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To: mph who wrote (357133)	4/2/2010 1:55:57 PM
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Guest Host Napolitano: 'Glenn Beck': Here We Go Again Thursday , April 01, 2010 This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," April 1, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO, GUEST HOST: Thursday's show is about the loss of freedom: The loss of every person to make intelligent choices without guidance or interference or compulsion from the government. When this great country was founded, those who created the government understood that there are areas of personal choices that are none of the government's business. They fought a revolution. They wrote a Constitution. They guaranteed that the government they gave us would be far different than the one they fought against. We are an independent country today in large measure because the Founding Fathers had enough of the British king and Parliament telling them how to live; forcing them to sell goods where they didn't want to sell; taxing almost all their behavior, and disregarding their natural rights to speak, to engage in commercial activities of their own choosing, and to be left alone. Does that sound familiar? That was the complaint 230 years ago. It's happening all over again. Except now it is our own government, the people we chose and we hired to work for us who are trampling our liberties. Think about it: The air you breathe, the water you drink, the chair you're sitting in and the TV you watch are all regulated by Washington, D.C. It is hard to find an area of human behavior that the feds don't regulate. All their regulations have added to the size of the government, increased taxes to the breaking point and interfered with our personal choices in ways that those who created this country could never have imagined. I'll give you a very recent example. Thursday, a federal judge in California scolded the president and told him that he is subject to the same laws as the rest of us. That should not be news; but in the era of the nanny state, it is. You see, the government thinks that so long as the majority rules, the majority is right. But that's not America. Sure, we have elections. And elections have consequences. But we also have rights that come from God, not from the government. And the Constitution was written to assure that we could freely exercise those rights — free from the bad guys, free from the tyranny of the majority, and without the government on our backs. foxnews.com

To: mph who wrote (357133)	4/2/2010 6:44:06 PM
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York: Limbaugh responds to Obama: 'Never in my life have I seen a regime like this' By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 04/02/10 9:40 AM EDT In his new interview with CBS, President Obama refers to the "troublesome" talk and "vitriol" of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. "Keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out," Obama says. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we're trying hard, that I want what's best for the country." I asked Limbaugh what he thought about the president's comments. His program's popularity is undeniably soaring now, but has it risen and fallen with economic anxiety -- that is, was he less popular during times of economic security and more popular in times of economic worries? Since Limbaugh has been broadcasting nationally for more than 20 years, there ought to be some sort of pattern, if what Obama says is accurate. "I have yet to have a down year at the EIB Network," Limbaugh responds. "I and most Americans do not believe President Obama is trying to do what's best for the country. Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely. I have never seen the media so supportive of a regime amassing so much power. And I have never known as many people who literally fear for the future of the country." The point, Limbaugh says, is not that listeners are feeling anxiety about the economy, although many undoubtedly are. It's that they are feeling anxiety about the Obama agenda. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com