Sept. 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Buck Sexton back with you now on the EIB. | |
| This hour we'll have my friend Rebecca Heinrich from the Hudson Institute joining to talk a bit about some stuff you might not have heard about the uh amazing Iran nuke deal that President Obama pushed us into, the same one that he more or less mortgaged all U.S. foreign policy interests in the Middle East to attain that one. | |
| Uh it's even uh worse than you thought. | |
| Oh, it also, of course, it didn't didn't pay ransom money for hostages. | |
| It just it was a giant coincidence. | |
| It was the same day. | |
| It's a sort of coincidence of like Hillary deciding she's gonna delete emails and use a special program to make sure they're erased beyond any ability to retrieve them unless the FBI tries real hard. | |
| That was it's just all coincidence with this uh with this government, this administration uh left and right. | |
| Um and I have to say, you know, as we uh as we continue to look into the Iran deal, by the time we figure out how bad it is, of course, it'll be somebody else's fault. | |
| So that's one of the frustrations here is you'll never really have that moment of satisfaction to know that you were right and Obama and all the enablers and and the media echo chamber around him on it were wrong. | |
| That will never come because he'll be out of office and it will be somebody else's fault. | |
| I don't know who, but they'll find some convenient target for what when Iran is like, yeah, we're just gonna start testing some nukes. | |
| Thanks. | |
| It's been real. | |
| Maybe it's seven years from now. | |
| Maybe it's ten, maybe who knows. | |
| Uh, but whenever that does actually happen, it'll be too far gone for anybody to really be able to hold the administration to account. | |
| Anyway, we'll have Rebecca Heinrich joining us a little later on the show. | |
| Um for now, you know, I'm not a huge uh football watcher, fan guy. | |
| I I watch it with my brothers and my dad, and uh I've I really learned about football from the PlayStation game Madden, which that that was where I really was taught these things. | |
| I couldn't really play helmet sports because my head is so big and it just there's tough to find helmets to fit my giant noggin. | |
| This is all this is all true, by the way. | |
| Sad. | |
| I'm sharing my childhood uh childhood uh deficiencies with all of America. | |
| My uh my head was just enormous. | |
| It's always been enormous. | |
| Useful for opening doors though in in an emergency. | |
| Um but anyway, so I I don't know that much about the game. | |
| I do enjoy watching, I do know a bit about it, but I do know politics, or at least I like to think I know something about politics. | |
| And I know something about political protest, and that's what brings me to this uh Mr. Colin Kaepernick. | |
| I know Rush talked about him earlier in the week. | |
| So he didn't uh he didn't stand up uh for the uh national anthem at a uh Green Bay Packers game, preseason game. | |
| And this wasn't an oversight. | |
| It wasn't like he was trying, you know, tying his shoelace and wasn't paying attention or something. | |
| This was very pointed. | |
| He did this, as you know, because and I want to make sure I get his verbiage right here. | |
| Um it's bigger than wait, oh yeah, it's to me this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. | |
| There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. | |
| So this is a protest in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement. | |
| So he he gets attention for this. | |
| And look, let's all keep in mind that hands up, don't shoot, and the other sort of protest themes of a Black Lives Matter movement have made appearances uh on the professional sports stage in the past, different teams. | |
| You know, I I spent all my time thinking about politics and national security. | |
| I I don't watch that much in terms of professional sports, but whenever it crosses over into the I know I'm like sounding I'm from New York City, I'm sounding less and less American by the second. | |
| Next thing you know, I'm gonna tell you I can't even drink beer, which is also true. | |
| Allergic to it. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| Celiac, it's crazy, isn't it? | |
| So I I watched all this uh I watched all this stuff unfold, and uh I I think to myself, yet again, here we have somebody who's being elevated into the national dialogue, and I feel like I shouldn't even be I shouldn't be helping sort of shove up uh into the highest sort of reaches of political conversation. | |
| Uh somebody who clearly doesn't really know what the heck he's talking about, but everyone's allowed to have an opinion. | |
| This guy's created a platform, ABC News, NBC News, CBS, everybody's covering this Colin Kaepernick stuff because it it touches some sensitive, some sensitive points. | |
| First off, this oh oh, and and the reason I'm bringing this up again today, by the way, is because now he's planning to sit out the protest on sit out the national anthem in protest on military night, uh, which is in San Diego. | |
| And military night is billed as a tribute to hundreds of thousands of current and retired military personnel who live and work in San Diego, according to the San Diego Chargers website. | |
| So now it's military night. | |
| Right. | |
| Now this is this isn't just about the national anthem as a general principle, which I think is always tied to the military and those who serve. | |
| But still, now this is a specifically the U.S. men and women who have served and i in in and around the San Diego area and of course everywhere uh across the country and and still overseas. | |
| And Kaepernick is saying he's gonna do this uh sit down thing again. | |
| So it's not like he made the point one time, and no, now this is going to be a continuing form of protest. | |
| And you know, you you've seen the disparity between when the NFL and when different professional sports leagues will allow sort of political speech or political either imagery or whatever whatever, forms of protest and when they'll punish it. | |
| And in this case, and my friends who know more than I do about football, by the way, say that Kaepernick is pr close to maybe being cut anyway, and so who who really cares? | |
| Although I I do think that this and uh this is a situation where the league, which the NFL has made a very, and even somebody like me who's a more sort of casual NFL watcher, has made a very uh clear linkage between supporting the troops, uh really sort of a patriotic outlook, and the National Football League. | |
| That's that's been a an effort. | |
| You see this with uh troops uh with soldiers and sailors and airmen uh at and uh at games, and they're making this effort, right? | |
| So this goes against that. | |
| This is a private entity, and this is where you start to get into this, well, it's a free speech issue. | |
| Well, yeah. | |
| You can, you know, say stand up and say something horribly offensive at in a conference room at your next company meeting and and then claim that it's a free speech issue and see what happens. | |
| Security is escorting you to the door, be like, I have a First Amendment right. | |
| You do have a First Amendment right to not be prosecuted by the government for political speech. | |
| You don't have a First Amendment right to keep your job based on you know whatever it is you feel like saying. | |
| That's not and this is I feel like this keeps getting repeated. | |
| This is a a debate, a conversation that keeps happening. | |
| People go the First Amendment. | |
| It's like, well, there's the principle of the First Amendment, and you would hope that most workplaces, including professional sports, would respect that, right? | |
| So you can say stuff. | |
| So perfect example. | |
| I shouldn't be fired for standing up at my job and saying I would vote for Gary Johnson. | |
| Let's just to have some fun, I'll say that. | |
| I that that's that would be wrong, right? | |
| I mean, sure, you know, uh he's a libertarian who had to sort of do a walk back on whether there should be a carbon tax, but I mean, you know, whatever. | |
| But you shouldn't be fired for this. | |
| You should definitely, you know, the one that comes to mind, I'm sure for most of you is you shouldn't be fired if you stand up and say that you want to vote for Donald Trump or something like that. | |
| Some people might say, hey, keep the politics out of the office. | |
| When I was a federal government employee, we had the Hatch Act, and you could always which was, by the way, the Democrats, the people that always had the you know, the like the Howard Dean bumper stickers on their Prius in the Langley parking lot, and there were plenty of those, by the way, plenty of Howard Dean bumper stickers uh among federal government employees that I knew. | |
| Um, people that tend to be on the left are the ones that point out hatch act violations, right? | |
| Uh people that are, you know, making these kinds of distinctions and getting angry at you or whatever. | |
| Uh they are the ones that will say, oh, well, you've you just violated the Hatch Act. | |
| Right? | |
| You you've been the one that violated the Hatch Act. | |
| And that means that you can't bring politics in the workplace. | |
| So there's like some distinctions here in the federal government, okay, you shouldn't be doing government business on or either partisan business on government time. | |
| Fine, fine, fine. | |
| NFL trying to have very positive uh relationship, very positive view uh with the military and um uh that's something that they should be able to protect as part of protecting their brand and this is where things get difficult for them because you've got somebody who's doing something which on the one hand I know he's saying that he's respectful of uh he's respectful of people who serve I'm trying to see where's the quote here is I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. | |
| I have family I have friends that have gone and fought for this country and they fight for freedom. | |
| They fight for the people they fight for liberty and justice for everyone. | |
| That's not happening. | |
| People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding up their end of the bargain. | |
| I don't even really know what he's saying and I know that it sort of touches on I know that it touches on you know black lives matter rhetoric and and thoughts you know I I know that this is something that is is tied into that and hands up done shoot and everything else. | |
| The fight for freedom overseas and violence involving police officers in some cases justified in some cases not to tie these two things together in an absolute way such that you would not stand for the national anthem on military night. | |
| That to me is just too much that's that's a bridge too far. | |
| I feel like there could be some uh very clear sanction handed on from the NFL for this activity and that shouldn't surprise anybody but I wonder if they will I wonder if they're gonna just sort of uh step out I I think the answer's no by the way I think they'll say oh well you know dissent is one of these things you'll hear people say by the way is you know dissent is patriotic dissent is is patriotic. | |
| Uh not always the ability to dissent or to show dissent yeah it's covered under the First Amendment and it's something that's special about this country um but yeah I don't I don't think that dissent in and of itself is it depends on what the dissent says or what the dissent is about. | |
| Just dissenting doesn't make you patriotic and so that would be like saying speech is patriotic. | |
| Well I mean can be if your speech is I hate America and I hope that it fails I don't think that's particularly patriotic. | |
| So that's not something that anybody should uphold. | |
| So Caperdick may do this. | |
| We'll see um he's gonna sit out on on military night in San Diego. | |
| He's gonna make another spectacle of himself here and and not stand up during the national anthem because of people being killed in the streets. | |
| That's what he says oh my oh my we'll have to see where this goes. | |
| I don't think the NF I don't think the NFL's gonna take uh Mr Snerdly what he NFL not going to do anything right the no no nothing nothing here so all this stuff about supporting the troops and everything else nope they are not gonna not gonna push forward that all right um eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two Buck Sexton in for rush I'll be right back Buck Sexton here in for Rush 800 28282 let's take some calls. | |
| Gary in uh South Carolina what's up Gary Hey uh Shield Tad Shield Tab up Shield tie Gary thanks for calling in hey I I got a theory on the on this whole thing and now with the the president uh with Donald Trump meaning the president of Metzco and I just wanted to see what you thought about it. | |
| I think me personally I think it was all a setup. | |
| I mean part of being a businessman is staying staying two steps ahead of the competition. | |
| I think he's already made he had already made contact with the President of Metzco and knowing that Hillary would not go down there to be in a position to have to answer questions he may he made a deal. | |
| He made a deal with the president saying that you know what, you know, you make me look good and and get my image up and then when the time comes then we'll we'll work together. | |
| So you you think that Trump uh that this was he like kind of he set it up with the president of Mexico and you think they both benefit from this. | |
| Exactly. | |
| I mean may maybe I mean Peña Nieto is out there saying that Pump uh Trump's policies are a uh are a threat but I mean that's sort of look for domestic political consumption at some level, right? | |
| We can understand why the President of Mexico would would say that. | |
| Right. | |
| And you don't know what what they discuss behind closed doors neither Yeah look Trump says he's a deal maker. | |
| I mean I don't know if you take if you take him at his word on that or not, but he certainly seems to suggest that he's the kind of guy who uh you know is is going to be willing to sit down with his counterparts in a whole bunch of countries and at different levels and try and discuss ways to get look he always talks about getting better trade deals. | |
| Can he actually do it? | |
| I'm gonna be honest with you, I I don't really know, but yeah. | |
| Yeah, and yeah, you also remember during the during the primary, he even made the statement that said, I can be anybody I want to given the time of that person I need to be. | |
| Yeah, he said that he would essentially, you know, make whatever concessions that uh he has to make at a given time in order to get done what he wants to get done. | |
| So, Gary, I I I think that uh look, the president of Mexico wouldn't have accepted the visit, wouldn't have gone along with the visit if he didn't believe at some level that um that it would look good for him, right? | |
| That and and obviously there are other people who are going to criticize the action and already have, but he must think he's getting something out of this whole process. | |
| Uh and so we'll we'll see how it shakes out. | |
| I mean, of course, there's also the whole aspect of does Trump even become the president. | |
| We have to get past that as well for this really to have all that much meaning for uh for the president of Mexico and and for Trump personally, although I I think this is going to I will make a prediction. | |
| And in this political season, the great part about predictions is that so many have been made and nothing ever really uh no one ever cares when people are wrong, because so many people have been wrong at this point. | |
| I think you'll see uh a bump in the in the polls for Trump in some important battleground states next week or whenever it is that they do their next set of of real polling. | |
| And I think you can tie it to Rocky to the immigration speech and what he did in Mexico. | |
| That's what I think. | |
| Could be wrong, though. | |
| All right. | |
| I think he made Hillary look like an idiot. | |
| Okay. | |
| All right, well, all right, Gary. | |
| Thanks for uh thanks for calling in. | |
| We have Brian in uh Fairfax, Virginia. | |
| What's up, Brian? | |
| How are you, sir? | |
| Good sir. | |
| How are you? | |
| I think the meeting yesterday, uh both of them were very good. | |
| They could have been great. | |
| And I would like to see him make a pivot to use that word from being the uh the deal maker, the art of the deal, to the art of the sale. | |
| And all he had to do yesterday with the president of Mexico was saying all we want to do is what Mexico has done and just hold up a picture of the wall that they're building or have built with Guatemala. | |
| And then in the sales or in the uh the rallies that that he held last night with the uh that that talked about his immigration policy, all he had to do was talk about how Mexico uh puts uh a two-year felony on people who enter illegally to Mexico, ten years for reentry, as well as imprisonment for document fraud and a lot of other stuff. | |
| So to come up with his debate with Hillary, all he needs to do when he's asked about it is pull a little tape recorder or digital recorder out of his pocket and play that 2003 audio of her talking about she's adamantly against immigrants and people have to stop hiring illegals. | |
| And then just turn to Hillary and say, Hillary, do you allow uninvited guests into your house? | |
| And do you then want to pay for their expenses for a month, a year, or ten years? | |
| Or would you rather actually vet the people that are coming into your house to know that you and your family are safe? | |
| So Hillary, please answer that for me. | |
| And if you started asking questions, knowing what the devastating impact of the content and and to show absolute incompetence and expose that, I think you would then go into the land of art of the salesman and get away from the art of the deal. | |
| Uh look, uh the the fact that other countries, and this brings us back to the start of the show, are allowed to enforce their borders, are allowed to build fences and build walls, and no one says that it's or at least we never hear about anyone saying that it's based in racism or anything else. | |
| This is only a charge that somehow gets leveled against America, which already is a million people a year are made either sit uh are made permanent uh residents uh and or uh or citizens every year in this country. | |
| I mean, um i the number is huge. | |
| I mean the number of people we're taking in le you know that that's legally is already huge. | |
| Never mind the number of illegals that are coming in and and that uh continue to live here uh and who knows what that number is. | |
| I mean, anybody who thinks that the government uh has a real handle on that, I think is is uh sadly mistaken. | |
| They they it's been eleven million for ten years. | |
| Does anybody really think? | |
| I mean, it hasn't moved up or down. | |
| It's just been eleven million for the last decade. | |
| I don't I don't buy it. | |
| But uh thank you very much for uh for calling in Brian. | |
| I appreciate having a chance to chat with you. | |
| Uh I think we'll talk some Iran deal coming up here in just a minute. | |
| That'll be interesting. | |
| Buck sex it in for rush, much more coming. | |
| Stay with me. | |
| Buck is back with you now on the EIB. | |
| We are joined by my friend Rebecca Heinrich. | |
| She is a fellow at the Hudson Institute and an expert on national security issues. | |
| Rebecca, thank you for giving us a call. | |
| I'm so happy to be here. | |
| Thanks. | |
| So tell me about this. | |
| Uh this is an exclusive from oh, what is this uh from Reuters? | |
| U.S. and others agreed to secret exemptions for Iran after the nuclear deal. | |
| What is going on here? | |
| This is pretty amazing. | |
| You know, for the longest time now, Republicans continue to ask for any possible uh documents for the JCPOA, that's what we call the Iran deals, the official title. | |
| Any secret documents that may be associated with it, any sort of side deals. | |
| The administration continued to say there was none, everything's on the up and up, you know everything. | |
| And of course now we're finding out that no, in fact, there was a side deal where the Obama administration um basically just allowed Iran to uh not meet some of the requirements um of the deal um uh by implementation day, and that was the day that was set. | |
| That was the deadline before sanctions could be uh uh you know relaxed on the Iranians. | |
| So they didn't meet their standards, they didn't meet what um what they were supposed to do, they didn't hold up their end of the deal, but the administration went ahead and said, okay, that's fine, because otherwise we wouldn't have a deal. | |
| Um so it's pretty amazing. | |
| And the report, the Reuters report is actually um looking at a report by another think tank, um, and it's a very reputable think tank. | |
| The um the author, one of the primary authors of the report is a former UN weapons inspector, nonpartisan guy by the name of David Albright. | |
| So it's pretty serious, pretty serious allegations. | |
| Um, and you know, there's gonna be a lot of people upset about this. | |
| This is just another example of the administration lying to the American people in order to have this Iran deal. | |
| I mean, how would you gauge the success or lack thereof of the deal at this point in time based on on what we know? | |
| I mean, you're already hearing some administration officials in year one claiming that there's that this is essentially already a a success. | |
| Uh what what do you think uh a year into this thing? | |
| Because it was, I mean, technically it was implemented in January, but it was really signed around it was really 12 months ago last summer. | |
| Um how would you how would you uh uh assess the progress of the Iran deal so far in Iranian actions? | |
| I think it's one of the Obama administration's signature failures. | |
| Uh the Iranians are cleaning our clock. | |
| Um, this deal isn't really, you know, it's not a treaty. | |
| So there's nothing set in stone, there's nothing official, nothing ratified by the U.S. Senate. | |
| All of this went around the U.S. Congress, and it's sort of this rolling agreement. | |
| We're still finding out um some of the concessions that the administration continues to make so that the Iranians can actually hold up their supposed end of the deal, which they're not. | |
| Um, it was supposed to be only related to the nuclear program. | |
| We know we continue to hear it's only related to the nuclear program. | |
| But then we also saw this 400 million dollar ransom um given to the Iranians in order to get the release of some of our prisoners. | |
| Um now, you know, all of this is sort of tied in with the Iran deal. | |
| All of this is part of what the administration is trying to do to sort of reset relations with the Iranians. | |
| And and really they have all the leverage, and they just continue to run around the administration and make the the Americans really look uh quite foolish. | |
| I also want to ask you about the latest on Hillary's uh emails. | |
| Now there are reports out. | |
| These came out yesterday saying that she was emailing classified even after she wasn't Secretary of State. | |
| What do we know about this? | |
| You know, Hillary, a couple things on this point. | |
| You know, I think we're gonna continue to hear more and more about these emails and about how irresponsible she was with um this private server and the classified emails, but it also just shows just the depth of just the the corruption and the dishonesty that she and her campaign possesses. | |
| Um the FBI has uncovered another fifteen thousand some emails. | |
| Um 30 of them are now supposedly related to the Benghazi attacks, even though uh Hillary claims to have turned over all of the work-related emails that she had over to the FBI. | |
| Um and so this story just sort of continues to unravel. | |
| Um she can't seem to tell the truth, and and we're gonna continue to see that, you know, she doesn't treat classified emails the way they ought to. | |
| And normal everyday people who handle classified information get fired for this stuff for one time offenses for emailing an improper acronym over an unclassified line, et cetera. | |
| Can can make you lose your job or lose your clearance. | |
| So you know I think the American people the more they learn about this, the more they're just going to see that she's totally and utterly corrupt and isn't being held accountable. | |
| And what do you say to people who point out that uh she has it is true. | |
| She has more foreign policy experience than Donald Trump because Donald Trump has never worked in foreign policy. | |
| But I assess her record as Secretary of State as actually being a uh a a major vulnerability, especially going into the debates. | |
| What do you think? | |
| No, it's a major vulnerability. | |
| I mean you look at her foreign policy record and you can see that um she would be an absolutely terrible commander in chief. | |
| She was Secretary of State um during Russia reset. | |
| She owns that policy it's been a failure. | |
| She continues to support the uh the Iran deal even though as we've just discussed it continues to be proved over and over and over again that it's terrible. | |
| The more the more the American people learn about it, the less they like it. | |
| She's been naive, her judgment's been bad. | |
| It was her idea to intervene in Libya without a plan to do you know what to do next or to leave the place better than it was when we went in. | |
| So you know she has a terrible record. | |
| So the more she continues to point to this the more I think Donald Trump is going to have plenty of opportunity to show that yeah she's had plenty of opportunity and she's she's had terrible judgment and terrible results for it and we can't have more of the same. | |
| And what do you think about the last 24 hours in terms of what it will what it does for Trump's message specifically from a sort of security both on our streets and at the border perspective. | |
| Yeah you know he Donald Trump he's he's gonna have to continue to stay on message here and talk about the security issue. | |
| A lot of Americans care a lot about security and the border has a lot to do with it. | |
| So he has to put forward you know a positive message about what he's going to do differently and he has to continue to point to what Hillary Clinton has done and how she can contrast with him. | |
| But really she would be more of the same a lot of people try to cast Hillary Clinton as the sort of more moderate version of of Barack Obama. | |
| But on matters of domestic security on matters of foreign policy she's exactly the same only worse because she hasn't been able to even point to the flaws of the Obama administration. | |
| She isn't able to actually point to me say look I would have done this differently she looked at it and she said yes we just need more of that. | |
| So I think all of this works to his advantage if he can actually make the arguments in a clear and coherent way and can make you know make it make it through the noise of the of the media. | |
| Rebecca Heinrich is a fellow at the Hudson Institute. | |
| Rebecca really appreciate you calling in today thanks for your time. | |
| Thanks so much, Bexall, right? | |
| Let's uh go to a break. | |
| We'll go to a break. | |
| I'm feeling I'm feeling uh feeling saucy today. | |
| Why don't we go to a break we'll be back in a few we'll take some calls. | |
| We'll finish up strong this is Buck In for Rush I'll be right back. | |
| Buck Sexton here in for rush I just see this now and this adds to everything else I was saying before that do you see this Snarly that Colin Capric has been wearing socks with pigs with police hats on them. | |
| This is from CBS sports. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| CBS Sports dot com. | |
| Not good. | |
| Not good on it unacceptable on on many levels of legal but unacceptable. | |
| So yeah uh this is beyond this is not somebody who wants to have a well I mean this has been clear from the beginning doesn't want to have an adult or serious conversation about any issues facing America. | |
| He just wants to be inflammatory and act like a punk. | |
| All right Robert in Georgia you are on the Rush Limbaugh Show you're speaking to Buck. | |
| Hey Buck how are you doing? | |
| Good how are you? | |
| Doing just great man uh I was listening to you earlier and heard all the uh nonsense about CAP not standing up for military night and um it infuriated me so much. | |
| I'm an eight year veteran of the United States Marine Corps and uh spent two tours overseas and uh it infuriated me so much that I actually called the National Football League myself and spoke to one of their representatives and asked them, you know, what's going to be the repercussions if uh CHAPTER for the national anthem on military night down there in San Diego. | |
| And uh they basically said that I they cannot be quoted, but he would he would probably be fined. | |
| You think you think they will fine him for that? | |
| I'm hoping they do. | |
| If not, I may have to start watching synchronized swimming on Sundays, because uh that's just gonna be really upsetting and uh just a uh downfall for for the NFL if nothing if nothing happens. | |
| I mean, the man's entitled to his uh point of view, but um but the NFL represents more than just just one man. | |
| Look, I I have to tell you, I I'm surprised. | |
| I I would the NFL has a lot riding on this from a from an image perspective, and as I said, they've really made uh a very clear effort and and have done a good job, I think, of uh showing you know respect for the military and having that be a part of what the NFL is supposed to represent and what the brand is all about. | |
| Uh they've done a very good job of that. | |
| And so to uh allow a player to do this kind of thing and have it pass without any sanction whatsoever, I I think that that would be I think it would be foolish, but I think they're also worried about uh about possible backlash. | |
| So we'll see. | |
| But I mean, you know, you you served, Robert, and clearly you find it very offensive. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Uh all right. | |
| Robert, I appreciate you uh calling, and thank you very much. | |
| Thanks for uh sharing your opinion here on the EB. | |
| Let's take Fred in Colorado. | |
| Fred, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show, you're speaking to Buck. | |
| Buck, it's uh honor to speak with you. | |
| I've always appreciated and admired your remarks on all the programs you've been on. | |
| So thank you for all of your your service. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Appreciate that. | |
| You bet. | |
| Hey, you know, I guess my what I want to say about all this uh black lives matter is is one area that's being addressed. | |
| And there's many other sectors of our society that are being singled out with very um precise and exact intent to further divide and separate this country, but it's always been my experience that when I get offended, or I'm around a group of people that doesn't want me around them, or all of a sudden they make nice to me and try and make up to me. | |
| I have to t I have to take a look at this um this gesture that Brown University is making, and after almost 200 years, they're going to make some financial concessions to allow a few people to have either a reduced tuition. | |
| I didn't really get the whole grasp of what you were saying about that. | |
| And I guess where I'm going with this is that when I get offended, I have principles and values that I live by in my life. | |
| And I have to ask myself, why would these people even want to be associated with an institution that in their minds, uh apparently what I'm hearing, that they have been racist and they have been prejudiced for almost 200 years, and all of a sudden they're gonna make nice and make everything good. | |
| Why would I want to associate with a group of people that has such poor values and principles at this time because they're gonna give me they're gonna cut me some slack on my tuition? | |
| Well, I think you I think you're I think you're making an interesting point as well about uh if these institutions that benefited from the slave trade, I mean, if that sort of still runs in the veins of these institutions in such a a profound way that there has to be some form of uh compensation made for that, and and if it's something we have to take action on today, right? | |
| In the case of Georgetown, something that happened in the 1830s, they're gonna take action on it today. | |
| What why would anyone want to be a part of uh such a such a system or such a university, right? | |
| If it's if it's so polluted by the uh money that it got from the slave trade, you would think that there is at least an argument to be made that you wouldn't want to be associated with such a place. | |
| But of course, when you're talking about institutions like Yale and Georgetown and others, plenty of people want to be associated with them. | |
| I mean, the the uh admissions rates at these places are uh in some cases in the in the in the single digits or in the low single digits. | |
| So a lot of people want to go, very few people actually get to go. | |
| Uh and and I just wonder you know, why does anyone think that this really does this grapple with any of the wrongs of the past in a meaningful way, or is it just for show? | |
| Is it just virtue signaling people getting a chance to s to say, look at how great and how awesome I am? | |
| And I I think we all know it falls into uh well, at least my opinion is that it falls into the latter category. | |
| But uh I appreciate you calling in, sir. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Uh Ron in Florida. | |
| What's up? | |
| You're speaking to Buck. | |
| Hi, Buck. | |
| Twenty year retired Air Force Ditto's. | |
| Save the wardrobe. | |
| You know, sir. | |
| Thank you for your service. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um on immigration, uh, I was trained as a planner in the military to look for root causes in certain things, and it is my understanding that these shadows we talk about for immigration are legal shadows created partly by Jamie Garellick and the Clinton administration that prohibit the INS from cross-referencing databases such as DMV, | |
| tax records, medical records, a school board registration, um, even library records, to find the people that we should cross-reference and see if they have legal status to be here. | |
| I think we could easily point out that this is a self-imposed legal restriction. | |
| We could easily advocate stripping away these shadows and run a cross-check and find a lot more data that we the people need to consider when we vote this fall. | |
| Well, so you're saying that there are ways to really know how many legals are here and who is illegal. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| If they were allowed in INS to cross-reference via computer, these people have legal status either through birth, through green card, et cetera, prior to the Obama administration. | |
| And where are they in actual fact, address, phone number, etc., and all these other databases, they should pop up and say either legal, including green cards, or not. | |
| Well, uh, clearly the I mean the the administration, I mean, I don't think the federal government wants to know. | |
| First of all, they don't want to know who's illegal, and they don't want to know how many legals are here, because both of those would part of what they rely on right now, part of what the Democrats rely on, is a sense that I mean, come on, who who's really going to uh how how can we even deal with this problem when we don't know who's illegal? | |
| We we should just make an amnesty and then everybody will come out of the shadows of if we knew who was in the shadows, that might change me, and how many people were in the shadows, that might change the way that this is uh this is dealt with, and I think the American people would have a different view of the situation. | |
| Precisely, and it frustrates me to no end that Mr. Trump didn't start with facts and figures, particularly in for example, crime rates. | |
| Crimes committed by immigrants, both illegal and legal, were the basis for some of the policies I believe he's advocated. | |
| It's not racism, obviously, it's not xenophobia. | |
| There needs to be a fact-based discussion and say this is the business case for why we're advocating certain policies. | |
| And one of those is the research. | |
| How is the problem? | |
| How big? | |
| Where is it? | |
| Where is it concentrated? | |
| And who's benefiting from their presence? | |
| All right, Ron, I got a bust, but I gotta bust out. | |
| But thank you for calling in. | |
| This is Buck In for Rush. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| Well, this is Buck Sexton closing it out today on the EIB. | |
| I want to thank Russia's team here in NYC and L. Rushbow himself. | |
| Uh he was forced to take these two days off to get a little R, but he'll be back very soon. | |
| I always appreciate getting to uh take a ride around in the EIB Maserati or Ferrari, as I like to call it. | |
| Uncle Rush throws me the keys for the day, and I enjoy it very much. | |
| Thank you all for listening. | |
| Looking forward to the next time. |
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