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Dec. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 23, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, it's the least wonderful time of the year for Rush fans because everywhere you look, there are there are every stocking is stuffed with guest hosts.
It's guests hosts all the way.
Don't worry, Rush returns live on uh March the twenty-fourth.
So don't worry, the guest the guest host season isn't that long.
Uh but this is Mark Stein, your EIB anchor baby.
Honored to be here with you today and tomorrow in this run-up to Christmas.
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I was going to plug my uh fabulous cat album that uh has been uh jostling with Meghan Trainer uh on the uh Amazon bestsellers list, uh feline groovy songs for swinging cats, but I think I now should have actually called it schlongs for swinging cats, although people would probably think that was like uh advice tips from Bill Clinton or something.
Uh but uh we are here taking your calls, and uh just to put the schlong thing in the big picture.
What we are witnessing here is uh has uh has been that somebody has finally hijacked the Republican nominating process and is strong enough to do it.
Essentially Donald Trump has come up with a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
That's what he he did.
Back in June, the conversation was all about how uh would he take the pledge about not running third party.
As I said, right now, the way it's looking is that it's gonna be Eric Cantor and Jeb Bush and Mike Murphy and the consultant industrial complex that's gonna be having to run third party because Donald Trump is stealing this thing out from under them.
It's like a reverse, it's a reverse takeover.
By the way, he also I think uh thinks about everything in business terms, and he does it in business terms.
And that's why he says uh let's ban all Muslims.
Let's stop all Muslim immigration right now.
Uh that's that's the way a businessman negotiates.
Uh a businessman negotiates uh by demanding uh eight million dollars and uh the uh uh freehold to the luxury waterfront property, and he settles for four million dollars and the leasehold uh to the luxury waterfront property.
That's how you negotiate in business.
In business, he he starts big and then he accommodates.
So he says he's gonna be a uh big wall across the Mexican border, and then he says we're gonna put a little door in the middle of it.
That's that's that's his accommodation.
But he opens by saying it's gonna be a huge wall.
You've seen the Great Wall of China, this is gonna be hugger than the Great Wall of China.
That's a great wall they got in China.
I'm gonna build it twice as high.
And then uh when people when they've done all that, then he says, and we're gonna have a door in the middle of it.
That's how businessmen negotiate.
In politics, it's the opposite.
Because in politics you got this whole consultant class.
If you say, well, I'm opposed to abortion, they say, oh we're worried about the uh we're we're worried about pro-choice women in uh in critical swing counties in Ohio, so why don't you just say uh you're opposed to uh partial birth abortion at nine and a half months, and then that'll make you sound reasonable and moderate.
So politics is the opposite of business.
With business, you you start by you start big and then you compromise and you get what you really expected to get.
If you're a good negotiator, you get what you really expected to get uh all along.
In politics, every b everybody starts small.
And I truly believe I mean I uh I was overjoyed to hear Rush say this the other night.
I truly believe that there is no smaller party.
There is no party that gets less anywhere on the planet than the Republican Party of the United States of America.
Uh and you look at everything in in this so-called budget bill, and they're saying, well, we had to do it.
Yes, we've got huge majorities in the House and the Senate, but uh otherwise they would have demonized us and made it look as if we were responsible for the government shutdown, which isn't a government shutdown anyway.
It doesn't mean all it means is they send the stormtroopers out uh to uh to to arrest you for trying to take illegal photographs of Mount Rushmore when it's not officially open.
That's all uh government shutdown.
There's no such thing as a government shutdown.
But uh th so so the Republicans pre-caved, uh, but they say don't worry, don't worry, because it sets us up uh beautifully uh for us not to cave uh maybe in well, what are you saying?
Uh not to cave next year in 2016, well, not next year, but maybe by twenty twenty-four.
Uh this deal has gone so smoothly, we gave Obama every and the Democrats everything they wanted, and so this puts us in a good uh uh a good position uh to cave uh slightly less totally in the year 2037.
That's the official position of the Republican Party.
And it's not enough.
You know, Ted Cruz talks about the bipartisan cartel.
I wish it was a bipartisan cartel, because like the uh the airlines are a cartel, you know, Delta and uh whoever's left now, Northwest has gone, haven't they?
US Air, they've got Continental.
Who's there?
There must be another one.
United, United, they're American.
Delta United and American, they're a cartel.
So if you want to fly to Florida, they're all kind of the same price.
And it and and and it works in the interests of all members of the cartel.
The tr problem with Ted Cruz's bipartisan cartel is it only works for one of the two groups that make up the cartel.
The other cartel gets nothing from it, except uh for the fact that they get their cars and drivers and fancy offices.
And it's not enough.
And it's not enough for 50% of the country.
And I don't think the the donor class, the geniuses who gave a hundred million dollars to Jeb Bush, the smart, sophisticated people who gave a hundred million dollars to Jeb Bush, realize how rotten life is for large parts of the Republican voter base.
You know, people talk about Jimmy Carter and Malays and the 1970s.
The reason Reagan swept in uh in 1980 was because Carter was an anomaly then.
Uh basically ever since the uh OPEC uh jacked up the oil prices in uh the uh 1970s, uh the economy in the United States turned turned down and there were bad times for the first time since the second world war.
And people weren't used to it.
They'd had like good times basically for 30 years.
Things had got better for 30 years, and now there was this like little Jimmy Carter blip where things were bad.
And it's way worse than that now, because you're talking to people now who for whom nothing has gotten better in twenty years.
And uh there are people who are there are people who are out there who are the super credentialed people who uh who are the big Wall Street guys who are the guys who want more people coming in on uh visas uh and more people coming in illegally, so they got a lot of cheap labor.
And if you're living in some broken down mill town where your your parents, your dad never went to college.
He just did some blue-collar job all his life, but he was able to get a nice house and support his wife and raised three kids and a nice house in a nice part of town, just doing a solid job without having to go and get six-figure college debt piled up on that.
Uh that world is gone.
That America is gone.
America is bifurcated into this uh uh way if you're if you're in on the crony capitalist thing, if you're in on this nexus between Eric Cantor, you get kicked out by your constituents because they don't like you because they think you did a rotten job, and it doesn't matter because you just parlay your Rolodex into some like big swank the lobbying consultancing gig, consultancy gig.
I mean, if you think about it, there's no reason why any representative should do uh should pay any attention to his base.
Because when you get kicked out, what's the base gonna do for you?
Give you a job at the feed store, whereas if you do what Goldman Sachs wants, there's a huge great job for doing nothing at all.
Uh John Kasich, the guy who's running the I was proud to be the son of a mailman ads, he was actually a Lehman brother.
When he left Congress, he became the le he became one of the Lehman brothers.
That's that's what's that's American politics at the top, and it works.
It works for the Democrats, because the Democrats have got these ideological constituencies.
Uh they've got a grieved identity groups, they've got the transgendered and the gay constituency and the uh Hispanic constituency and the black constituency and all the rest of it, and they want a a bigger and bigger government to minister to their constituent groups.
But at the Republican Party end of it, the relationship between the donor class and the voters makes no sense.
The voters don't want what the donors want, and the donors want something totally different than from the voters want.
So they sunk a hundred million dollars into Jeb Bush, who's at two percent in in Iowa.
Well, I'll be interested to see.
I don't want to hammer on Jeb Bush.
I sat next to him at some lunch.
He was a perfectly pleasant fellow, he's a smart fellow.
He absolutely has no feel for retail politics.
So he's a bust in Iowa and New Hampshire because he can't go gladhanding his way around these these small primary states where you need to do the retail politics.
I got nothing against the guy, but the guy should not be running.
He should there's no constituency for him.
He is he has everything except voters.
He's got more ads than anybody else.
He's got more money than anybody else.
He's got more endorsements than anybody else, and he's got fewer voters than anybody else.
And there's it will be interesting to me to see in this next debate, they're tightening up the rules so they'll only have six or seven candidates on stage uh for this January 14th debate.
And it will be fascinating to me to see if Jeb Bush is one of that final six.
This is the Republican Party establishment in meltdown, and it is an entirely deserved meltdown.
And this budget bill uh if you plays entirely into the hands of the uh Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, outsider primary season, because this budget deal is what has enabled Trump and Cruz to snaffle out the primary process out from under the fellows who picked Jeb Bush.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Uh Hillary Hillary ha has claimed uh on her website uh in what's meant to be Hispanic outreach that she is like your abuela.
That's Spanish uh for grandmother.
Uh and it's uh seen as a bit of fairly obvious uh pandering.
And uh it's also in line with Hillary in in the way she has of uh uh slightly retooling herself according to which identity group she's uh she's speaking to.
It's when she speaks before African American audiences, she suddenly starts talking like uh Hattie McDaniels in Gone with the Wind, and uh, you know, oh my darling little mammy and down in Alabama.
That's uh that's Hillary when she's speaking to black audiences, and now when she's speaking to Hispanic audiences, she's claiming to be her your abuela, which is uh uh Spanish for grandmother.
And uh Hispanics are not taking this seriously, and the hashtags not my abuela and no mia abuela have shot to the top of the trending list on Twitter.
Actually, when were Bill Clinton to claim to be your grandfather to selected members of minority group communities, there would actually be a statistical probability that uh that could theoretically be true.
Uh but uh but uh Hillary they're not buying Hillary as uh as the abuela of the Hispanic community.
And you know what I love again again.
Everyone says uh Trump is the reality uh TV buffoon.
No, the reality TV buffoonery is what normally goes on in elections.
Where people do this lame feeble pandering, oh uh Hillary Clinton is your abuela, she's your darling little mammy.
Uh when uh when that's the buffoonery, and I'm being bipartisan here because it's buffoonery-ish on both sides of the aisle.
None of it is real.
If you're a Hispanic, do you want somebody uh some somebody who jets around on planes provided by fat layabout Saudi princes giving speeches and becoming a billionaire from giving unlistenable speeches uh to deadbeat Saudi princes uh supposedly because you're raising money for diarrhoea in Africa and uh for every hundred dollars you give to the Clinton Foundation,
ninety-six dollars of it goes to keep Bill and Hillary flying around and four dollars of it goes to diarrhea in Africa, so it's gonna be a long time before the diarrhea in Africa dries up.
Do you want to do you want to give do you want to do you want do you want somebody Hillary pretending?
Hillary, the billionaire, she'd become a billionaire by giving speeches and diarrhea in Africa to fat Saudi princes, right?
That's a business model nobody else had tried until Bill and Hillary.
You've got to give it to them.
Maybe we could all do it.
Maybe we could just shut down so Flint Michigan, Michael Moore doesn't need to worry anymore because Flint, Michigan, they'll all be reemployed giving diarrhoea speeches to Saudi princes.
Uh it'll be the new business model.
Do you really think if you're a Hispanic and you actually have to go out and work for a living that Hillary pretending to be your abuela uh is gonna mean anything to you, or is actually Donald Trump uh talking about real issues uh mean more to you?
Do you care about Donald Trump uh saying nuts to illegal immigration they all got to go back?
Do you care about Hillary pretending to be a Eurobuella?
This is the reality show.
None of this is real.
None of this is real.
And I'll I'll go I'll go uh Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney uh used to give these speeches entirely drained of content.
He's a very nice guy.
But some he had the consultant industrial complex and he so he had all the expensive speech writers, and speechwriters said, uh, I believe in an America that's more Americanly American than any America that has ever existed in the history of America.
And then he wonders why if you're just some schlub who got laid off at the mill, somehow that doesn't resonate with you.
It doesn't mean anything to you.
That's the reality show buffoonery, it's ta if it takes a reality show buffoon uh to to fire a uh a rocket through the stupid conventions of this pointless elect three-year election process, so be it.
But the only reason we're talking about anything real, whether it's like uh an end to immigration, no pa do you know, if it weren't for Trump, what would the conversation be at the Republican debate?
You'd have uh you'd have uh Marco Rubio saying, I believe in an uh two-year pathway to citizenship, and you'd have Jeb saying, no, no, it's an act of love, so I think we should have a six-month pathway to citizenship.
That's what Republicans would be debating about.
The whole reality show, point of the reality show, is to exclude anything that matters from the conversation.
So you're just arguing about peripheral trivia, and that's what the Republican debate would be about.
And so the least unreal thing about it uh has been what's happened to it in recent months.
And everybody uh everybody should be uh be grateful for that.
But anyway, Hillary, the Hispanic community isn't uh oh, she was also seen on stage embracing Hispanic singer Mark Anthony.
This is her outreach uh to the Hispanic community.
She's claiming to be your abuela, uh, but it's getting mocked online.
John Kerry, I don't think we should uh underestimate how serious John Kerry's uh assurances to Iran that they're not gonna be covered by the tightening of the visa waiver program.
He wrote on December the nineteenth to his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Javad Zarif.
This is this smooth smooth talking guy in uh in a Nehru jacket, looks like a bond villain.
Uh he's a very smooth talker, this Iranian foreign minister, and he said and he assured the foreign minister of Iran, don't worry about these new laws that Congress is passing, uh we're simply gonna bypass these new rules for Iran.
So the idea will be that a great new bureaucratic tightened visa waiver system will be erected for New Zealand backpackers uh but not for any red hot fire brand Islamic clerics.
So in other words, the uh a woman like this uh this uh terrorist uh mail order bride who uh shot up San Bernardino.
She won't be covered by this.
But if if if you've got uh some kid in New Zealand who'd like to go to Disney World before he starts university at the age of nineteen, he'll be tied up in paperwork for uh forever.
And this is again, this is the insanity, the official bureaucratic insanity, which is why when Trump says wouldn't be easier, let's just ban all Muslims.
Uh that that actually uh is less insane than what our officials are telling us.
Rush mentioned that that I'd said uh the other day, he mentioned that I'd said that Trump sounds less insane than John Kerry standing up in Paris while they're still swabbing the streets of blood, and John Kerry's saying, Well, uh, we don't know what caused this, but it has nothing to do with Islam.
That sounds far more insane to the average person uh than uh Donald Trump's policy on Muslim innovation.
More straight ahead.
Yes, uh Rush is leaving it to the guest hosts, uh, and this is the first day of guest hosts.
It's always good uh uh as we uh begin the season of guest hosts to be the early, the early guest host, because by the time you get to the 23rd, 24th guest host in mid-February, people are really getting tired of it.
But Mark signed in for us, I'll be here tomorrow, and then authentic EIB approved Christmas music for three hours on Christmas Day.
Uh with us now on the line is uh the Department of Homeland Securities uh former employee, Philip Haney, uh, who has been revealing some uh fascinating insights into how Tashfine Malik managed to be admitted to the United States uh to shoot up uh a Bernadine San Bernardino Christmas party.
Uh Philip, it's great to have you with us on the show today.
And and basically your line is that the DHS has been hollowed out by uh administration enforced political correctness, really.
Yes, that's correct.
That's my premise.
And it was just reinforced recently in the big discussion about social media when the DHS spokesman said to MSNBC that they follow current law.
That's good.
But also appropriately taking the account civil rights and civil liberties and privacy protections.
That's a lot of there's a lot of meaning in those few words because that's exactly what happened in my case.
Current law we were following, law enforcement.
Right.
And then civil rights and civil liberties comes in, and uh this is why I'm here today.
Do we actually make any effort uh to establish who it is who is led into the United States?
For example, the K1 visa uh on which Tashfien Malik was admitted.
Is the uh these questions on the former ridiculous, and they're you know do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States?
Have you ever or do you intend to provide money to terrorism groups?
I would imagine that one hundred percent of the forms sitting in a Department of Homeland Security landfill in the middle of the Nevada Desert.
I would imagine that 100% of them say no on that form.
So is anything else done other than that, Philip?
Well, there is there are actually a lot of very capable law enforcement individuals who are well trained, we have the equipment and the means to do it, but the Obama administration is handcuffed us, made it put us in what I call an impossible paradox.
You cannot build cases when you're superseded by civil rights and civil liberties concerns.
These are not even American citizens.
They're U.S. or I should say foreign nationals.
We have it we have the tools to do it, to vet people correctly, at least in a significantly higher proportion than what we're hearing about virtually every day lately.
Isn't isn't one of the problems though, That you have what one might call law enforcement professionals, intelligence professionals on the one side, but on the other hand, you have uh effectively Islamic lobby groups, and the Islamic lobby groups have the air of everyone who matters in the administration, and you guys don't.
This started in two thousand eight with a memo called the Words Matter memo, which is queer, you can find it online, it started to reveal the emerging countering violent extremism policy.
Also a major component of that is the civil rights and civil liberties issue that we hear about so much today.
Started in 2008.
So yeah.
And that has done what I say intruded into the law enforcement arena.
You cannot build cases, you cannot do discovery uh possible links to terrorism if you are either hampered by the CRCL considerations or have to go to probable cause because no one is going to tell you that they're affiliated with the terrorist organization.
Right.
Another another subtlety is that Islam from the Islamic perspective, they're not terrorists.
No their definition of terrorism is different than ours.
Right, right.
But it seems incredible now because it is a huge bureaucracy that was created it it's not as if it's one of these things that's been around since uh the early nineteenth century and its responsibilities have evolved.
This was created uh thirteen years ago specifically to address this particular problem.
And when you look at some of the things that uh DHS has got time for, it it inv it raided a strip club in Boston that was selling illegal Red Sox merchandise.
The strippers the were apparently giving Red Sox uh sweatshirts, uh knockoff Red Sox sweatshirts out to the patrons of this s uh strip club in Boston.
Uh they they uh raided some woman and stole her uh uh British sports car that claimed it had been improperly im imported.
They seem to have resources for all kinds of other things, but their core mission seems to be getting nibbled away at till there's till there's less and less left of it, Philip.
Well that's true.
I was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security, it was stood up as an independent agency in March of 2003.
So I saw this uh progression through the years of uh moving away from our original mandate, which was quite simple protect America from terrorism and from the threat of terrorism, to the point where we are now where we can't seem to discern our left hand from our right hand regarding terrorists and terrorism.
What's it gonna take for it to change?
The the pieces are in place.
Law enforcement officers need to have the handcuffs taken off and let them do the job they were trained and took a vow to do.
That's why I'm hopeful, because uh we have the capacity to do it.
And again, remove the handcuffs.
We can restart cases and investigations of groups and individuals that would have known links or ties to uh violent jihad.
It's it's a it can be done.
We have to have the uh liberty to do it.
But but looking at it in political terms, we've just heard today that they want to tighten up the visa waiver program.
Essentially, this is other Western nations, you don't need a visa to come to the United States if you've got uh an Australian uh or an Italian passport or whatever.
But they're gonna they want to make an exception for people who have been in Syria, Sudan, a couple of other countries for the last five years, and we now hear that John Kerry has assured the Iranians that they will not be part of that program.
So, in other words, uh whatever you you may have the tools, but the political will seems to be about insulating Islam and the uh major Islamic powers in particular from the scrutiny necessary, Philip.
Well, there's one intriguing thing about the visa waiver program that isn't discussed in public, and that is many of the individuals from these countries have two passports.
Right.
They have one from their originating country, which they can travel on.
And they have a let's say a UK passport which they get the visa waiver program.
So they're traveling essentially under two different identities.
Right.
There is data available that we don't have access that would that would connect that break.
Yeah we don't have access to it.
Yeah I've heard this before because uh if you take certain countries uh where as you say the certain Middle Eastern countries uh people like to have a Canadian or Australian passport in the back pocket.
And when they attempt to enter the United States on a Western passport, uh for some reason there's an obstacle to you guys being able to track what they're doing on their Yemeni passport or Syrian passport.
Is that seriously correct?
Yes it is and there as I said there is data available it's called PNR data that tracks the travel of passengers in other parts of the world and so far we have not been successful in having adequate access to that information.
So we are flying partially blind so to speak and we can't really fully vet people and where they've been when they come in with a let's say a UK passport on the visa waiver program.
We really only know half of their travel story.
Right, right.
Because what they do is they uh they they will fly from Paris to JFK on a UK passport but you won't know that they've just flown in from Pakistan on a Pakistani passport.
Exactly correct and I've I saw it myself numerous times as a CBP officer when I worked on the line processing passengers.
I would ask them do you have another passport?
Right.
And another example is Tamerlane Sarneev.
He was the lawful permanent resident with a Russian passport.
He traveled around Chechny and Dagestan on his Russian passport but came back to America with his green card.
Right.
So unless you ask him, where did you go?
There's a blank space there.
And it's in these blank spaces that these convulsive news stories, like Tashreen Malik killing 14 people in San Bernardino, and the reaction of the public is, well, everything about her becomes obvious in the 48 hours following the atrocity.
There must be a way that it could be obvious before the atrocity.
And you're saying it's not just that we're flying blind, but we've consciously chosen to fly blind for reasons of political correctness.
Well, either chosen on one side or ordered to submit to these standards on the law enforcement.
I'm speaking from a federal cops perspective, what we're capable of doing versus what we are actually able to do on a day-to-day basis.
And over the years, I call it the emerging submarine.
to see the submarine emerge and uh it's just gotten more and more obvious as time has gone on to bring us to the point where we are today.
where we're severely hampered in our ability to do our job.
That's a very good image, the emerging submarine.
Philip Haney, thank you for talking to us.
Philip, a whistleblower on some of these homeland security aspects of homeland security bureaucracy, specifically set up to protect us and ensure that a 9-11 doesn't happen again.
And in fact, many of the people who ought to be under the greatest scrutiny of homeland security, in fact, are able to breeze through the system essentially undetected.
Stein and for us we'll take more your calls straight ahead Mark Stein in for us on the eve of Christmas Eve uh I just want to add a post script to something that Philip Haney said there.
So in other words if you've got five par you know, all the trouble in the world is caused by guys with five passports in their pockets.
One of which is a US passport or a UK passport or a French passport or whatever.
And Philip was saying that they're not allowed to try and look at what the guy is doing on his other passport when they land at JFK or LAX or whatever.
Now I'll give you how it works for Americans.
I crossed the border back to coming back from Montreal to New Hampshire a year or two back, and I was with uh an American, a genuine US citizen uh who's been here since uh the Mayflower generations.
And uh I always expect a bit of trouble, because of course I'm a sinister foreigner, so I don't mind that.
What was interesting to me is they asked her where she lives, and she lived in, you know, wherever it was, Dead Moose Junction, New Hampshire.
And uh the guy looked at her curiously and said, Ah, but you're also associated with whatever the other no-name town was.
You're also associated with Schlongville, New Hampshire, let's say, for the purpose of argument.
So this guy, a a US citizen, he wanted her to explain that the town the other town that they had in the system was in fact the town where her parents live.
So we're now like for US citizens, we're getting to like to Soviet levels of surveillance.
In other words, she had to account to this border inspector as to why uh, although she claimed to live in Dead Moose Junction, New Hampshire, she was also receiving mail uh in Shlongville, New Hampshire.
That's the level of surveillance for US citizens.
But if you're Tash Fiend Malik and you're coming in on a K1 visa, all you have to do is check the box saying, Are you coming into the United States with the intention of committing a terrorist atrocity?
And you just check the no box and your fake address back in Pakistan and all the rest of it, you just breeze through.
It doesn't matter.
Uh and that's the that's the uh that's the other side of what Philip was talking about.
That the more politically correct and cowed and craven we become about uh scrutiny on the people who merit it, uh the more we overcompensate by scrutinizing the law abiding.
So that's why you have all these stupid stories about Boy Scouts detained at the border uh for eight hours after they've been on a camping trip to Canada, uh, because they can't check Tash Feen Malik out, uh they come down on the Boy Scouts and they turn their bus over and spend eight hours on them.
There are two there are two sides uh to that that story.
And that's and that's the way the less we know about Tashfin Malik, just check the no box on the terrorist atrocity question, that's fine.
But the Boy Scouts coming back from the camping trip in Canada, that's a major, they gotta be held at the border for eight hours while we investigate everything.
That is the crazy world we are bifurcating into uh as this happens.
But but it will eventually I think that I think again, this is why at least in a two-party system, at least one party ought to be able to say, Look, I'm sorry, this there's lots of plenty of people flying in from Pakistan and they're perfectly peaceful and they're perfectly law-abiding and everything.
But there is a question here.
There is an issue here.
And Trump is less insane in his basic instincts than the United States government and the entire Democratic Party and two-thirds of the Republican Party.
And that's where we why we're where we're at in this primary season.
Mark Stein for Rush Morticon.
God rest ye merry, gentlemen.
That sounds totally non-inclusive.
Uh Professor Terry Fine of the University of Central Florida has proposed that instead of uh giving non-inclusive insensitive greetings to people like Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, uh she says, My friends and I wish each other a happy federal holiday.
Because after all, all our blessings, all our holidays are in the gift of the bountiful federal Government.
So just wish your wish you wish each other a happy federal holiday.
Have a happy federal holiday.
It's the best time of the year.
It's beginning to look a lot like federal holiday.
It's it's rolls off the tongues.
And Professor Terry Fine at the University of Central Florida, she's proposing that it's worked out for her and her friends.
They wish each other all a happy federal holiday.
And they get along great.
It's terrific.
Have yourself a happy federal holiday.
It works, it works for them.
And she thinks that it could work for you too.
And so she's recommending that instead of saying Merry Christmas, because let's face it, nothing gets under your skin like being told to have a Merry Christmas or a happy Hanukkah or have a swing in Ramadan.
Nobody likes that.
Just say have a happy federal holiday.
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