May 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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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 anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in. | |
| No supporting paperwork whatsoever. | |
| Rush is at a uh charity golf event. | |
| He's uh very generous with his time like that. | |
| And he'll be uh back tomorrow for full strength, authentic, uh all-American excellence in broadcasting. | |
| Well uh what did he call me yesterday? | |
| Did you hear that? | |
| The the the guest slave will be here tomorrow. | |
| That's what he said. | |
| The guest slave. | |
| Uh I'm uh I'm from the uh the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. | |
| It's uh it's a great program. | |
| I love it. | |
| Guys like me get to come here and in return, Hillary Clinton gets sold as a child bride to Boko Haram. | |
| So it all works out for everyone. | |
| We're live from uh Ice Station E.I.B. in far northern New Hampshire, and looking forward to hearing from you on 1-800-282-2882. | |
| I love uh if you've been following all this stuff about uh banned speakers at American college campuses, because it's the season of graduation, where they'll all be uh they they all put put on the uh the uh tassels and the gowns and they go up on stage to receive their official certificate that's got the final uh lump sum figure of how much debt they owe. | |
| And uh the they've been banning all the speakers. | |
| Any any remotely con because they say colleges have to be what they call now a safe space, a safe space. | |
| Well, look on this as your unsafe space. | |
| We're not like that. | |
| Well, no, we're not like these pansified American campuses where you can't say this and you can't say that. | |
| You you give me a call. | |
| 1-800-282-2882, especially if you're of a liberal bent, and uh have your say on uh on the uh I haven't been banned from uh actually I was rather insulted. | |
| There's this college, I think it's the University of St. Thomas. | |
| Uh uh I'm now uh my credibility's suffering because the contemptuous production team is implying that I'm just not even worth banning. | |
| I actually spoke at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota a few years ago. | |
| And uh they seemed a nice, nice enough, uh pleasant enough crowd. | |
| And I see now that actually a camel was banned from the University of St. It's like one thing for the they ban Ian Herssi Ali from Brandeis, uh they ban Condolisa Rice, uh they ban Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, and they've b and they banned this poor camel from Minnesota from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota because he's apparently culturally insensitive to people from the Middle East, | |
| in the same way, you know, that Ian Hersy Ali at Brandeis was, and uh Condoleezza Rice is uh has been was personally torturing people for eight years of the Bush administration, and Christine Lagarde is head of the IMF, and that's like money, man, and the minute you get mixed up with money, you're just like supporting the man. | |
| And uh, you know, we have nothing to do. | |
| Like uh no college student wants to be have the head of the IMF talking to them because uh they've got a quarter million dollars in debt, so like just hearing about money is kind of a downer. | |
| Um but this camel didn't do anything. | |
| This camel, as far as I know, has never taken a position on the IMF or waterboarding or anything else, and yet nevertheless was banned from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota for being culturally insensitive. | |
| But they let me speak, so I'm apparently less controversial than this poor camel. | |
| Uh but I I don't I don't know. | |
| Maybe he's like an edgy transgressive camel. | |
| I can't say. | |
| Uh 1-800-282-2882. | |
| If you are one of those sensitive flowers from the class of 2014, and and you'd like to talk about how uh this is all just creating a negative uh experience for you, and you you want to live in a nice little safe space all your life. | |
| Uh and call so call call me up and uh we can talk about that if you'd like to talk about that. | |
| 1-800-282-2882. | |
| Lots of things happening today. | |
| The President of the United States has announced that he didn't know anything about the VA scandal until he heard about it in the papers. | |
| He's like, uh, what was that? | |
| That's the old Will Rogers line. | |
| All I know is what I read in the papers. | |
| That's that's basically the Barack Obama line. | |
| He didn't know anything about Ben Ghasi until he read it uh in the uh papers. | |
| He didn't know about The IRS until he read it in the papers. | |
| He didn't know that uh all the journalists were being bugged by Eric Holder's Justice Department until he read it in the papers. | |
| He's the President of the United States. | |
| Uh, but there's this whole other entity out there, the uh called the uh executive branch. | |
| I don't know whether you've ever heard of them. | |
| It's the this thing, the executive branch. | |
| It's like some sinister organization. | |
| It's like Spectre or SmurS or one of those kind of guys, and it's out there pulling all this stuff, you know, the executive branch, it's like doing all this stuff at the IRS, it's doing all this stuff over at the State Department, it's doing all this stuff at the Justice Department. | |
| It's doing all this stuff now at the Veterans Administration. | |
| And we've got like this really decent, fine, upstanding man as President of the United States, uh, and he is having to devote all his time. | |
| He he's like trying to get on with being president and running the government of the country, and there's this sinister, shadowy organization somewhere called the executive branch that's pulling all this stuff, and all he knows about it is when it turns up in the newspapers. | |
| Uh the executive branch, it's a shadowy organization. | |
| I think they live in caves out in Waziristan or something, uh, and they're monkeying around with the IRS, they're monkeying around with the Veterans Administration, they're monkeying around at the Justice Department, and as soon as he reads about it in the papers, he's madder than anyone. | |
| He's president madder than hell. | |
| Uh, but we've got to get a grip on this uh on this whole executive branch thing. | |
| And no, none of us had President Obama had never heard of this executive branch, but it's out there pulling this stuff 24-7. | |
| And he's mad as hell that he has to wake up in the morning and read the papers, and they got all this stuff about the executive branch in there. | |
| So we'll talk about the latest scandal uh that he read about in the papers. | |
| The VA will talk about that. | |
| I want to say a word, by the way, about a local story. | |
| I didn't realize this was a local story, but it is a uh it turns out it is a New Hampshire story. | |
| Um there is a lady called Meryam Yahya Ibrahim. | |
| She's twenty-seven. | |
| She's a Sudanese Christian, and she was uh given three days uh to uh renounce Christianity and revert to Islam, and when she didn't, uh the judge uh sentenced her to hang. | |
| And she's gonna hang soon. | |
| Uh, because they don't they don't have a decade of appeals out in Sudan the way we do here. | |
| So she is gonna be taken out to the scaffold and strung up and hanged by her neck until dead uh any moment. | |
| Her husband is an American citizen, Daniel Warney, uh, who lives in New Hampshire. | |
| He lives uh down in Manchester, New Hampshire, which is uh a couple of hours south of uh of of uh where I am, up in the uh the northern corner, the northwestern corner of the state, uh lives down in Manchester, New Hampshire. | |
| Daniel Warney, and his wife, the Sudanese Basket Case State, uh the genocidal basket case state, the the state where they uh the Janjaweed militia like to go and kill all the people in Darfur, the Sudanese basket case is about to hang the wife of an American citizen. | |
| Uh now the way to look at it is this that the grant of citizenship to the to the spouse of an American is basically non-discretionary. | |
| Uh in other words, uh this this woman will one day be an American if she lives if she lives that long. | |
| And in fact, the the only reason she's not an American now is because the US immigration is incredibly sclerotic, so can take years and years and years to process the application. | |
| Uh but bay but basically she this woman who the Sudanese are about to hang is an American in waiting. | |
| Now I see uh Obama. | |
| Uh it was International Homophobia Day on uh Saturday. | |
| Did you know that? | |
| I didn't know that, but it's a big day, apparently, all around the world. | |
| International Homophobia Day, or International Day Against Homophobia. | |
| It's not the day when all the homophobes come out in March, have I? | |
| Have a big parade down Main Street. | |
| And President Obama, because he's got he's he's not bothering with all these uh this stuff that the so-called executive branch, the shadowy sinister entity is pulling. | |
| Uh President Obama, who doesn't know anything about Benghazi, doesn't know anything about the RS, doesn't know anything about the Justice Department, doesn't know anything about the VA scandal, was right on top of International Homophobia Day. | |
| And he sent out a tweet. | |
| So you know he's serious. | |
| Uh in fact, he had a hashtag, too. | |
| That's how serious it is. | |
| Uh The president sent out a tweet with a hashtag, and he said, no one should face violence or discrimination, no matter who they are or whom they love. | |
| Well, this American citizen, Daniel Warney, from Manchester, New Hampshire, is facing violence and discrimination because of who he loves. | |
| Because because of whom he loves, because the Sudanese government is about to hang his wife. | |
| As I said, an American in waiting. | |
| She is technically, if you saw Mrs. Obama standing up with her hashtag bring back our girls, the Rush was talking about uh uh a week or so back. | |
| Uh this woman is actually far more the Obama's girl than uh than those Nigerian schoolgirls are. | |
| Uh that's to say she's the wife of a U.S. citizen and a barbarous, bankrupt genocidal basket case of a state is presuming to hang her. | |
| Um my senator Kelly Ayott and uh Roy Blunt uh have uh issued a uh statement a couple of days ago calling on John Kerry to provide political asylum to this woman uh on the grounds that she is the wife of an American citizen apart from anything else. | |
| I I actually think they should go further than that. | |
| I don't see why Obama, for instead of waiting to read about it in the papers, why he doesn't actually get on top of this executive branch thing uh and actually call someone in US citizenship and immigration and just say, let's m and let's make this woman uh let's fast track her. | |
| Instead of taking eight years to process the application of the spouse of an American citizen to become American, let's do it now. | |
| We're doing amnesty for thirty million people, we're doing amnesty for tens of millions of low-skilled immigrants. | |
| Let's uh let's do amnesty and fast track to citizenship for this woman right now, and then tell the Sudanese government you are not hanging a US citizen. | |
| Uh and and if Obama doesn't want to do that, why don't the why don't why doesn't Congress do what it did with Winston Churchill when they uh voted to make him an honorary US citizen? | |
| Uh why don't they why don't they vote to confer citizenship on this woman? | |
| This woman is the wife of an Amer This is this is not a small thing. | |
| This is the contempt, the contempt in which the world holds the superpower right now. | |
| That this guy in Sudan uh is going to uh hang the wife of an American citizen in full view of the world. | |
| By the way, he's not the only guy who treats America with contempt. | |
| Uh the the poor uh US uh army veteran, marine veteran, I think, uh who accidentally crossed the Mexican border, accidentally drove across and he wasn't intending, he didn't cross a border post or anything, he just accidentally drove across the line and he's now sitting in a jail in Tijuana again, | |
| because the Mexican government tells the United States government, no, you have to take tens of millions of Mexicans and make them full citizens and give them rights, but we'll only take one of your guys, and we're gonna throw him in jail for some technical infraction. | |
| And if and John Kerry, uh if John Kerry can't get on the phone to Khartoum and he can't get on the phone to Mexico City and get these people out of jail, then there's absolutely no point to having a foreign service or a State Department at all. | |
| It's a waste of time. | |
| But this if if Obama means his international homophobia day statement that you shouldn't have to suffer violence because of who you love, this guy is suffering violence. | |
| He's having his wife executed, the mother of his child uh executed uh for uh the uh and uh for no other reason than that she married him, a Christian. | |
| And if Obama uh cannot do something very quickly, like uh fast track at a US citizenship or confer US citizenship upon her if the if Congress does it, and actually then tell the Sudanese you do not execute US citizens. | |
| Uh that is what we should be able if we can't save this woman's life. | |
| The the Nigerian schoolgirls are difficult, they're up country, uh and it's hard to get hold of them, no one knows where they are, they've been dispersed to Cameroon and Chad. | |
| This is the wife of an American citizen. | |
| She is chained to a wall in Khartoum, and John Kerry is wasting everybody's time giving speeches on global warming. | |
| Mark Stein in Farush, 1800-282-2882. | |
| Mark Stein in Farush. | |
| I I ought to mention the name of uh this poor fellow who's uh who's actually uh chained to his cot, shackled to his cot in uh in Tijuana at the moment, and that is Sergeant Andrew Tamaressi, who is a uh uh uh uh a veteran and has served several tours in uh Afghanistan and I think also Iraq. | |
| And he was basically on April the first, he was driving around uh down around the southern border, uh uh uh Tiwana, where you you uh th the one of the uh issues here, obviously, is that the border is uh is porous and he acts he turned left instead of right, and instead of winding up uh in America, he accidentally crossed over into Mexico, where he was seized and he has been in detention ever since. | |
| Now he wasn't intending to go to Mexico. | |
| I accidentally drove into Mexico, he had a a gun in the back of his truck, uh, and so that's why they've held him and uh uh but he had no intention of being in Mexico. | |
| And I know that. | |
| I live up here by the uh by the Quebec border, and if you go to a town like Derby Line, Vermont, uh the border wiggles along uh I think it's the Tomophobia River and uh the streets cross back and forth from the United States into Canada. | |
| Uh one time I uh I've I've accidentally crossed that border uh illegally, uh quote unquote, uh must be a hundred times uh over the decades. | |
| Uh you you cross the border and you pull up at the first restaurant in Canada and there's nowhere to park inside, so you go a hundred yards down the street beyond the restaurant and park, and you find you've accidentally illegally crossed back into the United States. | |
| Some uh homeland security guy came uh on to me about it, and I send him away with a flea in his ear, because you were still able to send them away with a flea in his ear back then. | |
| Now they'd be tossing you in jail too. | |
| But the point the point is this US citizenship, being an American has to mean something. | |
| People do not take Putin's citizens and toss them in jail, because they understand there will be consequences for it. | |
| And especially people who are demanding, who essentially have subverted uh U.S. sovereignty by sending tens of millions of people north of the border and demanding uh that the American government actually accord them the same rights as U.S. citizens, don't then have the right, if if if Washington cannot get one guy in Tijuana sprung from jail. | |
| And that's the same thing too in Sudan. | |
| Uh Sudan is nobody, it's nothing. | |
| And if if the superpower cannot get the wife of an American citizen sh who's currently shackled to a uh a wall in a cartoon prison uh because a pseudo-judge, a judge who does not dispense justice but dispenses barbarism, uh, has decided that because she refuses uh to convert back to Islam, she has to be hanged for apostasy. | |
| Uh that's f that's fair enough if you want to do that to your guys, but when you do it to someone who is the wife of a US citizen, uh there should be consequences. | |
| Uh Lord I quoted this at the time of the stupid bring back our girls hashtag uh in connection with uh Lord Palmerston, who was uh British Prime Minister in the nineteenth century. | |
| Don Pacifico, a Portuguese Jew, had his uh had his uh home and business attacked. | |
| He was living in Athens. | |
| He had his home in his he was actually the consul, the Portuguese consul in Athens, and he had his place attacked uh and destroyed by an anti-Semitic mob, including the sons of a government minister, and they plundered his home and they took all his stuff. | |
| And uh Lord Palmerston basically took the view, well, obviously this shifty, greasy uh uh Portuguese Jew is not anybody's idea of an Englishman, but he happens to have been born in Gibraltar, which is a British colony and makes him a British subject, and therefore, unless the Greek government r uh gives him compensation for looting and pillaging his house, uh, we're gonna take action. | |
| And he did take action. | |
| Um he basically sent a Royal Navy squadron uh into the Aegean to seize Greek ships and uh property uh and uh uh and uh and blockaded, in effect, blockaded uh uh Greece. | |
| And his point was that i if wherever you are, even if you're just some Portuguese Jew who happens to be born in Gibraltar, if you are a British subject anywhere on the planet, the strong arm of Britannia is always with you. | |
| Well, where is the strong arm of today's superpower when they're hanging the wife of an American citizen in Khartoum and some uh and a US veteran, a guy who has been fighting for his country uh in Afghanistan is sitting in jail in Tijuana and his country is not fighting for him. | |
| Where is the strong arm of today's superpower, saying that if you are a US citizen or if you are the wife of a US citizen, uh no country, no third rate regime can do this kind of stuff to you. | |
| Mark Stein in Farush, lots more, straight ahead. | |
| Yes, Rush will be back tomorrow. | |
| What's the what's that by? | |
| That's uh heat wave, isn't it? | |
| Heat wave. | |
| Uh yeah, I haven't heard that in ages. | |
| Well, it is a heat wave here, it's like a balmy fifty-eight degrees here in Ice Station EIB, so uh we're all in our uh Bermuda shorts. | |
| Uh I I'll add one thing, by the way, to that's that story of uh of Miriam Ibrahim, uh the lady about to be hanged. | |
| The merciful judge, one Abbas Mohammed Al Khalifa, has ruled that she will be allowed to give birth before she's executed, because she's like eight and a half months pregnant. | |
| So she will uh allowed sh so the baby will not die with her. | |
| The baby is a US citizen. | |
| This woman who's shackled, by the way, she's eight and a half months pregnant. | |
| Uh you think about that, uh any any any anybody here, eight and a half months, and you're shackled to a wall. | |
| Eight and a half months, she's shackled to a wall in Khartoum. | |
| Judge Abbas Mohammed Al Khalifa has said she'll be allowed to give birth before she's executed. | |
| This kid in her belly is an American citizen. | |
| Not not simply the spouse of American citizen. | |
| This this kid in her belly is the son of an American citizen. | |
| He is an American. | |
| Uh and uh and the judge uh and the judge presumably uh thought give this some thought that if he were to execute the woman with the baby inside her, or sorry, I shouldn't say baby, what do they call it the uh Democrats call it fetus? | |
| It's a l yeah, I mean to Yeah, vi viable tissue mass. | |
| It's like a uh late term it would just be like a a particularly dramatic late-term abortion. | |
| It's a judge's right to choose. | |
| But the judge in this case chose not to kill the baby with the mother, uh, eight and a half months pregnant, presumably because the judge somewhere in the back of his his mind understood that this would actually be killing an American uh uh uh an American child. | |
| Uh but we have here, we have here the uh an expect the expectant mother of a US citizen with the US citizen inside her belly, eight and a half months pregnant, and she's chained to a wall in Khartoum. | |
| Let us go to David, who is calling us from the great state of Wisconsin. | |
| David, you are live on the Rush Limbore show. | |
| Great. | |
| And an honor it is too, sir. | |
| Um just came hearing this case of uh Miriam Ibrahim uh to there was a case several years ago of uh an uh uh a from you know from another uh Muslim country where the uh Afghanistan, where the uh they were gonna sentence him to death for being a Christian. | |
| Uh the Secretary of State Condolee Wright threatened to cut off uh US funding to Afghanistan if this guy was not let go. | |
| Whereas uh our current Secretary of State seems to be rather indifferent, uh almost uh impotent. | |
| It seems we gotta, you know, there's more testicular function uh on the part of a woman than there is from our current you know uh Secretary of State. | |
| Yeah, well uh there's no need to mock Secretary Windsurfer. | |
| The uh the Secretary of Windsurfing gave a uh a magnificent address to Boston College uh yesterday where he said that the real threat is uh is global warming. | |
| And it's great that That's that's a great advantage for him, because there's no one to call. | |
| This this involves him, as you say. | |
| He has to do what Condorisa Rice does. | |
| He has to do, even just to take another, you know, fellow who was not the most robust steel spined conservative. | |
| Richard Armitage. | |
| Do you remember the guy who was deputy to Colin Powell? | |
| He was very s he had this great gravelly butch voice. | |
| Used to talk like that, and you used to think he Yeah, he's the one that leaked Valerie Plame uh and then let the other guy take the rap for it. | |
| Uh but he he was the deputy secretary of state to Colin Powell. | |
| And the day after September the twelfth, he called General Musharif in uh in Pakistan. | |
| And uh General Musharif on September the twelfth was in no hurry to take calls from Americans. | |
| So he said uh to his secretary, uh tell uh tell the State Department I'm washing my hair and I can't come to the phone right now. | |
| And Armitage said to him, You better come to the phone right now. | |
| He needs to come right now. | |
| And Armitage told him uh we want this, we want that, we want the right to enter Afghanistan through Pakistan, we want the right to put uh troops in there, we want the right to put planes in there, uh everything we asked for, you are gonna give us all Pakistan is over. | |
| And uh and m Musharraf, who is a tough cookie, I mean, he's been blown up, I think three or four times. | |
| His his autobiography has the best opening chapter of any political autobiography I've ever read, because it talks about all the times his motorcade's been blown up and all the death uh t assassination attempts he's survived. | |
| He understood that for once the superpower, the toothless superpower, the moth-eaten toothless superpower actually meant it. | |
| Everyone had thought for yeah, well, this uh America spends forty-four percent of the world's military budget, but it's not actually serious about anything. | |
| Uh th this guy told him, this squish from the State Department told him, you do what we want or you are over. | |
| And uh David is absolutely right. | |
| Condoleezor Rice did that uh when when uh the Afghans were gonna hang some some guy for converting to Christianity. | |
| John K what is John Kerry doing? | |
| Now I've come up with a couple of concrete proposals. | |
| Uh basically, this is a non discretionary thing for US immigration. | |
| Uh as Barack Obama says, you have the right to love who you love. | |
| So if an American uh falls in love with a Fijian, if an American falls in love with a Slovene, if an American falls in love with an Uzbek, the Uzbek, the Fijian, the Slovene can all become American citizens. | |
| This guy is married to uh this this guy in Southern New Hampshire in Manchester, New Hampshire, is married to this woman. | |
| Uh she is the wife of an American citizen, and it would be the work of moments uh to confer US citizenship upon her, and then to tell uh actually to act uh and tell these guys you are not killing uh an American and to spell out as Richard Armitage did to General Musharif what the consequences would be that day. | |
| Let's go to Henry in Albuquerque. | |
| Henry, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Uh Mr. Stein, I I think you may be operating with erroneous information in in two areas. | |
| One, the case of the veteran who is in jail in Tijuana. | |
| He is not in jail because he's an American or a veteran. | |
| He is in jail because he had guns in his automobile. | |
| This is the third or fourth time that a similar incident has happened in the last five years, particularly along that stretch of the border. | |
| It hasn't happened that I'm aware of the major border crossings to the east. | |
| The other premise that I think may be erroneous is an unborn child uh with one American parent is not automatically an American citizen unless the child is born in the United States. | |
| No, no, I understand I under Henry Henry, I understand that. | |
| But you know, serious powers do not get that's why I made the Lord Palmerston point. | |
| He didn't have to recognize a Portuguese Jew born in Gibraltar uh and decide he had the same rights as uh an English Marquis or an English Duke. | |
| But he chose to because he understood there is not a time for legalisms. | |
| Now you're right about the southern border, but it happens at the northern border too. | |
| There was a guy crossing over from Quebec to Maine in his truck, and exactly like this guy. | |
| He had guns in his truck, and it was a Sunday morning and he was going to church. | |
| And the whatever uh particular uh uh uh branch of Christianity he follows in that little border community the church is on the Southern American side and he didn't realize the rules had all changed since nine eleven. | |
| So he pulls up in his truck to go over for church and Homeland Security comes along and he's got guns in his truck and they decide that he's broken the law. | |
| A guy who's been going to church, going to gas up, going there every week for decades. | |
| They didn't stick him in prison and shackle him to his bed. | |
| And that's the point. | |
| That is the point here. | |
| Stein I think that's the point that you're making is has more to do with projection of power than it does with this particular situation. | |
| Yes, but the yeah exactly projection of the Lord Palmerston th this was a different epoch you'll also remember that a few years after Palmer's action the United States engaged in a similar action in Mexico in Veracruz shortly before the first world war. | |
| This sort of projection of power works in some circumstances but it doesn't work well today. | |
| We don't have the capacity to project the power and handle the the repercussions of that power projection. | |
| We can't arbitrarily go into Sudan and do away with a screwed up legal system no matter how much we want to no no nobody this woman broke a local law and no matter how repugnant the law is United States as a matter of policy has to be very careful in this sort of intervention. | |
| This is a barbarous inhumane act but declaring war on Sudan or No Don't get me don't put words in my mouth Henry I'm not c I'm not calling for war because uh because as I have had cause to say here many times before the United States can no longer fight wars competently it hasn't won a war in two thirds of a century. | |
| It should actually raise the Pentagon to the ground and dissolve the military not because there's anything wrong uh with individual fighting men but because this country lacks the strategic will to wage war. | |
| So no I'm not interested in uh in in going in and occupying Sudan or occupying Mexico but I'm actually talking about the Condoleezor rice thing that you pick up the phone and you explain the realities of life. | |
| The Mexican now the Mexican as you say the side in the the Mexican side of the border they don't like guns. | |
| On the US side they're relaxed about guns. | |
| That's another reason by the way why that border should be sealed. | |
| The traffic across that border is all one way. | |
| Tens of millions of people have crossed that border illegally into America and we're told oh we can't do anything about them we've got to bring them out of the shadows we've got to give them free medical treatment uh in the emergency rooms of California hospitals uh we've got we've got to give them free education when we go to the school we've got to give them the in t in state tuition rate when they want to go and do navel gazing studies at some worthless college until they're twenty-eight. | |
| We've we've said all that for the ten doesn't matter okay at the moment there's only twelve million, thirty million, whatever it is if there were two hundred million they'd say, oh yes, that's fine. | |
| We'll do that for them too. | |
| We'll give them the free emergency care and we'll give them the in-state tuition rate and we'll give them driver's licenses even though they're not legal residents of the state there's some guy convicted just yesterday in uh Massachusetts of uh dragging uh some guy to his death uh fellow who shouldn't have been in the country he killed an American uh and all the commentary is bending over backwards to talk about cultural differences and all the rest of it uh this is one man, | |
| one man against twelve, fifteen, twenty million who accidentally crosses a border crossing uh where the signage is actually incredibly confusing and no one in the most powerful government in the planet can apparently pick up the phone and get that guy out of jail. | |
| No one in the most powerful government in the planet can pick up the phone to Khartoum and get the uh wife of an American and it's not a time Henry for legal niceties. | |
| Legalisms are what's killing this country. | |
| It doesn't matter whether oh you know the uh uh this eight and a half month uh the tissue matter in the belly of this uh woman may or may not be American we don't know until she runs for president in thirty five years time and we can uh look at her birth certificate long form birth certificate when you can't make any judgment about that. | |
| It's not a time for legal niceties. | |
| It's no nobody's talking about waging war, but a great power is not a great power unless it can impress its will on minor powers. | |
| And right now, everybody from Mexico City to Khartoum has contempt for the United States of America. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, more in a moment. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show. | |
| Rush will be back tomorrow. | |
| He's taken part at a charity golf event uh today. | |
| He's extremely generous with his uh his time in that respect. | |
| But he will return tomorrow for full strength. | |
| Uh excellence in broadcasting through the end of the week. | |
| I just want to um clarify uh a point that came up in the last segment uh that uh Henry uh was disputing whether this uh woman's baby is a US citizen, as I understand it from uh uh Title VIII of the US Code, Section 1401 uh E. A person uh no, not E. Okay. | |
| A person born outside of the United States um i i is and its outline possessions uh is uh one of uh is a uh citizen of the United States is born a citizen of the United States if the uh if the if the one of their parents has been physically present in the United States for one year, which is I I understand uh the situation that this person is in. | |
| So that actually uh this this kid is uh is an American, and that's why uh that's one other reason why uh executing the mother of a uh newborn US citizen. | |
| So this newborn US citizen will be growing up an orphan from birth if the Sudanese uh get away with it. | |
| By the way, the the the nationality thing is of l is of limited value with Abdul Rahman, the case uh that uh Condi Rice intervened in. | |
| Uh he he was an Afghan Christian, he wasn't an American or whatever, uh, but she intervened in that case, and in fact I believe that guy now actually lives in Italy. | |
| Uh but she understood, she understood that Afghanistan was in a sense an American protectorate then. | |
| Americans had expended blood and treasure uh to kick the Taliban out of Afghan, and they didn't do it to set up a squalid Sharia state where you get executed uh if you convert from Islam to Christianity. | |
| Apart from the fact uh that most of the people actually in there uh keeping Mohammed Kazai, that disgusting kleptocrat alive, uh whether they're American, Canadian, Australian, British, or whatever, are actually nominally to one degree or another Christians. | |
| Uh so it th there was something absolutely revolting in saying uh the the you that an Afghan cannot convert to the faith of the nation's protectors uh of the US military and others without being executed. | |
| Uh and she understood that was disgusting and she acted. | |
| Likewise, likewise, because Afghanistan was, in a sense, an American protectorate. | |
| Uh likewise John Kerry has to act because, in a sense, this woman is under American protection. | |
| And it is no time to get legalistic and and uh find some thing in the small print of uh section 1473, paragraph twenty-eight B, uh why you can just let this woman be strung up at the gibbet, and that's it. | |
| That is not what a great power does. | |
| And uh and and if a great power cannot get innocent citizens who've accidentally wandered across a confusing border crossing with no intention to go into Mexico out of jail, or the wife and mother of a US citizen who has done nothing wrong except marry an American citizen uh and prevent her from being hanged, then it is not a great power anymore. | |
| Mark Stein in for rush, lots more still to come. | |
| Mark Stein in Forrush on the uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the president. | |
| Uh the president says he knew nothing about the VA scandal until he read it in the papers. | |
| It's just like every other scandal. | |
| It's only it's only when he reads it in the New York Times that he he even believes it's uh it it's happening. | |
| It makes you wonder actually why we need uh as big a government as we have if he doesn't actually know anything that's going on. | |
| Why does he need a communication staff? | |
| Why does he need a press secretary? | |
| Why does he need to have morning press briefings? | |
| Uh if he doesn't actually know anything until uh uh the same time as anybody else uh as anybody else knows it. | |
| But this is he was a s he he was as side swiped by that as any 'cause just came out of nowhere, this VA scandal. | |
| Just like the IRS scandal, just like the Benghazi scandal. | |
| It's like everything. | |
| He does this the the executive executive branch thing, there's absolutely no contact uh between the president and this thing called the executive. | |
| He bears no responsibility for it. | |
| If only the executive branch fell within his realm of responsibility, then he might be able to do something about it. | |
| Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network. |
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