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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Rush returns live Monday to take you through a full week of excellence in broadcasting.
	We've been following events in Colorado where twelve people died when a gunman opened fire during a midnight screening of the new Batman film in Colorado in Aurora, Colorado.
	A photograph of James Holmes has been released by the University of Color Colorado.
	He was a former medical student there.
	He was a PhD candidate in the neurosciences program.
	It's interesting to me.
	Brian Ross this morning, uh when he was uh asked whether uh the guy was any kind of Occupy Wall Street thing, said, Oh no, uh if anything quite the opposite.
	He was a super patriot.
	That was the term that Brian Ross on ABC used, superpatriate.
	Uh uh, I didn't know this, but apparently Superpatriot is a Marvel Comics uh villain.
	Uh he's a supervillain.
	Tells you something about Marvel Comics, uh, that a guy called Superpatriot is a supervillain, uh, but apparently it's uh he Superpatriot is a a supervillain who is opposed to the immigration policies of the United States.
	Uh uh uh and he battles uh he he battles uh b the uh Captain America and the Marvel guys, uh including Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD.
	Super Patriot has a super patriotic um uh outfit here.
	He's got sort of red, white and blue, uh clinging spandex.
	Uh this is this goes uh I think this goes this goes back uh a few decades because this is the old style comic book art instead of this sort of dark and brooding one.
	He's in the full uh he's in the full kind of uh uh kindergarten glowing uh primary colours, and he's uh standing with his legs eight feet apart, so one can admire the uh the tightness of his spandex.
	Uh and Superpatriot is apparently a supervillain who's opposed to the immigration policies of the United States.
	I had no idea.
	I miss that.
	I'm generally up on, you know, Spider-Man and Captain America and the c the kind of broad cont.
	Yeah, th Mr. Snerdley wants to know whether there's a Canadian superhero.
	Where have you been, Mr S Mr. Surdley, the coolest superhero of all time uh o of our current age is in fact Canadian.
	Wolverine.
	Did you not see the Wolverine movie uh a couple of years ago No Mr. Snerdley is now suggesting that the X-Men just uh like tourists in Canada.
	They go up there uh, you know, they go they they go up there to uh to see Niagara Falls and uh catch a couple of shows in uh Toronto, but they're not really.
	No, he in fact, Wolverine is a Canadian superhero.
	The key line in the Wolverine movie is when a guy from the Pentagon uh come Wolverine uh has gone off, he's got sick of the X-Men and he's gone off to live in a hut in the Rocky Mountains, and some sinister guy from the Pentagon uh turns up and says, It's time for you to come back and do something for your country.
	And Wolverine stares at him coolly in the eyes and says, I'm Canadian.
	So uh so Wolverine is a Canadian superhero.
	There was a Captain Canada.
	Uh I briefly remember I think this is going back to the eighties or the seventies.
	He used to like fly around Toronto with a maple leaf on his chest.
	I don't know what happened to him.
	And there was also a Captain Britain.
	No, not the ginger ale guy.
	He was the like honestly, I don't know.
	The these uh these uh these these racist slurs, this c gr grotesque canadophobia from Mr. Snerdley has got a we gotta do something about this.
	The uh Captain Canada was like Captain America, except he just had a big maple leaf where the stars and stripes were, and he flew around, you know, making the world safe for truth, justice, and socialized health care or whatever.
	You yeah, he had a he had a big A on his chest, but it was spelled E. H. question mark.
	So he was like similar to Captain America.
	And then there was Captain Britain and uh Captain Britain had uh Union Jack uh briefs, uh and I think he gave them to uh Ginger Spice because she wore them in the Spice Girls.
	Uh uh Captain Britain, uh Ginger Spice stole his brief, so she's uh she's wandering around with a Well, maybe, something like that.
	Maybe Ginger Spice was Captain Britain in the seventies.
	Who knows?
	Anyway, they do it there's a there is there is uh I think Mr. Sledley is deliberately trying to derail me on the uh of the uh matter of Captain Canada and things.
	There is something actually very American about uh the whole concept of the superhero, because like the guy rippling muscles, he he climbs into it most because if you most fantastical creatures, superpower creatures, traditionally in fiction, have tended to be rather furtive and undercover.
	Uh like the Scarlet Pimpernell uh in Revolutionary France.
	They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
	Is he in heaven, is he in hell, that damned elusive Pimpernell.
	That was what Baroness Auxe said.
	When she conceived the Scarlet Pimpernel, he was like the dark knight of his day, but he he w went lurking around in the shadows.
	And uh then America in the 1930s invented the superhero.
	He was like all the sort of ubermensch, the German supermen and all the rest of it, but he like said, Hey, I've got it, I'm gonna flaunt it, I'm gonna go flying around the skies, I'm gonna change my clothes in payphones.
	Uh and and the American superhero uh gets it out there, he wears he wears colours that are designed to be seen from miles away.
	It's a completely different way of looking at things.
	And uh it's interesting to me that in the last few decades, people keep trying to reinvent the superheroes, as they do with the dark night.
	You remember they used to call Batman the Cape Crusader, and you can't call him the Cape Crusader anymore because uh, you know, like a bunch of guys in Waziristan will burn down the US consulate or whatever because the crusader is verboten, you can't say that.
	So they they've reinvented him now as the dark night.
	And all the reinventions are all the same.
	They take some guy, you know, in the Batman in the 60s was like this baba da Batman, and uh then they reinvent him and he's all dark and brooding, and he sits hut on rooftops with his cape all furled over him, riddled with self-doubt.
	And there's a part of me that actually prefers the the babadaba that that that kind of slightly groovier, lighter uh less less introspective kind of superhero.
	Uh but at any rate, uh Brian Ross uh attempted to say that this guy, this uh twenty-four-year-old James Holmes, was uh was some was uh a so-called superpatriot.
	In fact, he's a PhD candidate in neurosciences, in the neurosciences program.
	Uh the the whole point about blaming it on right-wing talk radio, by the way, is that you guys, the listeners to this show, the most listened to show in the United States of America, are too stupid to be able to tell when Rush is uh dealing in some whimsical fantastical way with a little bit of movie commentary, and you take him literally uh and you decide to go out and uh and gun down a bunch of people.
	I mean it's quite disgraceful that they that they peddled this line.
	But we now have a guy who is a PhD candidate in the neurosciences program, uh, who is the suspect in this mass shooting.
	Uh and apparently, according to the deranged left, he is too stupid.
	Uh so you can't talk about movie plots and political metaphors and anything with him uh because some PhD in the neurosciences program, uh some medical school guy might go crazy.
	And so you know, if you want to make a broader point about this, by the way, Major Hassan was a doctor too.
	Maybe we should shut down all the medical schools.
	Maybe the medical schools are full of psychos.
	Maybe crazy guys are just lining up to join the medical schools.
	Maybe since Obamacare, only psychos want to sign up and go to medical school.
	Maybe that's where this kind of thinking leads.
	Uh the man responsible for what happened in Aurora, Colorado is uh, according to the fellow in custody, James Holmes.
	James Holmes did this, James Holmes can explain why he did this, and in the end, why he did this didn't matter.
	Because whatever he whatever message he wants to communicate, whatever message PHD neurosciences guys from the University of Colorado are trying to get out there in the world.
	Uh whatever great PhD neuroscience, University of Colorado cause they're attempting to promote, uh, in the end, walking into a movie theater and killing a bunch of people uh is uh is no message at all.
	It's uh simply an act of murder.
	And the attempt to give it political significance uh and to uh the attempt to make it part of the political discourse and the attempt to co-opt it into uh the political discourse of democratic of the rough and tumble of democratic politics, which the left does now within nanoseconds.
	You know, the definition, I think, of a nanosecond used to be the time uh they said in New York between the lights changing from red to green and the car behind you honking.
	The definition of a nanosecond now is the time between a mass shooting uh and some guy from the left uh blaming it on talk radio or Sarah Palin or Fox News.
	Uh Mark Stein in Farush, it's the end of the week, and you know what that means.
	Live from Ice Station EIB.
	It's open line Friday.
	Yes, uh State of the Art Control Center in New York doesn't know what that means, but it is the end of the week, and that means it's over live Friday, live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, where we don't have a Siri on our iPhones.
	We have terrible cell terrible cell phone reception here.
	Uh communications-wise, this corner of New Hampshire is like Baghdad outside the green zone.
	So uh we we we're still dependent on uh there's there's one there's one busted payphone down the street.
	That's really our connection with the outside world.
	One-eight hundred-28282.
	We'll talk about events in Colorado.
	I want to talk about some of the other stuff in the news, including uh the fascinating news, the Canadian household wealth.
	Mr. Snerdley was now was mocking Canadian superheroes, saying Wolverine isn't really Wolverine isn't really Canadian.
	Okay, he may have been born in Alberta, but he's got a he's got a he's got a green card.
	He's basically he's probably got he's probably got a Hawaiian birth certificate in there.
	I don't know what Wolverine's got.
	Uh but I would be very surprised if that were the case, because Wolverine, Wolverine, uh, like most Canadians, the average Canadian household wealth is now some forty thousand dollars more than the household wealth of the uh average American household.
	There are reasons for that, and there are reasons why, as long as this administration is in office, that isn't going to be changing any time soon.
	Meantime, the government of the United States is partnering with the government of Mexico uh to promote food stamps.
	One seventh of Americans are on food stamps.
	There's uh just fifty million Americans on food stamps.
	But that's no reason not to hand out the food stamps to citizens of neighboring countries, uh because as the as the slogan, the official slogan of the food stamp program goes, food stamps make America stronger.
	And if they can if they can make America stronger, there's no reason why American food stamps can't make Mexico stronger too.
	We'll talk about that and the rest of the week's news uh straight ahead.
	1800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Uh the other James Holmes, the Tea Party James Holmes, the James Holmes who's nothing to do with this shooting uh in Aurora, Colorado, but just happens to live in Colorado and happens to be on a Colorado Tea Party site, and who Brian Ross uh uh revealed to the world as the perpetrator of the shooting at uh the movie theater last night.
	He's thirty years older than the guy who did it, uh, and he's had to have his phone disconnected because uh since Brian Ross erroneously identified him as the killer on ABC as a Tea Party member, he's had calls from deranged uh left-wing loons uh going on about him.
	This is your responsible media at work.
	Brian Ross has now walked it back.
	Uh and uh this James James Michael Holmes is fifty-two years old.
	Uh so he's uh twenty-eight years older than the perpetrator.
	Uh and he's a member of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots.
	Nothing to do with the killing, but that's no reason for George Stephanopoulos and Brian Ross not to finger him as being somehow involved in it, and uh he's now had to have his uh phone disconnected.
	Thank you very much, Brian Ross and the responsible chaps at ABC News.
	By the way, I'm getting all these uh you may say anything about comic books, as Rush knows, because that's how this all started next week.
	You get into a ton of stuff.
	I'm saying I'm I'm getting all this stuff now.
	Uh what about Alpha Flight, who are the uh the Canadian version of the X-Men.
	Uh wait a minute, Canada's answer to the Avengers.
	And they and they have uh half of them are into it, and they work for Department H, which is a fictional branch of Canada's Department of National Defence.
	Actually, I think Canada's Department of National Defense is a fictional branch of Canada's National Department of National Defence.
	Anyway, they're a fantastic bunch of superheroes.
	I had entirely forgotten about them.
	They've called S the big guy is called Susquatch.
	He's the he's the biggest guy on the team.
	Then there's North Star and there's Snowbird.
	Snowbird is the only superheroine named after an Ann Murray song, which is uh you can't get more Canadian than that.
	Uh Mark Stein Inforush, let us go to Roger in Glendora, California.
	Roger, you're live on Open Line Friday.
	Well, good morning.
	Hey, good morning, good afternoon.
	Great to have you with us.
	Yeah, I'm calling I was um struck also like the previous caller um talked about um having seen the movie at midnight.
	I went and watched it myself.
	Sat in the back row of a very very packed movie theater, and there was one point in the movie, and I'm not gonna don't want to give away any plot points, but there is one point in the movie where the character Bain is standing in front of what looks like a government building, because you've got the pillars in the back, you know, the type of imagery that you see when you're talking about government.
	And I actually had chills, the creepy kind of chills, as he was giving a speech that Obama's speech writers could have written themselves.
	And I remember looking next to the person at me and I said, Oh my god, that's uh that sounds like Obama, and the person next to me in the entire role in the movie theater were all agreeing and saying the same thing.
	Well, that's that's pretty remarkable if if that's the way.
	As I said, we do know, uh, because of the little back and forth between them and Rush that the uh the writers on this uh on this movie are not uh the traditional Hollywood liberals.
	They're they're people who essentially take a conservative world view of these things.
	I'm always slightly I'll I'll s I'll I'll sort of play devil's advocate here a bit, Roger, because I I'm I am a great believer that basically all effective storytelling is conservative.
	Because the point of stories is that the choices you make have consequences, and you accept those consequences.
	And the whole point about modern liberalism is that uh nothing you do has consequences.
	You know, if if you flunk out at school, it doesn't matter because some government program will take care of you anyway, so it doesn't make any difference.
	So you can't it's very difficult to have effective liberal storytelling, because storytelling is about consequences, uh, and the whole liberal world view now is about saying that individuals should not be exposed to the consequences uh of their choices.
	Uh and I'm slightly wary about this, because I remember seeing the first Spider-Man movie in 2002, and I happened to see it the day after visiting the World Trade Center site uh on what was the last chance to see it as is before they closed it to to clean it up.
	Uh I believe it was actually six months to the day.
	So this would be March the eleventh, two thousand two, and and I went to see Spider-Man uh the following day.
	And I thought that that the Spider Man was making a whole case for the Bush doctrine.
	Uh, because you know, his whole thing, the the the key line in Spider-Man is the line his uncle Ben gives to him, you know, with great power comes great responsibility, which is basically Bush's view, uh Bush's view of the world, that uh uh America couldn't just be a big powerful nation and go to the beach and watch Dancing with the Stars, that with great power came great responsibility.
	And uh you can you can read Spider-Man like that and you can make the case.
	But in the end, it's about a guy in a spider costume squirting Webbing out of his fingers and uh uh and uh uh and uh flying down uh the canyons of Manhattan.
	And in the end, that's what it's about.
	And and we sh I think we should be a bit careful, Roger, about looking for too much politics in superhero movies.
	No, I think any good story reflects what's going on in society.
	Otherwise, you know, it wouldn't be interesting.
	But there definitely was similarities that everybody was was was seeing in that.
	Okay, so there's uh there's like a kind of Obama subtext uh in the new Ba Batman movie.
	That's what I hear.
	I'm gonna I'm gonna go and see it this uh weekend and I'll uh report back on whether on whether that's true.
	And I I don't know, I d R Rush was talking about it all week, basically, so I'll be interested to know whether he actually took the opportunity to see it this weekend and reports back at it too.
	But thank you thank you for your call, Roger.
	Um there's a uh I I remember being criticized for what I said about that Spider-Man movie, because uh some some left wing critic thought that it was just a sort of adolescent angst movie, that there's a kind of obvious uh sort of adolescent subtext to the way uh Spidey keeps involuntarily shooting his webbing over everything.
	And uh that only a right wing lew like me could go to Spider-Man and not uh and not see it as a as a as a metaphor for adolescent sexual issues.
	And who's to say that guy wasn't right?
	In the end it's a guy in a in a red and blue suit flying around town, and that's what it's that's what it's uh about.
	So we should have we should be a bit more careful about this.
	Mark Style for Rush, open Line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
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	I don't I had no idea what that conversation was about yesterday, because uh it got terrible cell phone reception in this corner of New Hampshire, so I don't I only use my cell phone when I'm in somewhere that's got more reliable uh cell phone uh reception, like say the uh Pakistani frontier uh North West Frontier Pakistan, they've got excellent cell phone reception there.
	You can get in touch with, you know, when some Al-Qaeda guy deep in one cave wants to speak to the other guy and one the cell phone reception comes in beautifully.
	But New Hampshire not so well.
	Nancy Pelosi Nancy Belosi is given up on this call for uh Mitt Romney to release his tax records, calling it a calling the issue a distraction.
	Suddenly it's a distraction.
	If you're wondering why Nancy Pelosi now says that asking Mitt Romney to release his tax records is a quote distraction, uh it's because uh Nancy Pelosi was asked for her tax records.
	Uh in fact, uh of the five hundred and thirty-five members of the House, only seventeen of them uh chose to supply their tax records.
	So this this, like so many of the other distractions uh that the Obama campaign has thrown out there, this one has gone nowhere.
	It's failing to stick.
	By the way, I don't see why you should, if you want to run for president, why should you should release your tax records?
	I assume I assume Mitt Romney has filed his tax returns, so that uh unl and he has paid his taxes.
	Unlike, for example, the uh United States Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geitner.
	Uh so unlike little Timmy Geitner, Turbo Tax Timmy, who couldn't understand, who who claimed uh that he couldn't understand the yes-no prompts of TurboTax, and that's why he hadn't paid the taxes.
	Um TurboTax Timmy uh didn't pay the taxes.
	Mitt Romney, uh one assumes, has actually paid his taxes, and if the IRS had any problem with him, the IRS would be after him.
	I don't see why you should ha uh why why should you have to release your tax records when you run for president uh or when you run for speak with a house or when you run for dog catcher or when you run for anything.
	Uh there's there's a th there's a great well transparency.
	Uh I'm a I'm in great I'm a great believer in transparency on certain things, uh, Mr. Snerdley.
	And I think it's true that we don't have this we know nothing about this guy who's president.
	We we know he's got uh a composite girlfriend, uh, and we know that his uh his stepfather in uh was it his stepfather in Indonesia that the book says uh died uh w his stepgr was it his stepgrandfather that according to Obama's autobiography died heroically in the Indonesian battle for to free their land of Dutch colonialism and in fact it turns out that instead uh this uh Obama stepfather or stepgrandfather died when he fell off
	a chair attempting to change the drapes.
	So I'm in favour.
	I'm in favour of a certain amount of transparency that if if a guy has concocted a biography that is one bit of hooey to the next, uh then I think we I think we uh we we ought to uh the the press ought to take an interest in that.
	I think it's actually interesting whether whether he's he sold us this relative who was a heroic uh freedom fighter for independence from the Dutch f for Indonesia, and in fact it turns out he died falling off a chair trying to change the drapes.
	I think that's worth knowing about.
	But do I think we ought to be releasing tax returns?
	So for people to know, you know, what medical expenses a candidate claimed?
	I think this is I think this is horrible.
	I think there's a huge problem.
	For a start we have to tell too much to the IRS.
	So there's information on our tax returns that is actually incompatible with free societies.
	Uh and that's getting worse.
	That the new laws coming into place on January 1st, 2013 will mean that US citizens will have to declare more to the IRS than citizens of other Western nations do to their revenue collection agencies.
	So I think there's too much in there anyway, uh, and I don't see why you should have to declare.
	I'm for I'm for generally speaking for privacy rights.
	How do you say that in this country?
	Privacy or privacy.
	I don't care, whichever it is, I I'm for both of them.
	I'm for privacy and privacy, and we need to we need to get back to some uh uh to some of that.
	Now, I I we've been following this story, the shooting out in Colorado, which is an individual attack uh act of mass murder by a uh PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Neurosciences program.
	But don't let that stop you uh from pursuing whatever dreary trope you want to pursue with this.
	Uh as soon as he heard the news, Piers Morgan.
	Do you know this guy Piers Morgan, Mr. Snerdley?
	Uh he's on um he's on CNN every he's on CNN Oh, HR knows him.
	Mr. Snerdley seemed baffled, so I think I think HR is the uh is the viewer, and I use the and I I I use the singular advisedly, but mister HR is the viewer.
	I don't know about you, HR, but if there's one thing that really ticks me off, it's like switching on the TV and there's some snotty foreigner with a funny voice opining about America.
	I mean, isn't that just the end of it?
	I can't I d I don't you know w I know we need foreigners to come here and do the jobs Americans won't do, but if you can't rely on an American to tell you what a lousy country you Americans are got here, what's the world coming to?
	So I I d I don't get it, this whole Piers Morgan thing.
	You switch on the TV and there's this some s w snot-nosed Brit telling you everything that's wrong with your country.
	I dunno I I'm amazed Americans put up with it.
	But he's now saying from the from the he got off the boat at Ellis Island twenty minutes ago, and he's now saying uh that you crazy Yanks, you can't be trusted, you're shooting each other all the time, so you've got to have gun control.
	He's right on top of it.
	This is CNN's winning formula.
	Um I I remember the last time I think we talked about the 9 PM Eastern slot on CNN, good old Larry King was hosting it.
	And uh uh Larry King's uh uh apparently a third of Larry King's audience had fallen, and I thought this was the news to it.
	I thought I felt sorry for them because I know they're getting on a bit, and if you don't have one of those chairlifts installed, it can be easy.
	It's very easy when you go for a bathroom break in in the middle of Larry's show to fall.
	So his audience had fallen by a third.
	And then they got rid of Larry and replaced him by uh with this uh this foreigner.
	And and uh and unlike Larry, who, at least to his credit, uh he was hopeless on the politics.
	Terrible whenever he had senators on, he was awful.
	But at least when he'd go, you know, tonight, Tina Louise for the full hour, tonight, Anne Margaret for the full hour.
	I loved it when he uh would interview hyphenated Dolly birds from the 1960s.
	Larry had a carved down a niche specialty there.
	Uh Piers Morgan doesn't even have that gun for him.
	So Piers Morgan is now using these events uh to suggest that uh America needs gun control.
	In fact, uh in fact, uh the best defense against a guy like this is if you have if you happen to have another guy uh on the premises who has got a gun and who can take the guy out.
	That's what happened uh at at the Appalachian School of Law uh in West Virginia a decade ago, uh some uh some guy uh went on the rampage and two students who happened to be packing pinned the guy down until police arrived.
	And that's why uh the death count, That's why you don't know the name of that massacre, because it wasn't a massacre, because there were two guys, packing, uh, who managed to hold the guy down, pin the guy down until the police arrived.
	And you think about what happened at this movie theater last night, by the way.
	The only reason the body count is as low as it is.
	And I I I use that term advisably, because twelve families have had a huge hole blown in their lives that they will never get over.
	Twelve families who went to the movies uh uh in Aurora, Colorado, and they come away uh with a dead family member.
	You you don't get over that.
	That's there.
	That's a big gaping hole in your heart for the rest of your life.
	Uh but it would have been a lot worse.
	The only reason the body count was that low was because there were police on the scene.
	There were, I think there were five, six officers there for crowd control, because they were shown this Batman movie in uh in in a handful of the uh theaters in this uh particular multiplex.
	I think it's sixteen screens and they were playing Batman in five of them.
	So the police on hand for crowd control.
	Uh people lived uh because the police were able to bundle them uh to into the back of the cruiser and drive them straight to the hospital.
	In other words, they didn't have to wait for the ambulances to get there.
	You think of the other big uh recent uh massacre in uh in Colorado, the Littleton school shooting, where the SWAT team arrived and they secured the perimeter for hours on end, and the guy walks through the school shooting people, boom boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Uh that's what it would have been liked, if uh it would have been like if there had not been police on hand already in the building as part of uh the crowd control for this movie business and cruisers uh on the scene.
	Uh so Piers Morgan is wrong here.
	This is a dangerous world, a dangerous world.
	Uh and the and they're crazy guys all over the place.
	And one day, and it might be some guy, it might be like this guy, a PhD uh fellow from the neurosciences program, or it might be a soldier of Allah, like Major Hassan shouting Alahu Akbar.
	Uh but but or it might be the guy sitting next to you on the plane.
	Uh but when that happens, when that happens, the best thing that can happen is is that there are people on hand uh who are able to take down the guy and prevent him from ramping up the killing uh to huge numbers.
	And the s the sort of effete uselessness of Piers Morgan saying, Oh, this just shows Americans' love affair, terrible love affair with guns.
	Why can't why can't they just all put away their guns and uh and then the world would be a much safer place if Americans just gave up on their guns.
	You know, if you outlaw guns, only PhD uh uh uh candidates in the neurosciences program will have guns.
	Those guys always manage to get the guns.
	Uh the guy who wants to kill people, doesn't have difficulty uh getting the guns.
	What matters is whether you've got uh self-reliant citizens uh who don't expect uh the distant police department who may take uh in this case the the police uh precinct was an a mile from the station uh a mile from the uh theater, so they got there quickly.
	Uh but if it's on the other side of the town, you're gonna be there while that guy's firing.
	And if he's firing for fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty, forty-five minutes, an hour, an hour and a quarter, he can do an awful lot of damage.
	What matters is when he starts firing that you're able to stop him uh in a s in a shorter period of time.
	Uh Mark Stein in Farush on Open Line Friday will take more of your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
	Um the Obama the Obama campaign has uh has got a new video out attacking Mitt Romney for attacking Obama over Obama's attack on business.
	The if you've got a business, you didn't you didn't build that line.
	Uh I love this uh video.
	If you haven't seen this video, it's hilarious because uh it shows Romney quoting Obama, saying, if you've got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen.
	And then the Obama team move in for the kill uh and they go, the only problem, that's not what he said.
	No, in fact what he actually said was if you've got a business, you you didn't build that.
	Uh somebody else made that happen.
	Uh but they're now uh attacking uh Romney for accurately quoting the president.
	It's strange how sensitive it's strange how sensitive these guys are are about the sm so-called smartest guy in the world, that the he says something, and all the king's horses and all the king's men have to go to town trying to put uh Humpty Dumpty silver tongued oratory together again.
	Uh and he's he's the president.
	In the end, he's the president, he said it, and people are allowed to comment on it.
	And the and this and the and and the last thing you want is it if you're in Obama's shoes, is to sound like a whiner.
	And uh a whiner and incumbent.
	You think of Bush.
	Bush, uh they gave awards to novels about the assassination of Bush.
	Uh a film about the assassination of Bush was the hit of the Toronto Film Festival.
	Bush never whined about any of this.
	It ran off whatever you think of George W. Bush, all this stuff just ran off him like water off a duck's back.
	Uh, but the but the uh Obama Obama is very thin skinned and sensitive about that, and apparently now accurately quoting the president is a crime.
	This from the guys, by the way, who uh said that um who who went to town on Obama for on on Romney for his line, I'm not concerned about the very poor.
	They didn't bother putting that in context, but no.
	No, yeah.
	Well, it is it's a it's all racist.
	I think accurately quoting the president of the United States is itself a racist act, Mr. Snurley.
	No, you're not allowed to say he's thin skinned because you're implying he's thin, which then is is some is uh is uh gets into some race race races and skinned, skinned in fact.
	When you people talk about Martin Luther King dreamed of a land where a man would not be judged by the thinness of his skin, but by the content of Am I quoting correctly?
	I don't know.
	I'm like Piers Morgan.
	I just got off the boat.
	Uh let's go to Mike in Colorado Springs.
	Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Good afternoon, Mr. Stein.
	Uh really enjoy it when you're substituting for Rush.
	Yeah, my pleasure.
	I love being here.
	Oh, great.
	Uh first I'd like to send uh prayers to the victims and the families uh from the shooting yesterday in Aurora.
	And absolutely.
	Uh just to continue on with your comic book reference about Alpha Flight, it was originally formed to apprehend Wolverine in Canada.
	Right.
	Uh and of the two members, uh two of the members, Aurora and North Star.
	They were twinned, uh brother and sister.
	North Star was the first openly gay comic book character.
	And sometime this year, they're actually going to have the first gay marriage in a comic book.
	Yeah, I gather that Green is it Green Lantern or Green Arrow is coming out as gay.
	I can't remember which one it is.
	Green Lan Green Lantern.
	I'm apologize to Green Arrow.
	Not that there's anything wrong if Green Arrow decides to come out as gay, but apparently is Green Lantern coming out.
	Did you did you like uh because uh my memory of these guys is extremely hazy, but uh there was also a hockey superhero called Puck, was there not, Mike?
	Yes, he was a uh politically correct term, little person, but not born that way.
	Uh he was highly uh uh agile and and strong.
	Uh there was some kind of a force that made him stay small.
	Right.
	So he was a guy who was he was called Puck, and he had all the powers of a giant hockey puck.
	Something like that.
	I don't know.
	I'm just riffing on I'm just uh Sasquatch who was basically a big foot.
	Yeah, no, Sas yeah, Sasquatch was the big orange hairy guy.
	I remember I remember him.
	You can see him walking down Young Street in Toronto late on Saturday night occasionally, back from the the bottom dropped out of the whole superhero business.
	Sure, in Canada.
	A native Canadian uh shaman.
	Yes, that's right.
	Often uh was in a trance and uh meditating with uh Snowbird, who I believe was some force of nature.
	You see a lot of that at Inuit uh at Inuit villages in the far north sitting around meditating in a trance.
	Uh when the government check is that big, why not?
	Anyway, we are yeah, we we are I love the I love these Canadians.
	My favorite one is uh is Curling Girl.
	She she has all the powers of a giant curling broom, and uh she go and she flies around.
	She's she she's my favorite Canadian superhero.
	Thank you for your call, Mike in Colorado Springs.
	Nowhere else do you get this informed state of the art analysis of leading Canadian superheroes.
	Mark Stein in for rush, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Uh Morgan Freeman has uh who plays uh Lucius Fox in the new Batman movie.
	He has contributed a million dollars to help re-elect uh President Obama.
	He basically plays the the kind of wise uh counselor to Bruce Wayne.
	He well, I mean he basically plays Morgan Freeman.

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