Rush Limbaugh Program - July 20, 2012, Friday, Hour #2

All Episodes

Previous Next

July 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program

36:51

July 20, 2012, Friday, Hour #2

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	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 12 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 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, when he was asked whether the guy was any kind of Occupy Wall Street thing, said, oh no, if anything, quite the opposite.
	He was a superpatriot.
	That was the term that Brian Ross on ABCU, Super Patriot.
	I didn't know this, but apparently Super Patriot is a Marvel Comics villain.
	He's a supervillain.
	It tells you something about Marvel Comics, that a guy called Super Patriot is a supervillain, but apparently Super Patriot is a supervillain who is opposed to the immigration policies of the United States.
	And he battles the Captain America and the Marvel guys, including Nick Fury, Agent of Shield.
	Super Patriot has a super patriotic outfit here.
	He's got sort of red, white, and blue clinging spandex.
	This goes, I think this goes back 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 kind of kindergarten glowing primary colors, and he's standing with his legs eight feet apart, so one can admire the tightness of his spandex.
	And Super Patriot 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 Spider-Man and Captain America and the kind of broad cont yet.
	Mr. Snerdley wants to know whether there's a Canadian superhero.
	Where have you been, Mr. Serdley?
	The coolest superhero of all time of our current age is, in fact, Canadian, Wolverine.
	Did you not see the Wolverine movie a couple of years ago?
	No.
	Mr. Snerdley is now suggesting that the X-Men just like tourists in Canada.
	They go up there, you know, they go up there to see Niagara Falls and catch a couple of shows in 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, Wolverine 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 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 Wolverine is a Canadian superhero.
	There was a Captain Canada.
	I briefly remember, I think this is going back to the 80s or the 70s.
	He used to 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.
	was like honestly i don't know the these uh these uh these these racist slurs this grotesque canada phobia from mr snurdly has got a we got to do something about this the 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 healthcare or whatever.
	Yeah, he had a big A on his chest, but it was spelled EH question mark.
	So he was like similar to Captain America.
	And then there was Captain Britton.
	And Captain Britton had Union Jack briefs.
	And I think he gave them to Ginger Spice because she wore them in the Spice Girls.
	Captain Britain, Ginger Spice stole his briefs, so she's wandering around.
	Well, maybe, something like that.
	Maybe Ginger Spice was Captain Britton in the 70s.
	Who knows?
	Anyway, they do.
	There is.
	I think Mr. Snirdley is deliberately trying to derail me on the matter of Captain Canada and things.
	There is something actually very American about the whole concept of the superhero because like the guy, rippling muscles, he climbs into most, because if you most fantastical creatures, superpower creatures traditionally in fiction have tended to be rather furtive and undercover.
	Like the Scarlet Pimpernell 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 Orksy said.
	When she conceived the Scarlet Pimpernell, he was like the Dark Knight of his day, but he went lurking around in the shadows.
	And 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 going to flaunt it.
	I'm going to go flying around the skies.
	I'm going to change my clothes in payphones.
	And the American superhero gets it out there.
	He wears colors that are designed to be seen from miles away.
	It's a completely different way of looking at things.
	And it's interesting to me that in the last few decades, people keep trying to reinvent the superheroes, as they do with the Dark Knight.
	Remember, they used to call Batman the Cape Crusader, and you can't call him the Cape Crusader anymore because, you know, like a bunch of guys in Waziristan will burn down the U.S. Consulate or whatever, because the Crusader is verboten.
	You can't say that.
	So they've reinvented him now as the Dark Knight.
	And all the reinventions are all the same.
	They take some guy, you know, Batman in the 60s was like this Batman.
	And then they reinvent him, and he's all dark and brooding, and he sits hutched on rooftops with his cape all furled over him, riddled with self-doubt.
	And there's a part of me that actually prefers the baba-dabba-dabba-dabba-daba-dabba-dabba, that kind of slightly groovier, lighter, less introspective kind of superhero.
	But at any rate, Brian Ross attempted to say that this guy, this 24-year-old James Holmes, was a so-called superpatriot.
	In fact, he's a PhD candidate in neurosciences, in the neurosciences program.
	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 dealing in some whimsical, fantastical way with a little bit of movie commentary.
	And you take him literally and you decide to go out and gun down a bunch of people.
	I mean, it's quite disgraceful that they peddled this line, but we now have a guy who is a PhD candidate in the neurosciences program, who is the suspect in this mass shooting.
	And apparently, according to the deranged left, he is too stupid.
	So you can't talk about movie plots and political metaphors and anything with him because some PhD in the neurosciences program, some medical school guy might go crazy.
	And 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.
	The man responsible for what happened in Aurora, Colorado is, according to the fella 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 message he wants to communicate, whatever message PhD neurosciences guys from the University of Colorado are trying to get out there in the world, whatever great PhD neuroscience University of Colorado cause they're attempting to promote, in the end, walking into a movie theater and killing a bunch of people is no message at all.
	It's simply an act of murder.
	And the attempt to give it political significance and the attempt to make it part of the political discourse and the attempt to co-opt it into the political discourse of democratic 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 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 and some guy from the left blaming it on talk radio or Sarah Palin or Fox News.
	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 live Friday.
	Yes, our 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 Open Line Friday, live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, where we don't have Siri on our iPhones.
	We have terrible cell phone reception here.
	Communications-wise, this corner of New Hampshire is like Baghdad outside the green zone.
	So we're still dependent on pay phone down the street.
	That's really our connection with the outside world.
	1-800-282-2882.
	We'll talk about events in Colorado.
	I want to talk about some of the other stuff in the news, including the fascinating news that Canadian household wealth.
	Mr. Snerdley 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 green card.
	He's basically, he's probably got a Hawaiian birth certificate in there.
	I don't know what Wolverine's got.
	But I would be very surprised if that were the case, because Wolverine, like most Canadians, the average Canadian household wealth is now some $40,000 more than the household wealth of the 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 anytime soon.
	Meantime, the government of the United States is partnering with the government of Mexico to promote food stamps.
	One-seventh of Americans are on food stamps.
	There's just 50 million Americans on food stamps.
	But that's no reason not to hand out the food stamps to citizens of neighboring countries because, as the slogan, the official slogan of the food stamp program goes, food stamps make America stronger.
	And 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.
	Straight ahead, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	The other James Holmes, the Tea Party James Holmes, the James Holmes who's nothing to do with this shooting in Aurora, Colorado, but just happens to live in Colorado and happens to be on a Colorado Tea Party site, and who Brian Ross revealed to the world as the perpetrator of the shooting at the movie theater last night.
	He's 30 years older than the guy who did it, and he's had to have his phone disconnected because since Brian Ross erroneously identified him as the killer on ABC as a Tea Party member, he's had calls from deranged left-wing loons going on about him.
	This is your responsible media at work.
	Brian Ross has now walked it back.
	And this James Michael Holmes is 52 years old.
	So he's 28 years older than the perpetrator.
	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 he's now had to have his phone disconnected.
	Thank you very much, Brian Ross and the responsible chaps at ABC News.
	By the way, I'm getting all these, 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've said, I'm getting all this stuff now.
	What about Alpha Flight, who are the Canadian version of the X-Men?
	Or wait a minute, Canada's Answer to the Avengers.
	And they have half of them are Inuit, and they work for Department H, which is a fictional branch of Canada's Department of National Defense.
	Actually, I think Canada's Department of National Defense is a fictional branch of Canada's Department of National Defense.
	Anyway, they're a fantastic bunch of superheroes.
	I had entirely forgotten about them.
	The big guy is called Susquatch.
	He's the biggest guy on the team.
	Then there's Northstar, and there's Snowbird.
	Snowbird is the only superheroine named after an Ann Murray song, which is, you can't get more Canadian than that.
	Mark Stein, in for Rush.
	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 struck also, like a previous caller talked about 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 going 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 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 pretty remarkable if that's the way.
	As I said, we do know because of the little back and forth between them and Rush that the writers on this movie are not the traditional Hollywood liberals.
	They're people who essentially take a conservative worldview of these things.
	I'm always slightly – I'll sort of play devil's advocate here a bit, Roger, because 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 nothing you do has consequences.
	You know, 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.
	And the whole liberal worldview now is about saying that individuals should not be exposed to the consequences of their choices.
	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 on what was the last chance to see it as is before they closed it to clean it up.
	I believe it was actually six months to the day.
	So this would be March 11th, 2002.
	And I went to see Spider-Man the following day.
	And I thought that Spider-Man was making a whole case for the Bush doctrine because, you know, his whole thing, 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, Bush's view of the world, that 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 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 flying down the canyons of Manhattan.
	And in the end, that's what it's about.
	And 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 were similarities that everybody was seeing in that last night.
	Okay, so there's like a kind of Obama subtext in the new Batman movie.
	That's what I hear.
	I'm going to go and see it this weekend and I'll report back on whether that's true.
	And I don't know.
	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.
	There's a I remember being criticized for what I said about that Spider-Man movie because some left-wing critic thought that it was just a sort of adolescent angst movie, that there's a kind of obvious sort of adolescent subtext to the way Spidey keeps involuntarily shooting his webbing over everything.
	And that only a right-wing lewd like me could go to Spider-Man and not see it 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 red and blue suit flying around town.
	And that's what it's about.
	So we should be a bit more careful about this.
	Mark Snyder for Rush.
	Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
	Yes, Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Don't forget, you can go to rushlimbaugh.com and it's like he hasn't gone away.
	It's like Rush is there 24/7.
	You need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest hosts if you become a Rush 24-7 subscriber.
	You can go to rushlimbore.com.
	You can get audio, you can get video, you can get transcripts.
	It's there in every available medium.
	You can probably download him as the Siri on your iPhone.
	I had no idea what that conversation was about yesterday because it got terrible cell phone reception in this corner of New Hampshire.
	So I only use my cell phone when I'm in somewhere that's got more reliable cell phone reception, like say the Pakistani frontier, Northwest 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 the cell phone reception comes in beautifully.
	But New Hampshire, not so well.
	Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi is giving up on this call for Mitt Romney to release his tax records, 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, it's because Nancy Pelosi was asked for her tax records.
	In fact, of the 535 members of the House, only 17 of them chose to supply their tax records.
	So this, like so many of the other distractions 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 you should release your tax records.
	I assume Mitt Romney has filed his tax returns and he has paid his taxes, unlike, for example, the United States Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner.
	So unlike little Timmy Geithner, TurboTax Timmy, who couldn't understand, who claimed that he couldn't understand the yes-no prompts of TurboTax, and that's why he hadn't paid the taxes, TurboTax Timmy didn't pay the taxes.
	Mitt Romney, 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 should you have to release your tax records when you run for president, or when you run for Speaker of the House, or when you run for Dog Catcher, or when you run for anything.
	There's a great, well, transparency.
	I'm a great believer in transparency on certain things, Mr. Snurdley.
	And I think it's true that we don't have this.
	We know nothing about this guy who's president.
	We know he's got a composite girlfriend, and we know that his stepfather in, was it his stepfather in Indonesia that the book says died, his step-grand, was it his step-grandfather that, according to Obama's autobiography, died heroically in the Indonesian battle to free their land of Dutch colonialism.
	And in fact, it turns out that instead, this Obama stepfather or step-grandfather died when he fell off a chair attempting to change the drapes.
	So I'm in favor.
	I'm in favor of a certain amount of transparency that if a guy has concocted a biography that is one bit of hooey to the next, then I think we ought to the press ought to take an interest in that.
	I think it's actually interesting whether he sold us this relative who was a heroic freedom fighter for independence from the Dutch 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 what medical expenses a candidate claim?
	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.
	And that's getting worse.
	The new laws coming into place on January 1st, 2013 will mean that U.S. 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.
	And I don't see why you should have to declare.
	I'm for generally speaking for privacy rights.
	How do you say it in this country, privacy or privacy?
	I don't care, whichever it is, I'm for both of them.
	I'm for privacy and privacy.
	And we need to get back to some of that.
	Now, we've been following this story, the shooting out in Colorado, which is an individual attack act of mass murder by a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Neurosciences Program.
	But don't let that stop you from pursuing whatever dreary trope you want to pursue with this.
	As soon as he heard the news, Piers Morgan.
	Do you know this guy, Piers Morgan, Mr. Snerdley?
	He's on CNN every he's on CNN.
	Oh, HR knows him.
	Mr. Snerdley seemed baffled.
	So I think HR is the viewer.
	And I use the singular advisedly.
	But 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 don't, you know, 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 have got here, what's the world coming to?
	So I don't get it, this whole Piers Morgan thing.
	You switch on the TV and there's this some snot-nosed Brit telling you everything that's wrong with your country.
	I'm amazed Americans put up with it.
	But he's now saying from the he got off the boat at Ellis Island 20 minutes ago, and he's now saying 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.
	I remember the last time I think we talked about the 9 p.m. Eastern slot on CNN, good old Larry King was hosting it.
	And Larry King's, apparently, a third of Larry King's audience had fallen.
	And I thought this was the news story.
	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 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 with this foreigner.
	And unlike Larry, who, at least to his credit, 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 would interview hyphenated dolly birds from the 1960s.
	Larry had a carved down a niche specialty there.
	Piers Morgan doesn't even have that gun for him.
	So Piers Morgan is now using these events to suggest that America needs gun control.
	In fact, in fact, the best defense against a guy like this is if you happen to have another guy on the premises who has got a gun and who can take the guy out.
	That's what happened at the Appalachian School of Law in West Virginia a decade ago.
	Some guy went on the rampage and two students who happened to be packing pinned the guy down until police arrived.
	And that's why 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 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 use that term advisably because 12 families have had a huge hole blown in their lives that they will never get over.
	12 families who went to the movies in Aurora, Colorado, and they come away with a dead family member.
	You don't get over that.
	That's there.
	That's a big gaping hole in your heart for the rest of your life.
	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.
	I think there were five, six officers there for crowd control because they were shown this Batman movie in a handful of the theaters in this particular multiplex.
	I think it's 16 screens, and they were playing Batman in five of them.
	So the police on hand for crowd control.
	People lived because the police were able to bundle them 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 recent massacre 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.
	That's what it would have been like if it would have been like if there had not been police on hand already in the building as part of the crowd control for this movie business and cruisers on the scene.
	So Piers Morgan is wrong here.
	This is a dangerous world, a dangerous world.
	And there are crazy guys all over the place.
	And one day, and it might be some guy, it might be like this guy, a PhD fella from the neurosciences program, or it might be a soldier of Allah like Major Hassan shouting Allahu Akbar.
	Or it might be the guy sitting next to you on the plane.
	But when that happens, when that happens, the best thing that can happen is that there are people on hand who are able to take down the guy and prevent him from ramping up the killing to huge numbers.
	And the sort of effect uselessness of Piers Morgan saying, oh, this just shows Americans' love affair, terrible love affair with guns.
	Why can't they just all put away their guns 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 candidates in the neurosciences program will have guns.
	Those guys always manage to get the guns.
	The guy who wants to kill people doesn't have difficulty getting the guns.
	What matters is whether you've got self-reliant citizens who don't expect the distant police department who may take, in this case, the police precinct was a mile from the theater, so they got there quickly.
	But if it's on the other side of the town, you're going to be there while that guy's firing.
	And if he's firing for 15, 20, 30, 40, 45 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 in a shorter period of time.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on Open Line Friday.
	We'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	The Obama, the Obama campaign has got a new video out attacking Mitt Romney for attacking Obama over Obama's attack on business.
	If you've got a business, you didn't build that line.
	I love this video.
	If you haven't seen this video, it's hilarious because 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.
	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 didn't build that.
	Somebody else made that happen.
	But they're now attacking Romney for accurately quoting the president.
	It's strange how sensitive, it's strange how sensitive these guys are about the so-called smartest guy in the world.
	He says something, and all the king's horses and all the king's men have to go to town trying to put Humpty Dumpty's silver-tongued oratory together again.
	And he's the president.
	In the end, he's the president.
	He said it, and people are allowed to comment on it.
	And the last thing you want is if you're in Obama's shoes, is to sound like a whiner.
	A whiner and incumbent.
	You think of Bush.
	Bush, they gave awards to novels about the assassination of Bush.
	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.
	But 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 said that, who went to town on Obama 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.
	It's all racist.
	I think accurately quoting the president of the United States is itself a racist act, Mr. Snurdley.
	No, you're not allowed to say he's thin-skinned because you're implying he's thin, which then is some, is, gets into some racist, and skinned.
	Skinned, in fact.
	When people talk about Martin Luther King dreamed of a land where man would not be judged by the thinness of his skin, but by the content of it.
	Am I quoting correctly?
	I don't know.
	I'm like Piers Morgan.
	I just got off the boat.
	Let's go to Mike in Colorado Springs.
	Mike, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Good afternoon, Mr. Stein.
	Really enjoy it when you're substituting for Rush.
	My pleasure.
	I love being here.
	Oh, great.
	First, I'd like to send prayers to the victims and the families from the shooting yesterday in Aurora.
	Absolutely.
	Just to continue on with your comic book reference about Alpha Flight, it was originally formed to apprehend Wolverine in Canada.
	Right.
	And of the two members, two of the members, Aurora and Northstar, they were twinned, brother and sister.
	Northstar 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 Lantern.
	I apologize to Green Arrow.
	Not that there's anything wrong if Green Arrow decides to come out as gay, but aboutle, it's Green Lantern coming out.
	Did you like, because my memory of these guys is extremely hazy, but there was also a hockey superhero called Puck, was there not, Mike?
	Yes, he was a politically correct term, little person, but not born that way.
	He was highly agile and strong.
	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 Sasquatch, who was basically a Bigfoot.
	Yeah, no, Sasquatch was the big orange hairy guy.
	I remember him.
	You can see him walking down Young Street in Toronto late on Saturday night, occasionally.
	Back from the bottom, dropped out of the whole superhero business.
	Sure, you can.
	And there was also a native Canadian shaman.
	Yes, that's true.
	Often was in a trance and meditating with Snowbird, who I believe was some force of nature.
	You see a lot of that at Inuit, at Inuit villages in the far north, sitting around meditating in a trance.
	When the government check is that big, why not?
	Anyway, we are, you know, we are.
	I love the Canadian.
	My favorite one is Curling Girl.
	She has all the powers of a giant curling broom and she flies around.
	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, Infra Rush, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein Infra Rush.
	Morgan Freeman, who plays Lucius Fox in the new Batman movie, he has contributed a million dollars to help re-elect President Obama.
	He basically plays the kind of wise counselor to Bruce Wayne.
	He basically plays Morgan Freeman.
	He does the same thing he does in every movie where he's this benign, all-wise, omniscient guy who just.
	I mean, personally, I prefer Alfred the Butler as a counselor to Bruce Wayne.

▲