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	Hey, great to be with you.
	America's Anger Man is away, and this is your undocumented anger man sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Honored to be with you, coming to you live from far northern New Hampshire.
	If you're fleeing the country or if you're a Guatemalan refugee who's overshot and you're coming through this way, we're a little ways south of the Canadian border, but you can't miss us.
	Got a big sign up on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border.
	So do swing by and say, We don't give you the same treatment.
	We don't put you up in those $1,000 a night facilities.
	By the way, I couldn't believe that.
	They're paying $250 to $1,000 a night to house these refugees, these unaccompanied minors.
	Why couldn't they at least get like Vegas convention rates for these people?
	So why couldn't they just send them to Caesar's Palace with an unlimited room service tab?
	It would be cheaper.
	For $1,000 a night, you can stay at the plaza in New York and have a view of Central Park.
	How is it possible?
	How is it possible that refugees cost $250 to $1,000 a night?
	Where's the Republican Party on this, by the way?
	Where's the Republican Party?
	It's a two-party system.
	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, that Jonathan Turley, big liberal law professor, but Jonathan Turley, because he's a principal guy, so he's a law professor before he's a liberal,
	basically says that 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.
	In the Latin American system, the president is important and everybody else is nothing.
	The French system isn't quite so obvious, but it's kind of similar, that the president is the big guy and all the way.
	Here, there's supposed to be division of powers.
	You guys wrote it all down.
	You put in this thing called the Constitution, and we're in a post-constitutional order where the law, including the law relating to the integrity of the borders of the United States, is whatever this guy says it is on whatever day he happens to, 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 other people are.
	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 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.
	And you're not a terrorist, you're not an illegal immigrant, you're not a drug smuggler.
	You're just a law-abiding person who has done everything by the book.
	And you still get treated 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 against the United States government 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.
	We have a northern border and a southern border.
	On the southern border, you walk across it and they take you and they house you and they give you free medical checkups and they say, well, you'll be going to this nice little grade school starting in September.
	My kids had to have, my youngest, who was, I forget what he was then, he was like, he was barely out of the cradle.
	He had to have to have an AIDS test.
	They don't have to do these, these people, diseases are showing up at the southern border, nobody's seen in decades, because nobody, it doesn't matter.
	You don't have to be tested.
	You can come through, it doesn't matter.
	You don't have to clear any of that.
	You have to clear the tuberculosis thing.
	You have to do all, you have to, you have, I have to have all these medical tests.
	You're subjected to rules that none of these illegal immigrants 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 their green cards on them at all times, which is ridiculous because you can't give a 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 from the Quebec-Vermont border on my way back to New Hampshire.
	And the guy asked me 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, wait a minute, wait a minute, why have you got two green cards?
	Let me see that.
	And it was my daughter's green card that I happened to have because I needed it.
	We'd had to go and down to some Homeland Security thing for some paperwork thing or other.
	So I'd happen to have it with me in my wallet.
	And he asked for that.
	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 her green card on her.
	And I said, well, I'm not giving my I'm not giving a, whatever she was at that age, a 13-year-old girl, a green card to take to school every day.
	She'll lose it in a few days.
	And then it's $800 to pay for a replacement.
	And nobody in their right mind gives 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, 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 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 kinder eggs 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 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 kindereg 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 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 if I was to stay in this pathetic country for doing such a thing.
	I would be with her.
	Wherever you deport her to Canada or you deport her to Yemen, I'll be there with her 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 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 U.S. immigration system.
	That skilled, talented contributors to this society are penalized and hounded in order to prioritize and facilitate the importation of a vast dependency class, which is what is going on right now.
	at the southern border.
	I had to go, as I said, we guys know 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 Homeland Security, what was it called this week?
	Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
	Everybody thinks of it still as the INS, but they, you know, new cat badge, same great service.
	So I had to go to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for something a while back.
	And the guy told me that as a matter of policy now, they have been ordered to waive the fees on people applying for visas and for documents from certain refugee status from certain countries and all the rest.
	So in other words, if you're just not refugee status, but if you're just applying for a regular visa from Latin America or your regularization of status from within the country, and it's a $200 fine, they've been told that they're to waive that, 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 attracting people who cannot even afford the entry fee.
	Other first world countries, 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, they will hold you in a detention facility at Christmas Island.
	In other words, they intercept the boats and take them all to a detention facility at Christmas Island, which is an Australian territory up near Indonesia, and then they will return you to wherever you came from.
	So 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 what jobs are they going to do?
	Do you live in a mill town?
	I live in northern New Hampshire.
	These places used to be mill towns.
	There aren't any mills anymore.
	What mass labor is there that requires the importation of tens of millions of low-skilled immigrant labor from south of the Rio Grande?
	What is it?
	What in the world, what in the world does it support except the vast increase in the dependency class and therefore a vast increase 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.
	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 Light Friday?
	Oh, here it comes.
	Here we go.
	Live from Ice Station EIB.
	It's Open Line Friday.
	Yeah, you know, 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. Snerdley here.
	But neither HR nor Mr. Snerdley is here.
	And as you can see, things are just going to pot.
	And 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 going to do it.
	1-800-282-2882, 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 appalling lowering of technical standards and production standards while HR and Snurdly are out and the delay in listening to the jingle.
	If you want to call up and complain about that too, you can do that as well.
	1-800-282-2882.
	We'll take your calls in just a moment.
	Mark Steinen 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.
	Two quick points, if I could.
	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 300 people in favor of being able to use it as an opportunity to badmouth Obama and show the pain 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 the 300 deaths presented.
	Well, wait a minute.
	Let's go through that.
	I said, for example, that 154 Dutch citizens had died and that that was in equivalent terms population-wise to 9-11.
	Did you hear me say that?
	What you 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, I broke it down because these are my Commonwealth cousins, right?
	I was born a subject of Her Canadian Majesty.
	So 27 of my fellow subjects of the Queen in Australia died.
	Nine fellow subjects of the Queen in the United Kingdom.
	Now, one of my fellow Canadians died.
	I broke this all down.
	How many other shows have you heard that actually mention the breakdown of the death toll, Gary?
	since you've told me that I'm now rejoicing and feasting over 300 people being born.
	You seem to transition from a quick mention of how many of them were AIDS workers to...
	No, no, no, no, no, don't...
	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 9-11 in the Netherlands.
	Do you know the population of the Netherlands, Gary?
	Take a wild guess.
	I don't.
	Well, give it a guess.
	Go on.
	You called this show.
	Give it a guess.
	Come on, Gary.
	Yeah, I did call the show.
	Yeah, no, no.
	Come on, Gary.
	Come on, Gary.
	You said I was rejoicing in 300 people being blown out of the sky.
	I said this was a 9-11 for the Netherlands.
	Tell me the population.
	Gary, what is the population of the Netherlands?
	Give it a while guess.
	No, 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.
	Take a guess.
	No, Mark, I have no idea.
	That's my answer.
	Okay, well, it's 16 million people, 16, 17 million people.
	And they lost 154 people.
	America has a population of 300 million, and it lost 3,000 on September 11th.
	So in comparative death terms, this is a 9-11 for the Netherlands.
	Tell me how many talk shows you've heard today 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 try to connect it and use it to make fun of other AIDS programs and AIDS efforts.
	Hey, I didn't make fun of it.
	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 16 seconds your president devoted to it yesterday?
	Mark, I was more disgusted by what you did this morning.
	It's using it as kind of a kick to stick to that point.
	I didn't mock AIDS people.
	I said, God forbid that it takes that to get you fellas.
	You've just proved my point.
	I said, you know, these AIDS guys died on the plane.
	Maybe that'll get the left 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 who devote that 16 seconds to this tragedy yesterday.
	That's what you should be embarrassed about.
	Do you remember 9-11?
	Do you remember the reaction of other world leaders?
	Do you remember John Howard, the great Australian prime minister, saying this is no time to be an 80% ally?
	Do you remember even the French saying nous sentous American, men?
	Headline on Le Monde, Nousent Toussa America.
	We are all Americans now.
	And you imagine if 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 sloughing something off before he goes to a fundraiser.
	You imagine if you had to watch Jean Chrétien 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 no other newscasters today that I listen to, or programs I listen to, will use the death of 300 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 little effort or emphasis on the fact that 300 people had died.
	You used it or is it 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 I named 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 the first reactions I got to what was going on with President Obama's remarks, I didn't watch them live, was when I started getting emails from overseas people I know overseas who were absolutely disgusted by it.
	Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament, was one of the first just to say this is pathetic.
	And as I said, look at it 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, Muller Omar, the big Taliban leader that got chased out in the fall of 2001 and will be coming back to power about 20 minutes after the last NATO soldier leaves in Afghanistan when they got hold of his compound in Canada.
	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 The Way You Look Tonight and Over the Rainbow.
	Was all the if you want my body and you think I'm sexy.
	That was the big that was what Muller Omar was listening to when he was forcing all the chicks.
	I don't know whether he's holed up now in the Pakistani tribal lands, and I don't know whether he's managed to replace his Rod Stewart cassette collection.
	But if while we're holding fundraisers to try and 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 in his robes to if you like my body and you think I'm sexy.
	There's a piece in the Russia's going to be back on Monday, by the way.
	Don't worry, it's not one of these things where he's headed out for a week.
	You've got the nightmare of guest hosts without end.
	He's going to be back on Monday.
	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 whenever people say, well, why does Rush have to take all these days off?
	Why is he doing another charity event?
	Why does he have to do something?
	He's got a job.
	Why is he doing a charity event?
	Look, why don't you direct that at the president?
	As I understand it, president of the United States is a full-time job.
	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 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, so instead of worrying about Rush being at his post five days a week, why don't you worry about the president of the United States being at his post five days a week and not having to announce these things at fundraisers?
	There's 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 pitiful.
	It was the face that America presented to the world yesterday, and it was the face of a profoundly unserious nation in serious times.
	And that is the issue with it.
	This is actually not a small point.
	These are serious times 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 saying that Russia has a major PR problem.
	Do you think that Vladimir Putin 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 29 points in just one year.
	Similarly, in Europe, they climbed 20 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 worth publishing?
	Vladimir Putin, there's nothing in there in the Regia Machiavelli.
	There's nothing in there about saying, oh, the great thing is to make sure your approval numbers 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—it's not why the world is going to hell, but it's a small part of why the world is going to hell—is that we're framing things in completely idiotic ways.
	Vladimir Putin doesn't care what the Pew Research poll in this or that 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 going to do to him.
	And on that, he has nothing to fear.
	Obama didn't give any indication that he and the Europeans are interested in actually making Russia and Vladimir Putin pay a price for what they did to that airliner today.
	They're not interested in that at all.
	Russia has a major PR problem.
	Do you think Putin cares?
	That's the headline 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 his unfavorable numbers have jumped by 14 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 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.
	And I'd love to hear from someone who is willing to defend 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 Republicans who think we need a grand comprehensive immigration reform bargain, if you're one of the people who is in favor of amnesty, in favor of the DREAM Act, in favor of all the other sentimental blather on immigration, I would love to hear from you.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Now, this piece by Matthew Continetti is called The Bear is Loose.
	And if you've been going to these Obama fundraisers in your town, as who doesn't, because all the traffic's in gridlock, so you might as well go along if you've submitted your social security number and you've passed the background check, you might be admitted to the presence of the citizen executive of the United States of America.
	And he will tell you, as he likes to say when he's in Starbucks or he's in a burger joint or he's in a barbecue shack, oh yeah, it's great.
	The bear is loose.
	He calls himself the bear.
	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 people 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 at the risk of offending Gary from Sacramento, I understood that bear is a common term for a chubby hursuit gay male.
	So I don't know why.
	Barack Obama, who's in terrific shape, would be using this term to describe himself.
	But he keeps saying the bear is loose.
	So that's what he was doing 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 at the time of Anglo-Russian tensions in the 1870s.
	I haven't thought of this since my school days.
	So I'll see if I can.
	We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, 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 because the Russians at that time were menacing Turkey.
	The Russians shall not have Constantinople, the bear.
	That's who Russia has been 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 covertly helping Iran to go nuclear, when the bear is making mischief for America and Western interests around the planet,
	and Vladimir Putin is loose and getting looser by the hour, 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.
	The bear is loose.
	The bear is loose.
	He sought the job.
	Nobody asked him to take it.
	There's 300 million people.
	I'm sure someone who didn't think of it as a cage could have been found to take it.
	But again, the tin-airedness, 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 Wilmington, Delaware, saying, oh, the bear is loose.
	I bust out of the room for the day.
	Oh, Michelle's going to be mad at me.
	It's pitiful.
	It's pitiful.
	Sometimes you've got to get serious.
	And 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 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 to issue the executive order that President Obama issued in 2012, essentially incentivizing the invasion of the United States without consequence?
	Mark Stein and Farush.
	We'll take your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on America's number one radio show.
	Let us go to Willie in Houston, Texas, the ground zero of what's going on at 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 Gary.
	You beat up on Gary for really got to be one of the most idiotic approaches.
	What he was trying to say to you with your despisement of President Obama, he was trying to say to you is such an, and it's interesting you used the word idiotic when you were talking about the Washington Post article.
	And I'm glad you used the word idiotic because that's exactly what you sound like in addressing the issue of the president speaking 16 seconds on yesterday regarding this shooting down of that airline.
	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 you yeah, I know you talk for 15 minutes right on that issue yeah, which is the talking head often for for people to really accept some of the nonsense that you guys try to make sense out of, it's horrible.
	Just listen to you.
	Try to talk about it.
	Yeah no no, I can understand that.
	It's horrible.
	It's hell having to keep up this accent for three hours.
	Willie, you wouldn't believe it.
	Well, 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?
	Are you an American?
	What is he?
	No, i've.
	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're all seven billion of us.
	Everyone's an American, everybody is an American, 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're 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 counting the seconds about how the president spoke in regarding to the airline?
	Now, not deep, but dead hard.
	Were you here?
	Were you here with 9-11, since you brought that up with Gary?
	Were you here when you were?
	Yeah, i've been living in the shadows for decades, Willie.
	Okay uh, so I was here.
	How many seconds did it take president Bush to respond when the, when the, the gentleman went into the school and he was sitting in front of students?
	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.
	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 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 uh, 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 bury him in a bunker under NORAD command, or wherever it was he was for the rest of the day.
	And you can go to, as I said, you can go to the Houston Public Library and they will have some yellowing newspaper or they will have some microfilm or they will have it on LexisNexis or whatever.
	And you can look up my it's actually in my book, Willie.
	Stay on the line and give you a address to Greg, our call screener, and I'll send you a copy of my book, The Face of the Tiger, which has got, 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 $500 a 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 kibitzing 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 16 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 not like poor old George VI stammering his way through the king's speech, who finds himself having to 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.
	So you think about that?
	Stay on the line, Willie.
	We'll come back to you in a minute.
	Mark Stein, Farash, more to come.
	A new report from President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors talks about the lowest labor participation rate in 36 years, long-term declining workforce participation rates for men 24 to 54 years old.

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