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July 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yeah, great uh great news, America, in a uh in a spirit of bipartisan compromise, working together to get things done in Washington.
Uh Nancy Pelosi and John McCain have come together and they've combined the fairness doctrine, which the Democrats are very keen on, with uh Senator McCain's Amnesty Bill.
And uh henceforth, by law, three editions every week of the Rush Limbaugh Show will now be hosted by an illegal immigrant.
So uh no rush today.
Uh America's anchorman is away, and this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchor man for the next three hours.
No corroborating paperwork whatsoever.
Uh Monday, uh Muller Omar will be uh guest hosting.
Uh since the fall of the Taliban, he's been uh he's been working as a congressional page, apparently.
Uh tip tips are great, but uh some of the congressmen can get a little fresh.
Uh so he's glad to be getting a career break.
He'll be in on Monday.
And I'm uh honored to be here.
I uh I snuck across the border, uh banged on the lid of the trunk uh for the driver to let me out, swung by the 7 Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia, to pick up the fake ID from the undocumented support network.
And they uh gave me this uh phony baloney driver's license and a social security number, and it turned out to be Rush Limbos.
Boy, what a break.
What a great what a what a what a great country.
Uh I'm uh I'm honored to be here.
And uh yeah, I I I guess I sounded pretty impressive in that big intro, but it uh behooves all of us uh to remember that uh no matter the peaks we have climbed in in life, uh we are all midgets next to his majestic holiness the Barack of uh Obama.
Uh you remember on the night he clinched uh the Democratic nomination, he said, quote, I am absolutely certain that generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Uh and it's good, I think, uh, that Barack has now begun to flesh out his policy proposals.
Uh I was interested to hear he's going to lower the the sea level.
That seems appropriate, uh, because you know, when the new Messiah wants to walk on water, he shouldn't have to get a stepladder to climb up to it.
Uh so I was I was very glad.
But uh this is just first-term stuff.
First term stuff.
Today Spike Lee gave us a glimpse of what we can expect from the Barack of Obama's second term.
Uh he says uh that Obama will be elected in November, and quote, when that happens, it will change everything.
You'll have to measure time by before Obama and after Obama, Spike Lee said.
It's an exciting time to be alive now.
Everything's going to be affected by this seismic change in the universe.
Uh so Obama is not just going to heal the planet.
That's that's just panty waste first-term stuff.
Anybody could do that.
You know, uh Kennedy could have done that.
Reagan could have done that, Chester Arthur could have done that.
Any old nickel and dime president can can heal the planet.
Obama is going to create seismic change in the universe.
Uh and uh uh and uh obviously for that uh we'll have to check in with Jesse Jackson, see uh see about whether he's got plans to put a put a crimp in the Messiah's pants.
Actually, uh the Messiah wears uh probably wears a robe now.
Uh uh and uh makes it easier, I would make more of a target, I would have thought for Jesse Jackson-wise.
Anyway, we may uh we may get into that.
It's uh open line.
Uh Mr. Snerdley wants to know what what changes we can expect in the universe.
Well, you know, I think I think we're uh we're not really entering into meaningful dialogue with uh with Planet Zongo.
I think we're distracted by these nickel and dime states that are no threat to us, like uh Iran.
Uh and I think, you know, we really need we don't look this whole kind of globalized economy thing is nothing.
We need to be entering into serious one-on-one negotiations without preconditions on planet Zongo.
Uh and I'm uh I'm hopeful that uh whatever it is, January the twentieth, when uh Obama's inaugurated, that January the twenty-third, he will fly in for those talks without preconditions to Planet Zongo and return in eight years' uh time and let us know how we go.
Anyway, we'll talk about uh Barack Obama's plans for the universe.
Open Line Friday.
And uh uh uh what could be better for Open Line Friday uh than a president with a universal jurisdiction and universal agenda.
Anything, if anything can happen in the Obama presidency, we can talk about anything uh on uh on open line uh on open line Friday.
Uh although, you know, in fairness to him, I think that seismic change for the universe might have to wait until the second term.
In the first term you'll still be busy healing the he healing the planet.
Last time I was uh I was here, I got a lot of uh positive reaction as that fabulous intro said I I live in New Hampshire and I asked my neighbor up there, Scott uh what he thought of the show and he said well I didn't know you were going to be on and I missed the first uh ten minutes but I got in my truck, switched on about quarter past, listened for twenty seconds and thought, who's this fairy they got filling in for Rush.
And then I realized it was you.
Well the fairy is back and uh and this time he's uh angry.
Uh that for some reason that makes me sound like John Edwards.
Anyway, uh if you want to know what I do when I'm not guest hosting uh I get interviewed by Rush.
If you check out this month's edition of the Limbaugh Letter, Rush does a uh a terrific interview with me.
Uh if you don't subscribe to Limbaugh Letter you should go to Rushlimbore.com and uh and sign up.
And uh you can usually find me as well on the back page of every issue in National Review and uh in the Washington Times and the New York Sun and Orange County Register and hither and yon every week.
I'm taking the summer off from that to work on a sequel to my book America Alone The End of the World as we know it.
You can find uh the new paperback edition in all good bookstores very easy to find you go in the front door you'll see the big display table at the front uh piled high with Barack Obama's book uh The Audacity of Hope and other great lines I got from my former pastor uh and the brand new bestseller uh the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Home Health Guide to Surgical Procedures you can perform on passing presidential candidates.
It's not a pop-up book, not anymore.
And if you go behind that you'll find a uh single copy of my book popping up the wonky leg at the back of the display table.
And people sometimes say to me, uh America Alone, the end of the world as we know it, that's an in that's an interesting title.
Uh what what's your book about?
And I usually say, well it's about to be banned in Canada, which it which it is.
I'm on trial north of the border for crimes against humanity.
In fact in Washington today, the Congressional task force on international religious freedom, whatever that is, I don't know whether it's a serious committee or just some uh boondoggle for congressmen who can't get on anything important.
But they're discussing my uh case.
I've I've been charged with flagrant Islamophobia.
Uh and I don't want to sound like I'm boasting, but I think being wanted in Canada always looks good on a on a guy's resume.
And I mention it only in case uh halfway through the show you hear the door being kicked down and the sound of a dog sled uh running over the golden EIB microphone.
It'll be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police snatch team coming in to get me.
But what what my book's really about and uh it's what I like to talk about a bit today is the way most of the Western world is going out of business.
And what's depressing to me is that most of the policies which have gotten Europe into the mess it's in, uh Barack Obama wants to introduce here.
Obama's America would be an America uh that is more like Europe and I don't think that's the way to go.
And liberals and far too many uh on our side of the aisle too take it for granted that the natural endpoint of the fully evolved Western democracy is something like uh Scandinavia or the Netherlands and America's just taking a little longer to get there than the Dutch and the Swedes and all the rest of the gang.
Uh the Democrats' view is that when it comes to uh uh welfare or climate change or health care or the use of so-called soft power instead of crude Bush type cowboy Howard power uh in other words on everything that matters Europe is ahead of America.
And in fact Europe is ahead of America mainly in the sense that its canoe is already halfway over the falls.
And the Democrats and too many Republicans want us to catch up with the European canoe.
So we may get into a little a little light Obama bashing.
A little light Obama bashing but but nothing too mean spirited.
Because frankly it's hard uh it's quite hard attacking Obama these days because no no matter how unpleasant you try to be about him you you switch on the TV and find some Democrat said something far worse.
Which which I which is one thing I uh I I love about the Democrats is that when it comes to being mean spirited uh nobody does it like that.
But a couple of months back I gave a talk and um a Democrat in the audience demanded that I dissociate myself from the sleazy attacks uh of some Republicans who've been referring to quote Barack Hussein Obama.
Uh And I said I'd be happy to disassociate myself from uh, you know, former Democrat Senator Bob Kerry, who's been floating the whole nudge nudge uh Hussein the secret Muslim thing, uh, and to disassociate myself from New Hampshire Democrat honcho uh Bill Shaheen,
who's been pushing the Obama spent most of the 70s selling cocaine rumors, uh, and to disassociate myself from the Democrat mayor and Carter administration official Andrew Young, who boasted that Bill Clinton has slept with more black women than Obama.
And unfortunately, by the time I'd got through disassociating myself from all the Democrat sleeves about Senator Obama, I had no time left to uh peddle any slees of my own about him.
So we may try and correct that today.
Uh and don't forget this whole Bob Kerry Bill Shaheen, Andrew Young thing uh was done before dear old Jesse Jackson got out his surgeon's knife and started waving it in Obama's uh direction.
And of course, uh notwithstanding any of that, notwithstanding the outsourcing of the hosting duties to sub-minimum wage third world labor, it is still open line Friday.
Uh as Rush likes to say, four days a week, the content portion of the show is entirely within the control of the host, but on Friday, anything goes.
Uh so if you want to continue yesterday's Castrati Thursday theme and discuss the uh Reverend Jesse Jackson's midlife career move into uh free of charge medical procedures, uh, we can do that, or uh we can turn to the really critical issues, like Senator Obama's demand that we all learn to speak Spanish.
Uh but on the other hand, if you want to want to call up and discuss Slovenian art house movies, uh now's now's your chance.
And you'll get bonus points, by the way, if you call up and you discuss the Slovenian art house movies in the original Slovene, uh, because you'll make Barack Obama very happy.
You'll be demonstrating that you're the sort of multilingual sophisticate who's not a total embarrassment like so many of his fellow Americans are to him.
These embarrassing Americans who are unable to speak Spanish, who go into a restaurant in Paris and they don't even know what the French for soup du jour is.
It's it's pathetic, it's embarrassing.
Uh actually I went into a French restaurant the other day and I I glanced at the menu and said to the waiter, uh, qu'est-ce que c'est le special du jour?
And he said it means the special of the day, you ignorant anglophone twerp.
Little bilingual joke for you there.
Anyway, President designate Obama says it's pathetic that the only French uh the most Americans know is uh Mercy Beaucou.
He wants uh he wants all Americans to be fluently bilingual, which is a nice ambition.
Uh I think it'd be nice actually if instead of worrying about being bilingual, uh a few more of us uh uh uh uh mastered being lingual.
Right now, huge numbers of Americans are barely lingual.
Uh Rush mentioned this thing in Texas the other day where the guys who handle traffic tickets were having a meeting and some county commissioner calls the system a black hole, and a judge, a judge who's in the room says, Whoa, that's a racist expression, and demands that the guy apologize for a quote, racially insensitive analogy.
A judge, that's a guy you say you have to have a diploma for to be a judge, don't you?
Even I mean, I don't know.
Uh I don't know how it works in Texas, but I assume you have to at least pay 50 bucks and download it from the internet or something.
Uh but uh a judge uh says black hole is a racist expression.
That way madness uh lies.
Uh so instead of worrying whether we're bilingual, I think we ought to worry whether we're still lingual.
Uh we'll get into all that.
It's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, uh Mark In for Rush and more straight ahead.
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This is this is not this is not Rush.
You may have heard uh Rush uh, I think it was on uh Wednesday or Thursday say that he was going to be at the dentist today, and you may be thinking, oh my God, the operation must have gone horribly wrong.
Poor old Rush, listen to how he sounds.
Uh but no, I'm uh I'm not L. L. Rushbo, I'm uh Mark Stein in for Rush.
Uh as I said, he is at the dentist today.
Uh so America's uh truth detector is right now in the hands of America's tooth detector, and we hope it all goes well for him.
And we'll hear how that we'll hear how that works out uh on uh Monday when he'll be back.
In the meantime, it's uh open line Friday, 1800-282-2882.
Uh, we'll be taking your calls on anything whatsoever.
Did you see the Russian reaction to uh the uh to to the Iranian missile tests?
Uh quote, the results of recent Iranian missile tests prove that U.S. plans for defense shield in Europe are unnecessary, uh, says Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
He said the tests confirmed Tehran had missiles with a limited range of up to 2,000 kilometers.
The U.S. says it wants shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic to defend U.S. troops and allies from rogue states.
You know, and that's and that's true.
The Russian minister guy has a point that the uh Iranian tests were a bit of a damp squib, but that that is actually the real point, that they're not very good at this stuff.
Um, the r the Russian line seems to be saying, look, the Iranians are incompetent, so who cares if they go nuclear, they won't be able to aim and uh they won't be able to hit anything they're aiming at.
They'll uh aim the thing at Tel Aviv to wipe Israel off the map, but it'll fall short uh and instead hit some Saudi royal palace, and they'll have to blame it on the Mossad.
So what are you worried about?
What are you worried about?
They're incompetence, uh so if they go nuclear, who cares?
Uh I I mentioned uh in my book a uh similar reaction to those tests that Kim Jong-il did um two years ago on Fourth of July, when he revealed to the world uh that he has uh no dong.
Oh, come on, please, no uh no tittering.
That's the uh that's the name of his missile.
It apparently means something in Korean.
I don't know, I don't know what.
It's uh the no-dong is the name of his missile.
Ask Barack Obama at his uh next press conference.
He he he he'll speak Korean and he'll tell you.
Or better still get Jesse Jackson to ask him about it, and see how nervous he gets.
Anyway, no giggling.
The uh the no-dong is a serious name for a serious missile.
And on the 4th of July, a couple of years back, Kim Jong-il, decided to test the latest version of uh his no dong missile by firing it at Hawaii.
And that, of course, that's a test like me uh testing my new shotgun uh by firing it through your kitchen window and seeing if it penetrates uh to the living room.
So anyway, this uh this Kim Jong-il missile uh went up uh and it came down again 40 seconds later in the Sea of Japan, and everyone's saying, see, you know, Bush, what's he make a big deal, this axis of evil thing?
What a big laugh, what a loser.
Kim Jong-il, he talks the talk, but he can't nuke the nuke, there's nothing to worry about.
Uh but that no, that's the point.
That's why these guys are dangerous, the uh Iranians and uh the North Koreans.
They're not the United States, they're not the Soviet Union, they're not India, they're not even France.
They're in competence with nuclear weapons.
Uh is that a good idea?
Uh in 2006, Kim Jong-il aimed for Hawaii and he hit the Sea of Japan, and now Iran might aim for Tel Aviv uh and take out Khartoum or Islamabad or Budapest or Ann Arbor or, you know, anywhere.
They're self-taught nuclear madman, and they haven't quite got the hang of it.
It's uh it's like if you're on the New Jersey turnpike and there's a confused 93-year-old granny behind the wheel of a Toyota Corolla, uh, that's mostly a problem for her.
Uh if she's uh in an 18-wheeler and coming across the median, then it's a problem for you.
Uh North Korea has millions of starving people, one of the lowest GDPs per capita on the planet, uh lower than Ghana, lower than Zimbabwe, lower than Mongolia, but it's a nuclear power.
And Iran is a basket case theocracy, they can't do anything well expens except sponsor terrorism in every single corner of the world, uh, and it wants to be a nuclear power.
Uh and so uh with respect to the Russian foreign minister, uh, what is at issue here is not how competent they are or the range of their missiles, but the fact, the fact uh that they have uh serious ambitions, and on the whole, uh they don't just talk the talk, uh, they walk the walk to the fullest extent of their ability.
Uh so uh uh these tests may be incompetent, and no doubt in the fullness of time when they nuke somewhere, it might not be the city they were aiming to nuke.
Uh, but this is a country that is serious about developing these weapons and uh and serious about using these weapons.
Uh we'll talk about that in uh in on the show today.
We'll also talk about uh, you know, I know a lot of Republicans and conservatives have their differences with President Bush, but there are moments when you gotta love the guy.
Uh and I love this story from uh from the Daily Telegraph.
Uh George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G 8 summit in Japan.
The American leader who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change ended a private meeting with the words Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present, including Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Mr. Bush, who's seconded Fidel Tab as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido, Japan.
You go go the world's biggest polluter.
Woo!
Yeah, Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
And don't forget, uh, we always like to hear from the other side.
Fellows who think America's the problem, big government's the answer.
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If you're a far-left kook and you want to get your point across, by all means call, because this is one show where we don't cut the nuts off.
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Well, we're reminding you in it, we're mind you in uh in uh in a uh in a little while.
We do want to hear, we do want to hear from uh we do want to hear from the other side.
And uh also, also uh I mentioned the the uh uh President Bush bragging about being the world's biggest polluter, which I don't think is actually true anymore.
Apparently the Chinese are doing more polluting.
But if you want to if you want to know actually why this is such a great thing about Mr. Bush, uh he his pollution is all that is staving off climate catastrophe.
Uh do you want to know what's causing all this global warming?
Turns out it's clean air.
Uh it's the planet's silent killer, clean air.
Uh, from the highly respected magazine New Scientist, cleaner skies explains surprise rate of global warming.
Goodbye air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days.
That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades.
But unfortunately, cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.
Since 1980, average air temperatures in Europe have risen one degree Celsius, much more than expected from greenhouse gas warming alone.
Christian Ruchstuhl of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Change in Switzerland and colleagues took aerosol concentrations from six locations in northern Europe, measured between 1986 and 2005, and have concluded that the cleaner air accounts for at least half of the global warming.
Clean air is killing us.
It's everywhere.
It's killing the planet.
It's not just in the air, it is the air.
What causes global warming?
It's clean air.
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
We need to get more drilling, more oil, more coal, more nineteenth century smokestacks, more dirty, filthy, rotten mills uh across the fruited plain.
That is the only thing that is gonna heal the planet, as Barack Obama uh would uh would say.
Uh let's go to the phones.
It's open line Friday on the uh Rush Limbaugh Show, and Liz is in Waco, Texas.
So welcome to the Oh, oh wait, well, wait, we're going to uh my mistake.
We're going to Tim in Winona, Minnesota.
Tim, uh, you're on the uh Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, Tim.
Hi.
Way no speakers, Senior Mark.
Bonjour, monsieur to you.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Let me try this one.
Guten Tag hair mark.
Guten.
Yeah, you you can you can do you can do them all.
Can you speak uh can you speak any Korean?
Nine.
Oh, okay.
Now that's okay.
Guten Tag and Bonjour and all and all the rest of it.
But how are you at useful foreign phrases?
Um, you know that that is the thing.
If you say I happen to be uh if you happen to be, say, uh sitting next to uh the Reverend Jesse Jackson and you want to discuss what you'd like to do to presidential candidates, can you do you know how to say that in French?
All I know uh I'm still working on where's the bathroom, okay?
Can you can you show me the bathroom?
Oh, okay.
I I think I'll I'll let this is a useful tip if you're with Jesse Jackson.
Je veux decoupé les noirs de Monsieur Obama.
Okay?
Je veux des coupées les noix de Monsieur Obama.
That's if you ha if you find yourself in a TV studio with him, uh that's that's useful useful for we may uh we uh that's another part of the show that's changed.
Uh under the new fairness doctrine under President Obama, we're now gonna have to conduct the show in a foreign language at least uh at least two days a week.
So you've made an excellent uh start there, Tim.
What else do you want to do?
Three quick things.
First of all, I was upset yesterday the way uh uh uh John McCain threw Phil Graham under the bus.
Here he had a teaching moment to say, okay, you know, uh uh Mr. Graham is obviously uh Senator Graham is enthusiastic about this and then he means well and I know the guy and uh uh and maybe he was a little harsh, but we need to talk about these issues.
Instead he tosses them out the window in his in his uh his uh rush to oh there was a good word.
In his r rush to uh to to not uh show anybody that he has anything to do with any conservatives.
He wants to uh uh pick up the liberal and I mean I uh listening to that thinking, gosh, if if uh Mitt Romney was there, he could have really done something with this, and McCain is uh is uh so quick to throw out any conservative approach or any kind of teaching moment about this.
Well, the the thing about this is uh that Phil Graham is absolutely right.
He's absolutely correct to say uh that this this there is no recession.
There is not a recession.
Uh even if you take the unemployment rate, it's half of what the unemployment rate in uh in France and Germany is.
They they live uh the uh in uh in France, they essentially live with permanent double digit unemployment.
Uh this this country does not have anything like a recession.
Uh certainly certainly there's challenges, but you go back to the eighties.
I mean, twenty-one percent prime rate, uh eighteen percent house loans.
Uh that was a housing crisis.
And uh and as uh young uh twenty-something at the time, I was worried about uh the future of the country.
We've got challenges, but we've always had challenges.
You have to have downs if you're gonna have some ups.
Yeah, and the and the point as well is what do you do when you get those kind of uh so-called market corrections?
The fact of the matter is a lot of people made uh bad uh a lot of banks made bad house loans.
Uh what do you what do you do?
What do you do with that?
Do you do you erect a big government bureaucracy uh and put it in place that is in going to distort the market, or do you say, well, okay, yeah, there's a glut of uh cheap affordable housing.
That's normally the sort of thing, by the way, the Democrats would be uh in favor of.
Right now, if you want to go and buy a house, if you're a young couple, you're working hard, you're struggling, and you want to buy your own home, now is the best time to do it.
What do they say?
No, we've got to a we've got to artificially shore up uh the problems uh that got us into this mess in the first place.
Heaven forbid that you would save up some down payment money, you know, if you're gonna go buy a house.
I mean, uh you know, th there's no okay, a couple other quick things.
The other thing was uh uh it's it's really scary to me with Obama that we've got fifty percent of the population uh that's that is behind this fellow, the same fifty percent that sees the glass half empty, that sees uh uh any other kind of that's a favorite phrase of mine, the you know, a glass half empty instead of half full.
But anything else like that.
Here's another point too.
I wonder uh just get on and I'll get off here.
Uh curriculum, uh I it's uh it's interesting to hear all the things that Rush talks about.
You talk about Mark, uh um the other other uh talk show hosts, conservative talk show hosts, and really what needs to be done is to help to put put together a curriculum that could be taught in schools.
I don't know if the public schools would take up take a bunch of private schools.
You know, and really really package this up so it could be uh Yeah, good good uh good good good luck with uh good good luck with getting the Rush Libbaugh curriculum taken uh taken into the uh into the uh Al Sharpton elementary school.
That that may be uh maybe a while before that happens.
But you're right.
Uh uh w this is what I call cultural liberalism.
Uh and we may talk about that a little uh later in the show, because actually that is uh I think one of the real uh challenges uh for conservatives.
It's why we find ourselves in this cockamami election where we s we're not quite in a one party state yet, but we're in a kind of one and a half party state.
Where the other party, the party that's supposed to be the alternative to all this stuff, uh has in fact embraced uh sixty, seventy percent of the agenda, wants to meet them halfway.
The minute you the minute you say uh you want to meet people uh you want to meet liberalism halfway, you're moving the center ground uh into their part of the field.
And uh I mentioned the fairness doctrine at the uh the the top of the show.
People want to reintroduce the fairness doctrine to radio.
Uh it's a crazy idea, because they're they're upset that there's one little corner of the landscape where cultural liberalism does not dominate.
Why are we why we have a fairness doctrine for American bookstores?
They say, well, look, you got you've got fifty uh anti Bush, uh anti-war, uh uh 911 was an inside job, uh, books on display.
Hey, you need to have fifty conservative books on display uh over on this side of the room.
Why don't we have a fairness doctrine in American bookstores?
Why don't we have a fairness doctrine in American universities, not just uh American universities, but as you say, uh American grade schools.
Uh this this is this is absolutely key.
You can't just rely on uh uh on pulling the the lever for some guy with an R after his name uh every couple of Novembers.
It's it it depends on more on that.
And far too many of the critical uh real levers in society are permanently in the hands of uh liberalism.
And uh we'll we'll uh we'll I think we'll get into into a bit more of that um in uh as uh uh as the uh as the show goes uh as the show goes on.
Uh but I'm glad I was able to help you by uh introducing uh useful foreign phrases like that one uh for Reverend Jesse Jackson, if he happens to find himself next time uh saying something indiscreet on a French television show, you can lean to the guy next to him and say je veux des coupe uh les noix de Monsieur Obama.
Very useful phrase for uh Reverend Jackson.
By the way, you know what I love about that Jesse Jackson aside.
Uh when you see the clip on TV, he delivers the line and then he makes this knifing motion uh with his right hand, like slipping the shiv in.
It's fantastic.
It's uh the Reverend Jesse Jackknife.
It's uh we really need uh Bobby Darren in to do a uh a little chorus of Jack the Knife.
Yeah.
Something for Paul Shacklin to work on, I think.
Uh, you know, just uh it's a of course it's uh worked out marvelous for Barack Obama, just as uh just as Obama starts moving to the center, uh the Reverend Jackson starts moving towards Obama's center.
It's uh so it all you know, it all it all fits uh it fits in.
Uh yesterday Rush was talking how uh weird it was, uh talking about how weird it was.
Um you know, when you're watching ABC, C BS and all the rest of them, but they're all uh covering j Jesse Jackson's apology without say what it was he's apologizing for.
And it was like being in the Soviet Union, uh, where you'd read Pravda or his vestia and they'd be denouncing some foreign leader for anti-Soviet lies, uh, but they never told you what the anti-Soviet lies were.
Or when you'd see some guy uh coming out of uh the re-education camp and sitting there glassy-eyed and professing his full support for the people's revolution and recanting all he'd done, and he never knew what he did.
And that was what CNED and all the rest of the guys uh were doing uh uh were doing for Jesse Jackson uh on air uh the other night.
And it's amazing to me, it's amazing to me that the Soviet Union had to jam radio and TV transmitters and actually had to have government-owned newspapers like Pravda and Invest as his vestia to to have that degree of protection of their leaders.
Uh and everything that they had to do with that big uh bureaucratic, cumbersome government operation, the US media has achieved uh just by outsourcing it to ABC, CBS uh and NBC.
So it's uh it's amazing.
More straight ahead.
Uh Mark Stein Inforush, 1800-282-2888.
Two, two how many numbers are in there in the phone numbers?
1800-28 1800-282-2882.
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This is Mark Stein in for Rush on Open Line Friday.
Let's uh let's go to Joel in Western Pennsylvania.
Joel, what's uh what's on your mind?
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Uh, enjoying your show.
It's very funny today.
I was wondering if you might agree with my historical analysis.
There's a conflict currently between Iran and Western civilization that reminds me of the ancient historical battle of the marathon back in four ninety BC between the ancient Persians and the ancient Greeks.
To refresh your memory, uh that battle at that time, the Persians were the world dominant power.
And the ancient Greeks were very proud of their uh democracy and their freedom, and they didn't want to be subjugated By the uh ancient King Darius, who was quite a tyrant.
And so they stood up against the uh against the uh Persians and they defeated them against odds of three to one and weaponry.
And uh after they erouted the Persians, they became a great world power in and of themselves, which later became the foundation for which the founding fathers of this country faced the ideas of freedom and democracy.
And I'm just wondering if they had lost that battle back in uh ancient marathon, we wouldn't have a Western civilization that we have today.
Yeah, I just wonder if we're facing today the same kind of uh East-West uh uh uh crisis between uh the civiliz Western civilization and the Yeah, yeah, you're right.
These are these hinge moments in history.
I was uh just trying to remember uh uh some of my uh my uh classical education there, because I got uh for a moment I got uh Darius and uh and Cyrus confused.
Uh and uh it's uh it's a long it's uh it's a uh it's a long ways uh it's a long ways back, uh, some of that stuff.
But you're right, it's uh it was one of those hinge battles uh of history.
And it and and sometimes every pol politician uh talks about how he wants to find himself on the on the kind of cut net.
Bill Clinton, you remember Bill Clinton after 9-11 was complaining that nothing big had happened on his watch.
He was regretting that there hadn't been all this death and destruction and devastation uh on on uh his watch while he was president.
In fact, in fact, uh the the build-up to the big death and devastation happened during his presidency, but he didn't understand uh that in fact uh it was a hinge moment of history and he didn't and he needed to do something about it.
Uh so I think you're right.
Uh, and I think that is uh uh also generally true that uh we descend from Athenian democracy.
Unfortunately, the present day inheritors of Athens and Greece are uh are not uh uh great exemplars of that.
Apparently, uh I think seventy-eight percent uh the last time I looked at a poll, something like seventy-eight percent of Greeks uh think that uh uh uh think think that nine eleven was uh was created by Americans in order to give America a pretext to invade Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is a world leader in the uh supply of premium rubble or whatever the heck they've got over in that country.
Uh but you're you're right.
When you get to a hinge moment of history, it's important to know what's uh what's uh happening.
Uh I I got confused with uh Darius and Cyrus.
I think Cyrus is the one who defeated the uh the meads.
Uh I don't know, I don't know.
If there's any if if any meads listening out there uh be feel free to call in.
1800-282-288.
I don't know.
There may be I don't uh Mr. Snardley is laughing.
That's disrespectful to members of the meat American community.
You know?
They get a lousy deal.
I don't know.
Uh what does Obama got to say about that?
He says, Oh, yeah, we should speak French and Spanish.
What is it like when a mead American goes to the voting booth and there are no ballots in Mead.
If if indeed mead is uh the language they spoke.
Anyway, if you're a mead American, thank you to thank you to Joe.
I don't know, maybe Joel in Western Pennsylvania.
Do they have big mead?
I know uh Western Pennsylvania, they've uh that's uh I don't think the many mead Americans in No, no, no.
They've got uh I'm aware of.
Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much for your uh thanks very much for your call, uh Joel.
And we'll hope to hear from members of the Mead American community as the show progresses.
1-800-282-288-2.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
Uh I was uh behind a car in Vermont the other day, and it had a bumper sticker to save a tree, remove a bush, as in uh, you know, George W. Bush, get it.
Uh in fact, uh it's not as easy uh removing a bush as it sounds.
Uh uh from Bristol, England, this story.
Bristol City Council wants to prune bushes and remove cover from an area known as the Downs to improve the landscape and encourage rare wildlife.
But its own gay rights group has opposed the move, claiming that cutting back the bushes was discriminating to homosexual men who use the area for late-night outdoor sex.
Hey, hey.
That's the that's right.
A row blew up last October when it was revealed that four firefighters had been disciplined for allegedly disturbing a gay sex session on the Downs by shining their torches into the bushes.
After complaints that their actions were homophobic, the four senior officers were fined a thousand pounds and transferred to other fire stations.
Got that for you volunteer fire departments out there.
Get a call from an old lady, her cat stuck up a tree.
Before you want to put your ladder up there and cause a big hoo-ha, make sure there's nobody having sex in it.
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