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June 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
And this is your official EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein, the presumptive guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show, as I like to think of it, although some pledged supporters on the production team are now said to be demanding a contested production meeting during the first commercial break.
And Mr. Snerdley is apparently trying to recruit a new independent guest host to take over in about 15 minutes.
We'll see how that goes.
Might be going nowhere, but the plans are well advanced.
We're live at Ice Station EIB here in far northern New Hampshire.
And we don't get a lot of celebrities up in this part of the world, but they're going to be stampeding past this January because Lena Dunham, Cher, all of them, Hollywood celebrities, when you're fleeing the Trump terror for Canada, do swing by and say hello.
Say hello.
I'm the last right-wing hate monger before the border.
And you'll be missing me before this thing's through.
Mr. Snerdley is down in New York running the show.
Don't worry about it.
He's fully in control, except that the president is right outside his window holding a one-on-one summit with Jimmy Fallon on the tonight show.
And I gather the saw horses and the Robocops are already closing off the streets in preparation for the arrival of the 375-car motorcade.
So if we lose contact with Mr. Snerdley, it's only because they've kicked the door down and tased him just to be on the safe side.
1-800-282-2882 is the number to call.
The big question now is what happens next?
If you think you know, then do call.
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Because in this election season, nobody's an expert.
That means everybody's an expert.
So what you say is as likely to happen as what anybody else says.
Primary season is over.
Well, except for the Democrat DC primary, and who cares about that?
And this great republic now has its choice of chief executive before it.
One of these two people will be the next president of the United States.
And it's a remarkable choice compared to any election in the last two and a quarter centuries.
The wife of a previous president versus a man who has never held elective office or been in any kind of government service.
That's an extraordinary, that's an extraordinary thing to happen for what is arguably the most powerful elected figure on the planet.
So this is an election like no one has ever seen.
And as I said, the question for today's show is what happens next?
And before you start listening to any expert pundit, you should ask yourself whether they got anything right about the last 12 months, because if they didn't, there's no reason to pay any attention to them now.
And I make no claims to be a genius, not this early in the show, but I wrote a piece, I think it was July 10th last year, so it's pretty much exactly 11 months ago.
And if you'd read that piece 11 months ago, you would know pretty much where we would be today because it looked at the it understood the reality of both the Trump phenomenon on the GOP side and the Sanders phenomenon on the Democrat side.
And the only difference is that Bernie lacked the killer instinct.
And that's why he's not the Democrat nominee.
He basically won.
He tied, he tied her in Iowa, and he could have won.
He tied Hillary in Iowa, and he could have won if he'd had the killer instinct and if he hadn't taken the email card off the table, he could have won.
But he didn't have the killer instinct.
And now, I don't know what he's doing.
He's apparently gone back to Vermont to consider his options.
He's across the Connecticut River from me.
If he waves, well, his options.
He could go third party.
You know, everyone's going third party.
No one wants to be the party of the first part or the party of the second part.
This election, everyone wants to be the party of the third part.
And that's this talk that Bernie could go third party.
And who knows whether he's going to...
He might as well.
He's like, the next time he runs, he's going to be 83 or whatever.
So he might as well do it now because it's his moment.
But it's interesting.
It's interesting.
What was striking about last night?
I don't know if you had the misfortune to see Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech, which was one of her, credit where it's due, it's one of her least worst acceptance speeches because she didn't do that thing she does where she sounds like a speak your weight machine or the voice that tells you to put your seatbelt on in the car.
So she wasn't doing all that screeching chalk on a blackboard thing.
She's had some, I would say she's had some vocal training.
It's not quite natural yet.
It still sounds, she still sounds slightly stilted and weird to me, but the delivery was actually quite competent for her and non-offensive.
But what was striking about the moment, here is the first woman to be nominated as the candidate of a major party in American history.
And there's no sense of a glass ceiling being shattered.
She did all the things, oh, the glass ceiling, we've shattered the glass ceiling.
She did all the stupid glass ceiling talk, the unprecedented thing.
It doesn't feel like that.
And we all know why it doesn't feel like that, because we know that this isn't Margaret Thatcher or Ankola Merkel.
We know that this is just someone who was married to the previous president, which isn't a glass ceiling.
It's just Ava Perron.
Actually, it's not Ava Perron, because Ava Perron was charming and charismatic.
It's more like Madame Mao after Chairman Mao was wound up pushing up daisies.
That's what it is.
And Madame Mao has won the Democrat nomination.
And that's why there was no sense of elation or history.
And even then, even as a sleazy, corrupt cronyist who happens to be married to the previous president, she couldn't take this thing without this very bizarre business of the Associated Press deciding before the big finale in California yesterday,
on Monday night, they called around, they called some super delegates who don't vote until the end of July, but they decided to call them in advance and see who they were thinking of voting for and announced that Hillary was the winner of the Democrat primary the evening before the California vote.
And we don't know, it doesn't have to, it doesn't have to deter a lot of people from voting for it to make a difference.
But if you're told that your voter's no point, that the winner's already announced, and you're in California and you've got to trek to the polls and stand in line, a certain percentage of people aren't going to bother to do that when the Associated Press has already declared Madame Mao the winner of the primary.
And Bernie Sanders supporters are right to be upset about that.
But the fact that she couldn't even be dragged across the finish line, this charmless wooden speak-your-weight machine couldn't even be dragged across the finish line without the assistance of the Associated Press saying, breaking news, breaking news, the superdelegates had a primary in North Superdelegateville and they've delivered the votes to Hillary.
The fact that she couldn't even be dragged across the finish line without the assistance of the Associated Press tells you something about her strength as a candidate.
When you listen to the commentary and you watch the cable news, everybody seems to be assuming, all the experts, which means the people who've got the last year completely wrong, all the experts seem to be assuming that at some point the normal laws of U.S. politics will kick in.
The Wall Street Journal has something on this today.
They're comparing Trump's utterly unprofessional operation, as they see it, with Hillary's.
And they go, quote, Mrs. Clinton has 21 press aides.
Wow, that's amazing.
21 press aids.
Fantastic.
That's great.
That's great.
21 press aids.
She's running for president.
She's got 21 press aids, including a communications director, a lead press secretary, a day-to-day spokesman, a traveling press secretary, a rapid response director, a rapid response spokesperson, because obviously it would be totally unreasonable to expect the rapid response director to do his own spokespeopleing.
So the rapid response director has to have a rapid response spokesperson and a variety of handlers dedicated to regional and specialized handlets.
These are the people who come up with the amusing ethnic dialects that Mrs. Clinton speaks in when she's addressing African Americans or Hispanics and pretending to be your abuela and all this.
So she's got regional and specialized handlers.
And she's got a rapid response spokes rapid response to, I'm sorry, I do apologize to the rapid response director.
I may have disrespected him by accidentally placing the rapid response spokesperson before him in the hierarchy and the chain of command.
She's got a rapid response director, a rapid response spokesperson.
She's probably got a rapid response deputy spokesperson.
And then, as the Wall Street Journal says, a variety of handlers dedicated to regional and specialized outlets.
I may be wrong.
It might not be the ethnic thing.
It might be all the sexual identity stuff you've got going on now.
She made a reference last night to it's about embracing people for how they love, whatever that means.
So maybe this is where she's got these specialized people to help her when it comes to people talking about how they love in ways with which she may not be familiar.
Anyway, she's got a rapid response spokesperson, rapid response deputy spokesperson.
And the Wall Street Journal says this is what it takes to drive a coherent national message.
But she hasn't got a message.
I don't even understand how you can say this.
She's got 21 press aids and no message.
What are they doing all day?
Bernie had a message.
His message is we need to be more like Venezuela.
And you can quibble with that, but it's a message.
And she was reduced in the absence of a message.
She played the woman card, and then Trump clobbered her and said, you're married to the, you're the enabler and the apologist for the greatest abuser of women in American politics.
And so she gave up the woman card.
The woman card, someone left her woman card out in the rain and she don't think that she can take it because it looks so long to make it and it's all melted.
Woman card gone.
So then she took Bernie's message.
She took Bernie's message basically and moved to the left.
But she's got 21 press aides and no message.
21 press aids and no message.
And the clever people in the Republican Party say Trump, Trump needs to be more like Hillary.
Why hasn't he got he's got he hasn't got 21 press aids?
He's got that one lady, Hope, what's her name?
Hope we we met her in Burlington, very nice lady, Hope Holland.
And he's got Cory Lewandowski and he's got like two other people.
That's it.
So he's got she's got more people on her rapid response team than he's got on his team.
And so Mitch McConnell would like would like Trump to be more like Hillary.
So he says, I think it's time for him.
He said this yesterday at some think tank or other because he's plugging a book.
If you've read Mitch McConnell's book, by the way, call up because we'll test you on it.
See how far you've got in it.
If you've actually bought and read Mitch McConnell's book, and by the way, it doesn't count if you're the ghostwriter of Mitch McConnell's book.
You've got to actually be a real customer who's read it.
Hope Hicks.
Hope Hicks, that's the name of the lady.
And Mitch McConnell said, I think it's time for him to look like a serious candidate for president, which means that you need to think before you speak.
You need to apologize when you make a mistake.
And you need to get on script.
And if Trump had taken Mitch McConnell's advice, he'd have been knocked out of the race three weeks before Iowa.
And that's the point.
None of the rules.
There's been what they call creative destruction.
The rules during the primary season were blown up by Trump.
And the Wall Street Journal and Mitch McConnell are now assuming that the rules are going to reassert themselves and that this will be a normal election from here on in.
Will it?
Maybe.
I don't really know, actually.
It's a great imponderable that.
But basically, if Trump had followed these guys' advice, he'd have been knocked out around about the second debate.
He'd be gone.
He'd be history.
He'd never have got anywhere.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Call me with your thoughts on this next phase of the world's longest and most unpredictable presidential nominating process.
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Mark Stein in for Rush.
As the next phase of the presidential election begins, it has been heralded by moves from various Republicans, some of whom you may even have heard of, to what's the word for this?
I'm not sure they've had this before.
Is it disendorse, de-endorse?
Unendorse.
Unendorse.
Thank you, Mr. Snadley.
I don't want to get this.
They've unendorsed Trump.
Yeah, Mark Kirk.
It's like when, you know, they were warming up to Trump.
They were like Caitlyn Jenner in the 80s when she began her transition, and then she met whatever the, what's the name, Chris Kardashian or whatever she's called.
She met Chris Kardashian and then she decided she liked Chris Kardashian, so she began detransitioning.
And that's the way Mark Kirk and Lindsey Graham were.
They decided they were ready to transition toward Trump and they began their transition and then they decided they were going to start detransitioning.
So they've now unendorsed Trump, you know, and they might endorse him again in 48 hours' time.
Who knows?
I know, like you, I'm waiting to know who Mark Kirk who is he again?
Who is he again, Mrs.?
He's the secret, he's senator for Illinois.
You sure?
Are you sure about that?
I don't know.
Anyway, this guy, Senator from Illinois, is big news.
He endorsed Trump, he de-endorsed Trump.
And next week he'll be thinking of undendorsing Trump.
You stick your endorsement in, you stick your endorsement out, in, out, in, out.
You shake it all about.
You do the trumpy rumpy and you turn around.
That's what it's all about.
And that's on the Republican side.
On the Democrat side now, NBC trucks have been spotted pounding up across the river from me, pounding up the interstate, heading for Burlington, Vermont, where Bernie's last stand is apparently expected imminently.
Last night, Mrs. Clinton said this was her message to her Democrat friends.
She said, To be great, we can't be small.
We have to be as big as the values that define America.
And we are a big-hearted, fair-minded country, not just for people who look a certain way, or worship a certain way, or love a certain way.
You know, because people love all kinds of ways.
Bill Clinton loves a certain way.
He generally doesn't ask.
That's just the certain way that he loves.
And we have to be a big-hearted and embracing country, not just for people who look a certain way, or worship a certain way, or love a certain way, or use the bathroom a certain way, but for all, indivisible.
And this election is not about the same old fights between Republicans and Democrats.
This election is different.
It really is about who we are as a nation.
It's about, well, I can't believe she's got 21 press secretaries.
21 press secretaries.
21 press secretaries wrote this stuff.
It really, who this election is different.
It really is about who we are as a nation.
It's about billions of Americans coming together to say we are better than this.
It's about millions of Americans coming together to say we can get a better speechwriter than this.
Hillary, Hillary could.
Well, we could say, we are the world.
We are the children.
We are people who look a certain way.
We are people who love a certain way.
We are people who use a bathroom the certain way.
And this is all she's got to say.
This is the message.
The Wall Street Journal said, well, this is what Trump needs.
If he had 21 press aides, he'd have a professional message like this.
He had a message he could stay on like this.
He could be using that phrase, love a certain way, all over the country.
This is the message that Mrs. Clinton is going to ride all the way to the White House.
Believe it when you see it.
Because I don't reckon this is going to quite work out the way it is.
I mean, this is the thing.
This is just bland pabulum.
This is nothing.
And it's not going to be enough.
And I don't know.
And this is the question.
When you've got someone who is so controlled, so managed, so stuck with her poll-tested lines, and you're up against someone who plays Smash Mouth and doesn't care what he says.
And sometimes that works.
And sometimes he can talk about something else entirely.
We don't know how that's going to play out.
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The reason Hillary is the nominee, these two candidates sum up what's happened, the dysfunction, frankly, of the Republic's political institutions in the second decade of the 21st century.
Because Hillary is the ultimate insider.
She represents that hard shell of the Democrat country club that poor old Bernie Sanders, the old coot from Vermont banging on the door, in the end was not able to penetrate.
She's the nominee because she's Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton.
And William Jefferson Clinton treated her like a bit of used toilet paper stuck to his shoe.
And so people felt sorry for her.
So they got her a Senate seat in a state she'd never lived in.
And now she's going to be the first woman president, as she sees it.
It's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing.
And it will put a permanent asterisk, were she to win, next to this historic achievement.
Because in other countries, your first woman leader gets there on her own grounds.
I've mentioned before that I've sat in parliaments around the world and I've looked at female leaders arguing with each other and none of them were there because they were married to a particular bloke.
That's nothing to do with shattering the glass ceiling.
Instead, the guy who shattered the glass ceiling was this guy, Trump.
He came along.
Everybody made jokes in June last year as he came down the escalator at Trump Tower.
But in fact, he shattered, he actually shattered the glass ceiling and bust into the political club.
And so on the one hand, you have somebody who says, well, this is going to be business as usual.
You, the little people out there, you leave it to us.
You leave it to Hillary and all her pals and buddies and cronies, Sid Blumenthal and all the other people who are going to be coming back to the White House.
All the people who are inside the circle, you're not in the circle.
Actually, all the kind of people that they're trying to investigate.
The State Department on Tuesday defended its claim.
I think Buck mentioned this yesterday, that it would take 75 years for them to provide the emails that have been sought in connection with this email investigation.
In other words, they'll have all the emails ready to hand over by the year 2091, right?
They don't even care anymore, do they?
These are the emails from basically, I think it's three or four, from four aides to former Secretary Clinton.
There's Cheryl Mills, there's some Patrick Kennedy.
Is he one of the Kennedys?
He's got the name.
Half of them are called Patrick.
I don't know whether he is.
So they've got Cheryl Mills, Patrick Kennedy, some other guy.
It will take this four people.
And yes, they can comply with the request to provide the emails, but it will take 75 years.
75 years.
So in 2091, we'll all know what was in Cheryl Mills' emails.
Except there isn't going to be an America in 2091 on that timeline.
So you won't have to worry about it.
At the same time, members of the 9-11 families are asking to be given a day in court.
Did you remember 9-11?
If you're among the older members of the audience, you might remember it.
It happened, as the name suggests, on the ninth month, the 11th day, back at the beginning of the century, 2001.
And the guy who was the mastermind behind it, this big hairy guy called Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he's been on this fabulous Cuban beach vacation for over a decade now, and they still can't manage to bring him to court.
Military lawyers prosecuting alleged 9-11 plotters are asking that family members of the victims be allowed to testify in court before the trial begins because of their advanced age and general health concerns.
So they're concerned that the family members will die before this thing gets to court.
They've had 15 years.
These are military, this is military justice, by the way.
And again, this is the state of the Republic in the second decade of the 21st century.
They've had three times as long as the Second World War.
Well, two and a half times the full length of the Second World War, but getting on for four times the length that America was in it.
Let's call it, let's say they've 1939, 1945, two and a half times the length of the Second World War to bring one guy to court.
And they can't do it.
And some of the witnesses are getting up there.
They're in their 70s.
Lee Hansen, 83, whose son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter were killed aboard United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
This guy lost everything.
He lost his son, his daughter-in-law, his granddaughter, and his nation, his country.
And everyone who knows anything about the sclerotic and dysfunctional American court system, from the crummiest little nothing, little traffic court, family court, nothing court, all the way up to the Supreme Court, knows that you're always told, oh, well, you know, it's very hard getting a court date and the courts have to prioritize and you're not really a priority.
Okay, 9-11 isn't a priority.
And this guy, Lee Hansen, can't get a date in court after 15 years to put Khalid Sheikh Mohamed behind bars or to get him executed or to get him, you know, set up for 10 years of appeals.
The father of Todd Beamer.
No one remembers Todd Beamer anymore.
He's the guy who was on flight 93 and he said, let's roll.
And it was briefly the catchphrase of the area, of the era.
And then the years go by and nobody rolls and nothing happens.
And it becomes, let's roll over and let the Iranian mullahs tickle our stomachs and some rinky-ding nothing nickel and dime Benghazi militia make fools of us.
And so there's no more let's roll anymore.
David Beamer is the father of Todd Beamer, who was a passenger on that flight.
He never got to see his son ripen into middle age.
David Beamer is 74 now.
And the prosecutors are having to plead in order to get some of these witnesses into court because they're pushing up against the edges of American life expectancy.
I know this personally.
I'm now about to be in the fifth year in, I think it's the, what's it called, the District of Columbia Latrine of Justice.
Is that what it's called?
District of Columbia Latrine of Justice?
Oh, no, my mistake.
It's a typing error.
The District of Columbia Superior Court.
My mistake.
I beg your pardon.
Anyway, I'm there about to end of the fifth year of some hellish thing there.
We've got some judge there, a judge there who takes three years to issue interlocutory appeals.
I won't bother explaining what that is, but it's something that shouldn't take three years.
But she takes three years.
Her name is Vanessa Ruith, I think, Ruiz, R-U-I-Z, Vanessa Ruiz.
And she takes three years to issue interlocutory appeals.
Not because she works on them for three years, so they're brilliant.
She works on them like every other judge for 10 minutes the day before they're due and then just and then just prints it out.
But she takes three years to do that.
And one of my witnesses actually did die.
That's how crazy this thing is.
One of my witnesses actually did die before the cases come to court.
So what these 9-11 guys are worrying about actually happens.
Witnesses die because these judges can't bring anything to court.
That's why I don't care about the Trump thing about the judge.
He's had that case for six years, six years for a case that should take tops six months.
But nothing can happen here.
The coal joint is seizing up.
And it's easy to say, well, why should Trump University get into court and slide ahead for six years?
Why should that Stein guy, what's the big deal about him being in the District of Columbia Latrine of Justice for five years?
But this is 9-11 we're talking about.
And for two and a half times as long as the Second World War, American military lawyers are trying to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He's won.
Don't you get it?
He won.
You seized him.
I think he was arrested in Malaysia, captured in Malaysia, and you brought him to Gitmo.
And at Gitmo, he lives in fabulous conditions.
He has a cell to himself.
He's in beautiful weather.
They have, when I was down there, they had the best baklava pastries I've ever tasted.
Money, no object.
He's won.
When you've been waiting for trial for 15 years, America lost and he won.
And this is what is at issue in the forthcoming election.
The idea of a great nation seizing up, living on the capital of its glorious past, unable to prosecute a war crime in less than a decade and a half, as the family members of those murdered on that day die off.
Why isn't every American ashamed of that?
And Hillary Clinton isn't going to do anything about that because, as we know, we've just heard the State Department say with a straight face that Hillary Clinton's aides will need 75 years to comply with a freedom of information request.
So we'll find out what was in Cheryl Mills' emails in the year 2091.
And this is why the whole thing, Mitch McConnell, this guy needs to stay on script.
He needs to stay on message.
He needs to hire 21 press secretaries.
It's staying on script that's killed the joint.
That's killed the joint.
The guys who stay on script can't do anything about this.
Where's Paul Ryan?
Where's Paul Ryan?
And 15 years to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to justice.
Where is he on that?
Mark Stein in Farush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush, as the swimsuit round of the U.S. election comes to a close, and we're now in the final showdown these next five months.
Let's go to Debbie in Naples, Florida.
Debbie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you.
Hi, Mark.
You would open the show by posing the question of where do things go from here.
As a person who has never doubted for a minute that Donald Trump was going to be the nominee, I do believe that he's going to win in the fall, and I think he's going to win bigger than anybody anticipates right now.
That's interesting because there's Democrats, there's Republicans.
The Independents seem to be breaking Trump's way at the moment.
And I'll tell you why, because I'm one of those people.
I've identified as a Republican my entire life, and I'm in my early 50s now.
So we're talking a long time.
I no longer identify myself as a Republican.
I now consider myself an Independent.
I'm so disenchanted with what's become of the Republican Party and the spineless bunch of people that are in Washington.
I don't want to be associated with those people anymore.
And so you basically look on this election then as one between the Democrat candidate and Trump, who represents whatever he's representing.
He's not representing the old-style Republican Party.
Well, to me, he's a person that kind of transcends politics.
And everything that you said in the opening hour of the program is exactly the reason why I'm supporting him.
I don't make decisions like this lightly.
And when I did the math on who the other people are that we're running and what they are going to bring to the table and what Donald Trump is willing to do, there was no decision in my mind except to select him as the nominee.
And I'll tell you the main reason why.
And I know you've written extensively about this.
To me, every single problem that's in this country stems from illegal immigration.
Everything.
There is nothing that you can't tie back to that.
From problems with health care, taxes, schools, terrorism, it all goes back to that.
And he's the only person that was running that I truly believe is going to do anything about that issue.
Well, I think you're right there, Debbie.
And the thing about this is if you don't like Trump and these people like Hugh Hewitt today, the radio host who is calling on the convention to basically ignore the votes and find someone else to make the nominee rather than Trump.
All they had to do this time last summer was steal his issue, Debbie.
And he was the one who brought that issue up.
It got traction.
And at the time that Jeb Bush was still doing his illegal immigration is an act of love routine.
I have to say, and it finally dawned on me, and I try to think of myself as an informed person, but the light bulb went off for me at some point about a year ago that the Republicans that are in Congress really have no intention of doing the things that they claim every two and four and six years that they're going to do because they're not doing anything to indicate to me that they mean any of the things that they say.
And I think one of the reasons why they're so afraid of Donald Trump being president is that they're finally going to be in a position to put up a shut up, and it's going to become obvious to everybody where they stay.
It's already obvious to me.
All these pseudo-intellectuals like George Will and Steve Hayes and all these other pundits who have been ridiculing people who support Donald Trump and calling us clowns and fools and morons.
Well, you know what?
Guess who's going to be the nominee?
Guess who was wrong?
Right, right.
And in fact, that is the nature of democracy.
If they want something else, they should be in some other kind of country.
But you're right, there's a difference.
That's the thing.
For most of this century, you look at John McCain in 2010 when he's campaigning in even-numbered years when there's a big Tea Party movement.
He's, let's build the danged wall, danged wall.
The danged wall has got to be built.
Let's build the danged wall.
Danged drops out of his vocabulary the minute he's elected, and it's all back to comprehensive immigration reform, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The difference between odd year, how they talk in odd years and how they talk in even years has actually discredited, discredited elective politics in this country.
Mark Stein for us, lots more still to come.
You know, just to go back to what Debbie was saying a moment ago, John Kerry gave a commencement address.
I think it was at Northeastern a couple of weeks ago, in the season of graduations, and he told these graduates, you're about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.
Oh, yeah, who said?
And if I don't want a borderless world, what polling station do I go to to vote that out?
Borders are the fundamental organizing principle of the modern world.
Borders are why the Dominican Republic isn't like Haiti and why Jordan isn't like Syria and why Belize isn't like Guatemala or Trinidad like Venezuela.
They've just got a little bit of water in between.
And it's why the United States isn't like Mexico.
I mean, this is utopian madness, what Kerry said.
And yet everyone just applauds.
When John Kerry, the Secretary of State, stands up and hails the dawn of the borderless world.
For a start, everyone assumes when they say stuff like that that a borderless world is going to somehow be like Sweden.
It's not.
It's going to be like Sudan.
It's going to be a brutish, violent, and thuggish place, a borderless world.
And yet when John Kerry stands up and says, oh, it's going to be a borderless world, everyone thinks that's polite and sensible.
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