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Nov. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
And this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
Honoured to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
And always a great thrill for me to be here.
But don't worry, don't worry.
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And Rush returns on Wednesday to take you through the end of the week on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Just one final thought.
We were talking about the looming, the alleged fiscal cliff and whether or not we are actually already off it.
And this little shadow play that's going to go on now between now and the inevitable bipartisan agreement just before Christmas actually means anything.
And people seem to think you get the impression from these guys sitting down in Washington that there's basically there's no money to cut.
That basically everyone's the belts have been tightened.
You know, it's been a tough four years, tough five years since Lehman Brothers slid off over the fiscal cliff in September 2008.
We've all been tightening our belts.
The United States taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama, the first lady and their two daughters last year.
$1.4 billion.
By comparison, the royal family cost British taxpayers just $57.8 million.
And that's, if you remember, we had Patrick from the Turks and Caicos Islands, talking to Patrick down in the British West Indies in the last hour.
That includes, by the way, that's his head of state.
Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Family down in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
That $57.8 million extends from London to Glasgow to Belfast and all the way over to Turks and Caicos Islands.
For the entire royal family, the cost of staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama is more than every European royal house combined.
Which makes you think, well, hang on a minute.
Why do these guys, you know, those guys have got like over in Europe, like Windsor Castle is from the 12th century.
You know, that's a hard place to heat.
That's tough.
That's not built to the latest federal insulation codes.
That's a tough place.
That's a tough joint to heat.
The cost of housing the Obama family, flying them around in Air Force One, more than the cost of the House of Windsor in Britain, but also the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian royal families, Spanish royal families, the whole lot combined.
This guy costs more.
This presidency costs more.
It's not even, this isn't even a partisan thing.
When you're broke, the guy in charge ought to take a lead.
Why does he have a man permanently on staff there round the clock in case he wants to see a movie?
There's a movie projectionist on staff at the White House round the clock in case Barack Obama wakes up at 2 in the morning and decides he wants to watch Ice Follies of 1934.
What is this guy, by the way?
He's supposed to be Mr. Cool.
He's the guy with all the latest gizmos, the iPods, the iPhones and all the rest of it.
Why can't he watch his own movie?
You know, if I wake up at 2 in the morning and I want to see Ice Follies of 1934, I stagger along and see if I've got it on the shelf and slip the DVD in the player.
And if I haven't got it, I go on Netflix or whatever and see if I can download it.
Why is there a full-time movie projectionist at the White House?
This is basically the equivalent.
Mention Windsor Castle, 12th century building.
Back in those days, they used to have something called the groom of the stool.
And the groom of the stool was someone who was paid to attend in very personal ways to the king's toilet.
They got rid of the groom of the stool.
I don't know why.
It's something like in the 15th century, they had to make budget cuts.
So they eliminated the position of groom of the stool.
I think the idea of White House, full-time White House movie projectionist, so that so because the president of the United States is incapable, is the only man in the country incapable of pulling a DVD off a shelf and slipping a movie into and watching it on his TV screen, I think is completely preposterous.
At some point, at some point, you know, just again, to make another regal comparison, at the start of the Second World War, King George VI, the King's speech guy from the Oscar-winning movie, this was before he was in the film, when he was back when he was a nobody and he was just King of England and Emperor of India and a couple of other things, before he hit the Hollywood big time.
King George VI, Second World War breaks out, and he decides he needs to set an example to the people.
So he decides he's not going to have his marmalade at breakfast served in a little silver serving dish, but he's going to spoon his own marmalade onto his toast direct from the jar to show he's a man of the people.
When you've got a so-called republic with a so-called citizen executive and it's costing $1.4 billion, $1.4 billion to shuffle them around the country, to fly them to Martha's Vineyard, and then the 40-car motorcade so they can pretend to visit an ice cream parlor.
That's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
It doesn't impress anybody.
You know, when you're wealthy, having a 40-car motorgate says, hey, I've got it, so I flaunt it, baby.
When you haven't got it and you're still flaunting it, you look ridiculous.
At some point, we've got to get real about that stuff.
At some point, we've got to – those things are not small things.
The fish rots from the head down.
And in this case, the fish spends from the head down.
When you've got a $1.4 billion head of state, that is decadent and it's a problem.
Now, I want to talk because, you know, we got nowhere basically complaining about Barack Obama for the last four years.
It was a complete waste of time.
Complete waste of time.
The election was a waste of time.
I think the two parties each spent a billion dollars and it was a total waste.
I've been better giving it to starving children in Africa or whatever.
And I don't believe it would actually have made any difference to the result.
And people living in so-called swing states like my own state of New Hampshire, where we were bombarded with attack ads non-stop.
Instead, we could have just enjoyed the same self-lubricating catheter ads that the rest of America enjoys.
And because of that, we've got to think again about where we go from here.
And I think Obama, Rush, a week or so after the election, said some very interesting things about this.
He was talking about essentially not just what you do in the voting booth, not just giving your money to a political party, not just getting a guy with an R after his name elected every other November, but actually changing the culture, actually getting out there on the battlefield where the real big battles are won.
And Rush was talking about this because he talked about it in his terms.
And he loves going on.
He's a big technophile, as Rush said, he's a big technophile.
He reads every tech blog there is, particularly those related to Apple.
He loves Apple.
He gets all the latest products.
And all the people contributing and writing and posting those blogs are under 30.
They'd probably be horrified that Rush is actually going on their blogs and reading them and enjoying them and in terms of his tech enthusiasms, actually no different from them.
But he's profoundly different from them politically.
Those people live, inhabit, as Rush said, an entirely different world.
And a lot of them aren't even political.
And the problem is that if you aren't particularly political, if you don't think about political issues, then the default setting of our society is liberal.
If you're just a tech guy who likes the latest toys from Apple, if you're just somebody who likes going to the movies, listening to downloading songs onto your iPod and all the rest of it, and you're not particularly political, the easiest thing to do is to be a liberal because it's the air that you breathe.
It's the air that you've been breathing since kindergarten now.
In kindergarten, they're told that, oh, we have to pretend to save the planet, that the environment, we all love the environment, and we have to pretend to save the environment.
Look at businesses, even.
It's not even, when I say culture, I'm not just talking about, and nor was Rush, not just talking about movies and pop songs and technological websites and all the rest of it, but even businesses, hard-headed businessmen.
You look at the way businesses all pretend they want to save the environment.
They've all got green initiatives.
If you go into the stores, they've got, you know, you can give a couple of bucks for this and that.
That's telling you something.
That's telling you about where they think the default setting of society is.
And the default setting of American life today is liberal.
It isn't a center-right country.
It isn't a center-right country.
The reality is that you cannot raise a couple of generations in liberal air from kindergarten through first grade.
I mean, really, it doesn't really matter that the stuff gets crazier in university because by the time they're in fifth grade, a lot of the damage has been done.
And you cannot, when you have motion pictures, when you have television, when you have newspapers, when you have the mainline churches, essentially in a default liberal setting, the chances of being able to save the country by a guy in a voting booth punch in the tab of the fellow with the R after his name on a Tuesday every other November.
The idea that in the end that will make a difference to the ratchet liberalization of the country, I think is very short-sighted.
We live in a world now where a majority of Americans, even given the last four years, even given the extraordinary debts, even given the lack of anything to show, running up six trillion, it took the first two centuries of the United States to run up a trillion dollars in debt.
The President of the United States is the first man in history to have spent $6 trillion in four years.
And as if that's not an accomplishment enough, he's the first man in history to To have spent $6 trillion and left no trace.
And yet people say people vote for more of it because somehow they think he's on the side of women.
He's on the side of the environment.
He's on the side of all this other stuff.
And so if we are not in, as Rush said, if we are not in the game playing on those battlefields, if we're basically not even having a conversation with those techie guys under 30, if we basically surrender the movies and we surrender the pop songs and we surrender all the cultural space in society where ideas develop and people's point of view develops and all the rest of it.
And if we just focus, we wasted a billion dollars in trying to drag a guy with an R after his name over the finish line.
Maybe we should have spent that billion dollars making five $200 million avatar-sized blockbuster movies that essentially framed conservative message in great big budget blockbusting storytelling.
But we need something else.
You can't retreat to that little Tuesday in every other November and let the Democrats control the other 364 days of the year and then be surprised that you're losing the country.
So we have to have a strategy for getting back in the game on all those other fronts.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Lots more still to come.
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Let us go to Ferris in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Ferris, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
G'day Stein.
Sarah's fluke from the Gold Coast.
Yeah.
Hey, good, good.
Which bit is Fairfield County again?
I beg your pardon.
Which bit is Fairfield County in Connecticut?
I'm missing a word, Mark.
You're saying which something is Careto County?
Yeah, I was just asking which part of Connecticut is the southeast corner.
It's the part that is more New York than it is Connecticut, but it's equally morally vapid and idiotic.
You're talking about the physical cliffs, Mark, but really people talk about being physically conservative and socially liberal or socially moderate.
Such idiocy is remarkable because it's the moral cliff.
It's the social cliff that we went over some time ago.
And the physical cliff, therefore, had to follow it.
Because you can't become as busted and broke and hopeless as we have become without the loss of morals.
You're talking about these 14-car motorcades.
You're talking about going to Edgar Count at Martha's Vineyard for an ice cream cone at the cost of $1.9 million per ice cream cone.
These are moral issues, Mark.
And one thing, and I'm sure I sing for all of your listeners when I sing, nobody does it better than you.
Nobody.
And the ability to be entertained and laugh when everything that's right says we should be crying.
Well, you know, I love my country.
And my friend from Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Jeff, has nailed it.
When he said, this thing is gone.
Well, you've put it.
No, no, no.
It hasn't gone, Ferris.
Yeah.
But I will say this.
You're right that it is not a bookkeeping issue.
It's not a bookkeeping issue, Faris.
In other words, if we were – he's calling from Connecticut in that little bit in the southeast corner of Connecticut on the coast where it's all the Tony houses and they're all commuting to New York every day.
And that's how we think of Connecticut now.
If it was the guys who settled Connecticut 300 years ago, the fellows who hacked out homes in the wilderness, the Jacksonian Americans that Tocqueville admired when he went to town meetings in Connecticut, these guys would not have run up $16 trillion of federal debt and a lot more.
In other words, it's not a bookkeeping issue.
This is where Warren Buffett and the rest of them are wrong.
It's not about getting a bunch of the green eyeshade guys sitting around in a room and figuring out, well, if we move this from column two to column seven, column B to column Q, we can sort of get by for another six months or so.
It is, in the end, the brokenness is a symptom.
It's a moral issue.
Previous generations of Americans would not have let this happen.
They would not have done this to themselves or to their children and grandchildren.
And Farris used that phrase, you know, fiscally conservative and socially liberal, which people always like the sound of.
People always, you know, Christy Whitman in New Jersey, fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
Bill Weld in Massachusetts, fiscally conservative, socially illiberal.
Who was the guy in New York, say?
Pataki.
I can hardly remember these guys.
Fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
And of course, the greatest of them all, Arnold Schwarzenegger in California, fiscally conservative, socially liberal.
It's the winning combination.
You know who can be fiscally conservative and socially liberal?
Rock stars can.
Rock stars can be socially liberal.
They can sleep with anything that moves and a lot that doesn't.
They can drive their Rolls-Royce into the swimming pool.
They can stick anything up their nose they want to stick.
And then they call their financial advisor, like David Bowie.
David Bowie sells bonds in himself.
You can buy a Bowie bond.
I don't know how it's doing these days, but you probably get better interest than you do buying a U.S. Treasury bond.
Rock stars can do the socially liberal, fiscally conservative thing hardly because they've got people to fix everything for them.
Hardly anybody else can.
It all comes with huge, huge costs.
It's like, what side of that argument does free contraceptive come in?
Because I got no problem with contraceptives.
I got no argument about contraceptives, nor did Mitt Romney, nor did Paul Ryan.
All we're saying is we don't want to pay for it.
That somebody else should pay for your contraceptives.
You should pay for your contraceptives.
I'm happy to pay for my contraceptives.
I just want you to pay for your contraceptives.
But you try and frame it in that terms, and then suddenly contraception, free contraception, has become a human right.
So it falls on the socially liberal side of the fiscally conservative, socially liberal thing.
These guys left no trace.
What was the point of Arnold Schwarzenegger being governor of California?
The big tough guy, the terminator.
He couldn't terminate anything.
He couldn't terminate a Bureau of Compliance.
He couldn't terminate the Agency of Regulatory Oversight.
He couldn't terminate the Department of Environmental Impact studies of studies on the impact on the Bureau of Compliance.
He couldn't do a thing.
He couldn't do a thing.
These issues are tied.
And Farris is absolutely right that in the end, in the end, the spending is a symptom, not the cause.
Previous generations would not have done this to America.
In Rutherford B. Hayes' time, there were 50 million Americans.
Now the entire population of Rutherford B. Hayes' America lives on food stamps.
It's not a bookkeeping issue.
It's a cultural issue and it's a moral one.
Mark, sign in for Rush.
Lots more still to go.
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And I was talking about this terrific thing Rush was saying about a week or so back when he was talking about the long game.
Basically, the left led a huge march through the institutions and the right let them get away with it.
Because since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980, we thought, hey, well, you know, we're electing Republican presidents and once in a while we elect a Republican Senate and a Republican House too and Republican governors.
And meantime, the left were taking over everything else.
That guy Bill Ayres, who's now some educator in Chicago.
You know, Bill Ayers is a very smart guy.
And you can understand why Barack Obama would value his counsel.
Because Bill Ayers, back in the 60s, he was a guy who was a sort of a wannabe terrorist.
He was an incompetent terrorist.
He tried to blow stuff up, but he didn't do it very effectively.
He says, like, the only difference between Osama bin Laden and him is that actually Osama bin Laden was good at it.
And Bill Ayers was an incompetent terrorist.
But he tried to blow stuff up, real stuff up, which if he'd succeeded, would have killed large numbers of people.
He was serious about it.
And then he wised up.
And he figured, why try to blow up the buildings when you can burrow into them and hollow out those institutions from within?
And that's what has happened to American education.
That's what has happened to the American media.
That's what has happened to the American entertainment industry.
It's even, to a degree, it's even what has happened to the American military.
When the chief of the army says that as bad as Major Hassan gunning down 14 people would be, it would be an even worse loss if we were to lose our, quote, diversity, unquote.
That guy said that.
How do you think the loved ones of those 14 dead people feel about his genius insight there?
How do you think they feel about the report classifying that as the guy standing on the table mowing you down and screaming Allahu Akbar is workplace violence?
What happened is that the U.S. military is like every other institution in the country.
It's been hollowed out by political correctness.
Because you can't let, because you can't just look after the voting booth on a Tuesday in November and let everything else go to hell.
The result is what happened last week.
People vote in their broader cultural sphere.
And Barack Obama fit into that, fit into their overall view of the cultural horizon.
And poor old Mitt Romney didn't.
Now, one of the most interesting things Rush did in that monologue, he was talking about humor.
And I think, if I recall correctly, HR, I think Rush told a mother-in-law joke, did he?
He told when he was talking about that, when he was digging his little riff.
As far as I know, I think he said something like, you know what a dichotomy is?
It's when you see your new Cadillac going off the cliff, but your mother-in-law's inside it.
Right?
That was Rush's mother-in-law joke.
I like it.
I'm laughing about it three weeks after he told it.
That's how much I like it.
And Kathy Schadel, a Canadian blogger, Kathy made a great response to that.
She said, you know, almost anything from a Dean Martin Roast on TV in the 70s would now get you pulled up on hate crime charges.
And she's not wrong on that.
People, if you go to so many of the so-called cool, hip-edgy comedy sites, because they have all these blogs for stand-up comics, they have all these comedy blogs where they talk about who's appearing at which club and where all the hip-edgy, cool, transgressive comedians get together to be hip-edgy and transgressive.
And the fact is, they're a bunch, they're basically carring, quivering wrecks.
They're terrified.
Oh, no, you can't say that.
That's not funny.
Oh, look, he made a joke that some gay people might interpret as possibly stereotyping gays.
We can't say that.
I was in a bookstore in Vermont a few weeks back.
I stopped.
I wanted to have a coffee and pick up a book.
And a couple of young guys were sitting at the joining table and they're like picking out what movie.
They're thinking about what movie they want to watch.
Because unlike Barack Obama, they don't have a full-time movie projectionist to cater to their whim.
So they're talking about what they said they were looking at the list and The Dictator came up, which was a film that Sasha Barron Cohen made, I think it was last year, basically about a Gaddafi-like crazy dictator.
And they said, oh, no, that's a terrible film.
That's not funny.
Oh, no.
And the other guy agreed.
Oh, no, no, that's not funny at all.
That's not funny at all.
It's not great art.
But it is funny because he's mocking.
He's mocking both Americans and he's mocking crazy Arab dictators.
And the mistake he makes is mocking left-wing Americans.
So you have a crazy Arab dictator like Gaddafi who winds up working in some lesbian, vegan whole food store somewhere in Brooklyn with women of particular hirsuteness.
And you're not allowed.
So he's making jokes.
He's an equal opportunity offender, Sasha Baron Cohen.
He's rude.
So he's being rude about left-wing American women, and he's being rude about crazy Arab dictators.
And you can't be, and the left says, oh, no, no, no, no, you can't be funny about that.
You can't be funny about that.
So instead, they practice this self-neutering eunuch.
You know, it's okay.
You can make, if it's Sarah Palin's kid, you can make all the jokes you want about Sarah Palin's baby.
You can do that.
Yeah, who cares about that?
Because it's like a conservative.
If you want to make a joke about, you know, if you want to make a joke about Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin, like David Letterman, actually wasn't Bristol Palin, it was one of the other ones, even younger.
You can do all that kind of stuff.
That's fine.
But there's whole kinds of areas of life you're not allowed to do observational comedy about on the left.
They say, oh, no, no.
And that's fascinating.
Rush was right to draw attention to that.
Because do you know the amount of cultural rewiring required to actually change people's sense of humor so that they actually look at something and they say, oh, wait a minute, somewhere in the back of their head, even if they're a titter may be rising in their throat, but they catch it just in time because they know they're not meant to find that funny.
That's the result of 40 years of indoctrination to teach people, to shrivel the bounds of what people are allowed to find funny.
And it is an incredible, it is in its way an incredible achievement.
And that's why the left wants to confine us to a ghetto.
They don't want us breaking out into that wider cultural space.
If you notice, Rush gets into trouble for what he says on this show.
You know, he gets in, people will pick on him for saying this, for saying that, but they go absolutely bananas.
They go absolutely bananas when he gets on ESPN, or if there's talk, there's rumors that he's buying a football franchise or whatever.
That's when they go really crazy because they don't want the right breaking out into the wider sphere, into all that land, into that big landscape, from the churches to the schools to the boardrooms where left-wing ideas predominate.
And that's why they'll bash Rush and they'll try to get him kicked off the air and they'll do sponsor boycotts and all the rest of it for this show.
But they go nuclear when he turns up on ESPN or when he tries to buy a football franchise or when he's guesting on some animated sitcom or whatever, because they don't want him out in that broader, wider cultural world at all.
And Rush is absolutely right about that.
We've surrendered all this turf and we have to start spending the next four years taking it back or it's going to be the same thing all over.
Next time round, we're going to have some flawed candidate.
They're all flawed.
That's just the way it is.
And he's going to be goofy and he's going to be square and he's not going to be as cool as their guy.
And we're going to be trying to drag him over the finish line to the same effect as happened in November.
We've got to take back all the turf that we have surrendered to the left in their long march through the institutions.
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Straight ahead.
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Let's go to John in Peoria, Illinois.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, Mark, it's an honor to talk to you.
It's actually my fourth time on Rush, but my first time with you.
And having spent time in and out of the military since 1983, I can attest to what you said is happening to the military.
But what I called about was in 1996, David Horowitz wrote a book called Radical Son, and he described exactly what you talked about.
And in the 20s, his parents were communists, and I'll have to discuss all that.
But their plan was, is to essentially, and this sounds conspiratorial, but this is exactly what he wrote about in 1996.
The plan was for the communists, socialists, Democrats, whatever you want to call them today, to take over the New York Teachers' Union.
And they did that.
And then their plan was a five or sixth generation plan where essentially they were to take over the educational system and essentially re-educate our children like Ko Chi Min or Mao Sedong had done.
And essentially, they've accomplished that.
And he wrote about this almost 20 years ago.
And at the time I read the book, I thought, well, that's crazy.
That really can't be happening.
But it is happening.
And it's happening in the military.
It's happening everywhere.
And these kids that are coming out now, I mean, unless you send your kids to a private school, you know, they're coming out indoctrinated.
It's just, it's a scary thing.
Well, and often, John, actually, when you talk about the private school, in fact, the only difference between a private school and a public school is that the private school will be actually able to indoctrinate your kids that much more lavishly, you know, whereas in Lisa's broken college.
One went to Notre Dame and one's at Alabama.
And the sad thing about it is I think my son that's at the University of Alabama is at a more conservative school than University of Notre Dame.
Right, right.
I know.
And that's the thing, because in some the elite institutions have all the money they want to do this thing, money, no object.
All the craziest courses are at the most expensive colleges.
They come out in so much debt that essentially they have no options.
And it's a trick.
I mean, it's basically a form of slavery.
I mean, these kids are just not going to be able.
They're coming out with $100,000, $200,000 debt.
Now, granted, they don't live on ramen anymore.
They're taking trips to Jamaica and whatnot.
But, you know, they just come out with this incredible amount of debt.
They're behind the eight ball.
So a government job looks great to them.
You know, maybe they'll forgive their debts in 20 years like they say they will.
It's actually 10 years on that for government.
If you take a government job, you will have your college debt forgiven in 10 years.
You know, I was talking to a college student the other night, and he said in this kind of generational superiority way, he said, you know what our generation have?
More of our generation want to work for non-profits than any other generation in history.
Well, that's because, like, they didn't have non-profits as a category half a century ago.
I mean, there was the Red Cross and one or two other things.
But non-profits hadn't become a big, sprawling part of the...
You know, this country's in massive debt.
Somebody has to make a profit to pay off the debt.
If everybody works for a non-profit, the thing's over.
America is the world's biggest non-profit right at the moment.
It's the most non-profitable entity that has ever existed in human history.
So the idea that people will take on six figures of college debt and then come out and say, oh, you know, my ambition is to work for a non-profit.
That's a real tragedy.
And just to go back to what we were talking about, how eventually it infects everything, including the military, including the military.
For some reason, some guy put me on the U.S. Navy newsletter.
And I didn't know what this thing was, but it started turning up in my inbox every day.
And I thought this would be great.
I'll be tales of daring do on the high seas.
I thought, you know, the U.S. Navy newsletter, they'll be saying, wait, we got some Somali pirates last week, and here's some thrilling.
I thought it'd be like that.
It's like one anodyne eunuch diversity story after another.
I'll just read you a sample headlines.
Naval history website highlights Women's History Month.
Senior Navy leader receives Black Engineer of the Year Award.
David Alexander receives Diversity Leadership Award.
Navy women in aviation show diversity is rising.
Top Pentagon official discovers model of diversity at Corona Warfare Center.
This is the United States Navy has swallowed all this stuff.
United States Navy newsletter, senior Navy letter, senior Navy, you know, one diversity awareness story after another.
You know, senior Navy leader receives most diverse engineer of the year award.
You know, there's no end to it.
Appointment of first Somali pirate to joint chiefs of staff shows diversity is rising, says top Pentagon officer.
Okay, I made that one up, but how can you tell?
That's all it is now.
That's all it is in the U.S. Navy newsletter.
So obviously, if that's how the brass, if that's how the people who run the U.S. military think, then obviously when some jihadist guns, a U.S. Army psychiatrist guns down a bunch of people because he believes in jihad and he's getting his orders direct from Ayman al-Waki in Yemen, people, half the brass think, oh, wow, that's great.
That just shows how diverse we are.
You can't get any more diverse than having the enemy inside your base.
That's pretty diverse, isn't it?
There's two sides in a war, and we've got both of them right in our own bases.
That's celebrate diversity right there.
And that's the point, is that these guys, we think of generals, we think of generals, you know, like Patton, right?
Sherman.
These are kind of, these are generals.
They're not.
Generals are people who have been raised in the same American schools as everybody else.
And when you look at what American schools are inculcating in America's youth, why be surprised that the U.S. Navy newsletter is just awash in celebrating diversity and celebrating this and that?
Mark Stein in for Rush, the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Steinin for Rush on the EIB network.
You know, I used to joke that sometimes, a couple of times I was coming down to New York to do this show and I couldn't get out of Burlington because Vermont airspace was closed due to unusually high levels of bovine flatulence.
But don't knock bovine flatulence because I see that the Mount Killington Ski Resort in Vermont is now powering its gondola on bovine flatulence.
Methane, cow methane, is now powering the gondola to get you up Mount Killington in the big ski resort in Vermont.
So bovine flatulence is the wave of the future.
You know, we don't want to have that Keystone pipeline coming down from Canada because we've got all the bovine flatulence we need right here.
We don't need, that's America.
That's one of the jobs American cows will do, bovine flatulence.
We don't need to get any Canadian cows in that.
We don't need those European Union over-unionized cows, your Holsteins and your Jerseys and all those flatulent European cows.
Sure, they're more flatulent than our cows, but it's not like all American flatulence.
Bovine flatulence is now powering.
So if you're planning a ski trip in New England ski vacation, think about going up Mount Killington.
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