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April 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
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It's an honor to be here for the next three hours.
It's post-Earth Day, post-Earth Day.
I think that actually is, is that a holiday in Massachusetts?
It certainly should be.
Anyway, it's the day after Earth Day, the day after all the festivities, President Obama and Bill Clinton got together for Earth Day, and they celebrated it by planting trees.
This is from the New York Post.
Clinton started things off before the first sapling was planted near the muddy Anacostia River when clean-shoed Obama complained that somebody had forgotten his boots.
Quote, see your light on your feet, Clinton quipped to the small crowd, which included Michelle Obama.
Obama came back with, quote, I think the president has pretty good shoveling skills, which got a laugh from Clinton.
Perhaps trying to nudge Clinton along, Obama looked at the hole Clinton had dug, then offered, Mr. President, I don't think you can do any better than that.
Clinton said goodbye, but then started work on another hole.
You know, actually, Obama had a good point when he was mocking the depths of Bill Clinton's hole there, because certainly when it comes to digging a hole, no one can compete with Obama.
I think for Earth Day, for Earth Day, he should have dug the world's biggest hole and then thrown a teeny weeny little itsy bitsy sapling way down in the bottom of it.
Anyway, I like that Clinton line.
Clinton said, quote, Clinton said goodbye, but then started working on another hole.
You know, I love Earth Day.
I love it.
I love it.
I always spend the day planting all these trees.
I live in a township in New Hampshire that's 90% forested.
But you can never have too many trees, I feel.
I like that bumper sticker you see in Vermont all the time.
More trees, less bush.
Bush is gone there.
Bush is history, but they're still driving around with the more trees, less bush bumper sticker.
So on Earth Day, I always like to plant some trees, you know, get the tree cover in my town up to maybe 97, 98%.
So I'm out all day in the yard planting trees for Earth Day, but then, you know, it's the morning after the holiday's over and it's time to take down the trees.
It's a big pain in the neck having to take down the trees the day after Earth Day, I always find.
And so yesterday, and here's a tip for you environmentalists out there.
I just planted for Earth Day artificial trees with the nice little silvery tinsely branches.
And then you can just take them down and put them up in the attic till next year's Earth Day.
And so you'll be able to recycle the trees, which will be environmentally friendly.
And of course, we always have the Earth Day holiday lights on them.
You know, not that lousy thing that Edison invented, but those environmentally friendly bulbs, the ones that look like curly fries, whatever they're called.
But you know, the Earth Day holiday lights, it's always the same.
You switch them on, and then they all blow, and usually all over the sweet little old lady who lives next door, and she comes down the terrible mercury poisoning.
But I think it's worth it because it raises awareness.
And I always like to give the kids something on Earth Day too, to make them more aware of all the endangered species in the world.
So yesterday I gave my little girl a Mexican green-cheeked parrot and my little boy a black rhino from East Africa.
I thought they were very appropriate Earth Day gifts, but you know what kids are like?
They think the animals are cute for a bit and then they get bored.
And you know, my son wants to take the black rhino back and see if we can swap him for an iPod.
And the store says, no way, all sales are final.
You know, a black rhino isn't just for Earth Day, it's for life.
So it's the usual post-holiday routine: black rhino burgers, black rhino soup, black rhino sandwiches, black rhino confy on a bed of Amazonian mahogany leaves.
If you've got John Kerry coming over for dinner, for the next two weeks, solidly.
And just broken up by the occasional tomato and green-cheeked parrot pizza.
But we always, we always, anyway, we always round out Earth Day, always round out Earth Day the same way by going to the big Sierra Club Earth Day dinner.
I love it.
Everyone's there.
Al Gore, the UN Sustainable Development Commission, they're all there.
Truly a wonderful moment when Natalie Cole comes in and sings her famous anthem to industrial development, unsustainable, that's what you are.
And 65,000 of the world's most eligible environmental alarmists all crowd the dance floor to glide cheek to cheek under a glitter ball of premium ox dung, especially flown in from a deforested sub-Saharan dustbowl.
It's always very moving sight.
The glitter ball glitters because of the 120,000 flies buzzing around it, their gossamer wings dappling the environmental alarmists below in a myriad of enchanting shadows.
It's a wonderful evening.
And I'm only sorry that President Obama couldn't be there, but he was doing his bit for Earth Day.
He was doing his bit for water conservation by reducing the amount of water used at Gitmo interrogation sessions.
So anyway, a happy post-Earth Day to you.
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It's great to be with you, and we will be speaking at Gitmo, returning to the subject Rush talked upon yesterday about these prosecutions of Bush administration officials who gave legal opinions on interrogation techniques.
And we'll talk some more about that because there have been a couple of developments, including this morning the revelation that most of these posturing, blow-hard, finger-in-the-windy trimmers in the political class who are now saying this is outrageous and we need prosecutions and all the rest of it, it turns out that they were all informed about this years ago and they're saying, oh, well, no, no, no, we only informed that it was legal.
We weren't told it was happening.
They didn't all the usual hair splitting.
The fact is they knew that this was part of the program in the days after 9-11.
This would be politically motivated prosecutions.
And they don't even have to be prosecutions.
No, but the prosecution, the idea that you're in the dock defending your name in some courthouse down the line, that's the least of it.
Just the two to three to four-year investigation with you having to keep answering questions and keep an A-list legal team on speed dial, just that investigation is the punishment itself.
This is the way it is now in America.
And it will teach a very dangerous lesson.
Will give honest advice to the United States government.
Anyone in so-called public service who's asked to give an opinion, well, look at what's already happening to these guys.
Being called on to retire in shame from public life by demagogues like Senator Leahy.
Anyone in public service will draw the correct lesson from that.
And in future, they'll prioritize CYA over the national interest.
CYA stands for cover your derier, as John Kerry would say.
You can't fight a war effectively if you're focused on the liability issues.
That was the problem in the 1990s, that no matter how many embassies they blew up, no matter how many U.S. ships they attacked, no matter how many barracks they attacked, no matter how many people they killed, we investigated it as a law enforcement matter.
We didn't understand that it was a war and that you fight a war through the means of war.
Want something that sums it up?
A single episode that sums it up.
On the first day of the Afghan war, Mullah Omar was fleeing in his SUV.
He didn't care about the environment.
He just jumped into the SUV, didn't wait for the Prius to show up.
He jumped into the SUV to skedaddle out of town.
And an unmanned drone was over Mullah Omar's vehicle and would have been able to drop a big bomb on him and kill the leader of the Taliban.
Kill the leader of the regime that supervised the protection and training of the forces of Osama bin Laden, the man who cooperated with Osama bin Laden in the deaths of thousands of Americans on September 11th, 2001.
The unmanned drone could have just dropped a bomb on his car and it's Hastala Vista to the one-eyed Mahler.
He's gone.
He's out of there.
This disgusting man who enabled, who basically turned that country into a training camp against the civilized world.
The drone was about to drop the bomb on him and someone back at CENTCOM in Florida on the tape said, oh, whoa, I'm not happy about this.
My JAG isn't going to like it.
JAG is the military lawyer he reported to.
My JAG isn't going to like it.
We could have killed Osama bin Laden's closest ally on the first night of the Afghan war and we didn't because we were worried about the stupid legalisms that might arise afterwards.
It would have been good for Afghanistan, good for the world, and good for us to take out Mullah Omar, but we didn't because we hadn't yet got a binding legal opinion on it.
You cannot fight a war this way and expect to win it.
And to have what we have now, which is even worse, which is these guys just basically saying, okay, you gave your opinion, and now retrospectively we're going to criminalize it, is an even more dangerous attitude.
We want to take the hard decisions that were made in the wake of 9-11, the decisions that were effective and prevented any second 9-11, and punish the officials who participated in those decisions.
So I want to talk about that and talk a lot more on the show today.
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And as I always say, if you want to defend what's going on here, if you want to defend the investigation of officials who did nothing other than offer legal advice to the government of the United States, I'd be interested to hear how you make the case for that.
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Your undocumented anchor man.
I usually joke when I'm on this show that I snuck over the border in the trunk of the vehicle.
They hide me under the dirty bomb so nobody notices me.
And about an hour south of the border, I usually bang on the trunk and they say it's safe to let me out of the vehicle now.
And then Janet Napolitano, the director of Homeland Security.
Marvelous woman, made a wonderful statement the other day.
She said that illegally crossing the border is not a crime per se.
And this was great news.
It's taken so much of the hassle out of guest hosting for me.
So I didn't bother getting in the trunk and getting under the dirty nuke or anything this morning.
I just climbed into the vehicle, came straight through the border, sheared the side off the immigration guard's booth as I was coming through.
It knocked, took a nasty chip out of one of my lights.
But other than that, I mean, the guy was annoyed with me and was trying to shoot my tires out and everything.
But apparently, that's not because I'm a suspected terrorist, but because I'm one of these crazed right-wing extremists who believes in federalism and the 10th Amendment and all the rest of it.
But Janet Napolitano has been making some interesting remarks about the border.
The Canadians are like mad with her because this is, by the way, this is the woman who is in charge of the border.
She's the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Does your homeland feel secure with this woman in charge?
She said, as Rush mentioned yesterday, that the Canadian border was a big concern to her because the 9-11 terrorists had come through there.
None of them did.
None of them did.
No 9-11 terrorist came through Canada.
And the Canadians are mad because if you remember, Janet Napolitano had said that we're not going to call it terrorism anymore.
The new term, it's not terrorism, it's, quote, man-caused disaster, unquote.
And so it could be anything.
You know, it man.
Yeah, it's global warming.
That's right.
It's Hurricane Katrina.
It's date rape at Berkeley.
And it's terrorism.
It's all, quote, man-caused disaster.
And like, most of us, we're cool with that.
But except now she says, oh, 9-11, these guys all came through from Canada.
So it turns out she's actually narrowing it down.
It's not man-caused, just man-cause disaster.
You know, that could be you in Michigan or somebody in Alaska or somebody in Fiji.
But she's narrowed it down now.
Now it's Canadian man-cause disaster.
And the Canadians are furious about this, at being stuck with the blame for 9-11.
None of the 9-11 guys got in through Canada.
They didn't need to.
You can see, in the wake of 9-11, Joel Mowbray applied to the State Department to get the visas that these fellas got into the country in.
They were Saudi men and guys from the United States, a couple of guys from the United Arab Emirates, but mostly Saudis.
And they applied on the Saudi Fast Track Visa Program.
And this is a terrific visa program.
If you're a terrorist out there and you're interested in getting into America, if you apply from Saudi Arabia, you didn't need to go through an embassy or a consulate or any U.S. government official.
The guy at the travel agent, Ahmed at the travel agent, would process the paperwork for you and you would sweep right in.
And if you go on the internet and you look at these forms that these guys filled in, it says like address in the United States.
And being the geniuses they are, Mohammed and Ahmed had put Hotel America.
And that was it.
Hotel America.
That was their address in the United States.
And so Canadians are like getting a bit miffed at being blamed for this.
That's a State Department form there.
It's nothing to do with the government of Canada, nothing to do with Canadians at all.
You know, an octogenarian Toronto snowbird who's been wintering in Florida for the last 60 years wouldn't think of trying to get away with putting Hotel America on his form.
But if you're like a Saudi male, a Saudi single male with no visible means of support, no job to go back to or anything, putting Hotel America down is just right for sweeping right in.
That was the way it was on September the 10th, 2001.
And Janet Napolitano now.
This is a headline, by the way, in the Canadian paper, The National Post, quote, the border for dummies.
And the first line of this editorial is, can someone please tell us how U.S. Security of Homeland, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, got her job.
That's very interesting about this.
What I found more fascinating about, by the way, about this story about the guys getting in through Canada was this idea that when it was pointed out to her, that in fact all these people had come in on visas acquired in Saudi Arabia from Saudi travel agents that they hadn't filled in properly and they'd just been waved through.
She then got all cryptic and goes, oh, I can't talk to that.
I can't speak to that.
As if somewhere, somewhere out in Roswell, New Mexico or wherever, they've got some like secret files truly revealing the truth about this.
And the Canadian man-cause Canadian disaster of 9-11 is in a sealed box somewhere in Roswell, New Mexico.
But she did say, quote, I can talk about the future, and here's the future.
The future is we have borders, unquote.
That's Janet Napolitano.
The future is we have borders.
Borders are us.
Borders are us.
It's like toys are us, was bought by borders, and now borders are us.
This woman is in charge of homeland security for the United States of America.
And that is the other side of the prosecution of the men who gave legal advice to the Bush administration.
That legal advice was hard-headed advice about how a civilized nation uses the maximum powers at its disposal to prosecute a war effectively and efficiently.
And because they did it so effectively that eight years later we haven't had a second 9-11.
They're now to be punished for it.
Meanwhile, a bird brain who doesn't even know the basic reality of how the 19 men who killed 3,000 Americans on September the 11th, 2001, who doesn't know the basic fact of how they entered this country, is in charge of homeland security.
By the way, there is an immigration issue here.
Three of those guys boarded one of the planes that morning with illegal immigration paperwork that they'd obtained from the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in Falls Church, Virginia.
In other words, the southern border illegal immigration is part of this story, and she's denying that.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
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Hey, great to be with you.
Mark Davis will be in tomorrow, and Rush returns Monday on the Excellence in Broadcasting network.
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Let's go to Brian in what's this?
Oh, Cell, I thought Cell, Michigan.
I thought he was part of one of those Somali jihadists or whatever they got out there.
Okay, Brian.
Sell, Michigan.
What a quote.
That's one of those all-American small town, apple pie, Norbert Rockwell.
Brian from Sell, Michigan.
Great to have you.
Great to have you on the air with us.
Thanks, Mark.
An honor and it's amazing I'm actually speaking with you, but thank you for taking the call, my pleasure.
What I was calling about was I'm a former Marine, spent 10 years in the Marine Corps, was also an interrogator during that time for seven of the ten years and during that time, was one of many in the military that went through Seer school SERE survival evasion, resistance and escape right.
The whole point of that school is to prepare people should they fall into enemy hands.
It's run by prisoners of war in concert with supervision by the Department OF Defense.
Anyway, it's an excellent school.
It's a very difficult school, but the techniques that are used there are very similar, if not identical, to what we're hearing about in the media right now as being used on the terrorists.
And what I don't understand is why there is so much discussion about how this is torture.
It is.
It is well, bottom line.
It's torture equated with them severing the heads of our own people over there in the Middle East yeah, and yet there's no mention at all about how we actually use this as a training tool, because it's not torture.
There are years of there's years of data that shows that people who go through this training.
It is intense yes, but it is not torturous.
I mean we, I mean I'd say I'm not nuts, although I am working, instead of sitting on unemployment.
So maybe I am nuts, but maybe, maybe you wouldn't be doing, you'd be taking the employment check if you hadn't been mentally traumatized by all this but you're making.
You're making the point that essentially, the position of Senator Patrick Leahy and the big shot Democrats is that it's all right to do it to you, but it's not all right to to do it to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
It's okay to waterboard Brian, but it's not okay to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Yeah apparently, but that's what I'm just amazed about, because I know that.
I mean, the classes are not exactly, you know, two or three people, there's several hundred that go through it, so there has to have been several thousand that have gone through it on the aviation and the ground side right, and I don't understand why I, you know there aren't.
There aren't more that are speaking up.
This is not torture, it is good training and in this case, not.
You know my personal case.
I did not get waterboarded, but there's something similar where they would actually.
Well, I won't go into it anyway.
There's no no and, and there's a and there's a reason to not go into it.
Which is why this memo uh, the revealing these memos, is destructive, is because if uh if uh, you know what you are trained to resist uh, and if that is put out there to the world, that's of immense advantage to uh, America's enemies.
Likewise, it's an advantage to them uh, to know what their guys will have to be trained to resist.
That's why this whole public debate is not really helpful, absolutely.
I don't think it was criminal for him to make that information available because, as president, he can declassify stuff, but I think it should be criminal because what they just did was play into the hands of our adversaries.
They know exactly what to train for and these techniques could technically still be effective in some form, but they're not going to be as effective as they used to be and we have just lost a very important tool, which other Other memos, or I don't know what else is out there on the government side that confirmed that it was effective for us.
And that's the whole point.
The military has never been accused of being efficient.
They're always accused of being effective because they're basically told to go in and break things up and make things happen.
And now we're being told that, well, you can only make things happen under certain conditions or certain ways.
This is ridiculous.
Yeah, and you mentioned the fact that those guys behead you.
In other words, if you were a serving Marine and you fell into the hands of the wrong people in Iraq or Afghanistan on the Afghan-Pakistani border, there's no question of them agonizing over what they're going to do to you.
They're going to chop your head off, desecrate your corpse, take a video and market it through every madrasa in Pakistan.
And they don't have any way.
So the idea that somehow if America forswears waterboarding, they'll say, okay, well, we're still going to behead you, but this time we're going to sterilize the scimitar first.
I mean, this is an absurd way of looking at it, isn't it?
It is.
It is.
I am incredulous because while I'm amazed that someone can be in a position of governmental authority and make these claims, but they're able to do this, and it's basically uncontested.
You don't hear essential questions being asked.
Instead, it's almost like people are more interested in trying to please members of the executive branch or even in this case, the legislative branch and just get out of the discussion instead of getting right into it and looking at the facts.
I'm interested in seeing more of this information get out there because, again, there is a lot of information that is not being, it's not getting the light of day.
And the result is that we have a very skewed picture right now.
Yes, yes, we certainly do.
Thank you for your call, Brian.
This gets to it without wishing to trivialize it.
In a sense, it's part of what Rush was talking about the other day with this other big story out there, which is Carrie Préjon.
That's how you say her name, is it?
Miss California?
Carrie Prejan?
That's it.
Yeah.
Yeah, just Miss California.
I didn't know.
I thought it might be like, you know, like all the Benoits who came down from Quebec to work in the mills of New Hampshire and Maine and Vermont are all benoit now.
So I thought she might have, but apparently she's good.
Californian, Carrie Préjon.
But this thing, she gave an honest and polite and respectful answer on gay marriage in the Miss USA competition.
And these two stories are really the same story.
They're about making the price of dissent from liberal orthodoxy too high, even on issues where the vast majority of American public opinion opposes elite opinion.
As that thuggish blogger who was on the judging panel of Miss USA said, Miss USA should be politically correct.
And that's ridiculous in a beauty competition.
It's even more ridiculous at the Pentagon.
It's strange to me when you look at the ads that the CIA uses now.
The CIA runs all these celebrate diversity ads as if they're just interested in getting their affirmative action quotas in line.
There's something wrong in the way we're shriveling the public space to criminalize essentially non-liberal views of looking at these issues.
And that's really, as I said, I don't want to trivialize it, but essentially The thuggish blogger on the judging panel demanding that Miss California prostrate herself before the gods of political correctness and before the gods of liberal orthodoxy is exactly the same as what's going on with this retrospective prosecutions and investigations of the Bush administration.
And actually, it's the same thing.
Basically, elite opinion has decided that these issues are settled.
Gay marriage is unstoppable, so get over it or else.
And elite opinion, likewise, has decided that the war on terror expired with the Bush administration, and it's now September the 10th all over again.
So you better get on board or else.
And for what it's worth, Miss California's stated position on gay marriage was exactly the same as Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's in the election campaign.
But that doesn't matter because the liberal thought enforcers know that Carrie Préjon means it and Barack and Hillary don't.
And they're just going along with a bit of pro-former opposition to gay marriage for the sake of political expediency, all done with a bit of a wink and a nod.
But that's the same with these terror interrogations, too.
Nancy Pelosi and Patrick Leahy and all the other big shot Democrats were in the loop.
They knew years and years and years ago.
But that's okay because they didn't mean it either.
It was, you know, it was after 9-11.
There was a lot of hysteria out there.
Sometimes you got to string along with these bitter clinger type guys with the guns and garden all hung up and all the crazy stuff just to survive just for a few months until the whole thing blows over.
And so it's okay for them to know what's going on with the waterboarding and the torture and all the rest of it.
It's okay as long as they're just stringing along and they don't really mean it.
But if you do mean it, you've got to pay a price, whether you're a contestant on Miss USA or a legal advisor to the Bush administration.
The point is, in both cases, to scare off anyone who might be inclined to share those views and express it in public, and in a sense, to make those views unrespectable, both on relatively peripheral issues like gay marriage and on serious issues like trying to prevent men who want to kill thousands of civilians, men, women, and children in hideous ways from accomplishing their ends.
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Fascinating story of the paper about a tribesman in the highlands of the New Guinea jungle.
His name is Isom Mandingo.
But Isam Mandingo from the highlands of New Guinea is suing the New Yorker magazine for claiming that he was paralyzed in some tribal blood feud.
This is a story by the best-selling writer Jared Diamond, who was basically portraying these upcountry New Guinea tribesmen as vengeful, bloodthirsty killers.
And now they're saying, it's like the Brady Bunch out here.
It's a quiet, sleepy suburban subdivision.
And they're suing the New Yorker this.
And that's an interesting point, by the way.
When upcountry New Guinea tribesmen like Isam Mandingo are suing the New Yorker magazine, you know you live in a wholly legalistic world.
Everything is lawsuits now.
Everything is litigated.
Everything is about liability issues, including even the war on terror.
Let's go to Richard in Concord, California.
Richard, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yeah, I'm Mark.
Hey, good to hear from you.
Yeah, I'm a former Marine, and so I want to do my patriotic duty and advise Homeland Security to red-flag this call, first of all.
Right.
Because you might be one of those crazy veterans liable to go psycho and gun down everybody at the lunch counter.
Is that right?
Exactly.
Okay, okay.
So if Homeland Security are listening in, we hope they're tracing this call even now.
Okay, go ahead, Richard.
Okay, what's going on in this world?
I mean, I can't believe it.
The Democratic Party, or I should say Leahy, is going after Bush administration for basically saving American lives.
But they won't go after Barney Franks and Chris Dodd for what they've done to our economy, along with Acorn and Obama, who represented them.
So because of what they did, people are dying.
People are shooting other people.
People are committing suicide.
I think that Dodds and Franks ought to be brought up on involuntary manslaughter charges.
How do you see this?
Well, you make a good point there, that in actual fact, in terms of American lives lost, there seems to be more evidence just from this string of suicides related to various things going on at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that actually if the issue is protecting Americans,
then this huge great financial racket for which Barney Frank bears a huge degree of personal responsibility is something that should be investigated.
But let's step back and go back to your broader point, Richard.
You know, what they're doing here is they don't yet have the guts to put Bush in the dock.
They don't yet have him the courage to drag him into a courtroom and put him there and saying we're prosecuting the former president of the United States for war crimes, which is what a lot of the European courts would like to do, by the way.
But what they are doing is they're going after all the officials who were part of the background on this.
And the object of that is to make it less likely that a president of the United States will get honest advice on these issues ever again.
Because what they're doing is they're criminalizing the integrity of politics.
If a president asks for an opinion from somebody, he wants to know that that opinion is going to be an honest, straightforward opinion.
And what Leahy and Coe are saying is, no, we don't care about that.
We will retrospectively prosecute you.
But as you say, on the other hand, if you're a lifetime legislator like Barney Frank, you're never held accountable.
They're the one people, the one group of people who are never held accountable for anything.
Barney Frank and Pat Leahy and all the rest can be wrong on every single major issue for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and they never have to, and they'll never be called to account for that.
So in that sense, Richard, you make a very good point.
Yeah, and may I bring up one other thing?
You were talking about this Perez Hilton and this Miss USA contest.
Right.
I think the guy's a freak of nature for starters.
But, you know, this gay agenda thing, Fox News hasn't covered this.
Okay.
It's not just about them getting married.
Okay.
That's not the problem with me.
The problem is that they want to do it.
They want to release a tax-exempt credit on the churches if the churches don't go along with the gay issue.
They also want to indoctrinate our children.
They want to teach them in the schools the gay lifestyle.
I'm talking elementary children.
Yeah, no, let's back up before, because the first point is interesting.
They're basically saying that if you teach, if you're, and it doesn't matter actually whether you're a Christian or you're a Muslim, although oddly enough, it's the Christian churches they like to demonstrate against and like to demonize.
They don't seem so eager to hold a big demonstration outside the radical mosque.
But basically, if they're saying if Islam or Christianity, if you teach the tenets of Islam or Christianity on homosexuality, then you're going to lose your tax-exempt status because in effect, they've decided, this is what I meant about elite opinion has decided the gay debate is over.
There is no debate about it.
Gay marriage is now the default formal position.
Even if, as in California, people vote against it, you vote for constitutional amendments and all the rest of it, doesn't matter, doesn't count.
Elite opinion has decided that you can only have one acceptable view on this, and if it doesn't matter whether you're on Miss USA or if whether you're on your tax-exempt church, no dissent is permitted.
Thank you for your point, Richard.
We're running a little late.
We've got to go back with more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Richard was mentioning that gay blogger who was one of the judges on the Miss USA thing, the one who denounced Miss USA, Miss California, as a dumb bitch and then subsequently posted on his website a photo of her from the TV broadcast with the microphone in front of her mouth photoshopped out and a certain male anatomical part drawn in its place.
And this twerk blogger, by the way, is objecting to her intolerance.
I don't even understand what is a gay blogger doing judging a beauty competition.
There's a writer up in Canada called Kathy Schadel who had a great line saying that getting Perez Hilton to judge Miss USA is like getting Ray Charles to umpire the World Series.
You know, don't get me wrong, I love gays, love all that fabulous gay wit.
But, you know, this guy's fabulous gay wit is to sneer at this girl as a dumb bitch.
That's not exactly Oscar Wilde, is it?
I don't think Noel Coward is curled up with envy about that.
More straight ahead, Mark Stein sitting in for rush on the EIB network.
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