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June 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And it's our last hour together for the day and our last hour together for this current fill-in stint of mine.
Always love it.
Thanks to Rush and to HR and Mike and the whole uh the whole organization here on the occasion of Russia's honeymoon, just every happiness to him and to Catherine, and uh he'll be back with you on Tuesday.
Tomorrow and Friday, you'll be well served by Mr. Mark Belling, so I look forward to hearing him.
And in the uh remaining hour that we have, I look forward to hearing from you on a few things.
I'm told you I was gonna lay out a few things for some topical variety, so let me just uh like like layers of tasty pastry, let's uh let's put some other things on the uh put some other things on the what I'm mixing metaphors.
Putting pastry under the microscope, I don't know, on the griddle, you don't really do that.
Uh whatever.
Just uh let's just talk about some other things.
All right, there's an Alan Gomez story in USA today.
Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law is fueling an exodus of Hispanics from the state seven weeks before it goes into effect, according to officials and residents in the state.
Though no one has precise figures, reports from school officials, businesses, and individuals indicate worried Hispanics, both legal and illegal, are leaving the state in anticipation of the law.
Now we'll go a little deeper into this in a second.
If illegal aliens are leaving the state, that's a good thing.
That's called a reason to have the law.
If legal immigrants, Hispanic Arizonans who who have their papers, are leaving the state, what in the world gives with that?
It can only be one thing.
And that is that they have bought into or been snowed by the fear campaign that they are somehow going to be grotesquely victimized by rogue cops looking to uh cite people for uh merely being brown.
Uh this is not going to happen in any kind of appreciable amount to create anything near the stigma that the uh the Arizona law haters have brought to bear.
One of the first places you take a look at for something like this is schools.
Schools in Hispanic areas report unusual drops in enrollment.
The Baltz Elementary School District is 75% Hispanic, and within a month of the law's passage, the parents of 70 students pulled them out of school.
Okay.
Now is were they just trembling in fear of the uh of the rogue cops who are going to be having midnight raids looking for your papers?
Or is it maybe because mom and dad, mom and or dad, didn't have papers, kind of like that beautiful little girl who sat at Michelle Obama's feet and threw mom's immigration status under the bus with uh cameras rolling.
The district lost seven students over the same one month period last year.
Parents tell Smith the Arizona law is the reason for leaving.
They're oh, but here's the superintendent Jeffrey Smith.
They're leaving to another state where they feel more welcome.
Oh, God.
Now look, if you are an illegal immigrant looking for a state where you feel more welcome, well, almost any state will uh will will suffice because uh because Arizona stands virtually alone in how serious they've decided to get about uh weeding from their midst those who are not legal residents.
But if you are, and listen, I I'm I don't presume that everybody listening to this show is conservative, and everybody listening to the show is on board for the Arizona law.
I'm whatever.
It's a big country and a vast audience, and I know that's fine.
That's great, in fact.
But if you're driving around Phoenix or Tucson or Flagstaff or whatever, and you're a Latino or a Latina, and you are just trembling in fear of this new law, like it's something that is going to make your life miserable, just please cut it out.
Don't let yourself be Bamboozled and lied to by people who, for craven political reasons, have elevated this Arizona law into something that it is not.
It is not racist.
Profiling is prohibited.
And all it's going to do, all it's going to do, is make your quality of life better.
The quality of life in a state improves when laws are followed, when those breaking laws are dealt with, leaving a higher percentage of those who are behaving lawfully.
That is one of the cornerstones of quality of life.
So no matter what race you are in Arizona, this law is going to make your state better.
Your life will get better.
And if the illegals pack their stuff and hit the highway, FANTASTIC.
Well, not for whatever state that is their destination, but uh it ain't your problem anymore.
And the degree to which your state is burdened by the things that states do for illegal immigrants and the things that illegal immigrants do in the states where they sometimes commit uh crimes and sometimes disproportionately.
It's just another way in which your life is going to get better.
So anyway, about 100,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona after the state passed a uh a law in 2007 that enhanced penalties on uh on businesses that hired them.
Now, this is according to the Department of Homeland Security.
How do they know that?
One about 100,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona after the state passed a law in 07 that enhanced penalties on businesses that hired them.
I mean, I I I don't know, is everything just the world of the rough guess?
Whatever.
Businesses serving the Hispanic community say business is down, signaling that illegal immigrants are holding on to cash in anticipation of a move from the state, really.
This is from David Castillo, co-founder of the Latin Association of Arizona, a chamber of commerce for nearly 400 first generation Hispanic business owners.
You know, going back to, oh, and I have a story to tell you from yesterday's show.
Going back to you remember yesterday I told you about the presentation uh that I was there for night before last, Frank Lunt's polster and language maven and uh at a at an event for Texas Congressman Sam Johnson, and we were talking about words and and and in fact I think you'll enjoy this.
Uh touched on it a little bit yesterday, that maybe instead of talking about drilling, we need to talk about energy exploration.
And then instead of uh clinging to capitalism, even though we should cling to capitalism, I mean ideologically we do, but in terms of the language you use on the campaign trail, if you are running for something, uh, instead of throwing down that C-word of capitalism and having people go, ooh, isn't that about big nasty Wall Street?
Because you don't have the time to educate them right there in the middle of a 30-second speech at a pancake breakfast, um, instead you talk about economic freedom.
Right?
Because it's the same thing, just a better way of phrasing it.
The one thing Frank had to say about uh about illegal immigration is call it exactly what it is.
Do not allow yourself to be drawn into the fraudulent PC lexicon that suggests that you refer to these folks as undocumented workers.
Uh if I walk into this radio station without my social security card or driver's license, I'm an undocumented worker.
If I manage to get across the border in violation of American immigration laws, I'm an illegal immigrant.
Words have meaning.
And of course, that's what Frank's whole career is built on is words have meaning.
And I mentioned Frank again for one quick reason.
I'm sitting at home last night, and my phone rings, and it's Frank.
It's like, whoa, hello.
And he said, um, were you talking about me?
No, he was he was well aware that we had talked about him and some of his advice for the Republican messaging in 2010 and 2012.
And he said, you know who you know who told me about some of the things that you were relating from my uh my presentation?
Uh that would be Eric Cantor, a magnificent uh Republican congressman out of Virginia, the House Minority Whip.
They apparently had a, I think they were scheduled to meet, and apparently Congressman Cantor, to the surprise of no one, a uh listener to the Rush Limbaugh show, and had heard me uh talk about some of Frank's points and um.
So uh a bottom line here is I think you might have sent those to me, uh, I'll check, because uh Frank is going to indeed be making going to be touring the country and doing uh a lot of things that you actually can attend.
So if uh you know the the the story of life for you after hearing me talk about that uh about that story is um is to sort of follow Frank around and and do things like that.
I think I'll be able to get to you before the end of this hour some info on on how you can do that and be in an audience where Frank is measuring your response uh to to various things.
Okay, so look for that here.
I'll I'll get to that before.
Before we are done today.
All righty.
In the midst of that then, why don't we hop to uh some of your calls here next, and I've got a couple other things I'm gonna mention, and I'll tell you what one of them is it is you ever notice how some things are all over the news, but never really become big talk show topics because there's just nowhere to go.
Uh uh except to say, wow, that's horrible, like a lot of bad crime stories.
But uh how how many is it possible to walk through a room where a TV or a radio is on in the last uh you know days, weeks, whatever.
I mean, how how many of us we we we most of us have a hard time identifying well, a lot of us, a lot of Americans, not a lot of us, we're smarter.
A lot of uh talk show listeners, I mean, whatever.
If you're if you're plugged into this show, you're probably at least a little sharper than the average bear.
But how many Americans could scarcely uh tell you how many people are on the Supreme Court or who the U.S. Senators are from their state?
But they sure know who Yoran Vandersloot is.
And this story makes me insane.
I've got a couple of points to make about journalism and what gets covered and why and what doesn't and why, and uh I just want to see if it resonates with you, and we got a number of other things from a busy week in the news.
So here in the last hour, let's spread our topical wings a little bit and uh uh examine some things from the periphery, shall we?
All righty.
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However, the the first thing we'll do probably when we come back is examine something that is right back into the hardcore breaking news department, uh, because after nearly half a year of tough negotiations, uh the United Nations Security Council has endorsed a U.S. sponsored sanctions resolution against Iran about its nuclear program.
So maybe we ought to do that first.
Let's do.
We got time, we can walk a chew gum at the same time.
All of it, welcome.
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Mark Davis in for rush, be right back.
Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis in for Rush, back on the phones with you for a number of things here as we work our way toward the top of the next hour, and that gives way to the next two Rush Limbaugh shows, Thursday, Friday, which will be hosted by Mark Belling.
He'll be great as always.
It's been great being with you.
Let me throw you a couple of things just uh on the shelf of stuff in my head.
Uh I like you have been inundated with uh stories about this uh Joran Vandersloot the guy uh who just uh appears to be cut from some horrible human cloth, might have uh uh killed Natalie Holloway, and apparently it's admitted to another killing in Peru, and you know, and that's okay, that's terrible.
Let us stipulate that is terrible.
Why do we all know who he is?
Why?
Think of something for me for a minute.
And this is about journalism, and I don't know if it's it's about tabloid coverage or about the nature of what we consume, because again, you can complain about tabloid journalism all you want, but there's a reason why it exists.
People consume it.
So if there's ever anything that is hugely popular in the marketplace, it's our fault.
And I don't mean ours necessarily yours and mine.
Uh, you know what I mean.
It is collectively society's fault.
Things that society wishes to reject soon are purged from the marketplace.
Things we wish to embrace are welcome.
And that's not always uplifting, but it's never i it it's never inaccurate.
The marketplace is never wrong.
And by that I mean I don't mean morally wrong, it's morally wrong all the time.
But I mean the marketplace is always a an accurate reflection of what people want to see and watch and do and read and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So I want you to imagine something.
I want you to imagine a story, a bad story, uh in which a woman is killed.
That's it.
That's all I'll tell you.
In your town.
Where's that going to wind up?
I guess first thing is it probably depends on the size of the town.
If it's your town's only murder, there may be a five-part series on it for the next uh, you know, five issues of the newspaper.
If it's in a pretty big city, probably Metro section page B six.
All right, it depends on because and that's about newsworthiness.
A lot of newsworthiness is born of oddity.
And if if it's a big city and you get some murders, the any given murder is probably not going to be above the fold on the front page.
Right?
So but imagine that someone is killed.
Where does it wind up in your local newspaper?
What is the likelihood?
And I don't know what you had in your head, what you imagined in your head when I told you about some murder happening in your town.
You know, somebody taking a bullet in an alley, somebody, you know, not to get too colorful here, but you know, something horrible that happens and some robbery gone wrong in a parking garage at three o'clock in the morning, any one of a number of familiar scenarios.
But chances are three towns over, nobody's gonna know it happened.
In the next state, certainly no one's gonna know it happened.
Nationally, no way everyone's gonna know it happened.
Part I don't mean to say, well, it's just another murder.
But when it's something that you have a lot of, it's not going to be nationally famous.
Why is this one?
Now, I'm not an idiot here.
I I know that there's there's this international intrigue thing and this Vandersleute guy is some kind of playboy, and and this was uh in some tropical locale.
But I'll tell you what I keep coming back to.
It's it's that Natalie Holloway was just beautiful.
If you kill somebody uh who the the image of whom makes people walk by a TV screen and go, woo, you're gonna be a lot more famous than if you kill someone for whom that's not true.
So you have the international location.
I just remember that what are we, five years past the Natalie Holloway story?
How do I know who she is?
How do I know who this guy is?
Because it's on TV all the stinking time.
And why is that?
And I I think it's because that there's there's a prurient, voyeuristic kind of uh uh decision-making ethic that goes into some of this, that that where everybody there were people doing shows from down there, you know, well, here we are in our you know, third week in Aruba hunting for Natalie Holloway's killer.
What?
And I'll tell you what that is that that hits me so very, very wrong.
First of all, God bless her and her family, and the attention paid to that, they've they've oh, they're opening up a center now, and that's fantastic for people who are abducted and killed.
I mean, whatever that may be.
God God bless them in that enterprise.
But the imagery that that gives off is that some young lady of maybe exactly the same age might get killed tonight in your town, and no one will know.
You know, why?
You tell me.
It it gives off the imagery that some lives are just worth more than others, that some murders are just more heinous by virtue of what?
Class?
Attractiveness, geography.
So that's just every time I hear this this execrable soul's uh name, it irks me for a couple of reasons.
Number one, I hate that he's famous because he probably loves it.
And the other thing is just the weird disconnect about how some brutal murders get all this attention, and others just don't.
So there's something.
Let that rattle around in your head or or reply to it if you wish.
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We're in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dan Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Welcome.
Mark, it is a pleasure to speak with you.
It's the first time I've gotten through to the Rush Limbaugh show, and it's a good day to do it.
Well, thank you.
Uh I wanted to uh try to have a little bit of point of clarification to why the uh legal residents of Arizona Hispanic descent might also be having a problem with the law, and that is because of the other laws on the books pertaining to aiding and abetting.
Uh if someone's caught transporting illegal, even if it, you know, aunt, uncle, nephews, nieces, whatever, they've been helping in the United States, then they're up for criminal prosecution as well.
Wow.
So one of the reasons why a thoroughly legal uh immigrant might be bolting from Arizona is because uh the you know aunt and uncle or grandma or something like that is is in the house or or they're involved in trying to help them live uh beyond the law, and then and the slings and arrows might then be pointed at them.
Exactly.
Okay.
Uh thoroughly plausible um uh plausible scenario.
Thank you.
Appreciate it very much.
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All right, coming up, uh a little more um immigration talk, a little more capitalism talk.
And uh let me make sure in Virginia Beach, Philip, that you stay with me, because I think you're gonna be first coming out of the bottom of the hour break here because uh you know, we're not together all the time, and and that means that you probably haven't heard my thought on the mosque at ground zero, but you soon will.
Mark Davis in for us.
Stick around, please.
Home stretch.
Once you get to the top of the hour, you and I are done with each other.
At least until uh these folks are gracious enough to have me back.
Mark Belling will be here tomorrow and Friday.
Uh I'm not sure.
Uh I've I do not know who's doing Monday.
They can slide me that and I'll be glad to impart that or or let Belling tell you.
But I do know that Rush is back on Tuesday of next week with honeymoon stories galore, I'm sure.
Best to him and to Catherine and just uh every every good wish.
And um just a pleasure to be here, uh, whether uh Rush is uh on a honeymoon or playing golf or just doing stuff, it's it's always a pleasure to be here and work with H.R. and Mike and uh and talk to all of you.
So let's hop in and do some more of that, shall we?
Let's go to the Tidewater area.
That's Virginia Beach VA Philip, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Nice to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Mark, good to talk to you.
Um just trying to get the word out to a degree to um really call this this mosque in in New York City what it is.
Um I think eventually after it's constructed, after it's commemorated, it's actually going to be received by the uh radical Islamists as a monument uh to commemorate a successful attack on the United States.
And I think the best way to combat that is honestly just call it what it's going to be early.
Well, I mean and and all right, i if I'm understanding you correctly, irrespective of its intent.
I mean, because there's there's there's worthy doubt as to the nobility of the intent of these of these folks.
I if there's such a thing as the American Society for Muslim Advancement, and and there is, and they're the ones out there saying all the right things and doing all the right things to try to bring the Islamic faith into the 21st century and not be terrorists and and and not hate us and all that good stuff.
I have nothing but good things to say about them.
But there's doubt about that, about whether there isn't some character uh in there somewhere who who is uh is not as uh as praiseworthy as that all might sound.
Am I am I hearing you correctly that no matter what they say, their noble goal is that once that thing is open, the radical Islamic world will look at that and say, look what we were able to do.
We got us a mosque at ground zero.
Well, Mark, I can answer that question easily with another question.
Do you do you really think that um that Iran right now is really interested in putting together a uh reactor for medical purposes and generating power, or are they trying to screw around long enough to put together a nuclear weapon?
Well, that's Iran, and it's and I'm but and takes me right to what uh that is the story, and everybody can that'll be in you know big in the news for the rest of the day that there's actually some sanctions against Iran moving through the United Nations, as there should be, and and it'll be interesting to see who lines up with that and who lines up against that, but that's uh that's a different subject.
Uh the let me ask you, do you believe that there is such a thing?
Does this exist?
Namely, a group of Islamic Americans who seek to distance from the murderous wing of their faith and exist peacefully in America and create a new and um and and praiseworthy image for their um for their reputation impaired religion.
I'd say if there were, they'd they'd pick a better time, a better place.
Exactly exactly.
Okay.
Uh because my answer is yes.
I have I mean, if I th does that character type exist, the peace-loving Muslim who hates Osama bin Laden is absolutely now.
But when you start to have groups moving forward with curious things that they want to do, especially something as tone-deaf and and and wound-ripping as a mosque at ground zero, you gotta wonder what is in their heads.
And there's this very nice lady who heads up this group, and I'm sure there are very nice people who are a part of this group, and there is a certain noble symmetry to peace-loving Muslims wanting to be part of the healing of Lower Manhattan, and to them I would say thanks.
But somewhere else.
Somewhere else, and I don't even mean a million miles.
I mean, just elsewhere on the island of Manhattan and not just steps away from where your faith brethren, no matter how much you wish to distance from them, did this unspeakable thing.
Don't call it tone deaf if you don't if you won't listen to that kind of music.
Okay.
It's built to a tone.
It's just not for us.
Well, the tone deafness that I refer to is, well, first of all, the biggest example of it.
Is their wish.
I mean, they sit there and they tell us, hey, it's great, we want to make peace.
We've what better place to make a peaceful coexistence overture than right there where all this terrible stuff happened?
Okay.
And you know when we're going to open it?
We're going to have a grand opening on the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
But good Lord, are you people hi?
What?
The 10th anniversary of 9-11.
So, you know, uh Philip Philip, thanks.
Let me uh let me thank you for that, because I I did a column on this in the Dallas Morning News, and there was a certain irony to it.
And I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
All right.
I I don't know.
I I've I don't know if I'd bet a mortgage payment that absolutely everybody with the American Society for Muslim Advancement is completely beyond reproach.
But for the sake of argument, let's say they are.
Let us stipulate for the sake of these couple of minutes of radio that these folks are exactly the kind of Muslims that everyone says we need more of.
uh there's their mission statement says they're dedicated to fostering an american muslim identity focusing on propelling their faith into the modern day and away from those ancient and just intractable hatreds that have spawned terrorism and and understandably damaged islam's image and
And uh with every breath I've taken, you know, here in my talk show years, you know, warning about underestimating the depths and scope of some of the murderous wing of the Muslim faith.
I've also always made time for corresponding messages of gratitude and support for the courageous trailblazers of a new Islam.
They are the real revolutionaries.
They are the ones who are creating a Muslim reformation that I hope will be a beacon for a peaceful Islamic future.
But until then, you know, you tell me about Cordoba House or whatever it'll be called on ground zero, and and I'll tell you two things.
Number one, lovely idea, number two, put it somewhere else.
And so even if you give the planners full benefit of the doubt for um for sincerity, and even if you envision no uh corrupting of that facility by jihadist infiltrators, and even if you believe them when they say they want to contribute to healing on the very spot where uh where fellow Muslims exacted such an evil toll,
it is still a horrible idea.
Even the noblest of intent doesn't uh make this okay.
There was a city official.
There was this uh, I mean, who's this board of the New York City community board?
Could you have a more generic title?
Uh there was just an o 29 to one in favor of this nonsense.
29 to 1.
Come on.
And one there was one official asked along the way, uh, you know, that that he had a great example.
If anybody's fuzzy on this concept, then I'll ask you the same thing and use the same examples he used.
Imagine you know uh peaceful post-war Germans setting up a Bach Chorale Society at Auschwitz, or or some Japanese plan to build a cultural center at Pearl Harbor.
Neither of those ideas would see the light of day.
When the wounds are uh are still deep and still fresh, is it too much to ask?
Well, I'll tell you, in terms of too much to ask.
It is too much to ask.
To ask the victims to compartmentalize and navigate their way around the motivations of, you know, these these uh well-meaning kindred souls looking to make it all right.
I mean, I can intellectually appreciate all of this, but when I started to hear the objections of loved ones who lost family members on 9-11, that's all I needed.
I uh do not intend to ask them to get over it.
Now, as will sometimes happen.
There were uh did they have these protests over because there was something planned uh over D Day.
An outfit called Stop Islamicization of America.
Okay, fine, okay.
But there was but some of their gig seemed a little unduly combative, you know.
Uh I uh this doesn't seem to have the the smell of an undercover cell on some subversive phony PR mission.
And if the American Society for Muslim Advancement uh is i is what it says it's about, uh they deserve credit and support for their goals.
Now that's a big if, but if they are, then that then yes.
And and uh and I'll show appreciation to anybody for with a wish to create a civilized Islam that can enjoy harmony with America and the West.
But uh that virtuous intent does not outweigh the overwhelming inappropriateness of uh locating Cordoba House.
Just steps away from where the Muslims of an admittedly different stripe killed thousands of us.
So there I am on the ground zero mosque.
Your thoughts welcome on that or anything else in these waning moments.
Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in.
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We'll be right back.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for this Wednesday.
Rush back next Tuesday.
I'm Mark Davis.
My pleasure to be with you yesterday and today.
Let's see what kind of magic we can ring out of the uh the talk show universe here in the last few moments.
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We are in New York City.
Rich.
Hey, Mark Davis.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, Mark, I'm I'm pretty good.
Um, you're doing a terrific job keeping up that streak of uh of excellent uh fill-in hosts.
I got to hand it to you.
You're very kind.
Um let me see if I could uh give you some magic for the last couple of minutes on the show.
Is that these politicians?
I can't tell you how sick and tired I am of them couching their little arguments in in in politics.
The you know, you made some excellent points about the mosque.
Uh going back to that um uh the issue in Arizona with the with the border law.
I mean, that's spinning this, you know, it it ought to be called the non-discrimination act of 2010.
You know, let's face it, it said seven or eight times in that law that you're not allowed to discriminate based on uh based on race.
But you know, here in New York, I gotta tell you to to be frustrated in New York is an understatement with uh people like Chuck Schumer and and Gillibrand and these congressmen that just go vote down the party line.
You know, we need we need people to to step up to the plate.
And uh, you know, what you were saying, I gotta tell you, it reminded me of a guy that I heard who actually won the Republican nomination to face Chuck Schumer.
Uh, this guy Gary Burnson, have you ever heard of him?
He led the CIA in in in 2001 against bin Laden.
Uh this this guy is uh is really something else.
Well, do you do you think I mean again, objectivity is sometimes hard when we want something so very badly, but do you think uh f there's any scenario by which Chuck Schumer gets beaten?
Yeah, you know, it's g it's it's like a Scott Brown thing.
This guy he he went to the convention and he reportedly had like all this Tea Party support at the at the convention and and uh and he's got Tea Party support across the state.
I think that uh that maybe looking at another Scott Brown scenario.
I know I listen, uh the days are over when I take a look at any at anybody and say they're unbeatable.
Uh those days are over.
I would suggest that Chuck Schumer would probably be one of the tougher ones, but you know what?
Tough does not mean impossible.
Uh thank you.
Let me get uh one more gentleman on the this uh this segment here, and that's gonna be in Lavonia, Michigan.
Hey, Leonard, Mark Davis here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Uh just wanted to make a point.
One of your gentlemen earlier uh made the point that uh the Arizona law basically and the transporting of people makes you an accomplice.
Well, how about all these mayors in these sanctuary cities?
Aren't they aiding in a betting also?
Yeah, I mean, in in a conversational sense, absolutely.
But uh if you're seeking to uh uh uh really talk about it as a legal term, uh aiding and a betting involves really something that you actually do to actually aid and abet.
Sanctuary cities are more sins of omission than commission, and by that I means uh things that a city will not do.
They do not allow municipal funds or resources to be used to enforce federal immigration laws.
They don't allow police or municipal employees to inquire about immigration status.
Now you and I both know sitting here just being a couple of guys, you bet that's aiding and abetting.
But in terms of its actual legal definition, its prosecutable definition, it would be uh a step away from that.
But your point is nonetheless well taken.
Okay, you have a great day.
Thank you, I sure will.
And not a bad day.
Got my own glorious little show here on WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth, and that's all great.
And um if you're ever in town, just pop in at uh listen to WBAP and we'll hear me slinging Texas topics.
And then every once in a while there are those special days when I get to do this.
And those are just beyond uh beyond great.
And on these occasions, uh two things happen.
Number one, I hear from everybody I ever went to high school with, or everybody I I ever worked with, from Tampa to Charleston, West Virginia to Jacksonville to uh to Memphis, and that's great.
And the other thing is I get stuff from people who just manage to find me.
Ed who want to just throw me something by virtue of uh uh of the the world of the internet.
So I guess that's why God made Twitter.
So uh or maybe we shouldn't saddle God with Twitter, I don't know.
Did we make that against his will or is that in keeping with his will?
I'll leave that to others.
But in the meantime, uh you're welcome to hop on Twitter and uh and and follow me along wherever I may take you at.
Mark Davis, all one word.
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Okay, enough about that.
Let's come back with a final thought or two on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in, and we'll see you for that in just a second.
Well, so what do you cram into the last minute uh of the Rush Limbaugh Show?
How about a little bit of unfinished bidness?
I've had to do a little bit of homework here because uh again, so Frank Lunz calls me last night and thanks me about uh I need to perhaps become his agent or something, because I think we uh I think we sold a couple of his books by invoking those.
But uh my wish was to impart some of the wisdom that he imparted to an event where I was in attendance about uh language and phraseology and and how to put things in a way that helps Republicans win more.
But he told me last night that they are just doing a ton of of these instant response sessions and uh and and focus groups that you can be a part of.
And uh so only I can tell you is two things.
Number one, when I find out exactly what that is, I'll put it on Twitter, Mark Davis, all one word, M A R K D A V I S. But I might have found something.
Uh Frank's outfit is the Word Doctors at WordDoctors.com.
And there's a thing called focus group sign up, and you leave your email, and I bet they'll be in touch with you.
And as Frank and his folks traverse the country, uh they may find you have put you in a room with those little dials and test what your opinions are on certain political messages and things like that.
So all right.
And with that, let me uh thank H.R. and Mike and and Rush and his new bride and uh wish them the best, and uh and uh we pine for their return on Tuesday.
Till then, Mark Belling, tomorrow and Friday.
And uh for all of us uh here in Texas, lots of love from this proud Limbaugh affiliate, WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, to whatever station you might be listening to.
And for me to you, I'm Mark Davis.
God bless you, God bless our country and our troops.
Whenever the next time is, I'll see you right here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Meanwhile, have a fantastic day.
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