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June 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Sorry about the bars.
Those of you people watching the program on the Ditto Cam, Rush Limbaugh.com.
I was a little late turning the bars on.
Because I almost fell asleep here.
McCain's doing a press conference out there talking about how we need to find alternative sources and taxi energy companies and get rid of global warming and all this.
So I turned that off and I turned on the U.S. open playoff on ESPN greeting, folks.
I hope you had a good weekend.
Rush Limbaugh back for more.
Another summer spectacular here on the EIB network at 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Tim Russert passed away uh shortly after this program.
Well, actually passed away before the program ended.
The news on Friday didn't happen until uh afterwards.
I actually I got the news at about a quarter of three uh Friday afternoon in an email that was said not for reporting because it hadn't been confirmed.
Uh very, very, very sad thing.
I knew Tim Russert, and he was uh just he was a prince of a guy.
I uh I uh but I have to tell you folks, this this orgy of coverage uh from about four o'clock Friday afternoon on ceased to be about Tim Russert.
And instead it was it's been about the media and who they are and how important they are.
It was it was almost taken on a uh a Princess Diana circumstance where everybody wanted to be part of the story.
All these people, second and third, fourth, fifth tier people coming out.
Yeah, Tim was a big friend of mine and telling all these stories.
Uh the the the media doing everything they could to uh to make this about them and their role uh in in American culture today.
I just it it it got to be a little bit unseemly after uh after a while as it went nonstop into Saturday and into um in into Sunday.
You know, he was on this program uh in June of 2004 talking about his uh his book on his dad uh Big Russ.
And we have a couple of sound bites in that interview we're gonna play later on in the program today.
Uh I had spoken to him about that book prior to his uh writing it.
His son Luke was down here up at PGA National taking golf lessons, and I went up and I had dinner with uh with Tim at Shula's Steakhouse.
And he was uh he was researching the book, and he wanted stories from a lot of people about the relationships that they had had with their fathers, and he uh spoke to me about my relationship with my dad.
And uh we we had a um wonderful three hours there at Shirlo's Steakhouse up at PGA National and uh you know for a time there I was uh his sole guest.
I think it was on MSNBC every Thanksgiving, and they ran it for the uh for the whole week.
His CNBC every Thanksgiving.
Uh he uh had me on Meet the Press a number of times and invited me a number of times this year when I could not make it to discuss uh various things.
He was just he was everything that you thought he would be when you met him and when you saw him on television.
Uh he would he had I mean he was he was part of the elite, but he didn't act it.
I mean he was he still maintained his ties to his blue-collar background in Buffalo is just a just a sad shame.
It's it just it's all you can just it's just uh it's just a real shame.
And uh the poor guy he was the closest thing to an objective journalist at any of the networks.
Totally honest.
He was and and now you know they're they're in the process here trying to figure out who they can replace him with, and but believe me, that started Friday afternoon behind the scenes as well, too.
Don't don't don't be um don't be silly if you think there was a little moratorium on that's very competitive business and uh that's that's totally uh understandable.
But I just um I I see the exploitation of his death, uh, the way it's happening out there.
I think the media, you know, when Peter Jennings died, they had this giant ceremony at uh at Carnegie Hall, and they uh they try to make themselves out to be far more important and bigger than they than they actually are, trying to prove that they are uh still relevant.
And I think, you know, there's a story here in the New York Times from today's this morning, it's by David Carr, and the headline really sums up What I'm trying to say here.
And of course, the fewest words that you can say to make a point, the more powerful the point in mourning for a man and his era.
Now that's the telling excuse me, that's the telling part of this story and his era, because there is no who are they going to put in there?
There is no Tim Russert.
They did not develop a bench.
Whoever they put in there is not going to be Tim Russ.
There are no more Tim Russetts in news.
There just aren't.
I mean, he was he was the last of his type because drive-by media has changed totally in the in the last 20 years.
Let me read the salient point here.
From David Carr's piece in the New York Times.
For decades, American national politics has been the province of a meritocracy.
A self-nominated, self-important bunch who choose to be part of the media political apparatus because it's a bloody sport for very high stakes.
And it has historically pivoted around a rather tidy triangle defined by the parlors of Georgetown, the lobbyists on K Street, and lunches at the Palm, the Steakhouse in Washington.
And once a week, hierarchy is assigned and tribute is paid on the Sunday morning shows, with Meet the Press long being the more equal of equals.
You won't hear this on a Sunday morning show, not this week and not any, but this political season suggests politics don't work that way anymore.
As media platforms have multiplied and coverage has become ubiquitous, custody of the political narrative has left the beltway.
This is what they're actually funeralizing on all of this over-the-top coverage on DNC TV.
They know with the passage of Russert, passing of Russert, an era has gone.
And the ability of the drive-by media to define the narrative and the action line of what the American people see, hear, read, and think about daily news coming out of Washington has been gone, has been lost in terms of their having a monopoly over it, and they know it.
And frankly, folks, as I have mentioned on many previous and prior occasions, I think their understanding of the loss of their monopoly has made them come out of the closet.
When I was growing up, the whole notion of a liberal media was was well known to a lot of people, but they at least hid behind the pretense of objectivity.
They're no less liberal today than they are today, but what's different today is that they've shed the pretense.
Journalism is now actively being touted as the uh the broadcast and the writing of opinion.
And it is undisguised.
It's it's it's taken on a whole new role, and the reason is that they've always chosen sides.
They've always chosen sides in political issues, races and so forth without saying so.
Now they're saying so, essentially.
Now they're it's it's well known for whom they are in the tank.
And they're doing this out of the need to compete.
Because there is now an alternative media that is been quite successful at blunting the agenda and the narrative on every story that they attempt to define.
They're very much aware of it.
So the whole notion that this this little formula that's existed with the unholy alliance between the drive-by media and the Washington political and social classes, the elites, which we have talked about countless times also on this program, has now been blown to smithereens.
Custody of the political narrative has left the beltway.
The political narrative is now a jumble.
They still have the narrative.
Don't misunderstand.
The drive-by still have their narrative, but it gets blown up within seconds of their narrative being uh broadcast or written or what have you.
Uh this is why the Obama campaign is just trashing bloggers and me out the wazoo since last Thursday.
It is because they have they cannot dispute what we say, so they have to discredit us in terms of as many Americans as possible so that whatever we say is not believed.
This is how they choose to hold on to uh to their narrative.
So the passing of Tim Russert has uh uh I think for most in the media has really focused them and clarified even more what they've lost.
And so this weekend of coverage has really been essentially the drive my media presiding at its own funeral.
As I say, it ceased to be about Tim Russert by about four o'clock Friday afternoon.
However, we're not going to forget Tim Russert here and make this about me or us.
We'll uh let you hear Tim Russert at his best on a couple little sound bites here from uh June of 2004 as the program unfolds today.
There are other items in the news we want to get to as well.
So sit tight.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of it right after this.
Don't go away.
Brand new week broadcast excellence, El Rushbow and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, folks, let me give you an example of the attempt, recent attempt by the drive-by media to establish a narrative.
And how that narrative has now been blown to smithereens, and yet the drive-bys won't give it up.
This all started last Wednesday or Thursday.
And by the way, let me take a new tack on this.
When I talk about the drive-by media, of course, you know to whom I refer.
I refer to CNN, MSNBC, CBSNBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times, you name it.
It'd be easier and shorter to list all the member media that are not part of the drive-bys.
But I've never really gotten specific about what is the number one culprit in all of these people, and that's the Associated Press.
The Associated Press is the one area of the drive-by media which still does have its monopoly.
The Associated Press is the news service for however many newspapers are left in this country.
What is it, three or four thousand newspapers?
From the New York Times to the Washington Post and down, you know, to the to the Rugrat Central in a town of 25 people that has a weekly newspaper.
They all subscribe to the Associated Press.
The Associated Press sets the agenda and the narrative along with the New York Times.
The New York Times sets the agenda for network television coverage.
The Associated Press think of it as a massive, gazillion times larger enterprise than Media Matters for America, which is nothing more than a liberal hatchet job website that exists to take members of the new media out of context.
And to besmirch their character and credibility and honor.
The Associated Press has no competition.
Whatever they write about Iraq, whatever they write about me, whatever they write about domestic oil drilling, gets printed in 4,000 or whatever number of newspapers there are.
And American citizens who may not even like the drive-by media that they watch in cable TV, read their local papers, see the little thing AP, many other stories, not even byline, and it is accepted because nobody really takes on the AP.
We just take on the media in general.
But who feeds the media?
Who feeds these people?
Enlarge.
They're not reporters anymore.
The AP is just an enlarged fax machine that sends out talking points disguised as news stories.
Now, last Wednesday or Thursday, there was one of these stories.
And it involved me, and I'm not bringing it up because it involved me.
I'm bringing it up because it's just a recent and good example because of what's happened since.
This story mentioned me and conservative blockers in the second paragraph as being responsible for the rumor and spreading the rumor and continuing to keep the rumor alive that there was a tape of Michelle Obama from the pulpit of Obama's church using the term whitey in a way that would be very damaging to Russert.
Uh sorry, to Obama.
Now, what the the real genesis of this is a left-wing Democrat hack, a guy by the name of Larry Johnson.
He said he had the tape.
He started the rumor.
Larry Johnson is the guy who spread the rumor that many of the drive by's picked up because they were so excited about it, that Patrick Fitzgerald had indicted Carl Rove on a Friday afternoon, long before Libby had been indicted.
As you know, Rove was never indicted, but the left-wing blogs picked it up.
Some of the drive-bys, they were just dying to go with it.
Some of them rumored that it existed, thought that it might be because they didn't want to be cut out of this if it was true.
They wanted to be in on the on the scoop.
This is the guy that started this rumor.
It was started three weeks ago, or maybe a month ago now, maybe even longer than that.
I didn't comment on it for three weeks.
Then I saw Bob Beckle on Fox.
On the Tuesday night, I think of the South Dakota and the uh and the Idaho, or South Dakota, Montana primaries.
And there was Beckle, and he was all worried.
He said he's heard a lot of rumors, he said a lot of stuff.
This thing's gonna hit tomorrow normally.
He ignores these kind of things, but this really had him worried this this could be a huge problem worse than her thesis, Michelle Obama's thesis at Princeton or wherever it was that she went to um college.
So after that, there's oh, I mentioned that Bob Beckle mentioned this.
I was the last one to this because frankly, I don't I I never saw any evidence of it, and I never heard anybody say they had seen it.
All other kinds of people, I mean, I'm I'm actually I'll address this in a specific way.
I'm getting the credit that a lot of other people actually deserve.
So why did the AP put me in this story with the conservative block?
Why'd they put me there?
Why didn't they put others who were actively talking about it on the radio and the conservative why didn't they put others?
Why'd they put me in there?
After put well, I'll answer it in a second.
After putting me in there, guess who picked it up?
After the AP put it, the Obama website puts it on, they've got a new anti-s answer the smear, reply to the smear website or something, it's what's uh I don't know what the name of the website is, but Fight the Smears.
Fight the smears.com.
And number one, the number one entry on the Fightthsmears.com website at Obama.com is Rush Limbaugh says there's a tape.
And that I'm out there promoting the the f the first smear mention is lie.
Rush Limbaugh says a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word Whitey from the pulpit of Trinity United.
Never said it.
AP didn't say it, but they got the ball rolling, and once AP links to anything or alleges anything, then stories begin to be told, and you know what happens when people start telling stories.
So I'm I am lie number one at stopthesmear.com on uh on Obama's website.
And I had nothing to do with it.
So why me?
Well, there's a reason for this.
It's very simple.
The drive-by media is agenda-oriented.
They have an agenda.
Their agenda is the destruction of conservatism as a viable political force in America and the Republican Party as well.
Since they hate me in the drive-by media, and I don't say that with any disappointment, don't misunderstand.
I'm not whining, eh, hate me, whiny hate.
They did they do, they and they should.
I'm the guy responsible for their having lost their monopoly after the you know, for 20 years w we have been just blowing holes in all of their credibility.
There's no reason they should like me.
But, as is the case with all liberals, their universe extends no further than themselves.
And so they think that everybody in America must also hate me.
And so they are very comfortable putting my name in this story for two reasons.
They hope to discredit the story.
They hope to discredit me because they look at me as America's number one conservative, whether that's true or not, that's how they look at it, so they can discredit the whole movement by putting me in there and linking me with this story.
It furthers the notion that conservative Republicans are racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, the cliches that they all use.
So this is an attempt by the Associated Press, and a reporter, by the way, was Nedra Pickler.
This was an attempt to establish the narrative of the Whitey tape, that it had nothing to do with a liberal Democrat, Larry Johnson, that had only to do with racist sexist Republicans who were spreading this vicious rumor and causing poor old Obama to have to reply to it, and so forth.
And then this gets picked up in every newspaper in the country.
I have a um, for PR purposes, I have a a little service here that clips any story it's got my name in it.
And there were 2500 that came back on Thursday and Friday with this Ned Ru Pickler story.
So it's all over America that I was involved in this whole thing, and I never Was.
Never said I'd seen it.
When I talked about it, I did describe it as a rumor.
Uh I even went so far as to suggest that maybe folks be very careful with this.
I said it might be that she's saying why did he, a contraction.
Why did he?
And people are thinking she said whitey.
I brought up the source.
I brought up that the source of this was not credible.
A guy named Larry Johnson, who, as previously explained, is a left-wing hack.
Larry Johnson is absent any of these stories in the AP or the rest of the drive-by media in terms of being the guy who got it all started.
This is a hit piece on me and the conservative blogosphere.
And they are fit to be tied as well at uh at the AP, which is understandable.
But anyway, I've got a break coming up here, but I've got some audio sound bites coming up to support all of this.
You sit tight, we'll come back and continue right after this.
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Let's start with audio soundbite number two first.
Uh, Mike, let's go back to June 3rd.
Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends, it's early in the morning, and Alison Camarata is talking with Bob Beckle, and he says this about Michelle My Bell Obama.
I always hear rumors.
I hear thousands of them in the course of presidential campaign, but this one I have heard from enough sources that worries me.
I won't get in details of what it is, except to say that there is some thought that there might be a very big shoe dropping on Michelle Obama tomorrow.
Wait a minute.
And that, yeah, and I can't tell you what it is because I don't want to perpetuate the rumors.
But I will tell you this it is whoever is promoting this thing is doing it in enough ways, in a very smart way, that it gets to me in ways that make me get worried about it.
Normally I don't worry about these things.
But is it your understanding that this is bigger than say a college thesis paper?
Significantly.
Everybody knew what he was talking about.
Allison Camarada knew.
This had been out there for a couple weeks.
Beckle knew who it was that was supposedly supplying all these great rumors that was getting this uh some traction.
Then last night, back on Fox, and I don't know why they keep having him back here.
He is as discredited as anybody else they could find.
Bob Beckle on a that they got a program on Sunday night eight o'clock called Strategy Room, and he's he's talking to guest Brett Baer, and he says, look, Fight the Smears.com has been set up by the Obama campaign.
What about that, Bob?
Do they need to do this kind of thing?
If you've got some evidence, it's fine.
But these guys don't have any evidence.
This story that they read about Michelle Obama, which by the way, I got in some trouble on by trying to just to cut it off, and and and Rush Limbaugh got on radio and said, Well, Bob Beckle mentioned it.
I did not mention it.
I said that there were smears coming around, one of them had to do with Barack Obama, but that gave Limbois the chance to say it all over again.
So you see how this works.
He wasn't saying about Barack Obama.
He was talking about a big shoe dropping on Michelle Obama, and everybody knew what he was talking about.
He did not try to cut this off.
He tried to expand it.
He tried to amplify this rumor.
He he wanted this rumor to be picked up by even more people.
He knew who was behind it.
And then they throw me.
See, this so it starts with the Associated Press, putting my name in the story when I had nothing to do with this.
Now, since it's in the AP and it's it's in the annals of the drive-by media narrative.
Okay, I had a role.
I was the one who spread it.
So now it's it's free and clear for hacks like Beckle and anybody else who wants to talk about to include me in the story, and including me in the story, they think is more damaging to conservatives because I'm target number one.
So Rush Limbaugh got on the radio and said, Well, Bob Beckle mentioned it.
I didn't mention it.
Yes, you did, Bob.
We just played here, play the soundbite again.
Grab number two.
Bob Beckle says he didn't mention it.
He said there were smears coming around, one of them had to do with Barack, but that gave me the chance to say it all over again.
As probably the first time I had talked about it.
I always hear rumors.
I hear thousands of them in the course of a presidential campaign, but this one I have heard from enough sources it worries me.
I won't get in details of what it is, except to say that there is some thought that there might be a very big shoe dropping on Michelle Obama tomorrow.
Wait a minute.
And that yeah, and I can't tell you what it is because I don't want to perpetuate the rumors.
But I will tell you this it is whoever is promoting this thing is doing it in enough ways, in a very smart way, that it gets to me in ways that make me get worried about it.
Normally I don't worry about these shit.
But is it your understanding that this is bigger than, say, a college thesis paper?
Significantly.
Signific, yeah.
Now, and then last night Beckle tries to deny that he had anything to do with it when he was trying to shut it down, that I picked it up and ran.
So see, now the blame is with me for wallowing in it, for furthering it, for giving it impetus, for giving it weight when it didn't have any prior to that, and is now even manifested itself on my friend Howard Kurtz's show.
On CNN reliable sources.
Howard Kurtz is a better reporter than this.
He uses a sound bite of me taken totally out of context that fits the narrative that he undoubtedly first read about in an AP story.
This is yesterday morning.
And you'll also hear Obama and Kurtz on this bite along with me.
Among the other falsehoods swirling around Obama.
There's this story that appeared on certain sites about Michelle Obama supposedly having used the word whitey in some kind of talk or rant at church or elsewhere.
Rush Limbaugh was one of the ones who talked about it on the air, and Senator Obama was asked about that afterwards.
Let's watch.
They're waiting to use it in October of Michelle going nuts in the church, too, talking about whitey this and whitey that.
There is dirt and lies that are circulated in email.
And they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about them.
And then that gives legs to the story.
And Limbaugh says that this room was pretty well widely circulated by the time he mentioned it.
Right.
So mention that the last thing in your report.
This uh little bite they played of me, they're waiting to use it in October of Michelle going nuts in the church talking about Whitey and Whitey that.
They leave out what I had said leading up to that, which is my describing for you what is being said about this tape and who has it and how they intend to use it.
They're waiting to use it in October, Michelle going nuts at the church, whitey this, whitey that.
I was just advising you what was happening with this thing long after everybody else had.
But so it all starts in the AP, then it ends up with Bob Beckle running with it.
Obama puts it on his website as I am the primary culprit.
That causes Kurtz to pick it up on CNN, and you see, this kind of thing has a life of its own, and this is the Associated Press that did this.
New York Times didn't do it, Washington Post didn't do it, CBS, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN didn't do it.
The Associated Press did it.
They did it on purpose.
The Associated Press also has a story out today referring to Joe Lieberman as Democrat's public enemy number one.
It is a full-fledged hit piece on Joe Lieberman.
Democrats' public enemy number one is Joe Lieberman, which goes to show that if the Democrats do not allow Mavericks in their party, they don't celebrate them, they run them out, and then they destroy them with the help of the Associated Press.
But there is, ladies and gentlemen, you see, contrary to the AP's desires, there are now ways to thwart the narrative.
The Chicago Sun Times had a little piece in their by Zuzu, I think, or Zulu, somebody, I don't know who it was, but they've run this piece that checks statements made by campaigns and public figures for accuracy and so forth.
And here's what this little piece from the Chicago Sun Times yesterday said.
Uh news item, Barack Obama campaign starts new website to fight smears from political opponents at WW Fightthesmears.com.
The first smear mentioned on Obama's website.
Lie.
Rush Limbaugh says the tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word Whitey from the pulpit of Trinity United.
The Chicago Sun Times says, well, no, that's not what Limbaugh said.
The rumor is, and we don't like they quote me.
The rumor is, and we don't like dealing with rumors here, but the rumor is that Michelle Obama from the pulpit of this church used the term whitey.
Some are saying be very careful because she might have said, why did he, why did he, the contraction, why'd he instead of whitey?
He added, I can't find anybody who's seen it.
So while Limbaugh was happy to wallow in the rumor, he was careful not to claim the tape exists.
So this is the Chicago Sun Times.
So just a little the reason the reason I spent so much time on this, of course, ladies and gentlemen, as you well know, is not because it involved me.
It's just a recent example to illustrate, because I think not enough time has been spent by those of us who have been trying to blow up the monopoly that's a drive-by media on the Associated Press.
The Associated Press has a monopoly still.
They are totally in charge.
Nobody else competes against them in determining what's in most of America's newspapers on crucially uh important news stories.
And I tie this to the coverage of Tim Russert and his death because from four o'clock Friday, maybe five o'clock Friday on, the coverage of Tim Russers' death ceased to be about Tim Russert.
It was all about the media.
They used the occasion of his death to talk about themselves, to talk about how important they are.
And by the one thing this thing proved, and I've I've made this point countless times as well on this program.
The drive-by media primarily uses other drive-bys as its audience.
Their audience is them.
Their audience is not news consumers.
Contrary to what you might think.
They want to shape opinion, don't misunderstand.
But they do their work, they write what they write, they do their TV appearances.
It's all a little cluster.
It's just a circle.
You know what?
Then these people do what they do to be seen by their peers, to be judged by their peers.
So this coverage of the death of Tim Russert was nothing more than the media demonstrating that in their minds all of this is about them.
And this gave them the occasion to talk about their importance and their fears, and their fear is that it's not just Tim Russert who passed away, but their era and their dominance and their monopoly and their right.
And they know it.
They presided over their own wake over the weekend, and they will continue to do so as this week unfolds.
Be right back with a Supreme Court decision you're not going to like after this.
So essentially, I mean, to close the loop on this, the AP, the Associated Press, used me to spread the rumor itself.
The AP used me to spread the rumor so that they can then turn around and say that I was spreading the rumor.
This is how this stuff works.
Now, the Supreme Court this morning, just prior to the program starting, made it easier for some foreigners who overstay their visas to seek to remain in the United States legally.
The Supreme Court today, five to four, same bunch that voted the uh the uh the issue last week, with Anthony Kennedy writing the opinion, has just green-lighted illegal immigration.
The court ruled five to four that somebody who is here illegally may withdraw his voluntary agreement to depart and continue to try to get approval to remain in the United States while here.
The decision essentially embraced a proposed Justice Department regulation governing the treatment of similar cases in the future.
Samson Dada, a Nigerian citizen, stayed beyond the expiration of his tourist visa in 1998.
He married an American the following year, soon began trying to obtain a visa as an immediate relative of a citizen.
But Dada and his wife apparently failed to submit some documents, causing immigration officials to deny the visa.
Dada has been trying again to obtain the visa, but immigration authorities, meanwhile, have ordered him to leave the country.
He agreed to leave voluntarily, which would allow him to try sooner to re-enter the country legally than if he had been deported.
The court's task, and once again, this is the associated press.
The court's task was to decide whether he could withdraw his voluntary agreement to leave the country and continue to try to adjust his status while in the United States.
Immigration authorities recently ruled that Dada had entered a sham marriage in order to stay here.
But that finding was not part of the court's consideration.
Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by his four liberal colleagues, the four conservative justices dissented.
Justice Scalia said the court lacks the authority to impose its chosen remedy.
And that's it in a nutshell.
Once again, the Supreme Court of the United States micromanaging an area left to another branch.
In this case, the Constitution explicitly leaves it to Congress to regulate emigration.
This This is this is not what judging is supposed to be about.
These judges on the left are no more than political hacks now, imposing their own personal policy preferences rather than interpreting the law.
It's been going on a long time.
If they want to be politicians, then their conduct has to be exposed in question.
Same thing with their attitudes and their and their motives.
This is not what judging is supposed to be about.
The Constitution does not countenance this kind of behavior on the part of judges.
So the court doubt that it will be, but it would be great if it became a major focus of the presidential campaign now.
That problem we're here again, I don't know.
I haven't heard what Senator McCain said about this, but he probably agrees with it.
He came out stridently against the Guantanamo Bay ruling last week, but he probably I don't know.
Uh but if he understands this as an encroachment on congressional authority, then he's he's got to oppose this.
The Supreme Court just told Congress you can't do what you did.
We're gonna write the immigration laws, not you.
Now, just last week, the Supreme Court of the United States bestowed constitutional rights on foreign-born terrorists.
The ruling last week is a chilling demonstration, along with this ruling today, of the American divide between conservatives and liberals.
Four liberals on the court, aided and abetted by Justice Kennedy, use the Guantanamo Bay case as a power grab.
Their decision overturned precedent since our founding that placed the prosecution of war squarely within the executive branch.
Naturally, Democrats last week and this week are celebrating the ruling, celebrating amid warnings that it'll cost American troops their lives.
But this decision, the Guantanamo Bay decision last week and this decision on immigration this morning, both have even broader implications.
Because in short order, in just seven or eight days, the Supreme Court of the United States and its liberal judges have turned America law upside down.
And let's look back further to the past to see just how they've also done this.
They have stripped voters of free speech rights, limiting production and participation in political debate.
The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped homeowners of rights to their own property should politicians decide to seize it for developers.
By the way, that's the kilo decision.
And I have a friend who lives in Connecticut.
And he sent me a note last week.
Might have been the week before last.
He said, Do you know that the property that they seized in Kilo is still undeveloped?
The woman that they kicked off her own property.
They took it, seized it, kicked her off.
She's gone, her property is gone.
They haven't done anything to develop it.
It's blank, it's barren.
And yet this was a case where there was a specific developer who was going go in and do specific things that uh was going to generate more and more tax revenue for this local community, and it hasn't happened, but the woman got kicked off of her property, nevertheless.
The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped homeowners of rights to their own property in more ways than just kilo, by the way.
The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped parents of the right to discipline their own kids.
The Supreme Court of the United States is in the process of defining the very definition of marriage.
They have ruled against legal immigration.
They've ruled that illegal immigrants must be accorded the same protections as citizens.
And American taxpayers must support them financially.
They have pushed God from the public square.
They have used junk science to place the interests of animals above the prosperity of people.
And the Supreme Court of the United States has stripped the most sacred protection, the right to life from infants in the womb.
Whatever power that liberals cannot achieve at the ballot box, they seize through the courts, this is the change that Barack Obama and his fellow liberals have been waiting for.
And the America that they're creating and want to create is not the America we know, nor is it an America that most of you will even want to know.
King Abdullah Saudi Arabia says, okay, okay, we'll we'll pump 500,000 more barrels.
But you gotta lower your gas taxes.
But if it's okay for him to pump a 500,000 more barrels, how come it won't matter if we pump a million from Anwar?
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