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Jan. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2011, Friday, 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 did get here by high-speed light rail, so that's okay.
We're live from the EIB network's newest broadcast facility, Ice Station EIB in northern New Hampshire.
What did we have a couple of days ago?
I think it was minus 33 in Lancaster, but it's like warmed up today.
It's like a balmy 11 degrees at the moment.
So I'm in my t-shirt here.
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 here.
And in return, Barack Obama gets to do an eight-year doctorate at the Luxembourg Institute of High-Speed Rail Feasibility Studies.
I mean, say what you like about say what you like about unemployment and the multi-trillion dollar debt and the unaffordable entitlements and Egypt unraveling and the Iranian nukes.
But the President of the United States is on top of the critical light rail brief.
You've got to be able to prioritize.
Rush is away today.
He was live from Los Angeles yesterday and I guess he decided to take the high-speed rail link back to Florida.
So he's currently on a caboose being pulled by a unionized ox cart stuck on a siding just outside of Bakersfield.
He'll be back Monday.
And is he on the golf channel again tonight, HR?
Yeah, it's not clear to me.
The golf channel commitment has swollen from what I understood it to be originally.
So he may be on there tonight.
By the way, Obama, I gather, is committed to replacing all those golf carts with a high-speed rail link.
So that should do wonders for the planet.
High-speed golf links, high-speed golf links.
That's what we need.
Do you know what they call the high-speed rail in Japan?
It's called the bullet train.
I blame Sarah Palin.
It's shaped like a speeding bullet.
So when you see it coming down the track, it looks like hateful right-wing rhetoric on wheels.
That's why we hateful right-wing guys are all in favor of it, because it's much better for your hateful right-wing rhetoric.
I mean, when it's like minus 33 in Lancaster, my hateful right-wing bile-filled spittle, not to mention my spittle-filled bile, just freezes as it comes out of my lips.
So it's like hanging off me like some great hideous frozen waterfall off my chin.
So obviously, I'd much rather be in a hateful right-wing rhetorical bullet train speeding towards you, coming down the track.
So I certainly hope when the Democrats introduce high-speed rail here that they shoe such dangerously provocative names like the bullet train, and we call it the Condom Express or the horizontal corn dog or something more bipartisan and civil.
I mean, I'm in a very civil mood today.
I nipped over to Vermont before the show and I entered into a civil union with Howard Dean.
All very civil, all very bipartisan.
And I'm wearing my bipartisan lapel ribbon.
I liked it so much at the State of the Union that I thought I'd get one myself.
So I've got the bipartisan lapel ribbon.
I'm wearing so many lapel ribbons.
I'm walking with a limp, but I gather you can get a lapel ribbon for that too.
It's to raise limpness awareness.
It's the end of the week at the EIB network, and you know what that means.
Actually, not actually, not actually live from New York, live from New Hampshire.
But that's close enough.
We were in the right time zone.
Open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
I think I will be live in New I'm live in New York, I think, next week.
I'm actually wanted in New York by the New York State Bureau of Compliance, but I'm taking a risk and sneaking across the border for a Samiz Dat appearance in the state of New York.
Breaking news: things slipping out of control in Egypt.
Looks like Hosni Mubarak could be booking his own one-way ticket on the old high-speed rail link to his bank account in Geneva.
Looks like the regime's choo-choo is about to jump the tracks in Egypt.
It's like the meltdown in Vietnam when the high-speed train had to land on the roof of the U.S. Embassy and the desperate South Vietnamese were scrambling to the sides of the restaurant car.
So we're going to keep an eye on that story.
Things developing very fast in Egypt in Suez, which is really where the modern, the word that ushered in the modern Middle East in 1956 in the town of Suez.
Things are unraveling at a particular speed, too.
More breaking news, though, because we don't just cover peripheral stories like the collapse of the Mubarak regime.
We also get to the really critical big geopolitical picture stories here.
From the New York Post, Charlie Sheen taken to LA Hospital with hernia pain after partying with porn stars and cocaine.
And I saw an earlier version of this, and it didn't actually have what he was being treated for.
So it said Charlie Sheen taken to LA Hospital after partying with porn stars and cocaine.
And I wondered whether that was like, you know, partying with porn stars was now covered by Obamacare.
I should certainly hope so because in Charlie's case, it's a pre-existing condition.
And as you know, there should be no reason why that can't be covered now under Obamacare.
But Charlie Sheen taken to LA Hospital with hernia pain after partying with porn stars and cocaine.
Charlie Sheen was rushed to a hospital today after partying into the wee hours with a bevy of women.
How many women in a bevy, HR?
I want to be sure I'm technically right here.
How many HR?
This is a monument to American education.
HR can't tell me whether it's four or six women in a bevy.
I think it's six in a European Union bevy because they've got the metrication over there.
And oh, above six is a harem.
Yes, that's true.
We want to get it right.
Charlie Sheen, he was just partying into the wee hours with a bevy of women and a briefcase of cocaine.
It's not clear what caused the hernia, whether it was the bevy of women or the briefcase of cocaine.
And we might just actually, if you've got a bevy of women, it might just be like the tip you leave for them on the nightstand.
That could easily give you a hernia in Charlie Sheen's case.
But anyway, he was taken to hospital suffering from a hiatal hernia in his stomach, which is causing him horrible pain.
So poor old, so poor old Charlie Sheen.
This is really a kind of metaphor for the Republic, I think.
I watched Obaba at the State of the Union.
He gave the vague mean of a man who was partying into the small hours with a bipartisan bevy and carrying a briefcase of trillion-dollar bills.
And it's the country that's suffering from a hernia.
But anyway, we're going to stay on top of the Charlie Sheen story.
We won't stay on top of Charlie Sheen.
We leave that to the professionals.
But we will stay on top of the Charlie Sheen story.
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But today we don't have a highly skilled broadcast professional at the microphone.
We just have me.
So there's no point in me trying to control the content.
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You can call up 1-800-282-2882 and talk about anything you want to talk about within reason.
If you get too much into the weeds on the whole high-speed rail thing, we may cut you short.
But I would be particularly interested to hear from any Democrat out there who wants to make the case for the President's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
If you think this did the trick, if you think this did the trick, then call and defend the guy 1-800-282-2882 and we will express you onto the air as swiftly as if you were on a high-speed light rail link.
But if you want to talk about something else, we'll talk about that too.
Joe Biden, by the way, Joe Biden has been the senior most United States official to comment on what is happening in Egypt.
You know that's a smart thing to do.
They let him on PBS, and he said that Mubarak is no dictator and he shouldn't step down.
NewsHour host Jim Leara asked Biden if the time has come for President Mubarak of Egypt to go.
Biden answered, quote, no.
I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there.
That is a classic Democrat statement.
Now, notice what he said.
I think the time has come for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there.
So he's not saying that they should be responsive to all of the needs, just some of the needs.
And in fact, he's not even saying they should be responsive to some of the needs.
He's just saying that they should begin to move in the direction to be responsive to.
And in fact, he's not even saying they should move in the direction to be responsive to some of the needs, but just begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there.
And if that is such a great plan, Vice President Biden, I would have loved it if you had whispered that penetrating analysis of the situation into the ear of the President before he stepped into the well of Congress on Tuesday evening and delivered his State of the Union address.
Because I think it would have been fascinating if the President of the United States had begun to demonstrate that he was capable of not of being responsive to all of the needs of the people out there, but just to begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to some of the needs of the people out there.
There was an election in this country in November, and the election was pretty clear about what people wanted.
They wanted less spending, they wanted less debt, they wanted less government.
He didn't give us any of that.
He's got a new name for spending.
It's called investment.
Two years ago, the word was stimulus.
He made the word stimulus a laughing stock, so now he's gone back to the old retro cool word of the Bill Clinton Lounge Act, and he's calling spending investment.
The government is going to invest in this, and it's going to invest in that, and it's going to invest in light rail, and it's going to invest in solar-powered high-speed trains.
Investment is spending, and the people said they want less spending because spending leads to debt, and they want less debt, and they want less government.
And his solution to everything is government, government, government, government.
And that is what he's missing in this.
So, if Vice President Biden's analysis of the Egyptian situation is so correct, that it's time for President Mubarak to begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to some, just some of the little concerns that are out there, then perhaps he might have mentioned it usefully to President Obama.
And President Obama could begin to move in the direction to be more responsive to just some, some, some of the little concerns that are floating out there in the country at large.
Instead, he stood up and he talked about high-speed rail and solar-powered bullet trains or whatever the genius solution to the economy is.
We'll talk about that and anything you want to talk about because it's Open Light Friday on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
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We're keeping a track of the Charlie Sheen groin strain.
We're watching developments in Egypt.
So, whatever you want to talk about, I mentioned that Rush was out today.
Rush will be back Monday, but he is on the Gulf Channel tonight.
In fact, it's a kind of all-rush evening starting at 7 Eastern, or an all-rush afternoon if you're out west.
7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific, three half-hour episodes featuring Rush on the Gulf Channel tonight.
Right down the middle, Hawaii 4-0 and I like that.
Hawaii 4-0.
I like a little pun in the title.
Hawaii 4-0 and all in a day's work, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific tonight on the Gulf Channel.
Following all the developments in the news, here's a headline you don't often see: was Genghis Khan, history's greenest conqueror.
The Mongol invasion scrubbed nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, according to surprising new research.
So, I don't know, we heard earlier Vice President Biden's views on Mubarak not being a dictator.
So, I don't know what his view on Genghis Khan is, but apparently, the Mongol invasion of the 13th and 14th centuries was the most environmentally friendly planetary devastation ever in human history.
The Mongol invasion cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
Boy, we could use a man like Genghis Khan today because he certainly lowered the planet's carbon footprint.
He conquered over 22% of the world's total land area and slaughtered, this is amazing, 40 million people with his bow-wielding hordes.
And as a result of this, a countless number of cultivated fields returned to forests and so were less devastating to the planet.
And you can imagine the same thing sweeping in today.
If, say, Genghis Khan were to show up at San Diego and say, conquer the continental United States and slaughter an estimated 40 million people, particularly the SUV driving ones, we could easily match the reduction of 700 million tons of carbon that the environmentally friendly Mongol hordes accomplished in the 13th and 14th century.
So they're now rehabilitating.
The environmentalist left is now rehabilitating Genghis Khan.
He's history's greenest conqueror.
So we haven't heard from Vice President Biden yet.
It may not be official, but we know Vice President Biden is going to be the last man standing alongside the Mubarak regime in Egypt.
We have yet to hear the definitive position from Vice President Biden on Genghis Khan.
By the way, you know, when Joe Biden said that Mubarak isn't a dictator, Mubarak's line was always that he was like a plausible dictator.
So he never won the fake elections by too much.
And a couple of years ago, he was absolutely furious with the Electoral Commission because they declared him the winner by something like 96.8% or whatever.
And he said that made him a laughingstock because it put him in the Saddam Hussein Kim Jong-il camp of dictators who just win by ludicrous margins.
And he always fancied himself Mubarak as a kind of plausible dictator.
So he never faked the election results to absurd lengths.
So I assume that that is what Joe Biden, in his sophisticated way, is referring to.
We're also going to talk about on today's show these Obamacare waivers.
You know, Obamacare, they finally solved America's healthcare problems.
And no sooner had they solved them than they started having to give out all their pals opt-outs.
There are now, I think it's 729 separate Obamacare waivers.
40% of the Obamacare waivers, here's a surprise.
40% of the Obamacare waivers have gone to unions.
So this thing, this monstrosity that Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass it so we could find out what was in it.
As soon as they found out what was in it, all Obama's pals have checked out of it.
They've said, it's fine for you guys, for you losers, for Fred Schmo of 27B Elm Street.
This is just what you need.
This is the solution to all your healthcare needs.
But for anybody plugged into who matters in Washington, we want to get on that opt-out express and get the hell out of this thing.
And it's not just about healthcare, this.
This is actually liberalism in a nutshell.
Liberalism is premised on fairness and equality.
Fairness and equality.
That's what they're all into.
Fairness, fairness, fairness.
Everything they're in favor of has got fairness in it, the fairness doctrine.
Obama thinks it would be fairer if you spread the wealth around.
Fairness, equality, equality, and fairness.
So they passed this Obamacare thing that's going to apply to 300 million people and it's going to be a level playing field and we're all going to be treated fairly and we're all going to be treated equally.
And then the minute they get to the level playing field, they can't wait to start landscaping it with lots of little attractive hills and valleys like Rush on his golf course.
And on the top of all those hills, on the top of all those hills, are the SEIU guys and the union guys and the big corporations like McDonald's who know who to call in Washington and get past the Obama switchboard and talk to someone who matters, who can get them the hell out of this thing.
And then in the troughs and in all the valleys, right at the bottom are the little old nobodies like you, like Joe Schmo, who doesn't know who to call in Washington, or the guy who owns Fred's hardware store and hasn't got a lobbyist in Washington to get him out of this thing.
And that's why what is wrong with Obamacare is not just wrong with Obamacare, but actually sums up what is wrong with liberalism in general.
That's why we have 3,000-page laws now.
Because if we have equality before the law, the law is two pages long.
The minute it becomes a hierarchy of privilege like Obamacare, it's 3,000 pages long because it's like a Forbes 500 list.
There's someone at the top and there's you at the bottom.
More to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush Rush Back Live on Monday.
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We can talk about whatever you want to talk about, from Charlie Sheen's hernia to the riots in Egypt, the protests in Egypt, I think is the better word for it.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Egypt's People's Assembly has said that Mossad are behind the protests.
Now, don't laugh, because if you remember, just a few weeks ago, the governor of South Sinai, there was a strange spate of shark attacks off the sea in Egypt.
And the governor of South Sinai blamed that on Mossad, and he suggested that maybe that the Israelis had managed to put GPS on the sharks, and that that was why these sharks were terrorizing the tourists just waiting off the coast in South Sinai.
And of course, you can scoff at that too, but it's interesting that if you notice, the film Jaws, which was about a shark that terrorized people, was actually made by the same guy, the same director who made Schindler's List.
So, you know, the governor of South Sinai may be right that, in fact, the Jews had managed to put GPS on the sharks, and that was why they were now devastating tourism in Egypt.
Well, they've now gone further, apparently.
This was at Sharm el-Sheikh, which is the big Egyptian resort on the Red Sea.
And they had like a spater shark attack, say, a couple of months ago.
And that's why they blamed it on the Jews putting GPS on the sharks.
Now, apparently, those sinister Jews have put GPS on ordinary young Arab men and have directed them into the streets to demand the overthrow of the Mubarak regime.
And Joe Biden, with his impeccable timing, has decided to be the last man on the planet to come out and stand with the Mubarak regime.
So we'll follow any developments on that in the days ahead.
You know, what is happening in the Arab world, by the way, is not just relevant to the Middle East, which we might be on the verge of something equivalent to what happened in 1989 in Eastern Europe here, but it actually has a broader significance too.
You know what brought down the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia?
It started with this guy who committed suicide.
He was basically a 29-year-old, expensively educated Tunisian university student who graduated from university with all these expensive qualifications and couldn't get a job.
So then he starts like the half a million college educated Americans waiting tables across the United States, apparently.
He then decided he'd downscale his ambitions and he would operate a fruit and vegetable stand in the market.
And then, of course, he got hassled by the Tunisian Bureau of Compliance for not having all the expensive permits you need just to operate a fruit and vegetable stand.
So eventually he said, well, look, you know, I was at school for ages and I got all these qualifications and no use, can't get a job with them.
And then I tried to do an ordinary job and I'm hassled into bankruptcy by the Bureau of Compliance.
What's the point?
And he committed suicide and he set off a riot that toppled, eventually toppled the Tunisian regime.
Now, that's not just relevant to the Middle East.
That's not even just relevant to the European Union.
That's relevant to the United States, too.
What is worrying about the present economic situation is that we have restored GDP previous levels of GDP.
In other words, we've got the economy basically back to where it was before things started to head south.
But we still have a 10%, and actually in real terms, a lot higher unemployment rate.
In other words, a lot of the people who were employed before 2008 weren't doing real or necessary jobs.
And we face a situation in this country where we are expensively training people, just as in Tunisia, to do, to take on, except that in this country, we persuade people to take on six-figure debt.
And when they come out, there is no return on investment for that debt.
And instead of saying, hey, we need to get real about this stuff, I'm always very interested in who the President of the United States chooses to single out as an example of American values in the State of the Union.
Two years ago, it was somebody called Tyshioma Bethea, if you remember, who was a high school student in Dillon, South Carolina, who petitioned the president.
She had peeling paint in her classrooms.
And so she wrote to the sovereign, King Barak, in Barackingham Palace, thousands of miles away, to demand that he do something about it.
And as pathetic as that was, by the way, as pathetic to think we've reached the stage where an American schoolhouse is capable of doing anything, not just at state level or county level or town level, but is incapable of doing it themselves when your classrooms need painting.
As pathetic as that was, even more pathetic was the President of the United States singling out this letter as an example of the American dream in action, of American values that he wanted to commend to the nation at large.
That was two years ago.
So who's the Tyshioma Bethaya of 2011?
Well, this time he singled out somebody in North Carolina, a mother of two named Kathy Proctor, who'd worked in the furniture industry since she was 18 years old.
And she told me, says the president, she's earning her degree in biotechnology now at 55 years old.
Not just because the furniture jobs are gone, but because she wants to inspire her children to pursue their dreams too.
As Kathy said, I hope it tells them to never give up.
Now, you know, a degree in biotechnology is a serious business.
You put the minimum price on that.
This woman is taking on a whole ton of debt at 55 years old to get a degree she'll qualify for at 60 years old.
And the president is commending this to us as a model for the nation at large.
So two years ago, his model for the nation at large was some kind of federally directed grade school paint job regime, which you can imagine the cost of a gallon of paint if he got his way on that.
Now he's telling us that the solution to our problems is persuading people to take on six-figure college debt to graduate at the age of 60.
No, it isn't.
Like Tunisia, we've got too much college and not enough economy, not enough economy to support the people who are going to college.
And instead of addressing that, the President of the United States is telling more people that they need to live in a fantasy land, in a fantasy land.
President of the United States, this was truly, I think, perhaps the most pitiful speech, pitiful speech even by Obama's standards, because what was amazing to me about it was that it was written by professionals.
He didn't write the speech himself.
He had advisors and he had a team of speechwriters.
And they put in this business when you're facing, when you've just had an election in which you've been repudiated and the issue is less government, less spending, less debt, and you're standing up there and you're talking about high-speed rail.
And it's not just that the president has some kinky fetish about high-speed rail.
It's not just that some junior speechwriter's assistant deputy associate assistant deputy assistant speechwriter wrote that line, but it's that it went from the whoever wrote it in the speech, it went up through all the levels of genius, high-paid, expensively credentialed, expensively educated advice from an administration that David Brooks in the New York Times told us was the smartest administration in American history.
This is the Ivy League administration.
90% of them have advanced degrees.
A huge bunch of them have connections with Harvard and Yale.
This is the smartest administration in history, we've been told.
And they think when you're sliding into a multi-trillion dollar abyss, what you need is a high-speed rail link to get you in there faster.
And that's what's fascinating to me about this particular disaster of the speech is that the president, it's not even, we've argued, really, the writer's debated for two, three years now whether President Obama is a hardcore Marxist or is he simply an empty suit.
Is he a European-style social democrat or is he just an opportunist and a narcissist?
It doesn't really matter because you know what?
In Moscow and Beijing and Riyadh, they think of him as a buffoon.
And what he did in that speech on Tuesday night was confirm it.
Because when a grown man surrounded by the smartest administration on history is bleating on about high-speed rail in the situation that the United States of America is, he's making himself a laughing stock to the planet.
If you voted for this guy and you're still with him, and particularly if you're one of those people who got the Obama fever, the so-called Obama cons, you got a touch of the old Obama fever, like my old friend from National Review, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan.
You got the old Obama fever back in 2008 and you're still with this guy after this speech.
I'd like to hear you make the case for that speech.
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Fort Collins, Colorado, Colorado State University has received an $8 million grant from the Department of Defense to use the money in hopes of growing plants that can detect explosives in shopping malls or airports.
They're going to grow plants that will be able to detect things like, for example, the underpants bomber who tried to blow up over Detroit or the shoe bomber who tried to light up his shoe.
Now you won't have to have the enhanced pat down where the TSA guys are going through your genitals before you get on the plane.
Instead, it will be some terrorism detecting plant from the Colorado State University that they'll just sort of stick the pot at the foot of your shoes and the plant will just slither up your leg and see whether you're packing anything in there.
And this is an $8 million grant from the Department of Defense.
This is like thinking outside the box, I think.
So it's going to be some, like, little shopper horrors thing.
We're going to be...
Well, the plant...
No, the plant apparently changes colour.
The plant changes color when you've got explosives in there.
Apparently, so if you put, it's better than a tracker dog or a sniffer dog.
You put this plant, attractive pot plant, next to the scanner at the airport, and you'll swam through and think you've made it with your underpants full of explosives, but the plant will turn from green to like orange or red, and then the guys will pounce on you.
This is the theory.
No, it's not.
No, it's vegetate.
I'm getting cheap cracks about whether it'll be able to tell whether you've got a cucumber in your underwear or not.
No, it's not vegetable, anti-terrorist vegetables.
It's anti-terrorist terrorism vegetation.
It's a giant plant.
It's like an orchid.
It's like a corsage.
It'll be like the TSA agents will have an attractive corsage as if it's prom night at the TSA office party.
And their corsage will change color if you're packing explosives in your underwear.
It's just, it's just $8 million.
Let's not get heated.
It's a drop in the ocean.
Obama.
And the, yes, you will have to water the checkpoint so that we'll need to build a new Hoover Dam to water all the plants in American airports by the time we're through with this.
Let's go to Tim in Crystal, Michigan.
Tim, you're live on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks, Mark.
I really enjoy listening to you every time you're on.
Hey, I'm going to go to the next one.
Well, it's good to have you with us.
I'll get right to my point.
Since we've all talked about President Obama's administration being similar to Jimmy Carter's, and with all the unrest in the Middle East, what is your opinion on the possibility that we might have another hostage crisis?
I haven't heard anything about our diplomats being pulled out of there.
What is your thoughts on that, Mark?
Well, you're right to this.
I don't think there's any danger of it in Tunisia, by the way, because I don't think the anti-Americanism is an issue.
But I think it is an issue in Egypt.
And this is why I think the Vice President Biden, even by his own standards, shouldn't have blundered into this thing.
Because Egypt is the second biggest recipient of U.S. aid on the planet.
For 30 years, since the Camp David Accords, we have given billions and billions and billions of dollars to this squalid, ugly regime.
And we have had nothing in return for it except anti-American propaganda in the state-run media of Egypt.
In other words, we pay this thug Mubarak to print anti-American newspapers and produce anti-American radio and TV programming.
We pay for it.
You pay for Mubarak's radio stations to insult America.
Other than that, all we've had to show for it is Mohamed Atta flying through the office window on a Tuesday morning in 2001.
So there is a lesson here that when your squalid, ugly, unattractive allies start to wobble and fade, you don't want to stick with them to the end because there is an anti-American component to this.
Mubarak is seen as the pharaoh, but he's seen as an American-funded pharaoh.
And by the way, I think the Iranian comparisons are a bit unfair because the Shah was an enlightened leader, an enlightened and civilized man compared to the grotesque Mubarak family.
I have no confidence that what we're going to see in Egypt is anything like a pro-democracy or pro-American regime.
But that stunt still doesn't rule out the fact that America should not have been funding this guy for 30 years.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, great to have you.
Yep, you wanted to say something else, Tim?
No, Mark.
I was just going to say I appreciate you for taking my call.
And one more thing I just got to say is I had a co-worker that really didn't like Russia's show until you appeared on it one day, and she was working with me.
And I got her to sit there and listen to you.
And now she's not only you, but Rush every day.
Oh, well, I was worried about what you were going to say there because you don't want to say, oh, you know, to slam the host.
But so by teasing her into the show with me, she's now listening to Rush too.
That is great news.
Rush, by the way, will be back live on Monday.
And Rush has been on a killer form the last few days.
He's been the indispensable man these last 20 years in American conservatism, and he's going to be it for decades to come too.
Rush will be back live on Monday.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Gay advocates have taken issue with the Ground Zero Mosque Imam.
You recall that the liberal progressives are furious with the American people and the New York residents for being opposed to the Ground Zero Mosque.
But the tide may be turning because the Ground Zero Mosque Imam has now said that homosexual feeling arises because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse.
And the gay city news editor says that these are destructive, old, worn-out stereotypes.
So the gays are now at war with the Ground Zero Mosque Imam.
If only life were as easy as a coexist bumper sticker where the nice gay couple at number 27 can live next to the fierce beaded Imam at number 29 with his four wives and everyone lives in harmony.
But it's all a bit more complicated than that.
They had this issue in Britain where the head of Siriq Bal Sakrani, the moderate Muslim, said that homosexuality was a disease and he got investigated by Scotland Yard for homophobia.
And the Gay Humanist Association said that Muslims thought homosexuality was a disease and they got investigated by Scotland Yard for Islamophobia.
So if you're a gay and you say that Muslims don't like gays, you get investigated for homophobia.
And if you're a Muslim and you say that Muslims don't like gays, you get investigated for homophobia.
It'll all work out.
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