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July 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Thank you, sir.
Thank you all.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for uh tolerating me today in the fill-in chair.
Mark Davis out of WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
Rush is back on Monday.
Grab a little three-day weekend.
In the meantime, we find ourselves in the middle of a Friday show, dominated by, of course, the topics of the week, healthcare and Judge Sotomayor.
Let's get right back to your calls pretty quickly about that.
I just want to mix in what we always do anywhere in the talk show world, and that's talk about stuff that's big, you know, right out of this morning's news, right out of today's headlines.
Terrorism is always scary, but when you have hotel lobby video of stuff blowing up, it's like wow.
Um Jakarta, Indonesia.
Bombers post opposing as guests attacking American luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital, set off a pair of blasts Friday after evading hotel security, smuggling explosives into the Marriott and assembling the bombs in a room of the 18th floor, where an undetonated device was found after the explosions.
The bombers had stayed at the hotel for two days and set off the blasts in restaurants at both hotels.
The blasts killed eight people, wounded more than fifty, at least eight Americans were among the wounded.
Can I just spend one moment defending the language here for a sec?
This is so little, yet little things mean a lot, okay?
God bless Fox News.
Can we establish that from the get-go?
God bless Fox News.
They report, we decide.
Except uh when they decide to play with the language.
For some bizarre reason, and maybe maybe some of y'all can help me out with this.
Suicide bomber fell out of favor.
What was ever the matter with suicide bomber?
It is a descriptive term.
And I don't think it was just Fox News, but some folks decided that that was somehow a compliment.
Somehow it mitigated their um evil.
And they decided to start calling them we're getting tough now, folks.
Homicide bombers.
Once again, wrapped in the main premise of God bless Fox News.
May I reach out to my friends over there and say, guys, stop jacking with the language.
Homicide bomber is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Any bomb that kills somebody is is a homicide.
Suicide bomber exists as a term to differentiate from Tim McVeigh.
Tim McVeigh sets the bomb, drives away.
Not a suicide bomber.
These guys blowing themselves up on purpose, those are suicide bombers.
The language exists to clarify thought and communicate a thought.
There's a difference between someone who bombs something and leaves and someone who blows themselves up and stays.
I believe it adds to I I think the person willing to blow himself up involves that that's uh that's a I mean it's all the willingness to kill others.
They have that in common.
Tim McVeigh and these guys had you know the intent to kill others, they had that in common.
But but these guys, for whatever reason, were willing to blow themselves up too.
Now that doesn't make me feel uh better about them, worse about them.
I at no point have I gone, oh well, suicide bombers.
Ah, that's that's a that's better than Tim McVeigh.
So I don't even know where this absurdity ever came from.
But uh over at Fox News, they report, we decide, they do the fair and balance thing, which they are simply by comparison to ABC CBS CNN.
Fox News is news news content is not conservative.
It the the opinion shows, I mean you're gonna get Hannity, you're gonna get back, you're gonna get O'Reilly, you're gonna get this, you're gonna get that.
Those are conservative opinion shows, uh, just like uh, you know, the ravings of of Olberman and and uh Ed Schultz and Matt Owen all of that, those are liberal opinion shows.
That's you got conservative opinion shows, liberal opinion shows, that's great.
The bias issue is always fought over news content.
Anyway, I digress.
The whole point here is that as they go about their yeoman's work at Fox News, stop jacking with the language.
If somebody's a suicide bomber, they're a suicide bomber, okay?
There's nothing wrong with that term.
In fact, it is a useful term.
It helps distinguish between people who blow themselves up in the process and those who set the bomb and seek to survive it.
Thank you.
I feel much better.
It's 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
What I actually intended to spend those last couple of minutes doing, which I'll now shorten up so we can get to calls in this first segment.
The thing that occurs to me here is that it is still an extremely dangerous world.
I I know I hope that no one ever totally loses sight of that.
But we as Americans in particular have such short memories and such short attention spans, uh, that it's possible to have a little time go by.
I mean, that's why everybody uh bailed out on the war.
No more 911s by 2003.
Score.
We're dancing in the streets.
Everything must be fine.
No need for that nasty, messy, expensive war.
Come on, everything's fine.
Haven't any more 91s.
Well, it is our historical illiteracy and our blindness uh to the evil that populates much of the world that endangers us most.
And every once in a while, terrorists do us the favor of reminding us that they are still there.
They have done so today in Indonesia, uh, which is, by the way, the biggest Muslim country in the world, and where the and where they've had uh a nice run of stability, a recent election that didn't appear to be tainted, that's always nice.
Uh I I get well tainted against what uh what measure and backdrop.
But uh i it's but every once in a while, and sometimes it'll be in a Muslim country, sometimes not, witness Britain and Spain.
But if we lose sight of the fact that even though Al Qaeda is splintered and on the run, that they are still out there and they still have bombs and people willing to blow themselves up and others, what do we call them?
Suicide bombers, thank you.
Um that if we grow too cavalier about this, if we if we grow uh too self-satisfied in our own safety and the safety of places around the world, that is the atmosphere into which they strike.
That is the gap of opportunity that they will use.
Indonesia was a perfect place to do this from the terrorist mindset.
Because they'd uh, you know, recent election, no post-election rioting.
You know, some economic stability by Indonesian standards.
Perfect place.
And I'm not saying that we all have to, you know, run around with our eyes bugged out uh condition red, condition red, uh top DEF CON at all times.
But uh if if we grow too comfortable, that is when we endanger ourselves.
And I wonder, and I know I have company, if the one party rule that we have in the United States of America is sufficiently concerned about things like this.
Oh, I know they'll give lip service to their concern.
You know, they uh from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who seems quite muzzled lately.
You know, she's had a speech or two here and there, but wow, most is she the least visible Secretary of State uh in recent history?
And gee, why might that be?
There's a whole other topic.
But um there's there's saying terrorism is bad and we are against terrorism, they're saying those things, and then there's doing the things necessary to fight it.
Closing git mode doesn't fight terror.
You know, uh failing to uh to properly bolster what we have done in setting the stage for stability in Iraq, that's not fighting terror.
Failing to speak the very word terror, to admit that it exists in order to, you know, placate you know the Arab street, that's not fighting terror.
So I just wonder.
I just wonder.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
Let us, you know, if I tell you I'm going to Akron, you might think, fantastic, another Ohio call.
Uh uh-uh.
This is up in Northeast Colorado, I'm given to understand.
Nice tiny town in the Rockies.
Joyce, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis, how are you?
Hi.
Um I just wanted to say that about the health thing, they've got the seven hundred or eight hundred billion in there for bike paths and gym places and lights.
I just if I had a choice, which I don't, I'd like to spend that money on making those people sick or well that were sick instead of buying all that stuff.
Yeah, that if if we've had hundreds of billions of dollars lying around rather than have it go to pet projects in Obama voting districts, uh i if there's something that we need to spend on health care, if there's some addition some additional government spending necessary on health care, that would seem a more worthy destination.
I don't want to spend it on health care.
I'm trying to tell you that health care is fine the way it is.
I mean, well, actually, I I I don't exactly right, but that that that's exactly where I was gonna go, in fact, is let's go a step farther and say not only do we not have to spend the money on the so-called stimulus, we don't have to spend a whole lot of government money on health care either.
Uh that the solutions to every health care problem we have lie in the private sector, lie in an honest marketplace, lie in more sensible regulations, lie in tort reform, uh a thousand other things that we can do with the relationship between patients, doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies, solutions which, like so many other the issues, environmental, various other things, don't require an enormous outlay of taxpayer money.
And with that, she shrugs and hangs.
Could you hear that you're not wearing headphones, I'm guessing in the limbo audience.
Maybe some of you are.
Did I wear her out?
That was tremendous.
I'm sorry, Joyce.
I I thought I thought we'd achieved some harmony there, and yet after I was done, in what seemed like pregnant silence, you could hear go.
Well, all right.
I'm tickled.
Let's pause.
Let's get back, see what see what happens next.
See if the next caller is somehow more satisfied with what I'm doling out here on this Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
I'm Mark Davis, at least for this hour filling in.
We'll see what happens next.
Speaking of our next hour, or maybe even before this one's through, I may not be able to restrain myself much longer.
Uh you've seen some attention paid to it, uh uh this week in history is is an amazing, amazing thing.
Forty years ago, right now, uh there is really only one thing on people's mind, and you either know what it is, good for you, or if you don't, you soon will.
We'll stick that in here somewhere as well.
On the Friday, Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
We'll continue in just a moment on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from Dallas Fort Worth at WBAP.
And whatever station you're listening on, happy Friday, and I hope you have a fantastic weekend.
And on Monday, when everybody reconvenes, Rush will be here.
Okay.
Uh in a moment.
Steve, I'm coming to you in New Jersey.
You got a China question, and I've got locked and loaded some audio of I I've made mention of the questions that Judge Sotomoyor has answered and the ones that she has not answered, and how sometimes even those are more telling.
Uh well, we have a qu when she was questioned about the second amendment, um.
Uh well, you you just have to hear it to believe it, and in just a couple of moments you will.
But the first thing you're gonna hear, let's go to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, because Carl was gonna help me out with something that I just never got.
Uh all of a sudden somebody figured that there was something the matter with the term suicide bomber, and the the folks who might otherwise admire so richly at Fox News started using the completely dunderheaded homicide bomber.
Carl, help the fill-in guy out.
How are you, sir?
Not too bad, Mark.
Good.
Okay.
I'm uh Iraq veteran, and we started using this uh when I was over in theater, um term homicide bomber.
Because you'd have people using the term suicide bombers propaganda trying to um make people feel bad for these murders who'd go out and blow themselves up.
Let's pause right there.
In what way first of all, anyone feeling Bad for these people is an idiot, so I don't know why we would change the language to play to that.
Secondly, let me just okay, we may be getting somewhere here, because the last thing I want to do is quarrel with a military term.
Uh how does the term suicide bomber or one's status as a suicide bomber m make it more sympathetic?
How does that make it I mean help me?
It doesn't make any sense to me, but some of the propaganda, especially uh over in the Middle East, where dying, you know, for the jihad is such a big thing.
All right.
Then f then follow me here, because I've I I'm starting to understand a little bit of this, but it still doesn't change the truth.
If the the thinking being, if one is in the the Middle Eastern general public, that the bomber who sets a bomb and runs away has a certain commitment to the task, but the bomber willing to blow himself up, wow, he must really feel strongly about it.
Is that sort of how the logic would go?
That's part of the logic.
Okay, well, well then try then then trust me, because time is short.
I understand that.
That doesn't make it uh then in why why would we play to that?
I don't care if the suicide bomber gets more props back home at the coffee shop uh, you know, at Hezbollah headquarters.
I don't care.
And I don't think the military or American journalists should change the language because of that.
That's insane.
A suicide bomber's a good term.
It me it it enables you to know, you as a soldier, me as a radio guy to know was this somebody who sent the bomb and ran away, or somebody who blew himself up.
We can then think of that person whatever we like.
But the term has meaning.
The job of language is clarity.
And you don't go jacking around with that because somebody has some weird thought that actual accuracy somehow gives props to extremism.
Uh that's crazy.
I understand I agree with you, but we're not dealing with uh rational thinking people like that.
No, no, but but I don't understand.
But here's the thing.
So what is it the job of rational people to do?
To stay rational.
You don't go uh uh changing the language because some people use it to a sinister end.
You don't go changing anything in the way you fight I've it just to take a walk to a different thing.
There are ways in which we've wanted to uh there's sometimes I've wanted Republicans to be tougher, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
And I get the answer back.
Well, we can't we can't do that because some people won't like it, because some people will portray us as racists or portray us.
I I don't care.
If if do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may.
In the language, say the right word and let people do with it what they will.
That that's that's all.
Um Carla, if you know the most important thing, let's not bury the lead here.
God bless you, sir, for your service and for what you did for the country.
When did you get home?
I got back in 06.
And how long did you s how long did you spend there there in the in the war?
I spent uh twelve months over there, and I'm getting ready to head to Afghanistan here shortly.
Are you really?
Well, I gotta tell you, and I I I don't ever seek to speak for an audience, but I think I could probably get some amens on this.
For the service that you have already given us, we we give you our unending thanks and for what you are continually willing to do.
There's something special about somebody who'll go once.
There's something really special about the guys who go twice and more.
So God bless you and thank you because what you're doing uh gives me the freedom to sit here and do this show about big topics like war and peace and the Constitution and little tiny topics like word usage.
You're my hero, man, and thank you very, very, very much.
Well, thank you, sir.
Love you, brother.
All righty.
Okay.
1800.
Well, I'm glad we picked it up.
I don't know.
1800-282-2882, 1800-282-2882.
I got about a m you know what I'm gonna do?
You got sixty seconds rather than give a call short shrift.
For those of you that didn't know what I was talking about, about the about recent history, about this week in history.
Forty years ago, yesterday was the launch of Apollo 11.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, riding a Saturn V into Earth orbit and then shooting out of Earth orbit to head to the moon.
Today is the fortieth anniversary of their second day.
Tomorrow will be the fortieth anniversary of their third, Sunday will be the fortieth anniversary of their fourth.
And uh and then Monday.
Somebody make sure Rush mentions this on Monday.
Either a gentle nudge from a caller or whatever, or maybe his own uh his own research team.
I believe Monday is the 40th anniversary of the most amazing feat in human history.
Maybe not the best thing we've ever done, uh establishing freedom for the downtrodden, curing diseases, that's probably the best things we've done.
But the most amazing thing, human footprints on the moon.
Forty years ago this week.
I sure hope you haven't forgotten.
And if you aren't alive, bone up and uh and learn a little bit about what America, about what humanity can do when it commits itself to an amazing, amazing goal.
Mark Davison for Rush, be right back.
Very proud, very grateful to be filling in just for this one day.
Rush is back on Monday.
Hope you have a great weekend ahead, whatever you plan on doing.
I'll tell you what I plan on doing.
Go on to some calls.
Some folks have been waiting.
Let's uh take them off hold and uh give them to the nation and then the uh and then the audio from the hearings in which Judge Sotomayor was asked, hey, does that constitution that you will be uh sworn to uphold, does it contain a right to personal self-defense?
See, silly me, that that strikes me as a kind of a yes or no uh question.
But uh apparently I'm mistaken about that.
We'll see.
Uh get to that here in a second.
First, let us head to East Brunswick, New Jersey, and Steve Mark Davison for Rush.
Thank you very, very much.
What's up today?
Hey, how you doing, Mark?
Thank you so much for uh taking my call.
Thanks.
Um and you're doing a great job filling in for Rush.
Uh last year uh when you were filling in for them, I asked you a question, and I was just wondering if your response is still the same given the change of the circumstances.
Um the question was in other words, uh with all the with all the national debt that we have and personal debt that we have, are we selling ourselves out to China?
And um I would just you you kind of would were not concerned about that, and I was just wondering if I'm hey, hey, don't misinterpret the fill-in guy.
I actually remember when we spoke, and and what a blessing it is to have memories of past conversations filling in on on Russia's show.
Uh you were i enormously concerned.
I don't think I'm I don't know if I'm less concerned or differently concerned in the following way.
Uh I wonder if we should even be dealing with them at all.
I'm a big fan of the Reagan policy of speak truth to evil.
However, those who have decided to engage with China by dealing with them, having business relationships with them, in order to sort of drag them out of the darkness of the communist cave and into a free market world where their own people will demand more of the freedom that relationships with us will give you.
There are ways in which one can say that that has worked, that the China of 2009 is enormously different than the stone age place that Nixon helped open the door to uh, you know, 30, 30 some years ago.
However, it remains an evil regime.
It remains uh not just a political philosophy, but an economy that is our chief rival.
And I wonder, like you, about when you visit a store and everything is from there.
Uh how does it helps us by being affordable, it hurts us by empowering them and and and probably disadvantaging our own economy.
So I think so far we're we're on the same page.
When you phrase it this year as I think you did last year, quote unquote, selling out to China or mortgaging our future to China.
My answer then and my answer now is not necessarily.
I believe there are ways to interact with a modern yet still very communist China.
There's a reason why Rush calls them the ChaiComs.
That's so that you can always remember exactly what they are.
Uh I think there are ways to interact with them that are smart.
I think there are things that we can do so that we uh there'll never be a level playing field, but because that would involve every country having the same trade laws.
That'll never happen.
I'm not a protectionist, so you'll never get that from me.
So I think there are ways that that that we can proceed in a relationship with China that does not rise to the level to the panic level of selling out to them, mortgaging the future, et cetera.
Let me give you the floor back and and and let's chat.
What are you what's what's your thought?
I I totally agree with you.
I'm all for, you know, free trade and all that.
The only the only concern I would have is what if one day um the they come to collect the mortgage, how will we handle that?
Well, I mean, you know, because that 10 the the good well, okay, you never want to be in hock, you know, in your own country or in a relationship with another.
That and I and and if there's anything I've probably talked myself out of doing, it's saying the following sentence.
That would never happen.
I probably would have said that about the government owning GM.
I probably would have said that about spending trillions of dollars to get out of a financial crisis.
That'll never happen.
And now it has.
So never say never.
But the Chinese are enjoying the status quo too much.
The the the fantasy, which is what it is at the moment at least, the dark fantasy of them bringing us to uh the knees of economic ruin uh uh by calling in all of these chips and debt and all of that, takes away the engine of their own progress, and that is our money.
Right now, the engine of Chinese progress is largely fueled by American entrepreneurship, American businesses, American tourism, uh a fairly civil relationship with America.
If if we are somehow ruined, what have they gained?
Um and then I think the last thing, and I'll give it right back to you for the last word.
Uh uh I don't ev they say never say never, and this is not me saying never.
Let me phrase it with precision of language.
I I don't believe that America's going to go away because of something China does.
Do they have it within their power to to to deal an economic blow to us?
Yes.
Do I believe sufficiently in American resiliency that uh the that that we can survive um the Chinese whims?
Yes, I do.
Fair enough.
I mean, that's definitely something for me to chew on, and I I thank you for the uh for your time and the answer to the phone.
My pleasure.
Thank you, man.
Thank you.
I surely will.
Appreciate it a lot.
Let me go back to the the original thing.
I mean, because I I know for the last uh you know, three, four minutes there, I've uh uh sounded um like I have found a way to cope with the status quo.
We are dealing with the ChaiCons.
Are the fill-in guys required to say that?
We are I I gladly do.
We are we are dealing with the Chai Cons.
The Lord knows they're dealing with us.
Um that's where we are.
And it's not going to change.
So we can pound our fists on the table and uh you know, bang our heads against the wall, or we can find a way to navigate these waters smartly and uh not um and not quote unquote sell out to the Chinese.
Now, what does that mean?
I love Walmart.
Okay.
It's not just a Tourette's moment.
I I it's just wow, he changes topic quickly.
Nope, I'm going somewhere with this.
Uh one of the reasons I love Walmart is I save a bazillion dollars a year by shopping at Walmart.
Now every time I go in there, and I I also love buying American.
And I really try.
I really, really try.
Uh I'm thrilled when I look at something I want and it's made in the USA.
If it's kind of a coin flip, or even if I have to drive an extra mile or two, or there's a place I know that stocks up on American products, I gladly do that.
But you know what?
Sometimes I'm walking into Walmart and I need $200 worth of stuff, you know, stuff for the yard, groceries, things for this, stuff for that, stuff for the household.
And I know the vast majority of uh what I've got in that basket is from China.
Wow.
Oh how I wish it were not.
But it is, I'm saving a bunch of money.
And uh so I and to that extent I am a willing accomplice to this ongoing uh this ongoing thing.
But you know what?
So are you.
So are almost all of us.
So what do you do?
I mean, what what is what is the way out of that?
It and we all talk such a good game.
We all talk such a good game about buying America and about this and about and and many of us do, I do, and and I know you you many of you folks are are are doing so too.
American cars, American this, American that.
But the solutions that would really deal the that would that would really say something to the speak truth to evil, the the refusal to deal with them in in certain ways.
Are you ready for the stuff you ready for that $200 trip to Walmart?
We've all made it.
You know what the definition of a $200 trip to Walmart is for me when I go when I go out with a list that contains $50 worth of stuff.
Because I always see stuff I need, and it winds up being just instantly $200.
Well, let's have that trip turn into $350.
And you talk to me about the principle of dealing with China.
Let's have um let's have protectionism.
Let's say that what we're gonna do is we're going to put a tariff on stuff coming in from other countries, because how in the world can we deal with them?
We have American labor costs and they're, you know, throwing everybody uh, you know, what what kind of pittance and rice they may be getting in some Chinese factory.
How do you deal with that?
Well, hey, here's a way to level the playing field.
Let's put a tariff on all this incoming stuff.
Well, that just sounds great.
You see how many minutes that lasts when goods that a millions of Americans want are suddenly enormously more expensive.
Because America put a tariff on them.
Our own people did this to us.
See how long that lasts.
We can all get together and pump our fists with glee on getting tough with the Chinese.
And boy, we have and believe you me, there are ways in which we do need to, probably more having to do with uh uh their partnership with other evil regimes around the world than the pair of shoes at the mall.
Um but uh the talk is talk is cheap.
Not on this show, it's not.
Anyway, uh talk is one thing.
Talk is talk is talk.
Action is action.
And um and sometimes you can say things and stand for them and they sound great, but when you take a look at the consequences of what would happen, do you know what kind of rioting we'd have in the streets if we did some of the things that everybody talks about doing and getting tough with China?
Let's let's have tariffs, let's do this, and let's you know, get rid of Walmart and do all these things, or the places that stock uh, you know, a bunch of Chinese goods.
Sounds wonderful.
And um yeah, let that happen.
And let that that trip to that trip to Walmart or wherever.
Let the $200 of stuff that you need to get this weekend for some you know backyard party you're having at your house, let's have that go to about $350 in this economy.
And see how uh see how happy people remain.
So but to get back I know I got a break.
To as ambivalent as I might sound, and I am coping.
I am talking about ways to navigate the field as it is actually striped.
But and this is a very weird thing to use, just to show you that I I I that doesn't mean that I have in any way uh grown uh distant from how the from the evil of the of the communist regime that runs China.
We're supposed to just feel great about Yao Ming.
I'm sorry, I can't do it.
He plays down the road for me in Houston.
And it's not like I want him to, you know, uh have more injuries or you know, the rockets to lose all you know 82 games in their schedule or anything like that, but uh the this uh i if for some if someone immigrates uh and uh and they leave China to come here and live here and be an American citizen, uh that that some of my favorite immigration is when people bolt from communist regimes to come be a part of America.
That's not what this guy's done.
He's glom and you know, and we'll take him because he's you know nine feet tall and you know as uh and can shoot.
Uh I I hate that.
There was at some point an American uh basketball coach how is it down uh let's not throw them under the bus.
An American basketball coach went and coached the Chinese team.
What are you doing?
Or was an assistant coach or a coach or something like, what are you doing?
And I know that's just on the the athletic field of competition, two goofy examples from from basketball.
But I whatever we do, and whether it's trade or whatever, let's never lose sight of the fact that while the Soviet Union is gone, there is another evil empire around, and it's China.
And it's China.
And God bless those billion plus people.
I wish for them to be ruled by a better government.
I don't define all the Chinese people by the evil of their government.
But that government is evil.
Don't ever forget it.
And anything we do about them with them in regard to them should be done with a brain full of of the truth of uh the immutable truth of that statement.
All right, here's another immutable truth.
Boy am I late.
More of your calls in a moment on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in, be right back.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Let's get right to some phone call action.
We're in Los Angeles.
Don, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark.
How are you?
Oh Mark, great being on with you.
Great job filling in.
Very kind.
You know all the talk about Sotomayor, I mean, it's certainly warranted, but I'm more concerned about Attorney General Eric Holder and this continuing vendetta trying to get, you know, Mr. Cheney and uh, you know, trying to start a witch hunt to go after the people that were defending our country for eight years.
There's no shortage of of what should we be worried about most.
Uh the the plate is the plate is so full.
Let's give proper time to what you've described.
It's offensive enough that the attorney general seeks to criminalize policies that he and the president politically disagree with.
But if there's anything that just adds an a a certain extra spice to my anger, it's this notion that the President can do nothing about it.
The Attorney General is independent.
I can't stop him.
Well rest assured if if if if Eric Holder does this, it is with the absolute and thorough approval of President Obama who seeks to straddle the fence and seem so so above it all, so forward thinking while his attorney general goes on this witch hunt.
If if it happens, it is absolutely with President Obama's full approval because he too seeks not just to win elections and change policies he disagrees with, but to criminalize the behavior of those he disagrees with.
Well gosh, you know that's so right because you know Mr. Obama the American answer to Hugo Chavez, he's trying so hard to like smile and say, oh well you know I want to look forward knock backward, but gee whiz nodwink if Eric Holder wants to do it, that's okay with me.
Indeed so and it's just so scary.
Well y I you know Mark I really think it's going to backfire because it's going to be like Iran Contra all over again.
They're gonna succeed in making the heroes heroes.
People are I mean Dick Cheney can take care of himself.
Mr. Yun can take care of themselves just give them a platform.
They'll turn that docket into a barricade where they can stand up on top of it and shout to the American people what they did and they'll come out of it looking a lot better than the Obama regime.
Well the Vice President Cheney, former VP Cheney certainly did you know when he went a few rounds with President Obama just out there on the speech and talk show turkey uh circuit so I I hope they don't get that opportunity because if they do it means the witch hunts are on.
I'd rather they be resolved in a series of speeches, talk shows and newspaper columns, whatever.
Don I need to scoot, but before I do, can I just share one thing with you anybody ever tell you you sound like Robert Bork?
No, but that's probably the greatest compliment I've ever gotten in my life I'm I mean it and uh you could you should probably do phone messages or something like that, although that's probably illegal.
But uh but uh I offer that as a compliment not just to your pipes but to your clarity.
So thank you very much.
And with that we'll pause again come back and have room for another person or two before this hour is done.
On the Rush Limbaugh Show I'm Mark Davis filling in be back in a moment.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show on a Friday we're very nearing the end of the second hour and I mean very so for calls get right to you after we get into the beginning of the next hour.
And in fact given just this minute or so with which to conclude I I'm always I've always believed as a talk show host that if I say something that I should back it up.
So I just told Don in Los Angeles that he really sounds like Robert Bork.
So I'm now going to back that up by playing some Robert Bork audio which also serves to remind us what Robert Bork thinks of this nominee, Judge Sotomayor.
I don't think Sotomayor's protestations that she's entirely governed by law.
Seriously I don't I don't think she is I think the the statement she's made and the ruling she's made show that she's not governed entirely by law.
See told you all right and with that let us cruise into this uh this final hour of the Friday Rush show rush is back on Monday included in this hour uh what I promised you before uh Senator Tom Coburn also a doctor out of Oklahoma talking to uh Judge Sotomayor about the second amendment more of your calls of course on a wide variety of things.
Actually there is more Tom Coburn news uh Wall Street Journal piece uh makes reference to something Senator Coburn did uh uh suggesting that the Senate demonstrate leadership by requiring that every member of Congress go into Obama care.
We'll talk about whether that's just uh a useful stunt or something that is uh i is particularly praiseworthy.
And uh also, as promised, uh, we're gonna do a little bit of a uh a trip into the time tunnel, remembering this week in history and the magnificent journey of Apollo 11 uh happening 40 years ago this week.
Mark Davison for Rush.
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