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July 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Mark Stein, great to be with you.
I'm a foreign exchange student here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's uh it's a it's a terrific program.
Guys like me get to study here, and in return, the entire Detroit City Council gets to do a remedial class at the Institute of Municipal Governance in Mogadishu.
So it all evens out.
Uh Rush returns live on Monday for a full week of authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
But today it's the cheap foreign knockoff version direct from Ice Station EIB here in far northern New Hampshire.
Uh Mr. Mr. Snerdley is uh down in uh New York City, the the deep south, as we think of it from up here, uh sweltering away.
It's uh I think it's a hundred and forty-seven degrees.
It's hotter than the gates of hell in New York City, and it's like the waiting room for the uh gates of hell here in non-Ice uh non-air conditioned New Hampshire.
Uh but Mr. Snurley's gonna be running the show, so don't worry about a thing.
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Rush Rush knows how to pick his uh days off.
He was away for the Obama second inauguration in uh January, which meant that I was the guy who had to sit through that hideous twenty-minute poem, that so-called poem guy, uh did during the inauguration.
He was away for the day of the manhunt for the Boston bomber and um now Rolling Stone boy band cover star uh Jokar Sanaev.
And now he's away for uh Detroit Bankruptcy Day, late late yesterday, the city of Detroit declared the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States.
Uh and uh I I'm I'm reluctant to weigh in on the subject of Detroit, 'cause the last time I did it on this show was two years ago after that uh uh MM commercial at the Super Bowl when MM said Detroit is on its way back.
S look out, world, here we come.
Detroit is is coming back and all the rest of it.
And I made a few mild observations and uh and found myself in a uh tsunami of uh of blowback uh from our friends at uh WJR, which is Rush's affiliate in Detroit.
And I think if memory serves, somewhere up the corporate chain, uh somewhere high up in the corporate chain, uh uh uh somebody uh somebody uh said uh get that Stein guy back and tell him to go on Frank Beckman's show and WJR and apologize to the people of Detroit.
And in one of those usual Chinese whispers situations, by the time the message had been uh relayed to EIB and uh EIB had relayed it to Mr. Snerdley and Mr. Snerdley had relayed it to HR and HR had uh relayed it uh to my hardworking minion here and my hardworking minion here relayed it to me.
Uh the the bit about going on the air at WJR with Frank Beckman came through, but not the bit about uh apologizing to the people in Detroit, so I didn't do that, so I went on the air with uh with with Frank and uh and but uh uh I dug the hole uh deeper in much in the way that uh the Detroit City government has managed to do.
And I uh and I don't want to go there today, so I'm not gonna point out any of the things I pointed out with Frank.
I'm not gonna I don't want to point out all the things I said back then about how uh forty-four percent of the population of Detroit uh had the functioning literacy of an American sixth grader, which meant that half uh ha had the same about the same literacy rate as uh as the uh Central Afri African Republic.
Uh and I don't I don't want to go d don't want to get don't want to get into all that, because it's just like too controversial, and I don't want to be I I enjoy going on the Frank Beckman show, but uh but I don't want to uh be in the Frank Frank called me an elitist, an elitist.
Uh and uh yes, he did he did call me a an elitist, which I think I think it's well if you've got the I don't know what he meant by that when I was saying, you know, 44% have the functioning literacy of a uh of a sixth grader.
I don't elitist may mean I have the functioning literacy of a seventh grader.
I don't know what it means.
Anyway, cool.
Wait, he called me Yeah, yeah, I think you're right, actually.
That's uh that's true.
It just means I had an accent.
I mean, basically Frag did disagree with anything I said, but he just didn't want me saying it because like the MM thing, the 30-second M and M thing had made them all feel great about Detroit for thirty seconds.
Uh and then as uh as uh I think it was a Canadian blogger, I think it was Kathy Shadel in Toronto pointed out that then uh some fruity foreigner, as she put it, comes along and ruins it all.
So I think Elitis translates as fruity for there.
Anyway, I'll uh uh uh whether my analysis of Detroit or MM's holds up better two years on is not something we want to get into today.
Because it's just gonna get me into trouble.
And I love I go to Hillsdale College every spring and uh have to uh pass uh uh carefully through Detroit uh to get there, and so I don't want I don't want to I don't want any trouble.
So, you know, m I I don't know about this whole Detroit bankruptcy thing whether we're gonna get into that.
But it is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's open line Friday.
Well well, I don't know.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Rush did open line Friday on Thursday which is uh yesterday, so I don't know whether I don't know whether it's uh it's it uh goes with the format to do open line Friday two days running.
It doesn't quite seem right to me.
So I don't know.
I'm in two minds about whether we should do open line Friday or not.
Um but uh because normally open line Friday means you get to talk about anything you want to talk about, whatever is on your mind.
It can be one of the big things like Detroit, it can be Amnesty, it can be immigration, it can be uh Trayvon Martin, it can be all the big stuff that's in there, or it could be something that's just bugging you and none of your three hundred million fellow citizens and uh forty million undocumented agri uh Americans care about this issue one way or the other, but on Open Line Friday, you get to bore the pants off America with whatever particular little bugbear uh has got new riled up by the end of the week.
And I don't know, because Rush was doing that yesterday and and uh uh he had that call about uh the guy uh wanting to know whether he smoked cigars on EIB 1, which is not something that would normally call uh come up as a formal discussion topic uh on on uh on the Rush Limbaugh show.
But people could raise any subject they want.
I don't know whether we should do it two day days running, so I'm kind of in it.
Maybe we should make every other call open line Friday and then uh restrict it for alternate calls or something like that.
But we'll figure something out.
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As I said, uh I really am reluctant to weigh in on Detroit after all the trouble I got uh into last time uh i i in the city.
And uh but uh so I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of step take one step back.
And I think we should rely on an analysis of the situation in Detroit uh from a couple of years ago, from I think it was this was from last year, from none other than the President of the United States himself.
Here's what President Obama had to say.
But we refused to throw on the towel and do nothing.
We refuse to let Detroit go bankrupt.
I bet on American workers and American ingenuity, and three years later, that bet is paying off in a big way.
Yes.
That's what the President of the United States said.
He didn't do all the stuff that I was doing that got me into trouble with the people of Detroit.
That's that's that's what President Obama said.
We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt.
Like uh King Canute sitting uh at the water's edge and commanding the sea not to lap over his feet.
King Barack commanded Detroit not to go bankrupt.
And as the seawater did with Canute, the uh the bankruptcy tide in Detroit has washed all over King Barack's loafers and his mom genes, leaving them sopping wet.
Detroit has uh declared bankruptcy today.
The most uh one of the best lines on Detroit, by the way, comes from uh my national review colleague, uh Kevin Williamson, uh who said uh that the problem with uh Detroit is that its ruling class is a parasite that has outgrown its host, outgrown its host.
But the question here is uh what happened uh to why why why now has King Barack changed his mind and decided that Detroit can go bankrupt?
Apparently the emergency manager for Detroit uh was in a deep conversation and discussions with none other than Valerie Jarrett at the White House, the uh the grand vizier to uh to Sultan Barack, and she was she just said, you guys are on your own, we're leaving you, we're hanging you out to dry.
Good luck, uh, send us a postcard.
Didn't want to didn't want to know.
He said to be Obama is said to be monitoring the situation.
He's quote monitoring the situation the way he does with uh Syria and Egypt to such fantastic effect.
Yeah, he's no no he didn't monitor Benghazi.
Ben G Benghazi that's an exception, Mr. Snardly he decided he that Benghazi didn't didn't need uh monitoring.
He could monitor that from uh from Vegas.
So he he wasn't this this time round he's monitoring it more closely than he's he's put it there it's it's like Syria.
He's monitoring it as closely as Syria.
So what is fascinating about this is that if you remember a clip that Rush used to play an awful lot four years ago about the big federal aid giveaway in Detroit that Ken Rogalski of WJR reported on.
And I love this.
I love this clip so much that I actually put it in my book because it seemed to sum up the way some people look at these things.
uh Ken at WJR was interviewing a couple of women uh about this big federal aid giveaway and uh the conversation went like this why are you here?
And the first lady goes to get some money.
Well what kind of money?
Obama money where's it coming from?
Obama and where did Obama get it?
I don't know his stash I don't know I don't know where he got it from but he's giving it to us to help us and we love him.
We love him that's why we voted for him and then the ladies stand around chanting Obaba Obama Obama and when they've stopped chanting uh Ken from WJR asks them and where did Obama get the funds?
And at that point the second lady says uh I have no idea to tell you the truth he's the president Obama's stash they were standing in line in Detroit to get money from Obama's stash which is actually your stash and my stash and the Chinese Politburo's stash Obama doesn't have any money every dollar in Obama's stash comes from you or me or the Chinese Politburo.
He has no stash uh but they thought he had a stash and they were standing in line to get money from Obama's stash.
And that's what the emergency manager was hopeful of.
He went he called uh the the the the the uh they called the White House and they thought Obama's stash was going to come through for them and the and unfortunately Valerie Jarrett and the people who make the decisions in the White House said you ain't getting nothing from Obama's stash.
Obama's stash is tapped out and Detroit is on its own the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history and this is important.
I love the way, by the way, I love the way people think, oh, Detroit, it's an outlier.
It's an outlier.
It's an outlier only in the sense that it got there first.
It got to where it is now first, ahead of everywhere else.
But it is the logical end point of left-wing social and economic policy.
There was a fabulous tweet on the Internet yesterday.
If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit.
And that sums it up.
Detroit is...
is the logical end point of the Democratic Party's philosophy and it is not an outlier it was the industrial powerhouse of the world two generations ago it had the highest per capita income in America in nineteen sixty what nobody nobody did a thing to Detroit.
Detroit did this to itself and it's the logical end point.
It's a one party state it's a one party state there hasn't been a uh Republican mayor since nineteen sixty one so it's it's difficult to do the oh it's all Bush's fault thing uh when nobody under eighty remembers anybody other than the Democratic Party Ever being in charge.
It's a one party state.
And like all one party states, the one party state takes care of itself and to hell with everybody else.
It's the logical endpoint of the Democratic Party philosophy.
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Talking about the bankruptcy of Detroit, the most fascinating thing, you know, uh yeah, I said a lot of rude things about Detroit a couple of years ago, and uh and a lot of other people have too.
But so keep it cool.
Keep it cool.
Just read the official bankruptcy filing.
Because Detroit is no different from uh the guy who runs Bud's hardware store.
Uh when you go when you go uh bankrupt, when you file for bankruptcy, you have to fill in the government paperwork.
This is United States bankruptcy court, Eastern uh District of Michigan in Ray City of Detroit, Michigan.
So the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history has to fill in the paperwork just like uh Bud's hardware store does.
Name of debtor, uh, if individual enter last first middle name, and the name of debtor is City of Detroit, Michigan.
Doesn't have a well, I guess its middle name would be Wayne County, so it'd be City of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.
Uh last four digits of Social Security or taxpayer ID.
So they put 38 uh 600 four six zero six, that's their taxpayer ID.
Uh address of debtor to Woodward Avenue, suite eleven twenty-six, Detroit, Michigan.
Woodward Avenue, by the way, is named by the guy who uh who who laid out Detroit, who d who designed Detroit in uh the early nineteenth century.
He goes way back, I think after the uh if memory serves, the the big Detroit fire of eighteen oh seven took out the whole town, and uh this guy then came up with a plan uh to rebuild uh Detroit.
And uh he should be around now, actually, because they could use a guy who's got a serious plan to rebuild Detroit.
Admittedly they didn't have the the uh they didn't uh have the same kind of problems back then.
Uh all that happened was that the uh the British took the city in the war of eighteen twelve and they held it for uh over a year or something, uh and then uh and then uh gave it back to the Americans, and the uh th uh the uh in this case no foreign power has actually invaded Detroit.
So in a sense, the the the situation that Detroit faces isn't as bad as it was uh two hundred years ago, but in a sense it's a lot worse because uh in this case Detroit wound up surrendering to itself.
Detroit did this to itself.
No foreign power.
Normally to to to to get to that condition, uh some foreign power has to come rampaging over the border uh like the uh British, like the what were they, the Royal Newfoundland Flexibles, I think it was uh in the in the Battle of Detroit, uh come rampaging over the border and take your city.
They didn't do that uh this time.
So anyway, that's uh street address to Woodward Avenue, suite 11, a name poignant in in uh Detroit history.
Then you've got all this thing, nature of business, uh you've got to check the box, healthcare business, single asset real estate, railroad stockbroker, etc.
etcetera.
And then finally the the last box on the list, other, and that's the one that the city of Detroit has checked.
Uh the nature nature of business other.
I couldn't say it better myself.
Nature of business other.
Then there's like uh then there's you've got to say whether there's any bankruptcy case filled by your spouse or your partner.
Then there's thousands of lists of uh properties that are unsafe and scheduled for demolition, thousands and thousands of them, uh, that they list here that they can't afford to demolish, so it's dangerous.
All these buildings that are about to fall down but can't be demolished because there's no money to demolish them.
Then they've got uh the a letter in support, exhibit A, a letter in support of bankruptcy from the governor of Michigan, Governor uh Snyder.
And this uh paragraph is fascinating.
Inability to meet obligations to its citizens.
As Mr. Orr's financial and operating plan have noted, the scale and depth of Detroit's problems are unique.
The city's unemployment rate has nearly tripled since 2000.
Detroit's homicide rate is at the highest level in nearly forty years, and it has been named as one of the most dangerous cities in America for more than twenty years.
Its citizens wait an average of fifty-eight minutes for the police to respond to their calls compared to a national average of eleven minutes.
Only eight point seven percent of crime cases are solved.
The city's police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances are so old that breakdowns make it impossible to keep up the fleet.
For instance, only a third of the city's ambulances were in service in the first quarter of 2013.
Similarly, approximately forty percent of the city's street lights were not functioning.
When Edison, when Edison electrified Washington Boulevard, uh in uh in uh the the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century, they called uh Detroit the Paris of the West.
In the Paris of the West, uh forty percent of the street lamps do not work anymore.
This isn't me.
This isn't Detroit's enemies, this is the governor of Michigan in the official bankruptcy filing.
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We've been talking about Detroit uh, which is uh uh which is an uh an American uh uh for for all people talk about the the wounds of uh Vietnam, uh the unwon war in Korea, uh the unsatisfactory conclusion to what's happening in Afghanistan.
Uh in Detroit, America defeated uh itself uh and uh and it's uh and it's uh it's actually quite an astonishing thing to do.
It's an asto a remarkable thing to do.
I said here at the time I got into all that trouble that if you bought a guy from the mid-20th century and you bought him in a time machine and propelled him to 2013, and you showed him photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Detroit and Flint, uh, he would assume that uh America had lost the Second World War when the Japanese decided to nuke uh Detroit and Flint.
Compare photographs of uh Hiroshima and Nagasaki today with photographs of Detroit today, the arsenal of democracy, the arsenal of democracy.
Lots of other things going on today in terms of uh municipal fiscal rectitude.
Uh Elliot Spitzer, who is running for uh city controller, he'll be the man responsible for the fiscal probity of the city of New York.
Uh it it has emerged that New York taxpayers footed the bill for his trip to Washington uh for his celebrated dalliance at the Mayflower Hotel with uh with Prostitute Kristen, who in fact turned out to be Ashley Dupree.
Uh Ashley changed her name to Kristen for professional purposes.
Uh and it turns out that New York taxpayers actually paid to send Elliot Spitzer to Washington for the tryst that led to his downfall.
February thirteenth, two thousand and eight in room what was it?
What was the room number?
I think it was three seventeen or something.
Eight seven one.
I was way off.
I'd have been five floors below, knocking on Kristen's door and getting no answer.
Uh room eight seven one at the Mayflower Hotel, uh it turns out that New York taxpayers paid the bill for Elliot Spitzer uh to go to Washington and dally, as the New York Post says, Dally, with with uh Ashley Dupree uh during his tryst.
It's very it's it's uh it's quaint the language they use here.
Dallying dallying a at a tryst.
But the fact is that New York City taxpayers, New York taxpayers paid for this, and now this guy is running for city controller, Elliot Spitzer.
And he's likely to be elected because New York again is a uh one party state.
So in uh in Detroit, just in case you uh uh th Spitzer was famously what was he, client number nine, client number nine.
Uh and uh in just in case you're having difficulty following all these municipal stories, Detroit is filing for chapter nine, uh New York taxpayers are filing for client nine.
They're gonna make client nine the city controller, a man who uh charges uh taxpayers to go to Washington, D.C. for so he can enjoy a tryst with his favorite hooker, uh he's going to be put in charge of the fiscal probity of New York City.
That's uh on a not unrelated subject.
I see that f with with the Jewish Valentine's Day, this is from the Jewish Telegraph Agency, with the uh Jewish Valentine's Day fast approaching, kosher romantics have some new options thanks to Trig Labs, which announced this week that its line of personal lubricants are now kosher.
So if any of you uh listening and planning something for the Jewish Valentine's Day, they have invented kosher lube.
Uh the the Jews are behind everything.
It's amazing.
Uh Markstein in for Rush.
Let us go to Rick in Magnolia, Texas.
Magnolia, that's a lovely uh town there.
That's the sort of place you should go to dally with someone for a trist, not to uh room 871 of the Mayflower Hotel.
Uh Rick, great to have you with us.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Thank you very much.
Uh I I liked your commentary on Detroit.
But that's a history lesson and uh biased definition, history occurs in the past.
I was wondering if you would like to comment about Chicago and Illinois going down the same path as Detroit has gone with their leadership now.
Yeah, no, history doesn't occur in the past.
That's that's that's not correct, Rick.
History repeats itself.
And that's and that's and that's why you should learn from history.
Uh 'cause actually when it comes to civilizational collapse, uh most uh most civilizations follow pretty much the same pattern.
So actually the template is out there.
And that's why Detroit is important, 'cause it's not a history lesson.
Uh it's where much of the rest of the United States is heading the day after tomorrow.
Uh what what's what's happening in Detroit, what's happening in Chicago, uh what's happening in the state of California is a uh a malign between a corrupt uh governing class, uh a swollen army of dependents, uh and uh and uh uh and rapacious public sector unions.
And you get that that axis uh you get that axis in position, and it's extremely difficult to recover.
Uh so Detroit isn't a history lesson.
Uh Detroit Detroit is happening now.
Uh and Detroit is where uh America the rest of America is headed.
You look at any Obamacare uh uh Obamacare or any other signature Obama policy, uh you look at uh you look at the immigr you look at the immigration bill.
It's the same it's the same axis of a corrupt government class, a uh uh an ever more swollen dependency class, and these rapacious public sector unions.
Uh in in that uh quote from Kevin Williamson at National Review that I used uh uh half an hour ago, uh that what happened here is the parasite outgrew its host.
In California, the golden state, if it weren't for high tech, high tech, uh where all where all the boffins are in California, but everything is actually made in India and China, uh so it's not in the in the same uh position that the automobile industry was in, or the motion picture industry, the entertainment industry, where every film, again, where every film set in uh Boston or Philadelphia is actually filmed in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver.
Uh if it weren't for the tech those already massively outsourced high tech and uh entertainment industries, California would be like Detroit because it's got the same thing.
It's got uh it's it's got the takers are fleecing the makers and the makers are fleeing.
And one day Hollywood and Silicon Valley will flee too, and then California will be Detroit.
So it's not a history lesson.
And in Chicago, you know, just to mention Chicago, because we've had uh this uh since the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman verdict, people keep bringing this up.
They say whatever it is, eleven thousand.
Eleven thousand uh black men have died in America since Trayvon Martin was shot.
Uh they they die on a daily basis in in Chicago.
Dozens were shot over the July fourth uh holiday in Chicago.
But it's the same reason that uh liberals don't care about Detroit.
Liberals, the the great thing about liberalism is their heartlessness.
Uh They they wr they can write places off.
The point about liberal policy is to make the person who adopts the policy feel good.
It's it's an attitude.
Liberal policies are attitudes.
If you have the right attitude towards uh car workers or towards blacks or towards gays, the practical effect of those policies doesn't make any difference.
So the fact that Detroit is a basket case uh that has gone bankrupt doesn't matter because uh everybody because for all the liberals living in Malibu or Martha's Vineyard where the president is vacationing yet again, uh, or in all those shishy suburbs around Washington, if you hold the right attitudes to Detroit, if you just say, oh well, Detroit, we need to support public sector workers.
We just need uh to have some kind of federal bailout.
I bet on Detroit, says the President.
If you strike the right attitude, you don't care what's happening.
He has the right attitude.
If you have the right attitude, like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama does, uh you don't care about all those dead guys in in Chicago.
Uh when he says uh if I had a son it would look like Traven, uh he he's act he's not actually from Florida, he's from Chicago.
So if he had a son, he'd look like all those perforated guys in Chicago every weekend.
But the fact of the ma the fact of the matter is Obama doesn't care because like all members of the ruling class, he's decided to live as far away as he can uh from the consequences of liberal policy.
So it's easy to write off Detroit.
He's not going to go to Detroit.
He doesn't care about Detroit.
He wouldn't care uh if if the last uh seven uh businesses in Detroit felt fled through the tunnel uh to Windsor, Ontario.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't care about that.
He doesn't care about Chicago too, because it's out of sight.
Liberalism, liberalism, uh depends on uh ignoring the evidence of your own eyes.
And so the best way to do that is to make sure that all that evidence is on the far horizon.
They can't see what they did to Detroit.
They can't see what they're doing to Chicago.
They can't see it, because they're walled up in their little enclaves in a kind of gated community of the mind.
And liberalism depends uh very much on not seeing the evidence uh b before your eyes.
How's by the way, how's Magnolia, Texas on that on that front?
You got you got sound municipal government there, Rick.
Today but I remember Detroit as a uh once a beautiful and powerful city and and certainly was uh back in its heyday, one of the better places in the United States.
I kind of see Chicago as being in the same position that Detroit is in right now, probably twenty to thirty years down the road, unless they wake up and change leadership.
Yeah, I think that I think that's absolutely right.
It's a beauty if it's a beautiful city.
Uh if you know the Wrigley building, uh if you know the Chicago Tribune building and the old intercontinental hotel where Johnny Weissmuller used to exercise in the pool every morning and you and and you walk down Michigan Avenue and right in the heart of downtown they got a beach right there at the end of the street.
It's it's a beautiful city.
You can live but that's the again that's another history lesson, Rick.
You can live great, you know, this isn't Somalia or or Rwanda or Sudan, where you're going from the dump category to the even worse dump category.
Uh when you have when when you have great cities built by men of great ingenuity and innovation, uh it you can you can decline for you can decline for decades.
And it's only at the final moment, like yesterday in Detroit, where you suddenly realize that uh yeah, you you you've done something more difficult than Sudan or Somalia.
You haven't declined from dump to even worse dump.
You have declined from one of the great success stories of the planet to a dump.
And that's an even that's an even bigger indictment uh of the people who did this.
The people who did this uh to America's great cities.
Uh thanks thanks for your call, Rick.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network, the day after the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
Lots lots else going on.
A Vancouver man.
Uh this is from uh PJ Media.
A Vancouver man has invoked the Biden defense.
Uh you recall that uh Vice President Joe Biden, uh as part of the uh uh the the way Democrats like to triangulate when they go after guns by saying they're just after scary uh, you know, s uh s scary semi automatic military type guns uh but they're not after your good old farmer's shotgun uh vice president Joe Biden advised Americans who feared criminals to buy a shotgun and fire two warning shots if they felt themselves under any threat buy a shotgun buy
a shotgun he told uh an audience a Facebook town hall hosted by Parents magazine on the administration strategy for reducing gun violence which he's in charge of the pres President Obama put uh Joe Biden in charge of reducing gun violence.
Biden says he keeps two shotguns and shells locked up at home and he's told his wife Jill to use them if she needs protection.
I said Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony, take that double barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house, Vice President Biden said.
Well fifty two year old Jeffrey Barton of Vancouver, Washington claims that he was following that advice when he chased away a pair of suspected thieves.
He thought uh he thought some uh teens were breaking into his cars at uh Northeast one hundred and twenty fourth street in Vancouver, Washington and so he fired.
He did the Joe Biden thing.
He did did what Joe Biden advises Jill Biden or so I should say sorry I should say Dr. Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden.
What uh what Vice President Biden advises Dr. Jill Biden to do, and that's just to walk out on the balcony and fire two blasts from the shotgun.
So he's now in Clark County Court in Washington, where he pleaded not guilty to one count of illegal aiming or discharging a firearm at his arraignment.
Outside the courtroom, Barton cited the Vice President in defense of his actions.
I did what Joe Biden told me to do, Barton told KOIN in Washington.
I went outside and fired my shotgun in the air so maybe maybe he should call Vice President Biden as an expert witness in the case.
He's c he qualifies as an expert witness.
This is the guy who has been put in charge of reducing gun violence in the United States.
The pres President Obama has made him the czar of gun violence of the war on gun violence he's the czar Vice President Biden.
So he suddenly qualifies as an expert witness and his uh expert advice was to go out on the balcony uh grab your shotgun guard in the balcony and fire a couple of shots randomly randomly doesn't matter you who knows what you might who know you you you might hit some uh some teenage punks up to no good uh you might hit a passing moose doesn't matter that's what Joe Biden says to do.
This guy took Joe Biden's advice and he's now up in Clark County court on a one charge of illegal discharging of a firearm.
I hope he does call uh Joe Biden.
By the way, this gets back to the whole Detroit thing.
The dishonesty of public discourse in the United States of America you may recall that uh that that uh the other day the Attorney General Eric Holder called for a quote honest discussion about race in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict.
He called for an honest discussion about race.
By the way, this is a guy who can't even have an honest discussion with a congressional committee when it comes to uh tapping the telephones of American newspaper reporters and reading their parents their uh emails and uh tapping their parents' telephone lines.
This guy can't even have an honest discussion with a congressional oversight committee but he wants the nation to have an honest discussion about race.
And by honest discussion, liberals mean the same old cobweb platitudes that are now forty years past their sell by date.
They mean that on race they mean that on unions they mean that on the economy they mean that on urban renewal and that is the real tragedy of Detroit.
Detroit did Detroit can be fixed relatively simply it'll it not to its glory days, but do Detroit can be made less worse.
But it requires honesty to do that.
And liberal discourse, whether it's about guns, whether it's about race, whether it's about the problems facing somewhere like Detroit is now basically fundamentally dishonest.
When Eric Holder, like most like most of these guys, when Eric Holder calls for an honest discussion, he may basically means you shut up and he's gonna tell you the narrow parameters in which you're allowed to think about this or anything else.
Uh and that was demonstrated, I think, the the very uh day later when Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, uh who's nobody's idea of a right winger, but uh but but he expressed some mildly controversial views and immediately got called a racist.
Gotta go back in a moment.
Uh by the way, of the uh eleven billion dollars of unsecured debt that uh Detroit has, nine billion of that is uh public pensions and benefits for public sector employees.
In other words, nine billion of the eleven billion hole it's in is for benefits for the people who got Detroit into the hole.
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