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RUSH: Just a funny story here in the Washington Post today: ‘Debate Could Turn on a 7-Letter Word; Calling Proposal an ‘Amnesty\u2019 Rouses Foes, Confounds Backers — When organized opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate want to rally the troops, get the e-mails churning and the congressional switchboards lighting up, they almost invariably invoke the ‘A-word.\u2019 In Web sites, speeches and news releases, critics of the legislation attack it as a form of ‘amnesty.\u2019 They argue that,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. ‘When organized supporters of the bill respond, they consistently deny that it offers anything remotely like amnesty or blanket forgiveness. Instead, they use the ‘L-word,\u2019 describing an orderly process of legalization that would take at least eight years. The process would include a series of temporary visas…\u2019 They go through this big, long story: Why does this work? ‘Opponents are able to successfully invoke amnesty in part because of the historical record: The U.S. government has offered seven amnesties to various categories of illegal immigrants in the past 20 years,\u2019 and it hasn\u2019t worked! There\u2019s a reason this stuff…<\/p>\n

I guess the people in the Drive-By Media are just saying, ‘We own the language, here! We own these catchphrases that work. Why are the opponents being so successful? Because it\u2019s true! Because it is an amnesty — and I\u2019ll tell you what. Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants went into New York last night to play the New York Mets. Now, Bonds was not in the starting lineup. He did pinch-hit. He didn\u2019t do anything. He\u2019s nine home runs away from Hank Aaron. He\u2019s the most hated man in baseball right now. Mets fans were brutal last night. They had all kinds of signs. When he did come out to pinch-hit, he was given all kinds of grief. One sign I saw called him ‘Baroids Bonds.\u2019 Why not amnesty for Barry Bonds? Can we just forget it? Look at what he\u2019s done to the game. Look at what he\u2019s meant to the game. Why not just have amnesty for the guy? And how about these poor football players? Pacman Jones, suspended for a year for his extracurricular, off-the-field behavior. Come on! How about amnesty? Let\u2019s just forget it. Why impose all of these penalties? If it works here in illegal immigration — and we\u2019re talking illegal — let\u2019s begin a process granting amnesty to any number of people here who find themselves on the wrong side of the law.<\/p>\n

Barry Bonds is being forced to ‘live in the shadows,\u2019 ladies and gentlemen, in the shadows of Major League Baseball because of the taint of allegations that he has bulked up using illegal and banned substances, and so why wouldn\u2019t amnesty being called for here for Barry Bonds? I mean, Barry Bonds? Talk about contributing to the economy, talk about the great work, all the ancillary benefits that Barry Bonds\u2019 appearance in Major League Baseball and the teams for which he has played. You can use the same arguments on virtually any criminal and just say it\u2019s ‘stigmatizing\u2019 them. These are decent people. These are good people. They\u2019re just trying to make it in America. They\u2019re just coming here to seek their fortune. Do the right thing.\u2019 It\u2019s just another way of illustrating how ridiculous it is.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Just a funny story here in the Washington Post today: ‘Debate Could Turn on a 7-Letter Word; Calling Proposal an ‘Amnesty\u2019 Rouses Foes, Confounds Backers — When organized opponents of the immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate want to rally the troops, get the e-mails churning and the congressional switchboards lighting up, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy the Word "Amnesty" Works - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/why_the_word_amnesty_works\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why the Word "Amnesty" Works - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Just a funny story here in the Washington Post today: ‘Debate Could Turn on a 7-Letter Word; 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