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June 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, dubbed a national treasure.
And I think that's pretty accurate.
And everybody on the other side of the glass nodding their heads.
And they're not suck-ups in there.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIB net.com.
Dingy Harry, I have just learned.
I mentioned this right before the top of the hour break.
Dingy Harry just just informed Mitch McConnell that he's going to go to the Senate floor at 2.15, ask for a moment of silence for the 3,500 soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now that was the original scheduled time for the president to address the press in the hall outside the Senate floor.
He's already done that, so the president must have gotten win what was going to happen.
But Dingy Harry's and he was addressing the press about his meeting with Republican senators on the uh on the amnesty bill.
The infiltration bill.
Uh and the uh Dingy Harry moment of silence.
And this is simply to dig President Bush on the day that he came up to uh Capitol Hill in order to try to get Republican senators to change their minds on the uh amnesty bill.
Now, one more thing here.
I want to add just a little bit to the uh monologue I did in the last hour about why this is this immigration stalemate is such a great opportunity for people to learn the dangers of big government.
And it's it's not to be repetitive, but to set this up.
Uh American people oppose this because they don't think that the federal government can do what it says it's going to do in this bill.
They don't think the government can do it, and they don't believe the people telling them from the federal government that they will do what they say.
And they don't believe when the federal government says, well, the status quo won't work.
We've got to come up with something.
The status quo would work if it were enforced.
There's already legislation on the on the books to handle illegals.
That's why they're still called illegals.
Now the point about this is you have to understand this is this pretty stark statement I'm going to make here, but the political class wants to change their bosses.
Uh bosses right now are us.
The Democrats want to change their bosses to more and more dependent victims.
This never-ending flow of illegals fills that bill well.
Republicans, in addition to being snookered, the Republicans in Washington are trying to out-pander the Democrats because they're doing this out of fear.
The Republicans think, oh my God, when the immigration bill passes, the Democrats are going to get credit.
The Democrats are going to get all these voters.
So you've got Republicans out there trying to tell the Hispanic, hey, we love you too.
You illegals, we love you too, and we love you.
It's not gonna work.
You can't you can't pander, it's not it never does work.
But here's the thing.
The political class wants to change the electorate, folks.
They want to de-emphasize or reduce your power over them at the ballot box.
This immigration bill is an assault on us.
It's an assault on the American people.
And you know it, and that's why they're having trouble.
You don't trust them.
You don't believe them, and you don't think the government as it's currently constituted and constructed can do what it says it's gonna do here.
You don't believe that they can pass 24-hour background checks or perform 24-hour background checks on 12 million people when it takes you five days to get a gun.
When they can't issue a passport in three months.
McCain Feingold.
That was passed to shut us up.
And they made no bones about it.
McCain Feingold was expressly about eliminating criticism of politicians at certain points in election cycles via television commercials.
Taxes are raised.
That's that's an attack on uh on liberty.
It's it's about it's about control.
Couple other immigration stories, and I love these headlines.
Actually, it's it's one story in uh in two different places.
It's basically AP story.
Day laborers sue Memorinek police.
Workers no longer to be asked about immigration status.
Day laborers who successfully sued a Westchester village memorinic have won a tentative agreement that prohibits a cops from routinely asking their immigration status or otherwise discriminating against them, their lawyers said Monday.
In addition, Memerinick must pay more than half a million dollars of the workers' legal fees.
These are illegal immigrants.
But they are being called day laborers here in this AP story.
There are things like this happening all over the country, too, that people are being personally affected by.
It's a crock.
They're not believing any of them.
Great opportunity here.
Tony Blair has just lashed out at the British media.
Britain's media is like a fearal beast that tears people and reputations to shreds.
Said this today in his parting shot at journalists after a decade in power.
Do you know what?
Most people think of like a fearal cat.
Most people think it's a wild cat.
And it is.
But what it actually means is a fearal organism.
If you got a fearal pig, you can have fearful anything.
A fearal organism is one that has escaped from domestication.
So we've domesticated cats, we've domesticated dogs, but if you've got a fearal dog, it's it's a dog that's escaped domestication.
It's gone back to its normal eat anything it can find mode.
Terrorize you and anything else it can do.
But Blair accused the media of sensationalizing facts, breeding cynicism, and attacking public figures.
The fear of missing out means that today's media more than ever hunts in a pack.
In these modes, it's like a fearal beast, just tearing people and reputations to shreds.
And he made this speech at Reuters headquarters in London.
Journalists are increasingly and to a dangerous degree driven by impact, and this is driving down standards and doing a disservice to the public.
Even he's calling them drive-by media.
But he's nailing it here.
Great picture he's painting.
They hunt in a pack, they're driven by impact, meaning they want destruction.
They want to see Paris Hilton crack up.
By the way, speaking of Paris Hilton big story of no celebrities are rallying to her cause.
Like Jody Foster rallied to Mel Gibson's cause, a couple of no celebrities, and are puzzled out there because they can't figure out these celebrities usually hang together.
Well, you can't fool me on this.
There's nothing to protect.
She's a she's a celebard.
She's, I mean, she's there's there's there's no celebrities.
She's famous because she's famous.
He hasn't done anything.
There's nothing to circle the wagons around here.
Anyway, Tony Blair said the damage saps the country's confidence and self-belief.
It reduces our capacity to make the right decisions.
Said many newspapers become views papers with opinion overtaking fact that it was rare to find balance.
Tony Blair, parting shot.
And uh that was mine.
A brief timeout here on the EIB network, and we'll be back with uh more exciting events from the Snack of Stuff plus your phone calls.
All right, let's listen to the President Bush uh brief press conference after his meeting with members of Congress on the immigration bill.
This is just about uh half hour ago.
Some members in there are believe that we need to move a comprehensive bill, some don't.
I understand that.
This is a highly emotional issue.
But those of us standing here believe now's the time to move a comprehensive bill that enforces our borders and has good workplace enforcement that uh doesn't grant automatic citizenship that addresses this problem in a comprehensive way.
I would hope that the uh Senate majority leader has that same sense of a desire to move the product that I do, or the bill that I do, and these senators do, because now's the time to get it done.
Uh it's going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of effort.
We've got to convince the American people that this bill is the best way to enforce our border.
I believe without the bill, it's going to be harder to enforce the border.
The status quo is unacceptable.
And uh I want to thank those senators on both sides of the aisle who understand the time is now to move a comprehensive piece of legislation.
The White House will stay engaged.
I just don't think people are going to buy that.
I just don't think that's going to persuade them.
In the first place, you know what's really wrong with this is this whole notion of comprehensive.
Something this behemoth and big, there's no way to control this.
This actually needs to be, if we're going to genuinely fix it, you pick one area at a time and you start and they do that.
And it has to be the uh it has to be the border.
All right.
Um I'm sure you've heard here about the um terrorist that's been in jail here in the uh Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals basically said, uh, uh, you can't hold this guy without charging him.
Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep U.S. residents locked up indefinitely.
And that's this guy's a without charging him.
A divided federal appeals court said on Monday, ruling a harsh rebuke of one of the central tools the administration believes it has to combat terror.
The headline of this story is set back for Bush on enemy combatants.
Not a setback for us.
Uh for Bush, it's a setback for us.
It's a two-to-one decision from the uh the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
You know, this story makes the case for keeping Club Gitmo open.
This is why we should not close the place and move all these terrorists to the United States, and that's what the people that want to close uh Club Gitma want to do.
And note who they are.
They are all a bunch of liberals who want access to these people as clients.
We are holding these people to keep them off the battlefield, not to try them for some crime yet to be committed.
And the courts used to understand this.
Today they uh they don't.
And I have to tell you, since after 9-11, I never thought the courts would drag this war into court, but that's what's been done.
Uh they say it's a ruling against Bush, but it's a it's a it's a ruling against us.
Let me tell you about this guy, Almari.
He was lawfully in the United States on a student visa, plotting to kill Americans.
The Fourth Circuit, and specifically a Clinton appointee and a Bush appointee.
Roger Gregory, the black judge, blocked by Republicans as being too liberal, but uh that Clinton appointed, uh, but Bush appointed him after Clinton left office.
Clinton gave him a recess appointment, and Bush is part of the new tone and to try to show the Democrats, hey, I'm willing to work with you.
I'll I'll send President Clinton's judge back up there.
And of course, Republicans passed the guy.
So we got we got a clin we got two Clinton appointees.
And they're the two to one in this ruling.
Meanwhile, there are vacancies all over the Fourth Circuit, and they're not being filled.
And this used to be one of the most conservative circuits in the country.
And what the what this what the circuit court did yesterday essentially was rule that if you are in the U.S. legally, in essence, and if manage to get some kind of legal status, then you have to be tried in the civilian system.
Now think about that.
The most dangerous enemies we have are people who manage to evade detection by our immigration bureaucracy.
They operate from within our country, within our borders, to destroy us.
This this alone should be considered another blow to the amnesty bill.
Keep these people in a military prison.
Keep these people that are club getting lower, wherever you bring them in here.
And uh this court says basically they're well, anyway, this guy was entitled to it anyway, because he was he was uh lawfully in the U.S. on a student visa.
Well, I mean, to give blanket amnesty to more than 12 million people who were here after a 24-hour phony security checks.
Nobody believes a 24-hour security check's gonna be real.
The result will be any terrorist found here being tried in a civilian rather than military court if they are caught at all.
And if they are tried.
Now the judges, the uh these two judges, the Clinton appointee and Roger Gregory, just just overturned 200 years of law and policy on their heads.
And of course, they're being said, it's being said about the well, they're upholding the uh the Constitution.
Here's the history of Roger Gregory.
Jesse Helms had opposed Roger Gregory and stopped his confirmation.
Uh Under Clinton.
Clinton then recessed, appointed him.
Bush, after he was inaugurated, gave Roger Gregory a full appointment.
The new tone.
And these appointments make a difference.
This is an absolute disaster.
And he's the first black on this court, so that's how the libs and the uh and the media sold in their several vacancies on the Fourth Circuit.
Used to be the most reliably conservative of all these circuits.
And see, our old buddy uh Lindsey Grahamnesty.
If you you might remember this.
One of one of the Bush nominees for the Fourth Circuit was b blocked by Lindsey Gramnesty.
Uh the former general counsel of defense, because Gramnesty was punishing him for his views on detaining and interrogating terrorists at Gitmo.
Remember that?
Lindsey Graham doing doing a John McCain trying to get noticed and applauded by the left wing drive-by media and so forth.
Uh and then that's so we our our own guys blocking our own judges from getting on these um on these courts.
Here is uh Mike in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Mike, thanks for waiting.
Your next sir.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh getting back to the Prius and you saying that it was a hoax, it definitely is, but for more reasons than you can imagine.
Well, please enlighten me.
Well, let's look at it.
The people most of the people that buy it are buying it because they want to use less fossil fuel.
Well, they never seem to realize what it takes to charge the battery, you know, power from their wall socket or whatever.
And that power is fueled by guess what?
Oil.
There you go.
So they're accomplishing exactly nothing.
Well, that's their liberals.
I mean, well, that's the that's the point.
Everything they do and say ends up being wrong.
That's why this thing's the magic car.
It can solve all your guilt.
You listen to all this news about how automobiles are destroying the planet, causing global warming, then somebody like Lori David comes out and says, get a Prius.
Or a hybrid.
You go, wow.
Hey, get rid of my guilt.
Then you start eating oat bran, and then uh start taking vitamin D, then you start letting the kids play outside because they might get hurt, then a beast your kid at school, and you sue the school, oh, you make a real difference.
And you're doing it all day long, driving around in a family sedan, a hybrid.
Barbara in Livingston, what?
Livingston Manor, New York.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing?
Couldn't be better, thank you.
Oh, Dr. Limbo, it is such a privilege to speak to you.
I've been listening to you since the late eighties, and I am just thrilled to have gotten through.
And thank you for taking my call.
Uh I wanted to commend you on your appearance on the half hour news hour over the past couple of weeks.
You know, I got a lot of grief for that first one.
Oh, I thought that was fantastic.
Well, I can imagine, you know.
Uh the uh feminist No, it wasn't the Feminazis.
No, the the Feminazis all wished that they were in the scene with me.
Oh.
No, it was it was uh it was uh the moral majority types uh who thought that I was demeaning myself in the office of the presidency by showing up on a beach with a couple of barely dressed women in bikinis serving me margaritas.
Well, I thought it was fine.
Oh, you looked fine parodying Clinton.
Well, it's a comedy show.
You know, the people just trying to make people laugh.
I'm glad you liked that.
You've uh warmed my heart today.
Oh, and you know, I I heard you mention Gingy Harry the other um a few minutes ago, and that um tribute that Mill uh Miller gave at the end of your show.
Yes.
Oh, that was fantastic.
Is there any way that you could play that or uh didn't you hear a few minutes in the tribute they gave at the end what I'm sorry?
Um Dennis Miller at the end of the half hour news hour.
Oh, Dennis Miller.
I haven't seen that.
I only watch my segment of that.
Oh, okay.
And do you have any input on what time that gets put on on Fox?
Because ten o'clock is really, really almost past my bedtime.
Well, it's worth staying up for on one night a week.
No, I have no input on uh on when it airs, but you can get a TiVo machine to record it.
Right.
Well, I just thought that you would fit your your uh appearances would be a little could like fit in where Geraldo is.
Barbara, you are you're a very kind by the way, Barbara's in my all-time top ten list of uh female names, and I don't want you to know that.
Oh, Rush, you just made my day.
Well, so you and we made my husband's day too.
Thanks very much for calling out there, Barbara.
Uh, let's see.
Do I don't have time to grab another phone call before the uh before we go to the break.
I really don't even have time.
Tease Yes, yeah, I'll do it next.
I'll I'll do the uh the the nag story with Kim Gandhi next, where I'm being blamed for spousal abuse.
Uh in the in the country, which is fascinating premise, given I don't have spouse.
Back in a second, uh folks.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbo, serving humanity, half my brand tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You're right, Mr. Sturdley have been teasing this story long enough.
Kim Gandhi, who is the uh the president of the NAGS, the uh National Association of Gals has written uh piece that's on the Nags website, www.nag.org.
She writes this try to put yourself in this picture.
Imagine you are a woman with two children and you live in perpetual fear.
Your husband hits you frequently, threatens to put you on the street if you X for money to buy groceries or clothes for the kids.
As primary caregiver to your kids, and due to lack of money and other resources, going to school for you is not an option.
You used to work part-time at a factory where you were harassed by your bosses who often denied your full wages.
You have protested.
You would have protested, but you knew there'd be nothing to protect you from being fired if you did so.
You were fired anyway once you became pregnant with your third child.
You have no access to contraceptives, nor can you afford pre- or post-natal care.
Your husband beat you for getting fired.
You want to call a cops, but you're afraid they'll arrest you or take your kids away, so you have no recourse and no way out.
If this were your life, where would you guess you live?
Some poverty-ridden country with a corrupt government, maybe, but you could very well be a woman right here in the U.S. Like nearly half of all undocumented immigrants, you may have entered the U.S. legally, but your visa expired, or you came here as a dependent spouse, and your husband overstayed his work permit without funds of your own.
If you came on a spouse visa that didn't allow you to work anyway, and you have no way to return to a home thousands of miles away.
And anyway, you don't want to take your children who are U.S. citizens away from everything and everyone they know.
You feel trapped, even though you're getting beet shreds, your kids are not being supported.
You'd be feeling threatened with thrown out.
You don't want to leave.
I added that last.
In all of the debate about immigration and the laws and what's needed, there is little recognition that right here in good old U.S. of A, there are entire communities of people living without basic human rights in circumstances not so different from those you might imagine in faraway countries with repressive regimes.
We don't like to think of our country that way, but terrible abuses are happening right under our noses, some of it by government officials, and it's high time to take a hard look at this cruel system and make some long-needed reforms.
That's why the NAGS was a founding partner for the National Coalition on Immigrant Women's Rights.
That's uh NCIWR, the National Coalition on Immigrant Women's Rights.
And we at the NAGs are working to bring attention to the problems faced by immigrant women, including the one-fourth of immigrants who are undocumented, and to fight for specific reforms that address issues like domestic violence, child abuse, and sex trafficking.
And I can't help noticing.
Many of the loudest and nastiest voices are the same ones who also oppose women's rights, civil rights, and reproductive rights at every opportunity.
Not surprisingly, misinformation about immigrants and immigration is rampant on right wing talked media.
Even among people who consider themselves Progressive.
I've heard some pretty misinformed views, ones that could have come right from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh.
For example, it seems to be a common belief that nearly all undocumented immigrants climbed the fence or sneaked across the border, though that is far from the truth.
Why do we think that?
Because the name callers on Talk Radio and Rant TV say it.
And too many people don't question their inflammatory rhetoric.
And their hate talk seems to have been translated into public action in everything from targeted deportation of pregnant women to frightening raids of the homes of illegal of legal immigrants to factory roundups on which frightened children are separated from their distraught mothers for days and weeks.
Nag executive vice president old Vives was part of a children's hearing on the impact of these raids, sponsored by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, or firm.
Anyway, the rant continues.
So how how do how do most of them get in?
Well, uh they don't climb the fence.
They just walk in.
I mean, uh not not the point.
The point here, uh Mr. Snerdley, is that these immigrant women are being beaten up by their immigrant husbands.
And they're being threatened with kicked out on the street and so forth, and yet we gotta get them in here.
They're coming out of the uh shadows.
And uh the they what Kim Gandhi describes immigrant men as men who hit their wives frequently, threaten to put their wives and children on the street if they ask them to buy groceries or clothes for the kids, and make their wives live in perpetual fear.
Now, this is a great character assessment for the people that the U.S. Senate's trying to get legal in one day, right?
And by the way, Kim Gandhi of the Nags is making the same argument.
We gotta legalize these people.
And a hate talk, it's me, is standing in the way of this.
According to Kim Gandhi, immigrant women had better not get pregnant and or lose their jobs because their immigrant husbands will beat them for it.
And these are the people we want to come in and do jobs you won't do.
Gandhi's comments are a despicable charge, folks, that the millions of immigrant men and fathers who do work long hours demanding jobs and do try to provide for their wives and children.
Uh but they are men, after all, I guess.
Really?
They have no access to contraceptivity.
It's all BF denied condoms.
Well, they've they do.
They have access to the whole social welfare system.
None of this is accurate.
I'm just saying this, so you see, this is a piece.
Exactly as I referring to earlier.
This is a piece ostensibly written in sympathy for immigrant women.
It's not.
It's liberalism.
It's full-fledged liberalism under the guise of women's rights or what have you.
Um I've I've yeah, I wonder why Gandhi cares about illegal immigrants.
I've never it doesn't uh none of this makes any sense.
I only I only share this with her because she's blaming me for it.
And the fascinating thing is she is she is giving us in her mind what is an accurate character description of the illegal immigrants in the country that she thinks we ought to move heaven and earth so they can get in.
Tonchi, in uh Rapid City, South Dakota, great you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh, hello, Russ.
Um, thank you for letting me participate in right wing media.
Um I just was noting your your description of uh one of the unsavory arguments for illegal immigrants, and that is that this country needs a workforce that is uneducated, unskilled, poor, facing a life of dependence, and it would seem to me that the government has already been doing a yeoman's job in producing that workforce when you consider the end product of a number of our public schools.
So I don't think we have to import them.
They're already here, and they're already Americans.
An interesting cutting comment and opinion.
Thank you.
Uh well, I think you're right in a sense in that that's that when I say that the people pushing this immigration bill are trying to change their bosses, us.
They are trying to change the nature of the electorate.
And they're they're they're trying to de-emphasize the informed and educated.
And they're trying to shut us up with McCain Feinwold.
I mean, this is this so much shh what I say.
So much to learn here about what can go wrong when government spirals out of control.
Anyway, uh Tonchi, thanks for the call.
I got a we got a call from a uh uh Toyota caller.
Was this guy a Toyota driver, a dealer?
What was he?
Well, okay, but uh wait.
We had some guy said you gotta plug a Toyota in to charge the battery component.
You don't have to plug a Prius in.
Uh the engine that runs on the fossil fuels in the Prius charges the battery some of the kinetic energy captured off the braking system also does that.
So hey, no, I didn't know that.
I'm glad to know it now, but blame it on the caller.
I've never said that the callers have an accuracy rating on this show.
Only I do.
I'm happy to fix the error, but don't hold it against me if a caller gets something wrong.
Gary, Middletown, Idaho.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
I want to thank you for everything you do.
Thank you, sir.
I'll get right to the point.
Uh I retired from the federal government after 23 years.
I was a special agent with the U.S. Treasury Department.
I carried a gun and a badge, uh, made arrests, conducted search warrants, uh, just you know, federal law enforcement officer.
Dangerous work.
Yes, sir.
Um, there's a law in the books that says that if you're a retired federal law enforcement officer, you can get a concealed weapons permit that is honored in all 50 states.
To do that, the first step is to get a criminal background check.
I applied for that, which I get I got to pay for.
Wait, wait, just wait, wait, wait, no, why if if you were being a federal law enforcement officer for in your case, how many years?
Uh twenty twenty roughly twenty years.
Twenty years they had to do a background check on you.
Well, I suppose the idea is that after you retire, you could go bonkers and do something, become a criminal.
Uh suppose, but how long did you wait till you retired to make this move?
Uh actually, I I applied for it uh about a year ago.
No, no, I correct it.
Um I applied for it about two months ago.
Two months ago.
I've been a little bit.
You were retired for how long?
About a year.
Okay.
So they think in a year, after twenty years of devoted service to the U.S. government, you leave the government service, the uh Treasury Department as a law enforcement job, and you're gonna go rob banks.
And so they got to find out.
Well, as part of that finding out process, I have to have a criminal background check done, which I applied for two months ago.
To this day, I haven't heard anything from the FBI, and they're the ones that have to do the background check.
If you go to the FBI website, you'll see that they themselves say it takes 16 to 18 weeks to do that criminal background check.
On one of their own former employees.
They know everything about you, including where you put your toenail clippings.
Well, during the years, I uh let's just put it so I was I was fingered fingered uh printed numerous times, uh, had uh security updates numerous times.
So, yes, sir, you're right.
Okay, so the point is they know everything about you minus the one year that you uh were out of their employ, knew everything about you, and it still takes sixteen to eighteen weeks to the background check on you uh to make sure you get your uh concealed weapon permit.
And I know what you're saying.
So, okay, so 16 to 18 weeks to check up on somebody they know, like the back of their hand, and 24 hours to clear 12 to 28 illegal immigrants on the Z Visa.
It just doesn't seem possible.
Well, it's not possible, and you understand this because of your life experiences.
A lot of the American people understand it too, and that's why they don't trust what they're being told about this.
I agree.
I appreciate that story.
Thanks much.
Uh one of my favorite tunes in a bumper rotation, Al Wilson, show and tell.
You will not believe this next story.
Saying presidential debates have been geared in the past to black Americans, Senator Mel Martinez, Republican Florida, argues that a U.S. presidential debate in Spanish would only help educate what has become the largest major uh minority group in our country, unquote.
One day, after voting to make English the official language of the country, the former housing and urban development secretary, who in 2005 became the first Cuban American in the Senate, was asked on C-SPAN's Washington Journal for his thoughts on such a debate proposed last week by the Spanish language media giant Univision.
Hey, it's a great thing, Martinez said.
When I came to this country, I didn't speak English, but I learned it.
And I think it's important immigrants of this country learned the language of the country, which is English.
However, having said that, I think it's a way of allowing people to know that the issues that they care about are being highlighted.
We've had presidential debates geared to the African American community of our country.
I think one could be geared to the Spanish Americans of our country.
Oh, now they're Spanish Americans.
Next thing you know, they're gonna be calling them illegal Americans.
You wait.
What's gotta be case, it's getting it.
It has to be that somebody is gonna call them illegal Americans.
Or undocumented Americans, some such you wait.
That's how that's I predicted is one of the things they're gonna do to move it forward.
Anyway, as for the presidential candidates who don't speak Spanish, Mel Martinez suggested interpreters and technology can play roles in any debate.
And this is the guy that's head of the Republican National Committee.
All right.
This is uh Robert Santa Rosa, California.
Hi, Robert.
Thanks for waiting.
You're next on the on the EIB network.
Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I'm a little confused about something.
I'm hoping you can uh straighten me out.
Uh question is if I were to trade my fifteen mile per gallon Jeep Cherokee in on a hybrid, and then the dealer that that's hybrid uh hybrid, yeah.
Yeah, hybrid.
I told you I was confused.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
I didn't want the audience to think there's a new car out there they hadn't heard about.
I understand a high bird.
I'm being facetious.
Yeah.
But at any rate, if I traded my Jeep Cherokee in, my fifteen mile per gallon Jeep Cherokee in, and then the dealer resold my fifteen mile per gallon Jeep Cherokee.
What good have I done for the environment?
You've done diddly squat, zilch zero nada.
My point exactly, but there is a cure.
Especially if you're a Democrat and you and you believe that uh the rich should pay their fair share.
See, people like uh Ariana Huffington and Barack Obama rather than.
No, no, no, no, no, well, Ariana Huffing and Puffington.
Yes, Huffing and Puffington, and Barack Obama, rather than trade their vehicles in, they should take them out to the wrecking yard and have them crushed so that they can't harm our environment anymore.
Well, the problem if they did that, they wouldn't have anything to drive.
Yeah, but they'd have well, they're what about their hybrid dogs.
Well, that's just for show.
You think you're gonna see Barack Obama show up someplace without a train of SUVs and suburbs, he needs security and so forth.
They're not gonna be in these little high birds.
Rush, that's why you're the man.
That's right.
That's why you're the man.
I mean, Lori David gets in her hybrid, drives it to the airport and gets on a hopster G 550 that uh I knew you'd straighten me out, Rush.
I I I knew you had the had the answer, but I just couldn't come up with it myself.
Well, I tell you, I'm honored uh to have uh you place such confidence uh in me.
Oh, you're my fearless leader.
Well, Baharashi.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You're welcome.
Uh Robert in uh in in Santa Rosa, California.
Before we go here, um, this is uh what is this w uh uh the UK Times Online food price rises force a cut in biofuels.
I just love this.
China's communist rulers, the Chicoms, announced a moratorium on the production of ethanol from corn and other food crops yesterday at the very time that Western leaders are rushing to embrace alternative food-based fuel technology.
Now, Beijing's move underlines concerns that ethanol production is driving up rapidly the costs of corn and grain.
It appears to reflect a growing reality about food-based alternative fuel.
It's far more expensive, both economically and environmentally, than Western politicians are likely to admit.
So once again, the liberals out there, biofuels, ethic.
It's wrong.
Whatever they end up telling us, it is wrong, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, this is just a and it and the thing it gets me, it's the Chicoms.
The Chicoms who are figuring this out.
The communists.
And they're saying the hell with this.
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I have a better idea.
A better idea than having uh a presidential debate in Spanish.
I think what we ought to do is hold a presidential debate, maybe two, in Mexico.
Actually have the debates in Mexico.
You do Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, you could do Mexico City.
Uh That way, future residents of America can actually participate and make up their mind which president would be more friendly to them when they decide to cross the border.
I mean, if we're going to do this, go all the way.
Go down there and have the uh debates.
Sign language interpreters, closed captioning, any number of ways to make it work.
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