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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Day two from the EIB Northern Command for you and me together.
	Mary Matelin will be in on Monday.
	And Rush returns on Tuesday.
	It's been a big week.
	Friday's a day to tie a big bow around it and see what's been going on since Monday, the three days that Rush hosted.
	Our day together yesterday, which was very eventful.
	You know, it's a funny thing happens when you guest host the Limbaugh Show.
	You get a lot of email.
	I know it's how would that happen?
	Well, it's a crazy thing.
	And uh a lot of people boy, a lot of people hopped onto the Twitter world.
	Thanks if you want to do that.
	Uh Twitter at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
	You want to shoot me something, glad to take a look at that.
	We'll take a look at some of the reaction that that arose from yesterday's Essentially It's Romney Get Over It Day.
	Uh some folks nodding grudgingly, other folks just refusing to give it up, refusing to give it up.
	We've got a lot of things going on today.
	Activist James O'Keefe has a magnificent video involving uh Eric Holder's uh precinct in Washington, DC.
	Uh, we're gonna talk some meat uh in the beginning of the third hour.
	We're gonna talk some meat with a meat official.
	And if you've ever heard the term pink slime, you know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, you will.
	So that's coming up in uh hour number three.
	Lots of opportunities to talk about the hot political stories of the day, and all of this happens against the glorious backdrop that even Rush isn't here.
	It is still open lines right now.
	Live from New York City.
	It's open line Friday.
	And in within the limbaugh construct, that means that Rush relaxes his usual vice grip on topicality and pretty well lets all y'all do whatever the heck you want.
	I've spent an entire career doing that.
	I guess it's accrued to my relative benefit.
	I don't know.
	So I'd say what I'm gonna do.
	I'm gonna offer uh a benevolent dictatorship, uh, some mild control over some things we can talk about, uh, but still get into that Friday spirit of throw it against the wall and see what sticks at 1 800-282-2882.
	1-800-282-2882.
	I wasn't going to spend a lot of time on the Secret Service thing, and and I'm probably still not.
	But it but the reason why is because uh just like the occasional misbehavior by the troops, I don't think that that should spin or color or tar or debase our opinion of them.
	This was a few Secret Service guys, you know, going hog wild down in Columbia and apparently breaking none of their laws.
	But is that a defense?
	And one of these, I guess one of three of the Secret Service guys currently out of a job, says he may now sue.
	Another thing I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on, and I think you know why, is the whole Zimmerman thing.
	Not out of distaste for it or lack of interest, I got plenty of interest, but uh Zimmerman got Bond today, as he properly should have, not because he's a hero to me, or I think Trayvon Martin is guilty.
	I just please about the whole problem with this entire Trayvon Martin Zimmerman thing is everybody comes with their own preconceived notions, and it's almost impossible to find somebody looking for actual objective justice for so many that for a lot of the people who said all we want is charges.
	All we want is a trial.
	A lot of those people are lying through their teeth.
	They want Zimmerman's head on a platter as atonement for racial wrongs of the past.
	Just as in OJ, just as with OJ.
	You know, so because of past racial injustice, a guilty black man had to go free.
	And and we're all twelve years old and and pointing at each other on the playground when stuff like this rises, and it just turns my brain to jelly.
	But just for just for the news value of it, did George Zimmerman deserve Bond?
	Of course he did.
	And this has nothing new whether you like him or don't like him, or or has nothing to do with any of that.
	It's two things.
	Is he a flight risk?
	And is he likely to be a danger to the community?
	The answer to both those questions is obviously no.
	Uh so I don't know.
	And and just just telegraphing forward.
	This trial is going to be a circus.
	It's going to be uh just a horrible, sickening circus.
	So just brace yourselves for that.
	And uh speaking of troubling things to brace yourselves for, uh, we'll talk about some of the the the s the silliness and the weirdness of words and the things that people are choosing to get all worked up about here in the springtime of an election year.
	So we have all of this that we're going to do, and obviously in the spirit of Open Line Friday, if there is something uh in your head that you want to uh toss our way, then feel free to do it at 1 800 282 2882.
	Twitter is Mark Davis, M A R K D A B I S, and I'll be taking a look at that as well.
	But the first thing, the very, very first thing that I wanted to spend a moment with you about today, involves just another little story that I have uh that's extends from the benefit of having come here to New York City to do these two days of fill-in for Rush.
	I covered uh the Iowa and New Hampshire, Iowa Caucus' New Hampshire primaries, and had a couple of days in between them, and so I was here in New York for a couple of days in January, frosty cold January.
	And it occurred to me that something I ought to do, something every American ought to do is go visit the 911 memorial.
	Uh and I did.
	And uh wrote about it and talked about it on the show, uh, on the show that I hosted in Texas.
	And um I went back yesterday, and it was very different.
	Because instead of being cloudy and about thirty, it was sunny and about seventy-two, and I also had my wife and my son with me.
	Now, when I came here before, I said on my local show, this is a pilgrimage every American should make.
	The question we ask ourselves all the time is have we forgotten, have we grown cavalier, have we grown lackadaisical?
	Have we just you know kind of taken 911 and sort of shelved it somewhere?
	Does it hurt too much to think about it?
	It probably does, and that has accrued to our detriment.
	That is why we are war weary so fast.
	That is why the enemy will be ready to fight us to the death for five hundred years, and it took us about four years to go, eh, I'm ready to move on to other things.
	If you want and I don't know, and I don't pretend that the reaction will be the same for everyone who visits.
	In fact, uh I didn't walk onto that turf, that sacred ground of ground zero for the second time with my wife and my son their first time and get a whole fresh notion of um of righteous rage, that actually came later.
	No, the first thing that strikes you, I don't throw the word sacred around lightly.
	It is the privilege, it is the honor of walking on a cleared out, beautifully landscaped, magnificently designed memorial to those who died that day.
	There if you'd have told me when they're and and I I guess I paid passing attention to the design of this thing, and if somebody had described it to me and said, Okay, here's what we're gonna do, Mark.
	We're gonna take uh the footprints of the towers, and we're gonna put fountains there.
	We're not gonna have really anything that rises above where this happened.
	We're gonna have things that really sink below.
	We're gonna have uh water pouring 18 feet down into the bottom of a pool, but the water will then flow down into a square-shaped abyss that you cannot see the bottom of.
	If he had told me that, I said, What?
	That's kind of dark.
	That's kind of uh you know, kind of I mean, it it it's dark and depressing.
	Well, duh, nine eleven was dark and depressing, so what's wrong with that?
	I mean, what should the flavor of the memorial be?
	Should it be uplifting, should it be morbid, should it be uh the kind of thing that energizes you, should it be the kind of thing that gives you solemn pause?
	It it really should do all of those things, shouldn't it?
	And let me tell you that it does, because describing it as it would have been described to me, or maybe as I've described it to you now, does not possibly do it justice.
	They have done this exactly right.
	They have created a space that is precisely right.
	Uh you can go to 911 Memorial.org, get yourself a free visitor pass, and it's free.
	Just show up at the appointed time and in you go.
	And as you walk onto this ground, let me go back briefly.
	My wife and I visited Ground Zero for the first time since it's since the nomenclature kicked in of Ground Zero on September 11, 2001.
	We came, we were here for some type of business or another.
	Just nothing it was a visit, just a tourist visit in March of 2002.
	Well, duh, of course it was just when I proposed to her.
	Better remember that.
	In March of 02.
	And all you could do was stand close to the intersection of Liberty and Church and look across the street at the desolation that still remained.
	It was it was just a mess.
	It was just an absolute ungodly mess.
	But it still felt like a pilgrimage that every American should take in order to look at what those people did to us.
	And I use the word people very lightly.
	To look at what they did to us on that day.
	Well, a decade has gone by, and uh if you'd have told me on that day that it would take ten years to get another skyscraper to rise, and I said, Why did that take that too you know that long?
	But but even that is put aside as you step onto that sacred ground today.
	Because as you walk onto the property, the first thing you hear is the rushing water.
	There's a fountain that occupies the footprint of the South Tower, another fountain that occupies the footprint, the entire footprint.
	These are big footprints, those were big buildings of the North Tower.
	And bathed in the bright sunshine with my wife with me and with my son with me, who was born a year and a half after 9-11.
	He's just getting to the point where he's old enough to begin to grasp what happened that day.
	Not the intricacies of terrorism, but just the broad basics of our country under attack and what we've done since to respond to it and hopefully prevent it from happening again as best we can.
	It was incredibly meaningful, unbelievably poignant to be there with my wife and my son.
	We stood and we held hands and we prayed.
	We prayed for the people that died that day, and we prayed for the the responders who died that day, and we prayed for the people who had put together this memorial so that it could, if inspire is the right word, inspire people to whatever emotion they are drawn to from being there.
	Um we prayed for those who would one day walk in to the enormous brand new gleaming mirrored skyscraper that now rises from that sacred ground.
	One World Trade Center, it'll be one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six feet high, seventeen seventy-six.
	Get it?
	It's beautiful to see that thing go up.
	It's a beautiful building.
	And someday soon.
	They said people always said, what should happen at that 9-11 site should it be?
	Should it be like a memorial?
	Should it be, you know, uh like a big graveyard for those who died, should there be some statue, some obelisk, some something.
	The most fitting thing that can be at Ground Zero is another building where ordinary Americans walk in and go to work, as they did the morning of September 11, 2001.
	Ordinary people walking in and going to work.
	On that day, on that day, we will have reclaimed ground zero.
	In the meantime, the 911 memorial is an amazing thing.
	It's a wonderful thing.
	Congratulations again to those people who truly, truly did get it right.
	A couple of quick things as I wrap up talking about this.
	Um go get if if you're into the world of fiction, it's kind of 9-11 fiction is an interesting and growing industry.
	Uh, everybody a lot of people read um uh Jonathan Saffron Fower's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, uh a challenging but pretty interesting book turned into a medium quality movie, apparently, uh very about a nine-year-old kid who somehow wanders the entire island of Manhattan looking for people in some connection to his father killed on 9-11.
	The far superior bit of 9-11 fiction to me is a thing called the submission by a lady named Amy Waldman, the submission.
	It refers to uh they hold a contest, it's fiction reminder, remember, but it's emblematic of what actually happened.
	They hold a competition for what the Ground Zero Memorial ought to look like.
	Blind competition, they just open, they open everything up, open them and say one, here's one.
	They have a panel and they vote on which is the winning design for a memorial for 9-11.
	And they pick the one that they just think it's perfect.
	The tone is perfect, the design is perfect, absolutely great.
	Okay, let's reveal the architect's name, and bam, it is a Muslim architect.
	Shh.
	Uh oh.
	And from that point, the rodeo is on.
	It is, and I won't tell you a thing more but that.
	It's an incredible book.
	It's it is a fascinating book, The Submission by Amy Waldman.
	But as you take a look at the reality of 9-11 and go visit and see the 9-11 memorial, uh it really does it's it's beyond obvious to say it takes you back.
	Well, it take but it does take you back.
	And what it did for me and and for Lisa, not so much for Ethan, because he has no concept of it really yet, is we remember visiting here in New York when all you could do was look across the street from across the street at the rubble.
	Now you walk right onto the property and see what has been done in that sacred space.
	And they have done those those who died have been done a great service by this.
	Every one of their names is along the borders of the fountain.
	Every single one of their names is along the borders of the fountain.
	Uh the people who died just from being in the building.
	The people who died in the flights, you know, Flight Eleven in the the North Tower, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
	And they tell you not to um place anything with the names.
	They it's not like the Vietnam Wall where you can stick a no to pack of cigarettes, a flower, a metal, a badge.
	They tell you not to put anything.
	But there was one little red flower by the name of Brian Christopher Hickey.
	I took a picture of it.
	Brian Christopher Hickey.
	Perhaps a firefighter, because it's right by a thing that says squad forty-one.
	And they say don't leave anything, and I understand why they say don't leave anything, but who could begrudge someone that moment of remembrance?
	So anyway, I just can't say enough.
	Clearly I can't say enough.
	So I'll stop now about the 911 Memorial.
	If you had the chance to come see it, do it.
	Come see it.
	And remember.
	And remember.
	Because I'll tell you the one last thing.
	I walk away from the 911 memorial and I take a look at at this country I love, at this country that was under attack that day.
	And I say, what?
	We're we're tired of Iraq.
	We're tired of Afghanistan.
	We're tired.
	Wham.
	It's hard.
	Wan, it's hard this war on terror.
	You're damn right it's hard.
	And if we fail to maintain our vigilance, all we're doing is asking for it to happen again.
	All right.
	Off the soapbox, we've got stuff to do.
	It's open line Friday.
	Let's do calls.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Secret Service Culture, what's that?
	We're getting a lot of attention to that.
	A lot of things going on the campaign trail.
	A lot of things from the week gone by.
	Let's do it.
	Mark Davis in for Rush.
	Your calls are next.
	It is Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in.
	I got a bunch of things topically speaking, but let's start to put some people on the radio and beginning.
	Frederick, Maryland, Donna, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	How are you?
	Hello, Mark.
	I'm doing fine.
	I just wanted to say it was so heartwarming to hear you speak about world trade.
	I stood on top of the South Tower years ago.
	Um I was actually born in New York City but raised upstate, and we took it for granted that you just hop a train and go into the city on the weekends.
	And I remember it was one of those rare, not windy days that you could stand on the tower and look at the magnificent views.
	And I've missed it dearly.
	And I just wanted to say you did such a great job.
	Thank you for giving uh that wonderful city such a tribute.
	And um it's such an honor to all those people, in particular my brothers in law, one with um F D N Y and the other with the NYPD.
	It's so fitting to hear those words.
	I just can't thank you enough.
	Well, Donna, I you you honor me greatly, and I I can only imagine how it'll affect you when you come visit uh as as you should, and thank you enormously.
	And in fact, I was, you know, trading some topics and talking about some things with Bo and what we might do on today's show, and I said, I might open up with a thought about visiting the 911 memorial.
	And he said, dude, go with it.
	And he as a growing up in New York, you would take the trip, and there those towers would be, and and it's you you I mean, I grew up in the suburbs of DC, so you know, Washington Monument, the Capitol, I mean, those are just things you drove by going from point A to point B. Uh there is there is a picture in my house.
	Uh at least and I have come to New York a lot, just uh just after we were engaged, before we were engaged.
	And in nineteen ninety-nine we came here, and we were on the Staten Island Ferry, uh, which we're actually going to do this afternoon so that Ethan can get a good close look at the Statue of Liberty for free.
	And uh and there's a picture of of Lisa and of me in March of or July of nineteen ninety-nine, and there are the twin towers of the World Trade Center's just over my shoulder, just right there.
	I don't think anybody intended necessarily for it was just the skyline.
	It's you, the ferry, the the boat, the skyline, boom, there you are.
	And um It's crazy.
	So anyway, it was it was just uh an amazing, amazing thing.
	Mike, I think we got a scoot here, correct?
	Very good.
	Oh, it's 2914.
	Sorry about that.
	Um so in in the remaining 45 seconds then.
	Uh let me just put that 911 memorial.org uh plug in there.
	It is free.
	They ask for they you know what?
	They ask you for a donation.
	Give them one.
	Because uh the trees they've planted there will grow.
	Uh the emotion that we had that day, it seems will wane, but it's uh it it refreshes your spirit in a lot of ways.
	The the spirit of pride, the spirit of patriotism, and also the spirit of righteous indignation that every American should feel.
	I mean it's kind of funny.
	We got a lot to do today and a lot topically, and we're gonna start it right now, I promise.
	But I'm kind of glad that we started the show today, just remembering, remembering and thinking about what was done to us so that we never ever forget.
	Mark Davison Fresh, right back.
	And a good Friday to everybody across America.
	I hope this weekend holds very special and wonderful things for you and your families.
	On Monday, Mary Matelin will guest host the show.
	That will be great.
	I'll be listening along with you as she handles the duties that day.
	And then Rush is back on Tuesday.
	All right, a lot of things from the week gone by, a lot of calls ready to roll, but first an opportunity to check in with a guy who I've always wanted to say hi to, whether he's torturing the good people of Planned Parenthood or Acorn or NPR with that delicious video activism, the cameras don't lie.
	It is uh Breitbart uh Penumbra activist videographer James O'Keefe.
	How are you, sir?
	Hey, thanks for having me on.
	It is really, really great to have you.
	Hey, can I go to a broad question before we go to the specific thing you did in Eric Holder's own precinct?
	Sure.
	Let me ask you with with the recently departed Andrew Breitbart.
	Uh you are right there in that community with him in in that that bevy of activism.
	I just hope, and maybe you can give us some inside uh uh thoughts on this, that just uh even though he has gone on to a greater reward, that those who are left behind will keep that energy going, keep that activism going uh as if he were still here.
	Yeah, I think he he left he inspired me.
	I worked closely with Andrew.
	Um he taught me a lot about the media.
	He taught me a lot about the need to fight on the front lines and and fight for a cause greater than yourself, and that's that's what inspires me, and I can say that the people I work with are inspired by it, and we're we're fighting where he left off.
	I invoked the things that you were have become quite well known for.
	I think Acorn probably chief among them.
	I don't know, Planned Paradise and PR, all kinds of things that you've done.
	What was it a day when you woke up and said, hey, everybody's got you know some everybody with a phone has video now, and everybody it's a very video intensive YouTube society.
	It certainly is a wonderful avenue for activism.
	What was the process that led you to think I, James O'Keefe, need to start doing this and try to make some impact and showing what people really do when they think nobody's looking?
	I think it was seeing how bad the media is in this country and how people are misinformed.
	And uh so I started a nonprofit, Project Veritas, Project Veritas.com, and to produce sort of cinema verite, uh videos that speak for themselves, you know, waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, showing things for what they are, you know, raw, unfiltered, uh YouTube videos.
	We don't have um a huge team.
	Our only mechanism really is YouTube.
	So what we rely upon is creativity and and uh guys with the willingness to go places the establishment media won't go.
	We've done Medicaid fraud, NPR, acorn employees talking about child prostitution, and most recently this voter fraud scandal and everything we've done has prompted a government reaction.
	Well, let us go against the backdrop of attorney general Eric Holder saying that voter ID laws are needless because they address a problem that in fact does not exist.
	You sent somebody into Eric Holder's own home precinct to kind of prove that it does.
	Why don't you take the ball, roll with it, tell everybody what you did?
	Yeah, we we we did uh a public records request in the District of Columbia and we found uh you know a name, Eric H. Holder, and we said, Oh, he's registered to vote in DC.
	Let's walk into his uh precinct on Nebraska Avenue Northwest and and say, Do you have an Eric Holder?
	And to our surprise or lack of surprise, they they offered us Eric Holder, the attorney general's ballot to vote.
	They they attempted to offer his ballot to our guy.
	And and we said, no, no, no, we're gonna go get my R. ID.
	And the poll worker said, No, you don't you don't need ID.
	I mean, the guy was pushing back.
	Your your operative went in and said, Yeah, uh uh Eric Holder, here's his name there.
	And the and you everybody has to go see this.
	You just have to What's the easiest thing to YouTube it?
	What or is it at Project Veritas.com?
	Yeah, Project Veritas, that's V E R I T A S. Project Veritas.com.
	You can see uh the holder video right there.
	You just have to look on and say, is the very nice man work in the precinct, essentially tells your operative, ah, don't worry about the ID.
	The operative says, I forgot my ID, let me go get it.
	And the guy says, No, no, don't be ID.
	You don't need no stinking ID.
	John, who did it, he's a 23-year-old bearded white male.
	He looks nothing like a 61-year-old Eric Holder.
	He tells Eric Holder, I'll be back faster than you can say furious.
	I know, and I thought, okay, we're trying to be a little too cute for the room there, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
	But the the the guy essentially just waves it off and says, You don't need ID.
	If we have your name and you are who you say you are, no problem.
	And that's pretty much a quote from him.
	It's not the only one we did.
	We released another video this week on our website, Project Veritas.com showing uh uh uh Ben Gellis, the head of the NAACP, Bill Maher, David Brock, other celebrities uh offering us ballots, telling us we don't need to sign, uh showing the system is completely broken, and personalizing it in a way too.
	I think that we've talked about voter fraud, but now we're getting it on tape, and of course the attorney general's own ballot is open to susceptible to fraud, then you have huge problems.
	Yeah, if your guy had been in the mood to actually break laws rather than just shine light on the problem, he could have taken Eric Holder's ballot, filled it out however he pleased, and if Eric Holder himself had shown up an hour later, he'd have been out of luck.
	Yep, and I think the system that's why the system is broken.
	It's it's it's it relies upon a flawed view of things that people are just gonna do the right thing with so much at stake, I think that it's important to catch this stuff this stuff on tape and publish it in a way that everyone can see.
	Project Veritas, V E R I T A S, Project Veritas.com, the magnificent workings of James O'Keefe.
	Pleasure to talk to you, sir.
	Thanks, and uh more power to you.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	Take care, you bet.
	It is it is just delicious.
	I mean, this very well-meaning poll workers ID.
	Don't worry about that.
	And the guy said, No, no, really, I'd be more comfortable if I went and got it.
	All right, if if you must, if you must.
	But again, and then th and in that particular it's three minutes of video.
	There is juxtaposed wonderfully, Eric Holder himself saying in an interview, this isn't a problem.
	Uh on site voter fraud, people attempting to vote as other people.
	It doesn't happen.
	Really?
	Really.
	All right.
	1 800 282 2882.
	Let's uh let's do another person or two in this segment, then we'll talk a little bit about uh Secret Service culture and various uh other things.
	We are in Faribault, Minnesota.
	Mark, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	How are you?
	Hello, Mark, thank you for taking my call.
	I uh I'm a letter carrier for the uh post office here in Fairball, and uh I listen to Rush every day, and uh can't believe I got through, but I just wanted to tell you how much I agree with you.
	I think you nailed it about uh George Zimmerwin.
	This is for hundreds of years of uh oppression and injust because I just wanted to remind you.
	I watched the Oprah Winfrey show, the day of the O. J. trial.
	Yeah.
	And it was basically all women.
	And when the verdict came down, all the white women were in shock, and the black women were jumping up and down for joy and clapping.
	And it kind of surprised me also, and I think that was an un for hundreds of years of injustice also.
	Well, well, you're right.
	And and uh justice is uh justice like fairness is a tricky term.
	It's like chasing spilled mercury across the floor of your science class if you break a thermometer like it's impossible to grab a hold of.
	Uh justice needs to be of the moment and for the crime in question.
	Justice in the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman case needs to be about whether George Zimmerman acted properly or improperly on that fateful and tragic day.
	And nothing else.
	It can't be about uh old grudges, it can't be about old outrages, it can't be about slavery, it can't be about Jim Crow, it can't be about Selma, it can't be about Montgomery, it has to be about Sanford, Florida, and nothing else.
	And good luck with that.
	Good luck with that, everybody, as we see played out all the racial opportunism, all the racial rages, all the racial hatred.
	And I I listen, I and as a you know, uh white conservative guy, there are those who will identify me as the last person to comment on this kind of thing.
	And that's tragic because the these are human problems, human frailties, human tragedies.
	Our nation's struggle to get past real racism and get toward more real enlightenment is that's an interest that we all share.
	And they're on the list of things that I deeply lament on the list of things that I really want to get past.
	One of them is genuine actual racism that still exists, of course it does.
	Not as much as some think and maybe more than others do.
	But the other thing that that keeps us down and restrains us the opportunism and the pimping out of racial hatreds and the fomenting of racial discord for opportunistic reasons.
	The Jesse Jackson's Al Sharptons.
	Hey, you know, these were people who once marched with Dr. King and worked for a better America.
	They no longer do.
	They no longer do.
	So just get ready for a circus a circus of a trial.
	All right, some thoughts on the Secret Service case and more thoughts that I bring to you and that you bring to me.
	The 1800-282882 phone number Mark Davis in for rush and back to you in a moment.
	It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Mark Davis in today Mary Matelin in on Monday and Rush back on Tuesday.
	We are in Battle Creek, Michigan.
	Joe, Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
	Pretty good.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I told the screener I'd get right to my statement, so I guess I will.
	Do not thwart her.
	Listen to James O'Keefe.
	I've seen some of his videos online.
	I kind of get struck by the notion, I was just driving down the road, I drive a truck for a living, that the left almost treats the ability to vote, I guess you'd call it the right to vote, almost like a food stamp type thing or something they want to hand out to people if you see things their way or if you vote for them, where the right kind of, they treat it more preciously, I guess I would say, or maybe take it more serious.
	So just get that feeling when you hear things like that happening, the videos he's made and whatnot, it's almost like they don't take voting seriously.
	on the left almost unless they're voting for them.
	I I always hesitate to suggest things like you're talking about unless there is evidence for it.
	I mean I I hesitate to suggest that the left you know doesn't love America as much as I do unless there's evidence that they don't.
	I mean it's kind of funny I I I don't think that liberals you know radical liberals whatever I don't know if they lack love for America.
	I just think they like the country very much.
	They don't admire the country very much.
	When it comes to the right uh the country as it is not the country as they wish it to be when it comes to voting rights what possible reason could there be to object to something that makes it harder to fraudulently cast a vote?
	If it if it is a big problem, a little problem, a medium sized problem, voter ID makes the problem less.
	How in the world is that anything but a good thing I agree.
	I agree with you a hundred percent I just it just struck me as going down the road I was thinking this is almost kind of of a I I enjoyed your guess here James O'Keefe is almost like a ludicrous conversation.
	I'm thinking why why would somebody have to do to go to these links just to illustrate this point or to highlight it when it's as plain as day like you said you know why not take care of the problem.
	That's a golden Rush can talk about things I can talk about things people can write about things there there's somehow nothing quite as vivid as video emblematic of the exact problem.
	I mean you can talk about a problem but if you can see a video of a guy at Eric Holder's precinct willing to give Eric Holder's ballot to a guy that's not Eric Holder then and only then will some people go, oh I guess it is a problem and that's why O'Keefe is uh is such a rock star.
	All right on a show where all the guest hosts are named Mark here's a segment in which all the callers are named Joe.
	We're in Fort Lauderdale Joe hi it's Mark Infor Rush how you doing good thank you for taking my call and trying to get through to the program for years the first success I've had and I'm encouraged and I'll try again I hope you will maybe on a day when Rush is actually here.
	Yeah what a bonus on that day.
	The thing I wanted to talk about was everybody's screaming about fair taxes and as far as I'm concerned and I've been screaming this for 40 years that there is no such thing as a fair tax as long as taxes are based on income.
	Why you have to have a sales tax Why everybody pays the taxes?
	Not only that, but you open up a trillion dollar underground economy between gambling, uh prostitution, uh hidden money, uh people uh hiding money places.
	And when you uh make base it on a sales tax, those who want to spend three million dollars for their daughter's wedding will pay the tax on it.
	Yep.
	Those who don't, uh and that's the only way you can really get a fair tax, and everybody pays a tax.
	But here's the thing, it's not the only way.
	I mean, it here's and here as here here's how everybody always begins their contrarian argument here and ride with me for a second.
	Let's make clear that I would take a sales tax or a flat tax over our c either one over our current system tomorrow in a heartbeat.
	The sales tax has obvious appeal, and you've pointed it out that you know, drug dealers and hookers are suddenly paying taxes on the Lamborghinis they buy.
	No doubt about it.
	The sales tax has been troublesome to me for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, I I think it gives birth to a barter economy, in which if you have a business and I have a business, I trade a file cabinet for a Xerox machine, nobody actually bought anything, and we have complete tax avoidance, which actually sounds pretty attractive sometimes, but as a practical matter could be uh could be troublesome.
	The other thing is I consider a sales tax to be regressive.
	If if you take somebody who makes a million dollars and somebody who makes a hundred grand, the person making a million dollars does not buy ten times more stuff.
	They just don't.
	And in fact, that means your tax rate goes down the more you make.
	And that's why I'm a flat tax guy.
	I want seventeen percent of what you make, whether you make ten billion or ten thousand.
	What do you think?
	Well, the only thing that I have against the flat tax is that again, it's based on an income, and there's too many ways to hide income.
	And then you still need all these thousands of employees under the IRS department.
	Uh, not not so much.
	I mean, it would be I'm a big fan of the Dick Army Steve Forbes approach.
	Put it on a postcard.
	What did I make?
	Here's 17%.
	Thank you very much.
	Boom.
	Yeah, well, I'm anything is better than what the way things are.
	You got that right.
	Let us I I give you that for sure.
	Well, let us close on that happy moment of agreement because there won't be much after that.
	Because the sales tax people think that we flat tax people are are just totally off base.
	The flat tax people love you sales tax people.
	We we've got nothing but love in our hearts for you.
	I don't know what the problem is.
	All righty.
	It is 1-800-282-2882, Bo with the best argument settler of all.
	Neither one of these will happen in our lifetime, most likely.
	It's just a parlor game.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in for Rush.
	Back in a moment.
	It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show, open line Friday in progress.
	Meaning there is if for me, there's even less discipline than the shows that I usually do from my Texas-based home.
	Home station, anyway.
	And uh and so in order to force me to get to the Secret Service stuff that I've said I was gonna do, it's been busy.
	We got calls.
	There's a lot going on around here.
	So to get me to focus, focus, focus.
	I need a shiny object in front of me.
	So with the next hour we're gonna do a little bit of Secret Service stuff, a lot more your calls, a lot more from the campaign trail.
	But here is the greatness of of the parody genius Paul Shanklin helping us uh get focused a little bit on this recent Secret Service Imbrochio.
	Now a message from former President William Jefferson Clinton.
	My fellow Americans and President Obama.
	Before you get angry and throw the first stone at the members of the Secret Service who are engaging in private consensual relations, remember the Clinton rule.
	Unlike the Buffett rule, there are no consequences for your actions if it's just good natured fooling around and Hillary didn't catch you.
	Just because an agent argued with his call girl about a discount coupon he thought applied to Tuesdays and Thursdays.
	It's no reason to ruin an otherwise stellar career in the Secret Service.
	So I urge you to apply the Clinton rule and end this now.
	And avoid embarrassing agents who may have worked for me in the past.
	Stay tuned for more words of wisdom from former President William Jefferson Clinton.
	Thank you.
	Now we're focused.
	Now we're ready.
	Now we're ready to tackle it as an issue.
	And in fact, there are some brand new things.
	There's there's this agent Cheney, uh David Cheney spelled differently than Vice President Cheney, no relation, uh, who posted that thing about I was really checking her out if you know what I mean.
	Facebook uh talking about Sarah Palin, and Sarah was on Fox News and said, Well, check this out, buddy, you're fired.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh and there's a lot of attention to Secret Service culture, and one of the one of the ousted agents may actually uh sue now.
	So we'll talk about w was this something we ought to let go because they didn't violate any laws or something you just can't have happen because doggunnet, it's the Secret Service and they ought to behave better.
	We will finally, I promise, tackle this issue as the next hour begins.

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