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June 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
By the way, a programming note, uh Rush will be appearing this Sunday night at 10 Eastern time on the uh Fox show half hour news hour.
And this time he'll be appearing as himself, not as the president of the United States.
Although I enjoyed that Russia's president thing, because it just drove the left completely crazy.
Talk about a nightmare for the left.
Uh in any event.
Uh Rush coming back to that program.
Uh they always have a spike in ratings.
That's probably why he's uh being asked back uh the Fox half hour news hour.
Sunday night.
Now uh back to the uh program and the news.
Reuters reporting out of uh Madrid that uh fifty nuns in Spain took part in a study.
Teetotaling Spanish nuns drank a half liter of beer every day for uh none let's see, what how what period of time we talking about?
I guess for a long time.
Sister Almerinda Alvarez told a newspaper in Madrid, quote, we did it for the good of humanity, unquote.
Oh, 45 days.
It turns out that after they had the beer, having not had beer before, at least that's what they said, uh they uh um well had a incredible drop in cholesterol, the secret ingredient being hops.
Now we knew all that here, but uh now the Spanish nuns know it too.
Uh Peter Pace is out as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces.
Secretary Gates is obviously putting his stamp on the Pentagon.
It is none too soon and something that should have been done in my view, not as regard to Mr. Pace, who is the first, I guess, Marine, is he not, uh chief of the Joint Chiefs, chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Uh but the I think the important thing is here that we have had a raft of Clinton generals that are not yet out of the system.
These are uh, you know, State Department uh bureaucrat appeasement generals who run welfare programs.
They're not warriors.
And uh, you know, I don't think I'm saying anything out of school here to tell you that uh we needed a long time ago to get some warrior generals uh back in place.
Uh I don't know if you are aware of the fact that uh probably double the number of American soldiers we've lost in Iraq were lost on the first day of the Normandy invasion, June sixth, sixty what, uh three years ago, sixty-three years ago, a couple of days ago.
Um, and that uh it was lost because uh, you know, the generals were not perfect.
They misunderstood the hedgerow problem.
They misunderstood uh the resistance of the Germans, they misunderstood the ineffectiveness of Navy gunfire and shore shore fire.
They misunderstood a lot of stuff because war is about making mistakes, and the only one who wins a war is the one who makes the fewer mistakes, the fewest mistakes.
Everyone makes mistakes.
It's a horrendous thing war is.
So are we making uh the most mistakes in Iraq?
No.
We're winning that war in Iraq.
If we have time enough to do it, we will do it.
It takes a long time to win those kinds of wars.
We were in the Philippines uh a hundred years ago for five years against a guy named Aguinaldo, trying to win that war.
So without going too far back, let's uh jump forward.
Uh we'll bring you more information on that.
In terms of the change now of leadership of our armed forces.
Let's talk instead uh about China.
Because this is is it coming clear to you now that China is in the business of selling stuff to us?
I'll just start with what everybody knows.
Uh selling a lot of stuff to us.
Uh got made in China uh stamped uh practically on my on my backside here.
The the everything you've got comes from China.
Some of it is poisoning your pets.
You know that story from some weeks ago.
Some of it could be poisoning you.
Two hundred and fifty-seven Chinese products have been refused in the first few months of this year.
Um they include dried fruits, apples, peaches, pears, uh dried mushrooms, frozen bay scallops, and frozen pacific cod, which apparently were raised in sewage water.
Sort of a recycling.
It was a Sierra Club, I think, uh had an impromator there.
The uh it was a Sierra Club joint venture.
Uh and uh a lot of other stuff that I don't know, reasonable people don't eat.
What is this?
Um Fermented bean curd.
Now come on.
That was imported to the United States from China, what?
For the Chinese who are here.
In any event, this story has not been given a lot of play.
Because now it's gotten into things that you should be even more aware of.
I mean, it was bad enough that the melamine was poisoning, you know, in the gluten, the wheat gluten was poisoning your pet.
And you remember what we said about that, just to recap that for a moment, the pet uh poisoning issue.
It's still going on.
Because the wheat gluten being bought by pet food manufacturers from China, the manufacturers here in the United States, was uh always tested for protein content, because then they could put on their bags, you know, protein enhanced.
Uh melamine is a chemical having nothing to do with protein, but gives a false protein reading on the protein test that is most often used on wheat gluten to determine uh what protein level is in it.
So you put in this chemical, which is dangerous and which will kill your pet, and it gives a false high protein rating.
You charge the crazy gringos a whole bunch of money if you're a Chinese manufacturer, because the melamine is a heck of a lot cheaper than putting in actual protein.
And then you get uh, you know, you get uh uh dead pets in the United States.
Unfortunately, they're doing the same thing on American uh food products imported to the United States from China on food products and on toothpaste.
Did you see this latest one?
U.S. Drug and uh uh food and drug administration issuing warnings now to avoid potentially deadly Chinese-made toothpaste containing diethylene glycol.
Now, if this doesn't ring a bell to you, diethylene glycol is a solvent used in anti-freeze.
Seventy years ago, an elixir was sold in the United States containing this particularly delicious uh combination of chemicals.
It killed a hundred and seven Americans before it was taken off the market seventy years ago.
So uh the FDA is saying, check the label for toothpaste.
If it says made in China, this is actually what the FDA said.
If it says made in China, throw it away.
So diethylene glycol, also known as digly glycol or diglycol stearate, any of those.
Uh 51 people in Panama, by the way, died after using a cold medicine imported uh from China laced with this stuff.
Uh uh diethylene glycol.
Uh China, of course, uh responding by saying that there's no scientific evidence whatsoever of that, and that uh stuff we're importing from the United States is poisoning us too.
Huh?
So and they believe, because they watch t television, they watch us obsessed by Fox by Paris uh Hilton.
Fox News had a what do they call that thing at the bottom of the uh screen?
A crawl.
Well, it wasn't crawling, it was kind of a stationary one.
Uh court sends sheriff to pick up Paris Hilton and a view of the street for 40 minutes.
They still haven't picked her up, but they had to go to Gates because he was going to actually announce the replacement of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I'm sure they're they're ch I'm sure Fox executives are biting their knuckles, slamming their fists down in in frustration.
Uh headline news that CNN has uh has no uh no problem.
They've just stayed with uh this empty street in front of uh Paris Hilton's house.
They didn't even go to the You gotta love it.
Um latest on the China's uh uh poisoning the United States uh scandal.
There's a new concern.
This was posted uh June 7th yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that uh involving uh lead.
Lead, for crying out loud, has now shown up in toys, In makeup in glazed pottery and other products from China.
Lead poisoning, of course, was once a liberal uh crusade because it was found in old paint in tenements and lower income folks' houses, and the kids would chew on the paint.
This is something I always thought thought was a parental supervision problem, but apparently it was my problem.
I had to pay for banning lead in paint, so now paint doesn't last as long and so forth, uh, because it doesn't have lead in it.
So uh lead to kids.
Except today we are bringing in from China products full of lead, including, and here's a picture of a girl, she can't be four, probably three, with eyeshadow imported from China under her eyes.
Now, once again, ladies and gentlemen, what is a three-year-old doing in eyeshadow?
Dare I get out on this limb.
I don't care if it had lead in it or um ginseng.
Um what is it doing on this three-year-old child?
She doesn't look like a Hindu.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's take a call before I get too far out on that.
Chris in Pueblo, Colorado.
Hi, Chris.
Hi, how are you today?
Chris, good.
Welcome to the Rush Show.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
Oh, I this is kind of off of your called.
I wanted to um get Russia's address, and I'll include too.
I have a unique and special cigar that I wanted to send you guys.
In Christmas time I In Christmas I had sent uh my son in Iraq a selection of different cigars for Ianny's buddies.
He was in Ramadi.
And we lost him February 22nd.
And it appears that he was one of those that had a whole lot to do with the turnaround and how things are really working, Ramadi.
About three weeks ago, so we got his personal effects back and with them came some of the cigars back.
And I've used them on a couple occasions when his um people in the command and the one nine it is out of Fort Carson have come back on leave and had a chance to sit down and enjoy what would be one of the more well traveled cigars and just commemorate and um recognize the incredible service and the job these guys are doing out there that didn't reported.
Give us your son's full name, sir.
Staff Sergeant Joshua Hager.
We salute him.
We lost him February 22nd, Ramadi.
We salute him.
We dedicate the show to him and his sacrifice and all of those who are dying for freedom, who have been wounded, who have been uh uh in the in the real war, not the uh not the bumper sticker that uh some some people think it is in the real war.
And it would be a privilege and an honor to smoke that cigar and remember him, his sacrifice, and everything he means to all of us for what uh what he has done, uh Chris, and God bless you and the family.
Thank you for calling.
Uh I'll I'll just put you on hold.
They'll give you an address for that.
And again, uh thanks uh for being there and reminding us what's really important today in the news.
I'm Roger Hitchcock in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back with more after this.
Shades of O.J. uh.
The sheriff's car has now picked up Paris Hilton at her home.
What do you bet this um uh the sheriff's car, let me describe it for you.
It's a black and white, and it has a uh number on the top.
It's now being followed by helicopters uh from uh Hilton's home.
The helicopters in LA, all of the uh networks now covering it's like OJ.
They're covering this car going from her house to the uh courtroom, but on the top of the car it has a number, so it can be identified from helicopters, I guess.
What is that, eight six five?
What do you want to bet that's the most played number in the California lottery today?
Don't you think?
This is a little insight into California thinking now.
This is the way we pick up the vibe.
Um the uh we have a very effective uh tax on the poor out here called the lottery.
I think most most of you do, and uh it's about time the poor paid their fair share.
Um so Paris Hilton's in the car.
She is in handcuffs.
This has become so politically hot now that they're going to actually start to treat her like an ordinary criminal.
Uh uh this is gonna violate everything we know about LA.
I mean, I I I don't know how slow this chase is gonna get, uh actually.
They're slowing Down to make sure that the uh the driver uh I bet the driver rolls down the window and waves at the helicopters.
I'm waiting for I'm waiting for the shot.
Um, look, we got to do some open line Friday, don't we?
I mean, isn't this Friday on this program?
We'll do a little open line Friday and whatever you want to talk about.
I've had enough to say about a lot of these subjects, and maybe you want to bring up a subject that isn't normally brought up.
Let's see, do we get music for that or no?
No music?
For open line Friday?
Okay.
We're finding it.
We're finding it very quickly.
Oh, here we go.
All right.
I knew you had it.
Yeah.
See, I get to do this too now.
I'll just field any question you have on any topic.
Um wherever you want to go with the show, it's kind of up to you now.
Let's just open the door and see where you want to go.
Mark in uh Buffalo, New York.
Uh, you're first up on Open Line Friday.
Go ahead.
Good afternoon, Roger.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Good.
I uh Rush uh is uh trained us well over the years, and uh he all I always got a kick out of it when he would say that we need to export liberalism.
When you were talking about the Chinese and the melanine uh problem, uh I was thinking that it might be behoove us as a country to load up a couple large ships uh full of ACLU attorneys and send them over to China to do battle over uh uh all of these uh pets that have been killed uh due to this uh poison putting in the uh food supply.
Excellent idea.
Excellent idea.
Uh the the thing that would finally tube the People's Republic of China would be about two hundred lawyers.
I think that's all it would take.
I think I read I think I read something in the paper, and I I haven't been able to recall where I was.
It might have been U.S. State Today.
It was a short story, but the the uh person involved, similar in China to uh like the FDI direct FDA director, uh was charged, and wasn't he sentenced to death for that uh that problem?
Yes, which I uh, you know, which uh had Bush done that with regard to the aftermath of Katrina, I think his numbers would have been a little improved.
Uh hey, thanks for the call.
Here's the late by the way, here's the latest safety warning about Chinese stuff.
Uh these things seem to be coming thick and fast now.
Uh yesterday, uh the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned that children could be injured or killed because of major defects in an all-terrain vehicle produced in China.
The ATV is called the uh Kazuma Mirkat 50, youth all terrain vehicle, imported by Kazuma Pacific Inc.
of Stafford, Texas.
Let's see, has no front brakes, no parking brake, and is missing a neutral indicator light, according to the Washington Times.
I don't have an ATV, so I don't know whether you can do without those things or not.
Do you ever park an ATV?
I mean, who cares?
As a parking brake.
A neutral indicator light.
What is that?
Anyway, whatever it is, uh the CPSC is in high dungeon about this.
Uh the Mirkat 50 lists at $645.
And uh Wicked Power Sports.com describes it as, quote, without a doubt the most popular youth ATV, kids' ATV to come out of China, and recommends it for six-year-olds.
Betty in Reading, California next.
Betty, welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi there, how are you?
Oh, doing pretty good.
How are you today, Roger?
Good, good.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
Yeah, my pet peeve is right now, you know, with all the recalls from China, which I've been following for quite some time, and the lead in the children's toys has been going on for quite a while now.
Right, right.
And and so right now in California, they're trying to pass the law where you can't have incandescent bulbs anymore, which sounds well and fine.
And I've been buying the fluorescent for years, you know, uh because of the environment and cutting down on the electricity and stuff, and I can tell you right now that they do not last.
You know, they're guaranteed to last for so many hours, and they do not.
And um they're all made in China.
Did you know that?
Yeah, they all are.
Hello?
Yeah, they all are.
Yeah, they are.
There is not American maker of those bulbs whatsoever.
They're all made in China.
They release mercury into the environment, and here we go again with a poison being released on American people.
I used to throw them away.
I didn't know they were releasing mercury until what, a couple of months ago.
You know, that lady's house turned into a super fun site because she spilled mercury.
It's gonna cost her thousands of dollars to pick it up.
She won't save if she had fluorescence for the next hundred and seventy five years.
She wouldn't save the amount of money she's gonna have to s uh spend now to just clean up after the thing broke on her carpet.
Did I tell you that there was a stripper pole in the living room at the Paris Hilton's house?
I think I did.
I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush.
Let's take your calls on Open Line Friday at 1-800-282-2882.
I also have the latest on uh Arnold and what's going on in the state.
Some funny California stuff coming up.
Stay with us.
Every network still following the um Sheriff's Crown Vic uh patrol car on the LA freeways as it winds its way with uh Paris Hilton in handcuffs.
Word is she's uh she's liking that.
Uh I think they've made two stops.
Have they not made two stops?
First it was uh Starbucks and then Victoria's Secret before they got to the courthouse.
Anyway, they are uh on their way to this is the most followed car since OJ.
They're gonna have to retire this car.
Uh anyway, I uh how how much can I mock this uh as being the most unreal Well, but you know what?
This is the new reality.
This is what LA exports to the world, celebrity.
And the uh and the craziness.
They had a reporter knocked down uh in the um melee of uh what, 50-60 reporters and cameras trying to rush the car.
The car puts on the the uh sheriff's car.
He puts on his siren and lights to get out of the driveway there in the uh unbelievable.
Uh I had a chance in Sacramento, speaking of another unreal part of uh California, to uh we did two shows on the local show up there uh earlier this week.
I kind of held their feet to the fire, had had some uh listeners uh paying their way up there to uh get after the state legislature on certain issues relating to uh immigration, and had a chance with uh Arnold Schwarzenegger, who came to address the show.
He addressed our dinner that night and uh invited us all out to uh smoke a cigar with him uh outdoors.
Kidded him about the uh Cuban cigar he had in the in uh Canada.
He said uh with a laugh that it was a fake one.
In any event, um this is unknown, I guess outside of California, is uh in big trouble because he is pursuing contradictory goals.
Last year he got the voters of California to go into debt.
I mean, a record record debt, 40-something I forget the exact number, 40 some billion dollars to build new highways and dams, infrastructure improvement stuff.
Um and then he also championed a bill that would cut down on global warming, would commit California to, by a certain date in the future, cut its uh emissions of greenhouse gases by a certain amount.
And uh you can't build freeways and dams and infrastructure and reduce your greenhouse gases.
One of the biggest pollutants, CO2, for example, carbon dioxide, is the uh manufacturing of cement.
Kind of hard to build a freeway or a dam without cement.
So now uh Arnold is pursuing two contradictory goals at the same time.
And waiting in the wings is a loony tunes who has already been governor of California, who will exist on both planes simultaneously.
He's trained both as a Jesuit and a Buddhist to do this.
And I'm speaking, of course, of the revered former governor of our state, uh Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Okay.
Jerry Brown is back.
Jerry Brown, if you'll recall, former governor, uh Moonbeam was his was his favorite uh nickname, uh back from the 70s.
Less is more and all that other craziness.
I never did understand that uh more than I and I I never I never understood uh freedom is uh what what is the what is the uh Janice Joplin line?
Freedom uh the only thing you have to uh anyway, I'll come back with that.
But the uh but the I never understood this one.
Less is more.
How simple can I get?
More is more, less is less.
Less is more?
Anyway, uh Jerry Brown is back.
Um, and he's now the attorney general of the state of California.
And he has sued San Bernardino County because San Bernardino County adopted a general plan for the county that did not take into account the impact of growth on global warming.
Now, Jerry Brown doesn't know whether San Bernardino County is contributing to global warming or not.
But it sounds good in the press release.
Now San Bernardino County has to question every hospital, every road, every house, every patio, every everything that's going to be built under their general plan as to whether or not there has been a sufficient consideration of the impact on global warming.
In other words, nothing will ever be built in San Bernardino County, one of the fastest growing areas of California.
Jerry Brown has taken the governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has taken him at his word.
He is now saying, fine.
Uh Governor, I know you have forty billion dollars to build all this stuff, but you can't build it because if you're serious about global warming, you can't build anything.
You can't build anything.
This is uh going to be a very and for California, this is going to be a very, very interesting um exercise, and where do you go from here when you're trying to have both sides?
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Was that it?
Freedom's just another word for nothing less left to lose.
I said that to myself.
I mean, even back in the 70s when I heard it from the wonderful Janice Joblin, I said to myself, what does that mean?
All right, to the phones on the Rush program.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling InfoRush.
1800 2822 882.
John in Sheboygan, Mich uh Michigan.
Go ahead.
Hi, John.
Hey, um, I wanted to get your take on something.
Um, it's gov or mayor Ray Negan thinking about running for governor of Louisiana.
Yes.
Do you think that'll work out at all?
Well, uh, what are the people going to say to it?
He's certainly well, you will see what uh what uh Louisianans uh say.
They returned uh uh Congressman uh Jefferson, uh what's his name, right?
Uh, who was also in uh he was also in court today.
Uh that was covered in about 14 seconds uh on uh MSNBC this morning.
Uh we are now getting the uh chase to see the very live pictures, Paris escorted to court apparently in handcuffs.
Uh oh, Fox is saying Paris handcuffed and tossed into cruiser.
She was gently eased into the cruiser on her handcuffs with a big smile on her face.
Anyway, uh look, I don't know what uh people in Louisiana are thinking, having Ray Nagan as as the uh obviously incompetent mayor of New Orleans, much less the governor of that state.
Uh I'm uh I I'm just stunned that the guy got elected again or that William Jefferson, Democrat uh Louisiana was elected again after 90,000 in cold cash in the freezer was found.
All of that stuff, okay.
I don't understand anything about Louisiana other than it's consistent with their history.
It is a French influenced corruption is the you know m well, it's the middle of the road in uh in New Orleans, and uh, you know, most of their governors go to jail.
Edward, what is that guy named Edwards uh built all the hospitals and got kicked backs and whatever that was, and I don't mean to gloss over it, but it's uh apparently that's the that's the the MO, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, John, now why why would you in Michigan bring this up, by the way?
Well, I just I wondered why it didn't get any coverage on the news.
I mean, Paris Hitland might be a stretch saying that's why I didn't get any coverage, but it just seems something like this would be talked about on Russia or something like that, and I wanted to bring it up, see what you guys thought about it.
All right.
Well, I think you've stretched us to the limits of what I think about it.
Rush could probably go and give you a much more detailed analysis.
I'll tell you what.
I'm I'm thinking about Negan.
I go, this guy's not news.
He's an incompetent mayor who destroyed his city and he's gonna run for governor.
Well, sounds like par for the course in Louisiana.
I don't know.
What do you think?
I mean let's just see what other people think, John.
Thanks for the call.
Here's uh Pete in Traverse uh City wherever.
Hi, Pete.
Hello, Roger, and thanks for having me on today.
Hi, where is Traverse City?
Traverse City would be if you held your left hand up in front of you, it'd be right at the top of your pinky finger.
Uh that would be in the Pacific Ocean, but I what what's a state are we talking about, Pete?
Oh, Michigan.
Michigan, I'm sorry.
Okay, good.
Uh no crabs.
I'm calling stem cell research.
You were on that earlier.
Sure.
And the facts of the matter are after twenty-five years of research, adult stem stem cell research has resulted in, as of last week, seventy-three treatable conditions.
Everything from bladder disease, liver disease, Parkinson's, heart conditions, many different types of cancers.
Where on the other hand, embryonic stem cell research has produced absolutely nothing on a triple side.
Right.
But I I didn't hear you say the 73 and thank you for filling that in, Pete, and I appreciate your call.
I want to talk about uh the war on Walmart, too.
If I can just slip this in.
Uh there is, as you know, a AFL sanctioned uh war on Walmart because Walmart uh is not union.
Now I suppose uh am I just too naive here, if the employees at Walmart and and let me go out on a limb, not one of whom I suspect, not one of whom has been forced to work there.
Has has anybody driven at the point of a gun someone to be employed at Walmart?
If they have, please call because I I don't want to be inaccurate.
Assuming for a moment, just a moment, that they are all voluntarily employees of Walmart, uh they have under the federal law the right to vote and organize uh and be represented by a union of their choice.
I don't recall any such vote being taken.
I don't recall any such uh interest in the part of Walmart employees uh or any at least that interest translating into a federally sanctioned vote.
Um however, AFL is still after Walmart because uh they are proving that an American company can become the biggest one in the world, even under all the rules and regulations and onerous uh things that bedevil business creation in this country today.
And there is a determined counterattack by the AFL.
It's happening in a lot of local communities, and just last week it happened here in River City, otherwise known as San Diego.
We'll be back.
See a little music man illusion there for you again.
We'll be back uh on the Rush Limbaugh program.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, 1800-282-2882 with the news about the Walmart war in San Diego after.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network 1800-282-2882.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush.
Now the war on uh Walmart, uh let me just insert this because uh the world has come to a standstill with the uh Paris Hilton uh cavalcade uh to the courthouse.
Every single station is a turn to this.
I think America has come to a halt.
I think every workplace in every gathering corner in our great country.
Americans have gathered round the television, watching the progress as this uh heiress is hauled back into court.
This judge doesn't know how much money he's made her.
Do you know what the going rate was for a paparazzi photo if they could get one of her in her cell?
The offer on the table in LA, I am told, was one million dollars.
And that's ultimately what this is all about.
Anyway, uh back to Walmart and the war on Walmart.
In San Diego, the uh city council considered last year and uh considered again this week, an ordinance that would specifically ban uh a certain size uh big box store if it included cheaper groceries.
Um, if you're Costco or some of these other stores that are membership stores, uh you weren't included.
The ordinance was specifically an anti-Walmart now.
Get this a local city council picks out a specific business and tells them they may not do business in their city.
This is still America question mark?
Uh free country capitalism?
Uh I don't think so.
They actually believe at the San Diego City Council they have the right to do that and the Responsibility to do it, and it's the right thing to do, to ban a business that would in effect bring in cheaper groceries, to say to their constituents, we're gonna tell you how much you're gonna pay for groceries, and it isn't gonna be low.
It's gonna be high prices.
Higher prices for groceries are good for you.
Five to three.
It passed.
Now, not only that, I thought I would bring you this doesn't often get enough play.
The kinds of people who sit on city councils are the sorts of people who then are Congress people and then their senators and then their, you know, Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton and whatever.
Uh they start out, they start out as Tony Atkins, who is a councilwoman in the city of San Diego, and when faced with all of the overwhelming evidence that it was simply un-American, uneconomic, and would cause her constituents higher grocery prices to vote against Walmart and to vote for this ordinance banning Walmart because of well,
let me in her let me just play her own words about uh her reaction and why she's voting yes on the ordinance.
I know that I'm not an economist.
I also know that I grew up extremely poor, and yes, we would have shopped at Walmart.
My family has.
I've said that.
But I also think it's incumbent upon us to look at the broader impact for communities and make hard decisions that hurt a little bit today for the greater good of the greatest number of people.
Did you get that?
I'm not an economist, therefore I don't know anything about the free enterprise system.
I have no clue.
And if uh, you know, we were poor and we would have shopped around for the best price, too.
But that's not really the issue.
The issue is the broader impact.
The issue uh and let me decode this for you.
The broader impact.
Decisions that hurt a little bit today, the greater good of the greatest number of people.
What she's talking about, of course, is the continuation of the flow of labor contributions into her campaign.
I I know that's not exactly what you would get out of that uh phrase, those phrases, but that's what she's talking about.
She's talking about becoming a state legislator because she's going to be termed out uh in 08 from her city council race, and you've got to keep moving up the ladder because she's not an economist.
She's not anything else either.
Uh uh this is what she knows.
Public service in uh in in behalf of the labor unions.
So she's got to continue to work up the ladder.
The greatest good for Tony Atkins is to uh vote against her constituents having access to cheaper groceries and more choices.
In the United States of America.
This is where they start.
They didn't they don't just start in the U.S. Senate.
They don't start in the U.S. Congress.
They start on your City Council.
Here's uh Ben Hueso, another member of the San Diego City Council, uh being a lot more direct about it.
It's it's very irresponsible just to say let the free market decide.
I think that is extremely irresponsible.
It's completely walking away from our responsibilities as our city government.
It's irresponsible to let the free market decide.
This man could be a congressman, a United States Senator, a governor.
When he is, he'll be telling you what car to drive, what to eat, the State Assembly, full of people like this in California.
The State Assembly yesterday said we can't cook with trans fat.
Whatever that is.
They were in favor of transgender.
Now they're against trans fat.
I don't know about either one of those things.
But trans anything should be my choice, not theirs.
Ben Hueso.
It's irresponsible to let the free market decide.
What's irresponsible is to allow people with that mentality anywhere near a public office in the United States of America.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back after this.
Coming up on the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network, Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush, who, by the way, can be seen this Sunday night on the Fox uh show half hour news hour appearing as himself this time, not as President of the United States.
I like that president thing and it drove the left crazy.
Um we uh in the next hour are gonna pick up on a story that again blew out of uh San Diego, but I think it's happening in every community in this country as Muslims move into and become a bigger part of a lot of communities.
Some things are happening that I don't think we were allowing other groups to have, and I have a substitute teacher, and her story about what happened when she filled in at a an elementary school here in San Diego and what went on uh has now become the subject of a huge controversy here, but it echoes throughout the country.
It's not just the foot bats up at the Minneapolis Airport or at these various uh colleges.
It's not the prayer rooms.
It's not wait till you see all the rest that comes with it.
Uh well, will you hear it here on the Rush Limbaugh program when we return?
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