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Sept. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Thank you very much, Johnny.
Thanks everybody.
One more hour today.
Hey, speaking of that string of fill-in hosts, uh that's about done for the election season.
Rush enjoying some time off for, I guess what, Friday of last week, this entire week, Monday's Labor Day, so he's back on Tuesday of next week.
But uh what you're listening to right now, cause for celebration, I'm sure, uh, is uh probably the final Rush Limbaugh show till election day, not hosted by Rush Limbaugh.
So rush back in the chair on Tuesday to carry a listen, you never can tell things come up, you never know.
Uh and and one of us, one of the marks, or maybe Brother Williams or uh or uh you know what I I thoroughly enjoy I pardon I dug Doug Urbanski a week ago today.
Very nice job there.
Um anyway, though, uh barring unforeseen circumstances, it's rush rush and more rush from Tuesday through the election day.
And um boy, how's that gonna work out for everybody?
What what kind of shows are we all going to enjoy?
Local guys like me at uh WBAP in Dallas Fort Worth, uh uh, you know, by Belling uh up in Wisconsin and just all the folks who are who are doing their best to bring issues to you and to listen to you and see what your thoughts and your passions are.
We're going we're finally gonna see.
The b uh I love when questions are answered.
And that's one thing that elections do is they answer questions.
How in the mood was America to just be done with Republicans and go with the cool new guy?
That's we learned that election day 2008.
And it was not a happy answer.
How um was the shrinking population of the war enough to dislodge President Bush in 2004?
That answer, thankfully, no.
Now there are a lot of reasons for that.
I mean, if the Democrats had come up with a less wooden candidate, might that have gone a little differently?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Uh and this election, this off year election, off-year elections are always a bit of a sucker punch for the party in power in the White House, so generally the narrative would ordinarily be for Republicans to pick up some seats, probably a good number of seats, but enough to to to take control of the House, maybe with ten or twenty or more to spare?
You know what the answer to that question is?
How much Tea Party passion is there really?
That's been a bunch of events, like the magnificent one that I was able to MC last night here in Dallas, with Andrew Breitbart and Jenny Thomas and and all the and uh and Gary Aldrich, uh uh famous for the uh unlimited access, an FBI agent inside the Clinton White House.
Remember how ridiculed he was?
This guy could not get on uh national uh interview shows.
Uh and uh and Brightbird had some great points about this last night.
Whistleblowing is an interesting um thing.
Uh uh uh Time magazine's person, people, you know, entities of the year not so long ago.
The whistleblowers.
Well, sure, when they're whistleblowing against business or conservatives or stuff like that, but when you have whistleblowers who are here midway through the Clinton term to say, good lord, look what these people are doing in the White House.
Oh, that kind of whistleblowing.
Oh, we want no part of that.
No, no, no, no.
We we want no part of that.
You know, Linda Tripp, not only do we want no part of that, we're gonna make fun of what you look like.
You want either Broderick, oh, we really don't want any part of that.
So hmm, our appetite for whistleblowing is curious at times.
But um, so that was a great tea party event, and I've I've done a bunch of great tea party events that you've probably been to or seen or read about or heard about uh all the all the wonderful Tea Party events.
And uh so now, okay.
That's great.
We've shown we can uh put people into a baseball stadium.
We've shown we can put people into some convention space, we've shown we can put people out front of City Hall in various American cities.
Hooray for us.
Every single bit of that doesn't amount to squat.
Until and unless the people who have been showing up at those rallies, show up at their polling places on November 2nd.
Then and only then will this have had real meaning.
And at the moment, at the moment, the um the expectation is that this will uh that this will happen.
How much?
Again, that's that's the question that will be answered.
Will there be enough Tea Party passion to just fall short of taking the house back?
Okay.
Will there be enough Tea Party passion to come just with a few votes to spare?
44, 45, 47, something like that?
Or could it be in the 60s?
Could it be in the 70s?
Tea Party Patriots uh co-founder Mark Meckler, 70 to 100, he tells me last week.
Oh, okay.
Ooh.
What will it be?
That question answered in less than two months.
But then there's another question.
There's another entire question.
Can we keep it going for another two years?
Can we keep it rolling for another two years?
Because that's that's that's when you get the big enchilada.
That's where you get the presidency.
And um and it's there's there's been such a boy who cried wolf syndrome, because hasn't there in every single election, haven't a bunch of Republicans and a bunch of Democrats in varying times, sometimes at the same time, identified every election as the most important in our lives.
They all everybody always says it, this coming election is the most important in your life.
So here I am right now, essentially telling you that 2010 is the most important election in your life.
Because it is, because this time it is.
This time there is a wolf.
I mean it.
Look, there it is.
It's a wolf.
Uh and I've had a lot of people say, well, Mark, I mean, don't we need to go four years out?
Or, you know, three now or two or two, two beyond now.
Isn't 2012 more important than 2010?
Uh, okay, yeah.
But we don't get to 2012 if we don't take care of our business in 2010.
If we fail to deliver a resounding message of taking the country back, then you can forget about getting rid of Obama in 2012.
Please, you kidding me?
I I know he's against the ropes right now.
But when you have the willing handmaidens of the media working for you, you get the Democratic Party panicked and mad and let the pendulum swing back a little bit, as it always kind of seems to do.
I mean, uh Newt Gingrich, Republican Revolution, 94.
Woo-hoo, pop the champagne corks.
Fantastic.
Whoa, great.
What happened two years later?
Bill Clinton wins again.
Yeah, you want that to happen?
Mm-hmm.
Well, need to play hard and play smart.
Uh, as we get back to calls, let me uh do something I actually said I was going to do.
Why am I and some others who have been, you know, who have it have not been walking around for you know twenty or thirty or more years talking about we gotta take the country back.
Uh and why is that suddenly appropriate now?
Well, the answer is these people, this regime, on their worst days.
Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were Democrat presidents I disagreed with about everything.
On their worst days, well, on their worst days, I guess there were there was more than that, but uh, you know, behaviorally, but you know what I mean.
It's still uh America under Carter felt like America under a bad president.
America under Clinton, well, felt like America under Phil, whatever adjective you like.
America under a president, I sure didn't want for one term, much less two.
I know full well that in my lifetime, and what what's true of all Americans, all of us, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, what's true of all of us?
Ready?
Our lives will be filled with presidents we voted for and those we did not.
It's going to happen.
The pendulum will swing.
What's different about these people?
Uh truly, I don't I do not say this hyperbolically.
I I'm I'm not prone to overstatement.
Under these people, it doesn't feel as much like America anymore.
President doesn't own car companies in the America that I've come to know and love.
The America that I've come to know and love is exceptional.
It's the the president of the country that I've grown to know and love doesn't go out there and talk about how, oh yeah, American exceptionalism, they feel about that the way the British feel about British exceptionalism or the Greek feel about Greek exceptionalism.
The president of the country that I've grown to know and love doesn't feel that the USA is just up there on the United Nations directory up there with Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
That's that's not how the country I've come to know and love is led.
The country I've come to know and love does not spend itself into suicidal oblivion.
The country I've come to know and love does not rape the constitution that is its founding document with an activist judiciary and uh and and and uh an administration uh that uh that willfully balls it up and throws it away.
The country that I have come to to know and love does not attack one of its own states for adopting a law that it disagrees with.
That this is this is not American stuff going on here.
I know for the rest of my days there will be Democrat presidents who'll do wacky liberal things.
I can't wait for the relative uh uh relief of just having it be, you know, oh, there's that crazy liberal president again.
Well, you know, can't wait till the next election.
But it still feels like America.
It feels like America having debates about high taxes or low taxes.
You know, abortion rights or no abortion rights.
Uh you know, lots of spending or little spending.
Death penalty or no death penalty.
You know, definition of marriage, man a woman or two men, two women, or you know, whoever.
You know, all all all important issues that we can all have debates on in a country that looks and feels like America.
These people are tearing at the fabric of what the country looks like, feels like, acts like.
I don't pretend I'm gonna get Republican presidents for the rest of my life.
But when I'm nostalgic about the Carter administration, something is very, very wrong.
And by that I mean, you know, the Carter administration was a nightmare.
But I never felt that Jimmy Carter was trying to change what the country was.
So that's why uh that's why you'll get that we got to take this country back mantra coming out of me for the first time ever, if that means something.
All righty, let's get to something that I know means something.
Your calls, and here they come at 1800-282-2882, Mark Davis filling in for rush on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
Friday heading into Labor Day weekend, after which Rush returns on Tuesday.
Mark Davis in Texas, working through a final hour of calls before we break ranks for the weekends.
We are in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Soleil, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Good thanks.
I enjoy you and I enjoy the show.
Thank you.
Uh look, I just want to express my fatigue, my tiredness from uh whenever uh the conversation turns to the ground zero mosque or to Sharia Law, somebody always brings up what they do in Saudi Arabia.
It's a country that's got five million people, it's a family, it's a tribe that was installed by the British gov uh uh British government and is protected by the American government.
It's it's just a weak argument, I think.
Are you referring directly to when people say uh there's a there's a call for a mosque at ground zero based on religious tolerance, a kind of tolerance you'll certainly never get in Saudi Arabia, which ban which would ban a Christian church.
Uh, you know, let's well afraid of Sharia law.
Look at what they you know, look at the laws they have in Saudi Arabia.
I mean, the whole Middle East doesn't even make up uh, I think twenty of the Well that's that well th then if if your point is to not paint with too broad a brush about the Middle East, it's a very, very good point.
However, if one is seeking to make the point that Islam is one of the most uh grotesquely intolerant faiths of uh of of other points of view, that's a that's a that's a uh a case that could be made, other than Saudi Arabia.
I mean, t Turkey is a really, really inclusive Muslim country.
Uh but I mean, where where do you want to go for a shining example of a Muslim-run country where there's enormous tolerance for other faiths.
Um Indonesia, I mean, you know, that that's a fair Indonesia's a fair point.
Indonesia is a fair point, and in fact, Indonesia, if I miss my guess, is the biggest as the biggest Muslim population in the world.
There's something about the Middle Eastern flavor of the Muslim faith.
Okay, we'll work on that in a minute.
But uh there's something about the Middle Eastern flavor uh of the Muslim faith.
It is kind of the defining rudder of of the moment.
What not not the terrorist rudder, because even in the Middle East, I don't know if a majority of the Muslims are terrorists or terrorist sympathizers, but that's where you certainly find the really large, frightening blocks of people who are either okay with 91 or or or or thought it was great.
I mean, there there are Muslim countries that have uh have you know have always ruled with Muslim law, but I'm before they before the the religions or the Middle East started getting radicalized in the last few decades.
I I I think it's reasonable to say that that, for example, Jews will live more peacefully in the Middle East than they did in Europe.
Uh w well, if you take the mid forties, that's probably true.
Uh can I ask you something?
I'm uh just uh just to go way out on a limb here.
Uh are you an actual American Muslim guy?
Yes, sir.
I'm on my way to prayers right now.
Well, b one of five.
Uh yeah.
Very good.
All right.
And and then may I borrow you for a moment.
Because I have a feeling that you are exactly uh the kind of person I talk about all the time.
We we don't know each other a lot, and I'm only doing the limbaugh show every once in a while.
For every breath that I spend saying let us not underestimate the percentage of the Muslim world that wants to kill us.
I feel that there's a dual responsibility that let us not underestimate or or forget the degree to which there are peace-loving, nine eleven hating, bin Laden hating, law-abiding American Muslims.
Don't go putting a brick through the Pakistani shopkeepers window because of 9-11.
Okay, just so you know, I spend a ton of time saying both of those things.
My question to you is as follows.
Do you feel I mean, I say something and I want to see if you if it if it passes uh a smell test with you.
It strikes me that there is a civil war going on under the Muslim umbrella between those who want to kick it old school for whom 911 is not a departure from the Quran, but a fulfillment of it, and people like you who want no part of that.
You just want to go to mosque and pray five times a day and just be of a different faith than me and no threat to me whatsoever.
How am I doing?
Um, to be honest with you, I I don't detect a civil war.
Most uh most of the uh the mosques that I've been to and I've been to uh to a ton are just uh are just preaching, you know, uh doing good by your neighbor being kind of.
But I don't mean in America.
I I don't I don't mean in America.
No, I I'm not suggesting that the the mosque in Knoxville is peaceful and the mosque in Chattanooga is filled with jihadists.
I sort of mean the Western, the American flavor of Islam versus your faith brethren who did 9-11, who were over there in the Middle East.
You share a faith with them, and and that's problematic.
They are your faith brethren.
You are both Muslim, and that's what I mean by the civil war.
And in no way would I ever practice guilt by association.
But until those of you who are not on board with that break from it and have a uh a a Muslim reformation, a Vatican II, whatever you want to call it, uh then there will that's as long as that's the case, the ground zero mosque, for example, will continue to be a bad idea.
These uh terrorist organizations, they I mean they don't go looking for leaders uh, you know, uh to to to fill their ranks.
They go looking for the outcasts, the losers.
Uh I mean i you you're I have no um it's it's almost like saying, and I know you've heard probably heard this analogy before.
It's like saying that the the KKK i i is is is a Christian brethren.
But no, but but uh but the the Klan or the abortion clinic bomber, that analogy just doesn't work.
There is nothing in the Bible that says lynch black people.
There is nothing in the Bible that says blow up an abortion clinic.
There are passages of the Quran that do discuss uh the uh the the kill infidels.
It's in there.
It's what's good.
What do you want to do with it?
And the 9-11 guys wanted to do 9-11.
You don't.
And and thank God for you.
There need to be so much more of you.
And you are, whether you know it or not, I think, in a bit of a civil war with the portion of the Muslim faith that is either terrorist or sympathetic to it.
And somebody's got to win that war, and I hope it's you.
Well, thank you.
Well that's I guess you're welcome.
Uh listen, our our time is done.
God bless you.
And thank you.
And just thank you, thank you, thank you.
From I can't speak for anybody else.
I spend a whole lot of time kicking jihadists in the teeth, but I want to always spend an equal amount of time with outreach and love and support for those of you who just want to be Muslim and just want to be peaceful about it and don't want to blow stuff up or kill me.
And that's why it's an honor and a pleasure to have you on the show and just thank you.
And I I really, really, really mean that.
It is, man.
It's a it's, you know, we got to root and I don't mean to be it sounds flippant, but I and I know it's not.
We got to root for the good guys here.
Because you know what that guy is?
He's a revolutionary.
9-11 guys aren't revolutionaries.
They did what the book says.
The revolutionaries in Islam are the ones who are trying to turn it peaceful for the modern day.
Be right back.
It's the home stretch half hour.
Top of this hour, we are done.
Done for the week and done with the fill-in hosts.
The plan is for Rush to return on uh Tuesday.
Well, no, he will be back on Tuesday, uh, right after Labor Day.
The plan is for him to actually be in the chair every day between uh that day and the election.
So uh all of us from uh Doug Rabansky a week ago to Walter Williams to to Mark Stein to Mark Belling, the marks, uh, and I, Mark Davis, are just so just thankful to Rush for the uh the the honor of sitting in the chair.
Uh grateful to the audience for not uh running off in droves uh when we're hanging out with you, and we just appreciate you, appreciate him, and um I appreciate the you know, not to get real maudlin on you here, but the the the the freedom and liberty to to come into a room and do a radio show and the freedom and liberty that you have to call that show and be on, uh I I don't find I take anything for granted anymore.
And I don't, you know, I'm not gonna you know pound the fairness doctrine turf today.
I think that's largely been done, and I hope that thing's largely been killed.
Uh but no uh no it's like a bad horror movie.
No creature is ever fully dead as long as these people are in power.
Remember when the healthcare bill looked dead?
It was like an episode of 24.
It's like Jack, don't turn your back on the guy.
He's gonna rear up and try to strangle you.
You know, blow its head off.
You know, the what we talked about kill the bill, kill the bill.
Well, guess what?
We didn't.
You know, we had it against the ropes.
It was lying on the ground heaving, and then we, you know, uh turned around to leave the room or take a phone call from Chloe or something, and the thing br, you know, it rose up and passed.
It's such a clumsy analogy, but it works in a way.
Uh that bad ideas have got to be gotten rid of, and sometimes you cannot get rid of bad ideas until you've gotten rid of their purveyors.
So on this election day coming up, we're going to get rid of a lot of Democrats.
We're going to get rid of Nancy Pelosi in the Speaker's Office.
And um we're going to work on getting rid of the Democrat majority in the Senate.
Well, I mean, my fingers are so crossed that they're purple.
We'll see if that works out.
If we can't do that in 2010, then maybe we can in 2012.
Because look, I know it won't be an off-year election anymore.
And you might think that after a big pickup in uh in 2010, that it might be time for the pendulum to sort of swing back in a Democrat direction.
And it may well, if we're not on the top of our game.
But I I'm anticipating.
In fact, let me tell you a little story.
Let's play a little calendar game.
You ready?
In fact, yeah, let's play a little calendar game.
Where are we right now?
Very beginning of September of 2010.
Do you know where we are on the timeline right now?
On the big timeline of life, do you know where we are?
Think about.
Let me put some images in your head.
You ready?
These all happen in a very compactified two weeks, so you'll remember.
Oh, you'll totally remember.
Totally remember.
Remember Sarah Palin night, St. Paul, Minnesota?
The McCain Convention.
Said a lot that her night was more memorable than his.
It's because her presence on the ticket was more memorable than his.
Remember uh right alongside that.
Denver, Colorado.
The Barackalyps.
There in the stadium where the Broncos play.
The Democrat convention was at the Pepsi Center, indoors, and then for the last night, it's hey, let's take it out to the stadium and let everybody come by.
Eighty some eighty some thousand people in there.
I go to all the conventions.
I've broadcast from them.
Have since what, 96 or so?
Bill Clinton's second convention in Chicago and the Bob Dole convention in San Diego.
It was lovely.
Futile but lovely.
Why do I bring this up?
Think about your memories of uh Obama Biden in Denver, and then McCain Palin, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Remember those?
Seem like yesterday, don't they?
Exactly.
It was exactly two years ago, right now on the calendar, late August, early September.
That little blip of time, that little hiccup of time, lay it out in front of us.
And you know where we get to?
We get to the late summer of 2010.
We get to Tampa, Florida.
That's where we'll be.
That's where I'll be.
That's where our hopes and our dreams will be.
For real hope and real change.
Because we will uh cast eyes on a Republican ticket that will be tasked with nothing less than ending this nightmare.
Who'll it be on that stage?
I have absolutely no idea.
What a delicious and fascinating ride it's going to be.
And uh I mean, listen, it's arguable that that oh, and I guess it's probably fact that that race is already underway.
You got folks going to Iowa and New Hampshire and doing some stuff and I don't know if anybody's announced their exploratory committee or anything like that.
Are there people putting their toe in the pool, thinking about it, planning it?
Sure there are.
That race is already underway, sort of behind closed doors.
When does it begin in earnest?
The morning after this election.
Because then it's all done.
All the electoral activity of 2010, done.
The results in the page turns.
And that's when we're really gonna see whether big names, big names, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, you know, folks we are well familiar with, are gonna throw in and try to run for president, along with, I don't know, some of the young guns, you know, governors like Bobby Gendal, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, uh, members of Congress like Mike Pence, Paul Ryan.
You know, and and it's and what kind of mixture of candidate beats Barack Obama?
They better I'll tell you this.
This has better be good.
It better be really, really good.
What does good mean?
It means sound heart, sharp mind, and really good at purveying the message, really good at getting the message, just good at the message, good campaign skills.
And it's funny because I'm I'm a big fan of in Congress, for example.
I'm a huge fan uh of Mike Pence and Paul Ryan.
But these are, you know, young-ish guys, uh unknown to many.
And, you know, is that what you put up against the the iconic uh Obama?
I don't know.
Maybe.
You know, maybe.
Uh, do we go with a governor?
Governors are always kind of an interesting take.
They've actually run something.
Current governors like Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Bobby Gindle in Louisiana, Chris Christie in New Jersey, former governors like Mitt Romney, you know, Haley Barber in Mississippi.
I don't know if Haley ever wants to run for anything, but I'm just gonna say something.
I love that man.
I love that man.
And you know what?
You want to tell uh on a day where I've railed against members of the Republican establishment trying to pick races for us, getting their big noses into New York 23 and the Alaska senatorial race, butt out.
You know, Florida, oh, we'll back Charlie Chris.
Here's a better idea.
Don't, because he's a snake.
You know, if you don't want to go ahead and back Marco Rubio and help his insurgency, uh, just butt out.
Let the let the primary happen, and then once the primary is over and the Republican uh voting voters have spoken, then come on in with all the national dollars and help the guy who guy or gal who actually wins the Republican nomination.
Please, come on, come on, come on.
So um, hmm.
I don't know.
There was an interesting thing up in Alaska.
They did a presidential preference thing in Alaska.
And God bless Sarah Palin.
I'm a fan.
She didn't win it.
Romney did.
Romney with 20.
Palin was 17.
Huckabee was 17.
You know, and I as a matter of fact, what do we got here?
Let's let's let's uh in a Bill in Miami, you're gonna be next.
Let me get the break here because uh uh Governor Palin in the news this past week.
She uh I there was a big drudge headline.
Look who's going to Iowa.
Okay.
There are two reasons for Governor Palin to go to Iowa and New Hampshire.
One is to feel out the notion of running for president.
Does is that the only reason?
Does her going to Iowa mean that's it?
She's running.
Not necessarily, I'll tell you another thoroughly worthy pursuit she might be up to in Iowa and New Hampshire.
I'll tell you about that next.
Take a bunch of your calls as well as we work toward the end of the Friday Rush Limbaugh show and the end of a week plus a day of the fill-in guys, rush back with you on Tuesday after a big Labor Day weekend, which I hope is fantastic for you.
Mark Davis in for Rush and back in a moment on the EIB network.
The waning minutes of the last Rush Limbaugh show of the week.
Mark Davis, honored to be in the chair.
Rush back on Tuesday after Labor Day.
Let's see what we can get done telephonically between now and the end of the show.
We're in Miami.
Bill, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Oh, doing fine.
Glad uh glad you got me on today.
I hope we have enough time to cover.
Two things.
Number one, why isn't the Republican Party using the charismatic powerful Sarah Paling?
Number two.
Let's go one at a time.
Let's go one at a time.
Okay.
Uh the Republican establishment is as afraid of Governor Palin as they are of some of the other Tea Party-ish rogue, less predictable, bold uh figures.
Uh I mean they're probably scared to death of Joe Miller.
Now that he's won, he's good, but along the way, it's like, oh, he's gonna knock out Lisa Murkowski, and we're comfortable with her.
Uh the establishment hated J.D. Hayworth because he's no longer a threat anymore.
I mean, the the establishment is very much about uh playing mist uh playing prevent defense and mega mega safe, which is what drives the Tea Party people crazy about the Republican establishment.
That scares me.
Number two.
Okay, number two.
World War II did not help America come out of the depression.
You cannot build thousands of tanks, ships, planes, munition, munitions.
Right.
Send them oversea, get them blown up and make money.
There are certain narratives that if you say it enough, people keep saying them.
I mean, will a war create a burst of productivity that you'll keep your assembly lines humming?
Absolutely.
But no, no uh no country has ever been sent down to economic ruin by a war or lofted out of a depression by one.
It's one of many, many factors.
Bill, do me a favor, do me a favor.
Gotta try to get some other folks on before we're done.
Love you, appreciate it, go Dolphins.
In Michigan, Frank, Mark Davison for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Um, you were talking earlier about public sector employees and uh uh assuming that if they were in a uh like a welfare type capacity, they didn't vote Republican.
Yeah, we had a guy call and say that we should stop we should talk about we should sort of soft pedal the degree to which we want to cut government because it'll freak uh government employees out and they won't vote Republican and and I asked literally how many of them vote Republican anyway.
I know it's some, but but I but I'm guessing not many.
Well, I was in a 14-person unit in a very small uh county mental health agency, and five of us were Republicans and two of us wanted to be.
And when I say that, I mean they're they were really in line with the Republican agenda, but their friends and family members all convinced them that, you know, even though Ronald Reagan started the Medicaid program out of the hospitals and getting it into homes and modernized it, even though George W George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act and actually believed in it.
Even though Nixon brought us affirmative action.
Well, Nixon brought us affirmative action, but he also brought the rehab act, and since I have a disability and that helped me get a job, I have a real problem with people who don't support it.
Yep.
But uh we a lot of us in and I'm I'm no longer in the field.
I I now have my own business, but uh a lot of people in the field want to have smaller government, but They don't want services that really benefit people eliminated, like mental health counseling.
Sure.
I I I understand that.
And here's where, boy, uh like moments left in the show, we could do an hour on this.
I v there will always be a list of things that we as a society want to do for those who are truly needy.
The question is always who does a better job of that, government or churches and private charities.
There's some things where I believe the absolute answer is churches and private charities.
When you get into really specialized things like like uh uh m you know, mental health counseling and things of this nature, even as an advocate of of of limited government as I am, there will be things I'll be okay with government providing, because without it, it's it's just a nightmare.
I don't want to make I don't want to sit there wondering and hoping that that churches and private charities will provide the kind of mental health counseling that some people truly desperately need.
So um I get that.
I I appreciate it.
Thank you.
All right, let's do one more before the final break.
Cell phone time in Connecticut.
Sounds like a Frank Capra movie.
Cliff, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
Mark, fantastic.
God bless you.
Um quick uh error perception issue, and that is that Indonesia is somehow friendly to anything outside of Islam.
We were okay, we were talking about uh Saudi Arabia where you can't even practice it openly, and I asked the gentleman, give me an example of a country uh th that is that where you where you can or where that is uh that is uh uh welcoming or tolerant.
He mentioned Indonesia, uh everything's relative.
It's it's not a happy and and smooth life for for Christianity in Indonesia, but it does exist and it is allowed to exist.
I think like eight or nine percent of Indonesia is is either Protestant or Catholic.
Allowed true.
Uh however, when there is uh roving bands of Muslims that go around trying to knock out Christians or what absolutely, absolutely uh converts from Islam.
They run them out of town and and put a put her hurting on them for sure.
Yes, indeed.
Yeah, the existence of uh of an eight or nine percent uh Christian contingent doesn't mean that they're having a good time of it.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate it.
Okay, final break of the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Come back, maybe a call, maybe a pearl or two from me on something.
I don't know, I'll figure it out during the break.
It's the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis sitting in, be right back.
Well, time to strut on out to the strains of Bob Seeger.
I figured I'd leave you with something.
If you know, we've talked a lot about the the Constitution, about liberty.
I mean, uh please, it's on the lips of an entire country now that now that they're both under attack.
Uh quick, who's your favorite founding father?
It's like a conservative parlor game.
Who's your favorite time to play?
Who's your favorite founding father?
Uh I'm gonna go with James Madison, if I may, because when you start to think about and talk about the notion of of limited government, this is a guy who the who's writing and whose brain or we're just s his radar was so pure for this.
If if if I may leave you with a Madison quote.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
It is also a truth that if industry and labor are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive.
And this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.
Now, why have I chosen that?
It's just uh a bit of the logic of leave us alone, which I think is a lot of the message of of 2010 and 2012.
Just leave us alone.
I know we need some level of government.
What we have is way too much and costs way too much.
Look, for all of us in the uh Limbaugh Adjunct Professor's wing at the advanced uh the uh conservative advanced institute for advanced conservatism.
Uh I'm Mark Davis, and all of us have enjoyed filling in and and God bless our country and our troops and God bless Rush, and thanks to HR and Mike and everybody.
Have a great Labor Day weekend.
Rush is back on Tuesday.
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