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April 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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I am flattered and honored.
Now let's see if I can deserve it.
With another hour here, wrapping up the week on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Rush is back on Monday.
I know we're all looking forward to that.
And speaking of things we're looking forward to, you and I are back together here as I get to sub here in Limbaughland on Friday the eighth.
So uh much appreciate that.
If you want to stay in touch between now and then.
I know you're wondering.
I know you're kind of wondering how this would work out.
Uh here's how it worked out.
Happen to mention, happen to let on in the first hour when we were talking about Facebook and Twitter and all those technologies that I'm on Twitter at Mark Davis, all one word, Mark Davis, boom.
Uh that's been worth about 700 people in like an hour.
So thanks.
Hope I don't melt the servers there.
But it is um i it is emblematic of the kind of connectivity that we have today, and uh and and the face of that is just changing so much.
And and it's germane because it's it is going to be uh the employment of that kind of technology that's gonna lead to whether we can, you know, do a bunch of more tea parties uh on like the Fourth of July, which is already a big date we're working on uh here in the Dallas uh Fort Worth area, and that they're maybe working on up in Michigan and various other things, and because it's all uh politics forever has been all about connectivity.
Uh uh as with so many other things, maybe it's less and less face-to-face, you know, and maybe that's lamentable.
I don't know.
I mean, is is door-to-door politicking becoming less um of less retail value?
Uh because uh more and more people uh have Facebook and have Twitter and have email and and things like that.
I I, in fact, as we go back to your calls, bunch of stuff going on.
And I'm going to bring up uh a big old thing here in a minute.
And in fact, I did, I think it did at the beginning of the show.
Haven't got to it yet, but I will.
You ready?
Cameras in the Supreme Court.
This is not a drill.
Yes, we're gonna talk about this.
Good idea, bad idea, cameras in the Supreme Court.
Get ready.
In fact, join us right now at 1800-282-2882.
The subject has come up.
It's not like they're on the verge of doing it.
It'll have to be over several justices dead bodies, which actuarially speaking may happen any day.
Um but we'll just uh as a as a conceptual issue, we'll talk about whether that's a good idea or a bad idea, and I will throw down an opinion that will uh that might surprise you.
I don't know.
But um i f I've always wondered, especially since uh I mean the first I was born 1957, the first election I really remember paying any great attention to.
I mean, I remember the the TV being on in 64 for Johnson and Goldwater, and my parents being despondent for some reason for good time thereafter.
But I remember 1968, election day nineteen sixty eight, I'm about eleven, and I remembered all you know, Nixon and Humphrey and wow and all of this.
And starting then I paying attention, and then by the time it's uh you know Ford and Carter, I'm a grown-up and I'm voting and all that.
And it occurred to me through my entire life, how many times had I actually seen a presidential candidate?
Well, now the answer is a bunch because I do this for a living.
I mean, I'm at the conventions all the time, I'm doing inaugurations all the time, I'm coming to cover covering events all the time.
But just as a voter, if I did anything else for a living, would I feel a need to drive to some coffee shop, you know, so that I could uh, you know, uh listen to Mike Huckabee, or, you know, uh or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama if I were a Democrat or or whoever else.
When it comes time for 2012, I'll uh I'll be back in Iowa and in New Hampshire, where apparently success or failure is determined by how many living rooms and coffee shops and union halls you can wedge yourself into.
Why does that matter?
I mean, I guess there is always something more revealing about seeing someone in person.
I mean, I know that that I've been to events and and then seen the similar events on TV, and I've said, you know, that's not exactly like being there.
But I'll tell you what is exactly the same, what the candidate says, how the candidate comes off, and the opinion I have of uh of the content of the event.
I've often wondered if someone, I and maybe Steve Forbes tried this, God bless him, and I'm hoping you'll try it again, because I'd crawl on broken glass to vote for Steve Forbes of President.
Uh sort of run the whole thing on TV and the internet.
It's like, look, you know where I am.
I'm not gonna waste money and offend the earth.
Uh would I be great to have a Republican say I'm gonna go green?
I'm I'm not going to offend the earth by spending a gazillion dollars and and burning a gazillion gallons of fuel like Barack Obama did to go to Iowa for an Earth Day speech.
Thank you, Mark Noller, another member of the White House press corps, uh daring to uh to take a president to mild task.
But I wonder how it would go if somebody said, look, I'm gonna be on TV every couple of days, I'll tell you exactly what I'm doing.
I'm gonna have websites and webcams and this and that and Skype and Twitter and Facebook and Hamanahamina or whatever, whatever next website comes up, you're gonna know what I think.
You know, email me, I'll email you back.
We'll have town halls, we'll have virtual town halls.
Uh maybe every couple of months you have an actual town hall in some big arena or something.
But what is with the need in the twenty first century for candidates to to drag their haunches all over the hinterlands, especially in view you know how 2012 is gonna go.
Uh that in twenty we'll spend the entire year 2011.
We will spend the entire year, 2011, watching a ton of Republicans run for president of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Maybe by that time, a Democrat or two might be up for challenging the incumbent as well.
I don't know.
I'm just saying.
But this past time, of course, with Democrat and Republican field wide open.
Uh I mean, the candidate to reporter ratio was like one to one.
I mean, you couldn't turn around without running into somebody running for president.
And from Des Moines to Council Bluffs in Iowa, from from Manchester to Keene to Portsmouth in New Hampshire, it was uh I say Iowa first, Iowa First, New Hampshire second.
There's a certain charm to that in-person shake the hands retail politics.
Love it.
And and in general, I lament that we have less of that in our interpersonal relationships.
I've I've uh I'd much rather sit down and talk to you for ten minutes than talk to you on the phone for ten minutes.
Uh if it's important, I'd rather be in the room and talk to you than be on some uh big video conference call.
I lament that that we've sort of become uh distant from each other in that way.
But when it comes to running for president, if you're running for president, I don't need to meet you.
I'd be lovely, it's great.
I mean, uh uh uh it's lovely.
But what difference does it make?
I've just always, always wondered about that.
And yet, 2012, there everybody will be.
Uh that you won't you'll go scare I mean there'll be actual traffic jams in in New Hampshire and Iowa because of all the Republicans who just gotta get out there and go to five hundred and forty-three uh you know pancake breakfasts uh in um in Waterloo.
Eh, whatever works for you.
Okay, eight 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Let's take care of some folks on the phone here, and then we come back, I'll give you where we are uh on uh cameras in the supreme court.
Hmm.
We are in Pittsburgh.
Matthew, Mark Davis, fill it in for Rush.
How are you doing?
Great, thank you, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
I was just calling to address to everybody some inconsistencies of our sitting president.
Now, take my word for it, I'm against prosecuting anybody for alleged torture.
But the sitting president came forward and told the Wall Street Journal that anybody who did the torture, the CIA agents who did the torture will not be prosecuted.
Those who authorized it answered with legal, we'll be we'll be prosecuted.
This would be similar to back at the Nuremberg trials.
Those who murdered six hundred million people could walk out of the room and say, guilty of sin, free of the bird.
What a country.
Watch the decimal place there, but your point is is well taken.
I mean, whom do you if if something evil has happened, whom do you go after?
And obviously to the left, uh protecting this country with interrogations of the type that we did uh is evil.
And it's weird.
I think they're trying to come across as more measured and more reasonable by saying, hey, if they were only following orders, we'll leave them alone.
But lawyers who found a way, lawyers who found a constitutional way uh to support uh uh waterboarding or anything else, they are the ones who might be ripe for prosecution.
Can you imagine the chilling effect, looking forward, the chilling effect this will have forever on anyone asked by any president, well, I guess particularly the presidents who are interested in winning the war on terror.
Imagine the terror uh in the eyes of attorneys who are asked by a future president who's actually keeping the country safe.
Uh Bill, I'd like for you to write me an opinion because there's something I'd like to do.
Uh There's that delicate balance between safety and security.
I want to make sure I'm on the right side of the law, but there's something I want to do that's pretty aggressive, and I really want to try to keep America safe in this way.
You go write me a memo and and and about your I think you'd hear their tires squealing in the parking lot.
Mr. President, I'd love to do that, but not if I'm going to be in prison placed there by your Democrat successor.
Just insane how this witch hunt mentality has come alive.
And um So there we are.
I mean, as the one of the main themes of the day, for for many, simply differing is not enough.
Uh simply winning the historical battle is not enough.
And that's what's funny about the left is they, I think they really do believe that 10, 15, 20 years from now, that America and the world will look back and say that they were right, that for them to be panty wastes and softies on terror will be viewed as admirable.
I hope I'm around to see the looks on their faces as President Bush is vindicated for this war, as the troops themselves so thoroughly maligned by the mirths and reeds and pelosi of this era, as these brave men and women who have fought under that commander-in-chief who did keep America safe as they are vindicated and held up by history.
It might take a generation, but it will happen.
Here's something else that'll happen.
More of your calls.
Next.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis filling it on the EIB network.
Do you want cameras in the Supreme Court?
Cover it next for you.
Great Metallica record that is actually my personal energy policy.
Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.
And uh keep your green technologies until I know that they work and I can afford them.
That's great.
James Hetfield determining energy policy.
God knows we could do worse.
We could do worse.
In fact, we are doing worse.
The shameful moment of the week, something for which the competition is always fierce in these ghastly opening 100 days.
You know, i if someone if someone gets up and weaves a tail of coastlines swallowed by massive waves, if someone weaves a tail of entire Caribbean nations swallowed by the roiling seas.
If that comes from the word processor of a disaster film screenwriter, okay.
That's fine.
But when it comes from an actual speech, an actual speech by a sitting Secretary of Energy, Stephen Chu.
This was in Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, the uh summit of the Americas.
He scared the holy hell out of an entire country, essentially saying, hey, this uh this little sliver of land that we're sitting on, eh, it's just probably not gonna be here soon.
And the only small problem with that is that there is simply no evidence of that.
I mean, but this doesn't matter to these people.
It doesn't matter to these people.
And again, this is a level of worship, and I'm sure you've heard a number of times the uh the metaphor, the analogy of um of environmental extremism taking on the trappings of religious fervor, which it certainly does, the global warming panic cult.
This guy is a scientist.
And I I wrote a column about this on Earth Day this past week was Earth Day and also my son Ethan's sixth birthday.
So for different reasons, I'll be celebrating Earth Day every day for the rest of my life.
And the column I wrote about that, if you want to see my rantings, you go to Dallas News.com/slash opinion, Dallas News.com.
Of course, I can probably put that on Twitter for the nine million of you who are now following me.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh But my point there was um that I hoped for future Earth Days to be opportunities for a rational, reasoned debate between uh people not between people who want to love the planet and people who love productivity, because we all should love both, but on how best to strike the balance between keeping between treating the planet well,
which I always want to do, and uh not looting the livelihoods uh of those who inhabit it.
You know, is they these are not mutually exclusive goals.
And to have the actual energy secretary, an actual scientist weaving this this this science fiction, and that's exactly what it is.
I just shameful.
But of course, he is um but one of a number of um kind of funny, is he a disciple of Al Gore or is Al Gore the um the bored ex-vice president who's a disciple of all the scientists who are uh um dragging us down this road of panic because there was uh a big hearing on matters like this uh th today.
And um the skeptics were largely uh uh barred, drowned out, but that that's not gonna happen along the major landscape, because if there is any change in the last few years on the global warming debate, um it is that it has become harder and harder for anyone from Al Gore to any other environmental extremist to say that there is no debate.
Of course there is.
You can pretend that there's not, but there is.
And the and there's a growing number of actual scientists willing to to sprout the courage uh to say so.
And it requires courage to say so because the uh the the the mantra, the narrative, the uh the orthodoxy of way too much of science is that if you run afoul of the man-made global warming narrative, you do it at your financial and reputational peril.
So uh to whatever extent that might be changing some, and I think it is.
Well, God bless those courageous enough to fight that fight.
All right, let's see what's going on telephonically here.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in 1800-282-2882-1800-282-288-2, as we travel next to Staten Island, New York.
Hey, Vince, Mark Davis, how are you?
How are you today?
What's up in that fine borough?
Uh not too much.
Yeah.
Trying to liar trying to duck and dodge the uh union nonsense that's going on over here that also is spilling over into the uh national level.
Like how?
Well, if you look at Obama when he got in his third day in office, he wrote two executive orders that no one seems to know about on government contracts, uh, because I'm a contractor myself, and uh the unions basically put me out of business twice, and I ain't getting a third shot at it.
He wrote two executive orders.
One that says any government contracts that are let out of twenty-five million dollars or larger has to go to a union company, which basically goes against all competitive bidding laws.
Of course it does.
And um he wrote another one which uh he wrote an executive order that says that if the unions have the rights to come down to your shop, and if more than fifty-one percent of the people that belong to your shop want to join the union, then you have no choice but to join the union.
Your company would have to join the union, even though you don't want to.
I know.
Look at the degree to which that perverts the the marketplace.
Uh in in right to work states like the one I'm proud to live in here in Texas.
Uh if if you want to join a union, join a union.
If you want to form a union, form a union, but you don't have to, and if there is one, you don't have to join it.
A completely foreign concept for those who seek compulsory union attendance and who now seek to make it everybody's business how you vote on that unionization balance.
So Vince, keep fighting the good fighting good for you, and and God bless New York.
Uh New York takes a New York's taking it on the chin from this show lately.
Oh man.
And uh and listen, I've I've listened and smiled along with everybody.
Uh I've listened.
The state of New York is beautiful.
I love going to New York City, also love coming home.
Uh but but Russia's travails and trials and tribulations of just the handful of days that he goes up to New York when hurricanes threaten to eat the Florida coastline, which they're doing, by the way, with no greater frequency, no matter what Al Gore says.
Um kind of a sleepy time hurricane-wise lately, hasn't it?
Explain that to me, Al.
But uh Russia's pretty well done with a magnificent American city.
New York is great.
It's wonderful.
If you haven't been, you gotta go.
It's great.
But it will beat you down.
It will eat you alive in terms of taxes.
And what a shame that is.
What a horrible, horrible shame that is.
So I want to throw some props to New York, because it's an unbelievable city.
There is no comparison.
Uh and the state is great.
Boy, you know some honestly.
I'm does Giuliani really want to be governor.
Is there any job that Rudy Giuliani wants short of President of the United States?
I don't know.
More in a moment, I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
We're in the home stretch here, final half hour of the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Little Stevie Nicks.
Fleetwood Mac touring this summer.
Go see him.
They're good.
Still good.
Some folks can still get the job done, you know.
It's funny.
It's funny.
Some people you figure can tour just forever.
But to take a quick step into the mire of popular culture this past week on Idle.
Boy, they trot out Frida Payne and Thelma Houston and Casey of Casey and the Sunshine Band.
Yeah, it it it it warmed the cockles of my memory, but woof.
It's just uh whatever.
But you know, here's the thing.
Both both Thelma Houston and Frida Pain.
And it was a tribute to disco, and there's Frida Pain doing Band of Gold.
What's that about?
It was 1970.
Disco didn't come around for like half a decade.
It's like a tribute to heavy metal.
Here's the guess who.
What?
Anyway.
Music Dork, I apologize.
But uh there are a lot of it's it's what is it?
It's two thousand uh nine, right?
And um work uh the gosh.
Just truly amazing the folks that are still touring and the and the people whom you can still see.
Because I remember thinking, wow, you know, as Mick Jagger is still gonna be out there, you know, uh touring with the stones when he's fifty?
Fifty.
You know, and and uh and Paul McCartney's in his mid-sixties now and still out there.
Pretty wild, pretty well.
All right, uh finally, real quick.
Cameras in the Supreme Court.
Good idea, bad idea.
What led to a little bit of coverage of this is that U.S. Supreme Court announced this week that they will release audio tapes very quickly after some arguments coming next week over uh some voting rights act uh provisions.
Uh the Supreme Court has banned cameras forever, uh, prohibits reporters from using tape recorders.
They will sometimes release their own audio on a somewhat delayed basis, which is why you can sometimes find tapes of old cases, which are always fascinating.
Uh they're gonna do a really prompt release of audio from the April 29th voting rights arguments, and it got some people talking and thinking and blogging about, you know, we we got cameras everywhere else.
People said, Oh, don't put them in the House of Representatives, and they did.
And doesn't everybody recognize that that's good.
They put them in the Senate, and everybody went, Oh, don't do that.
Like having it in the house was different than having it in the Senate.
No, and that was fine.
And then, of course, we got to, you know, cameras in the courtrooms.
This was always a no-brainer for me.
That is the public's business going on in those courtrooms.
You and I deserve to be able to see it on television.
Now it must not be oppressive, and they don't have big, you know, stands with 47 cameras.
It tends to be one pool camera, and everybody feeds off of it.
And don't even dare to talk to me about O.J. Thank God for cameras in the OJ uh trial.
Because that way all the ridiculousness that went on, which would have gone on anyway.
You think Johnny Cochran would have been measured and reasonable?
You think he wouldn't have played the race card without cameras?
He didn't care about you watching in uh, you know, Sheboygan or Sherman, Texas.
He cared about the people in that jury box whose minds he successfully infected in order to uh uh to snag an acquittal.
No, cameras in the courtroom are uh have proven meaningless to the outcomes, except that we get to see those outcomes and can thus judge the quality of justice.
Without cameras, we wouldn't have been able to judge that that the OJ trial was a travesty.
We wouldn't be able to uh base our opinions on what actually happened in the courtroom.
It would be from uh, you know, entertainment tonight chasing down Fay Resnick on the steps of the courthouse.
Thank God for cameras in the courtrooms of America, in the House and in the Senate.
So why not the Supreme Court?
Even I take a pause and take a breath at this because I don't know, there's something about the lofty decorum of the Supreme Court.
You know, it's like, wow, that would be a big deal.
And I and knowing obviously that that a ton of the justices hate the idea.
Uh Justice David Souter has said that you'll get cameras uh invited to the Supreme Court, quote, over my dead body.
And uh John Roberts, during his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts said he was open to the idea.
He said, I don't have a set view on that.
So it'd be pretty wild.
It's kind of it's kind of wacky to the sensibilities.
I I would just do it uh to to uh d to to to watch Antonin Scalia.
And to and to learn, oh, by the way, that Clarence Thomas does open his mouth from time to time, more than his critics would have you know.
And when he does, it is genius, and you would see it and you would know it.
And this is weird.
I have a suspicion.
I have a suspicion.
May I share it?
It is that there are many of you who t uh twenty years ago, ten, fifteen years ago, would have really said no to cameras in the Supreme Court, but now you might really want them.
You might be warming to the idea because it would enable people to see.
When uh you know, John Paul Stevens or or Stephen Breyer or or when Kennedy goes wacky, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you know, invokes foreign law, or they start making up stuff and turning the Constitution of the United States into some social project Petri dish, you'd see it and have video of it and audio of it and say, Look, that's what we're talking about.
That's what we're talking about about an activist judiciary.
So um I've always been about cameras everywhere the public's business is being done.
Uh Rick Attig of the Oregonian out of Portland uh has a great little paragraph here.
He says, I've always thought it wrong that Americans are invited to watch gavel to gavel television coverage of bizarre celebrity trials, but they're not allowed to tune in and see the Supreme Court grapple with religious freedom, affirmative action, the right to die.
So uh I don't know.
I don't know how this, you know, affects your day, but big thumbs up from me.
For cameras in the Supreme Court.
Who's with me?
We'll find the answer to that musical question here in a minute.
For now, let's go to some folks who have been hanging on on other previously brought up things on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis in Texas filling in for Rush.
He is back on Monday.
I'm back filling in on the eighth of May.
Always a joy.
1800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Let us head up to Wisconsin, Stevens Point to be exact.
Randall, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Mark.
I've been reading Alexander Sultanitson lately, since he died last summer, our library had this promo, and I picked it up and started reading about the United States.
Uh it looked an awful lot like Stalinism.
Uh starting with the Supreme Court issues interesting.
Uh Sultanaton said that uh evil gains its power in the dark and trial secrecy was probably their greatest route to power.
Well, well, absolutely true.
And let me uh give you a bookend story, Randall, and thank you.
Uh i at the uh at the Dallas uh Tea Party, we had a a bunch of speakers, a ton of speakers.
And uh and one of them was a gentleman who had escaped Cuba within the year after Castro took over.
And I and and I know i it's easy to to be generic overreactor guy and say, Obama, he is Castro, he's Hitler.
I mean, you know, please, you can you can find all of that.
But th the way to to go at this is not to overstate it, but also not to understate it.
And what this gentleman did he gave a a list of events of things he saw through his own eyes in nineteen fifty-nine and sixty as Cuba came under the clutches of the communist murderer Fidel Castro.
And the list of things that he said happened had way too much overlap with the United States in two thousand nine to make anybody comfortable.
Is it this is it apples and apples?
Of course not.
But even to lean, to walk, to to have a flavor in that direction toward that kind of communism and Marxism should shock every American.
In Albuquerque, let us head to Monica Lynn.
Love the two names.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you doing?
Great.
How are you doing?
Great.
Good.
Um well the reason I was calling you is I really appreciated hearing what you were saying about um pushing more forward toward the town hall view of meeting online and getting organizations to get together and do things.
I mean it's more about setting the example, you know, and if we're trying to set the example I feel as a conservative, it's up to us to set an example and um I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but I recently experienced this and that's why I really appreciate what you're saying.
I um was nominated as the president of the environmental club for my community college here.
And so I thought, you know, if we are a sustainably focused student organization, we should really set the examples for our school by meeting online and projecting this new look.
You know, it's not thirty people don't really have time to drive each individually to the campus to meet and maybe be productive.
And so we um as the student group thought maybe we should get together online on like Facebook or whatever, like you've been mentioning, and um conduct our forums on there and then all of our interaction is documented via text and it's all there, you know.
And so we organized our entire Earth Day event and uh it was all set up.
I had uh quite a few exhibitors and it was free.
We produced it for no money by being able to do this, and yet my advisor wouldn't sign any of the paperwork just because it wasn't held in the old fashioned form.
Whoa, okay.
I've I've a couple of questions.
First, the because uh is Ms. Monica Lynn.
Let's see how this worked out.
So y this w first of all, I guess how'd you wind up r because I'm gonna presume that you were not exactly Al Gore in address, how'd you wind up running the environmental club at this school?
Well, um I was actually elected vice president and for this semester the president couldn't be enrolled in school.
So they said they asked me to move up to that position.
Fantastic.
So and you mentioned uh that it was free, but but this does this technology does cost some money.
I mean, so where did the hardware and software and stuff come from that would enable you to hold this thing virtually?
Well, actually, um one of the volunteers that joined the group, uh, she offered to volunteer and be our communications officer.
So she set up a Facebook group site that people could go and be a part of.
We looked into using our school website, but the server just wasn't strong enough to handle it.
So the advisor for this club, the advisor for the club nixed this virtual, very green, very uh earth friendly thing b because you and you feel that it would have been green lighted if you had held it in a building on the campus.
Right.
Well what she said is as soon as you um can get that meeting together of thirty people, then I'll go ahead and meet with you guys and take care of it.
And she canceled the event the day before the event happened because you know, nobody's schedules are really available in order to be able to meet and drive to campus, and that's the thing, you know, that we're trying to focus on.
I I don't want to smell a rat that's not there, but is it p is it possible that there was uh that there was a kind of a feeling that your environmental meeting might not have had the earth first green piece flavor that some people want environmental meetings to have.
Uh not in my opinion, I don't think it really had that feeling because we weren't supported from the superiors that really determined if the event happened or not.
Well, in that case is just nutty.
So some things are just dumb.
Thanks for the story.
God bless you, appreciate talking to you and uh uh higher education.
Hey, while we're talking about uh b if fans of David Horowitz, go get one party classroom, his latest uh uh tome about uh a wacky left uh academia, one party classroom day by David Horowitz.
How did we get to the point where you have to walk through a minefield of liberal professors uh almost everywhere you go?
All right, uh more calls, more book plugs, who knows what lies ahead.
It's Mark Davis filling in for Rush, and we'll be right back.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Shaw for a Friday.
I'm Mark Davis, getting into the weekend here.
Rush will be back right after this weekend, I'll be back on Monday.
Very cool and looking forward to that.
All right, let's see whom we can make room for here in our waning minutes.
Let me use a gentleman who's gonna help me segue into a piece of audio I've wanted to play all day long.
So if he doesn't mind being used in that fashion, we go to Greeley, Colorado.
Hello, Bill, Mark Davis here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you doing?
Good Mark, how are you?
Great.
Hey, I yeah, I just my my question is I keep hearing all this stuff uh from the left saying that uh you know our so called torture techniques that we employed has done more harm than good to America.
I guess I'd just like to know more details about that because uh my question is does that mean that uh radical Islamists who already want us extinct want us to be twice as dead?
Now they're really upset.
On 911 on 911, they were angry.
Now they're really angry.
Bill, uh thank you for the springboard into this.
Appreciate your call.
Uh the the mythology here is so rampant and must be dismantled, and uh in and I'll try to do it here in a limited amount of time.
Uh you surely you've heard people say, well, the war has just made uh is been a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.
Well, no kidding.
I bet the Germans and the Japanese were not thrilled by World War II.
Should we have stopped World War II because it made them mad?
When you go to war against someone, it's going to make them mad.
Uh and now we go to uh Congressman Dana Rohabacher, who for twenty years represented parts of LA County, Orange County, Huntington Beach, et cetera, et cetera.
And he is talking to Secretary of State Clinton.
And he, you know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna set up the tease.
Here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna pause, gonna come back.
You're here.
Dana Rohrerbacher, ask Hillary Clinton.
Look, will you are you in favor of releasing the memos Dick Cheney once released that show how the interrogations worked?
Her answer speaks volumes, and you'll hear it next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Don't move.
Somebody should have rolled out with this uh for idle disco week.
Maybe this could have saved Lil Rounds.
I don't know.
Nothing was saving Lil.
She had committed the sin of becoming dull.
Anyway.
Let's uh we've got about a minute here, and that's all it'll take.
Here we go, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California uh asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about uh Dick Cheney's wish to release memos, some other memos that might actually show that the interrogations worked.
Well, Madam Secretary, getting all out in the open, uh Dick Cheney says that the documents that have been released by the administration tend to show a negative picture of those people who were protecting us against terrorists.
And he says there are other uh specif there are several specific documents that are being kept classified uh by the administration that would show that those that any time there was a problem, people tried to correct it.
Uh are you in favor of releasing the documents that Dick Cheney has been requesting be released?
Well, it won't surprise you that uh I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information.
Uh Madam Madam Secretary, I ask you a specific question.
Where are you uh Dick Cheney has asked for specific documents to be unclassified?
We're not asking for your opinion of Dick Cheney about those documents.
You want to maintain your credibility with us.
What is your position on the release of those documents?
Congressman Rohrbacher's time immediately came to an end, and I know it's easy to get conspiratorial about that, but they're usually pretty reliable.
I'm keeping that.
Uh but she knew what the question was and um conveniently chose uh not to answer it, because that would involve not just uh throwing mud at Dick Cheney or spitting on his good name, uh, but rather actually uh talking about what uh former Vice President Cheney wanted, and that's the release of memos that would have shown that these interrogation techniques, so controversial, so reviled by the left, actually kept their uh kept their sorry hides safe.
They just don't appreciate it.
Well, I tell you what I appreciate.
Kit Ned and the whole crew of EIB, thank you, Rush, for letting me uh hang out here today.
We'll do it again uh Friday, May 8th.
Meanwhile, Rush is back on Monday, and that is cause for celebration.
Have a fantastic weekend.
Enjoy your friends, your family, and God bless America and our troops and you.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis.
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