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June 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchor man, no supporting paperwork, sitting in for the next three hours from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a wonderful exchange program.
I get to come here, and in return, 17 Uyghur detainees from Gitmo get a scholarship to the Palau College of Beach Volleyball.
So it all works out brilliantly.
We all gain something from it.
A big week.
It's a big week.
Uyghur, by the way, I love saying that word, Uyghur.
It's like it's fantastic.
Nobody knew they're Chinese Muslims.
Uyghur.
It is a creek.
HR says it's like a cricket term.
I think it is, didn't it?
The Australia bowled three Uyghurs against Sri Lanka on Saturday in the Test match.
Cricket update.
A Uyghur, Uyghur.
It's not, it's like, it's very confusing, isn't it?
Because it's like written.
They're Chinese Muslims, I should say, by the way.
If you're not up on Uyghurs, I don't know where you've been, but they're Chinese Muslims, Chinese Muslims, a big bunch of them at Gitmo.
And it's spelt U-I-G-H-U-R, which looks like.
And so if you're at a dinner party and you want to pass yourself off as a geopolitical analyst, don't go, oh, I think Obama's made an absolutely marvelous move about the Uyghurs.
Yeah, the hostess will think you had one too many martinis and you're about to throw up the avocado moose and aubergine coolie all over the guest.
So, you know, you say Uyghur, I say Uyghur.
Anyway, Uyghurs, Uyghurs, they're it's a it's an uh it's but once you get a once you get a taste for the name Uyghur, it's like you can't stop, it's you can't stop saying it.
It's um I noticed I noticed today in Bermuda, they're all upset because apart from sending them to Palau, Obama has also persuaded Bermuda to take the Uyghurs.
They're taking some four Uyghurs are going to Bermuda.
And I don't know why.
There's no Uyghur Bermudan community.
There have never before been any Uyghurs in Bermuda, but he's persuaded them to take them and it solves the problem for him.
I said a national review this morning.
It's the inauguration of the Barry Manilow doctrine, Bermuda Triangle, it makes people disappear.
It's made the Uyghur problem disappear for Obama.
But don't panic.
So don't panic if you're on vacation in Bermuda and you're having a candlelit dinner on the beach and you spot some Uyghurs.
There's nothing going on.
They're just there for Obama's.
If you're having the candlelit dinner and the orchestra in the hotel is playing Uyghurs in the night, exchanging glances, don't panic.
It's all perfectly normal.
It's just Obama's sent the Uyghurs to Bermuda.
Uyghurs to Bermuda.
I disagree.
I've got Uyghur fever now, haven't I?
I can't get it out of my head.
It's like Uyghur, you know, you start saying Uyghur, you can't Uyghur fever.
And that's really bad because there's a six-year waiting list to get treated for Uyghur fever at Canadian hospitals.
So I really don't want to saddle myself with this problem.
Anyway, so enough Uyghurs.
Let's put the Uyghurs aside.
Welcome to another week of excellence in broadcasting.
Just substitute host-level excellence in broadcasting today, but Rush will be back in action on Wednesday to take you through the rest of the week.
And Mark Davis was here on Friday, and he'll be back tomorrow.
So I'm like the spam in a Mark Davis sandwich.
He's like the Super Bowl, and I'm the half-time wardrobe malfunction.
Mark Davis in tomorrow, and then Rush takes you through the rest of the week.
Big, big, big, big news week ahead.
North Korea is apparently planning to celebrate 4th of July by nuking Hawaii.
So no wonder the Uyghurs would rather be in Bermuda.
I mean, if you're planning on where you're heading, Bermuda looks a much better bet than Hawaii, if the North Koreans already say in it.
It's a big week for healthcare.
The president actually is just on TV giving a big press conference about some new prescription drug plan for seniors that is sure to add some piffling amount to the ever swollen deficit that the federal government is spending.
So we'll get into healthcare a bit later.
People on the streets again out in Iran today.
Iran's Council of Guardians, which sounds like something from Star Wars, don't you think, the Council of Guardians?
But Count Dooku knows that the Council of Guardians remains loyal to Chancellor Palpatine.
The other Iranian government body I like is the one that Raf Sanjani.
I don't know if he still heads it.
Raf Sanjani used to be the guy in charge of this.
The Expediency Council.
That is a terrific name for a government body.
It would make a great name, I think, for the moderate Republican caucus in the Senate.
I think they should rename themselves the Expediency Council, get Susan Collins to head it or something.
Anyway, Iran's Council of Guardians has found that in over 50 Iranian cities, the voter turnout was well over 100%.
Now, what a vibrant democracy Iran is.
Well over 100% of voters turned out to vote for President Ahmadinejad.
You can see why Obama's been reluctant to criticize the Iranian election.
Evidently, they outsourced the running of the polling stations to ACORN, or as HR calls it, ICORN, which is the Iranian branch of ACORN.
They do a terrific job on those polling stations.
They've hired some really whip-smart ACON atollers to run those polling booths.
I don't know whether this is related to the Iranian election results, but ACORN has announced that it's changing its name.
ACORN is changing its name to just KOI.
KOI.
KOI, it's nice, isn't it?
It sounds like a Meg Ryan just sort of flirting with you in a movie, but not, you know, just in a playful way.
It's not going to go anywhere.
COI, which stands for Community Organizations International.
That's what ACORN's changed its name to after its success with the Iranian election.
I'm sure they'll be doing a terrific job running the Sudanese and North Korean elections, and they'll be getting lots of expertise with that back in time to practice on the U.S. elections in 2010 and 2012.
So congratulations to ICON ACORN on doing a great job in Iran.
This is going to be a make-or-break week, I think, for what's going on in Iran.
Does the revolt pick up steam?
If so, then the Ayatollahs face some tough choices.
Do they go the Channenman Square route, or do they risk increased momentum for these demonstrations and perhaps some police and security forces in this town or that breaking away, breaking with the regime?
And I know people complain about the mainstream media, but sometimes they do a terrific job.
Mark Noller, the CBS White House correspondent, was right on top of Saturday's big story.
He provided in-depth, I don't mean, when I say Saturday's big story, I don't mean those spectacular demonstrations in Tehran.
No, he provided in-depth coverage of the president's trip to an ice cream parlor in Alexandria, Virginia.
According to Mr. Knoller at CBS, President Obama had, quote, vanilla frozen custard in a cup with hot fudge and toasted almonds.
Sasha had, quote, a brownie sundae, vanilla frozen yogurt, hot fudge, cherry, sprinkles and whipped cream, which she asked dad to scrape off.
Malia had, quote, vanilla frozen custard in a waffle cone.
But look, you know, any old time-serving hack can find out what the president and the girls had.
Only CBS News goes the extra mile and devotes the resources necessary to finding out what the White House dog had.
As Mark Noller reported, quote, you're going to laugh, Obama and the girls actually bought frozen puppy pops for Beau.
Flavors, pumpkin, peanut butter, and yogurt, unquote.
This is terrific stuff.
The Deadbeat writing it up for the New York Times, he mentioned the puppy pops, but he didn't get the flavours of the puppy pops.
He got Sasha's brownie sundae in there, but he left out the critical details about the cherry and the sprinkles.
If you want the real in-depth, Pulitzer Prize-winning stuff, this Mark Noller guy at CBS has it all over the New York Times.
It was just wonderful, a heartwarming moment, this trip to the ice cream parlor.
The White House press corps have never been happier.
They're like frozen puppy pops melting all over the carpet.
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for Barack Obama having an ice cream.
Just wonderful.
And the New York Times, by the way, gives you context and background, context and background.
They note, quote, that this is the latest in a series of restaurant visits.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
It's not just like when you go to a restaurant.
No, this is part of a whole kind of policy of restaurant visits.
It's the latest in a series of restaurant visits, says the Times, since Mr. Obama took office, which have included stopping for a hot dog at Ben's Chili Bowl and hamburgers at Ray's Hellbergers and Five Guys.
He's told his advisors that getting out of the White House is important to him as he tries to remain connected.
And it is true.
It is important to him.
I think obviously it's important to him to stay connected with fellas like Mark Noller at CBS who are prepared to write up all the details of his ice cream visit.
Do you remember back in the Clinton years, the National Public Radio used to begin its big morning news bulletin almost every day for the entire Clinton term with, the president travels today to insert state hair to unveil his proposals on insert state hair.
And they'd say that like every morning for eight years.
And if you've ever, if you remember the Mark Twain novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the hero of that book, he's like this time-traveling guy from Connecticut.
And he goes back in time to Camelot.
And the only newspaper there is the Court Circular.
And they publish the news every day.
And the week's news is summed up by Mark Twain in that book as, on Monday, the King rode in the park.
On Tuesday, the King rode in the park.
On Wednesday, the King rode in the park.
That was what NPR was like in the Clinton years on the 8 o'clock news bulletin.
On Monday, the king rode in the park to declaim his proposals for reduced emission standards or whatever it was.
And then the massed ranks of the press would dutifully ride behind the king, scribbling all the details down while trying to avoid all the Clintonian horse hockey.
But when King Barak rode to the ice cream parlour, unless I missed something on Saturday, there were no policy implications for his visit to the ice cream parlour.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
He didn't bring along, as far as I can tell, he didn't bring along the Treasury Secretary to nationalize America's frozen custard industry.
He didn't bring along Barney Frank to introduce subprime rainbow sprinkles or anything.
Just went to have a Briarony Sunday and puppy pops.
And not one self-respecting member of the press corps thought, uh-oh, do we really want to schlep all the way across the Potomac to Virginia just to file a report on King Barak eating a vanilla custard?
I mean, this is a new low.
This is a new low for America and its media.
I don't mind the in-depth coverage of the ice cream.
Obviously, if you're looking for an in-depth report on the North Korean nuclear program or whatever, you're better off reading Tiger Beat.
But Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard noticed that a few Twitterers complained that given the crisis in Iran, maybe President Obama's time should have been better spent on real stuff rather than a big ice cream photo op.
And maybe the senior news team in Washington shouldn't be covering Sasha's Brownie Sunday with cherry sprinkles and when there were 16-year-old girls being gunned down in the streets of Tehran by Iranian security forces.
And this guy at CBS, Mark Nola, responded, quote, I'm surprised by the outrage at the ice cream outing.
What is it you expect or want the U.S. to do about Iran?
Attack war, unquote.
So that's the choice now, according to the in-depth CBS analysis.
Should we get an ice cream or should we wage all-out war?
At the Weekly Standard, Michael Goldfarb called that like the classic false choice, war or ice cream.
I think memory serves a British comedian Eddie Izzard used to have a sketch called Cake or Death.
And that's how it is now with the CBS White House correspondence coverage of the Obama administration.
Ice cream or war.
You know, couldn't we compromise and get war a la mode?
By the way, and by the way, that ice cream stuff was not the dumbest sentence written about Obama over the weekend.
This is from Jim Hoagland writing in the Washington Post about the administration's position on Iran.
Quote, but the president and his advisors still have not adjusted policies and tactics being overtaken by events.
This is clear both from the initial caught in the headlights reaction by Obama as he temporized, albeit with steely skill, and from accounts of diplomatic and other official sources here, unquote.
Caught in the headlights reaction by Obama as he temporized, albeit with steely skill.
That's a Washington Post guy wrote that sentence.
The deer caught in the headlights temporized with steely skill.
Brilliant.
That's what they said about Bambi's mother.
War or ice cream?
War or ice cream?
These are the tough choices that President Obama faces.
We're going to talk about Iran.
We're going to talk about healthcare.
And we've got lots more straight ahead on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
At the start of an exciting week, and I think one that will be a decisive week in Iran.
I mentioned that ridiculous choice the CBS guy imposed on Obama, war or ice cream.
Sometimes you don't have a choice.
And it's not difficult in Iran.
I've got a picture on my desk back in New Hampshire of a demonstration in Tehran and the protesters holding up signs with my state motto on live free or die.
The words of General Stark, the words you see on every license plate in New Hampshire.
And we're lucky in a way, we don't have to make that decision.
We don't have to make that choice today in our lives.
We can go to the mall or we can watch Dancing with the Stars.
We can spend half a decade in journalism school, so we'll be fully credentialed to cover the president's consumption of vanilla frozen custard in a cup with hot fudge and toasted almonds.
But in the streets of Iran's cities all last week and today, they have to make that choice.
And millions of them have made it.
And they have chosen to live free, even if they die at the hands of security forces.
It's not difficult.
And I don't know why the president thinks it is.
These protesters and reformers are not perfect, but so what?
They're the good revolution against a bad revolution.
In fact, an evil revolution that has exported its worst pathologies around the globe for three decades, funding terrorist subsidiaries in Gaza and Lebanon and ordering mob hits on British novelists, blowing up a community center in Buenos Aires, and now planning to go nuclear.
So it shouldn't be hard to choose between a murderous regime that claims universal jurisdiction and the people standing against that regime.
I wish them every success.
And I'd like the President of the United States to say what the President of France said.
We support the Iranian people, said Sarkozy.
We support the Iranian people, and today the Iranian people are on the street.
You know, this guy, Ayatollah Khameni, the supreme leader, the supreme leader, as Obama calls him.
Ayatollah Khomeini is now the Shah.
He's where the Shah of Iran was 30 years ago.
He's got the guys on the street.
He's got the guys in exile in Europe and America.
And he's got the guys in his own court, a few of whom are wondering whether they want to go down with the ship.
The symmetry is perfect.
The Ayatollah Khomeini is now in exactly the same position as the Shah of Iran was 30 years ago.
And we should make sure the United States should be on the right side of this struggle.
We get all this sophistry from the so-called realists in Washington and in the administration who's saying this.
They're saying, oh, Obama is not taking sides because he doesn't want Khomeini to be able to blame the protests on the Americans and on the Great Satan.
He blamed it on the Great Satan anyway.
In Friday prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed it on Zionists on bad British radio.
I don't know what he means by that.
I've heard British radio and he's not wrong there, but I don't know quite what he means by that, whether he's talking about the BBC's Persian service or whether he's talking about the Hermann's Hermits marathon on Super Gold Aldi's FM or whatever.
But he's blaming Zionists, bad British radio, and the Americans.
He says this is the work of American agents.
And he said, who are the Americans to talk about human rights when back in the days of Clinton, they burned 80 people alive at Waco?
Ayatollah Khameni is sticking Obama with the blame for Waco.
You're getting blamed for it anyway, Mr. President.
Step up and take the right side.
We'll talk about that and we'll talk about healthcare straight ahead with Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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We'll take lots of your calls straight ahead.
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Mark Davis in tomorrow.
And Rush returns Wednesdays.
We were talking about Uyghurs, Uyghurs earlier at the top of the show, and we've already, it's Uyghur week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We've had already, I think we're getting complaints from Uyghurs.
If you are a Uyghur and you're listening, do call it.
I've got nothing against Uyghurs, actually.
I met an incredibly hot Uyghur woman.
Uyghur woman, isn't that?
That's like some 70s soft rock song, isn't it?
Anyway, I met an incredibly hot Uyghur babe a couple of years ago.
They're fine-looking women.
I don't know where they got any at Gitma.
I don't know.
Are there any Uyghur hotties at Uyghur hotties at Kidbo?
If they have, and Obama would like to resettle them, my pad in New Hampshire, I'm certainly open to doing a deal on that.
If I get paid as much to take them off Obama's hands as the Premier of Bermuda and the President of Palau had got, I'll be coming out pretty good on it.
Let's go to Leo in Port Arthur, Texas.
Obama wants, not Obama.
I apologize for calling you Obama, Leo.
Leo's in Port Arthur, Texas, and wants to talk about Iran.
Great to have you on the show.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
I feel as though the president is taking the correct position on this matter.
Far too many times in the past, America has been known to signal our intentions, and that's given the opposition and the countries that we had the interest towards, giving them momentum to say that we're siding and whatnot.
So I think this is the correct position.
And that was before this weekend when I started really getting into this story.
Now, just before you go any further, when you talk about in the past, America has given signals to the opposite.
You're talking about, for example, the first George Bush's supposed support, supposed signals at the end of the Gulf War to the Shia and the Kurds in Iraq to rise up against Saddam Hussein.
They rose up against Saddam Hussein.
Bush did nothing, and Saddam Hussein gunned them all down.
You're thinking about things like that, are you?
Somewhat, yeah.
Somewhat, yeah.
But most importantly, I don't feel that we even need to involve ourselves in these situations until we see the commitment of the people that are actually involved in their problems.
Let them work out their problems.
Then, if the need arises where we have to send in troops or need or whatever, then we can take a proactive approach.
No, we're not, but we're not talking about sending in troops here.
We're talking about the state.
No, no, nobody's talking about that.
You're right, that if people want to, if people want freedom for themselves, they should rise up and take it.
That's what they did in the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe 20 years ago.
What is at issue here is Obama's deference to a regime that has been explicitly at war with the United States for the entire three decades of its existence.
It seized a U.S. embassy, which is U.S. sovereign territory.
So, in other words, that's not Castro's never done that.
The Soviets have never done that.
This is unique to the inability of the Iranian regime to behave as a civilized state.
So, we have a debt of honor here to destroy this, to destroy this regime, not directly, but by at least lending moral support to those who stand against it, Leo.
And extending moral support to the people that are in the streets demonstrating and some that have died.
By him taking a stance right now, you really believe that that will make a difference.
Well, that's what the Iranian émigrés and that's what the leaders of this protest movement say.
That they would like, they're not asking for anything extraordinary.
They're asking for him to be as butch and as macho as this president of France.
That's all.
They're just that is how pathetic it is.
They are asking the leader of the United States to show the same moral courage as the president of France and other European leaders.
That's how bad it is.
That's all.
They don't understand.
They don't understand why he's so reluctant to criticize a despotic and murderous regime that denounces him every minute of the day.
Why is he so eager to maintain the legitimacy of the Ayatollah?
You have a good answer for that, Leo?
Calm competence.
Calm competence.
In my mind, what he's displaying is the call to order.
I mean, we've been associated with cowboyism for so long that anyone and everyone feel like they can pull our strings when our leader is supposed to speak up and speak out on their behalf.
It's for them to show machoism and them to establish their position in their own cause and deal.
And we should feel it's necessary and in our position.
So you're just to understand you here, Leo.
You're saying effectively that the president's line should be, we don't have a dog in this fight.
Whether it's the nuclear mullahs or it's the teenage girls being gunned down in a street.
May the best man win.
No, it's not.
My position is, okay, it's your fight, your situation.
Take care of it.
Do whatever you all have to do for your own cause if and then the situation.
And then when the out of control, you know what I mean?
When the dust settles and we see who's standing, then we'll do business with them.
That's not the concept.
We have unfinished business with Iran.
We have unfinished business with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is a gangster state whose creation was greatly enabled by the horrible passivity of a previous American president in the 1970s.
And that's why I don't want us to make the same mistake again this time.
There is a debt of honor here.
The imperfections of the previous government in Iran were many.
But compared to the gangster state that has ruled Iran for 30 years, it was a benign and enlightened regime.
Incidentally, one of the problems that the Ayatollah Khomeini, one of his big problems with the Shah, for example, was over things like giving votes to women in 1964.
We allowed the complacent, what you call the calm complacency, the calm complacency, not to mention various other defects of President Carter in the 70s, allowed this regime to be born.
It has been at war with us since the day it was born, and it is in our interest for this regime to end.
Let's take another quick call.
Let's go to Stewart in California.
Stewart, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Good to talk to you, Mark.
And the two things that were horrible about Obama making the comparison between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad and saying there was very little difference, the first thing about that is that there are people dying in the streets of Iran now in order to have the right to make that choice.
Right.
And the second thing that's wrong with it is that the people who are dying in the streets are trying to prove that it's not Khomeini that is the supreme leader.
It's the people of Iran that are the supreme leaders of their country.
Yeah, and you.
But you make a very interesting point, that it's not a question as to whether Mousavi is the Iranian version of Howard Dean or Nancy Pelosi or whatever.
That's not the argument here.
As you say, the Iranian people are fighting, are in the streets for the right to have their choice respected.
I don't doubt that Mousavi is an opportunist in many ways, and he was happy to serve as the prime minister under Khomeini for eight years.
And he's certainly only belatedly seen the light, and the idea that he's some kind of gung-ho pro-American type is unlikely.
But as you say, it's about the right of the people to make that choice.
You absolutely nailed it there, Stuart.
Thank you.
And one other thing I observed for your previous caller is in 1965, when Martin Luther King gathered a million people at the mall in Washington, he wasn't trying to get himself elected.
He was trying to get the basic rights of democracy for a group of people who needed the help of the American government to do so.
Yes, yes, you're right.
That it's important at times like that, the point of the street demonstrations is to draw the attention of influential voices in the world and get them to take a moral stand.
And that is what people do.
That is why people demonstrate.
It's not because they know they don't have the weaponry to drive these guys from power, but they can change the climate of opinion.
And it would change the climate of opinion.
If you're Ayatollah Khomeini and you're thinking, should we send the tanks in to blow away large numbers of demonstrators, you pay great attention to the signals you're getting out of Washington.
And the signal you're getting out of Washington right now is that Obama is a gutless patsy and that basically he would rather deal with you.
He believes in stability uberalis.
He's a stability fetishist like a lot of these so-called realists are.
And he would rather deal with you.
His whole thing is he's invested in dealing with you on the Iranian nuclear issue and that he and he doesn't need any complications to that like liberty and democracy getting in the way.
Stuart, thanks a lot for your call.
They were both excellent points.
This is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We'll have lots more in Iran straight ahead.
Hey, welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
It's Wego.
It's Wego Week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network where we got into a little Uyghur Uyghur riff, a Uyghur riff.
And no other show is giving you this kind of in-depth Uyghur coverage, where Uyghur, no man goes.
So we're going to continue with this in-depth exploration of the exciting Uyghur issue.
Charles from Raleigh, North Carolina is on the air and wants to talk Uyghurs.
Welcome to Weggo Week on the Rush Limbaugh show, Charles.
Good in, Mark.
I really enjoy your work.
And actually, you do great on the radio as well.
And adding the 10-points IQ really helps for the Hitler and hosts.
I really appreciate that.
But anyway, I kind of wanted to kind of correct you a little bit on the Uyghurs.
They're not just Chinese Muslims.
They are a people group out of North Africa that happened to become Muslim when Muslims spread across North America.
Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
My understanding of the Uyghurs met, I don't claim to be an, I'm not, you know, I didn't go, I didn't do any, I didn't go to Harvard and get a degree in Uyghurology or anything.
But my understanding is that the Uyghurs are originally out of Central Asia, a Turkic, a Turkic people.
That's not necessarily wrong either.
They went along the Silk Trade route, and that's how they ended up in Northwest China.
There are a lot of Uyghurs there.
But I do a lot of mission work where they don't allow missionaries in places around the world.
And the Uyghurs are also in North Africa.
There's actually a huge, huge group in North Africa.
Okay, which parts of North Africa?
The parts that are mostly Muslim-controlled.
Right, right, which is increasing more and more of North Africa.
That's right.
More and more North Africans.
Yeah, the great Uyghur diaspora.
And I'll bet you that is a first.
I'll bet you that is a first for this show.
How many shows?
It's 20 years of the Rush Limbaugh show.
Has the phrase Uyghur diaspora ever been used?
You can't find it anywhere else.
Nowhere else.
The best programming.
Mark, I love your stuff.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot, Charles.
The Uyghur diaspora spread out.
And that's right.
You know, I oppose, I think this is ridiculous, releasing guys from Gitmo to send them to Palau.
HR pointed out the, although it may work, HR pointed out that this first guy was on the front page of the New York Times.
He'd caught his first fish.
He's on the beach.
He's on the beach at Palau.
And he'd caught his first.
Yeah, he's saying, no hard feelings.
He's not talking about strapping on the old Semtenx belt and heading back to the old job.
He's got his feet up.
He's a fishing vacation.
This may work.
This may work.
If we could relocate the entire jihad to the beaches of Palau, we might just pull it off.
But you know, even if we don't, even if we don't, I think we should salute the president.
I mentioned the phrase Uyghur diaspora had never been heard on the show before, but I don't think until the Obama administration, anyone had ever used the word Uyghur and the word Palau in the same sentence before.
It's like some novelty version of Clue.
It was the Uyghur with the Semtex belt on the beach at Palau.
I mean, this is Obama's great contribution to geopolitical relations, and it's working a lot better.
It's working a lot better than his Iradiant and North Korean policies are.
But I do understand from Charles that the Uyghurs have spread all over the world.
They have spread to China along the old Silk Road routes.
And they're a bit of a problem for the government of China.
And it's interesting to me that the minute people said about these, we've got to close Gitmo.
We're going to get everybody at Gitmo is going to be out free in the world wandering around.
Well, a lot of the people who run the governments whose passports these guys have don't actually want them back.
The Chinese figure, they've got a Muslim problem in their hinterlands with the Uyghur hinterlands.
I believe that's another phrase that we never heard on the air before.
They've got a problem with their Uyghur hinterlands.
But right now, it suits them to keep the jihad as America's problem.
It suits the Russians too.
The Russians have a Muslim problem.
And so none of these guys are going to be heading back to the countries they hold the passports of.
Canada doesn't want them.
Canada has been pressured to take Gitmo DTs from the Obama administration.
And its position is that, look, we've got enough jihadists in Canada.
Actually, in Canada, they've got a fast-track terrorist immigration program.
They have, if you land at the airport in Montreal or Toronto and you don't have any paperwork and you don't want to be tied up with, you know, pleading for special status or asking for refugee status, the quickest way to get in is to say, look, I'm a terrorist.
I blew up 300 people in my home country, so you can't send me back there because I'll be executed.
And they say, oh, well, that's fine.
Why didn't you say you were a terrorist?
And they just stamp your papers and say you're admitted permanently.
They've got two, they've got certain fast-track immigration programs in Canada.
One was for terrorists and the other was for strippers.
Because apparently Kanda had a huge shortage of exotic dancers a few years ago, so they introduce...
There's a strip club.
I mean, if you think kings can get bad under Obama, there's a way to go.
In Canada, they've got like a strip club lobby, and the strip club lobby petitioned the government to introduce a fast-track immigration program for exotic dancers, doing the jobs Canadians won't do.
And so they've got a fast-track program for strippers and a fast-track program for terrorists.
And so Canada said, no, we don't want any Uyghurs.
We've got tons of Uyghur Uyghurs coming out of the our ears.
We don't need any more Uyghurs.
You've got to find somewhere else for them.
This is essentially the essence of the Obama feint.
You know, how can you close Gitmo, release all these dangerous people into the world in parts of the world where nobody's going to notice them?
And right now, on the beach at Palau, it seems to be working.
They're fishing.
They're fishing.
If you teach a man, what is it the Conservatives say?
If you give a man a fish, you make him a welfare bum.
If you teach a man to fish, you give him a job for life.
And on the beach at Palau, that's working.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein on The Rush Limbaugh Show.
The House has just announced a new healthcare plan.
No details and no costs.
And from a government point of view, that's the best kind of health care plan.
That's the best kind of any kind of plan.
And we'll talk about that and lots more.
Straight ahead on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on The Rush Limbaugh Show.
Straight ahead.
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