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Jan. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, it's great to be with you.
America's anchor man is away.
He'll be back on Wednesday uh direct taking time out from his onerous Miss America pageant judging duties and coming to you live from Las Vegas uh on Wednesday.
In the meantime, your undocumented anchor man, no supporting paperwork coming to you live from Ice Station EIB, New London, New Hampshire, fogbound New London and New Hampshire.
And you know I mentioned an hour ago that uh what got got to me was uh as uh hadn't been to New London for a while, they got this like roundabout on the edge of town.
Now I hate roundabouts.
I fled the old country to to avoid uh roundabouts.
So it's like it's like one uh one of these things where uh people huddle uh come to America and then they see all the horrors of the lands they fled uh being being introduced uh here.
But I got this um uh I was talking uh I was talking about roundabouts, I got this thing from uh uh Will who goes roundabout he says very sniffily, roundabouts are called rotaries in New England.
Learning the dialect of your audience would be to your benefit.
Well, you know, this is very interesting, Will.
When I first came here, they were called rotaries.
Like they've they got a big roundabout um on Route 25 in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and people used to call it a rotary.
And Bob, who owns WNTK, the radio station where we're uh broadcasting from in New London, he said to me when he told us how to get to the station, he goes, uh go past the roundabout, and it's about a hundred yards past the roundabout.
He's saying roundabout, roundabout, roundabout.
And I notice here that you hear the word roundabout far more than you used to.
They sneak it in as r they call it a rotary, so it doesn't sound all sinister and foreign uh and alien.
Uh and then once they've established them, once they've seeded a few of them, like pods in invasion of the body snatches around the state, then they drop the term rotary and start calling them roundabouts.
So I think uh I think the days of calling it something all trying to pass it off as something healthy and American, uh uh like a rotary, a gone.
Uh, and uh and now we're calling them roundabout.
I'm as astonished by the amount of email I've had on uh roundabouts.
Um this uh this this guy says HR suggests said eggplant for if we grew eggplants on every roundabout, uh, you know, we would have a healthy greed economy.
That's that's that's that's the way to do it.
Um the uh the first you're the first person I've heard complain about roundabouts at a national uh level.
They've appeared like an alien invasion.
They're not an alien invasion.
It would be a lot easier if these uh roundabouts were just like uh little uh little little landing parties uh from Planet Zongo, but they're not.
They're part of the European Unionization of America.
It's uh it's they're little European colonies popping up.
They're just like they just seem a few yards in in uh diameter.
Where can be the harm of that?
And they stick some flowers or an eggplant on it.
What could possibly be the harm with that?
They're part of an alien uh they're part of a European uh invasion.
And you notice if you go away, if you're like uh out of the country, you go to the Caribbean for a couple of weeks or whatever, and you come back, you notice the way the roundabout, that roundabout, it seems a little bigger, and the roads feeding into it seem just a little smaller.
Uh re-roundabouts, says somebody from Massachusetts.
Like so many things, they're wonderful in abstract theory due to liberal thinking, but they're lousy in practice when conservative reality hits home.
He goes almost on bar with our rotaries.
This is Bill.
Are our Massachusetts sign that proudly proclaim blind drive on right.
Who knew?
Who do you?
He goes, at first I thought this was a cautionary sign to us, non-blind drivers, reminding us that there would be blind drivers on the right.
So please be careful.
Yes, if you're a non-blind driver in Massachusetts, uh just stick to the left uh hand side of the road.
It'll be it'll be a lot uh it'll be a lot safer.
Blind drive on right.
That's one of my favorites, along with uh slow children crossing.
That's that's always a uh that's always a problem.
Uh and uh and um uh the uh the the other uh complaint, because it's always the big issues that people want, the big philosophical questions that people want to complain about.
Uh and somebody said when I compared Obama with James Bond, uh coolly looking the Bond villain in the eye, that I got the wrong Bond villain, that it it isn't Blofeld, uh, but it's Goldfinger.
Uh And he quotes that uh and he quotes that famous exchange where James Bond in Goldfinger is strapped to the laser and uh Goldfinger has started the laser and it's coming up between his legs uh to leave him more impotent and sterile than Leo thought uh in Port Arthur in the last hour thought us conservatives were.
The laser, the laser is coming up between his legs uh to uh uh to to do some serious damage, and Bond says to Goldfinger, do you expect me to talk?
And Goldfinger says, No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
Uh but on the other hand, with uh with Obama uh saying uh do you expect me to talk?
I think Goldfinger would just say, Oh God, I hope not, and flee the room in terror, and the movie would end uh would end right there.
Uh so we've been talking about Obama, and uh we're gonna talk about the state of the broader economy too uh in uh this next hour, one eight hundred two eight two, two eight eight two.
I did want to say something, by the way, about this uh ridiculous business of Abe Foxman of the what what is it called?
The anti-defamation league.
Uh Abe Foxman attacked Rush last week for his anti Semitism.
I have never heard anything more stupid and more contemptible uh from a uh Jewish organization than doing this stupid assault on one of the best friends in the United States uh of the Jewish people and of the State of Israel.
Abe Foxman uh is a uh uh leftist, and clearly uh Rush is not to his taste politically, but he ought to be able to recognize that on certain issues, uh Rush is the best defender uh that this country uh uh has.
And Abe Foxman is a lot like what my friend Ezra Levant up in Canada calls the official Jews.
Uh he calls them official Jews, they're people who belong to liberal Jew official liberal Jewish organizations, uh, who are never there on any of the key issues and and want to obsess with peripheral, irrelevant issues of no consequence uh for the Jewish people.
And that is exactly what Abe Foxman did.
Uh and it would be funny if we hadn't seen across the Western world the biggest resurgence in anti Semitism uh since the Second World War.
What does Abe Foxman uh have to say about that?
What does Abe Foxman have to say about the demonstration in Fort Lauderdale last year, uh, where uh where people are doing uh where demonstrators are doing oven jokes?
What does uh Abe Foxman have to say uh about the American who was visiting uh the East End of London uh on Holocaust Day last year and touring parts of the old Jewish East End and uh had concrete thrown at them uh and were told if you go any farther you're gonna die and had to be taken to hospital.
Uh what does Abe Foxman have to say when uh a soccer match uh between Sweden and Israel is scheduled for the stadium in Malmo uh and they have to play it uh behind closed doors to an empty, a tennis match, I beg your pardon, tennis.
They have to play it in an empty stadium, because if they open the doors to people in Malmo, Sweden, they'd want to kill the Israeli uh tennis players.
Uh what are they what does Abe Foxman have to say when people are marching through the streets of Calgary, Alberta, shouting death to the Jews?
A timeless slogan, a timeless slogan, admittedly, but not one uh hitherto associated uh with the Rocky Mountains.
Uh we are witnessing across the planet the biggest resurgence in anti-Semitism uh since the Second World War.
And this boob, this pathetic, contemptible, cowardly man thinks it's his job as spokesperson for a major Jewish organization uh to attack Rush.
This this is beyond pathetic.
It is actually self-destructive.
Uh it is it is uh it is going to the soft target because he doesn't have the guts, he doesn't have the guts to actually confront the real sources of anti-Semitism in the world today, uh, which which is an alliance between psychotic Islamists uh and the college left, the polytechnic left, The educated left in uh the United States and in the broader Western world.
Uh and it and it goes along with uh other pathetic spectacles of his, um uh uh uh such as when he uh attacked um uh what was that uh Mel uh not uh Mel Gibson movie from a couple of years ago uh uh when he attacked Mel's movie,
which is no threat to the Jewish people when he attacks evangelical Christians who are the best friends of Israel uh on the planet today, unlike the secular post-Christian uh European uh university educated types, uh evangelical Christians are the best friends of Israel on the planet today, and this idiot Foxman attacks them, uh, and then he goes and attacks Rush too.
You know, one of the most fascinating things I heard uh uh in all the years that the Rush Limbaugh show's been going on was uh listening to Rush, I was on a long uh car journey, driving along, listening to Rush, reminiscing about when he'd visited Israel,
and he'd been up, I think he'd uh correct me if I'm wrong, H.R., but I think he'd been up at Ariel Sharon's house, and Sharon had been actually showing him around, showing him uh the Golan Heights and showing him uh uh overlooking the West Bank and Gaza and all the rest of it.
Yeah, and and Rush made the point that uh uh at some places uh the state of Israel is narrower uh than a uh New Hampshire township.
Rush understands Israel very well, and he understands this the preposterous uh of a uh the entire Muslim world stretching from uh uh Morocco uh i uh at the at the very north uh uh western corner of uh of uh of of Africa to Lahore in Pakistan, uh this entire Muslim world stretching like a block, blames all its problems on a tiny little strip of land narrower than a New Hampshire township.
And Rush was never more persuasive uh and never more moving than it when he was talking about what he understood about Israel and the situation that uh Israelis find themselves in than when he was talking about his visit with Ariel Sharon.
And there I have never heard, I mean, Rush is a big guy, he doesn't need me coming to his aid.
I didn't really say anything when he had his uh little problem in Hawaii, and all these idiot websites were saying, go on, die, burn in hell rush.
He's a big guy, he can take that.
But what is at issue here is the stupidity of Abe Foxman and the failure of the official Jews uh to identify the real threats to Jews in the world today, and instead uh pick on soft targets uh like Evangelical Christians, Mel Gibson's movie, and Rush Limbo.
And in the case of Rush, you're talking about one of the best friends the Jewish people ever had.
Uh Mark Stein Infrarush, lots more straight ahead, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Great to be with you.
You know, the New York Times, there were days where the New York Times is beyond parody.
This is their analysis.
This is their analysis of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts.
Quote, after this is the headline, quote, after Senate race, some say barrier for women in Massachusetts still stands, unquote.
This is this is like the what is it, the famous uh the the famous parody headline uh the uh the the end of the world is nigh women and minorities hardest hit.
This is this the Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts wasn't to do with him being a man, and it wasn't to do with Martha Coakley being a woman, it was to do with the kind of woman uh that she is.
She's a uh she's a liberal woman.
Uh and and she was offering to facilitate uh Obama's annexation of one-sixth of the United States economy with this health care excrescence, and that's why she lost.
But go ahead.
Go ahead.
This kind of analysis is perfect, because if they now want to put it down to the fact that Massachusetts, Massachusetts, by the way, the state where uh gay one of the first states to legalize gay marriage.
I think they had the first lesbian divorce there uh just a few months ago.
So that's that's how pro-woman they are.
They'll let lesbians get divorced in Massachusetts.
Uh but go ahead.
If you want to think it's the sexism of these inbred uh Massachusetts uh knuckle-dragging swamp-dwelling morons, go ahead, do that.
Now, we're looking ahead to President Obama's uh State of the Union on Wednesday, and people want him to focus on, focus on, focus like a laser, as Bill Clinton used to say, focus like a laser on the economy.
Uh Officials say Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will discuss how well the administration is doing with a commitment it has made to help middle class families who have been struggling with the recession.
Did you know this?
I had no idea of this.
There's a task force on middle class families in uh in the White House, apparently.
It's a blue ribbon task force on middle class families.
So if you're middle class, don't worry, uh, you've got no chance of getting on to this.
There's no middle class people on the middle class uh task force.
Uh but there's Obama and there's Joe Biden and there's all these other patrician grandees uh deciding how they can help your situation.
The what the the uh the White House uh the Obama administration in the uh President Obama in the State of the Union will focus on what one house White House official calls, quote, the sandwich generation, unquote.
Uh now when I read this, I thought that was like something to do with Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy in on the floor of a famous encounter on the floor of a Washington uh uh restaurant.
I thought, oh my god, the sandwich generation?
What there's more than two senators going in for this kind of business?
But apparently that's not the the the they're not talking about the Christ odd Ted Kennedy type of sandwich, which involves some reluctantly conscripted uh Washington waitress, uh, but they are instead uh talking about sandwich generation are struggling families squeezed between sending their children to college and caring for elderly parents.
And Mr. Obama hopes to use his speech on Wednesday to demonstrate that he understands the economic pain of the sandwich generation.
How can he understand the economic pain of the sandwich generation when he is proposing to transfer at the root of everything he proposes is the transfer of money from the dynamic sector uh of the American economy to the sclerotic government bureaucratic uh side of the economy?
There would be no problem for the so-called sandwich generation uh if we were allowed to keep more of our money.
And the and the problem here is that uh the Democrats uh finesse this issue because even when they introduce new tax cuts and new regulations and new burdens, they don't do it to the full degree.
Uh so that the deficit increases and the debt burden on our children and grandchildren increases, so it won't matter what fancy college diploma you come out with uh thanks to President Obama in 15 years' time, if you're living in a moribund economic wasteland.
And that is where this level of government spending leads.
Uh they can't make the arithmetic add up in Europe.
To attempt to do it continent-wide for 300 million people is a recipe for disaster on a scale the world has never seen.
In other words, this isn't simply going to be a the kind of decline that Japan has seen in the last 20 years or that Germany has seen in the last 20 years.
This is going to be something even worse.
Now people say, oh, well, you know, uh President Bush, he wasn't exactly a fiscal conservative.
Listen to this.
The fiscal 2010 deficit is protected to predicted to climb to 1.5 trillion dollars, triple what it was two years ago.
In other words, it's tripled in two years.
And normally when something triples, that's not so bad.
If you if you've got something that's five bucks and it's suddenly 15 bucks, uh, that's not such a big deal.
But when it's tripling from half a trillion dollars to one point five trillion dollars, that is a hole you are never gonna get out of.
Uh and that is that is the situation that we are building with this uh with this Obama economy.
Now, I don't believe, I I think there are good faith issues here, because I think when people say, well, why did he waste the last year talking about health care?
I think that was a conscious choice.
Uh that for the Democrats with a 60-seat majority in the Senate, uh health care was the biggest way to an instant left-of-center political culture that would uh permanently transform this landscape.
And we should be very grateful for to Scott Brown for rolling back on that uh and and at least Deferring that for the time being.
But beyond that, it's not the deficit, it's not the deficit, it's the spending.
These programs are wrong, and these programs are unsustainable.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
Your undocumented anchor man sitting in Rush returns Wednesday live from Las Vegas, Nevada.
I'm coming to you live from uh New London, New Hampshire, where the global warming has really kicked in and the snow and ice uh and freezing rain has now turned to just good old plain rain.
Uh so uh I'm sure Russia's really getting that in Vegas.
But if you can hear that loud pit a pattering, that is actually the thrashing of rain that we're getting.
So things are going to be really slick when I try to negotiate that roundabout getting out of here.
Could be skidding all over the place.
Could be a could be a seventeen-car pileup on that uh on that roundabout.
Let's go to Ray in Deerfield, Virginia.
Ray, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Greetings, sir.
How are you today?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm well, thank you.
Like to say thank you to Massachusetts, Rodolph.
Yeah.
Amen.
Evan Ba.
He's just a big liar, cowardly thief, because these two senators we have in Virginia, Mark Warner and Jim Webb.
They knew that this Louisiana purchase this Nebraska kickback.
They still voted for it, shoved it down our throat.
Right.
I just pray that the good people of Indiana will see fit to put a conservative in his place.
So you uh you are thinking that when Evan Bai says, Oh, uh the extreme left wing has completely taken over the Democratic Party.
You'd have preferred it if he'd said that six months ago.
Should have said it a year ago.
Right.
Should have said it several years ago, as a matter of fact.
And and and you're not happy with your own so-called blue dog, uh, Jim Webb.
Oh, he's he's liberal as a comm.
He's he's a liar.
He lied standing on a stack of Bibles, he would lie to you.
He's no good.
He's no good whatsoever.
And do you think Jim would but but Jim Webb uh correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he position himself slightly more cautiously on this healthcare business?
Because he didn't get it the Cornhusker kickback and the Louisiana Purchase and all the rest of it.
I mean, you've got nothing, you haven't got any opt-out for Virginia or whatever, have you on that?
Virginians don't want anything, be left alone.
Yeah.
That's what we want from 'em.
Federal government.
And Jim Webb, only reason he's in there is because of acorn voter fraud.
All right.
Well, he's had one good senator since I was eighteen.
I'm 54 years old now, and that was uh um George Allen.
Oh, yeah.
John Warner.
John Warner was a socialist all the way.
That's right.
John John John Warner was one of those reach across the aisle types.
Uh I I used to love John Warner because he was all he would always be looking to even if the other side of the aisle was completely empty, he would be looking for someone to reach across the aisle too.
It was just it was just reflexive with him.
Uh but it you're right, you make a good point.
Evan Bay uh suddenly saying on Tuesday, last Tuesday, what happened last Tuesday?
Let me see.
Well uh oh, yes, there was an election in Massachusetts, and that's the day he picks to tell the Los Angeles Times that the uh the Democratic Party has been taken over by the extreme left wing.
All this advice that's been given to Obama on the economy now.
Uh Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times.
Do you know Thomas Friedman?
He's the one who was uh he every couple of weeks now he does a piece regretting that we don't have the same system of government as China.
Because the thing about China is that when it decides to uh be environmentally innovative, so for example, like banning plastic shopping bags, it can just do it boom, like that, and one billion people uh suddenly no longer have plastic shopping bags.
And why can't our system of government be more like China's?
Uh well, uh there's a reason for that, and that's because uh we're not a communist dictatorship.
But uh but Thomas Friedman, when he writes about this, uh he each week he comes a little bit sneaking out of the closet a little bit more and saying, you know, wouldn't be po what we're pining for is the smack of firm government, uh like like the Chinese Politburo know how to deliver.
But anyway, today he was saying he was trying to give some advice uh to Ob to the Obama campaign.
And he said the the terrible thing is that he's turned off the young people.
W Obama needs to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again.
Obama should launch his own moonshot.
Uh we need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009, the year of innovation, the year of making our pie bigger, the year of start-up America.
What Thomas Friedman doesn't understand is that governments don't do this.
Governments don't create jobs, governments don't create innovation.
They distort the job market and they distort the innovation market.
You see it, for example, with the the uh mandatory uh uh diversion uh of uh uh of of corn into making fuel for ethanol, mandated by the United States Congress and the European Union, and has caused uh massive uh food shortages all over the world.
Third world people are dying uh because people who were once growing corn to eat are now growing corn to stick into your gas tank.
Uh you make the food supply part of the energy market, and amazingly, you disfigure both markets.
That's where Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times raving about the smack of firm government from the Chinese Politburo doesn't understand it.
But what I I like about this is he ends the column by talking about something called the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, which is some schools type program uh that matches teachers with volunteer scientists and engineers in their areas for for kind of mentoring.
And he talks about the these new jobs, new business plans, and listen to what this woman, Amy Rosen, the chief executive of this network for teaching entrepreneurship, says were the three finalists in this year's competition that Tom Friedman raves about.
The three finalists were, quote, an immigrant son who took a class from HR block and invented a company to do tax returns for high school students, a young woman who taught herself how to sew and design custom made dresses, and the winner was an African American boy who manufactured socially meaningful t-shirts, unquote.
Now this is the solution to the economic woes of the United States.
This is the kind of innovation that Thomas Friedman wants to see more of in Obama's America.
Let's just consider the first of those three marvelous innovative jobs.
An immigrant son who took a class from HR block and invented a company to do tax returns for high school students.
Why do high school students need to do tax returns?
That's your problem right there.
Inventing inventing a software program that makes it uh easier for high school students to do tax returns is only going to ensure that more high school students have to do tax returns.
High school students who have to do tax returns is what's wrong.
That's the problem.
The problem isn't to go to HR block and and create some uh Timothy Geithner type uh uh software that will make it easy for your poor ninth tenth grader uh to do his tax return.
The ninth tenth grader shouldn't be doing a tax return in the first place.
And and what you should do, uh what you should do is free him up uh so that he doesn't have to do the tax return.
Let's go to this last one.
The winner was an African American boy who manufactured socially meaningful t-shirts.
What do you think socially meaningful means in that context?
Uh socially meaningful t-shirts.
Does it sound a bit hopy changey to you?
In other words, the American economy, and I don't believe that works, by the way, now.
I saw uh uh pulled out of a parking lot uh on my way down here today, and I saw the first hope and change bumper sticker I had seen in months.
Because people are pulling them off.
People are rightly embarrassed about them.
This guy's been such a disaster this last year.
You know, it was different with the Kerry Edwards ones.
Uh the Kerry Yeah, if you if you've got like a 2004 Subaru, um which the Kerry Edwards uh bumper sticker came fitted as standard, uh that is still people are still driving around with those now.
People have no problem with that.
And you know why?
Because liberal government is always better in theory than it is in practice.
And that's why when you drive around uh a liberal backwater like Vermont, you will still see all the Kerry Edwards stickers on the 2004 Subaros, but you will just see a dull bit of exposed bumper uh where the uh Obama hope he changey bumper sticker used to be.
So now we're saying Thomas Friedman is saying, oh, look, we've got this great program here by which an African American boy can be taught how to manufacture socially meaningful t shirts.
Good luck betting the United States economy on that.
Good luck betting the United States economy uh on a boy uh who goes to HR block and invents a company to do tax returns for high school students.
I don't think you should have to pay I I I would I would be in favor of not only no tax returns for high school students, uh, but no tax returns and uh uh uh uh uh for as as many people as possible.
But the idea we're actually taxing people, what's it gonna be next?
Tax returns for middle school students, tax returns for grade school students?
This is what's wrong, folks.
This isn't gonna save anything.
Mark Stein, uh InfoRush.
We will be back with lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infrarush.
Let's go to Ron in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Ron, thanks for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello, Mark.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Well, I want to thank you for taking my call.
Hey, listen, I was telling your uh screener, uh Ben Nelson about a week or so ago, got or last week rather got booed out of an o uh Omaha restaurant.
Really?
Yeah, and that just don't happen out here.
You know, people out here are hard working folks, they uh they tend to be, you know, just that way, you know.
They uh I think they were terribly offended by this thing that he pulled up there with this Nebraska.
So so what what restaurant was he in?
What kind of I really don't know.
I really don't know.
I couldn't remember I can't remember the name of it.
Was it like uh was it like a pizza place or uh well it was a nice restaurant.
I mean, it wasn't uh it wasn't a fast food joint.
He went in there apparently with his wife, according to the report, and people in there saw him and all started yelling, get him out, next league, and he turned around and left.
So he goes in for his sort of fine dining experience, and he finds that all these people uh they're uh what were we talking about, HR earlier?
Egg eggplant, they're all they're all sitting there having the eggplant hors d'oeuvre, and they see him, and his mind is thinking, holy cow, they're gonna start slinging these eggplants at him uh soon.
We better hustle him out of here.
Apparently so.
He was not well received.
And you know, there was I want to bring up one other thing.
Uh in uh you know, I've been listening to Rush for years, and and last week I could I tried to call in and correct him at the time and call him on it, but I couldn't get through.
But he referred to liberals as cockroaches.
And I find that terribly offensive to cockroaches all over the world.
I really don't see what they've done.
I think he was just referring to their nuclear instructibility that they both come crawling out of the uh of the wreckage.
Uh so uh so I don't know whether we apologize to any m fine upstanding members of the cockroach American community who were offended uh by that uh by that comparison.
Uh thank you, Ron.
That is you know, but that is an excellent point.
That these are not normal circumstances.
Uh when people who are going into a restaurant for a nice uh meal with their loved one with their if if you're uh dialing dining with your wife or uh with your mistress, or if you happen to be certain former Democratic presidential candidates, uh then uh and you suddenly see this guy across the the other side of the room, uh you may see a stranger across a crowded room and you're hurling your eggplant at him because you're mad at the way he sold out your liberty in exchange for some government boondoggle.
That's the same thing that happened in Massachusetts.
Let's go to Shelley in New York City.
Shelley, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, oh, I'm a big fan of yours, Mark.
Well, I'm I'm uh I'm a big fan of yours too, uh, Shelley.
You've got a fan.
Yeah, that's a fantastic that's another.
Well, let's put Shelley, let's put Shelley up with Terry in the top five uh names.
That is uh that's uh that's uh that's a great name too.
Shelley, uh, what's on your mind?
Oh, okay, yes.
Uh I was listening to Rush on Friday when he heard him say that Abe Foxman had called him an anti-Semite, and I was so upset.
I had to run to my synagogue on Saturday to discuss this with my rabbi.
Um, and uh just to say my I didn't I just I told my rabbi that Abe Foxman accused Rush of this.
My rabbi didn't even ask what did Rush say.
He his reaction was what?
Rush Limbaugh is one of the greatest friends to Israel.
Right.
Right.
And then he went on to say Foxman you know, is kind of an idomaniac and um not really representing the best interests of the Jewish community.
No, and it's not difficult at the moment, because there's plenty of real anti-Semitism uh out there in the world today.
Absolutely disgusting.
Do you know synagogues, Jewish social events in the United Kingdom, in Belgium, in Scandinavia, in France, in Germany, have to take place under armed guard.
They had, I believe this was in uh either either one of the Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Norway, or Denmark.
Can't remember which one.
They had a Molotov cocktail thrown through a synagogue.
These are physically dangerous times for Jews in almost every other part of the Western world.
And this disgusting craven little twerp thinks uh thinks that the font of anti-Semitism is Rush Limbaugh.
This guy's a buffoon.
The ADL should be ashamed of themselves, should be embarrassed at having this guy speaking for him, and should say to him, Look, whatever you did in the past, it's uh it's gone now, and we'd just as soon appreciate it if you took early retirement.
Uh these are these are terrible times.
Uh we are witnessing uh the the expansion of a horrible cancer uh at the heart of uh particularly intellectual life in the Western world in which uh in which anti-Semitism is becoming not just routine uh but acceptable and approved.
Thank you very much for your call, uh Shelley, and I am with you and your rabbi on that.
Mark Stein Inforush, more coming up on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in a rush groove.
Let's go to Derek in Fort Myers, Florida.
Derek, in the dying embers of the show, what's your point?
Hi, Mark.
I wanted to mention about uh this anti-Semitism directed at Rush, which is totally false.
If this guy, Foxman, was doing his job, he would look at the Obama administration, which has become a laughing stock, a stock in Europe and throughout the world.
Uh our allies have have no hope in us, and in fact, Israel has turned to Germany for some military ally.
They've had a joint cabinet meeting last week.
Yeah.
This administration doesn't have the backbone to stand up for its allies, for its loyal allies.
Uh they even restrained um retaliating against Iraq when they were getting scud shot at them.
And uh this guy Foxman has nothing left but hominim attacks against Rush.
No, and as you point as as you point out, Dave, thanks thanks for your call.
Uh, uh Netanyahu has figured out that uh Barack Obama is the leader of the post-American world.
The post-American world is where a lot of America's friends figure they're now living.
And if you're in Israel, that means you've got to look elsewhere.
If you're in Poland and you've been stiffed on missile defense, you've got to look elsewhere.
If you're in India, you gotta look elsewhere.
And Israel is on the front line of uh finding out uh what this post-American world uh that uh Barack Obama is ushering in is gonna be like.
Thank you, uh thank you very much for your call, Derek.
Uh rather glum note uh on which to uh on which to end the show today.
This has been Mark Stein uh sitting in for Rush.
Rush is busy with the uh is busy with the Miss America pageant, and and he's gonna be coming back uh on Wednesday live from Las Vegas.
This has been Mark Stein.
This has been my first uh attempt to come to you live from New Hampshire and I'll be doing it again tomorrow.
But that's it for now.
I gotta go.
Uh U.S. Immigration Enforcement is uh at the door, but I'm confident that I can uh shake him off uh at the roundabout.
So uh we'll see you tomorrow for three hours of excellence in broadcasting live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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