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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 anchor man 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 uh light rail, so that's okay.
Well, I've from the EIB network's newest broadcast facility, Ice Station E.I.B. in uh northern New Hampshire.
Uh what uh what did we have a couple of days ago?
I think it was minus 33 in Lancaster, uh but it's like warmed up today.
It's like a balmy uh balmy eleven degrees at the moment.
So uh I'm I'm I'm in my t-shirt here.
Uh I'm from the uh 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 uh 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 uh critical light rail brief.
You've got to be able to prioritize.
Uh Rush is away today.
He uh he was live from uh Los Angeles yesterday.
And uh 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 uh he'll be back Monday.
And um is he is he on the golf channel uh again tonight, H.R.?
Yeah, I'm not it's n it's not it's not clear to me.
The the uh the golf channel commitment is uh i uh has swollen from what I understood it to be originally.
So he may be on he may be on there uh on there tonight.
Um by the way, uh Obama, I gather, is committed to replacing all those golf carts with a high-speed rail link, so that should do uh wonders for the planet.
High speed golf links, high speed golf links, that's what we need.
Uh do you know what they call the high-speed rail in uh in Japan?
It's called the Bullet Train.
I blame Sarah Palin.
It's shaped like a speeding bullet.
Uh 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 uh are all in favor of uh of it, because it's much it's much better for your hateful right wing rhetoric.
I mean, when it's like uh minus thirty-three in Lancaster, my hateful right wing uh bile-filled spittle, uh not to mention my spittle-filled bile, just freezes it as it comes out of my lips, so it's like hanging off me like uh like some great hideous frozen waterfall uh off uh off my chin.
So uh 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 I certainly hope when the Democrats introduce high speed rail here that that uh that they shoe such dangerously provocative names like the bullet train, and we call it the uh the Condom Express or the horizontal corndog or something more bipartisan and civil.
I mean I'm in a very civil mood today.
Uh I nipped over to Vermont before the show and I entered into a civil union with Howard Dean, all very civil, very bipartisan, and I'm wearing my bipartisan lapel ribbon.
Uh 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.
Uh I'm walking with uh I'm walking with a limp, but I gather you can get a uh lapel ribbon for that too.
It's to it's to raise limpness aw awareness.
Uh it's the end of the week at the EIB network, and you know what that means.
Actually, not actually uh not actually live uh from New York, live live from New Hampshire.
But that's that's close enough.
We were we were in the right we were in the right time zone.
Open line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
I think I will be uh live in New Uh I'm live in New York, I think, uh next week.
I'm actually wanted in New York by the New York State Bureau of Compliance, but I'm uh I'm taking a risk and sneaking across the border for a Sam Isdat appearance in the uh state of New York.
Uh breaking news, things slipping out of control in uh in Egypt.
Looks like uh Hosny Mubarak could be uh could be booking his own one-way ticket on the old high-speed rail link to his bank account in Geneva.
Uh looks like the regime's choo choo is uh about to jump the tracks in Egypt.
It's like the it's uh like the meltdown in Vietnam when the high-speed train had to land on the roof of the U.S. Embassy, and the uh desperate South Vietnamese were scrambling to the sides of the restaurant car.
So we're gonna keep an eye on that uh story.
Uh things developing very fast uh in Egypt, uh in sewers, uh, which is really where uh the modern uh the the the word that ushered in the modern Middle East in nineteen fifty-six in the uh town of sewers.
Things are unraveling uh at a particular speed, too.
Uh 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.
Uh from the New York Post, Charlie Sheen taken to LA Hospital with hernia pain after partying with uh porn stars and cocaine.
And uh I saw an earlier version uh of this and it it didn't actually have what he was being treated for.
So it said Charlie Sheed taken to LA hospital after partying with porn stars and cocaine.
And I wondered whether that was like uh, you know, partying with porn stars was now covered by Obamacare.
Uh well I should uh I should certainly hope so, because in Charlie's case it's a pre-existing condition, and uh as 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.
Uh Charlie Sheen was rushed to a hospital today after partying into the wee hours with a bevy of women.
How many how many women in a bevy, uh HR?
I'm I want to be good sure I'm technically right here.
How many Ford is 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 I think it's uh I think it's six in a European Union bevy, because they've got they got they've got the metrication over there.
And oh, above above six is a is a harem.
Yes, that's true.
We want to get it right.
Charlie Sheen, he was 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 uh 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 uh on the nightstand.
That could easily give you a hernia in Charlie Sheen's case.
But anyway, he was taken uh to hospital suffering from a hiatal hernia in his stomach, which is causing him horrible pain.
Uh so poor old uh so poor old Charlie Sheen.
This is really uh th this d this is really a kind of metaphor for the Republic, I think.
I I uh I I watched Obaba at the State of the Union and it he gave the vague uh the vague mien of a man who was uh who was partying into the small hours with a bipartisan bevy and carrying a briefcase of uh trillion dollar bills.
And it's the country that's suffering from a hernia.
But anyway, we're gonna 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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Uh but today we don't have a highly skilled broadcast professional at the microphone.
We just have me.
So there's no point me trying to control the content.
You can control the content.
Uh you can call up 1800-282-2882 and talk about anything you want to talk about.
Within within within reason.
If you get too much into the weeds on the whole high speed rail thing, we may cut you short.
Uh, but I be would be particularly interested to hear from any Democrat out there who wants to make the case for the uh president's State of the Union address on Tuesday.
If you think this did the trick, if you think this did the trick, uh then uh 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 late light rail link.
But if you want to talk about something else, we'll talk about that too.
Uh Joe Biden, by the way.
Joe Biden uh has been the senior most uh United States official to comment on what is happening uh 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.
Uh news hour host Jim Lehrer 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.
That is a classic uh Democrat uh 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 uh that they should begin to move in the direction to be responsive to 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 uh 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 uh whispered that that uh penetrating analysis of the situation into the ear of the President before he stepped uh into the uh the well of Congress on Tuesday evening and delivered his State of the Union address.
Because I think I think uh it would have been fascinating if he had if the President of the United States had begun to demonstrate that he was capable of not not of not of being responsive uh 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 uh out there.
Uh there was an election in this country in November, and the election was pretty clear about what people wanted.
Uh they wanted less spending, they wanted less debt, they wanted less government.
Uh he didn't give us uh he didn't give us any of that.
Uh 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 uh the Bill Clinton Lounge Act uh and he's 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.
Uh 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.
Uh, and that is uh that is what he's um that is what he's he's missing uh in this.
Uh so if if uh Vice President Biden's uh analysis of the Egyptian situation is so correct uh 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 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 uh and solar-powered uh bullet trains or whatever the uh 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.
Uh, the uh Charlie Sheen groin strain.
We're watching developments in Egypt.
So whatever you want to uh talk about.
I mentioned uh that uh Rush was out today.
Russia will be back Monday.
Uh but he is on the Golf Channel tonight.
In fact, it's uh it's a kind of all rush evening starting at uh seven Eastern, or an all-rush afternoon, uh if you're uh out west.
Uh seven p.m.
Eastern, four p.m.
Pacific, three half-hour episodes uh featuring Rush on the Golf Channel tonight, right down the middle.
Hawaii 4-0.
And uh oh in 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 uh tonight on the Gulf Channel.
Uh following all the developments in the um in the news, the uh 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.
Uh so I don't know, we heard uh earlier Vice President Biden's uh Vice President Biden's views on uh Mubarak not being a dictator.
So I don't know what his view on uh Genghis Khan is, but apparently the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries uh was the most environmentally friendly planetary devastation ever in human history.
The Mongol invasion cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around uh 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 uh carbon footprint.
Uh he conquered over twenty-two percent of the world's total land area and slaughtered uh this is amazing, forty million people uh with uh bow we with his bow-wielding hordes, and as a result of this, uh an countless amount uh number of cultivated fields returned to forests, and so uh were less devastating to the planet.
And you can imagine the same thing sweeping uh in today if, say, Genghis Khan were to show up uh um at San Diego and say conquer uh the continental United States and uh uh uh and slaughter an estimated forty million people, particularly the SUV driving ones, we could easily match the reduction of 700 million tons of carbon uh that the environmentally friendly uh m uh Mongol hordes accomplished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
So they're now rehabilitating.
The left is now re the environmentalist left is now rehabilitating uh Genghis Khan.
He's uh 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 uh is going to be the last man standing alongside the Mubarak regime in Egypt.
Uh we have yet to hear the definitive position uh from Vice President Biden on uh on Genghis Khan.
By the way, you know, when when when Joe Biden said that Mubarak isn't a dictator, Mubarak's line was always that uh he was like a plausible dictator.
So he never won the fake elections by too much.
And uh a couple of years ago, he's 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 laughing stock because it put him in the Saddam Hussein Kim Jong-il camp of uh 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 length.
So I assume that that is what Joe Biden in his sophisticated way is uh is referring to.
Uh we're also going to talk about on today's show, uh, these Obamacare waivers.
You know, Obamacare they finally solved America's health care problems, and no sooner have they solved them uh than they ha started having to give out all their pal the pals uh opt-outs.
There are now, I think it's uh 729 separate Obamacare waivers.
Uh 40% of the Obamacare waivers, here's a surprise.
Forty percent of the Obamacare waivers have gone to unions.
So this thing, this this monstrosity that Nancy Pelosi uh 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 health care needs.
Uh but for but for anybody plugged into Who Matters in Washington, uh, we want to get on that opt-out express and get the hell out of this thing.
Uh and it's and it's not just about health care, 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 uh they're in favor of has got fairness in it, the fairness doctrine.
Uh Obama thinks it would be fairer if he spread the wealth around.
Fairness, equality, equality and fairness.
Uh so they pass this Obamacare thing that's gonna apply to 300 million people and they uh and it's gonna be a level playing field, uh and we're all gonna be treated fairly and we're all gonna 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 va uh valleys like uh Rush on his golf course.
Uh and on the 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 uh Washington, or the guy who owns Fred's hardware store and hasn't got a lobbyist uh in Washington to get him out of this thing.
Uh and that's why what is wrong with Obamacare is not just wrong with Obamacare, but actually sums up what is wrong with liberalism uh in general.
Uh that's why we have three thousand page laws now.
Uh because if uh 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 three thousand pages long because it's uh it's like a Forbes five hundred list.
There's someone at the top and there's you at the bottom.
More to come.
Mark Stein Infrarus, rush back live on uh Monday.
It's open line Friday on the EIB network, one eight hundred uh two eight two eight eight two.
We can talk about whatever you want to talk about, from uh Charlie Sheen's hernia uh to uh the uh riots uh in Egypt, the protests in Egypt, I think is uh is the uh is the better word for it, but the uh the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Egypt's People's Assembly uh has said that Mossad are behind uh the protests.
Now don't don't don't laugh, because if you remember just a few weeks ago, uh the governor of South Sinai, there was uh a strange uh spate of um uh shark attacks uh off the uh uh off the sea in uh in uh Egypt.
And the governor of South Sinai uh blamed that on Mossad uh and he suggested that maybe uh that uh the Israelis had managed to put GPS on the sharks, and that that was why these sharks uh were terrorizing uh the uh the the tourists uh just waiting off the coast uh in uh in s in South uh Sinai.
And you of course you can scoff at that too, but it's interesting that if you if you notice uh the uh the uh the film uh 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 uh the Jews had managed to put GPS on the sharks, and uh that was why uh they were now devastating tourism in Egypt.
Well, they've now gone further, apparently.
This was um at Sham el Sheikh, which is the big Egyptian resort on the Red Sea, and uh the they had like a spater shark attack, say uh a couple of months ago, and uh the uh uh and and that's why they put the uh the they blamed it on the Jews putting GPS on the sharks.
Uh now apparently those sinister Jews have put GPS on uh ordinary uh young Arab men and have directed them into the streets to demand the overthrow of the Mubarak regime.
And uh and uh uh Joe Biden with his impeccable timing has decided to be the last man on the planet uh to come out and stand with uh the uh Mubarak regime.
So uh so we'll we'll follow any developments on that in the uh 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 uh in Eastern Europe here, but it m it actually has a broader significance too.
You know what brought down the Ben Ali regime in uh in Tunisia?
It started with this guy who uh who committed suicide.
He was he was basically a a twenty-nine-year-old expensively educated Tunisian s university student who uh graduated from university with all these expensive qualifications and couldn't get a job.
So then he starts like the uh like the half a million uh college uh educated Americans waiting tables uh across the United States, apparently.
He then decided he'd uh downscale his ambitions, and uh he would operate a fruit and vegetable stand in the market.
And then of course he got hassled by the uh 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, uh, you know, I was at school uh for ages and uh got all these qualifications and no use, can't get a job with them.
Uh and uh then I tried to do an ordinary job and uh I'm uh 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 uh Tunisian regime.
Now, uh 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.
Uh what is uh worrying about the present economic situation is that we have uh restored GDP uh uh previous levels of GDP, in other words, we got the economy but basically back to where it was before things started to head south, but we still have a ten percent, and actually in real terms of it a lot higher unemployment rate.
In other words, uh 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 uh to take on except that in this country we persuade people to take on six-figure debt, uh, 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 uh Tai Shioma Bethea, if you remember, uh, who was a high school student in uh Dillon, South Carolina, who petitioned the president.
Uh she had uh peeling paint in her classrooms, and uh so she wrote to the the sovereign, King Barack 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 uh anything, not just at state level or county level or town level, but is incapable of doing it themselves when you're 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 Taishioma Betha of uh of 2011?
Well, this time he singled out uh uh somebody in North Carolina, a mother of two named Kathy Proctor, who'd worked in the furniture industry since she was eighteen years old.
And she told me, says the President, she's earning her degree in biotechnology now at fifty-five years old, not just because the furniture jobs are gone, but she because she wants to inspire her children to pursue their dreams too.
Uh as Cathy 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.
Uh this woman is taking on a whole ton of debt at fifty-five years old uh to get a degree she'll qualify for at sixty 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, uh, which you can imagine the cost of a gallon of paint if he'd got his way on that.
Now he's telling us uh that the aren't the solution to our problems uh is uh is uh is persuading people to take on six-figure college debt uh to graduate at the age of sixty.
No, it isn't.
Uh like Tunisia, we've got too much college and not enough economy, not enough economy to support the people uh who are going to college.
And instead of addressing that, uh the President of the United States is telling more people that they need to live in uh a fantasy land, in a fantasy land.
President of the United States, uh this was truly, I think uh perhaps the most pitiful speech, pitiful uh speech, even by Obama's standards, because what was uh amazing to me about it was that it was written by professionals.
He didn't he didn't write the speech himself, he had advisors and he had a team of speech writers.
And they put in this business.
When you're when you're facing when you've just had an election in which you've been repudiated, and uh the issue is less government, less spending, less debt, and you're standing up there and you're talking about high speed rail.
And uh it's not just that the president has some kinky fetish about high speed rail.
It's not just that some junior speechwriters, assistant deputy associate assistant deputy assistant speechwriter wrote that line, but it's that it went from the li 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 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, uh the writers debated for two, three years now whether President Obama is a hardcore Marxist, uh, 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.
Uh 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 uh to the planet.
If you voted for this guy, and you're still with him, and particularly if you're one of those uh people who got the Obama fever, the so-called Obamacons, 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 eight million dollar grant from the Department of Defense to use the money uh in hopes of growing plants that can detect explosives in shopping malls or airports.
Uh they're going to grow plants that will be able to detect uh things like, for example, the underpants bomber uh the who tried to blow up uh over over Detroit, uh, or the shoe bomber who tried to light up his shoe.
Uh now you won't have to have the enhanced pat down where the TSA guys are uh going through your genitals before you get on the plane.
Instead it will be uh some uh terrorism detecting plant from the Colorado State University that they'll just sort of uh they'll stick the pot uh at the foot of your shoes and uh the uh uh and and the plant will just slither up your leg and uh see whether you're packing anything in there.
And uh this is uh this is eight million dollar grant from the um from the Department of Defense.
This is like thinking outside the box, I think.
So it's gonna be some like little shopper horrors thing.
Uh we're gonna be we're gonna the uh well well the plant well no, the plant apparently changes color.
The plant changes color when you've got explosives in there.
Apparently, so if if you put it's better than a tracker dog or a sniffer dog, you put this plant, uh attractive pot plant uh next to the next to the scanner at the airport, and you'll swan 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 this is the this is the theory.
No, it's not no, it's veget.
I'm getting uh in I'm getting I'm getting cheap cracks about whether it'll be able to tell whether you've got a cucumber in your in your underwear or not.
No, it's not vegetable, anti-terrorist vegetables, it's anti-terrorist and 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 they and their corsage will change color if you're packing explosives in your underwear.
It's just it'll it'll just it's just eight million dollars.
Let's not get heated.
It's it's a drop in the ocean.
Obama and the yes, you'll have you will have To water the checkpoint, so that will we'll need to build a new Hoover Dam to water all the plants in American airports by the tr 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.
Well, it's it's good to have you with us.
I'll I'll get right to my point.
Um since uh we've all talked about uh President Obama's being uh administration being uh similar to Jimmy Carter's, and with all the unrest in the Middle East, uh, what is your opinion on the possibility that we might have another hostage crisis uh?
I haven't heard anything about our diplomats being pulled out of there.
Uh what is your thoughts on that, Mark?
Well, you're 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 uh anti-Americanism is an issue.
But I think I think it is an issue uh in uh Egypt, and this is why I think uh the president uh vice president Biden, even by his own standards, shouldn't have blundered into the into this thing.
Uh because uh Egypt is the second biggest recipient of USAID on the planet.
For thirty years, uh since the Cam 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 uh except uh anti-American propaganda in the state-run media of Egypt.
In other words, we pay we pay this thug Mubarak to print anti-American newspapers and produce anti-American radio and TV programming.
We pay for it.
You pay you pay for Mubarak's uh radio stations to insult America.
Uh uh, other than that, all we've had to throw uh show for it is Mohammed Atta flying through the office window on a Tuesday morning in 2001.
So there is a there is a lesson here.
That when uh when your squalid, ugly, unattractive allies uh 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 I think the Iranian uh comparisons are a bit unfair because the Shah was an enlightened leader, an enlightened and civilized man compared uh to uh the grotesque Mubarak family.
I've no confidence that what we're gonna see uh in Egypt is anything like a 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 thirty years.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, great to have you.
Yep, you wanted to say something else, Tim?
No, Mark, I was just gonna say I appreciate you for taking my call.
And and one more thing I just gotta 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 listened to not only you, but Rush every day.
Oh, well, I I was worried about what you were gonna say there, because you because you don't want to you don't want to you don't want to say, oh, you know, uh to to to slam the uh the the host.
But so uh by by teasing her into the show with me, she's now listening to Rush too.
That is great news.
Uh uh Rush, by the way, will be back live on Monday, and uh Rush has been on uh uh killer form the uh the the last few days.
He's been the indispensable man these last 20 uh years in American conservatism, and uh he's gonna be it for uh 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.
Uh you you recall that the uh the liberal progressives are furious with the American people and uh the New York residents for being opposed to the ground zero mosque, but uh the tide may be turning uh because the ground zero mosque Imam has now uh said that uh uh homosexual feeling arises because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse.
Uh and gay the gay city news editor uh says that these are destructive old worn-out stereotypes.
Uh so the gays are now at war with the ground zero mosque imam.
If only life were as uh uh as easy as a coexist bumper sticker, where the uh nice gay couple at number 27 uh can live next to the uh 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 uh issue in uh uh Britain where uh the head of uh Sariq Bal Sakrani, the moderate Muslim, said that uh said that homosexuality was a disease, and he got investigated by Scotland Yard for homophobia, and the Gay Humanist Association uh said that Muslims thought uh 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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