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Nov. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, completely unpacked downable.
I'll be here tomorrow.
Rush returns Monday to take you through Thanksgiving.
And uh I I I don't like to say I I don't like to say I told you so, but I did I did say this I think about uh a year and a half ago on this show.
This is from Politico, uh announcing that Senators Scott Brown, Republican, Massachusetts, and Ron Wyden, Democrat Oregon, are introducing legislation today to reform health care reform.
Okay, so we've now got health care reform reform.
When Obamacare passed, remember President Obama said, Well, you know, we've been trying to ref to reform health care for decades.
Uh and we finally accomplished it.
And all his courtiers in the press said, uh Wow, that's right, healthcare's done.
Now on to let's go on to cap and trade.
That's it.
Healthcare, log it up in the box, look put it in the filing cabinet, we finished it, it's done.
Let's go on to what's next.
No, the minute you pass health care reform, you're passing health care reform, reform, and reform, reform, reform, reform, reform unto the end of time.
There is no end to it.
And I said I'd seen this uh in a lot of other countries.
In um in uh in Commonwealth countries, they appoint a Royal Commission every couple of years.
Uh when it gets to like a three year wait list for the uh for for your for your MRI or the ten month waiting list for the maternity ward or whatever, then they introduce uh they they set up a Royal Commission like this debt commission, they put a lot of big shots on it, and the big shots propose ways of reforming the system uh so that people won't notice how bad it is for a couple more years.
Usually it's uh it's it's usually things like uh they'll introduce a helpline.
So for example, you say uh you go along and um you've got uh cancer, and they say, Well, we'd like to we'd like to start the chemotherapy, but there's you've got uh you've got six months to live and there's a two year wait to get into the chemotherapy thing.
Uh but don't worry, because you can call this one eight hundred number and find out uh on a day to day basis how much uh how much longer your uh uh your chemotherapy has been postponed by.
So they'll introduce a new helpline.
So you have all the health care reform, reform, reform.
So now we're getting health care.
Here we are getting on to this uh several decades, half a century after most other Western nations, but it's already settling into the familiar pattern.
Senator Scott Brown, Republican Massachusetts, and Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat Oregon, will introduce legislation Thursday for reform of the health care reform law.
Reform, reform, reform, reform.
Essentially it's uh allowing states to opt out of the uh so-called individual mandate by imposing on them an obligation to set up their own state equivalent of the individual mandate.
That's great, isn't it?
So so that's that's what I like about federalism, because you're getting a choice now.
You can get a choice now between which level of government it is that forces you to do something you don't want to do.
A lot of places centralized societies don't have that.
Now in the Soviet Union, it was just like the Politburo who would tell you what you had to do.
But here in America, we've got a choice.
We've got options.
Uh so you can have your bankrupt federal government tell you what to do, or your bankrupt state government tell you what to do.
That's good.
Maybe they can take you down to county level, and we could have uh, you know, individual mandates per uh imposed by counties.
Be f be fascinating to see that.
Uh but uh uh what is interesting is that uh all the people who voted for Obamacare and supported Obamacare, uh these exemptions that they're getting, I think there's uh over a hundred uh uh companies and unions.
The SEIU, the SEIU, which was sending guys out to beat people up if they objected to Obamacare, has now secured an exemption from Obamacare.
So if you object to Obamacare, they'll beat you up.
But because they object to Obamacare, they're getting a special Obama exemption from it.
Uh and now they're saying that states would also be allowed to get particular exemptions from it.
And this is why, by the way, American big people think uh uh and if you talk to the sort of sapier Democrats, the kind of NPR Democrats, the the ones with those th voices that sound like somebody's fired an elephant dart into their butt.
They've got that very sedated field, the NPR female uh NPR listener voice.
They say, Well, I don't see what would be so wrong if we were to be more like Sweden.
And they think they think that America would be a large Sweden.
No, it's not.
It's not gonna be a large Sweden.
Uh uh Obamacare is going to be a disaster on a scale unknown even to the most decrepit health care systems in the world.
I don't know.
I'm getting into dangerous territory there.
I don't want to upset Pamela again.
But it's going to be a disaster.
I'm not saying I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but basically it's going to get us closer to the end of the world than any previous apocalyptic pronouncements of mine have gotten us to.
So we we have here a disaster on a scale way beyond the British National Health Service or the Canadian health system uh or anything else.
Because it's a peculiar combination of the worst elements of the Euro Canadian government health care system, and then all the carve-outs and exemptions uh and peculiar little uh local corruptions of the American system.
So, you know, the cornhusker kickback and all and all the rest of it.
And so uh Senator Brown and Senator Wyden are now uh effectively going to provide for the first stage of health care reform reform.
This is why this is why I say it's important to drive a state through the heart of it.
A basic rule of thumb is that no health care reform ever solves the problem it's intended to solve, but it does give you an exciting range of new ones.
I like Mitt Romney, don't get me wrong, he's uh he's a nice fella, he's a smart fella, he turned around the Olympics, he made more money out of people doing sports that nobody's got interest uh in uh than any anyone uh all that if you if you if you ask him to make money and find a an efficient way to devise a two-man luge event, he can do it.
But when you when you uh if you ask a Massachusetts bureaucracy to run a two-man luge event, it's a disaster.
And that's what's happened in Massachusetts.
Mitt told me uh the Massachusetts needed to reform its health care system because the uninsured were placing uh huge strains on the uh state's emergency rooms, and so the rest of the population had to pick up the tab for that, and that that was why Massachusetts health costs have been driven up.
So now practically everybody in Massachusetts is insured, but emergency room use is higher than ever, and seventy percent of the newly insured are all but entirely subsidized by state taxpayers, and as a result, Massachusetts residents now pay thirty percent more for their health care than the US average and wait longer to find a new family doctor than anybody in the nation,
uh because all nobody wants to be a family doctor in Massachusetts, so th so uh poor people in Massachusetts uh trying to find a family doctor, they now gotta they're now gonna go up to Southern New Hampshire.
So when New Hampshire introduces Obamacare, they're gonna be having to drive to Canada.
Uh and Quebec has the lowest uh uh doctor patient ratio in the world.
So they're gonna be having to take a boat to Costa Rica uh or to Cuba or wherever.
Uh it never cures.
Massachusetts is the perfect example.
It never cures the problem it sets out to cure, but it does give you an exciting range of new ones.
And what I uh I don't begrudge Senator Brown doing this, good heavens, you know, he's a Republican from Massachusetts.
He's a Republican from Massachusetts.
So he has very limited room for maneuver and he's gonna be coming up for uh re-election uh and he's gotta start uh giving a bit of thought to that.
But the but the basic problem is this, that tinkering, by saying that we can run, by the right saying, oh, don't worry about Obamacare, we on the right will be able to reform it and tinker with it, and we will run the big government health bureaucracy more efficiently than the left will run it.
Sorry, that's not good enough.
That's that gets you to Jacques Chirac style conservatism, but it doesn't get you to real conservatism.
It doesn't get you to real effective small government.
Uh which is what which is what is needed.
Uh uh the this is this is what I to go back to talking to Pamela.
This is this is the kind of stuff that is just gonna ensure that these problems stay around with us uh longer and longer and longer.
Uh already uh these one hundred companies and unions have figured it out.
McDonald's got an exemption, because McDonald's has got a law uh knows who to call in in uh Washington.
When the head guy of McDonald's uh decides he's got a problem, he can get his senator on the phone.
The SEIU, the big uh union backers, the most the the the the crack stormtroopers of the uh uh uh of the Obama era, they knew who to call in Washington.
They wanted Obamacare for you, but they don't want to be bound by it themselves.
So they got an exemption.
The trouble is, if you happen to own Bud's hardware store on Main Street, you can't get an exemption.
You don't know who to call in Washington.
So you're you're screwed.
Unless you're unless you're a big time union, unless you're one of his pals at Goldman Sachs, unless you know how to call in Washington, you can't get an exemption.
And that is why reforming Obamacare is not going to do it.
And it's it's what what we need at this stage in the game is for is for Republicans to dig in.
Whatever you feel about uh the election in November, it it was a referendum on the pr last two years.
And the result of that is clear.
They the Democrats figured out that they could ram this stuff down the throats of the American people.
The American people have now expressed their objection to that.
And the Republicans will be betraying uh the this historic midterm election if they decide that the answer is not to to to drive a stake through the heart of this crazy spending, uh, but actually to to uh to work with it, to reform it, to roll it back.
That is that is not gonna cut it.
That is not gonna do it.
That is not gonna be enough.
Uh the as we see in the the great lesson of Greece and uh France and even California is that people's sense of entitlement lingers long after the entitlement has ceased to make any sense.
All those deadbeats uh rioting, those students rioting for their pampered lifestyle in California.
I don't begrudge anybody a pampered lifestyle.
I just don't see why I should have to pay for it.
And there aren't enough of the people paying for it to pay for it.
And that's how it's going to be uh if Obamacare survives in any form at all.
The only way to control costs in a health care system is to make as much of it as possible uh responsive to normal market pressures.
Right now, the minute you put a third party uh between if if you put a third party, it's a cla basic rule of economics.
Walter Williams would explain this far better than than I do.
If you insert a third party uh between the the buyer and the seller, all you're doing is ensuring that your costs are gonna skyrocket up.
When that third party is the government of the United States, uh the costs are gonna rocket up on a scale that has not been seen.
Uh so we need to be serious about this.
We have got a a small window of opportunity in which to roll back out of control multi-trillion dollar spending, uh that there are simply not enough people in the United States, and indeed not enough lenders on the entire planet to be able to afford.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Mark Stein in for us, let us go to Aidan in uh Roanoke, uh, Virginia.
Aidan, you're live on the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Well, Mark, it's great to talk to you.
I'm glad uh you're able to take my call.
Uh uh kind of got a personal question for you, if you wouldn't mind.
Uh yeah, lay it uh lay it on me.
So a quick personal history about me.
I moved back uh from Scotland, live in there for about three years, a few months ago.
Right.
And lo and behold, I fell in love with a nice little British girl.
Right.
So we're making plans to move her over here, and of course she has the wonderful old British mindset.
So I'm wondering being a you know, former Britain or an expat or yourself, uh what helped you learn more about our great country here and helped you uh you know uh learn about the conservative way of life and helps you really believe in that.
So so you're you're dating a British girlfriend, that's right.
Is that right?
She she's doing the jobs Americans won't do.
That's right, is it?
Is uh and and she is uh emigrating to the United States.
That'll take you ten years, by the way.
Just essentially a non-discretionary.
If you uh it'd be quicker to just like uh uh take it to Mexico and have her swim over the Rio Grande.
That that's that's the my first tip.
But your your point is saying you're saying she's been marinated in in conventional British leftism, and you wanna and and you want to know uh w how how it is that uh th that I got out of of uh uh of of of a uh into the more American mindset.
Is that what you're saying?
Absolutely.
Yeah, well, uh okay, let me let me s let me let me put it this way.
That uh I've lived in in uh socialist basket cases.
Uh I was uh I was in the uh uh province of Quebec, I've lived in the United Kingdom, I've lived in in other uh countries that are socialist basket cases.
But you know, they weren't always.
And uh and your your British girlfriend who is marinated in all this leftism.
Scotland, for example, you say you spent three years in Scotland.
Everywhere you go on the planet, everything that works is built by Scotsmen.
Uh the Hudson's Bay Company, the Canadian Pacific Railroad, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, rubber plantations in Malaya, everything around the world was built by Scotsmen.
The Scots were dynamic uh inventive people who oh Carnegie down uh here in the United States.
Dynamic, inventive people went around the world and did incredible things.
And and and so you don't want to connect the modern Scottish state, this this moribund slough where uh the life expectancy in parts of Glasgow is is now the same as it is in West Africa and people are face down in these uh fried Mars bars uh uh that they eat all day there.
I mean, uh with the highest rate of heart disease and alcoholism and everything else in you you you you think to yourself, how could how could the the the Scots people who built the uh Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Malayan Road, how could they turn into?
How could they turn into these people?
And the and the the the lesson to learn there for your girlfriend is that uh is that the transformation of a people can be accomplished uh very quickly.
Uh Hayek wrote uh The Road to Serfdom when he uh emigrated from uh from Europe uh he he was in Britain uh during the Second World War and he wrote The Road to Serfdom because he saw then what was happening in in Britain.
He said then that the virtues of the uh of the British people uh were their sense of uh of tolerance, of small government, of self-reliance uh were better than anything he'd seen among any other uh people on the face of the earth.
And what happened is that in the big government in the course of two generations utterly transformed that so that almost every virtue that Hayek identified in the British people is almost invisible today.
Uh people whine and moan, why doesn't the government do more for me?
That's their first response to anything happens.
Why doesn't the government do something about it?
So your girlfriend should should uh you should read selected portions of the road to serfdom to her and say, This is what your people used to be.
This is what your grandparents' generation were.
It is not that America is the aberration, but that you have changed.
After all, the the American Revolution, who fought the American Revolution?
They were British subjects who wanted to take uh English ideas on liberty a little further than uh people wanted to back in the metropolis in London.
Uh but the idea that somehow America is now off the charts crazy with this kind of small government and self-reliance and the right to bear arms and all the rest of it and non-confiscatory taxation, these were all things uh that uh that the that Britain and Canada and other Western countries believed in within living memory.
Canadians have the same problem.
Oh, well, you know, uh we now define uh government health care as central to our national identity.
Really?
So you're saying that Canada had no national identity before some bozo bureaucrat introduced uh government health care in the 1960s.
There was no Canada.
The Canada that didn't have government health care uh was uh uh fought the uh Second World War, got a hell of a beach uh on uh on D-Day, Juneau Beach, a miserable tough uh beach, uh and did big brave killer things on it.
The Royal Canadian Navy was the third largest surface fleet on the planet in 1945 after the United States Navy and the Royal Navy.
And w what your leftist girlfriend needs to understand is that is that she is not at odds with the United States.
She is at odds with her entire inheritance going back all the way to Magna Carta, that the status swamp into which Britain has now descended uh is entirely at odds with her country's own history.
And I wish her good luck getting through um getting through uh the uh U.S. immigration service, because it's a non-discretionary thing.
You want to marry her, so you want to bring your uh and in theory, in law, an American has the right to marry anybody from the planet.
You can fall in love with a Belgian, you can fall in love with uh somebody from the jungles of New Guinea, you can fall in love with anybody on the planet, and it's non-discretionary.
But it still takes a decade uh for the incompetents at the U.S. Immigration service to process this because they're too busy patting down everybody at the airport.
So they'll take ages to process your girlfriend.
And and that uh incompetent, slothful bureaucracy will seem very familiar to her.
It sh it will ease the transition for her as she abandons her old country and comes into this new one.
But if she feels, if she feels that all these leftist ideas are right and that America needs just needs to catch up to them, sh she is not it's not that she is at odds with America.
She is at odds with her own history.
If you took a a uh an Englishman or a Scotsman from 1897 and you propelled him forward in H. G. Wells time machine to 2010, he would not recognize uh the status swamp of modern Britain today, where in the city of Newcastle, seventy-five percent of people are employed by the government.
You wonder how much bigger American government can get in Newcastle?
It's seventy-five percent of the population.
Yes, one-eight hundred-two eight two eight eight two, Mark Stein in for Rush, Rush returns Monday.
Don't worry.
Don't worry, I am an officially accredited guest host.
I do I do have a license.
Uh I do have a government license allowing me to guest host at the uh I did attend the Association of Accredited Guest Hosts Convention in uh yeah, it's true, the license actually expired in nineteen eighty-three.
But I mean I figure it's still, if you don't look too closely, the weather date uh is slightly blurry.
So if I I am asked to check on it, yeah.
But I uh uh the association of um I did attend the Association of Accredited Guest Hosts Convention in uh in Vegas last year, and I got uh lucky with this uh with this uh chick who subs for Rachel Maddow and uh what can I tell you?
You know, we got we get to the hotel room and she like tears my practically tears my clothes off, and I'm like standing there naked and it's all like going great, and she says, Hey, she just s steps back and looks at me and she goes, Hey, wait a minute.
You're the guy from the Janet Napolitano training video.
What can I, you know, what can I what can I tell you?
I was young, I needed the word, but it always it always catches up with you, and it's like out there on the internet now.
I don't know.
Let's go to Rich in White Plains, New York.
Rich, you are live on the EIB network.
Uh great.
Hi, Mark, how are you?
I'm uh I'm doing great.
You ready for your audio pat down?
Uh do I have my Yes I do.
You know, you just mentioned I was I wanted to say something, but you just mentioned Janet uh Incompatano, and I was wondering if you heard her and I won't say answer the question, but trying to answer the question of if she would use the same standards on the women wearing burkas.
And I've watched this woman pretty regularly not answer.
Do do any of these people know what a yes or no answer is to a question?
Well you will you have to imagine she's thinking at the back of her mind that if she's saying she will submit burqa clad women this is why they won't, by the way.
I would love to see the first TSA agent pat down a burqa-clad woman.
You know why?
Because uh it's like uh I I I uh at a citizenship ceremony uh a couple of years back, uh it ended with the judge saying, now turn round and welcome the newest members of our great national family uh by shaking their hands.
The traditional form of greeting.
So I turn round to shake hands with this uh Muslim woman in a uh in a hijab, and uh her husband luckily intercepts me and swats my arm against a pillar, uh because if if I had actually succeeded in shaking her hand, he would have had to kill her.
And so and so the first time that somebody has been a Muslim woman has been patted down, say say, you know, the third wife of a Saudi prince gets patted down, landing uh, you know, at uh J pr uh JFK or whatever, uh and then the Saudi Prince has her stoned to death when they get back to Riyadh, because she's now I think I don't think Janet Incompetana is one is gonna want to get into any of that.
I just don't So that's why you you at first it sounds ridiculous.
But the these guys take the line of least resistance.
It's easier for the TSA guy uh to to strip search the three-year-old girl than it is to do it to the Muslim woman with uh with with her men folks standing around her.
So that ain't gonna be happening.
And that's why all this stuff is just is is is just uh security kabuki.
It's theater, it's ritual, and it's is a complete w it's not only a complete waste of time, it's destructive of our liberties.
It is turning us into the sheep that Tocqueville warned about.
If if there is any example of a herd tended by the government shepherd, as Tocqueville put it, it is the scene you see at U.S. airports uh at airports today.
What else is on your mind, Rich, while we go.
Oh, you're in White Plains, so you're uh you're just uh on the edge of the great New York uh air transport uh we get uh we get to hear uh uh uh right from the uh uh horse's mouth about the uh mosque and and all those uh wonderful issues.
Yeah, you can see you can see White Plains from the ground zero mosque.
I think if you stand on the top minaret, we'll have a great view of your backyard.
Uh the the same issues have been dominating the news cycle for the last week.
Uh the the Bush tax cuts extending them and earmarks.
And and as Rush rightly pointed out, these this is just nibbling around the edges.
Uh the Democrats are obviously trying to make a big deal about them saying, you know, if if they get done, if they appease the Republicans, they'll say, Well, we gave you that, you know, which is which is not gonna make a single bit of difference in in in what happens, you know, in the plight of our economy.
And I'm looking for something new in the news cycle, and I heard Judd Gregg, uh senator from New Hampshire.
I know my Senator.
Yeah, he's he's really he displays the correct um uh disposition of disgust at the way uh our government is running uh this country um into the ground with deficit.
And he pointed out how um they they realized that they need a new pay-go system that uh we have to start look, we have to start, you know, uh paying for things as they come along.
We can't pass legislation uh until we know we can fund it.
And and with this disgusting look on his face, he said, since that new uh initiative was was cast forward, there have been two hundred and something occasions where legislation is needed uh uh funding, and the new pay-go had been waived every time.
Right, right.
And this is why.
That's like all the that's why Obama and the Democrats have been entirely fraudulent about this.
It's the same thing with Obamacare with the exemptions.
It's the same thing with the three thousand page bills.
A three thousand page bill is nothing but exemptions.
Uh the minute you get it there's no point saying, Oh, we we're gonna uh pass the paygo thing, but then every time there's something a little bit inconvenient, we're gonna exempt it from that.
And it gets it gets back to the the point I made earlier, Rich, that uh we are we are voting ourselves a uh a level of government uh nanny stating that we are not prepared to pay for.
And it's very simple because if we did pay for it, we'd all be living in one room apartments.
We wouldn't have any cars, we wouldn't have any plasma TVs, we'd be standing in line uh at the at the bus stop, uh riding uh in in uh uh hemmed up in there like on uh trains in India uh and uh and then uh and then sharing uh rooms that are the size of uh apartments uh for people in the Soviet Union days, because we cannot afford this level of spending.
And that's why Judd Gregg is right.
In the end it's about the spending.
If you're not talking about the spending, you're not serious.
If you're talking about taxes, if you're talking about raising taxes to cover this, you can't raise taxes to cover this.
Last time I was here, I'm I'm I brought up the point that uh America has spent outspent not just America, American government has outspent the planet.
The Obama uh spending calculations for the next decade require the rest of the planet to be willing to put twenty percent of the planet's GDP into buying U.S. treasuries.
They ain't gonna do that.
It's not gonna happen.
So we've outspent uh big government, American style, has outspent not just the United States' ability to pay for it, uh, but the planet's ability to pay for it.
And whatever my difference is with uh Judd Gregg over over the years, uh on that, he's very he's very clear-sighted.
He he says no matter you can't grow the economy big enough to cover this.
Even if you had five percent economic growth over the next ten years, which isn't gonna happen.
Not with what Obama's doing to the economy.
Uh there is not going to be uh uh enough uh to that still wouldn't uh cover uh the multi-trillion dollar hole that we are digging ever deeper for ourselves.
Thank you very much for your call, Rich.
Let's uh let's go to Tom in Longmont, Colorado.
Tom, you are live on the EIB network.
Great to talk to you.
It's great to talk to you.
It's great to talk to you too, Tom.
You're my favorite substitute host.
Oh, that's that's that's a huge compliment.
Really, I think I think that's like Al Gore's labor joker about being the most influential vice president's like jumbo shrimp.
I'm just getting you ready for your pat down.
Oh okay.
You're going to you've got it.
I was gonna say, I think you're kind of going on and on about nothing with this pat down thing.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Now listen to me.
The groping of every airline passenger may seem a bit unsettling.
But you gotta get used to these things.
And if then there's gonna be the don't ask, don't tell pat down, you know.
And then you may not even want to get on the plane.
Right.
You might want to just drive home, have a cigarette.
What do you think?
I think I think so.
But you can't even do that, by the way, in the sterile area.
I know, that's the way you're gonna be able to do it.
You can't have a cigarette.
Mark, I'm speaking of the guy who went for the doctor hand me cigarettes to being told uh I'm the executed if I smoke one.
That's right.
So that's that's the way it's gone.
That's the way it goes.
Yeah.
And and by the way, if you are at an airport and uh you do enjoy the pat down and uh uh and you start and you start to think, wow, the earth is moving for me.
Uh no, that that is like the guy they didn't pat down, just like sneaking through with the PTN in his pants.
So uh so if the Earth does move for you at O'Hare, it's not it's not a uh it's not a good uh not a good thing, Tom.
Hey Mark, I do have a question for you.
Okay Can I get your past articles anywhere?
Because you had a brilliant piece on the Clintons and you were comparing them to the Mary Tyler Moore show.
Really?
Remember that article?
I remember actually uh when Hillary was trying to reinvent herself.
Uh do you remember when she was doing her uh New York listening tour?
And she was doing yeah, I remember who can turn the world on with a smile.
I thought it was a brilliant piece, and I'd love to have it again.
Hillary Tyler Clinton, uh Mary Rodham Moore, whatever it was.
I it's it's blurry.
It's a long time ago.
It's uh it'll take a while to swim into focus.
You might I I yeah, I do remember writing that.
That was the two thousand.
That was my first thing I read by you.
Yeah, well, uh that's my brother sent me.
That was the brilliant.
That's that's that's good.
That's the uh no, that's two thousand.
So you've only been reading me for ten oh you should have seen I was past my best by then.
The early nineties was good.
The early nineties.
Uh actually no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're right.
That too wasn't actually up to maybe like the uh mid-fifties, I think.
Actually, my my column on the uh relief of mafficking in uh eighteen ninety-seven during the Boer War, uh eighteen ninety nine during the Boer War.
That was the best one.
Uh it's been downhill since then.
Tom, thank you, uh thank you very much.
Uh great to have you with us.
It's it's uh it's uh now I feel like those, you know, Hollywood.
I saw poor old Mira Sorvino being interviewed in the taxi.
Uh you know, they show you the TV in the taxi now, and they had Mira Sorvino, the actress who who won a best supporting actress, like in nineteen uh Oscar nineteen ninety-four, and they were interviewing her, and she had a new movie out.
And so like they dispense with the new movie in about like five seconds and then asked for about all these movies she made in the early nineties.
I feel like that with Tom from Longmont, Colorado.
I feel it's like it's like it's like for substitute hosts, that's like the lifetime achievement award because you haven't done anything good in the last twenty years.
Uh but I'll try to keep my spirits up.
Uh Mark Stein InfoRush on the EIB network Morticon.
Oh, I love that.
We are family.
I grope you, but you can't grope me.
It's like uh it's the TSA, it's the new official TSA anthem.
I love it.
Let's go to Joe in Sutton, Nebraska.
Joe, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
Megaditas from Fly Over Country.
Hey.
I'm calling about the comments that Senator Rockefeller made yesterday regarding how MSNBC and Fox News should be taken down.
That's that's that's right.
He said there's a little bug inside of me, uh, I think is the way he put it, which wants to get the Federal Communications Commission to to take uh Fox and MSNBC off the air.
Goodbye.
That's what he said.
Right.
Well, I have a theory about what's going on there.
I wanted to run it by you just to see what you think.
Um I think it's predictable.
The predictable response is for MSNBC and Fox News supporter to be outraged by you know a United States Senator uh rattling his saber against the first amendment like that.
But I think I think something is more more subtle is going on.
I think his pontifications are part of a new strategy being developed by the left to discredit Fox News in the eyes of independence.
And by that I mean by voters who are politically rudderless, easily manipulated.
Um and I say that for this reason.
The left would gladly give up MSNBC if Fox News went off the air.
Oh, right, right.
Yeah, no one watches MSNBC anyway.
No, I mean th th that and that was I think the cover for for for what uh he was saying.
That what he wants, I think, is to return i he he said he put it this way, he said it would be a big favor to political discourse and uh quote, our ability to do our work here in Congress, unquote, which means that what he wants to do is to get back to that like little cozy little three network world,
or as close to it as you can get, uh, where people are just uh uh Jay Rockefeller uh uh says says uh that's the way it is, to Walter Cronkite, who says that's the way it is, and your impressionable independent, as you put it, thinks, oh well, yeah, okay, that's just the way it is.
And that everybody is just like uh taking their orders, as it were, within a much narrower kind of political discourse.
Exactly.
I I I saw Ted Copel using the exact same strategy last week in the Washington Post.
Yeah, but yeah, Ted Coppel, by the way, he wrote this.
Thanks for bringing that up, Joe.
You know, Ted Koppel wrote this piece sneering at uh at the at the whole kind of cable news thing, talk radio thing, bemoaning the way it was in his day.
I saw Ted Coppel uh host a uh in the year two thousand host a thing with Bill Bradley live in New Hampshire.
Well, it wasn't live.
It was uh it w with Bill Bradley in Claremont, New Hampshire.
It was the most incompetent performance I have ever seen.
I was astonished because I always thought Ted Coppel was actually quite good at uh doing this stuff.
Uh Ted Coppel gave this absolutely incompetent performance.
It went on and on forever, and then uh it was all left to the editing to edit into a barely coherent 22 minutes on nightline that evening.
The idea that we need to take any lessons from Ted Coppel is ridiculous.
That kind of complacent grandy uh gatekeeper Palace Guard Media is as dead as dead could be, and anybody, whether you're uh uh on the right as I am, or whether or not you're on the crazy left with the Daily Cos Huffington Post, guys, anybody should rejoice at the death of that boring uh Palace Guard media.
Uh Mark Stein and for Rush, Morticon.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We we we missed uh we missed some of the uh the news today.
For the first time in over sixty years, there were no Kennedys in in Washington, no Kennedys in uh in Washington.
The last one, whatever he was, uh Representative Patrick Joseph, Joseph Patrick, Kennedy Smith Shriver, Lawford Kennedy Jr.
He he was he he's out, and there's uh we're Kennedy Free Washington.
Let's go to Richard in Reno, Nevada.
Richard, you're live on the Russian Limbo show.
We gotta run.
Make make your point.
Yes, Mark.
Uh about a year and a half ago in Portland, Oregon, I went through a scanner that puffed up air from the bottom and then sniffed out bomb residue.
A lot less invasive, uh, my understanding a lot less expensive and more effective.
Well why are these not in the in the conversation right now?
No, no, they they don't uh they don't want to do those ones because it doesn't afford them as as much hands-on pleasure.
I think it would have copied the underwear bomber, it would catch including those you know the thing they rub on your c on the the cloth they rub on your hands and on your back and them.
Those are very effective.
If anybody's handled it explosives, and and yet they're going for the more uh invasive procedures, mainly I think of the lobbyists are that's what they sold to Congress.
Yeah, no, no, that's it's more about great great uh great stimulus uh spending.
I think it deep act Chopra owns the owns the company.
Thanks for your uh call, uh Richard.
Uh by the way, I did say an hour ago, no truth to the rumor that you can get pregnant from an enhanced pat down.
Uh the TSA has now issued a clarification to say that uh if you do, they'll be happy to pat down the baby too at the point of delivery.
Uh that's it for me.
I'll see you tomorrow.
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