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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	I just came galloping across the Canadian border this morning on Ann Romney's horse.
	I kidnapped it at a dressage event she was attending.
	Rush will be back on Monday.
	Twelve people dead, 38 injured at a screening of the Dark Knight Rises, the new Batman movie, a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado last night.
	About 20 minutes into the movie, a man walks through the exit door.
	He is wearing some kind of mask on his head, and he tosses what appear to be smoke canisters.
	And most of the audience assume that this is part of the show.
	These midnight screenings on the Thursday night before the official Friday opening are part of the general hype and publicity for big movies.
	This is a big movie.
	It's opening on 4,000 screens this weekend.
	And they do this kind of thing.
	I went to see that I think it was the first Mission Impossible movie at a broken down little theatre in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
	And even there, on the first performance, they had men in black polar necks, like rather camp versions of Tom Cruise, rappelling down the side of the movie theater on Main Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
	So movie theaters, the big movie theatres, put on a lot of this kind of thing.
	So you're sitting there 20 minutes into the movie.
	I haven't seen The Dark Knight Rises.
	I saw the last Dark Knight movie, the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker.
	A lot of violence in that.
	About 20 minutes in, I figure we'd still be probably just about the end of that big opening scene where the Joker is pulling off that bank robbery.
	There's a lot of that heightened movie violence in it, that kind of visceral thrill violence where cars flip over.
	People die in strange, lyrid ways.
	But you're watching it on a giant screen.
	They die large.
	There's a kind of heightened reality to it.
	So if about 20 minutes in, on the first night on this super sneak midnight preview that you managed to get into, a guy comes through one of the exit doors and he seems to be wearing a mask and he tosses a couple of gas canisters, smoke canisters, into the crowd, you'd think it was some kind of promotional thing.
	And then he began shooting.
	And the midnight showing of this violent, R-rated movie apparently included a relatively large number of grade school children and in fact preschool children, including a three-month-old baby who is among the injured.
	Twelve people are dead.
	A man is in custody.
	His name is James Holmes.
	He is described as a six-foot-three white male aged 24 years old.
	Warner Brothers has cancelled the Paris premiere of the movie.
	And President Obama has suspended campaign events for today, as has Mitt Romney.
	I believe the Romney campaign has also pulled its ads off the air in Colorado.
	These seem slightly strange reactions to me, I have to say.
	I gather the official position is that at a time of what both candidates called a tragedy.
	It's not, by the way, it's not a tragedy.
	It's an outrage.
	It's a criminal act.
	It's a criminal act of mass murder.
	And there wasn't quite enough emphasis on that in either man's statement from my point of view.
	It's not a tragedy.
	A tragedy is like a tsunami or a hurricane or whatever.
	This isn't a tragedy.
	Both men have suspended their campaigns to taking ads off the air.
	The decision not to politicize the event, in a sense, becomes itself political.
	The president ostentatiously returning to Washington as if this falls within his jurisdiction.
	It doesn't really.
	He was assured in the early hours of the morning that there's no terrorist connection.
	It's a local law enforcement matter for the police department of Aurora, Colorado.
	Nevertheless, he wants to be seen to be reacting to it, and so he has gone back to Washington and Mitt Romney has pulled ads off the air.
	It's a funny business when something like this happens because it's not political at all.
	And so for a political show like this, it's not something that would normally fall within our remit.
	I mentioned the tsunami earlier.
	You remember the big tsunami five or six years ago?
	I'm in the opinion business, and a tsunami doesn't seem the sort of thing you're required to have an opinion on.
	I mean, nobody's pro-tsunami.
	Nobody's in favor of something sweeping in and devastating large amounts of property and having a devastating effect and killing large numbers of people.
	But within a couple of days, everybody had an opinion on it because it had become political.
	Some United Nations guy stood up and started complaining about the American reaction.
	The only people actually saving lives at that point was not the UN guy.
	The UN guy was back in New York holding press conferences.
	The only people on the ground was a U.S. carrier task force and the Royal Australian Navy.
	They were the only people saving lives and restoring the water supply and everything.
	But for the UN guy, the UN guy decided a tsunami is something you have to have an opinion on, and his opinion was that Americans were being stingy because they weren't giving enough money to the UN.
	So eventually everything becomes political.
	Nobody is pro-tsunami.
	Nobody is pro-gunning down large numbers of people at movie theaters.
	But there is a rush to politicize these things.
	Only one kind of event, by the way, not all these kinds of events.
	If you're, say, a major in the United States military and you have Soldier of Allah on your business card and you give a PowerPoint presentation on how jihad is entirely reasonable reaction and killing American soldiers is an entirely legitimate business.
	And then you wind up on a table at an American military base gunning down large numbers of people while shooting Allahu Akbar.
	That has no political significance whatsoever.
	That's simply an isolated one-off from some crazy guy.
	All jihad is local.
	That's just one crazy, isolated incident of no broader significance whatsoever.
	But if you are Jared Lochner in the Gabby Giffords thing in Arizona, or if you are James Holmes, whoever he is, a 24-year-old guy, disturbed guy, takes a small armory, takes more firepower than the average European Union Army can muster at short notice, and decides to go and gun down a movie theater, unlike Major Hassan, that is not local.
	That is not specific.
	That is not a one-off.
	It's got to be something bigger than that.
	And what it's got to be is it's Tea Party.
	It's talk radio.
	So Brian Ross of ABC News this morning tells Good Morning American View, good morning, America viewers, that there was a James Holmes listed at a Colorado Tea Party site.
	And George Stephanopoulos, who hosts Good Morning America, if you wonder what George has been doing the last few years, he's apparently a host on Good Morning America.
	And Stephanopoulos says, I'm going to go to Brian Ross.
	You've been investigating the background of Jim Holmes here.
	You found something that might be significant.
	And Brian Ross says, there's a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.
	He's got a page on the Colorado Tea Party side as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year.
	Brian Ross, who has been, according to George Stephanopoulos, doing some investigating.
	He hasn't been investigating.
	He went what your average seven-year-old boy could do.
	He went on Twitter and he Googled, and he came up with a Jim Holmes in Aurora, Colorado.
	Jim Holmes, that's an exotic name, isn't it?
	There can't possibly be many people called Jim Holmes in Colorado.
	I mean, it's not a common name like Slobodon Milosevic or Cruz Bustamente, is it?
	It's a perfectly common name, a perfectly unusual name, Jim Holmes, Jim Holmes.
	There are 30 James Holmeses in Colorado listed, apparently, in the phone book, and probably a few more unlisted.
	One of them has already gone on Facebook to say, please, look, don't pester me.
	I'm not the mass murderer.
	My girlfriend went to a job interview today, and she was already asked about why she's dating a serial killer.
	I'm not that James Holmes.
	But to Brian Ross of ABC News, it doesn't matter.
	So Brian Ross and James Stephanopoulos go on national television and announce with nothing to go on that Jim Holmes, the guy who killed these people, apparently killed these people in Colorado, has joined the Tea Party last year.
	So Tea Party guy guns people.
	Now, ABC News has now been forced to apologize because the James Holmes who is in custody is 24.
	And the James Holmes who joined the Tea Party is a guy, a middle-aged guy, looks like he's in his 50s.
	He, in fact, appears to be younger than the mother of the James Holmes who is in custody.
	So that is the fantastic investigative job that Brian Ross has done on ABC News.
	There's all kinds of stories floating out there, but we don't really know.
	In the end, we don't know anything about this 24-year-old guy.
	He's just in custody.
	But don't let that stop you, Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos, from going out there and blaming it on the Tea Party guy.
	George Stephanopoulos, by the way, has a long history on this kind of thing.
	He's the one who, back in the 90s with Timothy McVeigh, was part of the excellent job that the Clinton administration did, hanging Timothy McVeigh around talk radio, if you remember, in the 90s.
	And a couple of years later, the Princess of Wales, Diana Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris, and Tony Blair finds himself having to deal with it back in Britain.
	And George Stephanophoulos, Stephanopoulos, bumps into Christopher Hitchens, the commentator, in their lobby of their apartment building.
	Christopher Hitchens died a few months ago, but he used to tell this story in a very droll way because he thought it was an excellent example of how these guys looked at things.
	Tony Blair had been going on TV and calling the late Diana Princess of Wales, the people's princess, and all this kind of thing.
	And George Stephanopoulos goes up to Christopher Hitchens and says, hey, isn't Tony Blair doing a great job with Diana?
	This is his Oklahoma City.
	This is his Oklahoma City.
	And as Christopher Hitchens used to say, that's how these guys look at things.
	And so almost two decades later, almost two decades after Oklahoma City, George Stephanopoulos is on television at ABC News, and this is still how he looks at things.
	So he gets Brian Ross, his so-called investigative so-called journalist, to go out there and claim that a 55-year-old member of the Tea Party with the highly exotic name of James Holmes is in fact the same person as the 24-year-old James Holmes who gunned down people in a Colorado movie theater.
	This is the point, that they can't wait.
	Certain events, they can't wait to politicize.
	Whereas certain other ones, guys standing on the table screaming Allahu Akbar, pay no attention to that.
	Allahu Akbar is Arabic for nothing to see here.
	Don't worry about it.
	You don't have to think about it at all.
	And that's the way it's going to be.
	So we'll talk about that today, but it is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
	Live from Ice Station EIB, it's Open Line Friday.
	Yes, you know how this works.
	Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist controls the content of this broadcast.
	But we have no highly trained broadcast specialist behind the microphone today, so anything goes, anything you want to talk about, 1-800-282-2882.
	We will talk about the events in Colorado, but we will talk about the rest of the news too.
	I'm not sure it is entirely proper in a democratic society to suspend all conversation simply because a one-off insane killer goes berserk at a movie theater.
	So anything else you want to talk about, if you want to talk about the Romney campaign, if you want to talk about you didn't build that, if you want to talk about the startling news that for the first time in history, the average Canadian household is worth more money than the average American household, if you want to talk about giving food stamps to Mexicans, if you want to talk about the fact that speaking of lone killers, according to the Bulgarians,
	the fellow who killed those Israelis in Bulgaria the other day is a guy who was in Guantanamo Bay but was released from Guantanamo Bay and is what you might call a repeat offender.
	That's the difference.
	If you kill a bunch of people in Colorado, you'll go to a Colorado jail and you won't be coming out until they carry you out by the handles.
	But if you kill a bunch of people in the course of the war on terror, you'll be going to Gitmo and they'll release you and you're free to kill again.
	And it looks like that's what's been happening in Bulgaria.
	So we'll take your calls on those or any other subjects.
	Open Line Friday on the EIB network starts momentarily.
	Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
	Open Line Friday.
	We talk about anything you want to talk about.
	1-800-282-2882.
	One thing I want to get out of the way, and Rush will deal with this if he's got anything to say about it on Monday.
	And the only reason I mention it is because I woke up to a bunch of this stuff in my inbox this morning before I'd heard a word about the shooting in Colorado.
	People blaming it not just on talk radio or the Tea Party or poisonous right-wing rhetoric, but on Rush specifically, because Rush happened to mention this movie a few days ago.
	He mentioned it yesterday.
	He's been having great fun with the fact that the villain in it is called Bain.
	And he had a little back and forth with the writers of the movie who are right-wing guys.
	That's how they describe themselves.
	In fact, I think one of them describes himself as a right-wing extremist and is happy to do so.
	The film, insofar as it has any political content at all, is a kind of can be interpreted at any rate as a kind of anti-Occupy Wall Street movie.
	In other words, the town, Gotham City, looks like the way a city would look like if the Occupy Wall Street guys ever got to take it over, if it was Occupy Gotham.
	So, anyway, Rush is talking about this and he's having some fun with it.
	And I wake up this morning to a bunch of tweets from people saying, Rush is responsible for this matter.
	That hatemonger Limbaugh inspired this guy to go into the movie theater and kill all these people.
	I've been had a bit of this myself at the time Andes Brevek, the Norwegian guy, killed all those people in Norway.
	He'd left some vast 2,000-word manifesto in which he quotes me.
	He actually quotes me unfavorably.
	He quotes Naomi Klein, my fellow Canadian, who's a Canadian who writes for The Nation magazine.
	He quotes Jefferson, he quotes Churchill, he quotes all kinds of people in this crazy manifesto.
	But the idea, as in every other issue, the left used that as a call for shutting down political discussion.
	And it is amazing.
	It is absolutely amazing how this is treated entirely normally now.
	If you listened, actually listened to what Rush said about the Batman movie.
	The idea that it should somehow be illegal or somehow it's irresponsible or somehow it ought to be forbidden and that we need a repeal of the First Amendment to prevent people discussing the plots of motion pictures.
	Because you never know.
	There's seven billion people out there on the planet, but just one of them might hear that, might hear that, and he might decide to do something crazy like gun down people.
	Now, this only, again, this is like all the other calls for civility.
	By the way, Rush was entirely civil about the Batman movie.
	He was discussing a Batman movie.
	He was discussing a guy who likes to climb into long underwear and go swinging around the city late at night.
	So he's not discussing the crippling multi-trillion dollar debt.
	He's not discussing the overthrow of President Assad.
	He's taking a little light relief from all the real bad stuff out there in the world today.
	And he's discussing a long underwear guy, a guy who wears spandex for a living and goes twirling around the streets of a fictitious city.
	And he's discussing the plot of a movie about a fictitious person who goes twirling around the streets of a fictitious city.
	And the left now says, oh, this is hate speech.
	It should be forbidden.
	It should be illegal.
	The next thing you know, he'll be discussing the plot of the Spider-Man movie.
	Why, Rush might detect some political metaphor in Ice Age 12 or Madagascar 17 or whatever other piece of fluff is at the multiplex.
	This only goes one way, by the way.
	You remember all that stuff at the Tucson thing when a deranged nut was going on about Gabby Giffords?
	That was our fault too.
	Yes, Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
	I just want to finish up that thought of mine on Rush and what he was saying about Batman.
	Rush has been talking about the Batman movie all week.
	He wasn't the first, by the way, as he pointed out, to talk about the political metaphor in the Batman movie.
	Chris Lahane, the Democratic strategist, I think was the first one, and various liberal types in the media had also been talking about it.
	But Rush is apparently, it's different when liberals do it.
	Liberals can be trusted to understand sophisticated concepts such as metaphor and analogy.
	So it doesn't matter when they have this.
	You remember last time it was all the fault of Sarah Palin's extreme rhetoric because she was, quote, targeting marginal seats.
	And that's a problem when Republicans do it.
	It's not a problem when the Clinton campaign documentary is called The War Room.
	Liberals are sophisticated to know that it's not an actual war where they're expected to grab their guns and start shooting.
	And when, you know, Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski says that when it comes to the Republican governor of Florida, he'd like to, quote, put him up against the wall and shoot him, unquote.
	Liberals are sophisticated enough to understand when something is a mere figure of speech or an analogy or a metaphor.
	But you're not.
	You're not that sophisticated.
	So you have to be restricted.
	And we can't have radio hosts talking about plots of motion pictures because we have no idea when somebody, one person out there, all it takes is one person out there to go crazy and to gun down.
	Now, again, this only applies one way.
	Nobody ever says, where did Major Hassan get the ideas that made him want to stand on a table shouting Allahu Akbar and gun down a bunch of people?
	That is an isolated one-off.
	It doesn't have anything to do with any books he might have read or any spiritual advisors he might have listened to.
	That's an entirely isolated one-off.
	But when it comes to some guy of no known political affiliation, who may have no political affiliations whatsoever, but when he decides to walk into a motion picture theater and kill a bunch of people, then the first thing that has to happen is that that has to be pinned on right-wing talk radio and Fox News and all kinds of other stuff.
	This is pathetic.
	It's abysmal.
	It's not worth talking about.
	And I don't intend to say any more about it unless you've got something to say about it.
	But I'm sure if Rush has anything to say about it, he'll be doing so midday, Monday, Eastern time, when he returns and he can deal with that himself.
	But it only cuts one way, this.
	And the idea, just think about the world you would live in if what Rush said about Batman was no longer to be within the approved level of political discourse.
	I think that would be the equivalent of living in a straitjacket.
	We live in very peculiar times.
	We live in times when people can't tell the difference between what they see in the movies and their experiences in real life.
	We live at a time when people watch reality shows that are entirely artificial and yet somehow think these are real people with whom they are engaged.
	And it is a simple fact of the kind of world we live in, where we live in an electronically sensuous world where we're being electronically stimulated by all kinds of strange little entertainment phenomena.
	The line between those things becomes extremely blurred.
	Nobody knows yet why this guy did it.
	There was a Dark Knight comic book in 1986, I believe it came out, that actually prefigures this plot in which some kind of crazed loner, it's a Batman comic book, a Dark Knight comic book, in which a crazed loner goes to a movie theatre and kills a bunch of people.
	It actually comes.
	So long before Rush had anything to say about it, Batman's writers and artists and editors and publishers had foreseen this precise scenario in a Dark Knight comic book.
	That doesn't mean, by the way, that we should ban Batman.
	It means that we have to start hanging responsibility for people's acts on the perpetrators.
	This isn't like something in the water.
	This isn't like Russia isn't sending out little signals to put in people's brains.
	Talk radio doesn't do talk radio doesn't do that.
	Human beings are not animals.
	They're responsible for their own acts.
	The person who killed these people, James Holmes, the 24-year-old suspect, if he turns out to be the guy who killed these people, James Holmes killed these people.
	And the idea of living in a world where the state would have powers to restrict the right of people to say a few words on a radio show about a forthcoming movie about a guy who wears long underwear and swings through the streets of a fictitious city.
	The idea that that somehow is hate speech, hate speech.
	You imagine the powers the government would have to have to control that.
	And in the end, you'd have more bombings.
	Because in societies where you can't talk about anything, the only option is for people to blow it up.
	In Saudi Arabia, for example, where there's mysterious explosions all the time, people always blowing up things because you can't say anything.
	You can't say anything.
	You can't do anything.
	All you can do, so if you object to something, all you can do is blow it up.
	The left should be ashamed.
	They've already had to walk back one story, Brian Ross's disgraceful story.
	They should be ashamed at going down this route.
	Brian Ross can't tell the difference between a 55-year-old Tea Party member and a 24-year-old nut who's in custody.
	So he goes and says it on national TV anyway.
	And then after the event, after everybody's already bombarding the Facebook page and the Twitter feed and the email of the other guy, then he starts to walk it back.
	Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Let us go to Ken in Newmarket.
	And it says Newmarket M.
	I don't know what state that is, but I know it begins with M. Which state?
	Maryland.
	Okay.
	That's great.
	South DC, the festival.
	Okay, I was going to shoot for Maine or Montana, but it's Newmarket, Maryland.
	Was your power knocked out, by the way, a couple of weeks ago?
	Thankfully, I'm in a neighborhood where we put our power lines underground.
	Okay, well, when you said we put our power lines underground, you didn't build that.
	Obama built that.
	Just remember that.
	Okay, yeah, the government does everything.
	Everything that works, Obama did.
	Just remember that.
	Okay, Ken, what's on your mind today?
	Well, I just want to make a comment about the Batman movie.
	I actually went to the midnight screening last night.
	This is the first time I've done that in years, but decided to do it.
	And I was actually taken aback by the whole storyline because as I'm sitting there watching it, to me, it was a huge parallel of what was happening in America.
	Because seriously, the Bane character sounded like he was giving Obama's speeches.
	Like he was saying the same things about class warfare, was saying these elitists were holding you down.
	And that was the whole plot of the movie was the rich were the bad people.
	The poor were helping the poor rise up.
	But as you watched, as that happened, the city deteriorated more and more and more and more.
	And it was to the point where they were arresting the rich simply for being successful.
	And they were on trial because they were successful.
	They were bad.
	And I haven't seen, I should say I haven't seen this picture yet, but I understand that it begins.
	The movie features scenes of things like the Gotham City Stock Exchange and Financial District being blown up by these guys.
	Like, yeah, he was blown up like the wealth.
	But not really.
	He was taking it for himself.
	But it's the whole parallel of, and literally every speech that the main character gave sounded like an Obama campaign speech.
	And I was just sitting there, and my friends and I were all just sitting there like, that is crazy, unbelievable that Hollywood would allow something like that to get out.
	But like, yeah, and Batman is, this is Rush's theory that, in fact, Batman is Mitt Romney.
	He's the goofy Bruce Wayne guy, the goofy rich guy who finds himself called upon by the events of his time.
	Okay, okay, yeah, we don't want to do any, thank you, Mr. Stanley.
	We don't want to do, we want to restrict some of the plot spoilers.
	He wasn't doing, I don't think Ken was doing a lot of that, but Ken was making the point that we do see scenes of the financial institutions of Gotham City being blown up and Bain affecting a populist left-wing rhetoric.
	Let's go to Pam in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Pam, it's great to have you on Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hi, I have a couple points.
	My one point is that nobody ever got to the bottom of Fast and Furious.
	And how do you know that, in fact, this guy didn't get a hold of some of the ammunition guns?
	Nobody even knows what the heck the Mexicans got.
	We do know they came from the United States.
	How do you know they didn't get some of the guns and ammunition from them?
	And we never got to the bottom of whatever went on there.
	And my next point is that Occupy Wall Street, I mean, it's okay to go in there and break everything.
	There was a murder in there.
	And this is because of the Obama administration allowing all this stuff to get, oh, he was read that.
	Okay, let's go all do that.
	Now, when a guy goes into a theater and he all of a sudden he cares, well, why doesn't he care about the Terry guy that died?
	Why doesn't he care about and get to the bottom of where these guns really came from or who they really went to and who was responsible for it?
	Yeah, the Fast and Furious guns, which came from the government of the United States, killed not only Agent Terry, a U.S. government agent, but they also killed large numbers of innocent Mexicans, large numbers of innocent Mexicans under Fast and Furious.
	Under Eric Holder's Fast and Furious program, large numbers of third world people were killed with guns supplied to gangs by the government of the United States.
	And nobody seems bothered about that.
	I think ABC News, the same ABC News that couldn't wait to finger this guy Holmes as a Tea Party member, that's the same ABC News that I think only did its first story on Fast and Furious a couple of weeks ago.
	In other words, if you get your news from people like Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos, you've got no idea what this thing is all about.
	And that's a very good point.
	That's a very good point, Pam.
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein, Infra Rush, the University of Colorado, has released a picture of James Holmes.
	They say he was a student at the medical school there, but recently withdrew.
	He looks like a young man in this picture, 24-year-old James Holmes.
	Looks like a young comic book fan.
	Looks like the kind of guy you'd expect to see at a Batman movie.
	Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
	Before I go any further, I want to thank Sean.
	If you listened to Rush yesterday, Sean came on and Endeavored to help Rush reboot his.
	What was it, Mr. Snerdley?
	I had no idea what it was that he was reboot his iPhone by reinstalling his.
	It sounded like a Surrey.
	I can't possibly be a Siri.
	So not a Surrey is like a nice horse and buggy you take to the fancy town picnic with the Czech Gingham tablecloth.
	It's not that.
	A Siri is something else, is it?
	It's the iPhone.
	It's the.
	Oh, so there's a live voice that's okay.
	I didn't, I didn't know.
	I'm in a very primitive state here, so I have no idea, Mr. Snerdley.
	So his live helpmate.
	I didn't know you got a live helpmate on an iPhone.
	Yeah, I had no idea.
	Like I live in a oh, he had the beta of iOS 6, and that's not the desirable helpmate that you, that's not a, it's, it's not a state-of-the-art helpmate.
	I don't know.
	I mean, we have long winters here in New Hampshire, and the idea of having an iPhone helpmate to help me get through the long winter is not without its appeal.
	Anyway, Sean did such a we want to we want to just put it on the record here that the second time after the show, Rush did what Sean recommended and he has rebooted his iPhone helpmate or whatever.
	It also, I'm sure it's not as much fun as it sounds, but he's rebooted his iPhone helpmate.
	So Sean does deserve to win the new Mac that Rush sent.
	Rush sent him some exciting new Mac, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Pro that he won.
	And some people were saying, well, this is like an Obama thing.
	Prizes for everybody.
	It's like all the people going on disability.
	More people going disability every month now than get new jobs.
	And it's the same thing with Rush handing out free Mac.
	Did he earn it?
	Did he earn his success?
	Did he build the road that the MacBook came on?
	Well, yes, Sean did earn his success because he did succeed in reinstalling the Siri Helpmate.
	It's a mystery to me.
	We're going to get Sean up here to IceStation EIB and we're going to see if he can put a new roll of fax paper in our 1983 fax machine because he's mastered this state-of-the-art technological assistant.
	So we'll see what we can do next.
	Let us go to Victor in Silver Spring, Maryland.
	Victor, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hi, Mark.
	I wanted to talk about the anniversary.
	Today, 43 years ago, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon and the astronauts walked on the moon.
	I was really thrilled about it.
	I followed the space program throughout my life.
	I'm 65 now, and I was really thrilled.
	I was hoping that some of the science fiction I listened to when I was growing up would become science fact, and some of it already has.
	But being blind, I was especially thrilled with some of the electronics that's come out thanks to miniaturization.
	I remember getting the first talking calculator in 1976, and that was $395.
	Now you can get them from maybe $2 or $3.
	And I remember the first communication satellite, Telstar.
	That was 50 years ago on July the 10th.
	And I remember how everybody made a big deal from a 15-minute program live from France.
	Right, right.
	Yes, sir.
	Yeah, no, no.
	You have a site.
	I take it though, because Obama was mentioning this in his speech, in his You Didn't Build That speech.
	He said, we went to the moon together.
	So you're on board with Obama and the moonshot business.
	No, Obama had nothing to do with it.
	He was born before, he was born before John Glenn even made his first three orbits around the Earth in 1962.
	Right.
	Now, the point about this, though, is that the level of human achievement, if you think of it, from the moment President Kennedy said, put a man on the moon by the end of this decade.
	And America did that in the space of whatever it was, seven or eight years, start to finish.
	And there's nothing phony about this.
	It's not like saying, well, just like let's have an electronic R2D2 thing wandering around the moon.
	Let's have an unmanned drone on the moon.
	Let's put an American man on the moon with an American flag.
	And America did it in seven years.
	Could we do that today?
	More to come.
	James Holmes was a graduate student in neurosciences, it seems, at the medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver.
	We will talk about that and all the rest of the day's news.
	1-800-282-2882 open line Friday with Mark Stein sitting in on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.

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