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Sept. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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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.
Don't forget he will be on the Jay Leno show tonight.
And you can also go to Rush Limbaugh.com and hear Rush's interview with Chris Myers and Steve Hartman from uh Fox Sports Radio.
Uh I was here one reason I admire Rush, by the way, is that he's been doing this three hours a day for twenty years, twenty-one years now, and he amazingly, in all that time, has never given a career detonating sound bite.
And there are people, whenever he's on the air, there are people who are paid George Soros pays people to listen to the show uh and write down everything he says in the hopes of catching Rush in that one career detonating soundbite.
And Rush has never given them it.
And I had an odd experience when I was here a couple of weeks ago in How the Media Works, which we were talking about earlier uh with uh in the previous hour.
I uh said, I was talking about the cult of personality around Obama.
This was when uh he was giving his speech to the school kids and they had these study plans in which they were invited to write essays answering questions on what they could do to help the president.
Uh and I r uh said I thought this was a complete distraction.
There were already enough distractions in American grade schools.
I'd much rather the kid uh was learning math or was learning languages or was learning science uh and not uh doing some stupid essay on uh what he could do to help the president, which is a complete waste of time.
And I said it was a cult of personality, and then I said in my way, I said, obviously it's not a cult of personality on the scale of Kim Jong il uh or Saddam Hussein.
Now the two words there uh to pay attention to are it's not.
It's not a cult of personality on the scale of Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong il.
Next thing you know, it's on the front page of the New York Times, the front page of the New York Times, that I had compared President Obama as part of the, you know, in my role as a spokesperson for the angry, insane, deranged uh right wing.
I had compared uh Obama to uh Kim Jong il and Saddam Hussein.
And what was interesting to me about I don't read the New York Times, but you start suddenly getting a thousand emails all exactly the same uh telling people.
So you set up a form email in response saying, actually these are the words, it's not, and you can listen to it's n obviously it's not like Kim Jong Il and Saddam Hussein, you can listen to it here.
But what's interesting to me is that every uh nobody reads the New York Times these days, except other media people.
And what was fascinating to me was the way newspapers all over the country.
The Chicago Tribune picked up the story.
But because they hadn't heard the source either, they hadn't heard the show.
Uh they said, oh, Mark Stein interviewed by Rush Limbaugh.
No, Rush was on his golf thing.
So I wasn't there.
They get this is by the way, when people defend the the old media, they say you'll regret it when these newspapers are gone, because they have layers of fact-checking.
They have layers of fact-checking.
This these guys at the Chicago Tribune, which is uh they get the quote wrong and uh they get uh the the uh uh the basic situation wrong.
Rush wasn't there, he wasn't physically there, he was playing golf somewhere.
So the Chicago Tribune picks it up.
The Las Vegas pa paper picks it up, the San Francisco paper picks it up.
And eventually my old friends at the Irish Times pick it up.
And now I'm getting annoyed because I got no interest in these unreadable American newspapers.
I don't I hope you don't think that's anti-American, but you know, if being anti-American is good enough for the President, then I'd like to do a little bit of it too.
I can't stand these unreadable American newspapers.
Uh but my friends at the Irish Times, uh, which is a uh a ludicrously liberal paper uh but is uh is more or less readable.
They pick it up and they go, first prize in lunacy goes to Mark Steid for comparing on the Rush Limbaugh show, he compared uh uh President Obama to Kim Jong-il and Saddam Hussein.
So uh they it is then pointed out to them that that's actually the opposite of what I said, and they run a correction.
The Irish Times runs a correction, blaming it on the New York Times.
They say, well, don't blame us, we got it out of the New York Times.
This the Sydney Morning Herald, then in Australia, runs another story uh on some other aspect of the administration's policy, and they're forced to issue a correction.
They say, Don't blame us, we got it out of the Washington Post.
The uh the Associated Press yesterday issued a correction to its reporting of the Acorn scandal, where they'd attributed racism to the motives of these two uh these the these uh these two guys uh uh the the the the world's worst least convincing pimp and the world's least convincing hooker in these in these acord videos,
uh they said uh they'd attributed to the to the pimp uh with the big fur coat that he had racist views about Acorn.
And the uh the Associated Press issued a correction saying, Oh no, no, no, no, no, he didn't actually have racist views about Acorn.
Don't blame us.
We got that quote out of the Washington Post.
And so uh all over the planet now, newspapers uh uh having to issue corrections for stuff they believe because they read it in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Uh no real people do that.
Uh the the great thing about the Internet is that you can check a quote.
Uh the great thing about if you're a member of Rush 247 is you can actually hear the uh you can uh you can hear the quote, you can hear the words I said.
Obviously, no New York Times guy's gonna subscribe to Rush 24-7, so they just get get it off some George Soros website or whatever, and they give the wrong quote.
This is the way the media works.
The monolithic herd, the herd of independent minds.
Uh they all they all they see it in the New York Times, they send it around the planet, even if it's uh completely the opposite of what you said.
And Russia's survived that for twenty-one years, for twenty-one years.
Uh uh come twelve noon Eastern, nine a.m.
Pacific, there are people sitting there ready to pounce on any hostage to fortune uh in the course of two decades, uh, and he hasn't given them one.
And that is that is amazing in this environment.
On the other hand, on the other hand, if you're saying Michael Moore, who's got some new movie coming out, uh if you're Michael Moore, you can compare the Iraqi insurgents who are killing our troops to the Minutemen of the American Revolution.
If you're Michael Moore, uh you can put up on September the eleventh a a blog at your website, a blog post at your website saying, why did they bomb New York?
Uh this state voted uh this state voted for Al Gore.
Why did they hit New York and Washington, D.C.?
These are cities that voted for Gore.
Why didn't they hit red states?
You can put that up, and you'll never be called on it.
No one at the New York Times is going to put that on the front page.
No one is uh at the New York Times is going to put your comparison uh of uh Iraqi terrorists killing not just American troops and other troops, but killing in the course of that hundreds of thousand and th hundreds of civilians in all these market bombings they had at the height of the insurgency.
He compared them to American uh minimum.
I don't remember the Minutemen uh going into a market and killing hundreds of civilians.
Uh uh but but the New York Times will never put that on page one.
That somehow that just goes down the memory hole, and we have to pretend that uh Michael Moore is uh is essentially a uh this big cuddly figure who who just happens to make films from a progressive left-wing perspective.
He's not.
He said deeply ugly things uh that the media have never reported.
So it's much easier on the left.
They'll give you a pass on everything.
He compared, he compared these terrorists uh to the Minuteman, and he got to sit next to Jimmy Carter in the presidential box at the Democratic Convention.
There are different rules for the left and right.
And if you don't understand those rules, uh you shouldn't get into the game of conservative uh punditry and commentary and broadcasting in the first place.
And it is and it is a huge triumph of Rush to have survived that, to have survived that for twenty-one years, uh, despite the fact that there are people waiting to pounce uh on him uh for every every little uh every little thing.
Uh Mark Stein's sitting in for Rush, he will be back tomorrow.
We've been talking about uh developments on the international scene.
Uh I believe uh that the uh the the UN uh should be wrapping up shortly and the president will then be going to Pittsburgh for the G twenty uh summit.
Uh one of the things I think is interesting about the international scene uh is that real relationships don't depend on being members of the same group or being in the photo op.
I mentioned that Australia and America had been the first people on the scene in the tsunami.
Uh whenever I'm uh w whenever I used to go to Australia and you'd talk to John Howard, the Prime Minister or Alexander Down or the Foreign Minister or any of the uh Australian politicians, and you used to say to them, well, look, when you see the photo ops, you guys aren't in the G7, you're not in NATO, uh, you're not in any of the member clubs, you don't go to the US EU summit, and yet in some respects you're America's best allies.
Uh and they used to say, Well, we don't want to be in the photo ops.
Jack Shirak needs the photo ops.
We don't.
We know uh uh the the the Americans know that we're uh your allies, and if they want us, they can get on the phone to us.
We don't need to have a big black tie dinner uh and then uh and then a big uh photograph taken at the end of it.
Uh uh and all that generally is meaningless if there is not a real relationship uh going on uh uh underneath.
Uh they had uh they had some NATO summit a couple of years ago, and at the end of it they put the Americans invested a huge ton of diplomatic effort in getting out of this NATO uh summit a commitment to an extra uh I think it was an extra twenty-eight helicopters for Afghanistan.
That works out to something like one point oh four of a helicopter per member state.
It's not worth the effort.
It's not worth the effort.
One of the reasons we have problems in Afghanistan uh is because we are fighting uh on uh international rules of engagement.
Uh the NATO forces there uh uh uh forced to uh uh go along basically with the w with the rules of engagement of the uh most insecure nation.
So you have countries like Germany uh and Norway where there won't be in a combat role like Germany, where they won't go out at night or they won't go in provinces where there's snow.
Uh you can't fight a war.
Uh uh a a multilateral coalition ties you down to the weakest member, ties you down not only to the technology of the weakest member.
Uh for example, in the first Gulf War, uh the communications between the various planes going in, some planes uh don't have as secure communications as the United States Air Force have.
So they were forced to use less secure communications because of the weakest member of the coalition.
Uh if you go into a multinational arrangement, it's got to be real, it's gotta mean something.
Uh and that has not happened with the w with what we've seen uh most recently in Iraq uh or in Afghanistan, which as I said is supposed to be uh supposed to be the good war.
Mark Stein in for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infrarush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Joe is on the line from Spring Valley, New York.
Which part of New York is uh Spring Valley in Joe.
Yeah, hi, Mark.
Uh Spring Valley is right next to uh Montville, New Jersey, uh close to the uh New Jersey border.
Okay, okay.
Oh right, very nice.
Uh w what's uh what's your point?
It's great to have you with us on the show today, and thanks for waiting.
Uh soon uh you will become a household name like Rush.
Uh before I come to my question, uh I'm not actually a household name in my own household.
It's gonna be a while before that happens.
Uh let's uh let's before I come to my question, uh I sent an email to Russia a few days ago and he read that on uh on the airwave.
All right, that's that's uh and I m made a suggestion uh that we need on vacation, the place looked like a morgue.
I didn't mean anything against you.
And I and I also told him to have sex with twenty guns and produce twenty Rush baby boys.
Oh right.
This is a whole routine you got worked up here.
What were we talking?
We were supposed to be talking about politics.
Forget it.
This is great.
So uh when Russia's away, it's like the morgue here and the guest host rises from the crypt for three hours, but basically can't pull the stake out of his chest, and then the caller comes the caller comes on and he's doing rush baby jokes, uh twenty rush babies from uh from uh well that's marvelous, Joe.
Okay, what was your main I assume you're not uh just uh here with advice on Russia's sex life, but you've got like some big uh geopolitical uh socio strategic point you want to make too.
Well no we'll we we need some continuity when Rush leaves, uh that's what I mean to say.
Okay, by back to my question, uh uh you know, all you buggers uh you uh tend to uh uh bash Obama, and he's a transformative leader, once in a lifetime leader, and he leads by example.
Uh that's what my point is.
No, no, no, wait, wait a minute.
Uh he i yeah, he's a transformative leader.
Uh and uh transformative leaders can be good or they can be bad.
I don't like uh where the transformation is heading, and that's the th that's the difference.
I will tell you what heading.
Uh the private sector debt as an economist, I can tell you, is close to one hundred trillion dollars.
That includes corporate bonds, all the derivatives, outstanding uh mortgages, the municipality, all two point seven trillion dollars.
Yeah, no, no, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You want you want to talk about private debt.
So we should separate, you should separate the government, the municipal thing out of that.
What would you think that's seven trillion.
So approximately one hundred trillion dollars is private sector debt.
And the government debt is uh around eleven trillion dollars.
Out of that, the government spent eight hundred billion dollars on defense and five hundred billion dollars on incarcerating Americans on privileged charges like disorderly offenses.
It's like a whole carded industry, and that's just destroying the fabric of our society.
Obama being a transformative leader, he's reverting that trend and trying to restore that bigger.
No, no, wait a minute.
He's he's just issued uh in the last uh in the last few months something like seven trillion dollars worth of government debt.
How can how how can that be reversing the trend?
How can growing the government reverse the trend of government debt?
Right.
The way he's doing it, he's gonna uh clamp down on defense expenditure, which is eight hundred billion dollars.
Britain spent only forty billion, and he's shutting down the prison system up here in after New York, which can feel five hundred billion dollars of taxpayers' money every year and destroys families.
Now right now wait a minute.
So he's so we're gonna have uh we're gonna have the money for acorn, we're gonna have all these stupid paving projects.
Uh I'm in a bad mood today, because when I drove to the airport, I had uh in uh where I used to be able to drive on two-lane blacktop, I now drove on a hundred miles of scarified pavement.
So like my brain was uh vibrate after your brain's been vibrating for a hundred miles, the transformative leader doesn't seem quite so cool.
But the uh but but you make Joe, you're saying that don't worry for all the acorn projects, uh for all the funding of that, he's gonna cut it back by reducing our military expenditure and letting all the fellas out of jail.
Is that right, as I understand it?
Well th the the the charge is that uh most of our ma Americans are five million Americans are in charge with in 20 million have conviction record and they can never get a job.
And that's the consumes five hundred billion dollars out of taxpayers' funds every year.
So you're saying that you're saying that the prison system is hugely wasteful.
Of course.
Britain has only uh ten thousand people in conclusion.
Wait and wait a minute.
Britain Britain has Britain has rampant property crime.
Have you ever have you ever been in Britain, by the way, they have rampant property crime, and so they say install install all the laser beam security.
So now instead of trying to outwit the laser beam security, they just ring your doorbell and punch you in the face uh when you answer it, and that way they can break in and steal your stuff, because it's a lot easier than trying to outwit the security alarm.
Do you know what the rate of hot burglaries in the United Kingdom, which are virtually out n unknown here?
You can't have a hot burglary in the United States.
Uh if you in my state in New Hampshire, if you knock on the door, uh anybody's door after uh seven p.m. at night, you should knock on the door and then step sharply to the side of the porch before the bullet hole comes uh bullet comes winging out at you.
You can't do that in the United Kingdom.
So they have hot they have these hot burglaries, uh, they have rampant property crime.
You talk to any American who who takes a job in Britain for two years, they're a mate you have to take everything inside.
You you go and sit in the garden, uh you have to bring everything inside at the end of the day, because everything will be stolen.
Everything.
You get you you'll have your nice wrought iron garden furniture, and somebody will come in at two in the morning and put it on the bed of the truck and drive it out of there.
Everything that's not nailed down is stolen in Britain.
That's a that's a uh result of defamation of the middle class, and that's why the c petty crimes have gone up.
For example, Reaganomics, supplies type and trickle down, and tax cut for the rich.
That's the worst kind of system any economic system can have.
You have to have a stable middle class to bring the country back, and that's what Obama is trying to do over here.
And let me tell you, wait, wait a minute, how come how can Obama have a a stable middle class uh when he has to find someone to pay for the governmentalization of health care for cap and trade tax system?
Progressive tax system, that's what you need.
The more you make, the more you get a tax.
We have we actually have a more progressive, you should know this as an economist.
We have a more progressive uh income tax system, both at the personal level and at the corporate level than any other than any other nation in the developed world.
No, no, no.
Warren Buffett just said his secretary pays more taxes than he does, relatively speaking.
but that Warren Buffett is an Obama supporter and they, their tax arrangements are always very favorable.
The, the, the, the point about the point about that is you're not going to have any middle class tax cuts under, under the, if you're, you're, you're right that, that, uh, you need to do, you don't need to do that well to be paying a huge amount of tax here.
But the problem is the problem is, Joe, uh that there is a price tag to all these transformative acts that you're in favor of.
Health care, uh that will become the biggest budget item.
It always is in any government system.
Cap and trade means that imposes on the middle class the obligation to improve their homes, bring them up to arbitrary standards before they're allowed to sell it.
There is a price tag to every item in Obama's armory.
And the idea that there are going to be tax cuts or reductions at the end of this is quite simply not credible.
Yes, Rush will be back tomorrow.
He's out in California.
He will be doing the Jay Leno show uh tonight, but back for open line Friday uh tomorrow.
Uh this is the leader that the Europeans and a lot of the rest of the world have wanted for years, uh Barack Obama.
He said all the things they wanted to hear uh yesterday.
Uh he prostrated himself before the global community.
Uh what they're missing, I think, in this, is that uh in a couple of years' time they are going to realize the big problem when America uh b goes the same way as the rest of the Western world.
Uh the re the reality is, for example, on um health care, is that it's the it's the profit-driven health sector in the United States that drives the research uh that that comes up with the life-saving drugs uh that all the countries with socialized uh government health systems depend on.
In other words, it's great to be uh getting free health care in Germany if you've got state of the art, private sector developed American pharmaceuticals there.
The minute you governmentalize the American health system, uh that that uh will slow down significantly.
Uh I think it's uh it's also true, for example, that uh these countries have become big social entitlement states because America has provided their security guarantee.
If basically the United States guarantees the defense of your country, it's easy to afford to have a big government health system.
Uh so so i in uh in a nutshell, the only reason why Germany can afford to be Germany and Belgium can afford to be Belgium, uh and Sweden can afford to be Sweden and Canada can afford to be Canada is because America's America, because it was the odd one out.
If America gets like uh Belgium and Sweden and Germany, the whole system will go to uh to hell.
And the world will be a far more dangerous place.
So although they think this is the president, the the American president they've dreamt of all their lives, uh I think they're in for a very rude awakening uh in in in uh and in a very short time too.
We're not talking ten or twenty years, but in a couple of years they're gonna be seeing where all this leads.
Let's go to Deborah in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Deborah, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Oh Mark, it's wonderful to speak with you.
I've called many times when you're there, and I've watched you many times on Fox News, so I do enjoy you vastly.
Um well, I have one thing to say before I say what I called to say is that I was at 912.
Oh, great.
Everything that you said was exactly true.
And there were people from Canada there that were there because they were afraid of what's going to happen with their health care.
Yeah, because it's uh it's a very good practical point.
If you're in Montreal uh or Toronto and you only have to drive to Plattsburgh or Buffalo, if the American system goes the Canadian route, you're gonna be having to to drive to uh Costa Rica or Peru or wherever it is to get to.
I have no idea where we're gonna go.
My husband is a physician and um we're selling out everything and he's gonna stop practicing medicine.
They're gonna lose so many doctors over this, it's really gonna be tragic.
No, and you're right about that too.
One of the things on uh socialized health care is that being a doctor ceases to be a middle class profession.
Uh because people say if you look at uh Canada, for example, I think a doctor gets reimbursed thirty dollars for a patient consultation.
Uh so you you're either going to be doing them like it's a like a factory, like it's the Ford Model T production line where you're having or like it's Lucille Ball in that sketch where she's That's exactly what the candy's on the on the thing.
That's right.
Yeah.
Uh that's that's that's that's uh the rate uh you're gonna be seeing patients to cover all your overheads, or you're gonna get out of the game and you will end up uh you you will notice if you go to any hospitals in the northern tier of the United States that they're not only just they're not only full of Canadian patients, but they're full of Canadian doctors and Canadian nurses who'd rather work here than in their own health care system.
So I understand what your husband's thinking about, Deborah.
Well, that's exactly where we're headed.
And um the other thing is they're not paid so well anymore anyway.
Just they're not what they used to be thirty-five and forty years ago.
No, but in part in in part that I think is because uh the government interference in the market has uh has has corrupted uh the system.
Uh and the minute you do, the minute you get any uh government interference in a normal market, the government as a uh as a supplier or as a customer is such a distorting factor uh that the that uh that uh uh uh whatever it interferes in is no longer subject to normal market uh safety valves.
Right.
You're right on that.
Okay.
Now my other um point was I was watching um Gaddafi yesterday.
Um I was at the gym, so I was on the treadmill.
Good for good for the minute.
What's it like?
What's it like being on the treadmill to Colonel Gaddafi? 'Cause like normally I thought people use what is it, Olivia Newton John, let's get physical.
People like to work out to that.
But you like to work out to a good Colonel Gaddafi speech.
Well, I listen to my music in my ears, and then I have, you know, the TV, the printout of what he's saying, and I'm watching it and uh every time they would say that it was inaudible, I kept thinking that he was saying something that they couldn't repeat on T V. It's like inaudible, inaudible, and I'm thinking to myself, I wonder what he said.
I'm sure they had to have understood No, no, no.
And then but the other thing that something he said that really drastically um made me nuts was that um he thought that the United States and everybody else should really let the Taliban have its own country in Afghanistan.
And um what most people don't really realize about Muslims is they are the world's macho organization of men.
That is really they are the most macho of all men in the whole world.
Yeah, it's they have women under their thumb and they don't let them have any um you know, any freedoms whatsoever.
They they are pe treated like dirt.
And if we let Afghanistan go the way of the Taliban and then work their way into Pakistan, that whole area is just is gonna be civil unrest forever.
It it it was il it was illegal by law in Afghanistan, Deborah, for a woman to feel sunlight on her face.
By law to feel sunlight on her face under Taliban run Afghanistan.
Uh and the idea that you should give those guys the right to enslave a big bunch of the population again.
They do terrible things, by the way.
Terrible, terrible things.
Uh when you look at these child brides, you look at the uh the twelve-year-old girl in Yemen who uh who bled to death in uh childbirth uh after having been uh impregnated by some forty-eight-year-old husband or whatever the guy was.
Uh if you look at uh th the the Taliban is not something if it happens, you deal with it.
But it's not something you should formally uh yeah, actually factor into your calculations.
And actually Gaddafi uh doesn't doesn't impose Taliban like uh rules on women uh in his own country.
He's he's guarded by these uh this phalanx of uh hot cuties that he fly.
Where are where are uh uh Gaddafi's female bodyguards from?
I think they've flown in from Italy or somewhere.
It's like he's got no use for the former colonial power except as a source of hot female bodyguards.
So he doesn't.
He's there.
They're all he's you know that little pill box hat.
I used to date a girl who wore Colonel Gaddafi hat.
So I can never I can never look at him giving a speech on the UN without feeling a sort of strange, strange like tingling of old times.
And then I think, oh no, no, hang on a minute.
It's uh it isn't my former girlfriend, it's Colonel Gaddafi.
But they the girls wear the matching pill box hats.
They look like the um the uh the uh uh the Plaza Athenae Hotel in Paris has female both has female bellhops who wear who dress like Colonel Gaddafi's security guards if you're ever in Paris.
Uh and and they um uh and so he doesn't he doesn't support the Talibanization of his own country.
The Taliban is a form of tyranny.
And What you do is you hunt it down uh and you destroy it.
And one of the great things that happened uh is that in uh this is something the left should be able to support because the main victims of uh the Taliban were women.
Uh women's groups went had nothing to say on had nothing to say on Afghanistan.
The other the other main victims were uh were homosexuals.
They'd build a wall and crush uh uh gay guys under it.
It was the only entertainment on Friday, because they banned the soccer, they banned the music, so they used the soccer stadium to build the wall that they crushed the homosexuals under.
Uh and it should have been possible.
If it's not possible for left and right uh to agree on the iniquity of the Taliban, then there really is no common ground anywhere uh uh left.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Infrarush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein Infrarus.
By the way, at this G twenty summit today, uh keep an eye on whether the Chinese push this idea for moving off the dollar as the global reserve currency and uh creating uh some new kind of reserve currency.
Because if that advances, then you'll know that all this talk, which you hear a lot in Israel and India and other countries now, that we're moving into the post-American world is serious.
Uh that they've taken uh Obama at face value and figured that America is in fact a abdicating from global leadership.
So the thing to watch at this G twenty summit is whether the Chinese are really uh whether they're just kind of uh jerking America's chain or whether they're really serious about coming up with something that replaces the dollar as the uh global reserve currency.
Uh let's go to Victor, also in uh in Florida, as Deborah was a couple of minutes ago.
Victor, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great.
Hi, Mark.
It's really a pleasure to talk to you.
It's a pleasure to to hear you, Victor.
Okay.
I'm a big fan, and I want to also extend the best wishes to you from your fans at the Free Republic.
Okay, that's uh that's that's good uh that's good to know.
Go freeers.
Okay, great.
That's right.
Go freepers.
Before I get to my point, uh, Mark, I just wanted to tell you uh that I hope one day I'll be able to listen to you at your own uh radio show um daily.
Oh, no, no, no.
I can handle I'm just some crazy guy, lives up in the hills, I can come down once in a while.
Uh uh I'm I'm I'm I'm one of nature's guest hosts.
You need apart from anything else, you need tremendous stamina to do this stuff three hours a day, five days a week for twenty-one years.
And that is g that is given to very, very few uh people.
I like I love as I said, I love I'm a crazy misanthropic loser writer, holed up in the mountains who loves coming down to the big city uh and and getting to uh uh to to interact on a show like this.
It's uh it's uh it's a treat for me.
What's what's your point?
What's your point, Victor?
Well, yeah, I just want to, you know, just kind of finish the thought.
I'm a big fan, of course, of Raj and um Monty Python as well.
So to me you kind of like a combination of the two.
So Good luck selling that pitch.
I feel like there's like somewhere six hundred radio stations somewhere in America missing a power syndicator.
Okay.
Okay, I'm I feel you're f with every word you say, you're fitting me out for the top-rated small hours show between two and four in the morning on WZZ A. M. on an ice floor off Alaska.
It's uh it's sounding great.
Okay.
Okay, what what's your what's your big point, Victor?
What's my big point is that earlier in the show you were discussing the problems that the environmentalists have with a good toilet paper.
Right.
They they want to end the two-ply.
Exactly.
And um, you know, I was just thinking about how to solve the problem.
I um I grew up in the Soviet Union, and back then in those days, we had no idea what a toilet paper was.
So we always used newspapers.
Right.
So you I think Right.
You used Pravda and his Vestia.
Is Vestia Prada?
Did you did you have a preference?
I like its vested because it had that little extra because it had an extra page in it.
Oh, right.
Excellent.
They carried the full the full transcript of the Brezhnev speech.
And that's that's that's really what you're looking for when you've had too many blinces or whatever.
Right, okay.
Okay.
So I think it, Mark, as long as we're hurling full speed ahead towards socialism here in America.
Well, we might as well go all the way and start perhaps enjoying the socialist lifestyle.
Right.
By uh killing two birds with one stone and start using the state controlled media newspapers instead of the toilet paper.
Yes.
I mean, this is you you make an excellent point here because the mi the the Dan Rather has called for uh the federal government to federally fund all these collapsing newspapers all over America.
Exactly with the Miami Herald, which has been told that the paper is worthless, but they might get something for the waterfront property and all these other and and all these other newspapers going out of business.
Uh instead, if we were just to sort of relabel them, you know, the New York Times Cotton L, then uh then they might be back in business again.
Excellent.
Exactly.
Kill two brothers with uh with one stone and don't have to worry about the bailout.
No.
And uh I think stuff like Newsweek, I tell you, it back in the old days in Soviet Union, the paper to use the Newsweek would have been considered the velvet.
I mean, Jesus to fly thin.
I mean, I can picture it right now, Mark.
Oh, well, that's uh well that is uh that is uh an endorsement.
As you say, it will avoid another expensive bailout.
Uh that uh that if the New York Times and these other failing newspapers just reposition themselves as America's new environmentally friendly toilet paper.
Actually, it's a shame.
It's a shame we couldn't have done that with the automobile industry.
I don't know, maybe if you cannibalize uh a uh a a a uh a Chevy Blazer or whatever, maybe that could have been useful.
Uh that that is an excellent point, uh uh Victor.
Thank you very much for for making it and for joining us on the Rush Limbo Show.
There's a man, he never saw toilet paper.
He lived in the Soviet Union, never saw toilet paper until he came to the United States, and there in the New York Harbor was Lady Liberty standing with her her her torch held alone.
Well, it looks like a torch from a distance, and then and then when you you get closer, you actually see it's a double roll of three-ply toilet paper that she's holding up there, saying, Welcome, give me your paw, your huddled masses yearning to use two-ply toilet paper.
That was Victor in the Soviet uh in the Soviet Union.
Thanks for your call, Victor.
Mark Stein Inforush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein Inforush.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
We've been talking about mainly about international uh affairs today.
Uh it was quite an extraordinary speech, what the what the President uh said at the United Nations.
And it was accompanied by what is even more contemptible, I think, is pointless gestures.
Uh for example, Mark Mood Ahmadinejad gave the big speech last night.
Uh the Canadians and uh various other countries already decided they weren't weren't going to listen to it.
The Canadian uh foreign minister was the one to walk out first uh as Ahmadunajad came in and before he started speaking.
Uh and uh he walked out before the guy had said a word.
The Americans walked out when they decided uh that Ahmadinejad had said something uh unacceptable and anti-Semitic.
Uh Mark uh Cornblau uh said he wasn't gonna listen to the guy espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
He's a spokesman for the US mission at the United Nations.
The official position of President Obama is that he's going to sit down and have talks without preconditions with Ahmadinejad.
What how can what's the point then of uh engaging in pointless gesture politics uh by walking out the room when the guy says what's on his mind, when you've s when you've campaigned for a year uh on the basis that you're gonna sit down and meet this guy and have talks to him, uh talks with him without preconditions.
What do you think he's gonna be saying to you?
What do you think he believes?
Uh this this is what is at the heart of, I think the most disastrous uh American foreign policy in the modern era.
Uh it is a policy whereby we concede all the criticisms uh of uh of our enemies in return for pointless gestures and terrible things will happen because of it.
Uh this has been Mark Stein Inforush.
It is always an honor to be here.
I got to get back to my uh child sex prostitute gig at the Acorn Bordello now.
Uh but Rush will be here on Jay Leno tonight at 10 PM Eastern, and he will also be back for open line Friday for a full three hours of excellence in broadcasting tomorrow.
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