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April 4, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Thanks, Gradele.
Telephone numbers 1-800-282-2882.
And we welcome you from deep in the heart of Texas today.
Wherever you are, happy Friday, and I wish you a good weekend.
After which, Rush Limbaugh will return for his Monday program, which will be filled with thoughts from the weekend.
And I'm guessing, filled with a story or two of what Rush is doing today, which is what he should be doing.
And that is attending the funeral of William F. Buckley.
And our thoughts are with Rush today and with everybody who's at that funeral and certainly with the man who is at its center, the great William F. Buckley, without whom maybe we're not sitting here together today.
Because I don't know, maybe there's not a limbo show.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Oh, there'd be a limbo show.
How silly am I?
There'd be a limbo show.
But you never know about chaos theory.
You know, if you don't have this, if we didn't have Carter, would we have gotten Reagan?
I think one of my favorite chaos theory things of the last few days, I heard somebody mention this.
It's self-evident, but you don't think about it much.
Hillary Clinton decides to go run in New York, right?
Because she considers it friendlier than Illinois would have been.
What if she had decided to stay in Illinois and run in Illinois?
Probably know Barack Obama.
Wonder if she's second-guessing herself now.
Would Illinois have been so hard to win?
What was I thinking?
All right, what are you thinking?
That's the musical question right now.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
And we're going to go to your calls.
Listen, so far, we've obviously had our war update where a national intelligence estimate says not only is there military progress that everyone must admit, even begrudgingly, if you're on the left, but there really is political reconciliation progress.
Since it is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King, we've been reflecting on that legacy and who's really trying to live up to it now.
I believe it's conservatives more than liberals who are really, really truly trying to be colorblind.
And a number of other things from this week's news, all of which are just fine and welcome as we continue.
Even in Rush's absence, Rush may or may not be here, but it's always open line Fridays.
So let's go.
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Let me add just one thing before we hop back into the wonderland that is your calls.
And that is what I told you I wanted to mention just for a couple of minutes because there's been a lot of news this week about this.
And that is those Chinese Olympics.
How are we feeling about that?
And that's not a rhetorical question.
I really want to know.
How are you feeling about that?
I'll begin.
My son, I have a five-year-old son, a 16-year-old daughter.
I know I'm a walk-in talk show.
Please don't get me started.
So my soon-to-be five-year-old son during the summer, or he goes to like preschool two times a week.
So if we ever have some time or a free afternoon, we're usually doing stuff together.
But on the occasional afternoon, he just loved going to these franchises are just everywhere.
Little gym or wind kids or something like this, kind of gymnastics-oriented places where you can go, let your kid just blow it off for three hours of running around like a crazy person.
And then they come home and they're really compliant.
They want to watch movies and they sleep really well.
So I am a huge fan of those places.
So we take him to Wind Kids and all over the walls.
Just the place is festooned with Chinese Olympics imagery.
There's some big, fat, happy panda just smiling in that wonderful sort of Chinese style script.
It says Beijing 2008.
And listen, there's some future gymnastics champions that may be cutting their teeth, quite literally, in that building from ages two and three up to 10 and 12 and whatever.
So I absolutely understand.
I totally understand.
In any place that is a gymnastics school and in that whole environment, everybody's all geeked out, I'm sure, about the Beijing Olympics in 2008 because it's the Olympics.
And wherever they are, there will be achievement there and opportunity there and drama there like no other.
I am an enormous lifelong fan of the Olympics.
And part of me, that part of me, cannot wait until August 8th to watch it all happen.
But the political part of me, the American part of me, is absorbing this with a certain amount of trepidation because the Olympics, glorious though they may be, are taking place in an evil regime.
The IOC, the International Olympic Committee, when they decided to reward China, I mean, what in God's name were they thinking?
And China is years away.
I mean, is China today better than China 30 years ago?
I think so, probably.
Not much, though.
I mean, maybe there's not as much forced abortion.
You know, maybe there aren't as many people dragged out of Tiananmen Square because we have American TV crews all over the place over there.
We have American business executives over there selling people, you know, Pepsi, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Tylenol, like all people need.
So I think that doing business with them has pulled them a little bit out of the cave.
And a global market and a world media market has meant there's more scrutiny of China and that that's probably cause for some improvement.
But to look at these stories that have happened, to look at some of the things going on as we lead up to the Olympics in Beijing, the running of the torch, the running of the torch, one of the most upbeat, fantastic things.
There are ordinary folks who have been a part of this.
Can you imagine?
I mean, when the Olympics were in Atlanta, when they're in Lake Placid for the Winter Games, and Americans are getting to run the torch, what an honor.
And people all over the world get to do this because that's the journey that the torch makes.
Well, this running of the torch is like Hugo Chavez's presidential motorcade in terms of security.
They're just expecting somebody to get killed.
They're just expecting something horrible to happen because there is so much righteous indignation about the evils that the Chinese regime is guilty of.
And Tibet is only the beginning of their human rights violations.
Now, you will notice as August draws nearer, and you probably are noticing already, that there is a certain attempt on the part of the dominant media culture to make you just feel great about these Chinese Olympics.
Hey, isn't it great?
China, growing country, getting out there in the mainstream.
Woohoo!
Yeah, that's lovely, as far as it goes.
But the fact of the matter is that there is indeed still plenty of evidence that China is run by genuinely evil people that horribly ill-serve the billions who live beneath them.
I have nothing but affection and warmth for the people of China, many of whom don't know any better, and I wish for them a free country to live in.
Good luck with all that.
But here's what's up as the Chinese Olympics approach.
First of all, their expectation of getting an enormous PR boost, well, that'll obviously happen because China's going to be on the television nonstop between now and August.
And for those weeks in August, oh my heavens, we're going to be all jet lagged out watching live coverage in our own homes.
It'll be incredible.
But I think it will serve between now and then to highlight, to highlight China's negatives because some very courageous people all over the world are taking this as an opportunity to say, hey, while we're thinking about China, let's think about the horrible murders and abuses and imprisonments that take place at the hands of the blood-soaked hands of the Chinese regime.
The day the Olympic torch was lit in Greece, the day it was lit, a gentleman named Yang Shulin was dragged away for having begun a campaign whose theme was, we want human rights, not the Olympics.
He'll be spending the next five years in prison.
There is a gentleman named Hu Xia.
He'll be spending the next three years in prison.
Why?
Bad mouthing the Olympics.
Woe be unto those who stand in the way of the Chinese Olympic beast.
Some people stand in the way of the Chinese Olympics simply by living where they live.
Here, I could look out, literally, look out the window of the room I'm sitting in in Arlington, Texas, right between Dallas and Fort Worth.
And maybe you heard about this.
The Dallas Cowboys are building a big brand spanking new stadium, and it's just going to be amazing.
And Cowboys will open opening day 2009, not this coming season, but the next season in that building.
And its shadow already looms large over this suburban enclave, and it's an amazing thing to see.
Now, as it so happens, they had to kick in with some eminent domain, and there were, I don't know, somebody local can correct me.
I think 10, 20, 30 homeowners who had to be told, we're taking your house.
Now, they were not taking the house.
They were given market value for the house and a little extra for their trouble.
It still bothered me.
That didn't make it okay.
Because if you live in a $150,000 house and you've lived in it for 30 years and they give you $180,000, have they done you a favor?
No, your life, your memories, your history is written on the walls of that house.
So it really kind of bummed me out.
But, you know, it happens.
They're gone.
Stadium's going up.
And I'm a Cowboy fan, so I'm good with it now.
It's the short American memory we've talked so much about.
But I still do think about those people who used to live there on the 50-yard line of, you know, where the Cowboys are going to play.
And I wonder about them.
And that was a pretty big local issue.
And that was a couple of dozen families.
In China, for the Olympics, 13,000 displaced.
13,000 per month.
Per month.
By the time these opening ceremonies take flight on August 8th, one and a half million, one and a half million Chinese will have been yanked from their homes, their lives sacrificed on the altar of the Beijing Olympics.
Now, the interesting thing is, I saw a woman crying her eyes out in a wheelchair, which, you know, made it even worse.
And this was on a network newscast.
How did I know about Hu Xia and Yang Shulin?
It was on a network newscast.
So, you know, we will be told in various ways to feel really rah-rah and really good about those Chinese Olympics.
And I do feel good about the Americans and our achievement and watching the achievement of everybody around the world, watching these young athletes.
I just love it.
How do you not love it?
But such mixed feelings.
And my feelings will indeed be so mitigated by the sorry circumstances sparked by the IOC's horrible decision to put these Olympics in the middle of an evil regime.
But between now and then, you may actually see in the American dominant media culture some coverage of the holy hell on earth that China creates for its own people under some circumstances.
As we come back from this break, I guess we can add to our topical list, do you want to boycott the games?
That's going to be a no.
Should President Bush boycott the games?
That's a no too.
Fun to think about, but a bad idea, and I'll tell you why next.
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I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
It is Friday on the EIB network.
Nothing says Friday like a little Billy Preston, who now is officially up to third Beatle status.
Wow, sorry, that's a little dark.
A little musical humor.
Mark Davis, filling in, perhaps for the last time, or for Beatle fans, for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush is back on Monday, and it is great to have you here.
Okay, boycotting the Olympics.
Listen, I've just talked about how detestable the evil Chinese regime is.
Lord knows Rush will chronicle that for you every day.
So you might be thinking, boycott, boycott, or at least President Bush should boycott it.
Okay, let's tie this together in the following brief way.
Brief for me anyway, and then we'll be right back on the phones with you.
If America is there, the president ought to be there.
It's all or nothing at all.
You can't have America involved.
When America's athletes walk into that stadium for the opening ceremonies, the American president should be there.
Now, if we were going to boycott the whole thing, then no athletes, no president, that's fine.
But to have the athletes there and the president not there as just some kind of little shiv in the ribs of the Chinese, oh, I'm sure they'll be so damaged.
Oh, oh, this is terrible.
We are brought to our knees.
We must improve our human rights.
President Bush didn't show up.
When so it's just crazy.
You want to really do something?
Listen, let's have 1936 Germany.
And I'm not always looking to invoke 1936 Germany.
Let's go in there and do something in front of the Chinese, like beat their athletes.
How's about that?
Tough though that may be to do in a number of sports, let's go in there and show them what a free people can do.
That would be lovely.
So anyway, and that really is what it's all about for me, is the athletes.
The Olympics are going to be where they're going to be.
Sometimes they'll be in praiseworthy places.
Sometimes they'll be in the capitals of evil regimes.
The window is so short.
The window, I mean, if you skip an Olympics, what's that?
Eight years between Olympics, and that means a lot of careers will start and end.
I mentioned gymnastics before.
You know, if you've got a 16-year-old, 17-year-old gymnast, I mean, you're getting pretty long in the tooth.
You got to be 13, 14, 15 is the main wheelhouse for those young ladies.
You know what they call a 21-year-old gymnast?
Grandma.
So that's just so unfair.
And so, no, anytime I'm looking to make a statement or I feel this way about laws also, just please don't punish the innocent.
Try to find some way, if you can, to avoid punishing the innocent.
So no, there'll be no boycott of the Chinese Olympics.
I don't want one.
You shouldn't want one.
And Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, has said, I'm not going.
Okay, that's great.
But you know what?
When those German athletes march in, they ought to be able to get a little eye contact with her as best you can on a stadium.
And so our athletes will be there.
President Bush will be too.
And that is really the only way that we can do this.
All right.
Now, here's the way we do this conversationally.
We give you the phone number and you call it 1-800-282-2882.
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Look how well it worked out for Ray in Tallahassee, Florida.
Welcome, sir.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush, and it's nice to have you.
Hey, Mark, how are you?
I'm good.
Good.
I was calling in today because, you know, I just wonder 30 or 40 years from now if we're going to be having a conversation about what happened to the white American males in this country in the 70s and 80s when reverse discrimination was put upon the white race, mainly white males, strictly to meet quotas for the black people.
In my generation, people my age, I'm 61 years old.
I worked 10 years for a major corporation and was told I couldn't be promoted or transferred strictly because I was a white American male.
One of the store managers told me right up front, if you were a woman, if you were black, if you were anything but a white American male, you could get a transfer.
I was trying to get out of Miami.
I couldn't be transferred because I was white.
There were quotas to me.
And this is my life.
I'm not seeing as much or more discrimination towards white American males as I have towards blacks.
Okay, let's be careful on the calendar there, but I think that it certainly is a point that deserves to be made.
And what you saw is modern liberalism paying attention to skin color, which Dr. King did not want them to do.
I mean, Dr. King probably would have been on board for affirmative action, you know, had he lived another few years because it was the 60s turning into the 70s.
This was an idea whose time came and that has long passed.
When you mentioned reverse discrimination, of course, calls to mind the 1978 Bakke case, the regions at the University of California versus Baki.
And you mentioned reverse discrimination.
I always rejected that term, always, because that made it sound like it's kind of okay.
Oh, it's okay.
It's reverse discrimination, as if that levels the playing field.
Discrimination is wrong no matter in what direction it travels.
Race criteria are wrong to consider, no matter whom they favor.
And points well made, man.
Points well made.
I appreciate it a lot.
Next up, we are in Seattle.
Brian, hi, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
Welcome.
Hey, Mark.
First off, I got to tell you, it's great to know that radio's gold standard broadcast is now being repeatedly guest hosted by the best local talent in News Talk radio.
Boy, there's kindness and there's nutty, and you push the envelope.
But thank you very much.
I've been a fan of yours ever since your terrific Open Line Weekend nationally syndicated show.
I used to listen to it down in Albuquerque.
Thank you.
I wish I could still listen to it up here in Seattle.
But since I can't, at least I've been blogging, radioactively blogging about you, Mark.
But I come not to talk about that, but rather to give you some background regarding what you said earlier was a less momentous shooting than, of course, what happened so dreadfully there that Thursday night at the Lorain Motel in Memphis.
Right, that would be George Wallace in the 70s.
You said the Wallace shooting in Laurel, Maryland in 1972 was less momentous.
And of course it was.
It was unsuccessful.
30 seconds make it count.
Okay, but what you may not know is that it darn near affected history profoundly, if only indirectly, because the diaries that Bremer left were the basis of screenwriter Paul Schrader's screenplay for Taxi Driver, which, of course, inspired Hinkley.
Right.
So, okay, thanks for that.
Historically true.
But if anybody says, wow, in a way, that sort of makes the Wallace shooting responsible for the Reagan shooting, that's a connection I'm just not going to make.
And maybe I need to just golden teases for me all the time.
In the next segment, I'll tell you why those connections, tangential though they may be, are things to be avoided.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back.
Bring the hook and take me out.
I stepped on Johnny Donovan.
So it's just my love for Skinner that motivated me.
I'm sorry.
Oh, heavens to Betsy.
Okay.
Let's head back to some of your calls and see what's going on here in the home stretch half hour of Open Line Friday.
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Next up, we are in Hartford, Connecticut.
Mark, Mark Davis, filling in for Rush.
How are you doing?
Welcome.
Hello, Mark Davis.
As a true blue Democrat, I wanted to commemorate Martin Luther King by calling none other than the Rush Limbaugh Show on this day, on this occasion, to thank George Bush for instituting No Child Left Behind and supporting school choice.
Because the problem with the Democratic Party and our African-American leadership is that when you are beholden to a party that is beholden to unions, if unions have a problem with charter schools,
especially here in Connecticut that are succeeding, it makes your head explode when you talk to your brothers and sisters in elected office and they argue against we have schools in Connecticut like achievement first.
It makes your head explode when they refuse to support them.
Since I obviously agree with you, let me take it to the next step with you because I really appreciate it.
And I can hear people asking, all right, you are a self-identified Democrat, correct?
Oh, true blue.
Okay, well, let's see how true blue is.
Let's put that to the test with a little game I like to call, are you really a Democrat?
You're in favor of school choice, which is a genuinely conservative concept, and good for you.
That's great.
So give me two or three liberal views that you are proud to hold.
I'm proud to hold that because I make more money, I'm not eligible for the rebate, and I'm okay with that.
Probably.
Listen, I'm as conservative as you, and I'm not bitter at being ineligible at all.
That's pretty weak.
Move on.
What else?
Wow, you're really putting me on the spot.
Yes, I am.
You know, you're really putting me on the spot.
Yes, I am.
I'm not in favor of the Iraq war.
How's that one?
That one's you.
And you know, I'm going to give you, I'll give you points for that because listen, listen, with two-thirds of the country bummed out on the war, at least ambivalent about it, there are plenty of Republicans and conservatives who are not thrilled with it.
But is it that you've just grown weary or wish it were going better, or do you absolutely believe, as liberalism teaches, that it was just evil and wrong-headed to go in and it's just a stupid idea to be in Iraq trying to plant a seed of democracy there, and the troops are just undereducated boobs who are blindly following your commander-in-chief?
Do you believe that?
Because that's what liberalism teaches.
That's what the Democratic Party believes.
I've got a tremendous amount of respect for the troops.
I will go with George Bush Sr., which said we're not going to break the country because we have no plan to put it back together.
I'll stay with George Sr.
I'm going to give you half credit on that, then half liberal credit.
One more, because I've got to scoot here.
Let's go to terminating life in the womb.
Should Roe v. Wade be overturned, keeping in mind that that would not outlaw all abortion at all, but simply put every abortion question in the hands of the 50 states to decide for themselves.
And you didn't even ask me if I was a Christian.
That's a problem.
Because it's irrelevant.
Well, it is because from where I sit, I have to say that I am against abortion.
I have to do that.
I can't believe it.
Okay, very good.
Then, dude, I don't know what to tell you.
You are a moderate Republican.
You know what?
Let's not do the party labels because who knows?
I just finished talking to Lincoln Chafee this morning on his book tour.
I don't even know what a Republican is anymore.
So what I will suggest, though, is let's use a label that really, at least for the moment, still does mean something.
You're way too conservative for today's Democratic Party.
And I hope you consider that good news because there's another party that'd be more than glad to have you.
Well, that's a fair statement.
All right, man.
Appreciate it a lot.
God love you.
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It's a wonderful game to play with your friends.
How liberal are you really?
And in this season where a ton of websites have the ask you 20 or 25 questions and will tell you who your candidate is.
Oh, oh, is this workplace fun?
Not exactly the greatest thing for productivity, but find your most find your most liberal friends.
And here's the thing.
Please understand the manner in which I say this.
Find your black friends.
Because here's where it really just makes them crazy.
The reason I mention this is because black folks, God love them, are weaned in this environment that says that to be Republican, to be conservative, is to be in league with the devil.
So find, and they don't have to be black.
I'm just saying this to be illustrative of emblematic of folks who really think they're Democrat and really think the Republicans are just demon seed.
Sit them down with those questions that attaches no party, no candidate, no nothing.
Asks them about gay marriage, asks them about illegal immigration, asks them about abortion, asks them about how much government they want in their lives.
You may well see, you may be able to enjoy the thrill of watching as an incredibly liberal friend of yours or self-admitted liberal friend of yours answers all those questions honestly and finds out that Mitt Romney is their candidate or whatever.
I think my favorite one was Pat Buchanan.
There's this wonderful, magnificent African-American lady I work with.
And she's, you know, all, you know, Gore, Gore, Gore, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, blah, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, hate Bush, hate Reagan, da But we asked her.
I mean, we sat her down at this thing.
This is the election of 04.
And just sat her down and said, how do you feel about illegal immigrants and about abortion, about the decline of society and this and that and whatever?
It probably wanted slightly bigger government than I do or whatever, but hit the thing your candidate is, Pat Buchanan.
We nearly had to call 911.
So anyway, enjoy that kind of fun around your family or workplace.
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We are in Los Angeles.
And Albert, that is you.
I'm Mark Davis in Forush, and it's nice to have you.
Hello.
Hi.
Hey, Albert.
Hey, Mark.
I have to tell about the Beijing Olympic.
You know, I like to watch the Olympic for so many years in Atlanta Olympic, Sydney Olympic, and Olympic, Barcelona.
And I can't wait to watch for the Olympic.
But this year, 2008, Beijing Olympic, I am not very comfortable to watch for that game.
And I think the Olympic committee make a big mistake to give a China to do for this big event.
Because China is an evil country, like a North Korea, like Iran.
The same thing.
Same, same with those countries.
And I tell you what, China have a many neighbor country.
For example, Mongolia, Tibet, Vietnam, Burma, India, Korea.
All of those neighbor countries are not very happy because of the China is our neighbor.
I am from Burma.
Burmese regime is supported by the Chinese regime.
And Chinese regime have the communist, evil communists.
They have philosophy of the Maoist tone.
And they still like to be to the people and they still oppress to the people.
And even you give them chance to make a business or you give them a chance to have the Olympic or whatever.
They just know themselves.
And I am not very happy and I'm not very appreciated for this Beijing Olympic.
Well, you have a particularly poignant reason.
I mean, I'm just sitting here in America, ideologically feeling as I do, bringing your own Burmese.
Listen, I love when the guy from Burma calls it Burma because I had never signed on to this Myanmar thing.
It was just too confusing to me.
So thank you in particular because being from the region, you know firsthand, as few Americans can, just the kind of regime that there you were next door to.
And the IOC, I'm sure, in a fit of political correctness, said, and maybe there was some good-heartedness.
Maybe somebody said, look, we all do business with China, and maybe that helps lure them out of the communist cave, the cave of oppression.
Maybe if we give them the Olympics, that'll help them even more.
Not so much.
Doing business with them, I believe, is an ongoing process that lures them into the light of freedom.
Giving them the Olympics is a reward that should have happened after they became far more free than they currently are.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in Dallas-Fort Worth filling in for Rush today.
Few minutes left.
So some more of your calls lie on the other side of this break on the EIB network.
1-800-282-2882.
That is the well-known phone number for the Rush Limbaugh Show, even when Rush ain't doing it.
Hi, Mark Davis in Texas.
For about another 12 minutes of your time, thank you very, very much.
I thank you, and Rush thanks you for your accommodating him today so that he can attend the William F. Buckley funeral.
He'll have, I'm sure, a word or two about that and about events of the memorial, rather.
And he'll have plenty to say about events of the weekend when he returns on Monday, which he will do.
So in the meantime, between now and then, let's make of it what we will.
And let us head to Mountain State of West Virginia.
Mark, Mark Davis, filling in for Rush.
Pleasure to have you.
How are you doing?
Oh, how are you?
Hey.
It's good to hear you, Mark.
Were you filling in for Sean Hannity a couple weeks ago?
No, a couple years ago.
Oh, so unless time has bent our brains or something.
I've done a little bit of that too, and always glad to.
Yeah, well, I'm actually in the middle of walking across America, so I'm kind of confused anyway, so I don't know one state from the other.
All right, I'll ask, why are you walking across America?
For Rush Limbaugh.
No, I'm new to Sea America.
It's plain and simple.
You really don't see it in airplanes.
You don't see it in cars and trains.
So I'm walking through it to see what – so it's not even a benefit or anything.
It's just for my own personal edification.
Okay.
I think I've seen a lot of America just fine from a car.
You are right.
If you're moving more slowly, it will do that.
But when you say across America, from where to where?
I'm starting in New York City.
I'm hoping to end up in San Francisco.
By the year 2059 or sooner?
I'm hoping.
I'm hoping before it starts snowing.
What rules are you observing?
How many miles do you do a day?
Do you occasionally allow yourself the asterisk moment of driving across a mountain range or something or what?
No, absolutely not.
Every inch I've walked from New York City to West Virginia so far.
Even the Susquehanna River, you were officially not supposed to cross any of those bridges, but I ran across it illegally.
Well, we'll look for you to either complete your task or be arrested sometime soon.
Good for you for your commitment.
What do you want to bring to us today?
Thanks a lot for letting us pry into that.
What's up?
No problem.
I'm kind of from the left persuasion, but since basically it's conservative radio I've been listening to on my walks, I figure I'd chime in.
I'll make a quick comment about the Olympics.
I agree with you.
I don't think we should punish the athletes for the politics of China, but I do think that we should make a sort of political snub, and our diplomats and their presidents should not go to the Olympics, just to sort of send a message saying that.
But does that, what does that really do?
Isn't that just goofy?
Our athletes are there.
We're obviously participating.
If the president doesn't go, isn't that just goofy?
Shouldn't the athletes, as they walk in, shouldn't part of their pride be knowing that the eyes of America are upon them, represented most ably by the president of their country?
I don't think it makes a difference, to be quite honest.
Ask them.
I think that they wanted that.
I mean, if they represent, if they are the representatives, they are the diplomats.
They are, in a sense, the embodiment of our government, basically.
They'll stick with it, but I understand.
All right, what else?
And I would also make a comment about the education, how you're commenting about how, you know, in the cities, it's not, you know, it's poor education.
And you're also putting out how racism is a little bit more subtle these days.
And I think it's definitely in the form of economics.
And that's a prime example about not necessarily because of the color of your skin, but the fact that most African Americans are not making a lot of money and they end up in these very poor neighborhoods in the city where no money is going to the schooling system and they don't have the opportunity.
It has nothing to do with work ethic or anything.
They have no opportunity to be able to move to the suburbs where you have a nicer.
Okay, just stop right there.
Of course they have the opportunity.
It's called find the best job you can in the in the seething cauldron that is your current neighborhood.
Work hard, do well, make enough where you can move somewhere a little bit better, a little bit better.
We're not talking about from the Bowery to Chappaqua, New York, but a little bit better.
And in a journey of a few small steps, you will find yourself, it might take a few years, you'll find yourself doing magnificently better than your peers in the hood who did not.
So don't tell me there's no opportunity.
Do you think every single, I mean, I walked through some, you know, I walked through some very bad neighborhoods like in Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Do you think that you could say that for every single person that lives in the city?
Every last one, every living, breathing soul that you have seen in every inner city cesspool you've walked through has the same opportunity to go to school that day and get good grades or go to work that day and actually show up and do well and get a raise.
Every last soul.
Now, is it harder to do that in some cities than others?
Absolutely.
But is the opportunity there?
Unfailingly.
I mean, I would have to disagree with that because I think that there's a possibility, a slim possibility, but basically you're saying it's harder.
And I would say, yes.
It's like one in 100 opposed to if you happen to be a white person like I am that was raised in a suburb, then I have a one in two chance probably.
I might differ with the numbers, but it's not zero.
It's not zero.
I got a scoot and listen, call me, you know, at some point in the next few months, maybe you'll actually be in Kentucky.
Teasing.
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All right, everybody.
Rush Limbaugh will be back with you on Monday with stories of having attended the William F. Buckley Memorial today.
And as we conclude, let me thank broadcast engineer Mike Mamone, Chief of Staff Kit Carson, also double-duty, did some call screaming today, and a darn fine job of it.
As we part company, though, today, let us take into account, in the long view, the grand legacy of one great man, William F. Buckley, without whom maybe modern conservatism is not even remotely what we think it to be.
And that legacy placed into the hands of a man who stands on Buckley's shoulders, and that's Rush Limbaugh.
And people like him.
And people who do local shows like I do are just glad to be, so glad to be a part of this industry that works hard to counteract.
It's kind of funny.
People say talk radio needs balance.
Conservative talk radio needs balance.
Conservative talk radio is balance.
Look at Hollywood.
Look at academia.
Look at the dominant news media culture.
Shows like this are balance and darn fun to do.
So thanks, everybody.
I'm Mark Davis.
I've been filling in for Rush.
Look forward to seeing you again sometime soon.
Have a great weekend.
God bless our country and our troops.
And Rush will be back on Monday right here on the EIB Network.
Have a fantastic weekend.
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