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July 18, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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You are too kind.
Thanks so much.
Mark Davis InfoRush today rushes back with you on Monday, and we've got two hours of talk radio playground to see what we can throw around and see what we can achieve.
It is an open line Friday, as it always is on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Glad to be at the helm.
So let's go to those open lines that give this day its name.
1-800-282-2882-1-800-282-2882.
Once we take a couple of calls here, I'm going to lay down a brief premise here.
What what would a good American talk show be without some bilingualism talk, eh?
There's a great story out of Alabama in which a guy got a ticket for not speaking sufficiently understandable English to a cop.
Whoa.
I've had a number of things going on here in Texas this past week.
I am noticing, and I'm sure depending on where you live, you're noticing too, the prevalence, not of bilingual advertising.
That's been around forever, but unilingual advertising.
Advertising, billboards, you know, even some TV commercials, uh mo commercials you'll see before a movie that are in just one language.
And that language is Spanish.
I love Spanish.
I have I want to reach out to the people who are speaking Spanish and trying to learn English, because I'll bet it's a bear.
Uh English and Mandarin Chinese, man, those are supposed to be the two most challenging things you can ever try to put in your head, you know, coming from a world outside them.
So I I always want to just reach out and give support and love and and thanks to those who are really trying hard to do something it's very difficult to do, and that is learn English.
But you must.
You must.
And it's created an interesting bevy of talk show topics as to what happens when sometimes people don't.
Well, you end up with bilingual advertising, which is just the way the field is striped.
I guess if I've got a business and I'm in certain parts of the country, I'd probably have a bilingual billboard too, because their money's green also.
But would I ever put up a billboard that is only in Spanish?
Absolutely not, because that is it it is an obnoxious slap to the English speaking public.
But then there was another story.
It was locally, Collin County, Texas, Plano, just north of Dallas.
They had a um juvenile uh corrections officer who was bilingual.
He spoke spoke Spanish.
And they paid him about an extra thousand dollars a year, about thirty-five grand instead of thirty-four grand.
And people freaked out.
No.
That's that's totally misdirected aggression.
You gotta go with the way the field is striped, and right now, I'm guessing there's probably some juvenile offenders in Collin County, Texas, who don't speak any English.
Gee, do you think?
So if you've got a corrections officer that does speak English, guess what he is?
A really valuable corrections officer, more valuable than the gringo officers that or well, excuse me, they could be gringo, they could be anything, than any officer that does not speak Spanish.
So sure, throw them another grand.
Whatever.
Now, if you're gonna throw some uh some some aggression down, let's go to those citizens who are are so bereft of English skills that they make bilingual corrections officers applause.
You follow me here?
I'll give you more if you need it.
So that all all lies ahead.
1-800-282-2882-1800-282-2882.
Also, now the second hour's underway.
Anybody walking around a little groggy today?
Anybody kind of got the cobwebs, a little bit of the dark circles under the eyes, because you went to the Batman premiere at midnight last night.
I will um I'll be going tomorrow.
Every coworker I have is there now.
I'm filled with envy.
If I wasn't doing the limbaugh show, I would be bitter, let me tell you.
The only holy place I'd rather be than in a good air conditioned theater on a hundred and three degree Dallas, Texas day, uh, watching uh the dark night with the late Heath Ledger.
Doggone it.
Even if he were not dead, adding poignancy to uh uh to his performance.
From what I've heard, this goes down as one of the most amazing performances in recent movie history, one of the best bad guys ever, and this might be just one of the best movies of the year, if not the last few years.
People are gushing about it.
I love Christian Bale as Batman.
Um love Gary Oldman as as a soon-to-be Commissioner Gordon working his way up through the ranks because we Christopher Nolan, the director, took us back to Batman Begins, what, three years ago, which was really, really good.
Very different than the kind of off-track uh semi serious treatment that the Michael Keatman, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney uh track had taken us on.
It it's some serious stuff now.
Don't be taking your seven year old to this movie, okay?
Uh, because it is dark, it is serious, and they are not kidding around for two and a half hours, and it is apparently a masterpiece.
So uh I don't know yet.
Sometimes you'll get that thing where a uh a movie will get great reviews, and then you go and you walk out and you go, Boy, did they see the same movie that I did?
Or vice versa.
But there's uh let me give you a great website as we go to calls here.
Metacritic, M E T A, Metacritic.com.
You ever read the reviews in your local newspaper and go, boy, that guy's smoking crack.
Uh or read just some review in time or entertainment weekly, and just one review or maybe two, and go, what are they thinking?
That movie was great, or what are they thinking?
That movie was stinko.
Metacritic gives you the complete spectrum of reviews.
Like if you go to Metacritic right now and uh look up uh The Dark Knight, the Batman movie.
Uh it has a astronomically high metacritic score because most of the reviews, the vast majority of them are glowing.
But there were a couple of guys who thought it was kind of so-so, and they're in there as well, bringing its meta score, as they call it, bringing it down.
Now, it's not graded like a turnpaper, where ninety and up is an A, eighty and up is a B, seventy and up is a C, anything under sixty is No.
It is think of it from zero to one hundred.
A fifty is a so-so review.
Right.
A ten means it was just awful.
There are some zeros, and there are plenty of one hundreds, which is the most glowing reviews someone can offer.
The folks at Metacritic assign a numerical review to every to uh number, a numerical value to every review.
So they'll read what Richard Corless said in time, or they'll read what Roger Ebert said on his website, or they'll read this or read that and go, okay, it's it's pretty lofty praise, but there are a couple of caveats, let's call that a ninety.
Or here's somebody who said there was some good and some bad, and they seem to be an equal uh portion, so let's let's make that a fifty.
And they uh assign those those values and of course give you a uh a link where you can click and read every single review yourself.
And it's it's funny sometimes.
Um and and fascinating always to take a look at especially let's say a controversial movie, a movie that some people liked and some people didn't, like M. Knight Shymelon's The Happening, which I which I thought was great for an hour and twenty minutes and awful for giving you no ending that explained anything.
So I was reading the people who loved the happening and the people who hated the happening and finding points of merit and and points of lunacy in every single review, and it's just a really fun thing to do for for this movie or any other Metacritic.com, M-E-T-A-A-C-R-I-T-I-C.
No kickback from them, although there should be at this point.
Let's go to some more of your calls.
Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh, 1-800-282-2882.
We are in Houston.
David, Mark Davis, In for Rush, how are you doing?
Well, I'm doing fine, Mark.
How are you today?
Very well, thank you.
Yes, I'm the fellow that called in said I was a Methodist minister, had been for almost thirteen years, and was asked to uh return in my credentials, and among the uh complaints was that I was a person who preached Republican values.
And I said, Well, all of my sermons are recorded and available on the internet.
Why don't you show me where I ever did that?
Very good.
And I was told, well, the truth isn't important right now.
The bishop has said you're not going to get reappointed.
They didn't that that was that was that was the case, but they didn't actually say that, did they?
Well, David, the truth isn't important right now.
That's exactly what they said.
Oh, good Lord.
I looked at the you know, they well, they did complain that I fell asleep during the executive committee meeting of the Jewett Chamber of Commerce.
Now, I'm sure that we had exciting meetings in the Jewish Chamber of Commerce from time to time.
But I won't deny that one time I did fall asleep.
So another crime.
Understand.
Other than that, it was my Republican values that was previously.
Well, like what?
You're you're probably insightful enough to know.
What was it that you were throwing down from the pulpit that that rubbed some folks the wrong way?
Well, you see, I'm the only minister in the Texas Annual Conference to have been booed and hissed at at the annual conference for my thoughts that I shared with the group.
And they would be involved in Methods.
Yeah, no, it was basically that the Methodist Church is not an organization that promotes hate.
I've never been in a church that promoted hate, and I've never heard it preached from a Methodist Paul Putin.
I defy anybody to show me where they did, and I booed and hissed at me.
Well, that kind of set the ball rolling to usher me out the door.
Oh my gosh.
Well, I've gotten it.
Now we have evidence of that.
Well that's well, you know, I'm just saying that I I know that there were a lot of good people in the Methodist Church, but the folks run it are tend to be very partisan, and they tend to weed out those of us who you know seem to share.
Aren't marching to the tune.
Well, David, thank you for the story.
I appreciate it very much, and it does bolster uh this you know a couple of emails I'm getting, thank you.
And I'll tell you what it's kind of like.
It's kind of like um, I don't know, a police union or a firefighters union where the leadership may not exactly reflect uh the rank and file.
Please, I know 523 Methodists.
They're all wonderful people, and since we're in Texas, they're all pretty conservative.
I know that's not always the case.
I do indeed know some Methodist folk who might be uh a smidge toward the center or some even a smidge toward the left.
But what's happened, if you're just joining us wondering why are we talking about this?
It is some uh members of the Methodist hierarchy here in Dallas that worked tirelessly, and thank heavens fruitlessly to derail a George W. Bush think tank at SMU, Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
And the vote was pretty close.
They almost succeeded.
What a bunch of skid marks these people were.
What what political bigotry they displayed?
Now that is a trademark of mine.
I I use that a lot.
What's political bigotry?
We all know what racial bigotry is, right?
It's looking at somebody, you find out they're black, you think less of them immediately.
You find out they're Hispanic, you instantly hate them.
You find out they're white, you instantly think less of them.
That is racial bigotry.
Religious bigotry is thinking less of someone instantly because of what religion they are.
Oh, it's a Jew, that's a problem.
Or hating somebody because he's a Christian, hating somebody because they're a Muslim or a Buddhist.
Now don't get ahead of me.
I know there's someone who might say, yeah, but Mark, uh, in view of the well-documented evils of the Muslim faith, isn't it okay to think less of someone when you find out that he is Muslim?
The answer to that is no.
The answer to that is no.
You may suspect it, but until you know, I mean, if you've got a m a Muslim acquaintance, a Muslim coworker, you're in a store with a Muslim shopkeeper.
Well, chances are the shopkeeper is here because he is escaping the ancient theocracies that uh that the Muslim world needs to uh to avoid.
So chances are the news about him is good.
But in our midst, there are, especially here in America, obviously a ton of people of the Islamic faith.
Some were on board for 9-11 and love Osama bin Laden.
Some are bravely, bravely, and I hope not futilely, trying to bring their religion in a new direction.
A direction toward lawlessness, law lawfulness.
I'm sorry, direction toward lawfulness, a direction toward uh nonviolence, toward the kind of uh of peacefulness that uh that Islam likes to be thought of as being.
And and it's just not.
See, here's the thing.
There's a there's a very flawed term that's making its way around, and that where that term is radical Muslim.
Close your eyes and think of a radical Muslim.
Who do you think of?
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad?
Nope.
He's a mainstream Muslim.
He's doing what the Quran says.
The 911 hijackers, members of Al-Qaeda cells, people killing our soldiers, those are mainstream Muslims.
The radicals, the revolutionaries are the shopkeepers and software designers in Richardson, Texas, and New Rochelle, New York, and San Bernardino, California, and uh and and Joplin, Missouri, who are here living peaceful lives, hating no one, seeking to blow up nothing.
Those are the Muslim extremists.
Those are the ones who are the revolutionaries and the radicals.
And I wish them well, because boy do they have a uh a tough row to hoe.
So anyway, uh in in terms of the the Methodist dust up here at SMU.
Uh some folks tried to say that uh there was something about the Bush presidency, uh laissez-faire capitalism and the dispatch of the war that is antithetical to Methodist teaching.
It was a it's an absolute crock.
And I and do not blame the Methodist Church and do not blame SMU.
It's a bunch of bitter old crank political bigots, and that's what political bigotry is.
It's not thinking about what anybody is saying.
It's hating them instantly because of what their politics are.
And President Bush is a victim of that like no other president before him.
Mark Davison for Rush, be right back on the EIB Network.
Not a bad thirty-year-old record or so, eh?
Uncle Ted and Cat Scratch Fever, Ted and George W. Neighbors down in Crawford.
And uh it is so weird because uh Ted is now a listener of ours here at the local station at WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth.
It's so weird to have the hotline ring and ha and pick it up and have it be a guy on the other side whose eight tracks were blaring from my nineteen seventy-six Buick century all through the uh the late nineteen seventies.
Um speaking of where the Bushes are and where they're going to be, they will indeed, it appears, uh, acquire some property and a house in Highland Park, very tony portion of Dallas, and that's sort of and I think that that that played in a lot to the SMU controversy.
The notion of whether Dallas is giving itself over to the Bushes.
You know, I mean, please.
Uh what an honor to have an ex-president come live.
And listen, the test for me is how would I feel if the ex-president were were Carter?
How would I feel if he I know you Bill Clinton's just off the map.
There was such malfeasance and and and disgusting behavior there.
That's just that's just not an appropriate touchstone.
But what if in the back in the day it was, you know, Johnson or Carter or Kennedy if he had survived or whatever.
I'd be fine with it.
It's an honor to have a presidential library at your university.
It's an honor to have a think tank at your university.
Uh if you disagree with it, disagree with it.
It's a free country.
That's okay.
And it's an honor to have an ex-president come and live in your midst.
So to know that uh that the president and Laura are going to be about uh twelve miles east of the studio I'm sitting in right now is is something I'm uh particularly pleased about.
Now, um just a moment ago we were talking about uh religion and conversions and who's what and who's in line with church teaching, depending on what the church is, et cetera, et cetera.
And along the Ohio Turnpike, Stephen is here to weigh in with uh what appears to be a particularly compelling personal story.
Hey, Stephen, Mark Davis, in for rush, how are you doing?
I I'm doing fine, Mark.
I uh if I could pull off the highway, I would, but it's a turnpike.
I understand it.
If the cell dies, I'll move on.
My toes are tapping, but let's keep it together.
Right.
Uh well, if my comment to you was you were talking about religions and freedom of religions and uh respect for religion, and uh you you brought up Islam and uh what appears to be a lot of Muslims who think a certain way.
I'm and I calling you A. I was raised Methodist, B, shortly after graduating from college.
I was living in the Middle East and I converted to Islam and have been practicing Muslim for thirty years.
And I'm a big Republican.
Stalwart.
Very good.
I'm a great fan of uh Rush Limbaugh and a lot of other talk shows.
And my point is it's not the religion of Islam.
It's who's hijacked it.
Which has happened to a lot of people.
Well, but but careful.
But who's done the hijacking?
Uh I I people who don't understand their own religion.
Well, but but again, here's the reference point.
I'm going to assume that you are practicing a brand of Islam that is peaceful, respectful of the faiths of others.
Uh you're not looking to blow anybody up or start an al-Qaeda cell.
You hated 9-11, you love America.
Have I got you right so far?
Yeah, I love my country absolutely.
Okay, then here's the thing.
Then here's the thing.
You are the hijacker, and I mean that as a compliment.
You are the one.
And you're not sure.
No, you're that's what I mean.
You are the revolutionaries.
You are the the uh not extremists, because that implies more of the of the base uh the theory.
You are you are bravely trying to hijack Islam from its sad history as a violent, repressive thing.
That's not its history.
That that is a that is it most see, that's why I knew we were gonna go.
It most certainly is its history.
You are you are you you are you are very, very boldly we can't both talk at the same time.
We are boldly, you are boldly trying to change that, and I applaud you for that.
It never was that.
It has been practicing.
Please as has most other religions.
Um Stephen, there's nowhere we can go if if if you're if you don't know the history of your own faith.
Do you know that that that that Mohammed preached Mohammed, the founder of the United States?
Of course.
Of course.
Freedom of religion.
Do you know that?
Well, yeah, and and Gor and Gorbachev preached free markets, too.
But what did he mean by it?
Stephen, I I understand.
I understand.
I tell you what, t take my pra I got a scoot here.
Take my praise.
I mean it sincerely, very sincerely.
You are a brave, trailblazing new Muslim trying to take that religion in a direction of peace, which is a new new direction.
Be right back.
Guys, are you loading it up with Texas artists for me?
Thanks.
Some fab Thunderbirds and tough enough.
Mark Davis out of Dallas Fort Worth at WBAP, long time proud Rush Limbaugh affiliate and six hundred and some others with us today, and very, very glad to be with you.
Filling in for Rush Rush is back on Monday.
I'm Mark Davis as we head back to your phone calls in just a moment.
Let me share the story that I teased a moment ago.
This is from Jay Reeves of the Associated Press, and he writes Manuel Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn't think that he was doing.
Speaking English poorly.
Castillo was stopped on his way back to California.
He says he knows federal law requires him to be able to converse in English with an officer, but he thought his language skills were good enough to avoid a ticket.
Still, Castillo says he'll just pay the fine rather than return to Alabama to fight the ticket.
Quote from him, it just doesn't seem fair to be ticketed if I wasn't doing anything dangerous on the road.
Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial driver's license speak English well enough to talk with police.
Authorities do you know how many tickets were issued nationwide for this?
Federal law requires that anyone with a commercial driver's license speak English well enough to talk with police.
How many tickets were written for this violation last year?
Let's see, fifty states, probably closer to the border.
Carry the one.
What would you think?
Could it be as many as 500 or a thousand?
Try 25,230.
Yikes.
Now the federal government is trying to tighten the English requirements, saying the change is needed for safety reasons.
Most states and this is where it falls into an enormous disconnect.
Because what a mixed message we send.
First of all, I think that's a magnificent law.
That federal law requires that anybody with a CDL with a commercial driver's license.
Yeah, you gotta be able to speak English well enough to talk to a cop, because that that conversation may at some point happen, and you don't need to have to drag a translator along with you in the squad car.
But consider that this occurs in the very same country, these United States, where most states will let you take your driver's license test in Spanish.
What in heaven's name is that about?
I think I've established that I understand the way the field is striped.
There are concessions I'm more than willing to make.
I love the fact that the Heimlich poster is in two languages.
I don't some want somebody to die on the floor of a restaurant because he couldn't read the uh the emergency health information.
I'm fine with that.
Uh you know, bilingual advertising, especially here in Texas or in Florida or wherever there's just a ton of people that don't speak English, hey, they got money too.
I understand that.
Spanish only advertising is a huge problem.
Obviously, illegal immigration is a huge problem, and that's what it panders to.
I have no trouble with employees in the public or private sector making a little bit of extra coin for being bilingual.
It is a skill you have that makes you more valuable.
That's the marketplace speaking in that regard.
But for crying out loud, this seems to me there are two things that you should never have in a language other than English.
One of them is a driver's license test, and the other one, big number one, would be a ballot.
I always love this.
Every election day, and I know I'm just bracing myself for November.
Well, we didn't have enough ballots in Lithuanian up in uh, you know, wherever.
What?
Who what what in the world is someone doing voting if they're not functional enough in English to understand a ballot that's that's that's in English.
I understand there are people in the country who are on the way, hopefully, on the way toward mastering English.
So that's a long hard road.
Understand that?
Clappin' for you, love you.
You know, help you out every day.
But there are also tons of people who are here who have wrapped themselves in the enclave of little Saigon or Little Havana or Little Whatever, and have neither the need nor the inclination to interact with the English speaking country that surrounds them.
And anything that panders to that is just a big problem.
So anyway, the AP story continues.
Most states let truckers and bus drivers take at least part of their license test in language other than English.
But the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed rules requiring anybody applying for a commercial driver's license to speak English during the road test and vehicle inspection.
The agency wants to change its rules to eliminate the use of interpreters and congressional approval isn't required.
Now not to beat you over the head with everything that's down here in Texas, but s everything I brought up pertains to the rest of the country, and here's a big one.
It's called Interstate 35.
I-35 is right here, ten miles from me in Arlington, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth.
I-35 is also the bridge in uh in Minneapolis, uh that that that caved in.
I-35 runs from our southern border to our northern border.
And and I tend to be uh uh uh more of a fan than a detractor of NAFTA.
NAFTA has its blemishes, but I am a free trade guy.
You gotta live in the world.
You can't be protectionist, you can't be isolationist.
But you know what else you can't do?
Let a ton of unregulated Mexican trucks roll over our roads.
So we've got to be very smart in this global market.
And we got a little thing down here called the Trans Texas corridor.
Google that if you want uh some mind numbing reading.
Uh most of the arguments down here are they're about to take a ton of people's uh farm and ranch land to build this, you know, fourteen lane wide thing that's not just for vehicular traffic, but maybe even high speed rail and um fiber optics and such.
And it's gonna go from Texas and plow right north through Oklahoma and the rest of the middle of the country.
Ain't progress something.
Let's progress through some calls, shall we?
1-800-282-2882-1800-282-2882.
In Buffalo, Doug is there with some thoughts about this cockamamy notion of Al Gore to get us off of every fossil fuel in ten measly years.
Hey, Doug, Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Yeah, I wake up a lot of mornings and figuring, you know, this republic really could be lost.
And I'm afraid that the alternate energy would be one real fast way to bankrupt the whole situation.
It's uh it's pretty it seems to be a pretty real threat to me.
You know why I don't lose sleep about this?
I I'm angry about it, it's insane.
But there's no way to get to Al Gore's America without spending ourselves into a national coma.
And if there's one thing that unites most Americans, it's if something becomes really really expensive, we start to look askance at it.
Sometimes that's bad news because the current war on terror is pretty expensive.
Sadly, people are looking a scant at it, even though it's the right thing to do.
But bankrupting the country to to drink Al Gore's Kool-Aid in a fossil free if uh uh fossil fuel free world is something that that business owners and voters left and right will eventually look at as fiscal insanity.
It may have to be right in their faces before we rise up against it, but we will.
That's yes, that's that's the point I guess I was thinking about.
The only way to stop it is for everybody in the country that understands what makes this economy run and get up and say that's not tough of this.
We just we're not gonna become a third rate nation over the uh desire to become uh alternate energy driven, you know, for uh whatever's typing that whole uh Precisely right.
Precisely right.
And I mean there's examples of it right now.
I mean, this is kind of an ethereal kind of intellectual discussion right now, but you know, give give somebody some four dollar gas, and it puts it right in everybody's face that we gotta do something about oil production.
That's why seventy-three percent of America says let's drill for some more oil.
A year ago people weren't saying that.
But once if gas prices get painful enough, or if Al Gore's energy conversion gets painful enough financially, some people will rise Up and start to question it.
I I I promise you.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Let us head next into Tusco.
Speaking of Alabama, let's go to Tuscaloosa.
Gerald, Mark Davison for Rush Limbaugh, how are you?
Oops.
Hang on a second.
Well, gee, with all that wonderful lead up too.
Well, let's just let's just go a little bit south then and go to Naples, Florida, and Kevin.
Hey, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you, Kevin?
How are we doing, Mark?
Good.
Love the show.
I'm gonna tell you.
Um, listen, I gotta pick your brain for a minute.
I'm a registered Democrat.
I'm voting Republican for the first time ever.
Thank you.
Yeah, no problem.
Um I listen to the show all the time.
I love it.
Um think conservative values are something that we need to take a better look at.
Uh got myself a little more educated in the in the past here.
And uh what one thing I have a problem with, though, is that we have we have a a person running for the presidency that just lacks the enthusiasm and is really needs to kind of make himself look like he's more on stage, perhaps, like maybe the Reagan era was.
So that we can get we can get him in office, and we don't we don't have to risk changing this country, the little piece that we have left, you know, we don't have to spoil it.
Understand.
Understand.
All right, uh let's let's cover a couple of things because I know what you mean, and and I've I've I talked to a lot of people about this.
Look what he is up against.
He is up against the the bright, dazzling supernova that is Barack Obama.
I don't know of anybody that could share that kind of um of luminescence on the same stage.
Now throw in the fact that he is a fairly um well, he's not soft spoken, but he he's he's dude's 71.
So you you got that going too.
But here's what's coming up.
Here come the conventions.
The Democrat convention will come and go, and when we're all, you know, picking up the debris in Denver, and it's time to go to Minnesota for the first week in September, and it's the McCain Convention.
It will calmly, responsibly remind everyone that grown-ups with experience need to be in charge.
So don't be so hung up on the star power wattage right now.
Uh it is gonna get worse before it gets better, because Obama's actually gonna set foot in another country.
Woo-hoo!
Party, fiesta!
And that's gonna be covered uh, you know, like a like the Pope coming uh, you know, to Mars.
But um just just sit tight and and what's gonna happen here is that the the st the incredible pyrotechnics of the Obama phenomenon will actually start to work against it.
People will go, good Lord, this is such a rock show.
This is such a festival.
Some enough people will that they will come back to roost with a presidential candidate that uh that actually knows what he's doing.
So don't don't be so hung up in in the months of June, June, July, and August about the Obama coverage and the Obama star power.
There's nothing we can do about that.
And we also can't turn McCain into a creature with the showmanship or enthusiasm of Reagan or his followers.
But he will win, and it's because America will come to enough Americans will come to their senses.
I believe that too.
Um one more question for you.
Sure, real quick.
McCain, now one thing I have I do have an issue with, and it's funny that you uh kind of speak of this topic now, is the fact that he had uh gone out there and just claimed that he was he was willing to grant amnesty to all of these illegals.
And you and I is just that this country's changed in the last thirty years.
Let's just picture what we were like thirty years ago.
You know, we didn't have all of this going on then.
No.
It was this is an atrocity.
Senator McCain.
Senator McCain sadly threw in with those folks who were throwing their hands up in surrender with uh with a guest worker plan.
He heard the voice of his party and the people he was gonna need to run for president about our borders and changed his mind about the borders.
Our job during his presidency will be to have him change his mind about the amnesty that is a guest worker program, and I have a feeling that uh a guy who hosts this show regularly will work hard to help us all do that.
Kevin, thank you.
My best everybody down there in Southwest Florida.
I'm Mark Davison for Rush.
We'll be right back together.
It's not unusual to find wall-to-wall phone Calls on the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Rush is out today, and back on Monday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth.
But uh my talk show career, I won't bore you with that, uh, back 1982 on the station on a different frequency, albeit, that carries Rush now in Jacksonville, Florida.
That would be W O K V, and that is where we find Graham in Duval County.
Hello, sir.
How are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Very good.
Uh taking my call.
Her Highness uh Pelosi doesn't want to, you know, drill, doesn't want to help us uh find any more energy or oil.
And problem is what they're and most Americans are missing is who's paying all the tax?
Well, all the trucking companies that have gone out of business since the first of the year, over a thousand companies from one truck to uh five hundred trucks, Jevok Corporation, uh WH transportation out of Wisconsin, uh they close down their van division.
Who's paying that extra 550 that I have to pay every year?
Absolutely.
The the fuel.
It's a golden point.
And and as much and and every time I sit here and complain about $4, 425, $450, because I got a couple of things that run on high test.
Uh and every time I think about complaining at I always uh complaining about it, I always look at the diesel prices, which are nudging ever closer to $5 a gallon.
Yeah, and there's no reason for that.
You know, someone's got to come up with the reason to let me know why diesel is so more expensive.
I've thought that maybe there's somebody, maybe just one call, because I know there are 745,000 people listening that can answer it.
Maybe one good call.
Because isn't diesel kind of an afterthought, kind of a byproduct of stuff that's left over after uh after non-diesel is is created.
Let's let's we'll put out the call for that for one good concise answer to that, or maybe I'll just Google it during this commercial break.
Because uh you ever look at that and see gas for 50, you know, 402, 422, 442, diesel 489.
Man, as if truckers don't have it hard enough.
All right, back in a moment.
Mark Davis in for rush on the EIB network.
It is a Friday Rush Limbaugh for this 18th day of July, Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush.
He's back on Monday.
Okay, so if you Google a question, if you've got to ask.com or something like this, and just put in why is diesel more expensive than gasoline?
You get about fifty-seven hits, and they all come back and essentially say, We have no idea.
Or man, that's a complicated question.
Well, okay, how about answering it?
So on WiseGeek.com, okay, whatever, at least something that made sense because I think I find the most plausible reason, as with all other things, is market related.
And they write, this is just uh about a minute.
Diesel fuel, the kind of fuel commonly used in commercial trucks, has not always been more expensive than the standard gasoline.
On paper, at least, diesel fuel is a less refined petroleum distillate than gasoline, so it should always be cheaper to produce.
The problem with diesel fuel prices has more to do with the laws of supply and demand for various petroleum products.
A barrel of crude oil can be cracked or broken down into a number of different products, from home heating oil to gasoline to kerosene.
Oil refiners can only process a fixed number of these products at one time, so they tend to choose the products in highest demand.
This generally means gasoline for passenger vehicles takes precedence over diesel when the supply of diesel fuel is low, the price naturally goes higher.
There you are.
Like it or don't like it, but that's the shortest, most digestible answer that uh that I could come up with.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to Lakeland, Florida.
Gordon, Mark Davis, in for rush, how are you?
Thanks for taking my call.
I I want to revisit the gun issue.
As you know, the Supreme Court issued the ruling, and the DC uh the the DC City Council has decided to disobey it.
But what a lot of people don't know in the liberal media want to keep silent is that in the state of Utah, it's the state law that if you're a student or a teacher or a staff member and you have a concealed weapons permit, you can take your gun on to campus.
Okay.
Absolutely.
Now, there's something there's something else, though.
They don't have any school shootings over in Utah.
I wonder why.
Well, that's one reason why.
But any, any state, and and thanks for making this point, uh the gun-free zone is the most run screaming from any building that has declared itself a gun-free zone because that sign also speaks another language to the potential uh Cho Shung Wee's of this world, the guy at Virginia Tech to potential uh uh uh Columbine shooters, essentially saying, Hey, ain't nobody got a gun in here, so ply your evil trade and nobody will blow your brains out.
Uh at a university that does allow law abiding people to carry, it could happen, and that stops shootings.
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