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RUSH: Here\u2019s an AP story: ‘Few Confident of Border Security — The public has little faith that the government is accurately screening visitors to the country, or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP\/Ipsos poll. Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the US, according to the poll. Just two in five expressed confidence that the government is ready for an epidemic.\u2019 Now, why do you think that question ends up in a poll? It\u2019s because of the TV scare that we had when this guy, this airline passenger that recently got married, came back with TB. Guess what we found out? His strain of TB was not nearly, nearly, nearly as severe or rare as all the panic had everybody believing it was when he first got back to the fruited plain — and that\u2019s so typical. ‘Panic! Crisis! We\u2019re all going to die! Is this guy quarantined? Who did he come in contact with? Oh, no! (sobbing) It\u2019s over and I never had the chance to say good-bye! Boohoo.\u2019 It was exaggerated greatly. So that\u2019s how handling an epidemic gets rated. The bottom line is this — and this is why the immigration bill went down the tubes — nobody trusts the government. Few people trust the government to do what they say they\u2019re going to do. (interruption) Who\u2019s a little late on this? The polls? Oh, well, you mean why didn\u2019t AP do the poll before the vote in the Senate. Oh, well, we all know why. The AP wanted the vote to pass. <\/p>\n

So now they\u2019re out there trying to figure out, ‘Okay, how come we didn\u2019t manage this well?\u2019 We talked about this in the last hour. The Drive-By Media\u2019s purpose is to ‘manage the news.\u2019 Like every month (we told you about this in the last hour) we get the story: ‘Shock and surprise! Experts stunned! Job growth much higher than predicted!\u2019 For six months this has been the case, be it the employment numbers or the economy in general. It\u2019s a lot of being stunned. How do they have any ‘stunned\u2019 left in them? Who are these experts they keep going to? If they\u2019re constantly stunned and surprised, what kind of experts are they? Anyway, so what happens is, the Drive-Bys come out and do a poll, and they do a poll on the American people. Well, first of all, they spend 30 days of each month just ripping the economy to shreds and ripping Bush to shreds and ripping everything that\u2019s going on good, trying to downplay it — Iraq, you name it — then they go out and take a poll, and the poll reflects what they\u2019ve been reporting, and they say, ‘A-ha, we\u2019re still able to manage the news,\u2019 and that\u2019s how it works. So Snerdley actually asked a good question. ‘Why didn\u2019t they do this poll before the Senate voted on the immigration bill?\u2019<\/p>\n

They\u2019re doing it now after the fact, but what they\u2019ve learned is they didn\u2019t ‘manage the news\u2019 well during the Senate fight over immigration, because they were all for it. They were not telling anybody what was in the bill. They were trying to cast (right along with all the Democrats in the Senate and some Republicans) people like you and me who oppose the bill as a bunch of restrictionists, nativists, racists and bigots who hadn\u2019t read the bill, just a bunch of ignoramuses — and it didn\u2019t work. So now they\u2019re out there trying to figure out, ‘What did we do wrong? How did we not manage this correctly?\u2019 and they will try to learn from it. But even they say in their story here, ‘A low level of confidence in the government\u2019s ability to handle an epidemic was spread more evenly through the population. But the bottom line is a low level of confidence in the government\u2019s ability.\u2019 I still tell you this is going to have some life to it. I still say that this whole immigration debacle was a brilliant example of the inefficiencies and the unworkability of big, bloated government — and also the unresponsiveness of it, or the near unresponsiveness of a big government, a central conservative tenet. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Larry in Penn Valley, California, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re doing a great job trying to wake us up, and I just hope more people will listen to you. I think I have another good reason to know what\u2019s coming across our borders. Eight or nine years ago, a Russian colonel by the name of Lunev defected to our side. His front in this country was he worked for the TASS newspaper. He wrote a back. I don\u2019t know if he mention the title of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure, go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s called ‘In the Eyes of Your Enemy,\u2019 and he\u2019s warning us that his job in this country was to find sites for the suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and he said that we better pay attention to this because as far he knows, they could be here. Now, we\u2019re worrying about countries developing atomic weapons, but he said in Russia, 150 of these 88 pound weapons disappeared, and he testified before our Congress —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, just a second. Now, I was going to say something. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The suitcase nuke is not a practical reality yet. I\u2019m talking about something that an average looking person could carry around without suspicion, and something that weighs 88 pounds isn\u2019t. I remember the story, and I know that a bunch of those things are missing, and there have even been novels that I\u2019ve read written about those missing things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have not heard any more about Colonel Lunev. I\u2019m sure he has to stay in hiding.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no question about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I\u2019ve never heard what the Congress decided, whether the man was legitimate or not. But it\u2019s something to keep in mind when we have our borders so open.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, that former KGB spy could have been coming and planting all kinds of false stuff. It could go either way on that. But, look, your overall point is right. It goes back to border security, and there was a poll earlier today from the AP, interestingly, published the results of the poll after the Senate bill goes down to defeat, but the poll talks about how overwhelming, like 80%, 75% of the American people don\u2019t trust the government to protect the border — either from bad people entering it or for an epidemic. They just don\u2019t trust the ability of the government to protect us, domestically, right now, and it was more that than it was the amnesty provisions that caused people to have angst and opposition to the bill. But your example here of Lunev and his claim that 150 suitcase or quasi-suitcase-style nukes were missing from the old Soviet Union, just underscores the point. You have to ask yourself why in the world there was no border security. The border security discussion in this immigration bill was purely for show, and it was designed to convince us and buy us off, if you will. Yet nobody bought it because there hasn\u2019t been any serious effort at border security since the \u201986 bill. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s in this to make us believe something\u2019s changed? It was clear that the effort on the part of these people in supported the bill was just get these people in here. Just legalize them and get them in here, for whatever reason. You know what it could have been, folks? It could have been something as silly as this. It could be that a bunch of American food companies have decided that America\u2019s eating style are too healthful. We\u2019re all being told, ‘Don\u2019t go to fast food places. Don\u2019t drink all that sugar stuff. Don\u2019t do all that because it will kill you. You need to eat healthier.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to take all that stuff out of schools. It could have been something as silly as these companies lobbying Congress to let these new customers come in, who aren\u2019t concerned with eating healthfully. Who knows? That\u2019s a off-the-top-of-my-head example, but the bottom line is, they didn\u2019t care about it. Why do they not? When they can see what\u2019s happening in the UK, when they can see how porous borders around the world have led to all kinds of other problems, how in the world could they not see the vulnerability? Do they just think, ‘Ah, we\u2019ll roll the dice. It probably isn\u2019t going to happen. We\u2019ve got systems to take care of it.\u2019<\/p>\n

None of it made any sense. It still doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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