Dec. 28, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast. | |
| On the second day of guest hosts, Rush Limbaugh gave to me an EIB anchor baby. | |
| Yes. | |
| The season of guest hosts is upon us like a plague of locusts. | |
| Seven guest hosts are leaping for the chance to be the big partridge in the EIB pear tree for just a day. | |
| Mark Belling was here yesterday. | |
| This is Mark Stein, your undocumented anchor man, honored to be sitting in for America's Anchorman, live from Ice Station EIB. | |
| Mr. Snerdley is keeping an eye on things down in New York. | |
| They couldn't they couldn't get a guest host producer for Mr. Snerdley, so uh he's uh he's down in New York. | |
| Who's guest hosting on uh who's guest hosting on Friday? | |
| Oh, Buck Sexton is uh is coming in. | |
| There's a there's a rumour we were uh gonna have guest hosts drawn from the most comprehensively rejected Trump cabinet possibilities. | |
| So I thought uh might be Chris Christie or Mitt Romney who would be here on Friday. | |
| Uh or the other possibility was that it was uh celebrities who backtracked from playing uh the Trump inauguration but had already booked their airplane tickets. | |
| So I uh Andrea Bocelli was going to I thought I heard he was going to be here. | |
| He and Chris Christie were going to serenade Mitt Romney with time to say goodbye. | |
| Anyway, uh it's going to be Buck Sexton here on Friday. | |
| Don't worry with all these guest hosts. | |
| I know it's a real pain in the neck. | |
| Russia's gonna be back uh I think it's January 17th, February 23rd, uh May, May the 9th, something like that. | |
| I don't know, but you might as well get used to it uh 'cause uh 'twas the night after Christmas and all through the house. | |
| Not a real host was stirring, because they're all at their vacation pads. | |
| Uh I switched on the TV last night, and it was the season premiere of Dancing with the Guest Hosts. | |
| My God, that was a long show. | |
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| Um breaking news the roquettes, traumatized roquettes uh will be allowed to skip the Trump inauguration if they're only seasonal ro roquettes. | |
| I didn't know the Radio City Roquettes are apparently still playing. | |
| They're still odd to play the Trump inauguration. | |
| I believe they're gonna tap dance to the battle hymn of the Republic. | |
| It'll be spectacular. | |
| Um but some roquettes were reduced to tears and reacted with fear after they'd after learning they'd be dancing for Donald Trump at his inaugural next month. | |
| Members of the famed chorus line said. | |
| If I had to lose my job over this, I would. | |
| One hoofer going with the pseudonym Mary told Mary Clare magazine in an interview. | |
| It's too important, and I think the rest of the performing arts community would happily stand behind me. | |
| Uh they shouldn't be standing behind you, they should be kicking behind you. | |
| You're meant to be the roquettes for heaven's sake. | |
| Uh Mary recalled one of her fellow dancers crying throughout a 90-minute show on Thursday, three days before Christmas. | |
| She felt she was being forced to perform for this monster, Mary said. | |
| Another dancer told her co-workers in an email, I wouldn't feel comfortable standing near a man like that in our c uh costumes. | |
| Uh there's there's apparently two kinds of roquette. | |
| Uh, it's like a class system they got over at Radio City Musical. | |
| Uh they've got actually Mr. Snerdley could uh check this out, because uh they're uh they're a they're a leg kick away uh from the from the big EIB uh Northern Command in New York. | |
| So uh Mr. Snurdley uh is in a position to get chapter and verse on this, but there's apparently thirteen year round roquettes, and then all the rest are seasonal rockettes. | |
| I didn't know this. | |
| When you don't they don't have them in different coloured tights when they're all on the stage there. | |
| Uh but apparently maybe it's something to do with Obamacare that if you have more than thirteen tap dancers, you've got to have Obamacare for them. | |
| So they got thirteen year round rockettes, and everyone else is seasonal roquettes. | |
| And the thirteen year round roquettes are traumatized because they have no choice about performing for this monster, as Mary said, but seasonal roquettes will be allowed to choose whether they play the inauguration or not. | |
| I don't know whether this applies to every rocket performance. | |
| If you go the thing about roquettes is unless there's a lot of them, it's boring as hell. | |
| So if only the 13 mandatory, because they don't do any, they just like kick their legs up and down, up and down, up and down. | |
| I got nothing against uh don't get me wrong, I like tap dancing, but the the whole roquette thing, uh, you need a lot of them for it, because that's the thing. | |
| It's precision. | |
| It's like a Nuremberg rally. | |
| You you really want to see uh when everybody's goose stepping, it looks silly if there's just thirteen. | |
| Uh so and maybe that's the plan. | |
| Maybe he wants to have the rockets goose step all the way through his inauguration. | |
| He is the new Hitler, after all. | |
| Uh anyway, they're all the Roquettes are all objecting to having to play the Trump gig. | |
| Uh, and I don't know why. | |
| Well, instead of instead of, you know, for example, as a lot of people, if they object to uh their political opponents, they just flip them the finger. | |
| You're the Radio City Roquettes, why not flip him a leg? | |
| You're in a position to do that. | |
| Uh but at any rate, these this traumatized roquettes throughout New York City, because uh only certain members of the Rockettes get to skip uh the Trump inauguration. | |
| Also breaking news, less important, I suppose, John Kerry's given a speech uh about Israel, and he's basically he's basically John Kerry is basically step stop tap tap dancing, and uh he's just doing a big rocket uh leg kick to Israel in the butt uh and kicking them uh uh uh in uh not in the butt, actually, in the front, as he leaves as he exits the stage. | |
| I don't even get this. | |
| Um this transition period, I I speak as an unassimilated foreigner here, as your undocumented anchor man. | |
| Uh, but this whole three-month transition between the last guy and the next guy doesn't exist in in most countries in in the world. | |
| If you have a parliamentary system, uh one minute you're prime minister, the next you pack in the bags and out of there. | |
| You lose an election, you're gone in a couple of days. | |
| That's that's the way it works in uh in uh the United Kingdom, in Canada, uh in any parliamentary system. | |
| But here we have this three-month transition, which I gather uh has its roots in history because it was something to do with the length of time it took some guy on a stagecoach to get from the the furthest outlying colony all the way to Washington, DC, allowing uh enough stops for him to water his horse in compliance with health and safety regulations. | |
| That's the origins of the thing. | |
| Uh but uh you you don't need it now, so it's just a tradition. | |
| And if you had any decent respect for the electoral process, you wouldn't be introducing great novel interventions uh during the transition phase, during the lame duck phase, to which the incoming administration is opposed. | |
| Um President Trump has already indicated President elect Trump, whatever you call him, elect President President to be Trump, designated president in waiting Trump, uh has already indicated he's opposed to the action the United States took in the Security Council on Israel and that he objects to it, | |
| and yet here we are, John Kerry is still making policy innovations uh designed to stiff uh Israel in the outgoing weeks of the administration. | |
| Uh so we'll bring you John Kerry started uh has he finished speaking yet? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm uh I'm uh he's still he's still he's still speaking. | |
| That's great. | |
| I hope he speaks all the way until the inauguration. | |
| If I were a roquette, that's what would traumatize me, a John Kerry speech. | |
| I couldn't care less. | |
| I couldn't care less about Trump, uh what what Trump has to say, but when John Kerry starts droning on, I get a dead leg. | |
| I wouldn't be able to do my kick line. | |
| He he's you you put John Kerry speaking next to a line of Radio City roquettes and their legs are immobilized. | |
| Um but he's still speaking, apparently. | |
| Uh when he's stopped speaking, we'll bring you up to date on what he said. | |
| But this none of this should be happening. | |
| All this last minute stuff, i I don't understand. | |
| And again, I say this as an unassimilated foreigner. | |
| So please explain the logic of it to me. | |
| But when you've had an election result, and the election result is ushering in a president who has a totally different set of policies from yours. | |
| The idea that you should be frantically tossing policies out there right up until the minute you leave office. | |
| I think it's I think it's contemptuous of representative government. | |
| It's contemptuous of the uh uh of the electoral expression of the people. | |
| And I don't think it should be going on. | |
| Uh and so and so whether or not you agree with this uh policy speech John Kerry's uh doing, or or you don't agree with it, he shouldn't be doing it. | |
| It's not it's not proper. | |
| It indicates uh it's unseemly, it's unseemly. | |
| And in civilized societies, it's nothing to do with what's written down and what's not written down. | |
| It's a lot of it is to do with just codes and conventions about what's proper and seemly to do. | |
| And this frantic last it's it's I hope he passes. | |
| I hope Trump gets together a constitutional amendment that says from now on we're just gonna have a week's transition. | |
| So if the election's on a Tuesday, the new guy takes over the following Monday. | |
| Because uh what Obama and Kerry are doing is bringing contempt upon the entire uh transitional phase, this uh ludicrous three-month uh period uh in which there's uh basically two presidents uh uh d uh jostling uh uh for for the oxygen of publicity. | |
| It's which but this is this is pathetic. | |
| We're gonna break down some of what's happened at the UN with this uh with this resolution a little later. | |
| We will also uh look at some of the other developments, including I find it interesting, this pressure on celebrities and even non-celebrities uh not to perform at the uh at the Trump inauguration. | |
| Robert Reich now is calling for a big uh counter inaugural, which would be an all-star gala with all the people that Hillary had. | |
| You remember at her big uh pre-election night rally in Philadelphia when she had Jay-Z and Beyoncé and all the big A-list stars, and Robert Wright now wants the A-list stars to all get together and hold a counter-inaugural, which ratings-wise will blow Trump. | |
| Yeah, it worked out great for Hillary, didn't it? | |
| So now they want to do it all over again with a counter-inaugural with Jay-Z and Beyoncé. | |
| Well, look at all that and all the other, all the other news of a momentous year, a momentous year across the Western world. | |
| Uh, we'll look back at that year and we'll look ahead at what is to come. | |
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| Mark Stein, back in a moment. | |
| Hey, Mark Stein, in for rush on America's uh number one radio show. | |
| A giant, this story is from the hill. | |
| A giant Trump rooster statue has been erected in China. | |
| That's the headline from the Hill. | |
| Giant Trump rooster statue erected in China. | |
| I think rooster, I think cockerel is the word they're looking for there. | |
| Not not uh not rooster, but it's uh uh outside a mall in the Chinese city of Taiyuan, the giant rooster comes complete with Trump's signature hairstyle and hand gestures and was commissioned by the company that owns the mall. | |
| Uh this would be great for the Trump inaugural. | |
| If all these roquettes pull out, except for the thirteen who are contractually mandated to attend, then I think they should put the giant Trump cockerel on stage next to the thirteen uh thirteen mandatory rockets and have the giant Trump rooster uh dancing with the Radio City roquettes. | |
| That would be your your premium entertainment right there. | |
| Um these uh notwithstanding these ructions. | |
| And I th I think th this the the the the leaning on celebrities to force them to pull out of the Trump inaugural. | |
| Uh I mentioned Andrea Boccelli, the uh blind operatic tenor from uh uh from Italy who's single-handedly propping up uh PBS these days. | |
| Uh Andrea Boccelli is the way he always does these uh Christmas specials and things on PBS, and then you call in and uh for a pledge of three hundred dollars, they'll send you a video of the actual show you're watching now with the with all the bits they had to cut out in order to fit the 20 minute pledge drives in. | |
| It's a fascinating business model. | |
| Again, I speak as an unassimilated foreigner, just making a comment here. | |
| Um and uh uh he's uh he agreed to participate in in the Trump inaugural, because he said, Oh, wow, this is great. | |
| I've been invited to sing for the president of the United States. | |
| So what a great honor. | |
| And then all the other celebrities say, Whoa, who do you think you are, you little obscure Italian guy, you uh you're never gonna work in this town again uh unless you bag out of that inaugural. | |
| There aren't gonna be any more PBS pledge drives for you. | |
| You can forget about all those three hundred dollar pledges uh to so people can get the DVD of the video they're watching uh right now and uh and buy you some some new uh fancy house on Lake Como. | |
| There's not gonna be any more of that. | |
| That's all gone. | |
| Those days are over unless you pull out from the Trump inaugural. | |
| Uh and I think I think these guys uh are only emphasizing the central lesson of 2016, which is the which is that under the present arrangements by which advanced post-industrial societies are governed, the gap between those who are for whom it's working out great and those for whom it sucks is getting wider and wider and wider. | |
| And that is what unites uh what happened in the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom with what happened in the uh US election in November, with what is happening now in Europe in the pushback uh against Angela Merkel after she keeps bringing in people to kill uh her fellow German citizens and rape her fellow German citizens. | |
| Uh just uh last yesterday I think it was seven of uh Frau Merkel's refugees uh set a homeless man alight, just cause apparently that's some cultural tradition back wherever they happen to come from. | |
| But so Germans are now getting set on fire by uh these uh uh these excitable young men that Frau Merkel has decided to invite into the country. | |
| All what all these things have in common is that if you're a big shot celebrity, if you're a software designer, if you're a government bureaucrat, uh the the the present arrangements work pretty nicely for you. | |
| But there are millions and millions of people uh around the United States, around the United Kingdom, around Europe, for whom they do not work. | |
| And they told uh the they uh when they were invited to express an opinion this year, in 2016, they finally said, We have had enough. | |
| It doesn't work for us, and we've had enough, and we'd like something else. | |
| And we're not necessarily clear on what the something else is, but we know that this doesn't work. | |
| So let's try something else, and if that doesn't work, so be it. | |
| But we know that these arrangements do not work. | |
| That is what made 2016 one of those hinge years you occasionally get, like 1968 in Europe, when they had all the big demonstrations in Paris, and it was the year in which this kind of hippie sensibility, the peace and love sensibility, uh actually actually seized uh s uh control of various levers of power and began the long march through the institutions. | |
| Uh and now what we're seeing here is is that people have have said enough to this, and they don't want to be told by celebrities who can and who can't uh uh uh perform at a Trump inaugural. | |
| I don't care whether Andrea Bocelli actually I don't care whether he sings. | |
| I don't want to I have no particular desire to hear the Star Spangled Well, I don't know what he was booked for. | |
| Is he gonna do the Star Spangled Banner in an Italian accent? | |
| At least the guy can sing it live, unlike Beyoncé, who's to lip sync to it. | |
| Uh they say what you like about Italian tenor boy, but he can do the jobs Americans can't do because uh Oh, I say a coming you see by the Donzali Light. | |
| Oh, it's a fantastic. | |
| Um he could have sung it live, unlike by Beyoncé, but they they took the uh they took the crowbar to him in the back alley and said, Listen, listen, you jumped up little tenor Italian, you you ain't gonna be playing anything unless you get back in line. | |
| Uh I wouldn't want to live like that. | |
| Like these Steve Martin, he he sent a harmless tweet out about the late Carrie Fisher, whom he adored, and the humorous plonking scolds of the social justice left objected to this harmless little tweet of Steve Martin. | |
| Steve Martin, great comedian. | |
| Andrea Bocelli, a great tenor, and they live their lives in fear, lest they do say or do one little thing uh that gets them out of line and then boom, they're dead. | |
| They're in big trouble. | |
| They're over. | |
| It's pathetic. | |
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| Well, what are we now? | |
| I think it's uh it's uh Christmas bang holiday Wednesday if you're in Ireland or Scotland. | |
| Uh but uh at this point, people have you know you've opened every present, and let's face it, uh a lot of them are disappointments. | |
| You know, you uh you were really excited and you opened it up and it turns out to be an Andrea Bocelli pair of socks from the PBS Pledge Drive, or it's the Andrea Bocelli thong. | |
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| And uh I was talking I was talking about the Radio City uh uh rockets uh refusing to play at the inauguration, and I was talking about John Kerry's uh this last minute policy initiative where all the uh f fudging around at uh pretending they're Israel's best buddies. | |
| Obama said uh he'd always have Israel's back and all the rest of it, and the way they he has got Israel's back, and he's plunged a huge knife into it in this so-called transitional period. | |
| And I was saying, why the why the hell do we even have a transitional period now? | |
| And Steve has tweeted at me, it takes months to put the cabinet together. | |
| It takes months to put the cabinet together, and it takes a year to finally get all of the cabinet people approved by Congress. | |
| Listen, that's like say, you know, it'll take a year to get a permit to unplug your toilet from the municipal zoning board, even if it's true it shouldn't be. | |
| Every other country manages Uh to put a cabinet together in 20 minutes and govern their countries just as badly as this one's governed. | |
| So it doesn't make any difference. | |
| I mentioned Brexit a few weeks uh a few minutes ago. | |
| When they had the Brexit vote, which I think was on uh Thursday, uh uh i uh Brexit uh the the British people that came through at about like five oh three in the morning. | |
| The British people voted to leave the United Kingdom. | |
| The vote came through that put them over the top. | |
| And at 7 45, David Cameron, you probably don't remember him, but he was British Prime Minister for 20 minutes. | |
| Uh he came out of number 10 Downing Street and had a big queenie fit and announced he was residing. | |
| That was it. | |
| He'd never been so insulted in his life, and he f uh uh and say what you like, but he was out of here. | |
| He was done, and he flounced off in a big queenie huff. | |
| And Theresa May had to take over. | |
| And she took over uh a few days later, and in that time she'd managed to uh uh appoint a various cabinet uh managed to appoint a full cabinet uh of people who are no worse than most other cabinets in the world. | |
| She made my old friend Boris Johnson foreign secretary, and he's certainly no worse than John Kerry. | |
| Um and Boris at that time uh was famous for winning a limerick competition about President Erdogan of Turkey, in which he had claimed that the president of Turkey uh was a uh how can I put this a practitioner of the sin of Onan for those of you who know your Bible, uh, who was also into bestiality. | |
| So he's accused he's accused the President of Taggy being into bestiality. | |
| Uh, how do you think that first meeting went? | |
| But it didn't make any difference. | |
| You can appoint this idea, oh, it takes months to appoint a cabinet. | |
| Everybody else can do it in 20 minutes. | |
| What is it with this transition period? | |
| It's absolutely ridiculous. | |
| So no, I don't buy the idea that it takes months to put a cabinet together and it takes a year to finally get all of the cabinet people approved by it takes a year. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| It takes a year to get a municipal zoning permit uh for your HUD secretary. | |
| That's what America's been reduced to. | |
| They shouldn't be a transitional period. | |
| It's nothing but a uh uh uh an opportunity for mischief making. | |
| It's it should all be over. | |
| The election on Tuesday, new guy comes comes in on Monday. | |
| I say that as an unassimilated foreigner. | |
| Uh let us go to Warren in Houston, Texas. | |
| Warren, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| It's great to talk to you. | |
| Um it's actually refreshing to get an outsider's view of our screwed up world. | |
| Here's uh exercise in ridiculousness for you. | |
| I think the rockets should be forced to perform behind the Playboy Bunnies. | |
| While the Playboy Bunnies sing I would never sleep was such a poor sport. | |
| Then they should give them all a participation trophy and send them home. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now uh now you've got me. | |
| I haven't seen a Playboy Buddy. | |
| And you do they are they still out there? | |
| I thought the Playboy Buddy was on the endangered species list. | |
| Well, you know, we could even we we could even take the bunnies from the seventies and the eighties, and they would still be more attractive than the way the Rockets are acting so un American about losing the election. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | |
| Now now now I'm with you, I'm with you there. | |
| I must say, actually, while we're talking about it, and this isn't a partisan thing, uh, I don't think. | |
| I hope it's not a partisan point, but I actually I do prefer the costumes of the Playboy Bunnies to the ones of the Roquettes. | |
| I like the little fluffy tail they've got and the big rabbit is. | |
| I'm just uh I'm I'm just in the spirit of the season. | |
| I'm just trying to uh introduce a non-political note here, but it'll probably go the way of Steve Martin's tweet about Carrie Fisher and uh all the social justice warriors will claim that I want to objectify bunny rabbits by making them look like women. | |
| Uh anyway, Warren, that's uh that's great. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you for calling thinks the Rockettes. | |
| Look, uh some somebody uh somebody tweeted to me uh uh about whether oh yeah, Dale Cowett tweeted, does all of this ignoring and protesting from the Rockettes mean they won't be appearing on your television show? | |
| Years ago, I did I did a Mark Stein Christmas show this year, which is at uh where is it? | |
| It's at uh CRTV.com, is that it? | |
| You can see it. | |
| Um and uh uh and I didn't have the Roquettes on. | |
| But I had the Roquettes on my Christmas show. | |
| I think it was 1993 or 1994. | |
| I couldn't afford the whole thirteen year round roquettes. | |
| So we just had a couple of Roquettes who taught me to kick like the Roquettes. | |
| So if Trump is really they they did they just taught me how to do the kick, Mr. Snardley. | |
| He's now you think oh real guest hosts don't kick like a rockhead. | |
| He's now going he's disgusted, Mr. Surley. | |
| How do we book this guy? | |
| Well no, no, he's like he's talking about he's like kicks like a rocket, we can't have a guy like that. | |
| Um they taught me how to do the kick. | |
| I was I was slightly more limber in those days. | |
| I'm not sure I could, you know, get I didn't I didn't teach them anything, Mr. Snardley, but I be uh believe me, there's no nobody's but there's no Billy Bush tapes waiting to come out with me and the rockettes at the dressing room afterwards, so you don't have to worry about that. | |
| But they did teach me how to do uh the the leg kick. | |
| I'm not um you know, I'm not sure I could get it up as high as I used to back then, because it's like twenty years ago that uh but if if there's if they're genuinely short, if a couple of roquettes are pulled out uh because Trump is a monster and they're terrified of appearing with him at the inauguration, I'm happy I'm happy to step in and and kick along with them. | |
| Because they taught me on the Mark Stein Christmas show back in nineteen ninety-three, nineteen ninety-four. | |
| This is not a small thing, this the pressure they're putting uh on these guys. | |
| Um as I said, if I was Andrea Bocelli, you think about this guy. | |
| He's like one of the most successful performers in the world. | |
| He goes all around the world. | |
| And when you go all around the world uh and you're doing big gala concerts and all the rest of it, oftentimes you're you wind up playing for unsavory people. | |
| Uh just because that's that's the thing it is. | |
| They say, hey, uh, hey, uh, we want you to go to North Korea and uh and uh sing time to say goodbye uh to Kim Jong un, but don't say time to say goodbye because he'll have you killed, so sing time to say hello. | |
| And he they don't know these guys don't know who any of these fellas are most of the time. | |
| So they just say, uh uh yeah, sure, whatever, I'll do it. | |
| Now they're saying the own now they're saying uh you can do this, you can go and play Kim Jong-un, you can go and play for some guy in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, this or that is stand, who gives a stan. | |
| You can do all that, but if you agree to perform for the president of the United States, your career's dead. | |
| Uh he he's the the the the point that the reason they're doing this is to delegitimize the Trump presidency from the word go from the word go. | |
| But they're delegitimizing themselves. | |
| Beyoncé. | |
| Robert Wright wants Beyoncé and Jay Z to give a big counter inaugural that will blow Trump out of the water ratings-wise, they're threatening. | |
| I don't buy it myself. | |
| I don't see that. | |
| Uh but Beyonce played Gaddaffy birthday parties. | |
| Beyoncé took two million dollars to play B uh to play Gaddafi's birthday party. | |
| Think about that. | |
| Think about that. | |
| Uh in in the world in celebrity world, it's okay to play Gaddafi family gatherings, but it's not okay to play for a Republican. | |
| It's it's not Gaddafi, he's not beyond the pale. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| He blew up a bunch of um your fellow American citizens over Lockerby Scotland on that pan Am flight. | |
| Oh, that doesn't matter. | |
| Nah, he's not a monster like Trump. | |
| Nah, nah, nah. | |
| Gaddaffy, that's okay. | |
| Wow, great. | |
| Hey, have you heard the news? | |
| I got two million bucks to play the Gedaffee birthday party. | |
| Um, but if you play for a Republican president, your career's over. | |
| And this politicization of everything, it will destroy it destroys the possibility of civic life in this country. | |
| When you're doing that, when you're doing that, you're not insulting Trump. | |
| He doesn't care. | |
| He doesn't need anybody. | |
| He's top of the bill. | |
| He's more entertaining than Beyonce. | |
| Uh, and he doesn't need to limp sync either. | |
| Uh so you're not you're not hurting Trump. | |
| You're not insulting Trump. | |
| You're insulting millions and millions of your fellow citizens, uh, who don't live as well as you, who don't live as cocooned as you, and who you just don't you don't even think about. | |
| You you don't have any idea of their lives. | |
| Uh but all you want to do is screw them over in every petty little way you can think of. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, lots more your calls straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network. | |
| Let us go to Jane in Las Vegas, Nevada. | |
| Jane, you're live on America's number one radio show. | |
| Hi, uh, Mark Stein. | |
| Um Happy New Year to you and yours. | |
| Hey yeah to you too. | |
| I had a thought uh that's called a moment of clarity. | |
| Um I believe that Barack Obama is has a kick for cat list that he's made up. | |
| And I believe that uh his lifting his leg on uh Israel and BD Netanyahu on his way out of office is uh for um us not accepting his Supreme Court uh judge uh appointment. | |
| Uh that's what I'm that's what I think. | |
| Yeah, I I uh I think there's slightly something more there going on, Jane. | |
| I think he's uh I I think there is no doubt in my mind that he's actually a he's actually seriously uh anti Israel and that he he is now advanced. | |
| What I find fascinating about this, because he he abstained. | |
| The other fourteen nations on the Security Council all voted actively to stiff Israel. | |
| He wanted to stiff Israel. | |
| It's a bit like his gay marriage uh thing. | |
| He ostensibly said he was a great friend of traditional marriage, he believed marriage was between a man and a woman, but he didn't lift a finger uh to to stop uh gay marriage. | |
| So he he officially he abstained and by abstaining uh uh he helped usher it in. | |
| Uh uh uh he he he dissembled about what he really believed. | |
| And likewise with this, I think he would have liked to have voted for that resolution. | |
| And it's a fascinating resolution to me, because it basically is saying, among other innovations, that Jews can't live in Jerusalem. | |
| And and everybody thinks it is perfectly normal. | |
| Because as I said, uh it's it was fourteen out of fifteen votes for this resolution and one abstention, which means the world takes it as red that it is absolutely absurd to accept that Jews can live among Muslims, | |
| that the idea that Jews should just be able to uh move into a particular neighborhood and have a house next to a Muslim, including in in parts of Jerusalem uh that have been Jewish for thousands of years, that it's absolutely absurd. | |
| The whole idea that Jews and Muslims uh should that people of different uh backgrounds should be allowed to live amongst each other is completely preposterous according to this resolution. | |
| And yet it's the complete uh opposite. | |
| If you say to them uh well, maybe it's not a good idea to let uh all these uh Muslim refugees who like to set German citizens alight for kicks, who like to uh rape and grope uh little girls in the swimming pools of Germany, uh, who like to get a truck and mow down German citizens at a Christmas party. | |
| If you were to suggest that Muslims shouldn't uh be allowed to live among Germans, for example, uh if you were to s uh to to propose that there there might be some concerns about Muslims settling among Europeans or Muslims setting in the settling in the United States, people think that's a hater. | |
| Everyone's diversity, diversity, diversity, diversity. | |
| Oh, let's have more diversity, let's have more Muslim rapists in the swimming pools of Germany. | |
| Let's have more Mexicans uh because there might be some members of Kate Steinley's family. | |
| They haven't yet shot. | |
| Oh, that's the great diversity, but God forbid, oh no, Jews, are you out of your mind? | |
| Crazy. | |
| Kind of Jews in Jerusalem. | |
| There's a contradiction. | |
| There's a kind of basic contradiction in in uh in in the world view here between the between these two things. | |
| That uh everybody's allowed it's basically like the old UN joke where uh somebody's I forget who it's like an ancient United Nations joke. | |
| The the uh assistant secretary general says uh uh in order to advance the cause of world harmony, uh the the world's soccer teams should all come together and form one global soccer team. | |
| And the Secretary General says, hey, that's a great idea. | |
| Uh but who would we play? | |
| And the Deputy Secretary General says, Israel, of course. | |
| That's basically that is basically uh what that Security Council vote was good. | |
| Celebrate diversity, uh Jews not included. | |
| Uh Mark Stein in Farush, we'll take more of your calls. | |
| Lots more to talk about straight ahead. | |
| By the way, if if Trump really wants to ensure that the Roquettes don't pull out of his or inauguration, uh all he has to do is schedule a gay wedding uh right after taking his oath of office, just next door, as president, he can actually marry the two guys. | |
| And then the Roquettes will have no choice about whether they want to show up or not. | |
| So let's have a full celebrity inaugural, and the easiest way to do that is make it a simultaneous inauguration and gay wedding. |
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