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Sept. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Great to be with you.
America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow, and Rush returns alive, live on uh Tuesday after the Labor Day weekend.
Uh what uh you know, yesterday I was like t I thought I was talking about really big big, big, big, big, big existential questions.
Uh I was talking about how at the rate we're spending uh the amount of debt we're piling up, uh, within five or six years uh the American taxpayer is going to be entirely funding the cost of China's military.
I think that I thought that was like a really big theme, a big thought to plant out there in the world that the Chinese military is now paid for by the American taxpayer.
Uh and I think about an hour after that I was saying that I'd been sort of doing some back of the envelope calculations, and I was wondering whether uh the America has basically spent tomorrow today.
We've uh the government has outspent uh uh is spending more money than there is in America.
And I and I suggested that it might even be the case that the government had outspent not just America but the entire planet.
And I thought that was like another really big thought, a really big thought to put out there.
Uh a big profound, deep heavy thought, something to chew over for the rest of the day.
And I found uh then when I was looking at my emails at the end of the day that the overwhelming the biggest number of emails were about when I was talking to Maggie, and I'd mentioned that a couple of great songs had Maggie in, and I got tons of emails from people who were either married to Maggie's, dating dating Maggies, or had daughters of Maggies, who wanted to know the names of the Maggie songs.
So they weren't interested in the fact that America is outspent the entire plan.
They weren't interested in total civilizational collapse.
That's uh you know, that's a side issue, but can you tell me the name of the Maggie song?
So the name of the Maggie song, it was Honey Bus.
It was a group called Honeybus got to number one in the United Kingdom, 1968, I can't let Maggie go.
And the other one was uh lovely old Irish tenors always used to say I mean if you've got a daughter or a wife called Maggie, book an Irish tenor, there are dime a dozen.
Ireland's bankrupt.
You can fly in your own Irish tenor.
They'll uh you it won't cost you a tenner, it'll just be a fiver.
Uh that's how much of a bargain they are.
Uh Irish tenor, uh when you and I were young, Maggie, 1905, that's what we that's what we were listening for.
Uh healthy in a healthy society, we'd be listening to that instead of Sheryl Crow singing all we are saying is uh is give one piece a chance.
Um so uh we were uh uh we were talking about uh uh the environment and the Discovery Channel bomber uh just before the top of the uh top of the hour.
What I find interesting about the anti-humanism aspect is where it all gets complicated.
If you say when when these guys, like the guy writing for psychology today, all these big shot Westerners uh say stop having babies, what they mean is that the advanced world should stop having babies.
And if you say to them, well, look, America's got a birth rate of uh fertility rate of two point one, and uh France is about one point eight, and Greece has an upside-down family tree.
You have four grandparents, have two children of one grandchild.
So these countries are going out of business anyway.
Most most European countries have deathbed uh demography.
Why should they stop having babies when there are people in Somalia, mothers in Somalia and Yemen uh having eight uh eight uh and and nine kids apiece, and they go, Oh, well that that's because the Yemeni children and the Somali children don't damage the planet as much.
Uh and so they have a much lower carbon footprint.
And so uh the world can handle far more Yemeni and Somali babies than it can American babies.
Now, what uh is the flaw in this theory?
The flaw in this theory is that uh uh uh uh if you look at the cover of that A World Without Us book, with the one that showed Manhattan crumbling away with uh jungle vines snaking up uh the Empire State Building and uh as it fell into the gr earth and all the rest of it.
Is uh that uh if uh if if we stop having babies, uh uh a West advanced Western nation is basically like a great brand new factory on the edge of town that uh that closes down and goes out of business.
It's got still got terrific uh plant, so uh a new company is gonna move in there any day.
And that's what's happening in in uh in uh Europe already.
They There was a uh an uh article in the Daily Mail in London about these uh British women who are tying their tubes for the environment.
Because they're like the Discovery Channel bomber.
They think you we need to make the planet nice for the squirrels, and the best thing we can do so the squirrels aren't interrupted uh by us is to tie our tubes.
And yet, uh amazingly enough, uh Britain's population doesn't go down.
Why?
Because Somali women move in and have uh and have their babies, and the nice Somali women and the Yemeni women develop a carbon footprint the size of the stupid English women who tied their tubes uh to be all friendly to the planet.
And what is fascinating is that when you ask uh an environmentalist, these anti-human environmentalists who saying, Stop having babies, babies killing the planet.
You're saying, oh so you would be opposed then to immigration, would you?
You'd be you'd you'd you you object to the Western lifestyle.
So you wouldn't want third world people who are enjoying their their bucolic uh untainted by consumerism lifestyle out there in the jungle, then n the villages that Drew Barrymore yearns to live among.
Uh and uh these these these nice bucolic villages with the uh life expectancy of 43, uh this you don't want all these people moving from there to Des Moines and getting a nice house in the suburbs and driving to the mall and all the rest of it.
And then suddenly the great the great liberal anti-humanist environmentalist, if you say, well, the logic of your position is that you'd be against uh third world immigration, then they back off.
Oh no, I didn't say I don't I didn't say anything about that.
I'm in I'm in favor of immigration.
I like uh third world people.
It's when when liberal article of faith A butts up against liberal article of faith B, it's all too confusing for the poor liberal mind, so they can't address that.
But in fact, those two issues are intimately related.
And you can see it already in in uh many Western countries that uh if you look at Germany, where the Germans basically have stopped breeding uh and the uh and uh uh uh a new population has moved in, uh taking advantage of Germany's fantastic big advanced world carbon footprint.
So when the Sierra Club types uh uh and the other anti-humanist types start telling you to have fewer babies, if they're not talking about immigration, then they're not being serious.
Now, uh the President of the United States is talking about immigration.
He's taking credit for something.
He has to take credit for for the he's got taking credit for something, and he's taking credit for the sharp decline in the number of immigrants entering the United States illegally in the past five years.
And this is the first uh downturn in the number of immigrants, illegal immigrants crossing the border uh in in two decades.
And uh in the first half of the decade, we were averaging eight hundred and fifty thousand people a year entering the United States without authorization.
Now I find this very odd, by the way, is if they know how many people are coming into the country illegally, uh if they can count them, why can't they stop them?
I mean, I don't understand that.
What is what is how uh would do you even trust these figures?
Uh but they have estimated it at 850,000 people a year.
Then as the recession began to bite, between 2007 and 2009, the number fell to 300,000 uh people uh uh a uh a year entering illegally.
So now President Obama is taking credit for having uh for having reduced by over half the number of people entering the country illegally, because he has so devastated the economy.
He has been such a fabulously effective job skiller that even itinerant third world peasantry no longer want to come here.
That's they'd rather say they'd rather they're they're there in their third world basket case and they say, well, you know, at least we don't have the economic uncertainty they have in the United States, so we prefer to stay there.
Uh the uh the the fascinating the fascinating part of this debate, though, uh is that the President is is uh is taking I don't understand, by the way, why the President of the United States would be taking credit for something that he thinks is a bad thing.
Because as we see yet again, uh the United States uh sued Arizona for attempting to enforce uh the borders of the United States.
Uh and not only that, Hillary Rodham Clinton then complains about, then cites Arizona in her report to the UN Human Rights Council, which by the way is dominated by the stooges of the organization of the Islamic Conference.
It's So its idea of human rights is, you know, stoning uh uh adulterous uh women and uh beheading gays and all the rest of it.
Uh I don't even know uh Obama signed on to the UN Human Rights Council.
No civilized state should be a member of the UN Human Rights Council, but Obama signed us up for it, and in its first in his first report to it, uh Hillary Rodham Clinton takes along this thing saying, Oh, yes, well, uh the United States government has acted against the state of Arizona to prevent human rights abuses in Arizona.
Uh so uh the United States doesn't act legally, it doesn't sue sanctuary cities, doesn't sue sanctuary cities uh that are colluding in the corruption uh of uh uh of the integrity of U.S. sovereignty,
uh and uh this assault, the assault that is going on uh against the integrity of the nation's borders by the uh Department of Justice, which is meant to uphold uh the laws of the United States is astonishing.
But suddenly that's all been forgotten now, and Obama is happy to take credit uh for the uh for the reduction in uh in illegal immigration.
Uh by the way, uh Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, who is a great woman, by the way.
She was um in uh speaking in her debate with the the Democratic contender for governor in Arizona uh yesterday, I believe it was.
And she was very critical.
She was saying, on the one hand, you know, the United States government uh clamps down on the state of Arizona when it attempts to do something about the illegal immigration situation.
Yet on the other hand, the United States government has put up signs 30 miles south of Phoenix on uh on on uh federal highways saying proceed further at your own risk.
You know, I was I was talking yesterday about all these superfluous signs in my state of New Hampshire, all this uh ridiculous stop sign approaching signs and all the rest of it.
Uh they've got s now I'm and I'm opposed to signs on the whole, the wasteful signs you got all along the highway.
But I actually think uh a sign by the United States government saying proceed further at your own risk, because the sovereignty of the United States can no longer be enforced past this point is a pretty damn important sign to have up on the highway.
That's a pretty that's more important than a stop sign approaching sign.
That's a uh that's a collapse of the United States of America approaching sign.
That's an imperial mexicano approaching sign.
Uh that's a sign that ought to be on there.
So how on the one hand, on the one hand, the United States government is conceding uh that it can no longer enforce its sovereignty thirty miles south of Phoenix, yet at the same time it is preventing the government of the state of Arizona doing anything about it.
Uh this is an existential issue for the United States, by the way, uh, because as Ronald Reagan said all those years ago, a nation uh that doesn't have a border in the end, uh doesn't have a nation.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the uh EIB network, talking uh uh about the uh the intersection of uh immigration and uh and the reprimitivization that the environmentalists are uh uh uh are working up to for us.
I uh uh Kate Blanchett, who's an actress, I uh I I uh uh think is uh is rather good.
She when she built her new house uh she told the plumbers that she wanted the plumbing to be constructed so that they could drink their own waste water.
Uh and apparently this is what uh the the system that was divided.
Uh she she paid their uh architect thousands of dollars to uh design a system whereby the bodily waste, you know, goes down the toilet, uh gets whisked by pipeline through the walk-in closet, over the balcony, down the wall, back and through the rec room, uh up into the wet bar and uh directly into the soda siphon.
So it's uh it works perfectly.
It works perfectly.
And Kate Blanchett says that she believes leaf blowers sum up everything that is wrong with the human race, unquote.
Leaf blowers sum up everything that is wrong with the uh with the human race.
Well, that's certainly true if they're uh blowing uh any leaves from where Drew Barrymore has been uh squatting in the jungle.
Uh so I can sympathize with Kate on that.
Let us uh go to uh George in uh Westchester, Ohio.
George, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Pleasure to talk to you.
Uh your comments about the environmentally friendly nature of less developed people is very interesting.
I work in a part of Africa called the Sahel, specifically Senegal, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
This is on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
Right.
These people have massive herds of goats and such that strip all the greenery.
I have seen the Africans up in trees chopping the limbs off to feed the leaves to their cattle.
Right?
It's all contributing to desertification.
The Sahara Desert is steadily moving south because of this uh agricultural process that they engage in.
Yes, you're you're absolutely right uh that if you want to see environmental devastation, uh the the the primitive life uh that we we in the West, him in Africa, Africa is the place to see it.
As you said, the Sahara Desert is moving south.
Uh what these uh w what what the people do in their villages is they let their goats eat everything, they chop everything down, uh they've got no sus uh sustainable uh land on which to grow crops, so they all move into this giant coastal megalopolis when you when you fly over West Africa at night, uh the coast looks like one giant continuous uh city uh with this with this uh increasingly dark, barren, desertified land behind it.
That's not the natural state.
That is what uh uh low carbon footprint societies did to that did to that land, George.
Absolutely.
Yeah, and uh and and what's the what's the solution to that?
That for for them to get more like us for or for us to get more like them.
Well, you've answered your own question.
They need to move in our direction, and they're trying to, but the problem is the governments kind of divert all the money that might go to the people.
Yeah, that that's that's true.
But it's also true that there's problems with those societies, even if they didn't have uh, you know, the president for life putting everything in his Swiss bank account.
When when Hillary Clinton used the so-called African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child.
I very much doubt that anyone who thinks that book is good has spent 10 minutes in an African village because, because even Africans don't want to live in African villages anymore.
That's why they can't, or that's why they can't wait to live, uh, move to the shanties on the edge of these, uh, hideous, sprawling cities they live in now.
I mean, those villages that you're talking about in that, uh, Senegal, Mali, uh, Gambia, Burkina Faso, that part of West Africa, uh, That is a dying society.
Well, I don't know that it's dying, but I will tell you that believe it or not, in the Cincinnati area, we actually have a large population of illegal immigrants from West Africa.
Right, right.
That's fascinating.
Now, why how did they they presumably they didn't come over the Rio Grande?
How do how did they wind up how how come you have large numbers of illegal West Africans in in Cincinnati?
Well, I can't tell you specifically because I only know one, and I'm not sure he's an illegal, but he's astutely on a student visa.
Right, right.
Uh but uh I attended a immigration rally, and they were passing out flyers in French, Spanish, and English.
Well, you you you know you may you mentioned this now, George, but uh now you mention it.
I had uh I had a guy in uh in uh uh uh uh across the river from me in Vermont from Togo.
Togelese guy from uh West Africa, uh who was taken on by a friend of mine who's a farmer, uh taken on as a farmhand.
He's like the only Togolese guy in Vermont.
He turned out to be an illegal immigrant, and when he scrammed, he stole her truck and the autographed copy of my book that I'd given.
So I hope he's back in Togo putting some of the ideas from my book uh back into action in Toga.
But I don't think so.
I think he's uh he's still here somewhere in the United States.
George, that was fascinating to me.
I hadn't really thought about it until uh you mentioned uh the the guy from West Africa in Cincinnati and I remember this uh Togolese guy uh in uh in Vermont because the Togalese community in Vermont is not big.
He was it, and he scrammed, he stole my uh my friend's truck and her and her autographed copy of America alone.
Uh Yeah, uh this is absolutely right though.
George made a uh a critical point here that we we when people like Cameron Diaz fetiscized these primitive societies.
They were nasty, they were violent, by the way.
They were the most brutally violent people.
You know when they find these uh these frozen corpses are primitive societies uh and they and they say they were peace-loving societies, and you say, well, wait a minute, he's got an axe in his skull, and they say, Oh no, they used axe heads as currency.
And you go, okay, so like the axe head is a ten dollar bill.
Why is it embedded in his skull?
Was he just saying uh was the other guy just saying to him, hey, can you break a ten?
Ah no, the ten broke him.
He's got an axe in his skull.
They were nasty, they were brutish, they were violent societies, and it's a way to make the world worse.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow.
You know, I love these uh uh uh I l I love these uh ads that the uh Democrat beleaguered Democrat candidates uh are running now.
Uh w what I find uh fascinating about uh about the electoral process is that uh come uh coming election season, it's basically a uh a one party thing.
The uh the Republicans run as conservatives and the Democrats run as conservatives too.
This guy uh Steph woman, woman, South Dakota representative Stephanie Sandlin, uh she uh is running an ad uh whose message is basically I am not one of them, I am one of you.
And she's going, in Washington, they call this flyover flyover country.
Uh they look down and they don't care about our agriculture, the second amendment, or our fiscally conservative values.
You would have no idea from this ad that this woman is a Democrat.
Uh unfortunately she is.
Uh and she must think her voters are really stupid.
Uh that because it's not enough to just disconnect yourself from Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for one thirty-second commercial when you're saying, oh, they're Washington and I'm you.
Uh I'm one of you.
I'm not one of them, them being Obama and Pelosi and Reed.
Uh she voted for all of it.
She voted for health care.
Uh she voted for the big spending multi-trillion dollar Obama Pelosi Reed agenda.
And if South Dakota voters are stupid enough uh to fall for a 30-second ad, pretending that somehow she's sitting on the other side of the aisle from the uh from these guys, she's ridiculous.
But it's fascinating to me how Democrats are running suddenly, running effectively against uh the Obama Pelosi uh Reed agenda.
Let's go to Fred in Maryland.
Uh Fred, you are in the path of Hurricane Earl.
Oh yes, uh hello, Mark.
Um a pleasure.
F first of all, congratulations on your acquittal.
Are you talking about my Canadian acquittal?
Yeah, yeah.
I thought you meant you'd had a late breaking news item from the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
Uh just cr crossed the wire uh yesterday that I saw it.
Oh uh congratulations on that.
Oh, but there's always something.
I'm still uh I'm still looking at uh 30 to life uh under the New York State Bureau of Compliance charges.
So, you know, I'm I'm not I'm not out of the woods yet.
Well maybe maybe you shouldn't hurry back to Canada.
But uh the the point I wanted to uh make here today, uh you were criticizing environmentalists in general for being hypocritical, uh urging uh the the uh limitation of family size.
Um and uh at the same time um favoring uh unlimited immigration.
That that is not always true.
Now the case here in uh Maryland, the uh Maryland Sierra Club took a strong position uh against uh uh runaway immigration.
For the same reason that they're in favor of uh uh keeping uh population level steady.
And didn't you know that?
No, I didn't know that.
So they actually the Sierra Club in your in in Maryland or your part of Maryland anyway, is opposed to immigration.
Yes.
And and for perfectly logical reasons.
So we we shouldn't be reckless in in throwing uh uh charges against environmentalists.
I I'd like to see I'm an environmentalist myself and uh uh certainly uh very conservative.
I'd like to see uh greater repressment uh between the two groups.
Now true, the National Sierra Club did not go along with Maryland.
Uh I can tell you why.
And why was why was that then?
Well the the uh former president of the National Association simply said well, yes, your point of view is logical but we have to um uh agree uh and work with our allies in Congress.
Yes, exactly.
So in other words for p for political purposes the the uh the environ the so called environmental interests took a back burner to political necessity there.
Yes.
But there's growing opposition uh to that stand uh at at the uh local level but you I don't know what I don't know what part of Maryland you're in Fred but do you know uh Southern Maryland Well I was just going to take a for instance do you know a place called Langley Park?
Certainly.
Langley Park is a place that in nothing flat has become more or less two-thirds Latino.
Yes, it has.
A friend of mine used to live there.
It was a nice, quiet, modest suburb, and now it's, I'd say, seven-eighths Latino.
Right, and it's in many ways a dysfunctional place compared to the way it was.
But that's what happens when advanced societies...
adopt the uh uh the idea that advanced societies can simply have fewer babies and uh and they will just kind of empty out.
So you you would instead of having three hundred million Americans living in a first world society, you'd have just one hundred million Americans living in a first world society isn't going to happen.
Because Langley Park is what happens is that is that a a settler population filled up.
Yeah a settler population moves in and takes over basically annexes it.
And that and that is why the idea of of of environmentalists lecturing Western societies who are already in population decline.
I mean the Japanese are opening hotels now where men who can't find girlfriends uh can go and enjoy an illicit weekend with a virtual girlfriend some kind of manga manga type humanoid that you can squire round the hotel and have a virtual girlfriend experience with they're running out of young people in in Japan.
So the Western world has is effectively gone out of business anyway but the idea that this will have any benefit for the planet is ridiculous.
All it means is that there will be no one left to man the Sierra Club desk and the fate of the planet will be left to the people who still bother having babies Freddy let you go.
As populations uh decrease in Europe.
R remember the population of Europe now is still much higher than it was say in Victorian times.
So as the population of Italy for example drops from say sixty million say to forty million, then more opportunities open up and the decrease the birth rate will will adjust accordingly it's not that it will extrapolate down to zero.
No no that's uh that's true.
It's not it's not going to go down to zero but what you ha but but but what you have in fact it may not go down at all because I I think uh m my point is a basic one.
You can't have first world infrastructure and expect people uh to leave it empty.
Don't forget we're talking about welfare societies here too which is the United States too that uh and you have family reunification so that in nothing flat a little place in the middle of nowhere like Lewiston Auburn, Maine, suddenly has a huge Somali population, because a couple of people moved there in the nineties and they got all their uh all their parents and grandparents and uncles and aunts all came uh and they understood that there's a welfare that there's a welfare system there.
So the idea that first world societies can lower their carbon footprint without doing anything about immigration I think is uh is a delusion.
And Langley Park Maryland, which has gone or Bell California Bell California where the guy was getting eight hundred thousand dollars a year to be the city manager uh and uh a total compensation package of one point five million.
That is a town that is ninety-six percent Hispanic uh if you went back to that town in the early nineteen seventies it would have had a mixed population.
Now it's a wholly Hispanic uh population.
That's why it's ridiculous to talk about this in terms of an immigration issue.
There an immigration issue would be if you had two hundred co there's roughly two hundred countries in the world, and if America took them, you know, you have so many Fijians, you have uh so many Slovenians, you have so many Uzbeks.
That would be one thing.
But when you have them all from an overwhelming source, that is not an immigration issue, that's an annexation issue.
And that's what's happening in Langley Park and Bell California and all kinds of other places that are quite a long way uh from the Mexican border.
Mark Stein in Farush, 1800, 282-2882.
Mark Stein in uh Farush.
Uh I want to go to Bill in uh Bakersfield, uh, California.
Uh uh Bill called up referring to something we were talking about earlier, Imam uh Rauf, uh, who I said was a basically a symbol of everything that's wrong, uh, not but not because he's a Muslim, but just because he's like a freeloader.
We we we gotta give you know, if you if you want to take over the planet and have the new caliphate, uh don't stick U.S. taxpayers with the bill.
We're funding his book tour, the State Department's buying his books at public expense.
He has uh church status from the IRS for the American Sufi Muslim Association, uh, which he said on the uh the IRS for church status is great, by the way.
It's not that you just uh a tax exempt, you don't have to file returns, you don't have to reveal the sources of your money or how it's spent, you don't have to do anything.
The IRS gave him church status.
He said he was holding services at uh at at 201 West 85th Street, and that the services attracted 450 to 500 people who showed up to pray five times a day.
There's no way you can do that at 201 West 85th Street.
The only place he had there was his wife's one bedroom apartment and you can't fit five hundred people.
People would notice if five hundred people were going in to pray five times a day in a one-bedroom apartment.
And that's gotta be in non-compliance with the uh New York State Bureau of Compliance.
Uh 500 people praying in a one-bedroom apartment.
Good grief.
Suddenly, that's like party night at Tiger Woods.
Uh you uh you cannot, you cannot uh question these things.
Obviously, he he said, I'm a Muslim, the RS says fine, uh, we'll give you church status.
Let's go to Bill in Bakersfield, California, who wants to uh uh talk about what what what's going on with the Ground Zero Mosque.
Great to have you on the show, Bill.
Hi.
Well, my my main point is from an article that I read uh I don't know it was last year or late in two thousand eight about Bill Clinton Foundation that he has over two hundred donors to, and um and a leading among those is Saudi Arabia for what upwards of twenty-five million.
Right, uh they have a lot a part of the list here.
They list Brunei, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sons of Saudi Arabia, etc.
Right.
And my point is is that he being the husband of our Secretary of State is creating a huge conflict of interest in that they appear to be uh representing foreign countries above the United States because they've been paid off.
And this happened, this started before the uh elections in which the unions, my own particular one, supported Hillary Clinton and uh these uh, you know, these people were given all this money back then because they were anticipating that she would be the president of the United States.
Right.
Well, since she failed at that, she's now like the almost the second most powerful or very powerful person in the Secretary of State who is supposed to be representing United States interests with these countries, and that does not appear to be the case.
And I look directly back at all this money in the foundation that Bill Clinton has gone, and he's collected literally millions of dollars for a payoff.
Yeah, Bill Clinton is basically a wholly owned subsidiary Of the House of Saud and various other uh Gulf monarchies.
And the question is, is when uh th his wife happens to be the principal spokesperson for American foreign policy, is it i is it relevant for her husband to be owned by foreign governments?
And I think that is a relevant uh question.
It also, I think uh uh uh reflects the broader environment in which this discussion takes place is that wealthy Saudis and the Emirates and Kato and Oman and uh various other of the wealthier uh uh states in uh the Middle East have pretty much bought up everything they need to buy up now in the United States and the rest of the West and the rest of the Western world.
And Bill Clinton Bill Clinton is a uh is a very good example for that.
Uh there is something, by the way, by the way, I uh regardless of whether it should be illegal or not, there's something deeply inappropriate as he would say.
Wasn't that what he said after Monica?
My behavior was not just wrong, it was inappropriate.
I don't know whether this is wrong, but it's inappropriate for a former president uh to be collecting quite such boodles of money from layabout Saudi uh Shakespeare.
And you're right to identify that and uh and some of the uh some of the other ones.
You got the list there in front of you.
Yeah, I think that well, I only have a partial list that was in the newspaper, and this is just one of those little i items that was.
Yeah, that's the thing.
They brought up pretty much the Saudis and their pals have brought bought up pretty much everything they need to buy up in the Western world.
That's a big part of that's a big part of the problem.
Let's go to Naomi in Charleston, South Carolina.
Naomi, are you in you're you're not in the path of Hurricane Earl, are you?
It's going to the north of you now, isn't it?
Yeah, I think it's supposed to be North Carolina.
Okay, okay.
But I'm not quite sure.
Oh my gosh, it's such an honor to speak with you.
Oh my gosh, I listen to you every time you sub for us.
Do you that's very good.
It's not that much of an honor, believe me.
It's uh it's not I don't even feel it's an honor to be me, so to talk to me can't really be that that that much of a uh that much of an uh that much of an honor.
What what do you do in Charleston?
I'm a student.
I'm a senior at the College of Charleston.
Really?
And is that is that one of the uh the bastions of conservative thinking in the decayed United States educational establishment?
Well, I mean, I thought it was going to be more conservative when I came down here, but it definitely is not.
Um that's sort of what I wanted to talk to you about.
I th I had sort of a general comment um that deals with university as well as an anecdote that I wanted to share.
Okay, give us the anecdote.
Okay, well, it's sort of about one of my friends here.
He uh he's very anti-capitalist, anti-progress, anti-everything, basically, that I believe in.
And um one time uh I was having him introduced to my dad, and you know, they were talking, and then he turns to me and says, Oh, where's Catherine, our mutual friend?
And I said, Oh, she wanted you to call her.
And he pulls out his iPhone from his pocket.
My dad says, Oh, well, for someone who doesn't believe in capitalism.
And he had nothing to say to that, because it's true, and it just sort of it's Yeah, how how old is your friend?
He's uh going to be twenty-two.
Okay, now what other society does he think a twenty-two-year-old gets to loaf around doing what passes for college education uh and and and make calls because none of this college education, ninety percent of it by the way, isn't needed.
If he was in any if he was in any uh society pre-existing in human history, he would have been doing back breaking work on the farm all his life.
He would he would be standing behind an ox all day, uh getting the full Cameron Diaz as he's going up and down plowing all day long.
Uh and that that's all he would be.
The only kind there's only one kind of society that enables a twenty-two-year-old to lounge around all day having big thoughts about how evil progress is and iPhoning it to his pals, and that is a very narrow, privileged kind of Western society.
Your pal is in some big fluffy cocoon and doesn't even know it.
No, and he and the best part is he's from South Carolina, so he doesn't have to pay for school.
He gets paid to go here.
Yeah, well, that's uh that's that's another crazy part of the I gotta run, Naomi.
Thank you for thank you for your call.
Great to great to talk to you and keep fighting the good fight uh down there in South Carolina.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
Next hour I want to talk everyone, I was away during the whole ground zero moss thing, and uh and everything has uh been said about it in some ways, but I wanna I want to talk about an angle of it that I don't think is covered, has been covered properly.
I don't even think we'd be talking about this mosque if we were to concentrate on what is the real outrage in this situation, and that is not the lousy fifteen-story mosque in the Ba Burlington Coat Factory building, but the seven-story hole, uh uh uh a seven billion dollar seven-story hole right next to it.
You know, taking down the World Trade Center, that's what Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden did to us.
The hole, the hole in the ground, the ten-year hole in the ground is what we did to ourselves, and it is a disgrace.
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