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Nov. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever, but I have been subject to at least three enhanced pat-downs already today.
The guy at the airport, the guy at the airport, pulled me out of line to pat me down.
And, you know, I wasn't really in the mood.
And he said, would it help if you closed your eyes and fantasized about other TSA agents?
I'm from the Foreign Exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to come and study here.
And 6,000 TSA agents receive intensive instruction in enhanced pat-down techniques from highly trained 14-year-old girls at the 7th Heaven Massage Parlor in Bangkok.
So it's a terrific system.
I'm so sicker, so sick of this pat-down business.
The TSA guy tells me to raise my arms above my head.
He runs his hands down my back.
I give an involuntary shudder.
So he spreads my legs and slips his hand under my inner thigh, moves around behind me and then pats my bottom a dozen times.
But on the other hand, when we did it again on Dancing with the Stars, we did get into the final.
Pat down with the stars.
Pat down with the stars.
It's amazing the difference to an enhanced pat down if you do it with a mumbo beat.
Just try it for yourself this weekend.
Great to be with you.
Great to be with you.
Wherever you are in the land of the free and the home of the grope.
Give me liberty or give me an enhanced pat down.
And remember, remember, this is the EIB promise.
If you're not fully satisfied, the secondary pat down is on us.
I gather that was pretty much Nancy Pelosi's pitch to the Democrat caucus yesterday.
And it worked.
And it worked.
The Democrat Party are crying out for a secondary pat down for Nancy Pelosi, and she's going to give it to them.
It's wonderful to be with you at a time when America is in the grip of pat-down crisis.
It's not something I ever expected to be talking about, but it seems to be the way of the world, that things that you thought were the stuff of absurdity become real and become bureaucratized.
The bipartisan debt commission has already factored in the $2 trillion reduction in Obamacare costs by allowing TSA agents to perform prostate examinations.
If you're 17, if you're 17 and flying to Florida for spring break, you might not think you need a prostate exam, but the best prevention is early screening, early screening.
So ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, the terrorists have won.
The terrorists have won.
The government of the United States cannot get confessed jihadist murderer Ahmed Gelani convicted on any of the 224 murders he was charged with because they decided to shower young Ahmed with all the protections of the civilian justice system.
But the very selfsame government of the United States has decreed that your private parts and those of your children and your grandmother, that all 300 million sets of American genitalia are up for grabs without any probable cause.
God forbid you use enhanced pat-down techniques on any Gitmo detainees.
You never hear the end of it from Amnesty International, but you can use them on three-year-old girls and octogenarian nums.
Ahmed Gailani has been found guilty of one sole charge of conspiring to blow up the embassy buildings in Africa, but not guilty of murdering all the people inside them.
How does that even work?
What's the logic there?
If I blow up the Empire State Building, I'll get convicted of vandalism and failure to apply for a demolition permit, but the thousands of corpses are just an unforeseen consequence.
Ahmed Ghailani was born in Zanzibar.
He was captured in an eight-hour firefight with Pakistani forces in Gujarat.
He is not a citizen of the United States.
He is not a resident of the United States.
He is not what federal law calls a, quote, U.S. person.
He has no connection with the city of New York.
He has no reason to be in a New York courtroom, except that the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, decided to put him there and turn him from an enemy combatant into OJ.
This is decadence.
This is decadence.
And people say this is a huge humiliation and a huge defeat for Obama and Eric Holder.
They don't see it this way.
They think this whole stupid war on terror is a Bush-era joke.
They don't care about it.
They don't care.
If it hadn't been for the peculiar nature of the jury that decided you can apparently conspire to blow up a building without conspiring to kill all the people who happen to be inside it at the time you've decided to blow it up, if it weren't for the ludicrousness of that particular verdict, this guy would have walked.
This guy would have been standing on the steps of the courthouse like Frank Sinatra at the end of Robin and the Seven Hoods singing my kind of town Manhattan is.
This is decadence.
This is decadence.
And Pat Downs, Pat Downs are the death of the Republic.
Because we only have Pat Downs, because we're not allowed to profile people like Ahmed Gailani.
We're not allowed to profile him.
Profiling, you know, has become one of these words, these bad words.
It's almost like racist now.
You know, Rush gets accused of being, what was it, Sheila Jackson Lee yesterday was accusing Rush of being a racist because he calls Ed Schultz Sergeant Schultz.
Great, wonderful.
Sheila Jackson Lee.
That's the thing about these eggshells.
Once you start tippy-tappy-toeing around on the racist eggshells, you can never tiptoe on them enough.
So now Rush calling Ed Schultz Sergeant Schultz is racist, according to Sheila Jackson Lee.
And the next word is profiling, because profiling is now almost as bad as racism.
Oh, you're profiling.
Ooh, ooh.
Oh, when Rush calls Ed Schultz Sergeant Schultz, you'd almost think he was profiling Ed Schultz.
Ooh, bad word, mean word, naughty word.
You know, profiling is what we used to call good policing.
It's what they do in all the old cop shows that us foreigners grew up on, the American cop shows.
And they're all about profiling.
That's every cop show.
Every detective novel is about profiling.
The Naked City, there are 8 million stories in The Naked City.
This has been one of them.
And now you're not allowed to narrow it down to find out which particular subsection of the 8 million it might mean.
You know, hmm, these men trying to blow up American airlines, they range from young Muslim men called Mohammed with an O and a double M who've studied in Pakistan to young Muslim men called Muhammad with a U and a single M who studied in Yemen.
So there's no obvious pattern here, no obvious pattern.
We've got nothing to go on.
There are no leads.
So we'd better just pull in everybody.
We'll pull in a southern redneck, a Belgian businessman, an Amish elder, an Inuit kindergartner, three guys from the Elts Lodge in Pocatello, and a couple of lesbian newlyweds from Massachusetts.
There are 8 million stories in The Naked City, and we intend to hear all of them.
No sense narrowing it down at all.
The terrorists have won.
The terrorists have won.
There are 8 million penises in the naked airport.
Yours has been one of them.
And by the way, by the way, say what you like about George III.
George III, remember George III back in the 18th century, the small government guy?
Say what you like about George III, but he wouldn't have been all over your wedding tackle.
He was for a monarch.
He was unusually abstemious in that respect.
He didn't meet his spouse till his wedding day, like Ashton Kutcher in that Vegas movie with Cameron Diaz.
Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria offering advice to her daughter.
I think I forget who, was it Princess Louise?
I forget which one it was now.
Queen Victoria offering advice to her daughter.
Lie back and think of England.
Janet Encompetano's advice to you, bend down and think of America.
The terrorists have won.
They don't need to blow anything up.
The shoe bomber flopped, but we'll be taking our shoes off till we die.
The Heathrow bombers flopped, but we'll be measuring our liquids and gels to the nearest tenth of an ounce till the end of time.
The Panty Bomber flopped, but Janet Incompetano has moved into your gusset and she's never getting out.
The new federal agent, the G-Man, G for Grope, licensed to feel.
These are the most expensive gropers and feelers in history, by the way.
If there's anything that should be left to the private sector, it's groping.
I'm in New York.
I'm in New York City today.
I could get an enhanced pat down in Times Square for 40 bucks tops.
It would be cheaper.
And by the way, I'm not picky about it.
I'm saying if you are picky, if you're like Elliot Spitzer, it would be cheaper to outsource the enhanced pat down to Elliot Spitzer's hooker than to get a vast federal bureaucracy patting down everybody in the United States.
This is the death of the Republic.
If you can inspect the genitalia of 300 million Americans without probable cause for no other reason than that it's politically incorrect to narrow it down, then this is the death of the Republic.
This is how it dies, not with a bang, but with a whimper, as the TSA agent squeezes just a little too tightly while he's down there.
And we may have to, by the way, our best chance of getting out of this enhanced pat down thing will come, of course, from CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, who've said that it's grossly disrespectful to profile Muslim, to pat down Muslim women.
With Muslim women, you're not allowed to look at anything other than whatever bit is peeking out of the burqa or the kneecab or the hijab.
You're not allowed to get your hands under the burqa, under the kneecab, and start seeing what the Islamo babes are like underneath the burqa.
You can't do that.
CARE is furious about that.
And they're saying, and so the Department of Homeland Security says, well, maybe there'll be an exemption for Muslim women.
By the way, don't think that is so ridiculous it can't possibly happen.
Someone, a wanted terrorist in the United Kingdom, escaped by flying out of the country wearing his sister's burqa.
An Englishman visiting Canada was waiting for the Montreal London flight just a couple of months ago and filmed on his little cell phone camera the security guys demanding that the burqa-clad woman remove her headgarb so they could identify her.
Her male relatives clustered around her and objected.
And eventually this woman got waved onto the plane without having even to see whether she was the person marked on the ticket.
So the idea that Muslim women would be entirely exempt from this, but you will be having your penis held by federal bureaucrats until the end of time, that scenario is not as unlikely as it may sound.
We will be talking about that, and we will be talking about lots of other news in the hours to come.
Rush, when he was here yesterday, he said, did I hear this right, HR?
He said, Stein's going to be talking lots about Dancing with the Stars.
I don't know why he thinks.
I don't know why he thinks he did such a grand job.
He was the Mr. Expert on grading Bristol Palin's performance yesterday.
I'm not sure I've got anything to add to Dancing with the Stars.
But listen, while I'm putting in a word for George III, why are all the hit TV shows in the United States British these days?
Dancing with the Stars is a British show.
The Office is a British show.
And American Idol is a British show.
All the hit shows on British TV come from Britain.
What is this?
And just another one of the jobs that Americans won't do?
This is the tragedy of America.
You've got to get foreigners to do your TV shows, and more and more Americans are either being groped and patted down or signing up for feather-bedded, luxury federal jobs.
Imagine that.
Lifetime federal jobs, civil service jobs where you're inspecting the genitalia of U.S. citizens.
The terrorists of one, folks, lots more still to come.
1-800-282-2822.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
I flew down from Burlington Airport, Vermont, yesterday, Burlington Airport, on the front line of America's war against terrorism.
And I get to the airport and I'm going through security.
And last week I flew with my publicist, and she has tendonitis.
And they made her twice, two flights in a row, they made her raise her arms, even though she'd explained to them she had tendonitis and she was in pain.
She's now, since getting back from that, she's now going around with her arm in the sling.
That's genius.
The Republic can sleep easy for another night.
Terrific job there.
You put my publicist's arm in a sling.
So I get to the airport and they decide that I've got to do the whole arm-raising thing.
They only gave me, I don't know why this was, they only gave me an upper body pat down.
I mean, for the air miles I've got, I would have thought I'd be entitled to a free up grope.
But no, they only gave me a free, an upper body pat down.
I got a little thing.
I fell off a cliff in Bermuda a few weeks ago and I got a little problem in my arm and it hurts when I raise it.
And I told the guy I wasn't going to raise it above my head.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
Americans should not be suffering physical pain for pretending that all 7 billion people on this planet are equally likely to be terrorists.
It's nuts.
It's nuts.
So anyway, I get through, having gone through the upper body pat down after the guy had complained about me not wanting to raise my arm above the shoulder and everything.
I get through security and into the lounge by the gate.
This is a tiny airport.
There's only like three gates and US Air and United, I think, fly out of there.
And there's a woman there in tears.
She's in tears.
She's sobbing.
And I don't care what the rules are, or the particular Homeland Security rules are.
When there's a woman in tears, I don't think you can be a gentleman and not take an interest in what's going on.
She was a crew member.
She was, what do they call them now?
Flight attendant, stewardess, or whatever they used to call them, a flight attendant.
She was in tears.
She'd missed her flight.
And the reason was that something in her bag they hadn't liked the look of, and because of that, they decided to give her the enhanced pat down.
They'd given the enhanced pat down to a member of the flight crew and she'd missed her staff.
And so she was in tears and called for the supervisor.
And then the useless supervisor, he tries to prevent me from speaking to her about it.
And at that point, I get a, you know, I say, what is this now?
In the United States of America, you can't, one law-abiding member of the public can't speak to another law-abiding member of the public without getting the permission of a government bureaucrat.
What I found fascinating about this was that this whole thing, this whole delay, had been caused because her bag showed something funny when it went through the scanner.
So they went through the bag and then they went through her because that is what Bozo the supervisor said was, quote, standard procedure.
But you know what was fascinating to me?
They never found what it was in the bag that had caused the trigger to come up when it went through the scanner.
Isn't that brilliant?
So they search this woman, they give her the pat down, they go through the bags, and yet they never find out what it was that had caused the thing to go.
So she, whatever the bomb was, she still took it on the plane because we all know that stewardesses are just itching to blow up those planes.
This is the insanity now.
And all this guy kept saying over and over again, apart from when he was trying to claim that he was constitutionally empowered to regulate human conversation between me and her, the only thing that Bozo the supervisor kept saying over and over again was that the reason she had been patted down was because it was quote standard procedure unquote.
And that's the problem here: that no intelligent human judgment should be allowed to interfere with standard procedure.
You know what was another example of standard procedure, by the way?
9-11.
When those hijacks began, everybody went through the standard procedure on the first three flights and everybody died.
And the only people who didn't go through standard procedure and the only good news of the day came from the fourth flight from flight 93, where they said to hell with standard procedure and acted as freeborn human beings, and it was the only good news of the day.
So this woman is in tears.
She's a stewardess who's been subjected to enhanced pat-down at a rural airport with two airlines and two gates.
And Bozo the supervisor is telling her, There's nothing I can do about it.
It's standard procedure.
Standard procedure, outdated 1970s hijack procedures, killed 3,000 people on September the 11th, 2001.
And the next time it happens, it will be because outmoded 2001 terrorist procedures that Bozo the clown will have stuck to under the standard procedure rules will also have killed thousands of Americans.
Standard procedure.
Standard procedure.
This is now, I think, an actual national security threat.
People are very foolish about this.
They look at this stuff and they think, well, if they're spending 20 minutes patting down the stewardess, it must show that the Zanzibari terrorist who was acquitted on 284 charges yesterday, that they're spending even more time on him.
No, they're not.
No, they're not.
What they're doing, what that means, all that means is that the 20 minutes they're spending patting down the tourist and the three-year-old girl and the octogenarian nun is 20 minutes that they're not spending with their limited resources patting down the guys who need patting down.
This is ludicrous and it is the death of the Republic if it stays.
Yes, great to be with you.
Rush will be back on Monday.
We're talking about enhanced pat downs.
Everybody's doing it.
It's the new dance craze.
You can see him wiggling at airports all across America.
I was in Starbucks this morning, Starbucks, here in Manhattan, and the guy at the guy next to me suddenly reaches over and sticks his hand in my pants.
Don't worry though, he's ex-TSA.
He's semi-retired, but he still likes to keep his hand in.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let us go to Dan in Chester, Pennsylvania.
And you are first for the oral audio pat down from the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks for having me.
I appreciate it.
I was just curious.
I mean, they keep talking about this underwear bomber guy.
I was watching the TSA guy saying if we only had these pat downs, I guess his own dad ratting him out to the U.S. Embassy and the fact that the guy was on a no-fly list wasn't quite enough for them, huh?
No, no, that's their genius rationale.
They said, well, this would have caught this.
If only we'd been allowed to.
We just give up our Fourth Amendment rights.
Then we caught them, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, what we would have done.
And you're right.
This justification that we would have caught the panty bomber this way.
He was an al-Qaeda trainee on a terrorist watch list.
Why couldn't they have caught him that way by looking at the terrorist watch list?
He was a man banned from the United Kingdom.
Why couldn't they have caught him that way by looking at persons banned from other Western nations?
He was reported to the CIA by his own father.
Why couldn't they have caught him that way by the CIA passing it on?
You know, the brain-dead bureaucrat in Langley passing it on to the brain-dead bureaucrat wherever Janet and Competano's office is.
But no, no, no.
The only way they could have caught him is if they have the right to put their hands in the underwear of all 7 billion inhabitants of this planet, Dan.
That is their rationale.
And you know something?
Have you been following this lawsuit that the pilots are bringing?
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Yeah, the pilots, because it's true, as this one pilot says, you know, what is the point of me going through the enhanced pat down?
If I want to fly the plane into a building, I'm flying the plane.
can do it and uh and they and so the pilots are bringing this lawsuit because they say that historically under supreme court decisions you've got to have probable cause to do an in like at the moment if you're say pulled over for speeding if you're like doing 38 in a 25 mile per hour zone the cop isn't allowed to give you an enhanced pat down you He can ask for your license and registration, but he can't suddenly dive into your pants.
And the pilots are making the point here that if we allow this new innovation of government bureaucrats apparently being able to have access, you know, basically to any body part that happens to take their fancy, the idea that it will remain confined to just airports is it'll be like everything else.
They'll be doing it every random enhanced pat downs on Fifth Avenue when you're walking down the street.
They'll have random enhanced, they'll suddenly do pat-down raids.
They'll decide they're going to go to any town USA and they'll be walking down mainstream.
You'll come out of the hardware store and there will be a guy demanding to have an enhanced pat down.
And that is not so far-fetched, Dan.
By the way, what do you think is the way to have stopped the Christmas, the panty bomber?
Well, they could just do what the Israelis do for crime allowance, some common sense that, oh my God, guess some racial profiling or just profiling in general, good police work.
I mean, the Jews don't do pat downs.
They just look at the guy, say, he's from Yemen, grab him, and they bingo, there's a terrorist.
And you know who we caught that way before we introduced all this rubbish?
Do you remember the Millennium Bomber, Ahmed Rassam, who was crossing the British Columbia-Washington state border?
He was going to blow up LAX on December 31st, 1999.
And you know how they caught him?
He was, yeah, HR just said he was, that's right, he was sweating in December.
Mind you, actually, in British Columbia, that's not that unusual because it can be kind of balmy by Canadian standards in British Columbia in late December.
Whew, the temperature can get right up there to like 2425.
It's woo.
Anyway, so this guy, he comes across the border and the woman looks in his eyes and notices that he seems shifty and nervous.
She wasn't profiling for objects.
She didn't ask him to take off his shoes.
She didn't dive into his briefs.
She looked in his eyes and made a human judgment.
She wasn't following, quote, standard procedure like Bozo the supervisor at Burlington Airport, Vermont.
She used individual human judgment.
And that is one thing there isn't a lot of in the Department of Homeland Security or the rest of America's national security bureaucracy, because that's why not only Abdul Mutalab gets reported by his dad to the CIA.
I mean, that's great, isn't it?
That you turn the guy in and he still gets on the plane.
I mean, what is that?
Is that you're allowed to pre-board if you're on the no-fly list?
What is that?
The guy, Major Hassan, he wrote to this fella, Imam al-Awlaki, this American-born Imam who now lives in Yemen and was the spiritual mentor to at least, I think, two or three of the 9-11 bombers, right?
Al-Awlaki, who's now in Yemen.
This guy, Major Hassan, is emailing al-Awlaki back and forth, and it comes to the attention of two terrorist watch teams, because this is the money-no-object government we have now, as we're sliding off the cliff into the multi-trillion dollar bankruptcy.
He's actually, his emails are being monitored by not one terrorist watch team.
That would just be some nickel and dime G7 nation like France or Germany.
They'd just have one terrorist watch team monitoring his emails.
But money, no object here.
So we have two.
We have two.
And they both conclude that his email correspondence with Imam al-Awlaki in Yemen is, quote, consistent with his research interests, unquote.
Yes, that's right.
He's researching violent jihad because he's committed to bringing about the downfall of the great Satan.
So yes, it is consistent with his research interests.
So this guy comes to the attention of two terrorist watch teams, but they don't do anything about that.
They don't do anything about that.
The other guy comes to the attention of the CIA, but they don't do anything about that.
The guy, the failed Times Square bomber, he gets put on the no-fly list, but he gets to Newark or JFK, or I forget which airport it was, and they still allowed him to get on the plane.
The Emirates air jet was taxiing off the air.
So being on the no-fly list, being turned into the CIA, being under surveillance from two terrorist watch teams, that doesn't do anything.
No.
But having Janet Ncompetano's hands in the gussets of 300 million Americans, that's going to make us all safer.
Only, only, only when every American penis has the strong hand of government on it will the Republic be safe.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an absurdity.
And the only way we are going to end it, there are two possible ways we could end it.
I think the easiest, the quickest way is the sooner all 7 billion inhabitants of the planet get on the no-fly list, then we can, you know, say we're maxed out and go back to square one and start all over again.
So that's the thing.
That's why I'm in favor, by the way, of mass civil disobedience on Thanksgiving, because that's why I've been provoking the fellas at Burlington Airport, because apparently they're very personal and vindictive, these guys.
And if you criticize them, you find yourself.
Ted Kennedy, you don't even have to criticize him.
Ted Kennedy wound up on the no-fly list seven times.
Now, I yield to no one in my lack of respect for Ted Kennedy, but I don't think he is a – he was a security threat to the United States of America in the sense that he was committed to this multi-trillion dollar spending that is going to bankrupt this nation before the terrorists have a chance to raise it to the ground.
But I don't actually think Ted Kennedy should be prevented from boarding a flight.
Yes, he's a danger of Stuart.
Yes, he was a menace to Stewardesses.
Yes, that's true.
But he's not a terrorist threat.
He couldn't get the Semtex belt around him most of his life.
They don't make one in that size.
It's true.
Yeah, they didn't take away his driver's license, but they put him on the no-fly list.
That's true.
I don't know.
I thought it was in International Airspace when he took off from Chappaquittic, that bridge.
I don't know.
What was it?
Anyway, Ted Kennedy wound up on the net.
And people think, oh, that works.
That shows how good it is that they're putting senators on the no-fly list.
That shows how thorough they're being.
No, it doesn't.
It shows that it's the bureaucratization of terrorism.
And in the end, by the way, bureaucratization is a greater threat, existential threat to the United States of America than some nickel and dime jihadists.
Bureaucratization will destroy.
What do you think the debt commission's about?
Bureaucratization is a greater existential threat to the United States of America than these nickel and dime jihad boys.
Mark Stein, infra rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2822.
So, yeah, like I'm at the airport, and the guy reaches into my crotch and he pulls out 5,000 shares of New York Times stock that I like to keep in my underwear.
So I have to tell him, hey, man, don't touch my junk.
Okay?
Mark Stein, infra rush.
Let us go to Dale in Ventura, California.
Dale, you are live on the Rush Limbo show.
Great to have you with us.
Great to talk to you, Mark.
We spend our time teaching our children that it's not right for somebody to touch them.
And after seeing that three-year-old girl on Hannity the other night, my blood was boiling.
That girl was traumatized beyond belief.
And now we're supposed to teach our children that it's okay that under color of authority someone can molest them and terrorize them.
This is absurd.
It's time for the parents to stand up, cancel your tickets, make the airlines hurt, make it felt all the way to Washington, file lawsuit against Janet Napolitano and her group of terrorizers for child molestation.
Come down hard.
Yeah, that for years has said, hey, we have to do it for the children.
Now we have to do it to the children.
We have to do it to the children.
You are right.
That three-year-old girl, by the way, she just kept saying, quit touching me, quit touching me in that cute little Elmo voice over and over to the guy.
She is the Patrick Henry of our day.
Quit touching me.
Don't tread on me.
Quit touch.
That three-year-old girl.
That three-year-old girl is the last American because everybody else is putting up with it.
Everybody else is putting up with it.
And you know, you're right.
We teach, we're obsessed now with paedophilia.
Pedophiles are everywhere, everywhere.
Have you ever been like a single guy?
You go to the park when the grade school breaks out and all the kids come out, and you start noticing that if you're like a single guy and you're just like sitting on the park bench looking at the birds flying around the trees and there are kids within 400 yards, you notice that the cop strolling by will make a note of your presence and when he strolls back again 20 minutes later, see if there's like the single guy there still there while the grade school kids are playing on the swings and slides,
because you might be a pedophile.
You might be a paedophile.
Pedophiles are everywhere, everywhere.
We've all got these repressed memories, paedophiles, child pornography.
We're obsessed with it.
Unless, of course, it's the TSA.
And then, if you want to pat down a three-year-old girl in the interests of national security, then feel free to go ahead because it's, quote, as that guy in Burlington Airport said, quote, standard procedure, unquote.
And she speaks for America.
A three-year-old girl.
Three-year-old girl saying, quit touching me, quit touching me.
You are absolutely right, Dale.
Now, it used to be a Democrat line, old Democrat line, let's do it for the children.
Now, new Janet in Compaterno Democrat line, let's do it to the children.
I mentioned earlier the Muslims, Muslim women objecting to this, or Muslim men objecting to what these guys want to do to Muslim women because as perhaps our best chance of getting this thing kicked off.
I mean, the alternative is they'll get a special exemption, but the rest of us will still have to, which is how it would be.
It would be entirely appropriate in this day and age if everybody except Muslims had to go through enhanced pat downs.
That is the way the world's going.
But so it might be that another group manages to save us on this.
A few months ago, the Toronto Star, which is a liberal newspaper and is always on the cutting edge of hunting down new bigotries, they ran a piece on the problems of air travel and they came up, identified a new problem.
They were talking about gender profiling, as they put it, because after the Panty Bomber, they introduced these whole-body imaging scanners.
And they said that it's very embarrassing.
Many preoperative transsexuals run into difficulties.
The preoperative transsexuals are people who they haven't quite gone all the way, if you know what I mean.
So they run into difficulties south of the border or when flying transatlantically, according to the Toronto Star, because they appear to be a woman.
You think, oh, great, this hot-looking blonde who's really stacked is coming towards me.
And then she goes through the whole body imaging scanner and you realize that on the security screen, it shows up that she's packing a few too many extras.
And it's like embarrassing for these preoperative transsexuals.
Traveling for trans people is always fraught with uncertainty, Ontario lawyer Nicole Nussbaum told the Star.
The current system doesn't match up with trans people's lives.
Travel, explained Julia Steineke, is complicated for those who live in the grey area between genders.
You know, that's true.
Flying is no place for those who live in the grey area.
Everything's black and white.
Business or coach, chicken or beef, scanner or pat down, male or female.
So if you don't fit into a gender box, if you don't fit into a gender box, then you're a preoperative transsexual.
The guy giving you the pat down thinks he's patting down the beautiful blonde woman who, okay, she's a little tall and maybe she has a hint of a faint mustache, but whoa, when he gets into the details of the pat down, he realizes he's bitten off more than he can chew.
So we may, our best shot of avoiding this is going to be an alliance between Muslim men outraged at what U.S. bureaucrats are doing to their Muslim women folks.
And by the way, the first Burkha clad woman who gets subject to an enhanced pat down, wait till that video's playing on Al Jazeera.
If you like the Koran in a can story that Newsweek ran and caused, I forget how many it were, they burned 400 people to death in Jalalabad over it, wait till the guys, talk about motivating the old deaf to the great Satan dance around the world once the first Burkha-clad woman gets subject to an enhanced pat down.
But an alliance, I think, between imams and preoperative transsexuals is the only shot we have at reversing the absurdity of these enhanced pat downs.
Mark Stein, InforRush, lots more to come.
Mark Stein, InforRush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
I've just been looking at the official Janet Incompetano Department of Homeland Security TSA guidelines on enhanced pat-downs.
It's fascinating stuff.
Quote, the party of the first part shall stand apart from the parts of the party of the second part, while the party of the second part's parts are being taken apart by the parts of the party of the first part.
But the party of the second part's part is not to partake in the taking apart of his parts by the party of the first part.
So I think it's all very professional.
We really do not have to have anything to worry about on this front.
It's perfectly professional.
Sean Hannity, bless him.
Sean Hannity on TV the other night said when this guy was saying, I will now be putting my hand on your groin, he said, oh, well, he was very professional.
What do you mean, professional?
In what sense?
Like an Eliot Spitzer, like Elliot Spitzer's hooker has been replaced by the voice that tells you to put on your seatbelt when you get in the car.
I will now be putting my hand on your groin.
This is professionalism.
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