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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 Anchorman, no supporting paperwork.
Sitting in for the next three hours from the uh foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a it's uh it's a wonderful exchange program.
I get to come here, and uh in return, 17 Uyghur detainees from Gitmo get a scholarship to the Palau College of Beach Volleyball.
So it all works out uh brilliantly.
We all gain something from it.
Uh big week.
It's uh 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.
It is a HR says it's like a cricket term.
I think it is, didn't it?
The Australia bowl three Uyghurs against uh Sri Lanka on Saturday in the test match.
Uh cricket update.
Uh Uyghur, Uyghur.
It's not, it's like it's very confusing, isn't it?
Because it's like written um uh 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 the uh they're Chinese Muslims, Chinese Muslims, and a big bunch of them at uh Gitmo.
Uh and it's uh and it's spelt UI G-H-U-R, which looks like uh.
And um uh and so if you had a dinner party uh and you want to pass yourself off as a geopolitical analyst, uh don't go, oh I think Obama's made an absolutely marvelous uh move about the Uyghurs.
Uh yeah, the the uh the hostess will think you had uh one too many martinis uh and you're about to uh uh throw up the avocado moose uh and aubergine cooley all over the guest.
Uh so um you know, you say Uyghur, I say uh anyway, Uyghurs, Uyghurs, they're uh they're fan it's uh 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 c you can't stop saying it.
It's um I noticed uh notice today uh in Bermuda they're all upset because apart from sending them to Palau, Obama's also persuaded uh Bermuda to take the Uyghurs.
They're they're taking some we four Uyghurs are going to Bermuda.
Um and uh I don't know, I don't know why.
There's no Uyghur Bermudan community.
There've never before been any Uyghurs in Bermuda, but he's pr he's persuaded uh them to take them uh and uh and it solves the problem for him.
I said a national review this morning, it's the inauguration uh of the Barry Manlow uh doctrine, Bermuda triangle, it makes people disappear.
It's made the Uyghur problem uh disappear for uh uh 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 spot some Uyghurs.
Uh there's uh there's nothing going on.
They're just there for uh Obama's you know, what it what is well you if you hear the if you're having the candlelit dinner and the uh 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 uh Uyghurs to Bermuda.
Uh Uyghurs to Bermuda.
Uh I just I disagree.
I've got a I've got Uyghur fever now, haven't I?
I can't get it out of my head.
It's uh it's like um it's uh Uyghur, you know, you start saying Uyghur, you can't Uyghur fever.
It's uh and that's really bad because uh there's a six-year waiting list to get treated for Uyghur fever at Canadian hospital.
So I really don't want to saddle myself with uh with this uh problem.
Anyway, so enough Uyghurs.
Let's put the Uyghurs aside.
Uh welcome to another week of uh excellence in broadcasting.
Uh just substitute host level excellence in broadcasting uh today, but Rush will be back in action on Wednesday to take you through the rest of the week.
And uh Mark Davis was here on Friday, and uh 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 uh half-time wardrobe malfunction.
Uh Mark Davis in tomorrow, and then Rush takes you through uh the rest of the week.
Big, big big big news week ahead.
Uh North Korea is apparently planning to celebrate Fourth of July by nuking Hawaii.
Uh so no wonder the Uyghurs would rather be in Bermuda.
I mean, if you're planning your if you're planning where you're heading, Bermuda looks a much better bet than Hawaii if the uh if the North Koreans have any say in it.
Um it's uh it's a big week for health care.
The president actually is just uh on TV uh given a big press conference about some new uh prescription drug plan for seniors uh that is uh that is sure to uh add uh some piffling amount to the ever swollen deficit uh uh at the uh the the federal government is uh is spending.
So we'll get into health care a bit later.
People on the streets again out in Iran today.
Uh Iran's Council of Guardians, uh, which sounds like something from uh Star Wars, don't you think, uh the Council of Guardians.
Uh but Count Duk knows that the Council of Guardians remains loyal to Chancellor Palpatine.
Uh the other the other Iranian government body I like is the uh 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 uh Expediency Council.
That is a terrific name for a government body.
Uh it would make a great name, I think, for the Republican, the moderate Republican caucus in the Senate.
I think they should rename themselves the Expediency Council.
Get Susan Collins to head it or something.
Uh 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.
Now you can see why uh Obama's been reluctant to criticize the uh Iranian uh election.
Evidently they uh outsourced the running of the polling stations to Acorn.
Uh or as HR HR calls it, ICORN, which is the uh Iranian branch of uh Acorn.
Uh they did they do a uh a terrific job uh on those polling stations.
Uh they've had some uh, you know, really whips whip smart acorn atollers to run those polling booths.
Uh I don't know whether this is uh related to the Iranian election results, but Acorn has announced that it's changing its name.
Acorn is changing its name to just Choi.
Koy.
Coy, it's nice, isn't it?
It sounds like uh it's uh it sounds like a Meg Ryan just sort of flirting with you uh in a movie, but not, you know, not just in a playful way.
It's not going to go anywhere.
Choi, which stands for Community Organizations International.
Uh that's what that's what Acorn's changed its name to uh after its success with the Iranian election.
I'm sure they'll be doing a terrific job uh running the Sudanese and North Korean elections, and they'll be getting lots of expertise with that back in time to uh practice uh on the uh U.S. elections in 2010 and uh and 2012.
So congratulations to ICORN Acorn on doing a great job in Iran.
This is going to be a make or break week, I think, for uh what's going on in Iran.
Does the revolt pick up steam?
Uh if so, then the Ayatollahs face some tough choices.
Do they go the uh Channelman Square route?
Uh or do they risk increased momentum for these demonstrations and perhaps uh some police and security forces in this town or that breaking away, uh breaking with the regime.
Uh and I know people complain about the mainstream media.
But sometimes they do a terrific job.
Uh Mark Noller, the CBS uh White House correspondent, was right on top of uh Saturday's big story.
He provided in-depth and I don't I don't mean you know when I say Saturday's big story, I don't mean those uh spectacular demonstrations in Tehran.
No, he provided in-depth coverage of the president's trip to an ice cream parlor in Alexandria, Virginia.
Uh according to Mr. Noller 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 he asked dad to scrape off.
Malia had, quote, vanilla frozen custard in a waffle cone.
But look, you know, any old time-serving hack uh 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 Knoller reported, quote, you're gonna laugh.
Obama and the girls actually bought frozen puppy pops for Bo.
Flavors, pumpkin, peanut butter, and yogurt, unquote.
This is this is terrific stuff.
The deadbeat the deadbeat writing it up for the New York Times.
He mentioned the puppy pops, but he didn't get the flavors of the puppy pops.
He got Sasha's brownie Sunday in there, but he left out the critical details about the cherry in 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's it was just wonderful, a heartwarming moment, this trip to the ice cream parlor.
The the White House press corps have never been happier.
They're 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 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 uh it's not just like uh when you go to a restaurant.
No, this is part of a whole kind of policy of restaurant visits.
Uh 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 Hellburgers and Five Guys.
Uh he's told his advisors that getting out of the White House is important to him as he tries to remain connected.
And it's and it's uh and it is true.
It is important to him.
I think uh obviously it's important to him to stay connected uh with uh with uh fellows like Mark No uh 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 uh uh the um the the uh the National Public Radio uh used to be in its big morning news built bulletin almost every day for the entire Clinton term with the President travels today to insert state here to unveil his proposals on insert state here.
And they'd say that like every morning for eight years.
Uh and if you've ever if you remember the Mark Twain novel, uh a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, uh the hero of that book, he's like this time traveling guy from Connecticut, uh, and and he goes back in time to Camelot, and the the only newspaper there is the Court Circular, and they publish the news every day.
And and 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 uh NPR was like in the in the Clinton years on the eight o'clock news bulletin.
You know, on Monday, the King rode in the park to declaim his proposals for reduced emission standards or whatever it was.
And then the masked ranks of the press were dutifully uh ride behind the king, scribbling all the details down while trying to uh avoid all the uh Clintonian horse hockey.
Uh but when when King Barack rode to the ice cream parlor, unless I missed something on Saturday, there were no policy implications for his visit to the ice cream parlor.
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, uh, he didn't he didn't bring along, as far as I can tell, he didn't bring along the Treasury Secretary to uh nationalize America's frozen custard industry.
Uh he didn't bring along Barney Frank to uh uh introduce uh subprime rainbow sprinkles or anything.
He just went to have a Brian Sunday and puppy pops.
And not one self-respecting member of the press corps thought, uh oh, do we really want to slap all the way across the Potomac to Virginia just to file a report on King Barack eating a vanilla custard?
I mean, this is a new low.
This is a new low uh for America uh uh 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 Bee.
Uh but Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard noticed that uh uh a few Twitterers complained uh that given the crisis in Iran, maybe President Obama's time should have been better spent uh 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 uh with cherry sprinkles and uh uh when when there are sixteen-year-old girls being gunned down in the streets of uh Tehran by Iranian security forces.
And this guy at CBS, Mark Noller responded, quote, I'm surprised by the outrage at the ice cream outing.
What is it you expect or want the US to do about Iran?
Attack war, unquote?
So that's the choice now, according to the in-depth CBS analysis.
Should we get an i should we get an ice cream or should we wage all out war?
Uh at the weekly standard, um uh Michael Goldfarb called that like the classic false choice war or ice cream.
Uh the uh I think if memory serves, the British comedian Eddie Izzard uh used to have a sketch called Cake or Death.
Uh and that's how it is now with the CBS uh White House correspondence coverage of the Obama administration.
Ice cream or war.
You know, couldn't we compromise and get war a la mode?
Uh by the way, uh 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 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 the President Obama faces.
We're going to talk about Iran, we're going to talk about health care, and we 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 a uh uh uh an uh an exciting week, and I think one that will be a decisive uh week in uh in Iran.
I mentioned uh I mentioned that ridiculous choice the CBS guy uh imposed on uh 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 uh holding up signs with my state motto on live free or die.
Uh the words of uh 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.
Uh we don't have to make that choice uh today in our lives.
We can go to the mall or we can watch uh Dancing with the Stars, we can spend half a decade in journalism school, so we'll be fully credentialed to cover the uh uh president's consumption of vanilla frozen custard in a cup with hot fudge and toasted almonds.
Uh but in the streets of Iran's cities all last week and today, uh they have to make that choice, and millions of them have made it, and they've chosen to live free even if they die at the hands of security forces.
Uh it's not difficult.
And I don't know why the president thinks it is.
Uh these protesters and reformers are not perfect, but so what?
They're the good revolution against a bad revolution.
In fact, uh an evil revolution that has exported its worst pathologies around the globe for three decades, uh, funding terrorist subsidiaries in Gaza and Lebanon and uh ordering mob hits on British novelists, blowing up a community cent in Buenos Aires, and now planning to go nuclear.
Uh so it shouldn't be hard to choose between a murderous regime that claims universal jurisdiction and uh the people standing against that regime.
Uh I wish them every success.
Uh, 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 uh are on the street.
Uh you know this guy, Ayatollah Khamei, the supreme leader, the supreme leader, as uh Obama calls him.
Ayatar Khameini is now uh the Shah.
He's where the Shah of Iran was uh thirty years ago.
Uh 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, uh a few of whom are wondering whether they want to go down with the ship.
Uh the symmetry uh is perfect.
The Ayatollah Khamenei uh is now uh in exactly the same position as the Shah of Iran was uh thirty years ago.
Uh and we should make sure the United States should be on the right side of this struggle.
Um we get all this sophistry from the so-called realists uh i i in Washington and in the administration who's saying this, they're saying, oh, Obama is not taking sides uh because he doesn't want Hamini to be able to blame it uh on uh 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 Khamenei uh blamed uh blamed it on uh 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 I don't know quite what he means by that, whether he's talking about the BBC's Persian service uh or whether he's uh talking about the uh Hermann's Hermit's uh marathon on uh super gold uh air oldies FM or whatever.
But he's he blaming Zionists, bad British radio, and uh and the Americans.
He says these uh this is the work of American agents, and he said, Who are the Americans uh to talk about human rights uh when uh back i back in the days of Clinton they uh burned eighty people alive at Waco.
Ayatollah Khamenei is sticking Obama with the blame for Waco.
You're getting blamed for it anyway, Mr. President.
Step up and take the right side.
Uh we'll talk about that and we'll talk about health care 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.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush, Mark Davis in tomorrow, and Rush returns uh Wednesdays.
We're um uh we were talking about Uyghurs, Uyghurs earlier at the top of the show, and we've already it's we go week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We've had uh we're already I think we're getting complaints from uh we getting complaints from Uyghurs.
I've I've got if you are a Uyghur and you're listening, do call it.
I've got nothing against Uyghurs, actually.
They're um I met a a uh uh uh an incredibly hot Uyghur woman.
Uh we g weego woman, isn't that that's like some 70s soft rock song, isn't it?
Anyway, uh I I met an incredibly hot Uyghur babe uh a couple of years ago.
They're fine looking women.
I don't know where they got any at Gitmar.
I don't know.
Are there any Uyghur hotties at uh we go hotties at Kidbo?
If they have, uh and Obama would like to resettle them, uh my pad in New Hampshire.
I'm certainly open to doing a deal on that.
If I if I get a if I get uh paid as much to take them off uh Obama's hands as the Premier Bermuda and the President of Palau had got, I'll be coming out uh pretty good on it.
Uh let's go to Leo in uh in Port Arthur, Texas.
Obama wants uh uh uh uh not Obama, apologize for calling you Obama Leo.
Leo's in Port Arthur, Texas, and he wants to uh talk about Iran.
Uh great to have you on the show.
Yeah, uh thanks for taking my call.
I I feel as though the president is is taking the correct position on this matter.
Far too many times in the past, America has been known to signal our intentions and and that's given the opposition uh and the countries that we had the interest towards giving them momentum to uh uh 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 just before you go any further, when you talk about uh in the past, America has given signals to the opposite.
You're talking about, for example, uh th the the first George Bush's uh support supposed support, supposed signals uh at the end of the Gulf War, uh 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 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 sit 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 uh endorse it.
I just said if you're no, no, but nobody nobody's 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 uh twenty years ago.
The th what's 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 it seized a US embassy, which is US sovereign territory.
So in other words, that's not Castro's never uh done that.
Uh the uh Soviets have never done that.
This is uh this is unique uh to the uh inability of uh uh of of the Iranian regime to behave as a civilized state.
So we have a debt of honor here to destroy this uh to destroy this regime uh not directly, but by at least lending moral support uh to those who stand against it, Leo.
And in 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 that's what the Iranian emigres and uh that's what the leaders uh of this uh protest movement uh say that they would like they would they're not asking for anything extraordinary.
They're asking for him to be as butch and as macho as this uh 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 uh as uh the president of France and and uh 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 uh to criticize uh a despotic uh and murderous regime uh that denounces him every minute of the day.
Why is he so eager uh to maintain the legitimacy of uh of the Ayatollahs?
You have a good answer for that, Leo?
Calm competence.
Con 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 on when our leader is supposed to speak up and speak out on their behalf.
It's it's for them to show machoism and them to establish their their position in their own cause and deal with the and we should we we feel it's necessary and in our So you're you're just just to understand you here, Leo.
You're saying uh effectively that the president's line should be we don't have a dog in this fight.
Whether whether it's the nuclear mulers 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 when when the c out of control, you know what I mean?
When the when the dust settles uh and uh we see who's standing, then we'll do business with them.
No, uh that that's not that's not the concept.
This we have we have unfinished business with Iran.
We have unfinished business uh with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is a gangster state uh whose creation uh was greatly enabled by the horrible passivity of a previous American president in the nineteen seventies, and that's why uh I don't want us to make the same mistake again uh this time.
Uh there is a debt of honor here.
Uh the imperfections of uh the previous uh uh government in Iran were many.
Uh but compared uh compared to the gangster state that has ruled Iran for thirty years, uh it was a benign and enlightened regime.
Incidentally, one of the problems that the uh Ayatollah Khomeini, uh one of his big problems with the Shah, for example, was over things like giving votes to women in 1964.
Uh we we allowed, we allowed uh the the complacent what you call the calm complacency, the calm complacency, not to mention uh 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, uh, and it is in our interest for this regime to end.
Let's take another quick call.
Let's go to Stuart in California.
Stuart, you're on the uh Rush Limbaugh show.
Good to talk to you, Mark, and uh the two things that were horrible about Obama making the comparison between Mosavi 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 um the people who are dying in the streets are trying to prove that it's not Khamenei that is the supreme leader, it's the people of Iran that are the supreme leaders of their country.
Yeah, and you uh but you make it you make a very interesting point.
Uh Uh that uh it's not a question as to whether Mousavi is uh i is is uh is the Iranian version of Howard Dean or Nancy Pelosi uh or whatever.
There's no that's that's not the that's not the argument here.
As you say, the Iranian people are fighting uh are in the streets for the right to have their choice respected.
I don't doubt that uh you know Mousavi is an opportunist in many ways, and he was happy to serve as the Prime Minister under Khomeini for eight years, uh and uh 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 you absolutely nailed it there, Stuart.
Thank you.
And the one other thing I d 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 um 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 that it's important uh uh uh at times at times like that, the point of the street demonstrations uh is to draw the attention of influential voices in the world and get them to take a moral stand.
Uh and that is uh and that is what uh what people do.
That is why people demonstrate.
It's not because uh they they know they don't have the uh the the weaponry to drive uh these guys from power, uh, but they can change the climate of opinion.
And it would change the climate of opinion.
Uh if you're if you're Ayatollah Hamenian, 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 uh and that basically he's he's he would rather deal with you.
He believes in stability uberalis, uh he's a stability fetishist, like a lot of these so-called realists are, uh, and he would rather deal with you.
He his whole thing is he's invested in dealing with you on the Iranian nuclear issue, uh, and that he and he doesn't need any complications uh to that, like liberty and democracy getting in the way.
Uh Stuart, thanks uh thanks a lot for your call.
They're both uh they were both excellent points.
Uh this is Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
We'll have lots more on Iran straight ahead.
Hey, welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
It's weigo, it's Weigher week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network where we got into a little Uyghur, we go riff, a Uyghur riff.
And no other show is giving you this kind of in-depth Uyghur coverage.
Uh, where Uyghur no man gurs.
So uh we're gonna continue uh with this in-depth uh exploration of the exciting Uyghur issue.
Charles from uh Raleigh, North Carolina is uh on the air and wants to talk Uyghurs.
Welcome, welcome to Uyghur week on the Rush Limbaugh, Charles.
I really enjoy your work and uh actually you you do great on the uh radio as well, and adding the uh ten points IQ uh really helps for the uh for the phone hosts who said that.
So uh anyway, I I kind of wanted to uh to kind of correct you a little bit on the Uyghurs and not just Chinese Muslims.
Uh the they are uh people group out of North Africa uh that uh happen to become Muslim when the Muslims spread across North America.
No now wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute there.
Uh my understanding of the Uyghurs uh met.
I don't claim to be an I'm not, you know I I I didn't go I didn't do any I didn't go to Harvard and get a degree in Uyghur or anything.
But I I um I uh my understanding is that the Uyghurs are originally out of Central Asia, a Turkic a um uh yeah, that's right, Turkic people.
Turkey.
That's not that's not necessarily wrong either.
Uh they went along uh the Silk Trade route uh and that's how they ended up in Northwest China.
Um a lot of Uyghurs there.
Uh 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 uh in North Africa and there's actually a huge huge group in North Africa.
Okay, which parts of North Africa?
In just in the uh just uh in the parts that are mostly Muslim controlled.
Right, right, which is increasing more of North Africa.
More and more uh yeah, the the Uyghur 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 show uh it's twenty years of the Rush Limbaugh show has the phrase Uyghur diaspora ever been used.
They can't find it anywhere else, nowhere else.
The best programming.
Mark, I love your stuff.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot, Charles.
The we the Uyghur diaspora spread uh spread out.
And that's right.
I you know, I oppose, I think this is ridiculous, releasing guys from Gitmo to send them to Palau.
Uh HR pointed out the uh the although it may work, HR pointed out that the um that this first guy was on the c 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 fr yeah, he's he's saying no hard feelings.
He's not talking about uh strapping on the old sem tanks belt and uh heading back to the old job.
He's uh 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, it might we might just pull it off.
But you know, even if even if we don't, even if we don't, I I I think we should salute the president.
Uh I'm 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 w it was the Uyghur with the semtex belt on the beach at Palau.
I mean, this is this is this is Obama's great contribution to geopolitical uh relations.
And it and it's working a lot better.
It's working a lot better than uh that is Iranian and North Korean uh policies.
So uh uh sorry but I uh I do I do understand from Charles that the Uyghurs have spread all over the world.
They have spread to China along the old uh Silk Road routes, and they're a bit of a problem uh for the government of China.
And it's interesting to me uh that uh the minute people said about these uh these d we gotta close Gitmo, we're gonna uh get everybody at Gitmo is gonna be out free in the world wandering around.
Well, a lot of the people uh who 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 uh with the uh with the Uyghur in the Uyghur hinterlands.
I believe that's another phrase that we never heard on the air before.
Uh they've got a uh they've got a problem with their Uyghur hinterlands.
But right now it suits them to keep the jihad as America's problem.
Uh it suits the Russians too.
The Russians have a Muslim problem.
Uh and so none none of these guys are going to be heading back to the countries uh they hold the passports of.
Uh Canada doesn't want them.
Canada, Canada for uh uh has been pressured to take uh Gitmo D Ts uh from uh the Obama administration and its position is that look, we've got enough jihadists in Canada.
They've got a actually in Canada, they've got a fast track uh terrorist uh immigration program.
Uh they have if you land at the airport uh in uh Montreal or Toronto and you don't have any paperwork, uh and you don't want to be tied up uh with uh, you know, uh uh uh uh pleading for special status or asking for refugee status, the quickest way to get in is to say, look, I'm a terrorist.
I uh I blew up uh three hundred people in my home country, uh so you can't send me back there because I'll be uh I'll be executed.
And they say, Oh, well that's fine, why don't you say you were a terrorist?
And they just stamp your papers and say you're uh admitted permanently.
They've got two uh they've they've got certain fast track immigration uh programs in Canada.
One was for terrorists, uh and the other was for strippers.
Uh because apparently Canada had a had a huge shortage of exotic dancers a few years ago, so they introduced the uh this is 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 a strip club lobby, and the strip club lobby uh petitioned the government to introduce a fast track immigration program for exotic dancers, doing the jobs Canadians won't do.
And uh 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 the R ears.
We don't need any more Uyghurs, you've got to find somewhere else for them.
Uh this is this is this is essentially uh the essence of the Obama uh 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 what is it the Conservatives say?
If you give a man a fish, you make him a welfare bum.
If you if you uh teach a man to fish, you give him a job for life.
And on the beach at Palau, that's working.
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