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June 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network.
It is Open Line Friday and whatever you want to talk about.
But just think, 10, 15 years from now, you'll be sitting around with some friends and somebody will look at you to kind of break the ice and say, remember where you were the day they hauled Paris Hilton back into court?
This is stunning.
Jefferson, William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, stepped out in front of the microphones today to discuss his five daughters, their four daughters, and what they're doing today and all the reasons why he's not guilty.
And no one covered it.
The number one military man, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Marine general, has been replaced today.
No one covered it.
Not only that, TMZ.com, covering the Paris Hilton story, complained that one of the networks cut away to actually give us the General Pace replacement news.
This is the news.
I mean, it's stunning.
All right, we go back to what is important in life.
And I want to, I don't know exactly what this is, whether this is raising an alarm or simply reporting to you something that has happened for you to kind of cogitate and see what you think.
But you know we have been getting stories for a long time about Sharia law.
Here's the Minneapolis Community and Technical College installing a foot washing basin for pre-prayer rituals in a public institution financed by taxpayer dollars.
A similar nod to any other religion I suspect would have brought out the ACLU and a phalanx of attorneys to stop such a hideous breach of the separation of church and state.
We've heard their logic on this for so long it's in our DNA at this point, even though that's not what the First Amendment says, I understand.
But that's what we have been taught, it says, for at least, what, 75 years now.
Yesterday on this program, Rush took a call from someone in upstate New York talking about something that had happened in their school with regard to Muslim kids going to the mosque on a field trip and the inculcation of into these, I think it was fifth or sixth graders, of Muslim religious themes and religious tenets and the religious practices and rituals.
We have long been subjected in California.
Seventh grade was it, the social studies, they don't call it history anymore or geography.
It's social studies, a book in which there's an entire section, I believe an entire week, in which the children dress as Arabs, take Muslim names, and discuss the various tenets of the Muslim religion.
Then the following Monday, there's a 30-minute discussion of the horrors of the Inquisition as the complete history of Christianity, and then they move on.
Now comes Carver Elementary School in San Diego.
And believe me, ladies and gentlemen, in your community, I want you to look around because my guess is something like this is going on everywhere.
A young lady, Mary Frances Stevens, is a substitute teacher, has been doing it for some time in the school district here, San Diego Unified School District.
She was called upon to substitute teach an elementary school class at Carver Elementary School.
And as with substitute teachers, she was left a lesson plan by Mr. Campbell, the teacher for that class who was out that day.
And she, well, let me, in her own words, taken from an interview I did a couple of days ago, here is what This is cut seven.
Here is what this substitute teacher said about, you know, when reviewing the lesson plan.
I viewed the lesson plan and immediately I noticed that it stated from, quote, one to two students will pray for about an hour.
Ms. Peer will come in and lead this, end quote.
Ms. Peer is a district, a Muslim district employee that comes in and prays the girls on a daily basis.
A district employee, an adult, a Muslim, comes in during the classroom day to pray with the students.
Now, if you didn't catch it, the students apparently are also gender segregated.
They are girls only.
They are also religious segregated.
They are only Muslims.
They are non-Arabic speaking Muslims, apparently from Somalia and Turkey, I think she said.
But they're in the Arabic immersion program in this elementary school in order that they might properly read the Quran in its original language.
This is all in a public school now.
So we'll follow the story of what happens at 1 o'clock when Ms. Peer comes in to lead the girls in prayer.
Well, at this point, Ms. Peer comes in.
I think Ms. Peer noticed, it was obvious I was very intimidated, very uncomfortable.
She suggested I leave.
But before I even left, one thing that really bothered me, Roger, is these girls, it was like on queue.
They see Ms. Peer come in, their normal 1 o'clock prayer time to Mecca, and they close the blinds, grab their mats.
I mean, just not your typical classroom that's teacher-led.
They close the blinds, shut the windows, lock the doors, everything without direction.
So this interview, in other words, revealed that in a public school, during the classroom time, as part of the curriculum, a Muslim woman would come in to lead the Muslim girls in prayer, locking the door, drawing the blinds.
And as it later turned out in the interview, they went, these Muslim girls, out to get on a bus provided by the local mosque so that they would not have to get on the school bus with other non-Muslim children, much less those of another gender.
And we have two or three here in San Diego.
What has happened now is that this woman for going public, Mary Frances Stevens, her reward, as with all whistleblowers, as we know in government, her reward is that no one is going to stick up for her.
She is facing disciplinary action because she left the classroom.
Yesterday on the program, my local program, the representative of the school district said we were considering her having breached her duties by leaving the classroom during a 30 or 40 minute period during which Miss Peer or Pierre, however her name is pronounced, led the girls in prayer.
So that's the San Diego story.
Now, the rest of the story is that I cannot, this is just me, okay?
I cannot let it go.
That for decades, Christian prayer, habits, practices, even the description of the Christian religion, discussion of Jesus Christ, has been forbidden in the public school, driven out of the public school relentlessly.
There's no longer a Christmas, there's winter break, there's no longer an Easter, there's spring break, there's not even Halloween anymore because it's subject to the All Saints Day, All Souls Day Christian root heritage.
Nothing can be allowed.
Christianity must be rooted out of the public schools in the name of the ACLU interpretation of the First Amendment.
We have lived with that for how long?
Now come the Muslims.
Well, sorry, we have to pray.
We have to teach the Muslim religion to our children.
They can't mix with you.
They have to be kept separate.
There has to be segregation.
Segregation, ladies and gentlemen, in the public schools by religion.
And of course, the PC, multiculturalist, saturated minds of the school administration is just going, well, sure, no problem.
Right.
Gotcha.
Why not?
Huh?
All right.
So that's on the table as well, because I suspect in your community it is happening as well.
Let me reset the table on the question of, I must be hungry.
Why am I using that analogy?
Reset the table.
What?
I didn't have breakfast this morning.
Let me say again that the big victory of today is yesterday the United States Senate actually had to bow to the public pressure against amnesty.
A remarkable moment occurred.
Those 100 senators are living in a bubble in which they rarely have to take into account, other than when they're lying to you during campaigns, the public.
They live in a bubble inhabited by pressure groups, interest groups, lobbyists, people who provide the money for their reelection.
Many of them like to see over that and do the public's business.
I don't want to question their integrity.
I just want to tell you what their living habits are.
Very, very rarely do the opinions of the average American make a difference in the decision made by the United States Senate.
It happened yesterday.
They could not get, they could not get 60 votes to stop the amendments on the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill.
They couldn't get 50, I don't think.
Was it 50, 45, or 50, whatever it was.
It wasn't 60.
And what they got was they hit a stone wall, a, let me put it another way, tidal wave of your emails and phone calls and visits to their district offices and the way in which this last week Grassroots America stood up and said, no, this bill is an amnesty.
It is not sufficient border protection.
We're simply inviting the whole world here.
So now, where do we go?
Where do we go from here?
And I think Duncan Hunter had our congressman here running for president had the best idea because he reminds us that a bill was passed last year that would create a defensible border, that would create a defensible policy of jobs going to Americans and not to illegals.
And then you can talk about what do we do with the folks that are here.
So here is Duncan Hunter.
The better idea right now is to execute the law that the Senate did pass, 80 to 19, and that the House passed overwhelmingly and that the President signed on October 26, and that is the bill to build the double fence, 854 miles.
This is what George Bush has not been saying.
This is what Kennedy wants you to forget.
This is what John McCain says is unworkable.
And that is that the Senate acted last year.
The House acted last year.
The president signed a bill.
Ladies and gentlemen, where is that bill?
Where is the border security they promised last year?
See, they were going to try that old 1986 thing again.
Promise the border security, promise the employer verification, but give them the amnesty.
See what happened the last time when it was one or one and a half or two million illegals in 1986 that were given amnesty.
This time we're talking 12, and it's probably closer to 20 million.
What will it be next time?
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
Filling in for Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network, back with your call after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
And again, a program reminder.
Rush will be on the Sunday night Fox Show half-hour news hour.
That's at 10 o'clock Eastern Time.
Rush appearing as himself.
I liked it when he appeared as president to drive the left crazy.
Let's take some calls.
It is Open Line Friday.
Here's Jason in Fort Lauderdale.
Hi, Jason.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Yeah, I was just stunned to hear about this thing in San Diego with an hour of prayer at the public school.
I'm a progressive.
I'm happy and I'm proud of that, but this is not a right or a left issue.
This is pure constitutional as I'm concerned.
Why are my tax dollars subsidizing their religious education?
Well, there you go.
Now, what we've done, Jason, here's what we've done out here.
A letter has been sent to the school board, and it has said, describing the situation that we have found at Carver Elementary, and it basically said, we demand that all religions be given the same consideration.
Now, I know you as a progressive is going to say, well, that's going the wrong way.
Well, maybe not.
Well, it depends on the details.
But, you know, I send my children to a private school so they can get their Jewish education out.
I'm happy to do that.
And I wouldn't expect your tax dollars to pay for their Jewish education.
You know, at the very least, equal consideration.
Well, there you go.
That's just crazy.
See, if they had Hebrew instruction, reading of the Torah, a rabbi comes in for an hour every day and get ready for the bar mitzvah, that doesn't sound like what the ACLU was standing for.
No, probably not.
And I would probably, I'm probably going to say, yeah, you're right.
I think take all the religion out of the school if that's what you want.
Find a way to get your kids some private education somewhere, after school, private school, something.
But this is not a public employee going to the school to handle the prayers.
Not even a private citizen who's volunteering their time.
No.
That's not.
I agree.
That's not what it's about.
I agree, Jason.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Josephine in Sussex, New Jersey, next on the Rush Show.
Hi, Josephine.
Hello, Roger.
Thank you for taking my call, and I've enjoyed listening to you when you fill in for Rush.
Thank you.
Apropos of the whole discussion of religion or the lack thereof, I received a phone call this morning from the concerned women of America, and it was about, they were saying that Michael Newdow is up to his old tricks and wants us to take In God We Trust off of the coins.
I thought we already did.
Did we?
Well, yeah, the new coins have in God We Trust around the edge instead of on the coin.
You have to have LASIK surgery or something to be able to see around the edge of the coin.
It says, In God We Trust.
And then most of them have been left off anyway, and they become collector items.
This is the latest out of our government.
It's insane.
It really is.
And I mean, he attacks religion with a religious zeal that just is unbelievable.
And it's designed against it.
Josephine, let me just, I'm sorry for interrupting, but this is such a key point.
There are atheists who get it that they have a right to be atheist.
That's right.
Everybody else has a right to be whatever they want to be.
That's right.
They don't try to impose on you what they are.
Then there are some other people who are simply anti-religious people.
They're not atheists.
They're anti-religious.
And their religion is to destroy religion.
That's right.
And he's one of those.
Yeah.
All right.
Hey, thanks for the call.
Audra on a cell phone in Mississippi has been holding.
Hi, Audra.
Welcome to the Russ Show.
Thanks.
How are you doing?
Good.
Thanks, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
Sure, go ahead.
Well, I just wanted to respond to the guy earlier that was asking about why we re-elected Mayor Ray Neagon in New Orleans.
And I actually was the chairman of a Republican organization down there that was kind of pivotal in his re-election.
And we did it.
We tried to get a Republican in there.
That didn't work.
We had two choices.
We had Ray Neagon, we had Mitch Landrew.
We figured four years of Ray Neagh was much better than eight years of Mitch Landrew or any Landrew.
And we definitely didn't want his sister, Senator Mary Landrew, having any kind of benefit of getting re-elected also.
So we put Mayor Nagan back in there because we didn't want any Landrews in there.
So that's basically why we did it.
We weren't really stupid.
We just figured his four years would be better than eight years of Landrew.
I see.
Well, Audrey, this sounds like the Lesser of Two Evils syndrome, unfortunately.
That's what it was, Roger.
Like I said, we tried to get a gentleman by the name of Rob Kuhig in there.
He got about 10,000 votes, which was pretty good for a Republican running in the city.
He didn't make it, so we had, you're exactly right, Lesser of Two Evils.
So that's the way we saw it.
Wasn't there an immigrant guy down there who was from India or something that ran for one of these races down Louisiana?
Are you talking about Congressman Bobby Jindal?
Yeah, that's the one.
Didn't he run for like a Senate office and didn't make it either?
But I hope he stays in there.
No, he ran for governor and lost against Kathleen Blanco barely, but he is now in the gubernatorial race again, and all polls say that he should be a locker or the governor this time.
Well, we ought to try that guy.
He seemed like he had it to go ahead altogether.
I don't know, Audrey, but I appreciate the call.
I'm obviously not up on Louisiana politics, except to know that William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, is finally indicted for the cold hard cash they found in his freezer and other issues that will come up.
He spoke today.
You wouldn't know it because of Paris.
Back after this with more.
Uh-oh.
The judge in the Paris Hilton case was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan 35 years ago.
Whoops.
Oh, there it is.
An extra exclusive there on MSNBC, the inside of Paris Hilton's home, including the stripper poll.
It's about time they got some pictures.
By the way, has the president, President Bush, I know he's somewhere in Europe, and they're going on and on about whatever they go on and on about, their irrelevant world leaders.
Has the president come out with any statement about Paris Hilton yet?
I mean, let it, he better not wait.
Better not get behind it.
I mean, Al Sharpton was on it yesterday.
1-800-282-2882.
Michael in San Diego, next on the rush show.
Go ahead.
Hey, Roger.
I like it when you fill in.
I like listening to you.
Hey, I live in San Diego, and I just got off the phone with the school district.
And, you know, what they're throwing out there, first of all, the superintendent won't take calls.
And so they're saying it was not a teacher that was leading the prayer.
And per the Child Left Behind Act, they cannot deny the children to pray.
That the law does not have to be.
Well, Michael, we got into this with their public information officer yesterday, Mr. Brandis.
The No Child Left Behind Act has in it properly so that during recess, noontime, and before and after school.
In other words, before and after the actual curriculum, the schools cannot prohibit students from privately gathering to pray or to do whatever they, you know, quiet time or whatever they want to do.
But it wasn't a school teacher leading the prayer, but it was a school employee.
So they always say, well, it wasn't a teacher.
It was a school employee, Mrs. Pierre or Pierre or whatever her name is.
They keep saying that's not true.
Their investigation has led that the children did it on their own and it was not during school time.
That's what they're filling out.
Yeah, I know.
We got witnesses.
They are scrambling now, Michael, because this thing is causing a firestorm.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
And I told them, I said, my next one will be to the school board to do everything I can to get them out if they're not going to do anything about it.
And then I'm going to pull my child out of their district.
Michael, it's the right thing to do for a whole variety of reasons, my friend, as we know, and we talk about it a lot down here.
I appreciate the call.
Mike in Memphis, Tennessee, next.
Mike, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, thank you very much for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I was just thinking that, you know, if they want these gals to have a real Muslim education, shouldn't a guy come in and beat up that lady and then put a burg on her and put a burg on all of them and take them out and let them go to school or something like that.
Well, now, obviously, you've been trained in the jihadist Muslim tradition where, for instance, if they're raped, then they're killed for attracting the rape in the first place.
You know, some of that logic of the Muslim world.
This is a serious issue because these girls are supposed to be going on in schools.
I mean, it's not.
It's not.
It's not right.
But I tell you, the thing about women and Islam is also something that needs to be explored.
And I'm obviously not an expert on either.
But I have been reading of Muslim women who have dared to speak out about what it's actually like to be a woman in, for instance, Saudi Arabia.
In fact, there was a female feminist liberal reporter who wrote a piece for the L.A. Times.
Go and look at this.
It was, oh, gosh, a week ago, five days ago, something like that.
Front page stuff on the L.A. Times about her times covering stories in Saudi Arabia where the religious police there make you as a woman wear the Muslim dress, whether you're Muslim or not.
It doesn't matter.
You are going to wear their Muslim dress.
And yet, when they come to the United States, it says, wait a minute, you've got to be tolerant of our stuff.
We're going to change your society to us.
You go there, there's no tolerance at all for diversity.
You as a Western woman better dress up in that thing.
And she went into a Starbucks.
I'll never forget this description because she's really a very good writer.
I wish I had that in front of me.
She went into a Starbucks to get a cup of coffee, saying, oh, my gosh, here's a little bit of the West.
I'd love to just, for a moment, think about myself back in L.A.
She goes into the Starbucks, and every male in the place, and there's only males in the place, stare at her while she goes up and orders.
The guy behind the counter hesitates, finally gives her the coffee she orders.
She goes and sits down.
He comes around the counter, goes over to her table, hisses in her ear, you can't sit here.
Women in the back.
And there's a separate entrance to the Starbucks in the back where women sit in shabbier place.
And that's where women go.
The men were just outraged that a woman would think it was her right to come in the front door of a Starbucks.
And here's a liberal woman who then goes around the back and calmly goes through the back door.
Now, if you said that about blacks and segregated facilities of any kind in this country, if you said it about women, hell, they went into the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
Can't have a male-only club of any kind, blah, blah, blah.
They go to Saudi Arabia, they put on the burqa, and they go in the back door of Starbucks.
And you know what she actually said in this article?
I mean, that was an astonishing article.
She says, well, you know, you have to try to understand other people's culture.
No, I don't.
If other people's culture is significantly less civilized than mine, significantly less civilized in the specific aspect that it treats women on the same social level as my goats, I just don't,
not that I have goats, mind you, but I mean, in that society, that it seems to me that we can make a value judgment that that is not as advanced a civilization as ours, where men and women as human beings are free, etc., to go in the Starbucks on the front door, for example.
Hello?
We have to respect that.
No, we don't.
No, we don't.
Gene in Louisville, Kentucky.
You're next on the Rush Show.
Hi.
Sure.
Just got a little information here for you to pass on to Rush, if you will.
The drive-by media has a new way of putting out their word.
What's that?
Well, I was down in Tennessee, Sevierville, needed gas.
I pulled in an Exxon station and activated the pump and started pumping my gas, and all of a sudden something is blaring at me, and it's CNN.
And I said, where is that coming from?
There's a 4x8 television on every pump that's programmed to CNN.
So the whole time you're pumping gas, you've got to listen to them.
Have you heard of that before?
I have not, but I've also seen that in airports all over where I have to look at CNN.
And I, you know, this is new.
This is Big Brother, it sounds like, coming into, you know, screens will be everywhere, and it'll be on the channel we sounds like Hugo Chavez.
We're going to put on my channel.
Any other channel, we're just going to invade and take off the air because my channel obviously is best.
Amen.
I want to let you know they're doing funny stuff.
It's so loud you almost want to stop pumping your gas so you don't have to listen to the garbage.
No, that's funny stuff.
All right.
Hey, Gene, thanks for the call.
It's passed along.
I don't know where this is all going in terms of Muslims.
A lot of them are coming here simply to live in freedom and we welcome them and they're illegal and we welcome them and God bless them or Allah as the case may be.
But I'll tell you what, too many of them, according to this poll that was taken by the Pew research people that Rush was talking about a couple of weeks ago, too many of them apparently believe that blowing up pizza places and suicide bombers are acceptable ways of expressing yourself religiously.
And let me just tell you, on behalf of everyone in the country, if you are one of those Muslims who so believes, who has in their mind that it is an acceptable practice of your religion to blow up other people who are not of your religion in order to make your point and go to heaven, please leave the country immediately.
You are not wanted here.
You are not appreciated.
You are not welcome.
We are civilized people.
We do not do that sort of thing.
We do not believe that it pleases God to kill innocent people.
If you do, please go somewhere else where they believe that.
Because you are not welcome here.
I don't know why this isn't said more often.
In Britain, by the way, I think Rush covered this as well.
Mohammed is the second most popular name for baby boys.
The Times of London reporting last week.
Let's see.
The top 3,000 names given to children, the number one is Jack.
Number two this year is Muhammad in all its various spellings, since it is spelled in a variety of ways by people who are apparently needing a little more Arabic immersion in order to come up with a common spelling.
So, Mohammed, but here's the news.
The Times is reporting that Mohammed is going to become the most popular name in Britain for boys born in Britain, which will then not be known as Britain, but the Islamic Republic of Britain.
So, what is it like on Muslim TV?
Have you ever checked out Muslim TV?
On the Hamas Al-Aqsa television, this is, yeah, you judge a woman by her two eyes and the bridge of her nose.
On Hamas Al-Aqsa television, they have taken to showing kindergarten boys.
This is what, five-year-old boys, dressed in black masks, camouflage fatigues, carrying toy guns and waving green Hamas flags, vowing that their most lofty aspiration, quote-unquote, lofty aspiration, is death for the sake of Allah.
May I just say that if you are teaching five-year-olds to commit suicide in the name of your religion, you are not a civilized person.
You are a barbarian to be outcast from the Commonwealth of Civilized Nations.
Your civilization is a barbaric perversion, if that's what you believe.
Now, I'm assuming not all Muslims believe that.
But in Hamas' case, which is an extremist group, this is what they're putting on their television.
Their kids being taught that suicide and killing infidels in the name of Allah is their most lofty aspiration.
I'm Roger Hedgecock with your calls at Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Program after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program here on the EIB Network.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
Pictures now all over of Paris Hilton in the sheriff's patrol car sitting in the back crying.
I can just about make out what she's saying.
Something about I've never been in a Ford.
Here's Oscar in San Diego.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hey, Roger.
How are you doing?
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
First, I'd like to say that, you know, even though I consider myself to be somewhat of a liberal, I do appreciate all your ideas and all your comments from all your listeners.
I think we all have the right to express our opinion.
I am a son of an immigrant.
I've been in, you know, I'm in the military.
I've been in the military for 15 years.
So I don't think that anybody has the right to even question my loyalty to this country because I would die for this country.
I do have to say, though, that on your issues, on your opinions, and even some of your comments from your viewers and from Mr. Limbaugh when he's on immigration, I find it that lately, when I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh talk, you know, at first he started saying about immigrants, immigrants, and now we're coming to the point where even just saying flat out Mexicans.
I just want to say that, you know, immigrants covers a lot of people, not just, unfortunately, I do understand that most of them are from Latin America, but it's not just Mexicans that are immigrants.
Oh, I think that's true.
And Oscar, let me just say, I appreciate your fighting for this country.
No one is questioning your loyalty.
And as far as I'm concerned, if you aren't a citizen, and I know there's a big program in the Pentagon to do this, you are made a citizen by virtue of the merits of your service to this country.
And it is the highest, it seems to me, the highest honor to the rest of us that people are coming here as legal immigrants and fighting for this country.
So you have a lot of praise from me, and I know everybody else listening in this audience.
The reason you hear people talking about Mexicans is they are predominantly, especially down here, Oscar, come on, coming from Mexico, lots from Central America.
We don't get, as they did in New Bedford on the guy who was making the leather plant that was making the backpacks for the Pentagon.
He had 300-plus illegals out of 600 employees.
The number one nation providing illegals in that case was Portugal.
So, you know, I think we've been cognizant of the fact that it isn't just Mexicans, although there's the largest percentage of the illegal population, as well as the legal population, by the way, is coming from Mexico, right?
I agree with you 100%.
And just I want to clarify that I was born here.
Like I said, I think that we have the best country in the world.
And even though, like I said, I consider myself a liberal, I do like to hear your comments and other comments because it definitely opens my eyes to a lot of things.
But, I mean, I just wanted to make that comment.
But I just want to tell you thank you and thank you to all your listeners for expressing their opinion because that's what this country is all about.
And that's the reason why I'm fighting for this country because I believe that we have the right to stay and express our opinions without getting shot.
So I just want to say thank you.
Well, God bless you, Oscar, for your service to this country.
And God bless you for understanding America as succinctly as you just did in that statement.
I appreciate the call because, you know, again, ladies and gentlemen, he was born of immigrant parents.
But again, the immigrants who come here to make this a better country, who come here to be Americans, who come here legally, God bless them, welcome, because that's what the country is built on.
People try to sneak in here and become too many, you know, fill up the prisons, fill up the and close down the emergency rooms, put our public schools into the death spiral they're in.
There's too much of that adverse impact of illegal immigration to ignore anymore.
And I think everybody, and I think stopping the Senate yesterday from taking us over the cliff is evidence that more and more people in America are waking up to these facts.
Let's see, I have time for Eric.
Eric, can San Antonio quickly?
Eric, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hey, Roger, thanks for taking my call.
I just want to say that I'm really jazzed about this defeat of the amnesty bill.
And I think maybe it's really the first time I ever felt like I personally made a difference because I called my congressmen and senators.
I also called Kennedy's office and I got through and I called McCain's office.
Good.
And, you know, I told him without getting incensed or, you know, making too much noise, I just said, look, I want these guys to reconsider this.
It's wrong.
It's wrong for the country.
And it just, I think we need to build on this now and realize that we as individuals, collectively, if those two words can go together like that, that we can make a difference.
And I'm excited about it.
Yeah, I am too.
And this is exactly how those two words do go together.
Individually, we made a commitment.
Collectively, as we the people, we have made a difference.
And now we need to push forward to demand what we demanded in the first place, border security first, employer verification second.
And then we'll deal with people who are here illegally that deserve to get a hearing and deserve some kind of consideration for the fact that they're working hard and keeping their nose clean.
As far as the people who aren't and are dealing the drugs and the gangs, and there's 150,000 gangsters all over the country now in these various illegal immigrant gangs, 150 of them rounded up in L.A. just over the last week, they ought to be getting out of the country.
And if George Bush gets on that path, he's going to find we the people right behind him.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
More after this.
Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Rush back on Monday.
Thanks, Rush, for the privilege of sitting in the chair.
And of course, Rush on Sunday night at 10 o'clock on the Fox News store, Fox News show Half Hour News Hour.
Look, that last caller got me thinking.
The great beast, you know, we the people has been awakened on this bill, on this immigration amnesty bill.
And let's not go to sleep again.
Let's not get glued to the Paris Hilton screen.
Let's not go to sleep again because we need to do more, not only about the border, but about everything else, don't we?
Let's get behind and push this government in a direction we want it to go, in the direction of a constitutional republic, in the direction of an effective foreign policy, standing behind our troops.
Now, this might just be the beginning, this victory.
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