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April 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
Tomorrow, Mark Davis will be here.
It's uh it's an all it's an all Marker Palooza guest host, uh end to the week here on the EIB network.
Uh it's the uh EIB version of earmarks.
You tune in and you earmarks.
It's either me or it's Mark Davis.
But Rush is going to be back in on Monday, uh reinvigorated uh and ready to mark the first hundred days of the Obama administration.
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We've been talking about uh I think essentially the criminalization of uh uh of politics, which is what we see uh in uh the uh fuss over the torture memos, alleged torture memos, the the getting out the caterpillar.
Maybe I don't know about the caterpillar, maybe it's one of these extra hairy ones so it's tickle or whatever.
Uh but the big getting out getting out the killer caterpillar uh and the waterboarding.
And uh I may I as an aside, because somebody uh brought it up, uh I mentioned this uh business with Perez Hilton and uh this gay blogger uh damning uh Miss California as a dumb bitch for what was actually a very tentative uh answer on gay marriage, and apparently now uh being uh damned as homophobes and all the rest of it.
No, forget uh forget about that.
You guys won.
There's gay there's gay marriage now in Massachusetts, there's gay marriage in Iowa.
Uh you guys won that one.
Uh and so uh all we're arguing about here is whether uh the uh uh a a young lady who's entering uh entering uh the Miss USA comp uh uh competition, whether she should be disqualified from the possibility of winning that uh because she has given a dissenting answer on gay marriage.
Now look, I don't even think I don't even know why they're asking about gay marriage on uh on on the Miss USA uh compos uh co uh competition.
What's it got to do with what's it got to do with that?
I'm a traditionalist uh on uh uh on beauty contests.
But apparently in America it's no longer enough to look great in a swimsuit and uh be able to demonstrate a uh useful talent uh like the ability to uh juggle three batons while singing uh bridge over troubled water or whatever.
Either way used to be in the I used to love that in the old days.
It was that's great.
And we could do with more, you know, the economy wouldn't be in the hole it was in right now if we had more Americans out there who were trained to juggle three batons while singing bridge over troubled water.
Uh so I'm a traditionalist when it comes to beauty contests.
Uh but what is uh weird now is uh this determination, this really thuggish determination to make the price of dissent too high, uh even on issues uh even on issues such as this.
Uh so if you're entering in a beauty contest, and if you're thinking of entering a beauty contest, it's worth bearing in mind this now.
You can look terrific in a bikini.
Uh but the real trick is that you gotta look terrific inside the liberal straitjacket.
Uh do your views conform uh to the narrow perspective of the cultural left in the year 2009.
Uh the fact that b there are big majorities out there who share uh Carrie Prejean's views on uh Miss California's views on gay marriage.
The fact that the President of the United States campaigned with basically the same formulation of words that she she used is apparently not enough.
And it's uh and it's uh uh it's it's grotesque and hateful and thuggish uh and horrible for her to to be allowed to win Miss USA by promulgating those views.
And uh now because uh because I mocked I mock this gay blogger guy, this Perez Hilton, for not being as urbane and witty as Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward.
I'm now uh uh apparently without getting calls uh people say this hobophobia ho hateful and all the rest of it.
You guys won this.
In Iowa uh yesterday, they announced that they were changing the words of um the uh the the uh the marriage certificate you get in the state of Iowa.
They were removing the words bride and groom, because they're heterosexist, and they're replacing it with party A and Party B. So there's no more brides, grooms, husbands, wives, there's just party A and Party B when you go and get married in the state of Iowa.
Uh It's like it's as as it was said earlier, it's like everything's legalistic now.
Will the party of the first parts parts uh in the party of the second party's parts and all the rest of it.
That's how it is now.
You guys won that one.
Same thing in Spain.
Spain did the whole thing, gay marriage thing, and they removed the words husband, wife, bridegroom, took all that out of the language, and uh they didn't go for party A and Party B. They went for progenitor A and progenitor B. I think it sounds more romantic in Spanish.
But uh if you're at a singles bar in Barcelona and uh a uh hot looking woman comes up to you and says, uh, do you want to come back to my place and play uh progenitor A and progenitor B tonight?
Uh you say, yeah, sure, baby, but just so long as I can be progenitor B this time.
I don't know, by the way, if you've got like in Iowa it's Party A and Party B, and in Spain it's progenitor A and progenitor B. Uh would a party A from Iowa be allowed to marry a progenitor B from Spain?
I don't know.
This is this is taking us all into new territory.
But essentially uh the the uh the gay uh activists won the gay marriage debate, to the point where now a woman uh stands up on TV and says, Well, I think marriage is uh should be between a man and a woman, and everyone's saying, Oh, that's unacceptable.
Oh, we can't have people saying that on national television.
It's brought the whole Miss USA competition into disrepute.
Uh this is the speed at which things change.
Where does it lead?
There's a polygamy case coming to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Supreme Court of Canada said you've got to have gay marriage.
They impose gay marriage coast to coast, coast to coast.
So you can be party A, Party B uh in Newfoundland, or you can be Party A and Party B in British Columbia, coast to coast gay marriage, uh federally.
And uh now they've got a polygamy case coming up for the Supreme Court, and basically all the polygamy lawyer uh cases uh polygamy guys, big time polygamists, lots of child brides, and he's going to be reading back uh everything that was in the Supreme Court judgment on gay marriage, just taking out the reference to the gender of the participants and replacing it with reference to the number of participants.
If the sex of the participants in marriage is irrelevant, why should the numbers be irrelevant?
So they're talking about polygamy up in Canada.
And I wrote about it up in Canada uh a couple of weeks ago, and I get all this mail from liberal progressives who go, Well, what's the big deal about polygamy anyway?
Yeah, gay should be allowed to marry, uh polygamists should be allowed to marry, gay polygamists should be allowed to marry.
Next thing you know, this liberal column up there in the uh Ottawa Citizen uh writes a column saying, Well, well, okay, gay marriage and polygamous marriage.
What about adult incest, adult incest?
Uh I don't know about you, it just doesn't seem quite right to me, but I can no longer I can no longer remember, I can't quite figure out why I object to it.
Uh this is the this is the this is the liberal dilemma uh that there is no line to draw.
You draw the line, boom, you're down the stairs, a couple of treads and rises, and now it's time to draw the next line, boom, three more steps down the line down the stairs, time to try and draw the next line.
You can't it can't be drawn.
Uh the institution of marriage predates the United States.
It's one of the oldest societal institutions on the face of the planet.
Uh and it's something uh that a con uh conservatives uh are wary of this, because uh the conservative temperament says you temper with soci basic societal building blocks that predate every nation state on the planet uh very, very cautiously.
Uh and uh we've reached the stage in nothing flat, in nothing flat, where Miss California saying that she thinks uh marriage is a kind of boy meets girl activity, it's unacceptable to say that uh on national TV.
Uh so that that uh that that's a little bit of uh uh blowback I'm getting over my uh homophobic remarks about that thuggish uh blogger who was on the uh on on the judging uh on the judging panel there.
Um I mentioned this thing really uh just coming uh off the back of uh Earth Day where the uh British have decided uh that overweight people cause global warming.
This new report they got out there.
And uh uh by the way, did you know that in in Britain they have these creepy teams of government nutritionists that go Door to door uh and ask to come inside your house and go into the kitchen and conduct a quote health audit uh of the contents of your refrigerator.
And don't worry, they're not they're not yet confiscating your twinkies.
Uh they just want to take a census uh of how many twinkies you actually have in the kitchen.
Uh and that's it's important to bear that in mind when you get attracted to uh the idea of government health care, because government health care licenses the state uh to control every other aspect of your life.
Uh you you we already have that argument here.
They people say, well, you have to wear uh seatbelts, uh and you have to wear uh uh helmets on motorcycles, because otherwise you'll be taken to a hospital, and if you don't have health insurance, they'll have to patch you up, and the taxpayer will end up uh paying.
Uh so government health care, government health care licenses the government to control every other uh part of your life.
You already have the situation in Britain where people are denied hip replacements uh if they're obese.
Uh they're denied uh in Northern England, in Manchester, they're denied uh uh heart uh surgery uh if they're if they're smokers.
Uh essentially how you live your life.
The government regulates your life now uh in the cause of uh whether you've got uh in in the cause of whether uh you're entitled to the government health care you paid for uh anyway.
Uh very interesting.
Anyway, with all these overweight people causing global warming.
I was fascinated to see Mir Farrow set an example.
On on uh this coming Monday, Mia Farrow is going to begin a hunger strike for the people of Darfur.
Uh I know, I know, I know.
Whenever I hear about uh starving uh celebrities, it always sounds like that uh the old Hollywood joke uh about the uh starving beggar with a uh tin cup pleading, I haven't eaten for three days.
And Sasha Gabor says, Darling, I wish I had your will power.
Uh but uh but the it's uh the the new Hollywood, it's no joke.
It's no joke.
All these anti-war celebs uh a couple of years ago, do you remember Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Willie Nelson, Michael Moore.
Uh they all announced they were going on hunger strike until the war in Iraq uh was ended.
And I was wondering what happened to this.
Are they dead now?
I haven't heard from Michael Bohr in a couple of months.
Did he starve himself to death?
Uh but then it emerged that this wasn't really a proper hunger strike uh where you stop eating and after a few weeks you die, uh, but a so-called rolling hunger strike in which uh celebrity A would refuse food for twenty-four hours and then hand over to celebrity B for the next phase of the rolling hunger strike.
So uh like Sean Penn uh starved himself to death, but you know, just just for a day.
And that was like the big celebrity hunger strike uh a couple of years ago.
But uh maybe it's still going on.
I d I don't know.
But that's not what Mia Farrow's doing.
She, beginning on Monday, she's stopping eating, period, uh, in order to save Darfur.
Uh and there's something really almost desperately sad about this, almost too sad uh to comment on, really.
Uh the left loves its causes so long as they don't require meaningful action.
Uh uh ask Tibetans how effective half a century of Americans driving around with free Tibet uh bumper stickers on their cars had been.
Uh or ask the citizens of Darfur how well they think the Save Darfur campaign is from uh is their from their uh their point of view.
Uh so we'll get into that and uh lots of other stuff too on uh torture and the economy and lots more straight ahead.
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Let's go to Ray in Titusville, Florida.
Ray, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Good to have you with us.
Hey, thank you for uh thank you for having me aboard.
Uh you said something earlier today.
Uh and I by the way, I uh really enjoy uh when you're on for rush, uh you do a great job.
Oh, thanks.
Good to hear that.
Well, anyway, um I heard you say something about uh General Motors weighing people off and in uh then I started seeing a pattern.
Ray, Ray, can you just uh can you just speak up a bit?
Your lines kind of uh I don't know whether it's Janet Napolitano listening in or whatever, but it's going a bit it's it's fading out.
So can you just just speak up a bit?
Yeah.
All right, is that better?
Oh, that's that's terrific.
The uh the Fed's monitoring can hear you clearly.
And they are.
Okay, so uh anyway, I kind of related it to cap and trade.
I know I don't have a lot of time, so I'm going right at it.
Uh uh the uh so they're gonna tax the power companies.
The power companies are gonna pay a tax on creation of energy uh of what the intelligent people in the countr uh in the country think is uh too much energy.
And uh they're gonna pay that tax to the government.
And then they're going to pass that uh that extra money that they have to pay to the government on to the consumer, which is gonna raise power prices right and then the government says they're going to go ahead and rebate the increased cost to the consumer back to the consumer.
Right.
So if this is true no one really loses and no one gains.
The power company doesn't lose because they get the money from the consumer.
Yeah.
The government doesn't gain because now they've got to pay a bureaucracy uh for uh uh out of uh deficit spending basically uh because the government has to give all the money back to the consumer for the why do it at all well you say nobody gains uh that's true somebody does lose and that is you uh and this this is what is absurd about these uh the the so called talk of the green economy.
The idea is uh that you can punish uh the energy companies that you can make uh General Motors make so called environmentally friendly cars that nobody wants and that there is no price to the consumer uh that will will arise from it.
And you're saying you're saying well if you if you take uh X million dollars from the power companies who pass it on to their consumers uh but then uh that the X million dollars is given uh by uh the power companies to the government which processes it through a huge bureaucracy and then rewards it back uh to Mr and Mrs America at twenty seven Elm Street so th that there's no loss and there's no gain.
But there obviously there is a loss.
You've created a permanent bureaucracy and uh and uh you've uh you've you've made the cost of uh doing business apart from anything else more expensive in America uh so a lot of companies will find it a lot more beneficial i this idea that we're gonna be reopening factories in America who the hell would open up a factory with these environmental costs imposed on you uh when you don't have to do that in India and China.
Oh I think that's going to create a a train wreck.
I didn't mean to say that no one would gain uh the the government will gain a bureaucracy and really like things like that.
Yeah and they'll and they'll gain power.
I mean and this is this is this the sort of w what is so pathetic about this idea that you can somehow just tax an economy into green compliance uh and it won't have any impact on how we lead our lives.
You can if you want to really if you really want to have go back to reducing carbon emissions, uh decreasing our carbon footprints, we can all live in mud huts and we can send the women folk down instead of uh putting it in the big washer dryer, we can send them down to the river to beat out uh their clothes with the other village women down by the stream every morning and that will work that kind of primitive society will reduce our carbon footprint.
But the idea the the idea of government distortion will not.
Well here's a here's a good one for you.
Everyone in the northern half of the United States should move to the southern half of the United States so they don't have to heat their houses and create that enormous carbon footprint every winter.
Yes that would I don't think I you know what we need to do?
We need to take that border that Janet Napolitano doesn't pay any attention to the Canadian border and bring it like the Northern tier states that and then Canadians would have 'cause if you're a Canadian you look on like Northern Maine uh the way you'd look on the Bahamas.
So that's you worked it all that's the problem with Canada.
They laid it out too far north.
You've just proposed the solution to all the that would that would do wealth and it would uh get us uh and it would correct the bad relations we've had with Janet Napolitano now.
Oh absolutely that uh they'd all move to Florida anyway.
Yeah it wouldn't it wouldn't cost them anywhere near as much to uh heat their houses as well no no because like if you're in Thunder Bay, Ontario and you're like uh and you suddenly um move to uh like the upper peninsula of Michigan uh and on a balmy spring day it's like 43 and drizzling to you it is like being in the Virgin Islands.
So that is that is that would do that would do wonders for continental relations.
See you've just solved all the problems I'm pretty good at this stuff I'll tell you.
You've you see the big picture here.
I do.
So the the uh the The big thing is we need to make sure that everybody gets laid off but still gets paid, and we need to tax everybody back into the Stone Age, but still make sure that no one actually uh pays anything more.
And uh we've got to make sure that uh that somehow um uh we close down every uh single uh possibility for a new business in the country because businesses uh contribute to global warming, and you know, actually uh that's not a very good thing.
Exactly.
Thank thank you for your call, Ray.
That is terrific.
The big geopolitical picture in nothing flat.
Uh this is the strategic genius we need in America today.
You're listening to Mark Stein sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
Lots more of your calls straight ahead.
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Hey, good to be with you.
Don't forget Rush will be back in on Monday.
You know, I mentioned earlier this Janet Napolitano business uh about the Canadian border, where she essentially said, uh, which is completely factually inaccurate, that the nine eleven terrorists entered the United States uh via the northern border.
And the Canadians are mad about this and getting madder.
Uh yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Canada had severed uh diplomatic relations with the United States by the end of the day.
This is from Canada's big liberal newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
Uh the Globe and Mail, big libs, big libs, and this is by Lawrence Martin, who is uh their big time liberal columnist.
Uh I ran into him once at the summit of the Americas, and he and he was all jealous of me because uh Condy Rice gave him the bums rush and uh came off wi uh came uh came over to me and we went off to uh have dinner together and go dancing till three in the morning, and Lawrence Martin was furious about this.
Big time liberal columnist.
Here's the opening line of his column today.
What is Bush throwback, Janet Napolitano, doing in Barack Obama's cabinet?
This is the democratic governor of Ari Arizona who who has chosen to blame Canada for 911.
You remember she did redefined terrorism as man caused disaster, and then she advanced uh she said the uh terrorists got in by the northern border, so it's now a Canadian man caused disaster.
The liberal media in Canada is furious.
What is Bush throwback Janet Napolitano doing in Barack Obama's cabinet?
Uh uh this guy says it's as if she's in the clause of Dick Chady.
This is how great it is, folks.
Uh Dick Chady has never blamed Canada for nine eleven.
The Democrats did that.
The Obaba administration did that, and now the d the director, the uh Secretary of Homeland Security is being called a Bush throwback.
Democratic governor of Arizona.
Let's go to Don in Columbus, Ohio.
Don, you're on the Rush Limbo show.
It is great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Uh my comment is about the uh uh California uh Miss USA uh candidate on there.
She had a no-win situation on there for you know, for her answer.
She couldn't, you know, with the way the question was proposed.
Yeah, that yeah, I think you're I think you're right.
You mean there's no longer a correct answer to that.
Well, there's no free speech when uh you know they asked for her opinion, she gave it, and uh then it was spun around and uh you know I said uh really the question should have been the same question proposed to all of them.
They should have been kept in isolation and if you're going to ask that question, you ask it for everyone.
But it really it really wasn't fair.
And uh and and and you make the point that it is a free speech thing.
The reason they're going so bananas about it, uh and this thug blogger who's on the judging panel's gone bananas about it, is because he wants uh it to be unacceptable to say uh that I think marriage is between a man and a woman.
In other words, a statement that would have been completely uncontroversial uh for most of Western civilization's history is now apparently uh beyond beyond the realm of acceptable debate.
And hi that was the stage for him to put his uh beliefs in front of America.
And uh now he's downgrading her answer.
Yeah, uh and I don't as I I don't even know why this guy was on this show anyway.
I mean, I I uh you know, I got uh I got uh got no uh i one of the most interesting comments on this, by the way, was uh by these gay bloggers, gay democratic bloggers for Hillary, who thought who thought that this ugly thug gay blogger on the judging panel was doing to Miss California uh what the Obaba crowd had done to Hillary in primary season.
Now I can't I got uh I feel like James Baker on the Balkans.
You know, I got no dog in this fight.
You know, if if if gay democratic bloggers are beating up on another gay liberal blogger, uh uh I I just want to like sit back and watch.
I can put that on pay-per-view.
It would be far more interesting than Miss USA most of the time.
But I I I do think you're right that the idea is to uh shrivel the acceptable boundaries of speech uh so that uh so that uh this woman effectively is cowed into giving the politically correct answer.
Uh so everyone gets the message.
So if if you're uh Miss South Dakota, if you're uh Miss Wisconsin, uh if you're Miss Connecticut, uh when you're on that show next year and this subject comes up, uh you'll know what not to say and what not to say uh it happens to be the position of about seventy percent of the American people.
Uh so uh thank thanks uh thanks for your call.
Let's take another quick call.
Let's go to um uh let's go to Ferris in uh in Hartford, Connecticut, uh home of America's crumbling insurance industry.
Good day, Mark.
Are you in the insurance business, Ferris?
Uh I am peripherally.
Oh okay, okay.
Well keep that keep that as peripheral as you can, the way things are going.
Well, I'd like to echo an earlier caller uh and I'd like to say, Ditto, this is Stellar Radio, Mark.
Oh, well that's uh that's very nice of you.
I'm uh I'm um as I always say I'm a misanthropic writer, I'm holed up in the hills, uh, and I I like uh I like coming down to the big town once uh once every couple of months and uh just uh just uh being in a big time radio series.
So it's a terrific kick for me and a great honor.
And uh actually uh just before we get too detoured, I will say it never ceases to amaze me that I, as a humble foreigner uh get uh get asked to come and uh sit in on the Rush Limbaugh Show, which is America's most listened to radio show.
And I look at the pitiful way I've lived in uh other countries in my life, in the United Kingdom and in the Dominion of Canada and a couple of other places, and I have never ever been uh given enjoyed anything like the signal honor of hosting uh the number one the number one show.
So I'm uh I'm uh it never ceases to touch me that.
Anyway, Ferris, and enough of me.
Uh unless you've got the violin and you want to accompany me as I'm giving my teary homily there, but uh but but but but what was your big point?
But f first uh you must be unfamiliar with the new word for foreigner.
They're no longer foreign languages.
They are world languages, Mark.
You're no longer a foreigner, you're a man of the world.
Yeah, but I speak conservatism, which isn't a world language.
That's an extinct language if the Obama administration gets there.
Well, of course, that's a concern of mine.
But your command of the militant homosexual movement is...
Hey, hey, do you mind rephrasing that?
My command of the militant homosexual movement.
Well, that was just that was just for four months in the 70s, and I didn't have a lot of money, and I it was the only job available.
But uh carry on, what was what was your point?
Well you just mentioned the possibility that Miss Connecticut would be asked a similar question and and uh in Connecticut uh just yesterday, our uh Senate passed uh the legislation which uh changes the curriculum in all of our schools in the state of Connecticut to uh encourage the homosexual lifestyle and to treat homosexual marriage as the only acceptable form of marriage in our state.
Now that we had the lawyers who wear robes uh give us homosexual marriage.
Now the curriculum has to be changed so that each little child goes into the little brick building with the uh lady teacher in the front with the short hair.
Right.
And she is going to learn.
Whoa, well, Jenna Jenna Napolitano is not listening today.
No, you're you're uh you make you make a uh a good point here, which is that it redefines it redefines everything.
And that's why, as I was saying, when they introduce it, they eliminate gender specific words like uh uh uh uh uh uh groom and bride and all the rest of it.
Uh and it is interesting uh when you have these uh it came up in uh case in England last year.
The school house same thing, the school district had decided that every child now had to learn about the joys of gay marriage in kindergarten and grade one.
They have this story, uh King King meets King, and it's like a handsome prince, and he goes around uh and he meets all the wonderful lovely fairy tale princesses uh in the neighboring kingdoms, but he doesn't really like any of them.
Uh and then he happens to meet the brother of one of the magical fairy princes, print princesses, and they decide they're gonna settle down together and rule their magical fairy kingdom together.
Now, this school in uh Bristol, England, they said you've got to teach this thing to the uh to the kindergarten and first graders.
Uh when that comes up here and uh evangelical Christians object, they're told, Whoa man, you're way out of line, you gotta get they're they're treated like Miss California.
You just gotta get with the beat.
This is the way it is.
Get on board with the program.
What happened at the schoolhouse in Bristol in England is that uh a substantial amount of the aggrieved parents were Muslims.
And when the Muslim when the guy from the local mosque is objecting to you teaching this fairy tale love story, King meets King between the nice prince who goes looking for a bride and finds his true love in one of the fairy princesses' brothers, uh when they're teaching when they're teaching the uh uh the the gay marriage King Meets King story to Muslims and the Muslims object, whoa, that book was out of there instantly.
They didn't want that at all.
And and the lesson there is uh that the c the the the cultural confidence of the Muslim community in Britain uh is i when that goes up against political correctness, political correctness crumbles to pieces.
In other words, people think if you look at the internal contradictions of the multicultural society, uh if you've got the when when the gay in this case the gay agenda met the Muslim agenda and the gay agenda fell to pieces uh and the and the Muslims won.
But uh uh as you said, in Connecticut and in many other parts of this country, they teach those books, and Christian groups can complain all they want, and they never get anywhere.
They're treated like Miss California.
Uh good to have you with us, uh Ferris.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Show from the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Let's uh let's go to Victor.
Victor, you're on the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Yes, hello, Mark.
I uh spoke with you earlier uh some time ago about Obama learning new languages, you know, like Austria and Brazil.
Yeah, that's that's right.
He uh he he expressed some confusion in Europe that he didn't speak that good Austrian.
Right, right.
Maybe his Austrians gotten better.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, Mark, i first of all, I want to extend to you my great uh you know wishes and great thanks from the members of the uh uh your uh free republic uh website uh from all your fans.
You are hugely popular and um just want to relate to your best wishes from Free Republic.
Okay, you sound like I'm going in for a 30-year jail term when you so you have our best wishes.
You may know something I don't know.
Okay.
Well, listening to the phone conversation, uh you know, maybe I'm getting it before you, but uh, you know, to be serious for a moment, as I'm uh basking in your brilliance and basically, you know, laughing nonstop at you know at all the you know witticism and and and uh all the humor.
You know, I I just uh I'm I'm a little bit puzzled because um as we're witnessing a fundamental and systematic dismantling of our country by the left uh politically, socially, every which way you can.
What is it is a thing person left to do?
What is it that we can do other than just you know maintain sense of humor and laugh?
Uh what can we do to maintain our sanity and more importantly, what can we do to stand up and stop this uh uh uh just just uh uh um uh a living nightmare that that every day we're watching uh uh growing worse and worse.
Well, it's not it's that's a great question, Victor.
Look, it's not over yet.
There was a poll today uh that's just come out that showed that fifty-five percent of the American people still believe uh that the uh the biggest threat is government.
This is not a yet, not yet a natural big government society in the way that uh uh many European countries are.
So it is not over yet.
Uh and the question is, how do you how do you fight back?
How do you translate what's going on at these tea parties into action?
Uh and I think there there are good things to do about that.
I'm I'm always impressed when I drive around New Hampshire uh and I meet friends and neighbors who are on the select boards, which are like the uh it's an old New England term for the little uh group of three uh or five elected officials who actually are like the cabinet of small towns in municipal government.
And the number of towns who say, no, no, no, we don't want stimulus money.
People are opposed to the bailout money, people are opposed to the stimulus money because they know it's a crock.
Because they know you don't get a check for for six million dollars.
That six million dollars uh uh has got to come from somewhere, and the only available people to get it from are three hundred million Americans and their as yet unborn children and grandchildren.
And what impresses me is that uh although we don't uh hear a lot of encouraging talk out of Washington, when you get down to the state, county, and municipal level, you get your uh and people see the strings attached to some of this stimulus money, and they realize that if they take a one-time check uh for some police funding uh in uh in some rinky dink township in the middle of nowhere, that the federal government will be in their lives forever.
Uh these people are turning down that money.
And I think that's actu I think that's actually a very uh encouraging sign.
I think the next stage of the whole kind of uh is to translate the objections uh into action uh and to actually uh to actually go to uh take it to the next level to actually put pressure on uh municipal and county and state officials to resist the absurd notion uh that the government can in fact uh give you money and that that money doesn't come from anywhere.
You know, that's ridiculous woman, that Susan Rochin, Rosgen or whatever she is on CNN on CNN, who was berating that fella uh standing in the street at that demonstration in Chicago, and she said, Well, don't you know you'll be getting a four hundred dollar tax credit?
I want my freedom, I don't want four hundred dollar tax credit.
Four hundred dollars, I'll I'll sell my freedom, but I'm not selling it for a foreign a lousy four hundred dollar tax credit from Barack Obama that comes from me in the first place.
Exactly.
Uh and uh and and she goes, Well, the state of Illinois is getting fifty million uh fifty billion dollars extra fi and and okay, that's that sounds great, doesn't it?
Where's that fifty billion coming from?
When those Navy SEALs took out the took out the three pirates uh sitting in the ship and they shot and they shot them dead, uh did they did they they say, Oh, let's have a look in the bottom of the boat.
Whoa, there's a big chest here, and it's got Whoa, who would believe it?
It's got fifty billion dollars in old gold Zanzibari doubloons.
Let's take that and give it to the Federal Treasury and they can give it to the State of Illinois.
It's rubbish.
There's only three hundred there are not enough rich people in this country, however broadly you define rich, uh to pay for what Obama is spending.
So that means the only person he can get it from is you.
And the only way he can take it from you uh is by limiting your freedom so that you're as stupid as that CNN reporter, and you think that somehow it's worth trading your liberty for a $400 tax credit.
Uh that is not yet the American way, and that battle has not yet been decisively won uh by the Liberal left.
Uh this is Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
This is Mark Stein on the uh Rush Limbaugh Show.
I've uh after after the last three hours, I've got my gay marriage answer down.
Uh I've got my swimsuit fitting in all the right places.
I'm practicing my interpretative dance routine of I Will Always Love You, and I'm off to enter Miss New Hampshire.
But uh Rush will be back on Monday, and don't forget Mark Davis will be in tomorrow to take care of business on the Rush Limbaugh Show from the EIB network.
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