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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 anchorman, 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 rushlimbaugh.com and hear Rush's interview with Chris Myers and Steve Hartman from Fox Sports Radio.
I was here.
One reason I admire Rush, by the way, is that he's been doing this three hours a day for 20 years, 21 years now.
And he amazingly, in all that time, has never given a career-detonating soundbite.
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 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 in the previous hour.
I said, I was talking about the cult of personality around Obama.
This was when 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.
And I said I thought this was a complete distraction.
There were already enough distractions in American grade schools.
I'd much rather the kid was learning math or was learning languages or was learning science and not doing some stupid essay on 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 or Saddam Hussein.
Now, the two words there 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 right wing.
I had compared Obama to 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 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, 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, 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, they said, oh, Mark Stein interviewed by Rush Limbaugh.
No, Rush was on his golf thing.
So I wasn't there.
This is, by the way, when people defend 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.
These guys at the Chicago Tribune, they get the quote wrong and they get 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 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've got no interest in these unreadable American newspapers.
I hope you don't think that's anti-American, but 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.
But my friends at the Irish Times, which is a ludicrously liberal paper, but is more or less readable.
They pick it up and they go, first prize in lunacy goes to Bark Steid for comparing on the Rush Limbaugh show, he compared President Obama to Kim Jong-il and Saddam Hussein.
So 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.
The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia runs another story 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 Associated Press yesterday issued a correction to its reporting of the Acorn scandal, where they'd attributed racism to the motives of these two guys, the world's worst, least convincing pimp and the world's least convincing hooker in these ACORN videos.
They said, they'd attributed to the pimp with the big fur coat that he had racist views about ACORN.
And the Associated Press issued a correction saying, oh, 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 all over the planet now, newspapers are having to issue corrections for stuff they believe because they read it in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
No real people do that.
The great thing about the internet is that you can check a quote.
The great thing about, if you're a member of Rush 24-7, is you can actually hear the quote, you can hear the words I said.
Obviously, no New York Times guy is going to subscribe to Rush 24-7, so they just 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, they see it in the New York Times, they send it around the planet, even if it's completely the opposite of what you said.
And Russia survived that for 21 years.
For 21 years, come 12 noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific, there are people sitting there ready to pounce on any hostage to fortune in the course of two decades.
And he hasn't given them one.
And that is amazing in this environment.
On the other hand, if you'll say Michael Moore, who's got some new movie coming out, 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, you can put up on September the 11th a blog at your website, a blog post at your website, saying, why did they bomb New York?
This state voted, 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 at the New York Times is going to put your comparison of Iraqi terrorists killing not just American troops and other troops, but killing in the course of that hundreds of civilians in all these market bombings they had at the height of the insurgency.
He compared them to American Minutemen.
I don't remember the Minutemen going into a market and killing hundreds of civilians.
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 Michael Moore is essentially this big cuddly figure who just happens to make films from a progressive left-wing perspective.
He's not.
He said deeply ugly things that the media have never reported.
So it's much easier on the left.
They'll give you a pass on everything.
He compared these terrorists to the Minutemen, 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, you shouldn't get into the game of conservative punditry and commentary and broadcasting in the first place.
And it is a huge triumph of Rush to have survived that, to have survived that for 21 years, despite the fact that there are people waiting to pounce on him for every little thing.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
He will be back tomorrow.
We've been talking about developments on the international scene.
I believe that the UN should be wrapping up shortly, and the president will then be going to Pittsburgh for the G20 summit.
One of the things I think is interesting about the international scene 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.
Whenever I used to go to Australia and you'd talk to John Howard, the Prime Minister, or Alexander Downer, the Foreign Minister, or any of the 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, you're not in any of the member clubs, you don't go to the USEU summit, and yet, in some respects, you're America's best allies.
And they used to say, Well, we don't want to be in the photo ops.
Jack Chirac needs the photo ops.
We don't.
We know the Americans know that we're 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 and then a big photograph taken at the end of it.
And all that generally is meaningless if there is not a real relationship going on underneath.
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 summit a commitment to an extra, I think it was an extra 28 helicopters for Afghanistan.
That works out to something like 1.04 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 is because we are fighting on international rules of engagement.
The NATO forces there are forced to go along basically with the rules of engagement of the most insecure nations.
So you have countries like Germany and Norway where they 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.
You can't fight a war.
A multilateral coalition ties you down to the weakest member, ties you down not only to the technology of the weakest member.
For example, in the first Gulf War, the communications between the various planes going in, some planes 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.
If you go into a multinational arrangement, it's got to be real, it's got to mean something.
And that has not happened with what we've seen most recently in Iraq or in Afghanistan, which, as I said, is supposed to be the good war.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Joe is on the line from Spring Valley, New York.
Which part of New York is Spring Valley in, Joe?
Yeah, hi, Mark.
Spring Valley is right next to Montfield, New Jersey, close to the New Jersey border.
Okay, okay, that's Bergen County.
All right, very nice.
What's your point?
It's great to have you with us on the show today, and thanks for waiting.
Soon you will become a household name like Rush.
Before I come to my question, I'm not actually a household name in my own household.
It's going to be a while before that happens.
Before I come to my question, I sent an email to Rush a few days ago, and he read that on the airwave.
All right.
And I made a suggestion that when he's on vacation, the place looked like a morgue.
I didn't mean anything against you.
But what I meant to say was told him to have sex with 20 girls and produce 20 Rush baby boys.
Oh, right.
This is a whole routine you got worked up here.
We were supposed to be talking about politics.
Forget it.
This is great.
So when Rush is away, it's like the morgue here, and the guest host rises from the crypt for three hours, but basically can't pull the steak out of his chest.
And then the caller comes on, and he's doing Rush baby jokes, 20 Rush babies from that's marvelous, Joe.
Okay, what was your main?
I assume you're not just here with advice on Rush's sex life, but you've got like some big geopolitical, socio-strategic point you would like to.
No, we need some continuity when Rush leaves.
That's what I mean.
Okay, back to my question.
You know, all you buggers, you tend to bash Obama, and he's a transformative leader, once in a lifetime leader, and he leads by example.
That's what my point is.
No, no, no, wait a minute.
Yeah, he's a transformative leader.
And transformative leaders can be good or they can be bad.
I don't like where the transformation is heading.
And that's the difference.
I will tell you where it's heading.
The private sector debt, as an economist, I can tell you, is close to $100 trillion.
That includes corporate bonds, all the derivatives, outstanding mortgages, the municipality, all $2.7 trillion.
Yeah, no, no, wait a minute.
You want to talk about private debt.
So we should separate.
You should separate the government, the municipal thing out of that.
That's $7 trillion.
Approximately $100 trillion is private sector debt.
And the government debt is around $11 trillion.
Out of that, the government spent $800 billion on defense and $500 billion on incarcerating Americans on privilege 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 reversing that trend and trying to restore that digital.
No, no, wait a minute.
He's just issued in the last few months something like $7 trillion worth of government debt.
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 going to clamp down on defense expenditure, which is $800 billion.
Newton spent only $40 billion.
And he's shutting down the prison system up here in upstate New York, which can seals $500 billion of taxpayers' money every year and destroys families.
Now, wait a minute.
So we're going to have the money for Acorn.
We're going to have all these stupid paving projects.
I'm in a bad mood today because when I drove to the airport, where I used to be able to drive on two-lane blacktop, I now drove on 100 miles of scarified pavement.
So my brain was vibrating.
After your brain's been vibrating for 100 miles, the transformative leader doesn't seem quite so cool.
But you make – Joe, you're saying that don't worry for all the ACORN projects, for all the funding of that, he's going to cut it back by reducing our military expenditure and letting all the fellas out of jail.
Is that right, as I understand it?
The charge is that most Americans, 5 million Americans are in cost with, and 20 million have conviction record, and they can never get a job.
And that consumes $500 billion out of the taxpayers' fund every year.
So you're saying that the prison system is hugely wasteful?
Of course.
Britain has only 10,000 people incarcerated.
Wait a minute.
Britain has...
Britain has rampant property crime.
Have you ever been...
In Britain, by the way, they have rampant property crime, and so they say 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 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 the rate of hot burglaries in the United Kingdom, which are virtually unknown here?
You can't have a hot burglary in the United States.
In my state, in New Hampshire, if you knock on the door, anybody's door after 7 p.m. at night, you should knock on the door and then step sharply to the side of the porch before the bullet comes winging out at you.
You can't do that in the United Kingdom, so they have these hot burglaries.
They have rampant property crime.
You talk to any American who takes a job in Britain for two years.
You have to take everything inside.
You go and sit in the garden and you have to bring everything inside at the end of the day because everything will be stolen.
Everything.
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 result of decimation of the middle class.
And that's why the petty crimes have gone up.
For example, rigonomics, supply signs, and trickled down and tax cut for the rich.
That's the worst care 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.
Wait, wait a minute.
How can Obama have a stable middle class when he has to find someone to pay for the governmentalization of health care for cap and trade?
That's a great tax system.
A progressive tax system.
That's what you need.
The more you make, the more you get a tax.
We actually have a more progressive, you should know this as an economist.
We have a more progressive income tax system, both at the personal level and at the corporate level, 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.
95% of the taxes are not.
Warren Buffett is an Obama supporter, and their tax arrangements are always very favorable.
The point about that is you're not going to have any middle-class tax cuts under – you're right that 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, Joe, that there is a price tag to all these transformative acts that you're in favor of.
Healthcare, 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 tonight, but back for Open Line Friday tomorrow.
This is the leader that the Europeans and a lot of the rest of the world have wanted for years, Barack Obama.
He said all the things they wanted to hear yesterday.
He prostrated himself before the global community.
What they're missing, I think, in this is that in a couple of years' time, they're going to realize the big problem when America goes the same way as the rest of the Western world.
The reality is, for example, on healthcare, is that it's the profit-driven health sector in the United States that drives the research that comes up with the life-saving drugs that all the countries with socialized government health systems depend on.
In other words, it's great to be 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, that will slow down significantly.
I think it's also true, for example, that 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.
So, in a nutshell, the only reason why Germany can afford to be Germany and Belgium can afford to be Belgium 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 Belgium and Sweden and Germany, the whole system will go to hell, and the world will be a far more dangerous place.
So, although they think this is the president, the American president they've dreamt of all their lives, I think they're in for a very rude awakening and in a very short time too.
We're not talking 10 or 20 years, but in a couple of years, they're going to 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.
Well, I have one thing to say before I say what I called to say, is that I was at 9-12.
Oh, great.
Good for you.
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 a very good practical point.
If you're in Montreal or Toronto and you only have to drive to Plattsburgh or Buffalo, if the American system goes the Canadian route, you're going to be having to drive to Costa Rica or Peru or wherever it is to get there.
I have no idea where we're going to go.
My husband is a physician, and we're selling out everything, and he's going to stop practicing medicine.
They're going to lose so many doctors over this.
It's really going to be tragic.
No, and you're right about that, too.
One of the things on socialized health care is that being a doctor ceases to be a middle-class profession.
Because people say if you look at Canada, for example, I think a doctor gets reimbursed $30 for a patient consultation.
So 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 exactly with the candy's on the thing.
That's right, yeah.
That's the rate you're going to be seeing patients to cover all your overheads, or you're going to get out of the game and you will end up, 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 healthcare system.
So I understand what your husband's thinking about, Deborah.
Well, that's exactly where we're headed.
And the other thing is they're not paid so well anymore anyway.
They're not what they used to be 35 and 40 years ago.
No, but in part, that I think is because the government interference in the market has corrupted the system.
And the minute you do, the minute you get any government interference in a normal market, the government As a supplier or as a customer, is such a distorting factor that whatever it interferes in is no longer subject to normal market safety valves.
You're right, Honor.
Okay, now, my other point was: I was watching Gaddafi yesterday.
I was at the gym, so I was on the treadmill.
What's it like?
What's it going to be?
What's it like being on the treadmill to Colonel Gaddafi?
Because, 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 every time they would say that it was inaudible, I kept thinking that he was saying something that they couldn't repeat on TV.
It was 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.
But the other thing that something he said that really drastically made me nuts was that he thought that the United States and everybody else should really let the Taliban have its own country in Afghanistan.
And 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 is.
And they have women under their thumb, and they don't let them have any, you know, any freedoms whatsoever.
They are 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 going to be civil unrest forever.
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.
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.
When you look at these child brides, you look at the 12-year-old girl in Yemen who bled to death in childbirth after having been impregnated by some 48-year-old husband or whatever the guy was.
If you look at the Taliban is not something, if it happens, you deal with it.
But it's not something you should formally actually factor into your calculations.
And actually, Gaddafi doesn't impose Taliban-like rules on women in his own country.
He's guarded by this phalanx of hot cuties that he fly.
Where are 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.
You know that little pillbox hat.
I used to date a girl who wore Colonel Gaddafi hats.
So I can never look at him giving a speech on the UN without feeling a sort of strange, strange tingling of old times.
And then I think, oh, no, no, hang on a minute.
It isn't my former girlfriend.
It's Colonel Gaddafi.
But the girls wear the matching pillbox hats.
They look like the Plaza Athené Hotel in Paris has female bellhops who dress like Colonel Gaddafi's security guards, if you're ever in Paris.
And so 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 and you destroy it.
And one of the great things that happened is that this is something the left should be able to support because the main victims of the Taliban were women.
Women's groups had nothing to say on had nothing to say on Afghanistan.
The other main victims were homosexuals.
They build a wall and crush 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.
And it should have been possible.
If it's not possible for left and right to agree on the iniquity of the Taliban, then there really is no common ground anywhere left.
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Mark Stein, InfraRush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein Infra Rush.
By the way, at this G20 summit today, keep an eye on whether the Chinese push this idea for moving off the dollar as the global reserve currency and creating 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.
That they've taken Obama at face value and figured that America is, in fact, abdicating from global leadership.
So the thing to watch at this G20 summit is whether the Chinese are really, whether they're just kind of jerking America's chain or whether they're really serious about coming up with something that replaces the dollar as the global reserve currency.
Let's go to Victor, also 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 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 good to know.
Go Freepers.
Okay, great.
That's right.
Go Freepers.
Before I get to my point, Mark, I just wanted to tell you that I hope one day I'll be able to listen to you at your own radio show daily.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm just some crazy guy, lives up in the hills.
I can come down once in a while.
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 21 years.
And that is given to very, very few people.
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 and getting to interact on a show like this.
It's a treat for me.
What's your point?
What's your point, Victor?
Well, yeah, I just want to finish the thought.
I'm a big fan, of course, of Rush and Monty Python as well.
So to me, you're kind of like a combination of the two.
Good luck selling that pitch.
I feel like there's like somewhere 600 radio stations somewhere in America missing a power syndicator.
Okay, I feel you're with every word you say, you're fitting me out for the top-rated small hours show between 2 and 4 in the morning on WZZZAM on an ice flow off Alaska.
It's work for me.
Okay.
Okay, what's your big point, Victor?
What's my big point is that earlier in the show, you were discussing the problems that environmentalists have with a good toilet paper.
Right, they want to end the two-ply.
Exactly.
And, you know, I was just thinking about how to solve the problem.
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.
Right.
You used Prafta and Izvestia.
Izvestia Prafta.
Did you do another previous?
Did you have a preference?
I like Izvestia because it had that little extra because it had an extra page in it.
Oh, right.
Excellent.
They carried the full transcript of the Brezhnev speech.
And that's really what you're looking for when you've had too many blinces or whatever.
Right, okay.
Okay.
So I see it, Mark.
As long as we're hurtling full speed ahead towards socialism here in America, well, we might as well go all the way and start perhaps enjoying the socialist lifestyle by 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 make an excellent point here because Dan Rather has called for the federal government to federally fund all these collapsing newspapers all over America.
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 newspapers going out of business.
Instead, if we were just to sort of relabel them, you know, the New York Times Cotton L, then they might be back in business again.
Excellent.
Exactly.
Kill two birds with one stone and don't have to worry about the bailout.
No.
And I think stuff like Newsweek, I tell you, back in the old days in the Soviet Union, the paper they use in Newsweek would have been considered the velvet.
I mean, Jesus, two-ply, thin.
I mean, I can picture it right now, Mark.
Oh, well, that is an endorsement.
As you say, it will avoid another expensive bailout.
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 a Chevy Blazer or whatever, maybe that could have been useful.
That is an excellent point, Victor.
Thank you very much for making it and for joining us on the Rush Limbaugh 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 torch held aloft.
Well, it looks like a torch from a distance.
And then when you get closer, you actually see it's a double roll of free ply toilet paper that she's holding up there saying, welcome, give me your poor, your huddled masses yearning to use two-ply toilet paper.
That was Victor in the Soviet Union.
Thanks for your call, Victor.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush.
Rush will be back tomorrow.
We've been talking mainly about international affairs today.
It was quite an extraordinary speech, what the President said at the United Nations.
And it was accompanied by what is even more contemptible, I think, is pointless gestures.
For example, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave the big speech last night.
The Canadians and various other countries had already decided they weren't going to listen to it.
The Canadian foreign minister was the one to walk out first as Ahmadinejad came in and before he started speaking.
And he walked out before the guy had said a word.
The Americans walked out when they decided that Ahmadinejad had said something unacceptable and anti-Semitic.
Mark Kornblau said he wasn't going to listen to the guy espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
He's a spokesman for the U.S. Miss 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's the point then of engaging in pointless gesture politics by walking out the room when the guy says what's on his mind when you've campaigned for a year on the basis that you're going to sit down and meet this guy and have talks to him, talks with him without preconditions?
What do you think he's going to be saying to you?
What do you think he believes?
This is what is at the heart of, I think, the most disastrous American foreign policy in the modern era.
It is a policy whereby we concede all the criticisms of our enemies in return for pointless gestures, and terrible things will happen because of it.
This has been Mark Stein in for Rush.
It is always an honor to be here.
I've got to get back to my child sex prostitute gig at the Acorn Bordello now.
But Rush will be here on Jay Leno tonight at 10 p.m. 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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