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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	Hey, happy Independence Day.
	If you're uh Algerian, Venezuelan or Cape Verdean.
	Uh July the 5th is Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela, and Capa Verde.
	It's uh it's amazing.
	Uh uh America declares independence on July the 4th, and within 24 hours, everyone else wants a piece of the action.
	Uh America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman, Mark Stein sitting in.
	Uh 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, uh 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 he's a take charge guy.
	He he 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 uh a great 4th of July, Independence Day.
	We don't say we don't say uh Independence Day as much as as we should.
	Uh and uh I'd like to uh I'd like to explore that concept a little in the course of the show today.
	The Obamas are back from their 100 million dollar African vacation.
	Uh 14 million people took to the streets uh to uh greet America's pres Oh no, wait, that was for Egypt's president.
	Um as the uh 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 uh his boat from his uh his uh whatchamaca his kayak.
	You 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 uh windsurfing in his distinctive uh 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 uh tucked down his left thigh.
	So when he he needs to, he can call President Morsi in the military detention facility.
	Uh no, every you t Mr. Snerdley is suggesting that nobody wants to look at at uh John Kerry's buttock hugging lycra uh that closely.
	But uh uh uh he is the only do you know he's the only presidential candidate, Mr. Snerdley, when he was running in 2004.
	This is the genius thinking of the Democrats candidate.
	He took the he took it the accompanying press corps to a sports shop with him uh to buy a uh what do they call it here?
	A retainer.
	Is that the word is that the word they use here?
	A cup.
	He's uh a 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 in going on in John Kerry.
	He when he 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 needed.
	He needed well Mr. Snerdley has just made a rather obvious derogatory joke about Mr. about Senator Kerry's Secretary Kerry's cup.
	But uh let's not go there, Mr. Snerdley.
	You know, if it's as long as his head, he's in pretty good shape.
	Anyway, uh that's uh that's what Senator Carey was uh doing for uh Egyptian coup commemoration day.
	Um and uh this is the f this first coup in Egypt since uh King Farouk was toppled in 1952.
	Um 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.
	Uh General Sissy is rounding up the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, but uh out there off Nantucket, Senator Kerry Winsurfson.
	Uh don't worry, he's fully in command of world events.
	Uh uh and as uh as General Sissy brings his iron rod to bear on the Brotherhood, we'll bring you all the breaking news from Egypt.
	Um as I said, uh Mohammed Morsi has been taken to a military jail.
	Uh 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've now got a president's row in the Cairo jail.
	Uh President President Obama said he wouldn't be scrambling that he said the other day, wouldn't be scrambling jets to get the NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
	But instead he's 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 uh Lisbon and uh 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.
	Uh 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.
	Uh and the eventually the Bolivian president was allowed to take off again after it was determined that Edward Snowden was not on board.
	Uh 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 um the uh the Bolivians and the other Latin American leaders are declaring their independence from the jackboot of American imperialism.
	The the President Morales claims that Obama forced his plane down at Vienna.
	You know, this is a this is an evolution of the old, you know, Yankee go home line.
	This is Yankee won't let me go home.
	Uh the uh Morales is trying to fly home from Russia to Bolivia, and they force his plane down in in uh in Vienna.
	Uh throughout Latin America, says the Associated Press, there was a sense of deep injustice and offense at what was widely believed to be U.S. prompted interference with Bolivia's equivalent of Air Force One.
	This is a humiliation for assister 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 dis indisputable immunity had 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, bringing down the president of Bolivia's plane to check whether uh what's it what is he called?
	29-year-old high school dropout Edward Snowden, the man that the United States government gave all its secrets to.
	Uh the high school dropout was believed to be on the Bolivian president's plane.
	So he's uh President Obama who said he wouldn't scramble jets, is uh de-scrambling everybody else's uh presidential jet.
	Uh uh July the third, they they the Americans are bringing down the planes of Latin American leaders, Egyptian coups.
	July the fourth, American Independence Day, July the 5th, today, is the uh sixty-fifth 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 uh mulling over the creation of uh what he called like a British equivalent to the Fourth of July, uh, which was supposed to be a new national holiday to bolster British identity so that uh so-called British subjects didn't go around blowing up uh trains and buses and so on quite so enthusiastically.
	And and that the uh 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 hall day every July the fifth.
	And I said in my book, they should, oh, they should call it Dependence Day.
	And it was just a cheap frowaway line, but you wait a couple of years, and every cheap froway crack you make comes true.
	Nancy Pelosi said that this 4th of July, Americans should be celebrating health care 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 Fourth of July is health care 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 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 Fourth of July tweet.
	If you're on Bette Midler's Twitter feed, as I'm sure everybody is, you'll have seen this yesterday.
	Bette Midler on the Fourth 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 the Third, uh, we would we would have real great uh British government health care.
	But the Founding Fathers screwed us out of that deal.
	Thanks, uh, thanks a lot, guys.
	Um by the way, by the way, uh uh in the uh if you if you know your declaration of independence, we had great fun doing this on the way to the Fourth of July fireworks yesterday.
	It's a new game.
	It's great fun with the kids in the car.
	George the Third or King Barack.
	It's an easy game.
	You can all play.
	Just get a copy of the uh 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 uh that's uh George the third.
	I said, No, it's 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.
	Uh how about this one?
	George III or King Barack.
	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 uh about uh Egypt.
	We'll be talking about the President of the United States bringing down the jets of other world leaders.
	Uh, we'll be talking about the postponement of health care, but it's not just the day after the Fourth 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 a 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 uh fourth of it's uh 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 end independence celebrations.
	Call me 1800-282-2882 and go for it.
	Whatever is on your mind, Egypt, health care, the economy, cricket scores, ballet, we'll take it all.
	1-800-282-2882 Mark Stein, InfoRush Mark Stein, InfoRush Hey, happy 5th of July.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Uh the State Department now concedes uh that uh 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, uh, climbing out of his kayak.
	Uh, they conceded that he had been briefly on his boat Wednesday, but he was working round the clock all day.
	Uh he held calls with this is just c this is classic name dropping, by the way.
	Try this at a party.
	Norwegian Foreign Minister Eid, Qatari Foreign Minister Al Atia, Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu, Egyptian Constitution Party President El Baraday, and five calls to Ambassador Pasterson 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, uh, has listed the telephone calls that John Kerry did not make from his yacht.
	Uh so the the issue uh uh uh what 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.
	Uh 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 did he was on dry land when he called these leaders.
	Um John Kerry, as far as we know, did not attend the Boston Pops Fourth of July annual fireworks spectacular in Boston last uh last night.
	The the apparently the uh the Boston Pops event attracted uh half the people it normally does.
	It usually attracts over half a million, and it was down to uh under 300,000, apparently, because they instituted in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Boston police uh 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 Shatska, a Shrewsbury real estate auctioneer, was surprised when a s 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 this is how Americans celebrate independence now.
	This is how Americans in the year 2013 celebrate a revolutionary act.
	This is how Americans uh honor the men who pledged their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor.
	Uh, 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 the third, the red coats didn't confiscate your beach umbrellas.
	George the Third uh would had no fear of beach 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 Dagastanis or whatever these guys are, the Sarnev brothers, Tamilan Saneev and his brother Joker, uh 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 your old minute men uh 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, uh, if you tried to scramble them because you'd said, well, there's a couple of guys with beach umbrellas outside, they would not 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 was is famous for the shot heard round the world, not the beach umbrella hurt.
	Is that a shot heard around the world?
	No, it's just some guy opening his beach umbrella.
	That's how it 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 Pop's uh Fourth 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 uh the Boston police, that's what they've turned it into.
	The terrorists have won.
	I mean Tamilan Sarnev 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 Fourth of July.
	American independence in the year 2013.
	Mark Stein infrarus lots more straight ahead at the EIB network.
	Don't forget if you go to Rushlimbore dot com it's pure all American Rush 247 if you're a Rush 247 subscriber you need not be discombobulated by sinister foreign usurpers sent forth by George the Third.
	The South African government has denied that uh 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 4th of July flopperoo in Boston.
	Not a flopperoo, but, you know, like less than half the people who normally come out to see the Boston pops and the fireworks and all the rest of it.
	So kind of a bit of a damp splutter.
	Hal, 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.
	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 Fourth 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 spare each other with beach umbrellas.
	And it's true because people might just think it was an exciting multicultural dance.
	You know, the Boston Plop pop Boston Pop start playing you a grand old flag uh or God bless America and everybody yeah everybody start jal jousting is a good way to look at it like could be like dueling uh uh and uh like uh Aaron Burr it could be uh could be just all get a bit out of hand they start playing you're a grand old uh your 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 uh Boston Pops in Boston this fourth of July.
	Let's go to Kevin in Amanda, Ohio.
	Kevin you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thanks for taking my phone call.
	My pleasure.
	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 against unreasonable search and seizure.
	and they try to get around it by saying, well, we created a special court and uh 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 to the Constitution if they want to get rid of everybody's search and seizure uh protections they can do that but there's a constitutional uh 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 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, uh 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, uh also photographs every single item of mail, the exterior of it of uh snail mail this is.
	If you send a if your granny sends you a nice Christmas gift and you send her a handwritten thank you note uh back to Granny, that that handwritten thank you note is photographed by the United States Postal Service and goes into some maybe this p facility they've got in Utah uh or maybe it's some other facility where all those things are stored.
	Um work the purpose of the Fourth Amendment protections is to show the establishment a probable cause if you're gonna be searched.
	Yeah, 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.
	Right.
	This is a huge violation, and uh the media needs to change its language to making it sound so harmless and benign, it drives me crazy, specifically.
	No, and and you're and you're you're right right on that.
	You don't have to sell me on the on the Fourth Amendment.
	A uh 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 uh for uh for search and seizure.
	Uh and uh and and that is an appropriate thing to celebrate on uh at the time of Independence Day.
	Uh the the idea that there is a court that looks on it, this judge is a rubber stamp, this court is a rubber stamp.
	Uh he doesn't do anything, he doesn't turn down anything.
	Uh he's he has less judicial independence than these guys from the Egyptian Constitutional Court uh who are who are the frontmen for the new military regime.
	They i i they uh the the uh 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 is that's not a warrant, and and no judge should be even be bothered pretending that it is.
	As c as as you say, Kevin, if you want to do this, do it do this honestly.
	Uh go and repeal the uh Fourth Amendment.
	But don't pretend uh that you've you've 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 he's uh he's basically just rubber stamping uh an uh an all-powerful, universal, all-seeing surveillance state.
	Uh and what words would you prefer them to use, Kevin, by the way?
	How would you like them to do?
	Right.
	And and I had a hard time celebrating Independence Day, because there has not been more outrage in this country as 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 um violation of every citizen's constitutional right, and this thing could lead to 1984 uh uh times ten.
	Well, you're you're right.
	I mean, it's worse than uh 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 it's the same principle in operation, is because we have a a politically correct uh ruling class, uh they cannot they cannot uh 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 uh to us, who it is uh 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 it this is we're told, we're told by the way, and this is straight out of nineteen uh eighty-four by Orwell.
	Uh we're told that these have stopped uh some you know 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, uh has stopped has stopped dozens and dozens of terrorist attacks that we don't even hear about, because that's how efficient it is.
	They're nipped so 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 uh the uh FSB in Moscow, the uh the the successors to the KGB finger Tamilan Sarneev to the FBI, who do nothing about him.
	Uh they let him go and live his life and blow up the Boston marathon.
	The Panty Bomber, uh who tried to blow up the uh the the flight over Detroit, uh the Panty bomber's dad uh uh in back in Nigeria went to the CIA and said my son uh is pl pod the CIA did nothing about it.
	Uh the the Homeland Security let that guy get on the plane uh let him try to light him light up his uh his knickers over Detroit and self-detonate over Detroit and at the end of it Janet in Competano, the Homeland Security Secretary said the system worked.
	So uh on all these speci the uh Major Hassan, Major Hassan down at uh Fort Hood, who killed fourteen Americans, m the money no object US government had two counter terrorism task forces uh on top of 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.
	They he still got to stand on the table, yell Alahu Akbar and gun down thirteen people and an unborn baby.
	So none of it, none you know what what are they doing?
	They're monitoring everybody's emails and keeping them in a big database.
	And it's the same uh it's the it's it's the always the same with bureaucracies.
	You know, to go after a guy who's goes back to Dagastan and trains with murky terrorist groups and you know y it's all bit difficult that you know so he might be a terrorist but he might just be you know an observant Muslim and if you and a a pious devout Muslim and if you go after him you're gonna be tied up in sensitivity training hell for the next year and a half and the and your career will be over.
	You'll never get a promotion because you'll be damned in as an Islamophobe.
	So it's much easier to go and harass somebody out in Texas who wants to form a Tea Party group and uh demand that uh that she be audited and uh and uh 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 uh when they when they introduced a coast to coast gun registry, national gun registry up in Canada after some guy uh walked into a college in Montreal and and killed a bunch of the young female students and they respond by uh coming up with this big national gun registry.
	Is it gonna stop people who want to go and kill a uh 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.
	And of course, as the statist control freaks always say, well, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to.
	fear uh 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.
	Open Line Friday.
	Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network uh Rush returns live Monday uh President Obama has a new limousine uh he's just back from uh Africa the The cost of the trip to Africa is estimated to be just shy of 100 million dollars to send the president of the United States to Africa.
	And people wonder why it gets to be uh why it has to be that expensive.
	By the way, when he went to the G8 summit in uh beautiful uh Enniskillen, Northern Ireland uh by Lochern uh a couple of weeks ago.
	Uh beautiful beautiful part of the world.
	Uh he arrives with a bigger entourage than everybody else put together and with a uh and and spends more getting there than everybody else put together.
	Um and uh you're wondering why that costs that much.
	He's got a now he's now got a new uh limousine uh 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 went to when it was in London, they fly this thing everywhere, and in London it got snagged on some bridge or something.
	But the new one is a hybrid, uh that I don't think that means a hybrid in the environmental sense, does it?
	Uh reportedly 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 eight-inch plates capable of stopping an improvised explosive device and five-inch multi-layer windows that make the doors as heavy as those on a 757 jet.
	The car is sealed against biochemical attacks.
	Uh it also features James Bond style options, including a night vision system.
	No, it I know I know if I had to listen to one of Michelle's uh lectures on proper dieting, I would value an ejector button, but I don't believe I don't believe it does have an ejector button.
	Uh it also carries communications gear and in the trunk a blood bank matching the president's type.
	Um, you know, uh this is uh this is how this it's it's it's it it's incredible.
	You cannot send, I mean, maybe he should just stay home.
	Maybe you should just stay home.
	The African trip was a bust.
	He didn't have anything for a hundred million dollars.
	Um the State Department, by the way, uh you may have heard a couple of days ago that they spent uh $630,000 on Facebook likes, Facebook likes, the State Department.
	This is the uh the the crack foreign policy operation in the United States, spent six hundred and thirty thousand dollars on Facebook likes.
	And nobody likes them.
	Uh that's what's so fascinating.
	In uh in uh the streets of Tariq Square, the second most unpopular person in Egypt, other than Mohammed Morsi is Anne Patterson, the uh the the U.S. ambassador to Egypt.
	She's hated there.
	Obama is hated.
	You know, it's uh it's it's incredible.
	Obama and uh and Ann Patterson and John Kerry were the last three supporters of Mohammed Morsi on the planet.
	They didn't realize that they not just backed the wrong horse, they'd backed the dead horse.
	These 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, uh John Kerry, and Ann Patterson, the most hated woman in Egypt.
	Uh and uh so that's what they got for spending six hundred and thirty thousand dollars on Facebook.
	Likes, like, nobody, nobody Obama, like, don't like, no, no, all thumbs down for Obama.
	The the the placards on the streets of uh of Tower Square are amazing.
	Uh the one that says, I don't know whether I can even say this on the about the President of the United States, but the one uh 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 uh Obama and uh Mohammed Morsi.
	Mohammed Morsi basically John Kerry waived all congressional safeguards uh for the money uh that the we we gave to the we gave tons of money, billions and billions to Mubarak, and got nothing to show for it other than Mohammed Atta flying through the office window on a Tuesday morning.
	They gave billions to Mohammed Morsi, and all that happened is that uh the US 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 US 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 he the Latin Americans are hopping mad about the Bolivian president's plane being forced down.

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