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Sept. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
And remember, it's racist to inquire about my immigration status, so don't even think about it.
Or uh Eric Holder will sue you and Hillary Clinton will report you as a human rights violation to the UN Human Rights Council.
Undocumented and loving it.
Rush is uh he's on his annual uh golf uh vacation.
Uh uh it Yeah, yeah, the uh end of summer golf he's not this guy uh HR who's responded this uh uh an unnamed golfer in California trying to hit a ball out of the rough uh s uh hit the ball off a rock, the spark from it caused a wildfire that devastated twelve densely wooded acres and required a hundred and fifty uh firefighters to put put it out.
That wasn't Rush, was it?
It's uh well you say HR says it sounds like his swing.
Uh uh well uh I think the penal the penalty the penalty I'm I'm not sure.
I assume they resume the game after the after like when once the uh once the stubble, once the the brush and the has all been cleared away in the charred ruins of the beautifully landscaped uh county that has been devastated, they res I assume they resume the game.
But uh, you know, I I I'm uh it's no surprise to find Rush on a uh golfing vacation because uh there's no doubt about it.
I think golf uh does cause global warming, and uh I think this is this is pretty I would build uh uh the whole business with the r the rainforest, right, in Brazil that all the eco crowd are mad about.
I wouldn't be the same thing.
Somebody's down there, big golfing vacation, boom, there goes the rainforest.
Uh the uh the uh Haitian earthquake.
Wasn't wasn't Rush playing golf in the Dominican Republic around that time?
It's the same island.
Chips the ball over the border fence, boom!
There you go, Haitian earthquake.
Anyway, great to be uh great to be with you.
Uh as I said, Rush Rush will be back uh Tuesday.
Uh Monday, best of rush, rush back live on Tuesday.
It's an all mark guest host week at the EIB network.
Mark Belling was here yesterday.
Uh I'll be here tomorrow, and Mark Davis in on Friday.
He's the one with that uh sinister foreign accent that kind of creeps you out a bit after you've been listening to it for a while.
Um you may have noticed a few breaches of the All Mark guest host uh roster.
There was uh there was a Doug here a couple couple of days back, and there was a Carl here a uh the other week.
I think I heard a Nigel guest hosting uh one Wednesday.
So we at local 173 of the amalgamated union of guest hosts had to have a big showdown with uh with management and and uh re establish the all mark guest host roster.
We had to make a couple of concessions.
Uh so EIB are allowed to use uh non mark guest hosts on public holidays when they're permitted to use a gay lord.
So listen to our first gay lord who'll be here hosting the show uh on Labor Day on Monday.
Labor Day, that's uh that's the day when you get twenty-four hours rest from all the gangbusters economic activity of the recovery summer.
You know, recovery summer has been uh so exhausting.
You know, just filling those orders, the pounding that cash register all day long.
Every American could use a day off.
So um if you haven't yet been laid off, uh Labor Day is a terrific opportunity to practice what'll it'll be like once you have been.
Um I've been out of the country for uh for most of the recovery summer.
I had to go overseas to recover from the recovery summer.
Um I had a uh lovely villa at Marbella uh overlooking the beach closed off for Michelle Obama.
So I had a great view of uh Secret Service men standing around holding the first lady's shopping bags.
It was uh very scenic.
Anyway, I'm still uh re-aclimatizing.
I flew into New York uh last night.
Uh the plane landed on schedule, so unfortunately I was in time to see Obama's speech, uh, which we will discuss in uh this first hour of the show today.
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Seems to have been universally panned uh that speech, but uh we will get to it and we will dissect it and we will discuss what it tells us about where the United States is going at uh at this critic uh this critical time.
You know, I love it when I come back into the country.
I don't get me wrong, I love that I'm a sinister foreigner, but I love this country.
But um uh whenever I come back, the one thing that drives me nuts is uh I go back to my beloved state of New Hampshire, which is one of the most beautiful states on God's green earth, and there's more signs every time I've been away and I land, there's more signs along the highway.
The whole state is like some kind of Burma-shaved theme park now.
You're never out of sight uh of a sign.
They've got on rural remote rural highways now, they're introducing uh not mile markers, but fifth of a mile markers.
Fifth of a mile marker, so you're never out of sight of a fifth of a mile marker mile marker sign.
Uh and in between them, uh no doubt at some point they'll put up one of those stupid signs that says there's a fifth of a mile marker sign approaching.
That's the other thing that's crazy about crazy.
Have you seen this?
Stop sign approaching signs.
So you have the stop sign, and then before you have the stop sign, you have a sign that says there's a stop sign approaching.
And that uh I don't know whether it's uh it's well, it may be stimulus money, because stimul because it can't all have gone for the signs just saying this this sign is brought to you by the Obama stimulus package.
There may have been some other signs in there.
Um the uh then you got so you got the sign for the stop sign approaching, then you've got the stop sign, hundred yards before the stop sign approaching sign, you've got a sign saying that there's a stop sign approaching sign approaching.
It's I don't know, I don't get this.
I live in the most beautiful state in the world.
The Connecticut River.
That's a beautiful river.
You can't see it.
You can't see the Connecticut River, because though of all the signs saying this designated scenic heritage river brought to you by the Commission for America's Watery Heritage Rivers.
All the way along, all the way along.
Uh people talk about you know, we're gonna talk about spending later in the show.
People keep and and when you talk about getting government spending under control.
People always say, Oh, well, you conservatives, talk about that.
But actually, when you look at all these individual programs, people like the programs.
People like the programs, so there's no fat to cut out of the budget.
Well, let's start with the stop sign approaching signs.
Uh why don't we start by taking out the budget for stop sign approaching signs?
It's just a small little thing there.
Just any sign with the word approaching in it, any any sign that is in fact just an announcement for a forthcoming sign.
Uh let's just start la start with that.
Why don't we take that out of the budget?
Imam Raouf.
That's the other thing.
That's the other thing I find.
I'd got you know, we might get into this ground zero mosque business as well.
But before we do, this Imam, he's out of the country.
He announced today he was cutting short his uh uh his trip overseas and flying back in to deal with some of the bad publicity about the ground zero mosque.
Now, I'm interested to know whether he's got one of those uh airline tickets where you've got to pay a penalty when you change your flights.
Because who's paying for that?
You are.
You're paying for him to go uh and tour these uh this Middle Eastern tour he's on.
Now, you think to yourself, what is this uh Imam Raouf doing on this uh Middle Eastern tour?
He's funded by the State Department, and it's uh and it comes under the budget item of multi-faith outreach.
Well, uh, wait a minute, he's a Muslim, and all the people he's going to talk to are Muslims.
Where's the multi-faith bit?
Uh you know, if it's multi-faith outreach, uh, you know, why couldn't we send them Jackie Mason uh to talk to the EMMs?
Why couldn't we send that uh gay bishop, the Episcopal Church is all hot for?
Uh where's the multi-faith outreach in sending a Muslim imam to swank around the Middle East at your expense, talking to other Muslims.
You know, he's not telling the big shot imams he meets with anything they haven't heard.
Why do we have to pay for that?
That's just again, it's just a small, small thing, just a small thing.
So we take out the stop sign approaching signs out of the budget, and we take and we take the uh Imams, Imams touring the Middle East, multi faith outreach, talking to people of the same faith.
We just take any multi faith program that involves people of faith A talking to other people of faith A out of the budget, right there.
You've got a little bit of savings.
His wife, his wife.
You know, people say, oh well, we're opposed to this because this Imam uh and what he stands for is incompatible with American values.
He's as American as Apple Pie.
He's living off the government.
He's figured it out.
You can't get more assimilated than that.
And not only that, his wife, Daisy.
Daisy, Daisy Khan, the image.
Did I just say Daisy Daisy?
Oh, this cue for a song.
Daisy Daisy, give me your State Department funding due.
Um Daisy Kahn is also on the uh government multi faith outreach.
She's touring.
So So they're like the Stephen ED of the State Department Global Jet Set, or the whatever they call them now.
That's outmoded cultural reference.
Uh we've got to update those.
Uh Brangelina.
They like they're like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of the International Imam circuit.
You've got you've got uh Imam Raouf and uh and the lovely Daisy touring around the world State Department expense, multi-faith outreach to people of the same faith.
There's no point in paying for this.
We gotta get this stuff under control.
We gotta get this stuff under control.
Uh this is all a complete waste of money.
Uh and America is broke.
America is broke.
Uh and it hasn't got money for the stop sign approaching signs anymore, and it hasn't got money to send Imams uh to talk to other Imams.
This is like uh Kip Kipling.
Kipling said East is East and West is West, and ne'er the train shall meet.
Well now they've met.
And what happens?
You get the worst of both worlds.
So you get radical imams on the government dole.
Now say what you like about say what you like about uh like an imam in Waziristan, but if he wants to go and stay in a five-star hotel in Dubai, he's got to do it on his own dime.
Uh he can't just stick it to the to the American taxpayer the way Imam Raouf and Daisy Daisy can.
So uh this is this is the kind of uh spending uh that this broke poor broke country has got to just chop out.
It's got to take a huge axe to all this stuff and grind it back, and government should be paying for stuff that is necessary.
And we don't need signs saying there's a stop sign approaching, we don't say need signs saying there's a government funded imam approaching.
All this stuff should be the way we begin to skim off just to show we're serious uh about not uh beggaring the future of this great country.
We're gonna discuss Obama's speech and lots more and take tons of your calls uh because I'm busting to talk to you.
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Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB Network, you see this Obama speech last night, the um uh uh marking supposedly the end of combat operations uh in Iraq.
He was uh speaking from the Oval Office, so he wasn't standing and doing that uh teleprompter, double teleprompter ping pong uh where his head uh twists uh in direction to direction in clonkwork like uh uh like he's watching the world's uh slowest rally at uh center court at Wimbledon.
He looked like he didn't want to be there.
Uh he uh he looked like he didn't want to be there, and he sounded like an unmanned drone.
He had those uh pursed lips as the speech went on, uh as if he was sort of becoming aware there was a guy under the desk twisting a pineapple up his bottom.
It was the most bizarre performance, most bizarre.
Uh what uh what uh I was struck by was that uh not the characteristic gracelessness in the speech, he made a reference.
This is supposed to be, by the way, uh the graciousness of President Obama, that he said, quote, this afternoon I spoke to former President George W. Bush.
It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset.
Yet no one can doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country, unquote.
Gee, that's big of you.
That's big of you.
Say what you like about George W. Bush, but he's not actively treasonous.
That's that's great.
That's very big of you.
You know, whatever differences, whatever differences of opinion we may have about George W. Bush, let no one doubt that in a legal, technical, very narrow sense, he was my predecessor.
Uh these are this is very big of you.
Very big of you, Mr. President.
But aside from all that, far more important, no vision of American power at all.
Uh, no sense of America as the order maker in the world.
You'd if you'd watch this speech, uh, you would have had no idea uh what this war in Iraq was about, what America's role in Iraq and the broader Middle East is about.
There was no strategic vision there at all.
And when you're speaking on this issue, by the way, there's a domestic audience, and at times he he seemed to be speaking just for his uh his uh left wing base in the Democratic Party.
Uh But when you're talking on these subjects, you're you're addressing the whole world.
And if you're watching this speech and you're on the Politburo in Beijing, or if you're the uh wannabe czar in uh Moscow, if you're the President of Iran, if you're the dear leader of North Korea, if you're the foreign minister of Belgium, if you're the deputy tourism minister of the South Sandwich Islands, you're looking at this guy, and this guy is telling you something uh about American purpose in the world, and he's telling you uh that we are moving into a post-American world.
Because this guy, first off in his body language, and secondly, in the empty, empty, empty content of his speech is telling you that this guy has no strategic sense uh of America or its role uh as order maker in the world today.
So that is a that is serious.
That is serious stuff.
Never mind that it uh may have made a few people happy in the left-wing base of his party.
Uh in the presidential palaces around this world, they looked at this speech and they got the message.
Now then he suddenly he suddenly pivots and decides to use uh the lessons of Iraq as uh some kind of uh broader lesson for the economy.
And he says, quote, unfortunately, over the last decade, we've not done what's necessary to shore up the foundations of our own prosperity.
We spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas.
This in turn has shortchanged investments in our own people and contributed to record deficits, unquote.
This is rubbish from beginning to end.
Guy is entitled to his own opinion.
Uh he's not entitled to his own facts.
The Congressional Budget Office puts the cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom uh since 2003, the cost for the whole thing, the war, the US military, the training of Iraqi forces, all the other activities on the ground in the country, total cost is 709 billion.
79 billion.
The initial budget for the stimulus, just the first uh of the many big spending initiatives of President Obama, the initial budget for the stimulus was eight hundred and sixty-two billion.
Uh so the uh so the stimulus, the one lousy stimulus was 150 billion more uh than the total cost of seven wars of wages seven years of waging war in Iraq.
What did we get for the stimulus?
Nobody knows where it went.
Nobody can tell you where that $862 billion went.
We got all those signs every twenty yards down the scarified pavement.
You know, this uh this next two hundred yards of scarified pavement brought to you by the American recession and redistribution act, uh putting America back to work by keeping it in single lane second gear for another twelve miles.
Each of those signs, each of those signs costs three hundred dollars, or maybe three thousand dollars, I don't know, who knows.
So if you're in the sign business, it's booming.
Uh Obama took a trillion dollars and stimulated the vital sign making sector of the economy.
It's run by a guy he met at a dinner party in Chicago.
And unfortunately all the signs are made in China, and the guy spends the profits he makes from his thousand dollar signs on his beach home in the Bahamas.
But that's that's what we got.
For eight hundred and sixty-two billion dollars, we got signs and scarified pavement uh down the highway right across uh the United States of America.
Obama spent more than the entire seven-year cost of the Iraq war in twenty minutes, and nobody knows what he did with it.
You know, in the old days of big government, you used to at least have um something to show for it.
In in in the New Deal, in the New Deal, they built uh the Hoover Dam.
Now, you know, you can say what you like about it, but that's uh one damn big dam.
You know, Obama isn't Obama isn't gonna leave us with anything like that.
He he doesn't put up a dam.
He he put he puts up a sign saying the uh American recurring recession act is putting America back to work by launching an impact study group to look into putting up a wind-powered wheelchair ramp to the dam.
You know, there are grounds for supporting the Iraq war or opposing the Iraq war, uh, but the cost is nothing to do with it.
The cost is utterly irrelevant uh to the economic catastrophe uh which this country has been plunged into in in the last uh in the last couple of years.
And we're gonna talk uh about that uh uh a bit later in in the show today.
But there's no doubt this this uh speech was universally panned.
My friends at National Review uh said uh in its failure to credit explicitly Bush's surge for turning round the war, the speech was graceless.
In its cursory treatment of Iraq, it lacked strategic vision, and in its attempt to hijack the troops for Obama's domestic pro priorities, it was shameless.
So uh graceless lacking strategic vision and shameless.
But other than that, uh they liked it.
It was a small speech by a small man.
And the danger in the message it sent to the world was that this is a country uh being led uh by a president who does not a sta uh does not understand uh America's role in guaranteeing global order in the world today.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network, 1800, 282-2882, lots of your calls straight ahead.
Great to be with you.
Rush back uh Tuesday.
Let's go to Dave.
Dave is somewhere on Interstate 95, which doesn't uh narrow it down very much, but we know he is in the Eastern time zone somewhere.
Uh which bit which stretch of I-95 are you on?
I started out in North Carolina, I'm I'm down here, I'm almost into Georgia.
Oh right.
Okay.
That's uh that's great.
And you got all lanes open down there?
Uh it's running smooth.
I guess I'm the only guy that bugged out.
Right.
Okay.
Good for good for you.
Uh and uh I I-95 is uh all the bits I I'm too I'm too much of a big wussy to uh to go on it ex except uh except in very remote parts of rural Maine just before it uh when it gets up around Augusta, then it's like safe for some panty waste driver like me.
Great to have you on the show, Dave.
Uh what did you want to talk about?
Well, I'm a retired uh highway sign contractor.
And you mentioned you mentioned stop signs, and and I I bumped into a uh a survey, a government survey about oh, maybe ten years ago, saying that there were twelve million stop signs in the United States.
Right.
And and your number of three hundred dollars a sign installed is is a good number.
And and when you do the math, you you I think I know where some of the stimulus money went.
Yeah, you you know the the thing about you're right, signs are incredibly expensive, and I don't really understand it because uh if we did ever made them in in China, they'd be like four bucks a piece.
Uh but I remember they introduced um uh 911 service in uh in my part of New Hampshire.
And as a condition of 911 service, uh we had to switch to formal s proper street signs.
We we were one of these ramshackle towns that never had town the the streets had never really had proper names, and they just tended to have handwritten signs painted on a piece of wood just stuck in a piece of grass.
And they then they introduced 911 service and said, No, you can't have hand-painted signs stuck in the grass.
Uh you got to get formal uh proper highway signs put up.
And we we that's where I got the three hundred dollar figure from.
Uh, we were staggered.
We thought, wait a minute, everything else, everything else you want to buy in life is like 1995 at Walmart.
Why the hell are signs so expensive?
Who's is uh is it a unionized sign thing?
Is there some is there some united uh auto union type equivalent, auto workers uh equivalent in the sign industry?
Why are they three hundred dollars a piece?
It's it's it's 3M corporation.
They they've got a lock on the sheeting and uh well they did have a lock on the sheeting, not anymore.
You you can buy a lot of Japanese and Chinese sheeting now.
Right, right.
The prices are coming down, but it it's uh if the government specifies it, you're stuck.
You gotta buy it.
Yeah, that's great.
So you say you put in an order, as you say, there's twelve million stop signs.
You put in an order for twelve million stops.
I think they might at least, you know, give you the bulk discount, but no, it's still three hundred dollars per.
That's uh that's great.
We need to start.
By the way, the sign thing, uh I'll I I mean this as a serious point, Dave.
I'm not just uh you know, I'm not just bashing the vital sign making sector of the US economy.
I'm not demonizing big signs the way the way Obama demonizes big oil and big pharma and big insurance and all that.
I'm not getting at big signs.
If you're part of the sign lobby and you're sitting there listening at K Street uh and you're you're thinking, oh, the uh you know they're now they're going to war on us uh no I'm not demonizing big signs uh just for the sake of it but actually you know there was a very uh a guy called Han I believe he's called Hans Monderman who's a Dutch highway engineer and and he uh was uh working on all the most dangerous intersections over in Europe and he figured out that actually the less signs you have on the road
the better people drive uh and he he he took the most uh the worst uh intersection somewhere in Norway and he took all the signs out uh and it went from having however many fatal accidents a year to none because instead of just saying oh there's a sign saying oh I wonder if what's happening on the road.
Oh well it's just another sign saying there's a sign saying there's a stop sign approaching sign approaching sometime soon so I don't really have to do anything.
I can just drive along in a doze I can I I can text uh message naked photographs of my girlfriend around the internet and not pay any attention because the signs uh all over the highway tell me if anything's happening.
He took all the signs out and suddenly people are going, whoa what the heck is going on here?
It's like I've got to pay attention.
Uh and that tells you something about the nature of government.
That tells you something about the nature of government that if you treat uh your citizens as children eventually you turn them into children.
Uh if you treat them as self-reliant adults where they're expected uh to uh use take responsibility for their actions and uh and and make adult responses uh to situations then they will be la behave like adults so that is why I am opposed uh to the uh the stop sign sign approaching signs.
Let's go to Lee who is not on a miscellaneous stretch of scarified pavement on the interstate but is in Conroe, Texas.
Lee, good to have you with us on the Rush Limbo show.
Thank you for having me, Mark uh you're uh you're a joy to uh listen to and you're one of my favorite marks uh to fill in for Rush Oh right talk that's like that's like Obama's praise for President Bush one of my one of my favorite marks.
Am I in I'm in the top ten list of your top ten marked guest hosts I exactly Oh great great okay Lee great to have you with us uh on the uh on the show today uh what's what's on your mind?
Well I was uh I've got family members that are uh Christian missionaries over in the Middle East and I have done some mission work in the past and I was uh curious if you're aware of any government refund programs uh for Christian outreach in uh other parts in the Middle East in other parts of the country.
No no no you you're missing the point here Lee because you would think that sending a Christian to the Middle East counts as multi faith outreach because like they're Muslim and your relatives are Christian.
But multi faith outreach is defined by the State Department means sending Muslims to talk to Muslims.
So you you're not gonna get a pe your family is never going to get a piece of that uh action.
That is that is just not the uh not the game not the game we're uh we're in so I would I would imagine there is no chance.
And and and serious and again it's a serious point.
Uh if you look at for example the uh beleaguered state of the Christian community even in Iraq uh on America's watch or if you look at what happened uh to that poor guy who converted to uh Christianity in Afghanistan and they were going to kill him and he had to be airlifted out and flown to uh Italy they could actually do with far more uh uh Christians uh flying in uh and talking uh and talking to people in the Muslim world but it's not gonna it's not it's not gonna happen.
It's this it we we round up with a classic we've this is a classic government moo boondoggle a multi faith outreach program in which we pay Muslim imams to fly halfway across the world to talk to other Muslim imams Hey Lee sorry I thought I thought you were gonna I sorry uh my mind wandered there.
I wasn't sure whether you were still there.
Um what do we you they're they're out in the Middle East are they, your family?
They they're they're in Jordan.
I've got uh several cousins that are in Jordan and uh have been for uh over a year now.
Do they like it there?
They do.
They do like it.
It's uh it could be a little scary at times but uh they actually just had a uh a newborn baby a couple of months ago uh born over there so uh they enjoy it very much and uh and uh they they feel that uh that it's God's work over there and uh they're they enjoy it a lot.
Well you know well you know the the way to look on that part of the world is uh we we talk about it as the Muslim World, by the way.
You notice the left.
The left would go bananas if you were to start talking about quote the Christian world.
Then they'd be going on about separation of church and state.
But they they accept the fact that these are the Mus that this is the Muslim world.
And we never really think about well, hang on a minute.
How did it get to be that way?
Baghdad in the 1920s, for example, uh was forty percent Jewish.
Baghdad was the second biggest Jewish city in the Middle East, forty percent Jewish.
Where did all the Jews go?
The whole where where did the where did where did the Jews go?
Amazing.
The place is full of Jews, next minute they're all gone.
Uh the the uh Christian community, uh the beleaguered Christian community in Nazareth.
Uh the the uh war in Nigeria in which Christian churches are burned down, uh often with their congregations in inside them.
Uh that if if the State Department really wanted to stand up for multi-faith outreach, it would have the guts to send people to the countries where this is going on, all over the map.
Nigeria, Pakistan, uh it would it would uh it would go to Southern Thailand, where again where you've got Muslims uh killing uh Buddhists, and it would have people there standing up for real multi-faith outreach.
Instead, of course, it's just the it's just a kiss-up program.
The State Department is meant to in uh is meant to represent the interests of the United States of America and the United States of America sending Imam Raouf uh on junkets with Daisy Daisy around the Middle East does nothing for the interests of the United States of America.
Mark Stein, Info Rush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network behind the golden EIB microphone.
Let us go to Bob in Crescent City, California.
Bob, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I just wish you would tell the truth after time, you blowhard on the radio.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, well it was Okay, go for it.
Where where tell me the lie?
Tell me the lie.
The lie the li the innuendo is is this Imam that wants to build a mosque in New York City is a is a radical, but he wasn't too radical for George Bush to send him on the same kind of trip back when George Bush was.
Oh, you know, I got no problem.
I got wait a minute.
I've got no problem with that.
I don't think I don't think uh either you guys are doing all you.
I don't think Obama should be spending money on this imam.
I don't think George W. Bush should be spending it on money on this imam.
I don't think Hillary, I don't think Condi.
It's a bipartisan contempt for this program.
It's a you didn't point complain about it before, and all you guys are doing right now is just increasing the the uh the in uh making the Taliban and get getting more people to join the join the Taliban and fight against this by this.
Do you know something?
Do you know something?
This is the one that the most parochial and stupid arguments the left makes.
No, it's uh nobody you know you know you know who why you seriously think that a guy sitting in a cave in Waziristan uh is going to whether he joins the Taliban or he's in some upcountry nothing village in the Pakistani tribal lands, and you think whether or not he joins the Taliban, or let's not let's give let's put it another way.
Let's like take the panty bomber.
A guy uh uh a guy living in a millionaire's mansion in London, the reason he decides to load up his pants uh with explosives, the the whether he decides to strap the cell phone to the peptobismal bottle or whatever the latest method is, that that is dependent on us uh on Rush and me and a couple of other guys objecting uh to publicly funded Imams uh staying at five star hotels in Dubai.
Is that the analysis you're positing here, Bob?
I'm depositing the analysis that you guys are all.
You're depositing the analysis, that's true.
Yes, carry on.
You're in all you guys are doing is inciting inciting all this Islamic hate and it's and it's all for political.
Well, wait, wait a minute, where is the Islamic hate?
Where is the Islamic hate?
For example, I like flying around.
No, no, I fly no just the mosque burning.
Just a minute.
Just a minute.
I fly Royal Jordanian Airlines.
When I when I fly Royal Jordanian, I never have to worry about, you know, Sarah Palin loading up her gusset with explosives and detonating uh over the Atlantic.
Where is all this Christian hate?
Where is all this so-called uh uh anti-Islamic hate?
Let's take this imam.
You know, you like this Imam Raouf, do you?
I don't I don't know him personally, but I say he has every right, they have every right to build that mosque.
Yeah, yeah, no, nobody's nobody's arguing about that.
What we're talking about is whether it's in the interest of you, Bob to pay for it.
Now now Bob, Bob, uh is it in your interest, Bob, to pay for this guy to go and stay in a five star hotel in the United Arab Airmates?
You betcha.
Why?
Because that's just the way it's done.
That's just the easy he's an e he's an imam.
Yeah, that is just the way it's done.
He's an imam on the dole.
He's an imam on the dole.
We're a joke.
Forty percent party sorry.
Forty b 40 percent of French Imams are on public welfare.
It's the same story throughout the Western world.
Let's take this imam of yours that you're so you're so hot for this imam.
Okay, here he is.
He's down in Australia.
This imam you're hot for.
I don't know whether this was a publicly funded trip.
In two thousand and five, he tells uh an uh an audience in Os of Australian Muslims uh that America has killed more innocent uh innocent Muslims than Al Qaeda has killed uh innocent non-Muslims.
Do you think that is the multi-faith outreach that it's in the United States government's interest to pay for for you, Bob?
I am sure I'm assuming you're one of the dwindling band of uh contributors to the Federal Treasury in this country.
Do you think it's in your interest, Bob, instead of you going to the United Arab Emirates on the public dime, for you to pay for Imam Raouf to go to the United Arab Emirates on the public dime.
What do you get out of it, Bob?
Yeah, sure it is.
You're broke.
Have you got kids, Bob?
Have you got kids?
Yeah, I got kids.
Your kids are your kids are gonna live in a smaller house, drive a smaller car, live in a meaner country because of the complete waste of time.
Of sending this stuff.
I don't care.
I just think I don't care what the imam says.
I just think he should say it on his own dime.
I'm not getting money from the State Department to spout all my lies.
These are private sector lies.
Why can't he get into the private sector lie business?
Why does he get to be the government funded lie and and you and I have to be out there batting around in the private sector lying industry where the remuneration isn't half as generous?
That's what you should be asking yourself, Bob.
Thank you very much for your call.
That is Bob from Crescent City, uh California, talking about Imam Roe.
Imam Roth, 2005.
He's down in Australia.
This is by the way, he's right, this guy isn't radical.
This guy I have no views on Imam Raf, one way or another, because he's like a ton of Imams that I have heard of uh over the last uh decade.
You're told you shouldn't meet such and such.
He's like really uh Mr. Moderate Imam, he's the uh he's the voice of westernized progressive moderate Islam.
Uh and then you discover that he gives this interview on Al Arabia uh that says something else entirely.
Every all these imams now, a big a big bunch of them are just like uh the way Yasser Arafat used to be.
Uh you know, uh when they're when they're up there with Larry King on CNN, they're saying one thing, and then when they're back giving the exclusive interview to Radio Palestine, uh they're saying quite another thing.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, lots more to come.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Uh the the president uh focused uh not just on Iraq but also on Afghanistan uh in his speech last night.
I was very struck by this story in the New York Times.
Here's a headline for you.
Troubles at Afghan bank jolt financial system.
This is terrific news.
Our nation build.
People say that America can't do nation building anymore.
Our nation building has been such a huge success that Afghanistan has just got its first banking crisis.
Uh this bank uh is is apparently the equivalent of uh the Afghan equivalent of Lehman Brothers.
It's uh Karzai brothers, I think.
I don't know.
It's in here somewhere, I think.
Oh, the Kabul Bank, the Kabul Bank.
That's a good solid name.
First National Bank of Kabul.
You can't get put your money in there.
You can't go wrong.
Uh their losses, their losses uh expected to exceed 300 million dollars.
This is in Afghanistan.
Uh Afghanistan, you can buy Afghanistan for three hundred million uh dollars and still have change left over to buy Uzbekistan.
This is three hundred million dollars.
And the New York Times reports that number far exceeds the bank's assets, which I believe are twelve dollars and a pregnant goat.
Uh so this this is what is happening uh in Afghanistan?
Troubles at Afghan bank jolt financial system.
And this again gets to the defect of uh Obama's speech yesterday.
That he did not identify.
He talks he talks about it in this in this bloodless technocratic way of his, but he doesn't actually identify what is the purpose of the of the mission in Afghanistan.
What are we there for?
What are we trying to accomplish?
I noticed two things.
He mentioned Al-Qaeda, but he did not mention the Taliban.
And my bet is that that is deliberate.
Uh and that at some point he will rule that, okay, the problem with Al-Qaeda has gone away.
We've pretty much done all the mopping up of Al-Qaeda we need to do there.
Uh and the next thing you know, there'll be negotiations with the Taliban.
Lots more straight ahead.
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