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	Yes, America's anchorman is sick as a dog today.
	He made the mistake of switching on and listening to the guest host for five minutes.
	He just feels terrible, terrible.
	Now, he's got a cold.
	He's got a cold.
	But he will, he's all he's all taking it easy, having a hot toddy, stuck a big steaming towel on his head, and will be refreshed and fit and back behind the golden EIB microphone tomorrow for full strength, authentic, all-American excellence in broadcasting from America's Anchorman.
	But in the meantime, this is your official EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein.
	Honored to be with you direct from far northern New Hampshire with Freaky Friday and Ali manning the control module down in New York.
	And Mr. Snurdley, he was going to fly up and supervise operations in New York, but he couldn't get a flight out of Florida.
	So he's stuck at the airport in the payphone monitoring the show from there.
	So we can take certain liberties with the format today, and he might never find out about them.
	That's how exciting it is.
	1-800-282-2882.
	I mentioned earlier this Ted Cruz is beautiful.
	It's a thing of beauty, really.
	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 where it ought to be yet.
	And he hasn't 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, the forensic ruthless prosecutor mode, 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 AIDS.
	You know, this guy, what's he called, Mayor, Aaron Mayer, president of the Sierra Club, 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 reads the correct answer into the puppet's ear.
	And then the puppet raises his body upright again.
	You've got to 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 by your minder.
	And Ted Cruz takes him apart beautifully.
	And the guy just keeps repeating, I'm with the 97% consensus of scientists that global warming is really real and super scary and the sky is falling and the whole planet is going to burn.
	The planet's going to cook.
	That's the phrase they talk about.
	The planet's going to cook.
	It's going to be like one of those meatballs that you do to lots.
	It's just like, it's not like that healthy, healthy, nice light brown with bits of tomato in it.
	It's just all black and crisp.
	The planet's going to cook.
	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, scofferty, scoffeting, who say, look, there is a 97% consensus.
	My book, A Disgrace to the Profession, page 295, about the so-called 97% 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 or FRS or any of the big post-nominal letters.
	It's just MS, Master of Science.
	Margaret Zimmerman, she did this survey for the University of Illinois.
	She sent a two-question online questionnaire to 10,257 Earth scientists, of whom 3,146 responded, of which 90% were from the United States.
	It's supposed to be the world scientists.
	90% come from the United States.
	And within that, 9% 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.
	And so of those 3,146 Earth scientists who responded, here's the shocker.
	They discovered that in actual fact, over around, let's keep it rough numbers here.
	Around 50% 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 instead selected 79 of the sample, 79, 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 75 now out of the remaining 77 made it through to the final round.
	77 made it through to the final round, of which 75 are in favor of the big global warming alarmism or whatever it was.
	And so she said there's a 97.4% consensus.
	75 scientists, 75 scientists, of whom 10% are from California, and of whom less than that represent Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Latin America, the rest of the planet combined.
	75 scientists are what this chump from the Sierra Club, President Aaron Mayer of the Sierra Club, when he's going on about the 97% consensus, that's what he means.
	75 scientists who answered a two-question online questionnaire from Margaret Zimmerman, a Master of Science student at the University of Illinois in 2008.
	There's more scientists.
	My book, as I said, it quotes 120 scientists who are basically unloading on big climate alarmism, the hockey stick, the IPCC, the need for all these various aspects of it.
	There's more scientists in my book than in the supposed 97% consensus that this 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've got to know about computer modeling and statistics.
	You've got to 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 97% consensus.
	So then they narrowed it down to these very narrow 77 scientists who were deemed by this one MS Master of Science student to meet the criterion.
	And 75 of those 77 students agreed with her.
	And that's where this guy spouting his 97% consensus.
	Aaron Murr, president of the Sierra Club 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 Ted Cruz 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 a boutique liberalism.
	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 see doing these fabulously well-remunerated jobs who know nothing about the job they're doing.
	The president of the Sierra Club, Aaron Mayer, 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 idiot, Michael Mann, this climate science buddy of Barack Obama.
	And I wrote a 270-word blog post about him.
	We're now four years into the lawsuit in the District of Columbia Superior Court because they can't litigate these chump justices.
	Can't litigate a 270-word blog post in less than half a decade.
	That's the state of the country.
	So when you're being sued for it, and don't get me wrong, I like it.
	I like being sued for a seven-figure sum.
	I feel, you know, when you emigrate to America, you should assimilate completely.
	And you can't get more assimilated, I feel, than being sued 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 simply by virtue of the fact that I'm going to be living, what is the word Hillary Clinton used, boxcar.
	I'm going to be living in a boxcar around the back of the freight yards if I lose the case.
	And so for that reason, I've had to become, I've had to learn a little bit about climate science.
	And it's astonishing to think like a know-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 thing of beauty.
	I do urge you to watch it.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	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.
	And he said, we are erasing Western civilization with an India rubber.
	And he's absolutely right.
	That is what all these stories have in common.
	When you look at who you're supposed, if you're a lefty and you get confused about some of these things, because you're 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, a burqa or a nakib or a 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 now he's saying women should be subservient and just go around in body bags.
	All you need to do is pick the side that is not Western civilization.
	And that is the side that the left has to be on.
	So if it's a dead white European male versus a woman who wants the government to pay for her contraception 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 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, 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 body.
	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 calls straight ahead.
	Hey, Mark Stein for Rush.
	Let's go to Robert in Norfolk, Virginia.
	Robert, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark.
	Thanks.
	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 think this is an example of what Rush was talking about yesterday of the erasing of Western civilization.
	I think that we've proven that the Russians are playing chess and we're actually playing checkers.
	And I wonder whether or not the next Speaker of the House is going to be concerned about this issue.
	I hope that he is.
	You know, Josh Ernest said this 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.
	This is Josh Ernest saying this.
	So that's the official U.S. 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.
	And that's the response of the United States to Russia's intervention, military intervention in the Middle East.
	And where it all gets confused, Robert, I think, is that Obama wanted this.
	He thinks the absence of American power 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 left to themselves to get on with what they want to do.
	And other people like Putin and the Chinese Politburo and the Ayatollah 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 has made.
	The absence of American power creates opportunities for other people.
	And I think the world will suffer because of that.
	We've been really the lone superpower for the past 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 don't think that anybody can claim that the superpowers of the past, the Soviet Union, had that same approach.
	And I think that if Putin is given that green light, which in my view he has been by this administration, he's no fool.
	He's going to take that green light and he's going to run with it.
	And I think it will be for the benefit of the global community.
	No, but when you say 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 Lord Palmerston's famous line from the 19th century.
	England has no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
	And that's how Putin looks at the world.
	Putin doesn't look at the world and say, oh, what can we do for these nice starving people or all these displaced refugees in Syria?
	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 there is something, again, Obama looks at the world from the point of view of a guy who's sitting around in the faculty lounge with three other colonial studies professors at two in the morning having a philosophical conversation.
	The question isn't really, you know, okay, let's take your view that American power is bad for the world.
	Who then replaces America?
	And Obama doesn't care about that part of the question, Robert.
	I agree, Mark.
	I think it's something that we should be concerned about.
	And again, I hope that whoever is the Speaker of the House next will be concerned about it because I think there's a tremendous effect that will result if we allow this sort of intervention or, quote, filling the void in the Middle East.
	I think it goes well beyond just filling a void that we're not filling at the moment.
	I think he's got a much broader strategy than either we want to acknowledge or that we're giving him credit for.
	Yeah, I think that's true, Robert.
	I mean, for Saud, it doesn't stop.
	And it's one reason why 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've got to have a secure, stable planet to be able to keep global trade functioning and all the rest of it.
	That's what Obama misses.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush has been a little under the weather today.
	He made the mistake of tuning in and had no idea how bad the guest hosts were.
	So he absolutely knocked him off his feet.
	And so he's taking a day off, but he's resting up, recuperating, recovering from the shock, and he is going to be back with you tomorrow for authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting.
	I've been talking really throughout the show about this thing.
	I was just listening to Rush saying yesterday, nearly drove off the road, nearly crossed the median and got sliced in two by the login truck.
	I was so engrossed by it.
	This idea that we're erasing Western civilization.
	It ties into something else that Rush was saying.
	When you look at, as he drew attention to, Hillary Clinton's 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 the side of our traditional cultural inheritance?
	If so, that's the bad thing.
	Now, Americans have a long tradition of individual gun ownership as a component of individual liberty, self-reliance, and responsibility.
	So that's got a go.
	So when somebody does something in Oregon, shoots a bunch of people, the gun did it.
	The guns have got to 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 some form of artistic endeavor.
	It was just a film review, 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.
	No call for the video makers that this guy was riled up by to be phoned.
	I don't know where you don't even know whether he saw any videos.
	He was a production assistant on a Noel Coward play at college at this college.
	They've taken all that down.
	Maybe they're in prison.
	Maybe she has done the same thing and she's had these Noel Cowards.
	She can't throw Noel Coward in prison because he's dead.
	But she threw, but she hasn't said a word about this Noel Coward production.
	Did that gaze in Blythe Spirit?
	It can be 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 going and working on a Noel Coward play.
	Very flat Norfolk.
	Very flat Norfolk.
	I'm the only Rush guest host who can do a Noel Coward impression.
	But again, it's simple.
	When you look at Hillary's reaction to Benghazi, Hillary's reaction to Oregon, you know, it's the video maker in Benghazi.
	It's the guns 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 Springs.
	Speaking 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.
	Yeah, this is Clinton's boys at home.
	Right.
	Unfortunate that his manhood had to be endured by the world.
	I listened to Hot Springs to endure his manhood before anybody.
	He always used to call it, he called himself the man from Hope.
	But in fact, he was the man from Hot Springs Eternal.
	Have they got a statue to him there, Patricia?
	I hope not.
	There are some plaques, and it says enough.
	Okay, well, just make sure he's wearing trousers in the statue.
	That's all we care about.
	Well, good luck on that.
	I listened 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 1990s and hasn't advanced at the phenomenal pace, you know, that the previous hundred years saw.
	That resonated with me in that, in my opinion, one area that reveals this that you pose the most is music and the arts.
	I don't see creativity that is inspired on a level of, well, what has gone before, you know.
	I do see musicians that are incredibly talented, 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 do you see the arts as another telltale sign of a culture that has fallen victim to what I would call a kind of nihilism?
	And if nihilism means the belief that life is 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 as a 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.
	Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth in that, Patricia.
	When I was talking about the time travel, I mean, I think I forget who it was who said this, said the greatest invention of the 19th century was invention.
	It was the age of invention, and it came up with a lot of things.
	I mean, basically, 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 iPhone into it and listen to your MP3s on it.
	But it basically hasn't really changed much in the last hundred years.
	Jet travel hasn't changed since the 1950s.
	I wonder sometimes, I wonder sometimes whether we could actually do as we did in the 1960s when President Kennedy said in 1960, we're going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
	That's it.
	It's not going to be like a little machine that goes up there and takes photographs and beams them back.
	You're going to have an American standing on the surface of the moon holding the stars and stripes by 1969.
	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 it's a slightly different thing.
	And John Cleese, the Monty Python guy, makes this point rather plaintively in recent interviews because they were very counter-cultural in the 1960s.
	And the thing about a counter-culture is it only works if you've got a culture to rage against.
	So it's easy to sort of, you know, pull your pants down and make rude faces if you've got a serious cultural establishment that is making things of beauty.
	And the problem is that there isn't a lot of that anymore.
	And so we're left with the sound of, if you have a counter-culture doing its sort of counter-cultural noises and you've got no mainstream culture for it to rage against, all you're left with is the empty rage and the hollow rage and the nothingness.
	And I think that's actually true of an awful lot of art and music.
	You can't, unless you've got a secure, middlebrow, 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 overarching theme.
	The war on Western civilization.
	The guys who started this war in the 1960s and they would come along and they would say, well, Shakespeare is rubbish and Mozart is rubbish and 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 some guy just using swear words that don't rhyme is as good as the greatest poetry of the ages.
	The difference is that those guys were still in the 60s, they 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 the music critic said the Beatles were as good as Mahler.
	And that guy knew who Mahler was.
	And if you don't, if you don't, then you can't even say now, you know, if you say, well, Jay-Z is as good as, to be able to say Jay-Z is as good as Wordsworth or Keats or Shelley.
	You've got to know who Keats or Shelley was.
	And so people don't anymore.
	And so all that's left is 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 America's children who 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've 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 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, as you say, is just this nihilism, this empty, destructive rage.
	Thank you for your call.
	And thank you for watching that YouTube speech by Patricia.
	I don't think I gave it for YouTube, but I'm always glad 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 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 while you can because they're going to be clamping down on that.
	Mark Stided for Rush more to come.
	Mark Stein in Farush, I just want to pick up on something else Related to what Patricia and I were talking about, you know, that a counterculture needs a culture to rail against.
	And the funny thing about that is if you want to name an industry, a showbiz industry that has utterly collapsed since the countercultural victory, it's comedy.
	I mean, 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 offend 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 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'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 weird situation where comedians are having to apologize for jokes or they're having to say, oh, well, that joke was from three years ago and it's taken out of context.
	Who is it who had to pull it?
	Amy Schumer.
	Amy Schumer had to apologize for a joke where she'd said she liked to date Mexican men, but then at a certain point she thought she'd like to try consensual sex.
	That was the joke.
	And so she's been asked about it and eventually she comes out with a full-out apology.
	But meanwhile, all the people are saying who they know, they understand it's not a joke really that's very good about 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 ingrained racism and Latinophobia, and she's, and it's an ironic commentary on societies.
	And no, it's not.
	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's saying, hmm, oh, wait a minute, is this a racist joke or is this an ironic, detached commentary on the ingrained Latinophobia of our white racist society?
	Because if it's the second one, I can give an amused titter, but if it's the racist joke, I'm just going to give a big belly laugh and laugh out loud.
	That's.
	Can you?
	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 the state commissars effectively criminalize jokes about the state ideology.
	That's how it is at college campuses, except the state ideology is same-sex marriage and transgendered bathrooms and all the rest.
	But you still can't make jokes about it.
	And eventually you realize that even, oh, it's not a racist joke, it's just an ironic commentary on our ingrained racism.
	Even that defense doesn't work.
	And it's easy just to be plonking, humorless drones, which is why Jerry Seinfeld doesn't want to play colleges anymore.
	And that goes to that.
	One other thing I wanted to bring up just quickly before we go, because Robert was talking about how for 25 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, one of the most embarrassing stories 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 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 10 minutes after we've cleared airspace and we're out of your country.
	General Sir Charles Napier was informed in India 200 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 Indian widows are burned when their husbands die on a funeral pyre.
	And when he said you're not going to 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 going to 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 going to be with you tomorrow, assuming all his various cold remedies work and work their magic.
	But we certainly wish him well, and he will be back for full strength excellence in broadcasting.
	Thanks to Friday, and thanks to Allie for politer than Mr. Snerdley call screening.
	This is Mark Stein.
	Rush back tomorrow.

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