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June 3, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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Now, let me continue with this LA Time story here on the Laguna Beach landslide.
The mansion, built by investors in 2001, never sold, never had been occupied.
Defects riddled the property, and the supersized house insulted the sensibilities of some local residents who dubbed it the mausoleum and thought it too big for the geologically sensitive area.
The Sinatra House, so named by locals based on false rumors that relatives of Frank Sinatra owned it, is now a wreck.
Its once sleek lines, a jumble of obtuse angles.
It was among the roughly 18 homes destroyed or badly damaged in Wednesday's landslide in Bluebird Canyon.
The homes saw, as immediately feudal speculation, that the structure somehow led to the slope's failure.
So they're blaming one house for this.
And the way they blame one house for this so that they can limit the size of other houses or limit houses, period.
I guarantee you that's what this is.
Geologists, of course, nobody's blaming the rain.
Nobody's blaming nature.
It's what man did.
Man caused that.
And not only that, can you imagine the effects on global warming this landslide will cause now?
Geologists doubt the theory, by the way, that the house caused the landslide, but the home's demise struck a deeper nerve as well.
Some people in Laguna Beach consider it a sign of what's gone wrong with Laguna Beach in recent years.
Large-scale construction projects that are slowly eroding the quaint charm of the seaside community.
The city is in too much of a hurry to let the real estate industry make money, said Roger Von Buto, a Laguna Beach resident and environmental activist.
People say that these are their dream homes, but obviously some of these dream homes are becoming nightmares.
Laguna Beach for the popular...
So there was a bias against this house before the landslide.
There was a prejudice against this house before the landslide even happened.
Typical class envy is what you got going on here.
And so when the landslide happens, the class envy kicks in.
Yep, it was the house's fault.
And then it was the people who built the house's fault.
Laguna Beach, with a population of 24,500, has been struggling with a significant identity crisis.
Increasing affluence is forcing out the storybook village atmosphere.
Craftsman cottages and simple stucco houses are giving way to palatial homes of blocky, contemporary design and lavish developments such as the Montage Resort and Spa.
And we can't have that.
We can't have development.
We can't have improvements.
We can't have bigger houses.
We can't have that.
So ban this landslide is a godsend to the environmentalist.
That's a dirty little secret here.
Local environmentalist wackos and other community activists lament that Laguna is not the same place where civic leaders and residents once stood arm in arm to protect open space from large-scale development.
I rest my case.
Oh, yes, let's go back to the salad days where Woodward and Bernstein were the only journalists in town, Republican presidents being forced out of office, and community activists and civic leaders and residents were arm in arm looking at the sunset from the hills of Laguna Beach while living in veritable shacks, just like they do in the underdeveloped parts of the world.
Why don't we, while we're at it, get rid of toilet paper?
Let's just go out and grab some leaves from the trees and really be environmentally pure.
In recent years, some of that frustration has been directed at 925 Oriole Drive.
This is the spec house that came tumbling down.
It's been beset by construction problems, unpaid taxes, and creditors seeking millions of dollars.
Sounds like your average community problem to me.
Construction problems?
Tell me where in the world those don't happen.
Unpaid taxes?
Go look at the unpaid tax rolls at your local county courthouse.
And creditors seeking millions of dollars.
At any rate, county property records show the house is owned by the 925 Oriel Limited Liability Partnership, an LLP.
They list the president as Barbara A. Sinatra of Laguna Niguel, who happens to share a name with the widow of Frank Sinatra.
It's not the same woman.
Name led to this rumor that was going around.
Now, Bluebird Canyon contains many bungalows and smaller ranch-style houses, most from the 50s and 60s.
Most are 2,000 to 2,500 square feet.
Who needs more?
Really, folks, who needs more than 2,500 square feet in Laguna Beach, where civic leaders and residents can no longer stand arm in arms gazing out at the sunset because 925 Oriole Drive was built atop the mountain.
Anyway, I'm just telling you, your argument out in California is not going to be, will the state or somebody else rebuild these homes for the rich?
The question is going to be, will these homes be rebuilt by anybody there on that hillside in that location?
And if I were a wagering man, I would bet no.
There'd be a big fight on it.
Now this business about the value of a college degree, this came up with a previous caller.
It's an interesting piece.
It's in the Boston Globe today by Daniel Cheever, who himself is a college president.
He said, the annual trials and tribulations of college acceptance are over for most students and parents.
Vast majority of college-bound Haskrill seniors now know where they'll be going to school in the fall.
What never seems to end, though, for students and parents is the understandable anxiety over paying for college.
The relentless rise in the cost of higher education alarms payers and the public.
According to the college board, over the last 10 years, average tuition and fees rose 51% at public four-year colleges, 36% at private institutions, outpacing the consumer price index.
Undergraduate tuition and fees at elite private schools like Harvard grew even faster.
Now, for example, Harvard undergraduate tuition and fees, $27,448 this year, up from $17,000 in 1995 and $9,500 in 1985.
With room and board added, next year's bill at Harvard will be an attention getting $42,000.
$42,000 for one year.
That's as much as the average family income in the United States.
Now, most parents are willing to invest or borrow $100,000 to help produce highly employable graduates with proven critical thinking and communication skills and strong professional preparation.
Because a college graduate earns nearly $1 million more in pay over a working career than a Haskruel graduate, the same college tuition investment in the stock market would yield more than $2 million over the same period.
Now, if that's true, we had better insist the value of higher education be measured in more than cost terms.
This leads to the question, what's the value of an education?
If your family's going to borrow $100,000, let's say you're 17 or 18 years old, you're a junior or senior in high school, you want to go to college, and your parents are going to go out and borrow $100,000 for you to send you to college.
Tell them to do it.
But then tell them to put the $100,000 they borrow in an investment account with your name.
Call it a private account with your name.
And then pursue your dream.
If it's college, do it.
If it's not, don't go to college.
Don't spend the money on college.
Go out and do what you want to do.
Fail as often as you want.
Basically, live it up.
And in 30 years, you'll get your account worth $2 million.
I mean, that's this guy's point.
His point is, you take this money and invest it, you're going to get probably a much larger return than the jobs you're going to get with a college education these days.
Of course, you leave it alone.
That's the point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you leave it alone.
But if you take the $100,000 and spend it on a college education, and then you enter the workforce with your JD, your MB, your BS, BA, whatever.
I didn't go to college.
I don't know what they call them anymore, but you get one of those and you get out there and you start toiling away and you do so.
The theory is that you're never going to make as much money.
On average, the odds are you won't make as much money as if that same $100,000 were invested and you couldn't touch it for, say, 30 years.
Now, what are you going to do in the meantime?
Well, that's your job.
You're the kid.
You're growing up.
Get a gig.
Get a job.
Go to a community college.
It costs $100 a year.
Is more than that now, Mr. Snowden?
I'm sorry, folks.
Back here in just a second.
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Patty, Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Freedom Toting, Mr. Snerdley, Believing Bo Dittos.
Rush, nearly every Friday for the past three months, I've been trying to get a hold of you to thank you again for the select comfort bed that you graciously gifted me with just before Christmas.
You like it?
I love it.
But before I give you my findings on the bed, would you allow me a follow-up question with respect to my previous call about advertising?
Yeah, but you got to do more than that because you started out with saying some things about Snerdley.
So we've got to establish why you originally called.
You called, if I remember right.
You didn't believe there was really a Snerdley.
Well, that was the second part of my call.
But yes, yes, I didn't believe there was a Snerdley.
If you didn't believe there was a Snerdley, then the first thing you asked me, do I actually believe in the products I advertise or something like that, right?
Yeah.
I mean, if the products you advertise, do you actually use them?
Yes, yes.
Which I, of course, was profoundly insulted by that because there is an inherent accusation there that I am a fraud.
Well, no, but when you see all these so-called stars or whomever on TV advertising hemorrhoid cream or something, you wonder, are they actually using that product?
It actually doesn't matter.
Depending on the star, they probably are.
The question is, are they using it for hemorrhoids or acne?
That's right.
That's right.
Good point.
But your point being about Bo Snerdley, is that it?
Bo is his first name?
Bo Snerdley.
Yeah, I just want the audience to know that you were doubting Thomas.
You thought that Snerdley was a fictitious guy that I was making up and that I didn't use the products I endorsed.
So I explained to you there was a Snurdley and I gave you a Select Comfort bed.
Oh, you mean you gave it to me just because you thought I believed that Bo was real?
No, no, no, no.
I offered you a Select Comfort bed because I was a nice guy.
Oh, yeah, that is.
They were asking me if it was really good.
What I say about this stuff, do I really know it?
They say, let me prove it to you.
I'll send you one.
Yes, yes.
I just want the audience to know that, since that's what you called about a year ago.
Oh, I gotcha.
I got you.
Okay, so now you can move forward.
Now we have you in context.
Okay, thanks for the preface.
Well, as for the benefits of someone like yourself, whom I like and admire in many respects, you know, when you promote a product like you have, because I care about you, you know, I can understand why somebody might buy the product.
But what about if there's somebody that you don't care about?
Like, I know that there's some gal on, I think it's with The View or something, Stella Jones or something, whom, you know, I just think is horrible.
And of course, the program's horrible too, but that's aside.
Who if she promotes some sort of a, I think, a shoe product, and I wouldn't necessarily buy the product one way or the other, but because of you, do you think that, in essence, that your name is gold, as you said, when it comes to advertising?
So with all the liberal listeners you have, do you think that your name is then also a detriment to that particular group of potential consumers?
No.
How so?
Well, we know it to be true by virtue, how long has Select Comfort been an advertiser?
There's the answer to your question.
They've been advertising for over seven years.
If they weren't having success, they wouldn't be here.
I don't know that they ask people when they come in, are you a liberal?
Yeah, we're not selling to you.
I don't think that happens.
But we know that it's just not conservatives listening to the program.
Tom Dashell gave that away after the elections of 2002 when he said that experts had told them that the reason I'm really dangerous is that I'm changing minds, that there were Democrats that listened, and they just thought I was preaching the choir all these 14 years at the time.
Now they find out I'm actually changing Democrats' mind.
I became really, really dangerous.
So if I'm changing Democrats' minds about political core values, I don't think it's that much of a task to convince them that the product is really in their best interests.
Like the Select Comfort bed.
Well, Rush, I must admit you were right on about the Select Comfort bed.
It's been absolutely fabulous.
And all the people associated in getting the bed here, because we live in a rural area, especially Lindsay over at Premier Radio Networks and your friends Steve and John over at Select Comfort, they were just terrific.
And I'm sleeping better than ever.
My only sleep.
What's your sleep number out there, Patty?
45.
45.
What about yours?
75.
Oh.
Well, I've had it up to 75 on bad days.
And it's nice to have that adjustment.
75 means something to her, folks.
Select Comfort owners run around talking to each other, what's your sleep number?
45.
What's yours?
75.
It sends a message.
People know.
It's funny.
And you know, Rush, it's so bizarre because I'd never seen anything like that before.
And it was really interesting how they put it together.
And when I was told it was like a sleep mattress, I thought to myself, hmm, I remember camping with a kind of a mattress.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
And it wasn't even close.
I mean, it was.
Oh, no, no, no, those are the same.
No, no, that's just a matter of time.
Blew those up like a balloon, you know, and then you took them out there when the hoodow and the pole cats in a tent.
That's not what this is.
No, not at all.
But that was when they said it was a sleep, you know, an air mattress.
That's what my idea was.
So when I saw it, I was just absolutely amazed.
Absolutely amazed.
And it's so comfortable.
I mean, honest to God, I know that I've had trouble sleeping before, and this has really helped.
I sleep through the night, which is something that I normally don't do.
And I don't know if it's because of the bed or I'm thinking, oh, this is from Rush Limbaugh.
I really don't know.
It could be other things, too, but we won't ask.
And my only complaint is that it hasn't cured my husband's snoring.
It hasn't?
No, it hasn't.
Well, I don't think it claims to do that.
No, but I was hoping that it would do that.
No.
Other than that, it's a perfect bed.
Well, I'm glad you like it, and I really appreciate your calling and giving us this testimonial and expressing your thanks.
It's great to hear from you.
And it's, that's just, this is sort of like a red-letter phone call going to call like this.
So I appreciate it very much, Patty.
Chris in San Francisco.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I really missed the audio watermarks you were using a couple months ago.
I really missed them.
And I wonder if the danger passed that caused you to need to use them.
No, actually, I stopped using the watermarks because I got sick and tired of the emails and people saying they were irritated by it.
Hello?
It served its purpose.
I mean, I wasn't going to do it forever anyway.
But, you know, I was just trying to protect our intellectual property here.
And we had heard that soundbites being played on this program were being played on other programs, which meant theft.
And so we were just inserting our little IDs, i.e. the watermarks, so that they would be identifiable to us.
And it accomplished the purpose and it ran its course.
I guess if you like it, I've got some sound bites coming up.
We'll do one.
We'll go back, pretend we're doing back to the archives, and we'll put a couple watermarks in for you.
In fact, you know what?
We got some George Lakoff.
I have some George Lakoff soundbites because he addressed the Take Back America Wacko Democrat conference yesterday.
By the way, you know what?
He pronounces his name Lakoff.
Yes.
Yeah, I don't know if it's a result of anything or if that's the way he's always pronounced it, but he was pronouncing his name Lakoff at this thing.
And we've been calling him George Lakoff, rhymes with.
And so now he's calling himself George Lakoff.
But we'll put some watermarks in the Lakoff, Lackoff, whatever soundbites that we've got coming up.
And we've got an Al Sharpton soundbite coming up as well.
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Jason at Vero Beach, Florida.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Yeah, hi, Rush, public high school teacher Dittos from the land of Piper Aircraft and the oldest spring training home in Major League Baseball.
Just wanted to comment on the beach renourishment here in Inner River County.
We've been dealing with this for over a decade, and it's mainly been a county issue, but since the hurricanes, now it's become a state issue.
There's an aspect that needs to be looked at, and that's the fact that, at least here in Inner River County, the lion's share of property taxes, for as long as I can remember, have been paid by those people who are building those million-dollar homes on the beach.
You know, having learned from you, you know, I don't despise them for what they do.
I'm thankful for what they do and the success that they've had and the money that they've brought into my county.
And, you know, that's one aspect.
And of course, the other is the fact that people like to come here to visit our beaches.
And right now, we don't have any for them to visit.
So there's another economic impact.
Yeah, what he's responding to, folks, and we've talked to the Laguna Beach landslide out there, and I reminded people that a lot of beaches in Martin County of Jupiter Island and Vero Beach were destroyed by the two hurricanes that went through here two weeks apart last September and October.
And the people on Jupiter Island, particularly wealthiest people, well, the highest property values in the country are asking the state to rebuild the beaches.
And there's, how dare they?
Why, it's their beach.
Why?
They have multiple gazillions of dollars.
And his point is, hey, wait, they pay the majority of property taxes, which means they pay the majority of education funding.
They pay the majority of city services.
It's a state issue.
Beaches are a tourism feature of this state.
Why shouldn't the state rebuild the beaches?
Jason, I'll give you a little answer to this.
Well, you're right.
I don't have an answer.
I actually have an addendum to the story.
But your point is exactly right on.
But because of class envy in this country, all it took was the residents of Jupiter Island saying, hey, we think the state ought to rebuild the beach.
Man, the editorials and the letters to the editor, just those people caught hell in the media for daring to suggest it.
Now, I mentioned earlier that I live on the beach, and I do.
I live on an island that is separated from another island by an inlet.
And this inlet leads to the port of Palm Beach, where the gambling casino ship docks and leaves three or four times a day, and where cargo ships come in and a number of other pleasure craft come in to traverse the intracoastal waterway.
Well, this inlet and the port have to be dredged every year.
They have to be dredged so that the water is deep enough for these cargo ships and so forth, the cruise ships, to get in there.
They normally do the dredging in February.
And last time the dredger is here now, and they got a late start because the pumping station was damaged in the hurricanes.
But the dredger comes over from New Orleans.
They said what it says on the dredger, the ship.
And the ship's there for six weeks, the boat, and it dredges the inlet and the port and pumps the sand, which is largely what they're dredging from the sea bottom.
They pump the sand on our beach, and then bulldozers come along and move that sand and basically rebuild the beach every year.
We are taxed for this.
Those of us who live on the beach pay for this.
We get a letter, a certified letter from the town every year saying this is going to start, and your tax rate is X and so forth.
And people have come along who live south of me, who don't have nearly as large a beach.
They have attempted to get those of us where I live to pay even more taxes to truck the sand from the dredging down to their part of the island.
So the precedent is set that the homeowner pays, even though the state's doing this, so the city, the county, whoever's doing the dredging, can keep the port and the inlet deep enough for the cargo ships and other pleasure craft, whatever, to get in there.
But it's one of the costs of living on the beach.
And the assumption is, if you can afford to live there, you can afford to pay for this.
You can afford to pay for that.
You can afford to pay for that.
So when these guys at Jupiter Island said, hey, you got to rebuild our beach, there was, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Watch this.
And I don't know how it was adjudicated or decided if it even was.
Now, this year, just to finish the story, this year, the dredger could not do its normal February work because the pumping station down there at the inlet, which is necessary for the operation, was damaged in the hurricane and was not repaired until mid-April.
So, the dredger has been working the last five weeks.
I think he's got another week to go.
It's 24-7.
I don't know the guys on this boat, they only go in to refuel.
It's a 24-7 job.
But because it's turtle season, the bulldozers are not on the beach.
And the sand that's being dumped is not being leveled.
And they're just giant piles of sand down near the inlet.
So the dredger is attempting to compensate for this.
The dredger dredges up its load, comes out, and at various spots along the beach, just offshore, dumps the load, hoping that the current will bring the sand ashore and so forth and level off the beach.
But we can't have bulldozers on the beach.
And we can't have the operations because it's turtle season.
And the sea turtles come and lay their eggs.
So it's all screwed up until next February.
Less than the hurricane screws it up even more.
So this year, we're paying taxes for a bunch of sand hills down there where nobody can use them.
Go figure.
It's just, it's the price you pay, folks.
The worst thing you can do is complain about it.
You just have to try to see the humor in it.
All right.
Audio sound by time, as I promised.
This is Sharpton.
We're not going to do any watermarks here.
This is Al Sharpton this morning on the WB 11, Channel 11 TV in New York City.
He was with Sukanya Krishnan and John Mueller.
And Sukanya Krishnan said, a lot of political shows in the air right now.
What'll make your show unique besides your unique personality?
I'm not going to be left with or right with.
I'm coming right down the middle.
I think that most people that are on radio now don't understand Americans the way it is.
I mean, I bet you they couldn't name one hip-hop artist.
And most young people today are in hip-hop of all communities.
All right, I know you can name a hip-hop artist, but Rush Limbaugh has actually said that he would be your mentor.
So where does it all fit in?
You know, because I don't know if Rush can hang with a pee.
I don't know.
No, but I think no one has perfected the techniques of radio and really excelled like he has.
So I thought it was a very almost noble thing for him to say that he would do that.
I mean, he and I don't agree on politics.
Obviously, he and I have not been on the same page.
But for someone who is like the all-in-all in terms of talk radio to say, I'll show them how to do it since nobody's been able to do it.
I thought that was a very nice gesture on his part.
See, it's this kind of humility that led me to think that this might be a worthwhile project, folks.
It's that kind of humility that led me to, I am happy to help people in any walk of life accomplish anything.
And so that's Al Sharp today on New York City's Channel 11.
Now, we go into the George Lakoff-Lakoff audio, and we will use audio watermarks here to identify these as coming from our show.
This is on C-SPAN's Washington Journal today.
And the host, actually, a caller said, I'd like the public first to understand the word dialectic.
Look it up in your dictionary.
It first came to my mind when I first heard Rush Limbaugh use accusation and innuendos to persuade the people.
That was developed by George Hagel during the Karl Marx reign.
Karl Marx's reign.
And he persuaded it's a system of persuading people using accusations and innuendos.
In other words, they would throw out an accusation, they'd wait for a response, and then use part-truths to persuade the people that you're thinking like me or that you agree.
Hitler used it to persuade the people to allow the Holocaust.
Now, here's a typical liberal equating me with Hitler and the Holocaust, Joseph Goebbels and all that.
Now, this person doesn't even understand the definition of dialectic, particularly as it's used by the communists.
But here's here, anyway, with audio watermarks, here is George Lakoff-Lakoff's answer.
Okay, well, look, first of all, that's not what Hegel said about dialectic.
Dialectic in general is the idea of a dialogue.
The idea that when two people have a dialogue, you disagree and try to come to some common conclusion and some agreement where they come together.
That's not anything that Hitler used or anything of the sort.
Don't trust Rush Limbaugh for the meaning of words, especially words used by philosophers.
So that's just nonsense.
All right.
So a caller gets it totally wrong about dialectic, misassociates it with Hitler, and then he says, don't trust Rush Limbaugh for the meaning of words, especially words used by, I'm the one who coined the phrase words mean things.
So, you know, now this, I have to tell you something.
The Democrats are looking at this guy to help them out with words so they can recapture the popular thinking in the country.
You would think that this guy's really concerned about words and how well they're used.
He would look at people who are successfully doing what the Democrats want to do.
And instead, he's urging them not to listen to people like me.
Al Sharpton knows more about who to listen to on various things than George Lakoff-Lakoff.
Want to do one more?
I don't know what we can add to this.
A caller from Baton Rouge, Louisiana says, I've been noticing this for quite some time, especially when Clinton was running for office.
You know, they kept moving more and more towards Republican positions instead of explaining why this is bull.
I used to hear a lot of phrases like, well, money is the same thing as speech.
Well, I don't hear Democrats fighting back, and that's why I supported Howard Dean, because I did hear somebody actually fighting back and saying how much BS there is.
Well, on the issue of money, it's Murdoch has a lot of money.
He owns Fox News.
He owns a lot of stations all over the country.
The owner of Clear Channel has a lot of ideas of concern.
That matters.
It matters a great deal.
They can get ideas across that I can't because I don't have that much money.
No wonder these people don't have a prayer.
It's just, folks, this defies even worthy analysis.
Back here in just a second.
I tell you, you know, grab soundbite number five.
Lakoff does make a point here that could be moderately interesting.
Before I get to that, the French news agency has just released a story here, folks.
And actually, it's a story from the Fox News Radio network.
U.S. media needs a modern-day deep throat within the administration of President Bush to reveal how America was misled on Iraq, says George McGovern.
We need someone like that who's highly placed to tell us what's really going on.
We know we were misled on Iraq, McGovern told Fox News Radio.
I wish there were somebody of the deep throat time in this administration who are aware of what's going on, McGovern told Fox Radio.
George McGovern wants a deep throat.
I think we've already got him.
His name is John Kerry.
And John Kerry is going to confront Congress next week when he gets back.
There's an interview this week in a Massachusetts newspaper.
missed it.
John Kerry is going to confront Congress on the impeachment for George W. Bush for lying about intelligence and the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq based on the Downing Street memo.
So John Kerry, deep throat.
He's not in the administration, but he says he's got the goods.
A quick story here.
This is from Geneva.
This is the AP.
Urban dwellers are mainly responsible for global warming, but they see little of the effects that they cause because they have their biggest impact in isolated, sparsely populated regions, said the UN Environment Agency today.
Klaus Tepfer, head of the UN Environment Program, or UNEP, said cities are vast, cities use vast amounts of resources like water, food, and timber while also producing a large amount of waste.
People living in San Francisco or London may look at these images of deforestation or melting Arctic ice and they wonder what it has to do with them.
Well, their impact stretch beyond their physical borders, affecting countries, regions, and the planet as a whole.
San Francisco, London, urban areas are causing global warming.
But it's like the UFOs.
You know, UFOs, when they land, they always land in trailer parks.
The most intelligent beings in the world, when they fly across the universe to come here, never land at MIT.
So we're to believe now that the, well, they land in trailer parks and they take the people in trailer parks aboard the UFO and study them and learn about life on Earth.
That's what the stories always are.
They never go to MIT and steal some of the true smart intellectuals in our society or Harvard or any of that.
Same thing here.
We're now told that all these people living in San Francisco are polluting the planet or cutting down trees, but somehow it only affects the Arctic ice flows or some ravaged area in Africa.
Note the cities that Mr. What's His name here, Klaus Tepfer did not mention, didn't mention Moscow, didn't mention Beijing, didn't mention Addis Ababa.
That's Ethiopia for those of you in Riolinda.
For those of you in Riolinda, Ethiopia is in Africa.
One more George Lakoff by C-SPAN's Washington Journal.
The host says, you write in your book, Professor Lakoff, your work on politics started first back in the fall of 94.
My job is to study language and its relation to the mind and the brain.
And I picked up a copy of the contract with America and I asked myself a cognitive science question.
How much did the various arguments there have to do with each other?
You have people who are against abortion, and the same people are for the flat tax.
What does the flat tax have to do with abortion?
And when I started looking at the family values literature, what I found was it should be obvious, but it's not until you do it.
There are two models of the family that are projected by a metaphor we all have.
The nation is a family.
We have founding fathers.
We don't question that.
We send our sons and daughters to war.
Those models of the family, a strict father family and a nurturing parent family, lie behind and structure conservative and progressive values in America.
And it's the details that are important.
Now, folks, this is the man that Democrats have turned to to help them communicate to you, communicate better.
This guy is, he's the closest thing to being a Professor Erwin Corey without being.
You know, Professor Corey, why is two plus two for?
Oh, to answer that question, one must study the dialectic of the first place wage.
And you get wandering all over everywhere.
The answer to the question is he started the study of the Republicans in the contract with America in 1994, right?
It's the details that are important.
What's he saying?
We need to translate this word expert.
I'll tell you what he's saying.
Substance.
The substance of the contract with America made sense.
It wasn't word games.
It was the substance that made sense.
It's the details that matter.
Folks, this is too much fun.
Back in a sec.
I noticed that Klaus Tepfer, head of the UN Environment Program, essentially is blaming the blue states and the urban areas there for global warming, which fine with me.
A caller, I don't have time to get to.
Why do you pronounce school screw?
Because I hated it.
I felt screwed having to go.
Screwl, I hated it.
So that's why I say screw.
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