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June 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limboy 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 EIBnet.com.
Dingy Harry, I have just learned, I mentioned this right before the top of the hour break.
Dingy Harry 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 wind what was going to happen.
But Dingy Harry's in, and he was addressing the press about his meeting with Republican senators on the amnesty bill, the infiltration bill.
And the Dingy Harry moment of silence.
And this is simply to dig President Bush on the day that he came up to Capitol Hill in order to try to get Republican senators to change their minds on the amnesty bill.
Now, one more thing here.
I want to add just a little bit to the 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 not to be repetitive, but to set this up, the 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 books to handle illegals.
That's why they're still called illegals.
Now, the point about this is you have to understand, this is a pretty stark statement I'm going to make here, but the political class wants to change their bosses.
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 go lease voters.
So you've got Republicans out there trying to tell the Hisman, hey, we love you too.
You illegals, we love you too, and we love you.
And it's not going to work.
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 going to 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 an attack on liberty.
It's about control.
A couple other immigration stories, and I love these headlines.
Actually, it's one story in two different places.
It's basically an AP story.
Day laborers sue Mamaronek police.
Workers no longer to be asked about immigration status.
Day laborers who successfully sued a Westchester village, Mamaranik, 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, Mamaronik 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.
And so they know that all this stuff is just a crock.
They're not believing any of it.
Great opportunity here.
Tony Blair has just lashed out at the British media.
Britain's media is like a feral beast that tears people and reputations to shreds.
He said this today in his parting shot at journalists after a decade in power.
Do you know what?
Most people think of like a feral cat.
Most people think it's a wild cat.
And it is.
But what it actually means is a feral organism.
If you've got a feral pig, you can have feral anything.
A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication.
So we've domesticated cats, we've domesticated dogs, but if you've got a feral dog, 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 feral 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.
So 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, Paris Hilton big story of no celebrities are rallying to her cause.
Like Jodi Foster rallied to Mel Gibson's cause, a couple of noble celebrities, and are puzzled out there because they can't figure out these celebrities usually hang together.
You can't fool me on this.
There's nothing to protect.
She's a celebratard.
There's no celebrities.
She's famous because she's famous.
She 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 have become views papers with opinion overtaking fact that it was rare to find ballots.
Tony Blair, parting shot.
And that was mine.
A brief time out here on the EIB network.
We'll be back with more exciting events from the Snack of Stuff, plus your phone calls.
All right, let's listen to President Bush brief press conference after his meeting with members of Congress on the immigration bill.
This was just about half an hour ago.
Some members in there believe that we need to move a comprehensive bill.
Some don't.
I understand that.
It's a highly emotional issue.
But those of us standing here believe now is the time to move a comprehensive bill that enforces our borders and has good workplace enforcement, that doesn't grant automatic citizenship, that addresses this problem in a comprehensive way.
I would hope that the Senate Majority Leader has that same sense of desire to move the product that I do or the bill that I do and these senators do, because now is the time to get it done.
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 was unacceptable.
And 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 do that.
And it has to be the border.
All right.
I'm sure you've heard here about the terrorist that's been in jail here in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals basically said, 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.
Without charging him, a divided federal appeals court set 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 setback for Bush on enemy combatants.
Not a setback for us.
For Bush, it's a setback for us.
It's a two-to-one decision from 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 Club Gitmo 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 don't.
And I have to tell you, after 9-11, I never thought the courts would drag this war into court, but that's what's been done.
They say it's a ruling against Bush, but 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, that Clinton appointed.
But Bush appointed him after Clinton left office.
Clinton gave him a recess appointment, and Bush has parted a new tone to try to show the Democrats, hey, I'm willing to work with you.
I'll send President Clinton's judge back up there.
And of course, Republicans passed the guy.
So 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 circuit court did yesterday essentially was rule that if you are in the U.S. legally, in essence, and have managed 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 alone should be considered another blow to the amnesty bill.
Keep these people in a military prison.
Keep these people out of Club Gittnore or wherever you bring them in here.
And this court says basically they're well, anyway, this guy was entitled to it anyway because he was lawfully in the U.S. on a student visa.
I mean, to give blanket amnesty to more than 12 million people who were here after a 24-hour phony security check.
Nobody believes a 24-hour security check is going to 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, these two judges, the Clinton appointee and Roger Gregory, just overturned 200 years of law and policy on their heads.
And of course, they're being said, it's being said about them.
Well, they're upholding the Constitution.
Here's the history of Roger Gregory.
Jesse Helms had opposed Roger Gregory and stopped his confirmation 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 media sold him.
There's several vacancies on the Fourth Circuit.
Used to be the most reliably conservative of all these circuits.
And see, our old buddy Lindsey Gramnesty, you might remember this, one of the Bush nominees for the Fourth Circuit was blocked by Lindsey Gramnesty, 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 a John McCain, trying to get noticed and applauded by the left-wing drive-by media and so forth.
And then that's so our own guys blocking our own judges from getting on these courts.
Here is Mike in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Mike, thanks for waiting.
You're next, sir.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, getting back to the pre- Oh, goody.
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 the liberals.
I mean, 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, I get rid of my guilt.
Then you start eating oat bran and then start taking vitamin D.
Then you start letting the kids play outside because they might get hurt.
Then a bee stings 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.
Living Manor Rush.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing?
Couldn't be better.
Thank you.
Oh, Dr. Limboy, it is such a privilege to speak to you.
I've been listening to you since the late 80s, and I am just thrilled to have gotten through.
And thank you for taking my call.
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, the feminazis.
No, it wasn't the feminizes.
No, the feminazis all wished that they were in the scene with me.
Oh, no, it was the moral majority types 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.
I thought it was funny.
And you looked fine.
You were parodying Clint.
It's a comedy show.
Just trying to make people laugh.
I'm glad you liked that.
You've warmed my heart today.
Oh, and you know, I heard you mention Gingy Harry a few minutes ago and that tribute that Miller gave at the end of your show.
Yes.
Oh, that was fantastic.
Is there any way that you could play that?
Didn't you hear a few minutes in the tribute they gave at the end?
Oh, I'm sorry.
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 10 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 when it airs, but you could get a TiVo machine to record it.
Right.
Well, I just thought that you would fit your appearances would be a little like fit in where Geraldo is.
Move him back to 10 o'clock.
Barbara, you are very kind.
By the way, Barbara's on my all-time top 10 list of female names, and I want you to know that.
Oh, Rush, you just made my day.
Well, I actually made my husband's day too.
Thanks very much for calling out there, Barbara.
Let's see.
Do I don't have time to grab another phone call before we go to the break?
I really don't even have time.
Tease.
Yes, in fact, I'll do it next.
I'll do the NAG story with Kim Gannedy next, where I'm being blamed for spousal abuse in the country, which is a fascinating premise, given I don't have a spouse.
Back in a second, folks.
And welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushboe serving humanity.
Half my brand tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You're right, Mr. Sterdley.
I've been teasing this story long enough.
Kim Gandy, who is the president of the NAGS, the National Association of Gals, has written a 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 ask 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 postnatal 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, it 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 beat shreds.
Your kids are not being supported.
You'll 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 US 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 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.
I can't help noticing many of the loudest and nastiest voices of 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 talk 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 legal immigrants to factory roundups on which frightened children are separated from their distraught mothers for days and weeks.
NAG Executive Vice President Olda 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 do most of them get in?
Well, they don't climb the fence.
They just walk in.
I mean, Not the point.
The point here, 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 got to get them in here.
They're coming out of the shadows.
And they want to.
Now, NAG, 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've got to legalize these people.
And the hate talk, it's me, is standing in the way of this.
According to Kim Gandhi, immigrant women had better not get pregnant and/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, at the millions of immigrant men and fathers who do work long hours demanding jobs and do try to provide for their wives and children.
But they are men after all, I guess.
Really?
They have no access to contraceptive.
It's all BS-denied condoms.
They do.
They have access to the whole social welfare system.
None of this is accurate.
So you see, this is a piece, exactly as I was 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.
I wonder why Gandhi cares about illegal immigrants.
I've never doesn't.
None of this makes any sense.
I only share this with you because she's blaming me for it.
And the fascinating thing 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.
Tanchi in Rapid City, South Dakota, great you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Russ.
Thank you for letting me participate in right-wing media.
I just was noting your description of 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.
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 trying to de-emphasize the informed and educated.
And they're trying to shut us up with McCain Feingold.
I mean, this is this, there's so much, what I say, so much to learn here about what can go wrong when government spirals out of control.
Anyway, Tanchi, thanks for the call.
We got a call from a Toyota caller.
Was this guy a Toyota driver, a dealer?
What was he?
Okay, anyway, we had some guy said you got to plug a Toyota in to charge the battery component.
You don't have to plug a Prius in.
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, 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.
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, made arrests, conducted search warrants.
Just, you know, federal law enforcement officer.
Dangerous work.
Yes, sir.
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 got to pay for.
Wait, wait, just wait, wait, wait.
Why?
If you've been a federal law enforcement officer, in your case, how many years?
Roughly 20 years.
20 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.
Yeah, I suppose.
How long did you wait until you retired to make this move?
Actually, I applied for it about a year ago.
No, no, I correct that.
I applied for it about two months ago.
Two months.
How long?
You were retired?
About a year now.
You were retired for how long?
About a year.
Okay, so they think in a year, after 20 years of devoted service to the U.S. government, you leave the government service, the Treasury Department, as their law enforcement job, and you're going to go rob banks.
And so they've 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, let's just put it, so I was fingered, printed numerous times, had 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 were out of their employ, know everything about you, and it still takes 16 to 18 weeks to the background check on you to make sure you get your 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.
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 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 to this country learn 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 going to be calling them illegal Americans.
You wait.
What's got to be case?
It has to be that somebody is going to call them illegal Americans or undocumented Americans.
Some such, you wait.
That's predicted.
It's one of the things they're going to 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 Robert, Santa Rosa, California.
Hi, Robert.
Thanks for waiting.
You're next 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 straighten me out.
Question is, if I were to trade my 15-mile-per-gallon Jeep Cherokee in on a hybrid, and then the dealer...
That's hybrid.
Hybrid.
Hybrid, yeah.
Yeah, hybrid.
Well, I told you I was confused.
Yeah, well, no, I didn't want the audience to think there's a new car out there they hadn't heard about.
I understand.
Hybrid.
I'm being facetious.
But at any rate, if I traded my Jeep Cherokee in, my 15-mile-per-gallon Jeep Cherokee in, and then the dealer resold my 15-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 believe that the rich should pay their fair share.
See, people like Ariana Huffington and Barack Obama rather than.
No, no, 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, what about their hybrid though?
Yeah, that's just for show.
You think you're going to see Barack Obama show up someplace without a train of SUVs and suburbans?
He needs security and so forth.
They're not going to be in these little hybrids.
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 Hopser G550.
I knew you'd straight me out, Rush.
I knew you had the answer, but I just couldn't come up with it myself.
Well, I'll tell you, I'm honored to have you place such confidence in me.
Oh, you're my fearless leader.
Baha Rushi.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You're welcome.
Robert, in Santa Rosa, California, before we go here, this is UK Times Online.
Food price rises force a cut in biofuels.
I just love this.
China's communist rulers, the Chikoms, 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 cost 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, it's wrong.
they end up telling us it is wrong, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, this is just a...
And the thing that gets me, it's the chai comms.
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 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 can do Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas.
You can do Mexico City.
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 debates.
Sign language, interpreters, closed captioning, any number of ways to make it work.
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