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RUSH: I have four more sound bites, however, on the immigration bill. I want to go back and play two more. Two that we played in the previous hour. One from Harry Reid and one from Senator Kennedy. They\u2019ve unwittingly set me up here, ladies and gentlemen, to explain the futility and the irrelevance and the lack of total necessity, at least in terms of people being properly informed, of the Fairness Doctrine. The purpose of the Fairness Doctrine from their side is to shut up opposition they don\u2019t want to deal with it. But let\u2019s go back and listen to Senator Reid again. This is from this morning on the Senate floor, before the cloture vote was taken and failed.<\/p>\n

REID: Talk radio has had a field day. These generators of simplicity — now, Mr. President, I want everyone to know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s enough. I want you to remember that. ‘Generator of simplicity.\u2019 Talk radio, generators of simplicity. He has unwittingly paid me a huge compliment. He\u2019s tried to insult me but he\u2019s paid me a huge compliment. To illustrate this, let\u2019s listen to Senator Kennedy again. This is prior to the vote as he\u2019s ranting and raving here about all the things the illegals are going to have to do to become citizens in this bill.<\/p>\n

KENNEDY: And we have a process that said, ‘Look, okay, you\u2019re here and undocumented, and you\u2019re going to have to pay a price.\u2019 We\u2019re gonna take people that are in the line in the line and have said that they want to play by the rules, they go, and they wait and you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait, and you pay and you pay and you pay, you pay your fees, you pay your processing fees, your adjustment fees, you pay not only for yourself, you pay for other members of the family, you demonstrate that you\u2019re going to learn English, you demonstrate that you\u2019ve worked here, you demonstrate that you\u2019re a good citizen, you demonstrate that you haven\u2019t had any run on in crime. And then maybe, and then maybe you get on that pathway with the green card and perhaps in 15, 18 years, you\u2019ll be able to raise your hand to be a citizen here in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what I want to demonstrate here, as a generator of simplicity — see, you know, I have a phrase here. I make the complex understandable. So what do we have here? We had 700 pages of absolute confusion that a lot of people in the Senate didn\u2019t even know the contents. As a generator of simplicity, what I actually do is take all of this gobbledygook and synthesize it down to the point that it makes sense and you can understand what\u2019s really in it, and Senator Kennedy here gives me a chance to demonstrate that. Senator Kennedy\u2019s whole point was that if these 12 to 20 million want to become citizens, look at all we\u2019re making them do! Why, they\u2019ve gotta pay and pay and pay and pay, fines, fines, fines, registration fees, processing fees, they gotta go back, they gotta get in line, and maybe 15 to 18 years, then they become good citizens, raise their hand and become citizens. That\u2019s not going to happen because it\u2019s unnecessary to stay here legally. They don\u2019t have to pay one cent in fines unless they seek the pathway to citizenship, and the odds that that would happen are slim to none. And Slim left town a long time ago on this issue. So, Senator Kennedy wants everybody to believe that we\u2019re going to be hard on these people. The whole point of that provision, by the way, was to try to convince you that we\u2019re going to really hammer these people. You think we\u2019re sitting there loving these people, we\u2019re going to hammer, we\u2019re going to make \u2019em pay, we\u2019re going to make \u2019em pay, we\u2019re going to make \u2019em pay. <\/p>\n

Senator Kennedy didn\u2019t count on the fact that there were people like me and others who could read the legislation and quickly ascertain that the Z visa would be granted in 24 hours and you\u2019re legal, and that means you\u2019re permanent, and you don\u2019t have to be a citizen. Then the simple question that we always asked, ‘What if they don\u2019t do any of this?\u2019 What then? That\u2019s where Senator Kennedy doesn\u2019t have an answer. So, yeah, I\u2019m a generator of simplicity. I take the complex and make it understandable. I take all the gobbledegook in some of this legislation and I make it understandable to people. Something like this I think you can figure out on your own. Once you have access to it, it makes total sense. Now, four more sound bites on this because they\u2019re all revved up about the Fairness Doctrine. No balance here. No debate. One side doesn\u2019t have a chance to air its views on talk radio. Yesterday on the Senate floor, Republican Senator from Louisiana, David Vitter, and Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, had some run-ins with the Senate majority leader Harry Reid during the immigration amendment debate. Here\u2019s a montage of their reactions to the actions of Dingy Harry.<\/p>\n

VITTER: Mr. President, I ask for five minutes under the same time agreement, for any purpose.<\/p>\n

REID: Ahhh, I can\u2019t do that, I would have to object to that.<\/p>\n

DEMINT: A parliamentary inquiry, do I not have the right to reserve the right to object? <\/p>\n

REID: No.<\/p>\n

DEMINT: How many rules are we going to change?<\/p>\n

RUSH: So these guys wanted to have their say about the amendments and Dingy Harry wouldn\u2019t allow them to speak on the Senate floor. Now, he\u2019s exercising Senate rules, that\u2019s fine, but where do these guys go? Do we need a Fairness Doctrine for the Senate? Here\u2019s Vitter on the Senate floor who later said this.<\/p>\n

VITTER: Yeah, there\u2019s unlimited debate, as long as you agree not to exercise any of your rights as a United States Senator. You can talk only; you can\u2019t make a motion; you can\u2019t try to bring up your amendments.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dingy Harry wasn\u2019t going to stand for this so he tried to defend his shutdown of debate.<\/p>\n

REID: I have tried to make these as family friendly as possible, that is Senate family friendly. I say to my friend during the early days of this legislation, amendments were offered by him and others, some of which got votes, some didn\u2019t. That\u2019s the way the Senate operates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, talk radio operates in the free market, folks, and if you can make it, you thrive. If you don\u2019t, you fail, you go bankrupt. But yet nobody\u2019s talking about regulating the Senate because its rules are allowed to prevail, and they should. They\u2019re a private club essentially, can make their own rules. We\u2019re in the market, and the market makes up our rules. Yet they don\u2019t like the way the market is producing results, and so, you gotta regulate us. Here\u2019s Maurice Hinchey, a Democrat, New York. He said this about the Fairness Doctrine. It\u2019s Internet quality here, by the way.<\/p>\n

HINCHEY: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to have any particular media focused on just one aspect of the information, one point of view, or one philosophy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, how can you say that after this particular debate, congressman Hinchey? You had the leader of the Republican Party, many leaders of the Republicans in the Senate urging this, and, why, guess who didn\u2019t go along with them? Yeah, I\u2019m an untamed piece of the GOP message machine. Yeah, he\u2019s a democrat. New York 22nd district. Its said republican on the cue sheet, I knew he couldn\u2019t be a republican. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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