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Dec. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 28, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
This is how lax security is in America.
I can still just sneak across the border.
No checks, no nothing.
I turn up, I don't even have to, I don't even bother doing this thing, you know, flying, routing myself through Amsterdam and paying in cash, getting on the watch list, getting reported to the FBI and the CIA.
I don't bother with, I don't bother with any of that.
I just climb into the back of a friend's trunk and he drives me across the border.
About an hour south of the border, I just bang on the lid of the trunk, he lets me out and I just come to the EIB studio and get on with subverting America from within in the face of the Obama administration's ruthless clampdown, the land where you have to put your hands on your knees so that big nanny in the sky, Janet Napolitano, big nanny in the sky, can see your hands at all times.
That's great, isn't it?
That's terrific.
Lovely.
It amazes me people put up with this.
It amazes me people put up with this stuff, and at some point, people keep saying, if you get sick, Mr. Snerdley is wondering whether if you have to go.
Well, no, because this guy on yesterday's flight, on the same flight, on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, and on the same guy from Nigeria, another Muslim guy from Nigeria, he's in the bathroom for an hour.
and all the air marshals and everyone are saying, hmm, wonder what's going on there.
And he said in the end he was sick, and they let him go ahead.
And I would imagine that's the way it's going to go, that everyone else will be sitting there with their hands on their knees, which is just boring.
I mean, it's boring.
For the hour, for an hour, you're sitting there.
Can't we at least hump the stewardess or the flight attendant or whatever, the trolley dolly, whatever you meant to call them, couldn't she lead us all in, if you're happy and you know, we clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know, we're claping hands.
You know, couldn't we do that?
And that way, you know, obviously, if we're going to be treated like children now, at least we should get the full entertainment value.
Couldn't they have maybe a clown come down the aisle and amuse us?
Or perhaps they could have glove puppets or something doing amusing tricks.
I mean, if it's going to be like a children's thing, let's go the whole way.
If we're going to treat grown-up citizens as children, let's go the whole way.
But in the meantime, this guy, two days after they announced these new procedures, this guy is in the bathroom for an hour.
And, I mean, I love...
Have you ever seen that film, what is it?
Catch Me If You Can?
Well, the Spielberg film with what's his name, Leonardo DiCaprio, as this guy who pretends to be an airline pilot.
Those were the good old days, you know.
Never mind getting on the plane, needing ID to get on the plane.
You didn't need any ID to get in there and fly the plane.
That was fantastic.
He pretends, he was pretending to be an airline pilot.
But the scenes, there's one scene, I think it's JFK in the 60s when it was still called Idlewild, you know, before they renamed it.
And like Leonardo DiCaprio is coming out with these stewardesses on each arm and Sinatra singing, come fly with me.
It was, that's the world that impressionable foreigners like me thought it was like, American air travel.
I loved it.
When I was a kid, it was like the space age.
It was fantastic.
I remember the first time I got a job offer in the United States and I had to fly to America.
And they paid for me to have a business class ticket, which I'd never flown before.
And they were flambaying your stake in the aisle, live in the aisle.
Now they don't do that.
That would be a terrorist incident now.
Dutchmen would be leaping up and throwing themselves on the steak.
The whole we have chosen reprimitivization and degeneration by going down this path.
And what I find fascinating is that a lot of this air travel.
Why, for example, does this guy have a multi-visit visa to the United States anyway?
Clearly, what happened on 9-11, I would imagine, is that somebody in some department, in the State Department somewhere, said, well, what are we going to do to respond to this?
All these guys came from Saudi Arabia.
They came from the United Arab Emirates.
And they got in on the fast-track Saudi Visa Express program.
This was where, to get the visa to come to the United States, you didn't have to contact a U.S. embassy or consulate or anybody from the United States government at all.
Your travel agent in Saudi Arabia could issue you the visa.
So Mohammed, the travel agent in Riyadh, had a stack of U.S. visas in his drawer and could basically parcel them out to anyone he wanted.
And that program remained in place for a year after September 11th.
And what that told us is that if the death of 3,000 Americans is not enough to prompt serious changes in our policy on admission to the United States and other issues, then nothing is.
Then nothing is.
You know, you can see that in the identity cards that three of the 9-11 terrorists, they boarded the plane with ID cards that they obtained from the illegal immigrant day workers meeting place in the 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia.
This guy basically meets all the day workers there and he goes along to a state of Virginia office and he signs up all these people for driver's licenses and picture ID, all registering them to the same basement apartment somewhere in Falls Church.
And they hand out the fake ID.
Well, they're not fake ID.
They're actually genuine ID handed out to fake people who shouldn't have them.
And they board the planes with that.
And instead of saying, oh, that's outrageous, we shouldn't do that.
Then you have people like Governor Schwarzenegger, the so-called Republican, running for office and saying, well, yes, I think we should hand driver's licenses out hither and yon, whether people are in this country legally or not.
So you can't do anything about that.
You can't do anything about that.
That message, the message that sends is that we would rather die being politically correct, being multiculturally correct, being non-judgmental, and congratulate ourselves on our niceness, even as the plane is going up in smoke and we're plunging nosediving into the briny.
That's basically what we do.
We'd rather be dead and nice than take the tough decisions necessary to prevent these kind of attacks in the future.
It is the end of the year, the end of the first year of Barack Obama's glorious reign.
First of many years of his glorious reign, because I don't believe that such a messiah could be confined to a mere two terms.
He should reign forever.
He bestrides the world like a god, as that guy from Newsweek said.
The guy from Newsweek, Evan Thomas, said, hey, this isn't just some little rinky-dink parochial American president, like those other fellas, like your Abraham Lincolns and your Chester Arthurs and your Calvin Coolidges and those losers.
No, he's not parochial.
He's not constrained.
He's really not president of one rinky-dink, no-account nation-state.
He's like the God of the whole world.
This is what the man, this is a serious, important fella in American journalism, Evan Thomas at Newsweek.
He says this in public.
And the host, instead of falling off his chair, clutching his sides with laughter and them having to cut to commercials, the host just sort of nods thoughtfully, as if that's the sort of thing that every reasonable person believes.
That was July.
Since then, it's fascinating to me how Obama has plunged to earth.
People talk about his approval numbers and compare them with Bush.
He's fallen farther faster than anybody in the modern polling era.
And people say, well, that's because he had farther to fall.
And yes, that's true.
If you look at Bush in January 2000, he came into office after a divided, bitter election where a lot of people didn't even recognize him as the legitimate president.
So when he stays the 50-50 president, as he did for most of those first nine months until his ratings soared after September 11th, he's actually doing pretty well.
He's actually doing pretty well.
He was the same Bush basically between the third week of January and September the 10th.
This guy is sliding off the charts.
And I would really be interested.
I would love to hear from anybody who still believes the Hopi-Changey stuff.
You know, this time last year, when you're all walking around singing, have a hopy-changy Christmas, it's the best time of the year.
Remember that?
It's just a year ago.
Seems like another, seems like an alternative universe.
So if you still are one of the Hopi changers, if you still believe in the Hopi change, if you still got your big Hopi-Changy bumper sticker on your car, because I'm seeing right now, when I drive through Vermont, which is a state full of crazy people, I drive through Vermont, I'm seeing more Kerry Edwards stickers from the 04 campaign on your old rusting Vermont Subaroos and Volvos than I am on Obama-Biden ones.
So if you're still driving around with the Obama Hopi-Changey bumper sticker, 1-800-282-2882, I would love to hear from you.
Do you still believe in the Hopi change?
Why isn't it happening?
Why suddenly are the great post-partisan healers' numbers crumbling, crumbling to dust?
And he's just a discredited partisan hack like every other president.
If you still believe in the Hopi change, if you still believe that the glories of socialized healthcare and this so-called healthcare reform package are going to transform America and put us on course for the full Hopi change, then do call.
1-800-282-2882.
This has been an incredible year for him.
And what I find especially interesting is the guy's rhetoric was supposed to be badger.
You know when his numbers went up?
That two weeks he took off in the summer.
Every time he gave a speech on healthcare, there was less support for the healthcare bill.
Then he took two weeks off and suddenly the healthcare numbers stabilize again.
I wouldn't be surprised if they stabilize if he stays in Hawaii.
If he was to go to Tahiti, if he was to go to an uninhabited atoll in Antarctica, you might get up to 54% of people in favor of healthcare reform again.
The so-called greatest, the greatest public speaker since Churchill, Lincoln, Henry V at Adgincourt combined, the greatest public speaker of our time, couldn't sell the central policy of his administration.
He couldn't do it.
So if you still believe, but if you still believe, if you're out there somewhere, somewhere, somewhere in these 50 states, there must still be a Hopi changer who believes that the Hopi change is just around the corner and that somewhere he's going to transport us to that magical land where troubles melt like lemon drops.
If you still believe in the Hopi change, call us 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein inferush.
Boy, that music is mellow and soulful.
It's kind of, I feel, I feel bad now getting all kind of hysterical and wound up about the pandy bomb.
It doesn't kind of quite fit the mood.
Let's go to Jessica in Fort Lauderdale.
Jessica, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to talk with you.
Mark, it's great to talk to you.
You're fantastic.
You crack me up in the car.
I'm going to get arrested for laughing behind the wheel soon.
Yeah, that law will be passed any day soon.
That's a security whip.
That's a national security threat, and we're going to have to clamp down on it.
You're laughing in the car.
But I do laugh.
I keep one hand on my knee.
Okay.
From now on, you have to drive with both hands on your knees.
Okay?
So the thing I'm talking about, somebody who was on my little floor, it's about the alleged, the alleged terrorist.
I want to say that the system that we have in place did not fail.
It was the people who did not follow the directions of the system that failed.
He paid with cash, a one-way ticket.
He was on a watch list.
Hello.
Man, he should have been out of there.
He shouldn't have gotten on a plane.
So it wasn't the movies that were wrong.
It was the people didn't follow the rules.
Now I want to say, if they make brand new rules, like you have to sit with both hands on your knees for the takeoff and the landing, fine.
So a nice Christian man sits there with his Bible because he wants to pray on the landing and the stewardess says, oh, I'm sorry, sir.
You can't have anything on your lap.
We're going to put that away.
Great.
Then we go over to the Muslim man who's sitting there with his Quran and they say, we're sorry.
And he says, oh, I'm sorry.
This is the Quran.
I'm going to keep this on my lap.
And if you don't let me, I'm going to sue him.
And you're going to go for sensitivity training.
And so what happens?
The Muslim will keep his Quran on his lap.
Of course, you won't be able to.
And the little that was installed to keep laps clean doesn't get followed.
No, that's very true.
And you know what is interesting?
When you talked about people, it's always the people.
Do you remember that guy, Ahmed Rassam, the millennium bomber, the so-called millennium bomber?
He was coming in on December 31st, 1999 to blow up, 10 years ago to the day almost, coming down from British Columbia to blow up on the ferry to blow up LAX.
And it was a border agent using human judgment.
There was nothing wrong with his passport.
He had a valid passport.
He just seemed a little nervous.
And she decided to pull him over.
And she looked in the trunk of his car and he had all these explosives and then he started to run for it.
But that was a border agent using human judgment.
And that is what we're being asked to put on hold.
As you said, you can't confiscate a Quran because a Muslim believes that if an infidel touches your Quran, then it's been tainted.
It's filthy.
It's dirty.
You can't possibly do that to his Quran.
And simply as a point of principle, by the way, I don't believe we should all sit with our hands on our knees anyway.
I mean, I think we should, if this was, if this, the spirit of 1776 still prevailed, we'd all denounce that and be doing the hokey-pokey in the aisle for the final hour of the flight until they decide that they're going to abandon that law.
Mark, why should we have our hands on our knees?
We should do what they're doing to us and have our hands on our ankles.
That's Rush's line, isn't it?
Assume the position.
Well, you know, now, I look at it.
This is like, clearly, this is Rush Limbaugh-style security enforcement.
They've taken Rush's words to heart.
Okay, Jessica.
You don't want to be giving them ideas, Jessica.
Thank you.
Thank you, Clay.
Keep up the great work.
And you.
That's right.
Rush Limbaugh style airport security.
Assume the position.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Jessica.
It isn't really.
It isn't really funny because I look at it.
I mentioned this guy in my book.
I'd never really heard of him until I happened to see him in an article in Wired.
He's a guy called Hans Monderman.
He's another Dutchman.
Dutchmen are the heroes of the age today.
So here's another Dutchman for the day, Hans Monderman.
He's a highway engineer in the Netherlands.
And he, after working in highways, on the roads of Europe for decades, he came up with an interesting proposition that if you put less signs on the streets, people drive better because they understand, they're more alert.
They understand that if you put a sign saying don't do this, don't do that, don't do this, don't do that everywhere, that you give people the illusion of safety, but you don't impose upon them the need to be alert themselves.
And there was a famous, the world's Sweden's most dangerous traffic intersection where they had all these fatalities.
And this guy, Hans Monderman, was flown in and he removed all the signs and the number of traffic fatalities fell to none because suddenly people were approaching the intersection saying, whoa, what's going on here?
There's no signs giving me the illusion of safety, so I will have to use my wits.
Imagine that.
I will have to stay alert.
Imagine that.
I will have to keep an eye out on the road.
Imagine that.
Now, we've gone the opposite way here.
In my state of New Hampshire now, they've now introduced these things, these signs, like the stop sign, and now there's a sign like 50 yards before that tells you there's a stop sign coming up.
I mean, how dumb is that?
You know, why not have a sign before the sign that says a stop sign is coming up saying that there's a sign warning you that a stop sign is coming up is coming up.
I mean, there's no end to that stupidity.
All these things do is give you the illusion of security and the illusion of safety, but they have a corrupting effect on the citizenry.
They have a corrupting effect on the nimbleness and wits of a citizenry and the citizen's responsibility to look out for himself.
And believe you, me, whatever they tell you to do today, whatever new regulations they do today, when you're up on that flight, Northwest Delta American, USAID, doesn't matter what it is, when you're up there in the sky and somebody starts pulling something, Janet Napolitano and the federal government aren't going to be up there with you.
You'll be on your own, and you should remember that.
That's the salient point.
Yes, America's anchor man is away.
He will return next week, but we have lots of great things coming up this week, including Walter Williams as your New Year's Eve treat.
Did you see this late on Christmas Eve?
This is a real, this is the real twilight zone for news you don't want to make a big deal about.
The Obama administration pledged late on Christmas Eve to provide unlimited, unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an 11th-hour move that allows the government to exceed the current $400 billion cap on emergency aid without seeking permission from a bailout-weary Congress.
So they've got like a $400 billion cap on emergency aid, you know, which is like in round numbers, that's half a trillion dollars.
And if they need more than that, they have to go to Congress.
And that's clearly unreasonable, isn't it?
I mean, what, you know, I mean, obviously there are going to be times when you need to access more than half a trillion dollars.
So the Obama administration, late on Christmas Eve, basically said now that they get unlimited financial assistance, whatever they want, whatever they want.
That $400 billion cap, no reasonable person could live within a $400 billion limit.
So that cap has been removed.
That's great news because Fannie and Freddie have done such a terrific job.
And I think there's no reason at all that we can't trust them to do with, what, $600 billion, $800 billion, $1.7 trillion, what they've done with that $400 billion.
Look at what's happened in the last year, by the way.
U.S. public debt has jumped by 31% from $5.8 trillion to $7.6 trillion.
So if we're throwing away that many trillions of dollars, what really is another half a trillion here or there?
I mean, this is nickel and down stuff.
This is basically a rounding error now in federal budgeting.
So I think it's great news that Freddie and Fanny can now spend what they want, money no object.
Let's go to George in Sacramento, California, where they certainly know about spending what they want, money no object.
George, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, you said you wanted an Obama supporter.
I thought I'd call and volunteer.
Really?
And how was the line at the volunteers for Obama supporters?
Snaking around the block, or was there just you in there?
Good to have you with us.
You're still an Obama supporter.
You voted for him last November.
You got the Hopi Changy fever a year ago.
I never had Hopi Changy fever.
That's just you guys trying to prop up your moron listeners.
I just wanted to get the lunatic Republicans out of charge, and that's what we did.
And so you're happy.
You got that.
And the lunatic Republicans are out of the way.
No lunatic Republicans inside.
You're happy with health.
Well, you know, there's still enough of them to obstruct a lot of things.
We'd like to get more out of the way, absolutely.
Now, you're in Sacramento, California.
Would it be unfair of me to assume that you work for the government?
No.
It wouldn't be.
I'm a small businessman.
I'm an entrepreneur.
You're an entrepreneur.
You're an entrepreneur in Sacramento, California.
I am indeed.
If we were at the airport, I would subject you to secondary screening for that.
I have no idea that there was a small businessman in Sacramento, California.
That's fantastic.
And you don't think the state of California, for example, which is about to go belly up, you don't think the state of California has a lot of the same problems that are happening in the U.S. government right now, which is obstruction by one party.
It's the tail wagging the dog.
We can't even get a budget done here in California without getting a two-thirds majority, which is pretty much impossible.
And that's why things never happen, and that's why there's always budget, ridiculous budget.
No, no, no, but what would you say?
No, but what you're saying, George, then, is that you'd like the state of California to spend more of your money?
You'd like bigger government?
And what do you want at the federal level then?
Do you want more spending?
Are you in favor of this health fund?
I'd like less spending.
Actually, it was George W. Bush that came in with a $5.6 trillion debt and left with over an $11 trillion debt.
The deficit that he, the projected deficit that he left when he left office for his final fiscal, his final fiscal projected at $450 ended up being a trillion and a half on George Bush.
George W. George W. George W. Bush is gone.
He's history.
He's reduced to giving speeches in Canada.
We don't know where he is.
Don't worry about George W. Bush.
What is interesting is if you feel that way about George W. Bush's spending, and a lot of Republicans did and a lot of Conservatives did, and they didn't approve of all this spending.
Why then is it a good idea for Barack Obama to spend more at an even faster rate?
If you oppose George W. Bush.
You're all neo-budget hawks now, all of a sudden.
All of a sudden you're all budget hawks.
No, no, don't make it about me.
Don't make it about George W. Bush.
Don't make it about Donald Rumsfeld.
It's all ancient history.
We're saying...
First, Barack Obama cannot correct the deficit problem without a growing economy.
So the economy was cratering when he took over again.
Okay, so you're in favor of first he's got to get the economy on track.
Right, and so are you in.
Which was basically he was left an eeneronomy by George Bush and all Republicans.
So basically the whole thing was a fake economy in Eneronomy, and now we've got to get it back on solid footing.
No, you know what?
By the way, don't be so hard on Enron.
They cooked up this carbon credit business that has turned Al Gore into a billionaire.
And carbon credits are basically the subprime mortgage of the international economy.
So let's have no criticizing of Enron on that scale.
But let's get back to my point here, George.
If you didn't like the Republican spending and you think that this spending is better, it's more targeted, it's more efficient, what did you like about the stimulus spending?
First of all, the massive debt, I mean, that massive deficit for this past year, a lot of it was the TARP bailout.
And the first half of the TARP bailout went out, and nobody knows where that went.
Nobody even knows where that went.
No.
At least the second half has been somewhat looked over.
And as far as the steminess is concerned, like I said, to decrease the deficits, you need a growing economy.
You need a bigger tax.
Yeah, and how does it grow?
How does it grow the economy?
How does it grow the economy, George?
Well, the first thing is to throw money.
Only about a third of it has been put into play, and a lot of that has been tax cuts.
And don't tell me you guys are going to gripe about tax cuts.
Where are the tax cuts?
All you care about is tax cuts.
No, but where are the tax cuts?
Tax cuts for the little people.
It was tax cuts for the little people that everyone knows goes right back into the economy.
Tax cuts to the wealthy don't necessarily get back into the economy.
Where do they go then?
Where does a tax cut to the wealthy go?
Well, I mean, if you're bringing home a million dollars a year and then because of a tax cut, now you're bringing home a million point one a year, where are you going to put that money?
You're going to probably invest that in the markets, which is the secondary market.
No, no, no, no.
Unless you're investing it in IPOs.
So wait a minute.
So you have the Scrooge McDuck.
You have the Scrooge McDuck view of the rich, the Scrooge McDuck view of the rich, that if a guy has a lot of money, he keeps it in a warehouse and he drives around in his John Deere rig and scoops it up and puts the big pile of dollar bills from one side of the warehouse to another.
That's not how it works.
The reason we have sluggishness in the economy, sluggishness in the economy now, the reason people aren't hiring is because the Obama administration has made it clear it doesn't have any understanding of business.
It doesn't understand, in fact, that in the moral sense, there is no such thing as a business.
You can't tax a business.
A business is people.
It's the people who own the business.
It's the people who work for the business.
It's the people who buy the products of the business.
It's the people who benefit from the investments that that business makes.
A corporation doesn't pay tax except in an entirely artificial sense.
In the end, human individuals all get stuck with that tab.
So the anti-business rhetoric of the Obama administration has had an impact on hiring.
That's why people don't want to hire if they think they're going to be subject to punishments because they don't provide a particular kind of health insurance and they're going to be subject to an 8% tax to pay for that.
The more government you have, the more government you have, the more you have businesses sitting back and saying, well, maybe I should just wait and see how this plays out, because I don't want to take on another person in case I'm punished for it.
But the idea that somehow the solution to the spending of the Bush years is to double down and spend even more, I think is completely preposterous.
We are beggaring our children's future.
I would respect more a genuine socialist who said, with this level of spending, we're going to have to have basic income tax rates of 60%.
That's what they do in some countries.
In some countries, they have the, I think Quebec, which has the highest tax jurisdiction in North America, I think combined federal and provincial taxes are about 55%.
I think if they were to say we're going to have to increase all this stuff that all you guys want, like the health care and all the rest of it, it's all so expensive.
We're going to have to have 60, 65% taxes.
But the idea that somehow you can expand government, you can burn through trillions of dollars, and yet you impose the costs for that on our children and grandchildren, I think is morally abhorrent.
There is no way they're ever going to dig themselves out for this, out of this hole, unless we act responsibly and rein it in right now.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein, infra-rush on the EIB network.
And I was, I'm still not sure about that guy whether he was really a small business owner in Sacramento.
I mean, I find that a bit, I find that the words small business owner in Sacramento are a bit like saying, you know, I'm a lap dance club owner in Riyadh.
It's like, I suppose technically it could be true, but I'm an entrepreneur in Sacramento.
I don't know.
Anyway, the last words, we faded the guy down because by that stage he was just going blah, Blah, blah, blah.
It is a blah, blah, blah, but it bears repeating.
But it bears repeating.
This idea that somehow the spending of Bush is so out of control that now you've got to make it even more out of control is simply nuts.
It's simply nuts.
And that's actually, the Republicans paid a price for their lack of fiscal responsibility.
But there is a lesson here when the other guys have no accountability, when they're willing to just give blank checks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when there is no project so stupid that it can't be funded by the stimulus package, then there are far the there are the difference if the difference is between bad and worse, you should still think pretty carefully before voting for worse.
Let's go to Bill in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bill, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's great to have you with us and thanks for waiting.
Well, thanks for having me on, Mark.
You're probably, I think, the best sub for us that I've heard yet.
Oh, no, no, no.
You got Mark Davis and Walter Williams coming in this week.
So the week is only going to get better.
They're all American.
They're all American substitute hoax.
They're graduates of the University of Substitute Hosterology somewhere or other in this great land.
Well, maybe so.
But I still wouldn't want to take away from your greatness either, Mark.
And, you know, you know, Marsh is always on the mark with his substitutes.
Okay.
Now, that's true.
Mark Davis, Mark Belling, Mark Snyder.
I don't know who I am.
I often check into airport.
I often board flights as Mark Davis and Mark Belling, and it doesn't seem to make.
I'll fly eastbound as Mark Davis and westbound as Mark Belling.
And it seems to work.
Generally, they don't catch it.
Okay, Bill, what point about that did you want to make?
Well, you know, I'm one of your Janet Incompetano's terror watch list victims.
You know, basically, I might as well be on the terror watch list because I'm a conservative and I'm a patriot and I served in Iraq.
Right, right.
But if you think this stuff is insane with taking everything away from people on the planes, you've got soldiers all geared up and ready to go, going into a combat zone, wearing their body armor and everything, getting ready to go going into the combat zone.
They've got their rifle on them, and they take away their pocket knives.
Right, right.
I know, I know.
I mean, these things, and you're right.
And you know, I had an email from a pilot yesterday who said it's so crazy when you go through the airport, they make the pilot take off his shoes because he might be the one with the bomb.
If the pilot is the one with the bomb, the problem is not going to be his shoes.
It's when he's at the wheel of the plane and he decides to fly it into the Empire State Bridge.
Right, he doesn't need a bomb.
He's flying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
And, you know, even Peter King, who talks a lot of sense on this, Peter King said, I saw, he goes, oh, well, you know, I saw Ted Kennedy being pulled over for secondary screening.
Now, as much as I would have enjoyed seeing the late Senator Kennedy subjected to secondary screening and full cavity search and all the rest of it, it's a complete waste of time to be spending taxpayer dollars patting down Ted Kennedy, even if you're the kind of guy who enjoys doing that sort of thing.
It's a complete waste of time.
This idea that, oh, well, if we're patting down Ted Kennedy and Al Gore, that shows how the system's working.
That, as you say, doesn't make any sense and a completely crazy way to do things.
Thanks for your call, Bill.
We have got a run.
But as we send a bill, don't forget Mark Davis is going to be here on Wednesday and then Walter Williams on Thursday.
More straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB Network.
It has been an honor to be with you for this Christmas bank holiday Monday, as they know it in the rest of the world.
Just couldn't, it's like a dream come true.
I'm living the American dream, a penniless immigrant with the copies of the Limbaugh letter stitched into my underwear.
I smuggle myself onto the plane and then six minutes into the show, I try to light them, and instead of exploding, it all goes off like a damn squid.
But I'll try to do better tomorrow.
By the way, I got an interesting email from someone who said, which is absolutely true, that if we were to propose what we're doing to airline passengers now to detainees at Gitbo, people would be talking about cruel and unusual punishment.
You've got to sit still with your hands on your knees for your ass.
Sit still for the full three hours coming up tomorrow with your hands on your knees.
It will be worth it, I guarantee.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
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