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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Thanks very much and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB Network.
	I am Roger Hedgecock at KOGO Radio in San Diego, and taking your calls today at 1-800-282-2882, urging you as well to drop in on Rush Limbaugh.com for all of the latest as we progress through this day of incredible news.
	We will have and there's a statement coming up from the mayor of New York, Bloomy Bloomberg, and we're going to get we're going to get a little bit of that because it's possible, and uh Mark Belling, I think uh what did he make this call yesterday that Bloomberg was going to uh to change and he was going to run for president.
	Guys worth five billion dollars.
	And if you've ever been around, you know, truly rich people, this is another category of rich people, uh they, and especially those who have made it the, you know, the hard way.
	They made it themselves.
	Uh Bloomberg is a very wealthy guy because he uh invented a lot of stuff that we now use, you know, the Bloomberg News and all the financial reporting stuff that we use, and as has earned it legitimately and is now in his political phase as he put it yesterday.
	By the way, he made that announcement out here in California.
	We'll have some California news in a moment.
	So we'll get to uh Bloomberg and uh just what he's up to.
	But I think if you've been around somebody that has made it themselves, they're in that uh the uh well, the stratosphere of rich people in terms of billionaires.
	He is uh a guy who believes that he could solve any problem, that he could do things better than anyone else, that he could, you know, he's an unb uh unbounded optimism in his own ability.
	And uh with some justification.
	Now, the fact that he believes, however, he can get into politics and run the country as president, or or for that matter, be mayor of New York, and not be ideologically uh and he's denouncing ideology, getting into problem solving.
	Just what was it?
	I mean, uh I haven't paid a lot of attention in New York to what Bloomberg is attempting to impose on your lifestyle, but apparently there's been a lot of changes in things that you uh used to take for granted as New Yorkers, because Mr. Bloomberg at least had the ideology that maybe as to lifestyle he could improve you with his thoughts.
	Yikes.
	A little scary out here in California, but we'll have more of that.
	There was an interesting piece.
	Let me start the California news.
	There was an interesting piece.
	AP had it out of San Francisco, that uh with the uh suicide death of a death row inmate.
	Now we're talking uh death row, and and I think I got into this with the Paris Hilton thing last time I was on, about uh the justice system in California.
	We're we're not too keen on justice here.
	Uh if you kill a lot of people, basically we regard it as an opportunity for a movie of the week.
	Uh we're we're not too I mean the last guy who got a lot of justice here, and we're still trying to spring him, is Charles Manson.
	So we're not we're not uh we're not into uh a lot of justice here.
	It's just so inconvenient.
	Um I mean, people commit crimes, you have to be understanding, you have to you have to empathize with what you know forced them to do these kinds of things that well are inconvenient.
	Uh so with that in mind, let me just tell you that we almost have six hundred people on death row because there is this uh inconvenient law.
	Uh that uh the inconvenient law is that uh if you, you know, uh uh uh egregiously uh kill someone, uh you're supposed to be executed.
	Now uh we the the public passed that law.
	That's another thing we don't pay too much attention to the public out here in California.
	We vote on Prop 187 to deny illegals benefits, but yeah, one judge in New York in in uh in LA rather said this is not a good idea.
	Let me let me just say that's unconstitutional.
	So we're not too big on the justice system.
	We really don't want to listen too much to the public because they're weird.
	And uh so voters don't matter too much out here.
	Uh so we've got about 600 of these people, though, on death row.
	We don't want to execute them, even though the public said we should.
	So it turns out now that they're committing suicide because they're in this terminal boredom thing.
	Now we gave them big screen TVs, goodness knows, sex change operations, a whole bunch of stuff like that.
	And they're still bored.
	I mean, uh what what what's where's the end of that?
	So they're still bored.
	Uh so it turns out that with uh Tony Lee Reynolds' suicide a couple of Sundays ago at San Quentin.
	It's uh it's now uh let's see, that suicide has replaced executions as the second leading cause of death.
	We've only executed 14 people since 1978.
	There's over 600 on the death row uh here in California.
	Um it turns out that uh that the f the second leading cause of death is now uh suicide.
	Third is executions.
	You know what first is?
	Old age.
	Old age is the number one killer on death row in California.
	This despite the fact, and I hope you caught this was it a week ago, that uh the uh there is a um study, a series of academic studies that appear to settle the once hotly debated argument as to whether or not the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder.
	Every report out now indicates uh that at the University of Colorado Denver, for example, in a number of statistical studies among a dozen published papers since 2001, capital punishment does deter more murder.
	The IBD, the Investors Business Daily publishing a chart of this from 1980 to uh 2005 with the murder rate going down and the execution rate going up.
	By the way, the murder rate has leveled off as the executions have leveled off in the face of DNA uh uh finding one or two people of the 600 who actually were innocent, and we get all excited about that.
	We're not excited apparently about those that are guilty.
	Well, the only thing that surpasses oh, by the way, uh Bloomberg got in California to announce that he's no longer a Republican.
	This is not news to us, he never was.
	What was Bloomberg ever a Republican?
	I mean, I know he registered Republican, but good grief.
	This guy is a big government.
	I know better than you do about what to do with your money and your lifestyle and foie gras and smoking and whatever you put up uh this and that and the other orifice of your body.
	I mean, the guy is insane.
	It's an insane fascist.
	Uh what what is the deal with all that?
	I mean, it's the nicest looking guy in the world, pretty inoffensive.
	What is he about 5'1 or 5'2?
	Uh but good grief.
	Is there no topic that he doesn't have an idea about how I could look run my life better if I just listen to him?
	The last person in the world you want to trust with a uh the remnants of our constitutional republic.
	Anyway, we'll hear more about uh Bloomberg's plans, I guess, because the media is agaga.
	Apparently a gaga for a good reason, though.
	Uh this is we're gonna get into the media a little bit today, too.
	Uh apparently a gaga for a very good reason, and that is that um I kind of thought this would happen if we got this presidential race off too soon, that all the people being talked about, we'd become bored with them.
	And no matter what their merits are, we're gonna be looking for other people.
	Because that's kind of the way we are.
	We're uh as a national ADD here.
	And so uh, you know, God, if I hear another word about, you know, fill in the blank, uh, I'm gonna go nuts.
	So you're looking for new people.
	I mean, Thompson, the flavor of the month, the Bloomberg, uh bring back parole, I don't know, whatever it is.
	Uh there's got to be something new because that's the way we are.
	It's got to be something new.
	Um just when you think, though, that there's no news worth having fun with.
	The Vatican has now offered Ten Commandments of driving.
	The Ten Commandments of Driving.
	Thou shalt not drive under the influence of alcohol.
	Thou shalt respect the speed limit.
	Thou shalt not c not consider a car an object of personal glorification or use it as a place of sin.
	Now see, that one is just going to be tough in California.
	I I don't know about where you are.
	But but that one's just going to deny us our cultural heritage.
	And that's not going to happen.
	Okay?
	Even if Bloomberg becomes president.
	That's just not going to happen here.
	36-page document issued yesterday, guidelines for the pastoral care of the road.
	As if there wasn't enough problems with the usual traditional concerns of the Catholic Church, including the uh sexual orientation of their priests and the impact on the uh community of elementary school students.
	Good creep.
	Anyway, so uh but uh some of these are good.
	Actually, some of these are uh are good.
	Yeah, this one's not gonna go.
	Here's the fifth commandment.
	This is not gonna go over in California.
	Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination and an occasion of sin.
	Well, what the hell are they good for then?
	Oh, I'm excuse me, that's just a little California there.
	Uh but you know, uh I'm waiting for the shoe to drop on this one, though.
	I mean, yesterday we got the Ten Commandments of rules of the road from the Vatican.
	Tomorrow it's going to be the ACLU suit to prevent them from being posted in the elementary school or in driver's ed class.
	Good grief.
	Anyway, um I've been along with many of you, and we're going to take calls in a minute.
	Oh, let me just give you a preview because coming up in the latter half of the show, uh Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, will be with us to answer questions as to why he thinks the immigration bill is a national security plus, and I think it's a national security disaster.
	I think Mohammed Atta could get one of these probationary Z visas, and so does uh Newt Gingrich, who's got a new TV ad out about this, if you haven't seen that, it's available on the net.
	Um we'll get into it with Secretary Chertoff.
	Uh uh his his uh commitment is uh rock solid on this amnesty bill, and I want to get into why he thinks it's a good idea.
	And then following Secretary Chertoff, we'll hear from uh Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who's written some significant critiques of the bill, by the way, that has been re-introduced uh in uh in the Senate uh yesterday uh with Ted Kennedy's signature on it, just to make sure that everybody knows who the author of this amnesty bill is.
	He actually signed the bill that was officially handed in to the clerk uh with his own signature, and then I got a photostatic copy of it.
	Here's his signature on it, which I don't think is usual, but we'll get into uh that later in the program and let you uh sound off on uh on that.
	Now, setting all that up, I want to come back to the Duke Fiasco and talk a little bit about Michael Nifong, because now that he has been properly so, drawn and quartered in the public square, and his remains clapped into irons uh while they decay, and the birds peck at the remains.
	Uh to put it in 17th century terms.
	Uh, this is exactly what has happened to him, and properly so.
	What will happen to the lying sack of you know what who started all this?
	The false witness, the dancer, if you will, who started all this.
	What is her punishment for all of this?
	Oh, yeah, NIFON, yeah, you know.
	I mean, you know what happened when he took that information and got it into his re-election thing by stirring up all the stuff he stirred up.
	But what about where this started?
	Is she going to jail?
	Because she should.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, 1800-282-2882.
	Back after this.
	Welcome back to the EIB network on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Roger Hedgecock here in for uh Rush uh for today and uh tomorrow.
	And uh let's see, I want to say I want to take Kevin in uh Harrisburg, uh, Pennsylvania next.
	Uh Kevin, welcome to the Rush Show.
	Go ahead.
	Well, Roger, thank you for taking my call.
	Uh this is about Michael Gloomberg.
	Um totally against him running for president.
	I moved from New York City last July.
	Uh he's in favor of the morning after abortion pill given out to school children uh without the parents' consent.
	He's also opposed to uh second amendment.
	And uh the only reason why he even registered as a Republican was because he knew he wouldn't beat Mark Green in a primary in a Democratic par um Democratic Party.
	That's right.
	So uh Kevin, is there anything now, you know, the guy registers a Republican for that reason.
	We know the tactics of that race, but was there anything about his candidacy, his philosophy, his governing as mayor.
	Was there a single instance in which you felt the guy was actually a Republican?
	Not one.
	And um it's funny because New York City is actually sixty-two percent foreign born.
	And I think that just that percentage shows you that there's a large large population of new of New Yorkers, said to say that aren't aware of our constitution.
	You know, so everything he did, everything he wanted to ban smoking, ban this, ban that, uh what you had to do to own a farm in New York City, uh, and he's opposed to that.
	He doesn't believe that anybody should have one.
	Uh but he feels that it's okay for him to tell you, actually not tell you that your daughter received uh an abortion pill, you know, and it was up to him and the New York City Board of Education to decide that, and uh not the parents.
	Well, so you moved, you actually moved from New York because of this?
	No, not just because of that, but the writing was on the wall with New York City.
	I hate to say it.
	I was born and raised there, but I have three children.
	Uh there was no way in the world we were gonna continue to raise our kids there.
	Kevin, Thanks for the call.
	I appreciate it.
	Rush got into this too about uh Bloomberg.
	In fact, uh when the trans fat thing came up.
	Can't have trans fats, whatever, you know, whatever that is, uh, in uh in your foods in your restaurants, uh, Rush did a little parody that sounded something like this.
	And we're back on the Rush Show.
	Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush.
	So a little more of uh Bloomberg coming up, uh, the five billion dollar man who uh has mem plenty of ideas about how you should uh, you know, run your life because he knows so much better how to do that than you do.
	Come on.
	That's why we need him in the White House.
	Apparently that's his platform, so we'll be getting more of that coming up.
	Uh back to uh Nifong and um and this business at Duke uh University, John Steele Gordon may have the last word on this uh in the Wall Street Journal op-ed piece today, he wrote uh headed uh racial role reversal.
	He calls to mind something that happened in 1931.
	Um and here's how he starts the column.
	Imagine this.
	In a southern town, a woman accuses several men of rape.
	Despite the woman's limited credibility and ever shifting story, the community and its legal establishment immediately decide the men are guilty.
	Their protestations of innocence are dismissed out of hand.
	Exculpatory evidence is ignored.
	The Duke Rape case, right?
	Nope.
	It's the Scottsboro Boys case began in 1931 in the darkest days of the Jim Crow South.
	If uh and he goes in to talk about this, he says uh nine young black men got into a fight with a group of whites March twenty-five, nineteen thirty-one, while riding a freight train near Paint Rock, Alabama.
	All but one of the whites forced to jump off the train when it reached a paint black blacks were arrested.
	Uh Paint Rock.
	Two white women dressed in boys' clothing were found on the train as well.
	Unemployed mill workers, they both had worked at as prostitutes.
	Apparently to avoid getting into trouble, they uh accused the uh nine black boys of brutally gang raping them.
	Uh the blacks were immediately thought to be uh guilty.
	They uh a mob uh set out to lynch them on the spot.
	Uh the National Guard had to protect them, and they were convicted, and uh I believe uh uh they were uh they were uh executed.
	Actually, sentences were overturned, 1937 for the defendants of the charges were dropped because again that the uh of the witnesses.
	Now, again, uh NIF seems to be the reversal of the the Duke case seems to be the reversal of that.
	Uh young black woman, uh background uh makes charges.
	Uh the white boys are immediately uh thought to be uh uh guilty by uh Al Sharpton, the ever president Al Sharpton uh and his uh bullhorn and uh and of course Jesse Jackson, aging but still able to jump uh in front of any camera that uh uh that's out there.
	So here's the and and immediately there's an assumed uh assumption by the uh guilty white professors, liberal professors at Duke University, that uh that this uh this uh group of uh white lacrosse players are guilty.
	A complete reversal of 1931's interesting piece.
	So again, I raised this issue.
	When are the people who jumped to conclusions and prevented justice from being done going to be punished for that?
	When is this witness, quote unquote, going to be punished for her false witness?
	When is the Duke University faculty going to have a meeting at which they apologize to the nation, to these kids who were involved, to their parents and to the entire community there for their presumption of guilt in this case.
	When is there going to be real justice here?
	I mean, NIFON got what he deserved, no question about that.
	But this isn't over until the liberals on that campus recognize that like the Scottsboro Boys case of 75 years ago, they presumed guilt when there wasn't any.
	Where's the apology?
	Back after this.
	Mark Bellingan for Rush yesterday and uh Roger Hedgecock today.
	Mark was talking about these um ethanol refineries, and uh I was following along with that, and I don't I I don't get that I'm I gotta tell you I'm behind the curve on understanding this one.
	A hundred and nineteen ethanol refineries in the United States as of June 1 of this year, with seventy-seven more under construction.
	Not one gasoline refiner has been built since the late 1970s in this country.
	A hundred and nineteen ethanol refineries with seventy-seven more under construction.
	Hello?
	My car uh runs on gas.
	Uh I eat corn.
	Uh I eat corn tortillas.
	I eat uh corn syrup in everything they make.
	I have corn bread.
	I have but you know what?
	Uh I put gasoline in my car.
	Now, I don't get that we're mixing the two, because whereas the corn is pretty good fueling my body, it's not as good in the tank of my car as gasoline.
	The BTUs coming out of a gallon of ethanol ain't anywhere near the BTUs, the British thermal unit of gasoline.
	Sorry.
	It doesn't work as well.
	I'm with Mark.
	That was a great rap yesterday.
	Oh, and by the way, if you're uh tired of paying uh more than you should be, and we've been paying more than we should for gasoline for a long time, it's called the uh Democrat gas tax.
	If uh if and the Democrats know enough, they know enough about economics to know that if they strangle the oil companies, villainize the oil companies, villainize the search for oil, and limit America's independence by limiting our access to oil, that the foreign pressures will make it impossible for us to develop any more gasoline, and the price will go up.
	And this is good because it'll help the planet.
	Uh uh I I don't understand that one either, but you know, I'm struggling here.
	So let's look at the price of gas.
	Because the U.S. Energy Information Administration tells us that the major companies on refining and marketing make about 10 cents a gallon.
	Government, government, federal tax alone is 18.4 cents a gallon.
	New York with the highest combined gas tax rate, you know, uh federal, state, and local, sixty cents a gallon, sixty point eight actually.
	Now, if the profit is ten twenty in the uh marketing and refining and say it's another twenty.
	In other words, say it's uh 30, 40, 50 cents, that's the gouging.
	You hear the Democrats talking about how that's gouging.
	We need a new tax on the excess profits of the oil companies, that this is uh uh this is obscene profits.
	How about the obscene taxes taken in by government that's causing more of a problem than those profits are when you go to the pump?
	Do they think we just don't know that?
	That we just aren't watching, that we just maybe they do.
	I don't know.
	I don't know whether you were one of those.
	I was that watched uh the last episode of The Sopranos.
	Apparently more people watched that cable series last episode than watched uh network TV that night.
	There was a famous last scene in the diner and the famous uh screen went to black uh situation.
	Well now, and I haven't quite got this either.
	What is this all about?
	Um The Clintons have done a TV, a kind of a YouTube thing of them in the diner uh kind of um doing a replay of uh Tony uh Soprano, Tony and Carmella and Meadow and you know all the the the the players there.
	Uh they've done a replay, except this time it's kind of a gender reversal thing.
	I mean, uh the person looking at the um the songs on the uh on the uh jukebox is not Tony, it's oops, uh Hillary.
	And then Bill comes in playing Carmella and sits down and uh and uh has a carrot, has a carrot stick for crying out loud.
	And then you know, and they and they get into this.
	Well, I what is this all about?
	Um is it are you trying to get across a strong leadership because you you could be a you could be uh a mob lead?
	I I don't get it.
	But there is a solution to at least one of the mysteries about the Hillary Clinton campaign, and that is the theme song.
	Apparently a lot of us, uh Rush did, and then I did on my local show.
	We had a little contests among our listeners as to what theme song would be the most appropriate for this presidential campaign, and uh came up with a number of uh of uh good songs.
	But this one has actually been uh chosen.
	Apparently they outsourced uh this Democratic campaign for president of Hillary Clinton's, they outsourced to a Canadian uh the uh the the theme of their campaign, which uh and tell me what this means too.
	Here's the theme song.
	I above the mountain.
	I can heal it.
	What?
	What does this have to do with anything?
	Anyway, uh that's the Celine Dion song, what is it, you and I or whatever it is, you and I, of far across the sea, I can hear your voice calling.
	What does that have to do with anything?
	And what is the story with replaying the uh soprano?
	Have they just have they just gone wacko?
	I mean, have they just gone crazy?
	They've certainly gone wacko politically.
	I don't know that you've seen this stuff coming out, but ABC News is even reporting that all these Democratic candidates for president are shifting dramatically to the left.
	Now, if the Republican candidates began to appear only in very right wing evangelical neocon contexts, and began uh going through the Reagan playbook, you know what would happen in the drive-by media.
	They would simply be uh aghast that these Republicans who were sane when they were in the Senate and the State House, wherever they came from, uh, that uh that they're now just just pandering to the most extreme elements of the GOP uh coalition, you know, they go on and on.
	They'd go on and on.
	Well, uh where is the notice that uh there's been a couple of, as they say, a couple of articles, but they've been articles that have been more or less, well, this is what they have to do.
	Um the Democratic Party is uh run by people who are much, much more left uh than the center of the uh country, and so they to get through the primaries, these folks have to uh pander to the left.
	Pander isn't the word for it.
	I mean, the environmentalists said jump, and Obama said how high, abandoned coal gasification, for instance, which he'd been urging for energy independence.
	Oh no, coal, uh coal, no, I didn't mean to say coal.
	Uh and uh and Hillary herself, I voted for what?
	Uh I sure I'm sure I was absent that day getting my nails done.
	The war, are you kidding?
	And she gets booed again at these leftists to take back America conference as she was last year for her initial vote on the war, which by the way, revealed more than I think the left wants to give credit to.
	It is now uh a fact, an admitted fact, that Hillary Clinton, as a senator, voting on the war resolution, did not read the 95-page intelligence report made available to members of the Senate before that vote, supporting the position of the administration on the reasons to go to war.
	I relied on a staffer.
	She summarized it for me.
	I'm a busy senator.
	Huh?
	Because now what's important about that fact, it's an old fact, but what's important about it is that today she is saying to uh these folks, uh take back America, well, Bush lied to me.
	If you didn't read the briefing paper from the administration, how did Bush lie to you?
	Because it's now clear that Hillary Clinton, as with most things, Hillary and Bill, made a calculation about what would benefit her the most when she made her vote.
	It, as usual, had nothing to do with the national interest, with patriotism, with whether or not Bush was telling the truth.
	It had nothing to do with any of those things.
	It had to do with what is good for me.
	And once You understand that, you understand everything about Hillary Clinton.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
	And taking your calls at 1800-282-2882 back after the Welcome back to the EIB Network on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush today and uh tomorrow.
	Good news out of Iraq.
	I know this will be tough uh for uh everybody in the drive-by media just grinding their teeth here, but now it turns out dateline Baghdad, USA Today reporting more than ten Iraqi tribes uh in the outskirts of Baghdad, these are Sunni tribes have reached agreements with the United States and with Iraqi forces for the first time to oppose Al-Qaeda.
	In other words, these groups have decided that Al Qaeda is going to lose.
	They're going to side with the winner.
	The winner is going to be the U.S. backed uh Iraqi uh army.
	And uh this, by the way, follows the pattern in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, that's in the Western Iraq, where U.S. commanders have a bunch of deals there with the tribes, about uh a hundred tribes in the Greater Baghdad area.
	And uh now these tribes are working with us, rooting out the foreign fighters, they even call them that, that the foreign fighters who are uh we're here in a telephone exchange in case you're hearing that in the background.
	Uh we do that because we have to double as a phone exchange in order to make enough money to be on the air.
	Uh this is uh this is such great news.
	And here's what's here's what's happening immediately as a result of this.
	The cooperation with the Sunnis coming in now and supporting the Iraqi and U.S. troops is that what we're getting is a um uh pinpoint of the bomb making factories.
	And this is crucial to eliminating the Iran supplied war material.
	Is there any place in the Middle East where the Iranians are not at the root of the violence?
	Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel.
	They're supporting Hamas, they're supporting Hezbollah, they're supporting through Syria all of this.
	This is a you know, this is a situation Lieberman is right about this.
	We're going to have to confront at some point in time.
	But in the meantime, our troops, 10,000 in the new surge, by the way, in this province to the uh to the east of uh north and east of Baghdad uh are making great, great headway.
	All right, let's take a call.
	Dick in Boise, Idaho, next on the Rush program.
	Dick, welcome.
	Well, well, thanks, Roger.
	I appreciate talking to you.
	Go ahead.
	I was fi uh talking or calling about the uh nip on case and the culpability of Duke University.
	I mean, here you have this esteemed and allegedly learned university that jumped so fast on a politically correct bandwagon, ruined at least three lives, and fired the coach without really any cause.
	Where is their liability in this?
	I mean they should be uh they should be bled dry.
	Well, and they may well be, who knows what the lawsuits will be following from this, but what I want to do is focus on the liberals because the Scottsboro Boys case was liberal lore for fifty years.
	Uh how a racist society in uh in the South could assume the guilt uh without uh questioning the witness and the credibility of the witness at all and so forth and so on.
	And yet the nearly identical facts with reverse race roles and the entire liberal establishment is where?
	Completely silent.
	Yeah, and but they weren't silent at the beginning.
	I mean they were No, they're on the other side.
	That's what I'm saying.
	Where are they when their racism has been exposed?
	Their assumption of guilt for these white kids, their uh hippoc hypocrisy of accepting uh at face value the testimony of uh, you know, a questionable witness.
	So, yeah, Dick, I'm uh I'm uh they turn their back and walk away.
	They walk away and they don't even recognize their hypocrisy.
	This is what I was trying to point out today.
	This is why this show exists, to point these things out.
	The liberals, after all these years of the Scottsboro Boys uh situation, are uh well, thanks for the call, Dick.
	They're They're just naked here on this subject.
	Where are they on making this witness own up and be accountable for the lies?
	The shifting stories, if you will.
	Where are they on the uh lynch mob of academia, Duke University, the faculty that voted immediately, assuming guilt of these uh white lacrosse players?
	Where are where is uh Sharpton and uh Jackson today when it turns out that the facts are a hundred and eighty degrees from where they assumed them to be when they descended on Duke University in their righteous wrath.
	Hello.
	Paul and the Bronx next on the Rush Show.
	Hi.
	Good afternoon, sir.
	I'm retired NYPD detective, and I've witnessed firsthand the damage that out of control DAs like NIFON can do because they're immune from prosecution.
	If you uh check out Justice for Ritchie.org, you'll see what a Westchester County New York D.A. Janine Piero sent an innocent New York City cop to prison for saving his father's life from a black bat wielding career criminal in order to get reelected back in 1997.
	I please advise your listeners to check out JusticeForRitchie.org.
	I appreciate it, Paul.
	And I uh, you know, in my own way, have been subject to a politically motivated district attorney, and in my political career.
	I'm fully familiar with the psychology of what you're talking about.
	Mine didn't involve race, obviously, but it was um well, not obviously to all of you, but it was obvious to me, race was not an issue.
	But but the political motivation was there, and it is the most frightening thing you can imagine to have a prosecutor with unlimited power to put you in jail and ruin your life after you for reasons that have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with that person's re-election.
	Paul, thanks for the call.
	All right, and uh uh I for those of you who are keeping track of the plummeting poll numbers of our president.
	They are now the worst since Jimmy Carter.
	They're the worst since Truman before him.
	Uh only history will tell us whether or not we'll remember Bush as a Truman or as a Carter, but we'll leave that for history.
	Today I want you to know something that the drive-by media does not want you to know.
	The Gallup poll is now reporting that the congressional job approval rating has dipped below the president's.
	The congressional job approval rating, according to the Gallup poll, is twenty-four percent.
	The Democrats were at 37% in February.
	Not very high to start with, by the way.
	Uh they keep they continually say that Bush is irrelevant and a laying the deadest of lame ducks and blah, blah, blah.
	I hear all the stuff on the talking head shows.
	And uh and yet his approval rating is higher than Reed Pelosi and Company.
	Did you see that in the drive-by media?
	I don't think so.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, back with more.
	Stay with us after this.
	Welcome back to the EIB Network on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Roger Hedgecock in for Rush.
	Linda in New York City, I'm gonna squeeze you in.
	Okay, I want to rant against Bloomberg.
	I live in New York.
	Uh if you want a nanny in chief, this is your man.
	He was quoted in Vanity Fair, uh, the mayor of New York as saying that secondhand smoke kills more people than September 11th did when they just caught the guys trying to bomb JFK.
	He said New Yorkers shouldn't bother their pretty heads about that.
	They should worry about eating better and quitting smoking.
	Um I would also, if I'm in a hurry here, uh, say that Huckabee is cut from the same stripe.
	He's also a born-again healthist.
	Yeah, I know, because he used to be about 400 pounds, and now he's uh, you know, 120, so he's he's he's uh he's on a crusade for all the rest of us.
	Hey, uh Linda, thanks for the call.
	I got I gotta go and we're gonna come back after the top of the hour with some immigration stuff.
	Chertoff in the next Homeland Security Secretary in the next hour, and also uh Jeff Sessions, the Senator from Alabama telling the truth about this immigration bill.

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