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	Thanks, one and all.
	It is the second hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show on the last day of August, and an eventful August it has been.
	I'm Mark Davis of WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth.
	Be with you today and tomorrow in the Markstein Wednesday and Thursday.
	Walter Williams on Friday, Rush Back, a week from today, with a couple of golf stories I'm thinking.
	So enjoy the week, sir, and uh we'll keep the uh keep the ship navigating through these fascinating topical waters uh in your absence.
	Uh phone number's still there, and glad you're still listening.
	1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
	All right, we're going to continue on some of the narratives that we've got going from the first hour.
	Let me just toss in a couple of things that I haven't had a chance to mention, just uh few more layers of uh of topicality that we can go with.
	And one of them has uh a bit of audio attached to it.
	I flight tested this during the break, and it ought to work.
	And we really went the entire first hour without really mentioning anything about the Ted Kennedy funeral, or not much anyway.
	And so the things to be said about it are kind of like the things to be said about his life.
	It kind of depends.
	I mean, the the human decency angle says lovely day of remembrance and uh virtually all classy and dignified, no weird Paul Wellstone Memorial Service moment uh broke out.
	Sense of decorum wrapped itself around virtually the whole thing, except one thing that you know we can visit about if you like, or I'll just put this in your head and you can run with it and do whatever you like.
	And disagree with me if you wish.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Here's here's where I'm headed.
	Um if during the eulogies, people I would expect during eulogies of a political figure, for people to have admiration for what that guy stood for.
	I mean, at the Reagan funeral, there are multiple references to things he did that were the Reagan side of our political battles for lower taxation and rebuilding the military.
	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, uh, SDI, things like that.
	You would expect that.
	Um President Reagan was not Catholic, so he did not have uh a Catholic Mass, and so they did not have what are called uh the the general intercessions or the prayers of the faithful.
	This is something most closely identified with uh uh with Catholicism, but there are there are similar uh incarnations of it with Lutherans, Anglicans, uh, Methodists, and various other folks.
	But those of you who are uh have been to a Catholic Mass or a Catholic know full well you reach that point of the Mass where it's time to hit your knees and be asked a few things to pray for, things that generally speaking one would think are universally agreed upon.
	The form taken is uh it's a list of things.
	For this we pray to the Lord, and the congregation replies, Lord hear our prayer.
	Um they tend to be religious goals or or uh thoroughly um uncontroversial uh noble goals.
	I mean, if somebody is some some public figure, somebody in the uh in the congregation is in a hospital dying, you know, we we pray for for his salvation, and for this we pray to the Lord, and the congregation replies, Lord hear our prayer.
	When uh politics are invoked, it's usually in a thoroughly innocuous way, giving our leaders the strength, energy, and uh you know, and and wherewithal to tackle a large plate of our nation's problems, for them we pray to the Lord.
	Lord, hear our prayer comes the response.
	Can you imagine for a moment in let's say the death of a conservative Catholic politician?
	If in the general intercessions, the prayers of the faithful.
	Lord, since uh Congressman Smith or Jones uh worked so hard for a flat tax, boy, let's get one uh uh we pray to the Lord, Lord hear our prayer.
	Can you imagine uh for Congressman Smith uh he he fought so doggedly for the privatization of of social security?
	Let's bring that about for that we pray to the Lord.
	Lord, hear our prayer.
	I mean, can you imagine?
	Can you imagine the hijacking and politicization uh of a portion of the Catholic Mass?
	Well, you don't have to imagine it.
	You can hear it.
	And um, tasked with delivering this was uh one of Senator Kennedy's grandchildren.
	So let me just let you hear this, And this will strike you one way or the other, you tell me.
	The youngest child of one of his nieces will offer the intercessions.
	Each time, please respond, Lord, hear our prayer.
	Teddy served for 47 years, and he summoned us all to service.
	And so these intercessions are in his words.
	For the work of his life is our prayer for our country and our world.
	Charlie Gibson's voiceovers from the ABC coverage.
	For what my grandpa called the cause of his life, as he said so often, in every part of this land that every American will have decent quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.
	I hope that I have surrounded myself with a sufficient objectivity on this.
	Because well, actually, in fact, I asked, can you imagine?
	Let me make more clear.
	If following the death of a conservative politician whose legacy I actually admired, if on that occasion they hijacked the general intercessions for matters of earthly politics, don't go toward abortion.
	There's a little obviously if somebody wants to pray for some clarity on protecting the unborn, that's fine.
	That goes a little beyond politics.
	That is the morality of the actual church.
	But on things that are left to us to decide, more or less government, higher or lower taxes, you know, government or non government options in healthcare, social security, da da da.
	Let me be the first to tell you that I would be the first to tell you that I was offended by the hijacking of the general intercessions, even for a political goal that I admired.
	You just don't do that.
	But these people do.
	Because only they are virtuous.
	Only they have our best interests at heart.
	To oppose them is to embody evil.
	And so it's really not particularly surprising.
	There is an irony here because isn't it Republicans?
	Isn't it conservatives who usually get their chops busted for improper commingling of faith and politics?
	Well, I can't remember the last time we pulled a stunt like this.
	So just thought I'd share, because to have the general intercessions led off with a grandchild of Teddy, and God bless that grandchild.
	He is blameless in this, of course.
	Essentially asking for the gathered congregation to drop to its knees and pray for Obamacare.
	I hope you will pardon my unfettered revulsion about this.
	In our first hour, we talked about uh, you know, here we are, T minus week and a half to uh nine eleven.
	Well looks like we'll pass another nine eleven without another set of attacks, and um that's certainly a good thing.
	Uh we talked a little bit about the notion of people speaking of hijackings, a particularly uh poignant verb to use with 9-11, uh, folks who will try to commandeer uh 9-11 to bring about certain political things, green jobs, green activism, blah blah blah.
	If you want to go fight for those things, go do it, but can you please leave 911 out of it?
	911 is about remembrance of those we lost, remembrance of how and why we lost them, which is difficult for some.
	And if it is a call to anything, if it's a call to any kind of action, let it be the kind of actions that prevent things like this from happening again.
	And hopefully a call to action to revive the American sense of memory.
	You remember if you ever had your local talk show hosts or you know or anybody on the national scene talk about how often or how seldom we see those planes flying into the World Trade Centers?
	When's the last time you saw them?
	How often have you actually seen that?
	Does that uh you know get you all freshly righteously indignant?
	Well, it should.
	And I don't know what it takes in in this country that copes all too well with things like 9 11.
	You know, I'm not looking to run that every hour on every cable channel and say, you know, uh so that we can have everybody want to go, you know, bomb portions of the Middle East, but but we really have just lost focus on what was done to us and lost focus on what's necessary to keep it from happening again.
	So we brought that up.
	The reason I mentioned that is some folks are um on that subject, either loosely or tightly, so let's see how see where this goes.
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	1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Let's go to Yonkers, New York.
	Francesco, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	Very nice to have you.
	Hello.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	Hi.
	Yeah, I was uh you guys were uh jumping around a lot of topics, and that's what I really called for.
	Uh yeah, I think it's I think it's absolutely disgusting what what they're doing with this and and hijacking it.
	And actually, this is the first time I could see uh the government actually commercializing the uh the the event and uh and using it for their benefit for their for their agenda.
	I mean, nothing should be tied to this event except for trying to kill as many terrorists as possible in this world and can and consoling the victims and anything you can do to to make them, you know, by building memorials and this and that.
	I mean, nothing should be attached to.
	I'm an actually environmental engineer.
	I studied in Manhattan College over here in uh in in the Bronx, New York.
	I mean, I'm up for the environment uh when it comes to certain things, but I mean this is this is absolutely ridiculous to tying anything green to to to this event uh to this event.
	Yeah, and just uh uh let me do what I did a couple of minutes ago on the same thing.
	If someone wanted to take an unrelated conservative goal, a goal that I admired.
	I don't know, let's take 911 as an opportunity to focus on the need for you know a flat tax or a sales tax.
	I'm sorry, please, it's blasphemy.
	Stop it.
	911 is 911.
	Let's fight our political battles for or against green initiatives, for against tax reform, and leave 911 out of it and maintain the purity of what 911 recollections ought to be.
	Appreciate it, man.
	Thank you.
	Thank you enormously.
	Um we are.
	Well, I tell you what's too.
	Let's let's take the pause, come back and rejoin some folks.
	Uh it's funny, just in talking to Francesco there and in Yonkers.
	I see the Manhattan skyline a few times a year.
	I just love getting up there.
	It's just always a joy.
	And there is there's a picture on a shelf in my house.
	It is of my wife and me on the Staten Island Ferry.
	You could not have asked for a more opportune framing of that.
	And it's been hang it's hanging, it's been there, you know, forever and ever since.
	But I walk by that picture and I look at it, and it's still there's still a jolt because over her right shoulder are the World Trade Centers.
	This was taken on the Fourth of July weekend of 2001.
	Those towers were to stand for mere weeks more.
	And and I get back every once in a while, and I it's it's still, it's it's I don't know, it's like you see a portrait of somebody missing a nose.
	You see uh a familiar logo with a letter missing.
	It's like there's just something missing.
	What what goes into that space?
	Where are we on all of that?
	You remember the ideas we had?
	I remember my favorite one uh was to rebuild the World Trade Centers exactly as they looked so that the skyline would precisely mirror what it looked like at dawn on September 11th.
	Oh, they've got all these spires and all of this and all of that and all these things playing, and there'll be something in that space at some point, I guess.
	But I still kind of liked my idea.
	And I don't know.
	I mean, eight years, what?
	I mean, um it's taken us this long.
	That whole thing.
	And I know they're real estate and uh issues and various things and competing interests and what ought to be there, should it be like a big uh a big tombstone or should it be a vibrant building where people and I'll just throw this in before we break.
	I uh please let's have there's a lot of acreage there.
	If you've been there, there's a lot of acreage.
	There should absolutely be space for solemn remembrance of of the victims of 9-11.
	But you know what there ought to be at least as much?
	A building where people go to work.
	What greater honor could we give the ordinary working Americans who died that day than to create a place where other ordinary working Americans can go?
	That's just me.
	You tell me.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
	You're listening to the EIB Network.
	EIB Network.
	It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Monday, August 31st.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
	Let's head to another big city Rush Limbaugh affiliate, the Mighty 640 WGST in Atlanta, where David is in the listenership.
	It's nice to have you, sir.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	How are you doing?
	Very well, thanks.
	A little bit upset the way that you hijacked uh the prayers of the faithful in the Catholic Mass.
	The way that I did?
	You did.
	What did I do?
	All right.
	Now, uh basically, you are saying that that basic medical care should not have been part of a religious service.
	That is that I believe is your thesis.
	Well, let me help you with my thesis by telling you what it is, and that is that socialized medicine should not have been asked for in the general intercessions.
	Okay.
	Now let us go back to the latest encyclical by Benedict the Sixteenth.
	Caritas in veritate or charity in truth.
	For which the Pope says that the human person has rights, a right, not a privilege, a right to basic medical care.
	Which they receive, which they receive in the United States with our magnificent safety net of indigent care.
	If the verb of the day is hijack, do not hijack the Holy Father's reference to make him an a a necessary ally of Obama.
	He may well be, but his words did not say that.
	It talked about basic health care, not necessarily government-provided insurance.
	You know, basically what you're doing is you're mixing your metaphors.
	Well, no, I've I've just said so.
	If you'd like to reply to it, you can, but it would be nice.
	It would be nice, okay?
	Sir, please.
	We have we're discussing the very fundamental right of an individual to have basic medical care.
	Yes, it is provided.
	Yes, it is done.
	You're politicizing it by saying that basic medical care is Obamacare.
	It isn't.
	No, no, no, not not at all.
	You're using the term, you're using the term basic medical care.
	People who don't people who do not have insurance, uh the the notion that that people are somehow dying in the streets of America because they have medical needs that are not met, is largely fictitious.
	Because from from Parkland Hospital, just up the road from where I am in Dallas Fort Worth, famous for many other reasons, uh, provides this every day for people who have no insurance.
	They get this basic medical care.
	They get it.
	They receive it.
	Not everybody, because there are some folks here who have cancer who can't get basic medical care.
	Are you sure you want to invoke cancer to further your argument in view of the well let's let's see how this works out for you as I invite you to examine the cancer survival rates in Canada and the United Kingdom compared to ours.
	No, no, no.
	Now you're trying to get into social medicine.
	I am not.
	I am trying I don't care about Canada's system.
	I'm talking about the basic right of a human being to have basic medical care.
	If an individual is out of work, develops a case of cancer, the insurance company will not accept them.
	That's a pre-existing condition.
	And he does and he does not have basic medical care.
	Now, on pre-existing conditions, you've brought up a very valid issue.
	And there are ways, I believe, in the free market system to provide insurance reform that will take care of the people whom you invoke, and properly so, much better than a system that hands these decisions over to government.
	I am not in any way shape or form in favor of Obamacare.
	No way.
	My complaint with you is your politicization of the fundamental right of the Catholic system.
	I I tell you what.
	I've I f I I think neither We've talked about what the Pope means in his advocacy for what seems like something resembling socialized medicine.
	It may be s it may be similar to what the Pope means or any Pope means when they come out against the death penalty.
	It is it is a belief that any Pope may have, but it is not scriptural.
	It is not scriptural.
	It's something the church has decided to advocate, and that is fine.
	We can debate that all day, but I'll tell you this.
	I'll tell you this.
	At that Ted Kennedy funeral, they were talking about Obamacare, and to put that in the general intercessions was absolutely repugnant.
	So appreciate ya, love you, go braves.
	Back in a minute on the EIB Network.
	Indeed you are, and I appreciate that.
	Mark Davis of WBAP Dallas Fort Worth.
	As we head back to some more of your calls, you know something?
	I'm inspired.
	Let's create this golden segue.
	Thomas Dolby blinded we m blinded me with science.
	Easy to sing, hard to say.
	Let's talk about the mad science advisor for a moment, shall we?
	We go to a Washington Times editorial for this.
	Are we familiar with John Holdron?
	I guess if you visit any blog, you probably are.
	Um what we have uh let me just go to the Times editorial.
	I'm intrigued by the notion of a chief science advisor.
	I mean, we've talked about czars a great deal, the Pesar, the Radio Czar, uh and and the notion of czars in and of itself is what it is.
	I mean, a guy I've always loved, Bill Bennett, you know, wasn't he the drug czar for another guy I love, Ronald Reagan.
	So the notion of surrounding yourself with a certain panel of czars to advise you on certain things, that's fine.
	How much power these folks get is kind of wild.
	The pay czar with the ability to ride herd over how much private sector CEOs make.
	What the heck is that?
	But anyway, uh let's go to the science advisor here, John Holdren for President Obama.
	Uh Washington Times advises earlier this month, Mr. Holdren served as co-chairman when the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met for the first time.
	It is a disgrace that Mr. Holdren is even on that council.
	In a book called Ecoscience, ecoscience, echo science, probably ecoscience, so you don't think I'm talking about echo hello, hello.
	Ecoscience, population, resources, environment, a book he co-authored in 1977 with noted doomsayers Paul and Ann Ehrlich, Mr. Holdron wrote, quote, indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population control laws,
	even including laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
	Well, the editorial continues, in case compulsory abortion wasn't enough to defuse his imaginary population bomb, Mr. Holdren and the Ehrlichs considered other extremist measures.
	Quote, a program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
	The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control.
	Oh, it gets worse.
	The Holdron Ehrlich book also promotes adding a sterilent.
	Learn a new word every day, I assume a sterilizing agent, to drinking water or staple foods.
	After noting that, well, yes, they're a very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems, Mr. Holdron and his co-authors express hope that their idea may still be viable.
	Quote To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements, they write.
	It must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals, it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects, and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.
	This becomes a Monty Python skit at this point.
	But it's it's it's deadly serious.
	John Holdren, President Obama's chief science advisor from uh ecoscience, Population Resources Environment, a book he co-authored in 1977.
	Wrapping up the Washington Times editorial about this, most Americans can be forgiven for thinking that mass sterilization through drinking water is never acceptable, and that someone who supported such horrors should have no place on a prestigious White House council.
	The question naturally arises why President Obama chooses to surround himself with extremists like Mr. Holdron.
	No matter how much they claim their views have evolved, health and science under Obamacare would be a frightening prospect with people like this advising the president.
	Washington Times.
	It's a frightening prospect, even without people like this advising the President.
	Oh my.
	All righty.
	All right, uh back to your calls, one-eight hundred-282-2882-1-800-282-2882.
	We are in Wilmington, North Carolina.
	Bill, Mark Davis in for Rush, very nice to have you.
	Hello.
	Hey.
	Hey.
	How are you?
	I think in Texas.
	Fantastic, sir.
	Thank you.
	I started to sing a song to you, deep in the heart of Texas.
	That's it.
	The stars at night are big and bright.
	But that'll only force me to think about uh about Pee-Wee Herman's.
	I never remember.
	This is an old 78-year-old um uh patriot, believing God, country, and constitution.
	Probably maybe in that order, probably by the best way I can say it.
	Um years ago, I worked as a security guard when I get to when I get to work.
	Which is not I lately I hadn't gotten that much, but I'd get some when I can when I feel like doing it.
	Uh on Social Security, all that stuff.
	But um years ago, right after 91, I was listening to the radio, and somebody come on with this thing.
	I I uh this stupid.
	I mean, he spent almost all night with it.
	I that's what I do when I'm on security.
	Right.
	Well, what was it?
	What was it that what made your eyebrow go up?
	Well, that that it was a conspiracy that they put dynamite inside the building when the planes hit.
	I know.
	And would you believe you still got some of them spouting that thing?
	You do.
	And if and and if in our prior hour we're sitting there talking about how to, you know, keep the memories of nine eleven fresh and why it's so important to revisit, one is to maintain our proper national righteous indignation, but the other is to just hope that layers of sanity come along to um to supplant this.
	Um I would offer a bill th th thank you for for your thanks for hanging on and thanks for just the the a grand life spend.
	I appreciate you a lot.
	Here's the thing.
	Um I don't know if the ripple of this will arrive here in what, eleven days when we have the 9-11 thing.
	And i if there is anything that is more uh repugnant than this kind of idiocy, it it's when this kind of idiocy surrounds itself in something called uh whatever the 9-11 truth movement, as if they deserve to even say those words.
	So rather than just kick those people in the crotch, which I will gladly do given any opportunity, because it is i it is it's kind of funny.
	It's e unless it's a mental illness, which in some cases it may very well be, and and then that's just another whole issue.
	But I I think that some of these folks just have a a kind of a nihilism going, kind of a listen, we're all mistrustful of various things and and don't know exactly how things work and have certain biases that send us in certain ways, but there's something just so profoundly sick about this that it defies description.
	Here's what I want to do for anybody.
	If you find yourself in a conversation with with one of these people, and just God help you if you do, you'd better have some time on your hands.
	Just offer up the following.
	And I say that just purely uh again, th this is this is like a law of physics, all right?
	And I don't mean laws of physics like those that they attempt to trump up to to justify their craziness.
	It some things are so true that they are almost like a law of physics.
	Here's what I mean.
	If one-tenth of what the 9-11 conspiracy geeks observe had a grain of believability to it, the entire community of structural engineers, the entire community of people who are experts about buildings.
	I mean, there were maybe not even the entire community.
	You would have 60, 70, 80, 90 percent agreement from the people who do this for a living.
	So you can stop down your moment of insanity in talking to one of these people and saying, look, I'll tell you what, let's stipulate.
	Neither you nor I as a structural engineer.
	Let's go to the people who are.
	How many structural engineers, people who actually do this for a living, believe in the 911 conspiracy theories?
	Well, they may be able to give you, you may have an index card with 14 names of 14 guys, good for them.
	The answer is an infinitesimally small percentage.
	An infinitesimally small percentage.
	If that's the funny thing, when when you're so um motivated by and when the adrenaline coursing through your system uh has told you that only you have the truth and the rest of the country has to be awakened to it, uh i it's easier for these folks to think that the entire structural engineering community agrees with them, or soon will.
	Well, they've had eight years, and they don't.
	And they don't.
	So suggest, as if it will do any good, at this point you do need to turn on your heels and and run, don't walk in another direction.
	Say, look, I tell you what, come back and talk to me when even half, even half of the community of structural engineers say that 9-11 is fishy.
	Until then, good day and goodbye.
	All right.
	Mark Davis Infor Rush on the EIB Network, 1-800-282-2882, and we will continue.
	You're listening to the EIB Network.
	It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Monday, August 31st.
	And as we go to your calls, once again, arcane pop culture referenced by me that probably confused the living daylights out of everyone.
	A very nice man from North Carolina calls in.
	Here I am in Texas, and he offers up the wonderful uh says, I'm I was gonna sing there for you, do a little deep in the heart of Texas, which is of course the uh the stuff of religion around here.
	And I made reference that well, probably for the best, because it would have only made me think of Pee-Wee Herman.
	If that left you completely stunned and bewildered, uh it's ten seconds and then you'll scrub your brain.
	1985, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Pee-Wee is at the Alamo and calls Dottie.
	Honest, listen, I'll prove it.
	The stars at night a big end, bruh!
	There you go.
	The entire crowd stops down and finishes there you go.
	All right.
	You know, there's a general rule around here that if I say something that's gonna require explanation, that much and of that type, probably rein it in.
	All righty, I will try to observe that standard as we return to some more of your calls.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Let us head to Ford Leavenworth, Kansas.
	Gary, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	How are you?
	How are you, sir?
	Good, thanks.
	Listen, as a professional talker, you got to tighten up your vocabulary.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	You know, first I heard you refer to the Obamacare government insurance scheme as health care, not insurance or financing.
	And then you talk about Juan Williams as a clear-headed liberal.
	Now, what kind of oxymoron is that?
	Well, I think in the point that I actually made, I said that is a uh that that's a small group of people.
	And um, it's all at zero.
	I love Juan Williams.
	No, well, that's that's lovely.
	I I do too.
	I I think that we are th if you take Juan Williams compared to oh, a a long list of people that you and I could compile together, Juan is the just a picture of of decency and even occasional clarity up against the backdrop of a whole lot of liberal punditry.
	So I'll I'll stand by that.
	And obviously health care is the issue in Obamacare, but I think I know where you're going, the the conflation of the notion of health care with health insurance.
	Right, right.
	They they they use these terms interchangeably.
	And they they imply when it's convenient that if we don't get government health insurance, people are gonna die on the street.
	But then when their tone wants to shift, they say this is about the big insurance companies and keeping them on us like they're just honest now.
	And and and it's just it's not really discussing the issue.
	You still with me?
	Oh, sure am.
	It's it's really obscuring the issue and playing on people's emotions.
	It's Gary, it's it's the straw man.
	Uh you're you're completely right about this, that that it's um uh th the straw man argument and anybody who follows logic is setting up something to oppose that no one is in fact uh talking about.
	Uh i i it arises when uh President Obama or his minions talk about Republicans or conservatives as wanting to do nothing.
	Well, we can't do nothing.
	There's no one who wants to do nothing.
	What we want to do is simply different, and different in a way that does not allow them to make strides toward the socialist nirvana that they that they crave.
	Which it's like referring to being pro-abortion is pro-choice.
	Well, you're really for abortions, then, right?
	Well, if you're if you're gonna if you're well, okay, if you're gonna hear this is an interesting, if you're gonna talk about words, let's do talk about words.
	There is indeed a way for someone to be in favor of keeping that choice open for women and hope that no one avails themselves of it.
	It is possible to be literally pro-choice and hope that no one avails themselves uh that would be someone who is not literally pro-abortion.
	That that character type does exist.
	Sadly, uh among our leaders, uh, as Raj has said fourteen hundred times, abortion has become a bit of a sacrament that to somehow impede the quest of a woman to terminate life in the womb uh is to somehow shackle her uh w with with the bonds of slavery.
	And uh so it's hard to find that kind of even-handedness uh among some of the folks who are fighting uh on the pro-choice side.
	If you're intellectually honest, if you feel that people have a right to medical care, uh then you're saying that you're in favor of slavery, I guess, because all the people have to work to provide it should just work for nothing.
	Well, there there you go.
	You're gonna hear a lot about uh Gary, thanks.
	You're gonna hear a lot about oh, slavery's gonna be invoked all over the place.
	Uh those of us who are are daring to uh uh well now this is now the stuff of of short-term legend.
	Uh to oppose Obamacare is to be a hooded clansman riding in the night looking for people to lynch.
	Uh and I wish I were making this up.
	And uh th the race card is being played so shamelessly.
	It's kind of funny, both shameless and shameful at the same time.
	Uh that that's that's not what it is.
	That's never been what it is.
	Now look, can I find people can I find a few people in America who just really hate the fact that we have a black president?
	Yeah, I can.
	That's not what this is about.
	It's never been what it's about.
	Uh the the these demonic white conservatives daring to do this.
	Uh who are some of their favorite people?
	Clarence Thomas.
	You know, uh in through the years, because he's from a neighboring state, I wish I had a dime for every white conservative caller begging J.C. Watts to run for president.
	It ain't about skin color.
	It's about what's in your head and what is in your heart.
	Uh so come on.
	Enough of this.
	It is an obfuscation of the debate that really needs to happen, is happening in town halls all over America, is not going well for Obamacare.
	It is time to hit the reset button and slay that dragon and and go for something that that can maybe go somewhere.
	Free market solutions to understandably tricky problems.
	Mark Davis filling in for Rush, back in a moment on the EIB network.
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	Wrapping up the second hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	I'm Mark Davis, filling in from WBAP, Dallas Ford Worth, one more hour of togetherness.
	And then one more day thereafter, Mark Stein on Wednesday and Thursday, and Dr. Walter Williams on Friday.
	So coming up in our final hour, more of your calls on the various streams of consciousness that are in progress.
	The most talked-about newspaper article of the weekend is in the Washington Post, noteworthy because it certainly seems to back the Dick Cheney view of waterboarding.
	Also, uh did this kind of get buried a little bit?
	I know it's a busy weekend, but uh was the Lockerby bomber set free for oil?
	Talk a little bit about the the J.C. Dugard, 18 years of captivity in the backyard.
	How in the world does that happen?
	And a Las Vegas newspaper outs Harry Reid for an amazing moment of boorishness.
	All of this and more coming your way in the third hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	I'm Mark Davis filling in.
	Thanks for being here.

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