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Sept. 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Angerman is away, and this is your undocumented anger man, honored to be here and sitting in behind the golden EIB microphone.
We're live uh from Ice Station EIB in uh Northern New Hampshire, just uh stones throw south of the Quebec border.
So if you're one of those uh American CEOs fleeing the country, stampeding up the interstate to get uh to get the hell out of here, do swing by and uh and say hello as you leave.
And you can't miss us.
There's a they've got a great big sign right up there on the road saying last rush guest host before the border.
So you can stop in and I'll uh tell you all the forms you need to fill in before you uh start your new Canadian company and take advantage of those great Canadian tax rates uh up north.
Uh hope you had a great Labor Day.
Uh Rush is out for a few days.
Eric Ericsson will be here later in the week, and then Rush returns uh next week.
Um but post-Labor Day, post-Labor Day is uh is the start of the uh of when people start to take the uh midterm election seriously.
People haven't been paying attention now, uh they've been busy doing other things, they're golfing, uh they're having dinner with celebrities, they're going to fundraisers, uh, but then they start taking it seriously after Labor Day and focus on the midterm elections.
And uh Larry Cudlow, my old friend Larry Hudlow, tweeted earlier that uh he's concerned that the Senate Democrat the Senate Republicans are actually making the same mistake Romney made in two thousand and twelve and that they're playing it too safe because they think it's in the bag and it's not gonna be in the bag,
and that uh it's maybe time to like ramp it up a bit and uh and actually get get more proactive, as they say, uh uh in uh and not just expect the Democrats to lose, uh which was what Romney's mistake was when uh as uh Rush was talking about the other day when he did well in the first debate and then thought he'd run out the clock and just sit on his lead in the second and third debates,
and uh and they're worried that this uh might well happen again for the Senate uh Republicans in November.
But I think there's a bigger question of that, and it gets to what I was talking about with uh with the Burger King purchase of Tim Hortons, is that uh is that what will Republicans do with their victory?
What what seriously are they going to do about it?
Um and sometimes it's difficult.
It's uh people say, oh well, at the moment the Republican Party only controls one third uh of uh uh uh uh of uh of the government.
And that's that's fair and that's fair enough if you look at it strictly in terms of getting bills through this chamber and that chamber and then signed into law.
There's limits to what they can do when they got Harry Reed in the other place and President Obama at 1600 uh Pennsylvania Avenue.
But the the bigger question, the bigger question uh is granted that, why don't they prepare the ground for victory?
Why don't they why don't they w what is what is wrong with the Republican Party that they're so faint-hearted uh about actually articulating a vision about actually winning the argument, about doing the old Thatcher line.
First you win the argument, then you win the election.
Gener, generally speaking, by the time the election campaign formally started, she'd already won it because she'd won the argument, because you make your case in all the time between elections.
Economy no saviour for dems.
This is a headline in the hill today.
Uh and reporting a new Wall Street Journal NBC poll uh showing that seventy-one percent of people blame Washington for this economy.
Wash Washington is a town.
Uh and if you if you look at this, um the poll ought to be bad news for the Democrats.
This is the Democrats' world.
This is the world they built.
Obama has been in office for six years.
For the first two of those years, uh he had a Democrat uh majority in both houses.
He rammed uh Obamacare down the throats of the country without a single Republican vote.
He owns it.
The Democrats own it.
It's theirs.
No Republican wanted anything to do with it.
It's theirs.
Uh and yet This poll shows that seventy-one per cent of people blame Washington for the economy's woes, but disf dissatisfaction mainly fell on incumbents overall rather than on a particular party.
And uh they're setting up a narrative here, by the way.
Nobody thinks barring uh, you know, some very surprising developments, uh barring the uh war on women ramping up to unprecedented uh degree of intensity in the next few weeks, uh barring the reappearance of uh Sandra Fluke uh wondering why some uh newly invented contraceptive isn't free or whatever,
barring barring something dramatic and earth shattering like that, uh the Democrats are not going to be retaking the House and uh you know, they may hold the Senate or they may not, but they're they're gonna lose seats, they're gonna lose seats.
And the Republic and and the media are setting the narrative up as this that given everything that happened, if if uh it's not a wave election, if it's if Republicans just hold the house uh with by gaining a couple of seats here or a couple of seats there, they're gonna say, well, historically when you look at everything that's going on, Obama had a pretty good night on Tuesday, uh and this is no big deal.
This is no big deal.
And this is again uh so the question here again is are the Republicans serious?
Are the Republicans serious uh about Obamacare?
Are the Republicans serious uh uh about uh recovering American power in the world?
Because everyone else uh is just kicking sand in uh the superpower's face right now.
It doesn't matter whether you're an actual nuclear power like Putin or whether you're just those guys frolicking in the pool of the US Embassy in Tripoli, kicking sand in the superpower's face, and the superpower doesn't do anything about it.
He just wipes the sand from his eyes and goes back to his golf game.
Uh so the question is, are the Republicans gonna do anything about it?
And the question is whether they can motivate turnout to get a wave election.
Because the issue is not, you know, we spend a lot of time there's basically two lines on Obama and people uh zigzag back and forth between them, that even that he's either uh that uh a a dope who's distracted and disconnected and not interested and all the rest of it, uh, or that he's this hardcore Marxist fundamentally transforming the country.
He could be he could be both, as I said earlier.
When you believe that, it's not a detail thing.
It's not a detail thing.
You just believe the big core principles and the details are boring and you leave them to others.
But but Obama isn't what's at issue here.
Not for Putin.
Uh not for the Chinese, not even for the Europeans.
They want to know whether America is gonna elect a serious guy in November twenty sixteen, or a serious woman, actually, come to that.
It might be uh who knows?
Who knows who the Republicans will come up with?
Or whether they're actually gonna uh uh or they're actually gonna double down on this and just put in Hillary or Joe Biden or whoever it is, and we're in for another eight years of American decline at home and abroad.
And that's actually far more interesting than w what freaky uh motivations Obama has going on that d drive him, you know, at one minute he's expressing his sorrow for some fellow who's had his head chopped off uh in full view of the world, and fifteen minutes later he's on the golf cale, of course, yucking it up with some brazilianaire golf partner of his, and and people spend their whole time obsessing about uh the strange psychological uh currents that must be going through the back of Obama.
Who cares?
The the problem with Obama is not Obama, the problem with Obama is that tens of millions of Americans voted for this guy twice, twice, voted for this guy as their president.
Uh and in that sense the problem is the American electorate.
And the issue for this November and two Novembers down the road is whether uh Americans are at last prepared to get serious about what has happened uh in the world uh and at home under uh over the last uh six years.
Do you think you're middle class?
Uh uh uh a new poll seventy-two in two thousand eight, seventy-two percent of Americans identified them as selves as middle class.
That's a very American percentage, by the way.
It's historically true.
It goes back to uh t to the to the post-war world to the nineteen uh fifties to the idea when you could have a uh not a spectacular job, but just having that job was enough to get you a nice house uh on a big lot in a nice part of town and to lead a middle class life, an affordable middle class life.
Two thousand and eight, which wasn't a great year, seventy-two percent of Americans described themselves as middle class.
Now, fifty-seven percent.
After six years of Obama, fifty-seven percent of Americans describe themselves as middle class.
You know what that's like?
But that's that's heading for Latin America.
In Latin America, you've got a ruling elite and a big dysfunctional mass underneath, and a tiny little middle class and not much of an escalator uh between the two groups, the top and the bottom.
Not much social mobility.
And that's what's happening here too, and that's what that poll reflects.
Uh and that's what the retreat into part-time jobs and low-level service jobs.
And if you can't get a low-level service job, you go on permanent social uh security disability.
Millions and millions of people in the last six years have fought by their own definition, have fallen out of the middle class.
Are they gonna vote in November?
Are they gonna vote for serious candidates?
Uh are they going to vote two years down the line for a serious president?
Uh as uh a serious president who's cu who's committed to restoring uh the American middle class.
Joe Biden gives a speech on Labor Day, and he says it's time the middle class, it's time for the middle class to take back America.
Who shrunk the middle class from seventy-two percent to fifty-seven percent?
Joe Biden shrunk the middle class.
The middle class need to take back America from Joe Biden.
Uh he gave that speech in Detroit.
Detroit.
He gives his take back America speech in Detroit, which is a wasteland, where they've got houses on sale for a dollar and still nobody wants to buy them.
He they got houses on sale for a buck.
For the for the for the cost for the cost of a rusting double wide in my part of New Hampshire, you could buy 12,000 homes in Detroit.
That's and nobody and nobody wants to take back Detroit.
They'd like uh what was it in the war of eighteen twelve, the Canadians took Detroit.
Uh and they'd love it if the Canadian the the uh the British Army took Detroit in the what was it, the uh what they call the Royal Newfoundland Irregulars or what uh Fensibles, the Royal Newfoundland Fensibles, I should know this stuff, uh took Detroit in the war of eighteen twelve, and they would love it if the Canadians would take Detroit back.
So he gives his take Detroit Take America back speech in Detroit.
You know who took middle class America away?
Joe Biden did.
And Barack Obama did, and they increased depend where do you think that fifteen percent who used to be middle class have gone?
They've gone into dependency America.
They're living in dependistan.
They're living in those sad towns all around me and all around and and all around the rest of this country where the stores don't sell anything except in the forty-eight hours after people get their new food stamp cards charged up at the beginning of the month.
And the supermarkets all uh shelves a groaning, groaning, groaning for those forty-eight hours, and then at the end of it, business is dead until the end of the month when uh when the food stamp card gets uh gets topped up again.
That's dependent.
That's what Obama and Joe Biden put in place of America.
Dependistan, uh, where it's it's great as long as the government check keeps coming, as long as the government tops up your EBT card, as long as the government comes up with the social security payment, as long as the government's got your health care subsidy, and that's all there is to look forward to.
But if you want to take back America, uh Joe Biden says, you've got to take it back from Joe Biden and you've got to be serious about doing it this November and two November's down the road.
Mark Stein for Rush, Mordecai.
Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show.
Let's go live to Kevin in uh Raleigh, Missouri.
Kevin, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Glad to be on there with you today.
My pleasure.
Hey, uh the The thing that I'm wondering about here, everybody's talking about the president needs to do something.
The president needs to do something so quick.
Why?
What are we going to do?
Just go in and drop bombs on Damascus and blow it off the face of the earth.
Well, you know, there are times there are times when you do have to do serious bombing, and there are times when you do have to do that.
But no, no, I don't think anyone's talking about Armageddon.
I don't think anyone's talking about nuking uh Damascus or nuking Mosul or nuking anybody else.
But here's the here's the thing.
At the time the people are saying to him, you gotta do something now, because you didn't do anything for the last two, three years.
And the problem with Obama is and Hillary Clinton and uh Mr. Global Test windsurfer, John Kerry, is they all came in promising to use smart power.
Do you know that phrase, Kevin?
Smart power?
Smart power.
I had heard that smart.
I haven't heard that phrase, but I heard going in and being cautious before that I have.
No, no, he th no, the the Democrats, uh, if you look at the think tanks they follow uh and the uh and the guys they read, uh Farid Zakari and all these people, they believe in smart power and soft power, which is where you use all the other levers of influence you have,
uh diplomatic, economic, and all the rest of it, so that you don't have to then uh send the bombers in uh to reduce Damascus or uh Baghdad or Tehran uh or wherever it is or Tripoli or whatever to a smoking ruin.
Uh and we were always told that the trouble with uh Bush is that he's just like a cowboy, shoots from the hip, you know, uh it's just a question of finding some other place to drop bombs on.
Doesn't really matter.
Who knows?
Who cares?
Iraq, Iran, who can tell the difference?
And the Democrats were the sophisticated people with smart power.
Smart power and soft power, which is the stage that comes before you have to use hard power.
And I'd rather and I'd rather use that, Kevin.
You'd rather use the hard power instead of having any kind of conversation I thought about.
No, I'd rather use the No, no, I'd rather use the soft power and the smart power.
That's my point.
You're not hearing me, Kevin.
The th the point is that to use the smart power, you've got to be smart.
And Obama wasn't.
It's not smart power to go to Cairo and give a big speech uh saying that America's been at fault in its relations with the Muslim world and how you support the right of women to go around in burkas.
That's not smart, that's bozo power.
And what it's telling the world is that you're not smart at all.
You're a chump, and they can roll you.
And smart smart power does require smarts.
And and I'm a believer in smart power.
If you're doing smart power right, you don't need to bomb a lot of places.
Uh three hundred British civil servants ran the entire Sudan uh for most of its uh history as a British protectorate, the the old Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, up to about nineteen fifty-six.
Three hundred three hundred people.
You don't get you can't do anything with three hundred civil servants at an Obamacare branch office.
Uh you can't uh th that's that's uh Bismarck's old joke uh when he was asked what he would do if the British army invented uh invaded Germany, and he said he'd send the police force to arrest them, by w which was meant to be a sneer at how small the army was.
Uh and he and he missed the point, Bismarck.
He was a smart guy, but he missed the point, which is that if you're doing it right, you don't need to have boots on the ground.
You don't need to be but that comes boots on the ground and bombing comes after the other stuff has failed.
Uh and what has failed here is smart power.
Uh what has failed here is the sort of uh well uh the glib uh oh yeah, we're on the side of the Arab Spring.
It's the Facebook revolution.
So while we're at it, why don't we knock Gaddafi off to show we're on their side?
And that's results in a dead ambassador uh being dragged through the streets uh of Benghazi, and almost two years to the day, uh not only is your dump uh facility in Benghazi uh gone and kaput and never gonna be seen by Americans again, uh, but your embassy in Tripoli uh has gone.
It it means that uh one moment you're saying, oh well, uh Hillary Clinton is saying, oh, you know, uh Assad is a reformer, and we think he's a voice for reform in the Middle East.
And uh John and Teresa Carey uh dining with Asad and his haughty wife in a nice little uh in a in a nice little restaurant, fashionable restaurant in Damascus and they're on his side, and then you decide that you're gonna knock him off, but you can't decide which guys you want to support, and you're gonna draw a red line, but it's not really a red line.
Where and notha none of these situations exist in isolation.
ISIS grew in Syria and then it spilled over to Iraq.
So it's just a question now of where it spills over next.
Does it spill over into Jordan or does it spill over into Saudi Arabia?
Or does it spill over when these guys come back home and decide they want to blow things up in the United States or in Britain or in Canada or in Australia or Europe.
It's the failure of smart power uh that is that has got us into this situation.
It's the failure of the the kind of power projection Democrats told us they were good at.
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Let us go to uh Linda in Colts Neck, New Jersey.
Linda, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
So um good to speak to you.
Um I listen to Rush all the time and I actually started listening to Rush trying to deal with the uh Obama um election and trying to deal with all the problems that I foresaw with that situation.
But you know, I I this might sound nerdy and everything, but I'm very proud to be an American.
I um was born in the most wonderful country that will ever exist on this earth and to have a president elected, freely elected by the people that I so I call myself Americans with, when he says in his speech that he's going to fundamentally change the constitution, I guess, that has guided this country to be as great as it is.
There is a real problem with that.
And everything from national security to protecting our borders, he is not doing either anything or the right thing.
And I, as an average American who absolutely love my country, don't know how to change this.
I voted, I've been on top of everything, I've encouraged people, I talk to people, and by the way, I don't know many people in my area, even in New Jersey, who supports Obama.
So I don't know who these people are who voted for him, but I don't know what to do, and I feel that we are watching America die.
I really do.
Yeah, you know, it it's it depresses me to hear you say that, Linda, because I one of the one of the advantages a foreigner has is that uh a lot of the times we've seen this before.
Uh uh if you look at if you look at continental European countries that Americans think of as old countries, in fact they have revolutionary periods and reinvent themselves and trash their pasts uh w uh uh on a fairly regular basis.
I mean, if you if you look at uh Mediterranean Europe, Greece, uh Spain, Portugal, their constitutions go back to the disco era, to the nineteen seventies.
They were fascist dictatorships before that.
And if you look at France with its third republics, uh second empires, they they they tear the thing up every uh generation.
But even in English speaking countries.
Uh I was born in Canada, and I love uh I love Canada and I love the last half millennium of Canadian history, except for the last forty years or so, because Pierre Trudeau was an Obama like figure who decided he was gonna reinvent uh Canada around about nineteen sixty-nine, decided he was gonna reinvent Canada in his own image.
And in many ways he he largely succeeded.
Uh and that happens.
That happens even in old settled countries.
And it's distressing i for for you, Linda, because you listen to Obama and you can't figure out why Obama loves America less than you do, and yet somehow he's wound up leading America, and you just have to put up with it.
And and and that's the uh what's that's why he he does love America less than me, because I feel truly, you know, you are a product of your environment that you grow up with.
And he grew up with people around him that really didn't support the American Constitution.
So he's a product of an environment.
And um he obviously does not agree with the America that was founded by my forefathers and I grew up with.
But but Lynn But but Linda, there's there's more to it than that, because i the people who voted for him, and this is this is what's interesting.
If you look at the young people who voted for him, Linda, in two thousand and eight, they did not largely disagree with him on that.
You know, now they weren't raised uh to hate America particularly.
Uh they weren't they didn't spend part of their years in Indonesia.
Uh they're just uh young people were just average Americans who were not offended by his repudiation of the previous two centuries, which is actually basically uh what he's saying when he says he wants to transform America, or when he tells uh the uh Nicaraguan leader that not to blame the Bay of Pigs thing on him because he was only two months old at the time.
Uh those what's what's problematic, Linda, is that millions and millions of Amer of your fellow Americans are not offended by Obama's repudiation of the previous two centuries.
Why why do you reckon they why do you reckon they're not as offended as you are?
Well, I think that a lot of uh people who voted for him were definitely uh getting government benefits, and in some respects that definitely helps him.
And I do believe that America did want to vote um an African American president end.
So these two things definitely helped him.
But I just now seeing six years later, just the devastation and really the non-action, and any action that he's done is definitely not in the traditional American interest.
Uh I I am outraged, and I would like the Republicans.
I need the Republicans, we all do.
Step up, and we need them to take control and go against his policies, and we want to look for somebody who will save us, and we want to vote for that person.
Please.
That's what I want to say.
But l but Linda, let's let's just take immigration, for example.
You you mentioned immigration.
Now I'm an immigrant, so I I have to be careful because I can get too annoyed about this thing.
But on the you've it you've your government has dissolved the southern border and basically said, if you can get here, you can stay here, and we'll fly you around to where you want to be in the country, and you'll be you'll be going to school and you'll be getting free health care and you'll be getting these welfare benefits, and you won't and you won't have to pay a dime.
Uh what what should a Republican say to that?
What would you like the Republican candidates' position on immigration to be?
Uh I would like the immigration position to be exactly what all of my uh relatives had to do to come here.
We came here with a legal process, and I would like every dollar or extra dollars to be put into securing that border and getting serious about turning people back.
And and and um uh uh making people go back once they're caught.
I don't have any sympathy.
I sound horrible.
I'm a mother of three.
I have no sympathy for children running over the border.
This is not correct.
I just came from a five-free beautiful vacation to Europe.
Do you think anybody would let me run over their borders and stay there?
We were very carefully calculated as we went through each country.
So I don't understand that southern border, but it seems like not the funding isn't put into it.
But we all everybody's concerned and is on top of it, wants that border secured, and we need to send those people back, and they're not allowed to run into the country.
I mean, that's just insane.
Well, you know, that you're you're you're articulating there the position of the American people.
And basically, in a two-party system, one and three-quarter parties are opposed to your position.
Because it's not just the democ the Democrats want to get these people in, fast-track them to citizenship, uh, expand the welfare roles, which means expanding the government class that ministers to their needs uh and makes them reliable uh lobby fodder when they're trooping into the voting booths.
That's why the Democrats want them and the Republicans, uh half the Republicans uh prepared to turn a blind eye because the uh the sort of Chamber of Commerce, Big business Wall Street Republicans want open borders, and the rest of them s don't even want to talk about it in case they're perceived as being racist or Hispanophobic or whatever it is.
So the problem here, Linda, is not just Obama.
It's just that the lack of a principled opposition by what is supposed to be the opposition party on there's no party to articulate uh what you've just said.
There's no party that is actually prepared to commit itself uh to enforcing immigration law and saying no.
Uh when Obama says our immigration system is broken.
He said in his Labor Day speech when he was calling for this quote, immigration rights nonsense.
Uh our immigration system is broken.
It's broken because you broke it.
It's broken because the United States government has decided that it will only selectively enforce the immigration laws, that it won't enforce the immigration laws on the Southern Board.
It'll enforce them against me.
Uh it'll enforce them against me and my kids if we go for a day trip to Quebec for for the day.
Uh we'll be uh if you're bagpipers, bagpipers in New Hampshire, uh two bagpipers from New Hampshire, uh they have to pay every day every if they go and play in a uh festival in Montreal, they have their bagpipes seized uh by fish and wildlife at the border, and they have to pay a five hundred dollar fine uh every not a five hundred dollar fine, by the way, no, just the regular permit.
It's five hundred dollars, and you can't, and you only can come in by twenty-eight designated bagpipes, the bagpipe commissars.
Uh they got no strategy on ISIS, but the government has a strategy on duck genitalia and bagpipes.
If you ask Obama about bagpipes, he's on top of it.
Uh he's wrecking the uh the Highland games that are coming up in October in New Hampshire, uh, because he's got his bagpipe police terrorizing every Scotsman in a kilt uh who wants to fly into Logan Airport or who tries to cross uh a land border down from Montreal.
That we can do.
That we can do.
Our immigration system isn't broken when it comes to bagpipes.
No, bagpipes were cracking down and it's a five hundred dollar fine, and we're gonna get you.
Uh maybe the solution here is to give everybody in Mexico, Central America, and Southern America a bagpipe, and then they would never get across the Rio Grande.
Because that's the only thing that these guys are capable of stopping.
Bagpipes, ki and Kinder eggs, and probably ducks with malformed genitalia.
That's something they'd want to inspect at the border too.
Mark Stein in for us, we'll uh have more in just a moment.
Mark Stein for Rush on America's number one radio show.
Uh the Washington Post has uh named a new publisher.
You know, the Washington Post uh got bought up by the guy who uh owns Amazon, who was owned by the Graham family for many years, and uh he's now replaced Catherine Weymouth, who I believe is the granddaughter of K. Graham.
I think I'm getting Lally Weymouth, I think is uh is uh mum, is that right?
And then uh and then she's the granddaughter of Kay Graham uh and who took down Nixon, at least in the mythology of the mainstream media, and uh she's now out, and that ends eight decades of Graham family leadership of the Washington Post, and has been replaced with Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a former Reagan administration official.
Uh and uh that's the big change that has been announced today at the Washington Post.
They're so bad.
They're so bad these American newspapers.
Basically the Boston Globe, New York Times sold the Boston Globe basically for the value of its uh real estate.
Uh the paper was a bonus, uh, was thrown away uh was thrown in for free.
Uh same thing.
I think the Miami Herald is still up for sale, and basically that's been valued at just the uh the value of its waterfront property.
The the newspaper is worth nothing.
Um these people well Mr. Sturdley advises me to buy it.
Um I uh you know it's getting to it's getting to that.
I tell you, I'll tell you, I I don't think I'm ready to buy the Miami Herald, but I would say this to anybody listening to this.
If you're uh if you're in your late teens and you're thinking of going to Columbia Journalism School, which will cost you a big six-figure sum to be uh to to qualify yourself for a dead industry.
Uh American newspapers have killed themselves.
They're boring and they're unreadable, even before you get to the politics.
Uh instead of spending a six-figure sum uh uh uh going to Columbia Journalism School, so you can work for twenty-three thousand a year uh for some American newspaper.
Why not keep the six-figure sum and buy the actual newspaper?
Because that's what they're going to be selling them for in a couple of years.
But at any rate, the Washington the Graham family, which is venerated in American journalism, destroyed, effectively destroyed their own property, and uh Catherine Weymouth is now out uh at the Washington Post and has been replaced by a former Reagan administration official, whatever that means.
One other story I wanted to get to today, by the way.
In in Maryland, a 23-year-old teacher at a Cambridge, Maryland middle school has been placed on leave and quote, taken in for an emergency medical evaluation, unquote, because he published uh three years ago a novel, a novel called The Insurrectionist, set 900 years in the future, uh, which features a school shooting.
The Dorchester County Board of Education have placed him on leave, and the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office, you can get this novel at Amazon.
It's called The Insurrectionist.
Uh it's set 900 years in the future, and it has a school shooting in it.
So for writing a novel set 900 years in the future with a fictional shoe school shooting, this guy has been, quote, taken in for an emergency medical evaluation.
That's like something out of the Soviet Union.
And it gets back to what Rush was talking about on uh Friday's show, when he was talking about David Cameron's speech.
Now, David Cameron looks like Churchill Thatcher and the Duke of Wellington rolled into one when he's standing next to Obama.
Obama is the guy without a strategy.
Cameron stood up and gave this tough speech indicating that he he had a strategy, and he talked about it, and Rush pointed out the flaw in it.
Um the flaw in it is essentially that he's like tap dancing about all around with all these weaselly words, extremist ideology, radical extremism, extremist radicalism, and he can't actually talk honestly about where the threat is coming from and where the threat nests.
And a good example of the gulf between uh uh David Cameron's rhetoric and what it means is pr in practice is that a researcher in Britain's home office, uh they've just had this big rape scandal over there where it was all covered up by state institutions in this town called Rotherham by Pakistani Muslim child rapists.
And this guy in the home office made the mistake of actually identifying the perpetrators uh by using the term Asian, which just refers to the continent, uh, and and because of that he's been taken off for uh ethnicity and diversity training to raise his awareness of ethnic and diversity issues.
We are descending through political correctness into the equivalent of uh communist re-education camp.
And it doesn't matter, even if you write a novel set 900 years in the future, uh, they will take you in for a psychiatric evaluation in Dorchester County, Maryland.
And if you make the mistake of taking David Cameron at his word and actually identifying the people who are raping and killing people, you will be sent off for diversity training.
That's what happened at Portland Airport on a Tuesday morning in September 2001.
Mohammed Atta went to check in for his flight to Boston, and the guy thought to himself, and he said to a newspaper afterwards, if anybody seems like a an Arab terrorist, it's this guy.
And he immediately banished the thought because he didn't want to be tied up in sensitivity training hell for the next six months.
And so Mohammed Atta got in the plane.
Mark sign in for us more ahead.
Hey, Rush is out for a couple of days.
I gotta run.
I uh I got my bagpipe and my duck with the uh the counterclockwise corkscrew penis, and we're off north of the border.
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