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April 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anchor Man is away.
This is your undocumented Anchorman.
Rush will be back tomorrow to take you through uh the rest of the week uh for another four days of excellence in broadcasting.
Uh we've out uh outsourced it a bit to cheap foreign labor today, but but uh but not not to worry, it's it's fine, it's okay as long as you don't uh touch it or rattle it too hard and then the whole thing falls apart.
Uh but it's great to be with you.
We were talking just before uh the break about this North Korean test.
And uh what I find you know, I mean it's easy to make it is easy to make jokes about Kim Jong-il because he's like this ridiculous figure with his uh CD, he's got his uh uh greater DVD collection, I believe, as Gordon Brown has after a visit to Washington.
Uh but uh at heart, uh something serious is happening here.
Something serious is happening here, and we have a president who is way out of his league, uh who thinks this is just a question of being community organizer in chief uh to to the world and they'll love and they'll love us for it.
And it's not like that.
If you if you were to sit down and design as weak a response to the North Korean test as could be devised, uh then for the President of the United States to stand up and say he believes in a world without nuclear weapons and that America ought to lead the way uh because America is the only country uh that has used nuclear weapons.
Uh by the way, so far, and those are two important words, because if we get through Obama's term without somebody else using them, uh that that club could be looking a lot less excuse uh exclusive by the time we get to the end of the Obama administration.
But here's the point.
You know, i he uses the North Korean test as just another excuse to apologize for the world, uh for America.
He's apologized for American arrogance, the Europeans.
He's apologized uh to uh the Muslim world for uh America not understanding that Islam is a religious uh religion of peace.
And when the North Koreans think, hey, this guy going around with his stupid apology tour, let's really shake him up, and they launch a rocket in the middle of his stupid apology tour, uh then what does he do?
He he says, oh well we need to have a world without nuclear weapons, and America needs to lead the way because we're the only country uh that's used nuclear weapons.
So what's he doing now?
Apologizing uh for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Uh the projection, the projection of Obama on the world stage is of a man uh who has no bottom line and can't draw a bottom line.
Uh and what is uh pitiful about his remarks and his reaction to the North Korean test is not what one crazy lunatic dictator in Pyongyang thinks, but what the other fellows associated with that guy think.
Uh I I would find it hard to believe, for example, that the Chinese were not aware in advance of uh of this test.
So-called test by the way, we call it a test.
Uh but it's a bit like uh, you know, if you live uh if you live next door to a guy and he uh grabs his shotgun uh and uh and fires into your kitchen as a test to see whether the bullet will penetrate to your living room.
It's basically that kind of test.
That is the test that uh uh that Kim Jong il is engaging in.
He's he would have no objections if this thing fell and landed on Japan or whatever.
Um but i his his here's the bigger point.
Uh it's almost certain that Beijing knew about this test in advance.
Uh so that uh in a sense uh going through this diplomatic charade uh where Obama goes, we need to send a strong message and we need to get the UN Security Council and we need to get who's on the UN Security Council.
Uh again, it's like the uh the the Second World War Victor's Parade preserved in ASPIC.
So you've got the British, you got the French, you got the Russians, you got the Chinese.
The Chinese are the people who prop up the state of North Korea.
They supply the food for North Korea.
There's millions of people starving in that country.
There would be millions more if it weren't for the Chinese.
The Chinese North Korea is a uh is uh in in in that sense uh a uh semi-client state of uh of Beijing.
Uh so the Chinese uh are already on board with this stupid uh rocket test of the North Koreans.
Uh Obama r risks on this trip making himself look ridiculous.
But beyond all that, one can understand why, you know, he'd mutter some State Department mumbo jumbo in response to it.
But that to then go further and talk about a world without nuclear weapons.
Uh This is beyond pitiful.
We were talking uh to Shahad, who's thirteen.
Shahab, Shahab, my I beg your pardon, Shahab, who is thirteen.
Uh Shahab uh was a genuinely enthused Obama voter.
And Shahab would have a great reason for standing up in a high school debating class and saying we need to have a world without nuclear weapons.
The President of the United States does not have that excuse.
Uh you cannot uh uninvent nuclear weapons.
Instead, what's happened is that anybody who's got the uh the the the cell phone number of A. Q. Khan in Pakistan uh and as a few bits and parts that have uh managed to come his way in the mail uh from some former Soviet republic, one of these uh no-name stands uh in Central Asia where there's all kinds of uh bits of Soviet this and Soviet that lying around.
Today anyone can join the nuclear club.
You don't have to be a world power.
Uh and so we're as I said in the first hour, uh we're moving into a world which is absurd on its face, where wealthy nations have no means of defending themselves and uh and basket case states are going nuclear.
And yet uh Obama stands up as the world's oldest thirteen-year-old, stands up in public and commits himself uh to a world without nuclear weapons uh in which America is going to lead the way.
That is great news, isn't it?
And I wonder what Kim Jong il is sitting in his presidential palace.
He he must be roaring his it must be funnier than his three stooges DVDs.
He must be roaring his head off of that.
Uh this is what's gonna make Kim Jong oh, you're right!
You're right I shouldn't be wasting my time with setting up my typo dog every night of the week.
I should just say, oh yeah, let's uh Obama wants to just hold hands and uh uh and and and sing of peace and happiness and hope and change.
You know, the Iranians got the message.
The Iranians, uh what was it, January the two days after his inauguration?
The Iranians sent up a satellite and they called it the Persian word for hope.
And the next one they send up will be the Persian word for change.
They've got his measure, Kim Jong-il's got his measure, Beijing's got his measure, Moscow's got his measure.
Uh this is this is not a uh this is not an encouraging side for the world.
You know, these are serious these are serious times.
Uh essentially uh nuclear technology has gone freelance.
Uh the there's a very low entry level.
You're dealing with people who are sort of millennial anyway.
When you when you look at uh when you look at the Iranians, uh the Iranians uh don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.
They blow up.
They blow up community centers in Buenos Aires.
Uh they're responsible for killing American troops uh in Iraq.
Uh they've destabilized uh Syria and Lebanon.
They put a bounty on a British novelist and killed his publishers and translators.
This idea that somehow if they go nuclear, uh you know, what what what is the first thing that's gonna happen uh uh in such a scenario?
The first thing that uh that's gonna happen is they don't have to use it, by the way, they don't have to use anything.
It just means that all the sunny Arab dictatorships are now going to be subject to Iranian nuclear blackmail.
Uh it also means uh that they're gonna have far more leverage in controlling the price of oil out of the Straits of Hormuz, and uh in effect, uh uh they uh my friend Rich Lowry in his uh new novel uh posits a scenario uh where they might actually sort of put a toll booth uh uh i in effect at the end of the Straits of Hormuz and take a cut.
Uh the price of oil would go would go through the roof, it w there would be catastrophic consequences.
Uh we think about these things uh too narrowly.
What matters uh for the United States uh is uh a simple equation.
How much credibility do you have around the world?
Your credibility gets uh nibbled away each time you fail to deal with relatively weak threats, and they don't come any weaker than North Korea.
Uh you're only a superpower as long as you're perceived to be a superpower.
Uh and and uh it's one thing to have a crazy guy loosing off a rocket.
Uh it's quite another thing when the president then command uh uh th essentially uh upgrades his nuclear braggadocio by saying, Oh, well, this demonstrates that we need uh to have a world without nuclear weapons.
What do you think Medvedev and Putin make of that in Moscow?
They're roaring their heads off with laughter too.
What do you think the Chinese Politburo make of that?
What do you think every crazy no-name nut uh in the Third World makes of that?
What do you think what do you think the guys in Sudan think of that?
Uh this is the danger.
Uh the Iranians have offered to share their nuclear technology.
Uh it's all very interrelated, this.
Uh the North Koreans uh uh basically supply the delivery systems for Iran.
Iran offers to share the technology with Sudan.
Sudan is a country, uh a very strange and primitive country.
They hack people to death with machetes.
They had a thing in the Capitol Khartoum a couple of years ago, where there was this scare that uh that uh sinister foreigners were coming up and shaking your hands uh with m with with uh Sudanese men, after which you're to put it discreetly, your manhood would disappear.
Your uh manhood uh these these Sudanese men were complaining that they'd shake hands with these sinister foreigners and then certain bodily parts would disappear.
And it became a kind of widespread panic in Sudan.
I don't you know, I'm sympathetic.
The same thing happened to me when I shook hands with Hillary Clinton.
But the point the point about that uh is that the uh the panic was spread by cell phones and text messages.
So you've got people who are who are sophisticated enough to have cell phones and text messages, yet believe that shaking hands with a foreigner can make key bodily parts of yours drop off.
Now what happens when when a culture like that goes nuclear?
Do you think they're gonna be subject to the same kind of uh deterrence restraints uh that prevailed between East and West during the Cold War?
No, they're not.
They might not use it, or they might use it.
Or they might uh they might have a uh sound reason for using it, or they might use it for a completely nutty uh uh reason.
The the the the New York Times argument is that uh Kim Jong-il is basically just some peripheral crazy.
Uh but that's the point.
He's a peripheral crazy with nuclear weapons.
And that is the world we are building.
Uh a world in which wealthy nations uh are spending all their money on prescription drugs plans for seniors, and uh nut bar states are spending their money on nuclearizing.
And good luck uh betting the future on that kind of uh stability.
Uh Mark Stein, InfoRush, 1800-282-2882 uh will take more of your calls on Obama's overseas pilgrimage and uh the fantastic results uh that are being seen from Brussels to Pyongyang uh from the Obama's first trip overseas.
More straight ahead on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
You see that story the other day.
Uh the uh the the White House offered this special uh on the record briefing call for journalists with uh uh Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Secretary of State, and they gave the phone number that you're supposed to call in to have you on the record briefing call.
And unfortunately they gave the wrong number out.
This is true.
They gave the wrong number out, and the gentlemen of the press were greeted by this uh this darkly seductive voice, clearly not Secretary Clinton, uh offering them phone sex uh and seeking their credit card if they feel like getting nasty.
And of course, you know, the uh the White House subsequently corrected it and uh gave out the new number.
But the but but what uh strikes you is that right now it's the rest of the world that is getting nasty uh and uh that it would be fine if like uh if you if uh if the White House is gonna give out these phone sex numbers if the White House is in the like dominatrix role, but right now it seems to be the rest of the world getting nasty, and we're the ones hanging upside down in the uh in the bondage dungeon uh being flogged and humiliated by the rest of of the planet.
Let's go to JC in Belton, Texas.
JC, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey Mark, great show.
Hey, good to good to have you with us.
Listen, uh uh I've put a couple things together that uh really I I think is a stunning achievement by Obama.
Number one, uh Kim Jong-il goes ahead and fires his missile, Obama does nothing.
And he has hinted, um perhaps even more stronger than than a hint, that with Putin rattling cages, he's gonna back down on the anti-missile system that the United States promised Poland.
Right.
So I mean, that's a stunning achievement.
The President of the United States gets rolled by two antagonists on both sides of the same issue.
That's right, because the Russians are no friends of the North Koreans.
What these things have in common, though, is that whatever side of the fence you fall down on on some of these issues, what they have in common is that it's, as you say, Obama who's getting rolled.
And the friends of America, like the uh Poles and the Czechs and the other Eastern Europeans who are getting stiffed.
Uh that's that's also a dangerous message to send uh to out to a world where America could use some few uh could use a few more real friends.
Well, he's not the first democratic president that that has sold Poland down the river.
No, that's uh that's that's true.
Uh uh Poland has had a tough time.
But the the thing uh the thing about it is if you are a Polish politician, uh and and this is why the Democrats were so irresponsible on their wish to hang Iraq out to dry too, is that that that isn't just about Iraq or just isn't about Poland, it's not just about the war, nuclear uh or missile defense.
It sends a broader message to the world about what it means to be America's friend.
Uh and uh Bernard uh Lewis, the uh the the great scholar of Islam, uh says that what a lot of these things have in common uh it uh are that they communicate the message that America is toothless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.
Uh and that is a very dangerous message to risk sending uh to the world.
Uh and as you say, essentially here, two people who don't get on, Kim Jong-il and Putin, have both managed to roll Obama from different sides.
He's basically like one of those little sort of wagging dog type things.
Uh you one of those bendy figures you kind of uh can whack from either side and he kinda kind of bounces up and whatever, but he's basically just getting whacked from e either side at the moment.
Uh thank you, uh thank you for f for your call, uh JC.
Let's quickly go to Matt in Sparta, New Jersey.
Uh Matt, uh, you want to disagree with Shahab, uh the thirteen-year-old we spoke to from California.
Yeah, well, you know what, the thing too, now that we're you know, talking more about how um Obama is trying to make um amends with basically the rest of the world, um Democrats need to understand something, and that's you look at you look at history from all time, and there's always been war, there's always been conflict.
And there's a famous saying that war cannot be avoided, it can only be postponed.
And that's exactly what they're trying to do.
Because every time a Republican gets in office, there's obviously gonna be a conflict that we have to resolve that the Democrats caused.
And if you've looked in the past, after Bill Clinton, we have George Bush.
Now we have Obama, and then we're gonna have another Republican.
And we're just gonna have to keep going back and fixing all their problems, which makes the Republican Party look like the mean party.
I like I like the way you're talking, Matt.
There's nothing wrong with being the mean party, by the way.
Uh what how old how old are you, by the way, Matt?
I'm actually 18, and I'm at uh Ryder University right now.
Okay.
But you're the generation that is uh lining up to be stiffed uh by the by by this spending that's going on.
And I think you're right, you know, this by the way, this mean this mean business is right.
I think the I think Republicans should just run with that.
I was talking to a friend who is thinking of running for the state legislature in New Hampshire, uh and he wants to run as uh to to neutralize all the thing about being mean-spirited and hard-hearted and uncompassionate.
And he's tired of compassionate conservatism and all the rest of it.
He wants to run as the evil Republican.
I think that's a uh I think there might actually be some mileage in that that embra embrace your inner evil, just have the thing, you know, like the music from Jaws, the people hissing and booing and uh and giving weird uh e Dr. Evil type uh cackles.
You might as well run.
If you if you're designated as the mean evil party, you might as well run w run with it.
Uh thanks a lot for your call, uh Matt, and uh and uh and uh I wish you uh well in your studies and uh and thanks for pointing out to Shahab uh the many areas in which Shahab might be in for disappointment uh for the Obama years.
But yeah, that's the thing.
Okay, we are mean.
It's a mean world, and sometimes you need you need to be mean there if the alternative is Princess Fluffybunny wandering about all uh over the planet pledging to surrender American nuclear weapons.
This is just uh uh an absurd position for the last superpower to be taking.
It's doing great damage and poses great danger.
Hey, great to be with you.
Russ will be back uh tomorrow and take care of things through the end of the week.
Uh Barack Obama has been attending uh what is it called?
The uh the Alliance of Civilization Summit.
That's like real summit one upmanship, isn't it?
It's like you got the uh first you got the G six, uh what is it, the G five, then the G7, then it'd be they got the G twenty summit, uh the European Union Summit.
Now he's gone to this Alliance of Civilization summit in Istanbul.
I don't know, I don't know which uh uh he's he's presumably representing Western civilization, I I assume, although you can't tell from a lot of these speeches.
Uh but uh he said on Monday that uh quote the United States, that's uh according to the Associate Press uh President uh Obama making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president uh basically did this whole Islam is a religion of peace thing and uh said nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, CBS News reports that a man carrying an Al Jazeera TV ID card uh confessed after his arrest that he was planning on stabbing the US president with a knife during the Alliance of Civilization summit, adding that he had three other accomplices to help him execute his plan.
And President Obama has been doing a great job, terrific job uh winning the hearts and minds of people uh around the world.
Unfortunately, uh with this guy, he won his heart and mind, but he he didn't he didn't uh win his knife wielding hand, and uh so this guy and three others have been arrested uh with a plan to stab the US press.
He turns out to be an Al Jazeera.
He turns out to be an Al Jazeera journalist planning to be uh president.
I you know, I miss the old days when the only journalist planning on stabbing to be the president worked for uh American newspapers.
That was the way it worked a couple of months back.
Uh let's go to Victor in Florida.
Victor, you're in uh you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Great to talk to you, Mark.
I am a huge fan.
I read everything you write, and I try to catch uh all your appearance on TV.
I wish you had your own show.
Oh, I uh I don't know.
It's I'm just like a crazy misanthropic writer, like to come down from the hills once in a while.
But it's great, it's great to be here.
I I think you're brilliant.
I think you really are the the most brilliant voice.
Um I agree a hundred percent uh with with your comments and your opinion on Obama's trip.
Um I want to bring up a little tidbit which probably already uh known as about uh Obama's um interview, a press conference interview in Strasbourg, where he was asked a question by someone from Austrian TV.
Oh and he yeah, his answer was uh sort of come for it was rambling on and on, and then he was trying to sort of uh make a point of uh some people like they used to be sort of like a willing and dealing types in the past.
And he was trying to express it in a way where the astr uh Austrian interviewer will understand, and he used the word sort of like uh well, I don't know what it sounds like an Austrian willing and dealing.
So the the great the great leader, the the the Obama Messiah just invented the new language.
Yeah, good for good for him.
It could have been worse.
He could have said, I don't know what the expression is in Australian, which would have uh which would have complicated things uh e even more.
But you're right, it th this is this is the kind of remark that if Bush had said that, or uh Dan Quaylebin said that, it would they would have powered, you know, that that fellow that guy at Slate who who is still doing Bushisms, by the way, you know, Slate on the Internet did the Bushism of the day uh uh every day for eight years, and you thought, well, okay, now we're in the post-Bush era, uh we got this new president, but they're still doing the uh the Bushisms of the day.
Uh that ought to be an Obamaism of the day, uh if there was a level playing field on this.
But but we now know that Barack Obama, who told us all to learn another language, does not speak Austrian.
Uh did he did he did he speak any other languages on this trip?
Uh uh I don't know.
Maybe I don't know with a fork tongue, but I'm just you know, the video is I think on red space or hot air, one of those sides.
He speaks with he speaks with forked he speaks with forked tongue.
That is actually European.
That's uh if you look at if you look at Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villipin, they've all got that fork they've all got that forked tongue.
Uh they um they were uh the the uh the whole the whole bilingual thing.
They used to mock uh used to mock Bush for that.
Actually Bush was very game with things, but they used to uh when he'd go to these foreign countries, but they always just used, you know, he'd say uh he'd be having dinner with uh uh Jacques Chirac and he'd go, uh the waiter would ask what they wanted, and he'd go, Oh, qu'est-ce que c'est la soupe du jour?
And uh Chirac would go, it means soup of the day idiot.
And they'd uh uh and he was just mocked for all his efforts to uh to to tr to try and blend in.
But actually, you know when people talk about foreign languages, Obama's had more opportunity to learn a foreign language.
He's been to these elite institutions, he's had one of the world's most fantastically expensive educations.
Why is he telling, you know, minimum wage people who've with high school educations that they need to learn a foreign language?
He's had every opportunity to learn a foreign language, including all these years when he was a community organizer, which has never struck me as being the most onerous job in the world, and yet he doesn't speak Spanish, he doesn't speak French, and as you say, as he's just announced to his European audience, he doesn't even speak Austrian.
Uh I think that isn't that Yodling?
Isn't that uh th those uh uh Heidi's goat her uh was Heidi Switzerland?
Yeah, no, Austria is the f sound of music.
That's right.
It's like uh yodeling uh on the top of the mountain.
Hi on a hill was a lonely goat herd.
You little that's how you speak Austrian uh for the for the Obama's next visit.
So uh yodel your way through the uh press conference uh and everything will be fine.
Let's go to Carl in Queens in the great city of New York, home of the flagship studios of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Carl, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
I like to make a couple of comments.
I think what you said about the president being rolled by North Korea and Russia is wrong and irresponsible and dangerous too, and I'll tell you why.
Uh number one, if we had taken out that rocket by North Korea that happened to just fall harmlessly into the ocean, and a million North Korean troops started pouring across the border into South Korea, I wonder what your comments would have been today.
And number two, as far as Russia and this um ABM satellite thing that we were going to put in Poland, I wonder how you would feel if the Russians came to Mexico and Canada with the same idea about putting some kind of r ABM uh radar on our border.
I'll do we'd be too happy.
So I mean, you know, you gotta really look at what you say because there are consequences to these things.
You just can't, you know, shoot first and ask questions later.
We did that in Iraq and you have gotten us seven, eight years later.
Well well well, well, hang on a second.
What we've done, what we've done in Iraq is replaced a dictator uh who was gaming the uh United Nations uh and uh harboring uh terrorists and had signific and posed uh had significant regional ambitions above many things.
Well, it doesn't matter.
The point is it doesn't matter uh what the reason we let's say now that Oba uh si uh Saddam Hussein had still been in power or that his one of his even more psychotic sons, U uh Uday or Kuse, uh was running the joint.
Uh they were I wish they were.
You wish they were.
Hey, thank you for your call, Carl.
Hey, New Yorkers for Uday and Kusay.
Uh Marvelous.
Uh you know you know people who don't who don't wish they were?
Uh the Iraqis who participated in that poll.
Uh this this is the unrealism of realists.
Uh people think this is this is cynical.
Uh this is what it involves to be uh realist.
This is what it means to be Brent Scowcroft and James Bacon to look at the world in this uh big new Brzezinski and to look at this world in this cynical realist way.
It uh when you have uh there's no such thing as stability, by the way.
When you leave people like Saddam Hussein, Uday and Kusay, look at this guy Kim Jong-il, he's not the original dictator, he's an hereditary dictator.
Same guy, same with Junior Assad in Syria.
He's an hereditary dictator.
If you'd had hereditary dictators in Iraq too, uh that is dangerous for the region, dangerous for its neighbors.
At some point, realism involves drawing a line.
You can't, if you're a serious power, uh you cannot let uh guys just basically take uh even if they're uh just uh you know throwing tin cans at you, at some point you gotta say no.
Uh you can't throw tin cans at the superpower.
Uh because all you do uh if you if you just let them carry on like that uh is increase uh the level of provocac provoc provocation that they moved to.
Uh what happened was uh what happened in the nineteen nineties was that Osama bin Laden kept trying to get America's attention.
He blew up American embassies, he hit American ships, he hit American barracks, overseas, overseas, overseas.
And in a famous statement, Bill Cohen, uh President Clinton's uh uh President Clinton's defense secretary says, and uh I forget whether it was Bill Cohen or Sandy Burger, the the guy with uh the secret papers stuffed down his pants and in his socks.
But whether it was Pants, uh the Pantsy Man, the Sandy Pants, uh, or uh Bill Cohen, one of them said that this does not rise to the level of response.
Uh Osama bin Laden was like a guy in the back of the restaurant trying to catch the head waiter's eye, and he couldn't do it.
He kept killing people at U.S. embassies, U.S. ships, US barracks, and uh America did nothing.
So then he said, okay, we're really gonna have to do something to get his attention, and they did.
Uh serious powers lose credibility uh if they allow themselves uh to be mocked and nibbled away at with impunity.
More straight ahead on the EIB network.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Uh just seen uh just seen this uh this item.
This is this is uh how you know the uh bailout is really working.
Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett, he's like one uh what is he, the one of the three richest guys on the planet, promoted the troubled assets relief program and lamb basted the greed on Wall Street.
Yet he is one of the main benefactors of the TARP Lages, according to a Sacramento B story.
Uh that that's that's terrific now.
TARP money uh gunner Warren Buffett.
That's great.
That's uh that's terrific.
There's nothing there's no activity uh that is profitable in America any longer unless Michelle Obama you got a uh sweater and Michelle Obama wears it.
Uh you've got a new type of uh uh uh firearm and Michelle Obama models it.
You've got a Chevy trailblazer, uh, and uh she rides around on top of it, waving out of it, and uh uh uh other than that, now Warren Buffett is benefiting, he's taking money from TARP.
Uh this is terrific.
This is great news.
One one day, one day we'll all of us be in TARP on the top.
What is it, the toxic toxic uh assets?
What what's the RP stand for on the Troubled A. Oh, it's tr it's troubled asset.
I thought it was toxic assets.
I'd say yeah.
That's great.
Uh is toxic the next stage after troubled.
You're just troubled.
That's what isn't that what Tom Dashell used to say?
He was always troubled.
He it's like pre President Bush would announce he was going to invade Iraq, and uh Tom Dashell would announce he was troubled about it.
I don't even know what is a troubled asset.
Is that like Tom Dashell's driver and chauffeur?
But then you go beyond that and you become a toxic asset.
Let's go to Brad in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Brad, you are the Rush Libbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thank you very much, sir, and I believe you're the author of America Alone.
Uh that's that's right.
I I came across that book by accident, a happy accident, not on purpose, and I'm so glad I did, because it brings me to your concept of American exceptionalism, but also you say in here Islam is now the pl principal supplier of new Europeans and currently the second biggest supplier of new Canadians, so it's worth mulling over, which brings to babies in the cradle, make boots on the ground eighteen years later, as you pointed out with the Chechny uh with the Russian army.
And my question actually goes to a fact that America is gonna be alone unless we stop abortion.
The importance of being exceptional.
If no one is exceptional, we go nowhere as a civilization as a humanity.
But if America maintains its exceptionality, we can go somewhere.
Please comment.
Yeah, and you're you're right.
What is distressing to me is that America is now embracing what I believe to be the same death spiral as Canada and Europe and other Western nations, which would be a disaster.
Now, something's changed, by the way, since you uh pointed out uh that uh in my book that uh I say the uh Islam is the biggest supplier of new Europeans, biggest supplier of new Russians, uh the second biggest supplier of Canadians.
That's the way it was a couple of uh a couple of years ago.
Now page 15.
Islam is now the biggest supplier of Canadian new Canadians now.
It used to be China, uh, but all the ambitious entrepreneurial Chinese guys started going the young hot Chinese guys started going back to Shaghai at Beijing because they figured you had more economic uh opportunity under a ruthless communist dictatorship than in the Dominion of Canada.
It's a tragedy, but apparently that's that that's the case.
So Islam is now the biggest supplier of new Canadians.
Uh the birth rate is critically important here.
The fertility rate.
If you don't have, you know, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
And Europeans have decided not to show up.
Uh I mentioned that statistic earlier.
Thirty percent of German women are childless.
Uh these these people uh cannot uh just simply spend their way out of it because they haven't they haven't got anybody to pay the debt off.
Now you can say, well, so what?
Uh what does that matter?
Well, it matters uh because lots of us, you know, lots of people take out big loans.
Lots of when you get a credit card offer in the mail, a lot of people say, wow, that's great, I've got like a ten thousand dollar limit on this credit card, I'm pre-approved.
Who cares if I can pay it off?
Uh you have to have somebody willing uh to give you the credit card in the first place.
And the problem for much of the world right now is that they know the Chinese, who are the only guys talking any sense at this G twenty summit, the Chinese uh uh uh d uh the who are the big buyers of Western debt know that the Europeans haven't got enough children to be able to afford their government programs.
If they make that same calculation about the United States, then we are done.
Uh we are through.
We are over.
I believe in American exceptionalism.
And uh the the basic defin, you know, if you want a crude definition of ba of American exceptionalism, it's this.
Find out everything that the European Union's in favor of and do the opposite.
That's a great place to start.
Uh Brad, thanks very much for your call.
We'll be back with more straight ahead on the EIB network.
Hey, I d I just uh just saw the Al Franken Norm Coleman Senate race in Minnesota.
They've still there's been some exciting new development in that.
Uh I'm really hoping they'll have the uh the recount done in time for the what is it, the 2010 election uh election or 2012 at any rate.
Good uh good news the uh Minnesota recount is still going on.
Uh Mark sign in for Rush like to leave you with one final thought.
Go Choc Tong, uh the Prime Minister of Singapore came to Washington in 2004, asked about the Iraq war, and said uh it's not about WMD or the role of the UN or anything like that.
He said, quote, the central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail, unquote.
That's the issue with all these things, uh missile defense in Eastern Europe uh and the ja and the North Korean nukes and all the rest of it.
And what do you think this European tour has told the world about President Obama?
This has been Mark Sun, I gotta go.
The border patrol's banging at the door, your undocumented anchor man is out of here.
Uh and don't forget that coming back in to uh take care of the uh rest of the week, Rush will be here.
Rush had a great line uh the other day.
He was quoting Larry King, and Larry King was saying, we got 300 million Americans uh in this in this country.
We can't all be individuals.
Somebody's got to take care of the masses.
No, the problem we're in is because of thinking like that.
You let three hundred million people calculate their own best interests, uh, and you'll have a great dynamic, thriving society.
Rush is right on that.
He'll be back with you tomorrow.
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