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RUSH: On National Public Radio, Cokie Roberts is out there quoting Democrats on the immigration bill, Republicans on the immigration bill, and Rush Limbaugh on the immigration bill. On Saturday, Fox News Channel\u2019s Fox News Watch — this is their media analyst show, the host Eric Burns, guest commentators Jane Hall of American University, Cal Thomas, and they\u2019re discussing the new immigration bill. The first voice you hear will be Jane Hall.<\/p>\n

HALL: Rush Limbaugh is already saying this is going to kill the Republican Party. This is going to bring in people who are going to overwhelm our schools. The way it\u2019s framed, if you call it amnesty that sounds like forgiveness for bad behavior. If you call it earned citizenship that\u2019s another thing. Framing is key I think to how people feel about it.<\/p>\n

THOMAS: Framing is key and follow-up and how the media treat the follow-up. After the \u201986 immigration bill, there was no secure identifier. There\u2019s something like that apparently in this bill. And if it clears the House with something that it has, you know, relatively simple to the — similar to the Senate, then I think it might be all right, but, Jane, that\u2019s right, the key is talk radio, Limbaugh and some of the others, and whether this is going to be amnesty or not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no ‘whether\u2019 about it. You know, if you have to start framing it, then it means you\u2019re massaging it, it means you\u2019re spinning it. You don\u2019t want it to be called something that it is. It\u2019s amnesty. This is being discussed on Saturday night. Here is more from this. Eric Burns, the host says, ‘Well, when you say the key is talk radio are you seriously giving talk radio, one segment of the media, so much authority it will determine the outcome of this?\u2019<\/p>\n

THOMAS: It will as far as conservatives and Republicans are concerned. Rush Limbaugh said on his program on Thursday — or Wednesday that if the Republicans go along with what is perceived to be amnesty, they\u2019re finished in the next election. That\u2019s pretty strong.<\/p>\n

BURNS: Does that mean the Republicans in Congress go along?<\/p>\n

THOMAS: Oh, I think —<\/p>\n

PINKERTON: I think the Republicans in Congress understand that Rush Limbaugh made them what they were back in 1993 and 1994, so if Limbaugh and these people stay against it — look, I mean just to play politics here for a second as opposed to media coverage Nancy Pelosi says she won\u2019t move the bill forward unless she gets 70 Republican votes out of the Republican conference. If talk radio can push that number below 70, then one would presume this deal is dead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, why would Pelosi not move it forward without 70 Republican votes? She doesn\u2019t want to be attached to this. She wants the result, but she wants this clearly pinned to the White House, she wants this to appear — that\u2019s why she loves McCain up there, trying to hog little face time on camera with Senator Kennedy. They know this is going to give them what they want. It\u2019s going to be bad news for the country as it\u2019s currently structured, but they\u2019re trying to tear that down and rebuild the country in their own liberal socialist image. This bill is key to that. What does she care how many Republicans, if she can get the thing to pass? If she can get it to pass with five Republicans, why not? Why not take it? If the legislation\u2019s good — no, seriously, folks — if the legislation is good, who cares? If it\u2019s the right thing to do, if it\u2019s the best deal we can get at the time, if we miss this chance we may blow it — all these clich&eacute;s. She could hold out, she won\u2019t move it forward without 70 Republican votes? Uh, this ain\u2019t about the bill, then. It\u2019s not about the last chance; it ain\u2019t about the best bill we can get; it isn\u2019t about all these other clich&eacute;s that we\u2019re hearing about. This is about cover. This is about political cover.<\/p>\n

This is a fascinating story. This also from USA Today. The headline alone says it all. ‘Feds watching anti-immigrant extremists.\u2019 Well, you people out there in the feds better keep a sharp eye because I have a feeling these groups are about to quadruple in number in the next week or so. ‘Carl D. Wynn Jr., who last fall posed as a U.S. border agent and wrongly suggested that a Little Rock construction company had hired illegal immigrants, has come to symbolize how the divisive immigration debate can progress from legal expressions of opposition to offensive action. Wynn, also accused of attempting to sabotage the same company by planting tire-ripping spikes outside the business, has quickly come to represent a ‘troubling\u2019 development within the radical ranks of the anti-immigration movement.\u2019 So, what\u2019s happening now is that those of you who are anti this bill — by the way, there\u2019s no anti-immigration movement that I know of. There\u2019s an anti-illegal immigration movement that I know of, and there\u2019s an anti-this-bill to deal with it movement that I know of. But there\u2019s no anti-immigration movement to speak of.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019ve got one kook here, one Looney Toon who now comes to represent the Timothy McVeigh of the anti-illegal immigrant movement. They go out and find one kook, and this is what the feds are worried about, gotta get those anti-immigrant extremists. Forget the illegals. We gotta get the anti-immigrant extremists. At any rate, you see how this is shaping up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We just did the story that the feds are all worried about these anti-illegal immigrant extremists. Well, they better add some border agents to the list. ‘The leadership of all 11,000 non-supervisory US Border Patrol agents yesterday criticized an immigration compromise by senators and the Bush administration as piecemeal legislation that invites future terrorist attacks and fails to secure the nation\u2019s borders. The National Border Patrol Council president T. J. Bonner said, ‘Ever person who\u2019s ever risked their lives securing our borders is extremely disheartened to see some of our elected representatives once again waving the white flag on the issues of illegal immigration and border security. Rewarding criminal behavior has never induced anyone to abide by the law and there\u2019s no reason to believe the outcome will be any different this time.” These are Border Patrol agents, non-supervisory guys, they\u2019re the front line guys. So better add them to the list of extremists out there that the feds are going to have to pay attention to. Richard in San Marino, California, you\u2019re next, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush good morning from the Left Coast.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. I was just out there, but I, unlike you, escaped.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Rush, you have talked with Dick Cheney, Tony Snow, had him on the air, and the standard line is, ‘We can\u2019t deport 12 million people.\u2019 But apparently they have a secret plan of some kind where they\u2019re going to be able to deport two or three million, which is what Chertoff has been recently quoted as saying will not qualify even under this plan, so Tony Snow says they\u2019ll have to go home. What does that mean? How are they going to do it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, I really do not enjoy having to assume this position, but my great fear and the thing that concerns me is that that little statement, two to three million who aren\u2019t going to qualify are going to have to go home, who\u2019s going to make them? They\u2019re going to have to report in. All these people are going to have to report in and they\u2019re going to have to pay their fines. There\u2019s no enforcement here because there\u2019s no incentive to cause the exodus to go the other way. The same bureaucracy that couldn\u2019t keep track of the Fort Dix Six; the same bureaucracy that didn\u2019t know Mohammed Atta and his boys were out there taking flying lessons, are somehow going to be able to round up two to three million who won\u2019t qualify? By the time this is passed, we\u2019re not going to have the guts to say they don\u2019t qualify because we\u2019re being judgmental. ‘Well, it\u2019s really not fair. We\u2019re letting nine or ten or whatever the number is stay, and we\u2019re singling out, stigmatizing these poor two or three million? This is not the America I know. We\u2019re not going to tell some that they have to go and some that they can stay.\u2019 And so, look, if it were that easy to get rid of two or three million, then it shouldn\u2019t take very long, number of years, to get rid of 12. Richard, thanks for the call out there, I appreciate it. Snerdley, wake up. Where we going next? Visalia, California, home of the onions. Dave, nice to have you with us. He\u2019s gone. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s gone. He wants to talk about Bush owns defeat in Iraq. He\u2019s an idiot; why\u2019d you put him up there? Susan in Baltimore, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess I\u2019m one of those extremists, I don\u2019t know, but I used to watch your TV program at two in the morning, that\u2019s when you came on in Baltimore, they didn\u2019t want us to watch you. But I had to get up and go to work, I was always sleepy but I couldn\u2019t go to sleep wondering what I was missing, I could have taped it but then I still was wondering what I was missing so I had to get up and watch it. But I am disappointed with you. You are talking now about illegal immigration, finally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t give me this ‘finally.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, finally. You don\u2019t talk about it that much. Roger Hedgecock, when he fills in for you, he always talks about it a lot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Roger, he talks about it, so we talk about it here. It happens on the program. I\u2019ve talked about it countless times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, not very long. You don\u2019t give it give it much time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, well, look, I don\u2019t want to argue about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re ticked at me, and besides the fact that I\u2019m a late arrival in your opinion to the issue — I\u2019m only the leader on it — what else are you ticked at?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, many things. I voted for President Bush twice, believe me. I did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that my fault, too?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. No, I\u2019m only kidding. No, I\u2019m only kidding. But anyway —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is what you want to say, I know that\u2019s what you want to say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, no. I\u2019m so worried. You know, I love your sense of humor. I think you\u2019re fantastic. But at this time, I think our country is at stake. I mean the survival of our country. I\u2019m nervous so, you know, I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. What\u2019s my sense of humor got to do with the country? You think I\u2019m having too many laughs here?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think we should be talking seriously about what\u2019s going to happen —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Were you listening here Thursday and Friday?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was pretty down the middle of the road serious as it can be.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so it has been today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I love it, that you do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so now when you\u2019re getting what you want, you call and complain. The guy in Albuquerque wonders what my problem with women is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) But, Rush —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? Now you laughed at that, so you knew what I meant by it, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, what it is, Rush, I think our survival is at stake, and I watched the debates belatedly, someone taped it for me, and I watched it, and I really like Duncan Hunter. I think he\u2019s another Ronald Reagan myself.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s me, and I\u2019m not running.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you should.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m kidding. I spent a lot of time today talking about the demographic shift that could result from this, and the no assimilation. There have been a couple people who have written about this that I\u2019ve quoted today, Stephen Warshosky and Selwyn Duke both at AmericanThinker.com and they\u2019re worried about the exact same thing that you just said and I can\u2019t agree more. You\u2019ve got this massively large demographic shift, you\u2019re going to change the country forever. A conservative movement, a viable one, one that has a chance of mobilizing people in sufficient numbers to win elections, might become a practical impossibility.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. This is what frightens me. I mean I cannot vote for the Marxist Democratic Party and I feel that\u2019s what they are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, I just want to tell you something. None of this is going to happen before 2008. Elections matter. Now, you and a lot of others are sitting out there thinking there\u2019s nothing we can do. You\u2019re just one person, you feel a little powerless, but this bill, as it\u2019s currently crafted, doesn\u2019t have a snowball\u2019s chance. Mitch McConnell says we can\u2019t get this done before Memorial Day, and he wants to — well, he should, I hope he says something about making this part of the presidential debate. That\u2019s where this debate really needs to happen, but this going to be headed off at the — well, it can. You shouldn\u2019t give up on that possibility.<\/p>\n

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