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Feb. 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Because that's when I got into trouble hammering the uh MM Detroit ad uh 'cause I was doing the Super Bowl post Super Bowl Monday show then.
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Oh Carl Carling's catching on.
Oh I that's great.
I'll love that.
I'll be when we when we get the Carling Super Bowl in the United States, I will be right on top of the situation there.
Because I love that.
You can't get you you what you really need for a real hot sport, you're absolutely right, Mr. Snardley, you need brooms.
Brooms and stones, and that's what's Carling's got.
It's got brooms, it's got stones.
Uh and that's what uh and that's what you need.
Uh Donald Trump is taking credit for Mitt's big win in Nevada.
Uh he said uh there was a lot riding on that race in Nevada, and uh a lot of people are giving me credit for that, said Donald S. Trump, and Donald S. Trump is taking credit for Mitt's big victory in Nevada.
I want to go back to that Super Bowl thing, by the way, because I'd I'm disappointed, to be honest, in Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood is a uh great iconic American movie star.
And to see him participating in something as lame as that, I'm I am gonna I don't want to get into trouble with Detroit again, because I think uh I I uh I I wound up having to go on uh on uh on our affiliate station in Detroit uh the following day and uh having to prostrate myself before the people of Detroit, because I think they'd uh they were getting up a petition to have me removed from uh from the rush guest host roster.
And uh I don't so I don't want to go, I don't want to w tiptoe down that perilous path again.
But there is something pathetic about a uh a self-proclaimed libertarian such as Clint in agreeing to do these lame uh collectivist bromides uh which is what that uh that ad he did for Chrysler was about.
I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of downturns in my life, said Claire said Clint, and times when we didn't understand each other.
It seems like we've lost our hearts at uh our heart at times.
The fog of division, discord and blame made it hard to to see what lies ahead.
And uh uh uh according to uh the ad, uh all we need to do is just understand each other and we will hear the roar of our engines once more.
Look at the people who are praising this ad.
Now that's I don't know how that sells a car, Mr. Snardly.
I don't want to buy some lame ass, you know, uh Chrysler collectivist mobile.
What kind of thing is that?
David Axelrod, pr President Obama's chief strategist called it a powerful spot.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, the uh Oscar winning uh crocumentarian, tweeted, Clint, the consensus is you done a good thing standing up for Detroit, and your sermon seemed to be a call to give Obama his second half.
Uh so Michael Moore is on board with uh Clint's uh collectivize call for collectivization.
This is ridiculous.
They're doing this you know, I used to love uh uh American car ads.
The because they used to prioritize liberty.
You know, your vehicle opened up new horizons, you know, get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure.
And uh even if they were just selling, you know, dull uh sedans to people who lived in suburban cul de sacks.
The car the car the car makers used to Yeah, the the the spacious back seat was one thing, but what I used to love about them was the way they'd even if they were just selling like Subaros, the Subaru that came uh comes with the built-in Kerry Edwards sticker that stayed on the car for the d f for half a decade after that election.
Uh th even even to sell uh dull saloons, dull sedans to people who lived in suburban cul-de-sac, they'd th th the The car makers would show them roaring round hairpin bends, deep into the forest, splashing through rivers, uh over a washed out bridge, across the desert plain, and they'd they'd then come to rest uh on the edge of a spectacular promontory way up on the roof of the world, offering this kind of spectacular view of half the planet.
And the message was freedom, individual freedom, cars give you liberty.
You're uh you you get behind the you get behind the wheel and you put that car in gear and you go and it's liberating.
And now Clint Eastwood himself, Clint, this is Mr Gran Torino Mr Gran Torino himself, Daddy Harry, is telling this uh oh no it's about uh it's about collectivization, it's about us all pulling together, it's about some dystopian wasteland,
but the second half of America is about to begin, and if we all follow the Detroit model of all things, the Detroit model, uh then everything will be just swell, just grand, and America will have a terrific second half.
And it's almost as bad that I think it was two years ago that Audi the German car maker of again of all people do you remember that German car ad from the Super Bowl, the Audi ad from two years ago, Mr Snardley,
the one where it shows uh the guy uh being sort of handcuffed by the Green Police uh and and the environmental police uh uh take this guy away, slam his head against the counter and lock him up because he wants to uh use a plastic bag at the supermarket checkout uh and then uh the the eco commandos take the guy's house because they discover he's got a battery in his trash and you're assuming at some point the kind of contrarian spirit uh of the American self-reliant individual
kick in in this totalitarian scenario and instead it just shows some eco wimp driving the Audi A3 TDI I think it was and which is fully environmentally compliant and the eco stormtrooper tells the driver okay you're good to go and with the approval of the state enforcers this guy meekly pulls out of the stall traffic and drives off and
the message of this ad was Green has never felt so right.
And that wasn't the real message.
The real message is uh is you're a wimp and you gotta comply with the the uh totalitarian eco-statist bullies.
What kind of car ad is that?
The car ads in recent Super Bowl and recent Super Bowls uh are staggering.
Uh if you it's at some point we were talking uh in the previous hour uh that uh we didn't want to send someone to Washington to quote manage the decline, unquote, as Newt put it.
If you want to see the decline in the American spirit, just look at the kind of vaunted uh widely admired ads uh car ads that are put up at the Super Bowl from year to year.
Where's the celebration of American individualism?
Where's the celebration of liberty?
Where's the celebration of the American spirit?
Uh so you get a a guy n you know who knuckles under he he drives some pathetic vehicle that's fully compliant with the whimsical diktats of the eco stormtroopers that's supposed to be a celebration of the American spirit in fairness and in fairness a German car and uh the Germans uh you know have uh something of a tradition of knuckling under to state authority but that's a very bizarre way to sell German cars in the United States of America.
So then we move on to Chrysler and Clint Eastwood.
Clint, go ahead punk make my day, go ahead punk play misty for me.
Mr Gran Torino himself uh and he's there and he's driving uh he he he's he's saying that uh wandering through this this uh post-industrial ruin and saying that this is the model for the American comeback.
That is one of the most deeply depressing ads.
And he's saying by the way, that uh the the the Detroit model, the bailout model, uh the uh the uh the the get government money to bail out your Union pals model uh the uh and then sell what's left to the Italians which is what Chrysler is there were no mention no Italian reared his head in Clint's ad there.
No there was no mention of Fiat or any sinister Europeans lurking in that ad.
That's somehow an American car ad in the 21st century?
What happened to, I'd give anything to see Dinah Shaw come back and see the USA in your Chevrolet?
Because you used to be able to see the USA in your Chevrolet.
And the USA you can see in that Chrysler ad and that Audi ad and last year's thing with Eminem.
This is not, there's something symbolic about the corrosion of the American spirit when you look at the car ads that are being unveiled at the Super Bowl.
we're gonna we'll talk about that your thoughts on the uh halftime show and the slick ads one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two we're also talking about Nancy Pelosi uh signing on uh to the Obama administrations Nancy Pelosi uh claims to be a uh Catholic she says I'm a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and I love it but they have this conscience thing that puts women at risk.
That's the problem with you Catholics.
You've got this conscience thing.
You've really got a that this conscience thing, as Nancy Pelosi puts it I think that's the way they put it is that is that from the King James Bible, that particular form of words this conscience thing?
Uh Nancy Pelosi says you Catholics it's all very she says she's a devout Catholic.
That's why she's pro abortion that's why she wants hundreds of millions of dollars in condom distribution to stimulate the economy.
Nancy Pelosi says that you Catholics have this conscious thing just get over this conscience thing will you?
What's wrong with you guys?
Just take Nancy's advice get over this conscience thing and uh and uh just get hep to the way the Catholic institutions, the Catholic Church will be handing out condoms, will hand be handing out abortive facents, and it will be uh uh making available free sterilization for its employees and that way you can still be a devout Catholic and honor your faith as Nancy puts it but you won't be hung up on this conscience thing.
That's Nancy Pelosi's line on the Obama administration's crackdown on religious liberty.
We'll talk about that and the rest of the day's news straight ahead.
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Mark Stein in for Rush.
Hey, Mark Stein for Rush.
Do you remember that fella, what was he called, Bart Stupak?
He was a supposedly pro-life congressman who gave the Obama administration one of the vital last votes they needed to steamroller Obamacare through.
And he gave them his vote in exchange for an assurance that no taxpayer dollars or health insurance premiums were involuntarily going to be used to provide any kind of abortion services.
And I would be interested to know what Bart Stupak makes of this latest move by the Obama administration where my Catholic institutions are going to be forced to hand out abortifacients for.
free.
And the the interesting uh thing about this of course is that there's nothing surprising about it at all.
Big government makes everything smaller uh modern liberalism is fundamentally illiberal uh the high priests of tolerant are uh uh uh increasingly intolerant of even the mildest descent and all the people driving around with the celebrate diversity stickers uh insist on imposing a one size fits all conformity with the state church and that's really what's behind what the uh Obama administration is doing here.
Let's go to Ken in Detroit, the city I was trying not to malign just a few moments ago.
Ken, it is great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well thanks for my call and uh you brought this up earlier and I just wanted to say that your evaluation of last year's Super Bowl commercial was uh correct um but what I called about is a conflict between Nancy Pelosi and uh the Roman Catholic Church and it's time for the Roman Catholic Church to uh follow its own teachings to enforce its own doctrine.
Nancy Pelosi uh who is not a devout Catholic she needs to be excommunicated, removed from membership uh from the Roman Catholic Church as as does anyone else who chooses to publicly go against the teachings of her own church.
Well, you know, that it that is something that uh we hear from time to time about uh the position that democratic and it's usually democratic politicians, democrat Democrat Party politicians who find themselves uh in conflict with the church's teachings, and in theory they could be prevented from receiving communion uh and all the rest of it.
In practice, uh the Catholic Church uh doesn't really ever go nuclear on these guys, and they they put up with an awful lot of pathetic uh having it both ways.
John John Kerry, uh when he was asked about abortion when he was running for president in two thousand and four, and he'd twist himself uh into knots like a press or where he'd go, Well, of course I'm personally passionately, committedly, personally, passionately committedly opposed to abortion, but I would never dream of letting my uh opposition to abortion interfere with my party's legislative agenda.
And that's basically what uh he says and what Nancy Pelosi well, Nancy Pelosi, in fact, is kind of slightly more honest than him.
She's up front.
She says, Yay, go for it.
I'm abortion, wow, I'm there.
Perform one for me right now.
Yeah, partial birth abortion.
I'll hold I'll hold her down, you do it.
She's gung-ho for it.
And and the and the fact of the matter is that the the Catholic hierarchy in the United States has chosen to live with uh a generally uh uh kind of uh completely open disregard for the church's teachings by prominent Catholic politicians.
I mean, why would they change that now, Ken?
If you read the official catechism of the Roman Catholic Church and their book of canon law, and uh I used to be a Catholic, I'm a Lutheran now.
Uh the means of excommunication is in there.
And uh if Nancy Pelosi was a member of uh I'd say uh most uh conservative Protestant churches, uh she would have been gone long time ago.
That's that's true.
On the other hand, uh she's she's confident that uh that uh uh she can uh she could hold the Catholic Church in line.
And uh and it and you're you're right to say, by the way, that it's not just the Catholics who go in for excommunication, but uh but the st the the more serious Protestant denominations uh do as well.
But but uh but but at a certain point you know the whole relationship between the church and the state is hopelessly conflicted because the Catholic Church want to be big players.
They want to be in uh they want to remain part of the establishment.
That's why they're very agreeable to uh whatever it is annulling the marriages of all these various Kennedys uh that uh it seems very bizarre to me.
How how how many years had Ted Kennedy been married uh when he in fact uh persuaded the uh Catholic Church in Massachusetts uh to uh to to rule that that marriage in fact had never taken had never existed uh uh in the eyes of God.
Uh and actually not just uh Democrat politicians but Republicans too.
Rudy Giuliani uh he ha how many uh how many marriages had Rudy Giuliani had?
He said two marriages annulled.
That's great.
How about Newton?
Newt wasn't a Catholic at the time he uh he he got through his marriage, so I don't think he was in the annulment business.
But th this is the the Catholic bishops in the United States have wanted to remain political players.
And on the whole, apart from abortion and contraception, they've been in favor of the big government agenda.
They're all hot for illegal immigration, uh they're hot for government health care, and and they've uh and they've forgotten the big lesson of post-Christian Europe, that as the government grows, everything else gets smaller.
And that is something that they will be uh they will be living with the consequences.
We'll see, we'll see.
Maybe this time uh they will take a stand, and maybe that stand will mean something.
Uh but you gotta bet, you gotta bet, uh what the way Nancy Pelosi and President Obama and Commissar Sabilius have belt have bet uh that they are gonna railroad this thing through, that Obamacare, that government health care means the government sets the terms of health care.
The government determines what you can't just choose to be insured.
An employer can't choose the particular health care uh plans that he happens to think meets the needs of his company and which he wishes to offer to his employees.
He now has to find himself providing a whole range of services.
This isn't, by the way, this isn't just a conscious thing for Catholic institutions, but this is something for free born individuals too.
How can the state compel you the state now this is the institu this is the issue on which the United the first settlers of the United States came to this continent because they wish to live in accordance with their religious conscience.
That's how the Puritans washed up on Plymouth Rock because of this very issue.
It gets to the very heart of American identity and and is the most basic question in the founding of the United States of America.
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How's that Arab Spring going?
It's going gangbusters.
A Libyan militia has been this is the new free post Gaddafi Libya one of Libya's many new militias detained and questioned to death a former ambassador to France.
Omar Brabesh, a career diplomat who was cultural attache in Paris, was brought in for routine questioning in Tripoli His body then turned up a few hours later at a hospital in Zintan the photographs of his body revealed welts an extensive bruising on the abdomen, lacerations on both legs and a large wound on the sole of the left foot.
Some of his toenails appear to have been removed.
Some of his toenails appear to have been removed.
That's life in the new post Gaddafi Libya.
How are things going Arab Springwise in Egypt?
Egypt defies the United States by setting trial for 19 Americans on criminal charges.
From the New York Times, Egypt's military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of non-profit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt.
And what I find fascinating about this is that the American big shots, Hillary Clinton's Clinton has issued warnings to the Egyptians Barack Obama delivered a warning to Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi who's basically the guy running Egypt it's under a military junta.
That's how the Arab Spring is working out so far.
The military junta's been there for a year Tantawi's been running things for a year.
Obama sent him a letter two weeks ago warning him not to put the Americans on trial.
Forty members of Congress have sent letters making the same threat the days of blank checks are over Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont the Democrat who chairs the spending panel overseeing the aid to Egypt said in a speech in the United States Senate on Friday and you know what the Egyptians say?
Nuts take your money if it's a choice between putting these nineteen Americans on trial or getting a big check from the United States government we don't want the check from the United States government.
We'd rather put these guys on trial the we we are watching before our eyes the building of the post Western Middle East, the post American Middle East and in Libya and in Egypt.
In Libya the guys we sent uh US airplanes and the rest of NATO in to help uh have just tortured an ambassador to death, and in Egypt, uh the regime uh that we dismantled Mubarak, the successor regime has now put nineteen Americans on trial uh for funding a non profit group.
It's a beautiful thing, the Arab Spring.
Let's go to Jeffrey in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeffrey, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thank you.
Yeah, I I was just sitting here wondering about first of all, I have two issues.
One with Clint Eastwood, but let's get to that next.
The first one is the Catholic Church.
Now, for one, why are we giving the Catholic church money?
And for two, if they don't agree with what's going on, why do they accept the money?
I didn't hear that.
Well, that's an outrage when these altar boys are being molested.
Well, uh hey, hey, hey, let's let's uh let's put the altar boys to one side for a moment.
But let's uh l let's look at it, let's look at it this way, Jeffrey.
Who doesn't get money from the government of the United States?
No, that is not the question.
The question is about the Catholic church, is what we're discussing.
Yeah, but but that's but that's that's my point.
That when government doesn't get money is me, I don't get money from everything.
Yes, you yes, you do.
You receive all kinds you receive into this.
You know what exactly what I'm getting at.
Yeah, and I'm saying and I'm making the point to you, Jeffrey.
I understand your point, and I'm telling you this that when government gets so big, it's got fingers in everything.
It's got fingers in college loans, it's got fingers in health insurance, and that's the point about big government, Jeffrey.
Don't get so don't get so chippy about hey, hey, hey, Jeffrey.
No, no, no, Jeff Hey Jeffrey, Jeffrey, ease up a little and listen to my point.
When the government gives you goodies, gives you little baubles, gives you funding, it has the right to determine uh everything you do.
It's the point I made in the last ad.
If the government gives the Catholic Church two percent of its financing uh for for for a particular school or hospital, it has the right to determine one hundred percent of what that hospital does.
It's the same thing with colleges, and it's the sa and it's increasingly it's the same thing with individuals.
Under Romney care in Massachusetts, uh uh some couple who were paying whatever it was w uh five hundred dollars a month for health insurance were told that no, they could uh they should pay more, they should pay eighteen hundred dollars a month for health insurance.
The big government means the government increasingly has control over every aspect of your life.
Go ahead, Jeffrey, what's your point?
I I I I I hear you on that big government.
I mean, that sounds great, but it's really not big government that's going on.
You guys would like to say that.
But anyway, now why are you tearing down an American icon that is all he's doing is telling you the truth about another American icon industry?
Now, could you hear what would be going on?
Oh, give me a hey Jeffrey.
Hey, hey, Jeffrey.
Yeah, Jeffrey, just a minute, Jeffrey.
Do you know who that ad that Clint Eastwood ad was for?
Say that again.
Th the Clint Eastwood ad, the uh the American icon that I tore down, as you put it, he was doing a commercial for whom?
He was doing it for the American spirit, which means the surge you could call it work, like you guys like to say, the surge.
That was a surge too that saved an industry from being no more.
Now, why can't you you guys are all American and are American ideals, but then to save an American company, you don't want to do it.
You want to take a look at the same thing.
Hey, Jeffrey Obama for to be in the first president to let an American industry like that go under.
Hey, Jeffrey, it was a commercial for the Chrysler Motor Company.
You know then weren't they about to go under?
Yeah, the Chrysler Motor Company.
Do you know who owns the do you know who owns the who who owns the Chrysler Motor Company?
Who owns what do you mean who owns it?
I'm sure they have investors, but the thing I'm saying is It's fifty-eight point five percent Obama.
Jeffrey, it's fifty-eight point five percent owned by Fiat.
Do you know what fee it is?
Oh, man, listen, you're playing these word games, but you know the deal is Romney was going to let that industry die.
I'm interested to see when he gets back to Detroit.
Hey, hey, Jeffrey, that with those people that he was.
Hey, Jeffrey, I love the hey, I love the American spirit, especially when it's fifty-eight point five percent owned by Italians.
You can't get more American than the Fiat Motor Company.
It couldn't be any more American if it was owned by Perrier.
It couldn't be any more Chrysler couldn't be any more American if it was fifty eight point five percent owned by Camembert cheese.
That's the American spirit, Jeffrey.
That's what you're cheering there.
Where's Jeffrey gone?
Everything about America government, everything else, but you try to hide behind the same thing.
Smart people know better.
I mean you guys play a lot of word games and if people would just do their own research I'm not I'm not playing word games.
I'm talking about corporate ownership.
The fact of the matter is that uh the the the the the Chrysler motor company is a majority owned Italian enterprise.
And I think majority owned, but there were American jobs saved.
American factory saved.
So I don't care about who owns what part of what there's a lot of uh outside interests that own parts of our American company but that's not the point.
The point is the American port is the one I'm uh interested in not who owns what where is what I'm worried about.
Nothing says nothing says made in America like an Italian owned automobile that's built in the province of Ontario.
Good luck with that, Jeffrey.
The the American spirit I'm just playing word games yeah I know I know I'm not and I'm not gonna play word games anymore.
Word games like corporate ownership structure.
That's just that tricksy kind of stuff that we right-wing guys try to do.
Do you know, this is tragic.
This is tragic because at a certain level, Clint Eastwood, when he says the second half of America is beginning right now, the ownership of Chrysler, which is basically 60% fiat, fiat owns 60% of Chrysler, and the Canadian and American auto unions own what's left between them.
And that's basically what, if that is the future of America between, majority foreign ownership and rapacious unions uh that uh that are insisting on the previous preservation of deals that are no longer justifiable then there is no second half for America.
It's doomed it's over it's done.
But if Jeffrey wants to say well wow that's the American spirit man and uh an Italian owned uh corporation uh that builds its products in the province of Ontario by golly you can't get more American I'm proud to be an American well at least I know I'm sixty percent owned by Fiat yes that's the American message great oh I'm just playing word games Mr. Sudley I'm just playing word games okay we'll come back more word games live on the EIB network Mark Stein in for
us Mark Stein in for us on the uh EIB network uh playing word games playing word games as uh as Jeffrey uh accused me of doing Jeffrey from Columbus Ohio uh Jeffrey Jeffrey said by the way just as he he uh he disappeared from the airwaves uh you're not even an American uh what do you know that's true I'm not even a mer uh I'm not even an American I'm just like the owners of Chrysler in that respect.
They're not even Americans.
It's amazing how much of that there is out there.
I was on uh uh C-SPAN yesterday uh being interviewed and somebody tweeted in uh just uh before the end of the show there's uh thank God only seven minutes more at a real American will be on because that guy Thomas Frank who wrote you w what's the matter with Kansas he was coming on to talk about his uh his book but uh by uh that's that's the that actually gets to the heart of the uh it's halftime in America message at Clint Eastwood.
If you find it irritating to have uh foreigners on your airwaves and Italian owned uh automakers in Detroit, think of what it's going to be like ten years, twenty years down the line when it's the Chinese Politbureau picking out your Rush Limbaugh guest hosts.
You know it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.
By the way, just to connect those two themes that Jeffrey was talking about because he started talking off uh you know he was playing word games he started talking about the Catholic institutions and then he switched to my dissing of Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl ad.
But the the two uh the the the two things will soon merge the individual mandated health care and Clint Eastwood's message For the or uh on behalf of Chrysler Automobiles, um because uh Obama uh has now got uh the new he's got new at his behest uh cafe, the new cafe rules, which are the corporate average fuel economy rules.
Uh the Environmental Protection Agency is about to introduce another killer hike in the corporate average funeral fuel economy rules.
Uh they've got to get up from whatever it is, 35 miles per gallon now to 40 point nine miles per gallon in 2021 and 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
And this is basically going to clobber what's left of the American automobile industry.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says there'll be no vehicles costing fifteen thousand or l or less, so college students and low-income consumers, they're not gonna be any.
They're not gonna be any cars for you.
You're gonna be out of the car mayor.
Seven million buyers will be forced out of the market for new cars.
Uh and uh that will uh uh and in effect, uh, according to uh the uh the projections, that will mean that there, in effect, as the Washington examiner puts it, there will in fact be an individual mandate to buy the new Chevy vault.
So we'll see how that works out for the American automobile industry.
But these are new uh environmental protection agency standards uh that are going to push up.
Uh basically they're gonna stick another twenty miles on the fuel economy costs uh to uh for for United States automobiles.
So it's gonna go up from thirty-five miles to fifty-four point five miles per gallon.
Seven million consumers will, as a result, according to the official calculation, will no longer be able to afford to buy uh U.S. automobiles.
Uh so they'll be but don't worry, because by then the high speed rail link will be on and they'll be fine with that.
And um the I think except the U.S. high speed rail link isn't gonna be uh that high speed because they'll have the Transport Security Administration guy, so you'll have to get there two hours before your train leaves to to go through all the uh all the groping at that.
But this is where uh Jeffrey is perhaps, you know, sometimes it helps to play the word games and to to look at the bigger picture.
Let's go to Mark in Manassas, Virginia.
Mark, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
Uh big fan uh and uh so glad to be able to speak with you today.
You're my favorite guest host.
Hey, that's that's uh that's great to hear.
Thanks for that, Mark.
And I I just uh I did want to I didn't call about this, but I also happen to be a refugee from Detroit, a third world city in a first world country.
But what I was calling about is to give you laws about your new book, After America.
I love the book.
And although it did make me despondent about the prospect of growing government and the needs of certificates and the needs of undergraduate degrees, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Yes, and respondent because you speak most most of us speak about the federal government, but it's the sorcerer's apprentice.
And the government starts at the federal level, uh morphs into the state, down to the county, down to the city environmental protection agencies and things like that.
It's just it's the road to serfdom.
And also because of you, I can't go to an airport without saying the word open group in juror or Uber Group and love the term.
Uber group the Obergroppenfuhrer, yeah.
Uber Groppen Fuhr.
I uh my daughter started an internet business.
And uh she got out of the blue a letter from a state bureaucrat saying cease and desist, no requests for information, no request to dialogue, no nothing, just a cease and desist order.
Right.
And because she's on the internet and people from that particular state logged into her website, they have they have sent her a cease and desist for her, and now I mean she's a young small businesswoman, has two hundred people on her website, and um a state government has said sue us.
Yes, but you can't sue us, you can't operate in the state.
Yeah, you that you make a great point, Mark.
We got to we've got to run because we've got to take an EIB profit center here, but uh one in twenty Americans needed permission from the state from the government to do their job in the nineteen fifties.
Now one in three Americans need permission from the government to do their job.
Where do you think it's gonna be another five or ten years down the line.
Your daughter uh getting that cease and desist order.
That's again, that's strikes at the heart of the American idea.
What kind of America is it where you need the permission from the government uh to start a business, to do a job, uh to create wealth.
And that's the that's the America where we're not moving towards, we're deeply mired in already.
Mark in Manassas, uh, Virginia, we'll take more of your calls and lots more on the Rush Limbaugh show straight ahead.
Georgia's top court has struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said that the law violated their free speech rights.
So it's a f the the right to assist in the killing of somebody else is a free speech issue, according to the Supreme Court in Georgia.
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