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July 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1800-282-2882.
Rush is away.
He's having major dental surgery today.
And obviously wise to get that in before Barack Obama is elected and it becomes socialized and we go back to uh getting the old pliers out or uh tying a piece of string uh to the doorknob.
Uh Rush uh is having dental surgery, he'll be back uh Monday, but it is open line Friday, and that means you get to talk about anything uh you want.
You know, we were talking about uh education with Linda Chavez just before uh just before the break.
And um it it it it it amazes me that uh Obama didn't get it with this this crazy answer he gave on uh bilingualism the other day.
He was asked a question about whether English uh English first, people should learn English, whether English should be the language of the United States.
Uh and that is nothing to do with whether Americans should speak a foreign language.
One of my colleagues at National Review put it very well.
Uh he said uh if if a if an American is on vacation in Paris and he goes into a restaurant and he doesn't know what the French for file mignon is, uh that's that's a mild social embarrassment.
Uh when a kid uh in an American school uh doesn't speak English, that's a tragedy.
Uh you're in effect denying him access uh to uh to to the opportunities this country has to has to offer.
You know, the it is crazy some of this stuff, because because there's a big English as a second language bureaucracy uh that exists now in the public school system, you had crazy things like they they didn't have enough uh Latin American students, Spanish students, so it became a uh uh uh a target to identify people who could be uh potentially given Spanish language classes.
So, for example, the British West Indies, which as the name suggests is not part of the Spanish speaking world, uh, were being designated by some school districts as part of Latin America, so those kids, immigrants from the British West Indies from uh Trinidad or Jamaica had to go into uh into uh Spanish language classes when they immigrated to the United States and go.
This is a terrible thing.
What I don't understand about this is why any country would voluntarily become a bilingual country.
Because it is one of the greatest destabilizing factors you can have in building a common society.
If you look at Canada, Canada is essentially a uh less stable society uh because they have two languages.
And the people who speak one of those languages are having referendums every uh ten years or so voting on whether to secede or not.
Uh i i it apart from anything else, it means you're unable to share jokes.
That's why bilingual countries, for example, are notably humorless, uh Switzerland and Belgium.
Uh I I insulted, I think, members of the uh Mead community uh in the previous hour.
Uh so I just want to make sure that for the purposes of the previous uh racial uh generalization, I do speak as a semi-Belgian Belgian.
Uh I'm uh half Flemish.
Uh and uh uh and and that's uh that's simply the characteristic of Belgium.
It's basically two countries, two entirely separate societies speaking different languages, Flemish and French, uh that to that basically happen to have a king at the top of them who rules over both groups.
But it it doesn't have that real shared uh common uh uh social glue that unilingual societies have, and there's something crazy about the United States voluntarily setting itself up, turning itself into a bilingual society.
You know, I mentioned I live uh up in Northern New England, uh where there are not a lot of Hispanics, you know, to be honest.
It's not the most diverse part of the world.
Uh Vermont, I believe, has seven Hispanics.
Uh I think Howard Dean drove around there once, counted them all, uh, because he was being hammered.
He he was the one who criticized uh uh the Republicans for not having a sufficiently diverse membership.
This is a guy who presides over uh presided over an all-white state, all white cabinet, uh so he went looking around for Hispanics.
I think there were seven Hispanics in the whole of Vermont.
If you go to the payphone uh in the heart of Burlington, Vermont, the state's biggest city, it's got one of these no-name phone companies that's put up a payphone there, uh, and it's got the instructions in English and Spanish.
That's not serving anybody who actually lives in Vermont.
That's fetishizing.
That's fetishizing uh uh uh uh a kind of phony baloney uh bilingualism for its own sake and why uh anybody wants to voluntarily why any country would voluntarily want to uh turn themselves into a uh a bilingual society uh I do not I do not know.
Uh Obama chose not to answer that, but uh concoct this uh cockamami business about how we all need to uh to speak more languages.
It's uh Open Line Friday on the uh on the Rush uh Limbaugh show.
Uh I know we've had some people who've been waiting a uh long time.
Let us go to Paul in Cortland, New York.
Paul, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Paul, are you still there?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, right here.
He's stampeding to the phone.
Don't let me distract you if you're out in the yard doing the lawn or whatever.
You know, next time, next time, take your cell phone.
My lovely bride kissed goodbye.
But actually, in fact, she's been interested in the question that I have as well.
It's regarding the yellow cake uranium that was recently, I guess, CNN reported in like a 30-second blurb.
And then I haven't seen it on any of the other networks, and no one else really has had anything to say about it.
But apparently, the Iraqi government has compensated America back the costs associated with the removal of this 500 tons of yellow cake uranium and transporting it to a company in Canada.
That's right.
Canada has taken what would essentially be weapons-grade uranium and converted it for use in power.
peaceful purposes uh the yellow cake uranium is being converted right now into the Celine Dion Christmas album and uh uh uh and it's uh that's terrific news for world peace.
Uh right actually I don't know whether it may drive uh millions of uh people into a rage but no you're right the uh y the yellow cake wouldn't all the world's problems be so easy to solve if we could just pick them up and dump them in Canada.
It it it's a whole every everything is easy.
But yes you're right the United States moved all this yellow cake the yellow this is the yellow cake by the way that Saddam Hussein didn't have.
This is the this is the one that ambassador if you remember Joe Wilson uh the work the he was a guy who was famous for fifteen minutes and the fifteen minutes went on for six years.
He was the guy who basically uh was dispatched by the CIA to fly into Niger uh and he came back and said no uh Saddam Hussein has not been seeking yellow cake from Niger.
So I would be interested to know if you turn the yellow cake and look at the bottom of it where it says it was made.
I would bet there is yellow cake from Niger uh that is uh that is uh that is part of uh what's been uh what's been found in uh in Iraq.
But I guess that goes to the second part of my question then because I don't understand why people are not I mean this to me I guess seems like there's been this, you know, from the left this continual you know banter that it was an unjustified war and that you know we were ill advised and ill this or whatever.
I mean, well, to me, I guess that seems like perfect justification why we went in.
And yet it's never really hasn't become part of the the everyday, you know, every person that you talk to on the street still thinks, well, no, there was no WMD.
But no, I think to me, that sounds like an awful lot of uranium.
And I think you can fault I think you can fault the administration on this and these bird brains that that like Scott McClellan.
who were out there representing the administration uh for a long time did not do a good enough job uh at actually stopping this narrative in the tracks.
Uh the fact is the media has only one story for Iraq uh it is that Iraq is a quagmire.
Uh and so if Iraq is not being a quagmire uh uh then they just don't want to hear about it.
That's no news.
That's why you've got nothing on the you f for years you could switch on the evening news and they would have that thing uh that showed the burning car of the day uh from outside the Baghdad green zone on it would be leading the news on ABC, CBS and NBC.
All you had to do to get on the network news shows uh was uh light up some uh Subaru uh in the Green Zone in Baghdad and you would be on the uh evening news in the United States.
Uh it was it was like a regular thing.
They I don't even know why they bothered filming a new one every day.
There was a there's a T V station up in Canada that when it closed down at about midnight used to show this video of a crackling fire all night long till five in the morning.
And hundreds of thousands of people tuned in and watched this crackling fire every night because they found it reassuring.
That's what the blazing the blazing uh uh Toyota on the evening news on ABC CBS NBC was.
It was basically the equivalent of that crackling fire up in Canada.
It was reassuring.
What's happening in Iraq?
Oh, just an you know, just more blazing going on.
Uh when the story changed, when it turned out that uh America was capable of changing the facts on the ground, which is what serious nations do, uh, and had the surge uh and uh effectively got a grip on the situation, the media lost interest in it.
Totally lost interest, and that's what's gonna happen to the yellow cake.
The yellow cake is just gone down the memory hole.
Huh.
I mean, do you think that McCain's uh camp as we draw nearer uh to the election, is there gonna be some uh moment where suddenly, you know, the fact that there was some justification for this war, you know, it begins to sink into the uh you know, the people who uh do pay attention and who do uh Well wait wait wait wait wait a minute wait wait wait a minute there, Paul, because you don't want to get into leftist views of the war.
Uh when you talk about justification for a war, when you're in a war, it doesn't matter what the justification was.
You think people sat around in uh 1917 or 1944 and said, Oh, well, what is the just uh uh remind me again what the justification of the war for the war is.
No, if you're in a war, uh one once you're in it, the thing is to win it.
Uh because once you're in it, it doesn't matter what the justification uh is.
There's two options.
You can win it or you can lose it.
And the Democrats are invested in uh in losing it, in effectively saying, Oh no, it's all a bit you know, it's a bit of a quagma and it's complicated, it's all Bush's fault, and there's none of this yellow cake anyway that we had well, except for some up in Canada, and anyway, who knows about that?
Really, it's probably was planted there by Bush.
Uh so we'd much rather lose the war.
The fact is, uh it doesn't matter what the justification is, uh it's not in America's interest to be seen to lose a war.
Not just for Iraq's sake, but for every other nickel and dime dictator around the planet.
Because why why why would you take America seriously?
Why would you take America seriously uh when uh w w when basically the view of uh all these big shot senators and congressmen you see traipsing in front of CNN International every day long?
And by the way, CNN International makes CNN domestic look like the Rush Limbaugh show.
It's amazing.
I mean that's what they're watching in all these presidential palaces, and it's an endless parade of defeatist senators uh who who basically were uh were saying, Oh, no, all is lost, we've got no hope, we're way out of our league, we've got to surrender now.
Uh that it strikes at the heart of American credibility and credibility.
If you're a superpower, you're only a superpower while you have credibility.
Otherwise, you're just some kind of washed up cockamamy ludicrous basket case of a nothing, big nothing.
And that's the danger.
That's the danger.
I guess I agree with you totally.
It's just the scary part of it is, I guess one of the defining issues, obviously in this election being, you know, whether we're going to can you know, stay and fight and see this through until its conclusion or we're, you know, basically going to cut our losses and you know get the heck out of there as quickly as we can.
I mean, with that with that being basically, you know, to a large degree, kind of the the primary issue that's being debated.
Why wouldn't we want to make certain that that is being, you know, trumpeted to a degree, I mean, that you know, I mean it's Well, I I think I think this administration is past the trumpeting thing.
I think when you talk to them, they think they're gonna be vindicated by history, and and that's what they're looking at now.
But uh but I think uh if McCain wins, McCain will see it through uh in uh in uh in Iraq.
Uh if Obama wins, uh who knows.
So uh one hopes sanity would prevail, but we don't we don't know.
Thanks very much for your call, Paul.
Uh this is the Rush Limbaugh Show, open line Friday, and more straight ahead on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh show on the EIB network, open line Friday with Mark Stein sitting in for rush.
How bad are things out there in America today?
It's not just that the US dollar is down.
It's not just that the value of your house is down.
The value of you is down.
The value of your life is down.
According to this story from the Associated Press by Seth Borinstein, AP science writer, a government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The value of a statistical life is six point nine million in today's dollars.
The Environmental Protection Agency reckoned it who knew they were when every man a king, six point nine million.
That's not that's not that's not good news, R.F. That is not uh that is not good news because that six point nine million dollars is a drop of nearly one million from just five years ago.
Do you remember that?
Do you remember how it used to be in the Clinton era?
Life was great.
Life was great.
Your life was life was not just great, but incredibly valuable.
Your life was worth seven point nine million dollars.
And now it's worth, thanks to Bush, five years of Bush, it's six point nine million.
It's basically junk bond status, your life.
Uh it's it's your your house, your lousy, you couldn't get a mortgage on your life.
You took your you took your body to a bank, they'd foreclose on it.
Uh you it's uh you you're down to a lousy six point nine million dollars, your life.
I was I was stunned by this.
I was I was I was stunned by this.
I mean, what's what's six point nine million dollars gonna how's it gonna get you?
I mean, it is an arm and a leg to fill up your gas tank.
Um six point nine million dollars.
Six point nine million dollars.
That is the value of a statistical life according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Uh I can't find I got my copy of the U.S. Constitution here.
I cannot find the clause in which it gave the Environmental Protection Agency authority to determine the value of uh uh of an American uh life.
Uh is it?
It's in it's it's in it's in the footnotes.
That's good.
It's it's in the footnotes.
Okay.
Okay, just as long as it's in there, so I wouldn't want it, I wouldn't want to think this was unconstitutional.
Six point I don't know whether it's everybody's life is six point nine.
I don't know whether obviously, you know, like Michelle Obama's life is is worth, you know, uh uh 183 million uh dollars and uh your life is worth 79 cents.
I don't know whether it works like that, or whether we're all worth six point nine million dollars.
Um but the Associated Press discovered the change after a review of cost-benefit analyses over more than a dozen years.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, they report, the devaluation has real consequences.
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the life-saving benefits of a proposed rule.
So, for example, you know this thing they wanted to reintroduce this 55 mile per hour national speed limit.
Well, what they do is they work out the number of lives it would save and then whether it's worth it.
So, because otherwise, you know, they'd say the national speed limit had to be uh eleven miles an hour, and uh because that would save even more lives.
So the value they place on a human life uh is critical to determining the size of government.
As this guy in the Associated Press says, the less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
God bless George W. Bush for taking a million bucks off the value of an American life.
That is the basis on which they decide all this big bureaucratic government regulation.
Uh it's night, I had no idea that this was how they uh they worked it out.
I didn't know that the government decides what each life is worth and then introduces the size of government programs that your lousy six million point nine million dollar life can support.
I don't want that.
Now I know when uh you go into the Social Security Office where they got all those stupid leaflets for the stupid programs that nobody needs.
George W. Bush, to his credit, he has wiped one million dollars off the value of an American life in the last five years.
He's he's still got six months to go, and I say, go for it, Mr. President.
Let's see if you can wipe another half million bucks off the value of an American life, and we will we will get small government.
What was the what was the value of an American life in Calvin Coolidge's day?
30.
30 bucks.
I think that's 30 bucks.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Okay.
Uh 30 bucks, uh value of an American life back in Calvin Coolidge's day.
Uh it was 7.9 million dollars under Bill Clinton.
George W. Bush, God bless him, has got the value of an American life down to six point nine million dollars.
If we had a small government conservative, uh like King George III running in this election, we would have it down, uh I think we would get it down, you know, basically to two bucks and we would have affordable government again.
Hey, great to be with you.
Uh Rush will be back on Monday.
I uh apparently in the last segment I called uh HR uh what was it, RF?
Yeah.
R F. I don't even know what that is.
It's not even a like a good acronym, is it?
It's like lousy.
It's like it's like uh it's like you know, it's like wins first prize in come up with an unmemorable acronym company.
Uh it's you know, R it's like random constant.
Well, I think I don't even know who uh HR was saying to me, well, who are you thinking of?
Whether it was RF and I said, I don't know.
I think it's isn't it the head of the advertising agency in Bewitched?
I can't remember.
I think Darren did Darren uh and the other fellow, did they have to Darren and Larry, did they have to report to RF?
I can't remember I can't remember.
Anyway, I I apologize.
Uh I apologize to uh to uh F Z. I shouldn't have done it.
But at least I didn't call him FZ anyway.
Uh Mark Stein uh in for uh infrared.
We're talking about that story about the human life has fallen.
The value of an American life has fallen under the Bush presidency.
It's now down to six point nine million dollars.
Under under good King Bill Clinton, it was up, it was really it was up around uh eight million dollars.
And apparently this is the basis on which they use to calculate government whether government programs are worth it.
And if you're wondering, you say to yourself, well, uh obviously and you look at any of these government programs, half of them aren't worth it.
And the reason is because they're evaluating your life at eight million dollars.
They basically you have got your life is like these houses that people have bought.
Uh they bought them on mortgages for uh, you know, uh the for two million dollars, and the house is worth $120,000.
So they have what they call negative equity.
You your life, your under Bill Clinton, your life had negative equity.
They gave it they gave it a value of eight million dollars, uh, but in fact, uh so they could create all these government programs.
Uh the the Associate Press guy says, consider a hypothetical regulation that costs eighteen billion dollars to enforce, but will prevent two thousand five hundred deaths.
At 7.8 million dollars per person, the old figure under the Clinton administration, the life-saving benefits outweigh the costs.
So they would introduce that program.
But at six point nine million dollars per person, the rule would cost more than the lives it saves.
So it may not be adopted.
This is great.
This you want small government, you've got to reduce the value of an American life to if you reduce the value of an American life to twenty-six bucks, you would have you would have small government.
That's the only way it's gonna happen.
So forget about who's gonna be president, forget about who's in the Senate, forget about who's in in the House of Representatives.
The critical position in American government is this fellow who is the American life evaluator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Did you even know this job existed?
D did you uh can you go to college?
Can you train for it?
Is there is there like a school somewhere in uh, you know, I don't know, Indianapolis, that you can train to become an American life evaluator.
Is it a competitive position?
When when the president takes office and they say, well, look, we got Secretary of State, we've got Secretary of the Treasury, we're Secretary of Defense, oh, who's gonna be the life evaluator?
Do they say, Whoa, well, we got twenty thousand applications for that.
You know, you're gonna be interviewing all day.
Uh or or or like is it just uh like is the sum uh is there some uh like J. Edgar Hoover type who has been the American life evaluator since the Depression, and we've never heard of him.
Uh I don't know, I never I until this story uh from the uh Associated Press from Seth Borinstein, AP science writer, came up.
I had no idea that the entire calculation of government on the size of government, on the number of government programs, depends on the on the guy who puts a value on an American life.
Uh this is clearly, I think something that uh I don't know, do they hold Senate hearings on it?
Do people like Barbara Boxer say, oh, but your plan is only to put a value of two million dollars on an American life.
We need someone caring and compassionate who'll put a value of 14 million dollars on an American life and we'll have the world's all-time biggest government.
Uh I had no idea that this was the entire foundation of this constitutional republic.
It's nothing to do with the uh with the Founding Fathers or anything like that.
It's to do with the guy who sits in the office of American life evaluation somewhere in a basement in Washington.
Uh and on that everything depends.
So if you if if if you're listening, the guy who calls up and evaluates American lives, call up, call up and see uh perform an instant evaluation of mine.
I'll be interested to see how this uh this whole thing works.
I'd be uh be interested to try it out.
But I I tell you something.
If the size of government depends on the value of an American life, then you can bet it's gonna skyrocket during the Obama presidency.
If you think it's low now, by February next year, it's gonna it's gonna be way up.
It's gonna it's gonna be way up.
This is this is uh the critical position uh in the American polity.
I had no idea it even existed.
Let's go to uh Jean in Houston, Texas.
Gene, thanks for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show uh on the EIB network.
Bonjour, Mon ami.
Oh, bonjour monomie aussi à vous aussi.
Uh no, I was calling about uh I think that Obama perhaps uh has really never left his zip code because you can get in a car in the key west of Florida and drive for three weeks up to Alaska and you all become used guys or blubber.
And uh this guy needs to learn something.
English is a good language.
English, uh English is a uh is a great uh is a great I've got nothing uh I got nothing against other uh languages.
I like uh I like French for certain certain types of things.
I like f I like love songs uh sung in French.
I'm not so keen on love songs sung in uh in German.
There's a lot of uses for language.
But I think for global business, global business, English is the language.
If you speak that that's the reality of the situation, that is if you speak English, you are speaking everybody else's second language.
For a start, there are basically uh whatever it is now, four or five dozen countries on the world where uh English is uh English is the language.
The the the French, by the way, are the ones who are far more unilingual than we are.
You go into a room with Jacques Chirac and you ask him a question in English, and he'll fly into a big huff and storm off with a big uh, you know, big gallic flounce, and you won't you won't see him for dust.
Well, I was under the impression that there's a French automaker that uses English as their uh business language.
Yes, that's right.
And that was actually one uh that was the meeting at which uh Jacques Chirac, I believe, Jacques Chirac uh reprimanded them uh for speaking.
You know what I love?
Thank thanks very much for your uh call, Jean.
You know one thing I love about this language business.
People say, uh, you know, th they they're not like they don't have bilingual payphones in France.
In France, everything is in French.
Nobody in France knows how Humphrey Bogart or Carrie Grant or Jimmy Stewart, any American icon speaks.
They don't know their voice because all those movies are dubbed into French whenever they're shown on French TV.
Uh and the only exception is made for the songs in musicals, which they don't dub into French because they'd have to get an orchestra in uh to play along with them.
So if you watch I I last time I was watching French TV and they had White Christmas on.
White Christmas came on, and the guy dubbing Bing Crosby's beautiful American baritone had this squeaky little voice.
So he was he was going around uh saying to uh I don't know, Rosemary Clooney or Danny Kay, oh, bonfit Russi, Bonfit Danny, and then he'd start singing, I'm dreaming of a word.
His voice would uh drop four octaves.
That's how crazy they are, how obsessed they are with dubbing everything into French in uh in you can't use any foreign words.
The Academy Francaise vetoes any French words.
Uh the word for email, the originally invented email is uh five letters.
And the French word for email was like 137 letters.
It was the Kelka shows to uh to Kelka shows to Kelka shows, went on for ages.
And um they took the word for email, eventually they agreed to accept the Quebec word for email, Curiel, Couriel, which is only eight letters.
So it's twice as long, it's twice as long as the American version, uh, but that is short in French.
They won't they are the least open to languages.
They are the most unilingual.
They would think you were insane uh to to voluntarily turn yourself into a bilingual society.
Uh And that is uh I th there's no there's no precedent in history for that.
There's absolutely no precedent in history for a country that happens to be unilingual uh then basically deciding out of some sort of misplaced, as I said earlier, fetishization, deciding to voluntarily become uh uh uh a bilingual.
But uh Merci Bian uh pour votre appel uh monsieur and uh it was very good uh very good to uh talk to you.
Gosh it's it's infectious, isn't it?
It's a bit like uh sort of like getting the Ebola virus.
You suddenly find yourself coming all over foreign.
It's uh kind of weird.
Um and uh this is uh this is opened uh open line Friday we still to hear uh by the way we still haven't heard uh from the government life evaluator he may be he may be out on a call evaluating an American life right now he may be I don't know what what how he does this.
I'm fascinated by this.
I mean does he go to like some dirt poor hard scrabble farm in Appalachia and he sees uh some guy scratching a living there and he says well you know clearly this this guy's life is uh is uh worth thirty seven uh twenty eight thirty seven dollars twenty eight cents and then he goes and he uh and he spends some time uh goes out to uh uh Malibu and he uh has dinner at Barbara Streisand's beach house.
I mean how do we calculate the value of an American life?
There's some guy in in uh the government who does this and on that everything else depends.
I'd like that's the most important job in Washington.
We'll talk about that and much more straight ahead.
Open Line Friday continues on the Rush Limbaugh show.
The Rush Limbaugh Show on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network Rush will be back Rush will be back on Monday and uh this is Mark Stein uh sitting in for Rush and uh I'd I'd like to do I'd like to say something sincere,
sincere and uh and heartfelt for uh for a moment here because um I rush when Rush interviewed me in the Limbaugh letter he talked about uh this uh human rights suit I'm been facing up in uh Canada where I've been on trial for being flagrantly Islamophobic and all the rest of it.
And when Rush spoke to me, I just spent a week in this crazy basement courthouse in British Columbia watching a parade of uh uh uh of witnesses uh go on about uh my alleged uh hate crimes and uh and and the the imam who's uh behind all this is the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, a guy called Mohammed El Masri who said on TV that he thought it was legitimate uh to kill any Isra uh Israeli civilians over the age of eighteen.
So he's an objective supporter of terrorism, but apparently he's also the poster boy for a hate free Canada with uh so he's been prosecuting uh my uh hate crime of a book and for my views on Islam.
And it it was um it was a terrible week for me up there because uh you you I was uh as someone mentioned earlier I was born a British subject I was born a subject to the crown and uh it's a weird thing to feel as I felt up there that you're losing you're losing your country.
Uh and I was never more grateful than to get back south the border uh uh and to be back in uh in my home in New Hampshire.
Uh this country has been incredibly good to me.
You know there's no reason.
This is America's most listened to radio show.
And uh there are millions and millions of Americans out there.
This is not one of the jobs that Americans won't do.
There are millions uh of millions You do not need to get a foreigner to get uh in to do this.
You don't need to get an immigrant in to do this.
You don't need to get an undocumented guy in to do this.
There are millions and millions of Americans who would love to do this show.
And it is an enormous honor and an enormous privilege to be able to sit behind Russia's uh microphone uh and spend three hours with you and uh and that is uh I really feel we should have one of those uh uh orchestral accompaniments I was talking about in the last minute uh underpinning me why why isn't where's the guy who was supposed to do the violin obligato I want to uh I I need to I need to take out my uh my onion and and and start sobbing tears of gratitude.
But no I am great uh I'm grateful.
Uh it's it's a it's a this has been a wonderfully welcoming country to me.
And if you'd said to me the day I snuck across the border and stole some guy's ID that I would be uh I would ever be uh hosting America's most listened to radio show.
What a what a terrific country.
This is I agree with Nicholas Sarkozy.
It's slightly worrying to me that you have to get foreigners who say this stuff.
When Monsieur Sarkozy came and spoke to the United States Congress he said this is a land of opportunity.
He said all the things uh that you would like to hear, if not from uh Democrats uh running for Congress and for the presidency.
You would certainly like to hear from Republicans running for Congress and for the presidency.
And in and and it's a tragedy that the greatest tribute to the opportunity of America was made by Monsieur Sarkozy, uh this French guy, French president.
Why should he be the one who gets America when uh when when half the guys uh running for president well actually uh most of the guys running for president don't get it.
Uh by the way, I said I was born a British subject.
You know who else is a British subject?
Barack Obama.
Someone said to me that uh under the uh British Nationality Act, he's what they call a British overseas citizen.
His father was a British subject born in Kenya.
So for all this talk about the change you can believe in.
Uh uh, he will be the first son of a British subject to become president uh since the early days of the Republic.
So in fact, I think we're it's you know, nothing is terribly uh radical and new about this.
We're basically turning the clock back uh to the uh early nineteenth century.
And uh Barack Obama, uh uh first son of a British subject, as Colin Powell would have been uh if he'd run in uh in nineteen uh ninety-six.
And I don't want to add to Jesse Jackson's woes, but it is interesting to me that the viable uh black candidates, uh both Colin Powell in nineteen ninety-six and uh now Senator uh Obama this year, come from outside uh the mainstream black experience as dominated by the Reverend Jesse Jackson all these years.
I don't know what that uh I don't know quite what that means.
Anyway, Mike uh in San Antonio, thanks for thanks for waiting, Mike.
You're live on the EIB network.
Buenos días, Mark.
Buenos días to you too.
Munchals diddles from uh uh Edgewood district here in the hood in San Antonio.
Great.
You're um in reference to Miss Charles's comments.
Uh uh I I'm it is my uh wishes that they don't uh lower the standards on uh these education tests.
Uh I'm a product of Edgewood District and and a dropout.
And uh and then mainly because my parents didn't motivate me to to complete school uh because of the environment here in the west side of San Antonio.
And and it just it tears me up to this day.
And I've learned so much from Maha Rashi and his callers.
They have taught me so much that I'm 40 now, and every day I strive to learn.
I drive a truck and I and I I hold a dictionary like I do a Bible.
Well well, good good for you, Mike, and and thanks for your call.
And you're absolutely right, though, that what is will happen when they get rid of the SATs is they will lower the standards.
And right now, if you want to be a burger flipper, you know, people say, oh, we we need a uh a college graduate because we don't trust the high school uh education that Americans are getting.
And once uh they have these things with the uh eliminate the SATs and three hundred million people are going to college in America, then they you're gonna need to be a college graduate to do uh to do any, get any job in this country.
They will mean a mass lowering of standards.
That's one of the that's one of the uh great problems uh with this whole kind of uh uh lowering standards and uh opening it up to people who don't meet even those minimal standards.
Uh Mark Sine sitting in Forush on the IB network, more straight ahead.
The Rush Limbaugh Show.
This is uh Mark Stein in for Rush.
I've had a ball these uh these last three hours, but all good things uh come to an end.
I I gather the uh the Royal Canadian Mounted Police got their extradition order and they're they're waiting for me uh downstairs.
Uh so alas, I'll uh I'll I'll be have to go with the border patrol and the mounties and and leave you for a while.
But have a terrific weekend.
And uh don't forget that the man himself, Rush Limbaugh, fully recovered from his major dental surgery, will be in with you uh this Monday.
Have a terrific weekend.
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