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Protecting Our Borders - December 19th, Hour 3
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And Rose, I think perhaps we need to take a question.
It's time.
Well, let's take Dr. Carl Mertz.
He's been waiting from Mississippi.
Hey, you know, is this the Carl Mertz from Culture Wars on CNN?
Is that you?
Yeah, in 2020.
Oh my gosh.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
So good to hear from you.
And you I'm and thanks for waiting too.
We just had so many guests on today, but you wanted to talk about liberals and gerrymandering.
What are you thinking here?
But before if I could just have one second, I hope uh Professor Dershewit is still on.
No, he's not, sweetie.
He's he's gone.
No, I mean your show.
I think he probably is.
Yeah, he is gone.
Yeah.
Just letting know I'm I'm speaking as a guy who was born of uh German heritage.
Escaped from Germany at World War II.
Oh wow.
Uh born on the exact day that Americans liberated Auschwitz, January 27, 1945.
And I applaud everything he said.
That's amazing.
Yeah, I I thank you for that.
That's very powerful, in fact.
Thank you.
Here's uh here's I call it uh jander gerrymandering the United States to get rid of the cancer.
It's about to kill us.
And by that I mean, and I don't think it will take a uh constitutional convention to do it.
I think this, you know, they these different places got here without a constitutional convention.
I think the a nifty lawyer could figure out how to get rid of them, and that is if we got rid of Chicago metropolitan area, the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and New York City area.
Then those three states, big states, big electoral college states, would all be conservative from thereafter.
The same thing for New England.
And they might become a country of their own, or they might be a province of Canada where they might feel more at home with other liberals.
And Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City would all have access to the sea, including Chicago through the Great Lakes and uh the uh St. Lawrence Seaway.
And then you could do the same thing with Western California and California would be conservative for hereafter.
And all of these things, and especially the conspiracy to try to get Trump out of office, they would all be solved.
Wow.
Well, I think the the problem you have as a Pennsylvania and Rose is a Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, not to mention Pittsburgh, are going nowhere.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't expect anything over here at all from us.
This would have to be done through the state legislature, and of course, uh both major cities have uh serious sized uh uh members of the legislative de delegation.
So uh that that's a uh that's a real problem.
Um and I don't I frankly don't know how we how we get around that.
I mean, this is I should say y you know, the term itself, gerrymander, was named for uh Elbridge Jerry, who was a former, I believe he was a former vice president of the United States.
Only you would know this, Jeffrey, okay?
I love it.
Go ahead.
And and he experimented, I think he was from Massachusetts, and he started playing with this game.
Well, this game caught on, and it has now become totally institutionalized in all 50 states, and is always the perpetual battle as to what the uh lines are going to be.
And uh I I can tell you one one quick anecdote that I have.
In 1972 or 71, I wanted to run, I was in college in Pennsylvania.
I wanted to run for a delegacy to the Republican National Convention, and delegates in the Republican Party in Pennsylvania are decided by congressional district.
So my state senator, uh a lovely man well on into his dotage, invited me to a session in the state senate library where the most powerful legislators in Pennsylvania were gathered to redraw the map, the congressional district map.
And they drove drew one in particular for one of their colleagues, a state senator.
It was brand new district, and they thought they had it all fitted for him.
And at some point, uh the the aide to the senator came over to me and said, You know, I really don't think you should be in this room.
So I politely was escorted out.
But the kicker is that when it came the actual primary time, uh, out came a man that I would later work for.
He was a man in business.
His name was Bud Schuster.
He ran for that seat and he defeated the state senator who was given the district by his colleagues, and he remained in Congress for I don't know, a good a very good long while he just as a matter of fact, he just passed this last year at the ripe old age of ninety.
So I can tell you, having seen it firsthand, that uh there is a lot of gameplay going on here and intramurals inside a legislature, and that's the real problem.
Dr. Mertz, thanks so much for your phone call.
Let's jump to I think it's uh Mark in South Dakota.
Hey Mark, how are you doing?
Oh, I'm good.
Merry Christmas to both of you.
Thank you, man.
Merry Christmas.
I just had a uh comment that if I was Governor Abbott in Texas, sorry, I'm changing trailers, I'm a truck driver.
Good for you.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Um But if I was Governor Abbott, I would send all buses nonstop to Washington, DC.
And the reason being that way he can tell Biden, hey, I didn't want 'em.
You wanted them, and let Biden distribute him and Democrats distributed them out.
But when Washington puts up a barrier, and you know they will, or a wall to keep them from being bust in there, that'll show their hypocrisy.
Oh, but haven't we seen the hypocrisy already, Mark, when we've had them shipped to oh, my favorite was um what was it?
What it uh thank you, Martha's video.
Martha's that one couple made a funny little song about it.
Martha's Vineyard Strong, you know, and it's like, I I'll never forget the woman that's clenching her chest, and she's like, Oh, we just love you so much.
And I'll take this sandwich and the water and go.
All right, just go.
Get out of here.
And that's what they did.
They they just like they be but we've seen the hypocrisy, Mark, over and over and over again.
And it doesn't seem to matter to those, it should matter too.
And you know, when we see yesterday, I mean, think about this.
It's interesting if we we see how much state sovereignty will extend where this is concerned, because I mean, how far can a state be permitted to enforce immigration laws?
You saw what Governor Abbott did yesterday, approving those new powers that are going to allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the border, and then it gives local judges the power to order them to leave the country.
And one of the things I liked about it is that they are either ordered to leave the country, they have a choice, or they can be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of illegal entry because I mean, hello, they are entering illegally.
So they um who don't if they don't want to leave, they could face, by the way, being arrested again under more serious felony charges.
So this is a governor who's taking the uh the issue into his own hands, and I think it's a brilliant move.
It something has to be done.
But how long is it going to be before he is attacked?
This is a federal issue, you can't be doing this, you know, and but yet what is he to do?
He cares about the people of his state and they are paying the price.
And we just watched uh as we were in the break, we watched, they and and Linda said it very well.
She goes, you know, this says everything when you see that CNN is at the border reporting.
And and she's absolutely right.
Yeah.
And what they were talking about were the five thousand that were waiting by the bridge at Eagle Pass, right?
We were talking about, right?
They're waiting to get in, and twenty-three thousand came across the border overnight.
When you look at this and when you the staggering numbers, the greatness of it all, how are we to in uh how are we to burden all of this?
I mean, the state we're asking these states that are on the border to carry the burden, but as a whole, when you consider that we're looking at upwards of eight million by the end of this year, all toll.
I mean, how are we to carry that burden?
We cannot I find it very interesting that Mayor Adams of New York City.
Right, who declared this place to be this city that we're in right this minute, to be a sanctuary city, and then they started arriving, being sent from other states.
Well, now he is seriously angry with President Biden from his own party because he won't put a stop to this.
Oh what did he think was going?
You know, and they were saying that we have smashed border records.
We are just mad what what's been happening, just even overnight, smashing border records.
This is unbelievable.
And and I think that most Americans now are looking at this and they're thinking that I uh what are we to do about this?
What are we to do about it?
And we're just waiting for Biden to do something about it.
Dear God, help us.
Honestly, I don't know how we get and then if you think about this too, Jeffrey.
When we've had that many come across, and that many that we can't even we have invented, we don't know if any of them meet how many of that eight million, even if you take one percent, less than one percent, half a percent, a quarter of one percent, if they have any nefarious intents, right?
Can you imagine that's a great number?
That is a huge one.
Well, you know, we we had 911.
I mean, who's gonna forget that?
And you recall that at the time we began to find out that uh the the people who did this had been in this country, most of them for some time, and that they had overstayed their visas and and all of this, and nobody was paying attention.
Uh and you know I just re I just remembered this story too.
They found border patrol agents have been warned to be vigilant because we're being faced with unprecedented migrant searches we just talked about, but they are told to uh uh exercise extreme caution.
Mexican military seized ten IEDs at the US Mexico border in Tucson.
Yeah.
What does that tell you?
It exactly.
Well, take line, let's take um Oh gosh, we have somebody in South Texas right now, Cortland.
Courtland, how are you?
Yes, ma'am, I'm doing fine.
How are you?
Doing well, worried about you all down there in Texas.
So we live up in the hill country of Texas, but we have a family ranch in South Texas that we're at every other weekend.
And, you know, I take my young son out there, uh, my in-laws uh bought this place a couple years ago, but we've been hunting and grew up down in South Texas for years, and you know, we've had drug cartels crash through our fences, and you see migrants of people, and what I want to know is as a concerned citizen, why are we spending so much of our taxpayer dollars to defend other countries' borders when we can't secure our own border?
Why indeed?
That's that's the question, and I think this is really uh causing some disturbances in the in the Republican held conference because you've got people uh they they may or may not be opposed to uh helping Ukraine, uh, but they want to see our borders taken care of first, and and therein lies a hard spot right there.
Well, Jeffrey Lord and Rose Unplugged today sitting in for the awesome Sean Hannity.
And uh, we have a little more time left with you yet.
And so call in anytime you like, 800-941 Sean.
Stay with us with a couple other things we just want to wrap up here today before we go away.
We do want to mention Sandra Day O'Connor too.
So we're gonna do all of that coming up on the Sean Hannity show.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
My name is Rose Unplugged, and I'm with my buddy Jeffrey Lorde.
Hey Jeffrey.
Hello, Rose.
We've known each other.
I'm telling you, it's like 27 years.
It is.
And the amazing thing is I'm still 15.
I don't know how that works.
Well, I peaked a fourth grade math, so I don't know how that works either.
So, but uh maybe actually my math might work out that way.
And we met because I was at the time doing Quinn and Rose in Pittsburgh, but we weren't just in Pittsburgh.
We were on XM Radio.
We were syndicated on several stations.
We used to read your stories.
Uh, and by the way, Jim Quinn, people ask all the time, War Room.com is where you can find him.
He still does his thing, baby.
He's still going strong.
He's still a dear friend of mine.
So that's War Room.com, Jim Quinn.
But you, we used to read your stories on the air.
That's how and I'm like, I'm gonna put him on the show.
The American Spectator loves you.
Did you guys know that we've known each other, Linda, that long?
I did not.
Yeah, 27 years.
That's a hell of a long time.
And yet you still get along so great.
We mean you guys have done Is this the first time you've ever hosted a show together?
We've never done this before.
I was on her show.
And I was on his podcast in person.
Yeah.
But uh other than that, no.
This feels like that moment when Harry meant Sally where they start talking about their stories and they talk over each other.
It's actually really cute.
I like it.
Oh, okay, thanks.
All right, so anyway, we're gonna take more of your phone calls coming up.
And also, one of the things too that I I wanted to talk about the crazy last couple of weeks that Democrats have had.
I mean, can we talk about that?
I'm going to talk about it.
I don't care.
And we do want to talk a little bit about Sandra Day O'Connor because she's just she's amazing.
So that's all coming up and your phone calls at 800-941 Sean.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
We are Jeffrey Lord and Rose, and we'll be back with lots more.
Oh, you know what, too?
By the way, we have a little sound bite.
You're gonna like this.
I have a surprise for you.
Uh-huh.
Ronald Reagan soundbite.
Well.
Well uh we don't need it.
We don't need it.
We'll just use Jeffrey.
He was actually pretty good, dude.
That was good.
I loved it.
Freak me out.
I'm not gonna lie.
I was like, oh dang.
Is he here?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
In for Sean Hannity today.
Jeffrey Lord and Rose Unplugged.
Are we still in for Sean Hannity?
I just thought I'd check.
Ethan, what are we gonna do with him?
You saw that.
I I had just said to him, You're gonna plug it, you'll go first.
You know, we always have our little plan.
He's like, oh yeah, whatever.
He's over here dancing to the music.
I'm like, okay, do I have to do this again?
Okay.
I guess I do.
Oh man, you just so in other words, the bottom line is I'm getting coal in my Christmas stocking.
Yeah, you're not even getting a Christmas stocking.
Forget it about it.
Anyway, listen, I know that you'll appreciate this, and I had this segment with you in mind because we know that today was the funeral of the former Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
And I was watching a lot of it today, and I you know, I was it was nice to remember like all the things that she stood for, but even more than that, she was the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
She was a daughter of a rancher.
Um she died on December 1st in Phoenix this month, okay.
She was 93 years old.
Today they had the funeral service for her.
And you know what?
She was one of the things too, I that made me think that this was a good segment for you and I is that she died from complications of dementia.
My father died in August from the same thing.
Your mother passed away in 2018, same thing.
Same thing.
So we you know, we understand that, and that's that's difficult for the family, it's difficult for the patient.
It's really it's a sad time.
But anyway, what one of the things that I thought was interesting, Jeffrey, and I know you'll love this.
She was married in 1952 on December 20th.
Wow.
Do you realize that she is going to celebrate her 71 years of marriage with her husband in heaven tomorrow?
Wow.
That is at least as as I understood the tale.
I mean, they were very, very close.
This was not some sort of uh marriage for show.
They were lifelong best friends and uh all the good things uh about her.
And and you know, having worked for for President Reagan, he made this a campaign commitment in 1980.
He did.
That uh he would appoint a woman to the Supreme Court.
And when the opening came and he did it, wow, there was all kinds of news and attention on this.
Yeah, in fact, Jeffrey, just for you, I have audio on that.
Take a listen.
After very careful review and consideration, I have made a decision as to my nominee to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court created by the resignation of Justice Stewart.
Since I'm aware of the great amount of speculation about this appointment, I want to share this very important decision with you as soon as possible.
Needless to say, most of the speculation is centered on the question of whether I would consider a woman to fill this first vacancy.
As the press is accurately pointed out, during my campaign for the presidency, I made a commitment that one of my first appointments to the Supreme Court vacancy would be the most qualified woman that I could possibly find.
Now, this is not to say that I would appoint a woman merely to do so.
That would not be fair to women, nor to future generations of all Americans whose lives are so deeply affected by decisions of the court.
Rather, I pledge to appoint a woman who meets the very high standards that I demand of all court appointees.
I have identified such a person.
So today I'm pleased to announce that upon completion of all the necessary checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I will send to the Senate the nomination of Judge Sandra Day O'Connor of Arizona Court of Appeals for confirmation as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
She is truly A person for all seasons, possessing those unique qualities of temperament, fairness, intellectual capacity, and devotion to the public good, which have characterized the 101 brethren who have preceded her.
That was July 7th, 1981.
I love Jeffrey, and you I'm sure you're very familiar with all of this.
That's why I'm going to pitch it to you.
I love that he had to qualify that, but I loved his qualification that he made.
Yes.
In terms of hiring a woman that was qualified.
Yes.
Precisely because it's been done and done.
How many do we have on the court right now?
What am I counting?
One, two, three, or four uh Supreme Court justices who are who are women.
Uh she she really w what was a uh a role model for all of this.
And if you know, w sometimes Supreme Court justices can run into trouble.
She never had any trouble.
There was controversy sometimes over her rolling rulings on abortion, I think in one instance, and and there may have been some others, but that sort of comes with the turf.
Um she was a very, very honorable person.
I think I remember meeting her for like a nanosecond at a reception I had arranged for a cousin of mine who lives on Long Island, and she was at the time an assistant DA in Nassau County, and there was a uh ceremony, I think it was for Justice Scalia, and I got her invited and she met Justice O'Connor, and she was she was quite thrilled.
That's awesome.
And you know, uh one of the things too, you mentioned how much she loved her family and how that was real.
And they she said that one of the reasons she retired in 2006 was so that she could be spending more time now at a very crucial time in their life with her husband particularly and her family.
But one of her famous quotes, Jeffrey, uh, was do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.
No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Boy, that is so true.
Isn't that the truth?
Yes, yes.
And when I came in today, Ethan showed me a video of one of the um honor guards fainting, because you know, sometimes when they tell you you're standing that long not to lock your knees, you kind of let let them bend a little bit, otherwise you can't pass out.
It's not the first time that kind of thing is.
Right, I'm sure because it's a long that's a long ceremony that they have to stand, you know, at attention.
But they um what was interesting is that there was another member that caught her, I and he was behind her, so I don't know.
You know, he he did a great job.
I mean, he kept her, you know, he really held her up for a while there.
But anyway, it was a beautiful ceremony today.
It's it's important, I think, always to mark uh these moments in history so that you know, if you're closing a chapter on somebody or something, um, that you get the last word in there because there will be future generations who will look back on these things.
In this case, they'll look back on Sandra Day O'Connor and what lessons they can take from her career and her service, and that is always a very good thing to do.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, one of the things that you and I talked about in the very, very beginning of the show, which seems like just moments ago, but it wasn't, it was almost three hours ago, were uh was favorite Christmas movies.
And my favorite, uh, you know, I'll tell you that in a minute, but first I'll let Woody talk about it.
He's calling in from Nevada Nevada.
Hey, Woody, what about you?
What's your favorite Christmas movie?
Well, I don't really have a favorite.
I've got my oldies that I go through.
So uh Miracle on 34th Street, I always start the season out with sound of the case.
I love that.
Right on Thanksgiving.
Uh National Lampoons, Christmas Vacation.
Okay, you guys.
Grinch.
Oh, I love the Grinch.
Yes.
I love it.
But you gotta watch all three.
The the the uh Jim Carrey one, because I don't like the actor is my least.
I love that one though.
But guys um but there's some that a lot of people might not know about that I really like that are on my every year list, and one's called um Last Christmas.
And it's got uh Amelia Clark in it from uh uh Game of Thrones, and it's great.
Uh one that I watched last night with Danny Glover called Almost Christmas.
Oh, that's um that's the uh uh there's one that's in Britain.
It's called a Christmas gift for Bob.
I really never heard of that.
Yeah.
Who's Bob?
No, I'm not kidding.
But well, would he listen, you've given us food for thought, and I'm gonna look up a couple of those movies.
I will say that one of my absolute favorites would be It's a Wonderful Life.
It's supposed to have been better if I've never been born at all.
What'd you say?
I said I wish I'd never been born.
Oh, you mustn't say things like that.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
That's an idea.
What do you think?
Yeah, I'll do it.
All right.
You've got your wish.
You've never been born.
You don't have to make all that fuss about it.
What'd you say?
You've never been born.
You don't exist.
You haven't a care in the world.
No worries, no obligations, no $8,000 to get, no potter looking for you with a sheriff.
Say something else about it.
All right, so we know Clarence the Angel.
Well, listen, there was a funny Ethan pointed out something that was absolutely hilarious, but it came from Babylon B, so of course it was funny, right?
Yes.
The headline is Clarence the Angel takes Gavin Newsom to Florida to show him what California would look like if he'd never been born.
I love it.
I love it.
There's a picture, uh photoshopped, obviously, of Clarence with Gavin Newsom uh underneath the sign that says Florida welcomes you.
I love it too.
But what one of the things I like about the Grinch is the original Grinch song.
And it was sung by somebody that I the only way I know him is from this.
I think his name is Thurl Ravencroft.
And you just you can't you you can't, you know, it's it's a one-timer.
I think we have it here.
You're a mean one.
Mr. Grinch.
You're really cuddly as a cactus.
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black bee.
I love that song.
I love any Grinch movie.
I love them all.
They're great.
And of course, the narrator for that movie was Boris Carloff.
And for those who don't remember old Boris, in his prime, he was a serious horror movie star.
He played Frankenstein.
I think he played Dracula.
Uh he was he was quite the guy.
He really was.
And and he had this very deep mis you know, voice and all that sort of thing.
I thought for a while that he sang the song, but that's not correct.
It was this thrill Ravenscruff.
But he does the name, he does the narrative in in the movie, I believe.
I just I gotta say though, whoever writes for Babylon B, these people are hilarious.
They are so funny.
They just point out the obvious and they uh things that you thought, oh, I wish I would have thought of that.
But they are so darn funny.
They are hey, also I wanted to mention we had a surprise visitor in the studio today, and that was Dr. Oz.
Dr. Oz.
He was looking good.
He did look good, which was really weird because just last night, and I and I had texted Dr. Oz last night this, two of the three people I ran into at the bar actually had a story to tell me about how he had been the surgeon for a family member and saved their lives, essentially.
And I and I saw I had texted him last night to tell him, and so it was weird that he pops up here in the studios today.
But that made me think about our senator here in Pennsylvania.
And I I have to tell you, Jeffrey, tell me what you think about this.
I am stunned.
You surely you're talking about Bob Casey.
No.
But because John Fetterman, like he's been separating himself from the Progressives on some really important issues.
For example, I love that he's showing his support for Israel.
Right.
I'm impressed with his position on immigration.
He wants to curb what's happening at the border.
Oh, also, he was very clear on how he felt about Bob Menendez and how he should no longer be holding his Senate seat.
He said he needs to go and he doesn't understand why he's still there.
And he's he even brought up Santos.
He said, We expelled Santos.
Why is Menendez still here?
So I I I I gotta tell you something, in all fairness, I I'm I'm shocked.
You know what what in seeing his positions on these things, what has crossed my mind is that his this whole this whole business about his attire and all that showed uh whatever else you want to think of it, and I was not fond of it.
And independence.
He's gonna do what he wants to do and what he thinks he wants.
And it never really occurred to me that that would carry over into his positions on issue A, B, or C. Yeah.
But having the guts to do it, particularly when you've got all these progressives that are out there for Hamas, you know, good for him.
Yeah, that's that's amazing.
I am really, I love it.
I want to talk about this and when we come back from when we're uh when we come back from the break.
So we've got more for you.
There's breaking news about Jordan and a subpoena that he has.
We'll tell you more about that on the Sean Hannity show coming up.
We are Jeffrey Lord and Rose Unplugged.
We'll be back with the breaking news.
Well, this is the Sean Hannity show.
Jeffrey, it was a lot of fun, wasn't it?
It was a lot of fun.
I loved it.
And where do I find you, Rose?
You can find me at Roseunplugged.com, and she is called by him.com.
And and then and that is everywhere, every social media platform.
And how about you?
Yeah, you can find me at the Word of the Lord with Jeffrey Lord.
I'm getting better at that, yes.
Yes, you are, but I'm still Jeffrey Lord.com.
I love it.
You know, and the breaking news we wanted to tell you about is the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan today issued a subpoena to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
He's demanding that Garland provide information on the DOJ's spying on congressional employees, and they have done it, and we know people that they have spied on, Jeffrey.
So um Justin News reported that current and former congressional oversight staff are notified that the DOG seized their phones and email records in 2017 while investigating leaks.
You can find more out about this if you go to Jim Jordan's media social media platforms.
And they're concerned that Donald Trump would be a dictator.
You can't make this up.
Oh my goodness.
This was so much fun.
Linda, what a blessing it was.
Thank you so much for inviting us.
And what a great idea you had to have the two of us together.
Thank you for being here, guys.
You did a great job.
We love you and Ethan.
Thank you so much for everything.
Merry Christmas to everybody out there.
And uh please uh make sure that you like and follow Jeffrey Lord and myself on social media.
And I'll be back on the 26th, by the way.
Merry Christmas to everybody.
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