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May 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Angerman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein uh filling in.
Uh don't forget Rush returns live tomorrow.
He's at a charity golf event uh today and uh he's gonna be back fully fit and rested and eager to go to take you through the end of the week with full strength, authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting, so you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest host.
Uh we were talking in the previous hour about uh this wife of an American citizen, and by the way, her her two-year-old is also uh jailed with her, uh and uh and that's another American citizen uh, by the way, who's in there in jail, and uh and what we could do to to get him out of that.
Now I'm la I'm not like hashtag woman.
Uh I'm not I'm not someone who stands up with a piece of cardboard saying bring back our girls uh uh and thinks that does it.
And I propose two two practical means by which this person might actually be brought back.
But uh because I'm not interested in this ha you know, oh, look up in the sky, is it a bird, is it a plane?
No, it's hashtag woman, uh endowed with all the powers, mighty powers of a giant hashtag, bitten by a radioactive hashtag, she has the power to make her hashtag go viral.
In the end, you gotta have something more uh than hashtag diplomacy if you're gonna impress your will upon the world.
And uh we have a Secretary of State who's off uh he's just speechifying, boring the pants off.
I mean, if ever there was a commencement speak at a ban, uh you would think it would be John Kerry, but these uh layabouts at Boston College didn't rouse themselves, so he bought the pants off them uh for an hour droning on about climate change to them yesterday instead of uh instead of uh doing anything about it.
So I pr I propose two practical solutions, and I would like this woman not to die.
Because those Nigerian schoolgirls have been dispersed, and who knows whether they'll ever be seen again.
So that hashtag actually didn't work.
It made everybody made all the bleating ninnies feel good, but didn't actually do anything.
And I would like uh something to actually happen with this one.
We have a new scandal, and it's being taken very seriously, and this is the VA scandal that has come up.
Uh the Financial Times begins its coverage of this scandal uh like this.
Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its health care reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans that has the potential to attract broad political condemnation of its competence.
I found this interesting, because what's happening to the VA is a scandal.
Um the VA basically, because uh in order to fudge their bookkeeping, in in order to accomplish a trick with uh numbers and targets, which is what bureaucracies are all about, uh the Veterans Administration chose to kill uh actual living American veterans uh or to let them die.
And uh the uh uh and and they did that uh as I said, in simply in order to fudge the numbers.
And that is a scandal in and of itself.
But look at the way I would draw your attention again to how the Financial Times uh covers this story.
This is its opening paragraph.
This is the lead.
Amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its health care reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal about its treatment of military veterans.
It's very odd to me where they would get the idea uh when you're covering the Veterans Administration scandal, uh to mention that the Benghazi scandal is quote, contrived, and uh Obamacare is uh now working just fine and dandy, so that's not a scandal anymore.
In other words, you'd almost get the impression from this Financial Times opening paragraph that this guy had spoken to somebody in the administration who had uh who had somehow implanted on him the idea that the Veterans Administration scandal is a real scandal and that all the other stuff is just Republicans contriving outrage.
You know, amid contrived outrage over Benghazi, contrived outrage over Obamacare, contrived outrage over the IRS scandal.
Uh But this here at the Veterans Administration is a genuine scandal, which is why as Rush discussed yesterday, the assistant deputy, deputy assistant of whatever, uh has been removed from his post.
Even though he was actually announced last fall that he was going to be leaving it early.
They're pretending that they've taken action and fired the assistant deputy, deputy assistant secretary of whatever.
And uh and I don't doubt that at some point, you know, uh Obama might actually uh stand up there and uh and say he's madder than hell, he didn't know anything about this till he read in the paper, but he's going to be setting up some reforms of the VA.
Which is which is in many ways not an attractive medical system.
In my part of the world, you have to they they've consolidated all the veterans hospitals, so you have to drive hours and hours south.
So if you have a uh an an appointment at eight o'clock in the morning, you have to get up at four in the morning to drive all the way down to it.
That's in White River Junction, Vermont.
There's no veterans hospital in the state of New Hampshire.
So any New Hampshire veteran wait is there one there's one where Manchester, but you get re uh but you get allocated which one you go to according to where where you are.
So there's no so if you're in like the northern half of Verm of New Hampshire you've got to drive all the way down to White River Junction, Vermont.
And if it's any and that's not a big facility.
So if it's anything serious now if you've got cancer and you require uh chemotherapy or radiation, you can't get that.
Now this isn't a complicated thing.
Lots of people get cancer but you have to go down to a hospital three hours away.
They can't do it for you there, so you then have to drive an extra three hours all the way to Boston to get treatment for that.
And uh and and that's true in Manchester, New Hampshire too.
The biggest city in New Hampshire has very limited services.
So if you have something just a routine cancer, you can't get treated in Statefritch.
You have to go all the way down to Boston and and get your radiation and chemotherapy there.
What that means of course is that uh veterans have a lousy time in hospital because they're hours and hours and hours away from their loved ones.
So the loved one can't say oh I've got an hour off for lunch I'll just pop in and see my beloved husband who fought for his country because she would need to take a seven hour lunch break to go and see him in hospital.
This is what is one of the things that is sick and inhuman about the system.
And that's before it started deliberately killing people.
But there is a reason why Obama has chosen to focus on this scandal rather than the other ones and I'll come to that when we return.
Mark Stein for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein in Farussha I was talking about the the veterans scandal and uh the Inspector General's office, the uh Veterans Administration Inspector General's office was reportedly told of this wait list racket months before the scandal broke and the guy who's being eased out uh was uh scheduled to retire whatever it was back in uh last October uh so the idea the White House is now Jay Carney was taking credit
for forcing this guy uh the Veterans Affairs top health official out of office uh but in fact uh he uh uh had actually decided to retire back last October so that's this is all phony.
This is all phony.
And the Veterans Administration is a real scandal because it's piling up real dead bodies.
So there are there are there are people who are bereaved and devastated uh by the fact that they've lost loved ones who should still be alive uh and that it that is certainly the case and it oughtn't to be difficult to solve um I I tend to support uh McCain's uh view which I don't know on many things but I happen to on this where he thinks that uh veterans should actually just have a a card that entitles them to go to the hospital the of of their choice.
So if you're taken sick and you like the hospital that's in the town ten minutes away, you can go there.
And that way uh you're yeah you can you can go where you want to go and you where your family can visit you, not so that as in far northern New Hampshire, you have to die all the way down in Boston unsurrounded by uh tar some loved ones bringing you chocolate and flowers.
Uh because they can't do that when you're hours and hours and hours down the road.
So I think uh McCain's got a good idea that they these fellas should just have a it'd be a very simple thing.
I don't even know, in fact, why you would need a vast bureaucracy to administer it, because you could just simply have an uh an American veterans health care card uh that would serve the same purpose as the Blue Cross Blue Shield cards and all the rest of it, and you'd wander into the best hospitals in the country, you could go to the Mayo Clinic and uh hand over this card, and uh they would just uh swipe it and say, Ah yes, you uh you served uh five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Uh we thank you for your service.
Come this way, uh we will uh we will give you the best treatment in the world.
That would be a l that would actually cost less uh, by the way, than this vast uh bureaucracy they've got.
But that's not the reason.
That's not the reason Obama has chosen and the media have chosen to focus on this scandal.
The media prefer this scandal to Benghazi, and the media prefer this scandal to the IRS, and the media prefer this scandal to Obamacare because it doesn't go to the Oval Office.
And that's the reason.
You know, in the end, whatever one feels about Obama, he didn't sit around behind the Oval Office desk saying, Hmm, I wonder how many veterans I can kill today.
He didn't do that.
This is just uh vast bloated incompetent bureaucracy at work and taking a murderous turn somewhere uh d deep in the burrows uh of uh sub basement level twelve somewhere in the bureaucracy.
That's what happened here.
But everything else, everything all the other scandals, and the reason why the media don't want to go near any of them, uh Benghazi, Benghazi goes to the highest level at the United States government.
At the highest level of the United States government, as Rush was talking about yesterday, they took the decision to blame it on this video, laid out a very elaborate scheme for doing so, and to abandon uh not just the four Americans who wound up dying, but God knows how many Americans would have died if those uh two fellas hadn't fought quite as valiantly as they did.
Uh they chose to abandon those people to their fate.
That happened at the highest levels of the United States government.
United States government.
The IRS scandal, we now know, happened at the highest levels of the United States government.
Again, this may be uh I think arguably one of the most serious scandals in the nation's history.
Nixon, everyone thinks Nixon got the IRS to do his dirty work, but in fact the IRS told him to get lost, take a hike.
We can't do that.
The uh the IRS did not tell uh Senator Carl Levin to take a hike.
The IRS, the new IRS director, uh was in the White House dozens and dozens and dozens of times.
And he told the congressional hearing, oh, I may have gone there occasionally for an Easter egg hunt.
I don't know what what what particular religion requires going over for an Easter egg hunt uh once every ten days, uh, as this guy did when he was in and out of the White House all the time.
He's making a mockery of you.
He's laughing at you.
And the g and again the giveaway in Lois Lerner's email, uh the fourth item on her list of what they're bolo, be on the lookout for, is people who have expressed disapproval of the direction the government is taking.
So, in other words, simply disagreeing with the ruling party's policies is enough to attract the attention of an IRS investigator.
That's the very definition of a banana republic, where the party and the state merge.
And in this in this case, the IRS became the enforcement wing of the Democrat Party.
That's what happened in the IRS scandal.
And that again goes all the way to the top of the United States government.
Obamacare goes all the way to the top of the United States government.
Uh the decision to hand these contracts out to people who were incompetent.
Uh the president uh himself personally lying to the American people.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
So when we look at all these scandals that are out there for the media to to choose which among the all you can eat salad bar of Obama scandals that's out there beckoning under the heat lamps uh as you cruise the buffet.
Uh Obamacare goes up to the president himself.
Benghazi goes up to the Secretary of State and the commander in chief himself.
Uh The IRS goes up somewhere.
It all gets a bit murky and lost, but it's going up there into the White House, into the Oval Office.
And we're not quite sure where that one stops.
The VA scandal, the VA scandal is uh does not go to the President himself, and that is why, as the Financial Times informed us, quote, amid contrived outrage over Benghazi and the improving fortunes of its health care reform, the Obama administration could be facing a genuine scandal.
Unquote.
Why is this a genuine scandal?
Because it's the only one uh that does not actually go all the way up to the president.
So look for these guys to focus on this.
Uh look for them to be doing features on uh on veterans who were treated appallingly.
Look for Obama eventually to take action.
This guy Shinseki, uh, who they're leaving there to hang out to dry at the moment.
At some point they'll decide he's outlived his usefulness and they'll bring in some new broom, or they'll make some changes, or they'll come up with some reforms, or they'll bring these guys under Obamacare or whatever it is.
But it's the easy scandal.
It's the easy scandal of all the scandals in this administration, uh, because it's the one that the president can s can actually say, I didn't know anything about it uh and uh and get away with it.
Uh the all the others go right to the heart of the administration.
The IRS scandal is uh is is basically about the ruling party, the president and his clique targeting uh its political opposition, which is like uh Banana Republic 101.
And you can't have an investigation of that because every time you shine the light on the IRS, it gets a little closer to all the people who matter in the country, not the lowest learners and the Carter Hulls or whatever the guy's name is, but but actually the president and people whose names the low information voters know.
And it's the same thing with Benghazi.
Benghazi's already at the level where it's reached the names of people they know.
Where did the video come from?
Why did Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama lie, lie uh about the video over the uh caskets of those four dead Americans, uh dishonoring them in death.
They can't go to Benghazi.
They can't do anything on the Benghazi scandal, because it's already pulled in the big names.
They can't do anything serious on on Obamacare because they know uh that there's video clips of the president saying dozens and dozens of times, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
But this VA scandal is if you've if you've got a whole schmorgers board, if you've got a beltway schmorgers board of toxic scandals, this is the one you can address and the one that does not come up to the White House level.
And that's why you're seeing all these little stories uh in which uh in which um the uh the the administration is at least giving the impression of j uh taking the VA scandal uh seriously.
Uh and um the the the veterans scandal uh veterans uh Rush mentioned this headler, the veterans scandal risks engulfing Obama.
And that's that's the point he was making uh that there is a reason why this scandal, why this scandal is getting the uh getting the in uh attention.
Uh and I agree, by the way, uh th with with what people have said about this.
Rush mentioned uh whatever it was, the race or the guy who was in the uh triple crown, the racehorse who actually gets better treatment than veterans do.
Uh Victor Davis Hansen is in hospital uh at the moment, recovering from a fall he took on his uh bicycle, but he's bashed up his face.
Great historian, uh great commentator.
He's lying in hospital somewhere in California's Central Valley, and he's looking at all the people who come into the wards, and uh uh half of them are uh uh, as he says, appear to him to be illegal immigrants.
And all these illegal immigrants are getting first class treatment at an excellent hospital, while veterans go to the ghetto, to the ghetto of veterans' health care, which may often be a hospital hours away in i in in a neighboring state, uh, and then they are sent home to die and the numbers are fudged.
Why don't we just simply uh put the veterans in the in the same health care system that these illegal immigrants are enjoying out with Victor Davis Hansen in California's Central Valley.
It's not difficult.
There should not be a healthcare ghetto for veterans.
There should not be a health care ghetto for veterans.
But never doubt, never doubt what is really going on here from that Financial Times story.
Uh that this is the scandal they have chosen to focus on because of all the scandals that are out there out of the IRS and Benghazi and the IRS is disgraceful because it corrupts everything.
Out of all those scandals, this is the one that doesn't touch Obama personally.
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I see that Facebook, by the way, I think Facebook is the world's first gun free website.
Uh I don't know whether I don't whether you've been following this, but there's pressure to make actual businesses gun free now.
So people have been going to restaurants, uh the it's mothers against gun violence or whatever it is, going to restaurants and saying uh and and chain stores and saying are you gonna uh make sure that people can't uh whatever the gun laws of your state, the people can't wander around your store with guns.
Uh Facebook has taken it to the next level.
It's the first actual gun free website.
It's like the nuclear free zones that you you know in the s in the uh eighties, uh in the Reagan era you'd drive, you'd suddenly be in Dead Moose Junction and it would announce on the outskirts of town uh you are now entering a nuclear free zone because Dead Moose Junction unilaterally disarmed, it got rid of its nukes.
And uh Facebook has unilaterally thrown all its guns out.
So Facebook is a gun free zone, apparently.
By the way, Rush Limbaugh.com is not a gun free zone, it's a concealed carry website.
Uh it's like Switzerland.
You've got to have a gun if you go on Rushlimbaugh.com.
So do make sure you're packing when you uh go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
Let us go to Ray in Livermore, California.
Ray, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, it's great to have you, Mark.
You do a great job when when Russia isn't there and we love having you.
Um I want to help the president out.
The the poor guy seems to be caught flat footed on all of these scandals uh real or contrived, and it's causing him to be angry when he finds out and he No one's madder than he is.
That's right.
No one's madder than he is, Ray.
He's gonna punch your lights out.
How can he have a decent golf game or four fundraisers a day if he's being caught off guard with all of these scandals?
So I have a proposal that instead of the daily security briefings or the meetings with his staff or his cam uh his cabinet members, that he calls a meeting of the editors of the newspapers every morning and the TV news directors, and uh that way he'll be caught up on the news.
He can get out and get a game of golf and still get four fundraisers in without being uh angry or not resting.
Yeah, I th I think you're right.
I think actually it would be if you had, say, the um uh while Obama is in the uh the golf cart, if you had all the big editors uh behind him in a clown car, they could actually sort of yell what's going on at him, what they're thinking of covering, uh out to him while he's on the golf cart.
So he wouldn't he needn't actually he'd get at least a twenty-four hour jump on it because he wouldn't have to w wait until it's in print uh on the following morning.
So I think I think you're right.
That might be the that might be the thing.
Scrap the security briefing, because he's obviously not doing anything about Putin or Iran or Sudan or Mexico.
So he doesn't need that anyway.
And uh and actually just get the big the editor of the New York Times and the uh and and the the the uh uh CNN guy and the LA Times guy and just have them in like a clown car just going behind his golf court golf cart yelling out what they're thinking of covering.
Uh that's that's an absolutely excellent idea, Ray.
Uh and you know, it does actually evolve that big a change to his daily routine because the these these press guys are with him uh every day.
It's just that they they go everywhere with him.
It's just that they're not allowed to see him.
There's a fabulous picture out on Twitter uh of the press corps at an Obama fundraiser yesterday.
He was giving a fundraiser at uh I guess it was a Sheraton or a Radison or whatever.
Uh and he's uh and the press corps aren't actually allowed to attend the event, even in the cheap seats way at the back of the room by the toilet.
They're not even in there.
They have to stay upstairs on the eighteenth floor in uh in one of the cheap rooms, uh all holed up in there, waiting to be told by uh the the press secretary's deputy assistant press secretary what, if anything, the president said in there.
So they travel around with him, but they never get to see him.
There was speaking of golf, he was at some fancy golf uh club over the weekend, and the pool reporter, who I believe was a guy from the Houston Chronicle, uh yeah, it was the uh Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville, Virginia.
And the pool reporter from the Houston Chronicle, who was the one who was assigned to cover President Obama's golf game.
This is this is incredible, by the way.
The Houston Chronicle hasn't got anybody covering the woman who's going to be executed in Sudan, hasn't got anybody covering Benghazi, hasn't got anybody covering the Iranian nuclear program, hasn't got anybody covering the IRS scandal, but they have got a guy covering President Obama's golf game at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.
And this guy never got to see the president because he agreed to sit out the game in the maintenance shed.
So he couldn't report on uh whether the president got a hole in one or he was had a lousy game, or he availed himself as Clinton used to do of seventeen mulligans.
Uh he's agreed to go and sit in the maintenance shed.
That's your fearless press at work.
He agreed to cover President Obama's golf game from inside the maintenance shed, which didn't have a window.
So he couldn't actually see the president having his golf game.
But at the end of the golf game, the deputy assistant associate assistant, deputy associate assistant press secretary to Jay Carney, uh told him, Oh, the president had a great game.
So he was able to go and report that.
This happens all the time.
This happens all the time.
Uh uh at a Florida event uh with Joe Biden.
It's not just the president.
Joe Biden was doing an event at some home in Florida, and the Orlando Sentinel reporter agreed to be locked in a closet for the duration of the event.
Now I'm I I'm actually in favor of this.
No one wants greasy, grubby reptilian reporters.
You know, you throw a big uh you know, ten thousand dollar ahead fundraiser, and it's absolutely you everyone's spiffed up to the nines.
It's absolutely revolting if there's some grubby little greasy reporter wandering around the room uh giving everyone bad vibes.
But what I don't get, and he's like wearing a cheap suit and he's just generally bad his pants aren't pressed and he's just looks terrible and he's uh clogging up the joint.
I don't get though why these guys agree to cover an event from sitting inside the closet of the Joe Biden fundraiser or sitting inside the maintenance shed uh of the uh what club is this again?
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.
These guys went to like Columbia Journalism School.
They their parents mortgaged the house, took on a quarter million dollars of debt, so they could go to Columbia Journalism School and be trained how to sit compliantly in the maintenance shed of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia.
And when the President says, All I know is what I read in the papers, the reason why he knows so little may be because all the hardworking reporters are actually spending hours on end locked in the maintenance shed at the golf club or locked in the closet at the Joe Biden uh fundraiser.
Hey, let's go uh to Bill in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bill, you're live on America's number one radio show.
Mark, it is a true honor to talk to you.
I've read your great book, America Alone, and I consider you and me to be probably the five smartest one of the five smartest men in the country.
Oh, me too, me too, Bill.
Me too.
You're the you're of that top five, you are definitely in the top three.
I'm just uh like pulling uh I'm I'm in the lower ranks, but I I uh I'm happy to reciprocate.
Rush, V D Victor Davis Hanson, Crowdhammer, you and me.
Hey, buddy quickly, this is symbolic of any bureaucracy that uh they live for themselves.
It's VA scandal.
Um You asked the question a while ago, why not put these veterans into the General Obamacare?
Well then that would destroy the bureaucracy.
What would happen to the bureaucracy if you put them into the general population?
The bureaucracy lives for itself.
They serve themselves, and you can always trace it to money.
It's like this bonuses part of this.
They got bonuses for misrepresenting or misreporting when the veterans got treatment.
You can go to any bureaucracy, and the last thing they want to do is serve the purpose that they were created for.
The first thing they want to do is to prolong their life.
Any of them.
You know, Department of Agriculture, Education, any of them.
The first thing they want to do is it's always about the money.
All you have to do is trace the money and you'll find out uh why they exist and they serve themselves.
Yeah, you're you're you're right about that, Bill.
And i you said they got bonuses for i i what they actually got bonuses for, what they actually got bonuses for is for killing uh American veterans.
Uh and they went home with those bonus checks quite happily because they'd met their bureaucratic targets.
And the purpose of a bureaucracy is to serve the bureaucrats.
That's what it is.
That's that's why uh when you have a the private sector uh and uh you start the Sears Robot catalogue and you hire people to send out the Sears Robot catalogue and to fulfill orders from the Sears Robot catalogue, and then it's suddenly it's nineteen ninety whatever,
and uh people aren't living out in homesteads uh on the prairie and and requiring uh to order everything from the Sears Robot catalogue and and you decide that this is an idea whose time has passed, and you get rid of those people uh that you had working on the Sears Robot catalogue.
But if the Sears Robot Catalogue is like the department of Sears Roebuck somewhere in the agency or bureau or whatever, it's there forever.
That's its purpose.
Its purpose is to serve the bureaucracy.
Uh and uh Mrs. Thatcher always used to have a great line when people the first solution people had to any problem is that you should create a government uh department uh dedicated to the problem.
And she would always say, No, that's the worst idea, because then you'll never be rid of it.
Then you will never be rid of it, because uh politicians come and go, but the bureaucracy is forever.
Uh but that is exactly why sometimes, particularly a nation as broke as this needs to be able to actually show that it can still drive a stake for a bureaucracy or department or a bureau or an agency.
Because John McCain is right.
There's no reason why people can't why uh you shouldn't be able to say to a veteran, you've served your country, here's a card, it's no different from your credit card or your driver's license.
You show this at any hospital in the United States, and you can be treated.
You can be tr that's easy to do, it's not expensive to do compared to this.
Uh and sometimes uh you have to be able to prove, as they did in New Zealand in the nineteen eighties, uh and in Britain under Mrs. Thatcher, in in New Zealand it was the finance minister, a guy called Sir Roger Douglas, who who privatized everything and and uh demonstrated that in fact government doesn't need to do a lot of this stuff.
And in Eastern Europe, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, they had radical privatization too.
And it's time for it here.
There is no need for a health care ghetto for veterans.
And veterans of all people should not be shoved in the health care uh ghetto.
By the way, in Boston, uh where the main VA hospital, it's essentially VA central for the uh for for for uh uh a big bulk of New England, uh all the way up to the Quebec border.
So you've got to go all the way to Boston, and then you're in uh they put it in Jamaica Plains, which isn't our you know, just to put it uh at its uh uh most modest, isn't the most salubrious neighborhood.
Uh elderly veterans can't even go uh and take a stroll out late at night round there.
And we put them, you know, they're not they don't have the nice landscape gardens that they do at the big hospitals, like at uh Hitchcock in uh Dartmouth Hitchcock in New Hampshire or Fletcher Allen in Vermont, they're excluded from that system.
And it is disgraceful.
And getting rid of it involves driving a stake through the bureaucracy, which apparently is beyond the will of either the Democrat or Republican Party.
Mark sign for Rush, more ahead.
I mentioned the uh the the fact that uh uh Facebook has become uh a gun free website.
Uh and the this is part of the pressure from mom's demand action for gun sense in America, which has apparently has been pressurizing uh chain restaurants and uh various other stores uh to actually, whatever the laws of the state are, prohibit concealed carry uh and to ban firearms from going into their stores.
And they initially tried to do it with uh uh how do you pronounce this uh this one, HR, this uh Mexican thing.
You say Chipotle uh you live in Chipotle.
Do you know that's fascinating?
They had it uh they th there's a there's a place uh up the road from me that actually introduced it, because this is actually largely a chipotle free zone, this part of the world, but they called it all Chipotle there.
Do you want Chipotle on that?
Do you want Chipotle?
But it's Chipotle.
Uh that's that it's like it's like that uh pinky, it's like that salmon-yorangey kind of uh sauce they put on everything when you live in sophisticated neighborhoods like HR's.
Is that right?
That's uh that's you've got it on yeah, you've got it drizzled over.
Yeah.
Yeah, uh yeah, I know, I know.
But it's like they say, oh, would you want uh Chipotle on that?
Or Chipotle, as they say up here.
Anyway.
They uh they've got it on everything.
Uh but uh uh Chipotle has now uh uh caved in to they have uh they have basically uh they're basically folded like a cheap Chipotle wrapp and uh caved in to Mom's Demand Action for Gun Sense.
And now Chipotle restaurants are going to be gun free zones.
Which is entirely unnecessary, because by the way, that Chipotle uh source is the one thing you can throw at a gun that it will absolutely disable it.
You get that thing down the barrel of a gun, that thing is uh you get that down the barrel of a gun, you're never gonna be able to fire that again.
So the Chipotle restaurant chain has said uh there are strong arguments on both sides of the issue, but they have essentially cave now to mom's demand action for gun sense in America.
And when we're moving into a world, and people can I'm not a great believer in demanding that the guy who gives me a chipotle rap uh should have to agree with me on every single issue.
But we are moving into a world now.
When you take the Mozilla uh CEO, when you take uh Donald Sterling at the NBA, where now we are requiring every single activity in life, uh corporate activity, these guys have to agree with us on on one hundred percent of everything.
So we now have a strange alliance uh between the politically correct left and big business.
Uh and it's and it's fascinating to me because the right is certainly nowhere.
The right can't get uh uh, you know, when it uh tries to apply these uh boycotts to Disney or whatever, they generally are not the uh as instantly effective as they are when you try and uh bring it to bear on Mozilla or uh Chipotle.
And I tie this in politically, by the way.
There are two schools of thought out there on the Tea Party at the moment, that the Tea Party is over or the uh uh the and the Tea Party is irrelevant, or that actually non Tea Party candidates like Mitch McConnell are having to move closer to the Tea Party's position.
And I essentially look on the Tea Party as the right's equivalent of Mom's Demand Action for Gun Sense, and Mitch McConnell as the equivalent of Chipotle.
In other words, if you've got a Republican legislator who doesn't particularly believe in anything or stand for anything, you might as well do what mom's demand action on the left do, and on the right, you might as well force him to move closer to your position.
So there's a lot of that going on.
It makes a lot more sense in politics uh than it does when you're doing it at the uh Chipotle restaurant.
Mark Stein in Farush, we'll have lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush, uh uh uh a listener, uh Michael Dennis, uh says to me that if that lady in Sudan were gay and wanted a gay wedding, Obama would send in the Marines.
I'm I don't know about that, but it is true that uh like if i i you've gotta you gotta go gay to get the attention of this administration.
Like Putin can annex the Crimea and nobody cares.
But if he like closes a gay disco on the eve of the Olympics, then everyone's up in arms.
The the Hollywood left, Jay Leno, uh uh uh Joe Jay Leno, looking like he'd been sleeping in the park for a week, was outside the Beverly Hills Hotel protesting it because the Sultan of Brunei, who owns it, has introduced some homophobic uh legislation in Brunei.
John Kerry is sending officially credentialed gay experts to Uganda to see Mr. Museveni there because he's homophobic.
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