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Sept. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anchorman is away, and uh this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
Mark Davis is going to be here tomorrow.
We'll have a best of rush show on Labor Day, and Rush will be back for the post Labor Day election frenzy that starts Tuesday on the EIB network.
The ground zero moss, the ground zero mosque.
You know, I don't even think this would be an issue.
And let's take everything as red, by the way.
That the people who say this imam is a moderate Imam Raouf is a moderate.
That's all rubbish.
He's just the usual phony baloney opportunist imam.
He says one thing when he's uh over in Dubai, he says another thing when he's over here.
I don't care about all that.
There's a zillion of them.
I don't even care uh whether this is just going to be another radicalized uh mosque uh funded by sinister foreign interests, because they're all over the place.
Uh they're all they're all over the they're all over the map.
But what is what has made this one, I think uh r rubbed America's skin raw is the fact, uh obviously that it is so called at ground zero.
The Burlington Coat factory was damaged uh by a part of the plane uh that hit one of the towers, and that's why uh the the building can no longer be uh used as is, is this guy wants to put a mosque in it, and if he gets the funding for it, by the way, I don't think he will, as far as I can see, this guy's finance is a total mess.
Don't think he is going to get the funding for it, uh, then what will happen is that this mosque will go up.
Meanwhile, meanwhile at ground zero, there is the most eloquent statement about America in the early twenty-first century, and that is a seven-story hole.
Uh 911 was something that America's enemies did to us.
The hole in the ground a decade later, uh is something we did to ourselves.
Now Nanny Bloomberg.
Nanny Bloomberg, the take charge, get it done, make it happen, Mayor of New York, is now reduced to promising that that big hole in Lower Manhattan isn't going to be there for another decade.
No, Surrey, it's not going to be there for another ten years.
Quote, I'm not gonna leave this world with that hole in the ground ten years from now, Nanny Bloomberg says.
And in the twenty first century, that's what passes for action, for for get tough leadership, for riding herd.
When when the going gets tough, the tough boot the can another decade down the road.
Sure those Jihad boys got lucky and took out a couple of skyscrapers, but then the old can't do spirit kicked in, and a mere ten years later, uh we've got a seven-story hole on which seven billion dollars have been lavished.
But if we can't put up a replacement building, you know, within a decade, we can definitely do it within two, probably.
Probably.
The non-official estimated date of completion for the brand new one world trade center uh tower is said to be 2018.
Don't hold your breath.
2018.
1800-282-2882.
You imagine if we had done what Americans in any previous generation would have done.
That building uh was uh taken out, collapsed, hit, smashed, shattered, something would have gone up on that site, bigger and better.
Do you remember I used to get these emails in the uh in the in in the in the weeks after September 11th?
Same joke used to be emailed to me every day with the proposed design for the replacement World Trade Center, and you'd open up the attachment and it would show a new skyscraper towering over the city, with the top of it looking like a stylized hand with uh with three towers cut off at the joint and the and the middle finger rising above them,
uh flipping the bird uh not only to Osama bin Laden, uh, but all those other people, the people dancing in the street in Ramallah uh at uh at the death and destruction rain down on the Great Satan, and all the Euro Sophisticates who'd sneered that America had it coming and had finally got it, and there was this new glorious skyscraper rising above uh the uh the city flipping the bird at the world that said America had uh had taken this hit and wasn't it a great day, and now America was back.
Uh and uh and that's what I thought would happen.
It never occurred to me in late September 2001 that we would leave this hole in the ground sitting there uh for a decade, for a decade, uh, in the heart of lower Manhattan.
Don't we understand don't we understand what that says about the country?
Don't we understand what that says about the United States in the early 21st century?
And don't by the way, call me, you can call me up and explain that, oh well, we had to have the impact study group on this and the environmental impact group on that, and it's all very complicated because it's the port authority of New York and New Jersey, so you've got two dysfunctional jurisdictions that have to reach agreement on it.
It's a disgrace.
It's a it's a mark of shame to the United States that that hole is still there in the year 2010.
Uh that that nothing has been done uh and nothing uh and nothing will be done uh until the end of the the the next decade.
Mom do you realize m all the highlights of the New York skyline date from the very worst of times, from from the Depression.
I'm doing this, I'm doing this very show uh from uh part of the Rockefeller Center complex that was put up uh at the at the depths at the very depths of the Great Depression.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world, was put up in 18 months during a depression, because the head of General Motors wanted to show the head of Chrysler that he could build something that went higher than the Chrysler building.
And now, three quarters of a century later, uh, you know, the biggest things either man's successor has created at General Motors or at Chrysler is uh is a mountain of uh unsustainable losses from union feather bedding, and both GM and Chrysler are now owned and controlled by the government and unions, and nobody at General Motors or Chrysler is thinking of putting up a new Empire State Building, and they couldn't even if they wanted to, because they the permit process would take ten years uh and you'd still have a big hole in the ground.
It's the hole in the ground.
It's the hole in the ground.
That says something uh about the United States in the early twenty-first century.
1800, 282-2882.
What can we do?
This was uh Osama bin Laden understood symbolism.
Uh he understood it very well.
He didn't pick these buildings by accident.
He didn't fly two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, and the fourth one was either going to hit the Capitol uh or the White House.
He understood the symbols of buildings.
He's like James Cameron, the stupid eco-movie director we were talking about earlier, who thinks the DVDs are destroying the planet.
Anyone who makes a movie understands the the uh the the symbolism of this.
We we we see it, you know, you go to Planet of the Apes, and it ends with uh Charlton Heston uh walking along the sand, seeing the shattered Statue of Liberty and falling to his knees.
Uh if you go to whatever it's called, the day after tomorrow, the big eco-disaster movie, uh, you see the the the signature shot of the movie, the one they use on the poster is the Statue of Liberty Flash Frozen uh because of uh a uh a speech given by Dick Cheney.
I hope I'm not giving away any plot details there.
That's basically the movie.
Dick Cheney gives a speech, next thing you know, Statue of Liberty Flash Frozen.
Uh you you look at Godzilla, he rampages uh down Fifth Avenue and he's hurling uh he hurls the top off the Empire State Building.
King Kong, uh he's up there uh uh twirling uh uh around the Empire State Building.
Osama bin Laden understands that symbolism.
As much as he hates Western uh culture and Western society, he knew he thought he knew what he was doing when he drove a huge hole into the heart of Lower Manhattan.
And what did American bureaucracy do?
It left that hole there for ten years.
And so now we're bothered because a guy, some rinky dink imam, wants to put up a thirteen-story mosque, fifteen-story mosque.
Do you realize if we had rebuilt the World Trade Center, you wouldn't be able to he could have his little minaret on top of his 15-story mosque, and you'd be up there in the new windows of the world on the observation deck looking down, and they'd say, well, if you just turn the zoom to its very, very, very highest level, you might be able to see that teensy wincy in little mosque with its teeny little minaret down there, right on the ground, way down at the bottom.
And instead, the mosque is rising above the rubble.
The rubble that's been there ten years.
What has gone wrong with the United States of America that we that we used we could put up the tallest building in the world in 18 months at the depths of the Great Depression.
Now we can't.
And it's like Imam Ralph being on the take uh from the uh from the feds, uh being on the government payroll.
Everything Imam Ralph has done is connected to government.
The slum dwellings he owns in New Jersey, where you got toilet water coming through the ceiling and dripping on his tenants.
Uh he started that with government grants.
Uh he's already been promised by someone on the relevant New York commission.
He's going to get government money to put up his mosque.
He's got uh government uh church status for his phony baloney church, where apparently five hundred worshippers were going in and worshipping in his wife's one bedroom apartment five days uh five days a week.
He's got the government to buy three thousand copies of his book and fly him to Egypt to pay for his books talk uh book talk.
Government, government, government.
So on the other hand, you have this smart operator who understands that the gravy train is government, the gravy train is government.
But for real life, government is also the obstacle.
Why has that building not been replaced?
Why is there new no world trade center?
Why can we not put it up in the space of a decade?
This is this is a greater humiliation uh than Osama bin Laden inflicted on us in 9-11 because we did it to ourselves, and it says something very profound about the nature of American society in the early 21st century.
Nobody would care about some lousy thirteen-story mosque if there was some beautiful new state-of-the-art tower uh down there uh where it ought to be, rising to the skies.
The skyscraper, the skyscraper is an American word.
And it's the kind of word only America would invent because it can't encapsulates the American spirit.
You rise, you rise to the skies.
You ride you are unbounded by any limits except the l except except when you reach the very roof of the heavens.
Uh but American ingenuity knows no limits.
That's the America that invented the word skyscraper in the nineteenth century.
Uh now what happens?
Uh China, uh, which America thinks of as a crummy assembly plant for all all your junk from the crappy mart, uh, built the Three Gorges Dam, the largest electricity generating plant in the world since 911.
Dubai, which is a mere sub jurisdiction of the United Arab Emirates, put up the world's tallest building and has built this kind of uh Busby Berkeley geometric kaleidoscope of offshore artificial offshore islands.
All since 9-11.
Brazil, an emerging economic power, has begun diverting the San Francisco River to create some 400 miles of canals to irrigate its parched northeastern region.
But the hyperpower, the global hyperpower, can't put up a replacement building in 10 years that...
This is the outrage.
The whole, the whole is now people argue, people are still arguing about the 911 memorial.
You're missing the point.
The hole is the memorial.
The seven-story hole uh is telling us something about the state of America in the twenty-first century.
1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Let's go to David in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Hey, uh David, you must be right in the path of Hurricane Earl there.
Is that so?
I'm sorry, say that again.
Are you in the path of Hurricane Earl?
Yeah, we we might get a touch of it, but I don't think it's gonna cause uh too much commotion around here.
We uh we gotta fix it for it.
Oh, that's great.
That's what that's what I like to hear.
You're not one of these people just uh scramming for the hills at the first sign of a little little heavy wind.
Yeah, no panicking and the the uh grocery shelves aren't empty yet, so we're good shape.
Okay, that uh that's that's good to hear.
Uh great to have you with us on the show, David.
Uh what's what what's your point?
Well, Bill, I uh you know, I I'm listening to what you were saying, and uh I was just you know shot in my radio like I was cheering on a football team out of you know absolutely right on.
It's a disgrace.
You know, we are acting, you know, like we are not the best country in the world in the history of mankind.
And um, you know, we come across as arrogant to other countries, but you know, there's nothing wrong with taking pride uh in the beautiful freedoms that we have.
And it's we're we're insulting ourselves uh by not replacing this building, and and it was more than just a building.
There are three thousand souls that were lost that day.
Right.
And it that's something else that we forget about and w can we do something in memorium for them?
Is that even considered?
It it is flabbergasting, uh the fact that government uh weaves its ways into our lives.
It it always makes things uh complicated, it bogs it down, and then you get hands tied and everybody's you know, you know, picking on everybody else and saying, Well, I can't do this because they gotta do that first, and this paper needs to be signed, and then ten years go by and you're looking at an empty hole, and you know, we're we're doing this to ourselves.
It is really a shame.
And I I've got uh I've got four boys, and I have a son that's twelve years old and he's in the young Marines program.
Right.
And if that boy decides to go to serve our country, uh I will do it with tears and pride in my heart because I believe in uh in our in the founding of our fathers.
But I am not uh gonna be happy if our country continues on the path that it's on.
And I pray that when November gets here, the backlash that's coming is gonna just surprise uh the Democrats so much and even our Republicans to say that they better listen to us because we are a lot more than they ever considered.
You made a very good point there, David, when you were talking about how uh people just say, Oh, you need to fill in the paperwork, you need to fill in what's worrying to me is that we take it as entirely normal, as entirely normal that the city of New York and the state of New York and the United States of America cannot muster the energy to replace this building uh within less than two decades.
You know, in other words, there will be people graduating from college by the time anything goes up on that site who weren't born on the day Osama bin Laden took down those towers.
Uh that is that is a sign of uh that is a sign of decadence.
Uh and and and what is appalling about it is that people just think it's the way it is.
Oh, there's nothing you can't do.
You can't expect the New York agency of time servers.
You can't expect the New York State Bureau of Compliance to r rush rush something like this through.
You can't fight City Hall.
You can't fight why can't you fight City Hall, by the way?
I'm fighting City Hall.
I'm in noncompliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
I think I don't understand.
I don't understand uh why people want this to be uh the face of the United States uh of uh of America.
The Pentagon.
The Pentagon, which is not the most beautiful building in the world, but it's an unusual shape.
It's difficult, difficult to build a building like that.
They put it up in eighteen months.
Uh start to flat, uh start to finish.
Uh it opened, I think it is less than that, in fact, less than eighteen months.
Uh, but no time at all, no time at all.
The uh Houses of Parliament in uh in Britain was struck in London, was struck by s Nazi bombs several times uh during the war.
And uh when the war ended, they basically rebuilt the whole thing as it had been before and reopened it uh and reopened it five years later.
And that was on a a devastated city.
Let's go to Andy.
Uh Andy is at Ground Zero.
Uh Andy, great to have you with us on the show.
How you doing, Mark?
You're doing a great job.
You got some uh mighty big shoes to fill there, Saturday.
Yeah, they are they are the biggest.
They're Godzilla-sized shoes, uh, and we do uh we do our best.
Mark, let me just tell you, I do all the big work in New York City.
I completed the AOL Towers, I did Yankee Stadium, I did Goldman Sass Headquarters, I did Seven World Trade and the Winter Garden, all started from scratch in the time where the Trade Center was destroyed.
So here we are taking care of all these other perimeter projects, and we are letting the gigantic cemetery sit.
Right.
So I got together, all my nine eleven hot hats, and we started this this pledge.
It's called the nine eleven hard hat pledge.
And I tell you, Rush, if not for Rush Limbaugh, we would have not have gotten the traction on it that we're doing right now in regards to this mosque issue.
Uh this pledge just says none of us nine eleven hard hats will contribute to the building of that mosque in that location.
And ever since I spoke with the big guy, I've gotten people all around the country from other countries as a matter of fact, giving pledges that they will not contribute any goods or so.
That's uh that's good to that's good to hear, Andy.
The the pledge not to build a mosque.
You know, you know, you should if maybe evolve that slightly.
Say we'll get to the mosque once we've replaced the World Trade Center.
We'll put it on the to-do list.
But after we've replaced the World Trade Center.
Uh that's uh Andy uh speaking to us from ground zero.
Let's worry your calls straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Yeah, we can boogie down, boogieing down the toilet of history.
That is that is pretty much the upshot of the uh show today.
Mark Stein in for Infrarush talking about the uh the inability to make things happen at ground zero, which is what we were talking about with Obama uh yesterday, really.
Obama is the big do nothing.
He's the do nothing guy.
He's the sit around guy.
Uh uh if you uh i i if if America was trying to build the transcontinental railroad uh today, they'd be spending the first three decades on the environmental impact study and hammering in the golden spike to celebrate the point at which the uh feasibility commission's expansion up from the fifth floor met the uh zoning board's expansion down from the twelfth floor.
That's that's what we can do.
Paperwork we can do.
We can put obstacles in your path.
We can put obstacles in your path.
That's what government does.
Let's go to Richard in Hinton, Virginia.
Uh Richard, uh, you're not in the path of uh Hurricane Earl, are you?
I've been trying to find someone about to be totally devastated by this hurricane, but haven't had much luck so far.
Don't have any problem with it here at all.
Supposed to be nice weather this weekend.
Oh, good.
Good for you.
Okay, well, first thing I wanted to say is you were you've talked about uh bovine flatulence.
Yeah, I am an expert in bovine flatulence.
I know that, and uh I've I've observed that.
Anyhow, here in Virginia, I call it fresh dairy air.
Dairy air.
That's great.
That's that that just makes it sound so you could probably bottle that and uh and sell it to uh Cameron Diaz and Kate Blanchett.
That sounds just beautiful.
They'd all want to be.
Mmm.
That's anyhow, uh what I really called about was uh we're sending money overseas to rebuild mosques in other countries.
Yes.
Well, why don't we hear any cry of separation of church and church and state?
Well, you know, it th that's fascinating.
Uh that's uh that's a that's a fascinating point, Richard.
Because as I said, uh I'm starting from the premise now, this country's insolvent.
We're broke.
We spend it all.
We got no money.
So and people say, well, everybody likes these programs.
You you keep you conservative types keep going on about cutting spending, but people like these programs.
Really, how many people think it's a good idea uh to s to to spend a uh to to in effect build a one hundred million dollar mosque, uh, which is what the United States government is doing in uh Tanzania.
I mean, uh in where is that where is that in the interests of of the United States?
Uh you're right to point out the State Department uh has managed to come up with some Cockamami mosque building program.
Uh the the US government helped rebuild uh the big mosque in uh Kike Cairo, I think it was.
The one the mosque that is in fact a monument to Islamic triumphalism and was named after the um the the the the Muslim conqueror who uh destroyed and vanquished Christian Egypt.
What it what is in it for the United States taxpayer in doing that, Richard.
Absolutely nothing.
But but the thing is, if it's anything to do with Christian, if it was a Christian church they were giving ten dollars to, there would be nothing but you know, complaints about separation of church and state.
No, but you know that's the classic liberal thing.
You're right, that if the uh if uh if we if if we made a two hundred dollar donation uh to help something at St. Peter's in Rome, uh, you'd be hearing all the separation of church and state stuff.
But the ACLU is like a lot of liberal uh institutions.
They only want to fight phantom enemies.
It's like all these uh radical playwrights who uh write plays about, you know, a gay Jesus having an affair with Judas Iscariot.
Uh they wouldn't do that about Mohammed because there'd be an entirely different uh crowd of folks waiting for them at the stage door.
The liberals always want to fight phantom enemies.
Uh and so you won't hear a peeper protest about public monies, huge sums of money uh in in effect, uh, you know, a hundred million dollars even for the uh for the profligate United States government isn't chicken feed, uh going to rebuild foreign foreign mosques.
And uh thank you for bringing that up, Richard, because when when your Congressman, if you're at town hall meetings and all the rest of it, between now and November, and your Congressman or your senator says, Well, we we we need to control some of these things, but it's actually very difficult to identify things uh that that that that could be cut.
Let's start small.
Let's accept your point that we can't uh uh do a lot of big stuff, Medicare, Social Security, and all the rest of it.
Why don't we just cut out the junk?
And I would say this country is insolvent and cannot afford to spend one hundred million dollars rebuilding mosques in Tanzania and Egypt.
Let's just start there.
Let's just say that if an imam wants to write a book and sell it in the Middle East, he should pay for his own book tour.
Sorry, maybe we'll think maybe once we're flush with cash again, we'll start getting into the whole subsidized MM, imam on the dole program.
We can revive the MM on the dole program when we're flush with cash again, but right now we can't.
Let's go to John in Springfield, Illinois, uh where they were demonstrating uh where you had union workers saying uh uh standing in the streets chanting, raise my taxes, John, uh a few weeks ago.
Did it work?
Have they raised your taxes?
Not yet, Mark.
I'm really hoping that uh you know, being from the land of the great do nothing.
Not all of us out here are that are stupid and crazy enough to have supported him, by the way.
Right, right.
Um I I thought your your program today is probably one of the best that I've heard.
The hole in the ground is an atrocity.
And why the do nothing liberals in New York who have the power to cut the red tape and get beyond the uh the cow flatulence and could actually start making something happen at that site haven't done so.
It's disgraceful.
And to uh you know even be considering and having to engage in this uh debate nationally about putting up the mosque.
The debate should be about how soon and how quickly we're going to finish a monument to the people who died on September eleventh.
I mean this is this is atrocious that we haven't been able to, you know, fulfill what should have been done within a matter of months, not ten years.
But but you know s you know some uh something, John?
Even when the monument the specific nine eleven monument is built, it'll just be the usual feeble, wimpy, easy listening, multicultural, squishy, drively, nothing of a monument.
It won't be it won't be big robust uh American eagles of uh defiance and courage.
If you think about the flight ninety-three, for example, flight ninety-three, it was the only good news of the day.
It was uh nine eleven was really Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle raid on the same day.
Uh what happened was three planes went down and the guys on the fourth plane figured out what was happening and stopped it and paid with their lives.
It was the only good news of the day at the day when all the fancy pants, money no object acronyms failed America.
FBI, CIA, INS, all of them failed.
The only good news came from self-reliant American citizens acting uh in defense uh of this nation.
And yet when they come to put up a monument for these brave men on flight ninety three, they come up with the stupid crescent of embrace thing, which even if it isn't actively some Muslim crescent pointing towards Mecca or whatever it's supposed to be, is still just limp wristd stuff that has nothing to do with what these guys did on flight ninety-three.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that by the time anything goes up uh at ground zero memorializing nine eleven, it'll be more of the limp wristed pansy type stuff, John.
I'm sorry, but to me, you don't put up a Japanese pagoda at the interest of Pearl Harbor.
And you don't put up a taco stand right outside of the Alamo.
It's wrong.
It's not something that should be done.
And I don't believe I'm alone in feeling that way.
No, you no, you're not.
But unfortunately, all the people who ban the zoning commissions for this kind of thing feel entirely fail entirely differently.
Mark Stein, Infrarush, we're talking about the uh the big hole in the ground.
You know, John there is from uh is from Illinois.
And uh Illinois, as he said now, it's the state of the do nothing.
It's the state where the do nothing Barack Obama comes from.
But it used to be uh people forget that verse from America the beautiful, uh which is the the verses we don't sing are beautiful, but Catherine Lee Bates, I always like that line, uh oh beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years.
Thine Alabaster Cities gleam undimmed by human tears.
She'd just been the couple of days before at the White City exhibition in Chicago, with all these marvels of electric light, which were now, you know, Edison's invention is now illegal.
Uh these marvels of electric light, these fabulous skyscrapers.
It isn't just a hymn to the fruited plains and the Purple Mountain Majesties.
America the Beautiful is a hymn to the future and American modernity.
After she saw the White City of Chicago.
What did they do with the White City?
They took it down and it became Hyde Park, home to Barack Obama, Bill S and the rest of the crowd.
That's that's the Amer America's history of the last hundred years in a nutshell.
The from the White City to Bill Ayers and Barack Obama's neighborhood.
Mark Snyde Infrarush, 1800, 282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We would we were talking about the uh those kind of weepy, squishy, wimpy memorials that we we build today.
We don't build a great old stone memorials of uh resolve uh with uh with lions and eagles and all and all the rest of it.
But if we had to have like uh your silly old national healing circle, I could have lived with that if had i if by now it had been on the penthouse floor of uh uh uh of the even more World Trade Center towering above Manhattan.
And the fact that we haven't been able to do that in a decade uh says something and not something good about America in the early twenty first century.
Let's go to Rick in Sarasota, Florida, way south of Hurricane Earl.
It's gonna be clobbering uh Martha's Vineyard and uh and uh and any vacationing Democrats uh up uh up there in the next couple of days.
Rick, great to have you with us.
Hey Rick, you're live on the air in Sarasota.
Hey Rick.
Are you listening to your radio?
That may be that may be the problem.
Rick's wandered away from the phone.
Let's go to Andrew in Grand Rapids.
Ran Andrew in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Hi, how are you doing?
I'm doing great.
How how are you?
Is you still uh reeling under your telegenic Canadian governor?
Uh what's her name?
G uh Governor Grannham.
Oh, yeah, Jennifer uh Governor Grantham there, yeah.
I think uh well I won't say anything about that.
No, no.
I was calling was yeah, well my mom always said if I didn't have nothing nice, they just keep my mouth shut.
So uh but my call was about, you know, I am also appalled that there's still a seven foot hole or a seven story hole at site of ground zero.
But everyone that I've talked to, co-workers, friends, family, you know, when they they picked that glass gaudy design for what is eventually gonna go there, you know, about the time my kids graduate from college.
Right, right.
Um but I everyone I've talked to thinks that instead of having that glass sculpture that we ought to rebuild everything the exact same it was, one story taller.
And make two floors, the new floors, a tribute, and maybe do something like get gold brick-sized plaques made up for the outside, so it kind of looks like two gold like halos over 'em.
Right.
Right.
With the names of the people that died that day.
Yeah, I I think that's I think that's the uh the American spirit because you absolutely you're making a statement.
Uh whatever building goes up in that place is a statement uh that has to take into account the events of uh of September eleventh.
And uh the fact that it isn't there already uh s uh i is in itself uh a statement.
But that's what you'd like.
You'd like the same size towers, but just a couple of stories taller.
Everything looked the exact same from the outside, one story taller.
You know, the main lobby can be the same, everything identical, like it never happened, only one story taller.
Yeah, and I would I would I would go rebuilt it.
Yeah, I would go a little further too, Andrew, and I'd do I'd do this.
So we if we have to have your your daft old crescent of embrace uh uh multicultural feeble wimpy loser kind of memorial up there on the top floor.
Next to it, we should have your uh we should have some kind of virtual reality uh theme park experience uh where you where you can go in and enjoy the animatronic experience of living in a smelly old cave with the jihadists uh back in Waziristan, and we're putting it on the top of a five hundred story building, and we've got some super powerful GPS thing there, so you can you can zoom down on where uh Osama bin Laden is in Waziristan and look at him using the executive latrine at the back of the cave.
Uh there has to be an element uh uh uh an understanding uh that uh that this site uh was not just your usual slapdash sclerotic New York building uh construction site, uh, but a statement about the nation.
And the fact that the replacement building is not there is a statement about the nation, and that's very sad.
Mark Stein in for rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in for rush.
Let's go to Jerry in Landis, North Carolina.
Jerry, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to be.
Hey, boy, I am so pleased.
Mark, you're doing a good good job, man.
But you need it you need some help here.
Okay, okay.
Well, I got you.
I got you, I'm all set.
Give it, give it, lay it on me, man.
Let's ask the guy who owns that property when he when he's going to rebuild it.
Well, he's a guy called Larry Silverstein.
He's whichever you want.
Yeah, it could be Silverstein.
Yeah, uh he and he holds the lease.
He's not actually the uh the owner.
He holds uh he holds the lease, but but he's he's uh stymied by this strange hybrid uh of uh uh various authorities, public and private, uh around him, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is a by-state uh a by-state uh uh organization.
I don't mean that New York is a by-state in the orientational sense, although it it is pretty much, but uh but uh New York and New Jersey are two states that are both dysfunctional, and when you put two states on one commission, uh then you're gonna you're you're gonna have uh a whole bunch of separate uh issues uh issues there.
You've got a whole uh bureaucracy issue uh with uh its own delays, uh and then you've and then you've got the private owner versus the port authority.
But it's not just that he's sitting there on the seven billion dollars thinking that he can live with the whole Jerry.
Oh, well that it's certainly uh that that's what occurs to me.
I mean, well, we live in the land of private property, and this guy's uh property was destroyed, and it seems to me he he holds all the cards.
Yeah, that's that's how it would have been in nineteen thirty in New York, when New York hadn't yet gone down uh the path of the Bureau of Compliance.
But now, now uh it is all about getting approvals, getting permits, getting this, getting that.
That's why you could put up the Empire State Building in the middle of a depression uh in eighteen months, but for ten years you've got a seven-story hole covering sixteen acres, and with just this little skeleton peeping up a metal skeleton peeping up a few stories uh out of it.
It is a disgrace and it should not be there.
Mark Davis will be in for rush tomorrow.
There's a best of rush on Labor Day, and uh don't forget that Rush returns live on Thursday.
This has been Mark Stein.
I've had a great time.
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