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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, don't worry, don't worry.
	You're 24 hours away from the return of America's Anchorman.
	He'll be back behind the golden EIB microphone tomorrow, and until then, this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in and happy to be here.
	My father reported me to the CIA as a dangerous extremist in 1977, and they fast tracked my file to Homeland Security, who put me on the standby list for the no-fly list.
	So here I am.
	I'm still getting uh emails about Russia's health.
	So for the umpteenth time, look, he's uh he's fine, he's at a hospital, he's been given the all clear, uh everything is uh uh ship shape and bristle fashion.
	I don't think I don't think that expression exists in the United States, but look it up, you know everything's good.
	Uh you can see the video of his press conference at rushlinbaugh.com, and he's radiating good health.
	Uh he's eager to get back on air.
	He was um supposed to return to the airwaves, I think, on on Thursday, but he's so panting to get back to doing what he does that he's he's coming back tomorrow Wednesday.
	So he will be displacing the pre-booked guest host.
	That's how eager he is.
	Rush is so eager to get back to the show that he'll be guest hosting for the guest host tomorrow.
	And he's not taking a day off until uh 2047 when the last liberal in America throws in the towel.
	We've been getting more news, uh more dots.
	I love these cliches, connecting the dots.
	The pandy bomber has as uh he's basically the polka dotted pandybomber.
	He's got dots all over those panties.
	Uh but nobody could connect them.
	But nobody could connect them.
	So instead, the the new thing now is they're gonna fast track.
	The TSA is going to fast track the introduction of these full body scanners.
	You know, these uh boy, you can imagine the how they were whooping it up, whatever whatever company made the full body scanners at the the New Year Party.
	They're fast tracking them into service at US airports now.
	Uh don't worry, it photographs you naked, but it makes your face all blur blurry, and also uh all your naughty bits all blurry, so you don't have to worry about the TSA uploading your distinguishing characteristics to the internet or or anything uh like that.
	Your face is your face is all blurry like on those TV shows where they interview someone who's entered the witness protection program.
	Uh, you know, your face is blurry, but your body is naked, as if the witness protection program has relocated you to a nude beach somewhere.
	Uh I don't uh I don't understand this.
	Um if it blurs your private parts, how does that help with the panty bomber who had his explosives in his crotch?
	Um they still haven't found, by the way, this guy who bust into the secure area at Newark on Sunday.
	Uh and I don't know why that is.
	They still it's now what is it, two days, and they still have no idea who this guy is.
	Yeah, he left.
	He went into the secure area and then he left uh twenty minutes later.
	They've no idea where he is, who he is.
	Uh I don't know whether that's the full body scatter, whether they're looking for a guy with a blurry face and they can't get a match on it.
	They pull ten guys with blurry faces into a police lineup, but none of them match the blurry face guy that they're looking for.
	But he's uh he's uh I don't know, but i if you're wandering around the greater Newark area and you see uh a guy of about five foot ten with a pixelated face, be sure to contact the uh TSA immediately.
	Uh I see they now call, by the way, I didn't know this, they now call the secure area the sterile area.
	And I don't know whether that's a side effect to the full body scatter or not, but uh but if you're o if your private parts start feeling a bit blurry, you you'll know who to blame.
	Uh but anyway, the new security measures have already gone into effect.
	Joan Rivers was prevented from boarding a continental flight to Newark.
	I know I feel safer already.
	Uh this uh this happened uh because her passport reads Quote Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, unquote.
	Uh Rosenberg was her late husband's last name.
	So because of this, because her passport says Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, the Continental Gate Agent banned her from uh boarding the plane because AKA Acker is apparently a uh common uh Muslim surname.
	Uh so you know what it is, ala Alahu Akaba.
	So having seen uh Joan Rosenberg, aka Joan Rivers, and not wanting her to suddenly stand up in the middle of the flight and shout Joan Rivers, Alahu Akaba, Joan Rivers, uh, they banned her from getting getting on the flight.
	Uh Joan so Joan Rivers, we're safer already.
	Joan Rivers, say what you like about Continental, but you're not going to be sitting next to Joan Rivers uh on the flight.
	By the way, I'd be i I'd be impressed if the if the full body scatter uh manages to make Joe's uh face blurry when she goes through it.
	That would be quite an accomplishment these days.
	Um Joan Rivers, so Joan Rivers isn't boarding uh is on boarding the plane.
	Uh John John Kerry, the Iranians are getting serious.
	They banned uh they banned they refused to issue a John uh visa to John Kerry.
	Uh so they're cracking down on uh on airline uh on airline security too.
	Uh the Secret Service has confirmed now there was a third gate crasher at the White House state dinner.
	And this is uh I was saying to H.R. just before the show, I don't want to give the plot away, but I think it's like that Agatha Christie uh murder on the Orient Express where it turns out they all did it.
	I bet you by the time the Secret Service is really on top of this story, it'll turn out there wasn't a single person at that state dinner who was in.
	They were all gate crashers.
	Uh just just you wait and see.
	But Sally Quinn, the Doyen of the Washington social scene, has written in the Washington Post that this time Obama has crossed a line.
	You know, because Sally Quinn goes to all the A-list parties, and she doesn't want to be mixing with these zealist gate crashers when she go when she goes to a party, she doesn't want to find herself sitting next to some you know, next to some no-name loser just off the plane from Yemen who just happens to have wandered into the White House.
	Uh so she's furious, furious with Obama.
	The whole social scene has gone to hell in Washington.
	Everywhere you go now, there's just these like party crashers who are getting in everywhere, getting into all the A-list parties.
	It was enough of a shock, she writes, that Tariq and Mik how do you pronounce her name?
	Mikhail Michaela?
	Michaela Salahi had crashed, but a third a third?
	The President could have been assassinated.
	And had that happened, the office of the White House Social Secretary would have been as culpable as the Secret Service.
	Yeah, why do we have an office of the White House Social Secretary?
	I think we need to reform that into a uh into a Department of Social Affairs with an unlimited budget, uh and with perhaps a uh a socializing czar.
	I think a socializing czar uh who wouldn't require Senate confirmation and could really get on top uh of all these breaches of uh of White House parties.
	But then Sally Quinn goes on about this.
	She's calling for people to be fired.
	You can blow up American airliners.
	That's fine.
	Don't worry about that.
	You can go on TV as the depart as the Secretary of Homeland Security and say the system work.
	That's fine.
	Sally Quinn's okay with that.
	But see her next to some zealist loser uh at a White House uh at a White House social event, and she and she wants heads to roll.
	So she's uh she's demanding firings about this.
	In fairness to Sally Quinn, she does actually mention the Panty Bomber uh uh about twelve paragraphs into the story.
	You know, so she's got her priorities right.
	It's it's it's okay for people in coach to be blown up, but when you're the doyen of the White House social scene, uh then uh then somebody uh crashing your party uh is is uh is far worse.
	So we'll look into I mean th that is the reality of this situation, though.
	I I remember uh covering the uh impeachment trial in Washington.
	I've never seen anything.
	I I use I was used to higher levels of security, and I remember going to the Senate uh for the first day of the uh of the impeachment trial there, and I get to the Senate and I ask the guy at the front door uh uh where I go to get credentials for the impeachment trial.
	And he goes, Oh, you see that yellow police tape saying do not cross?
	And I go, Yeah.
	He goes, just step over that and go round the side of the building and go into the I've never seen anywhere with any legislature with as lax security, by the way, as the U.S. Capitol in those days.
	And I get there, I go in through the side door, and the police guy says, uh, hey, wait a minute, didn't you say the police line see the tape saying police line do not cross?
	And I say, Yeah, but your colleague told me I had to come around here to get credentials to cover the impeachment trial.
	He goes, Oh, I don't know anything about that.
	He turns to his pal, he goes, Do you know anything about that?
	Uh and he goes, uh the other guy goes, No, I think you take the elevator down to sub basement level five, and you walk along the corridor and you come to room 327 and you d do the and so I do what they say, and I go down to sub basement level five and I go to room three hundred and twenty-seven and I can't find it, and I'm wandering around the building.
	And then I at that point I think to myself, well, why do I need credentials to get into the building?
	I'm in the building.
	I've got the run of it, I'm doing what I like.
	And like five minutes later, I was standing in the men's room next to Strom Thurmond, and at that point, and uh and and eventually I ran into the Senate press secretary who goes, Well, this is all highly irregular, you haven't come and got your badge or whatever.
	I go, Well, nobody's nobody's asked me for a badge, and one in the men's room with Strom Thurmond uh and she goes, Well, it's not going to be like this tomorrow because it's the State of the Union, so there'll be a whole security lockdown here, because the President of the United States will be here.
	Uh I walked into the United States Senate exactly the same way I did with uh w without the uh without the the the credentials when the uh President of the United States was there.
	But anyway, this third gate crasher in the White House, my bet is that there won't be a single person there who was really invited.
	They'll all be they'll all they'll all turn out uh to be gate crashers.
	Umaureen Dowd, I don't often agree with Maureen Dowd.
	But uh good heavens uh this does uh sum up Homeland Security, quote, if we can't catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria,
	a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn't check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al-Qaeda Sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counter-terrorism watch list, who can we catch?
	Unquote.
	That's Maureen Dowd, hammering uh homeland security.
	And that's that's the point.
	This guy isn't one of the when they say there was no smoking gun, uh this this uh buffoon Brennan, who's the counter-terrorism guy who was on TV and said there was no smoking gun.
	If you can't catch this guy, what are we paying all this money for?
	What are we paying all this money for all this security theater for?
	Uh the the British have now very unusually revealed that MI5 explicitly passed this guy's name along to uh the United States, uh so that in fact uh whether or not there was a smoking gun, and that's not a good expression because the smoking gun uh is only smoking because the gun's gone off.
	Uh if you can't stop this guy boarding the plane, who can you stop?
	Uh so we'll talk about that in the hours ahead and lots more too.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Inforush.
	Don't forget, rush back tomorrow.
	Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
	Don't forget Rush Returns tomorrow, uh right here at the golden EIB microphone.
	Uh the the problem uh with the United States government over the last ten days, it is is it has spent those ten days making itself a laughing stock to the planet.
	Uh and all of President Obama's cool doesn't translate to the world that way when you've got guys like uh John Brennan, the counter-terrorism guy, going on Meet the Press, and uh uh essentially responding to a question about uh the downside of putting this guy in the criminal justice system,
	the panty bomber, putting him in the criminal justice system, by saying that uh there are no upsides or downsides to any particular case.
	There is clearly a downside to this particular case.
	Uh John Brennan on Meet the Press, uh not Meet the Press, it was actually on Fox News Sunday, I think, on Fox News Sunday, uh, in effect offered this guy a plea bargain.
	This this panty bomber tried to blow three hundred people out of the sky over an American city.
	And who knows how many people he'd have killed on the ground.
	If you remember the the bomb over Lockerby in Scotland, Lockerby is a tiny town compared to Detroit, uh, but people were still killed on the ground uh when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded uh over Lockerby twenty years ago.
	Uh so uh even in Detroit uh there's a sporting chance that if you blow up a plane over the decrepit dying uh industrial wasteland of Detroit by the time it comes down to Earth you'll manage to hit one of the two or three still inhabited city blocks within uh the greater Detroit metropolitan area so this guy tried to kill hundreds and and possibly uh many uh hundreds more people and John Brennan who's supposed to be the tough guy Mr.
	Counterterrorism guy, Mr. Career CIA guy, uh goes on TV and offers him a plea bargain.
	He's asked uh you know, why why uh isn't it true the guy is lawyered up and he's not talking?
	And he said, well, you know, we'll be confident he's uh talking once he understands the kind of uh deal we might offer him why are we unnecessarily offering plea bargains uh to persons who perpetrate an act of war uh on the United States who attempt who who who are enemy combatants in any reasonable understanding of that phrase because for this president the whole war on terror is
	something that he has consigned to the Bush era.
	There's some unfinished business.
	For him the priority is Guantanamo, which became the great left wing cause so the priority for him is closing Gitmo, which he is supposed to do this month sometime, but you never know that might be just another one of his broken promises.
	But in the meantime what he's doing is he's uh taken us back to the 1990s uh to a a reactive uh criminal law enforcement view of uh the war on terror.
	Now this this guy should never have had a multi-entry visa for the United States in the first place, given anything everything that's known about him.
	But the idea that a guy who is a Nigerian, he goes to Yemen, he boards a flight in the Netherlands, he's not a resident of the United States, he's not a citizen of the United States, he tries to kill hundreds of people and when he gets off the plane they decide to give him all the constitutional rights of a United States citizen.
	This this guy is an was actively trained back in in Yemen.
	He met people back in Yemen he knew other people who are being trained in Yemen he has information to yield.
	And the idea that you'll get any percentage of that information out of him by putting him in the criminal justice system is preposterous.
	So doing it this way makes Americans less safe.
	Doing it this way makes Americans less safe.
	This is a disgrace this is a disgrace the idea that the United States Constitution in effect now extends to anybody on the planet extends to anybody anywhere on the planet.
	There are no enemy combatants there are no enemy combatants uh there are there are there are just potential defendants uh we haven't yet uh assigned a lawyer to that's the that's the Obama view uh of the war on terror as articulated by John Brennan on on the Sunday talk shows.
	Nothing good can come of this can come of this and it makes the United States a laughing stock to the rest of the world.
	In fact what Brennan said in some ways was even worse than than uh than what uh Janet in Compaterno said when she said the uh the system the system worked.
	There's a real problem here because what you're trying to defeat here is the ideology and the ideology has a certain appeal to a uh a lot of young men throughout the Muslim world.
	Uh and the the one advantage you have on that is that they may not know what they're getting in for if they get caught by the United States.
	Thanks to everything that's happened now since the left began waging war on Guantanamo and uh the uh detainees held at Guantanamo, uh everybody now knows, any jihadist now knows that he doesn't have anything to worry about uh when he when he gets captured by the Americans.
	Uh torture is mainly psychological.
	It's not what they're doing to you, it's what you think they're gonna be doing to you.
	And every single jihadist anywhere on the planet now knows that if he gets captured in the United States, he's gonna be O.J., he's gonna be provided with a lawyer, and maybe one of those law firms who do pro bono work for terrorists all over New York, the the the big shot lawyers who haven't yet been given jobs in the Department of Justice.
	Maybe he'll land one of those too, and he'll have his own dream team.
	This is a disgrace, and it makes us less safe.
	Yes, Rush returns tomorrow.
	1-800-282-288-2, uh, talking about the panty bomber and the uh bewildering number of dots uh that the United States government failed to connect.
	There are so many dots, it's like the pixelated face uh on the guy who went through into the secure area at uh at Newark.
	Uh one aspect of this hasn't changed, which is that uh for the President Obama, his main focus in the war as he sees it, is closing Gitmo and returning all these people anyway.
	He doesn't care where they are, as long as they're not in Gitmo.
	So most of them are going to be going uh to places where they're not going to be within the control of the United States or any controlling authority, as Al Gore would have said.
	For example, if you return uh Gidmo inmates to Yemen, even if they put them in prison, and a lot of the time they don't, the guys bust out of the prison.
	Actually, they don't really need to bust out.
	A couple of guys are just kind of walked out of the prison.
	Because uh oddly enough, the Yemeni criminal justice system is not that effective at at holding uh prisoners.
	But at least a dozen former Gitmo inmates have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, and uh another seventy or so are suspected or known to have returned to terrorist activity since their release.
	Who's the commander of the Taliban, for example, in Helmand province?
	That's a guy called Mullah Zakir.
	He used to be at Gitmo, but we released him, and he's now the commander of the Taliban in one of the most uh uh dangerous provinces on that uh uh on that front.
	Um Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi was released from Gitmo.
	Uh he's uh he killed uh six Iraqis in Mosul in 2008.
	The high degree of recidivism, and this isn't, by the way, an anti-Obama thing.
	This was this was the folly of the Bush administration, too.
	The the Bush administration desperately wanted to unload as many of these Gitmo detainees as as it could, and it returned them uh to Yemen and to other countries, and these guys returned to the jihad.
	We were talking last week about this this pathetic joke by which uh Gidmo detainees are returned to Saudi Arabia and signed up for art therapy.
	And uh I mentioned that, you know, the old policy was waterboarding, the new policy was watercoloring.
	And the uh guys uh in the art school back in Saudi Arabia didn't like it.
	Uh you know, they thought it was like a sissy thing to do to be sitting around all day drawing pictures of planes flying into skyscrapers and destroying the great Satan when you could be out there doing the real thing.
	So they absconded and they went back to Yemen, and two of the guys involved in this uh Christmas Day plot are believed to be uh absconders from the Saudi Arabian art therapy program.
	This is this is not something you would want to bet the security of the United States on.
	So we have this twin track.
	We're releasing these people uh to Yemen where they uh go free, or to Saudi Arabian art therapy where they go free, and at the same time we're imposing uh newer and tougher restrictions on Joan Rivers every time she tries to board a plane.
	This is American homeland security in the uh in the eighth year in the whatever it is now, the ninth year of this struggle.
	Let's go to Ken in Detroit, which was targeted by the Pandy Bomber, but don't worry, Ken, uh, because he's gonna copper plea and he'll soon be out wandering uh wandering around the streets of Detroit.
	Good to have you with us, Ken.
	Yeah, good to be uh glad to be here with you.
	Uh yeah, a couple comments I wanted to make.
	First of all, I think that uh President Obama's concern about uh what happened to us on uh Christmas Day is phony.
	Uh first of all, if he was really concerned, I think he might have considered cutting his vacation short uh instead of uh waiting a few days and then uh uh trying to decide what to do about it.
	Uh the other Well, no, no, that that was part of a conscious strategy, though, Ken.
	I mean, don't don't you remember in the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours uh of the in the wake of the Christmas Day bombing, you had all these uh lefty columnist arguing uh that it was this thing was nothing, uh and he wasn't gonna indulge in uh I think this is Mark Ambinder at the Atlantic who said he wasn't going to indulge in chest thumping, which the discredited Bush would have done, but instead he would quote project his calm on the American people.
	And I think so that I think that was a conscious ch choice of Obama.
	He thought he could just cool this out.
	He thought by being cool uh that that would demonstrate that he wasn't just this sort of chest thumping swaggering Texan.
	It was a conscious choice that, Ken.
	Well, when we uh and Detroit are um targets, uh we take it uh very seriously uh out this way.
	And uh there's a couple of comments that I uh would like to share with you.
	First of all, everything that Obama wants to do as far as uh airport security, none of it would have uh prevented this from happening because he was flying in from a foreign country.
	So let's get uh that straight.
	Um the other issue is Yes, but but but wait a minute.
	There is a law there is a very basic rule in operation throughout the world now, and this is different from the old days.
	Before nine eleven, if you you could board a plane, anyone could board a plane, and if the United States didn't want to admit you uh and you didn't have valid papers to enter the United States, you found out when you arrived at Detroit or JFK or LAX or whatever.
	Now it's a requirement that before you board the plane uh you have valid papers uh for entering the United States.
	So i in other words, if the State Department was was doing its job, this guy wouldn't have a valid visa, and they'd know that when he showed up at the counter at Amsterdam or Paris or wherever he was.
	Yes, that part's true.
	What uh what I'm looking at is that a lot of the uh things that they want to do as far as uh airplane security um are things that'll take place within the borders of America.
	Right.
	And what I have a feeling uh is gonna happen is I think that the federal government is going to become overprotective, and I think that uh they are going to be damaging the uh airline industry.
	Oh, I think I think that's uh undoubtedly true, because you b you can't say, well, the flight is forty minutes, but you got to get to the airport three hours beforehand, because then people will figure out, well, no, actually it's quicker to drive.
	It's already getting to the stage where what would have been a six-hour drive, uh, which is the sort of thing you might you you know, you know, might not want to do, but uh it just might be a bit tiring.
	But uh if the alternative is actually for the forty minute flight having hours of uh delay and chaos at the airport, then maybe it it is easier to drive six hours, ten hours, twelve hours, and that does as implications for the for the airline industry.
	But the but the other point, Ken, is it's not gonna make any of us safer.
	Well, Mark, the only thing that the uh government can do as far as uh making us safer, but they refuse to do it, uh profile it.
	We we have got to profile uh the uh the Al-Qaeda terrorists, they're not Catholics, they're not Jews, they're not Buddhists.
	They're Muslim.
	But you know something?
	You know something uh that is really the heart of the issue.
	We all know that.
	We all know that.
	Everybody in the world knows that.
	Everybody knows that there's something that the nine eleven guy and the guys and the shoe bomber and the Heathrow plots and the Pandy Bomber all have in common.
	But the government of the United States that is the principal target of these threats absolutely refuses to talk about it.
	So because of that, 300 million people have to be inconvenienced.
	And not just inconvenienced, but actually endangered.
	Because if they're if they're treating three hundred million people as if they're all equally potentially terrorists.
	And we had all this stuff yesterday, people who've got no HR's four-year-old who winds up on the no fly list and all the other stuff.
	The only way we're going to change that is if 300 million b eventually 300 million people wind up on the no fly list, all 300 million Americans, and the thing collapses of its own weight.
	And in effect, the no-fly list is used as a threat.
	If you object to this stupid, boneheaded, time-wasting bureaucracy at the airports, you don't want to say anything because then you'll wind up on the no-fly list if If you raise your voice to one of these people who's uh making you take your shoes off and all the rest of it, you'll wind up on the no fly list.
	You're not a threat to the country.
	You don't want to blow up an airliner, but they'll put you on the no fly list just because they're a a big punitive vindictive bureaucracy.
	And maybe people should embrace that.
	And maybe we should say we should all volunteer to be on the o no fly list until they uh and until they get smart about this.
	Because right now uh it's the same old thing.
	They're they're they're profiling things uh rather than actually looking for the the people uh the individuals uh who are responsible uh for for what we're facing.
	Mark Stein in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for rush.
	Uh in the Daily Voice, uh black America's daily news source, Earl O'Fari Hutchinson uh bemoans the decision to single out uh citizens from uh fourteen countries of interest uh for for extra uh profiling for extra security and goes, quote, are Muslim only lines at airports next.
	The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional.
	Uh and he goes on to say that this would be a disgraceful thing if you were to have Muslim only lines at airport.
	But you know the fact of the matter is uh that with the exception with the with the uh strictly localized exception of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, uh suicide bombing is a one hundred percent Islamic activity.
	It doesn't mean that all Muslims are suicide bombers, but it means uh suicide bombers are Muslim.
	And we have had now in a we had the nine-eleven guys, uh then we had the shoe bomber, then we had the London the uh after the nine-eleven guys, you couldn't you couldn't take a box cutter on a plane anymore.
	Boxcutters weren't illegal on planes on September the tenth.
	After uh the shoe bomber, then you had to take your shoes off and do the shoe less shuffle.
	After the Heathrow thing, that's when they banned snow globes and they limited liquids and you could only have a certain amount of shampoo uh and all the and uh and all the rest of it.
	And now after this one, they're gonna say you can't have a blanket on your lap, you can't have a paperback uh a paperback book on your lap.
	So all of this is reactive.
	Uh and all of it is reactive to what is in fact a highly specialized phenomenon.
	But the but it is a measure of how bone-crushingly stupid uh th the Western world has become and the United States in particular has become in the wake uh of uh in the age of political correctness, that it is absolutely impossible to discuss the reality of it.
	I mentioned earlier uh that uh that I've I lived in Belfast and and London.
	It was the uh i it was uh a fact of life uh during the IRA's long campaign in uh uh uh i in in the United Kingdom that's certain th that if you happen to have an Irish name uh and you turn up at an airport, you might be subject to longer delays.
	Simply because uh your name happened to be similar to a person of interest uh uh who was who was on the watch list.
	Uh it didn't mean that all Irish people were terrorists, but on the whole, if you were flying from uh Belfast to Glasgow or whatever, you accepted uh that if you if you had a particular surname or whatever, you might come under s under scrutiny.
	We've now ruled that off limits.
	We've we've basically said we cannot tell the truth.
	The United States government has erected a vast security oper apparatus, not to make you more secure, but to obscure the truth and to delude you into thinking because you have to get to the airport ever earlier and go through ever more absurd procedures that you're safe.
	You're not.
	It's the opposite of safe.
	It's the opposite of safe.
	Uh because uh the if the if they're screening three hundred million people, they're not going to be screening uh the one guy that they need uh to screen.
	And that's uh and that goes back to Maureen Dowd's point on the uh on the panty bomber.
	If they can't get this guy, who can they get?
	Who can they get?
	Uh and I think that's I think that's a uh a real question now of where this where this leads.
	We were talking earlier about the problems for the airline industry.
	Foreign airports, heath Heathrow and other airports don't want to go along with these latest TSA procedures.
	It's they regard it as an American problem.
	If the Americans uh uh cannot institute uh security procedures that I identify the relatively small number of people uh who are likely to blow up U.S. airliners, it's not their job to inconvenience all the millions of other people just traveling around the world for business and pleasure.
	We have to we are making ourselves a laughing stock to the world by going down this route.
	Uh and that's uh and and that is something that is very foolish for a global superpower to do.
	You know, people think that this is about Yemen.
	The releasing Yemeni jihadists back to Yemen or to art therapy is about uh in Saudi Arabia, that it's about it's about Yemen or it's about the war on terror.
	It's not, it's about everything.
	It's about the credibility of the global superpower.
	You think they don't look at uh at uh Janet in Competerno in Moscow and in Beijing and in Tehran and laugh their heads off?
	You don't think they look at uh John Brennan going on TV and saying we're gonna offer a guy who attempted to commit an act of war against the United States of America and kill three hundred people?
	We're not just putting him in the criminal justice system, but we're gonna offer him a plea bargain.
	You don't think uh the rest of the world watches this and is roaring its head off at what it says about the state of the global hyperpower at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
	Mark Stein in Farush, 1800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in Farush.
	Uh let's go to Robert in Long Beach uh California.
	Actually they've just got some uh they've just got some uh crisis going on at a California airport, Bakersfield.
	They've shut Bakersfield down because of uh some substance that's turned up on some baggage.
	Uh let's go to uh let's go to Robert in Long Beach.
	Robert, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thank you, Mark.
	I'd just like to uh keep things in perspective, because I know most Americans have about a two-week attention span when they remember um the news cycles, but um the current the previous Bush administration uh he received fifty-two separate warnings from the FAA that there was going to be an attack, and then we still got attacked and not to mention that and the shoe bomber and people aren't making a big deal about the shoe bomber and his military trial.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, but but but l let's let's let's let's not rehash the arguments about the the nine eleven warnings and the August memo and all that.
	The point is nine-11 happened, nine eleven happened, uh and we erected this vast uh boondoggle called the Department of Homeland Security that was supposed to have systems in place.
	Uh and so and and so this isn't just like something coming out of the blue.
	This guy is exactly the guy that this big fifty dollar uh fifty billion dollar department uh with an unlimited uh number of employees dedicated to just this kind of thing was supposed to prevent.
	Well, I agree with you there.
	Yeah, definitely, for sure.
	I'm just saying we're doing better um overall, just not in the first whole administration.
	People have forgotten that the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield was forced to resign because he was so incompetent, you know, and the war.
	Well, I'd I'd like to say we are doing better, you know.
	Well, I d I don't know whether we're doing we're I don't know whether we're doing better there, Robert.
	The point the point is Rums Rumsfeld, whatever you you feel about Rumsfeld, uh Rumsfeld is one of these guys who, if you look at his memos, show a strategic clarity about the nature of the threat uh and ways to deal with it.
	And the scale of the threat.
	And that's actually what's missing here.
	The idea of a str a strategy uh for rolling back the Islamic ideology uh and preventing it from penetrating our borders.
	You cannot build a wall.
	You can't build a wall around the United States.
	You've got to have a strategy for hitting hard and rolling back the ideology, and that's what's missing.

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