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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

Again, I say, folks, it's only 19 years ago, 19 years ago that everybody in this country

was running around proudly waving flags.

Everybody, including athletes, were carrying flags around the bases

in the Major League Baseball playoffs. They were doing, well, not playoffs hadn't started yet,

but late season. NFL players were proudly carrying the flag to support the first responders

of 9-11, 19 years ago. First responders, the police, sheriff

deputies were the heroes in this country. They were loved and adored and respected. Everybody

was driving around this country, it seemed, with the American flag streaming outside car windows all over the place as a reaction

to 9-11. And now look where we are now. Now it's a time to choose. You are either with the mob or you

are with the police. You are either with the mob outside a hospital in Linwood, California, where two sheriff's deputies are fighting for their lives.

They are supposedly out of the woods after untold hours of surgery after being shot point blank range in the face by a single perpetrator

who was laughing and smiling all the while doing it.

The deputies were parked.

They were rookies.

They were in their patrol car.

And they were just on lookout.

I mean, they were just not doing anything.

They were stationary.

And the perp walks up, point blank, and fires at both of them.

And standers-by started celebrating.

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