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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hey, happy Independence Day.
	If you're Algerian, Venezuelan, or Cape Verdean, July the fifth is Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela, and Capo Verde.
	It's amazing.
	America declares independence on July the 4th, and within 24 hours, everyone else wants a piece of the action.
	America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, sitting in.
	America may have seceded from the crown, but for the next three hours, in a late-breaking rearguard action, America's number one radio show is back within Her Majesty's dominions.
	Rush returns Monday.
	We're live at Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	So if you're a United Empire loyalist fleeing to Canada from these upstart rebel colonists or crawling all over the woods, do swing by because we'd love to see you.
	Mr. Snerdley is down south and he's in charge of the show.
	He's a take-charge guy.
	He could be an Egyptian general.
	He's such a take-charge guy.
	1-800-282-2882 is the number to call.
	I hope you had a great 4th of July, Independence Day.
	We don't say Independence Day as much as we should.
	And I'd like to explore that concept a little in the course of the show today.
	The Obamas are back from their $100 million African vacation.
	14 million people took to the streets to greet America's president.
	Oh, no, wait, that was for Egypt's president.
	As the Egyptian military pressed the reset button on the Arab Spring, America's Secretary of State was yachting off Nantucket.
	The Boston Herald has a terrific front page this morning showing John Kerry clambering aboard his boat from his kayak.
	You can't have your kayak and eat it.
	You can't have your kayak in Egypt.
	It's one or the other.
	So he spent Egyptian coup commemoration day windsurfing in his distinctive buttock hugging yellow lycra.
	But if you look very carefully, if you look very carefully, you can see that he's got a cell phone tucked down his left thigh.
	So when he needs to, he can call President Morsi in the military detention facility.
	Mr. Sturley is suggesting that nobody wants to look at John Kerry's buttock-hugging lycra that closely.
	But he is the only – do you know he's the only presidential candidate, Mr. Sturley?
	When he was running in 2004, this is the genius thinking of the Democrats candidate.
	He took the accompanying press corps to a sports shop with him to buy a what do they call it here?
	A retainer.
	Is that the word they use here?
	A cup.
	It's not me.
	Don't blame me.
	This is the Democrats.
	This is how they John Kerry don't blame the massive male insecurities going on in John Kerry.
	When he was running for president, he takes the press corps to the sports shop to buy a cup.
	you pick up a supporter and he he needed he needed well mr snadley has just made a rather obvious derogatory joke about mr about senator kerry's secretary kerry's cup but But let's not go there, Mr. Snerdley.
	You know, if it's as long as his head, he's in pretty good shape.
	Anyway, that's what Senator Kerry was doing for Egyptian coup commemoration day.
	And this is the first coup in Egypt since King Farouk was toppled in 1952.
	General Sissy, General Sissy, that's the Egyptian military chief, by the way, not a broad characterization of American global power in the age of Obama and Kerry.
	General Sissy is rounding up the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, but out there off Nantucket, Senator Kerry Winsurfson.
	Don't worry, he's fully in command of world events.
	And as General Sissy brings his iron rod to bear on the Brotherhood, we'll bring you all the breaking news from Egypt.
	As I said, Mohamed Morsi has been taken to a military jail.
	I'm not sure, it might even be the same one his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, is sitting in.
	It's like governor's row at the Illinois State Penitentiary.
	They now got a president's row in the Cairo jail.
	President Obama said he wouldn't be scrambling.
	He said the other day, he wouldn't be scrambling jets to get the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but instead he's de-scrambling everybody else's jets.
	The Bolivians and Latin America in general are outraged, outraged that the Bolivian president's plane was forced down en route.
	He was returning from a summit in Russia, and the Bolivian president's plane was supposed to be flying back to Bolivia via Lisbon and Guyana to refuel.
	Instead, his plane was diverted to Vienna after his government said that France, Spain, and Portugal all refused to let it through their airspace because the Americans had told them that Edward Snowden was on board.
	Spain's ambassador to Austria tried to make his way onto the plane in Vienna to have a coffee.
	That was his feeble excuse to check that Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, wasn't there.
	And eventually, the Bolivian president was allowed to take off again after it was determined that Edward Snowden was not on board.
	The Bolivians are furious about this.
	Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, Sasha Laurenti, said, The orders came from the United States.
	They want to frighten me and intimidate me, but they won't scare me, President Morales said, before finally taking off to Spain's Canary Islands and on to Brazil and then home.
	We're not in colonial or imperial times.
	This is an aggression against Latin America.
	So this whole Independence Day thing, this Declaration of Independence, is catching on now.
	The Bolivians and the other Latin American leaders are declaring their independence from the jackboot of American imperialism.
	President Morales claims that Obama forced his plane down at Vienna.
	You know, this is an evolution of the old Yankee go home line.
	This is Yankee won't let me go home.
	The Morales is trying to fly home from Russia to Bolivia, and they force his plane down in Vienna.
	Throughout Latin America, says the Associated Press, there was a sense of deep injustice and offense at what was widely believed to be US-prompted interference with Bolivia's equivalent of Air Force One.
	This is a humiliation for a sister nation and for the South American continent, said Christina Fernandez, the leftist president of Argentina, describing the plane's rerouting as, quote, a vestige of the colonialism that we had completely overcome.
	She said Morales' total and indisputable immunity as head of state had been violated when he was quote illegally detained.
	Every Latin American president is up in arms at Obama Bringing down the president of Bolivia's plane to check whether what is he called?
	29-year-old high school dropout Edward Snowden, the man that the United States government gave all its secrets to.
	The high school dropout was believed to be on the Bolivian president's plane.
	So President Obama, who said he wouldn't scramble jets, is de-scrambling everybody else's presidential jet.
	July the third, the Americans are bringing down the planes of Latin American leaders, Egyptian coups.
	July the 4th, American Independence Day.
	July the 5th today is the 65th anniversary of the British National Health Service.
	And this was very nearly a national holiday in the United Kingdom.
	I mentioned in my book After America that after the London tube bombings, Gordon Brown began mulling over the creation of what he called like a British equivalent to the 4th of July, which was supposed to be a new national holiday to bolster British identity so that so-called British subjects didn't go around blowing up trains and buses and so on quite so enthusiastically.
	And that a Labour Party think tank proposed that the new British Day should be July the 5th because that's the day the National Health Service was created in 1948.
	And because the essence of contemporary British identity, of course, as you'll know if you've ever been in the United Kingdom, the essence of contemporary British identity is waiting two years for a hip operation.
	So they would have a national holiday every July the 5th.
	And I said in my book, they should, oh, they should call it Dependence Day.
	And it was just a cheap throwaway line.
	But you wait a couple of years, and every cheap throwaway crack you make comes true.
	Nancy Pelosi said that this 4th of July, Americans should be celebrating healthcare independence because that's the real message of Independence Day.
	Did you know that?
	That's that's according to Nancy Pelosi, the real message of Independence Day.
	What we should be celebrating this 4th of July is healthcare independence because America in 1776 had a pre-existing condition called George III and getting cured of it wasn't covered by anybody's plan.
	So Washington and Jefferson came up with a plan of their own.
	It's the opposite of Obamacare.
	The revolutionary guys started the war and then issued the declaration a year later.
	With Obamacare, they issued the declaration and then postponed starting it for a year.
	So they're doing it the other way around.
	But Bette Midler doesn't seem to be buying Nancy Pelosi's historical revisionism.
	Bette put out her own 4th of July tweet.
	If you're on Bette Middler's Twitter feed, as I'm sure everybody is, you'll have seen this yesterday.
	Bette Midler on the 4th of July, happy Independence Day.
	Just think, if we hadn't won that war, today wouldn't be a holiday and we'd have health care.
	So she's saying if only we'd stuck with George III, we would have real great British government health care.
	But the founding fathers screwed us out of that deal.
	Thanks a lot, guys.
	By the way, by the way, if you know your Declaration of Independence, we had great fun doing this on the way to the 4th of July fireworks yesterday.
	It's a new game.
	It's great fun with the kids in the car.
	George III or King Barack.
	It's an easy game.
	You can all play.
	Just get a copy of the Declaration of Independence and pluck any line at random.
	Quote, he has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained.
	And of course, my know-it-all kids said, ah, that's George III.
	I said, no, it's Barack Obama.
	Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, but King Barack just suspended the operation of its key provisions till his assent should be obtained.
	How about this one?
	George III or King Barak?
	He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
	Well, if you've had any dealings with the Cincinnati branch of the IRS, you'll know the answer to that one.
	So we'll be talking about Egypt.
	We'll be talking about the President of the United States bringing down the jets of other world leaders.
	We'll be talking about the postponement of healthcare.
	But it's not just the day after the 4th of July.
	It's also the end of the week.
	And that means that you, the poor, downtrodden, mean and lowly listener, a humble subject of the great King Rush, get to celebrate your independence from the tyranny of radio show professionals and exercise life liberty and the pursuit of whatever it is you want to talk about.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
	Yes, 1-800-282-2882.
	You know the way this works.
	Monday to Thursday, you get no say whatsoever in determining the content of the show.
	But on Friday, anything goes.
	And just because it's the day after 4th of July, we're not going to break that rule.
	Whatever you want to talk about, whatever's on your mind, the state of the Republic the day after its independence celebrations, call me 1-800-282-2882 and go for it.
	Whatever is on your mind, Egypt, healthcare, the economy, cricket scores, ballet, we'll take it all.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush.
	Hey, happy 5th of July.
	Mark Stein in for rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	The State Department now concedes that John Kerry was on his yacht off Nantucket yesterday, but say that he was only on his boat briefly on Wednesday.
	They initially denied that he had been on the water at all.
	Then, after the photograph appeared on the front page of the Boston Herald, showing him in his vibrant, multicolored leisure wear, climbing out of his kayak, they conceded that he had been briefly on his boat Wednesday, but he was working around the clock all day.
	He held calls with, this is classic named dropping, by the way.
	Try this at a party.
	Norwegian Foreign Minister Eid, Qatari Foreign Minister Alatia, Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu, Egyptian Constitution Party President ElBaradei, and five calls to Ambassador Pastison on that day alone.
	And since then, he continued to make calls to leaders, including Emirati Foreign Minister Bin Zayed, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Amur.
	None of the calls were made from his yacht.
	The State Department of the United States, just to show how relevant it remains in the world today, has listed the telephone calls that John Kerry did not make from his yacht.
	So the issue, what is interesting in this is whether John Kerry on his yacht tried to call the Bolivian president on his plane before the Americans forced the plane down.
	That is not clear from this.
	But John Kerry, they are denying that John Kerry called any of these world leaders, Norwegian Foreign Minister Eid and Emirati Foreign Minister Bin Zayed, whether he called any of these world leaders from his yacht.
	They're saying he was on dry land when he called these leaders.
	John Kerry, as far as we know, did not attend the Boston Pops 4th of July annual fireworks spectacular in Boston last night.
	Apparently, the Boston Pops event attracted half the people it normally does.
	It usually attracts over half a million, and it was down to under 300,000, apparently, because they instituted in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Boston police introduced TSA-type security.
	So you had to go through security lines, you had to give up your bags, you had to put their contents in plastic bags.
	Dale Shatzka, a Shrewsbury real estate auctioneer, was surprised when a security official confiscated his beach umbrella, which was not on the list of prohibited items.
	He said the security officers who confiscated it told him they did not want beach umbrellas because they could be used as spears.
	Because this is how Americans celebrate independence now.
	This is how Americans in the year 2013 celebrate a revolutionary act.
	This is how Americans honor the men who pledged their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor.
	This is how Americans honor them in the year 2013 by surrendering their beach umbrellas because the police have determined.
	By the way, George III wouldn't have done this to you.
	George III, the Red Coats didn't confiscate your beach umbrellas.
	George III had no fear of beach umbrellas.
	But the Boston police, when you want to get to the Boston Pops concert, they said they did not want beach umbrellas because they could be used as spears.
	That's their response to two Chechen guys or Dagestanis or whatever these guys are, the Sarnaev brothers, Tamilan Sarnayev and his brother Joker, tried to blow up the Boston Marathon, right?
	These guys are Chechens from via Dagestan who are radicalized by Islam and have a YouTube terrorist video feed.
	So the Boston police respond to that by banning beach umbrellas because they could be used as spears.
	By the way, in the old days, the old minutemen that they used to have in Massachusetts, you remember the guys who were pledged to take to the field of battle at a minute's notice.
	Your Minutemen, if you tried to scramble them because you'd said, well, there's a couple of guys with beach umbrellas outside, they would not have responded to that.
	They would say, wake us when something more serious is going on.
	Beach umbrellas played no part in the Revolutionary War.
	Massachusetts is famous for the shot herd around the world, not the beach umbrella hurt.
	Is that a shot herd around the world?
	No, it's just some guy opening his beach umbrella.
	That's how it is now when you celebrate Independence Day in Boston.
	So basically, nobody came to the Boston Pops.
	Half the usual crowd came to the Boston Pops 4th of July concert because it's like going to hear the Boston Pops on a plane at Logan Airport.
	That's what they've turned it into.
	Geniuses, the Boston police, that's what they've turned it into.
	The terrorists have won.
	I mean, Tamilan Sarnayev, he could have killed a bunch more people, but he didn't actually need to because the Boston police have responded by confiscating beach umbrellas on the 4th of July.
	American independence in the year 2013.
	Mark Stein, InfraRush, lots more straight ahead.
	Yes, post-independence day at the EIB Network.
	Don't forget, if you go to rushlimbore.com, it's pure all-American Rush 24-7.
	If you're a Rush 24-7 subscriber, you need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign usurpers sent forth by George III.
	The South African government has denied that Nelson Mandela is in a vegetative state.
	Apparently, a careless nurse just switched the TV in his hospital room to a live Obama speech, and a glassy look came into his eyes, but apparently he's fine now.
	Also, on that business with the Fourth of July flopparoo in Boston, not a flopperoo, but less than half the people who normally come out to see the Boston pops and the fireworks and all the rest of it.
	It's kind of a bit of a bit of a damp splutter.
	Shay Zohal, 32, was at the event for the first time and said he wasn't bothered by all the security.
	I'm from Israel.
	He told the Boston Globe, so this is nothing.
	So it's great.
	It has all the relaxed atmosphere now in Boston.
	Fourth of July with the Boston Pops in Boston has all the relaxed atmosphere of like 4th of July in Gaza.
	That's great news.
	That's really the comparison.
	The Boston police say they're going to be reviewing the procedures they did last year, and they did this year in terms of how they're going to do it next year.
	But the beach umbrellas, they were worried that people could spear each other with beach umbrellas.
	And it's true because people might just think it was an exciting multicultural dance.
	You know, the Boston pops start playing you're a grand old flag or God bless America.
	And everybody, yeah, everybody start jousting is a good way to look at it.
	It could be like dueling and like Aaron Burr.
	It could be just all get a bit out of hand.
	They start playing you're a grand old flag and people don't have any flags to hand so they start jousting with their beach umbrellas and next thing you know they're all spearing each other and it could be and it could be a mess.
	So that's how it was with the Boston Pops in Boston this 4th of July.
	Let's go to Kevin in Amanda, Ohio.
	Kevin, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to be here.
	Thanks for taking my phone call.
	I wanted to get your opinion on what you think about the media's language concerning the NSA's seizure of all of our personal information.
	I mean, the media likes to say, well, the government was collecting or gathering or data mining, when in fact, what the government was doing was seizing everybody's personal information, which is in direct conflict with our Fourth Amendment right again.
	It's unreasonable search and seizure.
	And they try to get around it by saying, well, we created this special court, and the three branches of government are involved, and we can all hide in secret and abolish everybody's constitutional right, which is in direct contradiction of the Constitution.
	If they want to get rid of everybody's search and seizure protections, they can do that.
	But there's a constitutional provision on how to do that.
	And if we're that much in danger, that's what they need to do, not directly forget the Constitution.
	They pretend it doesn't exist and set up some secret system where they can go in and snoop on everybody.
	What they need to do is no different than opening your mail or putting a microphone in your house.
	And I can't believe there isn't more outrage.
	Well, I'll just add one PS to that, Kevin, which is that it now emerges that it's not just all your electronic data, but that the United States Postal Service, which is a big money-losing operation, also photographs every single item of mail, the exterior of it, of snail mail, this is.
	If your granny sends you a nice Christmas gift and you send her a handwritten thank-you note back to Granny, that handwritten thank-you note is photographed by the United States Postal Service and goes into some maybe this facility they've got in Utah or maybe it's some other facility where all those things are stored.
	It's unbelievable, Mark.
	The purpose of the Fourth Amendment protections is to show the establishment of probable cause if you're going to be searched.
	Your personal property is going to be seized.
	And this wasn't information available to the general public where anybody can get it.
	This is your personal information.
	This is a huge violation, and uh the media needs to change its language and making it sound so harmless and benign, it drives me crazy.
	No, and and you're and you're you're right on that.
	You don't have to sell me on the on the Fourth Amendment.
	A lady who works for me was uh improperly pulled over by a small-town police officer here in uh here in New Hampshire.
	And uh I said to her, This is a Fourth Amendment case, a nineteenth Amendment under the New Hampshire Constitution for search and seizure, and that is an appropriate thing to celebrate on the time of Independence Day.
	The idea that there is a court that looks on it.
	This judge is a rubber stamp.
	This court is a rubber stamp.
	He doesn't do anything.
	He doesn't turn down anything.
	He has less judicial independence than these guys from the Egyptian Constitutional Court who are the frontmen for the new military regime.
	The Egyptian Constitutional Court has more independent spirit than the rubber stamp FISA court that signs off.
	And by the way, when you go for a warrant for everybody, that's not a warrant.
	It's one thing to have a warrant for Fred Smith of 27 Elm Street.
	To have a warrant for everybody in the country, that's not a warrant, and no judge should even be bothered pretending that it is.
	As you say, Kevin, if you want to do this, do this honestly.
	Go and repeal the Fourth Amendment.
	But don't pretend that you've set up some kind of checks and balances and protections when, in fact, you've got a rubber stamp guy who will rubber stamp anything.
	And he's basically not rubber stamping warrants as that term has any real meaning in the English language.
	He's basically just rubber stamping an all-powerful, universal, all-seeing surveillance state.
	And what words would you prefer them to use, Kevin, by the way?
	How would you like them to use it?
	And I had a hard time celebrating Independence Day because there has not been more outrage in this country as to what the government has done to every single citizen.
	I mean, it's almost like a bunch of atheists celebrating Christmas.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	People ought to be in the streets demanding answers as to what occurred here because this is a blatant violation of every citizen's constitutional right.
	And this thing could lead to 1984 times 10.
	Well, you're right.
	I mean, it's worse than what George Orwell foresaw, because George Orwell could not have foreseen the degree of universal surveillance.
	But one reason we have it, Kevin, and I'll just tie it back to the beach umbrellas, because it's the same principle in operation, is because we have a politically correct ruling class, they cannot be honest about what they need to do to keep us safe from terrorism.
	They cannot be honest about who it is who are a threat to us, who it is who want to blow up the Boston Marathon, who want to take down airliners, who want to fly planes into buildings.
	They can't be honest about that.
	And so they have to pretend that everybody is a threat.
	And that's why they end up confiscating beach umbrellas and coolers at the Boston Marathon and why they decide they're going to have universal surveillance of everybody's email.
	Now this is we're told we're told, by the way, and this is straight out of 1984 by Orwell.
	We're told that these have stopped some dozens and dozens of terrorist attacks that we never hear about.
	It's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	All this super universal surveillance of everybody, everybody, has stopped dozens and dozens of terrorist attacks that we don't even hear about because that's how efficient it is.
	They're so nipped expeditiously in the bud that we never even get to hear about them.
	Funnily enough, the ones we do get to hear about, the so-called universal surveillance, turns out to be absolutely useless.
	The FBI, the FSB in Moscow, the successors to the KGB, finger Tamil Ansarnev to the FBI, who do nothing about him.
	They let him go and live his life and blow up the Boston Marathon.
	The Panty bomber, who tried to blow up the flight over Detroit, the Panty bomber's dad back in Nigeria went to the CIA and said, my son is podding.
	The CIA did nothing about it.
	The Homeland Security let that guy get on the plane, let him try to light up his knickers over Detroit and self-detonate over Detroit.
	And at the end of it, Janet Ncompetano, the Homeland Security Secretary, said the system worked.
	So on all these specific, the Major Hassan, Major Hassan down at Fort Hood, who killed 14 Americans.
	The money-no-object U.S. government had two counter-terrorism task forces on top of that guy.
	It's not one, not one like most countries have, but they actually had two.
	And again, nothing, it wasn't enough.
	He still got to stand on the table, yell alahu Akbar, and gun down 13 people and an unborn baby.
	So none of it.
	What are they doing?
	They're monitoring everybody's emails and keeping them in a big database.
	And it's the same, it's always the same with bureaucracies.
	You know, to go after a guy who goes back to Dagestan and trains with murky terrorist groups, and it's all a bit difficult that, you know, so he might be a terrorist, but he might just be, you know, an observant Muslim and if you a pious, devout Muslim.
	And if you go after him, you're going to be tied up in sensitivity training hell for the next year and a half.
	And your career will be over.
	You'll never get a promotion because you'll be damned in an Islamophobe.
	So it's much easier to go and harass somebody out in Texas who wants to form a Tea Party group and demand that she be audited and all the rest of it.
	And it's much easier.
	And it's always the way.
	When you have big universal bureaucracies, they always go for the easy targets.
	It's when they introduced a coast-to-coast gun registry, national gun registry up in Canada, after some guy walked into a college in Montreal and killed a bunch of the young female students.
	And they respond by coming up with this big national gun registry.
	Is it going to stop people who want to go and be serial killers or kill a bunch of people?
	No, they start harassing farmers who've got rusty shotguns that their grandparents gave them 60 years ago.
	Bureaucracy, the minute you have a universal rule, the bureaucracy always goes to the easiest people and harasses the law-abiding people, the bourgeois middle-class people, because they're the ones who are harassed, because they're the ones who think, oh, well, yes, if I just fill in 17 pieces of state paperwork, it doesn't take up too much of my time.
	And of course, as the statist control freaks always say, well, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear.
	As we see, they use this information, they collect information and they use it against people they perceive to be their political enemies.
	It's not only unconstitutional, it's also ineffective.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	We'll take lots more of your calls straight ahead on Open Line Friday.
	Rush returns live Monday.
	President Obama has a new limousine.
	He's just back from Africa.
	The cost of the trip to Africa is estimated to be just shy of $100 million to send the President of the United States to Africa.
	And people wonder why it gets to be, why it has to be that expensive.
	By the way, when he went to the G8 summit in beautiful Enniskill in Northern Ireland by Lockhear a couple of weeks ago, beautiful part of the world.
	He arrives with a bigger entourage than everybody else put together and spends more getting there than everybody else put together.
	And you're wondering why that costs that much.
	He's now got a new limousine designed to look like a 2008 Cadillac DTS, the new beast.
	That's what they call it, the beast.
	It keeps breaking down everywhere, by the way.
	When it was in London, they fly this thing everywhere.
	And in London, he got snagged on some bridge or something.
	But the new one is a hybrid that I don't think that means a hybrid in the environmental sense, does it?
	Reportedly blends caddy components with the guts of a Chevrolet Kodiak commercial truck, but with heavy armor, such heavy armor that the car reportedly weighs 7.5 tons.
	The armor includes 8-inch plates capable of stopping an improvised explosive device and 5-inch multi-layer windows that make the doors as heavy as those on a 757 jet.
	The car is sealed against biochemical attacks.
	It also features James Bond-style options, including a night vision system.
	I know if I had to listen to one of Michelle's lectures on proper dieting, I would value an ejector button.
	But I don't believe it does have a dejector button.
	It also carries communications gear and in the trunk, a blood bank matching the president's type.
	You know, this is how this it's it's it's it's incredible.
	You cannot send, I mean, maybe he should just stay home.
	Maybe he should just stay home.
	The African trip was a bust.
	He didn't have anything for $100 million.
	The State Department, by the way, you may have heard a couple of days ago that they spent $630,000 on Facebook likes, Facebook likes, the State Department.
	This is the cracked foreign policy operation in the United States, spent $630,000 on Facebook likes.
	And nobody likes them.
	That's what's so fascinating.
	In the streets of Taria Square, the second most unpopular person in Egypt, other than Mohamed Morsi, is Anne Patterson, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt.
	She's hated there.
	Obama is hated.
	You know, it's incredible.
	Obama and Anne Patterson and John Kerry were the last three supporters of Mohamed Morsi on the planet.
	They didn't realize that they not just backed the wrong horse, they backed the dead horse.
	Even as the army is on its way to the presidential palace to get rid of the guy, the last three people on the planet to stand by him are Obama, John Kerry, and Anne Patterson, the most hated woman in Egypt.
	And so that's what they got for spending $630,000 on Facebook.
	Likes?
	Like?
	Nobody, nobody.
	Obama?
	Like?
	Don't like?
	No?
	No?
	All thumbs down for Obama.
	The placards on the streets of Tahrir Square are amazing.
	The one that said, I don't know whether I can even say this about the President of the United States, but the one that I thought was particularly well formulated was Obama, your bitch is our dictator.
	It's not even clear that that's an accurate characterization of the relationship between Obama and Mohamed Morsi.
	Mohamed Morsi, basically John Kerry, waived all congressional safeguards for the money that we gave to the we gave tons of money, billions and billions to Mubarak, and got nothing to show for it other than Mohamed Atta flying through the office window on a Tuesday morning.
	They gave billions to Mohamed Morsi.
	And all that happened is that the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt is the most hated woman in the country today.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Lots more straight ahead.
	The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, is threatening to close the U.S. embassy in his country after the humiliation of having his plane forced down in Vienna at the behest of the Americans, because Edward Snowden was supposedly on board.
	We will close the embassy of the United States, President Morales said.
	We do not need the Embassy of the United States.
	Well, that's true, unless you're looking for something to burn and trash next time Hillary Clinton says there's a video she doesn't like or something like that.
	But the Latin Americans are hopping mad about the Bolivian President's plane being forced down.

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