.
Ted Webb turned me on to you in August of 88.
Owns Tampa St. Pete, WFLA, a fabulous affiliate, fabulous station.
We made that station, but it's still a good station.
I know it.
And I was born and raised in St. Louis and went to school and bummed around with Rip and Kid Highland, sons of Bob.
Is that right?
Yes.
Well.
And also, I know you're a big fan of aviation, and you're an excellent aficionado of the aviation community.
Well, let me explain something.
You get a little inside here.
Bob Highland was the legendary general manager, area vice president of Camo X in St. Louis when they had 48 and 50 shares.
He's since passed away, but his two children is who Michael was referring to.
Now, of course, I'm big on aviation.
And I loved your eulogy to Bob Highland, too, and Jack Buck.
The aviation community, why can't we use more of those unmanned aerial vehicles in the Middle East to ferret out these bomb planters in the middle of the night, as they did one time on television on a national broadcast show, either NBC or CBS or ABC showed this?
You know, I think the answer to that is that there are people at Pentagon who think it's not fair.
Well, I'm sorry.
Because the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda guys don't have their own.
And, you know, they're just a little ragtag bunch of terrorists out there, and we've got to make sure we don't offend the rest of the world here.
Why do we have to fight 7th century terrorists with 7th century methods?
Well, you're singing everybody's song here.
Why in the world didn't we just go into Iraq and clean the place out?
You know, we're the United States of America.
I mean, there's a reason for this.
We don't want to destroy the country, but we're also concerned about our image in the world.
And so when that governs what you do, you may as well forget it.
All right, there's a website out there, Harvey Levins' website, TMZ.com.
It's reporting, ladies and gentlemen, that Paris Hilton was released from jail for 40 days or 45 days of house arrest because she was on the way to having a nervous breakdown in there.
And so they had to get her out of there.
That's what they're reporting.
I've seen rumors on this since this morning.
You had some of these rumors that looked like they came to me from inside the sheriff's office, frankly.
And none of them were kind.
Anyway, in case you missed it, the Justice Brothers, a relatively new sponsor here on the EIB network, has filed an emergency spot.
I detect a lack of unity with the Justice Brothers.
By the way, Democrat strategist Donna Brazil has urged Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana to resign.
This, in an interview aired yesterday on National Public Radio, she said, I personally hope that he would do what's best for his family and his constituents and put his legal case before everything else and allow somebody else to step up and represent that district.
If there's one congressional district in America that needs a full-time lawmaker focused and committed on the recovery of the Gulf Coast, it's the second congressional district of Louisiana, which is the district of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
She said that she believes the pressure on Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, to step down now will come from two sources: his colleagues on the Democrat side of Congress and also from the people back home in New Orleans.
I don't know that that's going to happen.
We got a call from New Orleans the other day, and the guy said that people down there are saying it's a conspiracy against Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
Do you know that Nancy Pelosi would love that?
Would she not love it if they could get some people in New Orleans to start demanding that he resign?
Take her off the hook.
Here's Brian, Cedar City, Utah.
You're next, sir, on the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Big Prize Dittos from an IACS alumni since 1988.
Well, nice to have you, sir.
Rush, I want to chime in on the Sopranos final with my spin.
There's something that bothered me about the last episode.
Something's been kind of simmering under the surface for a long time, and I think it has to do with Pauli.
You think Paulie Walnuts is going to whack Tony?
Well, I don't think he's going to whack him, but I think he's going to let old Phil's boys know where Tony's in hiding at.
And there's been some bad blood going on for a long time between these two guys because Paulie's such a loose cannon.
Yeah, Paulie tried to defect to the old New York gang headed by Carmine Lupertazzo, I think it was whatever.
And it was being set up by Johnny Sack.
Johnny said, oh, Carmine loves you.
And Paulie finally met Carmine, and Carmine had never heard of him.
But it could be.
I also think, you know, this idiot AJ could be the one to do it.
Oh, gosh.
Well, because, you know, look at you think down the road on this.
I know they're all saying this is it.
There's no more, and they're not going to be a movie and all that.
If they had to do a movie, it'd have to be a prequel to bring all these characters back.
But if they keep, it's one of the reasons I think Tony may survive.
But if he doesn't, AJ surviving, he could get through his depression sound and become the next mob boss.
But AJ, you know, he's cruising.
He tried to kill his uncle and couldn't pull that off.
He tried to kill himself, couldn't pull that off.
He might think that his route out of his depression is to get rid of his dad.
Who knows?
I can't wait to see it, Rush.
Well, it's going to be a passing and a moment of history.
Oh, by the way, that reminds me.
Yesterday, I got up, as I always do, and I got in here to do show prep.
And one of the papers I check is the New York Post.
I will go on record as saying I love the New York Post, owned by the News Corporation, which also owns Fox News Channel, which has still not apologized today to Congressman Conyers for confusing him with Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana.
And I went to the TV section, and there's this long story.
It's an AP story.
The Post didn't write it.
They're interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists and therapists about the scene in last week's episode where Dr. Melfie basically fires her patient, Tony, because she'd been humiliated at a dinner party of other shrinks where one of her close friends divulges the identity of her star patient, which is a breach of ethics.
This story dealt with that scene, those two scenes last week, as though it was real life.
And they went out and they got interviews with all of these shrinks to comment on the ethics, the lack of ethics, the professionalism of the portrayal of the business in those two scenes.
And I'm thinking, it's a television show.
They were writing about this as though this were real.
The scenes were written.
They were written by the show's creator, David Chase, who himself has been in therapy and I think probably doesn't like it based on the way he's writing about it lately.
But just literally, It's bad enough when they go out and talk to shrinks about a real life person that they haven't treated.
Well, what do you think's going with Dick Trady?
Well, I think he's got control issues.
Anger management issues.
And I never met him.
That's bad enough.
But analyzing these two, it was hilarious to see how seriously they took all of this.
Patrick in Buffalo, I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next in the EIB network.
Yeah, I need some help from a brilliant mind rush.
Well, you've happened to call the right place.
I'm trying to find out how I should deal with the education system here in New York when they schedule a field trip to a mosque for sixth-grade children under the guise of diversity and broader understanding.
They gave us a two-day notice on this field trip.
You get the notice on June 4th for a June 6th field trip so that we didn't react.
Wait, wait, the field trip was yesterday then.
Yeah, it already happened.
But I'm just trying to figure out, you know, because they want to do this every year.
And I'm just like, I cannot believe this is happening here.
What happened to the separation of church and state?
In our school, you're not allowed to have Christmas, Easter, or Halloween.
Acknowledge at all in the school.
Thinking that this is absurd, they'd never do a field trip to a Catholic church.
Yeah, there's no, you know, this was to a mosque and to the Hindu Center.
And it's like, and we do have Muslim children there.
I just, I'd like to know when they're going to the church.
And I don't understand how you're supposed to deal with this.
They have all this, well, you know, we need to be diverse.
There's so many Catholics, so we don't need to worry about going to church because, you know, you already know what that's like.
And I'm like, that doesn't even make sense.
How do these parents have?
How old is your child?
He's in sixth grade.
That's 12 years old.
12 years old.
How long did he tell you what went on there?
Oh, no, he didn't go.
I wasn't allowing him to go to the school.
Oh, you were allowed to go.
I absolutely thought that was.
Oh, wrong.
Oh, I missed it.
I thought he did go, and you didn't find out early enough to stop it.
No, what they try to do, the school try to do is give you a two-day notice that there's a field trip.
That never happens either, by the way.
You know, all parents get a two-week, usually three-week notice on a field trip.
This one was rifled through on purpose.
We look at the sign-off sheet.
It was dated April 20th, so this was scheduled April 20th.
And then on June 4th, they give us notice just so we didn't say anything.
And this was all so intentional.
And it's very frustrating as a parent because to me, this is an indoctrination of your children.
Yeah, this is a huge, huge problem.
But how many other parents did not let their kids go?
It got on the radio here.
I haven't got a count yet.
They just went back to school today, so we're trying to figure that out.
But there was one woman that went that talked about this.
And she said she went in there, and they said they weren't going to do anything in the mosque.
They actually asked the girls to wear headscarves, by the way.
And the leader in the Muslim community was reading from the Quran to the children in the mosque on this field trip.
And again, if that happened in a church to a Muslim child, the ACLU would be here so fast.
And here on this side, we've got nothing.
I mean, I'm asking for your brilliant input because I don't know.
I mean, what do you do here?
I'm absolutely floored.
And this is in Hillary's Great Land, by the way, of New York.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, let me take a break here because if we keep going, I'm going to miss it.
And I've got a couple segments left, and one will be real short if I don't.
So can you hang on?
Sure.
All right.
We'll be back and continue this.
This is Patrick in Buffalo right after this.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us.
It's Open Line Friday on Thursday.
go back to Patrick in Buffalo, New York.
Are you afraid that this is going to become a regular field trip every year?
Absolutely.
All right.
There's two ways of going about this.
And the first one you may not like, but it's just a suggestion.
And that is, next time let your kid go.
You are his parent, and you have the ability to teach him critical thinking.
I know your fears.
I don't really have a fear.
It's not a fear of this.
I'm just upset of the one-sidedness, the double statement.
Well, that's the other thing.
The thing you have to work on with the school is, look, if you're going to do this, then you have got to take these kids.
It's like showing this stupid gore movie.
If you're going to do this, and parents have succeeded in this, getting it stopped, if you're going to do this, you've got to show the other side because it's a political issue.
It's not science, and don't try to tell us it is.
In this case, you've got all the arguments on your side, and you named them.
I rarely say this, but you don't need me on this because you've already got it figured out.
This is a separation of church and state issue.
You can't talk Christmas.
You can't tell the Christmas story and Christmas decorations, all these things, nativity scene, can't put them up in public.
Now, all of a sudden, the school has chosen a religion.
Yes, they have.
And the reason they've done this, this is just a wild guess, but I think everybody, I think, first place, they're libs.
We know.
And so to them, to prevent another attack, just listen to the way they talk about dealing with our national security.
We've got to be nicer to these people.
We have to show them we mean them no harm.
We have to show them that we don't think of them as so many Americans have portrayed them to be.
We have to show them we do accept that they are the quote-unquote religion of peace.
And I think you've just got a little fear of working here.
There could be something more to it than that, too.
It could be.
Well, you get a little upset.
I mean, you've got to remember, I'm very close to the Lackuana 12.
They're up the road from us here.
Are we supposed to forget about that?
No, you've got to remember, too, that there are people in this country who are trying to destroy the traditions and institutions that made it great.
Well, they've done a good job.
Yeah, and they're going to rebuild it in their own image.
And they get tolerance.
They look at these poor people as victims.
You have to understand that.
And I think showing Gore's movie and taking this field trip to the mosque are born of the same confused, perverted thought process they have.
And that is that America is the problem.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I totally agree with you.
I just, you know, as a parent, you just get so frustrated.
You just get, you know, like, it's like, I don't care if you teach them this, just be fair and teach it all, then teach Christianity.
If you're going to do that, teach Christianity, and they don't.
Oh, no.
And you're right.
That's not fair.
But that's, but, see, that's the leverage you've got to stop this.
You have more power than you think here, especially if you get together with a, what's the name, the special interest group, a legal alliance defense fund.
It's alliancedefensefund.org.
Look them up on their website.
Get somebody like this, or take your pick of any of these people, to carry the water for you and with you to demand that if the school is going to do this, that they can't selectively choose where they're going to send kids on religious field trips.
Okay.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to know because I don't ever want to see this again.
They danced around this when they got caught and they only gave us a day to respond.
But they see right there, they're admitting that they know that this is not going to fly with a lot of people and they know that it's controversial.
Oh, yeah.
And they're fully aware why, but they still want to do it.
So there's an agenda in this.
Absolutely.
That's the thing that boils it.
Well, they openly said it.
They said we need to understand them better.
Well, how about they need to understand us?
Right.
Exactly.
They need to know that we don't hate them.
They need to know that we don't intend to harm them.
They need to know, blah, Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, we're the ones that were minding our own business on 9-11.
Yes, we were.
And like I said, I'm up the street from the Lackwana 12.
So that doesn't, you know, it's a constant reminder for us here that, you know, it's pretty close to home for us.
Look at New York.
It's New York State.
It's Buffalo, but still New York State.
Look.
Oh, yeah.
Get a hold of other parents who feel the same way as you do.
Find a group like the Alliance Defense Fund or some other that you can join with to go talk to the people that run this school and make these decisions.
Okay.
Because the one thing you know is they're not going to start scheduling field trips to Jewish temples.
No.
Synagogues.
No.
They're not going to go to Catholic churches or any of these.
They're not going to do that.
They said they couldn't schedule the church, even though there was one within walking distance of the school.
No, they said they couldn't schedule a church?
Yes, they actually said they couldn't find the time to schedule a church.
Meaning that the church wouldn't open its doors for a school field trip?
Yeah, I thought that was a little lie, too.
There's no armed guards there.
That's a little tough to believe.
It was way tough to believe.
That's why this became very frustrating.
Look, when this kind of stuff happens, I mean, you are a parent, and you have not surrendered your child's mind to the school.
No.
But at the same time, what I said to you at first, it's very important.
Your son, is it 12 years old?
Yes.
There's nothing wrong with teaching critical thinking, and schools are not doing this.
Schools don't, they're more into indoctrinating.
Yes.
So the more somebody is exposed, the more critical thinking about it they can be informed.
If you start denying your kid the chance to see this, it's going to become more curious about it.
Well, I let him listen to all the controversy over it, and he got well informed by listening to this for the last two days, all over the news and that.
So he's very well informed on what's going on.
Well, I'm glad you called me.
I've run out of time here, but I'm glad you called me about this.
Keep us posted on what happens.
All right, thanks a lot.
You bet.
Thanks, Patrick.
Back after this to wrap it up.
Well, it's been fun, folks, but the show's over.
And I got to hit the scene and leave the scene, split the scene, hit the road for the airport.
Be out tomorrow.
Be back on Monday, though.
Roger Hedgecock will be with you tomorrow hosting the program from San Diego.
Can't wait till Monday.
I'll see you then, and we'll crank this all back up again.
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