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April 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, indeed, America's anchor man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Don't worry, it could be worse.
I saw a column a couple of days ago by Kathleen Parker, headlined, Is Meghan McCain the GOP's answer to Rush Limbaugh?
Well, duh.
Uh anyway, Meghan will be here tomorrow.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just uh I'm just kidding.
Rush Rush will be back in on uh Tuesday.
Until then, it's yours truly from the Foreign Exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, terrific exchange program, guys like me to get to come and study at the Limbaugh Institute, and in return, Barack Obama gets to do an immersion course at the uh Jacques Chirac language school in Cliche Subois.
It's an amazing course.
Just 20 minutes, and you too can be talking like a uh a Frenchman.
Uh just uh repeat after Monsieur Chirac.
Uh the Americans fail to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
The Americans are arrogant and dismissive.
Uh now you try it.
And so President Obama did on Friday, uh, speaking to a Franco-German audience, quote, in America, he said, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
There have been times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive, unquote.
By George he's got it.
You know, it's come to something when uh when Barack Obama is complaining that Americans are too arrogant.
Uh I don't know about you, but at least uh Bill Clinton uh just apologized to Africa for the slave trade and to Muslims for the Crusades.
When you start apologizing to the Continentals, uh maybe the whole apology shtick is getting out of hand.
I think I preferred President Obama uh when he was uh bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, prostrate uh before his majesty, uh, as if he, a mere American president, is only a humble subject to the House of Saud.
It was a full bow from the waist, uh, and they took the picture from uh from behind.
The President had his butt uh sticking up in the air, staring down at King Abdullah's uh wingtips.
Uh and say what you like about that, but at least when he's in that position, he's not giving yet another speech.
Uh so uh at least until at least until he trains his butt to read the teleprompter.
Anyway, great to be with you for the start of another week of excellence in broadcasting.
El Rushbow will be back tomorrow to take you through the rest of the week.
Nothing much happened over the weekend, nothing much happened.
Quiet weekend.
Uh North Korea reigned on uh President Obama's European parade by by launching another rocket.
A Typo Dong 2.
Uh the North Korean government claims uh this typo Dong 2 is now up in space uh playing North Korean patriotic songs.
By the way, under the new uh under the new Fairness Doctrine, we'll be playing uh 90 minutes of North Korean patriotic songs uh every day on this show.
It starts tomorrow, so don't miss it.
Uh North Korean patriotic songs in space.
It's the uh it's the theme of this year's Radio City Christmas spectacular.
Uh but um those North Korean patriotic songs uh available on satellite is good news for the Queen because she's already getting a bit sick of uh listening to Obama's 2004 speech to the Democratic Convention on that iPod he gave her.
But I'll say this for uh I'll say this for Kim Jong il.
He has a terrific sense of timing.
He sent up his last rocket on the Fourth of July a couple of years back.
Now he sent up another uh to coincide with Barack Obama's big speech in Prague.
Uh and actually, in fairness to uh Kim Jong-il, it's very hard uh to send up a rocket on a day when President Obama isn't giving a big speech.
Must be a hell of a scheduling problem in Pyongyang.
You know, do we send the rocket up at the weekend and step on Obama's big speech in Prague, or do we wait till Tuesday and step on his big appearance and dancing with the stars?
Problems, problems.
So they send up the the latest rocket, and uh they say, oh, the the North Koreans say, oh, something worry about it, it's just for a satellite.
What does North Korea need a satellite for?
I mean, Kim Jong il is the only cell phone.
You know, what what what do they want a satellite for?
There's nothing to watch.
There's North Korean patriotic songs on TV.
What do they need a satellite for that for?
So North Korea launches launches this rocket, and it's our guy who goes ballistic.
Headline from the New York Times.
Obama calls on Security Council to punish North.
Whew!
Punishment!
Punishment.
This is what the President says, quote.
This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon at the UN Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons.
Rules must be binding.
Violations must be punished.
Words must mean something, unquote.
Words must mean something.
But if you read on in this story, you eventually get to paragraph thirteen from the New York Times, quote, but it remained unclear exactly what the West will be able to do by way of the talked about punishment, unquote.
President Obama is calling for economic sanctions.
What what sanctions?
What economy?
North Korea has millions of starving people.
It is one of the lowest GDPs per capita on the planet, lower than Ghana, lower than Zimbabwe, lower than Mongolia.
It's two principal exports are nuclear technology to Syria and Iran, and no doubt a few folks we don't know about as yet.
And its other big export is counterfeit Viagra.
They're the world's biggest exports of knockoff Viagra.
Don't don't don't laugh.
Once we get socialized healthcare, that's the only kind you'll be able to get here.
You'll have you'll have ten minutes to get from the clinic uh to the Legion Hall to pick up that uh cute lady you've had your eye on for the last year and a half.
That's that's the only kind we'll have here.
Uh nonetheless, Obama is uh is talking about getting a serious response, a serious response from the United Nations.
They met for three hours yesterday, and according to the Associated Press, quote, failed to release even a customary preliminary condemnation.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
Uh but these are early days, and I'm sure once he applies major diplomatic muscle at the UN, they may issue a statement expressing their concern.
Or if we work hard at getting enough international agreement, they may express their serious concern.
Uh if North Korea persists in lobbying missiles all over the place, they may upgrade their serious concern to grave concern.
And you know, if Obama is the world uniting diplomatic genius we know him to be, the sicurity council might go all the way and send a uh Sandwell back, folks, here it comes, may send a strongly worded letter.
Now the New York Times is pretty steamed about this North Korean nuclear business.
As they said, it's a quote, unwelcome distraction from all their stories about how Europe's melting for Michelle, melting for Michelle.
That's the uh politico headline.
Europe melts for Michelle.
Uh Al Gore's polar bears are drowning in their thousands because Europe is melting for Michelle.
Uh but now the North Koreans are lobbying typo dongs all over the over the map, and it's an unwelcome distraction from uh from all the Michelle worship.
So the New York Times rustled up some experts.
Headline.
North Korean missile launch was a failure, experts say.
The experts who agreed according to the Times.
Relax, don't worry.
Nothing to see here, folks.
It went straight up and it came straight down.
Uh that's the rocket, by the way, not a uh side effect of the cheap North Korean Viagra.
Uh but that's what they said, that's what they said the last time about the North Korean rocket, about the big Fourth of July rocket test.
Uh from the trajectory, experts calculated that it was supposed to be uh headed to Hawaii, uh and instead it uh fell in the Sea of Japan, and everyone had a big laugh.
What a what a loser, what a schmuck, what a bozo.
Mr. Nukesar Us, he talks the talk, uh, but he can't nuke the nuke.
Ha ha, what a big joke.
But that's the point.
That is the point.
This is why he's dangerous.
He's not the United States, he's not the Soviet Union, he's not India, he's not even France.
He's an incompetent with nuclear weapons.
Why is that?
Why is that, as the New York Times sees it?
Good news.
Uh, you know, in 2006 he aimed for Hawaii and hit the Sea of Japan.
We don't know what he was aiming for this time around, maybe San Diego.
Uh but this time he he got a little further into the Sea of Japan.
Uh next time he might aim for Hawaii San Diego again, or Oakland or Calgary or Prescott, Maine, uh, or Beijing, uh Addis Ababa, uh Salzburg, Dublin.
Uh, you know, it doesn't really matter.
He's a self-taught nuclear madman and he hasn't quite got the hang of it.
That's what make that's that's why uh having incompetent nuclear madmen uh is on the whole worse than having competent nuclear madmen.
You know, if you're gonna have a nuclear madman, I'd rather he was like the James Bond villains, the the at the point where they say, I'm afraid you're going rather tiresome, Mr. Bond, and start explaining the plot to him that they've got this precision nuclear laser out in space that can uh, you know, vaporize uh the the White House and Buckingham Palace and selected other precision targets uh within twenty seconds if they don't get what they want.
This guy isn't like that.
He just say, whoop, bombs away, nukes away, and off it goes.
And he doesn't care.
He's not fussed about where it lands.
Uh and for some reason the New York Times thinks that's a reason not to worry about him too much.
Ah, sure, he'll aim for San Diego.
What the hell?
He'll, you know, he'll uh he'll probably hit Sydney.
What a joke.
You know, that that is not a reassurance.
Uh a self-taught nuclear madman.
It's like if you're on the if you ever been on the New Jersey Turnpike and uh somebody crosses the median, and it's like a confused uh 93-year-old granny behind the wheel of a Toyota Corolla.
Uh that's a problem for her.
But if the confused 93-year-old granny crossing the median isn't behind a Toyota Corolla, if instead she's uh in an 18-wheeler coming straight at you, that's a problem for you.
And that's what it is with North Korea.
It's a one-man psycho state with millions of starving people.
Uh that's a problem for them.
But a one-man psycho state with nuclear weapons is a problem for the rest of us.
Uh and even the New York Times, after saying, hey, no big deal, barely cleared the perimeter fence and all the rest of it, winds up with a quote from Dr. David C. Wright, who said the test was an improvement on the 2006 version, and eventually could lead to a ballistic missile that could throw a 2,200 pound warhead a distance of 3,700 miles.
If you want if you're wondering what's 3,700 miles from Pyongyang and you're listening in Alaska, that would be you.
Uh and that is what even the New York Times says at the end of this story uh is within the range of possibilities.
Now you remember back when it was the Cold War, and it was just America, Britain, France, Russia, and China with nukes.
Uh the left was obsessed with them.
Uh Armageddon was just around the corner.
They wrote novels, movies, plays, progressive rock concept LPs, uh all with the big mushroom cloud on the uh on the poster.
Uh they wrote children's books about nuclear winter.
There was a there was a famous poster of um Ronald Reagan with Margaret Thatcher in his arms, like Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara, uh, with a giant mushroom cloud behind them and the caption, uh, she promised to follow him to the end of the earth, he promised to arrange it.
Uh back then there was all the left worried about, because it was just crazies like Reagan and Thatcher who had nukes.
So you can understand why everyone was terrified.
But now it's just Kim Jong il and the Ayatollahs with nukes.
So all sophisticated and relaxed about it, like the French hearing that their presidents, you know, acquired a couple of extra mistresses.
It's no big deal, nothing to get alarmed about.
That's the that's the New York Times thing.
So he's got a nuke and he fires it, and it doesn't go quite as far as he intended to.
So what?
What's the big deal?
Uh meanwhile, meanwhile, President Obama still traipsing from one uh Euroshmuse to the next.
He's gone from G twenty, NATO, EU, I think he's on to Turkey today, uh, responded with a plea for a world without nuclear weapons.
A world without nuclear weapons.
For Pete's sake.
Uh, you know, North Korea is assisting the Iranians with their delivery systems.
The Iranians are promising to share their nukes with Sudan.
Uh we're not going to have a world without nuclear weapons.
And incidentally, he's volunteering to give up the American ones first.
He says America has to lead the way to a world without nuclear weapons.
We're not going to have a world without nuclear weapons.
We've we're we're getting a world, uh we're building a world right now in which the wealthiest nations in history, from Norway to New Zealand, are incapable of defending their borders.
Uh while uh decrepit third world basket cases from North Korea to Sudan go nuclear.
How long do you think that arrangement's gonna last?
How long do you think that arrangement's gonna last?
Uh contrary to what the New York Times says, this is not a failure.
Uh it is, as Obama rightly says, it's a provocation.
And his weak response tells not just North Korea, but all the other psycho-capitals of the world uh exactly how credible and how serious American power is under the Obama Administration.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network to start another uh week.
I am as reliable a guest host as a Kim Jong-il typo Dong 2.
I go straight up and nosedive into the uh asphalt.
But I'm here uh for the next three hours and Rush will be back uh with you tomorrow.
Uh tragic news.
You know, people say this recession isn't serious.
It is it is beginning to bite.
The state of Georgia is considering closing the Jimmy Carter Plains, Georgia Visitor Information Center, uh, because it costs 186,000 to run it, and they just don't uh they don't have that kind of money.
And uh the Associated Press story that's tragic.
It's tragic.
It reveals that the Associated Press story reveals that the Jimmy Carter Visitor Center is the least visited visitors center in Georgia.
And uh H.R. and I were talking about uh this after the show uh before the show, and he goes, uh well, hang on a bit.
Is a visitor center is basically just like an interstate toilet, isn't it?
And I go, yeah, that's that's that's the way it is in my part of the world, in New Hampshire and uh and and uh Vermont, you see the thing saying, you know, uh visit visitor center one mile, next visitor center 87 miles.
So you think, well, now this would be a great time to visit the visitor center, because otherwise it's gonna be a really long time to But people with the Jimmy Carter Visitor Center, apparently people don't do that.
People say, uh, you know, it says the the sign on the uh road says Jimmy Carter Visitor Center one mile, next visitor center 87 miles, and apparently Americans visiting Georgia from all of the other 49 states just cross their legs and saying, Oh, I'll hang on another eighty-seven miles before I go to the damn Jimmy Carter Visitor Center.
So nobody nobody is using the Jimmy Carter Visitor Center.
And the 186,000 dollars is going to be cut from the state budget.
And uh as the uh as the Associated Press headline puts it, shrine to Jimmy Carter and shopping block.
This is terrible.
This is disrespectful to our president, by the way.
If you are listening to this driving through Georgia, make a point of detouring and using the Jimmy Carter Visitors Center.
You know, it's probably not just a toilet.
They've probably got like a vending machine or something there too, you know.
Oh yeah, but they've got peanuts.
Exactly.
I bet you they have a choice of peanuts.
It's not just like, you know, the peanuts you get at uh peanuts you get in any old regular visitor center.
I bet they've got like uh extra I bet they've got those ones that are, you know, infused with speciality flavors.
You got the, you know, the hazel chur hazelnut cappuccino flavored peanut and all the rest of it.
Uh yeah, uh that's uh HR suggests they've also got a pocket misery index, which actually is back.
It's it's fashionable again, isn't it?
The misery index.
I don't even know whether the Jimmy Carter Misery Index is is of a sufficient scale to encompass the new misery index.
But so listen, if you're in Georgia, detour, considering make making a detour.
For the sake of America, detour 125 miles and the last five miles, you know, stop at a dine the last five miles, tank yourself up with uh the extra go to the drive-thru uh uh McDonald's and get one of those huge great, you know, super size cokes that you stick in the uh cup holder and uh you go around a bend and it falls out the cup holder and immediately fills up uh the driving thing uh over your knees and you breaks uh your your uh your brakes brake pads don't work anymore.
That's that's get those extra super size cokes, tank them down, save the Jimmy Carter Visitors Center in Georgia.
I want to see a line backed up out of in Plains, Georgia.
I wanna I want to go there and see like thirty people standing in line to use the Jimmy Carter Memorial Toilet.
We cannot let this close.
It speaks terrible speaks volumes for America, that we cannot maintain the Jimmy Carter Memorial Toilet.
Uh it's out there, it's in plains, Georgia.
You can't miss it.
You can't miss it.
It's the least visited visitor center in the state.
Uh so you will identify the way to it by the by the lack of tire marks on the asphalt, the lack of wear and tear on the road to it will tell you you're on the right road to the Jimmy Carter uh visitor center.
Uh make sure make sure you get there because we really need to do something uh to save the Jimmy Carter Visitor Center.
And any time someone tells you that this recession is not beginning to bite, uh, just point them to that example that the 186,000.
We're going into debt.
We're beggaring grandkids as yet unborn with a 3.7 trillion dollar budget.
And we cannot spare a hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars to keep open the Jimmy Carter Memorial Toilet.
What is this country coming to?
What is what is this country coming to?
You know, you go over to West Virginia to uh is is it still called West Virginia?
Everything else there is named just Robert C. after Robert C. Byrd.
I don't know why they don't just name the state, rename the state Robert C. Birdistan and be done with it, and then he can have the whole thing named after him.
But they can they've got they can they can build everything.
They can spend a fortune uh on things for Robert C. Budd, but they cannot keep the Jimmy Carter Memorial Toilet open.
This is a tragedy, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, Rush will be back in tomorrow to take you through the end of the week.
Uh but uh in the meantime, this is Mark Stein, the the typo dong of guest hosts here for the uh for the rest of today's show.
Let us go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
John, you're on the Rush Limbo show.
How are you doing, Mark?
Great, great to have you with us.
Well, I'm just thinking uh with this uh uh Kim Jong-il firing this uh missile, uh which of course we didn't want him to do, and I figured, well, maybe, you know, Hillary had an effect on him that he wouldn't do it.
You know, you back down, but he didn't.
And uh where is Obama at the time, but in the uh Czech Republic, when uh he's uh given this news, and it just makes me think of that uh back channel letter that he said to uh the Russian uh Premier Medov uh saying that uh if you stop uh helping the Iranians with their missile program, then we won't put uh missile shields in Czechoslovak the Czech Republic or in uh Poland.
And I'm thinking, you know, you can't write this stuff.
No, no, and what and and he's and he's missing the point here.
He's been cool uh on missile defense, uh, even when he hasn't explicitly been promising the Russians uh that in fact uh you know there's nothing to worry about.
He's not all they have to do is promise something, and then the missile defense thing will go away.
The reality is the Russians have compelling interests uh for for keeping America on the receiving end of these nuclearizing states, and they're gonna carry on doing that, whatever they may say to uh uh to Obama in uh in in public.
But you make a uh a good point too, John, in that uh you know, there's th at heart this is about credibility.
What do you think those guys in Moscow make when they see American weakness in the face of a nothing state, uh a one-man state run by a crazy guy like Kim Jong il.
This this is the uh th this is the thing here.
It's not just about whether we look tough to Pyongyang, it's whether we look tough to Beijing and Moscow and all kinds of other uh uh places uh too.
Hey, John, uh what do you think of missile defense?
Uh do you think do you think in fact uh it's time for a full full-scale backdown by Obama on that issue?
Well, you know, he backed down in uh you know, when they had trouble in Georgia, you know, uh uh during a campaign, I guess, near the end of the campaign.
And and he backs down every time.
I mean, here he he was just doing appeasement.
I mean, uh you're you're Brit you're Australian, right?
I've been around.
I'm I'm uh Canadian via a few other places.
Oh, you're Canadian?
Okay, I thought you were Australian.
But anyway, you're familiar with uh Neville Chamberlain uh going uh to appease uh Hitler and uh September 1st, 1939, uh that uh you know, Hitler just do what he wanted.
Yeah, there's a there's a difference, though.
There's a difference.
Is well people think of Hitler now as the crazy guy who killed millions of people.
Actually, in the 30s, he was doing a reasonable job of passing himself off as a uh as a you know, admittedly a a a uh somewhat authoritarian, but still within the realm of of conventional uh leadership.
Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, who goes to see Hitler, and he's uh getting out of his car, uh pulling up at Hitler's place at Berchtesgarden, and uh he sees this guy whom he assumes is the butler and hands him his coat.
And in fact, the guy he thought was the butler uh turned out to be Hitler, and the meeting got off to a very bad start.
Uh but but the point the point about that is that uh is that Hitler at that time was within uh the realm of uh he he was doing terrible things and he was clearly a threat to peace in Europe.
But he wasn't off the charts kooky the way Kim Jong-il is.
He doesn't preside over some nothing state that has nothing going for it, apart from the fact that it's got the world's greatest concession for generic Viagra.
And he wasn't like this Ayatollah guy, the Ayatollahs and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who comes and gives a big address in New York to the United Nations and talks about the 12th Imam showing up.
When Ahmadinejad was mayor of Tehran, he had the streets widened because he thought the 12th Imam was...
was going to be coming back any day now and it would be humiliating for the 12th imam to have to uh go in procession down such narrow streets so he had the streets widened for him.
I mean we are dealing here with people who are way off the charts even compared uh to Hitler in the 1930s.
So I don't even think like the uh the old uh I don't even think really you can you can use the Neville Chamberlain uh excuse because I don't think Neville Chamberlain would have been flying in to sit down with Kim Jong il uh and thinking that he could uh he was someone you could actually seriously negotiate with or with Machmood Achmanjad.
And there's another point too in that because this happened before and we know where it led, uh history will judge us far more harshly.
We don't have the excuse.
In the 1930s, guys like Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax could say, you know, oh my God, we had no idea where this was going to lead.
The idea of the Holocaust to a guy like Lord Halifax, conventional British public servant, the idea of uh the chap you fly in to see killing six million people was literally inconceivable.
But it happened.
And because it happened when when we hear Machmoon Ahmedinjad expressing explicit genocidal aims, we are obligated to take that more seriously.
We don't have the same excuse the Chamberlain and Halifax had in the 30s that what they're planning is inconceivable.
It's no longer inconceivable.
It happened uh seventy years ago and when a guy starts pledging uh explicitly to make it happen again, you should take him at his word.
And the idea that uh uh this is just something that can be settled over uh b between uh over tea in Paris between Hillary Clinton and a couple of no-name Mullers uh is really is really not uh is really not credible.
Uh we're talking about um the Korean nuke, the uh uh typo dong two that they sent up over the weekend uh uh just uh in time to ruin uh Obama's stately progress through Europe.
Uh 1-800-282-2882.
Uh this big government, by the way, you think big government can't get any bigger it's amazing uh it's amazing the the sort of things that government will pay for these days.
This is a story out of uh London.
Uh while from the BBC, while the Home Secretary, that's like the third most important cabinet official in Britain, you know, it's the equivalent of the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior and a bunch of other positions combined, third most important cabinet position in Britain.
While the Home Secretary was away on official business, on the evening of April the first at 1118, her husband watched an adult entertainment movie.
And on the evening of 6th April he watched another adult entertainment movie.
Since these movies were available only on subscription, he had to pay for them.
He charged the payment to the government You know, you say what you like about this three point seven trillion dollar budget that's out there at the moment.
But you know, s say what you like about America that they they haven't yet got to the stage where the spouses of cabinet ministers are putting their porn watching habits uh on on the uh taxpayers uh dime.
Uh the the BBC continues, it's doubtful if the home secretary was entertained at all when she found out this was going to be made public at the very time in her career when she has legislation going through Parliament to regulate matters such as businessmen putting visits to poll dancing clubs on expenses.
So that's true.
If you're like clamping down on businessmen on the deductible on the poll deduct I mean I don't even know what is that a deductible poll dancing allowance?
Thank goodness Obaba isn't clamping down on that.
Folks, if you're doing your corporate tax return uh this year, do your personal tax return, uh don't forget to fill in the maximum uh allowance for the the poll dancing club visit uh because uh uh as far as I know Obama isn't clamped down on that yet.
And suddenly the nine eleven guys, they all went to the poll dancing club, Didn't they on I think on uh the night before they were the girls complained afterwards that they were totally lousy tippers.
It's interesting to me.
I'm no doubt uh I don't know, I forget what what quite what visas they were here on, but I wouldn't be surprised if those guys had claimed the pole dancing allowance too.
Uh anyway, as you can see, uh there's there's plenty of room for big government uh still to come.
Uh we could yet be in the situation where the uh where it's not just Tim Geithner, but uh whoever Tim Geithner is married to uh starts claiming for all all the pay-per-view uh adult video on uh on the public dime.
So things could get a lot worse yet before they get better.
It's uh Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network at the start of another exciting week of uh President Obama's uh European tour.
He's off to uh he's off to Turkey today, uh, and he's uh he's told the European Union that uh Turkey should be allowed into the EU.
Uh this is part of his big uh outreach to the uh Muslim world, uh and uh he's saying that it's a whole new thing now.
It's nothing to do with George W. Bush is no longer president, forget about him.
It's a whole new era.
It doesn't seem to be quite going as well for him out there as it should.
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1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to Darrell in Fort Lauderdale.
Daryl, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, Mr. Stein.
Hey, pleasure to have you with us, Darrell.
You know, Rush Slimbaugh's mother's Jewish also, by the way.
Excellent.
That's good.
Nothing nothing uh nothing wrong with that and a lot right with it, too.
Nothing wrong with that.
Um before I get on to my subject about uh Korea, I'd like to say uh people who are in credit card debt two thousand dollars.
Beware of innovative wealth builders.
Innovative wealth builders.
Is that is that some email uh is that some email thing you uh innovative wealth?
It's been a while it's been a while since I've heard those words uh th those uh those words in that combination.
Apparently we've lost Darrell.
Innovative wealth builders.
Whatever.
Cordell in Chicago, you are on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Uh you welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you.
How are you doing today, Mr. Star?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Good, sir, thanks.
I just got a quick question for you about North Korea and as far as them setting off their missile.
I'm wondering why is it that the we're feeling like and when I say we Americans are feeling like that that action was directed towards Obama or just the United States, period.
Why aren't they you know, if they're breaking international rules, why isn't it, you know, that they're defying the whole world, saying, whoever wants a problem with me, I have this missile and uh and I will use it.
Why is it just, you know, America?
It seems like we're always the people are looking for us to police the world when you know other people need to step up to the plate.
Why we always gotta be the ones to be the aggressor or we'll come and get you or we'll stop you.
We just want to know the answer.
Okay, I'll I'll I'll give you my my version of the answer.
It's because the Europeans won't.
They will they uh most European powers, with one or two exceptions, cannot project force beyond their borders.
Uh so the idea of saying so they they don't have policies anymore.
They have attitudes.
They strike an attitude.
Uh a French foreign minister is terrific for standing there with his arm on his hip, pouting in a very attractive manner.
And they can do that.
They can do that brilliantly, but they can't actually uh liquidate the problem.
Uh then you go to the regional powers.
Japan.
Japan is not in a d Japan does not have the military strength uh to deter North Korea itself.
And the danger there is that if America appears weak, uh then Japan will conclude America is not serious about defending Japan, and Japan might as well make its own arrangements uh with the rest, uh with the with with the with the uh with the North Koreans.
Uh the reality is that the civilized world, and uh defining that as broadly as you as you will, uh the civilized world uh is not credible uh when it comes to deterrence.
NATO is a very good example of that.
NATO is a military alliance uh in which essentially uh only one and uh you know, maybe one and a half countries have a functioning military, and the other twenty whatever of them don't.
So what's the point of being in a military alliance with two dozen nations that don't have militaries?
The last triumph of uh multilateralism, by the way, was the summit uh a couple of years back that was hailed as a great triumph uh because the uh NATO members had agreed uh to uh put up an extra one dozen helicopters for Afghanistan.
That's one dozen helicopters between uh whatever it was at that time, nineteen different nations.
Uh the the th that that's you imagine the the uh the diplomatic effort that goes into squeezing point seven of a helicopter out of these countries.
Uh the the reality is, as I said, most of the civilized world uh has no means of deterring all the bad people that are out there.
And the North Koreans know that.
There was a story about ten years ago, ten years ago.
This is interesting to me because I'm uh I live in northern New Hampshire, so I'm about three hours from Montreal.
And the North Koreans apparently had a plan to nuke Montreal because they thought this would signal to Washington that they were serious, but without provoking any retaliation.
And you know, given like the network news's total lack of interest in Canadian stories, they might not even have reported it at all, you know, until the uh until the two-headed cow, the wind changed direction and the two-headed cows started showing up at Fabod farms, but uh the uh,
you know, a dad rather would have gone and stood up there uh, you know, in front of these two-headed Holsteins and reported on the mysterious no one could no one knew why there were two headed cows in this field in uh in northern Vermont, but uh uh but but it may have had something to do with the North Koreans nuking Montreal three months earlier.
Look, the the the reality the reality is uh that America has chosen essentially to make the rest of the rich world defense welfare queens since 1945.
Defense welfare queens.
People complain about the Europeans' behavior, uh and they're right to do so.
But when you maintain essentially a a nation, by the way, that doesn't can't defend itself, isn't a nation in in uh in uh in any in any meaningful sense.
It simply isn't.
It simply isn't.
Uh and what you do, i in effect, is maintain them in the geopolitical equivalent of permanent adolescence.
Uh and NATO is is like one daddy uh and then a bunch of bratty teenagers who won't move over uh mo won't move out of the bedroom above the garage because they've been on defense welfare since 1945.
Uh who do you think pays for this terrific European health care that uh that Obama wants to introduce here?
American taxpayers do.
Because if you remove the need from for a military budget uh from nations uh from from from the public treasury, you'd be surprised at all the other stuff they can they can afford to uh to fund instead.
That's the thing.
That's the point here.
It's we have an insane world in which the wealthy I be people and even when we talk about this nuclear rising, we talk about it in the wrong way.
It's nothing to do with proliferation.
Obama pathetically was doing this 1970s non-proliferation shtick that's thirty years out of date.
Uh no one would lose a minute's sleep.
If you woke up uh tomorrow morning and the big headline in the paper was that Australia had tested a nuke or Switzerland had tested a nuke, you wouldn't lose a minute's sleep over it.
It's the fact that it's the psycho states, it's the basket case states that are going nuclear, while the rich people, the rich states just lie back on their sofas uh and uh say, oh, well, no, maybe we should be talking about, you know, um uh two years of paternity leave and ri compulsory retirement at fifty-one instead of fifty-five.
It's uh it's that kind of thing that has helped bring about this insanely dangerous world uh that we're living in.
Thank you very much for your call, Cordell.
We will be back with more on the EIB network straight ahead.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network at the start of another week of excellence in broadcasting.
Uh if you're a Democrat or a liberal, I'd love to I'd love to hear from you uh before the show ends today.
How are you enjoying the Hope he change the era so far?
Uh basically the rich and the poor voted for Obama and the folks in the middle uh went with McCain.
And a lot of those rich people who voted for Obama are discovering after two and a half months they're not quite as rich uh as they thought they were.
And it would be interesting, I would be interested to hear from anyone who's beginning to have uh second second thoughts uh about the votes, or maybe isn't.
Maybe he's very happy with the Hope he change the era so far.
Uh certainly in Europe, as he progresses on his uh stately uh tour from uh London to Prague and now on to Turkey, uh there are changes, changes in the attitude of all these foreigners who were supposed to love America again.
Uh they're not warming up in quite the way President Obama expected.
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