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May 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Oh, where even the substitute hosts have more fun than a substitute host deserves to have.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, and Rush is back on Monday.
So smiles all around for that.
Hope you have a fantastic weekend.
One of the things that is central to this weekend, and I guess here come these floodgates, let me put it in with everything else we've been talking about.
Lots of what one would expect in the midst of a topical Friday, future of the Republican Party, duplicitousness of the Democrats, the almost hourly annoyances of the Obama regime.
Oh, we've done all of that.
But since it's Friday and since it's me, it's going to wander pretty far afield on a couple of things.
So I'm just going to essentially say three words, Star Trek movie.
That's it.
Thank you very much.
Good night.
It's all the time we have.
No, I'm actually going to go to the Archbishop slamming the Obama appearance at Notre Dame because I am intrigued by this.
Didn't Carter go to Notre Dame?
I mean, I mean, it's not like every president to speak at Notre Dame has been, you know, pro-life Republican.
Sometimes it's like Notre Dame.
It's like, wow, it's the president.
So okay, okay.
And I've sort of been willing to, you know, live with that up to a point.
But this is the president who went to Georgetown and said, cover up the Jesus stuff.
This is a president whose enthusiasm for the termination of pregnancies seems to be unprecedented.
So I'm intrigued by that story, and I'm going to share that story, in fact, right now.
But as I do, I kind of want to know about the Star Trek movie, if it's okay.
A couple of things.
And please, no plot developments, no giveaways, none of this, but I'm fascinated by the franchise.
I am 51.
So when Star Trek first aired, I'm like eight.
And at first it was like, what?
What's this?
Being a dumb kid, I was kind of more of a Lost in Space guy, which is just stupid.
I watch old Lost in Spaces now where almost all of the aliens seem to be made from vacuum cleaner parts from the studio closet.
And sorry, kids already invoking Dr. Smith.
And there was a cartoon.
Oh, I'm going to mess this up.
Oh, God, give me strength.
There was a cartoon, one of those single-panel cartoons that just showed the ridiculousness of Lost in Space.
It essentially involved John Robinson, right?
It was the patriarch of all of this.
And his kids, he had two, you know, sort of semi-hot daughters, and then there was annoying adolescent Will.
And it was the one panel thing was John Robinson telling his daughters to go off with, you know, with Don, who only could have horrible motives for hanging out with Penny and whoever they were.
And then the other line was, and Will, pointing over to Dr. Smith and Will, Will, I want you to run off with this mincing, boy-hungry pedophile.
And I'm sorry, I've been laughing at that for 15 years, and it just doesn't translate on radio.
I apologize.
So anyway, so I was kind of doing the Lost in Space thing.
And then I guess I turned nine or turned 10.
And that's probably season two, season three or whatever.
And all my friends started to say, wow, are you watching Star Trek?
Are you watching Star Trek?
It's so cool.
And I started to, and of course, that's a bug that bit and has not let go for, you know, more than 40 years.
Is it campy?
Of course.
Is it sometimes simplistic?
Of course.
Is it sometimes absurdly overacted?
Of course.
But there is a charm to the original Star Trek that it's just, it is stop-down television for me.
If I'm doing cable laps, you're going to go, boop, And it's just bam.
There's Trouble with Tribbles, or For the World is Hollow and I've Touched the Sky, or Turnabout Intruder, which I guess was the last episode ever, or The Man Trap, which I guess was the first After the Cage, you know, blah, blah, blah episode ever.
And I just instantly, I will always just and log at least four or five minutes of what's going on on the Enterprise.
It's just that compelling.
And I don't know if it's just the nostalgia thing, but there's a lot of other stuff that was on in the mid-60s that I recognize then and recognize now was crap.
You know, so I mean, if they start tossing up episodes of My Mother the Car, I ain't stopping down for them.
So that to me is a little bit of testimony to the enduring greatness of Star Trek.
My devotion to it ran so deep and so unhealthily that when somebody in a free country decided some 20 years later, hey, let's do an offshoot of this, Star Trek the Next Generation, right, with Captain Picard and Data and all of that good stuff.
Oh, I could not hide my bitterness.
I was so resentful.
What?
Someone else is going to wear those logos on their Banlon shirts?
Captain Picard?
What kind of frothy Euro nonsense is that?
The captain needs to be from Iowa, not from the suburbs of Marseille.
Captain Picard, Jean-Luc Picard at that.
I spit in the general direction of this new show.
But then something happened.
I actually watched it, and it's great.
You know it was great.
I mean, that's 20 years ago now.
Next Generation and the storylines that it wove, the bulg and all of that.
And it entertained a whole new generation of dorks and me as well, even though I was well into adulthood by then.
Next Generation was, in fact, it is an enormously loftier, better product than the original show by every definition.
Acting talent, writing talent, special effects.
I mean, please, it owns the first series.
But the first series is what's in my heart and in my head and in my childhood.
So that's what's all going to mean way more to me.
Then they came up with Voyager and Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Barbados with Jeff Probst.
I mean, just so many.
It's just like, oh, stop it, stop it, make it stop.
And I didn't care about any of those.
And quite frankly, I haven't thought about any of the above for most of the last decade.
Been kind of busy.
Then came the word, the buzz, that they're going to make sort of the ultimate prequel a movie that comes out now, but is placed on the timeline previous to anything you've ever seen before.
When Kirk and Spock and Dr. McCoy, sorry, who was the comedian?
Who was the comedian?
It's just doing the Star Trek thing.
The most ordinary thing sets off bones.
The most ordinary thing sets off DeForest Kelly as Dr. McCoy.
He's the most easily irascible character in the history of television.
And one comedian, I don't know, I've probably been laughing about this for 25 years.
I don't know who it was.
You know, you're on the Enterprise.
Captain Kirk turns to Bones, says, Excuse me, Doctor, would you hand me that tray right there?
Damn it, Jim.
I'm a doctor, not a busboy.
But they're all young.
Kirk and Spock and Dr. McCoy are all, you know, what are they?
They're all kids.
I mean, not kids, kids, but I don't know how far back they go, but it's before any of them are ever on the Enterprise as the adult selves, as the 30-ish, 40-ish guy that Kirk was or however many centuries-old spy.
Whatever.
And I looked at this and I said, well, okay, if it's good, if it's good, I'll be on board.
And it apparently is.
It is apparently magnificent.
I sure hope so.
I probably can't drag myself into a theater until like Monday afternoon.
So I'm, as I said, going to weave some other topical things here.
But if you, and you know, many of you have seen it.
There were evening showings all over the place last night, midnight showings, blah, blah, blah.
And maybe some of you caught it even earlier today.
Let me know.
Does it honor the franchise?
That's all I want.
Honor the franchise and be good.
The show needs to be two things for two different movie-going populations.
It needs to be good enough so that people who have no knowledge or even concept of the Star Trek franchise can go and have a good two hours and 10 minutes or whatever.
And for those of us for whom this may be one of the most favorite TV memories of our lives, it needs to honor those sensibilities.
And just from reading the reviews, and I think I threw this down last time I was on the show.
Let me do it for you again.
Metacritic.com.
M-E-T-A-C-R-I-T-I-C.
Nothing like web surfing on the radio.
I'm web surfing on the Limbaugh show.
There are no rules.
Metacritic is essentially a compendium of every review that's out of every movie that's out.
Boom.
And they give every movie a score.
And the reviews on this are just, I mean, it's got an 84, which is just off the charts.
You think, yeah, but that's only a B.
No, no, no, no, that's not how Metacritic goes.
A horrible, I mean, a review that hates it is a zero.
A reviewer that loves it is 100.
A reviewer that's, eh, you know, it's okay, is a 50.
So it's a full hundred scale.
So 84.
I mean, there's what's higher than 84 right now in Metacritic.
That would be nothing.
Coraline, Adventureland, Gran Torino, 72, 76, stuff like that.
Nothing ever gets the 90s except maybe the Godfather, you know, box set.
So every reviewer in this thing has just absolutely loved the new Star Trek movie.
A, does it deserve that?
And B, what's the youngest kid that you'd be comfortable with in there?
Because I got a six-year-old who wants to see it.
And I had to tell him on day one, sorry, buddy.
Inappropriate.
I'm so very sorry, but just not going.
And it's like, oh, bummer.
Now, here's the thing.
The way I instantly knew this is they've apparently, you know, thrown some sex in there.
And the first thing that makes me think is, oh, God, they had to do that to pander to whoever.
But I said that on my local show this morning and somebody called me and said, no, no, no, no, Mark, follow your own advice.
Follow your own advice withhold judgment until you have seen it.
So I will.
And because what this caller told me is that however long there is some sexual content in the Star Trek movie is, to quote him, vital to the plot.
Well, I don't know what movies I can really recall in which a sex scene was vital to the plot.
I'm sure there are a couple.
But that's what I'm told.
And it doesn't come across as gratuitous and it doesn't come across as cheap and it doesn't come across as tawdry.
And it is what it is.
And that's why this thing is a PG-13.
But the most important thing is it is apparently magnificent and it drops all the references you'd want, fills up some early history that you'd want and just is apparently just, just wonderful.
So good.
Now, if that pretty well is the case, then good, be happy and listen to the show and get on me about some other topic.
If anything I've just laid out is completely wrong in your view and you think, no, it was terrible or no, the sex was gratuitous and awful and oh, or no, they haven't, then give me it.
Feel free to give me a shot as I proceed on, if I may, with some of the other topical matter that I had envisioned for this hour.
The phone number, as you all know, is 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
When we come back, well, ask what you will, and it shall be done.
I got some folks on the line who've seen the Star Trek movie.
But the first thing I will do is tell you about the continuing controversy as the date draws nearer for President Obama at Notre Dame.
We can do all, we can multitask.
We, the Limbaugh audience, is certainly able to keep all these topical fruit in the air at the same time.
So, Mark Davis filling in for Rush, and I'll be right back.
Now, they're doing this just for me.
I'm sure Russia is a fan of this as well.
You tossed me down some deep purple highway star, and I am ready to rule.
Mark Davis in for Rush on a Friday from the same album that gave us smoke on the water, the greatness of machine head.
Okay, let's this is just really, really getting ugly.
And the debate can be had about a Catholic university and whether what it stands for is tossed in the ash heap if a president with differing moral views sets foot on the campus or delivers the commencement address and gets an honorary degree.
So, needless to say, Barack Obama is already head out there, South Bend next weekend, and there's a large group of people who are not thrilled, some of them at the Vatican.
One of the Vatican's highest-ranked clerics and a frequent critic of President Obama, do you think, said today that Notre Dame is causing a scandal by giving the president an honorary degree and a platform to address graduates at its commencement next weekend?
The proposed grant, here's the quote, the proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our president, who is so aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda, is rightly the source of the greatest scandal.
This is Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, which is the Vatican's highest court.
He used to be Archbishop of St. Louis and a vocal opponent of giving communion to politicians who support abortion rights.
Remember this with John Kerry in 2004?
There was the question that was asked: you know, if you're a, I've asked it many, many times, you know, maybe, I don't know, we either really want to do this or really don't want to do this next time I guest host, if in fact I ever do.
And that is, what is up with Democratic Catholics?
I mean, how exactly does that work?
How, as Catholics, can you belong to a party one of whose basic tenets is to be cavalier about the unborn?
I mean, I guess I don't, what am I expecting?
For every Catholic to be a Republican?
I don't know.
I mean, I know there are Catholics who are liberal on certain things, and the Democratic Party would be their natural default setting.
But when you get to the unborn, I'm just going to say that, oh, boy, does Rush need these emails?
Can you be a Democrat and a Catholic in good standing at the same time?
You know, hey, please tell me how you can.
You got 35 minutes for somebody to tell me how you can.
That way I will absorb.
I'll take that hint so that nobody calls Rush on Monday and says, what are you doing with the fill-in hosts?
So anyway, that's so there's this amazing atmosphere of tension that is developing toward this.
I just don't even know how this is going to go.
Because you know what happened when the president wanted to go to Georgetown?
They called Georgetown and said, yeah, you know, the IHS thing, the Jesus imagery, yeah, you need to cover that up.
And I don't know what angers me more, that the White House called and asked him to do it or that Georgetown agreed to do it.
So, you know, there's Georgetown.
There's Notre Dame.
Catholic universities willing to just give the back of their hand to some of the most basic things about their belief in order to accommodate this president.
But as soon as I say that, again, then you have to ask yourself, well, what?
So no Democrat president ever will get invited to Notre Dame ever.
Well, one possible answer is, yeah, exactly.
So, you know, next question.
I mean, Carter was there.
And there is a way.
I mean, I all want us to be able to, you know, in a way, get along.
And when I say discourse or dialogue, there doesn't need to be any discourse or dialogue between Notre Dame and President Obama on the subject of abortion.
Because Notre Dame ain't going to change its mind, or shouldn't.
The Catholic faith ain't going to change its mind.
And somehow I don't think President Obama is either.
So discourse is useless.
What you really have there is just shunting it aside, just shelving that.
It's like, okay, there's going to be stuff we disagree about, but it's the president of the United States, and he's going to come to our commencement, and that's lovely.
It's not like President Obama is going to get out there at the commencement and have a pep rally for partial birth abortion.
There's no way you would touch any portion of that subject.
But the imagery, the significance of the thoughts in his head and the words that have come from his mouth.
Taking the stage at this commencement and getting the honorary degree.
That's a whole other deal, man.
All right.
We're going to move lightning fast here, but let's let our first guy on here go to Mountainville, Pennsylvania, Bruce, Mark Davis.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Understand you saw the movie and big thumbs up.
Good afternoon, Mark.
Yes, I did.
It was fantastic.
I loved it.
I will definitely see it again.
I watched the original series as a kid because I'm about the same age you are.
When I was overseas in the military, we actually would send home for it to have copies of it sent over to us.
On big, clunky VHS tapes or what?
Well, these were the military big clunky VHS tapes, which were even bigger and clunkier than what most Americans are used to for VHS.
I mean, these things, they had to be like three inches thick.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Yes.
What's that?
A missile launching device?
No, man.
No, it was very early stuff, and they used a three-inch-wide magnetic tape.
But, oh, I loved it.
I will absolutely go see it again.
Now, I saw it in IMAX, and actually, that was the first time I've ever been in an IMAX theater.
Yeah, I've done it a couple of, and I got to scoot.
I've done that for a couple of things, like some wildlife thing at a local museum.
Somebody else saw it in the IMAX.
Let me see how that works out for everybody.
Oh, my.
Oh, my.
Well, I've done it now, haven't I?
Mark Davis in for Rush, back with more of your calls coming up in just a moment.
And but a slim half hour of that remains.
And then the week is done, and into the weekend we go, and Rush returns on Monday.
I know I join a fellow fill-in host and yesterday's fill-in host, Mark Stein, in thanking Rush for the opportunity to be here and thanking you for your accommodating us.
All right.
Since the Star Trek floodgates are open and I've got to ask somebody about the whole IMAX thing, I am going to balance out this unfettered dorkery with some actual news stories from the day and just sort of go back and forth and back and forth.
Whatever anybody wants to call them out, they may.
That, after all, is the spirit of Open Line Friday.
1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
So what does Defense Secretary Robert Gates think about the flyover, the Air Force One photo shoot that scared the living daylights out of the city of New York a few weeks back?
Well, the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has ordered a review of notification procedures for high-visibility training events, such as the Air Force One photo shoot that flew over the Manhattan skyline last month, striking fear into the hearts of New Yorkers.
Now, let's pardon right now.
Let's pause right now.
Pardon me.
Training events.
Excuse me.
This was not a training event.
This was an image event.
In a letter responding to a request by Senator John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary Gates wrote that he was concerned that the public had not been adequately informed about the flyover.
Quote, I am concerned that this highly public and visible mission did not include an appropriate public affairs plan nor adequate review and approval by senior Air Force and Department of Defense officials.
Really?
Really?
So if they'd actually issued a news release, this would have been okay?
You have got to be kidding me.
This was a horrible idea from Square One.
The minute, the minute someone, I don't know who, from the president on down to a White House janitor, the moment someone said, hey, here's an idea.
Let's get a postcard style, beautiful shot of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop.
The minute someone said that, someone else in the room should have said, are you insane?
We're going to fly a jet over lower Manhattan at an altitude low enough to make the picture make sense?
We're going to do that?
What makes you think that there is any kind of public notification process that will insulate us from the certain panic that will ensue?
If it had been on every TV station in New York, Air Force One flyover just for pictures.
Don't worry about it.
It ain't 9-11 again this time.
So don't worry about it.
It's just a photo shoot.
That could have been on every radio station, every TV station, every 10 minutes for a week leading up to the event.
And let's say that would have blanketed, oh, I'm really going to be generous here, 75% of New Yorkers.
That still leaves 25% of millions of people who would have freaked out.
But, you know, I'm inclined to, you know, to have some respect for Defense Secretary Gates.
You know, he seemed like he was, you know, he wants to win the war, I guess, you know, right?
And that's lovely.
Boy, that returning, the returning coffins at Dover.
It's kind of funny.
It's like a similar theme.
Here's another thing that he was willing to accommodate.
The minute, the minute someone said, hey, this was at a White House news conference.
The minute someone said, hey, let's start allowing video of our returning soldiers coming back in their coffins at Dover.
There is only one answer to that, and that answer is no.
For the dignity of the procedure, for the concerns of the families, and I love this.
They said, well, if the family says it's okay, we'll do it.
Well, guess what?
Excuse me.
Two reasons that's not okay.
Number one, nobody should be badgering the family.
You know, oh, please let us do it.
Please let us do it.
Come on, come on, come on.
We'll tell your son's story.
If it's the media badgering them or somebody else badgering, oh, come on, let's honor your son by having that footage on CNN.
Nobody should, no, no, just no.
And number two, and sorry about this, it's not just about them.
If, God forbid, and so that I don't seem like a complete, you know, heartless whatever, I'll make it about me.
And believe you me, I don't enjoy saying this next paragraph.
God forbid, no one would be prouder than if my son were to grow up and be in the military.
If, God forbid, he gives his life, well, he dies.
I'd be proud that he gave his life for my country, but if, God forbid, he should die.
And his remains come back and come out the back of a transport plane at Dover.
I'm not the only person whose business that is.
It is the country's business.
And just because I have a moment where I might kind of think that I'd sort of like the footage of his returning remains to be on MSNBC, maybe we as a nation are not served well by the availability of this footage and the presenting of it to and then by a dominant media culture that lives to talk this war down.
It's not about me.
It's not even about him.
It's about are the country's interests well represented by having this footage available for dissemination behind the heads of anchors who seek to make you feel as bad about the war as they do.
And if one more person steps forward and says, oh, they're trying to hide the cost of war, hide the cost of war, who doesn't know the cost of war?
Who doesn't know?
Who didn't know when the death toll hit 4,000?
I mean, it's like they were popping champagne corks at some media outlets.
All right, we got 4,000.
Woohoo!
Chance for a new story to make people feel terrible about this war.
Who doesn't know the cost of war?
The notion that the visual imagery of flag-draped coffins must be presented so that we can appreciate the cost of war is one of the most vacant, ridiculous statements one can make.
You know what the real motivation is for the desire for this footage.
It is to add stigma so that people who want you to feel badly about this war can have a visual component to their propaganda.
Come on.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
So I'm about lukewarm on Secretary Gates, who did not shut the door on that immediately.
Okay.
Taking a neck-snapping turn, let's go.
Hey, let's talk Star Trek on IMAX.
In fact, let's do.
Let's go to Nashville.
I want to talk to David because I think I've done, again, some wildlife planetarium movie or something, but an actual, like Watchman or what, Batman, I think, was in IMAX.
I just think my neck would hurt.
I don't know.
So in Nashville, David, you saw it on IMAX and apparently just loved the living daylights out of it, eh?
Absolutely brilliant.
Three quick points I want to make on it.
I suffer from a confession here.
I suffer from teeny wee bladder syndrome.
So basically, once the credits start to roll on the movie, I start to worry about when I'm going to have to go to the restroom.
Right.
And throughout this whole entire movie, I did not think about that once.
I mean, it sucks you in so much.
Point number two.
That's vivid.
I'm unemployed, and every dollar counts.
So I have the choice between the half-price ticket versus the IMAX ticket, and I chose the IMAX, not at all upset about it.
Point number three, you talked about the sexual content of the movie.
Nothing to really be concerned about.
Nothing that you won't see on Days of Our Lives or any type of soap opera.
My point, exactly.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry, sir.
I mean, I said my point exactly, but I do understand.
It's not like it's long or graphic or gratuitous, but it keeps a million people from bringing their seven-year-olds who probably would otherwise love to see the movie.
You know, Mark, you could still bring your seven-year-old to see that.
I'll check first.
If they see a Calvin Klein commercial on TV, if they've seen a billboard for whatever that clothing chain is.
Abercrombie and Fitch.
Yes, thank you.
Whatever.
If they've seen that, that is worse than this.
You know, two-second glimpse, basically, that they'll say.
All right.
Well, David, thank you.
I got a scoot.
So what we've learned here is David is such a devotee.
I mean, I love the franchise, too, but it will not shut down my body function.
And see, that's, I've never seen a movie that I like so much, that I like that much.
I yearn for a movie I like that much because I'm like, because my first problem is the minute I arrive in the theater, I've got that depth-charged size Dr. Pepper, you know, and I'm sucking that thing down through the previews.
So like him, when the credits roll, I'm looking for a bathroom.
Except in my case, it's the opening credits.
Well, that's too much information.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Back in a moment.
From the vast hard drive of Mike Mamon's bumper tunes, it's the ventures doing the Star Trek theme.
Who was the composer on that?
Was it like Alexander Courage or something like that?
I remember that.
And who is DC Fontana, which struck me as a stripper name, but I think that was apparently, was it a dude?
I got nothing.
I remember that from the credits.
And I'm pretty geeked out for this movie now.
So as are apparently we all.
And in mixing up serious news with all of our fun and frolic on that, President Obama has announced a new scheme to that's a bold reporter.
A new scheme to use unemployment insurance as a springboard to get laid-off workers back to work.
8.9% unemployment rate.
Okay.
And is essentially vowing to retrain the unemployed.
The list of things, the list of things that this president wants government to do that are none of government's business.
It just grows by leaps and bounds.
Some of it is obvious, like it's not government's job to determine who the CEO of a car company is.
One of my favorite things, though, is while we're talking jobs, is job creation.
You know, government's going to create jobs.
What?
It's not government's job to create jobs, except government jobs.
It is our job to create jobs.
It is your job.
It's the business you create.
It's the industries that we support with our money, the products and services that we choose in the marketplace.
You know, I mean, that's what creates jobs, not some magical wave of a wand from the president.
I don't know.
Okay, let's get back to some more of your calls here.
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And now that we're in the final segment, there truly are no rules now, and we're just tossing aside every bit of dignity.
We might as well use the transport.
No, you know what, let's do no.
Yeah, let's use the transporter materialization sound to go to the remaining calls.
How's that working out?
Is that a good thing?
I always love the transporter, man.
Big fan of the transporter.
Then they beam something onto the enterprise, and it was inside out.
Its intestines fell out all over the floor and all of that.
I've got the bridge sequence.
But you know the first, you know what else I've got?
Just since I have called up my own personal hard drive of useless things, I have the wonderful red alert.
There was nothing that said it's time to panic like the Starship Enterprise Red Alert horn.
And in order to give that Limbaugh show style significance, I'm recommending, and Rush can either do this if he wants, or maybe just when I fill in, or just maybe I should just shut up and do it on my own show.
I'm thinking of having the red alert sound accompany any one of a number of pronouncements from this president.
Because obviously, if general purpose alarm is a proper reaction anytime this president says or does anything, I believe that if we're all about informing the public and letting everybody know what to be wary of, I can do it.
It was some long and scholarly discourse, or I can do it with the Star Trek red alert sound.
So it essentially would go something like this.
What it does not contain, however, is a single pet project, not a single earmark, and it has been stripped of the projects members of both parties found most objectionable.
I think that works.
I think that works.
I think we're on a summer.
1-800-282-2882.
Here, oh, this is.
You know what let's do?
Let me take the pause and come back, having wasted enough of your time.
There is a lady who has a daughter at Notre Dame, and I would love to see what she thinks about the president's upcoming visit.
So let's do that, shall we?
Try to return some level of seriousness to the program.
Mark Davis, filling in for Rush.
Thank you so much.
One more segment to go, and then it's weekend time, and Rush is back on Monday.
It's the EIB Network.
Be right back.
Mark Davis in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush is back on Monday.
As a talk show guy, we have many, many resources, often a research staff or the internet or just a friend of yours for 20-some years who has your cell phone number.
When I was back 30 minutes ago riffing about the comedian who had talked about how irascible Bones McCoy is, my buddy Kenny Bozak, who, oh, by the way, helms the morning show at Proud Limbaugh Affiliate WREC in Memphis, informed me that was indeed Jay Leno.
So good.
I could sleep at night now.
Back when Leno was funny.
Sorry, that's unduly harsh.
Jay's still pretty good, isn't he?
How's that going to work at 10 o'clock?
I'm in Central Time.
How's that going to work at 9 o'clock?
And Conan gets the tonight show.
Conan gets the tonight show, right?
He's arrived in life as much as one can arrive.
That's the good news.
Bad news is Jay will now be on earlier than you and absorb probably all the best guests.
So, hey, Conan.
Let's go to Turlock, California.
Sharon has a daughter at Notre Dame, and I would love to see through both y'all's eyes how it's going as the Obama trip draws near.
Hi, Sharon.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Pleasure to have you.
Hi, Mr. Davis.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you.
Well, just this morning, there were about 40 to 50 people that were arrested on campus that were led by Dr. Alan Keyes.
Sure.
And it was just a peaceful protest.
They were arrested for trespassing.
But Alan Keyes has said that he will come back every day and keep getting arrested until they fill up the South Bend jails until graduation.
Well, if there's a number of things that Alan loves, it's virtue, morality, and being arrested and attracting attention to himself.
And I love Alan.
I love Alan.
But this is going to be a real ground zero, if that term is usable anymore, for this debate.
And rightfully so.
Notre Dame has, in a way, asked for it.
And I love Notre Dame and I have a huge respect for the Catholic faith.
And the enduring question is, as a non-Catholic, I may value the tenets of the faith more than the university does on this occasion in inviting such a radically, radically anti-life president.
Okay, not to bring down the room.
Thank you so much.
Thanks to Kit and Mike, and thanks especially to Rush.
It's always such a fantastic time.
And as we head into the weekend and Rush comes back on Monday to tackle all the issues that life hands him and then hands them to you, God bless our country and our troops.
See you soon.
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