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Oct. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
It's L. Rushbow, your guiding light on Friday.
So let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, we bob.
Great to have you, my friends.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program.
And I'm going to get to your calls, El Quicko.
I should have done that in the first hour.
I always try on open line Friday to get the phone calls in the first hour.
And today I failed.
Not really a failure in the big sense of the word, but still, I should have done it and I didn't did it.
So I'll make it up to you.
800-282-2882 is the number.
So it's October 17th, 1965.
NBC's Meet the Press, the candidates for mayor of New York City debated.
National Review magazine founder and Conservative Party William F. Buckley and then Representative John Lindsay, who was a candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties.
And the New York City controller Abeam, and they they debated on Meet the Press.
And during the QA, a panelist, Richard Whalen, said, You've said repeatedly that you're the only authentic Republican in the race.
Yet you didn't enter the Republican Party primary, presumably because you thought you couldn't win.
You can't win this election, according to the current polls, yet you may very well defeat the Republican candidate.
So what, in your opinion, has the Republican Party in the city gained through your candidacy, Mr. Buckley?
The voters are going to show on November the second that there are conservatives in New York who are interested in political realism, who don't believe in block voting, who don't believe in pandering to powerful forces, whether they are labor union or whatever.
And under the circumstances, my intention is to liberate them so that they in turn can liberate the Republican Party.
It is impossible simultaneously in New York to give people any kind of economic freedom or any kind of economic hope, and continue to squander their money at the pace at which it has been spent by the Wagner administration, which managed to double the budget during the course of its tenure.
It is necessary, in other words, uh to stop hawning on the block voters and insist that if there are to be any solutions in New York, they have got to be approached with the kind of political courage that Mr. Lindsay, unfortunately, is so disgracefully lacking in.
Now, this is 1965.
Could just as well be this year.
Here you've got a conservative Republican up against the Republican establishment, in this case embodied by John Lindsay, who is attempting to give conservative voters in New York a voice.
And he was right.
There was no chance Buckley was going to win this.
In fact, he said even if he did, he wouldn't, he wouldn't accept.
He did.
I just I find it fascinating that this man, and I did get to know him pretty well, is used constantly by both the Republican Party and the Democrats to try to destroy the Tea Party.
You could say, in a sense, that Buckley was the Tea Party.
He was the forerunner of the uh of the Tea Party.
Um Whalen, the the moderator here on Meet the Press, then said, in view of your opinions of three of the last four presidents then.
What do you think of the American voter?
I think the American voter uh is often often has intuitions uh which uh are better uh than those of their own presidents.
That is to say, uh, I think that presidents tend to, during the recent period, tend to have drawn more strength from the voters and the voters from their presidents.
As Franklin Adams once said, I think the average American is a little bit above average.
And under the circumstances, uh, I rejoice over the influence of the people uh over their elected leaders, since by and large, I think that they show more wisdom than their leaders or than their intellectuals.
I've often been quoted as saying I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston Telephone Directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
Buckley could have been the dean of Harvard.
I mean, he he was in the classical sense an intellectual, but he knew where the power in this country came from, and he loved people.
And he had a profound deep respect for him.
He would have been right at home in the Tea Party.
And it really just wanted you to hear these two bites and to hear Jack Fowler, the published publisher of National Review.
Some of you in the audience may know who Mr. Buckley is.
You may have heard of him, but you're you're not really familiar with his achievements or his identity, per se in the conservative movement.
But believe me, it was it was he he and my father are the two most prominent reasons.
Why?
Back then he was, he was.
He was on Tonight Show.
Uh Johnny Carson Lovney was a celebrity in that in that day in that era.
But by the time this program started in 1988, he was starting to wind down from day-to-day operations of National Review.
Still did speeches and so forth.
But regardless, I I I just all of these efforts here to impugn the Tea Party.
Uh ostensibly taking one of the godfathers of modern conservatism and saying, not even he wrong of Tea Party.
It's not true, folks.
And I'm I'm just really all I want you to do is not give up out there.
I I think, you know, Harry Reed is apologizing.
Ted Cruz is not going anyway, uh anywhere.
Uh Obama canceling these trips.
This is not playing out.
This shutdown and the upcoming debt limit argument.
This isn't that it's not playing out like they thought at all.
They don't have the winning optics.
They don't have the winning hand.
You you have to remember none of this was supposed to ever happen again because of Obama.
Don't think people have forgotten that.
I mean, the Limbaugh theorem still is in play, and Obama gets away with not being held accountable for things, but on something like this.
Partisanship, remember, he was going to end all of that.
You go back to the 2008 campaign, so many people who professed their love for Obama.
He was a blank canvas.
You could make him whatever you wanted him to be.
And the people that ran that campaign, the media that promoted that campaign of Obama's, they really focused on the fact that Obama was a new kind of politician that could end all the bickering.
He could end all the fighting, could end all the partisanship, and he could end racism.
I mean, it was it was magical.
And this is not something that he can pretend didn't happen.
It's not something that his supporters can say people misunderstood.
They kept capitalized on that.
They used it themselves.
They promised an end to the bickering.
They assured everybody that Obama with the very force and the will that he brought to his personality.
Just gonna make everybody melt, and we're bringing one nation again, and everything was going to happen for the best for everybody and all that, and they've rode that into the sunset.
And they now can't, they just can't walk away from this.
And you're you're not gonna see the media do stories uh asking people, well, what do you think?
You voted for Obama on the basis that he was a great unifier.
They're not going to go out and find those people because they don't want to.
But they exist.
You add all this stuff up, these exchanges, do it's a boondoggle.
And I w some state, some state, California, New York, I forget, which, oh, yeah, we have five million hits, my God.
We know what do you know how many hits Google gets in a day around the world?
It's in the billions.
And that's another for this bunch to run around and and well, my God, we had no idea so many people.
They have to.
People don't have a choice.
They've got, but everybody trying to sign up at the exchange is used to getting anywhere they want to get on the web.
They want to go to Wikipedia.
It's never clogged.
They want to go to Google unless there's a service outage, no problem.
There aren't any delays.
iTunes, Amazon, you name it.
It all works except Obama's.
And so they offer these excuses.
Well, we weren't ready for this mad dash of people.
What do you mean you weren't ready?
Everybody has to.
Nobody has a choice here.
Everybody has to go through these exchanges to get insurance at some point or another.
You know it's bad when they single out one or two people as success stories.
In a nation of 300 plus million people, the regime has now trotted out two people who successfully signed up for Obamacare.
And they're hoisting them up and they're saying, look at this, this is a great example of how our program.
Two people.
It is uh it is an embarrassment.
And the the Democrat behavior, you know, at some point, even they overdo it.
Even they I I look it, despite the fact that only CNN has made an issue of it.
This business with Harry Reed getting caught saying that the life of a kid with cancer didn't matter to him.
Don't think he gets away with that because the media doesn't trumpet it.
Don't think it there are lines, even for Democrats, that when they cross them, people hold them just as accountable as they do Republicans on a much shorter leash.
Gotta take a break.
We'll come back and we'll get to your calls.
You sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
It's open line Friday.
Let me give you an interesting um William F. Buckley.
It's a quote, but it's it's more an observation.
Buckley pointed out, he said in the 30s, we were told that we had to collectivize the nation, i.e., big government go socialist.
We had to collectivize the nation because the people were so poor.
He said, now we're told that we have to collectivize because the people are so rich.
And he's right.
Back in the 30s, FDR, all the boys, oh, yeah, we got way too many poor people.
We need to go socialism so that we can raise standards of living.
Today, why are we doing it?
Because they're rich.
We got too many rich people, and they're stealing everybody's everything, and we got to take it from them.
I think it's a great observation.
All right, to the phones we go.
We're gonna start in Northfield, Minnesota with Jan.
Thank you for waiting, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very well, thank you very much.
Good.
It's a lifetime highlight to talk to you and a precious honor to thank you for being the champion of freedom and morality.
Well, uh yes.
Uh on the freedom side, yeah.
Yeah.
You uh you embarrass me.
Thank you very much.
I why one time I was the epitome of morality and virtue.
I give you a loose claim today, but it I gave it my best shot every day, nevertheless.
Um I'm calling you today to point something out uh that has happened since uh Bill Buckley's heyday in the 1960s, and that is the fact that you have come on the scene.
And you using just your your talent and truth, justice in the American way, you've done something that that I would have thought impossible, but you've done it, you've broken the liberal propaganda machine.
And it's very, very cool.
It's a very cool thing.
And I think that that's why the we're seeing people scramble today and try to make uh try to try to turn lies into truth because without the liberal propaganda machine, liberalism doesn't work.
And so thanks a lot for doing that.
Well, you know, you're you are uh you're actually you're very shrewd and perceptive in uh in a couple of ways.
You're also uh you you I think you're a little bit excessively Complimentary, but I accept your accolades nevertheless with great appreciation.
I do think I have often said jokingly to my friends who don't know what I'm talking about.
It's amazing.
There are so many days I'm on an island all alone, my thoughts.
I um I said, you know, I really do think that in one sense I am to blame for the ranker.
In the sense that you nailed it, they had a monopoly.
They used to be happiest clams, the leftists and the monopoly.
They don't anymore.
It's been busted up.
And I think the destruction of their monopoly is what has turned them into just extremely mean people.
I think it's any more complicated than that.
They had their monopoly, they were very uh guarded for it, and now they're they're that they were jealous of it, envious, and they just are fit to be tied that they have to deign to explain themselves to anybody.
Who the hell are we?
We shouldn't have explain themselves.
And I think it's one of the reasons why the media has dropped the facade of objectivity and has just gone full fledged into the agenda, because it's now it's it's open competition.
And you're right, in another sense, we here compete in what I call the arena of ideas.
They don't.
They compete in an entirely different way.
Their technique is to mischaracterize and destroy anybody opposite them who is credible.
That's how they do not come into the arena of ideas and talk about ideas with us.
They do not debate ideas, they destroy people who can articulate things that they don't want to hear.
And I could give you a list of names of people they try, it never ends.
New people get added to their uh enemies list every day.
And you know, you you talk about, you know, I came along and and what did I do that I didn't really do anything but validate what a lot of millions of Americans already believed, but didn't have an outlet for in uh in national broadcast media.
And it did serve the purpose of unifying and joining, bringing people together and so forth.
But I just, you know, it's it's it's uh very flattering to me that you have that perception of it, how it happened.
So I thank you very much for it.
You're very welcome.
And and I think that you identified all of us out here as a market, and and I'm I'm just gonna continue on a little bit and say that without having done that, how would uh Fox News have an audience?
How would that have formed?
You know, I I think credit is is yours, and I think you deserve it completely.
Well, you know, you you may be a bit excessive in your praise, and in your honor I will accept it.
You're you're very you're you're um you're very nice.
Uh and I I you're you're embarrassing me here.
I'm not often uh speechless, but I do thank you.
You're you're uh very kind.
I do believe she she said I identified a market.
There wasn't any of that really.
And I don't I'm not trying to say she is wrong.
I know what she means.
All I mean by it is when those of us who were here at the beginning, we didn't sit down and look at the country as a potential audience and say, what are we going to have to do to get one?
And we certainly didn't do any focus groups or any kind of testing.
We and we and we we didn't even sit around and say, you know what's missing in the media today is conservative.
There wasn't any of that.
There wasn't a grand marketing strategy, and there wasn't any kind of a PR strategy.
And and there wasn't uh, you know how we get this demo, and how do we get that there wasn't any of that.
All it was was me realizing a dream to do a radio show the way I had always wanted to do it.
And I finally encountered people as partners who were unafraid of that.
And it then just clicked.
Because it turns out we didn't need to do any marketing research.
And I didn't have to adopt any points of view or whatever to try to, you know, we didn't say what are we going to do to get the women?
We only did one thing ever to do that.
It bombed out.
And that was we asked women to send in pictures if they wanted to be allowed on the AirScall.
But other than that, there's never been one thing we've ever done that targets anybody is a group.
We aim here for the whole country.
But I do believe, folks, I d I wish I had a better way of explaining this but you maybe you can understand how if you ever had a monopoly on anything.
I mean that's huge to have a monopoly on anything and the media had one.
I mean they were it they determined what was news and what wasn't news.
What was covered what wasn't covered.
They determined how they determined who was going to be covered.
They determined everything everything and now that's long gone they don't have that monopoly anymore.
And much of what they do is for each other as they every day try to demonstrate to themselves that they still have similar powers as they had like they had when they did have their monopoly back with more don't go away Open Line Friday great to have you here back to the phones to Heartland, Wisconsin.
Hi Steve, you're next it's great to have you here.
Hi Rush, thanks for having me on your show.
You bet, sir.
You know I actually called in last week um about the millennials and sort of pessimism and the book Atlas Shrugged and and so um I want to talk about something else today.
Um so I'm an 18 year old college student and I grew up in an upper middle class um family and my parents always gave me um good opportunities and a good life and um sometimes I I feel like I have to feel like guilty for being uh dealt a good hand in life and sometimes wait wait wait wait wait well let's take this step by step.
Okay.
You uh your parents gave you good opportunities in a good life.
Yeah and it worked hard to do that.
Well explain that well I mean my dad's a small business owner and so we've we've had uh a lot of good opportunities.
We've been able to travel a lot and sometimes when I like when I'm in uh different neighborhoods I kind of feel like I tell them what school I go to and they're like oh that's the rich school oh you guys are are the rich people and even though the the guilt is not coming from you.
Yeah I mean I guess it's society.
Well your father works obviously right yeah you would you um if if somebody said did your father earn what he's got would you say yes?
Absolutely.
I mean he's worked so hard to give us a good life and so why in the world why in the world or what in the world is there to feel guilty about that others don't have the same opportunities as you um I I don't know.
I guess I've just always grown up with people sort of I don't know criticizing me for for being dealt a good hand and I I'm not I'm not really sure why.
And do you are there people who have more than you do or there your friends' fathers have more do you are you envious of them no I mean I I'm happy with with with my life and I feel like it's my my goal in life to make the next generation behind me.
Okay so you you you feel guilty and you think others are trying to make you feel guilty.
You don't obviously don't want to feel guilty, so what are you doing about it if anything?
Well I mean I'm obviously I I have good opportunities and so I'm using my my God given talents to serve the community.
I like to think that I've had an impact in uh in my Boy Scout troop and teaching Sunday school, and um I just want to want to make the most of what I have.
I mean, I have a lot of potential, I feel like, and I think that this is interesting to me because all you're doing is living your life and you're trying to make the most of it.
You can, it sounds like to me, it sounds like your father did the same thing.
Yeah.
But there is a stigma.
Um there is a stigma in our culture today attached to success.
Uh it's deemed to be unfair because not everybody is, particularly in a bad economy like this.
So you're um you're you're no different than anybody else in that in in your situation, but you do have to uh have to fight it because it's it guilt is is giving other people way too much power, and you're you're not gonna be able to do an about it.
If you were to throw away the what you call your opportunities.
If if you were to discard these things, it wouldn't help anybody else uh anybody else's life.
It wouldn't make their life any better, it wouldn't make them feel any better, it wouldn't do anything for you.
Um don't don't ever succumb to the temptation to uh diminish yourself in the face of all of this as a means of uh making people feel better.
That isn't the way to do it, and it doesn't work that way anyway.
And I I guess I think what's uh something else is that it it doesn't matter if you're upper middle class, middle class, lower middle class, and that's a totally different issue with with how we judge people based on class, but it doesn't matter where you are, as long as like if you're happy where you are, that's fine.
But if you want to advance yourself, there shouldn't be anything wrong with that.
Exactly right.
I feel like there is something wrong with that.
And there shouldn't be anything, you shouldn't have to hide it if you succeed at advancing yourself.
Yeah.
And I mean these are now it's perfectly fine to be humble.
It's it's it's perfectly fine to be uh you know well-mannered and and polite and all that, but you but and uh you know I this this is a there's there's a it's like Buckley said back in the 30s, back in the days of FDR.
It was said that we we we had to uh uh go collectivist or socialist because uh too many poor people.
Now we have to do it because there are too many rich people.
The left just can't decide.
They just can't be happy.
And at the root of it anyway, is control over people.
They just offer whatever excuse they think will sell uh at a given time to try to sell socialism.
If somebody like you comes along and you end up being the problem, you are pointed to as a problem.
You are you you're pointed to as a rare example of what's wrong with the country.
And it's just the exact opposite.
You've had influences that have inspired you.
You can do the same thing for other people.
That's the value in success.
That's the value in achieving things.
Is it's it has the ability to inspire others to want to emulate it.
And you can you can further that along.
Fight the guilt.
You d there should be no guilt whatsoever if everything you've come by is genuine.
Now, if you've cheated people out of it, if you've uh stolen from people, it's a whole different game, but you haven't done that.
Doesn't sound like it.
It's like your father has.
There's no reason to feel guilty.
You know, actively fight it.
It's uh it's a prison that you're gonna that you're gonna put yourself in, and you're gonna fall prey to the class warfare that the Democrats use.
That it isn't fair for people like you.
And we're gonna have to take from you because you're not paying your fair share.
You've got more than your you you should have.
You've got you've got more than you need.
You don't need as much as you have, but we're gonna come get it.
The danger is that there are lots of other Americans who will agree with that and who wouldn't even know you will end up resenting you or disliking your what have you.
It's a tactic that the left has used.
Democrat Party has popularized it.
Um you're impressionable, you know, you're 18 and so forth.
And You still have lots of failure ahead of you, too.
Not everything's gonna work out.
You have a lot of opportunities.
You're gonna botch some.
It's called life.
And you're gonna see both sides of this.
And you'll have a greater appreciation for success as those things happen.
Everything is a learning experience.
You'll see what I'm talking about.
Um Steve, I appreciate the call.
This is Don, Valley Stream, New York, you're next.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
You bet.
Yeah, um uh my softball team is starting our championship series tonight, and I've received multiple texts from our captain that if we don't bring a photo ID and it doesn't match with the roster of the players all season, we will not be allowed to play.
And uh, you know, it's just it fascinating.
Now wait a minute.
Hold it just a second.
What uh whose rule is this?
Well, this is this is the league's rule, but it's but that the league it plays on uh on a village field and a village rec center.
Um because what happens is, and and there was a big problem that that players would would be.
What are you doing?
Does your team have a bunch of illegals on it as ringers?
No, well, that's what happens.
People would bring down, they'd wait until the championship, they'd they'd have their regular guys all season, and then when the championship rolled along, they'd bring down all the ringers, and you know, it would just get thrown out of rock.
It would be illegitimate, and they made a mockery of the league.
So they they're they impose this rule that you have to have a photo ID and it has to match with the roster.
And it's and it's amazing that that you know, Holder and Obama, they're actually, you know, going after states for for for imposing the same policy on on when people vote because the same exact thing is happening.
You know, they'll that there's people on the rolls, and then other people show up to vote and and to vote in the way that that the Democrats want.
And it's uh it's outrageous.
Oh, it's I know it's it's it's this is amazing.
You've got to have a freaking photo ID to be compared with a roster of your softball team.
This is a hobby, right?
You you people are not in a professional league, are you?
No, no.
This we we we all we all play for for for the bars in the area, and then you know, we then we go and uh celebrate after after the game.
Exactly.
You celebrate during the game.
You got six pack on the bench, a keg or what have you.
We're not technically allowed to do that, and we don't because we want to win, and you know, sober people usually play for the biggest.
But yeah, this is such a winning issue.
This is such a winning issue for conservatives, and so frustrating that that more candidates are.
Let me tell you at it.
Eric Holder is starting to sue states that are passing voter ID laws.
The federal government, the Justice Department is starting to file lawsuits against those states for the usual reasons racism, discrimination, uh voting rights act violations or some such thing.
Uh anyway.
Well, well, good luck.
I I hope uh is your team have a legitimate chance here at winning the uh they all managed to come up with a photo ID if they want to play.
You know, and there's people from all walks of life in our league.
Is this the end of your season coming up here?
Is that what this is about?
Yeah, this is the end of the season.
This is the playoffs.
The playoffs.
This is it we we played all season, and if if if your ID doesn't match the roster of the guys that were there all season, they're not gonna let you play.
Was it slow pitch or fast pitch softball?
This is high arc, it's low pitch.
High arcs low pitch.
That's why you can drink beer during the games.
Yeah, exactly right.
Okay.
Don, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back after the open line Friday, Il Rushbo and Ron in um Chilcoot, California.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, uh, yesterday, uh I had gotten up and walked over to my uh in-law store here in Chilku, a little family store, and and uh my mother-in-law was telling me that they had just shut down a local lake right here in this uh town called Frenchman Lake.
I go, what do you mean they shut it down?
Well, because of the uh the government shut down, they shut down the lake.
I said, Well, that's not a federal lake.
There's no federal employees up there.
The uh campgrounds are are ran by the thousand trails personnel.
So uh I said, Well, that just isn't right.
So I called my local supervisor and asked him what was going on, and he said that they had had a meeting that morning, and because this lake was on federal property, they had to shut it down.
Had the sheriff's department go up there and kick everybody off the lake and was closing up the campgrounds.
So I said, Well, okay, thanks for the information.
Wait, wait, who made the decision to close the lake?
The federal government.
But it's not their lake, even though it's on federal land.
It's on federal property, and my supervisor told me that because they had a contract, the federal government had a contract with a thousand trails to run the campgrounds, they shut it down.
So I said, Well, that just don't seem right.
So I I made some phone calls.
I got on the phone to my uh, or I called my congressman there in D.C., Doug Lamafa.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, but how'd you get through?
The phone lines are shut down because I wanted to tell you.
Doug Lamaffa's phone number was open and running.
And an individual answered the phone, and I voiced my concerns and asked if they would pass it on to uh my congressman.
They said, You bet we will.
So then I called my two senators, and you know who they are.
You're right.
They their phone numbers were shut down.
So I called the White House.
Their number was shut down.
I said, That's odd.
So I called a couple of more congressmen in California that were Republicans, and they answered their phone.
And I voiced my concerns.
Wait a minute.
So it sounds to me like if you call a Republican, you can get through.
If you call a Democrat, they got their phones shut down.
That's what it sounds like to me.
But then, you know, this morning I'm I'm watching TV, and I'm noticing all the cemetery shut down, the Normandy cemetery shut down over in France.
And I got to thinking, okay, government jobs all shut down.
Why is Obamacare still up and running?
Mandatory spending.
Mandatory spending.
Mandatory spending does not get shut down in this kind of framework.
You know what you need to do if you really want that lake opened?
You need to call Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has simply refused to shut down the things in Wisconsin.
The federal government has ordered shut down.
They're paying for it as well.
So there are a lot of parks in Wisconsin that the feds tried to shut down, and Scott Walker said, nope.
You don't have total authority here because we spend some money on them ourselves, and we're not shutting down.
If you go to Arizona, the federal government has shut down a Grand Canyon.
You cannot go to the bottom of the biggest hole in the country.
Because they've shut it down.
State of Arizona wanted to pay their own money to reopen it.
Obviously, it's a tourist site.
And the federal government is denying permission for the state of Arizona to open the Grand Canyon.
Here's the the AP story on this is uh is is fascinating.
And I there's no doubt in my mind that this regime has a war on Arizona.
The AP, Arizona governor rejected an offer to reopen Grand Canyon.
Arizona's Republican leaders known for picking fights with the federal government.
Oh, how horrible they are.
Is that what Arizona Republican leaders are known for?
Picking fights with the federal government?
How about Arizona Republican leaders are known for defending the Constitution in their state, A.P. Anyway, get this lead.
America's or Arizona's Republican leaders, known for picking fights with the federal government, are seething again.
Now that the Grand Canyon is closed because of the budget crisis in Washington.
Oh yeah.
The Republicans are seething.
It's all the fault of these Republican hotheads.
Yeah, seething.
Governor Jan Brewer wants the state's signature national park reopened, has offered to pay for it to open with state money.
But her proposal was rejected Thursday by a park official who said that as long as the federal government remains shut down, such a plan isn't an option.
Park Superintendent Dave Uberwaga, I guess it's pronounced that.
I appreciate the support and I thank them for the offer, but it's not an offer we can accept.
Why not?
Why not, Dave?
This has been done before during previous shutdowns, even in Arizona in 1955, uh 1995 and 1996.
The Grand Canyon remained open in previous shutdowns in much the same way.
The regime doesn't want these places open.
They've got the World War II memorial chained shut.
They've put a chain on the fence at the World War II Memorial.
They won't let people go to the Grand Canyon.
I mean, it's it's being done on purpose, and the only reason is because Obama knows that snarky little news agencies and reporters like whoever wrote this, Bob Christie for the AP, are gonna write it in such a way.
You imagine the bad guys here, the seething, angry bad guys are the ones who want to open the Grand Canyon?
And the people arbitrarily closing it?
They're the angels.
They're the good people.
This is sick.
I don't know where the time is going.
It's already just one hour remaining here today on Open Line Friday.
Fastest three hours in media.
I haven't talked about the uh the woman shut yesterday, the uh Obama stalker.
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