America's anchorman is away, and this is your rigorously vetted refugee guest host, Mark Stein.
You know what the president said.
Rush was talking about this a couple of days ago, that as President Obama sees it, we refugees are the equivalent of those guys on the Mayflower who landed at Plymouth Rock.
It's not the Mayflower anymore, it's the Moflower.
That's Mo for Mohammed.
And they came on the Nina Nina and the Pinter and the Allahu Akbar.
They come in peace.
And we refugees are the equivalent.
The President has said it himself.
We're the equivalent of those guys on the Mayfair.
And that's what you should be giving thanks for this Thanksgiving.
Happy Black Friday to you.
At this hour, I believe the Magnificent Mile is shut down and is the Black Friday has ceased there because protesters, last night they were outside the Trump Tower in Chicago shouting F Trump.
I know that building.
My old boss, Conrad Black, sold the Chicago Sun-Times building to Donald Trump, who then put up that Trump Tower.
And they're now outside it shouting F Trump, although they're not saying F, they're spelling it out.
And the Magnificent Mile, which runs from there all the way down to the lake, is now apparently in lockdown.
The Black Friday sales have collapsed.
It's bad news for Obama because his favorite restaurant is on the Magnificent Mile, Spaggia, a great restaurant.
I had a cocktail there with Conrad Black and Michael Kane a few years ago.
Terrific place.
And that's now.
So I hope Spaggia is okay because it would be horrible.
I'd hate to go down the Magnificent Mile and see all the windows shattered and just little shriveled bits of arugula hanging everywhere.
I mean, it would be horrible for Obama's favorite restaurant just that to happen there.
But apparently there are protesters who have succeeded in shutting down the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.
So we will keep you up to date on that.
But it's come to a pretty pass.
Things have come to a pretty pass in America when violent Black Friday protesters can prevent honest, hardworking Americans from getting trampled to death in the department store rush.
I mean, what has the country come to?
It's appalling.
So we will look to that.
But it is, even though it is Black Friday, it is the end of the week.
And you know what that means.
Yes, 1-800-282-2882.
Rush does this thing every time he takes Thanksgiving off on he does Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
So it's like a second bite of the cherry having Open Line Friday today, but that's the way we like it.
We want you to derail the conversation.
You don't like the stuff we're talking about, call us, 1-800-282-2882 and talk about what you want to talk about.
I really do want to hear from a Bernie Sanders fan because I was hoping a couple of months ago, it looked like Bernie Sanders would win in Iowa and win in New Hampshire and totally derail the Hillary Clinton Coronation Express.
And instead, he wimped out.
He wimped out that moment when he said he was sick of your goddamn emails or whatever it was he said.
That's actually the moment when he revealed he wasn't serious.
You know, you can't, all the stuff about wanting to do a positive campaign and all the rest of it.
But you got to be, you got to stand up there on stage and take it.
He wimped out twice.
He wimped out when he let those Black Lives Matters guys hijack the event away from him.
So he looked like a loser doing that.
Secondly, he wimped out.
That foreshadowed his wimping out against Hillary Clinton.
And I say this as someone with a modicum of respect for Bernie Sanders because he's not a Vermonter.
He's a guy from New York.
He's got a real New York accent.
He's a Jewish guy from New York and there's like, I don't know, there's what, four Jews in Vermont?
I don't know.
I once met a touring rabbi when I first came to this part of the world.
They had a touring rabbi in the northeast kingdom of Vermont who used to kind of, he was like a wandering Jew who'd wander all over Vermont because there weren't enough Jews in any part of Vermont for it to be worth putting a synagogue up there.
And nevertheless, Bernie Sanders, as this Flatlander, New Yorker, Jewish guy, took the little Shishi Latteberg, the Ben and Gerified city of Burlington, Vermont, and then gradually spread outward and conquered the whole state without being part of a party machine.
He just took it for himself.
And a guy like that ought to be man enough to understand that he cannot win Iowa and New Hampshire, one or other of which he needs to win, without taking it to Hillary Clinton.
And he should have been grown up about it.
He could have easily done it without saying he could have presented it as a national security issue.
He could have done all kinds of things.
When he wimped out on the emails, I think that will prove to be the moment when he drove a stake into his own campaign.
So if you're a Bernie fan, you're feeling the burn, do call 1-800-282-2882 because I love hearing from you.
You'll know, by the way, that next week, the entire Western world is getting together for a big climate jamboree in Paris.
This is Paris.
Today they're burying their dead.
They're honoring the dead.
They're having a big ceremony for all the people who died in this attack.
And then they're getting together for this climate jamboree next week because the leader of the free world, Barack Obama, said on Tuesday that the most powerful rebuke, those were his words, powerful rebuke that you could send to ISIS would be to go ahead and hold the Paris Climate Change Conference as scheduled.
As scheduled.
Pardon me.
A little Canadianism slipped in there.
As scheduled.
Scheduled.
Hard K. Good heavens.
Don't worry.
We'll edit that out when we broadcast this thing.
They go ahead and hold this climate change conference as scheduled.
And it's rubbish.
It's complete nonsense.
And it's liberalism in a nutshell, where they would rather debate solving a hypothetical problem than actually address the one that exists before them.
And the one that exists before them is the fact that the streets of Paris are red with blood and that these guys have vowed to attack and attack again.
They've shut down Brussels for the best part of a week.
And instead, everyone's just holding hands and having useless candlelight vigils and singing Imagine and then going back.
And after the last chorus of Imagine, they go back to the same old stupid rubbish about climate change, the climate change.
That's all they talk about.
That's all they want to talk about.
And, you know, not even the dead in Paris, the families of the dead are on board with this rubbish.
Emmanuel Prévo, whose brother was killed at the Battle Clan concert hall, he went to a concert.
He went to a concert by this California band and he's dead because he went to a concert.
And she went to Facebook to explain that she thought the French government was partly responsible for these attacks.
And she said she misses her brother, but she's not going to participate in all these weepy, passive, horribly passive, dead, soulless, wretched, gutless, awful, appalling, feeble wimp ceremonies that the French government is organizing.
She blames what happened on errors of judgment and failures to prevent the attack and failure to respond seriously to the slaughter at Shaoli Ebdo and the Jewish supermarket in January.
She said nothing was done.
So 10 minutes later, 10 months later, the people who did the first attack do the same attack on a larger scale.
And she said the attacks in January should have been enough.
And God bless Emmanuel Prévo, whose brother died for no reason in this stupid concert hall attack by these savages, by these barbarians, for saying that the horrible, witless, passive passivity of standing around candlelight vigils singing imagine, imagine, is not enough.
And she doesn't want to be part of it because it's adding insult to the injury that was done to her brother.
But they're all going to be meeting.
They've decided Obama...
By the way, Obama has given more press conferences since this Paris attack than he's given in months and months beforehand because every time he tries to give one, he can't get it right.
He can't get the tone right.
He said it was a setback when he was speaking in Turkey.
And the French took, they found that a bit offensive, that he didn't seem bothered about it.
When you look at Francois Lande, he was angry about what happened.
Other world leaders gave the sense that there was some righteous anger behind their words.
But Obama just talks about it as a setback.
And then he says the most powerful rebuke you could send to ISIS is to go ahead and hold the Paris Climate Change Conference because nothing must distract us from worrying about sea level.
If you're one of these pro-climate guys, by the way, let's call up and have at me at this because this is nonsense.
They're all going to meet because they're worried about rising sea levels in the Maldives in the early 22nd century.
Under the new Maldives Constitution, they passed a constitution there about five or six years ago.
By law, you have to be a Sunni Muslim to reside in the Maldives.
So when it's all washed away by the rising sea levels, all those Sunny Muslims can all move to Molenbeek, this suburb of Brussels in Belgium.
And being Sunny Muslims, they'll fit right in.
So we need to worry about a lot of things in the world at the moment, but sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century are not something we need to worry about.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Still hoping to hear from a Bernie fan.
But whatever's on your mind, call us and we'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
I mentioned Bernie and climate change, Bernie Sanders and climate change in that last segment.
I should mention, by the way, that Bernie Sanders thinks climate change causes terrorism.
He was doing this again the other day, where he says, what happens in Syria is that when you have drought, when people can't grow their crops, they're going to migrate into cities, says Bernie Sanders.
And when they don't have jobs, that's when they are subject to the types of propaganda that al-Qaeda and ISIS are using right now.
You know, this guy, I'll take a lot of things, but really, is total nonsense because the people running the jihad, the people signing up for jihad all over the Western world, in the United States, in Canada, in France, in Germany, in Belgium, these are people who live far away from this mythical desert stricken by climate change that Bernie Sanders is going on about.
These are people who are often middle class, have access to middle class jobs, and are still hot for jihad.
It's got nothing to do with climate change.
The global warming does not make you hot for jihad.
The guy who shot the soldier in Ottawa was the son of the woman who runs the Canadian Refugee Board.
That's a pretty cushy job in the Canadian middle-class bureaucracy.
He could have been a nice middle-class job, but he got the jihad fever.
The student in California, the University of California, who went around stabbing everybody, he, again, same kind of middle-class setup.
The ones who are leaving Western Europe and going to train in Syria.
Middle class, middle-class, middle class.
Bernie Sanders, I said on Fox News, and all the Bernie fans hammered me for it, you know, that when he falls into the hands of ISIS and they're sawing his head off, he'll still be saying, oh, if only we'd lowered our carbon footprint.
It's got nothing to do with each other.
And actually, when you say that climate change causes ISIS, you might as well just urinate on the graves of all those dead people in France because you're not even giving it any thought.
You don't need to have your head sawn off because you've got nothing up there.
And that's the issue.
That is actually the issue, that you're not giving it any serious thought.
The idea that climate change leads to burning Christians alive on the beaches of North Africa, that it leads to lowering a Jordanian pilot in a cage into a swimming pool and drowning him.
That it leads you to take nine-year-old sex slaves and sell the ones you don't want for a buck 47.
And your best answer is, well, that's all the more reason why we need a climate change agreement.
Sorry, you're just insulting the dead.
You're insulting all the people.
No matter, you're insulting all the people who got their heads chopped off, who got burned, who got drowned, Bernie Sanders.
Let's go to John in Los Angeles.
John, you're live on the Rushlinbusho.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, John.
Can you hear me?
Yes, I can.
Go ahead.
You're loud and clear.
Got a great Thanksgiving story for you.
So let me set the stage.
So most of my family are Bernie and Obama supporters, except for me.
And one Marine Corps veteran who says he's conservative, but he doesn't like to say much.
My older brother just moved into a retirement community place, and he invited a friend who is 92 years old, a World War II veteran, and just lost his wife.
So he invited him over to our family gathering.
And I don't know how they got on the topic, but on the drive home, my wife said, Did you know what that man told everybody maybe before we got there?
He said that Obama is effing this and messing up our country and just going off about how he believes that Obama's just messing up our whole country.
And in front of my family, he was all the Obama and Bernie supporters.
And I guess they were just speechless.
And I talked to him later as he was leaving, because I'm a Navy veteran myself.
His destroyer in World War II was destroyed by two kamikaze airplanes.
But I talked to him as he was leaving, and he said, You know, most World War II veterans are conservative.
And he's going back to New York, and I told him how I went to college at a military college in Vermont.
And then he said, oh, that Vermont liberal, blah, blah, blah.
And, you know, but these are World War II veterans.
He's 92 years old.
And what can you say?
I mean, you know.
No, no, that's the thing.
If you're 92 years old, you belong to that generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy.
You know, when, like, when these guys, when they were 18 years old, they're either being blown up on destroyers in the Pacific, or they're being taken prisoner by the Japanese, which was hell, or they're storming the beaches of Normandy.
You're 18, 19 years old, and you haven't chosen to do it.
It's just the way the chips fell.
And you're looking at 18 and 19 years old now, and they're demanding that they have to have a safe space because someone at their college did a picture of a Viking and it's racist and it's distressing to them.
There wasn't any safe space on the beaches at Normandy.
You know, that's this, these guys, when you, when there's only two kinds of stories in the news.
And if you're 92 years old, you must see the contrast more than anyone.
On the one hand, large chunks of the map are falling into hell and terrible things are being done.
People are being killed just because they go to concerts or people are having their heads chopped off just because they're Christian or because they picked up a musical instrument.
And on the other hand, then you're reading all these stories about how, oh, the college president didn't take our safe space seriously, so we're going to have to have him fired.
If you were 90, I mean, to be honest, if you were this 92-year-old guy and you're getting your destroyer was hit by kamikaze pilots in the Pacific, you must wonder what the hell you went through it all for.
What the hell did you go through it all for, John?
For these safe space ninnies so that they could go around bleating about how, oh, this particular word upsets them or this particular drawing upsets them, or having this particular book.
Nobody reads the book, nobody sees the book, but just the book's existence in the library is making you feel threatened and micro-triggered.
And this guy who was macro-triggered by a Japanese kamikaze pilot now has to listen to a bunch of ningampoops going on about how they're micro-triggered by odd little syllables in the English language.
It is a great Thanksgiving story, John, and thank you for sharing it with us because it reminds you of the journey a great nation can travel in one man's lifetime.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We will take a lot more of your calls straight ahead as we go with Open Line Black Friday on the EIB network.
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I've had some emailers saying I didn't give the name of my climate change book, which is the antidote to this insane Bernie Sanders position.
And it actually also mentions the one that the lady was talking about when she said that mentioning my book to her nephew caused the end of Thanksgiving there.
And Robin, she put it very movingly, that she had to scoop up her deviled eggs and they had to leave.
They never got any turkey, I feel really...
Oh, she and her hams.
So there was ham and there was deviled eggs.
And she behaved with admirable restraint because I would have taken that deviled egg and I would have stuck it on the end of her nephew's nose because that's how things can escalate.
You know, when you've got deviled eggs with all that sticky egg mayonnaise in the middle, things can really escalate at these Thanksgiving showdowns.
But the book of mine that she was torturing her nephew with is called A Disgrace to the Profession.
And it is the story behind the global warming hockey stick, which was the poster child for this hideous cartoon climatology that has so deformed the climate debate.
I also got, on a related matter, I also got a couple of queries from people who said they tried finding my cat album, but they couldn't.
And the reason is they're not spelling it right.
It's not feeling groovy.
Feeling groovy.
Anyone can do that.
That's just like the third most covered Simon and Garfunkel song of all time.
It's feline groovy.
F-E-L-I-N-E.
Feline groovy.
It's the only cat album you will need this Christmas.
Feline Groovy.
F-E-L-I-N-E.
Feline.
And then that's to do with cats.
And groovy is to do with groovy, which what you'll be if you happen to have My Cat album.
The thing about this is that it's fascinating to me that people go on about everything that Trump said this, Trump says that.
Democrats can say anything, no matter how insane it is.
And nobody calls them on it.
So a week after a guy who walked into the European Union, posing as a Syrian refugee and kills over 100 people, a week after that, a week after that, while the French are still grieving, when they're sending their president to Washington to ask Obama to join him in the fight against ISIS, and Obama sits on his hands and everything.
A week after this so-called Syrian so-called refugee walks into Europe and kills over 100 people, Obama stands up and compares them to the guys on the Mayflower.
And nobody calls him on that.
Nobody says, that's like freaking insane.
What are you on about?
Nobody says about Bernie Sanders comparing terrorism, saying that climate change causes terrorism.
Nobody says that's insane.
Incidentally, a couple of people have pointed out to me that the Pentagon has said that, that climate change is a national security threat.
And please don't give me that.
I'm not interested.
In the end, the Pentagon is just a big government bureaucracy on things like that.
And like any big government bureaucracies, it finds it easier to solve hypothetical problems than the ones it's actually faced by.
You know all this.
I've talked about it before.
I've talked about Michael Bloomberg who was going on about climate change, yet he couldn't get the salt on Fifth Avenue during a snowstorm.
You know, that would be too much.
That's actually his responsibility.
When it snows on Tuesday morning, on Tuesday afternoon, he's supposed to have the salt on Fifth Avenue.
But instead, he'd rather worry about climate change.
And the Pentagon is prone to that as much as any other big government bureaucracy.
And we now actually are in total cloud cuckoo land.
Obama stood up the other day and he said, well, Russia's only got two countries in her coalition.
Putin's going on about, you know, he says Putin wants us to join him.
He's only got two countries in his coalition.
There's Russia and Iran.
We've got a 65-nation coalition, a 65-nation coalition.
It would be quicker to name the nations that are not in the coalition.
Are the Solomon Islands in there?
I don't know.
Are the Solomon Islands in the coalition?
Samoa, Tuvalu?
I don't know.
But he's got a 65-nation coalition.
And he's mocking Putin because Putin's only got a two-nation coalition, Russia and Iran.
What's the difference?
Russia and Iran are two military partners happy to kill people in furtherance of their national strategy.
When you've got a 65-nation coalition, the grounds for admission are too low.
What does that mean, a 65-nation coalition?
Does it mean that Slovenia agreed to lend a photocopier?
What is the 65-nation coalition?
The 65-nation coalition does it mean that Papua New Guinea has agreed to make the muffins for when everyone gets back to the base and would like to have a bit of afternoon tea?
When you're saying you've got a 65-nation coalition, you're saying you've got no coalition.
You can imagine how long the Second World War would have taken if they'd had 65 nations at the Yalta summit.
A 65-nation coalition is no coalition.
And yet when he stands there and says that, everyone takes it seriously.
There is no 65-nation coalition.
There are not 65 nations waging war against ISIS.
That's far more insane than the insanest thing that the insanest Republican candidate has ever said about anything.
And yet nobody cares about it.
Nobody cares when he compares the same mass migration that he caused.
He compares them to the Mayflower.
That analogy only works.
By the way, he caused these refugees by causing the implosion of so many unpleasant yet semi-functioning totalitarian squat states around the Middle East.
Libya, for no reason at all, he and Hillary turned into a failed state and they set all these refugees flowing north across to Italy.
He watched ISIS become the JV team become the wealthiest terrorist group on the planet controlling territory the size of the United Kingdom, making millions of dollars every day from oil sales alone.
He caused that.
And then he says that the people fleeing the chaos, he basically looked at the Middle East, he lit a cigarette, tossed the match over his shoulder, watched it go up in smoke, and then he tells us all these people fleeing the implosion of these states are the equivalent of the guys on the Mayflower.
That analogy only works if you think that if you if you imagine that some Algonquin Iroquois Indian went over to the old world and totally destroyed it and caused everyone to get on a boat to the new world.
These migrations are Obama migrations.
They're the vacuum of power that he caused.
And one final point on this ISIS business.
They are not, they now, as I said, they now hold the territory, same size territory as the United Kingdom.
They're a nascent state in that sense, and yet they are not a state.
Because it's not even like the Germans taking Paris.
When ISIS takes a town, the first thing they do is kill everyone who's not like them.
So if you're Yazidi or you're Christian, they kill you.
Except for your women folk, who if they're young and attractive enough, they will take for their child brides and sex slaves.
They loot the banks.
They take all the U.S. military equipment.
So when Obama said that ISIS had been contained, and he occasionally cites, you know, this or that town that's been taken back from ISIS, the town hasn't been taken back from ISIS.
ISIS have ravaged it for everything they need.
They've taken all the money, they've taken all the American military hardware, they've taken all the women and young girls, and they don't need anything else.
They've killed everything else.
Everything else is a wasteland.
So you don't recapture Mosul or Ramadi or Fallujah.
If you ever do get it back from ISIS, all you're getting back is a wasteland.
These guys are a kind of enemy that requires a nimble sort of thinking.
If you look at the way known people who are already in all the databases of the most sophisticated intelligence agencies of the world, and yet they're still able to go all around the world and pull off things like these terror attacks.
And he's got no answer to that.
That was what the French guy, Monsieur Hollande, he's a socialist, but his country was attacked, so he's got a sound butch.
And he says, we are going to restore the territorial integrity of Iraq.
Obama's never made that pledge.
Hollande came there and listed specifics, and Obama stands there and just watches as the world implodes, and then the millions of people fleeing the chaos have to be allowed in to Europe and North America to destabilize the Western world.
That's the Obama chaos.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on America's number one radio show.
The trick these days when you get a news story is you always have to rub your eyes and check that it's not some parody website.
But this is from an Associated Press story today that Mr. Snerdley sent me very early this morning.
West Point, New York.
U.S. Military Academy officials say they will ban cadet pillow fights, like the bloody one that left 30 injured this summer and are pursuing action against many of those involved.
They had pillow fights at West Point to build camaraderie.
But the pillow fight on August the 20th led to a broken nose.
And so now the pillow fights at West Point will be banned because they're not going to have a pillow fight.
You'll get a they might have like a more regulated pillow fight.
You can have a pillow fight perhaps in protective clothing.
If you're in like the full robo-cop, you could have like a pillow fight and you might get a nice participation ribbon at the end of it.
But West Point has banned pillow fights.
And it gives a new Mr. Snerdley said it gives a new meaning to the term wounded warriors.
I don't think actually it counts if you get injured in a pillow fight at West Point.
I don't think that counts for a purple heart.
I don't think even John Kerry, I don't believe, he wasn't in a pillow fight in Vietnam, was he?
That's not how he got the purple heart, is it?
I don't know.
But Benny White, no.
No, we can't have any pillow fights at West Point.
So they banned pillow fights at West Point.
But, you know, ISIS, the ISIS, those guys have no scruple.
You know, they could easily descend at any moment with full pillowcases and have a great big pillow fight somewhere, somewhere around.
They might go to Western Washington University where everyone's already terrorized because someone has got a mascot picture of a Viking and they could land there and immediately the campus would have to go into lockdown because there would be the Allahu Akbar guys would be running around with pillowcases, rumping everyone from the pillows.
So this is the state of America this Black Friday that they have eliminated pillowcases at West Point.
That's great news.
Putin has, interestingly, is now accusing the Americans of leaking the flight plan of the Russian plane to the Turks in order to shoot it out of the sky.
So we'll be interesting to see whether World War III develops or whether if they do hold World War III, I think they should do it on the East German plane with pillows.
And it would just be a lot more organized and easier to control that way if they were to do it there.
But that is Putin's latest charge as we go towards the latest development of this shooting down of the Russian plane.
He said that the Americans leaked the flight plan to the Turks.
So the plot thickens on that one.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
It has been a rollicking three hours.
We'll close things out in just a moment.
Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush.
You know that thing they're always saying that 97% of scientists are agreed about climate change.
It isn't even true.
It's a fake statistic, as I mention in my book.
It's a completely fake statistic.
But there is a real 97% consensus.
There was a poll this month, a Fox News poll, that found that only 3% of Americans listed climate change as the most important issue facing the country.
So 97% of Americans, there is a big 97% climate consensus of Americans that climate change isn't the most important thing going on today.
Nevertheless, nevertheless, it is Obama's priority.
It is Bernie Sanders' priority.
It is the world's priority, which is why they will be flying into Paris to talk about it by Democrat, big shot Democrat Tom Steyer, who spent, I think it was $75 million during the 2014 election trying to drag his candidates across the finish line.
And he's going to be doing that again.
But the fact is that 97% of Americans find climate change a big blah.
That's the consensus.
I've had a great time this Black Friday.
Really enjoyed it.
And so I've become a little bit of a tradition here.
I think I always seem to be here after Black Friday.