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July 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush is at an annual uh charity commitment today.
He's immensely generous on that front.
Uh so that's what he's uh doing today.
That's where he is.
But he will return live on Monday.
But you know, it's uh it's Friday.
It's Friday here at the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And I thought I'd like to, you know, keep things light, frothy, glib, jokey, shallow, you know, like the President of the United States announcing that a passenger jet's been shot out of the sky.
Hey everybody, great to be back in Delaware.
Looks like we may have some kind of a uh a tragedy going on right now, but on a lighter note we got some uh members of Joe Biden's family here.
No, they look fabulous.
Let's give them a big hand, folks.
That kind of thing.
So we want to keep it in a light uh frothy vein today.
The president the president got a uh a do-over, a uh uh mulligan, uh and uh uh uh at announcing uh what happened uh over Ukraine.
And uh he's is he still speaking uh at this very moment?
He was he's he's still he's taking a couple of questions.
Uh he he he began speaking uh about ten before the hour uh and uh put on his serious face uh to uh to to uh do his uh retake on the announcement of what happened uh over in Ukraine.
Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton uh told Charlie Rose, that's how serious it is, told Charlie Rose at PBS uh that it is time for tough language on Ukraine.
Uh not tough action, you know, that may come two, three, four, seven, twelve, nineteen years down the road.
But it's time for tough language, tough language.
Uh it's this is no time uh for the Friars Club roast stuff uh that uh Obama was pulling yesterday.
This is time for tough, tough language, tough language.
Uh so she's g that she's she's sort of distancing herself from the president's jokey laugh it up uh shoot the br shoot the breeze, uh trading quips, uh pointing out uh musing shout-outs to Bidens uh who are present in the room.
She's saying, you know, this is serious.
So you hold the hold the Biden family member shout-outs until eight minutes into your speech.
Don't do the jokes until maybe nine, twelve minutes into the speech, because the only language Vladimir Putin understands is tough language, tough language.
So she subtly she appeared to be subtly distancing uh uh herself from the uh president's whole Friars Club roast approach to uh announcing uh global disasters.
But the President uh in his do over, so he's he's gone back ten minutes uh ago, ten whatever it was, ten, twenty minutes ago.
He returned to the subject uh and uh announced for the first time uh that we now know one uh American at least is dead on that plane.
Uh Lucas Schansman is uh his name, and he was aboard that Malaysian Airlines flight uh from the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpa.
The the majority, half the passengers on that plane, a hundred and fifty-four, I think it is, uh, were Dutchmen, which makes it in in relative terms, that's the equivalent of uh of nine eleven in population terms.
That's basically the equivalent of what it is uh to the Dutch.
Uh twenty-seven Australians on board.
That's not insignificant out of a uh there's whatever it is, twenty million Australians.
That's pretty big.
Uh nine from the United Kingdom, four from Germany, four from Belgium, uh one from Canada, and one from the United States, we know so far.
There's I think there's still three dozen or so that they haven't yet uh they're not entirely clear the identity, the national uh the nationalities of.
But that's basically oh, twelve from Indonesia as well.
Uh shot out of the skies over Ukraine uh by a group th this was also significant what the president said, uh by the Russian-backed separatists.
And uh and uh he came as close as he has done so far uh to actually uh to actually putting Moscow's fingerprints on this thing.
Uh so uh that was that was a f That was a significant thing.
But at the same time, at the same time, you know, he doesn't want to do anything about Ukraine.
And in fairness to him, it's not just him.
The the uh the Dutch don't particularly want to do anything about uh Ukraine.
Uh the Germans don't want to do anything about uh about Ukraine.
The th large parts of Europe are dependent for their energy on Russia.
So there's a limit uh to how seriously they want to fall out uh with uh with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
So it's not it's not just Obama.
And so their whole approach to Ukraine was basically don't do anything uh to catch our eye.
Don't do anything too obvious.
And somehow something obvious happened.
Uh I don't believe Vladimir Putin had any intention of uh getting one of his uh subsidiaries to blow uh a uh a uh uh an airliner full of Western passengers out of the sky.
Uh there's nothing for him in that.
Uh and the but the thing about it is it's a it's a test now of Western resolve, because when when uh when three hundred people, two hundred and ninety-eight people are blown out of the sky, a civilian airliner uh that's that's flying at uh at thirty thousand feet, uh and you blow it out of the sky and the wreckage is strewn over ten miles uh an hour.
That actually gets to the reality of the situation in this world today, the fragility of civilization.
This isn't some third world uh air route.
This is a route between one of the emerging powers in Asia uh and uh an a long established democratic society in Europe.
The people on this plane are first world passengers, they're Dutch businessmen and tourists that going to what they regard as a major city uh for business and tourism, and they fly over Europe, the continent of Europe, and in Europe in the year 2014,
your passenger jet can be blown out of the sky, and uh your tourists, your businessmen, uh your vice president, your corporate vice president, your little kid going off on a school trip to Kuala Lumpa, uh can be blown out over the uh the sky over Europe in the year twenty fourteen.
That is the real that's the fragility of civilization in the reset world of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
And if we weren't talking about that, we'd be talking about the rest of the map.
Uh Tripoli Airport, I was at Tripoli Airport a few years ago.
It's like a f say what you like about Colonel Gaddafi, but he ran a pretty nice airport, actually, as these things go.
Uh and it's uh it's now closed.
All the planes have been blown up.
There's uh the the rebels I don't know which rebels they are.
Are they the rebels we supported or the rebels we don't support?
Because when you're leading from behind, it's kind of hard to tell which rebels are which.
But the Libyan state, liberated from behind by Barack Obama is is imploding.
Uh all over the map, all over the map.
Uh the the post-American world, uh the Obama world, the Obama Hillary Clinton world is coming into shape.
And what does he say about it?
Uh what does he say about it in this thing he was talking about just now?
Because he didn't just announce the name of the American who died.
The American who was blown out of the sky uh by Vladimir Putin's stooges.
Uh he he said this was an Asian this was very subtle the way he's done the the way he did it.
Because these people I just read you the manifest here.
These are people from specific countries.
They're people from the Netherlands, they're people from Australia, they're people from Belgium, they're people from Germany, they're people from Canada.
These are real places.
He said he said this is the world's problem.
He said an Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
Now Asia there's no such thing as Asia or Europe in uh in in geopolitical terms.
Asia and Europe.
And the president knows this.
This wasn't an accidental uh use of language here.
This is how he's framing it.
Asia and Europe uh uh uh have no meaning geopolitically.
They're geographic terms.
It's uh it's like saying an airliner was shot down over the Americas.
Uh it makes a difference.
It makes a difference in real terms whether it's shot down over Colombia or it shot down over Canada.
The Americas is just a geographical term.
So he says An Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
And that's his way of saying and and so he says we need a credible international investigation.
Do you notice the passivity here?
The passivity here?
So somehow he's saying that somehow some global, you know, Interpol, Interpol in Geneva, maybe should be looking into this.
Or there's some UN agency.
Maybe we can find someone and they can be put on trial at The Hague.
It's the world's problem.
It's like the same thing as Syria.
He said, I didn't draw a red line, the world didn't.
The world drew a red line.
And the world said, What are you on about?
You're the guy who drew the red line.
The world why why look at us?
We had nothing to do with it.
It's your red line.
And he's not going to make that mistake again.
So he's now saying this is the world's problem.
An Asian airliner was shot down on European soil.
That's not what happened.
A Malaysian airliner from the state of Malaysia, full of passengers from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, uh was shot down over Ukrainian soil, uh, including on board a uh US citizen, a citizen of Canada, twenty-seven citizens of Australia, nine citizens of the United Kingdom, Germans, Belgium.
You notice, by the way, most of those people are NATO members.
Most of those people are citizens of NATO states.
So if you want to put it in uh transnational terms, Mr. President, instead of saying an Asian airliner was shot down on European soil, uh you could say hundreds of uh citizens of NATO uh were shot down uh by uh by uh a subsidiary of uh uh of uh Vladimir Putin on uh on Russian soil.
That's what's happened.
But the president of the United States, even now, even when he's putting on his series, even when he's quit the kibbutzing, even when it's hey, sad news, folks, but uh uh we we may have a bit of a tragedy going on, but hey, it's great to be with you at Wilbington uh Delaware.
How about that how about that burger?
How about that burger?
And he's not doing that.
But he's not serious either.
He's not even doing the tough language talk.
He heard what if if he heard what Hillary Clinton said about this is a time for tough language, he dialed back the language.
It's passive language.
It's the language of the post-American world.
It's the language of uh fragile outposts of civilization where when you're flying between point A and point B, you gotta fly over big murky mass C and you can be blown out of the sky.
That is the post-American order that is being ushered in.
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One other aspect of uh uh that flight's manifest to bear in mind, there were uh over one hundred AIDS researchers on that plane traveling to a conference on AIDS.
Uh so one uh should assume that's actually quite an quite a lot of expertise in that particular field that's been lost.
And uh and and you know, this is that's like the left's big cause.
It's actually American foreign policy's big cause, not just the left's.
I mean, we all we know the whole thing here that you've got to be on board with big gay, or they'll cancel your home decor show, or they'll uh or uh or they won't try to get your duck hunting show banned or they'll bounce you as CEO of Mozilla.
Uh Vladimir Putin's stages, stooges have just blown uh over one hundred AIDS researchers out of the sky.
By the way, this is the guy who was do you remember uh the big the big fuss about Putin?
Put they don't care what countries he invades, uh but they made a big fuss because he was shutting down gay nightclubs ahead of the Olympics uh uh a couple of months back.
So they were bothered about that.
That's the thing.
You know, if he if he'd gone into if he were to bomb Kiev, they'd be relaxed about it.
But if he sent the tanks into Kiev and closed down a gay nightclub, you'd never hear the end of it.
That was that was the big issue.
It's the big issue of John Kerry's State Department.
Uh John Kerry uh sent in when uh Mr. Museveni in Uganda uh passed his uh criminalized homosexuality with life in prison.
Uh uh John Kerry said he was going to send in a group of fully credentialed gay advisers from uh American prestigious American universities uh to bring Mr Mr. Museveni up to speed on uh gay science so that he wouldn't be putting all these gay people in in jail.
I don't know what's I don't know what's I don't know what's happened to them.
They uh whether they're in they flew into compiler, but nothing's ever been heard of them since.
So he's been uh John Kerry has been right on top of the whole gay angle in foreign policy for months.
Yet we've just had one hundred AIDS researchers blown out of the sky and the uh and and uh so far uh the gay left uh and uh uh has fallen silent on this aspect of the case.
These are people who are on their way to a big AIDS conference.
But the president of the United States, the whole thing I thought was distinguished by the usual passivity.
What does it take, by the way?
Yesterday was embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
Like there's stuff going on all over the planet, and you've got the president of the United States uh in a burger joint in Wilmington doing this fist bump thing uh as if he's just walked into a diner in Wilmington to order a burger and these are real Americans in there.
You can't get into I I love why does anybody why did the press even go along with this?
You have to have security clearance.
If you're in a diner, if you're in a diner with the president, it's because you've undergone a background check.
You've had to supply your s social security number and all the rest of it.
The the the ordinary citizen of the United States cannot get into the presence of King Barak without uh having to submit uh his government number and uh for them to look up the guy and see whether it's safe for him to be in a diner when the president walks in, strolls in and pretends to be just bumping into regular Americans who are there having a cheeseburger.
That whole thing is staged.
I don't know how I don't know how uh self-respecting journalists.
There's some woman in London who's the London correspondent for one of these phony baloney Russian networks, RT, who uh RT, who just resigned, just quit, because she couldn't stand the mumbo jumbo uh that uh RT was pumping out saying it's the Ukrainians who are behind this, not the the Russians.
She couldn't live with the propaganda they were pumping out.
When you're showing the president uh so-called walking into a diner and conversing with real people, and all the real people in the room have had to undergo a check and have had to have their social security number verified and all the rest of it, unless of course they're illegal aliens, um why do why do you pretend it's even real?
But to do that on a day when there's real news going on, when there's real news breaking, what has to happen?
What is to happen for the president to postpone the fundraiser?
Not a big blood-drenched atrocity with Putin's fingerprints all over it, not an armed assault on an American diplomatic facility that leaves an ambassador and uh three other Americans dead.
You know, in Vegas, by the way, on that night, the president managed to compare uh the four dead Americans murdered by Jihadis to Obama campaign workers.
That's what he said.
He said, You both you they both represent the best of America.
So he was marginally less of a tone deaf, tin-eared, hollow sack of nothing yesterday, in that he he skillfully managed to avoid uh comparing uh Dutch AIDS researchers being blown to pieces all over ten miles of Ukrainian farmland to uh to Wilmington residents having a hard time getting a ticket for an Obama fundraiser.
So he was at least adroit enough to avoid that yesterday.
But what does it take to cancel a fundraiser?
You know, December 6th, 1944, a day that will live in infamy.
But hey, enough with the bad news.
It's great to be with you here in Atlantic City.
That's the world.
That's the world he's living in.
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers attended the first fundraiser right here at Gettysburg.
great to see you folks uh did you remember the way they mocked Bush for being informed of nine eleven while reading my pet goat at a grade school uh Obama would have been announcing uh nine eleven at a fundraiser what does it take to get this guy to cancel one of his fundraisers America's anchor man is away but he will return on Monday.
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That's what um uh President Obama said he said nearly one hundred of those killed uh may have been heading to that conference.
In fact it looks like it might be a bit uh lower than that uh substantially lower than that in fact uh uh uh lower than uh ten um but they include uh a a big shot uh representative of the World Health Organization Glenn Thomas who was on that way to the conference and Lucy Van Men's who was involved in HIV prevention work.
So you got all these uh uh aides and HIV specialists who were on that uh flight but it's uh it's not a hundred as the president said uh it may in fact be uh uh closer to ten.
Let us uh let us go to Ed in uh Norfolk Virginia.
Ed, you're first up on the uh Rush Limbaugh show today.
Well thank you very much Mark and it's a pleasure to speak to you and uh I appreciate you letting me speak today.
Yeah it's great great to have you on with us.
Yeah my thoughts are this about Vladimir Putin and and the Russian separatists to be perfectly honest with you Vladimir Putin does not have clean hands in this matter.
He's just as dirty as anyone else on this.
In fact, I think he's more culpable about this airliner being shot down.
The sophistication of the system had to be by Russian troops for them to operate this thing.
It can't be the rebels.
It just can't be somebody that walked off the street.
So his hands are dirty on this matter.
And as far as Barack Obama goes, our president, is a total disgrace as he came out, and he only made 38 seconds of the subject matter at all.
And this morning as I was watching Fox News, saw Ronald Reagan speaking about uh 1983 when the Korean airliner was shot down and I thought there's there's just no way nothing could ever bring anything like that out of Barack Obama.
He's gonna apologize for the Russians shooting that down.
He's going to he would rather go to a fundraiser than than speak to the world and say this is an atrocity.
This is where America needs to stand up and stop this.
This is what we are we are the we are the uh the good and the force in the world and you we're not the police of the world but we s we we've we are known for this but with this president.
But here's the here's the thing Ed you're you're right that it's and and it's difficult.
Nobody wants to go to you know what are you what are we going to do?
Go to war with Russia over Ukraine?
Nobody wants to do that.
Nobody wants to do that.
And that's not a that's that's not a joke.
No, no, no to to take it any kind of action you take here has got to be carefully calibrated because you know you're up against this isn't like dealing with some rinky dink uh rabble in Benghazi.
Uh there are there are serious consequences here.
But by the way, the fact that we can't even deal with some rinky ding rabble in Benghasi means that uh serious powers don't take us seriously.
But what was interesting is that even when he put on his serious face today, there's no sense of any kind of genuine moral outrage or righteous indign.
You know, we're told this guy is the greatest speaker ever.
That's what we were told.
It's like it's uh six years ago that he was the greatest orator ever.
Why can't he move anybody?
Why does he sound so cold and bloodless when he's talking about 298 people being blown out of the sky?
Now Tony Abbott from Australia.
Prime Minister of Australia.
Tony Abbott is not in a position to liberate Ukraine.
He's not a in a position to bomb the Kremlin and drag Vladimir Putin out and uh and stick him in some Nuremberg tribunal.
But Tony Abbott can at least stand up and express plausibly and genuinely and authentically a kind of uh moral outrage and righteous indignation uh that is a world away from the bloodless nothing of a statement that Obama made.
Uh and as a world away and and and incidentally, as you said, that Reagan thing.
You understood that even if Reagan had not taken any action, which he did, he took action.
But you could see uh he rightly called out the act for what it was barbarousness.
He's not there sort of shuffling paper, looking down, sloughing off words as if uh, you know, he's just killing time until he can get back uh to the golf course.
So you're you're right, uh you're right.
As I said, I think this is I think this is just embarrassing.
The the the right the the left went on about this all the time with Bush.
They didn't hate they hated the whole Texan cowboy thing.
They thought it was unbecoming.
They wanted more of an NPR type to be their president.
So you got an NPR type.
And he's like announcing this stuff at fundraisers, and he's not he and he can't and he doesn't even know.
He hasn't he's not the most skilled orator of all time.
Doesn't even have the skills uh to know when to hold off all the kibbitsing and the schmoozing uh and all the shout outs to his buddies.
He doesn't even he's got no sense of tone.
He's tone deaf, he's tin-eared, and the thing is he was uh he was sold to us uh as I said, as the smartest, greatest orator of all time.
And by the way, that uh that gets to, you know, th that gets to the whole way uh of of looking at things now.
That he's bored, he doesn't want to have to deal with Ukraine.
He doesn't want to have to deal with Libya, he doesn't want to have to deal with Iraq.
Uh there's there's things that are more uh his fundamental transformation of the United States is more important to him.
Uh so he'd rather that Vladimir Putin got on with fundamentally transforming the Ukraine uh below the radar, so it doesn't attract anybody's attention.
He'd rather that what happened, the fundamental transformation of Libya and Iraq and everywhere else goes on below the radar.
So it doesn't uh attract his attention because what he's focused on is the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.
Let's go to Anne Maria in uh in Chapaca, one of many real estate markets where poor penniless Hillary Clinton managed to find some rude and primitive shelter.
Anne Maria, great to have you with us on the show.
Hey, how are you, Mark?
I'm doing good.
What's on your mind?
Well, you know, as tragic, it is a very tragic um story which is playing out over Russia with this airliner going down.
And as you said, realistically, the president of the United States really cannot do anything at this point.
He cannot do anything in Israel or the Gaza Strip.
However, it is totally got it has totally gotten the whole Immigration disaster off the front page.
And I think this is in a weird way working to his advantage.
Yeah, what's what's happened uh and I I'm I always feel slightly embar I'll talk about it in the next uh uh at the top of the next hour, my personal take on this, Anne Maria, because I always feel slightly embarrassed as an immigrant, legal immigrant, and boy, I wouldn't make that mistake again, uh having having to talk about this.
But basically, uh basically uh the President of the United States dissolved the southern border.
There is no southern border now.
If you if you can get to the north shore of the Rio Grande, you can stay here.
Uh but you know, when you say it works his advantage, all this stuff blowing the the border crisis off the front page and everything.
Look at it this way, Anne Maria.
I mean, I think this is this is this is bedrock uh this is bedrock what he's doing now.
He's like the coyote in chief.
President Obama is the coyote in chief.
Uh normally when you get to America, you then got to skulk around in the dark.
These guys bring you in, you pay them loads of money, you've got to skulk through desert and shrub and r uh and brush and uh wilderness uh until you can get, you know, twenty miles into the country uh and then they think it's safe for you to sort of emerge and blend into that thing.
Now the coyote in chief, President Obama, uh has ordered you to be flown uh from the border to Massachusetts or upstate New York in in your own state.
They're taking people uh basically now to within twenty minutes of the Canadian border.
That's the north shore of the Rio Grande in Obama's America.
They the gap between the Canadian border and the southern border has shriveled to about twenty minutes.
Uh that the Coyote in chief is flying them in uh and providing them with free shelter, free medical care, they'll be in your school district, they'll be in your school system uh starting in September.
And do you get any sense, Anne Maria, that the American people uh are actually uh outraged at having had, in a sense, having uh uh the the coyote in chief actually dissolved the southern border?
Do you get any sense of outrage there, Anne Maria?
Not at all.
Not after.
Well, what's it gonna take then?
Because if you don't have a border, you don't have a country.
So if you're complaining, if two, three years down the line your neighbors are complaining about their school district taxes uh because uh they they uh they're gonna be having to pay more for English as a second language classes and all the re uh and all the rest of it, like they are in wherever it is Lynn, Massachusetts.
Lynn, Massachusetts uh is in isn't in anywhere near uh El Paso, but they've got uh they're being they've got to uh put up the expense of uh all this uh stuff now.
What whatever it is uh uh what what was what was the other place?
Bristol, Massachusetts or wherever it was.
I mean, these are places a long way uh from the southern border, and and taxpayers, there's nowhere to hide.
Maybe if you're Nancy Pelosi and you say you want to adopt all these people, uh maybe uh maybe Nancy Pelosi, if you live in that big a mansion and it's that and it's that gated, uh your community, uh you can stand this thing up.
But basically, basically he's dissolved the southern border, and there's nine billion people.
There's gonna be nine the seven billion people on the planet right now.
There are gonna be nine billion by twenty fifty.
And Obama's basically saying to those uh seven billion people, if you can make it to the north shore of the Rio Grande, you can stay here.
You can stay here.
And why aren't Americans upset about that?
I mean, what's it gonna take?
What's it gonna take?
Actually, it's mostly us legal immigrants who were the chumps who who bothered filling in the paperwork and paying all the fees.
We're more annoyed about it than most of you native guys are.
Uh Mark Stein in for rush, lots more of your calls on open line Friday, straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein, in for us on America's Number One Radio Show.
At the end of a busy newsweek, it's sort of semi-open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about, uh lots of big things in the news, including uh the uh developments uh in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world, and uh and and right here at home with the ex uh extinguishing of the southern border.
In a way, the the distinction between domestic and foreign news doesn't really matter anymore uh if you don't have a border.
And there are no foreigners, because essentially uh anyone who gets here can stay here.
Uh so far this year of the unaccompanied minors, which is in itself a euphemism, uh These would be child soldiers, by the way, if they were in Afghanistan.
They the if the if these guys were in Waziristan, uh the these kids this age, uh 15, 16, 17-year-old boys, uh, they'd have weapons and they'd be firing on American troops.
They'd be what they call child soldiers in the Hindu Kush, but here they're just unaccompanied minors.
Uh so people uh uh and and Americans are very nice, so they're having all these fun fun drives to raise teddy bears uh for gangbangers.
I mean, it's very touching because there's nothing there's nothing that a fifteen-year-old uh drug gangbanger likes when he arrives in America than being presented with a nice Elmo stuffy uh to hide his drugs in.
It's very touching.
So far this year, sixty-five percent of the immigrant uh unaccompanied minors who've arrived in fiscal year twenty fourteen.
I don't even know what that means, actually.
I should imagine it bears no relation to the calendar year, but fiscal year twenty fourteen, sixty-five percent of the people who've arrived so far have already been granted asylum.
That means they're never going.
They're here.
They're here.
And you think that south of the border, they don't understand that.
They don't grasp that, they don't know what that means.
Uh and there's absol there's no end to that.
There's no end to that.
Now, as I said, I I'll I might talk about this uh in the next hour.
If you're a legal immigrant uh and you'd like to get in with me on a class action suit against the United States government uh for making us uh jump through hoops, take years and pay thousands of dollars in fees for this, that, and the other, not to mention having our eyeballs photographed every time we cross the border.
Uh every every time I'm uh with U.S. immigration in Bermuda, uh years on end, they took photographs of my eyeballs.
They've got more if they wanted to do uh like Andy Warhol did with those uh uh portraits of Marilyn uh with uh of portraits of Marilyn Monroe, they could do it with my eyeballs.
They could the the uh the the uh uh immigration department of homeland security could have an exhibition of my eyeballs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
That's how many pictures they've got.
We so we have to be treated, because normally m most people don't photograph your eyeballs unless you've been arrested in a liquor store holdup.
So legal immigrants this country have to be treated uh as if they're uh as if they're the kind of guys who are holding up liquor stores.
Whereas the ones who actually do hold up liquor stores are given free food, free housing, free education, uh free health care.
Uh I have to sign a bit of paper saying, Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna meet none of my uh family are going to be a charge on the public purse.
Everybody else so I'm thinking of organizing a class action suit to get our money back with damages from the United States government.
Because there's an equality before the law issue here.
There's an equality before the law issue.
Uh and they um and they treat uh and they and they treat us worse than they treat uh well worse than they treat these guys, who uh basically not gonna be get they they've been fast tracked.
Sixty-five percent of those kids have now been given uh asylum, immediate asylum.
By the way, that's what the uh the uh Sanaev family who blew up the Boston marathon got.
That's the express check-in.
So you know for waste time being nice uh and uh doing uh going to the interviews and filling in all the paperwork and paying all the fees, you just have the express check in.
You've got the Sarnayev status conferred on you.
Uh the uh what what's the guy called was Tamilan Sanayev, the one uh the one the brother reversed over.
You've got the Tamilan Sanaev memorial asylum permit that's just been grant.
That's to have sixty-five percent of the unaccompanied there's people who've been waiting that there's Americans who made the mistake of falling in love with a Fijian or a Belgian who've been waiting years to bring their spouses, like this poor guy over in Sudan, whose wife was in death row.
But sixty-five percent of the kids who've come through this year have already got their paperwork.
It's disgraceful, it's disgusting, and Americans ought to be madder at the coyote in chief about it.
Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
So many, so many uh so many crises Obama can barely keep up with them.
He uh apparently telephoned uh the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today to express his quote deep concern.
He he's quote deeply concerned, unquote, uh over what's happening in Gaza.
Uh by the way, this is I don't want people to to to get uh uh to start panicking.
This is the stage that comes before he makes the call where he says he's gravely concerned.
So he's only deeply concerned at the moment.
He's not yet gravely concerned.
Uh he's basically say he he told Netanyahu, Netanyahu if I was Netanyahu, I'd I'd have just uh thrown the phone through the window.
He said uh Obama said that while the US supports Israel's right to defend itself, the United States is deeply concerned about the risks of further escalation.
This big is because people have been tunneling through Gaza and uh Netanyahu is determined to enforce Israel's borders.
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