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Aug. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 3, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, I was just a couple years ago, uh, almost exactly, almost exactly two years ago that Obama told us that he does not buy his daughter's birthday or Christmas presents.
He doesn't.
But we're supposed to have a birthday party for him and uh donate to his campaign all over the country.
It was a UK telegraph story.
Obama does not give birthday presents to children.
Alex Spilius in Washington.
In a magazine interview, Obama and his wife Michelle revealed that one of their steadfast house rules is not giving Christmas or birthday presents to Malia ten.
Or Sasha seven.
The Obamas said they spent hundreds on birthday slumber parties, and they wanted to teach some limits to their children.
Santa Claus still permitted to deliver seasonal gifts, however, but the Obama parents do not.
And yet birthday parties for the one all over the country, where people are supposed to donate.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A thrill and a delight to be with you.
Dear Rush, you said that you would post your wedding pictures online.
I have been eagerly waiting to see them.
And I'm sure they're lovely.
When will you have sorted out the 5,000 photos?
It's actually 7,000 photos, folks.
Because I forgot the said the first night.
It was a it was a uh a two-day batch of Friday night luau.
So there's a total of 7,000 pictures.
And you're right.
This is from Suzanne, and Suzanne, you're right.
And I did say we're going to post them online, and we are.
I I did not want to upstage the Clinton wedding.
Uh, folks.
Uh and any photos that they might have released.
I'm hoping that by next week we will uh will be able to uh to do this.
Some of these pictures are not just pictures, they're actually works of art.
We have uh we're in the process of of going through them and picking out pictures of all the guests and uh both emailing and sending prints to them.
Uh and there's a we have uh the photo photographer put up a giant website with all these photos for us to go through.
It's a lot of pictures.
Because we banned personal cameras.
We did not let anybody bring personal cameras in there, and nobody did.
Nobody we said, don't worry about it.
We'll take pictures of everything and we'll get them to you.
But it's gonna be until the end of the summer before we're able to get all these pictures out to all the guests.
So we're working on it.
I was not lying.
I was not misleading.
Oh, uh Snarly since you're asking uh answering personal questions, how's the uh baby dog baby dog Wellesley?
Uh they're they're puppies, yeah.
It's that little dog is it, little puppy is just it's just hilarious to watch these two dogs.
They l they're they're like best buds after five minutes.
I mean, it's the it's it's I mean, sure everybody's got these dog stories.
I don't want to bore you with with ours, but they love each other and they chase each other all over the house, outside, inside doesn't matter.
Uh it's uh Well, pumpkin's adjusted to it.
Uh pumpkin pumpkin just looks at him running around like they're a bunch of idiots, but uh she doesn't leave the room uh w when they come in.
She's she's adjusted, it's just it's kind of funny.
It it looked, these two dogs remind me of the Roadrunner and the coyote cartoon with the coyote always chasing the roadrunner, one of these dogs always chasing the other.
And pumpkin just stands there like watching a tennis match, head going back and forth watching the dogs and looking at them like they're idiots.
It's uh and one of the dogs was spot pumpkin on a footstool, come over and get in pumpkin's face and pump goes just hiss.
And a dog the puppy goes starts whimpering, even though nothing's happened, backs off, and starts circling around to come in from the rear.
Uh, but you can't fool, can't fool punk.
It's fun to watch all this stuff.
So anyway, uh we'll get the pictures up as soon as we can.
Uh just it's it's it's a matter of putting them up with a website, watermarking them a number of things.
We don't want anybody being able to download these.
Well, that's another problem.
People are going to be able to get them.
And photoshop them and monkey around with them.
And we're just trying to do uh take whatever steps we can to see to it that that's as difficult as uh as it can be.
All right, uh, what else?
Uh oh.
Oh, Gibbs.
We have the soundbite of Gibbs this afternoon at the White House press briefing, being asked a question by Susan Malvo.
There's a debate taking place in the Weva Ork.
Whether or not it's appropriate to build a mosque, Islamic cultural center near the site of ground zero.
What's the administration's position on this?
I've been asked about this a couple of times.
I I think this is a uh rightly a matter for uh New York City and the local community to decide.
The president takes a position on religious freedom on tolerance.
Why wouldn't the administration I think you've heard this administration and the last administration talk about the fact that we are not at war with a religion but with an idea that has corrupted our religion?
But that having been said, I'm uh I'm not from here going to get involved in in local decision making like isn't this fascinating?
Not gonna get involved in local decision making.
Wouldn't you love to be hearing that in Arizona?
We're not gonna get involved in a local.
Let me ask you a question.
Was it just New York that was attacked on 9-11 or was it the country?
Was the country, was it not?
The United States of America was attacked on 9-11.
They're getting involved in our local health care decisions.
They're getting involved in a kind of cars that we buy.
They are getting involved in virtually every aspect of our lives they can insert themselves.
Wall Street's local, Wall Street's local, Wall Street is specifically in New York, and I don't see Obama saying, well, it's something for New York to handle.
We're not going to really worry about bonuses there.
Uh that's uh that's something for me or Bloomberg.
You know, we we believe in financial freedom.
I don't see him saying that.
They are telling us what kind of thermostats we're gonna have in our houses.
They're telling us what kind of light bulbs we're going to have in our houses.
They are involving themselves intimately at the local and personal level.
But when it comes to the mosque, Gibbs said, well, I've said this repeatedly.
Uh it's a local, uh, local issue.
Um religious freedom tolerance, uh, well, local community, uh, decide that.
Arizona, non-national, Arizona's local.
Arizona can't deal with I mean, Phoenix is local.
Phoenix got immigration problems.
The governor, the mayor, sheriffs that run counties are not allowed.
Uh Henry Gates, Skip Gates.
He local.
Broke into his own house.
Neighbor call a cop, Obama call a cop stupid, had to have a beer summit at the White House.
That's local.
You can't get more local in somebody's house.
And Obama inserted himself in that.
But we're not involved in the local community uh issue, mosque.
You're not going to decide.
That's that's for other people to decide.
Meanwhile, since we're speaking of Arizona and all this, in a decision that could lay the groundwork for an Arizona-style immigration policy.
Virginia's attorney general said the state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anybody stopped or arrested, and they're doing this without a law because there's already a law.
It's called federal law.
They're doing this in Rhode Island.
They're doing this in a number of states.
Local authorities, local law enforcement, is allowed to ask if you're illegal or not after being stopped on another violation.
The Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the legal opinion Friday, extending that authority to Virginia police in response to an inquiry over whether the state could mirror the policies passed into law in Arizona.
And we have a couple of soundbites.
Number 2728 here.
Last night on the record with Greta Van Susterin, Cucinelli was the guest.
First question, this whole idea of the Commerce Clause.
Commerce is when uh there's a substantial effect on the on the different states on commerce.
And what the judge said is that requiring a mandate is not an economic transaction.
She's talking about the judge Henry Hudson who said the suit against Obamacare in Virginia can go forward on the basis that the government cannot mandate that anybody buy anything based on commerce clause.
And even the administration now said, well, we're looking at this as a tax.
And we have the power to levy taxes.
But the judge Henry Hudson said, go for it.
The suit can continue.
And she asked the state attorney general about that.
Virginia's position is that ordering the purchase of health insurance is not regulating economic activity.
What are you regulating?
You're regulating somebody doing nothing.
That's inactivity.
Repose is the word he used in the opinion.
A state of repose.
You're doing nothing.
The Commerce Clause presumes the existence of not only activity, but economic activity or activity that affects economic activity.
And he says doing nothing is quite a stretch to make that argument.
So Van Sustra then says, well, I assume the attorney generals in Florida will be seizing upon that as they as they read this decision now, and they're probably going to seize upon that language that essentially that doing nothing is not economic activity that can be regulated under the clause.
And an interesting thing for people to think about is if this is activity that can be regulated under the Commerce Clause, then the federal government can reach anything.
This is where you get to the massive expansion of federal power.
If they can say that ordering you to do something is economic activity, ordering you into the economy, then they can order you to do anything.
And we don't any longer have a government of limited powers.
That's a major concern.
We lose this case, it's the end of federalism.
Right on, right on, right on.
This is the Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, who also the same time said that the police can check the immigration status of people stopped on other violations of the law.
What Arizona was going to do, what they do in Rhode Island.
Virginia, this was becoming a liberal base.
Brief timeout, as promised, your phone calls are next after this.
Here's a little bit more on uh on Judge Henry Hudson's decision not to dismiss a case that the state of Virginia filed against Obamacare.
Now, this this is a this is a man who is a by the book, by the Constitution kind of judge.
Henry Hudson.
Thirty-two states, besides the Commonwealth of Virginia, have mounted legal and legislative challenges to Obamacare.
And there's a ballot initiative today in Missouri.
The residents of the state of Missouri are voting whether or not to opt out, whether they can they can opt out of the whole thing.
That's going to be watched as well, in addition to the 32-33 states that amounted legal and legislative challenges.
Now you you've got to imagine the momentum that that this is first preliminary ruling is going to give to other attorney generals or attorneys general and legislative branches, because this I remember when the ruling came out yesterday, it was uh a big upper for a lot of us.
It was all right, we're not used to things going our way in the courts.
And this was huge.
Now, who's keeping track of all this besides me, your trusted and beloved host?
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Well, it's passed, and we still don't know.
There's a flow chart going around the internet that is indecipherable.
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Okay, to the phones, Dave in Indianapolis.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Your next hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Yes, sir.
Uh I first want to uh tell you that the uh I I would bet the late and great uh William F. Buckley Jr. is smiling down on you right now.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
That that would be uh an honor if so.
Well, it it should be.
And then secondly, uh before I get to my points, you and I are the same age.
I took up golf thirteen years ago.
We have similar handicap, and I'm looking forward to you and Hank Haney.
You know, we start filming that later this month.
Um I've got two episodes.
Well, two episodes.
Well, I've got I've got two sessions to tape later this month somewhere here in Florida, and then uh early September over in Hawaii.
Oh, I'm sure you're just gonna have a ball.
Well, it is going to be a blast.
I'm looking forward to it too.
Here's what I want to share.
My wife Sue and I had the honor a couple of weeks ago of having lunch with uh Congressman Mike Pence.
Oh, yes.
Wonderful conservative from our state, as you know.
Right.
Uh and I shared two things with him I want to share with you.
Uh the first is hyperbole, the second is factual, but the hyperbole I said to him, I said, you know, eighteen months ago, if you uh Sarah uh or Mitt Romney or the great governor from Indiana, Mitch Daniels, had been elected president, we would without question be approaching a million jobs a month being created, not created and saved, but created this this year.
I really believe that.
But the second thing are facts that can be checked out.
The Republicans are terrible at communication.
I would love, if I were setting up the PR for them, to share or to let them use Bush as who they're going against this year.
Because I'll tell you, here's what I would point out.
First of all, Bush left with a 459 billion dollar deficit, not a 1.5 trillion.
Secondly, he left 300 billion of the 700 billion TARP fund for the discretion of this president to spend or not spend.
Just a matter of days ago, I heard the president say that he inherited one and a half trillion dollar deficit.
He didn't.
He created that.
Now, the one reason that the Democrats have to, and I mean they have to make sure that they do not turn back the tax cuts from 2001, uh, is because they would learn, the the middle class would learn just how much Bush helped them.
The person who's making $75,000 a year today with a mortgage and two children, married and two children, they're paying zero in federal income taxes.
If he turned back the tax cuts to before Bush and the tax reform act of 2001, they would go back to about $3200 a year in federal income taxes.
So really what the Republicans do poorly is sell the idea that they are for the middle class.
The Democrats have painted them into this picture that they are not for the middle class, and they really are.
Well, again, this is this is one of these cans of worms that that uh it happens, I can guarantee once a week.
Why don't the Republicans do this, or here's what the Republicans ought to do?
Uh I can't explain why they don't have the uh the attitude that you do uh about this.
I I well I can, but I'm frankly it's a broken record.
I mean, I I think they're just uh they don't believe it.
they don't believe anybody's gonna believe them.
Well, uh I'll be able to do that.
I mean, they're looking a lot of these Republicans, a lot of these Republicans are not big on Reaganomics.
A lot of not Mike Pence and not the guys you're talking about, but some of the Republican leaders don't they they don't believe it themselves.
They they don't believe this middle class tax cut stuff works.
Well, my father was that conservative Democrat, and that's an oxymoron today.
He wouldn't be today.
And I've never been involved in politics until supporting Denny Fashburn, who's running for Marion County Sheriff, a wonderful conservative Christian.
But I can tell you just from a voter all of my life, conservative comes first to me, the word Republican second, but those two are synonymous.
At least the ideals of the platform are synonymous.
You're fighting upstream to be a Democrat and try to be conservative.
Well, I know.
Uh we're we're on the same page, but but Republican and conservative are not synonymous with way too many Republicans.
No, you're you're you're right, but I mean at least the platform stands for that.
And I tell you, Mitch Daniels made a wonderful point this year, and he got he got kind of criticized by a lot of national people for it.
But he said the next president should forget about, and he didn't say just not have anything to do with it, but should forget about the abortion issue and the gay rights issue and concentrate on the fiscal issue that's standing in front of us.
And boy, a person like him just absolutely understands what has to be done in that regard.
Well, that's uh that's easier said than done.
That's true.
That's that's that's true, but I think that's a good thing.
That's not gonna unite the Republican Party.
I'm just telling you right now, doing that is not gonna work.
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Bob grad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Thanks, Russ.
It's an honor to speak with you mega ditto after 20 years of being a listener.
It's good to talk with you.
Thank you, Rob, very much.
I um just was telling Bo.
My I I'm upset about the as you point out, the selective enforcement of the immigration policy or any policy the government has.
My wife came over here ten years ago from Ukraine.
She just finished up her PhD, and uh at the end of this month, we're moving to Ukraine because the visa she came on had a two-year home stay requirement.
And the government has chosen to enforce that and make her leave for two years.
Um it just galls me to watch this thing in Arizona with them telling the state of Arizona not to enforce that policy.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Uh, this is this is something that has that has been puzzling me.
We are doing everything we can to keep the world's best and brightest out.
Exactly.
We are opening the floodgates to the ill-educated, uneducated, and uninformed.
Now there's a reason for this.
It's much easier to turn the ill-educated, uneducated, uninformed into Democrats, because that's who votes for them anyway.
Well, that's a good point.
Well, I'm not looking uh I'm not trying to be controversial with this.
Why do you think Obama's for amnesty?
It's the largest voter registration drive in the history of the country.
Those are undocumented Democrats.
Your wife and other highly educated people, the limits on highly educated uh uh immigration is incredible.
It's not just your wife.
It's it's talk to the people in Silicon Valley, talk to the people in uh in in in in in the job sector that need engineers, highly highly degreed and educated people.
Uh the the number of them that can get in legally is is uh it's minimal.
Oh, yeah, and we found that whole community.
And you know, one of the things they told us that recently is because we didn't have enough debt.
They said because we our debt load isn't too high, it's not a hardship for us to have to leave the country.
You kidding?
Yes.
Your debt load wasn't high enough?
Yes.
Because she paid off her schooling as she went, she didn't take out a bunch of student loans.
Um She's graduated with no debt, and I don't know.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
You mean if your family owed more if you were if you're more in debt, it would have helped her stay in the country.
Uh the theory being that she needed to work to pay off the debt.
Exactly.
That's exactly the point I'm making.
Who told you this?
That was um what the I I forget which bureau was that was reviewed our case.
They were requesting more evidence, and within their request, they put down that our debt mode's not high enough, and it doesn't constitute an extreme harmship.
What are the immigration bureaus or departments or immigration customs enforcement?
It's ICE.
That's the acronym.
Are you sure about that?
I mean, you're not you're not exaggerating a little bit here.
No, I I mean this there are other reasons why they say we can't stay, but that was one of the things they cited in in addition to the other thing, but but um wasn't high, and so it doesn't constitute a hardship, right?
Let me tell you something.
You know, it it's it's uh it's very quick obvious that that our government selectively enforces the law.
Absolutely.
Maybe we ought to selectively obey it.
No, I'm just um don't don't take me literally on that.
Don't worry.
I gotta be I know I'd be the one that gets enforced if we chose not to obey it.
Well, you know the here's the the the truth of the matter is that educated immigrants go to the back of the line.
And they always have.
They go to the back of the line.
They're they're the they're they're they're behind the family reunification program.
That's that's why we have chain immigration.
And you well, you you saying you you didn't get a hardship waiver because you're not in debt, basically.
Well, that and because we don't uh uh the other reason we didn't get it is because I'm not physically handicapped or ill.
Okay, well, do do two things.
Go fall down the steps and blow out your knee and go buy a house you can't afford.
Perfect.
And I'll get loans on both sides, right?
Problem solved.
Yeah, amen.
All right.
Thanks, Russ.
I'm glad you called.
We have to read it here to help.
Paul in uh in St. Louis, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, greetings from your home state of Missouri.
Thank you, sir.
And uh, I just wanted to to let you know that I was one of the lucky, lucky people who got to get up at the crack of them this morning, uh, go to my polling place and be one of the first people in the nation to cast uh cast a ballot against Obamacare, and it felt great.
What was the turnout?
Turnout was actually put for for a primary election, especially in an off-presidential uh year.
I had to wait I had to wait about ten minutes for a ballot.
So that gives you a sense of which in my neighborhood that's a long time in a primary state.
Now, is it is there any trick analogy in the wording of this ballot initiative?
In many states, uh they'll word it so that when you vote no on something, you're actually voting yes.
Well, i it is a little bit tricky in the respect that what what you're uh a yes vote on Prop C is essentially voting to amend our Constitution to prohibit the federal government f from forcing us to purchase health insurance.
So you do have to actually vote yes.
Um so it is a little tricky in that respect.
So if people think they're voting no on this, they're opposed health care, they're not.
No, you want you want to vote yes, and and that essentially is a vote to assert state.
All right, now, how good a job has the local media done in explaining that?
Uh very poor.
Yeah.
Very poor.
And and I think deliberately so.
But the the the good news is that for for those in the audience who who have not uh had the good fortune to have that feeling of walking out of the ballot box yet and voting against Obamacare, you know, I just would encourage them to get active and and vote in November.
We're we've got a very hotly contested Senate race in Missouri, and we have one candidate who is essentially a rubber stamp for for the president, and one who is not, and uh and I'm looking forward to going back in November and and doing it again.
It's nice to feel powerful, you know, as opposed to what we've been feeling for the last couple of years.
Yeah, well, I think uh a lot of people are so motivated.
Uh well, it's I tell you people can't wait.
People can't wait for November.
People might be a little jealous of you.
That you gotta you got your emotional satisfaction uh earlier than November, but believe me, people are chomping at the bit.
And the partisan political operatives in the uh in the media.
I mean, they're alluding to it, but they're not giving voice to it.
But there is genuine outrage and opposition out there.
Here Here is the text of the Missouri ballot proposal.
As it appears on the ballot today, for a Missouri proposal that attempts to reject key portions of the new federal health care law.
Shall the Missouri statutes be amended to deny the government authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful health care services?
That's the question on the ballot.
Shall the Missouri statutes be amended to deny the government authority?
Yes.
The statutes should be amended to deny the federal government the authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance.
So it is pretty straightforward.
Quick timeout.
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Via the Hill newspaper, the ACLU has praised the mosque, the Muslim center near ground zero.
The ACLU, by the way, is a 501c3 taxpayer-supported charity.
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union praised the center's progress, saying it represents the core of American values.
The mosque, the ACLU, represents the core of American values.
If the ACLU thinks it, so does Obama.
Here's Dan in Philadelphia.
You're great to be on the program.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you?
Very good.
Hey, Rush, this one thing on the mosque that I haven't heard anything addressed, uh I haven't had it heard it addressed.
What are where are the unions going to weigh in?
There's nothing that's done in New York that from a turnful of shovel of us of dirt to uh hammering a picture on a wall that's not done by unions out there.
This place is going to be built by unions.
Yeah.
How do they reconcile that?
So?
So how do they do it?
How do they do it with their brothers?
Policemen are firemen's unions.
There are unions too.
How do these people do it?
How do they reconcile building this place in light of what they're doing?
Um have you ever heard of Richard Trumka?
Have you ever heard of Andy Stern?
Well, I've heard of them, but I haven't heard them address this.
I'd like to see them do this.
Well, they support Obama.
And they are the two biggest union chieftains in the country.
So I think if a contest ensues between the trade unions, the people could build the mosque, if they indeed are going to do that.
Uh, over loyalty to the cops and firemen, the first responders who died in 9-11 versus Obama.
Uh that's not a contest.
Well, they'll have they'll have to publicly do it.
And that'll be a contest.
It'll be a contest certainly for the rank and file.
Well, it'll be interesting to see.
It's a good point.
It will be interesting to see, but the leadership is not a question mark.
Yeah.
Leadership's not a question mark.
Interesting, uh interesting point.
By the way, how how are you doing yet?
The NFL season coming up with no Donovan McNabb, no number five on the Eagles.
Uh how are you doing?
How's your attitude going in the season?
It's fine.
It's just another page turn, another new players, and besides it's just another product.
Uh and these guys will do those guys will put their uh their brand of it out there.
Let me ask you a question.
Uh the the day that trade was announced, uh, Donovan McNabb traded to the Washington Redskins.
Did the sun come up the next day in Philadelphia?
Sure did.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's a good man.
He's a good man, but his time has had come, and it's time for uh new players.
God's a powerful entity in all this.
Really is.
Thanks, uh thanks uh uh Dan.
Matt, Charleston, South Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Always an honor to talk about.
Very good.
Thank you very much.
Hey, uh Biden said in a recent interview that in Obama's first year in office that he has healed relations with the Muslim world.
So I'm wondering why all the fuss over the mosque.
I mean, everything's fixed now, thanks to Obama, right?
At least according to Biden.
Well, yeah, except that I don't think Biden's any a lot of people ran a move to throw Biden overboard.
Uh uh Douglas Wilder, uh, who invented the Wilder effect, uh, has written a piece demanding that uh Biden be thrown off a ticket replaced by Hillary.
We had uh we had Gibbs kind of throw Biden overboard yesterday when asked about all the corruption and the fraud and the stimulus package.
Well, vice president's watching that.
Uh and the vice president said the heavy lifting is over.
Uh all the work that we're gonna do on fixing the economy, so we're at nine percent unemployment going to stay there.
Uh housing starts all the economic economy's as good as we can make it.
Now time to go back to campaigning.
So I don't I don't know that people in the administration are really relying on what uh Vice President Bite me says.
But I get your point, nevertheless.
It's a great rhetorical point.
Rush, thanks for all you do, and don't ever change.
Thank I well, you know it's very difficult to change because I'm just me, me.
If I were acting, I could change.
And you're great.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Very much, I appreciate that.
I really do.
Here's uh where are we going?
Damn it, am I damn?
It's Tucson and Barney.
Barney, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
You know, we're almost 70 years past Pearl Harbor.
But even today, if the Japanese wanted to build a shrine to their emperor within sight of the USS Arizona Memorial, there'd be a holy uproar.
Uh where?
Nationwide.
Uh, really.
That would be my hope with uh this country wouldn't sit by.
There's just political correctness rules the issue on this particular one, and there's not the uproar that there ought to be.
I mean, you're not seeing it, because it's not being reported.
But you're not alone.
We're not we're we're we are in the vast majority, close to 80 percent of the American people oppose this.
Well, here's hoping that their voices are heard.
Well, uh Obama just passed it off.
It's a local issue, so the people of New York can do what they want.
Well, we can't do that.
I just I don't what if what if what if we what if we built a couple giant monuments in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Uh giant replicas of a nuclear bomb.
Doesn't sound like our style.
No, but if we did, and and called it a Manhattan Project, what would the reaction be in Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Tokyo?
Uh mass demonstrations, bombing, uh the uh I think they try to buy Rockefeller Center Trust again.
Well, wouldn't mind a little bit of uh uh uh additional investment in this country, but not in the form of a mosque at ground zero.
I understand, and I think uh you're not alone, as I say.
Uh the vast majority of the uh American people are with you on that.
Uh, we got time to squeeze one more in in Columbus, Ohio.
This is Seth.
Seth, welcome to Hello Rush.
How are you?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
I have a quick question since we're very tolerant.
considering building a mosque at Ground Zero, wondering if they'd be open to building a synagogue at Mecca.
Well, that yeah, that may be the best example.
Well, that'd be some tolerance, just like we uh they're expecting from us.
Synagogue in Mecca.
Right.
Excellent point out there, Seth.
Thank you.
You bet.
That's uh Seth in uh Columbus, Ohio.
Glad you called Seth.
Brief timeout, back to wrap it up after this.
Now they told us, folks, that we had to get rid of uh Club Gitmo.
Well, we had a close Club Gitmo.
Why?
Because it was a recruiting tool for terrorists.
Remember that?
I mean, it we we were we were creating other terrorists just by going to Iraq and by and by having Club Gitmo open.
Now, if Club Gidmo open Is a recruiting tool for foreign extremists.
What about a World Trade Center mosque being a recruiting tool for domestic extremists?
Those that are already here.
By the way, it worked, folks, a media tweak of the day.
Already video up of uh of me, El Rushbo, saying, Yeah, tomorrow's Obama's birthday.
Not that we've seen any proof of it.
They fell for it again.
It's gone viral.
It is more fun tweaking the media and these leftists than I have ever had.
Well, almost.
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