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July 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Hey, great to be with you.
America's Anger Man is away, and this is your undocumented uh anger man sitting in, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Honored to be with you, coming to you from uh far northern New Hampshire.
Uh if you're fleeing uh the country or if you're a Guatemalan refugee who's overshot and you're uh coming through this way uh well we're a little ways short uh south the Canadian border, but you can't miss us as a there's a got a big sign up on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border.
So do do swing by and uh and say uh we don't give you the same treatment, we don't put you up in those uh thousand dollar a night facilities.
I by the way, I couldn't believe that.
They're paying two hundred and fifty to a thousand dollars a night to house these refugees, these unaccompanied minors.
Why couldn't they at least get like Vegas convention rates uh for for the for these people?
Why so why why couldn't they just uh you know send them to Caesar's Palace with an unlimited room service uh tab?
It would be it would be uh it would be cheaper.
For a thousand dollars a night, you can stay at the plaza uh in New York and have a view of Central Park.
How is it possible?
How is it possible that uh that refugees cost two hundred and fifty to one thousand dollars a night?
Uh where where's the Republican Party on this, by the way?
Where's the Republican Party?
Uh you the the it's a two-party system.
Uh and in a two-party system, there ought to be room at least for one party that stands for the integrity of American borders and for the rule of law, as opposed to this new regime, this post-constitutional order we're living in,
uh, that uh Jonathan Turley, uh big uh big liberal law professor, but Jonathan Turley, uh, because he's uh he's a principal guy, so he's a law professor before he's a liberal, uh basically says that where we are turning into a one-man government, a system of one man government.
That's what presidency means in most other parts of the world.
And the Latin in the Latin American system, the president is important and everybody else is nothing.
Uh the French system isn't quite so obvious, but it's it's kind of similar, that the president is the big guy and all the here, here there's supposed to be division of powers.
Uh you guys wrote it all down.
You put it in this thing called the Constitution, and we're in a post-constitutional order where the law, including the law relating uh to the integrity of the borders of the United States is whatever this guy says it is uh on whatever day he happens to to to uh that that it happens to be on his mind.
I said by the way, that we legal immigrants tend to be annoyed about this more than more than uh other people are.
Uh and that's because we know what the process involves.
And no matter how much you dot every I and cross every T, you're still treated like garbage uh if you happen to attract the attention of the wrong immigration official.
It doesn't matter what you've done, doesn't matter how many thousands of dollars you pay, doesn't matter that you're a net contributor to this society, uh and you're not a terrorist, you're not an uh uh uh an illegal immigrant, you're not a drug smuggler, you're just a law-abiding person uh who has done everything by the book, and you still get treated uh and you still get treated terribly about it.
And as I said, and I meant this semi-seriously.
I think we should launch a class action suit uh against the United States government on on a basic equality before the law issue.
That you can't have a system.
This is the trouble you get to when you're in banana republic territory.
Th we we have a northern border and a southern border.
On the southern border, uh you you walk across it and they take you and they house you, uh, and they give you free medical checkups, and they say, Well, you'll be you you'll be going to this nice little grade school starting in uh in September.
Uh my kids uh had to have uh my uh youngest uh who was I forget what he was then, he was like uh he was barely out of the cradle.
He had to have uh uh he had to have an AIDS test.
Uh they don't have to do these these people diseases are showing up at the southern border, nobody's seen in decades, because nobody uh it doesn't matter.
You don't have to be tested, you can come through, doesn't matter.
You don't have to clear any of that.
You have to clear the tuberculosis thing.
Uh you have to you have to do all you have to ha you have have to have all these medical tests.
You're subjected to rules uh that uh none of these illegal immigrants uh are subjected to.
You have to have your green card on you at all times if you're a legal immigrant, even if you're just like taking a stroll in the woods outside your house.
Your children have to have uh their green cards on them at all times, which is ridiculous, because uh you can't give a uh when when when your five-year-old is in kindergarten, you can't give him a green card, a green card to take to school every day, but under the law, you're supposed to do that.
I was coming back from Montreal late one night and I was crossing the border at uh uh i uh uh from the Quebec Vermont border on my way back to New Hampshire.
And the guy asked me uh for my ID, and I pulled out my wallet and I handed him my green card, and he saw that underneath it I had another green card.
So he said, What a minute, wait a minute, why have you got two green cards?
Let me see that.
And it was my daughter's green card uh that I happened to have because I'd needed it uh we'd had to go and uh down to some homeland security thing for some paperwork thing or other, so I'd I'd happen to have it with me in my wallet.
And he asked for that, and he said, you know, your daughter is supposed to have that.
Where is she right now?
And I said, Well, she's at school.
And he said, Well, she's supposed to have uh her green card on her.
And I said, Well, I'm not giving my I'm not giving a uh whatever she was at that age, uh uh a 13-year-old girl, uh a green card to uh take to school every day.
Uh it'll she'll lose it in a few days, and and then it's eight hundred dollars to pay for a replacement, and uh and uh nobody in their right mind uh gives uh official government paperwork to grade school children to carry around with them every day.
And he goes, Well, that's the law.
I could have ICE, who are the immigration enforcement arm, I could have ICE pick her up right now.
He knew which town she was in, which school she was at.
I could have ice pick her up right now and deport her, and then you'd have a hell of a time trying to get her back uh from where we deported her to.
And I looked at him, I looked at him.
Because I can stand a lot.
I can stand the stupid pointless ban on kindergarts that are that are safe for Canadians to have and Mexicans to have and Indians to have and Chinese to have and Australians to have and Europeans to have, but Americans are not mature enough to be trusted with.
I can stand all the stupid crackdown on kinder eggs that goes on uh at the northern border.
And by the way, that would be the quickest way of solving when people say, How can we ever secure the borders in the United States, just issue everybody on the planet with a kinder egg and then none of them will ever get through.
I can stand all that.
But this guy had just threatened to deport my kid and then said, and you'd have a hell of a l uh hard time getting her back from wherever we deport her to.
I said, No, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't be much of a man.
I wouldn't be much of a father uh if I was to stay in this pathetic country for doing such a thing.
I I would be with her.
Wherever you deported to Canada or you deported to Yemen, uh I'll be there with her and I'll uh uh and and I'll stick with my daughter, because I wouldn't be much of a father, wouldn't be much of a man if I didn't do that.
And more to the point, I wouldn't want to live in a country that did such a thing.
The idea that you can pick up the phone and have my daughter, a legal immigrant, deported from this I wouldn't want to stay in a country like that for a moment.
So you can threaten I I wasn't in the mood to I wasn't in the mood to take this guy's threats.
But that's the sickness of the US immigration system.
That skilled, talented contributors uh to this society are penalized and hounded in order to prioritize uh and facilitate the importation of a vast dependency class, uh, which is what is going on uh right now at the southern border.
I had to go, as I said, we guys know uh uh about it a lot more than you natives do, because we have to go to these places all the time.
I had to go to a homeland security uh what was it called this week?
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Everybody thinks of it still as the INS, but they they you know, uh n new uh new cat badge, same great service.
So I had to go to the uh Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services uh for something uh uh a while back, and the guy told me uh that as a matter of policy now, uh they have been ordered to waive the fees on people applying for uh visas uh and for uh and for documents from from certain uh refugee status from certain countries and all the rest of it.
So in other words, uh if you're just not not refugee status, but if you're just applying for a regular visa from Latin America uh or your regularization of status from within the country and it's a two hundred dollar fine, uh they've been told that then they're to waive that, that uh you which you're not meant to do except in circumstances of severe financial hardship.
So in other words, in other words, America's immigration system is oriented to uh attracting people who cannot even afford the entry fee.
Other first world countries, uh Australia, for example, where you can't even get on a plane to Australia if you don't have a visa.
You can't board a plane to Australia if you don't have a visa, and if you try to arrive by boat, uh they will hold you in a detention facility at Christmas Island, or in uh in other words, they intercept the boats and take them all to a detention facility at Christmas Island, which is uh uh an Australian territory up near Indonesia, and then they will return you to wherever you came from.
Uh so uh because Australia's immigration system is set up to attract high skilled people.
Why is it in the interests of the people of the United States to admit tens of millions of un what jobs are they gonna do?
Do you live in a mill town?
I live or I live in northern New Hampshire.
These places used to be mill towns, aren't any mills anymore?
Uh what what what mass labor is there uh for that requires the importation of tens of millions of low skilled uh immigrant labor from south of the Rio Grande.
What what is it?
What what in the world?
What in the world is it uh d does it uh does it support except the vast increase in the dependency class and therefore a vast increase in uh in the bureaucratic class that administers to the dependency class and charges you with the bill.
And that's what's going on at the southern border.
Uh it's the end of the week and you know what that means.
Oh, I can't believe this.
Mike, where's the jingle?
Where's the open line Friday?
Oh, here it comes.
Here we go.
Live from Ice Station EIB.
It's open line Friday.
Yeah, you know, uh, you know, normally when I'm here, they have Mr. Snerdley here or they have HR here, or when they're really nervous, they have HR and Mr. Snadley here.
Uh but neither HR nor Mr. Snardley is here.
And as you can see, things uh things are just going to things are just going to pot.
And uh so I could just say I mean, who knows?
I could just barricade the door and play cuts for my Christmas album for the next couple of hours.
But it is semi open line Friday, with or without the jingles.
We are gonna do it.
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We will talk about whatever you want to talk about.
We'll talk about the down Malaysian plane, we'll talk about the border crisis, and we will even talk about the uh appalling uh lowering of technical standards and production standards while HR and Snerdley are out and the delay in listening to the jingle.
If you want to call about up and complain about that too, you can do that as well.
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Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let us go to Gary in Sacramento.
Gary, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning, Mark.
Uh two two quick points of it, could uh one something that struck me as extremely ghoulish during the first hour this morning was the way that you kind of dismissed or minimized the death of three hundred people in favor of being able to use it as an opportunity to badmouth uh Obama and for anti-AIDS workers and the efforts they've put in over the decades to
minimize the number of people dying of the disease.
You seemed almost gleeful at the opportunity that uh the three hundred deaths presented.
Uh well, wait a minute.
Let's let's let's go through that.
Um I said, uh, for example, that a hundred and forty f a hundred and fifty four Dutch uh citizens had died, and that that was in quiv equivalent terms population wise uh to nine eleven.
Did you hear me say that?
What you what she said was how many of them were anti AIDS workers.
No, no, I said right at the top of the show, I said at the top of the show, uh twel I broke it down.
Because these are my Commonwealth cousins, right?
I was born a subject of her Canadian Majesty.
So twenty-seven of my fellow subjects of the Queen in Australia died, nine fellow subjects of the Queen in the United Kingdom now.
I broke one of my fellow Canadians died.
I broke this all, I broke this all down.
How many other shows mentioned have you heard that actually mentioned the breakdown of the death toll, Gary?
Since you've told me that I'm now rejoicing and feasting over 300 people being blown.
You seem to transition from a quick mention of how many of them were age workers to No, no, no, no, no.
Gary, answer my question.
I told you that 154 Dutch people had died, and I said at the top of the show that that's the equivalent equivalent to a nine eleven in the Netherlands.
Do you know the population of the Netherlands, Gary?
Take a wild guess.
No, I don't.
Well, give it a guess.
Go on.
You called this show.
Give it a guess.
Well, I'm on Gary.
Yeah, I did I did call the show.
Yeah, no, no, come on, Gary.
Come on, Gary.
You said I was rejoicing in three hundred people being blown out of the sky.
I said this was a nine eleven for the Netherlands.
Tell me the population.
Gary, what is the population of the Netherlands?
Are we gonna have to do that?
Give it a wild guess.
No, wait, I'm asking you a question, Gary, and I'm interested in your answer.
What's the population of the Netherlands?
I have no idea.
Gate, take a guess.
No, Mark, I have no idea.
That's my answer.
Okay, well, it's uh it's sixteen million people, sixteen, seventeen million people.
And they lost a hundred and fifty-four people.
America has a population of three hundred million and it lost three thousand on September eleventh.
So, in comparative death terms, this is a uh a nine eleven for the Netherlands.
Tell me how many uh talk shows you've heard today have uh have actually talked about the loss to the Netherlands.
I haven't heard any of them talk about it.
I also haven't heard any of them try to connect it and use it to make fun of other AIDS programs and AIDS efforts.
Hey, I didn't make fun of I didn't make fun of AIDS programs.
I was talking about what it would take to get this president.
Are you a U.S. citizen, Gary?
Yes.
You're an American, I take it.
Aren't you embarrassed by the sixteen seconds your president devoted it to it yesterday?
Mark, I was more disgusted by what you did this morning as using it as kind of a kick stick point to mark AIDS efforts or I didn't mock AIDS people.
I said I said, God forbid that it takes that to get you fellas.
You've just proved my point.
I said, uh, you know, these AIDS guys died on the plane.
Maybe that'll get the uh the the left uh to to get concerned about it.
And you just called up and did it.
You know what I'm embarrassed about, Gary?
I'd be embarrassed.
I'd be embarrassed to have that fella uh who devote that sixteen seconds to me yet uh to to this tragedy yesterday.
That's what you should be embarrassed about.
Do you remember nine eleven?
Do you remember the reaction of other world leaders?
Uh do you remember John Howard, the great Australian Prime Minister, saying this is no time to be an eighty percent ally?
Do you remember even the French saying nous sont tous Americainon?
Headline on Le Mont, nous sont tous America.
We are all Americans now.
And uh you imagine if uh you had had to watch President Chirac sloughing off something before he does a photo op in a burger joint.
You imagine if you had to watch Tony Blair uh sloughing something off uh before he goes to a fundraiser.
You imagine if you had had to uh uh had uh to watch Jean Chretien up in Ottawa sloughing something off.
The face you presented to the world yesterday is what you should be ashamed about, Gary.
Well, I'm hoping that uh no other newscasters or today that I listen to or programs I listen to will use the death of three hundred people to transition to mocking a Oh get over yourself.
What did I say that mocked AIDS researchers?
I actually named a couple of them.
I named a couple of them.
I named the guy from the World Health Organization.
What's the mockery in that, Gary?
Mark, you seem to take too put little too little effort or emphasis on the fact that 300 people had died, you used it or as a jumping off.
Okay, Gary, I'm done with you.
I went through them I'm done with you.
I went through the manifest.
I said every uh I I named uh every listed nationality on that plane.
Every listed nationality on that plane.
The heartless thing.
You know, you guys at some point have to wake up.
Because uh the first reactions I got uh to what was going on uh with President Obama's remarks, I didn't watch them live, uh, was when I started uh getting emails from uh overseas, people I know overseas who were absolutely disgusted by it.
Daniel Hannon, member of the European Parliament, was one of the first just to say this is pathetic.
And as I said, looking at looking at the other way around.
When it was the day for an atrocity here, the rest of the world didn't do that to you, Gary.
Oh, yeah, I love that.
If you love my buddy and you think I'm sexy.
You know, they found that in Mullah Omar's compound in Kandahar.
You know, Mullah Omar, the big uh Taliban leader that uh got chased out in the fall of 2001 and will be coming back to power about twenty minutes uh after the last NATO soldier leaves in Afghanistan when uh when they when they got hold of his compound in Kanaha.
This is the guy who banned music in Afghanistan.
And they found that he had like the world's biggest Rod Stewart cassette collection.
This wasn't like all the Rod Stewart slays the great American songbook stuff now where he slaughters his way through uh the way you look tonight and over the rainbow.
This was all the if you want my buddy and you think I'm sexy.
That was in that was the big uh that was what Muller Omar was listening to when he was uh forcing all the chicks.
I don't know whether he's holed up now in the Pakistani tribal lands, uh, and I don't know whether he's managed to replace his Rod Stewart cassette collection, but if while we're uh holding uh fundraisers uh to try and uh get teddy bears for all these gangbangers at the southern border, maybe it would be nice if we could also have a charity fundraising thing to try and replace Muller Omar's cassette collection so he can still funk around the room uh in his robes too, if you like my body, and you think I'm sexy.
Uh there's a there's a piece in the Rush is uh gonna be back on Monday, by the way.
Don't worry, it's not one of these things where he's headed out for we you've got the nightmare of guest hosts without end.
He's gonna be back on Buddy.
He's got a long-standing charity engagement that he does every year around about this time, and he's enormously generous with his time like that.
And any of us who guest hosts for Rush know that the the mi whenever people say, Well, why does Russia have to take all these days off?
Why is he uh doing another charity event?
Why does he have to do something?
He's got a job, why is he doing a charity event?
Look, look, why don't you direct that at the president?
He's as I understand it, President of the United States is a full-time job.
Uh but every time anything happens and he has to say anything about it, he's apparently at a fundraiser.
What is that even all about?
He takes a and incidentally, Rush Rush doesn't take a full-bodied jet and a 40-car motorcade and shut down whatever city he's doing the fundraiser in to do the fundraiser.
Why don't you say instead of why worrying about Rush being at his post uh five days a week, why don't why don't you worry about the President of the United States uh being uh at his post five days a week and not having to announce these things uh at fundraisers?
There's a a very good piece on that.
I don't want to get Gary all annoyed because he thinks I've been focusing on this too much.
But I mean it.
It was pi it was pitiful.
It was the it was it was the face that America presented to the world yesterday, and it was the face of a profoundly unserious nation in serious times.
Uh and that is the issue with it, that this is this is actually not a small point.
This is this is uh these are serious times uh and they demand a credible response.
And just to get just to show you how foolish the way we look on this is.
The Washington Post has a piece by Jamie Fuller uh saying that Russia has a major PR problem.
Do you think that Vladimir Putin uh uh thinks about anything in those terms?
But Jamie Fuller does.
He says, We still know very little About precisely what happened Thursday in Ukraine.
What we do know is that few people in key countries are going to give Russia the benefit of the doubt.
Last week the Pew Research Center released a poll detailing the world's opinions on Russia.
In the United States, unfavorable views of Russia had jumped by twenty-nine points in just one year.
Similarly, in Europe, they climbed twenty points.
Latin America, Asia, and Africa also had seen their opinions of Russia grow more guarded, albeit by a far smaller margin.
Do you think under any circumstances that Vladimir Putin cares one jot about what his approval ratings in Sweden are, about what his approval ratings in Costa Rica are.
Why would the Washington Post even think this is this is worth publishing?
Vladimir Putin there's nothing in there in read your Machiavelli.
There's nothing in there about saying, oh, the great thing is to uh make sure your approval numbers uh aren't uh aren't underwater in Portugal.
That's absolutely critical if you're going to be an effective world leader.
Why would the Washington this is why the world this is d it's not why the world is going to hell, but it's a small part of why the world is going to hell.
Uh is the is the w is that we're framing things in completely idiotic ways.
Uh Vladimir Putin doesn't care uh what the Pew Research poll in this or that and nickel and dime country says about him.
What he cares about is what people who are in a position to do something to him are gonna do to him.
And on that he has nothing to fear.
Uh Obama didn't give any indication that he and uh the Europeans are interested in actually making uh the uh the Russia and Vladimir Putin pay a price for what uh they did to that airliner today.
Uh they're not interested in that at all.
Uh Russia has a major PR problem.
Do you think Putin cares?
That's the headline in the in the newspaper of the capital city of the so-called world superpower.
Do you think Vladimir Putin is going to be kept up by the fact that the Pew Research poll shows uh sh shows his unfavorable numbers have jumped by uh fourteen points in Belize?
Of course not.
It's completely stupid.
It's a complete waste of time.
What matters is what serious countries are going to be doing about it.
There's a very good piece by Matthew Continetti in the uh Washington Free Beacon today, and it gets on this if you've been following, if you're the kind of guy I'd love to hear from you, by the way, I enjoyed talking to Gary.
Uh and I'd love to hear from uh someone who is willing to defend uh the president's performance, and someone who is willing to defend what's happening on the southern border and why it is in the interests of the citizens of the United States.
So if you're a liberal or if you're one of these uh Republicans who think we need a grand comprehensive immigration reform bargain, uh if you're one the if you're one of the people who is uh uh who who is in favor of amnesty, in favor of the DREAM Act, in favor of all the other sentimental blabber uh on immigration, I would love to hear from you.
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Now, uh this piece by Matthew Continentetti, it's called The Bear is Loose.
And if you've been going to these Obama fundraisers in your town as who doesn't, uh because all the traffic's in gridlock, so you might as well go along if you've submitted your social security number and you pass the background check, you might be admitted to the presence of the uh citizen executive of the United States of America, and he will tell you, uh, as he likes to say when he's in Starbucks or is he in a burger joint or he's in a barbecue shack, uh oh yeah, it's great, the bear is loose.
He calls himself the bear.
Uh and he says, and he goes up to people, hey, the bear is loose.
In other words, he's bust out of his cage at the White House and he's in a burger joint.
In fact, the burger joint is just a new cage, because you've you people uh who've undergone and passed the background check are in there in the cage with him.
But that's his thing.
The bear is loose.
Valerie Jarrett was talking about how he refers to himself as the bear now, the bear is loose.
I don't know where he got the phrase from because uh at the risk of offending Gary from Sacramento.
I I understood that bear is a common uh term for a uh chubby hersute gay male.
So I don't know why Barack Obama, who's in terrific shape, uh would be using this term to describe itself.
But he he he call he keeps saying the bear is loose.
So that's when he was doing it in this burger joint yesterday, the bear is loose, the bear is loose.
Do you remember 30 years ago, famous ad from President Reagan, there's a bear in the woods, famous influential campaign ad.
There's a bear in the woods.
The bear was the Soviet Union, the bear is Russia.
The bear has always been Russia.
That's where the phrase jingoism comes from the time of uh Anglo-Russian uh tensions in the 1870s.
Uh I haven't thought of this since my school days, so I'm uh I'll see if I can uh we don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, uh we've got the arms, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
We fought the bear before, and while we're Britain's true, the Russians shall not have Constantinople, uh, because the Russians at that time were menacing Turkey.
Uh the Russians shall not have Constantinople, uh, the bear.
That's who Russia has been uh through all its history, the Russian bear, the bear.
And Obama is so tone-deaf that in a period of time when the bear is loose, when the bear is taking Crimea, when the bear is arming Assad in Syria, when the bear is uh covertly helping Iran to go nuclear,
when the bear is making mischief uh for America and Western interests around the planet, uh, and Vladimir Putin is loose and getting looser by the hour.
Uh this ridiculous man going into burger joints complaining, whining about his job being a kind of prison, the bear is loose, the bear is loose.
Hey, I bust out of my cage for a day.
I bust out of my cage to come and have a burger with you.
Uh the bear is loose, the bear is loose.
Uh he sought the job.
Nobody asked him to take it.
There's 300 million people, I'm sure there is someone who didn't think of it as a cage could have been found to take it.
Uh but but the again, the tin-earedness, the tone-deafness, the shallowness, the stupidity, the bear is a geopolitical fact.
It's Vladimir Putin advancing Russia's interests, reconstituting the Russian Empire, the new Tsar moving his chess pieces in Kiev and in Damascus and in Tehran and around the world.
That's one bear.
The other bear is this pathetic little dancing bear prancing around burger joints in William Wilmington, Delaware, saying, Oh, the bear is loose, a bust out of the room for the day, oh, Michelle's gonna be mad at me.
It's pitiful.
It's pitiful.
At some sometimes, you've got to get serious.
And it's not enough just uh it's it's not enough to just defend this guy, whatever he does, however he underperforms, the way Gary did.
It's sweet, but it's not enough.
What is what is presidential about what he did yesterday?
If you're a liberal, I'd like to hear from you.
And I would like to hear as well a defense of the collapse of the southern border.
Why is it in America's interest uh to issue the executive order that President Obama issued uh in 2012, essentially incentivizing the invasion of the United States without consequence.
Mark Steinon for Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on America's number one radio show.
Let us go to Willie in Houston, Texas.
Uh the ground ground zero of uh what's going on at the uh the southern border.
Great to have you with us on the show, Willie.
What's on your mind?
First of all, I'd like to call to give a little bit of a support for Geary.
Uh you beat up on Geary for really gotta be one of the most idiotic approaches.
What he was trying to say to you, which is defyment of President Obama, he was trying to say to you if such a in his interest, you use the word idiotic when you were talking about uh Washington Polk's article, and I'm glad you used the word idiotic because that's exactly what you saw I can address in the issue of the president speaking 15 seconds yesterday regarding this uh the shooting down of that ally.
The hatred and the despising of the president, I don't agree with a lot of things that President Obama do.
I don't.
But there is such an overkill sometimes.
Just like you spend 15 minutes on the issue of the word bear.
Yeah.
You know that?
Yeah, I know.
You talk for 15 minutes on that issue, which is the talking edge often for people to really accept some of the numbers.
nonsense that you guys try to make sense out of is horrible just listen to you try to talk about it.
Yeah no no I can understand that it's horrible it's hell travel to keep up this accent for three hours Willie you wouldn't believe it but let me uh let me uh let me ask you this Willie I don't I you say uh the you say that uh that I was hateful and despising about the president do you know who the do you know who the president of the United States is I most certainly do.
What is he?
No are you an American?
What is he?
No I've talked I said at the top of the show I'm an I'm uh I'm an undocumented alien.
Well good but then don't give me this American stuff we're all Americans now.
They've all seven billion of us everyone's an America everybody is an American and everybody's an American listen to me listen to this Willie I don't despise him but he's he's the guy you 300 million people chose to represent you to the world.
He's the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth.
Am I wrong, Willie?
You know what you wrong about a lot of things.
First of all, let's get back to the question.
First of all, there's ignorance of you to ask me if I'm an American.
Listen to your tone of voice.
I know what you are.
Now, here's my point.
My point is you're counting the seconds about how the president spoke in regard to the airline.
Now, not deep in a dead heart.
Were you here with 9-11 since you brought that up with Gary?
Were you here with...
You were?
Yeah.
I've been living in the shadows for decades.
decades Willie so I was here let me check your memory how many seconds did it take President Bush to respond when the when the the gentleman school and he was sitting in front of Stewart how many seconds he did he didn't uh respond.
They ended the event and he left how many seconds how many seconds did it take well how many seconds are you saying it took he looked he gave a sort of his I'm asking you he gave a passive he gave a passive expression and he left.
Look and incidentally Willie you should dig out it's in the Chicago Sun Times you're in Houston and uh you can probably go along to the Houston Public Library and look it up.
But in my column uh the newspaper column I wrote a a couple of days after that I said that the decision by the way to put the president of the United States on the plane and fly him around the country that day was in fact wrong.
So I called out Bush and whatever geniuses in the Bush administration decided to take him to a secure location and uh bury him in a uh bunker under NORAD command uh or wherever it was he was for the rest of the day.
Uh and you can go to as I said you can go to the Houston Public Library and uh they will have some yellowing uh newspaper or they will have some microfilm or they will have it on Lexus Nexus or whatever and you can look up my it's actually it's in my book Willie uh give uh stay on the line and give you a gr uh address to Greg our call screener and I'll send you a copy of my book uh The face of the tiger which has got uh and then you can see what I said about that.
So I was critical of that too.
But you know the moment calls the man he's the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
He's not just a fundraiser.
He's not just a fundraiser.
His job isn't simply to fly into places and throw five hundred dollar plate dinners and pose for photographs with Democrat voters.
He's supposed to be leading the global superpower Willie.
So a plane has come down a plane has come down and yes all those people at the fundraiser want to hear him kabitsing and yucking it up and doing all the shtick with all those members of the Biden clan in Wilmington.
But the moment calls the man Willie and the man rises to the occasion and he understands that he shouldn't just go into the lame shtick after sixteen seconds that he's the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
And he didn't he chose that job.
He's chose that job he's he's uh not like uh poor old George the sixth stammering his way through the king speech, uh, who finds himself having to uh make a big speech on the outbreak of the Second World War when he didn't want to be king and he didn't want to do anything and he didn't want to have to speak in public at all.
Uh so you think about that.
It's down the line, Willie.
We'll come back to you in a minute.
Mark Stein for Rush, more to come.
A new report uh from uh President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors uh talks about the lowest uh labor participation rate in 36 years, long-term declining workforce participation rates for men 24 to 54 years old.
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