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Dec. 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman filling in.
Mark Stein, great to be with you.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
People people occasionally say to me, Why are all you Rush Limbaugh guest hosts called Mark?
Because there's like Mark Stein, uh Mark Davis, and Mark Belling.
And uh are you really all called Mark, or did you just have to uh adopt the name Mark to get the Rush Limborgh guest host gig?
And in fact, they're all the you you're right, you're on to something.
They're all just shadow identities uh created for us in Al Qaeda by Al Qaeda in Yemen.
I often travel as uh Mark Davis, uh Mark Belling will often travel as Mark Stein.
It's murder on him because he has to keep up the wacky accent all for the full uh for the full three hours.
So that can be really difficult.
But yes, Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow, and then Walter E. Williams, one of the few Rush Limbaugh guest hosts to reject having to have the factory-issued Christian name of Mark will be here.
Walter E. Williams will take you out, New Year's Eve uh treat to close out the year.
We're gonna be talking this hour to uh Connie Hare from uh human events, some of uh the uh human events, if you can call them that, that have occurred in Washington uh this last year, which uh which Connie covers for for human events.
And I think it's fair to say that this year hasn't quite gone as Barack Obama planned.
Uh it's interesting to me that the govern that the public opinion has turned totally against the the uh stimulus package, and we now have a majority of people who think it did more harm than good.
I I looked uh it up at a website called Watchdog New Hampshire when when uh the stimulus money started getting dispersed, and it was fascinating because they reported that according it was annoying me because I don't really like to be aware of the federal govern g government because you don't like to feel your you're on the federal teat.
And it was annoying me that you'd you drive along a hundred miles of scarified pavement, and every couple of miles there'd be one of these signs saying, you know, this uh this stretch of scarified pavement brought to you by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act putting Americans back to work again.
So Watchdog New Hampshire went and found out what actually had the stimulus money done in New Hampshire.
And according to the official website, it had created three point two jobs in the sixth congressional district, zero jobs in the fourth congressional district of New Hampshire, and two jobs in the twenty-seventh congressional district of New Hampshire.
And this was fascinating to those of us who live in New Hampshire, because as far as we knew, there were only two congressional districts in the in the state of New Hampshire.
So how the stimulus money had managed to create three point two jobs in the 6th Congressional District and two jobs in the 27th Congressional District was of great interest to us, because clearly we're wasting our times in the first and second district, um and we had to uh we should have been going to the sixth district and got us a piece of one of those three point two jobs.
But you can't find the sixth congressional district on a map.
It's like uh uh what is it, Peter Pan, never never land.
It's not on any chart.
You must find it in your heart.
That's like the Sixth Congressional District.
The uh the the I never f I drove around New Hampshire on scarified pavement brought to me by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for hundreds of miles, joggling around the scarified pavement, rattling my brains around, and no matter how much scarified pavement you drive over, Mr. Snerdley, you will never get to the 6th Congressional District.
But the big one, if you're up there and you're looking for where where the the the big time gravy is, where the streets are paved with gold, uh the stimulus created two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three point nine jobs in New Hampshire's OO Congressional District.
The famous double zero congressional district.
The the Oath Congressional, the double oath Congressional District, zero zero.
Uh that's my favorite congressional district.
I may run for Congress there, because no, I don't I it's not M Mr. Surely Watson, we if that's like where they keep the intelligence community.
No, no, it's not a secure facility already.
It's not where we keep Joe Biden to prevent him giving TV interviews or anything like that.
Um but uh, you know, so that's uh the stimulus package has created what was what was the number again?
Two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three point nine jobs in New Hampshire's historic double zero congressional district.
And um I'm going I'm going to run.
I think I'm going to run uh for Congress there.
I I would very much doubt whether any of the constituents would complain about me being a foreigner uh because uh there aren't any constituents.
So who the hell cares about them?
Um but I like it.
It's like the double zero congressional district.
I think of it like it's the Emerald City of Oz that just somewhere you'll one day you'll round the bend and it'll loom up from these dreary, depressed towns where the mills have closed and the diners gone out of business, and you'll suddenly see in the distri the distance the glittering spires of the Emerald City of double zero, the the congressional district where everything is stimulated.
Uh all the leading indicators are rising to the stars.
Uh the the streets are paved with stimulus uh green.
Uh there are dancing fountains of swine flu vaccine gushing up into the air, dancing before your eyes.
The the the the busboys at the booming restaurants are filled with rehabilitated Yemeni jihadists from Guantanamo.
Everything works.
It's a dreamland.
The Emerald City of the double O Congressional District.
Yes, well, you don't really need health care because you never get sick, because you've got all that preventive care from Nancy Pelosi, where you wear you don't just wear a condom for you wear a full-body condom 24 hours a day.
So you can't get anything.
It's perfect.
It's a dreamland.
Everything works.
The double-zero congressional district.
And every time Barack Obama comes comes by and disperses more stimulus stimulus green.
So we were because we were talking earlier about the um the wasted stimulus money, which basically I think is all wasted.
Uh government government actually would have been better to scrap the uh scrap the uh the payroll tax for three months or whatever and actually get get real money back into the hands of real people.
Because when you take a bunch of individuals and you look at how they spend real money, uh that's going to be a better indicator of the things you want to stimulate uh than than Barack Obama telling you that he uh he's he's managed to save so many jobs at government motors and instead of making uh the uh Chevy behemoth, they're now going to be making this little Euro type mobile that you have to bend yourself double to get uh to get into.
That's uh it's you it's better to let real people make real economic decisions.
Now, this has been I think a in some ways a terrific year for Conservatives.
Because if you remember a year ago we were told we were finished.
On the morning after the election in November, I made a comment.
I was in a like a bipartisan mood then.
I it didn't seem the time for me, and I didn't particularly care for McCain as a candidate, so I didn't want to say what a great guy he'd been.
He was a disastrous candidate, really.
Uh so I I made some mildly, just mildly, ever so slightly partisan comment, expressing mild disappointment at the performance of the Republican Party.
And I got this email from from some gloating Democrat uh that just read, Oh, are you still here?
And that's the way a lot of us conservatives felt uh between November and January the 20th.
Are we still here?
Uh everybody, as you know, all the the New York Times, the Washington Post, they all ran these endless series, the death of conservatism, a part uh part 104 of an ongoing Pulitzer Prize winning series.
We were told we were over, we were out of tune, we didn't know where the country was going.
And a year on, we're back in business.
Conservatism is back in business.
It's a going concern.
And the best indicator of this, when the economy headed south a year ago, when the economy nosedived a year ago, all over the planet.
It was uh very striking.
There were a lot of demonstrations.
People stormed parliaments uh around the world, from uh in in uh in Europe particularly, from Iceland to Bulgaria.
And if you looked at what those demonstrations were.
They were always the same thing.
There were people banging on the doors of Parliament, saying to the government, Why didn't you do more for me?
Why don't you do more for me now?
Why don't you give me more more government programs, more money?
Why don't you protect me from all this?
This is the only country in the world where huge numbers of people took to the streets to say that they would do just fine if the government got the hell out of their way and got the hell out of their pockets.
It's the only country on the planet.
In Bulgaria, in Iceland, they were demanding government aid, government subsidy, government, government, government.
They want the big government nanny to protect them from the harsh winds of the business cycle.
This is the only country in the world where people say, no, enough of this.
We don't want we don't want government annexing and regulating and taxing and licensing every single aspect of our life.
And that tells you that as bad as things are, and as bad as this first year of the Obama administration has been, that the United States is still different.
It still has enough people whose fundamental view of the relationship between free born men and the state uh is different from that which exists in Europe and other developed nations.
And I find that immensely heartening.
And I noticed that the New York Times and the Washington Post aren't running so many of those uh death of conservatism series as they once were.
And there's a lot of left wing disappointment uh about Obama.
I don't really know why, actually.
I think uh I I'm not sure whether it's a sort of feint, these uh lefties complaining about the absence of a public option in the whole bill uh in in the bill, the whole bill is a public option.
That's the point of it, that's where it leads.
Uh but I I think what is happened really is that Obama uh licensed uh Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and these guys to have a field day, and enough of the American people, not as much as you'd like.
It ought to be seventy, eighty percent, but still enough of the American people and enough of the so-called independents decided, woo, we have to we we didn't want to go this far.
They thought in November of 2008, you could vote for pain free liberalism.
You could get the pleasurable frisson of voting uh for this uh historic election and that there would be no cost to it.
And by letting Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest of it run away with the big government chariot, uh they have alerted these people to the fact that there will be a huge price to pay for it, and enough people are beginning to say, woo, I don't like the sound of that.
Anyway, we'll get into that.
We'll get into that with Connie Hare and lots more, straight ahead on the Russian Emball Show.
Mark Stein in for us as we close out two thousand and nine, looking back at the year and joining me now Connie Hare from uh Human Events.
And uh Connie, great to have you with us on the show.
You've had a terrific year with human events by the standards of uh the somnolent Washington press corps.
You you've broken a lot of stories.
It's been a good year for you.
Yes, it has, Mark.
Thanks.
Um it's it's kind of unique, actually, very unique being a conservative on the Capitol Hill Press Corps.
So uh bless their hearts, the the Republican staffers, you know, are under assault all of the time.
Um, in my view, a lot of the media is not there to get actually get to the truth.
They're actually there to make the Republicans look bad with their questioning.
So I I give them an outlet to, you know, to actually put the truth out sometimes without it being, you know, just constantly through the world view of the altar of Obama.
Well, and and and aside from making Republicans look bad, they're also very protective of Democrats and of this administration.
You were the the first uh to report that the Attorney General, Eric Holder, a man who doesn't particularly perform well uh in congressional questioning, actually admitted that waterboarding is not torture.
Yes, he did, and uh it did not get widely reported by the so-called mainstream media.
The uh attorney general was under a line of questioning by uh two real big lawyers on the House Judiciary Committee, and one of them in particular, Congressman Louis Gohmert from Texas, he asked about the Navy field training, and and they are subjected to waterboarding.
Would their trainers then be torturers, should they be tried for torture.
And the attorney general said no, their intent is not to harm.
It's to train.
So he asked uh Congressman Gomer to ask if the intent then is to get information out of a person about terrorist attacks, would that then not be uh torture?
Why why would that be torture since the intent is not to harm?
And Holder went off on some tangent about they when they did it at the Spanish Inquisition they knew it was not a training exercise.
Yeah, that's right.
He went he went back to the Spanish Inquisition.
That's his precedent.
And what was what was fascinating to me?
He the the form of words, the dead legalistic language.
We were talking about the President's statement yesterday.
Eric Holder is the master of that.
This incoherence, the actor as determined by a trier of fact looking at all the circumstances.
He's talking about U.S. troops being trained to go into war zones and cope with being captured by brutal and statistic enemies.
And he talks about it in this very dead legalistic way.
It all seemed very abstract and theoretical back in May.
And we understand just since Christmas Day the reality of what it means to
decide that you're not man enough to get the truth out of uh two hundred Yemenis uh you've got in your custody so it's a lot easier to release them to art school in Saudi Arabia uh or whatever than actually do what's necessary to protect your own borders uh from the organizations these men belong to so since you uh exposed Attorney General Holder's views on this it has moved from being a theoretical abstract issue to a pressing reality.
Sure, absolutely and you know with every passing day as we watch the clock tick toward the the political decision to close Gitmo, we see you know exactly how dangerous that that is going to be and there are members of Congress standing up trying to fight this,
but when you're in such a m a minority it's really difficult to actually do anything except for keep planting the flag, standing on principle, articulating the values and the principles that have made this the greatest country in the world and you know hope that people will move to the to the truth.
And and you also covered a another uh performance by uh Attorney General Holder uh just a few weeks ago uh w when uh in in in view of the plans to uh try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City.
Now this was the performance where he said that uh basically because if you kill if you kill troops on a battlefield you should be tried in a military court but if you kill civilians in civilian locations then you should be tried in a civilian court.
This makes no sense and uh you got the impression that the guy is so cocky he hadn't really even planned for these questions uh for uh on on that uh when he was giving testimony that day he doesn't actually uh deal in what the reality of the situation looks like on the ground to our troops.
I'm a I'm a former member of the Army Reserve and in practical application if you're gonna start giving Miranda rights to people on the battlefield I suppose we're gonna have to have entire platoons and companies and divisions of lawyers actually to be deployed as a support team for for each combat you know unit so they can go out and and properly mirandize these guys so we can have a chain of evidence.
We're gonna have to shut down the entire firing back and forth and ask them to please let us collect the evidence so we can put it in the sealed evidence bag.
Yeah, we needed Eric Holder on the beaches of Normandy with the yellow police tape to mark it off.
And you know what he's done here?
The reason the rules of war came into being between civilized states two or three hundred years ago is because we knew war was hell, and civilized nations decided to incentivize fighting wars between different groups in uniforms on a designated battlefield.
And the idea was to disincentivize people running around in plain clothes, killing civilians.
In the streets of your city.
Eric Holder in that abysmal performance at the end of November basically infiltrated incentivized killing American civilians that's horrifying exactly he he actually it it pays to just hide behind women and children and lob things at the American you know soldier claim you're beat up claim you didn't get read your rights and you know you'll get a one way ticket to New York City in the in the limelight, and and you'll get to say whatever you want to everyone.
Might I also add Mark that people forget, and and perhaps uh I'm being kind, I think when I say this administration might have forgotten that politics is war by other means.
And the kinds of things that they're trying to perpetrate on the people of this country are the kinds of things throughout history that people have fought wars over.
Yep, you're absolutely right, Connie.
We're gonna have lots more with uh Connie Hare from Human Events uh uh from the Congressional Press Corps in Washington, as she says, one of the out conservatives from the Congressional Press Corps in Washington, uh straight ahead on the Rush Limbo Show.
Mark Stein In for Rush, Mark Davis in tomorrow, and don't forget the great Walter E. Williams will close out the year for us on New Year's Eve, right here on the EIB network.
Yes, America's anchor man is away.
This is your undocumented An Command.
Great to be with you.
Uh, let's go back to Connie Hare from uh Human Events, terrific magazine that's been fighting uh this fight a long time.
You can you can find them on the internet, humanevents.com, but they were around long before Al Gore invite uh invented the internet and before there was much else in the way of any kind of uh conservative commentary out there.
Uh Connie uh w let's let's go back to a story you covered in February, which actually set the pattern for the year ahead.
This was in the first couple of weeks of the new dawn of the postpartisan healers administration.
Uh this was in the discussion on the s the conference discussion, which is when the House and the Senate get together to reconcile differences between their various bills.
And this was a conference on the original stimulus package, and Republicans, you reported that Republicans were shut out of this process entirely.
Sure.
Um at the time, uh it this new Congress, they had just undone Pelosi had just undone all of the protections and new rules that that uh Newt Gingrich had actually put into place in nineteen ninety-four as part of the contract with America.
I mean, they they had even the at the time the hearings uh in the committees behind closed doors.
Nobody was allowed to to view anything of the process.
So they actually um, you know, just d rescinded a lot of these these rules and just ran roughshod over the Republicans because they had such a large majority walking in.
And they this was the first day when they put through that one point three trillion dollar stimulus package, and I use that figure because you have to account for the debt servicing uh which most people don't.
Uh we don't have that money.
Um they went behind closed doors in people's offices and uh hammered out all of the details of the bill.
Uh then they had the dog and pony show, they called a conference for the cameras and then rammed it through Congress.
And that became the pattern, you know, that that's w we we were trying to warn against back then.
So when you Yeah, when we got to this uh this performance that Roland Burris, the Democrat Senator from Illinois gave uh uh on the day before Christmas Eve, when he did his lame o version of twas the night before Christmas and all through the Senate, the Republicans were obstructing our bill and everything in it, which doesn't even rhyme.
But anyway, when Burris was doing this, in fact he was mischaracterizing it because what's ha what happened by the time we got to the health care bill wasn't really Republican obstructionism, but the fact that in both the House and the Senate, they've been shut out of the uh the whole thing entirely.
They're basically these guys have got the numbers, they're gonna ram it through.
The discussion and the debate takes place between different factions of the Democrat Party, and the Republicans have no say in it.
They can't they're not even in the obstructionism business in that sense.
Sure.
And it's not even that part that's so maddening.
The the maddening part is they stand up, uh the Democrats do, and say, Where's your plan?
Where's your bill?
Where's your ideas?
And the Republicans have continually put forth ideas, plans, and entire bills on things like health care.
They put it up an alternative budget.
I'm sure they work months on this alternative budget with Paul Ryan of Wisconsin taking the lead, who's a bright star on the on the horizon, and only to have it dismissed in less than five minutes.
Yeah.
You know, i on the floor.
So they do put up entire alternatives, but they they're not considered and and then the Democrats stand up there and say, Where's your idea?
And that that part's really maddening.
And and and this isn't even th this doesn't even apply merely domestically now, but you uh you did a story just a couple of days ago um uh about how Nancy Pelosi actually got Republicans barred from the big uh global warming circus uh with Al Gore and the rest of the gang over in Copenhagen.
Sure, the last I heard she took a three plane airplane convoy over there.
Now wait a now, just a minute, just right there.
This is the speaker of the House of Representatives, and she's got three planes.
Do you know how many heads of state in the world have three planes at their disposal?
I mean t that that just right there is big government when when you have people who are supposed to be citizen legislators with three plane convoys to fly them around the world.
Especially getting off to tell the little people to to reduce their carbon footprint.
But uh you know it it's manning.
That's true.
There were four Republicans on that on that congressional delegation.
Four.
The rest of the three planes were were Nancy Pelosi's minions and and friends and hanger garner or whatever.
Hairdresser.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Okay.
Yeah.
So she uh gets there, they get there, they spend the first day at the you know, doing all of the dog and pony there.
They hold a press conference.
Not only do they not tell Republicans about it, they round them up to put them on a bus to take them back to the hotel as the press conference is starting.
And they notice, want to participate, and they are barred and ushered out the door.
So so basically they they they put them they put the Republican Party on a tour bus to go and back to the hotel, go to the sites of Copenhagen, look at the little mermaid down by the dock for Hans Christian Anderson, but do anything essentially except participate in any kind of political discussion in Copenhagen.
Exactly.
They they don't want any alternative view because if they're standing there uh, you know, juxtaposed against someone who's actually making sense, it makes them really look ridiculous.
So they they have to shut down the opposition completely, even as far as being able to speak uh to make themselves look like they're you know the only the only voice out there, the only thing that anybody believes in, which is obviously not true.
Now we we're waking up.
We we've got uh little over ten months now until the midterm elections.
How do you think this dynamic is gonna play out in the next year?
Because uh Nancy Pelosi and and Harry Reid have disastrous numbers.
Uh the congressional approval is way down.
Uh uh two-thirds of the American people oppose the health care bill.
Yet they said to hell with that, we're gonna shove it down your throats anyway.
Do you think that's the way they're gonna be uh carrying on all the way through this run-up uh to November's elections?
Well, the health care bill I think is a really big deal.
If it passes, uh I think that it's going to actually be better for Republicans or worse for Democrats, whatever your point of view.
I I obviously I'd rather it not pass.
But uh I think that they're they're uh under the impression that if they don't pass something, it's gonna cost them politically, which actually the opposite is true.
Um there is going to be a bloodbath, uh, politically speaking in uh in November of twenty ten.
It's just a matter at this point of whether or not both majorities are retaken.
Right it's a very angry group uh of people out there who don't like to be ignored, and that's called the American people.
Right.
So you're not talking about a couple of Senate seats here and uh half a dozen house seats there.
You're talking about taking back both houses in November.
Yes.
I have seen and talk I've talked to some pollsters and I have seen some polling data that if the elections were held today, it'd be very close in both both sides.
It's just a matter of what happens between then and now.
And I think it's only gonna further anger the American people if they shove through this health care.
Because Mark, people what people don't realize, and I'm working on a story now, a lot of people don't realize is a lot of the rules have changed, and in things like Medicare, they're rationing health care now.
I have a family member that just went for her annual uh cancer screening for cervical cancer.
She is a cancer survivor and was just told under Medicare that she's not allowed to have an annual Pat smear anymore.
Fine, I'll just pay for it myself.
They will not allow her to pay for it.
Medicare declines more people than private insurers.
Uh you're not allowed to pay for it yourself, Mark.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's you know what that's like?
That's the the same pattern in every country that's adopted this.
It's the same thing in Canada.
They tell you uh the you're not entitled to the procedure, you have to wait three years three years for the procedure, and you're forbidden to pay for it unless you can leave the unless you leave the country and have it done in another country, unless you travel to the United States.
Costa Rica.
Yeah, Costa Rica.
Boy.
The lines even before the the Panty police, the uh the Janet Incompetano Panty Police uh get to us.
The lines for the flight to Costa Rica are gonna be snaked way back once this thing's uh in place.
Cottie, it's been uh been terrific to talk to you and uh I wish you all the best in the year ahead because it's very important.
It's it's it's it's great to have good conservative commentary and good conservative opinion, but it is absolutely critical to have real solid reporting from inside the corridors of power, and you do that, Connie.
So I hope you have another terrific year.
Yeah, good good good luck in the year ahead for tr for 2010.
And and to keep reading Connie's stuff from inside those corridors of power, go to humanevents.com.
You w you won't be disappointed.
Mark Stein, In for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
More to come.
Mark Stein, Infor Rush on the EIB network.
Uh we we spent the first part of the show uh talking about the panty bomber, and then we moved uh in the last few minutes with uh Connie talking about the domestic uh uh environment.
These two things are connected in the way by the way, the the world scene and the domestic scene are explicitly connected.
What does it mean if America decides to go Scandinavian in its assumptions about the size of government?
You know, people think this is like a painless option for the United States.
In fact, the the only reason uh that Western Europe has been able to go down this path.
The only reason that the Netherlands can be the Netherlands and Belgium can be Belgium and Germany can be Germany and Sweden can be Sweden with that level of social spending, is because the United States assumes the costs of the defense of those countries.
So the only reason why Belgium can be Belgium is because America's America.
You can't no country can afford European sized social spending plus uh armed sir forces with the capacity to project themselves across the planet.
So if you have this level of social spending, if you have Scandinavian size social spending at home, you've got to cut it away.
Where do you get it out of?
You get it out of your armed forces.
If you look, say, at British government spending between nineteen fifty and the year two thousand, uh the the figures for uh welfare spending and military spending in nineteen fifty basically inverted themselves across half a century.
In other words, they took all this money out of the Royal Navy and uh the this army that was stationed around the globe, and they transferred it into welfare payments and government health care.
And at some point America will face that choice.
And that is going to be very bad news for Belgium and Sweden and Germany and all those other countries who have lived for half a century under the protection of American military power and the American security guarantee.
But it's gonna be great news for the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and any other troublemaker who knows they'll be able to make hay across the entire planet because America cannot afford Obama-sized big government at home and the traditional expectations of American force projection across the planet.
Let us go to Steve in Middleburg, Virginia.
Steve, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
It's a pleasure and an honor.
Well, no, the on the honor is mine.
Hey, Middleburg, Virginia, that's not where you've got that federally subsidized massage parlor, is it?
I wish.
No, no, wait a minute.
I I think you still have to pay for it.
It's not tax deductible or anything.
Uh yeah, no, obviously, if you're uh Timothy Geithner or Tob Dashell, it probably is tax deductible.
I have turbo tax and I know how to use it.
Yeah, like the turbo tax button.
Did you use a federally subsidized massage parlor in the last year?
I won't I won't get into that any further.
Um what I wanted to say though, you you mentioned earlier John Kerry's uh taking a trip to Iran, is that correct?
That's right.
He he uh apparently they want him to to send him as the uh Iranian nuclear czar who'll go over there at this very historic moment in Iran, and uh while people are demonstrating in the streets and calling for the downfall of the regime, he'll be in effect giving them respectable international cover.
At first I thought that was a bad idea, but considering the the habit that Iran has of arresting foreigners across their borders and trying them as spies, is it possible that there could be a positive outcome for America on the Well, you might be right.
I mean, if John Kerry were to turn up in those tight buttock hugging yellow spandex shorts that he uses to go windsurfing off Nantucket, I think the average Mullah would quite rightly regard it as an abomination and be hanging him upside down in the torture dungeon within an hour and a half.
But if if he's just wearing his regular business suit, I don't know.
I dunno it's a close call there.
Well, either that or he can bore them into giving up their nuclear ambitions.
Either way, it's a win-win for the U.S. I don't I don't think so.
You know, I'm not sympathetic to the Iranian nuclear program.
But I tell you, if I was Ak Medinajad listening to John Kerry droading on for an hour and a half, my my restless finger would be twitching toward that nuclear button the longer.
They'll all be putting shirts on saying I'd rather be waterboarded.
Thank you.
Thank you for your call, Steve.
Hey, let's let's quickly go to Matt in Dadbury, Connecticut.
Matt, thank you for waiting.
You've you've waited a long time.
And it's great uh great to have you from uh from sunny Danbury.
I once caught a train to Danbury.
It's uh fine place.
Right.
Hi, Mark.
Uh getting back to terrorism and the media.
Uh I gave up uh well, I try to avoid watching CNN as much as I can.
But back when the shooting happened at Fort Hood, I couldn't avoid seeing some of their coverage in uh train stations and uh stores around here.
And it was pretty scary because they were talking you know, they were hinting at pre-traumatic stress and talking about mental illness and basically saying don't anybody jump to conclusions about a motive.
I even heard the CNN radio headline lady saying the word automotive yet.
Right.
And at the time I thought, you know, that's funny.
There have been all these plots we've heard of that were detected and broken up, people arrested, even the plot about uh Fort Dix, I think.
And at no time when the Renews was reporting that, they didn't, you know, bother with these decl disclaimers saying don't jump to the conclusions what the motive was.
Now this uh guy on the plane in Detroit is another terrorist plot that went wrong.
And we ha we don't hear anybody or I I haven't checked, but I don't think they're gonna be saying we have no idea what his motive was.
No.
I think it all shows that the people in the newsrooms are are really afraid of American public opinion.
Well, I think and I think they're afraid of telling the telling the truth.
Uh this guy, uh at Fort Hood, Major Hassan, until he came along, uh post-traumatic stress disorder was something that afflicted you if you'd been in combat and uh d and showed itself in sleepless nights and in extreme circumstances uh suicide.
Suddenly, post-traumatic stress syndrome after Major Hassan, you don't have to have been in combat, and it manifests itself by standing on a table gunning down uh fourteen people while shouting Alahu Akbar.
The performance of Newsweek and the rest of the media was a complete disgrace in the week that followed that shooting.
More to come.
President Obama's underwear has just ruled that if you turn up at the airport in the new unisex thong, you'll be put on the no fly list.
Uh Mark Davis is gonna be uh in tomorrow, and Walter E. Williams will close out the year uh with a New Year's Eve special on Thursday.
New Year's Day will have best of rush, and the great man himself will be back on uh Monday for a whole new year of broadcasting in excellence.
I've had a great time here, but the Border Patrol's kicking the door down.
I gotta run.
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