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May 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, yeah, and look at this.
The Feds.
Big roundup up there in New York City, all the way out to Long Island.
Feds arrest two, possibly tied to Times Square Bomb Plot.
Wow.
That uh, yeah, that that lone wolf guy, middle-aged guy in his 40s, white guy, had hated health care.
Sure had a lot of buddies.
I wonder if all these buddies hated health care too.
What are these two guys that have caught uh have uh hate health care as as uh as well?
Probably a cabal of health care haters uh being rounded up at the FBI uh trying to blow up Times Square.
I really hope, folks, that they've all been read their Miranda rights immediately, because you know, if terrorists don't get Miranda rights, then we might not someday.
Greetings and great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800 282-2882.
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Something happened on this program yesterday that's I guess I guess it shouldn't surprise me anymore, but it it does.
The story about the Highland Park High School, girls' basketball team not being allowed to finish up their tournament down there in Arizona.
That story been out there for a couple days.
Or at least it had been out there all day yesterday and the night before, before we got to it.
We didn't get to it till the third hour yesterday.
Now, we're gonna go to the audio sound bites because the principal of the school was on WLS in Chicago this morning with Don Wade and Roma.
Uh and not the print, the mayor.
The mayor of Highland Park is Michael Belski.
And now remember, this story was not, we hadn't discussed this story all day yesterday.
When did this story first break?
Yesterday morning, yesterday morning.
Okay.
It was not the night before, it was it was yesterday morning.
Okay, so yesterday morning, 6 a.m., 78 a.m. morning drive.
Uh we didn't get to it for six hours.
Maybe more.
Six or seven hours.
And yet, when the mayor of Highland Park goes on the big 89 WLS Chicago, Don Wade and Roma, his name is Michael Belski.
Roma said, have you spoken with the assistant superintendent Sue Hebson?
Because she apparently is the one who made the decision.
Am I correct?
Uh school superintendent, the school board make these sorts of decisions.
And you know, one thing I want to just make clear, and I think Rush Limbaugh has kind of released the firestorm of emails on me.
But uh in Illinois, the school board separately elected from the city council, and so this has not been a city uh matter at all.
So apparently uh you people on this program have barraged the mayor of Highland Park, Michael Belski.
Um apparently he was not getting any emails at all until this program yesterday afternoon.
But the point is I didn't mention his name.
It's the first time I've ever heard him is the is when I hear the soundbite today.
We didn't mention the mayor of Highland Park.
We talked about the principal.
We had a guy called yesterday, or a woman called that she called a school, and the school said that, well, you know, we're just afraid of uh of essentially an uprising of Mexicans in a neighborhood here.
And I I told her to call back, say, how do you think they feel at Arizona?
So uh the mayor is getting pummeled here.
Mayor, I didn't I didn't give your email.
I don't even know your email address.
I didn't know Highland Park had a mayor.
Uh, and I certainly didn't talk about the mayor.
We talked about the school yesterday.
Roma way uh Roma then said, well, look, they they have student trips to China, and we're seeing in the news last night that nine people died in a school attack in China.
So I think there are a lot of places where far more dangerous than Arizona, uh, even if they competed in Chicago City itself, their areas of Chicago be far more dangerous than going to an Arizona basketball tournament.
You know, I mean I guess that uh again it's their judgment and that they feel, you know, there's that they go to areas in those countries where they are safe uh and they perceive any sort of danger in Arizona, then that's that's their call.
The mayor here uh is uh uh essentially saying, don't bug me.
If you're gonna email anybody, email the uh the school board over there or the principal or the assistant.
Am I hearing this right?
You think that's what's he's probably saying, why am I even on this show today?
Why why did they call me?
I'd have nothing to do with it.
I'm just the mayor here.
Uh uh, here is the next soundbite.
Uh, Roma finally says, Look, obviously, you don't feel you have sway over the school board or the school superintendent or the assistant superintendent.
We work with the school board uh on a lot of good issues, but at the end of the day, um, I wouldn't want them telling me how to, you know, run city services, water, or sewer, or where, you know, things like that.
I certainly take their input, but you know, it's a separate government.
Rush Limbaugh for being an expert on everything out of check his facts.
How did I get in the mix of this?
What what what have I gotten wrong here?
What I didn't what are you people emailing to this poor guy?
He's obviously bedraggled.
Um he's got his minds, I mean, his hands full here with what uh uh city services, water, sewer, uh things like that.
And he doesn't want to be bugged about the decision here at the high school.
Uh it's hard work as managing the sewers.
I know that.
It's very hard work.
Um, and I'm sure Michael Belski is the most qualified guy in Highland Park to run the sewers.
It's like Obama's the most qualified guy to run health care.
Uh but what Rush Limbaugh for being an expert, anything, everything you ought to check his fact.
What did I get wrong here?
All I said was that the school's not going down there, and I think that the school people are little cowards.
I don't even bring this mayor into it.
See, my friends, the uh the the power and reach of this program, even when I'm not responsible for it, everybody assumes I am.
You remember, let's put this in perspective, because Roma asked some great questions.
Just said more, it's more dangerous in Chicago, certain parts of Chicago than it is in Arizona.
What's to be afraid of in Arizona, Sheriff Arpayo?
What in the world is there to be afraid of down there?
What what what's the danger to students in Arizona as opposed to Illinois Chicago?
Where where is where's the where's the danger coming from?
No, it's don't don't you dare walk me down that path.
I'm not gonna talk.
You really No, no, no, no.
This is this is why this the staff is speculating in my ear.
This is why they don't have microphones.
Staff speculating in my ear that maybe one of the female students doesn't have her papers in order.
And that that's a real reason for avoiding Arizona.
Now, I don't think that's possibly true, but uh my staff might represent certain body of thought in the country on this.
Um where's the danger coming from?
What are they are they just trying to show solidarity with who in uh Arizona?
Well, apparently, because if if if what they told the the the gal that called us yesterday, who called the school, and somebody schools said, well, we're just afraid of you know upsetting the Mexicans in the neighborhood, the school's neighborhood here, uh, then obviously showing solidarity here with the uh with the illegals.
Here's my sole mention of Highland Park yesterday.
Oh well.
Can you imagine living in Arizona?
Can you imagine living in Arizona near the border?
What would you do then, Madam Secretary of Highland Park High School?
That's that's what I said.
Now the mayor's off on a on a jihad here, uh claiming that you people are emailing him with a bunch of facts that are not correct, or erroneous facts, because I said to you.
You remember, let's go back when Jimmy Carter in 1980 boycotted was it the summer Olympics, or was it Ted Turner's goodwill games that he boycotted?
It was the Olympics.
Yeah, it was Jim.
No, it's Carter's move, but but it just it was so it was the Olympics.
Okay, so Jimmy Carter, and remember all the grief he caught for using children As pawns.
The media, the rest of the left were outraged that sports athletes.
Of course, the essence of purity were being used as pawns in a political game.
These poor kids have been training for this all their lives only to have their hopes dashed over some political grandstanding, is the statement of one member of the media.
Now it's funny how we aren't hearing anything like that about the various sports boycotts being implemented against Arizona, including the Highland Park girls' basketball team.
They're trying to get the uh All-Star game kicked out of there next year, or is it this year?
Uh and the Phoenix Sons and uh and the Arizona Diamondbacks are being pressured with boycott threats.
So the way to look at it is this Russia's invasion of another sovereign country back in 1980, Afghanistan, didn't rise to the same level of criminality of a state trying to enforce federal immigration laws.
To put this in proper perspective.
We're going to boycott the Olympics because the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.
We're going to boycott Arizona because Arizona wants to enforce a law to keep illegals out of the state because of crime and all kinds of tumult and chaos that's going on there.
They're becoming a nation of cowards.
Los Angeles, City of Cowards.
They're now banning anything to do with uh with with Arizona.
Everybody these people on the left are just pure, simple, nothing more complicated than cowards who think that by adhering to all this stupid political correctness that they are better than everybody else.
That they are more open-minded, that they're more tolerant.
It's the exact opposite.
You know, Quinn Hillier at the American Spectator today has a fabulous piece blowing every aspect of Obama's claim to be for the little guy against the powerful, just out of the water.
That's coming up.
Lots of other stuff on the program today.
Glad you're here.
We'll be back right after this.
All right, the Highland Park girls uh basketball team uh story broke on Tuesday night at 10.08.
Uh Chicago breaking news.com.
So it brought that's 9.08 Central Time on Tuesdays.
The mayor didn't start getting any grief for two days.
Not until I was mentioned on this program.
Now, it turns out my staff member who whispered into my ear about perhaps one of the players being illegal, it's actually addressed in a news story here.
Uh don't know what the okay, it's it's a rate, it's WG and television uh, and it says reveling in its first conference championship 26 years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Safety concerns partly fueled a decision, but the the trip also would not be aligned with our beliefs and values.
Said District 13 or 113 assistant superintendent Susan Hebson.
That explanation, oh smacks of political protest, the parents upset by the decision.
Uh now, Lauren Evans uh is a junior on the team.
She said she thought the concern was probably that one of the players could get stopped and questioned.
District 113 Superintendent George Fornero declined comment, saying it wasn't my decision.
Uh wasn't just my decision.
Uh, asked if there are undocumented players on the team, or if anyone associated with the team uh is in the country illegally, Hebson said she didn't know.
Parents and players interviewed said they know of no one who fits the description of an illegal immigrant on the team.
What is that description?
Well, how what's the description of it?
See, this is what's wrong with all of this.
What's the description of an illegal alien?
So the Arizona law is keeping illegal aliens out of Arizona.
Is that isn't that the idea?
If if they're worried that one of the team members is an illegal alien, the Arizona law is working.
Yeah, it's sort of a convoluted way to look at it.
But the other way to look at it is, Ms. Hebson, unless your team happens to get caught for speeding or robbing a quick shop, nobody is gonna have any way to find out whether one of your players is an illegal immigrant.
Because they can't just profile you based on the way your team members look and then decide, hey, you know what?
We're gonna demand papers from the kid.
I mean, it's this is this is what's silly about all this.
And for for somebody running a school to have this kind of misunderstanding, this law is only 21 pages.
This law will fit on your web browser.
You do not need to hire a lawyer to read the law.
It's perfectly understandable.
The media has made no effort to read it.
The Obama administration made no effort to read the law.
They don't want to know what's in the law.
They want their characterization of it to be what is the uh perceived notion of what is in the law.
It's very simple.
They've even made some revisions in it to accommodate these wacko accusations that it's nothing more than racial profiling.
Uh now I would think that if the team went to Arizona, they would fly.
Because it's a pretty long way.
Maybe they're worried that one of the students has a phony ID.
It might not pass TSA most of them.
Well, this is all ridiculous.
And then Michael Evans, who is the father of Lauren Evans, the junior on the team, said the school has sent children to China.
They have sent children to South America, they have sent children to the Czech Republic, but somehow Arizona is more unsafe for them than those places.
The beliefs and values of China are apparently aligned since they approved that trip.
The school's trying to say, it's not political.
We're not gonna get political here.
We're just worried about safety.
Okay, well, who are you afraid of?
The sheriff.
Anyway, this is uh it's very interesting out there, folks, because this is this is the kind of there's there's nothing other it it is it is cowardice dis uh disguised as uh as arrogance and conceit and uh and superiority.
We're smarter, we're better.
Uh uh You know, there's I've got a I've got a story here in the stack.
A school, I think it's a high school, maybe a junior high.
I've buried down there, I'll have to find it.
In St. Louis, he is taking the kids on a field trip to the oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico.
They're gonna be on lookout for a dead dolphin.
Now, this is how uh where are they getting the money to take these kids on a on a on a on a on a field trip to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
I mean, I had field trips to the local slaughterhouse, which is about ten minutes away from the school.
We never went, we never searched out environmental disasters.
This is how these indoctrinators who are disguised as educators, pull uh pump propaganda into these uh young skulls full of mush.
Okay, so you take them down there, say this is what oil does.
This is the evil of oil.
This is what lack of government regulated.
We need more government power to make sure that evil oil companies, these corporations do not continue to pollute the planet and destroy flipper here and eventually destroy your world so that you will die.
This is the kind of garbage that is being taught to kids.
I don't know specifically that that's the message in the field trip to the oil spill.
But what's going on in the class?
This is the one area, education uh uh and academia, education in the media is uh those those are the two fundamental areas, a left, even though they are a minority by virtue of headcount, they're a minority by virtue of the way of thinking, but they still control these two institutions and they make themselves appear to be the majority by versus by by virtue of the uh mainstream media uh being so large that it has such an impact.
But it's all minority thought, but this is how they're inculcating uh young skulls full of mush, so that when they end up getting to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, they hate the country.
And then they get hired by others who have graduated from Harvard and Yale and Princeton, who are already in the government, and then eventually they infest the bureaucracy, then they run for office and they get elected, and they might end up on the Supreme Court, and you end up with a bunch of people who are born and raised to hate the very country that made it possible for them to be who they are.
It's a vicious cycle.
This is why there is more and more homeschooling going on.
Uh this this is this is why there's uh uh a continued effort on as many people's part as possible to uh get their kids into private schools and and away from the uh uh National Education Association, Teachers Union, public schools and this kind of thing.
Uh I wonder when when they s when they sent the kids to China from the Highland Park Hath School, uh how how did they get in and out of the country?
Oh any illegal aliens in China, the basketball team there.
And are they uh are the are these kids in the field trip from the St. Louis Junior High or High School?
They're gonna take them out there to the oil rig and show them what the SWAT teams are doing.
Or they just gonna keep on a lookout for the oil slick.
And maybe find a dead bird here or there, a dead dolphin.
So the teachers can say, see, see.
This is what capitalism does.
This is what this is what oil does.
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And like we keep telling you folks, they never ever stop.
They never stop.
Today, John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam and Joe Lieberman of the regime, introduced a 1,000-plus page cap and trade bill.
We've been pouring through this.
We'll have some details for you as the program unfolds.
First, I want to grab a couple of phone calls on this whole incident here with the Highland Park High School in Chicago.
This is Jim in Brownsville, Texas.
Great to have you.
You're up first.
Yeah, great to talk to you, Russ.
We've been a long time listener.
Yeah, it's all about the kids.
It's really kind of sad because you know, the kids just want to play baseball.
They don't care about the politics of what's going on in Arizona.
And in reality, the school is taking away an opportunity of a lifetime for these kids.
There's nothing going on in Arizona except a bunch of illegals terrorizing the place.
The law's not even been implemented yet.
The law doesn't get implemented till next month.
Nothing's going on in Arizona except the people who live there being terrorized.
That's true, but these these kids, they just want to get on and play basketball.
You know, they don't care about the law or what's going on.
They're gonna be fairly well chaperoned, they're gonna be from going from the gymnasium to the hotel and back and forth, and they're taking away an opportunity of a lifetime for these kids.
All because really very sad.
Exactly right.
It's all because of the superiority complex, the we're smarter and better, the elitist attitudes of the people that run this school.
Uh, and who it is they're trying to impress.
I don't know, because truthfully, I thought schools were supposed to be about all about the kids.
And in their case, they're taking it something totally different.
I thought liberalism was supposed to be all about the kids.
We do everything else for the children, and they're probably yeah, well, we're doing this for the children too, Mr. Limbois.
We need to protect the children for people in Arizona, Mr. Limbo.
That's what we're from who in Arizona?
The sheriff?
Joe Arpayo, who are you gonna protect the kids from?
Now, I got an idea.
If St. Louis School is gonna take some kids on a field trip to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
How about this for Highland Park High School in Illinois?
Maybe they can take their kids to the border with Mexico so they can actually see what's going on there.
See the crime, see the coyote smuggling, have human beings and drugs.
Maybe you can see the violence.
That'd be a trip worth taking.
Then they can better understand why Arizona's doing what it's doing.
You are if a school's really about education, and Arizona's a problem, teach the kids what the problem is.
And it ain't Joe Arpayo, and it's not the mayor of any city, and it's not the governor.
Or but maybe it's is it too dangerous on the border to take kids there on a trip?
Field trip.
Yeah, that probably now why?
I wonder why can't you take a bunch of kids on a field trip to the Arizona Mexican border?
Why might get killed?
Or they might be traumatized by what they see.
Nothing may happen to them, but they may be traumatized by what they see.
Yeah, you can isn't it amazing?
You can take kids on a field trip to the oil spill.
If you can find it, it hasn't come ashore yet.
But you can't take them to the U.S. border.
You wouldn't dare take them to the U.S. border, and you won't even take them to a U.S. border state.
Just amazing.
Maybe, maybe the uh maybe the school can take the kids to Tijuana.
They play basketball, Tijuana.
Except no, that would violate the animal rights uh sentiments, I'm sure, of the school administration.
Um take them to Tijuana.
See what decapitation looks like.
Human heads posted on light poles.
Have you seen that's in Tijuana?
Um I I I I think actually our government has issued warnings that college students uh not go to Tijuana uh during spring break.
Didn't they do that?
Yeah.
Uh can't go to Mexico, can't go to the border.
Uh you can go to the oil spill, wouldn't dare set foot.
It isn't amazing that you couldn't take a field trip to the Arizona Mexican border.
Because it is too dangerous.
Here's uh here's Mick in Champaign, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks for having me, Rush.
Um, I have two brief points, one of which you alluded to, um, and that is what exactly are these students going to be doing that the school district had worried that they would be pulled over or stopped, need to provide identification if they actually expect these students to be doing something illegal.
And the other is that the press release yesterday from the school district said that the tryouts for the team that will be traveling to or would be traveling to Arizona isn't even picked yet.
They won't be picked till November of this year.
So it's interesting that they would call off the trip before the team is even uh, you know, is before they've even had tryouts.
So I'm curious what their how they can rationalize canceling a trip for the safety when the team.
Well, why don't you take a take a stab at answering your own question?
Because obviously uh you and I are correct, even if there were, and we're not saying that there is, even if there were an illegal immigrant on the team.
Uh unless that illegal immigrant robs a convenience store or uh uh commits uh some sort of battery or it ends up driving a car too fast, nobody's gonna ever know.
Exactly.
It's it's ridiculous to think that a bunch of high school students would be in a be in a situation, especially from Highland Park.
We're not talking about an inner city school or anything like that.
We're talking about a you know, a decent suburb of Chicago.
So the bottom line, Michael Jordan lives in Highland Park.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Now my you you have uh therefore almost an inescapable conclusion, and that is you have a political statement being made by the people that run the school.
I think it's interesting also that the students seem to have better insight, saying that the choice should be personal.
Uh one of the students said that you know, if if they shouldn't go, it's uh it should be on an individual individual basis.
The students, I think, are even more in tune to the ridiculousness of the school district.
Yeah, and their parents too.
Good point.
Uh thanks, Mick.
Great to have you out there.
Richard in Houston.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, hi, Rush, God bless.
Um, I think you hit the nail on the head.
What uh what I was thinking is uh this mayor of Highland Park is coming about traveling through the Arizona border would be unsafe for the kids, actually betrays them because it would be unsafe because just like you said, all this violence and kidnapping spilling over from where from Mexico.
Yeah, did the let's let me the mayor clear Rush Limbaugh.
That's not it.
Uh this country is safe.
Let's go back and listen to the mayor here because um uh you you the mayor comment traveling through Arizona uh borders unsafe.
Uh is that what you heard him say?
Well, uh that's whenever whenever I tuned in uh and you started talking, that's kind of what you said, that there was a that they came to the decision partly because they were looking out for the safety of the kids, and also because if they feel like this is what they should be doing, then you know blah, blah, blah.
That's what they're gonna do.
Well, let's go back.
Let's go back and uh and and listen.
I listen to stuff on the fly, and I listened to it live for the first time with you.
So here's uh here's audio sound bite number one.
This is the mayor Michael Belski, WLS radio this morning, Don Wade in Roma.
Have you spoken with the assistant superintendent Sue Hebson?
She apparently is the one who made the decision.
Uh, school superintendent, the school board make these sorts of decisions.
And you know, one thing I want to just make clear, and I think Rush Limbaugh has has kind of released the fire storm of emails on me.
But uh in Illinois, the school board separately elected from the city council, and so this has not been a city uh matter at all.
Okay, so the mayor doesn't want to be associated with this.
Mayor's washing his hands of it.
And mayor, once again, I didn't I never heard of you until today.
So I didn't that tell anybody to send you uh emails.
Next question.
Well, they've uh they have student trips to China.
They were seen in the news last night that nine people died in a school attack in China, so I think there are lots of places far more dangerous in Arizona, even if they compete in Chicago City itself, areas of Chicago to be far more dangerous than going to an Arizona basketball tournament.
You know, I mean I guess that uh again it's their judgment, and if they feel, you know, there's that they go to areas in those countries where they are safe, uh, and they perceive any sort of danger in Arizona, then that's that's their call.
Right.
Yeah, but there it is.
What are the fears?
Fears of who?
Um.
And then the final question obviously you don't feel you have sway over the screw board or the screw superintendent.
We work with the school board uh on a lot of good issues, but at the end of the day, um I wouldn't want them telling me how to, you know, run city services, water, sewer, or where, you know, things like that.
I certainly take their input, but you know, it's a separate government.
Rush Limbaugh for being an expert on everything out of check is facts.
I still don't know how I got involved with the mayor's side of this.
I don't know what I said about his job and his role in this.
Well, I didn't say anything about his job or his role.
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This is Julianne in Chicago.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Very well, thank you.
Um, just so you know, my mom was born in Cape Girardeau a few months after you.
But we live in Chicago, and just it's not just Highland Park, it's the entire state of Illinois has just gone completely to hell, to coin a phrase from Ronald Reagan.
Um, I have a seventh grader in school, and uh the school he's in Chicago refused to let him take the constitution test, and they felt that it was better um that they did a project that was overseen by their liberal vice principal, and they felt that that was better than them reading it and memorizing it.
It would do them much better to do a project on it.
And we were disgusted, so my son asked if he could take it, and he was uh told no, don't bring it up again.
Unbelievable.
They refused to let him take the constitution test.
They refused.
And at my request, too, I said, could he please take the constitution test?
Because I have two rush babies.
And uh nope, no way.
Why?
Um they they just felt that, you know, they feel that after years and years and years and years of doing it one way, they feel that by a child doing a project overseen by a liberal lady, an uh Pelosi wannabe that he would learn more if he just did the project.
Instead of reading and knowing what the law says, instead of reading the Constitution, and it's and I feel like it's his own.
So it was a it was a liberal liberal interpretation of the Constitution class or or project.
Mm-hmm.
And the real Constitution was off limits.
Yep.
And he was told specifically, because they know me and they know my kids, um, that he could not give his a political opinion in his project.
Uh well, doesn't surprise me.
It really we because we do we are you you I mean you nailed it.
I mean, what we're looking at here is is uh the liberal infestation of the American education system.
Just like we're looking at the liberal social infestation of of Europe.
Uh and and uh I think it's it's it's just it's on display now.
Every it's it's it's out there for everybody to see now.
Now Libs can sit there in Illinois and oh, we are standing on principle.
We are standing up what principle?
What is the principle?
The principle, Mr. Limbaugh, is that this has been a wraith of Nathan for way too long.
And no more is this Nathan going to be wraith, except for people like you and on your side, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's the principle we're standing on.
We are not going to Arizona because of the wraith of state, and we're not gonna support race.
That's the principle, folks.
That's what they're thinking.
Arizona's full of a bunch of racists and bigots.
Okay, for those of you who think that.
Well, let's just let's let's not have any borders.
Isn't it racist to have borders, period?
Let's not have them any.
Does anybody wants to come in here?
Can come in here.
And the minute they get here, they can vote Democrat.
Isn't that the objective?
Let's just get rid of the border.
Get rid of the border crossing, get rid of the border patrol.
I mean, that's the that that's the culmination.
That's where this ends up if the left prevails.
You gotta see it for what it is.
Who's next?
Dennis in um Calida, Ohio.
Nice to have you here.
Yes, Rush.
Thank you very much for having me.
You bet.
Uh, in light of all of the uh boycotting in Arizona, what is this uh plays in reverse?
Andree with political philosophies in New York City where several senior class trips are taken.
Well, you mean boycott those?
Yeah, let's uh let's don't go to New York City because we disagree with some political position uh taken by the governor or the mayor of the easy.
I'm not gonna go to New York because I don't like the tax rate there.
I'm not gonna go to New York because I want to eat trans fats.
I want I'm not gonna go to New York because I don't want the s the salt police all over me.
There's any number, yeah, you're right.
There need a number of things.
We need Bill O'Reilly as the boycott expert.
Um need to get him on the case here.
He brought he once brought France to its knees.
So uh I'm sure he'll hear about it.
Uh right.
I guess my point is, you know, where where does all this boycotting stop?
Uh all of a sudden uh we're going to take uh one political decision.
Uh this best the best thing for the state of Arizona and make it into a political issue where uh we're gonna have all kind of boycotting going on left and right.
Uh you know, we just need to respect the rights of the people in Arizona and let them do their thing.
Well, but they're going to racists, you see.
This is this is what this is all uh boiling down to.
You know the United Nations says that it's a human right to cross the border in the United States.
That's how they've that's how they have weighed in on this Arizona controversy.
It's a human right to cross the United States border.
You could you could boycott New York for being a sanctuary city.
I just had a story here.
This is from Forbes.com, America's layoff capitals.
And they're all run by liberals, and they are all sanctuary cities, except uh the fifth one, which is Sacramento.
Charting a different course than the rest of the nation, as it's often does, California shrugged off the budding economic recovery and led the United States in mass layoffs in the first quarter of 2010.
Six of California's metro areas were up in the top ten nationwide.
Los Angeles, Long Beach area ranked number one in layoffs.
New York City came in second, 14,600 layoffs during the first quarter, after New York, Chicago, and 11.3 unemployment rate at the end of the quarter, and significant year-over-year declines in construction, manufacturing, and finance employment.
Layoffs during the quarter included 79 at Canopy Financial, which folded amid criminal charges.
Next on the layoff list are five California metro areas, all hit hard by employment declines.
Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, um as bad a shape as uh as as Detroit, San Francisco ranks fourth, and San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, all close behind.
Those are the top five layoff cities, layoff areas, layoff capitals in the country.
New York, Chicago, and most of urban California.
And they're all run by liberals, and they have been for a long time.
No, Detroit didn't make it because they have to do the list ten years ago.
This is layoffs this past first quarter, certainly.
He's wondering how come Detroit didn't get included?
Their layoffs occurred many, many moons ago.
It's depressing out there, depending on where you happen to be.
It just it just is.
Quick timeout.
Much more straight ahead, and I know you can't wait for it here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
The latest uh latest AP story on the Roundup of uh terror suspects, these uh this cabal of health care haters, is spread now to Boston.
And they are being held on immigration charges.
They have overstayed visas, and they are these are administrative charges, which means they don't have to be read.
They're Miranda rights.
So I guess Sheriff Arpayo is running amok in Massachusetts, uh trying to track down illegal immigrants.
These guys have been uh tracked down by the feds, so it can't be Sheriff Arpayo.
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