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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 news, America, in a spirit of bipartisan compromise, working together to get things done in Washington.
Nancy Pelosi and John McCain have come together and they've combined the fairness doctrine, which the Democrats are very keen on, with Senator McCain's amnesty bill.
And henceforth, by law, Three editions every week of the Rush Limbaugh Show will now be hosted by an illegal immigrant.
So no rush today.
America's anchorman is away, and this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchorman for the next three hours.
No corroborating paperwork whatsoever.
Monday, Muller Omar will be guest hosting.
Since the fall of the Taliban, he's been working as a congressional page, apparently.
Tips are great, but some of the congressmen can get a little fresh.
So he's glad to be getting a career break.
He'll be in on Monday.
And I'm honored to be here.
I snuck across the border, banged on the lid of the trunk 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 gave me this Phony Bologna driver's license and a social security number, and it turned out to be Rush Limbaugh.
Boy, what a break.
What a great country.
I'm honored to be here.
And yeah, I guess I sounded pretty impressive in that big intro, but it behooves all of us to remember that no matter the peaks we have climbed in life, we are all midgets next to His Majestic Holiness, the Barack of Obama.
You remember on the night he clinched 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.
And it's good, I think, that Barack has now begun to flesh out his policy proposals.
I was interested to hear he's going to lower the sea level.
That seems appropriate 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.
So I was very glad.
But 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.
He says 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.
So Obama is not just going to heal the planet.
That's just panty-waste first-term stuff.
Anybody could do that.
You know, Kennedy could have done that.
Reagan could have done that.
Chester Arthur could have done that.
Any old nickel and dime president can heal the planet.
Obama is going to create seismic change in the universe.
And obviously, for that, we'll have to check in with Jesse Jackson, see about whether he's got plans to put a crimp in the Messiah's pants.
Actually, the Messiah probably wears a robe now.
And makes it easier.
It makes more of a target, I would have thought, for Jesse Jackson-wise.
Anyway, we may get into that.
It's open line.
Mr. Snurley wants to know what changes we can expect in the universe.
Well, you know, I think we're not really entering into meaningful dialogue with planet Zongo.
I think we're distracted by these nickel and dime states that are no threat to us, like Iran.
And I think, you know, we really need, we don't live, 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.
And I'm hopeful that whatever it is, January the 20th, when Obama's inaugurated, that January the 23rd, he will fly in for those talks without preconditions to planet Zongo and return in eight years' time and let us know how we go.
Anyway, we'll talk about Barack Obama's plans for the universe, Open Line Friday.
And what could be better for Open Line Friday than a president with a universal jurisdiction and universal agenda.
Anything, if anything can happen in the Obama presidency, we can talk about anything on Open Line Friday.
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, he'll still be busy healing the planet.
Last time I was here, I got a lot of positive reaction, as that fabulous intro said.
I live in New Hampshire, and I asked my neighbor up there, Scott, 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 10 minutes, but I got in my truck, switched on about quarter past, listened for 20 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 this time he's angry.
For some reason, that makes me sound like John Edwards.
Anyway, if you want to know what I do when I'm not guest hosting, I get interviewed by Rush.
If you check out this month's edition of the Limbaugh Letter, Rush does a terrific interview with me.
If you don't subscribe to Limbaugh Letter, you should go to rushlimbaugh.com and sign up.
And you can usually find me as well on the back page of every issue in National Review and 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 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 piled high with Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, and other great lines I got from my former pastor, and the brand new bestseller, 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 single copy of my book popping up the wonky leg at the back of the display table.
And people sometimes say to me, America Alone, The End of the World as We Know It, that's an interesting title.
What's your book about?
And I usually say, well, it's about to be banned in Canada, 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 boondoggle for congressmen who can't get on anything important, but they're discussing my case.
I've been charged with flagrant Islamophobia.
And I don't want to sound like I'm boasting, but I think being wanted in Canada always looks good on a guy's resume.
And I mention it only in case halfway through the show you hear the door being kicked down and the sound of a dog sled running over the golden EIB microphone.
It'll be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police snatch team coming in to get me.
But what my book's really about, and 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, Barack Obama wants to introduce here.
Obama's America would be an America that is more like Europe, and I don't think that's the way to go.
And liberals, and far too many on our side of the aisle too, take it for granted that the natural end point of the fully evolved Western democracy is something like 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.
The Democrats view is that when it comes to welfare or climate change or healthcare or the use of so-called soft power instead of crude Bush-type cowboy Howard power, 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 light Obama bashing, a little light Obama bashing, but nothing too mean-spirited.
Because, frankly, it's quite hard attacking Obama these days, because no matter how unpleasant you try to be about him, you switch on the TV and find some Democrat who says something far worse.
Which is one thing I love about the Democrats is that when it comes to being mean-spirited, nobody does it like that.
But a couple of months back, I gave a talk, and a Democrat in the audience demanded that I dissociate myself from the sleazy attacks of some Republicans who've been referring to, quote, Barack Hussein Obama.
And I said I'd be happy to disassociate myself from, you know, former Democrat Senator Bob Kerry, who's been floating the whole nudge-nudge, Hussein the secret Muslim thing, and to disassociate myself from New Hampshire Democrat honcho Bill Shaheen,
who's been pushing the Obama spent most of the 70s selling cocaine rumors, 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 sleas about Senator Obama, I had no time left to peddle any sleas of my own about him.
So we may try and correct that today.
And don't forget, this whole Bob Kerry, Bill Shaheen, Andrew Young thing was done before dear old Jesse Jackson got out his surgeon's knife and started waving it in Obama's direction.
And of course, notwithstanding any of that, notwithstanding the outsourcing of the hosting duties to sub-minimum wage third world labor, it is still Open Line Friday.
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.
So if you want to continue yesterday's Castrati Thursday theme and discuss the Reverend Jesse Jackson's midlife career move into free of charge medical procedures, we can do that.
Or we can turn to the really critical issues like Senator Obama's demand that we all learn to speak Spanish.
But on the other hand, if you want to call up and discuss Slovenian art house movies, 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, 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 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 pathetic, it's embarrassing.
Actually, I went into a French restaurant the other day and I glanced at the menu and said to the waiter, qu'es que sell speciale du jour.
And he said it means the special of the day, you ignorant Anglo-Fontwerp.
Little bilingual joke for you there.
Anyway, President Designate Obama says it's pathetic that the only French that most Americans know is Merci Boku.
He wants all Americans to be fluently bilingual, which is a nice ambition.
I think it'd be nice actually if instead of worrying about being bilingual, a few more of us mastered being lingual.
Right now, huge numbers of Americans are barely lingual.
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 to be a judge, don't you?
I mean, I don't know.
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.
But a judge says black hole is a racist expression.
That way, madness lies.
So instead of worrying whether we're bilingual, I think we ought to worry whether we're still lingual.
We'll get into all that.
It's Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark in for Rush and more straight ahead.
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Don't worry, if you just tuned in, don't panic.
This is not Rush.
You may have heard Rush, I think it was on 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.
But no, I'm not El Rushbo.
I'm Mark Steinin for Rush.
As I said, he is at the dentist today.
So America's 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 works out on Monday when he'll be back.
In the meantime, it's Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll be taking your calls on anything whatsoever.
Did you see the Russian reaction to the Iranian missile tests?
Quote, the results of recent Iranian missile tests prove that U.S. plans for a defense shield in Europe are unnecessary, 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 true.
The Russian minister guy has a point that the Iranian tests were a bit of a damp squib, but that is actually the real point, that they're not very good at this stuff.
You know, 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 hit anything they're aiming at.
They'll aim the thing at Tel Aviv to wipe Israel off the map, but it'll fall short 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.
So if they go nuclear, who cares?
I mentioned in my book a similar reaction to those tests that Kim Jong-il did two years ago on 4th of July when he revealed to the world that he has no dong.
Oh, come on, please.
No tittering.
That's the name of his missile.
It apparently means something in Korean.
I don't know.
I don't know what.
The no-dong is the name of his missile.
Ask Barack Obama at his next press conference.
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 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 his no-dong missile by firing it at Hawaii.
And that, of course, that's a test like me testing my new shotgun by firing it through your kitchen window and seeing if it penetrates to the living room.
So, anyway, this Kim Jong-il missile went up 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.
But that, no, that's the point.
That's why these guys are dangerous, the Iranians and 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 incompetents with nuclear weapons.
Is that a good idea?
In 2006, Kim Jong-il aimed for Hawaii and he hit the Sea of Japan, and now Iran might aim for Tel Aviv and take out Khartoum or Islamabad or Budapest or Ann Arbor or, you know, anywhere.
They're self-taught nuclear madmen and they haven't quite got the hang of it.
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, that's mostly a problem for her.
If she's in an 18-wheeler and coming across the median, then it's a problem for you.
North Korea has millions of starving people, one of the lowest GDPs per capita on the planet, lower than Ghana, lower than Zimbabwe, lower than Mongolia, but it's a nuclear power.
And Iran is a basket case theocracy that can't do anything well except sponsor terrorism in every single corner of the world.
And it wants to be a nuclear power.
And so, with respect to the Russian foreign minister, what is at issue here is not how competent they are or the range of their missiles, but the fact, the fact that they have serious ambitions, and on the whole, they don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk to the fullest extent of their ability.
So 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.
But this is a country that is serious about developing these weapons and serious about using these weapons.
We'll talk about that on the show today.
We'll also talk about, you know, I know a lot of Republicans and conservatives have their differences with President Bush, but there are moments when you've got to love the guy.
And I love this story from the Daily Telegraph.
George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 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 seconded Feideltau as president ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido, Japan.
You go, God!
The world's biggest polluter.
Woo!
Yeah, Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show, 1-800-282-2882.
And don't forget, we always like to hear from the other side.
Fellows who think America's the problem, big government's the answer, 9-11 was an inside job.
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.
So the phone lines are too busy.
Okay, 1-8.
Okay, okay, 1-800.
Well, we're reminding you in it.
We're minding in a little while.
We do want to hear.
We do want to hear from the other side.
And also, also, I mentioned 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 know, actually, why this is such a great thing about Mr. Bush, his pollution is all that is staving off climate catastrophe.
Do you want to know what's causing all this global warming?
Turns out it's clean air.
It's the planet's silent killer, clean air.
From the highly respected magazine New Scientist, Cleaner Skies Explain 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 Rookstuhl 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 19th century smokestacks, more dirty, filthy, rotten mills across the fruited plain.
That is the only thing that is going to heal the planet, as Barack Obama would say.
Let's go to the phones.
It's open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and Liz is in Waco, Texas.
Welcome to the...
Oh, wait, we're going to...
My mistake.
We're going to Tim in Winona, Minnesota.
Tim, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, Tim.
Hi.
Buenos Bija, Senior Mark.
Bonjour, monsieur to you.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Let me try this one.
Gutentag Hair Mark.
Guten?
Yeah, you can do them all.
Can you speak any Korean?
Nine.
Okay, now that's okay.
Gutentag and bonjour and all the rest of it.
But how are you at useful foreign phrases?
You know, that is the thing.
If you say, I happen to be, if you happen to be, say, sitting next to the Reverend Jesse Jackson and you want to discuss what you'd like to do to presidential candidates, do you know how to say that in French?
All I know, I'm still working on where's the bathroom, okay?
Can you show me the bathroom?
Okay, I think I'll let this is a useful tip if you're with Jesse Jackson.
Je veux des coupe les noir de monsieur Obama.
Okay?
Je ver des coupe les noir de monsieur Obama.
That's if you if you find yourself in a TV studio with him, that's useful, useful for.
That's another part of the show that's changed.
Under the new fairness doctrine under President Obama, we're now going to have to conduct the show in a foreign language at least two days a week.
So you've made an excellent start there, Tim.
What else you want to say?
Three quick things.
First of all, I was upset yesterday the way John McCain threw Phil Graham under the bus.
Here he had a teaching moment to say, okay, you know, Mr. Graham is obviously, Senator Graham is enthusiastic about this, and he means well, and I know the guy, and maybe he was a little harsh, but we need to talk about these issues.
Instead, he tosses them out the window in His rush to, oh, there was a good word, in his rush to not show anybody that he has anything to do with any conservatives.
He wants to pick up the liberal.
I mean, I'm listening to that thinking, gosh, if Mitt Romney was there, he could have really done something with this.
And McCain is so quick to throw out any conservative approach or any kind of teaching moment about this.
Well, the thing about this is that Phil Graham is absolutely right.
He's absolutely correct to say that there is no recession.
There is not a recession.
Even if you take the unemployment rate, it's half of what the unemployment rate in France and Germany is.
They live in France, they essentially live with permanent double-digit unemployment.
This country does not have anything like a recession.
Certainly there's challenges, but you go back to the 80s.
I mean, 21% prime rate, 18% house loans.
That was a housing crisis.
And as a young 20-something at the time, I was worried about the future of the country.
We've got challenges, but we've always had challenges.
You have to have downs if you're going to have some ups.
Yeah, and the point as well is what do you do when you get those kind of so-called market corrections?
The fact of the matter is, a lot of people made bad, a lot of banks made bad house loans.
What do you do with that?
Do you erect a big government bureaucracy and put it in place that is going to distort the market?
Or do you say, well, okay, yeah, there's a glut of cheap, affordable housing?
That's normally the sort of thing, by the way, the Democrats would be 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 artificially shore up the problems that got us into this mess in the first place.
Heaven forbid that you would save up some down payment money if you're going to go buy a house.
I mean, there's no, okay, a couple other quick things.
The other thing was it's really scary to me with Obama that we've got 50% of the population that is behind this fellow, the same 50% that sees the glass half empty, that sees any other kind of, that's a favorite phrase of mine, you know, a glass half empty instead of half full.
But anything else like that.
Here's another point, too.
I wanted to just get on, then I'll get off here.
Curriculum, it's interesting to hear all the things that Rush talks about, you talk about, Mark, the other talk show hosts, conservative talk show hosts, and really what needs to be done is to help to put together a curriculum that could be taught in schools.
I don't know if the public schools would take it up, but private schools, and really package this up so it could be good luck with getting the Rush Limbaugh curriculum taken into the Al Sharpton Elementary School.
That may be a while before that happens.
But you're right.
This is what I call cultural liberalism.
And we may talk about that a little later in the show, because actually that is, I think, one of the real challenges for conservatives.
It's why we find ourselves in this Kokamami election where 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, has, in fact, embraced 60%, 70% of the agenda, wants to meet them halfway.
The minute you say you want to meet people, you want to meet liberalism halfway, you're moving the center ground into their part of the field.
And I mentioned the fairness doctrine at the top of the show.
People want to reintroduce the fairness doctrine to radio.
It's a crazy idea because they're upset that there's one little corner of the landscape where cultural liberalism does not dominate.
Why don't we have a fairness doctrine for American bookstores?
They say, well, look, you've got 50 anti-Bush, anti-war, 9-11 was an inside job books on display here.
You need to have 50 conservative books on display 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 American universities, but as you say, American grade schools?
This is absolutely key.
You can't just rely on pulling the lever for some guy with an R after his name every couple of Novembers.
It depends on more on that.
And far too many of the critical, real levers in society are permanently in the hands of liberalism.
And I think we'll get into a bit more of that as the show goes on.
But I'm glad I was able to help you by introducing useful foreign phrases like that one for Reverend Jesse Jackson.
If he happens to find himself next time saying something indiscreet on a French television show, he can lean to the guy next to him and say, Je ver des coupe les noir de monsieur Obama.
Very useful phrase for Reverend Jackson.
By the way, you know what I love about that Jesse Jackson aside?
When you see the clip on TV, he delivers the line and then he makes this knifing motion with his right hand, like slipping the shiv-in.
It's fantastic.
It's the Reverend Jesse Jackknife.
We really need Bobby Darin in to do a little chorus of Jack the Knife.
Something for Paul Shanklin to work on, I think.
You know, just it's of course, it's worked out marvelous for Barack Obama.
Just as Obama starts moving to the center, the Reverend Jackson starts moving towards Obama's center.
So it all, you know, it all fits in.
Yesterday, Rush was talking how weird it was, talking about how weird it was.
You know, when you're watching ABC, CBS, and all the rest of them, but they're all covering Jesse Jackson's apology without saying what it was he's apologizing for.
And it was like being in the Soviet Union, where you'd read Pravda or his Vestia and they'd be denouncing some foreign leader for anti-Soviet lies, but they never told you what the anti-Soviet lies were.
Or when you'd see some guy coming out of 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 you never knew what he did.
And that was what C. Ed Ed and all the rest of the guys were doing for Jesse Jackson on air 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 Izvestia to have that degree of protection of their leaders.
And everything that they had to do with that big bureaucratic, cumbersome government operation, the U.S. media has achieved just by outsourcing it to ABC, CBS, and NBC.
So it's amazing.
More straight ahead.
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Let's go to Joel in Western Pennsylvania.
Joel, what's on your mind?
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm 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 Marathon back in 490 BC between the ancient Persians and the ancient Greeks.
To refresh your memory, that battle at that time, the Persians were the world dominant power, and the ancient Greeks were very proud of their democracy and their freedom, and they didn't want to be subjugated by the ancient King Darius, who was quite a tyrant.
And so they stood up against the Persians and they defeated them against odds of three to one and battle weaponry.
And after they routed the Persians, they became a great world power in and of themselves, which later became the foundation from which the founding fathers of this country based ideas of freedom and democracy.
And I'm just wondering, if they had lost that battle back in the ancient marathon, we wouldn't have a Western civilization that we have today.
Yeah, we're facing today the same kind of East-West crisis between the Western civilization and the East.
Yeah, you're right.
These are these hinge moments in history.
I was just trying to remember some of my classical education there because for a moment I got Darius and Cyrus confused.
And it's a long ways.
It's a long ways back, some of that stuff.
But you're right.
It was one of those hinge battles of history.
And sometimes every politician talks about how he wants to find himself on the kind of cutting edge.
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 on his watch while he was president.
In fact, the build-up to the big death and devastation happened during his presidency, but he didn't understand that, in fact, it was a hinge moment of history and he needed to do something about it.
So I think you're right.
And I think that is also generally true that we descend from Athenian democracy.
Unfortunately, the present-day inheritors of Athens and Greece are not great exemplars of that.
Apparently, I think 78%, last time I looked at a poll, something like 78% of Greeks think that 9-11 was created by Americans in order to give America a pretext to invade Afghanistan, because Afghanistan is a world leader in the supply of premium rubble or whatever the heck they've got over in that country.
But you're right.
When you get to a hinge moment of history, it's important to know what's happening.
I got confused with Darius and Cyrus.
I think Cyrus is the one who defeated the Medes.
I don't know.
If any Meads listening out there, feel free to call in.
1-800-282-288.
I don't know.
Mr. Snurdley is laughing.
That's disrespectful to members of the Mead American community.
You know?
They get a lousy deal.
I don't know.
What has 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 indeed Mead is the language they spoke.
Anyway, if you're a Mead American, thank you to Joe.
I don't know, maybe Joel in Western Pennsylvania.
Do they have big meat?
I know Western Pennsylvania, they've – that's – I don't think there are many meat Americans in – no, no, no.
They've got – That's what I'm aware of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Thank you very much for your thanks very much for your call, Joel.
And we'll hope to hear from members of the Mead American community as the show progresses.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
I was behind a car in Vermont the other day, and it had a bumper sticker to save a tree, remove a bush, as in, you know, George W. Bush, get it.
In fact, it's not as easy removing a bush as it sounds.
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.
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 £1,000 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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