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May 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know, I know.
He's there.
I saw it.
I saw the spectacle.
I watched a little bit of it.
The joint, well, Felipe Calderon speech to a joint session of Congress beating up on the Arizona law, criticizing the Arizona law and blaming us for all the guns in Mexico.
And the Democrats were standing up and applauding, giving a standing ovation for this.
This is unprecedented.
We have never before had an ally come to the United States, make a joint appearance, a speech before a joint session of Congress, rip a country, rip our states, and have the Democrat Party stand up and applaud.
This follows on the heels of this Michael Posner guy after human rights meetings with the CHICOMs, or during them, saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, we have to agree with you.
We've got our own human rights problems here.
Look at our Arizona law.
That's very, very troublesome.
That's the first time that's ever happened.
I mean, the CHICOMs, the communists always rip us.
This is the first time in my life our leaders have agreed with them.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Trush Limbaugh.
This, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Now, I just gave Mike the soundbite roster order I wanted.
I'm going to change it now.
I'm going to stick to the original order eventually, but grab the soundbite number 21 and number 22.
This is from this morning on Capitol Hill, the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, addressing a joint session of Congress.
You will notice that the violence in Mexico started to grow a couple of years before I took office in 2006.
This coincides, at least, with the lifting of the assault weapons ban in 2004.
I will ask Congress to help us with respect and to understand how important it is for us that you enforce current laws to stem the supply of these weapons to criminals and consider restating the assault weapons ban.
And the Democrats stood up.
There they are, standing up and applauding.
This is, here he's blaming Bush.
He's all this stuff on his predecessor, just as Obama does, and says he wants us to enforce current law.
But no, he doesn't want us to enforce current law.
He doesn't want us to enforce the current federal immigration law.
He doesn't want us to enforce Arizona's immigration law, but he wants us to enforce an assault weapons ban.
So he comes here, here's the bite, with Felipe Calderon blasting the United States and electuring Arizona to thunderous applause from Democrats, a standing O.
I strongly disagree with the recently adopted law in Arizona.
It is a law.
It is a law that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree, but also introduced a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement.
And that is why I agree.
I agree with President to say the new law carries a great amount of risk when core values that we all care about are breached.
Ah, folks, I'm speechless.
I'm angry and speechless.
And this comment received a standing ovation.
So we have the leader of Mexico coming here and parroting, copying the president of the United States and ripping our country to a standing ovation of the Democrat Party.
What does he care about racial profiling?
And there is no racial profiling in the bill.
There is no racial profiling in the bill.
This is just so purposely taken out of context.
I agree with the president who says the new law carries a great amount of risk.
Whose core values?
He comes here and disses our immigration law, blames the United States for all the guns in Mexico.
Meanwhile, do you know this?
His best friend is missing.
Calderon's best friend, folks, is missing, thought to have been kidnapped and killed by Mexican drug gangs.
And he comes here and disses us.
I guess Obama apologized throughout their private meetings in the White House.
So are we to assume here from Calderon's remarks that these criminals are coming to the United States to buy assault weapons as they are just searching for a better life?
I mean, even people, some people on our side of the aisle have sympathy with the illegals.
Come on, they just want a better life.
I guess now it's a human right to cross the U.S. border.
So these guys come in, and Calderon says they're getting guns here.
They're coming to America, picking up assault rifles in their quest for a better life.
Drug gangs down in Mexico are beheading people left and right.
And it's interesting to point out they have legalized drugs in Mexico.
They have legal everything, the hard stuff, the soft stuff.
You know, there are efforts always going on in this country to legalize drugs.
The theory is, look, there's a lot of tax revenue there that we could be picking up, addicts or addicts.
And if we control it, take the crime out of it.
Well, I guess that's what Calderon thought.
But they've got drug crime at an all-time high after legalizing the stuff.
It's a strange curiosity.
They have legalized the possession.
I don't know if they've legalized the sale, but they've legalized the possession.
So the demand side is being rewarded.
The supply side, maybe if you're selling, you still got some problem.
But what they're saying is, well, if you get caught having it, it's fine, whatever you want.
So the effort is on to acquire the stuff.
Now, there was a, let me grab, I think it's soundbites four and five in my original order.
Out of order.
Let me see.
I'm looking for Calderon on Wolf Blitzer last night.
It's seven and eight.
Seven and eight.
Calderon was on with Wolf Blitz last night on CNN.
Situation Room.
Wolf Blitzer says, what's wrong with the folks in Arizona wanting to protect their border?
In Arizona, there is some racial profiling criteria in order to enforce the law that it's against any sense of human rights and of course is provoking very disappointing things or very disappointing opinion in Mexico and around the world, even here in America.
To introduce these kind of elements, especially racial profiling aspects that are attempting against what we consider human rights.
It's the principle of discrimination which is against the values of this great nation.
Yeah.
Who is he to preach to us for crying out loud?
They deport more illegal immigrants from Mexico than we do.
How do they catch their illegal immigrants?
Do they profile them?
How the hell do they find out who's in their country illegally?
Here's the next question from Blitzer.
So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to just come into Mexico.
Can they just walk in?
No, they need to fulfill a form.
They need to establish their right name.
We analyze if they have not criminal precedents.
Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal of aggression?
Of course.
If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job, they can work.
If somebody do that without permissions, we send back them.
I'm not, we didn't record that ourselves.
We didn't make it up.
So I want to play these two bites again, back to back.
Somebody seven and eight will set up the first question from Blitzer.
What's wrong with the folks in Arizona wanting to protect their border?
In Arizona, there is some racial profiling criteria in order to enforce the law that it's against any sense of human rights and of course is provoking very disappointing things or very disappointing opinion in Mexico and around the world, even here in America, to introduce these kind of elements, especially racial profiling aspects that are attempting against what we consider human rights.
It's the principle of discrimination which is against the values of this great nation.
We consider human rights the principle of discrimination against the values of this great nation.
So Blitzer says, so somebody outside your country wants to come into Mexico, can they just walk into your country?
No, they need to fulfill a form.
They need to establish their right name.
We analyze if they have not criminal precedents.
Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal of aggression?
Of course not.
If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico.
They can go get a job.
They can work.
If somebody do that without permissions, we send back them.
Is this guy an idiot?
Is this guy not just a full-fledged idiot?
He just undercut his entire argument.
He just undercut Obama's entire argument.
You don't think he did?
Well, screw the liberals, Sturdly.
I'm talking, not everybody in this country is a liberal.
There are a lot of Americans here who are going to look at this.
This guy is just an idiot.
Answering those questions like that from Blitzer, he has no right from now on to say anything to us about our immigration law.
People can't even get a job in Mexico unless they have permission.
And if they do that, do that, we send them back.
Now, how do they find out who they are in the first place?
You think they have to profile them?
We analyze them.
They're very, very, you can't, you can't own property.
You can't get involved in politics if you are an immigrant legally in Mexico.
It's very restrictive.
He comes here and lectures us with the approval of the President of the United States and the Democrats in the House of Representatives, who gave him a standing O, comes here to lecture us about the way we are trying to enforce our own immigration law.
What is this racial profiling anyway?
Mexico is not a race.
What's the race in Mexico?
It's not Mexican, Hispanic, or whatever, but we're not profiling Mexicans because they can't, there's not a race there.
Back after this.
You know, the more I think about this, folks, the more I'm convinced that Obama briefed this guy.
There may have been, there may have been a price for that state dinner last night.
It may have been Calderon coming here and basically mouthing Obama's own words about the Arizona law.
This guy is a blooming idiot.
He comes here, he spouts Obama's own words.
He gets a standing ovation from the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
And then in the next soundbite, Wolf Blitzer, I don't know what got into him, but he starts asking some sensible questions.
This idiot Calderon gives us the lay of the land when it comes to immigration in Mexico.
Here are the two bites again.
You know what the questions are.
I'm just going to play them back to back so you have that stark contrast one more time.
In Arizona, there is some racial profiling criteria in order to enforce the law that it's against any sense of human rights and of course is provoking very disappointing things or very disappointing opinion in Mexico and around the world, even here in America.
To introduce these kind of elements, especially racial profiling aspects that are attempting against what we consider human rights.
It's the principle of discrimination, which is against the values of this great nation.
No, they need to fulfill a form.
They need to establish their right name.
We analyze if they have not criminal precedents.
Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal of a race?
Of course, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico.
They can go get a job.
They can work.
If somebody do that without permissions, we send back them.
Well, so the first soundbite, I'm connected.
When's the last time you ever heard Felipe Calderon talk about human rights and its demonization and all of this sort of stuff?
This is right out of Obama's mouth.
This guy had to have been briefed.
This is like a setup, like the second grader at the school yesterday with the setup question.
Now this.
They got a foreign leader coming here and what's on his teleprompter has been written by whoever writes Obama's words.
But then when he's off the prompter and gets the question about Mexico's own law, we get the truth.
I'm still stunned here.
Wolf Blitzer, they have to present papers.
Of course.
Of course they have to present papers.
Here is the main Mexico immigration law.
Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society.
Foreigners are admitted into Mexico according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.
That's Article 32.
Immigration officials must ensure that immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance and for their dependence.
Article 34.
Foreigners may be barred from Mexico if their presence upsets the equilibrium of the national demographics.
And that's in quotes, when foreigners are deemed detrimental to economic or national interests, when they don't behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.
All of those reasons, you can be barred from going into Mexico so they can test your brain.
I'll give you an IQ test.
This is far beyond profiling.
When it's talking about human rights and it's Germany, the Secretary of Governance may suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.
Article 38.
Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country.
Federal, local, and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, that is, to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants.
Article 73.
A national population registry keeps track of every single individual who comprises the population of the country and verifies each individual's identity.
Articles 85 and 86.
I can keep going.
A national catalog of foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants.
That's Article 87.
And assigns each individual with a unique tracking number.
That is Article 91.
Foreigners with fake papers or who enter the country under false pretenses may be imprisoned.
Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned in Mexico.
Article 116.
Foreigners who sign government documents with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses are subject to fine and imprisonment.
Article 116.
Foreigners who fail to obey the rules in Mexico will be fined, deported, or imprisoned as felons.
Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced up to six years in prison.
Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico, such as working without a permit, can also be imprisoned.
And this guy, this guy comes here and lectures us, lectures the state of Arizona, parrots the exact talking points of the Democrat Party and the President of the United States.
Maybe what ought to happen?
The next time Obama uses his prompter, somebody ought to put the Arizona law on it so that he can both read it and read it aloud to his audience at the same time.
I know it'll never happen, folks.
What are these things that you sit there and fantasize about?
Well, I'm really, I'm struck at this.
I'm almost speechless over this.
Those two soundbites back to back, coupled with his bashing of Arizona and our country this morning at the joint session of Congress, is just at the request of, with the approval of the President of the United States.
We're seeing some things we have never seen before in our country.
We are back.
El Rushbo, America's real anchor man, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, maha-rushi.
So what we have here, we have the Mexican president as a prop.
Folks, I'm sorry for not being able to get off of this.
This is over the top.
In one week, we have had this administration side with the CHICOMs against their own country and bring in the president of Mexico as a prop to mouth Obama's words to a joint session of Congress beating up on the state of Arizona and the people who are there and the people who live there.
What's happening here is a doubling down of playing the race card.
The president of the United States is continuing to divide this country while pretending to be this great unifier.
And he's using this Doomkoff president of Mexico as a prop like a puppet to help him do so.
And I'm going to tell you something.
If now we're going to talk about this again as the program unfolds today, if because I can't allow this spin to hold either, if they're going to say that yesterday's elections was a big win for Obama, and do you realize they're saying that?
See, senor, they are saying yesterday's a big win for Obama.
And Pelosi's out there today saying, look it, we're going to easily hold a house.
There's 200 of my people easily going to get reelected.
Now, if Obama was the big winner in those elections yesterday, as reported, he wouldn't be playing the race card this ferociously.
This is all about the Hispanic vote, folks.
And if he was the big winner yesterday, there is no way he'd be doubling down on the race card.
And even there were times during Calderón's speech where the Republicans stood up when he talked about cracking down on crime and improving the economy of Mexico and so forth.
The Republicans were standing up.
So we've got people in fear.
We've got elected officials who are behaving in fear on the Republican side.
On the Democrat side, they're behaving in eager anticipation.
And Obama, the president of the United States, is throwing down the race card now and using Felipe Calderon as a prop to do so.
So don't tell me Obama's a big winner in the elections on Tuesday.
Don't tell me.
And if they're willing to throw the race card now, in middle May, you just wait till we get into September and October.
You just wait to see what these clowns in the White House do.
It's got to get worse.
It will get worse.
You know why?
The Democrats need it?
Because they didn't win yesterday.
And everybody continues to focus on Pennsylvania 12 to show Obama's big victory.
And I am, I know what they're trying to do.
They're trying to say, hey, the Republican, and Republicans, why they couldn't, in this climate, if they couldn't take that Murthy seat, well, let's talk about them winning the House.
It ain't going to happen.
And as I mentioned yesterday, we got a lot of people on our side who are also bashing the Republicans.
Say, yeah, you know, we've been wrong.
If we can't win Pennsylvania 12, then I don't think we can win anything.
So it's a two-to-one district, 40,000, 50,000 union people in there.
And you had the Democrat candidate sounding like me.
I mean, conservatism won the electoral.
Well, his conservatism, this crits guy, his conservatism is faux criticism.
He was lying through his teeth about it.
But we'll get all to that later in the program.
Here's a story from a couple days ago.
Out of Mexico City.
Most of a small Mexican town's police force has quit after armed men ambushed and wounded two of their officers.
The resignation of six of the 11 municipal officers in La Union Monday evening comes after several other Mexican towns have seen mass police resignations because of drug cartel violence or threats.
State police in Guerrero, which La Union is located, said Tuesday it has deployed 20 of its officers to patrol La Union until further notice.
The resignations came two days after their colleagues were ambushed, cops ambushed, and left La Union's police force with five members, the chief, the deputy chief, an officer in charge of weapons logistics, and the two wounded officers who are hospitalized.
Meanwhile, people in some Mexican towns have begun taking the law into their own hands.
They're acting like the people in Arizona in Mexico.
So, from what we heard today from Felipe Calderon, a prop of this regime, arms going into Mexico, fault of the United States.
Assault weapon ban was lifted in 2006.
We need the assault weapons ban reenacted, re-implemented.
So, our assault weapons ban being lifted, arms finding their way into Mexico, our fault.
Drugs and illegal immigrants coming here, also our fault.
That's what Calderon says.
And right on cue, this regime agrees.
In one week, folks, Michael Posner at the State Department tells the ChiComs, yeah, we really have no business lecturing you because you're right.
We have some terrible problems in our own country right there in Arizona.
That immigration law is very, very bad for human rights.
So, for the first time in my life, agents of a communist government come to our country and criticize us, and our administration agrees.
And for the first time in my life, a foreign president, ostensibly an ally, comes here to rip the sovereign state of Arizona, the sovereign United States, and its laws, using language exactly like the President of the United States, and the Democrat members of Congress give him a standing ovation.
Meanwhile, Mexicans are taking the law into their own hands.
Cops are being killed by the drug cartels, just like in Arizona.
In the meantime, Felipe Calderon admits, oh, yes, of course we check people's papers.
We find out if they are worth being here.
If they get a job and they have lied, they get sent home.
All the while telling us that we're discriminating and violating our core values.
Quick time out here, my friends.
We'll be back and continue right after this on the EIB network.
Newport Ritchie, Florida, as we let you in on this discussion.
This is Jim.
Hello, sir.
Glad to have you.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Whatever happened to the concept of reciprocity in international political relations here?
What do you mean, sir?
For example, countries like Mexico, other countries have very strict regulations on, you know, going into a country, having a return ticket, enough money to support yourself, proof that you have a job if you want to work visa, et cetera, et cetera.
And the Mexican president just reiterated his country's policies on immigration.
The Mexican president is Senor Wences.
Remember Senor Wences, the Ventriloquist dummy from the Ed Sullivan show way back when?
He's just Senor Wences.
Now, you want to know what happened to reciprocity?
It's called liberalism.
You want to know what happened to prosperity?
It's called liberalism.
You want to know what happened to economic opportunity, liberty, and freedom?
It's called liberalism.
There's a giant disconnect, liberalism from Americanism.
Plain as day for everybody to see.
Next up is Patricia, Longview, Texas.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
I can't tell you how much I love you.
I'm originally from Honduras.
And having said that, I truly do not understand what it's so hard for the Americans to defend the country's sovereignty.
Why?
Liberalism.
The Democrats.
Don't they have the courage to want?
I mean, the Democrats.
I think it takes courage.
Patricia.
Yes.
Listen to me.
Disconnect liberalism from Americanism.
The Democrat Party, the American left, the president of the United States will destroy this party and destroy this country in order to maintain their power over it.
Why did they not enforce the border?
Votes.
Why did they have Coleron come here acting as senorensis of a ventroloquist dummy?
Votes.
This is all about rallying the Hispanic vote in November because Obama got shellacked yesterday and Obama thinks he's going to get shellacked in November.
It's all about votes.
That's why we're not going to enforce the border and that's why we're going to rip anybody who tries.
Yesterday, the state of Arizona said to the city of Los Angeles, the mayor Antonio Villa Ragosa, if you guys are going to boycott us, fine.
We're going to cut off your electricity that we provide you.
And the city of Los Angeles gets 25% of its electricity from Arizona.
Antonio Villaragosa, go ahead.
We don't care.
You won't do it.
You go right ahead.
We're going to play your game.
This is the kind of stuff that starts civil wars, folks.
This is not coincidental.
It is not accidental.
And the answer today to virtually every question you've got is liberalism.
Did I mean to say what?
Yeah, civil war.
I said it yesterday.
You probably didn't hear it, snurdy, because you were busy screening calls.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that starts civil wars.
You've got how many states now lined up against Arizona?
Economic boycotts may be unconstitutional in violation of the Commerce Clause.
You got the Democrat Party supporting it.
You got the mayor of Phoenix saying the reason this whole thing exists is because fairness doctrine is not in order.
If there was a fairness doctrine, then a bunch of liberals in Arizona on the radio would have a chance to be heard and public opinion would be much different.
Fresno, California, a community organization group, I don't have their name in front of me here, is on newsbusters.
But a typical Acorn-type group, a typical Obama-type group, is demanding that our affiliate, KMJ, remove all conservatives because they incite violence.
It's begun.
It has begun.
KMJ Fresno, one of our longtime most successful affiliates, we've been there forever.
And they are being pestered by a typical Acorn type group to get rid of conservative talk show hosts, all of them, including me, because we incite violence, they say.
Now, Obama has a liaison a czar working with Julius Jenikowski, the FCC chairman, who believes that this is the way to go about changing the makeup of content at the local level on radio programs, radio stations.
So it has begun.
We're going to stay on this.
A lot of people with phone calls on the Mexican thing, but I'm going to throw another log on the fire or maybe light another match.
We take you to February 13th.
This has just been unearthed.
February 13th, 2010, this year, New York City, New York University Law School.
Obama senior advisor John Brennan spoke.
He's the senior advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
If you are Jewish and you voted for Obama, I want you to listen to these two sound bites.
Here's the first.
I did spend time as an undergraduate at the American University in Cairo in the 1970s.
I marveled at the majesty of the Hajj and the devotion of those who fulfilled their duty as Muslims by making that pilgrimage.
And in all my travels, the city I have come to love most is Al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come together.
Al-Quds is the Islamist name for Jerusalem.
He's speaking at New York University at the law school.
He's not speaking to a Muslim group.
He's speaking to a class students at New York University.
And his first reference to Jerusalem is to Al-Quds.
The city he has come to love most is Al-Quds.
Here's the second bite.
This is very short.
Well, no, actually, it's 30 seconds.
He speaks in Arabic in this bite, but he does say something in English in it.
Here it is.
Now, don't tell the folks why we don't speak Arabic what I said.
Okay.
That is John Brennan, the Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
And I guess it was a Muslim audience at New York University.
This is February 13th, 2010.
This is months ago.
I do not have a translation on the Arabic portion of what he said, but there was laughter at a couple points in that.
And then he said, don't tell the folks who don't speak Arabic what I said.
Okay.
So in February, we have the National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism speaking in Arabic to, I guess, a Muslim audience at NYU Law School in English, saying that his city he has loved most in all of his travels is Al-Quds, the Islamist name for Jerusalem.
Earlier this week, an Obama Assistant Secretary of State, Michael Posner, volunteers to a delegation of CHICOMs that, yes, we have no business lecturing anybody because we are violating human rights ourselves.
And he cited the Arizona Immigration Law, which the Attorney General admits he hasn't read, which we know the President hasn't read, and which the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano Big Sisis, also admits she hasn't read.
Then, yesterday and today, Senor Wences, the ventroloquist puppet, also disguised as the President of Mexico, comes to the White House for a state dinner and an appearance before joint session of Congress and chastises this country for human rights violations and violating our own core values,
while at the same time admitting his immigration laws are far more draconian than ours.
He does so in the words of the President of the United States and gets a standing ovation from the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
What country does Barack Obama believe he is president of?
I haven't even mentioned the stock market today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down about 312 points today.
There are many reasons for it.
We got an employment report with unexpectedly high increased new job unemployment claims.
Reversing a three-month trend, we've got protests in Greece over the austerity plan they have there.
And the Euro versus the yen is not doing too well.
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