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January 2, 2009, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hey, happy new year, America.
	It's year zero, year zero.
	The new era begins here in the uh United States of Bailoutistan.
	Uh I hope you had a very merry Christmas.
	Uh and if you didn't, uh don't worry, we'll all be enjoying a very hopey changemess in uh just a couple of weeks' time.
	Uh Rush is not here today.
	Uh he's still in uh re-education camp, I understand.
	He'll be released on Monday, uh, complete with the glassy-eyed stare and uh the Chris Matthews leg tingle.
	Uh I had mine installed on November the fifth to avoid the rush.
	Uh initially it's just the ankle and calf that tingles whenever uh President elect Obama uh makes a speech or emerges from the surf in Hawaii.
	But uh by January 20th, uh they'll have increased the dosage, and I'll I'm assured I'll be feeling the full Chris Matthews tingle all the way uh to the upper thigh.
	Uh so no rush today.
	America's Anchorman is away, and this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchor man for the next three hours.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Uh under the new Fairness Doctrine, we're bringing in some exciting new changes here at the uh EIB network.
	Uh Caroline Kennedy has uh has graciously let it be known that she's willing to be appointed as host uh as long as it doesn't involve too much show prep.
	Uh Governor Blagoyovich has uh sold the Tuesday guest host slot to his hairpiece.
	Uh Wednesdays as part of the auto bailout, the uh the show has been outsourced to the UAW.
	Uh and in compliance with the new union agreement, the uh UAW host has agreed to work the full three-hour shift, uh less the mandatory two-hour forty-seven minute break in the middle uh to check over his health benefits.
	Oh, and on Thursdays, uh Ahmed and Mohammed will be uh will be here.
	As you know, President Obama has uh has promised to close down Gitmo, and I'm sure he's gonna stick to that promise.
	Uh and the boys didn't really want to go back to uh Yemen.
	The food isn't as good.
	And uh and after be having been uh brutally tortured by uh having Selene Dion and the Barney the Dinosaur song played to them uh nonstop, the uh uh the guys worked up a rather good disc jockey uh routine, so they'll be uh spinning the platters here uh every uh Thursday.
	Uh hey, this is uh Ahmed here.
	That's a big sound of Salid Dion and the uh theme from Titanic and uh just ahead of Barney the dinosaur, uh we're gonna check traffic with Mohammed.
	So uh that's what they'll be uh that's what they'll be doing on Thursday.
	Oh, and it won't be uh won't be open line Friday, uh uh next Friday, but uh Kim Jong il and uh Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be here with a uh new feature, Fridays Without preconditions.
	Uh so lots to look forward to uh here on the EIB network, the Excellence is uh Barack uh network.
	And of course, uh notwithstanding the outsourcing of the hosting duties to a sub-minimum wage illegal immigrant, uh it is still for the moment business as usual.
	Live from New York City, it's open line Friday.
	Yeah, 1800-282-2882.
	You know how it works.
	Monday the Thursday, Rush runs this show with an iron rod, but uh Friday the ruthless discipline crumbles, and you can raise any issue you want to.
	So go on, give it your best shot.
	You can uh look back to 2008, that uh that lost era of small government when the bailout was a mere seven hundred billion dollars.
	Or you can look ahead to two thousand uh and nine.
	It's uh it's been a really exciting uh new year.
	Um Israel, I see Israel is being criticized for its quote, disproportionate response in Gaza.
	Uh I love that word.
	Hamas can lob as uh as many rocks as they want, as many rockets as they want at uh Israeli civilians.
	Uh but the minute the Zionist entity fires one back, whoa man, that is totally, totally disproportionate.
	Uh so uh so I think uh it ought to be part of the country's uh formal name by now, I think.
	The the people's disproportionate republic of uh of uh Israel.
	Uh and uh won't you all please uh rise for the uh national anthem?
	Uh disproportionate, that's what you are.
	Uh so anyway, we can discuss Israelis' uh dispro Israel's disproportionatess or or we could discuss uh President elect Obama's position on the uh the Gaza situation.
	Uh what what what's that?
	He hasn't got a position.
	Come on, don't be ridiculous.
	The guy's the incoming president.
	He's gotta have a position.
	Oh, no, no, no, wait, you're right.
	He's uh he's been tied up in Hawaii doing this uh beach photo shoot uh for the centerfold of the inaugural souvenir all the last two weeks.
	Every time um every time I switch on the TV over the whole days, I love this.
	There's been Obama on the news uh gambling in the uh in the surf in Maui.
	Uh and I uh you know, I gotta say this in a spirit of bipartisanship.
	Uh uh I'm with the uh the network Ancharettes on this.
	He he his pectorals uh are terrific.
	He he looks fabulous uh without his clothes on way hotter uh than Taft or uh Grover Cleveland uh or any of those other guys.
	Uh you know, when they um uh when they chisel him into Mount Rushmore, uh I think they should make him topless just to uh just to rub it into Teddy Roosevelt and those other losers.
	So, you know, and I'm not I'm not being I'm not seriously, I'm not being flippant here.
	Uh the importance of a world leader's pectorals uh can be critical.
	I was down in Australia uh uh a year or two back, and I was having dinner with a very senior Australian uh politician.
	I won't make it any more specific than that.
	Uh and there'd been some terrorist plot or other in Britain, and Tony Blair had interrupted his holiday to give an impromptu press conference uh from his vacation.
	And uh this senior Australian politician goes to me, uh so what did you think of Tony Blair's press conference on the beach?
	Do you think he's starting to get man boobs?
	Uh and I was stunned.
	You know, I thought we were having dinner to discuss the big geopolitical picture, and instead he wanted to talk to me about whether Tony Blair was getting bad boobs.
	Uh so I think it's important for uh I do think it's important for President elect Obama to work on his pectorals.
	Uh and you know, to go back to what we were saying about Israel being disproportionate, uh, you know, nobody's gonna say that about this guy.
	He is beautifully proportioned.
	Uh yeah, I don't know what his position uh on Gaza is, but if it's anything like his position on the beach, it's just fabulously proportionate.
	Uh so it's not a you know, he hasn't been working on the left pectoral while the right gets all flabby and distended.
	It's clear he believes in a two-pectoral uh solution.
	Uh so I'm uh I'm all in uh I'm all in favor of uh uh of what uh Barack Obama has been uh has been doing there.
	I think he's uh really good working out.
	Uh uh of course we're all getting uh very excited now.
	It's only two weeks more to the coronation.
	Uh in France, uh, quote, youths have been marking the uh the new dawn by the burning one thousand one hundred and forty-seven cars on New Year's Eve.
	That's a record.
	They only did eight hundred and thirty cars last New Year's Eve.
	And if you get these are valuable uh Renault's and citrons we're talking about here, not just excess inventory from General Motors.
	Uh I always love the way these reports on the youth's car burning.
	Uh they're always youths of no distinguishing characteristics, whatever.
	Uh you never you never know from reading these reports about youths mysteriously burning cars every night in France uh that they were uh that they were anything to do with a religion beginning with I and ending in slam.
	That's entirely kept out of it.
	Uh but there are these youths burning cars in tradition in France is a big thing.
	President Sarkozy issued a strong statement about it uh because it is something that could really uh have problems uh for the stability of the country.
	You know how it works in France, it's it's a terrible nuisance.
	You're uh there having uh dinner with your mistress, and you've got it all arranged.
	You you're having uh you're having a fabulous evening with your mistress, and you're gonna be back to see the wife uh at eleven o'clock, and then you look out the window and there's your citron on fire.
	I mean, it doesn't help.
	So they're c they're cracking down.
	Sarkozy has promised to crack down on these youths burning cars.
	In Florida, meanwhile, uh I was thrilled to see this.
	Uh thousands of shoes were dumped this morning on a Miami expressway, causing significant traffic delays.
	Uh Lieutenant Santangelo says the Florida Highway Patrol received the report during rush hour Friday morning.
	Uh workers were able to clear at least one lane after a short time by sweeping all the shoes to the shoulder.
	I mean, this is one serious amount of shoes here.
	Uh but delays are expected to last all morning until all the shoes could be removed.
	Uh Santangelo says the shoes appeared to be used, and most were tied together in pairs, and he has no idea where they came from.
	Now, obviously this is like that guy in Baghdad who did the good riddance to Bush thing by throwing his shoes at him, but uh obviously in Iraq they can uh they can only get one guy to throw his shoes at Bush.
	Over here it's a it's a mass movement.
	Um, if only I'd listen to my stockbroker back in the in the summer.
	Six months ago, he said uh, you know, dump your GM, dump your Lehman brothers, Wokovia, AIG, and put it all into paler shoe sauce.
	But the the highway in Florida right now is still clogged uh with shoes.
	And speaking of shoe leather, ABC News reports that thousands of tourists pouring into Washington, D.C. for President elect Barack Obama's inauguration will be sharing the nation's capital with thousands of predominantly gay leather fetishists in town for their annual convention.
	The 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, hosted by the city's Centaur Motorcycle Club, quote, a group of men with an enthusiastic interest in motorcycles, leather, and other men, is expected to draw between 2,000 and 3,000 attendees.
	This is from ABC News.
	I don't see why a double booking should ruin the occasion.
	You know, why can't the Mid-Atlantic leather guys uh serve as the president elect's uh motorcycle outriders, perhaps uh scooping up all the leather shoes uh being held at the outgoing president?
	I don't know whether you remember this when this uh came up before as an example of the internal contradictions of liberalism.
	Uh but uh uh as I recall it, the gay leather fetishists were picketed a few years ago by Peter, the militant vegan crowd, for using real cowhide for their leather.
	Uh I I I thought Peter wanted the Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend to be replaced by a Mid-Atlantic polyester weekend or whatever it was, but maybe we could incorporate uh the Peter protest uh into the parade uh and have President Obama followed by the gay leather fetishist uh motorcyclists, uh, and then followed by the PETA protesters hurling arugula at the uh at the gay leather fetishist uh motorcycle outriders.
	It should all work well, be a lovely parade.
	January the 20th.
	So all very excited here.
	The new age, the new dawn of the Obama era is almost upon us, uh, and we'll be talking about that and much more straight ahead on the EIB netra network.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Openline Friday with Mark Stein Infarush.
	Mark Stein in Farush, Openline Friday on the EIB network.
	Uh 1-800-282-2882.
	It is the uh the first live show of 2009, and you are free to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
	Uh we've just had a uh uh a useful suggestion here that in fact uh President Obama could wear uh leather chaps to the inauguration and please both uh the uh folks who are there for the inaugural and uh the uh the leather fetishists who are there for the Mid-Atlantic leather weekend.
	So that's a a very useful contribution.
	You know, one thing I I've learned uh over the years is that you should never make a joke uh because sooner or later someone will come along, whatever joke you propose, someone will come along and do it for real.
	Years ago, uh uh w when they started talking about undocumented immigrants.
	I couldn't believe this, because uh, you know, uh this stuck me as such a kind of cockamamy abuse of language that I figured this is never gonna fly.
	When Democrats started stopping using the word illegal immigrants and started talking about undocumented uh immigrants, I thought this is crazy, it's never gonna work.
	People won't buy this.
	Uh and to make a joke about it, I I started talking about fine upstanding members of the uh undocumented American community.
	Just as a kind of throwaway line, didn't think anything of it.
	A couple of years later, on the Senate floor proposing the amnesty bill, Senator Harry Reid comes out and uh says, we need to pass this amnesty bill to bring uh to bring uh these undocumented Americans out of the shadows.
	Undocumented Americans had jumped from being a cheap joke of mine to real.
	It's now in the language.
	Uh Harry Reed's using it on the Senate floor, undocumented Americans.
	Uh same thing happened, uh same thing happened a few months ago when the New York Times got downgraded to junk stock by Moody's.
	Uh I made a throwaway reference uh that uh, you know, the New York Times was too lib to fail, and uh the newspapers should be in line for getting their share of the government bailout.
	Uh uh as I said, just a cheap joke, you know.
	Who who who would think seriously that the United States government uh that that would be bailing out newspapers?
	Well, here we go.
	Story from Reuters uh from Connecticut.
	Uh Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro represents Connecticut's 79th Assembly District, which includes Bristol, a city of about 61,000 people outside Hartford.
	It's paper the Bristol Press may fold within days, along with the Herald in nearby New Britain.
	This is because their publisher is in danger of being crushed under hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and says it can't afford to keep them open anymore.
	What solution does State Representative Frank Nicastro propose?
	He wants the state government of Connecticut to pay for the continued publication of these newspapers.
	You know, they have state newspapers in many parts of the world.
	In the Soviet Union, they had them.
	They were called Pravda and Isvestia.
	Now Connecticut is proposing to go after the uh the Pravda and is Vestia uh media model.
	Uh as I said, I just did this uh a couple of months ago as a faraway line.
	They now it's happened for real.
	They uh the the government is proposing uh to take uh the Connecticut uh uh state newspapers, private newspapers that nobody wants to read anymore, and publish them at taxpayers' uh expense.
	Uh there's a reason, by the way, why American newspapers are failing, and that's because they're largely uh dull and unreadable.
	Uh one reason isn't even the left-wing bias uh particular.
	I mean, there's left-wing newspapers all over the world.
	And say what you like about uh, you know, the Guardian in London.
	I had a very interesting conversation once with a big time Hollywood star.
	I won't embarrass him by mentioning him.
	He's like a Hollywood lefty.
	And he said to me uh when he before he goes to bed at night, what he does uh is uh read the uh left wing newspapers from London online.
	He reads The Guardian and the Independent.
	Now this guy lives in a town with the Los Angeles Times, which has catered to him and pandered to him and pandered to all his left-wing biases for decade after decade after decade.
	And the result is that even this hardcore lefty doesn't want to read the Los Angeles Times because it's unreadable.
	Uh America has the dullest newspapers in the English uh speaking world, uh, and that is why uh that's why people don't want to read them.
	And the the idea that somehow the government should be propping them up, the that the government should invest in this failed model.
	I mean, it's uh it makes total sense.
	It's the uh, you know, this these new these unread newspapers in the Connecticut in uh in Connecticut are the uh the the basically uh they see General Motors and Ford and uh uh and wealthy banks, once wealthy banks getting their share of the bailout, why shouldn't they be on the um why should why shouldn't they be on the dime?
	Uh so I uh I am opposed to bailing out state newspapers.
	Uh and if if you're in the government and you're thinking about it and you're thinking about bailing out these newspapers, uh I mean, I think even even uh Obama might uh draw the draw the line at this because uh for years you've been getting the stuff free for them.
	Effectively, they've been cheerleaders for you now for these last two or three years, entirely for free.
	Uh why on earth uh should uh Obama now start paying for them and subsidizing them, and in fact getting taxpayers uh to subsidize for them.
	There was a joke a year ago.
	The CIA was convinced that the Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, uh, was in the pay of the KGB.
	Uh and as far as we know, uh Pierre Trudeau was not in the pay of the KGB.
	But the the problem at the CIA was that they when they listened to Trudeau talk, they figured he had to be being paid to say this stuff.
	You know, that no sane man, no sane man would talk this way for free, unless he was on the payroll of the KGB.
	They couldn't get it into their heads that he he he was willing to say this stuff for free.
	Well, that's the situation of the American media.
	They've been saying this stuff for free.
	Why should they now get paid by the United States government to say it?
	Uh the reality is that the uh most American newspapers, these boring uh monopoly dailies that they have now in most American cities, uh, are a disgrace to a free society.
	Uh and what they need to do uh is actually go in there, uh let a lot of these ones fail.
	There will still be there will still be print journalism.
	I would like to, I wouldn't mind seeing Rush buyer newspaper uh uh somewhere or other.
	But they're not gonna be they're not gonna be on these models.
	Uh basically the Boston Globe is now valued at two percent of what the New York Times paid for it 15 years ago.
	Uh if you look at the Miami Herald, that's up for sale, and the newspaper isn't worth anything.
	The newspaper uh is is worth nothing, and and the only thing they've got that's any value is uh their prestigious waterfront property.
	They're like the they're just like the uh General Motors is basically a giant retirement home with a small loss making loss making auto subsidiary.
	Uh the Miami Herald is a uh potential beachfront condo development with a small uh loss making newspaper.
	Uh we'll be talking uh about that and more uh straight ahead on the EIB network, open line Friday with Mark Stein InfoRush.
	Hey, happy New Year, America.
	It's January the second.
	Uh I believe that is still that's still actually a holiday in uh in many European countries.
	I know it's uh it's a public holiday in Scotland still, because they need an extra day to sober up after uh after New Year's Eve.
	Uh and uh no doubt we'll be getting the great three-week European Union mandatory Christmas break uh this time next year.
	Something to look forward to under President elect uh Obama.
	You know, we were talk I was talking earlier uh about uh how terrific uh he looks in all these shots of him uh gallivanting in the uh in the surf in in Hawaii uh it's it is uh amazing.
	It's a heartwarming uh sight.
	I saw it all over Christmas.
	It's the uh what was that what's that song uh Barack Hussein Obama is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day.
	Uh and um I just uh uh love looks fantastic, looks uh terrific, and I I love all the way that the columnists who used to mock the way that uh the Bush used to like work out and go jogging and brush cutting are now uh hailing the the uh Obama fitness regime.
	He'll soon have uh he's soon of all of us uh uh doing it too, I hope.
	Let's go to Bob in uh in Kingsport, Tennessee, I believe, who wants to talk about uh Obama's uh uh fantastic pecs.
	I I I thought Bob, you all bitter gun clingers down in uh down in Tennessee.
	I didn't realize you uh now uh seeing the error of your ways and taking up uh the admiration of Obama's f physical perfection as an alternative hobby.
	But good uh good to talk to you, Bob.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Thank you, Mark.
	Uh first let me say you're one of my favorite commentators.
	Oh, thanks a lot.
	And listen, I I really am trying as hard as I can to love uh uh Barack Obama.
	And and I'll admit he's got perfect pecs, but I am somewhat concerned.
	I doubt we should put him on Mount Rushmore until we have someone take a look inside his lungs and see if they're if they're if they're healthy, you know.
	He he smokes, and I understand he hasn't been able to quit.
	Oh, no, no, that's that's true.
	He is the I believe he's the first smoker in uh the White House uh since uh Eisenhower.
	Uh and I think that's incredible that America is mature enough to get over its deeply in crane prejudices and uh and uh and elect a uh uh uh a uh smoking American uh to the White House.
	I think it speaks well for us for the ability to overcome uh our prejudices.
	You you object to him smoking in the White House, do you?
	Uh no, no, not at all.
	I I don't object to it.
	Uh it's a free country, and uh, you know, if he wants to do that, fine.
	But uh as one who smoked for twenty-four years and then quit twenty-four years ago, uh I'm just concerned that he'll uh last out his his first term.
	You know, uh they say that smoking is unhealthy, and I understand George Bush is in uh uh virtual perfect health.
	Right, right.
	That's that's uh I'm I'm afraid I'm afraid we're gonna get this great president in office and he's gonna do all these wonderful things, and then lo and behold, uh he may not survive, you know.
	Well, you know, we can we can uh if only to avoid the uh the the thought of having to say the words President Biden, I think we should hope that he has uh incredibly uh incredibly long life.
	I don't know about I'm not I'm more relaxed about the whole smoking thing.
	People used to smoke at one point uh in American history, uh all the all the presidents smoked, and then suddenly they s they uh they stopped smoking.
	There's a there's a um tape of Sinatra doing uh doing America the beautiful, and he's rehearsing it or something, and he's going, Oh beautiful through space escape through amber wave of grain.
	I would feel a whole lot better about it if uh Obama would say, I love to smoke, I intend to continue smoking.
	Uh it's my right, and uh nobody's gonna tell me not to.
	But rather I understand he's trying to quit and doesn't have the No, no, he's uh he's a he's uh sadly he's a closet smoke.
	I agree with you.
	I think he should get it uh right out there in front uh and uh and do the do the inauguration the way Sinatra did that song.
	I Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear to uh faithfully I think that would be far more inspirational for America to see uh that we finally put this uh this deep prejudice against uh smokers behind us.
	Uh anyway, he does uh for smokey he looks in uh he looks in terrific shape.
	Uh but uh Bob in Kingsport, Tennessee, thanks for your call, uh, is a wee bit concerned uh uh about the uh the underlying health issues there.
	It's true, you know, that if uh you can only imagine if uh John McCain had been a closet smoker.
	Hard uh hard as it is to imagine that uh, you know, he could have lost uh any worse than he did, but you can imagine that would have been an issue then.
	McCain's inability to give up smoking.
	What does it say about him?
	You know, poor old McCain, the guy gets tortured for five years, so he finds it hard uh, you know, using a keyboard, uh so he's not going on the internet all that uh all that often.
	And the Obama campaign and the media putting out these uh attacks on uh McCain for his inability to use uh uh a computer.
	He was tortured by the Viet Cong.
	That's why he can't use a computer.
	But he did he did give up uh cigarette smoking.
	He comes from the generation that smokes all the time, and he doesn't smoke.
	Uh Obama is really the post-smoking generation.
	And he uh and he's entirely comfortable with smoking.
	Uh uh, by the way, I said he would be the first smoker in the uh White House uh since Eisenhower.
	Uh that is a cigarette smoker.
	Uh Clinton uh, I believe had cigars in the White House.
	But uh uh if you read the Star report, you'll know that they were uh famously unlit uh because uh Hillary Clinton banned uh actual lighting up in the White House.
	But in one of those cunning legalisms, apparently she didn't specifically forbid tobacco products uh in the White House.
	Uh so if you do rec recollect your star report, you'll know uh that they were uh actually using uh uh tobacco products uh in the White House, uh one way one way or the other.
	But he does uh he does look uh he does look uh terrific, uh uh Obama, and I do share your health concerns, though, uh though, Bob.
	Uh by the way, uh in case you didn't hear about it, in Iraq uh the war is over.
	It's official now.
	It's on the front page of the uh Washington Post, uh uh page A one uh today, Friday, January the second.
	In Iraq, the day over.
	The war in a sense is over.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Uh isn't that amazing?
	The the war mysteriously just ended in time for Barack's coronation.
	That's uh marvelous timing, isn't it?
	Who would have thought it?
	Uh the last time I read anything in the Washington Post about it was this like Quagmire thing, and now it's all suddenly over.
	Uh don't worry, don't worry.
	We're not saying Obama was wrong in the war.
	We're not saying when Harry Reid uh said that there was no question of winning the war, uh that uh that Senator Harry Reid won the great foreign policy colossi of this country.
	We're not saying that he was wrong.
	Uh the Washington Post is simply saying uh that the war is over.
	It sounds very nice, uh uh there.
	Uh perhaps it perhaps, writes Antony Shadid, it was the smiles at checkpoints, and the shouts of Iraqi policemen navigating the snarl traffic.
	God's mercy on your parents, they beseeched.
	God's blessing on you.
	Maybe it was the music box still playing Santa Claus is coming to town at a kiosk overflowing with Christmas tea decorations and heart-shaped red pillar.
	Is that lovely?
	They got Santa Claus is coming to town on the streets of Baghdad.
	You can't do that at a New Jersey grade school or the ACLU will shut down your holiday concert, but you can do Santa Claus is coming to town at a kiosk in the heart of Baghdad.
	It's uh it's it's lovely what's happening there.
	The war in Iraq is over, it's official.
	It's on the front page of the Washington Post, and it's just in time uh for the combined uh Obama inauguration, gay leather weekend festivities in Washington in a couple of weeks uh in a couple of weeks' time.
	Uh so if you still want to argue about the Iraq war, that it's unwinnable and all the rest of it, uh do give us a call.
	1800-282 uh 2882, uh open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show with Mark Stein uh Infrarush.
	The other thing I uh I love in the uh in the news at the moment, this business of um uh Governor Blagoyovich in uh in Illinois.
	Uh now he's appointed, he's the guy running the replacement for Obama's Senate scene.
	He got into a little difficulty and he's now under indictment uh and they've got these uh tapes of him uh apparently trying to sell the uh seat and everything.
	Uh but he did appoint this guy, the former Attorney General of Illinois, Roland Burris, uh, who is an African American to the Senate, and the Senate Democrats are now refusing to seat him.
	There's no uh possible legal basis uh for them being able to actually keep him out.
	Uh there was a Supreme Court case about this forty years ago.
	It seems relatively clear that whatever one feels about Governor Blagoevich, uh Roland Burris is uh is not uh a lawbreaker or anything, but he is an African American.
	He would be the only African American in the Senate.
	And now Harry Reid and his phalanx of Democrat senators have all signed on to this thing saying, no, we can't have the black guy here in the Senate.
	Uh if he tries to get in, we're gonna bar the way, we're gonna get uh, you know, we'll have the cops barring the door to the uh Senate executive uh washroom.
	He's not gonna get in here.
	Uh that looked really good the last time they did that uh in uh in the uh 1960s.
	I think that'll play really well on TV.
	But I love the way the the new post-racial era in American politics.
	We're putting race behind us.
	And one where we're putting race behind it is uh Democrats stopping this black guy from getting into the Senate.
	I feel like uh I feel like Jim Baker in the uh when Jim Baker said about the Balkans, we don't have a dog in this fight.
	No, I mean we guys in the Republican Party, we don't have a dog in this fight.
	We should just sit back and enjoy it and let and let Harry Reed of the Democrats tear the Chicago machine poll uh roller boris apart.
	We'll have a we'll have a great time.
	Uh Elbert Lyde Friday, January the second, start of a brand new year and Mark Stein honored to be here uh sitting in for rush.
	More of your calls straight ahead on the EIB network.
	Hey, yeah.
	We can boogie day.
	It's like mid Atlantic Leather Weekend here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Don't forget, 1-800-282-2882, or you can get all the stacker stuff and all the other great stuff at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	Rush will be back on Monday, round ago, uh fully rested from his European Union uh style holiday.
	He'll be round a go Monday, uh January the fifth at midday uh Eastern 9 a.m.
	Pacific.
	Jim in the Bronx.
	Uh Jim is called into open line Friday.
	Uh good to talk to you, Jim.
	Happy New Year.
	Uh, thank you, Mark, and uh thank you.
	Um I I just wanted to add that um uh I I feel that it's not just because newspapers are boring and dull that they're losing readership, at least in in my one example and other friends that I know.
	Um the major newspapers in particular the New York Times and the LA Times and the Washington Post, all these uh media are just too biased.
	Um you could see what happened with John McCain during the uh presidential race, uh, even his wife Cindy McCain, where they ran a um her front page article on her.
	What they did with Sarah Perrin.
	Um instead of editorializing merely or only on the on the editorial pages, they editorialize everywhere.
	It's just gotten to be intolerable.
	Well, the the the the you you're you're right that there is certainly a uh double standard, Jim.
	I mean, they like turn on a dime with uh Sarah Sarah Palin, hopelessly unqualified, uh ridiculous.
	The idea of this woman uh even being uh uh elected to vice president is completely absurd.
	But uh woo, ten minutes later, Caroline Kennedy, incredibly qualified for the Senate on the basis that she uh edited a book of her mother's poetry.
	Did you know Jackie Kennedy wrote uh poetry, Jim?
	Can you quote quote any Jackie Kennedy uh poetry to uh to me?
	I didn't know.
	Who knew?
	But uh apparently uh Caroline Kennedy edited a book called the uh best loved poems of Jacqueline Kennedy, Onassis.
	The best love poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
	What is best loved mean in that in that scenario?
	Is that uh it's it's uh the idea that there are different gradations of poems by Jacqueline Kennedy and Assis, that some are better loved than others.
	Nobody knows any poems like Jacqueline Kennedy on Assassin's.
	But you edit a book on Jacqueline Kennedy O'Anassus, and you are a towering intellectual genius who should be in the United States uh Senate.
	But you know, uh Jim, you you raise a good point.
	Obviously these uh newspapers are these newspapers are biased.
	You see that because you're a conservative.
	Uh if you if you are someone who uh is not terribly political, though, the the danger about American newspapers uh and about the media and the culture in general is that the left wing position to most people is the non-partisan position.
	Like if you take uh an issue like uh uh global warming, to to believe that global warming is real and happening and that we should all save the planet uh is not a is not seen as a left wing position.
	That's seen as the non-partisan position.
	If you argue for that, uh then you're not taking a strident extreme political position.
	You're taking the mainstream position around which we can all uh unite.
	If you uh if you take other issues like this sort of stupid multiculturalism they peddle now in uh in American schools, uh this ridiculous idea that all cultures are entirely the same and there's nothing particularly better about the United States uh uh uh cultural inheritance than anywhere else.
	That's not seen as a an extreme left wing position.
	That's essentially the nonpartisan position uh that uh people of uh all backgrounds can supposedly unite uh around.
	The left is very cunning at presenting what uh uh are actually extreme positions as as being entirely uncontroversial.
	And that's what you see, uh that's what you see in uh in American uh in in the broader, not just newspapers, but in the broader American culture, I would say.
	And and you can take it further, I mean if you just read the times for the business um reporting, for example.
	I I defy you to find somebody that that gets the business news exclusively exclusively from the Times to um accurately report what the market did, so from 2003 to 2008.
	No, no.
	Well, I think it was up a hundred percent during that time period.
	And if you read the New York Times, I guarantee you you could not tell me that.
	No, well, I I love the way left-wing politics infects uh every corner of the newspaper.
	You know, you know, it's even worse.
	If it's any consolation, it's even worse when you uh d pick up uh like a Canadian or a European or an Australian newspaper, because you'll often find the like uh you know, you expect people to be anti-American on the op-ed page.
	It's like when the gardening columnist is ferociously anti-American.
	The uh the the architecture columnist of the of the uh Toronto Star, which is Canada's biggest selling newspaper.
	They put up a new bridge at the border post between Niagara Falls, New York, and Niagara Falls, Ontario.
	And he's writing a thing about the architecture of the uh of of the of the booth on the Canadian side, comparing it to the booth on the American side.
	And this guy says, as the he begins his architectural little featurette with the words, as the United States descends into fascism, that's the architecture guy.
	He's not writing about Paul, he's not on the page.
	He's writing about architecture, he's writing about the the booth on the uh Buffalo on the on the Niagara Falls, New York side uh of uh the uh uh uh uh of the uh new New York Ontario border.
	And he's still uh he still is it.
	Jim Jim at the Brogs, thanks for your call uh and a happy new year to you.
	It is open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein Inforush, more straight ahead on the EIB network.
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	Uh uh I always get a lot of great reaction when I uh when I fill in for Rush.
	After the uh last show I did a uh a listener at the uh U.S. immigration department was so moved uh he reassigned uh Obama's aunt's deportation order to me.
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	Uh we've got lots more straight ahead uh in the uh in the next couple of hours.
	Uh the the news is now that the the the all the bailout is just too small, just too small.
	We're gonna need at least a trillion dollars because, says Representative Lynn Woolsey of California, anything much less than one trillion dollars will be like trying to put out a forest fire with a squirt gun.

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