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Dec. 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Many thanks once again.
Hope everything's going well for you here in the holidays.
I hope Christmas was fantastic for you.
It sure was for us here in Texas.
And across this great land where we had an opportunity to sort of huddle up with friends and family and get into that blissful reverie of the holiday season.
Until a guy tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, that'll shake you out of your uh that'll shake you out of your holiday routine pretty quickly.
It did me, and I find myself paying a little more attention to the news than I usually do on vacation, and now in the aftermath, we're all paying attention to the various storylines that stem from the uh from the Nigerian hijackers hijacker, excuse me, Nigerian would-be plane bomber.
And until we get our act together and get on a proper war footing and realize what we're up against here, uh all we can do is pray that the next plane bomber is as unlucky as this one was.
And I want to do better.
And we're spending a lot of time today talking about ways in which to do better, and obviously any attempt to do that is gonna get filtered through everybody's politics.
And um and you will find people, for whatever reason, opposing things uh that will make the system better, and criticizing those who are trying to stop things that would make the system worse.
And with that, we go to the point made by the last caller of the last hour, who uh took some offense.
He's a union guy and a hardworking union guy, I have no doubt about that.
And maybe in his union environment, they actually uh you know find uh weak links and uh fix them or get rid of them.
Great.
That doesn't happen enough in the history of modern unionization.
And in unionization's modern history, there is too much embrace of sloth, too much excuse making for mediocrity.
And it is for that reason that South Carolina Republican Senator Jim Dement says that the attempted attack is, quote, a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not unionize the TSA.
And he wants the the president's uh nominee, Errol Southers, to clarify his stand on unionizing the TSA.
That is a shift that Democrats support, of course.
Uh as for his part, Mr. Southers has a uh an impressive resume.
He is currently the assistant chief of the Los Angeles World Airport's police department office of Homeland Security and Intelligence, the associate director of the of USC's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, a former FBI special agent, uh a former deputy director of Homeland Security for Governor Schwarzenegger.
So the guy's done some things that speak to uh to the job.
But what ultimately matters is does he bring uh a fetish for unionization to the job that would make him a questionable um appointee.
So there is a hold placed on this.
Senator Dement has uh put a hold on the confirmation of Errol Southers until and unless he comes out against unionizing TSA employees.
And the left is, of course, in high dudgeon about this.
Oh, it's obstructionism once again.
Since you and I this is our last opportunity uh for us to speak together here on Russia's show.
Hopefully we'll have plenty in the in in 2010, because boy, ain't that gonna be a rodeo as we work toward November?
What is it, November 2nd?
Well, well, let's engrave that in Sharpie on our heads, man.
November 2nd, 2010.
Believe you me, before we're done today, I want to talk a little bit about election day 2010.
Because those races, as soon as that calendar flips to 2010 here day after tomorrow, man, uh if this shindig is underway for the elections of 2010.
But anyway, the point being that as we have spent 2009, those of us who are conservative, those of us who are Republican being called obstructionists, I want you to embrace that.
Maybe there's a bumper sticker that needs to be uh put out here.
Proud obstructionist.
And here's why.
We never do better.
We never do better than when we stop bad ideas.
Having good ideas is great.
You have to do that.
And by the way, that's 2.0 of the task list here for Republicans in 2010.
Why are our ideas better?
But before we get to the why our ideas are better, we gotta kill the bad ideas.
If a house is on fire, put out the fire before you rebuild the house.
And this house is on fire.
The the arsonists, metaphorically speaking, in this administration, have put a torch to so much that we hold dear.
Freedoms, liberties, consumer choice, a health care system that most people like.
They're in flames.
And those flames need to be doused, and then rebuilding needs to happen.
But here's what I mean by that uh seemingly cryptic sentence.
We never do better than when we stop bad ideas.
Here's why.
I mean, world what was World War II about?
Stopping Hitler, stopping the Third Reich, stopping Imperial Japan.
What's first Gulf War about?
Stopping Saddam.
What is the current war about?
Stopping global terror.
Having good and upbeat ideas and forwarding those good and upbeat ideas is vital and necessary and proper.
But there is often a proper added urgency and an added value to stopping obstructing, if you will, all the bad ideas, all the dangerous ideas.
Because if you fail to do that, all of your good ideas may not amount to a hill of beans.
You can have every good idea in your hip pocket.
But if the bad ideas prevail, it'll all be for naught.
Proud to be an obstructionist.
Proud to stand in the way of bad and dangerous ideas.
Jim Dement has put a hold on Errol Southern's confirmation.
Good.
Because until he comes out against unionizing TSA employees, his confirmation's a bad idea.
So there you go.
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Let's do some calls.
Got some other things to address here on this last Wednesday of the year, next to last entire day of the year.
Can you believe that?
Also before we're done.
I don't want to go totally generic in this regard, but I uh because it's the easiest thing in the world to say, hey, let's take a look back at 2009, or hey, let's take a look back at the decade.
But I really do want to do those things and do it in maybe a a little bit that's different than others have.
I've been looking at everybody else's lists.
I've been looking at all all the lists of the top stories of 09 and the top stories of the decade.
And some of the people making the lists are just on crack.
I don't know what's going on.
And I want to offer up some thoughts of my own and and gather yours as well.
But in the meantime, lots of lots of things in progress.
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Let us head to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
And Robert, you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Welcome, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Happy New Year, Mark, I hope.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I know it's basically a matter of government holding power, but what's the difference?
What's the lawful difference between the government throwing us in jail for refusing to pay for health care protection and the sopranos breaking our kneecats for refusing to pay for their health care protection because if you don't pay up, you're going to the hospital.
Either way you look at it, it's forced health care.
Um yeah.
It is a pr it it becomes a protection racket, if you want to use uh syndicate terminology that I think you had in mind.
And I think we do well, Robert, to to to use that language calmly and civilly to remind people who are kind of on the fence, oh, we need some kind of reform.
At least these people are trying.
Nothing has driven me crazier in 2009 than hearing people who should know better saying, Well, you gotta give the president credit for trying to address this issue.
Oh, really?
No, I don't.
Not if his ideas are antithetical to what America stands for.
And consumer choice and navigating solutions to health care through the free market and through through through a free y through a free and yes, capitalist system, that is the way to do it, not more government control.
And that analogy, while a little colorful for many, uh has some accuracy to it.
And I appreciate it.
Thank you.
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We are in Jacksonville, Florida.
Herbert, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi.
Hi, good afternoon.
Hello.
Very, very quickly.
Uh excellent uh excellent points that you're bringing up.
Uh I've had some experience going out of uh going out of the Amsterdam Airport, it is very secure.
What you can't secure against is if somebody gets on an airplane through the back door, as seems to have been being alleged by someone who overheard a conversation about can you get my friend on the airport uh on the airplane he doesn't have his passport.
Yep.
There were a couple of people, there are a couple of folks who said that they were a couple of people back who who said that they've heard a conversation that he was allowed to get on the plane without a passport.
That stands short of confirmation right now, but boy do you want to keep your eyes peeled on that.
No, exactly.
And that that's that's the point, and that's the reason of my call.
Uh I have gone through that uh uh security arrangement in uh the Hague uh not in The Hague, but in in uh Amsterdam.
On many many occasions.
And uh even with a diplomatic passport, I still got the questioning, I still got separated from my wife who got questioned individually, and I don't I don't fit any uh things but uh but a white man's profile, you know.
But I was still still held to the questioning that everybody goes through.
If someone gets walked in through the back door, which I assume could have happened here very easily because uh Amsterdam and The Hague are full of diplomats, lots of Islamic radicals.
I mean uh the the Dutch have had their problems with them.
And if someone under the guise of a diplomatic passport or some way of entry through the back can actually get someone on a on an airplane, then all of the security measures that you got in place are not gonna they're gonna be bypassed.
Yeah, there was there was uh No Herbert, thanks.
But because here's because yes, I mean for every point you made is solid, and there there are some of the folks in uh in the Netherlands are saying that that the that he might have had a passport, some are saying that he didn't, some are saying that the the line being used was that he was Sudanese and quote, we do this all the time.
And and so that's that's an area in which an enormous amount of attention is gonna have to be paid, because you're right.
Your experience at Amsterdam is exactly what I've heard from a lot of people.
The the the Amsterdam Airport i is not uh uh some Swiss cheese operation that should naturally be uh a magnet for people looking for easy passage to get on a playmake and blow up.
But th an airport security is only as strong as its weakest link.
So where did that weakest link occur?
Herbert, thank you.
I'm Mark Davison for Rush.
More of your calls next on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Jean here on Wednesday, December thirtieth, two thousand nine.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let's get back to some calls, see what's going on around the country here as everybody gears up for what I hope is a very safe and festive New Year's Eve for you and uh what a year it has been.
I'm I'm both exhausted and energized if if if it's possible to be both.
What what a an onslaught this year has been.
What an assault on our sensibilities and our freedoms, and yet, you know, from the Tea Party and Town Hall passions of of uh from spring through summer through now, uh to watch as 2010 dawns and those passions broaden and intensify and take shape from something as nebulous and ethereal as passions and enthusiasm into something as concrete
and countable as ballot box results.
What stands before us here in 2010 is an opportunity to take back what has been stripped away, to regain the upper hand in a fight for the fabric of our country.
And and that sounds very fife and drum and and and and like platitudes, but they're not.
I mean, I'll I'll spend a lot of time.
I have spent a lot of time this past year and will spend a lot of time in 2010, talking about how when the president picks who who runs GM, when the government tells you what kind of light bulbs you can buy, when the government seeks to spend your tax money uh subsidizing uh green technologies that that don't work, uh that erodes what the country's been built on.
And before I get any snarky uh feedback from people who love the planet as I do, I love green technologies that work.
Anything that works, that the marketplace actually supports, I'm all for it.
I I want clean air and clean water and clean land and and all of those things.
Love the planet, but I also love people and I want them to have jobs and productivity.
And one of the things I am very thankful for is 2009 comes to an end is I believe there's been a little reset switch.
And that the Al Gore wing of the panic cult that is so certain about man-made global warming they they lie dashed on the rocks of credibility.
And climate gate did uh a lot to do that thank thank heaven for that and I love the timing just as that dog and pony show in Copenhagen was was taking uh well was was hearing its opening gavel that now it's time for that there's going to be a natural and honest debate between on on the scale between keeping a pristine planet and having people with jobs and human productivity.
There's a balance to be struck and there will be a natural and proper debate about that.
And it needs to be conducted honestly what needs to be shelved and I believe it has been or is on the way to being shelved is the hijacking of that debate by sanctimonious blowhards who have tried to tell us that the planet will die unless we follow Al Gore Kyoto style draconian economy crushing measures.
That is a lie and a fraud and a hoax and let's be good to the planet for its own sake.
Let's let's be good stewards of the planet because we should be good stewards of the planet not because of some phony panic scenario that that is built on junk science.
So that's one of my things I'm grateful for in 09 and look forward to in uh in 2010.
All righty we are in Anderson, Texas Norman, Mark Davis in Farush, nice to have you.
Hello Mark, thanks for having me.
I have uh actually two comments the uh obviously uh we're glad that this terrorist didn't ignite his bomb he only seared his underwear uh the second thing is how this administration let this thing uh stew around for a while they mishandled it they sent this poor lady Janet Napolitano out to say that the system worked and then they now they're on now they're backtracking.
Now they're trying to spin it uh this administration is so thin skinned and Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod uh are frightened to have any blame put on this White House.
If if if if Barack Obama had come out and said, listen, we made mistakes, we're gonna fix them.
If he'd done that the first day as a conservative, I would have said okay, let's do it.
But instead of trying to hide and obfuscate, uh they just make it ten times worse they did it with the foreshood uh murders and they're doing it with this I'll I'll take your uh thoroughly worthy emotion there and and go a step farther.
If this had happened under Bush, if if McCain had won and this had happened, I as I said last hour, I wouldn't be saying anything different.
I'd say the system has holes in it that need to be fixed.
I there are a thousand things that I can kick President Obama in the teeth for and and and and listen the overall failure to adopt a war footing is one of them.
It's kind of funny I I have a greater fault with this administration for its reaction and its language in the aftermath than I do with the fact that it happened so quote unquote on his watch.
I mean all kinds of of bad things happen on all kinds of president's watches and it's not always something you take straight to the top if we'd been more serious in the war on terror, would would this fellow have done this?
I don't know.
There's no magic time tunnel that we can uh uh crawl into and and and and have that uh play out but you're you're completely right if they'd come out and said uh if if they weren't playing such an obvious game of CYA th I'd be more willing to uh to to uh uh take at face value their commitment to make things better.
Absolutely can I make one more comment?
Sure.
And tell me if I'm right.
Doesn't Robert Gibbs look like Radar O'Reilly from MASH Gary Burgoff called and he is not pleased with that.
All right thank you man appreciate it very very much.
No if if if Janet Napolitano had gone on this week on ABC on Sunday and said there's serious problems that we need to address, and this is a wake-up call, and we are committed to addressing whatever gaps we need to fill, whatever uh uh I's we need to uh to dot or T's we need to cross.
I said, good for you, ma'am.
And and you then you cross your fingers and you hope that there's a kind of uh you know a general McCristal style epiphany uh where where pr this thoroughly anti-war president gives him more troops, and you hope that kicks in elsewhere.
You're at that.
It is the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show, the final Wednesday Rush Limbaugh show, and tomorrow's the final Rush Limbaugh show of the year.
It'll be hosted, uh guest hosted by Walter Williams.
I'm Mark Davis filling in today, and let's get back to some more of your calls.
Uh as we do, just uh a little word on timing and a little word on the calendar.
Uh any Democrat stepping forward to criticize South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMant for quote unquote holding up the um uh the the tapping of Errol Southers to be the new TSA uh director, uh the that every day without this guy is is somehow uh a day of uh of great danger to the American people.
Might I offer the timing of when uh the president tapped this gentleman uh to be the successor uh to the current TSA head who's uh dates back to the Bush administration.
President was inaugurated January twentieth, right?
Well, it took him about eight months to get to this guy.
It was the middle of September when President Obama said that he intends to nominate Errol Southers as the uh top TSA guy.
So somehow this is uh once again, a story of fabricated convenient urgency.
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We are in the lovely country of Bend, Oregon.
Scott, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hey Mark, I'm doing great.
Um I wanted to comment that everybody that had comment with or had uh contact with this terrorist that tried to blow up the airline security-wise, screening-wise, should be fired.
I'd like to see that happen in a union situation.
It just wouldn't.
And you know, there is a shining shining grace that that came out of this thing as opposed to all the knee-jerk reactions we're gonna get.
And that is that it didn't interrupt President Obama's vacation.
The latest terrorist attack didn't interrupt.
All I want is consistency.
And I I am willing to be the first person to say that President Obama did not need to hop on Air Force One and get back to the contiguous forty-eight states because of this.
So I'll I'll say that.
But don't you but here's the thing.
But don't you know, Scott, don't you know that if this had happened under President Bush and if he had been uh uh in the far less tropical locales of Crawford, Texas, if he had not hopped an immediate flight back to the White House, there would have been those who said he was unserious in his response.
Absolutely.
And think of how bad Bush's uh golf game suffered while while Obama's is doing great while we're fighting two wars.
I can feel his handicap dropping with his poll numbers.
Scott, thank you very, very much.
Appreciate it.
Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in, one eight hundred-2822 eight eight two, one-eight hundred-two eight two two eight eight two.
Let's head to Durham, North Carolina.
Skip Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine, Mark.
Happy New Year.
Same to you.
Um Mark, I was listening to the uh union pundit a few callers ago talking about unionizing the TSA workers and all of the reasons that you gave for not doing that are certainly appropriate.
But I think one that's even more important is the fact that uh what the unions do best, and that's strike.
And if the union's TSA workers go out on strike, then that literally would cripple the entire country, especially if it were done.
Can you imagine this being done at Thanksgiving or Christmas when so much of the country is trying to travel around?
What kind of power that that gives to union leaders?
Sure.
I mean, as as we learned from the air traffic control's uh story in the of the embryonic days of the Reagan administration, uh of course they did not have uh this is kind of interesting, they did not have the right to strike.
It is possible to give collective bargaining without the right to strike.
But PATCO revealed to us that once you give people collective bargaining and give them something that looks like a union umbrella uh to hide under, they suddenly develop the the odd notion that they have a right to strike even if their contract says they don't.
You are correct in identifying that we shouldn't even take a step toward toward giving anybody the the the remotest thought of doing that, and that's why Senator Dement uh is is right on target.
In fact, Skip, let me thank you and go one state south to Senator Dement's own South Carolina, and in Charleston, Matt, that is you.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush, how are you doing?
I'm great, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
Sure.
I heard you mention uh advocating profiling in the screening process earlier.
Yeah.
Well, I don't disagree with you.
However, the Obama administration would have a really tough time doing that, being as Obama himself has no idea what profiling is.
Uh look back to when the Cambridge police responded to investigate an eyewitness report of a break-in in progress to a resident, they encounter Mr. Gates.
Uh their legal obligation there is to verify who the person is and whether or not they have the legal right to be there.
I don't care if you're green with pink polka dots, the police are going to talk to you.
And Obama said that the problem there is racial profiling.
Uh that's absurd.
Yeah.
I mean, there was well, that was that was on the the growing list of absurdities that came from the president's mouth on that occasion.
Uh uh his early claim, his early and ridiculous claim that the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
Uh that was jumping to a conclusion that had no basis.
You know what I mean?
Profiling.
Go ahead.
Go ahead and finish, here's the thing.
You want to talk about acting stupidly, yelling at the police, screaming at them, calling them names, talking about their mother, calling them racist.
How dare the president say the police were the ones that acted stupidly when they were simply doing their jobs?
The facts won out in that case, and uh I for one am glad.
Matt, thank you.
Thanks for giving us a uh little bit of a look back at one of the big stories of uh of 09.
Um maybe if you want to blend in a little bit of that, we can in uh just a sec.
We're gonna take some more uh calls on the the the narrative with which we've been running here, the the aftermath of of Flight 253.
Uh there's uh the the one remaining thing I want to make sure to cover is uh ABC reported that a couple of the jihadist leaders behind uh who who have listened, Al Qaeda claimed credit for this.
Many times who knows, does ego drive them to claim credit for stuff they weren't that involved in, or were they uh shoulders deep in this thing?
Uh further scrutiny will probably reveal that.
But as soon as the story came out that a couple of the jihadist leaders behind uh the Northwest Airlines bomb plot were formerly Guantanamo prisoners, released in November 2007.
Uh it wasn't I think by sundown that day there were media elites and Obama operatives uh blaming uh President Bush for the Christmas Day plot.
Uh Gary Bowers sent out a kind of a an email blast on that that I'll share with you here in just a bit.
And then it to whatever extent you wish, uh a look back at the year and a look back at the decade, um on New Year's Eve of 2008, it was the waning days of the Bush administration.
We were still in the transition period, and we were all just kind of wondering what the new year would hold.
Uh Twenty days in, we knew that a new president uh would take the oath of office there on the uh steps of the Capitol.
And he did.
And I was there.
And I was filled with the proper amounts of uh the of history.
I mean the the the first president of color, that that was going to be a big deal no matter what, and it was, and I have every citizen's what should be every citizen's proper appreciation of that barrier being kicked over.
I like it when barriers are kicked over.
The first black this, the first woman that, the first Jewish this, the first Hispanic that.
I it there's inherent value to that.
But I hope it's okay if when those barriers are knocked down.
Uh Justice Sotomayor, the first Latina on the Supreme Court.
That's great as far as it goes.
But it's problematic because her ideas are wrong.
The first black president, fantastic.
But forgive me if my enthusiasm is mitigated because his ideas are wrong.
You know, the uh Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, uh Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, tomorrow's host, these are African Americans whose ideas are right.
Obviously, that's through my political glasses.
You have your political glasses.
Maybe they're the same, maybe they're different.
So I will always embrace up to a degree the notion of these barriers being kicked down, and one of the biggest ones ever, you know, the first non-white guy to be uh to be president.
That that's great.
Now I'm gonna get picky.
Next black president, can it be somebody who doesn't try to rip the fabric of the nation apart?
Can it be somebody that doesn't try to turn us into some neo-socialist European model?
Can it be somebody uh who seems to believe in American exceptionalism?
Am I asking too much there?
Because if you believe in those things, I don't care if you're black or Latino or Asian or Eskimo, I don't care if you're a man or a woman, I don't care.
I don't care.
So um I have a feeling that as O9 rolled out, a lot of people who are sort of caught up in the uh the history of all of this, um now realize that that's that only runs so deep.
That achieving the history of a president of a different race is lovely on its on its face, pardon the usage there, but uh only goes so far if that first black president holds ideas that that are just wind up being repulsive to you.
So when we return him to private life in 2012, in no way is it a rejection of the notion of a president of color.
I am ready to accept and welcome and reject or reject, accept and welcome and rejoice uh at the ascent of a president of any race, a president of either sex, uh, who will do the kinds of things that are right for this country.
He'll do the kinds of things that speak to American exceptionalism and and winning the war and being serious about the war and giving us the kind of strong but limited government that the founders envisioned.
So um that's what 2012 is about.
But first, got a little 2010 to talk about, and we'll start to do that next and mingle that in with everything else that you're calling us about.
Here on the Rush Limbaugh show, 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis Inforush, and we'll be right back.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let us head next to Traverse City, Michigan.
Tim, uh Mark Davis Infor Rush.
Happy New Year to you.
How are you?
Hey, happy new year and honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you.
Um this is regarding 2010 uh and further 2012, all the excitement.
Oh, there's a conservative revival.
Hallelujah.
Well, so are we gonna register dead people or are we un gonna undo the redistricting?
Uh how are we gonna overcome Acorn?
Um My concern is that there's no focus pointed uh uh, you know, uh um uh plan to deal with the things that overcame us last time.
So that's my question not that we can't do it, but how in the world are we gonna overcome those things?
It's it's like playing an away game at a place where you know the refs are crooked.
You might have to win by ten in order to win by two.
And that's not me saying give up and and stop trying to uh to to uh pay attention to to electoral fraud.
I have a feeling as 2010 and 2012 approach, there'll be enormous attention paid to such things.
Look at what uh the the the Breitbart folks have done with the acorn uh surreptitious videos.
Look at the attention paid to Acorn.
Look at the attention paid to the various shenanigans of of dead people voting and people being paid to vote and all of this with that kind of a attentiveness.
I believe it throws up uh uh uh a bit of a screen that helps to mitigate, if not eradicate it.
The good news is these folks have been at this for a very, very long time, and Bush still won twice.
You know, so it's not like it makes it impossible, but but yes, let's remain attentive and conscientious about this, but uh, it is like an away game with a crooked ref.
You have to be good enough to win even when the field might be slanted a little bit against you.
Well, let's do it.
Go a team.
Thanks.
Hey, let's do it.
Thank you.
Let's do it.
Go team.
That is precisely the kind of spirit we need as we uh plow forward into uh into 2010.
Uh let us head into WABC Country, the Big 77 out on the mighty Long Island.
Tom, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Uh fine.
Nice to uh take my call.
I appreciate it.
Uh just uh a quick comment from you, and maybe not so quick.
Uh how would this affair gone uh got if the terrorists, even though our president doesn't seem to recognize that word, uh was successful and brought down the plane with three hundred American eye.
Sure.
Well, uh uh if uh that is a thoroughly uh worthy question because you have nearly three hundred people on the plane, and then where does it go down?
If all of this drama happens a little later and this thing plows into downtown Detroit, uh you you have something.
I mean, listen, I don't want to play can you top this with tragedies, but then it starts to take on uh uh uh a 9-11 aura uh that would that would wake people up even more.
So the horrible news would be self-evident.
It'd be a lot more death and a lot more carnage.
What the first thing that would be different is that it would not be forgotten by Valentine's Day, as this almost certainly will be now.
Because everything was okay.
Our coping skills have kicked in, and that this is not uh an indictment of the current administration.
In a way, it's an indictment of our own society and our own nature.
We want everything to be okay so fast, and that's what makes us strong.
It's what makes us resilient, but it also helps us forget.
And so that's the first thing that that occurs to me.
Others others can uh uh can uh re revise and extend those remarks if they wish.
Tom, thank you very much.
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I'm Mark Davis filling in, and more of you next.
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It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth.
The icy confines of Texas.
Man, I have relatives all over, and uh so on Christmas Day, I was telling uh some of my folks that I've got uh an uncle in uh in bowling green, Kentucky, and he was telling me about how it was like 61 or something on Christmas, and I'm talking to him about the icy roads and the falling snow.
Whatever the weather was for your Christmas, I hope it was great and a blessed opportunity for you to get together with friends and and family, and uh and as New Year's approaches, I wish you the same.
Uh a wonderful remainder of the holidays and are all sort of back in work mode on Monday, January 4th, and that is when Rush returns.
It will be Dr. Walter Williams with you tomorrow, and some glorious highlights of a recent uh Limbaugh show's gone by.
That'll be Friday, and then the weekend, and then Monday, everybody's back in action as the calendar year flips.
All righty, let's get some more of your calls.
We are in LeGrand, Oregon.
Judd, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Hello, and happy new year.
How are you?
Thank you very much for taking my call, sir.
Sure.
My question's fairly simple.
Uh I live here in Oregon.
It's uh on the left coast, thoroughly liberal.
Throughout the Bush years, we had a bunch of well-intentioned individuals on the sides of the road wearing black, protesting the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan.
But they seem to be strangely MIA under the current administration.
Uh can you shed some light on that, sir?
I I will, because up to a point they are.
Uh I said on the occasion of President Obama's election that it'll be interesting To see what happens when a man they voted for is suddenly running the war they despise.
You're obviously going to get a lot less grief about that war when Barack Obama inherits it.
However, we have seen now, as we, you know, cruise through very soon his first anniversary in office.
There are a lot of his rabid anti-war base voters who are wondering why he hasn't closed Gitmo yet, wondering why he hasn't shut it down as much.
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