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May 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, Rush is at a charity event today, but he will return live tomorrow to take you through the end of the week with uh authentic all American full strength excellence in broadcasting, not the adulterated subminimum wage cheap foreign labor version that you uh have to endure today.
This is Mark Stein coming to you live uh from uh uh uh ice station EIB tucked up in the northwest corner of uh New Hampshire.
If you're uh if you're fleeing the country, do swing by.
We got a a uh big sign on the highway.
You can't miss it.
Last rush guest host before the border.
We always we always love to see you.
It's great being here.
One eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two in the uh in the season of of uh graduation, uh the class of twenty fourteen, all over the country graduating with their uh master's degrees in uh transgender and colonialism studies, it's a very uh moving sight.
This season uh everybody, everybody has been bounced uh from the commencement addresses.
Uh Ian Hersey Ali uh was uh denied at Brandeis, and Condor Lisa Rice at uh Rutgers, and Christine Lagarde, the head honcho at the IMF, uh was not allowed to give an address at uh Smith.
And um Michael Johnston uh at uh Harvard.
Wait, wait a minute, who's Michael Johnston?
Uh Michael Johnston is a state senator in Colorado who was chosen to speak to Harvard's graduate school of education.
He's a Democrat, by the way.
He's a Democrat who represents Northeast Denver.
He's a a Democrat State Senator and he was mysteriously uh b uh banned from giving his commencement.
The the students protested because his vision, his quote, vision of education reform relies heavily on test based accountability, unquote.
And naturally, if you're one of these dummies who goes to Harvard, you don't want to have anything to do with that.
So they're not having some guy who's uh who relies heavily on test-based accountability giving the graduation.
And then of course there was, as I mentioned earlier, that camel at uh the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, who wasn't allowed to give the uh give the commencement address because it would be disrespectful to persons of Middle Eastern origin to have this uh camel uh uh prowling the campus at Minnesota.
I would love I would I feel I feel it's actually depressing my public speaking fees, the fact that I cannot get banned from giving a commencement address at an American uh Ivy League university.
It's very embarrassing.
My kid, by the way, is graduating from grade school, eighth grade.
I think uh it's uh the week after next, and uh they haven't got a commencement speaker yet.
And actually it's quite hard to go and get a uh commencement speaker for the eighth grade in far northern New Hampshire.
You know, you try to get Christine Lagarde from the IMF, you try to get Condoleezza Rice.
Uh you try to get Valerie Jarrett.
Valerie Jarrett uh gave a commencement address.
Uh and people don't want to people don't want to know.
For some reason they don't want to come and give an eighth grade commencement address.
So they usually wind up making do with like the lady who runs the cafeteria, and it's all very charming.
All the or the fire chief uh uh someone like that.
It's all very charming.
But I I advise my eighth grader to invite me to give the commencement address this year, because then these guys can get a jump.
I think it's important to learn early.
Then my uh my son and his eighth grade pals can have a big protest and say they want their school to be a safe space and they don't want me to come and uh I'm a nasty hate monger.
Yeah, I we are not having him peddling his hate speech here at the eighth grade graduation.
And uh and that way, and that way they can get a jump uh and the it's like c you get college credit for that.
If you've successfully protested your commencement speaker at eighth grade, it's like doing what do they call it, AP.
It's like AP student protest.
You'll get college credit for it when you eventually wind up at Smith or Brandeis or Harvard or wherever.
And so I I've I'm encouraging my kid to ask me to be the commencement uh commencement speaker there and uh and get a jump on that.
Valerie Jarrett, I thought was very interesting.
She's not controversial.
You know, you can't have the among the great uh American college students, war on women.
You can't have Ian Hersey Ali, a brave woman uh who speaks up for Muslim women's rights, like uh this poor woman who's about to be hanged in Sudan.
You can't have Christine Lagarde because she's head honcher of the IMF.
You can't have Condorisa Rice because she was personally waterboarding people for eight years in the Bush administration, but you can have Valerie Jarrett who gave the commencement address to Pomona College and said, but also remember before I hire anybody, I always check out everything that they've been doing online, and believe me, we have ways of finding out everything you've been doing online.
That's cute, isn't it?
She's doing NSA jokes now.
The President's conciliary is doing NSA jokes.
Uh actually yeah, she's making a list and checking it twice.
And uh V Haf Ves of finding out everything you've been doing online, Yavol.
Uh that's great, NSA jokes.
You know who I love it when these I love it when our political leaders do these cute little jokes.
It's so cute to have uh the president sidekick doing jokes about the NSA monitoring everything you do.
It's almost as cute as when uh President Obama three or four years ago was doing jokes about how if you disagreed with him, he was going to see that you got audited.
That worked out to be pretty darn funny too, didn't it?
Anyway, anyway, Valerie Jarrett was giving the one at Pomona.
Boston College drew the short straw on this.
They had John Kerry uh giving uh a speech to Boston College.
And if ever there's a reason to rise up as one and say we are not having this commencement speaker, we'll take Condoleezza Rice, we'll take Christine Lagarde, we'll take that camel in Minnesota before we have to sit through this.
It would be a time but these squishies, these jelly spined eunuchs of Boston College instead sat through this droning snooze fest from John Kerry, who uh Secretary of State, John Kerry, quote, warned graduates of Boston College on Monday that they have doom and destruction to look forward to if they don't take climate change more seriously.
And I know it's hard to feel the urgency as we sit here on an absolutely beautiful morning in Boston, Kerry said.
You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your communities, or your families.
But let me tell you it is.
If the US does not act, and it turns out that the critics and the naysayers and the members of the Flat Earth Society, if it turns out that they're wrong, then we are risking nothing less than the future of the entire planet.
And um at this point he waited, I think, for the standing ovation, but there was just like a yeah, a loud yawn from the guy in the 23rd row.
Uh so that was John John Kerry, that was John Kerry's speech.
There is a story today in The Guardian, uh headlined North Korea, an unlikely champion in the fight against climate change.
Uh and apparently.
North Korea, by the way, where people are starving, starving, uh, they have camps, concentration camps, for people who are starving to death.
Uh but they uh but the Guardian is congratulating them on uh reducing their carbon footprint.
And actually, if you're willing to starve people to death, I don't want to give John Kerry any ideas, but if you're willing to starve your population to death, it's amazing how quickly you can reduce uh your carbon footprint.
No, zero absolutely zero economic growth, because they don't make anything except this knockoff Viagra, uh, which uh which doesn't work, and uh so if you so presumably that also is uh not going to cause you problems with uh with any uh with your carbon credit.
So North Korea is apparently the new model climate change citizen.
If only, if only the United States could be as serious about lowering its carbon footprint as the North Koreans are.
That's this uh that's so so it's good to know that even though the graduating class of Boston College slept through his speech uh that the uh that the North Koreans are taking John Kerry's warning seriously, even if nobody else is, even if the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians and the Sudanese are laughing their heads off at John Kerry, the environment minister in Pyongyang is taking him extremely seriously.
Uh we were talking about the veterans' affairs uh uh scandal, and apparently it has reached and I was saying this is the one that Obama will be seen to be taking action on because it's it's uh it it doesn't go to him.
It's not like Benghazi, not like the RS, not like any of that stuff.
Uh and this is how serious they are.
They have escalated their concern over the VA scandal to the deputy chief of staff level.
Rob Neighbors, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Rob Neighbors, will be heading to Phoenix Wednesday evening to meet with leadership at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
And so it begins, folks.
Out of the great groaning all-you-can-eat scandal bar of the Obama buffet, they have selected the one scandal that it is safe for them to be seen to be taking action on.
And uh and so they will be uh sending deputy chief of staff, Rob Neighbors, and if it gets any more serious than this, they may well fly in the actual chief of staff.
Uh assuming there's only one deputy chief of staff, he may have another deputy chief of staff who's a more senior deputy chief of staff, and this guy, Rob Neighbors, may only be the assistant deputy chief of staff or the associate deputy chief of staff, in which case they'll escalate to the actual deputy chief of staff.
But if there is no other deputy chief of staff, then they may send in the chief of staff to Phoenix, going in to emphasize, and they will show him coming down the airport, coming down the steps of the plane at the airport, arriving in Phoenix to emphasize that this is something that is happening a long,
long, long, long, long, long way away from the White House, and therefore it's a scandal that it is safe uh for President Obama uh to get mixed up in.
We were talking earlier also about uh the bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy is in it for itself.
That's that's what happened here.
Basically, you got bonuses for killing veterans if you did it in such a way uh that you met your targets on the paperwork.
Because the paperwork trumps the actual dead veteran.
Uh the dead veteran is less important than whether you meet your paperwork.
So they got bonuses for killing veterans.
Uh and that's that's the bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy protects itself.
We have a situation where feds use donations intended for poor for massages and luxuries for themselves.
This is from the Washington Examiner, and it's about something called the combined federal campaign, uh, where in fact forty-one federal workers uh are being paid full-time salaries to administer just one local chapter of the government's annual workplace charity drive, the combined federal campaign.
Now I don't even get this, by the way, because it's not a charity drive if the government does it.
Charity is when free peoples freely give their own money to causes that they support.
But the the federal government has an official uh workplace charity drive, the combined federal campaign.
And at just one meet, they outsourced it uh to something a non-profit called Global Impact.
And Global Impact had 41 federal employees working at its uh office uh with wall-to-wall views of the Potomac, on which pictures of starving children in Africa are juxtaposed uh against their amenities, such as a uh gourmet kitchen.
Uh uh uh federal employees expense personal dry cleaning bills, uh travels to an awards banquet, eighty-dollar flower gifts.
Uh this charity, this so-called government charity, also has a private box at the stadium where the Washington Nationals play.
Uh they uh they uh money that could have been better used for the so-called charity campaign uh campaigns was used to pay for the hiring the jazz band at a leadership conference, a tour, a Mardi Gras tour in New Orleans, uh and uh they had a policy where if you held your conference in Vegas or Orlando, uh the workers would fly in uh for a few days beforehand and a few days afterwards, so they can enjoy some well-earned RR.
A bureaucracy taking care of itself, uh which is what happened.
And in this case, they're just doing it, they're just sh getting free massages, they're getting a great orchestra to play at their leadership conference, uh, They're getting a couple of extra days in Vegas.
In the VA scandal, when the bureaucracy took care of themselves, they killed real people.
And that's uh that's how willing the bureaucracy is to defend its privileges.
Mark Stein in Farush, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Farush, uh, the Hill reports that uh the government, surprise, surprise, is paying incorrect subsidies to more than uh one million of these uh Obamacare sign-ups, and has yet to have a system uh to cross-check documents against the original applications.
I mean, we are we are a smidgenette away from uh from a situation where you can basically enter whatever numbers you want into the Obamacare website, and nothing will get checked.
Again, because what is important here is that the bureaucracy uh give the impression of being allowed to be succeeding.
So what's important for Obamacare is not that people get the subsidies they're entitled to, but that Obama gets the numbers whereby he can trumpet the thing a great success.
So we apparently there's uh more than a million people who are getting incorrect uh subsidies.
But it doesn't matter because Obamacare is working.
And there's no system, there's no system you can't, even if you wanted to check, there actually is no way to check that uh the uh original applications are full of of correct numbers.
A H.R. says uh you would think a president who leads from behind could get the back end of Obamacare working.
That's right.
He was he got he was at the he got the back end of deposing uh Colonel Gaddafi walk uh working, so he's he can lead from behind when he wants to, but he can't lead from behind when it comes to uh getting at the back end of Obamacare.
Let us go to let us go to Arlene in Indianapolis.
Arlene, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Well hi.
I read all your books.
I love 'em.
Uh but what I call about is the huge thing with political correctness.
Everything has to be politically correct.
You can't carry your a concealed weapon in a restaurant.
You can't do any of these things.
It's any, you know.
You can't have uh you uh like this uh uh Sterling can't say something in private and have a state private, and it's just everything has to be out in the public and everything has to be politically correct.
You know, it's just wrong.
Well, you're what it means is like there's no private space anymore.
I mean, to go back to the Valerie Jarrett thing, uh everybody knows there's no privacy.
So you can't you can't have a you can't make a joke when you're when you're uh sitting on your sofa in your own front room just in case somebody's got the smartphone on.
And it's the it's the fulfillment of the left's vision since the 60s, which is that everything is political.
There is no non-political space in society.
So that someone who does not hold the correct view.
Again, John Kerry has been given a lot of speeches.
So I'll bring it back to John Kerry.
He was given a speech uh, I think it was at uh Harvard or Yale as well as Boston College.
He gave one the day before.
He's out speechifying while Rome burns.
And uh while this uh woman is waiting to be hanged in Sudan, and while Putin's up to his mischief and the Iranians are getting on with their nuclear program, John Kerry is busy giving a speech a day.
And in the speech he gave before the boring climate change one, he congratulated Harvard or Yale, whichever one it was, on having the most, quote, diverse class ever.
And he said, You are Don He looked at them and he said, You are Donald Sterling's worst nightmare.
Uh I don't even get this.
Like Donald Sterling is dating a woman who's half black and half Hispanic, right?
And whatever one feels about Donald Sturdy, he's not scared of diversity.
His mistress, he's got one of the most diverse mistresses single-handedly.
He's got one of the most diverse mistresses of any rich guy in America.
John Kerry.
John Kerry went all the way to Mozambique to find his wife.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is from uh is from Mozambique originally, born in Mozambique.
Teresa High John Kerry Went all the way to Mozambique to find his wife, and he found the only white heiress in Mozambique.
That's how non diverse John Kerry is.
But it's great to have the Secretary of State of the United States using a private citizen as a punching bag over some comments he made to his splendidly diverse mistress that were the that were broadcast to the planet.
There's no private space.
And you want to be very careful about going down going down that road and entering that society.
And likewise with the if you're demanding uh complete political allegiance on every point.
When you go to some drive-through fast food chain and you're demanding complete political allegiance on every single point of your political agenda, whether it's gay marriage or whether it's gun control, then again you are shriveling into a literally totalitarian society.
Yes, Rush returns live tomorrow.
He's out at a charity event uh today, but uh this is Mark Stein, honored to be here.
Uh been talking about these uh uh bureaucracies taking care of their own, doesn't matter whether they're uh hiring their favorite orchestra for a so-called leadership uh event as they're doing in Arlington, Virginia, or whether it's the VA uh guys at the sharp end actually killing veterans in order to make certain of their bonuses, or it's this fellow from the uh environmental protection agency.
This is a headline you gotta love.
EPA worker watching porn up to six hours a day got a bonus.
This is by this is some EPA official spend up to six hours a day at the office on the taxpayer dime looking at pornography.
Uh yeah, he got a bonus.
That's no no, that's not a spelling error.
He got a bonus for watching pornography six hours a day.
Uh he downloaded and viewed more than 7,000 pornographic files during duty hours, uh, and he still got his bonus.
And uh boy, I'd like to see those emission standards.
Uh that's the uh that's the EPA guy who uh you can watch porn six hours a day on the taxpayers dime and you'll still get your bonus.
Let us go to Joe, who is uh somewhere in southern Illinois.
He doesn't want to make it any more specific than that in case Valerie Jarrett's tracking the call.
Uh Joe, uh you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, you're the Rajah of the Republic.
Um I just wanted to say that there is no accountability, and as far as this uh going up to the president from the VA, most of the SES guys are appointed.
Uh they just move people around.
They don't take responsibility for anything.
If somebody's doing wrong here, they move them to another area and they uh keep the same people going around and around and around.
Right, right.
And you know what that's like, Joe?
You know the other organization that did that.
Uh the uh the uh Boston Catholic diocese, Cardinal Law, his thing was if some uh if some if some priest got into trouble at one church, uh you move him to another church, and if he gets in trouble there, you move him on to another church, and there was some fellow way up in the North Main Woods, uh north of Moosehead Lake, uh, right up on the New Brunswick border.
He'd been moved as far as he could go.
Because no matter what you did, you couldn't get fired.
And all the same uh liberals who go on about the corruption in the Catholic Church and uh cardinal law moving people from one stuff to another, as you say, these the same thing is exactly a happens in the bureaucracy, uh, including in this bureaucracy, the doctors just get moved on to another hospital.
Uh so what what do you want to do about this, Joe?
Where do you think the uh the Republican Party uh and uh or even the administration actually should do if they were serious about changing this?
Well, the sad thing is uh I'm not really a fan of Shinsecki, but if you move him out, then you got somebody else that's got another eight or nine months or so to get in, and then he gets a grace period, and then if he don't work in somebody else and somebody else, you need to take responsibility, they need a clean house.
Uh part of the problem, again, I said was accountability.
Right.
Figures and bean counters and taking care of us vets.
Uh well, you well, it's because you can't be fired.
It's because no matter what you the only person that's why I don't care about firing Shinseki, because he isn't anybody.
He isn't anybody.
He's just like the little the appointed cherry on top of this huge stale cake uh that that can never be that that can never be changed.
And every so often uh some new president comes in and he takes the cherry off the stale cake and puts another cherry on, and meantime underneath it, absolutely nothing changes.
So uh as you say, you you replace Shinseki and the new guy then will be given this grace period, six months, nine months a year in which to get his feet under the desk, and in the meantime, the level at which this stuff is being done, those people will pay no price.
And it's and it's like the EPA porn watcher, they'll actually still get their bonuses.
And and at some point, the the difference, you know, when we talk about everybody, there's like a lot of class warfare in this country.
But the real class difference is between the permanent bureaucracy and the people who do uh jobs in the private sector.
Where if you if you kill never mind if you kill people, but if you're just like the VA guys do, but if you just sit around watching pornography all day for six hours a day, you get fired.
You can't be fired from a government job.
And that's why you need actually full-scale privatization of some of this stuff to uh to to actually ensure that people are responsive and the people who do it, uh, you know, like Shinseki doesn't know.
He's what is he?
He's like Shinseki's some general who has his sort of post-military career uh is uh is is is eased as in as the public face of some uh government bureaucracy.
And he'll be gone and they'll replace him with someone else.
And it doesn't matter unless low level, mid-level, high level members of the permanent bureaucracy can be fired, uh then it doesn't make any difference at all.
Joe, thank you for your thank you for your call.
Uh that's that's the that's the point to remember.
Who at the IRS is gonna pay the price uh here?
Who at the IRS is actually going to be fired?
You know, at what level th the guy, this is how crazy it is.
Uh I don't know whether you remember, but on September eleventh, two thousand and one, there was like some big news event in America.
It was in all the papers, you may have seen it.
Six months to the day, March the eleventh, two thousand and two, somebody in at US Immigration issued a permanent visa to Mohammed Atta.
Yeah, who uh and sent it to his flight uh flight school in Florida.
Mohammed Atta was the head guy on nine eleven, and he wasn't at his flight school in Florida anymore.
He was a few dust particles somewhere in a big hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan.
He didn't exist anymore.
He was deceased.
But six months after he was deceased, uh some uh dimwit bureaucrat at US immigration gets around to approving his visa uh and sends it to the wrong address, uh, sends it to the Florida flight school instead of sending it to Big Hole in the ground lower Manhattan.
And that guy That guy, you know, Bush did the Obama thing.
Bush said I'm mad as hell about this, you know.
Uh and he was.
I mean, you could look at it the other way, that at least uh by this stage uh US immigration is only giving out visas to dead terrorists as opposed to living terrorists, which is what it does most of the time.
Uh but Bush said in uh was mad as hell about this, and people's heads were gonna roll.
And what happened?
The guy was moved sideways.
So instead of being deputy assistant, associate assistant, deputy assistant, associate assistant uh director of terrorist visa pro uh processing, he was moved sideways to becoming assistant deputy, assistant associate, deputy assistant, associate assistant, deputy director of uh deceased terrorist processing.
So he just had a slightly longer business card.
He was moved sideways.
He gave a visa, he issued a visa to a guy who killed three thousand Americans, three thousand Americans, and they move him sideways.
That's how seriously they took it.
And that's the permanent bureaucracy.
And you at some point as I said, this is the difference.
These guys retire, if you're if you're a sh uh uh uh somebody who still makes the mistake of going into private business.
If you've if you've got a software firm, if you've got a feed store, uh if you're up every morning running your business, and you're gonna be working till you won't be these guys retire in their mid-50s on the most generous health and pension benefits imaginable, and you will be working until you drop dead at the age of eighty-eight to pay for the third of a century long retirement they are enjoying at your expense.
And that is the division in this country.
The division between a permanent bureaucracy that goes to the office and watches porn for six hours a day and then uh looks at the clock and it's like, oh, 358, and I'll be going home in a couple of minutes, so maybe I should approve Mohammed Atta's visa or uh kill a couple of US veterans in the last couple of minutes while I'm here.
That's the difference.
Until those people, until you're able to fire people for watching porn six hours a day, until you're able to fire people for uh giving a visa to Mohammed Atta six months after he's been on the front pages of all the newspapers, so his face and name ought to ring a bell, or uh killing uh American veterans to get your bonuses, there will be no change because, as Joe said, there's no accountability.
Mark Stein in Farush, Mordecan.
Mark Stein in Farush, just want to uh uh quickly mention this.
Dinesh de Sousa has pleaded guilty in his campaign finance violation case.
Uh he's a he was accused of making twenty thousand dollars in illegal contributions to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long, a friend of his in New York State, doomed candidate, lost by uh, you know, uh a huge uh landslide for the Democrat, uh, and he he he made uh twenty thousand dollars in illegal contributions to her, which he rooted through uh as this uh new story in Politigo puts it, his mistress and his mistress's husband.
But here's what's here's what's interesting about this.
They claim that they got this on like just like a routine campaign via li uh finance check.
In other words, he wasn't targeted.
It's not because he made a spectacularly successful anti Obama deck documentary in uh in the fall of twenty twelve, uh oh twenty six uh f fall of twenty twelve Obama's America, and that he's got another one coming out for the next election season, they claim it was just like all uh an accidental uh, you know, it's an entirely random uh uh uh uh s uh scrolling through of the campaign finance donations they and and they got him.
So let's just let's just uh uh add it up here.
He's now pleaded guilty because when the federal justice system of this country is corrupt.
So when they target you, you are basically faced with the choice of pushing back and losing ten years of your life, losing all your savings uh and uh uh and uh having effectively everything you've worked for destroyed.
And the the federal justice system, when they target you, has something like a ninety-seven percent success rate.
In other words, they're up there with uh Kim Jong-un's justice system or Saddam Hussein, they're that good.
If they come up against you, it's ninety-seven percent.
And most cases uh are settled before they ever come to trial.
If they go into trial, they'll demand even more, they'll demand even more.
So he was looking at five years in jail now, having pleaded guilty under the sentencing guidelines, he will be going to jail for ten to sixteen months if the judge applies the guidelines.
So he won't be around to promote his next anti-Obama movie because he'll be like that uh like that Benghazi filmmaker uh out in California.
He'll be behind bars.
That's how effective uh this country is when uh when Obama decides to deal with his domestic enemies.
It's like a different thing.
If you're the if you're in Sudan or if you're Iran, if you're in Syria, you've got the run of the playground.
But for his domestic enemies, uh Dinesh D'Souza, as things stand, is likely to be going to jail for ten to sixteen months for a twenty thousand dollar campaign violence uh violation.
By the way, prosecuted by the representative of a government, this president in 2008, he was taking illegal campaign donations from all over the planet because he had no uh security controls at the Obama website.
So people were call and when people found out about it, the guys at Power Line uh tested uh the Power Line Blog.
They called in and they made contributions and put names like, you know, A. Hitler, the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, and their donations were processed.
So he took all these illegal campaign contributions.
And he's not going to jail.
But Dinesh D'Souza, over a $20,000 violation, is going to be going to jail for 10 to 16 months because the alternative was the corrupt federal justice system destroying his life.
But if you're a bureaucrat, if you're a bureaucrat and you kill American veterans, you get moved to a new hospital.
That's the problem here.
That's the problem.
Justice is capricious and arbitrary and has a bias in protecting in fact fencing off from real justice, this vast, ever vaster government bureaucracy.
Let us go to Dean in Gainesville, Florida.
Dean, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Mr. Stein, it's been such a pleasure listening to you today and your turn of thought.
I just have a comment about this poor woman, Miriam Ibrahim, who's in jail right now with child, just because she refuses to renounce her faith in Jesus Christ.
There was an incident in the Teddy Roosevelt administration where an American citizen was kidnapped by a barbary pirate.
And he sent seven warships into the region, two contingents of Marines, and he issued a public statement through John Hay as Secretary of State and said, I want the Razuli dead.
I want I want Pedicaris, which was the man's name.
I want Pedicaris alive or Razuli dead.
Right, right.
And uh they his advisors asked him about the legality of the thing, and he said, Why spoil the beauty of a thing with legality?
Exactly.
So, you know, it became a uh a slogan for the administration, which actually galvanized the nation, and the man was let go.
And I thought, you know, where are the Teddy Roosevelt of today?
That that's that's right, because uh being being a foreigner, I I quoted uh Lord Parston, but in fact that was uh Teddy Roosevelt's Lord Palmerston moment and and uh and the precise equivalent of it.
And that's by the way, that's what we should be doing on it here.
We should be emphasizing this judge's name, Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa.
So we would like uh we would like Mrs. Ibrahim, Mrs. Wani, I believe her married name is.
We we demand her alive, or this guy and the system responsible for killing her are gonna be dead.
Uh and as you say, it's not about the legality of it, Dean.
It's about effective uh power projection around the world, which this country, I'm afraid, has lost the knack of.
When the wives of American citizens are being hanged uh for choosing to marry uh that American citizen, uh, this government has lost the respect of the planet.
Thanks for your call, Dean.
We'll wrap it up in a moment.
The CIA has announced that it's gonna stop doing fake vaccination campaigns.
I don't know whether you've been following this, uh, but in Pakistan and Afghanistan, they've got these polio outbreaks because there's genuine World Health Organization polio campaigns, but there's also fake uh polio vaccination campaigns that are being run as CIA operations.
In other words, where uh the big-time jihadist uh brings his kids in to have their polio shots and their vaccinations, and uh that gives the CIA dressed up as doctors and nurses a chance to get the guys in the database.
Unfortunately, the C everybody in Waziristan and everybody all over uh the Hindu Kush knows that the CIA is running fake vaccination campaigns, so they don't go to the real vaccination campaigns.
So now they uh they've all got uh polio outbreaks there.
So the CIA is today, uh yesterday I think it was announced that it will no longer run fake vaccination campaigns, and this is great news.
Um, because maybe we could ask the CIA to start running a fake veterans' health care administration instead.
Now they've got all this extra time on their hands and all these health care experts.
It can hardly be worse than the real thing, can it?
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