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July 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, and we are back.
Rush Limbaugh, the man running America from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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John McCain has to be steaming today.
Campaign trailing top Republican rivals in money and the polls is undergoing a significant reorganization.
Staff cuts in every department.
Say officials with knowledge of the shakeup, some 50 staff members, maybe even more, are being let go.
Senior aides will be subject to pay cuts.
Can you say immigration, anyone?
Just uh just for starters.
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I want to go back and play a uh little montage for you back on May 23rd in New York City, uh, the Brett Girl John Edwards speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The war on terror is a slogan designed only for politics.
It is not a strategy to make America safe.
It's a bumper sticker, not a plan.
It has damaged our alliances and it's weakened our standing in the world.
CNN is reporting that the Glasgow attack, the uh the Jeep Cherokee, the flaming SUV that went into the airport there, was staged by the same men who drove the car bombs in London.
And by the way, they did try to detonate them.
The cell phones didn't work.
For some reason their cell phone connection that didn't work when they tried to detonate the bombs, but they tried.
British authorities have arrested two more men in connection with the series of failed attacks, and they have concluded that Al Qaeda planned and launched the attacks.
Uh authorities suspect that the two men who rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into Glasgow's airport on Saturday are the same people who parked two car bombs in central London a uh a day earlier.
In addition, what we've also learned about this is that the United States two weeks ago had advanced knowledge.
This is ABC News.
They said that the U.S. warned the U.K. of an imminent attack at Glasgow two weeks ago.
So uh nobody has any doubts now that this was Islamo fascists, and nobody has any doubts that it was uh Al Qaeda.
So John Edwards is oh the war on terrorism is a bumper sticker.
Why, it's just a slogan designed only for politics.
It doesn't really exist.
How do you think we found out about this attack on Glasgow two weeks and in advance?
How do we Do you think it might be the uh the uh uh monitoring of these guys' phone calls that the Democrats want to shut down?
How how do you what what might explain this?
How do we find this out?
And Democrats are hell bent on closing club gitmo, and they want to turn all of the terrorists that are down there who are still useful as intelligence sources, no matter how long they've been there.
The way intelligence is gathered is something that this isn't an intel success story, Gitmo is, and they want to shut it down, and they want all of those terrorists, those prisoners of war, if you will, to be brought into the United States legal system.
Hasn't that been demonstrated to be the ineffective way to conduct a war on terror?
It just it's it's it's it's folly.
Uh this is why the Democrats are really vulnerable on this.
They do not take this seriously.
In the midst, in the midst of what happened over the weekend in the UK, they're still talking about closing Gitmo and bringing all these prisoners in and giving them legal rights, habeas corpus, and all that.
And of course, nobody in the drive-by's will ask John Edwards, well, what about uh comments that the war on terror is just a bumper sticker?
In fact, we have even more.
Sunday, June 3rd at the uh Democrat debate in New Hampshire.
It was on CNN.
Uh Wolf Blitzer said uh to the Brett Girls, let me let you clarify what you said the other day.
You said the war on terror is a bumper sticker, not a plan.
Now, with the news yesterday, this alleged plot at JFK, which could have done supposedly horrendous damage and caused an incredible number of casualties.
Do you believe the U.S. is not at war with terrorists?
I reject this bumper sticker, Wolf, and that's exactly what it is.
It's a bumper sticker.
As President of the United States, I will do absolutely everything to find terrorists where they are to stop them before they can do harm to us, before they can do harm to America or to its allies.
Every tool available.
Military alliances, intelligence, I will use.
But what this global war on terror bumper sticker, political slogan, that's all it is, all it's ever been, was intended to do was for George Bush to use it to justify everything he does.
The ongoing war in Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, spying on Americans, torture.
None of those things are okay.
They are not the United States of America.
And none of them are as the Brett Girl portrays them.
None of them are.
That's just a left-wing mantra.
It is a mantra of the far-left fringe kook base.
Uh that I think the Brett girl actually believes it, though.
I think he's doing more than pandering.
But then later on, on last Friday's situation room with Wolf Blitzer.
His guest via satellite was John Edwards and Blitzer said, or actually Elizabeth Edwards, you had to come to his rescue again.
And Blitzer said, Your husband caused a stir recently when he suggested that the war on terror is really nothing more than a bumper sticker.
Now, given what's happening in London today, two car bombs found.
What do you make of the criticism he's faced because he seemed to be suggesting there really wasn't much of a war on terrorism?
I think that uh it's easy to uh to uh misconstrue what John said.
Uh his intent his he believes that there are terrorists out there and that we need a concerted effort, and we're uh certainly everyone applauds the work of the uh London police and and London law enforcement uh officials who discovered these bombs and the work that was done, obviously, as a predicate to finding them.
But when we use words like a war on terror, we create an awfully big frame.
And what it's done is whenever somebody objects to uh torture or objects to uh spying on American citizens or objects to uh the uh ignoring of the Geneva Convention Stop the tape a second.
Stop the tape.
They're this torture thing has gotten out of control.
Club Gitmo is legit.
Uh spying on American citizens is never what was happening.
It was not what was going on.
The administration just doesn't do a very good job of explaining all this, particularly the PR case they could make about how great the intelligence gathering at uh at Club Gitmo has been.
And the Geneva conventions for crying out anybody with a brain knows that terrorists are not subject to it.
They are they are not granted those protections, even though the pressure has been brought by leftists in this country to include terrorists who do not fit the definition in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Bring them in under the umbrella of the Geneva Conventions.
And she has to know that well, I say that, but maybe she doesn't.
Maybe she really doesn't.
But anyway, she's out there having to pick up the clean the the mess, pick up all the mess that her husband makes uh to straighten out what he said and to try to explain.
Here's the rest of the bike.
They get hit over the head with this language, but there's a war on terror.
Uh there are terrorists, but it's when we have a this slogan, uh, it stops us from uh behaving the way we ought to, and uh uh is used as a weapon against those who would like to complain about some of the methods.
And now Blitzer wanted to clarify the Edwards position, but he continues with this leading question.
If he were president of the United States, he would vigorously go out after those terrorists.
Absolutely.
He said that at every turn.
And and one of the terrorists he'd go after I have to say is Osama bin Laden.
You know, somehow we've l we seem to have lost track.
When we made this great big frame, we lost track of the fellow that we should have been uh going after with a laser.
Uh any.
Well, let me take a break here, folks, before I blow a gasket.
Uh I should I should know not to let this stuff irritate and agitate me as much as it does, but sometimes even I have my boundaries deal.
Back after this.
And here's the latest on the non war on terror.
From Sky News, one of the uh men involved in the failed terror attack on Glasgow Airport was an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad.
Sources uh name the man is Bilal Abdullah.
He was uh left relatively unscathed in the incident, pictured being led away from the explosion by the cops.
He worked at the Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow.
Police blew up a second suspect car outside the hospital on Monday.
The first car was detonated on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Usha, 26, has been named as a man arrested uh on the uh M6 on Saturday night.
He's Jordanian.
He was detained with a woman of twenty-seven dressed in traditional Muslim garb, believed to be his wife on the M6 near um Sandbach in Cheshire.
Uh Daily Mail has a little bit more about this, and Iraqi junior doctor and a brilliant neurologist working for the National Health Services are among the suspects being quizzed over the series of bomb attacks across Britain it emerged today.
The junior doctor named as Bilal Abdullah, said to have completed his medical training in Baghdad.
The suspected ringleader of the Al Qaeda car bombers, a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS.
Saudi Mohammed Asha, 26 arrested with his wife, as you just heard.
These are these are well, you'd have to say they're they're home grown.
I mean, they're living and working there, and they are respected in uh in their professions.
Or let me put it this way, they are in respected professions.
And the uh but they're clearly Al-Qaeda, and they trained in Baghdad.
Now, how I mean terrorist trained in Baghdad.
Now, how how how can that be?
I thought there was no reason for us to be Oh, I know, because if we hadn't gone to Iraq, then Baghdad would not have become terrorist central.
And of course, then these guys could not have been trained there, and they might even be terrorists if we hadn't gone to Baghdad.
That's uh that's how it'll play out.
That's the latest news on the non-war on terror, according to the John and Elizabeth Edwards campaign.
So the phones to Half Moon Bay, California.
This is Christy.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush.
Um, I just wanted to go back.
Earlier in the day, you made a comment about lung cancer.
Well, actually really about tobacco death stats.
And um, I just want to say my uncle has lung cancer, and he was treated for um over a year with various chemo treatments.
And at the end of that year, he said, Okay, no more chemo.
I I can't handle this.
You're gonna have to find another treatment.
And the doctor looked at him and said, Well, we should find out whether or not it's genetic.
And they were like, okay.
There are different drugs to try if it's genetic.
But the thing is, he went through a year this, and I'm wondering if that fat might be off, because had the chemo not worked, you know, as it did.
Well, you you're talking about the statistic that half the people who smoke die.
Yeah.
That's what the World Health Organization.
I I kind of ran by that too, but why doesn't everybody who smokes die?
Exactly.
And his mother died of lung cancer, and she never smoked a day in her life.
And this doctor took a year to consider looking at that.
So I'm wondering about that stat, Rush.
What what are you wondering about?
I'm wondering if it isn't wrong.
Off.
You know, sure he smoked, but if if this turns out to be genetic, it wasn't a tobacco-related.
Oh you mean the statistic that 50% of the people who smoke die from a tobacco-related disease.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes.
Uh well, I don't know.
Look at statistics are statistics.
I'm not quite sure I understand.
Well, I'm saying if if they didn't look deep, let's say that my uncle uh Oh, you're saying that not all those deaths would be related to tobacco, some of them could have been genetic.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Yes.
Well, yeah, it look at if if the World Health Organization is going to come out and say that half the people who use tobacco products don't die.
Well, you know, that's that's that's uh that's sort of going against the grain.
They want everybody to believe that if you pick up any tobacco product, particularly cigarette, that you're doomed.
You've had it, you're finished.
And of course, look, the odds are that you're running a far greater risk, but it's not it's not axiomatic.
It's not one of my points all along, ever since I was a young kid.
I've won well, how come if if this stuff kills everybody, why isn't everybody who ever smoked die from it?
And some of these uh whack well, they do, Mr. Limbaugh.
They uh may have uh smoking may cause uh high blood pressure, and uh, probably all do in one way or the other may not all be due to lung cancer and so forth.
So it probably will not be able to talk them out of that.
In fact, for the Las Vegas Review Journal, a columnist here.
There are some who lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the Earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change, which will see temperatures soar.
By the way, do you know what?
This morning at 1030, 11 o'clock, it was sixty-eight degrees in New York.
Overnight low tonight will be in the mid-50.
This is July.
You know, Al Gore's got his stupid first concert uh was it July 7th when this live earth thing is?
July 9th, I'm not sure which.
It's July 7th.
And he's gonna be at the one in uh in in New Jersey.
Uh anyway, the this guy's this this column, and I'll give you more details of it when I have a little bit more time after the break here, but uh makes the point that this fanatical religion of global warming is just getting out of control.
That the idea of protecting our environment's gotten way out of control.
And now there seems to be no limit on uh on what is landworthy of being protected and what isn't, every single little acre of land, if touched by evil white man will contribute to global warming.
Uh I uh it just it's they they are getting out of control.
I've got a great global warming stack today, too, that I want to give you some uh uh heads up on.
But I'll give you details of this when we uh when we come back uh after the break, we'll get more of your phone calls in as well.
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Be right back before you know it.
Yeah, you need at least 800 decibels so that you don't miss one exciting syllable.
Articulated eloquently by me, Rush Limbaugh, the man running America.
You know it and I know it.
From Oslo, from Oslo.
Now, this is the place where they hand out the Nobel Peace Prizes.
Of course, I am a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Get this.
This is how absurd.
This whole global warming thing has gotten.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan are best suited to champion work to fight climate change.
A 47-nation opinion polls said today.
The three were most picked by more than 26,000 internet users from a list of more than twenty politicians, actors, singers, and soccer players to highlight links between celebrities and the environment before live Earth pop concerts on Saturday.
Gore was chosen by 18% of people when asked to pick up to three people from the list as the most influential to quote, champion efforts to combat global warming.
In other countries, Kofi Annan was top, with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and uh Clinton in China.
In Germany, Annan was paired with Mandela, while in Britain, entrepreneur Richard Branson led with Irish singer Bob Geldoff.
So the pop culture, and the people who portray it and and and dally in it, uh dabble in it, uh she's choose these people, Gore Winfrey and Kofi Annan, as the best people to lead on explaining climate change.
This uh this piece in a Las Vegas Review Journal that when it ran yesterday, uh, there are some who, lacking the ecstatic thrill of any other faith-based religion, wish to believe that the earth is in the early stages of an unprecedented climatic change, which will see temperatures soar, the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels flood our coastal cities, all because we insist on driving petroleum-fueled private automobiles and using electricity generated by burning coal.
Burning that stuff releases into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon dioxide, you see, a greenhouse gas that contributes to the ongoing warming of the planet.
Now, this is almost entirely fantastic nonsense.
The planet is currently warming at a rate of perhaps one degree a century, part of an ongoing cycle, global warming and cooling, uh, which have been going on for millions of years.
One of the reasons I like this piece is because I have said so much of it on prior occasions.
But the real impact here uh of this piece, the real point, and it's an it's a great point, is this.
Last week, or last weekend, the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper ran an editorial ridiculing the radical greens for fighting a pipeline needed to transport drinking water to Las Vegas from East Central Nevada by using the usual straw dog, insisting that the plan would damage some obscure minnow in some pond in Utah.
Uh, one of these characters wrote, It appears that the review journal editorials have hit a new low.
The childish blind eye editorial in Sunday's paper was pathetic.
Apparently, whoever wrote and approved it feels that man is the only thing on earth worth saving, and damn the environment if it gets in their way.
So now the environment, as used by these zealots, no longer means the environs of mankind, which make mankind's life healthier and more Enjoyable.
Rather, the term has been skimmed and cured, turned into sheep's clothing and draped over a lurking wolf.
The term is now used to mean pristine nature.
Another point that I have made over and over and over on this program.
We are predators.
We are not part of nature.
Man is not.
All we do is destroy.
The fact of the matter is that we are as much a part of nature as is any other living organism, and every living organism alters the environment in order to thrive.
It must.
Environmental change is called destruction when man engages in it.
But when a bunch of beavers chop down a bunch of trees and dam up a little brook, oh, look at those cute little beavers.
Isn't that cute?
Isn't it wonderful how nature operates?
My cat goes out there, catches a lizard, plays around with it, and lizard dies.
That's nature, Mr. Limbaugh.
That is a wonderful thing.
If I go out and catch a lizard and it dies, I have intruded on nature.
My cat does it, it's a beautiful thing, Mr. Limbaugh.
I uh by the way, I don't go out and catch lizard.
There are little buddies down here, they eat the insects.
In fact, I rescue them from my cat all the time.
The cat goes nuts too, doesn't understand what I'm doing.
Cat thinks it's bringing me a surprise.
Punky dropped the lizard.
And she'll drop it and then start pawing, and it'll dart around and shh, she goes right after it.
So I have to hold her back while trying to pick up the lizard.
And then what's funny is I'll take, I'll open a sliding door, I'll take it outside and dump it in the grass, I'll come back in, and she's still smelling the floor where it was, trying to figure out where it went.
Because she can still smell it, but she can't, it's not there.
And that's that's sort of fun to I have just interceded in nature there, haven't I?
I got in the way of my cat doing what its instincts tell it to do, go after and play with the lizard.
She doesn't actually try to kill them, it just happens.
You know, pause them around and and uh they'd probably die of shock or what have you.
So we are we are just we're just natural-born predators.
But here's the point.
If we are really in the process of warming up the planet like crazy, and it were doing it in a in a way that's going to cause all of this destruction, when you start talking about the polar ice caps melting, that's huge.
When you start taking sea levels rising, whatever they say from day to day, ten feet to seventeen feet, twenty feet, and uh flooding Long Island and Manhattan.
And I don't see those people leaving.
Property values there going crazy, but what do we do?
What's the solution to it?
Well, the liberal solution is raise taxes, have huge government and restrict your freedom, make you drive cars you don't want to drive, but none of the solutions actually involve cooling the planet, do they?
Has Al Gore or Oprah or Kofi Annan ever come up with a way to cool a planet?
If we're warming the planet, don't you think we can cool it?
If we can do one, we can do the other, and if we're really warming it to this dangerous degree, then isn't it incumbent upon all of us to do what's necessary to cool it?
No, liberals are not talking about any such solution.
They just want bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom and liberty for people.
Uh but how could you cool a planet, you're saying?
Well, come on, Rush, don't be silly.
You know we're not warming it.
How can we cool it?
Now there is a way.
Go back and look at incidents in the past that have led to the planet getting colder, or areas of the planet getting colder because things that have happened.
We got records 200 years we can find these instances.
Uh, how about if you if you Google in your search engine year without a summer, you will learn that from April 5 to 15 in 1815, Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, which is the modern day Indonesia, blew up.
This this mount, mountain lily, blew up and it ejected forty cubic kilometers of volcanic or volcanic ash, that's more than twice as much as the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa into the uh upper atmosphere, sorry.
Uh, and there have been other volcanoes that have done the Mount Pinatubo and so forth.
Uh, and you know what happened?
Well, the sun couldn't get through all the garbage, so it didn't get nearly as hot.
The planet cooled wherever this cloud of ash and sulfur and everything that was been thrown out of that volcano was, and as it traveled around in the atmosphere, uh it was in you know dark days, cloudy-looking days, dense smoke, but the planet got cooler.
And of course, this was nature.
You might say these are all pollutants that had ejected and belched out of the top of the volcano, but it was it's all nature.
So the columnist here in the Las Vegas Review Journal says if anyone really believes the earth is warming catastrophically, and that we need to do something.
The only proven solution is to start throwing so much crap into the atmosphere as we possibly can right now that that would be the effect.
Clean nuclear and natural gas fired power plants have to be shut down immediately, replaced with coal plants burning the softest, dirtiest coal.
Smog inspections take on a new meeting, as our cars will be checked regularly to make sure each is pouring out the densest possible cloud of carbon particulates and life-saving black soot.
Since every little bit counts, we may also have to make tobacco smoking mandatory for everybody above the age of ten.
Global warming's a crisis, folks.
It's time we all set aside our selfish desire to keep our yard furniture free of drifting soot.
Share the sacrifice.
Think globally, act locally, do your part.
Pollute, massive smoky pollution is the only answer.
That's what's cooled the planet in the past.
Well, it's one of the things that has.
There have been other, of course, climatic things that have made it happen, but those are things that we could do, really do, to counteract global warming.
None of them ever suggested by the people who promise us a catastrophe in a few short years.
Back after this.
You know, sometimes it just legal system just appears to be broken irreparably.
The uh appellate court unanimously ruled today, scooter libby has to go to jail while waiting the uh outcome of his appeal.
Uh he had asked to uh uh be remained uh uh be allowed to remain free while the appeal was taking place.
Uh and uh this obviously a dramatic setback.
Everything in this case is just senseless.
There was never any crime.
There was the we knew who made the original leak about what's her name.
Uh it's it's just um it's just unbelievable.
Now the president is up there meeting with the KGB today.
You get uh got Vladimir Putin up there at uh at Kenneth Port.
And I I you know it.
This this uh it's it's I it's it's it's it's it's time for this pardon.
It just really is.
I mean, a lot of people have made the call on the president to do this, and he's reluctant to do it for a host of reasons pending the appeal.
He wants to wait for the appeal to happen.
I don't see how it could lower his standing in the polls.
I you know, he's uh but he's not used the pardon provision that presidents have nearly as much as uh as previous presidents have.
I just read this, I just I can't really imagine what it's like to be scooter libby.
This this has he's got to think he's in a dream or a nightmare or in the twilight zone, and his family as well.
Sal in Ventura, California, I'm glad you called, sir.
You are on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, how are you doing?
Um I wanted to call and discuss uh your earlier comment about the Latino vote and the uh the uh assimilation not being legislated.
First of all, I don't think that any immigrant group has ever been legislated into a wait as it did.
I didn't I didn't suggest that it be legislated.
Okay.
But but there have been there have been requirements to become to citizenship, there have been requirements.
I'm talking about a cultural thing.
And the and the what I was I simply offered the word assimilation as as a cure for the fact, you know, we got the remember the context now.
The story in the media today is that Republicans are losing big in the Hispanic vote according to polls because of the immigration bill.
And it's a bogus story because they never had a majority of the Hispanic vote in the first place to lose.
So it's all much ado about nothing.
But the point, if if Republicans want the Hispanic vote, the way to get it is not pander and let a bunch of people who are illegal in the country all of a sudden become legal and then have them not assimilate.
If you really want Republican voters uh uh out of Hispanics and do it the hard way.
Go to appeal to them.
Exactly.
Well, let me let me give you a little bit of reassurance to you and my fellow Republicans.
My father came to this country in the late 50s and it was a brocero, the last good guess worker program that was here.
There's four siblings that I'm a member of.
My youngest sister was the only one born here.
And a fortune, I'm sad to say she's the black sheep of the family and the only liberal we have.
My my other sister was head of uh kidney diocese, uh, pediatric in the dialysis at a major hospital in Los Angeles.
My brother is vice president of Fortune 50 company, and I'm an entrepreneur here in Southern California.
You know, we are assimilating.
I served five years in the United States Air Force.
Well, now wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
I look at I that's a great story, and I love I love these anecdotal stories, but you have to know that none of this that that has gone on has ever been about people like you.
You were you were not low skilled.
You were not uneducated.
You were not coming to this country simply to get a cheap wage, send the money home and so forth.
You came here.
I can tell you your story.
You wanted to become Americans, and that's what I mean by assimilation.
But there's been no pressure, there's been no incentive for it.
There has been no encouraging of it.
In fact, we're balkanizing, we're making it possible for them to stay segregated from the rest of American culture because that's what the Democrats of this country want.
Well, again, as your comments come through for myself, a longtime conservative Republican, it is still a bit at times a little edgy in some of the undertones of what it said.
Um I would ask you that you remember what Ronald Reagan once said was that Latinos are Republicans, they just don't know it yet.
Well, yeah, that's look at you know you gotta understand something else.
What I am saying about this and what I have been saying is not based on race.
It's not based on on anything to do with that.
It it's you know, I'm not criticizing Latinos.
That's not that's not the point of all this.
And Reagan, I'm sure did say that Latinos are Republicans, they just don't know it yet, but that's because they have to go out, and Reagan was willing to tell America's story to them.
Reagan was willing to try to inspire them and tell them what kind of a great country that they were coming into and what awaits them if they follow the path to citizenship and do all these things right and uh and assimilate into American culture, which your family did.
That's not happening now.
The Republicans are not going out and cultivating new voters among these people the way Reagan did.
And by the way, Reagan did not get a majority of them.
We know this after Simpson Mazzoli.
And by the way, here's another thing is nevertheless, without the Hispanic vote and without a majority of the black vote, he won two landslides, 49 states.
So this this so much wrong with this whole argument.
Nobody's ripping Latinos here.
What we're what's being criticized is that there's a distinct American culture, and there's a political party here that seems hellbent on doing everything they can to tear it down, using illegal immigration as one of their many tools.
The Republican Party, rather than having the vision of Reagan, and rather than having the uh the desires that Reagan had and the optimism wants to pander.
They want to enter a pander contest with these illegal immigrants that are here to try to get them as voters rather than reach out to them and tell them great stories that await them, the possibilities of what life in America is like.
Uh now they may instinctively know some of it, but they are not going to be allowed to access those opportunities if their sponsors remain Democrats and liberals, because that's not what liberals want.
They want them as perpetual victims.
They want them dependent.
And you overcame that.
I'm I'm you you illustrate that it's possible.
And by the Republicans get some Hispanic vote, I'm talking about a majority here.
But the idea where this all started today, it's all over the drive-by media.
The idea that Republicans are losing something they didn't have in the first place is ridiculous.
And that's that's what I was uh trying to address talking about when it came up.
I appreciate the call out there, Sal.
I gotta run because of the constraints of time.
We'll be right back.
Remember that Sterling Monologue I did uh a week ago today on It's just a nice thing to do.
Illegal immigrants, just legalize that's a nice thing to do.
I think I think what annoys some people about me is that I refuse to pander to people uh the way the media does, the way activists do.
I I try to appeal to Americans with American principles.
And then you know, pandering is well, we must be nice to them, and that's you know, fine and dandy, but it isn't me.
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