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	Yes, America's anchor man is sick as a dog today.
	He made the mistake of switching on and listening to the guest host for five minutes, and he just feels terrible, terrible.
	Now he's got he's got a cold, he's got a cold.
	Uh but he will uh he's all he's all uh taking it easy, having a hot toddy, stuck a big steaming towel on his head, and uh will be refreshed and fit and back behind the golden EIB microphone tomorrow, uh for full strength, authentic all American excellence in broadcasting from uh America's Anchorman.
	But in the meantime, this is your official EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein, honored to be with you uh direct from far northern New Hampshire with Freaky Friday and Ally Manning uh the uh control module uh down in New York.
	And uh Mr. Sturdley, uh he was gonna he was gonna fly up and uh supervise operations in New York, but he couldn't get a a flight out of Florida, so he's he's stuck at the airport in the payphone monitoring the show from there.
	So we we can take certain liberties with the with the format today, and he might never find out about them.
	That's that's how exciting it is.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Um I mentioned earlier this a Ted Cruz's beautiful.
	It's a thing of it's a thing of beauty, really.
	I I blow hot and cold with Ted Cruz when I see him on the stump when he's Ted Cruz in presidential candidate mode, because I don't feel he's quite got that shtick positioned uh where it where it ought to be yet.
	He's uh and he he hasn't even been asked a lot of questions in the debates.
	He's been sort of shut out in the first couple of debates.
	But when he's in Ted Cruz, um the uh the forensic ruthless prosecutor mode, uh he is absolutely beautiful to watch.
	And if you see him with this president of the Sierra Club, just absolutely demolish this guy and reveal him as a know-nothing, who's the creature of his aides.
	You know, this guy, what's he called, mayor, Aaron Mayor, the president of the Sierra Club, uh every time he's asked a question by Ted Cruz, he has to lean back.
	He has to lean away from the microphone, and then there's this long pause while his minder uh reads the w the correct answer into hi the puppet's ear, and then the puppet raises his body upright again.
	You gotta be fit, by the way, to be one of these know-nothing type guys who testifies to Congress, because you've got to keep doing all this leaning back, you lean back away from the microphone and get told the right answer by the aide.
	And then you have to be able to lift yourself up the prone position and get back into position to give the answer that you've been fed to uh by your minder.
	And Ted Cruz takes him apart beautifully, and the guy just keeps repeating, I'm with the 97% cons and consensus of scientists that global warming is really real and super scary, and the sky is falling and and and the whole planet is gonna burn.
	The planet's gonna cook.
	That's the phrase they talk about.
	The planet's gonna cook.
	It's gonna be like one of those meatballs that you do too.
	So it's just like it's not like that healthy, uh healthy, nice light brown with bits of tomato in it.
	It's just all black and crisp.
	The planet's gonna cook.
	Uh, and he keeps falling back on this 97% consensus.
	And I said that in my book, I take apart this 97% consensus.
	And I've had these emails from people scoff scoffety scoffing, who say, look, there is a ninety-seven percent consensus.
	My book, A Disgrace to the Profession, page two hundred and ninety-five, about um the uh so-called ninety-seven percent consensus, which comes from a survey conducted by Margaret Zimmerman, MS. What's MS?
	Master of Science?
	It's not even a PhD, never mind, a Nobel Prize, uh or FRS or any of the big post-nominal letters.
	It's just MS, Master of Science, Margaret Zimmerman.
	Uh, she did this survey for the University of Illinois.
	She sent a two-question online questionnaire to ten thousand two hundred and fifty-seven Earth scientists, of whom three thousand one hundred and forty-six responded, of which ninety percent were from the United States.
	So it's supposed to be the world scientists, ninety percent come from the United States, and within that uh nine nine percent come from California.
	So California represents a bigger size of this sample of the world scientists than Europe, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Latin America, and Africa combined.
	Um and uh all so of those three thousand one hundred and forty-six Earth scientists who responded, here's the shocker.
	They discovered that in actual fact, uh over uh around let's keep it rough numbers here, around fifty percent of Earth scientists do not buy into the global warming thing.
	So then she narrowed it down further.
	She decided, oh well, you know, that doesn't work.
	The earth scientists, too many of these earth scientists don't buy into the global warming thing.
	So she s instead selected seventy-nine of the sample, seventy-nine, and asked them a further question, climate science experts, as she called them.
	And two gave the wrong answer, so they were knocked out.
	And so seventy-five now out of the remaining seventy-seven made it through to the final round.
	Uh seventy-seven made it through to the final round, of which seventy-five are in favor of the big global warming alarmism or whatever it was.
	And so she said there's a ninety-seven point four percent consensus.
	Seventy-five scientists, seventy-five scientists, uh of whom uh ten percent are from California, uh, and uh uh uh uh uh of whom less than that are represent Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Latin America, the rest of the planet combined.
	Seventy-five scientists are what this Trump from the Sierra Club, President Aaron Mayor of the Sierra Club, when he's going on about the ninety-seven percent consensus, that's what he means.
	Seventy-five scientists who answered a two question online questionnaire from Margaret Zimmerman, a Master of Science student at the University of Illinois in two thousand and eight.
	There's more scientists.
	My book, as I said, it c it quotes a hundred and twenty scientists, uh, who are basically unloading on big climate alarmism, the hockey stick, the IPCC, the need for uh all these various aspects of it.
	There's more scientists in my book than in the supposed ninety-seven percent consensus uh that this uh guy quoted and that Ted Cruz took apart.
	And as I said, the only reason they did that is because they asked earth scientists in general, who know because there's all kinds of aspects of climate change.
	You've got to know about ice cores, you gotta know about computer modeling and statistics, you gotta know about dendrochronology, you've got to know about the oceans, you've got to know about clouds, and so they had all the earth scientists.
	But the earth scientists, there was no ninety-seven percent consensus.
	So then they narrowed it down to these very narrow seventy-seven scientists who were deemed by this m one MS Master of Science student to meet the criterion, and seventy-five of those seventy-seven students agreed with her, and that's where this guy spouting his ninety-seven percent consensus.
	Aaron Murr, president of the Sierra Club, uh that Ted Cruz took apart.
	Do have a look at what Ted Cruz does to this guy, because that's Ted Cruz at his absolute best.
	The forensic prosecutor.
	I would love to watch a debate if Ted Cruz became the nominee.
	I would love to watch a f Ted Cruz uh go back and forth with Hillary Clinton like that, go back and forth with Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders like that, it would be a thing of beauty.
	But in the meantime, look at what he did to this president of the Sierra Club.
	It's it's a boutique liberalism can't they say they're the party of science.
	When they're telling you, which is a big big part of my book, when they're telling you, oh no, the science is settled, the science is settled, they're saying we can't handle the science.
	Science is too complicated, too nuanced.
	There's light and shade and black and white and nothing and shades of grey, and it's all murky and full of uncertainties, and we can't handle that.
	What we like is Barney the dinosaur slogans, and so this idiot who knows nothing, the creature of his minders, like so many depressing miserable people you d you see doing these fabulously well remunerated jobs who know nothing about the job they're doing.
	The president of the Sierra Club, Aaron Mayer, uh stands Sits there in Congress and reveals himself to the world as an idiot who knows nothing about the subject he's supposed to be giving expert testimony on.
	I'm not claiming I'm the biggest science expert in the world, but I do know something because I got sued for a seven figure sum by this uh idiot Michael uh man, this uh climate science buddy of uh uh of uh Barack Obama.
	And that uh I wrote a 270-word blog post about him.
	We're now four years into the lawsuit uh in the District of Columbia Superior Court because they can't litigate these these uh Trump justices uh can't litigate a 270-word blog post in less than half a decade.
	That's the state of the country.
	So uh when you're being sued for and I don't get me wrong, I like it.
	I like being sued for seven figure sum.
	I feel, you know, when you uh emigrate to America, you should assimilate completely.
	And you can't get more assimilated, I feel, than being sued uh for a seven-figure sum.
	What's more American than that?
	So I'm having a grand old time at the District of Columbia Superior Court.
	But uh simply by virtue of the fact that I'm gonna be living what is the word Hillary Clinton used boxcar.
	I'm gonna be living in a boxcar round the back of the freight yards if I lose the case.
	And um and and so for that reason I've had to become uh I've had to learn a little bit about climate science, and it's astonishing to think like a no-nothing guy like me, I know more about it than the president of the Sierra Club.
	But he made a fool of himself in front of Ted Cruz.
	He picked the wrong guy to be unprepared in front of Ted Cruz in this Senate committee yesterday.
	It's a figure beauty.
	I do urge you to watch it.
	Uh Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Uh as I said, this is all part about Rush did this brilliant thing.
	And I just went, I wanted to check what he was saying, so I went on the website and it's illustrated at Rushlimbaugh.com with a picture of the map being erased.
	Uh and he said, we are a racing Western civilization with an like an India rubber.
	And uh and he's absolutely right.
	That is what all these stories have in common.
	When you when you look at who you're supposed if you're a lefty and you get confused about some of these things, because you bel you in you in women's rights, you believe in women's rights, but suddenly Obama is standing up in Cairo defending the right of women to go around covered in a head-to-toe body bag, uh uh a burqa or a Nakib or hijab or whatever, and you're thinking, well, hang on a minute.
	I thought we're the left, aren't we the party of women's rights and women's lib, and and now he's saying women should be subservient and just go around in body bags?
	All you need to do is pick the side th that uh uh that is not Western civilization, and that is the side uh that the left has to be on.
	So if it's uh if it's a dead white European male uh versus a uh woman who wants uh the government to pay for her contraception uh because she likes to have sex all the time, then you're on the side of the woman who wants to have sex all the time.
	But if it's a dead white European male arguing for the right of women in the w Muslim world to feel sunlight on their faces, right?
	When you can't go out, except when you're wearing the head-to-toe body bag, so you're prevented from f by law from feeling sunlight on your face.
	And if it's a dead white European male saying, No, I think that woman should have the right to feel the sun on her face once in a while, then you should be on the side of the woman in the board.
	The internal contradictions of liberalism are ridiculous, but all you need to do to figure them out is figure out which side represents the glorious civilizational inheritance of the Western world, and if that's A, then you're on the side of B. And Rush is absolutely right about that.
	Mark Stein on the EIB network, we'll take your call straight ahead.
	Hey, Mark Stein for Rush, let's go to Robert in uh north of Virginia.
	Robert, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark.
	Uh thanks.
	My uh my concern is that I believe the Obama administration's actions over the past seven years are now resulting in an attempt at the re-emergence of superpower status by the Russians.
	Right.
	I I I I think this is an example uh of what Russia's talking about yesterday of the erasing of the uh of Western civilization.
	I I think that we've proven that the Russians are playing chess and we're actually playing checkers.
	And I I wonder whether or not the next Speaker of the House is going to be concerned about uh this uh this issue.
	Uh I I hope that he is.
	You know, uh uh Josh Ernest uh said this uh really stupid response to Putin's actions.
	He said Russia will not succeed in imposing a military solution any more than the United States was successful in imposing a military solution in Iraq.
	Uh this is Josh Ernest saying this.
	So that's the official US position that you don't have to worry about Putin doing this stuff because he won't be any more effective at waging war than we are.
	Uh and that that's the response of the United States to Russia's intervention, military intervention in the Middle East.
	And and and where it's all gets confused, Robert, I think, is that Obama wanted this.
	He thinks the absence of American power, uh th this again fits in with what Rush was saying, that he thinks the absence of American power is good in the world, the absence of not just power, but of American influence.
	He thinks American influence has been bad for the world, and that all these people, the Somalis and Yemenis and all the rest of them will all be better once they just uh left to themselves to get on with what they want to do.
	And uh other people like Putin and the Chinese Politburo and the Ayatollahs see an opportunity because they say there's a big hole where America used to be.
	Why don't we go and fill that hole, Robert?
	So, you know, in a sense, this is the world Obama uh has made.
	Uh, the absence of American power creates opportunities for other people.
	And I think the world we're s uh will suffer uh because of that.
	W we've been uh a the the really the lone superpower for the past uh over two decades, but it's been a superpower on the side of good and doing things on behalf of people for their benefit.
	I I don't think that anybody can claim that uh the superpowers of the past, uh the Soviet Union uh had that same approach.
	And I think that if Putin is given that uh that green light, which in my view he has been by this administration, uh he's no fool.
	He he's gonna he's gonna take that green light uh and he's gonna he's gonna run with it.
	Uh and I don't think it will be for the benefit of the of the the global uh the global community.
	No, but when you say there's there's limp that's true that America has been a benign presence on the world stage.
	But that shouldn't confuse us as to what the purpose of power is.
	It's uh Lord Palmerston's famous uh line from the nineteenth century.
	England has no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
	And that's how Putin looks at the world.
	He Putin doesn't look at the world and say, oh, what we what can we do for these nice uh starving people or or these displaced refugees in uh Syria or what he looks at is what is Russia's national interest and what can I do to advance it?
	What is China's national interest and what can I do to advance it?
	What is Iran's interest and what can we do to advance it?
	And th there is there is something again, uh Obama looks at the world from the point of view of a guy who's sitting around in the faculty lounge with uh three other colonial studies professors at two in the morning having a philosophical conversation.
	The qu uh the question isn't really, you know, okay, let's take your view uh that American power is bad for the world.
	Who then replaces America?
	And Obama doesn't care about that part of the question, Robert.
	Yeah.
	I I I agree, Mark.
	Uh I think it's something that uh that w we should be concerned about, and again, I hope that whoever is the Speaker of the House uh next uh will be concerned about it because I think there's a there's a tremendous uh effect that uh will result if we allow this uh this sort of intervention or quote filling the you know, filling the void in the Middle East.
	I think it goes well beyond just filling a void that uh that we're not uh uh we're not filling at the moment.
	I think he's got a much broader strategy uh than we're uh either we want to acknowledge or that we're giving him credit for.
	Yeah, I think I think that's that's uh that's true, Robert.
	I mean, uh for for Sad it doesn't s doesn't stop and it's one reason why, you know, Rand Paul's isolationism hasn't gone anywhere in this electoral cycle.
	People understand when all the stuff you have in your house comes from some factory in China, you gotta have a secure, stable planet uh to be able to keep uh global trade functioning and all the rest of it.
	That's the what Obama misses.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush has been a little under the under the weather today.
	He made the mistake of tuning in and had no idea how bad the guest hosts were.
	So he'd absolutely knocked him off his feet.
	Uh and uh and so he's uh taking a day off, but he's uh resting up, recuperating, recovering from the shock, and he is gonna be back with you tomorrow for authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
	I've been talking really throughout the show about this uh thing I was just listening to Rush saying yesterday, nearly uh drove off the road, nearly crossed the median and got sliced in two by the login truck.
	I was uh uh so engrossed by it, this idea that we're erasing Western civilization.
	It ties into another s an uh something else that Rush was saying.
	When you look at uh as he drew attention to Hillary Clinton's uh different responses to what happened in Oregon and what happened in Benghazi.
	In Oregon, the gun did it.
	In Benghazi she had nothing to say about the guns, the video did it.
	And again it works out what the way to look at it is just what is uh w what is the side of our traditional uh cultural inheritance.
	Uh if so, that's the bad thing.
	Now uh Americans have a long tradition of individual gun ownership as a component of individual liberty, self-reliance and responsibility.
	So that's gotta go.
	So when somebody does something in Oregon, shoots a bunch of people, the gun did it.
	The guns are gotta go.
	When it happens in Benghazi, nobody's she's not fussed about guns there.
	The video did it.
	These people got all riled up by by some form of artistic endeavor.
	Uh they were just it was just a film review that uh a spontaneous film review that got a little out of hand.
	She's got nothing to say about the films that this guy in Oregon was watching, no interest in the videos he was saying, no call for the video makers that this guy was riled up by to be phoned him.
	I don't know where you I don't even know whether he saw any videos.
	He was a production assistant on a Noel Coward play at college.
	Uh at this college.
	And she's had these Noel Cows.
	She can't throw Noel Coward in prison because he's dead.
	But she threw uh but she hasn't said a word about this this Noel Coward production.
	Did that give us in blithe spirit?
	It can be uh uh that can that can maybe that got him all riled up or whatever.
	No, no, no, it's the gun that did it.
	It's the gun that did it.
	Not uh uh not uh uh going and working on a null card play.
	Very flat Norfolk.
	Very flat Norfolk.
	I'm the only Rush guest host who can do a Noel Coward impression.
	But there again, it's a simple.
	When you look at Hillary's reaction to Benghazi, Hillary's reaction to Oregon, you know, it's it's the video maker in Benghazi.
	It's uh it's th the guns in uh in Oregon.
	Because you just find the side that traditional cultural inheritance is on and you're on the other side.
	Let's go to Patricia in hot spiking of the Clintons, this is Bill Clinton's hometown.
	Let's go to Patricia in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
	Great to have you with us on the show.
	Thank you, Mark.
	It's great to be here.
	Um yeah, this is Clinton's boys at home.
	Uh unfortunate that his manhood had to be endured by the world.
	I literally wanted to be.
	Because because Hot Springs had to endure his manhood before anybody.
	Um he always used to call it what was he called he called himself the bad from hope.
	Uh but in fact he was uh the bad from uh Hot Springs Eternal.
	Have they got a statue to him there, Patricia?
	Uh I hope not.
	I uh there are some plaques and uh says now um just make sure he's wearing trousers in the statue.
	That's that's all we care about.
	Well that's yeah.
	Good luck on that.
	Uh I'll listen to one of your speeches where you talked about your Orwellian time traveler, how he would be shocked to find the world seemed to stagnate after the nineteen nineties and hasn't advanced at the phenomenal pace, you know, that the previous hundred years saw.
	That resonated with me.
	Uh in the in my opinion.
	One area that reveals this that you pose the most is music and the art.
	I don't see creativity that is inspired on a level of well what has gone before, you know.
	I I do see musicians that are incredibly talented, uh, but to find a song written that uses that talent to create something that lives on is rare.
	I mean to me anyway, I know this is objective, but uh d uh do you see the art as another telltale sign of a culture that has fallen victim to what I would call a kind of uh nihilism.
	And if nihilism means the belief that well actually meaningless, which I think it does, which in essence is what I feel is being shoved down our throats through every medium we've got.
	Is it any wonder that art music would suffer the result and cave to meaninglessness because if this is the case, nihilists have won for now anyway, and they did take us without firing a shot.
	Just Yeah, I think that I think there's a lot of truth in that, Patricia.
	When I was talking about the time travel, I mean I think uh I forget who it was who said this said that the the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was invention.
	It was the age of invention and it and it came up with a lot of things.
	I mean, basically uh uh w we've refined it, but I mean basically your motor vehicle operates on the same principles it did a century ago.
	It's just got more cup holders and you can plug your uh uh uh your your your uh y your iPhone into it and listen to your MP3s uh on it.
	But it's basically hasn't really changed much i in the last hundred years.
	Jet travel hasn't changed since the nineteen fifties.
	Um I'm I I wonder sometimes, I wonder sometimes whether we could actually uh do as we did in the nineteen sixties when President Kennedy said in nineteen sixty, uh we're gonna put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
	That's it.
	It's not gonna be like a little uh machine that goes up there and takes photographs and beams them back.
	You're gonna have an American standing on the surface of the moon holding the stars and stripes by nineteen sixty nine.
	And NASA did it.
	I don't know whether they can do that kind of stuff anymore.
	But when you talk about the arts, Patricia, I think I think it's a slightly different thing.
	Um and uh John Cleese, the Monty Python guy makes this point rather plaintively uh in in recent interviews, he because they were very counter-cultural in the nineteen sixties.
	And the thing about a counterculture is it only works if you've got a culture to rage against.
	So it's easy to sort of uh, you know, pull your pants down and make uh rude faces if if you've all if you've got a serious uh cultural establishment that is making things of beauty.
	Um and the the pr the problem is that uh there isn't you know, there isn't a lot of that anymore.
	And uh so uh we we we're left with the sound of w if you have a counterculture uh b doing its sort of countercultural noises and you've got no mainstream culture uh for it to rage against, all you're left with is the empty rage and the hollow rage and the and the nothingness.
	And I think that's uh that's actually uh true of uh uh of an awful lot of art and music.
	You can't unless you've got a secure middle brow uh agreed sort of cultural canon.
	And that's the difference between these nine again that goes back, everything goes back to this because it's like Russia's big point.
	It's like the the overarching theme.
	Uh the the war on Western civilization.
	The guys who started this war in the nineteen sixties, uh and they would come along and uh they would they would say, well, Shakespeare is rubbish and Mozart is uh rubbish, and uh uh uh uh Rembrandt is rubbish and we don't need all that.
	And some guy doing some daubs on a canvas is as good as Rembrandt, and uh some some guy just uh uh using uh swear words that don't rhyme is as uh good as the greatest poetry of the ages.
	The difference is that those guys were still ed in the sixties, they s were still educated enough, so they knew who Shakespeare was, and they knew who Mozart was, and they knew who Rembrandt was.
	And so when they're saying, well, you know, there was a famous review in the Times, and uh the music critics said the Beatles were as good as Marla.
	And that guy knew who Marler was.
	And if you if you don't, if you don't, then it you can't you can't even say now uh you know, if you say, well, uh Jay-Z is as good as to be to be able to say Jay-Z as uh good as uh Wordsworth or Keats or Shelley, you've got to know who Keats or Shelley or what and so people don't anymore.
	And so they all that's left is the the sound and the noise and the rage.
	And I would say, just to again tie it all back, the greatest victims of this, Patricia are uh are America's children who in and things like areas like music and arts are raised in a total vacuum.
	If you go music education in schools is like a complete nothing.
	You got like baby boomer teachers who basically they're trying to interest the kids, and so they teach the kids about Bob Dylan.
	Bob Dylan do means as little to an eight-year-old as Beethoven does.
	You know, they're both old guys who look kind of weird.
	And so why, you know, but the baby boomer teacher wants to teach her favorite pop songs, because she thinks that's the only thing the kids can grasp.
	And in the end, what you're left with is as you say, is just this n nihilism, this uh this empty destructive rage.
	Thank you for thank you for your call, and thank you for uh watching that YouTube speech by Patricia.
	I don't think I gave it for YouTube, but I'm always glad uh to find myself on YouTube because only last week Chancellor Merkel of Germany met with that head guy of YouTube, what's he called, Zuckerberg?
	Is that the YouTube guy?
	And was telling him uh that he needs to crack down on dissenting voices on oh, that's Facebook, yeah, sorry, Facebook.
	Zuckerberg's a Facebook bar.
	Doesn't matter, all these things.
	Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, make the most of them of them while you can, because they're gonna be uh clamping down on that.
	Mark Styred for Rush Bordercom.
	Mark Stein in Forush.
	I just want to pick up on something else uh uh uh related to what Patricia and I were talking about, you know, that a counterculture needs a culture to rail against.
	And the the the funny thing about that is if you want to name an industry, a showbiz industry, that has utterly collapsed in since the countercultural victory, it's comedy.
	I mean, this goes uh this goes back to what Jerry Seinfeld was saying about how he doesn't play college campuses now, because by the time you go through your act saying, well, this may uh uh offend uh women and this joke may offend gays and this joke may offend the transgendered and this joke may offend the ones who aren't completely transgendered but are living in a uh fluid gender identity.
	By the time you've done all that, there's nothing left in the act but thank you and good night.
	Because there is nothing there's nothing lamer these days than so-called supposed transgressive edgy comedy acts.
	The triumph of the left, one of its consequences is that it has utterly killed comedy because the left is the party of that's not funny.
	That's not funny.
	And so you now have this uh weird situation where uh comedians uh are having to apologize for jokes, or they're having to say, oh well that joke is from is from uh was from three years ago and it's taken out of context.
	Uh who is it who had to bold Amy Schumer.
	Amy Schumer had to apologize for a joke where she'd said um uh she she liked to date Mexican men, but then at a certain point she thought uh she'd like to try consensual sex.
	That was the joke.
	And uh so she's been asked about it, and eventually she comes out with a full-out apology.
	But all meanwhile, all the people are saying who who they know they understand it's not a joke really that's very good about uh, you know, Mexicans or Hispanics, but they want to they're trying to they like Amy Schumer, and she know they know they're one of them, so they're trying to justify it by saying, Oh, well, she's playing with concepts of uh uh ingrained racism and Latinophobia,
	and she's and it's an ironic uh commentary on societies and no it's not ever That's not the reason people are laughing when you say, Oh, I love dating Hispanic men, but at a certain point I thought I'd prefer consensual sex.
	That's nothing to no one saying, hmm.
	Oh, wait a minute, is this a racist joke or is this an ironic detached commentary uh on the ingrained Latinophobia of our white racist society?
	Because if it's the second one, I can uh give an amused titter, but if it's the racist joke, I'm just gonna give a big belly laugh and laugh out loud.
	That's can you this the comedy is dead to young people.
	We will be we have now we are getting very near the condition of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries when uh the state commissars effectively criminalize jokes about the state ideology.
	That's how it is at college campuses, except the state ideology is uh same-sex marriage and transgendered bathrooms and all the rest.
	But you still can't make jokes about it.
	Uh and eventually you realize that even, oh, it's not a racist joke, it's just an ironic uh commentary on our ingrained racism.
	Even that defense doesn't work, and it's easy just to be plonking humorless drones, uh, which is why Jerry Seinfeld doesn't want to play colleges anymore.
	Uh and that goes to that.
	One other thing I wanted to bring up just quickly before we we go.
	Um, because Robert was talking about how for twenty-five years, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it's been a unipolar world.
	America's been a generally benign superpower, and that's true.
	But but uh one of the most embarrassing stories uh uh of of our uh of our current time is the one about American troops in Afghanistan going along with the child rape, the rape of eight-year-old boys as part of Afghanistan's cultural tradition.
	And there is no point in American taxpayers uh expending huge amounts of money, never mind on American soldiers expending blood in defense of a culture in which the United States and other Western armies are supposed to turn a blind eye to child rape by our supposed Afghan allies.
	If you can't even say to them, ease up, at least ease up on the child rape until ten minutes after we've cleared airspace and we're out of your country.
	General Sir Charles Napier was informed in India two hundred years ago that the Indians had a tradition when a guy dies, this in my book, and people were very struck by it.
	It's right at the end of the book, said uh the Indian widows are burned when their husbands die on a funeral pyre.
	And when he said you're not gonna do that, they said it's part of our cultural tradition.
	And he said to them, Very well, you can build your funeral pyre and follow your cultural tradition, and then I'm gonna follow my cultural tradition and hang the guys who do that.
	Even if you're a benign superpower like America, you have to be able to impress your values on the world.
	That's part of what Rush was saying too.
	Mark Stein, we'll close things out in a moment.
	Hey, there's a 97% consensus that we need to get the real host of this show back.
	Rush is resting up, he's gonna be uh with you uh tomorrow, assuming all his various uh cold remedies uh work and uh work their magic.
	Uh, but we certainly wish him well, and he will be back for full strength uh excellence in broadcasting.
	Thanks to uh Friday and thanks to Ali for politer than Mr. Snerdley call screening.
	This is Mark Stein.

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