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Sept. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
Rush will be back tomorrow for open line Friday.
Um, you know, people people occasionally say to me, um, well, look, I I know you're an uh you're an undocumented immigrant, but what do you do when you're not guest hosting uh for Rush?
A little light seasonal agricultural labor, the uh the housekeeping staff at the Elliott Spitzer Motel.
Actually, no, um until this week I was the oldest uh child prostitute at the federally funded acorn bordello in Baltimore.
It was steady work.
I've been doing it since I was twelve.
Uh but with what with all the fuss, they're now uh they're now cracking down on acorn.
Uh and this is the kind of strong action uh that uh that that Congress is taking.
John Conyers is, I believe, sponsoring a bill saying uh child prostitutes will no longer be tax deductible dependents or eligible for federal subsidy above the age of thirty-seven.
So thanks a bunch, guys.
I'm out on the street now.
This isn't the America I know.
Uh it was a it was a great it was a great deal.
I I loved it.
Had many happy, many happy years in the Acorn Bordella, but it's all it's all gone now.
America's oldest child sex slave is now looking for work.
How how pathetic is that?
Uh Rush will be back tomorrow, uh, and he'll be on tonight on the uh on the Jay Leno show at uh 10 PM Eastern, 9 Central, uh on uh on NBC.
Here's a glimpse of the world the day after tomorrow.
This is from the Washington Post.
This is what the environmentalists are planning for us, folks.
Environmentalists seek to wipe out plush toilet paper.
Soft toilet paper.
You know this uh the the things now, the two-ply toilet paper or this uh three three ply, I don't know whether you've seen this.
Yeah, three ply double rolls, Northern uh quilted northern ultra plush.
Quilter, I believe that's that's the brand, quilted northern ultra plush.
Uh this is killing the planet.
And you know where it's gonna lead.
Eventually they'll they'll come up with the foreply.
I guess they're constrained eventually by the physical curvature.
But uh but uh uh but the way it's gonna go, you got your two-ply, now it's gonna three ply, next these pampered decadent Americans are gonna go to four-ply.
Every time you get out the three-ply toilet paper, you are killing the planet.
This fluffy toilet paper that that the feat decadent American posterior requires is uh made up of old growth forests from Canada.
It comes from northern forests.
I often find actually in my part of uh northern New Hampshire, you get you're stuck behind uh the the uh truck ferrying paper products from uh Canada's old growth forests down to Americans America's bathrooms.
Probably to the illegal B-day in Colonel Gaddafi's uh tent that uh that the municipal zoning thing.
It's probably that he's in breach of, isn't it?
They said, Oh, we don't mind the tent in the garden.
We don't mind the ensuite bathroom in the tent, but unfortunately you don't have a permit for the two-ply toilet paper, because this is one of these he's in one of these yuppie towns just north of New York City.
Um but i uh it all comes from all this two-ply toilet paper comes from Canada.
You know, you you Americans, you mock the Canadians as this this uh this sissy boy nation.
They you don't want to provoke a war with Canada.
You s especially don't want to provoke a long war with Canada because you're gonna be very uncomfortable once the toilet paper sanctions uh kick in.
Basically the Canadians are the house of sour toilet paper.
And what they can what they can do to you on this is not pleasant.
So anyway, the environmentalists.
The environmentalists are now saying, well, look at all this American toilet paper is killing the planet.
By the way, this is when when we had our excitable caller in the previous hour who was going on about America's mistakes, uh the wickedness of America.
Let me let me just uh let me just say something on that.
Because uh this is a complete delusion that that America is somehow scary.
America is the most benign superpower in history because it's a non-imperial superpower.
Um if you uh if you were in Poland in the 1930s between uh the Third Reich on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other, they were scary.
They were scary superpowers because they coveted your land.
And it's precisely because America is a non-imperial superpower and doesn't want to go gobbling up real estate all over the planet, uh, that the anti-Americans around the world have had to construct this alternative thesis that it no, no, no, it's not it's not American planes and troops and bombs and warships that are the threat to the planet.
It's American consumerism.
The American is is doing far more damage to the planet than the Luftwaffe ever did, or that the the Chinese army ever did just by going to McDonald's in his SUV and ordering a cheeseburger in the drive-thru lane, uh the Americans are inflicting more damage on the planet than Napoleon or Stalin could ever have done in their wildest dreams.
And now they've decided because the cheeseburger SUV thing, even that isn't, even that isn't quite scary enough.
They're now saying American toilet paper is killing uh the planet.
So environmental groups, uh, according to this story in the Washington Post, uh are now saying uh that they want uh to use recycled toilet paper.
They're particularly uh hostile to the two-ply toilet paper, which Alan Herschkowitz, the senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council calls the Hummer of the paper industry.
Uh so that is if you're using if you're using two-ply toilet paper, it is like driving around uh it's the Hummer of the paper industry.
Uh you're c you're killing these old growth forests in Canada uh with this with this two-ply toilet paper.
So uh they're now saying we need to go back to one-ply toilet paper and to recycled uh toilet paper.
Uh and uh that will that is what is necessary to save the planet.
Now remember the the environmentalists come up with this every so often.
They start to wage their their toilet paper platform.
In fact, in that Obama pledge video that all these that Ashton Kutcher, the the celebrated thespian, put together to mark Obama's inauguration.
Uh there are all these celebrities, like two or three of whom you may even have heard of, who are in this uh video pledging to do all these things to save the planet, uh, including things like not flushing the toilet and uh and and all the rest of it.
And uh uh the Sheryl Crow, uh a couple of years ago, Sheryl Crow said that we ought to mandate only using one sheet of toilet paper uh every time Americans went to uh to the bathroom.
I don't know what happened to that campaign, uh whether Sheryl Crow kept up with it.
Um I don't uh Catherine, are you uh are you a big Cheryl Crow uh fan?
You don't you've been following her toilet paper campaign.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
She was she was entirely serious.
She was entirely serious about all the big rock stars that were going to go and make the uh big uh fun celebrity fundraising single for the uh one sheet of toilet paper campaign.
Uh all we are saying is give one piece a chance.
And that was going to that was going to save the world uh by cutting down on uh the American the American bottom is the biggest threat to the planet now.
It's far worse than the don't worry about the Iranian nuclear program.
You're wasting your time worrying about that.
Uh the the environmental devastation wreaked by American posteriors.
And this is presumably what Obama was touching on when he based himself before the United Nations the havoc wreaked uh by the two-ply toilet paper.
What is uh what is interesting to me about this is that um in fact uh basic hygiene, i we talk about health care all the time.
Uh 90% of health care is actually basic hygiene.
Uh for example, if you the minute you you want most of your health care problems to go away, they're spread by disease and disease is spread by simple things uh like uh you know not washing hands, uh not having indoor plumbing and all the rest of it.
So all that seems very bucolic and attractive uh to the to the environmentalist mind uh that we should dispense with all these comforts like triple ply uh toilet paper.
Uh Drew Barrymore uh did some reality show, I believe, where she went and lived in the woods uh and um, you know, what does what's the old saying does uh does d does Drew Barrymore poop in the woods or whatever, whatever the the expression is.
Anyway, she did for a reality TV show.
Uh but the reality the reality in that in the big picture uh is that uh it was the introduction of plumbing and sewage systems uh and and uh and and and modern uh uh uh bathrooms that actually helped eliminate much of the disease on the planet.
As I said, 90% of health care is simple hygiene.
So there is a cost to pay uh for going down the Sheryl Crow give one piece a chance uh road.
Uh nevertheless, they're now targeting uh your two-ply toilet paper.
So if you're there squeezing the shaman, if you've got the cottonell out, uh treasure it while you can, because they're the you're gonna you're soon going to be having to smuggle that into the country uh if these environmentalist groups get their way.
Um I think I do believe that environmentalism is in large part uh an assault on the uh the American way of life.
Now the American way of life uh i is obviously a consumerist thing.
This is the great thing about this country.
If you're uh if you're a peasant in Poland uh in in the uh in in the year fifteen hundred you were likely to be a peasant in the year nineteen hundred and to be a peasant in the year twenty three hundred.
So uh instead people come here and they move out of the hovel and they get at the bigger house in the suburbs and they get the bigger car and they start using the double quilted toilet paper.
And the left say no no that is that is all wrong.
We need to regulate you back essentially to surf level to say we're going to set a limit on the size of house you can have and the size of car you can have and how many plies you can have in your toilet paper on the grounds of saving the environment.
And as uh and that is why it is striking to me that the biggest proponents of these theses are always uh hereditary princes.
Sometimes they're real hereditary princes like the Prince of Wales uh over in London uh who i w was arguing that we only have eight years to institute all these uh programs or the planet will be kaput.
That was the Prince of Wales his big thing.
He comes and says we've got eight years left to save the planet he's trumped Al Gore with the ten year thing we've only got eight years to save the planet uh or it's gonna fry and we're all gonna die.
And so we need to reduce the Prince of Wales tells his subjects we need uh to reduce consumerism, we need to reduce the way we live we need to reduce our standard of living and then he gets into his limo and he's driven to his other palace.
Meanwhile over here Al Gore does the same thing.
Al Gore lives in this place that's lit up like a Christmas tree in Tennessee, but he thinks you should be beating your clothes with the native women on the rocks down by the river.
And how far are they prepared to go to that?
Lindsay Allen, a senior forest campaigner with Greenpeace now says they've come up with a policy that will shift the entire way that tissue companies work.
And as H.R. rather maliciously said to me before the show do you think do you this is why environmentalists are so cranky they're using they're using the scratchy waxy recycled toilet paper.
Yes, the chapped and chafed but they know what's best but what's best for us.
This is what's coming folks uh one ply toilet paper.
We will be ret we'll be a first world nation forced to use third world toilet paper.
Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network.
Lots more straight ahead 1 800 28282.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network let's go to Chad in Naples, Florida, the state of Chad's Chad you're uh on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey Mark how you doing today.
I'm doing good how are you?
Great, great.
You know I I couldn't help but call in because I've had opportunity to uh travel uh some international and um uh I've been to uh Venezuela on Earth, India and uh and America and I think the biggest thing that I found uh especially like when in going to India is they don't even have toilet paper in that third world country.
It's uh it's uh a bucket it's a bucket and a cup.
Right.
And use them in the right order too.
Yeah and use them in the right order and then make sure you don't touch each other's left hand.
It's pretty scary.
They they give the tourists uh you know like a little quarter roll and it's pretty rough stuff.
But the uh the best one that I think I've experienced is when I was in Venezuela and uh by the public toilets there by some of their subways they uh they actually have a little stand set up and they'll sell toilet paper by the square.
They got chicklets and toilet paper and depends on how many squares you want is to how much you've got to pay uh and that toilet paper is pretty rough.
It's actually got splinters and chunks of wood in it so you're really careful.
So direct from the old growth forest with no intervening with no intervening listen, Chad, you say did I hear you right they sell you the toilet paper with the wood chunks and the chicklets.
It's the same guy standing outside the uh the public bathroom selling you them, uh is it?
Yeah, yeah, it is.
That's correct.
And now is it not that up there?
Right, right.
And you buy your toilet paper and chicklets from the same guy then.
You don't kind of Right, right.
What do you do you don't kind of uh do you have the chicklets first, or is that before?
How's that work?
I don't know.
I didn't have the chiclets.
I did buy the toilet paper because uh I was kind of desperate at that point.
Right.
Right.
Well that's what I I tell you, I'm not looking forward to that that happens here, because I really enjoy my uh the northern quilted with the grooves in it, you know, it's kind of the best stuff out there.
Northern Northern quilted with the grooves in it.
Oh, we're great.
We're getting really used.
Make the most of it.
Uh you want to start have you got a big basement?
You want to you want to go there, clean out price chopper, get it all down there, because the plans that the uh environmentalists have got for you, that stuff is you'll be able to sell sell that on the black market.
Once once I'm gonna I'm gonna hit Costco a little later this afternoon and stock up.
Okay, that that sounds like good advice.
Thank you, Chad.
Uh that's Chad already anticipating the great uh the great clamp down on two ply and three ply toilet paper.
It'll be uh you know, I don't I don't know what they're using.
In Ugadoo I've never used a public bathroom in Ugadugu.
So that and often you don't get the you know the the interesting thing?
When you go if you stay in an American chain hotel around the world, they will have they will have the American style toilet paper.
So the they they'll fly it in to cater for the elite.
But the but there's basically gradations.
There's a class system in toilet paper if you're in, say, Amman, where at the grand hyatt you'll get uh you'll get your two ply and your three ply, and then it's a whole other story when you're when you're out in the in the uh in the rest of the world.
It's a whole there's a whole fascinating um culture uh about uh about.
I mean it's generally not a good sign if you're looking for a hotel and and and normally when you're looking for as you're driving along the road and you see it says, yeah, uh color color TV, free Wi-Fi, swimming pool, that's good.
You people say, Oh, that's right.
But if you're just driving along it says uh motel, rooms available, two ply, that's probably not a good sign that you're at a premium at a premium hotel.
I don't know.
I'm not a seasoned world traveler like Chad, but all I'm saying is that when when uh and of course when you're a uh w the the first thing that always happens to you when you're picked up at the airport by the guy and you say, take me to the Grand Hyatt downtown.
And uh the the taxi driver always goes, Oh, the Grand Hyatt, very, very expensive, very expensive place to stay, very expensive, sir.
Uh my cousin has a hotel that is a lot lot lot far more reasonable.
And I go, Well, how expensive is the Grand Hyatt?
And they go, Oh, it'll uh it'll cost uh sixty American dollars.
Sixty American dollars.
And you go, Yeah, yeah, but it's got like the two ply and the three-ply.
And then uh the the uh the the the guy with the cousins hotel will cost fifty-five dollars a night, but it doesn't have the two ply.
So these are things to take into account when you're uh when you're a world traveler.
And it'll be and it and and in the new brave new world that the Democrats are planning for us, it'll be like that uh here soon enough.
By the way, this is gonna devastate the Canadian economy.
I mean, I haven't seen the official figures.
But something like 98% of the Canadian economy now is dependent on two ply toilet paper usage in the United States.
So you're gonna have a whole big war of th if you thought the war of eighteen twelve was tough, this is gonna be way worse.
When you basically uh you're not prepared to inflict sanctions uh on the Iranians for the nuclear regime, but you're in uh you're you're prepared to punish the Canadians for their two ply toilet paper, uh then you don't be surprised that the whole planet planet goes to hell.
Uh you're not you're not thinking through the big picture of this.
But it's always the safest way to assume.
When you're asked to pick the pros and cons of any issue, the bad guy is always American consumerism.
And going back to that call we took in the first hour.
This is the point.
It's be precisely because the United States is not uh an aggressor nation that goes around conquering peoples uh that they have had to actually come up with this thesis that simply the way Americans live.
Nobody did that with the Third Reich, did they?
Nobody said, Well, look, look, these Germans wandering around in Lederhosen.
The the the Lederhosen is devastating the planet.
Nobody had to do that then, because they were conventional great powers.
Uh and and it's uh this obsession with American consumerism is in fact uh a reflection on how benign uh the United States is as a global superpower.
So I stand uh for three ply toilet paper.
I think that's that's what makes America uh uh America.
Motherhood, apple pie, and three ply toilet paper.
Where is the politician who will stand up and say that that is the American way of life?
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush on the EIB network.
Don't forget Rush will be on the Jay Leno show tonight uh and back here for open line Friday, uh full three hours with Rush tomorrow.
And you can hear his uh interview with Chris Myers and Steve Hartman of Fox Sports if you go and check it out at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Yeah, great to be with you.
Rush will be back tomorrow for open line Friday.
Uh the inmates of the Verne Prison on Portland in Portland, Dorset, have begun drinking their swine flu hand gel because it gets uh it contains alcohol.
So this is the this is great this is great news.
Uh I wonder whether, because uh it was interesting to me that Colonel Gaddafi uh touched on swine flu.
He implied basically it'd been cooked up by the U.S. military and then escaped from the planet.
Uh but I began to wonder in the light of this story whether he'd made the mistake of drinking his swine flu hand gel before he gave the speech.
Let's uh go to Tom in Manhattan.
Tom, thanks uh for waiting.
Uh Tom in Dictator choked Manhattan.
We tried to go to him earlier, but we got a lot of heavy breathing.
You're there live by the telephone right now.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Okay.
Uh basically, in order to understand the agenda of the radical left, you have to understand the agenda of the radical media.
Mass media in this country.
Uh there's an article.
It's a documentary.
It's called Who Rules America.
You can find it at Net Van dot com.
That's N E T V A N dot com.
Yeah.
Oh okay, and then what what's what's your your point on what the radical left strategy is, then?
My point is this.
You know, basically, a politician who's elected to office lives and breathes on the basis of the mass media supporting him.
Because let me just explain.
Most people are very incapable of making informed decisions through either through willful ignorance or just simply lack of ability.
But most of their information comes from the television, the radio, the print media, the internet increasingly, which is a good thing.
But most of the traditional mass media is where most of the population get their information.
And with that mass media in the control of people who are anti-American with an anti-American agenda, those voters go into the polls and pick the politicians that the media proves and says that, you know, basically these are the politicians that you should actually choose, then these are the politicians who are best for the country.
Well, I think I think that's true in a macro sense, and it was true uh up to a point uh uh in the days when it was true even more so in the days when just three networks and a couple of newspapers uh set the set the agenda.
I had a I had a little experience with this myself, actually, after I was here a couple of weeks uh ago.
Uh I saw how uh the old school media, the dinosaur media, the drive-by media, can actually get get its story out there and send it around the world before anybody knows what's what's going on.
But but that is not the case anymore.
Uh I think the the mass media looks ridiculous uh in in the light of the Acorn scandal and the Van Jones scandal uh and the uh art at the NEA, the the government propaganda art at the NEA.
Basically, these are three stories that uh are important stories about the administration, and the New York Times didn't cover them until they were over, and then offered these ridiculous excuses.
The New York Times said it didn't cover the Van Jones story, because in the run up to the Labor Day weekend, not the Labor Day weekend itself, but in the month before it, they'd been short staffed at their Washington Bureau.
It was nothing to do with that.
They didn't cover it because as their little slogan puts it uh on their front page, all the news that's fit to print.
And they didn't regard these stories as quote fit uh from their particular perspective.
Now, is that a good business strategy?
No.
The New York Times is junk stock.
The uh Washington Post loses a dollar ten on every copy it sells.
This is not an effective uh business strategy, even for the left, because if you're left wing, uh you want to if you're seriously left wing, you want to get your news from people who tell you who are going to stick it to the right and tell you everything that's going on and all the rest of it, which is why these guys prefer the Daily Cost and the Huffington Most and all the rest of it.
So the New York Times is essentially, by not covering the story, attempting to cater to the nice, fluffy, moderate liberal who doesn't want her dis uh her illusions discombobulated.
So if you're like a grade school teacher, uh somewhere in some nice uh Connecticut suburb, and you want to think that all the clapped out liberal pieties that have inflicted disaster on the world everywhere they've been tried and are utterly stale and shop worn and 40 years old and aren't getting any better.
If you want to still believe in all the fluffy bunny liberal pieties, uh the New York Times says, don't worry, buy us, uh buy our newspaper, and we won't cover any of these unpleasant stories about how the nice community organization group so closely tied to nice President Obama is in fact bringing in thirteen-year-old child sex slaves uh from El Salvador.
Because that wouldn't sound so nice, would it?
I mean, even no matter how left wing and progressive you are, even like child sex slaves doesn't sound that nice.
Uh so we won't tell you any of that, and therefore your liberal dis your liberal illusions will not be discombobulated.
And that's the niche that the New York Times is is going for.
I don't think uh by the way, in i they can certainly present an image of a pop uh politician, but when he actually gets elected and he's out there, uh then the real guy comes into play, and that's where Obama's mistake uh has been.
That this Obama's uh initial reaction, you know, when things go wrong when his numbers start dropping, when he can't get his policies through, go on TV, give some more speeches, hold a joint session of Congress, give a press conference.
Uh he's simply not that interesting uh to be there 24-7.
I mean, people learn that the hard way.
It's easy.
If you're in a dictatorship like Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Gaddafi can uh ramble on for hours, and if you disagree with him, he can have you killed.
In in uh in the United States, it's uh it's more difficult.
You can ramble on saying the same thing over and over at a hundred and I think it's up to a hundred and fifteen uh interviews and speeches he's given about health care now, and okay, he's not gonna have you killed, but he gets the message, pr he ought to be getting the message by now that you find him boring on this subject.
If he's got nothing new to say, if he has to do five interviews to make up for the big speech, the big speech was supposed to sell health care to us, that bombed.
Uh so he then goes and does five uh five Sunday morning shows to explain what he meant to say, what he was trying to say in the big speech that bombed, and the five interviews bombed.
They get his numbers anywhere.
So then he goes on the David Letterman show.
Uh and uh and and tr and there's just too much of him.
Nobody is that interesting.
Real celebrities, he's we often hear that he's the celebrity president.
Real celebrities do not expose themselves uh in that uh in that way, round the clock all day, every day.
Uh if you look at uh I don't care who you uh Barbara Streisand, I don't care for one way or the other, except I think she's uh absolutely right about this, that you don't go around giving agreeing to every single interview uh doing every single radio show, doing every single TV show, uh nonstop round the clock, but you just wear out your welcome.
And so I think once the media cannot protect uh a president who keeps making the same mistake and getting out there and getting on TV and hogging prime time uh TV all the time.
Uh Mark Stein infra rush, let's go to Ted.
Ted in Kita Kita Q Shoe.
Kita Kita Kushu?
Kita Kyushu, which is uh not in North Dakota, but apparently is in Japan.
Ted, you're live from Japan on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark Stein, your words are golden.
Great to talk to you.
Great.
I'm always glad to have listeners in Japan.
Uh what what time of day is it over there?
Is it the middle of the night or what what what time is it?
It's two forty-one in the morning.
Wow.
So you've just come back from one of those wild Tokyo karaoke bars where you've been singing hits of the eighties and until the small hours.
Is that it?
Not at all.
I'm a homebody staying here with my wife and daughter.
All right.
Good good good for you.
What's uh what's on your mind, Ted?
Well, it uh galls me to see President Obama treat the UN as a credible partner, especially with our national security at stake.
Because I blame the national I I blame the United Nations Security Council for the war in Iraq.
I uh I see that you know Bush signed Resolution 1441 in good faith and had the corrupt beneficiaries of Saddam's oil for food arrives signed it in good faith as well.
Then Saddam would have feared real consequences for violating the terms of a surrender.
You know, if the if the fifteen members formed a solid wall, there would have been no violations.
If there are no violations, there's no war.
So I blame it on the corruption of the United Nations.
Yes, it's a failed international system.
That's that's the reality.
Saddam understood it.
He gamed the entire system uh as you mentioned in the UN food program, where he basically corrupted key officials in Kofi Annan's inner circle.
Uh and what did that tell him?
That told him that he had nothing to fear from the so-called international community uh when it came when it came to what he wanted uh what he wanted to do uh there.
So you're right, the international system failed.
President Obama is now saying, Oh no, don't worry, we're gonna make it work this time.
Do you think that's gonna happen?
Not at all.
It's I think it's gonna be more of the same.
I think we're gonna get uh shivved in the back by the United Nations again because like you said earlier, I liked your analogy about the ice cream and the fecal matter.
I think that we're gonna get uh you know, we're gonna get the fecal matter in our uh breakfast cereal.
Yeah, this is this is becoming a bit too much of a theme for the day, I think.
It's like uh I we ought to go back to the we go Wednesday uh format rather than the fecal Thursday format.
We really we we really ought to.
But Ted, here's my thing on the UN.
You're absolutely right uh on this.
But it's not just that it failed in Iraq, and it will fail with the Sudanese genocide, and it will fail with the Iranian nuclear program.
It fails even with things that aren't politically contentious, like the tsunami.
The tsunami hit and the UN couldn't do anything.
They held press conferences.
Uh when when room service had been restored to the first class hotels in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, they flew out there a couple of weeks later and held press conferences there.
The people who made things happen were the uh the uh United States Navy and the Royal Australian Navy.
They're the only people who who actually uh made things happen, who restored the water supply, who saved lives.
And that's not a politically contentious thing.
I mean, even the French are aren't pro-tsunami, uh, so there's no kind of percentage in it for these Machiavellian uh uh members of the Security Council, and yet it's still failed.
It's a dysfunctional system, and no serious nation on earth should do more than pay lip service uh to it.
Mark sign in for rush on the EIB network, more in a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush will be back uh tomorrow for open line uh Friday.
Uh the the question is, even if you invest time in the United Nations, what are you gonna get to show for it?
Uh th the the reality is of the situation in Sudan, uh the criticism of Iraq, for example, was that uh George Bush was the big swaggering unilateralist cowboy.
And because he was the big swaggering unilateralist cowboy, he came up with his coalition of the willing.
Uh he had the uh the the British, the uh the Spanish, the Australians, and a few others, and he went in and he toppled the dictator and he liberated uh twenty twenty million uh Muslims.
Uh and uh Sudan, on the other hand, uh he went the unilater he went the multilateral route, he went uh through the Security Council.
I don't know when that started.
I think it was around about the same year as uh Iraq.
Basically, Iraq invasion was 2003, this happened a few months later.
They started macheteing people to death.
They're not a high-tech enemy.
Uh, if you're up against people who use machetes, uh, who ride in on horses, the Janjaweed militia, and they kill and rape all these people.
And George Clooney is up there saying we need to do something about it.
We need to do something about Sudan.
So uh so George W. Bush says, well, let's go all multilateral.
So we sit around now for half a decade uh in the United Nations trying to get a strong resolution out of the United Nations uh that will actually make one jot of difference to anybody being macheted to death uh in the Sudan.
Meanwhile, the corpses pile up.
By the time we get the resolution, everybody will be dead and there'll be no one to save.
So problem solved.
That's what happens when the left picks up, takes up your cause.
Now they love Sudan.
Uh I was in uh Massachusetts a few weeks ago and somebody was having a bake sale for Sudan.
A bake sale for Sudan, that's great.
How many bake sales do you think you have to hold for Sudan to save one life?
I saw an advertisement in uh the paper for uh uh it was out west.
Uh they were having an interpretive uh dance, some kind of interpretive dance event for Sudan in Salt Lake City.
That's great.
How many interpretive dance events do you think you have to save one life uh in Sudan?
Uh that's the reality.
If you go the UN route, everybody will die.
Uh but don't worry about it.
Kofi Annan uh got his guy to make a big report on what was happening in Sudan, and they issued a report saying, don't worry, it's not genocide.
It's just hundreds of thousands of people dead, but it doesn't technically meet the UN definition of genocide, so we don't have to w uh do anything about it.
No, it w it wasn't a hate, it wasn't a hate crime.
It wasn't a hate crime.
They'd be doing something about it if uh, you know, if Colonel Gaddafi had pinned it on the Jews, then it would be a hit hate crime and they would do something about it.
But they couldn't, they it wasn't a hate crime, wasn't genocide.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese guy, this is the guy, the government that's supporting the Janjaweed fellows with the machetes on horseback, killing all the villagers.
The Sudanese guy, the Sudan gets elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
That is how effective the United Nations Human Rights Council is.
The people who breach human rights are all sitting on it.
Uh and uh this guy, this Sudanese guy, never let it be said, by the way, that these Sudanese mass murderers don't have a terrific sense of humor.
Uh this Sudanese guy was asked what would be his priority during his term on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and he said, uh Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
That's great, isn't it?
Even the Sudanese guy gets it.
He understands that the UN is a joke.
It's a joke.
It's a fraud, uh and uh no responsible leader of the United States should be should be uh investing serious time in it.
Here listen to these statistics.
This is from a couple of years back, looking at the votes in the General Assembly.
The Arab League members of the UN voted against the U.S. eighty-eight point seven percent of the time.
Well, you know, they're those Arab dictators, they're not great friends of ours.
The ASEAN members, that's the Asian uh group members voted against the U.S. position eighty-four point five percent of the time.
The Islamic conference members voted against the US position eighty-four point one percent of the time.
The African members voted against the U.S. position eighty-three point eight percent of the time.
The non-aligned movement voted against the US position eighty-two point seven percent of the time, and European Union members voted against the US position fifty-four point five percent of the time.
Yay, go Europe, America's 54.5% no, no, wait a minute, no, forty-five point five percent friends.
That's so you can invest all the time in you want there, and maybe you'll get that uh that uh the African member vote 83.8% against you down to what?
78%?
This is a waste of time, it's a dysfunctional system, and no United States president should be dignifying it as anything other than that.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Uh Prime Minister Netanyahu of uh Israel has been speaking at the UN and a very different kind of speech.
Uh it's uh it's tough, uh honest, going down very coolly, it would be uh one would have to say from the reaction uh of the other world leaders and other delegations in the room.
Uh but uh but it's honest.
And I think that's what you need when you get the world when you get the world together, when you get the Parliament of Man together in one room, you gotta speak the truth to them.
It's hard.
You're telling them things they don't want to hear.
That's what President Bush did uh when he made his speech to them in the uh fall of two thousand and two.
He said it's time uh for the United Nations either to decide that these resolutions mean something uh or to accept that it will be entirely irrelevant.
Uh the United Nations chose to go the path of irrelevance, and now uh Barack Obama is not doing what President Bush did and Prime Minister Netanyahu did, but he is dignifying this dead husk.
Real people die all around the world uh because of these uh of these clapped-out, mushy, uh fluffy delusions that uh that are peddled by the United Nations.
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