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Aug. 24, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, we haven't had one of these in a long time, but we've got one this hour.
We got an SUV update coming up, folks.
SUVs have been sort of silent out there, I'm sure, in protest to the high gas price.
It costs an SUV a lot to go to the grocery store.
Mike, and it's uh starting to irritate him.
We got a we got an update coming up.
We got other things too.
Just a couple more things on this uh Sheehan business, and then we will move on.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
All right, I have two stories here on uh President McCain.
Uh one is from the Arizona Daily Star, the other is from the uh the Tucson Citizen.
Uh the headline of the Arizona Daily Star story is Sheehan probably being used by anti-war groups, President McCain says in defending Bush.
President John McCain today defended President Bush's decision not to meet again with Cindy Sheehan, uh the grieving mother who has come to personify the anti-war movement.
Speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, President McCain said that sheehan was probably being used by organizations opposed to the U.S. mission in Iraq.
But uh the four-term Republican defended her right to protest, said the vigil that she's maintained was a symptom, not a cause of growing public discontent with the war.
Uh things are not good in Iraq.
He said we take one step forward and two steps back.
Uh then another story, this is McCain, uh, Bush write to avoid Sheehan.
This story quotes him even further, saying that if I was President of the United States, yes, I soon will be, uh, I probably wouldn't meet with her either.
President Bush is right to avoid the meeting with Cindy Sheehan, said U.S. President John McCain.
Uh it's impossible to put yourself in the position of the president.
Except for me, and say what he should or shouldn't do.
If I was president.
I probably I I I wouldn't meet with I wouldn't meet with her either.
She, Sailor, see.
Uh this is McCain said this to the Tucson Citizen Editorial Board, so I just I just wanted to get it on the record that uh McCain holds this view.
Now, more and more, uh that line that separates sports from politics is being crossed.
Some uh some local columnist that has a blurb in USA Today, Ian O'Connor has written something today about President Bush.
I forget what it was.
And then there's this piece.
This is incredible.
This is uh guy named Lloyd Garver, who writes a weekly column for CBS Sports Line.
Says here he's written for many television shows ranging from Sesame Street to family ties to Fraser.
He has also read many books, some of them in hardcover, it says.
So uh I I'm gathering that Lloyd Garver's a bit of a humorist, given that uh identifier there.
But he does write a column for Sports Line.
And I just I just I'm not so sure this isn't somewhat satirical, but nevertheless.
Here you go.
President Bush passed his recent physical with flying colors, and I mean flying.
He's 59 years old.
He doesn't he doesn't need cholesterol lowering or blood pressure drugs, eats healthy foods, he's lost eight pounds since December, and the most amazing revelation is that his resting pulse is 47 beats per minute.
That's not the kind of pulse rate usually associated with people in high stress jobs or situations.
It's a kind of pulse rate that well-trained athletes have.
To put it in perspective, the average pulse rate for a healthy male is about 72 beats a minute.
Unofficially, the average pulse rate for a writer on a deadline is 102.
President Bush, remarkable 47, is uh is down from an also exceptional 52 beats per minute in December.
Obviously I'm thrilled he's in such good health, but I have to admit that part of me would be fee would feel more comfortable if his pulse were just a little higher.
I I wouldn't want a president whose heart rate went off the charts every time there was a crisis in the world, but it would be nice if there was some indication that President Bush, like the rest of us, had some physical reactions to world events.
History's filled with world leaders who grew old before their time, especially when their countries waged war.
We can read about leaders who were unable to sleep, incapable of eating properly, and Could never take their minds off the killing that was going on.
I don't wish that on President Bush, but he seems to be on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum.
People have continued to die every day in Iraq, and his pulse hasn't gone up a beat, a beat.
In It's what it says here, people have continued to die every day in Iraq.
His pulse hasn't gone up a beat.
In fact, it's dropped five points since December.
Terror strike London, but his pulse is still 47.
Opposition to the war, even for members of his own party, all-time high this summer, still at 47.
Gas prices soar, and his pulse is still 47.
The grieving mother of a young man killed in battle, Cindy Sheehan wants to meet with him a second time, he's still at 47.
She camps out near his ranch, his heart beat still at 47.
People point out that defuse the situation, all he'd have to do is cut one of his bike rides short by twenty minutes and meet with her.
He refuses.
Forty-seven beats.
I'm not suggesting he doesn't care.
Everybody reacts to tragic events differently.
It's just surprising he doesn't seem to have the kind of physical reaction that most people have to these events.
My pulse goes up when I watch the news.
He actually is the news, but his pulse stays low.
So the question is whether being in such good shape and having a low pulse is an advantage for a world leader.
In ancient times when the heads of countries would actually fight each other, being in great physical shape was an obvious advantage.
Today, we could still probably shout to various foreigners.
My president could beat up your president, but it wouldn't mean very much.
These days, world leaders don't put on armor and fight.
They send others to do the fighting.
So while they're home and others are fighting, how important is it for them to ride mountain bikes and remain so calm?
Some might say that calmness should lead to rational behavior and decisions.
I can see that point.
Others might say that it's only when you get upset and are affected in your heart and gut by world events that you'll be motivated to take some action.
I can see that point too.
So let me just reiterate that I'm very happy that President Bush is in such great health, but ironically, ever since I've learned that his pulse has gone down, over the past few months, mine's gone up.
This is uh Lloyd Garver, CBS News Sports Line.
Well, it's actually an opinion piece, but he on the CBS News.com website, but he writes a weekly sports column at CBS Sportsline.com or sportsline.
It's part of the CBS website.
Uh so uh I've I I you tell me.
I I don't know if this guy's yanking our chains here, or doesn't sound like it to me, but uh there are a couple of attempts at humor in this piece.
So we hold out really but still it it's an interesting thing to note that somebody's worried because Bush isn't worrying.
Or doesn't appear to be worrying because his pulse rate isn't uh isn't high enough.
Now, the only reason I bring this to your attention is that after the physical, after Bush got his physical, there were I we had one of the pieces on this program.
So they were upset that he was in such good shape.
It's just it's not normal.
This is this is not he doesn't relate to most Americans this way.
We have a president who's too fit.
I wish I could remember who wrote it and what the uh well, the ultimate point of it was, but uh anyway, I just I well I just wanted to pass this along to you folks.
All right.
Trumpet fanfare signaling it's time for an update.
It's been a long time.
We've missed these.
As I say, it's been a long time, and I think the SUVs out there have been sort of depressed over the gasoline price.
Uh not getting around as much out there.
Uh and apparently now they've settled in with the price, they're starting to get back to normal.
It was all going as normally as the surgeon and patient expected it to go, and then a complication arose that nobody expected.
An SUV, I'm going to read to you here from the Associated Press, a sport utility vehicle rammed into the operating room toward the end of a cataract surgery.
No one was injured, but Dr. Bernard Spiers said that if the accident had happened months uh moments earlier, it could have hurt the patient's eye.
The doctor said he'd remove the cataract and he'd just use a plunger to implant a silicone lens when the SUV came crashing into the emergency room, a surge operating room, and threw him onto the partially sedated patient.
The plunger could have done some damage, he told the Star Ledger of Newark for Wednesday's newspapers.
This SUV crash happened at 837 Tuesday morning in the Northern New Jersey Eye Institute in South Orange.
Police said that Floyd Hunt, 77 of Newark, was trying to back his Toyota forerunner out of a parking space outside the operating room, but failed to put the car into reverse.
The front end of the red SUV smashed through a wall and stopped just inches from doctor and patient when his back tire snagged on a curb.
Speyer and his staff took the patient from the room, and Hunt was pulled from his Toyota by a passerby.
Hunt was leaving after making an appointment.
So SUV did not want to go into reverse.
SUV had a grievance with that operating room, that doctor, or somebody.
We haven't had one of these stories in a long time, of course, where the media reports and the opening sentences or a paragraph or the headline of the story that an SUV of its own volition, with its own heart, with its own mind, decides to crash or do something.
And yet the stories finally are back.
Glad to see them.
Quick timeout, back with more in just a second.
Stay with us.
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Title of the tune, Out of Space, just one of many fine tunes that are part of the greatest bump music rotation in all of media.
Rush Limbaugh here, the EIB network, America's anchorman doing the job the mainstream press used to do, at least partially.
Jared in Marietta, California.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey there, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Let me tell you, huge hero of mine, Kay.
I got your newsletter from my wife every month I was out there in Iraq, and you know, it was very uplifting, and damn one of the things that did keep me going throughout that time.
Thank you, sir.
Very, very well, you keep us going too.
Don't forget that.
All of you go on the room.
Well, I mean, I got back July of uh 2004, and you know, it's been down about a year and a half now.
It's been weighing on me, and I guess admittedly, Rush, I'm kind of a weak knee republican as far as this war goes.
And I just, you know, historically, this survival rates for wounded soldiers is very high, and that's terrific.
Casually rates extremely low compared to previous wars that U.S. has engaged in and taking part in.
But what I, you know, I just want to know for myself, at what point should I say to myself, you know, uh enough is enough.
I mean, at what point is there is it justifiable that I just put my head in my hands and say, God, this isn't getting any better.
I mean, for for whatever reason, I hope for the best.
God, I our troops are over there, our friends are over there, and I really hope for the best.
But at what point should I say to myself, Rush, hey, you know what?
Maybe this is this isn't working in its current strategy or what have you.
I mean, well, uh my first answer to the to the basic question is never.
I mean, uh that that that we're we' we we've we've not we've not gotten to the point where we're losing anything in Iraq.
I mean, we're talking about policy-wise.
Right.
Spent a lot of time on this yesterday.
The the uh uh the insurgents uh biggest victories are here in this country with the media, which is obviously affecting you, and with the with the American left, but the insurgents have not convinced the Iraqis to join them.
The insurgents still have to use car bombs and hidden attacks.
They cannot come out in the open.
The Iraqis don't want any part of them.
The elections took place, the Constitution timeline is taking place.
Um all of the reforms that uh were on the table are taking place, and I talked to people like you who come back.
Their morale is very high.
I think the casualty rate, and I'm glad you called because you reminded me of something that I had here in the stack uh that I might not have remembered I had, might not have gotten to today, but it's it's interesting to put casualties in context.
We've tried this on several occasions on this program.
Uh one of the examples I have used is World War II.
You can go back and look at the number of American casualties in the Battle of Bulge or at D-Day, the uh beaches of Normandy, or a training exercise for the D-Day invasion.
The number of casualties in all three of those instances dwarf the uh casualty in Iraq.
But I was I was uh perusing uh some blogs uh this morning, and I came across this at Power Line.
And it's uh posted by somebody named John Hindraker.
He said, We're conducting, and this is I want you to listen to this, Jared, and all of you, because this makes a lot of sense.
He said, We are conducting an experiment never before seen, as far as I know, in the history of the human race.
We are trying to fight a war under the auspices of an establishment that is determined to put the most charitable face on it to emphasize American casualties Over all other information about the war.
We're conducting an experiment experiment never before seen.
We are trying to fight a war under the auspices of emphasizing American casualties over all other information about the war.
It's interesting.
This is a good point.
People call here and when they talk about the war and express doubts, or it's always about the casualty.
We'll wonder why that is.
Probably because that's the vast majority of the news that you're getting.
The casualty rate is the is the single greatest element of the story that's reported, and the media does so, it seems happily.
They ever every every figure, like 1,000 fifteen hundred, now 1,800s of milestone, and they are breathlessly eagerly counting down to 2,000.
And it is unprecedented.
We've never done this before.
We never decided whether we're winning and losing a war based on the number of casualties solely.
We're never done this, where we're totally ignoring what is happening as a result of the action on the ground in the country.
But let's add some further context to this.
As Mr. Hindraker at Power Line wrote, the media's breathless tapulation of casualties in Iraq, now over 1,800 deaths, is generally devoid of context.
Here is some context.
Between 1983 and 1996, 18,006, 18,006 American military personnel died accidentally in the service of their country.
That death rate of 1,286 per year exceeds the rate of combat deaths in Iraq by a ratio of nearly two to one.
I don't recall any great outcry or gleeful reporting or erecting of crosses in the president's hometown.
In fact, I'll offer a free six-pack to the first person who can evidence, find evidence that any liberal expressed concern, any concern about the 18,006 American service members who died accidentally in service of their country from 1983 to 1996.
Does that help you any, Jared?
Russia, it does tremendously.
And you know, having history on our side, obviously that's something we can always look back on.
And just you know, 10,000 U.S. and Allied casualties in one day on D-Day.
And we put that in perspective.
I mean, the the death use side of bear.
I mean, we had uh close to twelve fatalities, just accidental fatalities from a year in the world.
Yeah, but you know, when that figure was finally reported, when that D-Day figure was finally reported, it was in the context of what an honor of great honor, what great sacrifice.
Look what that great victory cost.
It was a great victory, and no such word is ever used in reporting an Iraq.
Just the death rate.
And tropical storm Katrina Vandenhoovel is heading the heading uh our way.
Uh the uh National Weather Service or National Hurricane Center uh named a Tropical Depression 12 Tropical Storm Katrina Vandenhoval, and it might become Hurricane Katrina Vanden Hoovel.
Uh after it might hit hurricane status as it as it hits land in Florida, but here's the latest update on this.
No new information on the forecast track, but now they say it could move so slowly, Mr. Sturdley, that in some parts of Florida it could dump 20 inches of rain over the three or four days that uh the rains will affect us.
Starting tomorrow, I looked at the radar, there's some rain out there now over the Atlantic heading this way.
Uh, but it uh it is supposed to be raining all through the weekend once it starts, Thursday, Fridays, it could be 20 inches in spots.
So um now they're all worried about here is it closed schools, closed buildings, evacuate.
They can evacuate, we're not leaving.
Uh we're hanging around, so just want to let you know we'll be here.
How many of you people have seen this story out out of uh where is this?
I guess I guess I guess it's in Ohio.
Uh 490 female students at Timkin High School, 65 of them are pregnant.
Sixty-five of the four hundred and ninety female students at Timkin High School are pregnant, according to a recent report in the Canton Repository.
The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, video games, and lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.
For their part, now get this.
Scruel officials are not sure what has contributed to so many pregnancies.
But in response to them, the Scrual is launching a three-prong educational program to address pregnancy prevention and parenting.
The newspaper also reported its students will face mounting tensions created by unplanned child rearing responsibilities, causing students to quit school and plan for a GED.
This will make it difficult for the Canton City School District to shake its academic watch designation by the by the state.
According to the Canton, Ohio Health Department, statistics through July show that 104 of the 586 crumb crunchers born to Canton residents in Altman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between 11 and 19.
The newspaper reports that the non-Canton rate was 7%.
Canton was 15%.
Now I'll get to this in a second, but there's a related story here.
And it's in the New York Times today.
Study finds 29-week fetuses probably.
Probably feel no pain and need no abortion anesthesia.
Taking on one of the most highly charged questions in the abortion debate, a team of doctors has concluded that fetuses probably.
How do you conclude anything and then say probably have concluded that fetuses probably can't feel pain in the first six months of gestation, and therefore they don't need anesthesia during abortion.
Their report being published today in the journal The American Medical Association is based on a review of several hundred scientific papers, and it says that nerve connections in the brain are unlikely to have developed enough for the fetus to feel pain before 29 weeks.
Why don't you ask one?
Uh you know, when it's born early, if it feels just you know, squeeze it and see if it cries.
Not talking about an aborted fetus dawn, I'm talking about a preemie.
What is this?
I mean, here we go.
On the eve of the Roberts confirmation hearings, folks.
We have news.
Hey, don't worry as much as you are about abortion.
The fetus never knows it's happening.
Okay, now I only mention that because the people here back in Canton, Ohio don't know what's causing pregnancy.
Um is that not is that not absurdly?
That's what it says here.
School officials are not sure what's contributed to so many pregnancies.
But in response to them, the Scrual is launching a three-prong educational program to address pregnancy prevention and let me help out here.
It's what we do here.
We solve problems on the EIB network.
You maybe come up with a suggested curriculum for the Timkin High School three-prong educational program.
Number one, pregnancy.
Sex caused all the pregnancies.
For those of you at the Timkin High School principal's office and the school board, let me clue you in.
Sex caused the pregnancies.
You don't have pregnancies without sex, not at high school.
We're not talking about visits to the sperm bank here.
We're not talking about tubals.
We're not talking about about in vitro or any of that.
Sex caused the pregnancies, all of them.
Movies, TVs, video games cannot get you pregnant no matter how hard you try.
And there may be people trying.
We have some weird kids out there.
But no matter what you do with a video game or a movie or a television, it cannot get you pregnant.
If you have a lazy parent that gets you pregnant, we're talking about a crime.
But a lazy parent never got anybody pregnant either, other than in the dreaded cases that we, you know, whatever.
But classic, we don't want to face and confront the reality.
Sex is what caused the pregnancies.
Number two, prevention, because that's the three two of the three prongs here: pregnancy prevention and parenting.
Let me help again for those of you in Canton, Ohio.
Prevention, not having sex prevents pregnancy.
It works every time it's tried.
Uh only one time in recorded history.
And not everybody even believes this.
Has there been a pregnancy without sex?
But other than that one time, folks, it ain't possible.
You just do not have not among teenagers.
They were not talking about all these, you know, trips to the sperm bank and in vitro.
And number three, parenting.
As we help out with the third prong here.
It's very simple.
The message to all the students at Canton High School.
If you get pregnant, you become a parent.
That's what you need to know about parenting.
If you get pregnant or participate in a pregnancy, you become a parent.
If you just tell the students these three things, and then don't make the mistake of giving them a condom and a pack of cigarettes afterwards.
You'll find the pregnancy rate might drop.
You could give every student two TVs, two video games, and all the rented movies they want, and they will not get pregnant.
It will not happen.
And if it does, I want to be the first to know.
Because it would save a whole lot of emotional stress.
It's amazing.
Literally amazing.
Leave it up to the schools.
What's that?
No, I didn't I didn't learn any of this in sex ed.
There wasn't sex ed when I went to school.
What do you mean, where did I learn this?
My credentials are as an expert are being challenged now.
What are you saying?
How do I know?
Fayetteville, North Carolina, Ryan Walker.
That's probably what the left will say.
How does he know?
He can't tell us just because he thinks it doesn't make it right.
He says sex causes pregnancy.
Well, who's limbaugh?
Why do we have to listen to him?
Can you see the headline tomorrow?
Limbaugh, sex causes pregnancy.
It'll be a controversy.
Ryan in Fayeval, North Carolina.
Welcome to the program.
How are you doing, Rush?
Yay, cool out there, dude.
I'm doing well.
Hey, I just had a comment about that Cindy Sheehan thing.
Yes.
I just have to say, I'm a, you know, I'm originally from Vermont.
I'm I'm a liberal and my parents are liberal.
I'm also Iraqi war vet.
I just have to say I I I cannot agree with what she's doing up there.
And you know, I spoke to my parents about it.
They don't agree with it either.
It's just she's making a fool of herself, is what she's doing.
That's fine.
You know, her her son chose to join the military and chose to do that.
And you know, if he gave his life for his country, then that's what he chose to do.
And you know, she should be honoring him for doing that.
She shouldn't be, you know, she's basically making a mockery of it, and it's just it disgusts me.
That's what I have to say.
Well, I appreciate that.
You know, I uh uh in fact that the call screener says that when he was uh talking to you before you went on the air that you you said your guy your your parents protested while you were in Iraq.
That is correct.
They protested.
And they they when I had spoken with them when I was over there, they told me that they did.
And you know, they said they they wanted to make it very clear that hey, we're we're protesting the reason why we're there, not the fact that you're over there.
They said, you know, we support the troops, and you know, they made donations and stuff like that.
They sent me care packages and everything like that.
It was great.
But uh they they were just upset at the fact why we were there, and I think that that you know, to go about it that way, I think is is okay to do it that way, but what are you doing is just I'm not gonna be able to do that.
I don't think anybody yeah, nobody would argue with that.
One one thing though, I mean I and I appreciate what you said about when you said she hands making a fool of herself.
And I'm not trying to absolve her of the responsibility of her choice to participate in all this, but I have to say, folks, um she's being urged on.
Uh she is being exploited.
She's she is being used, and people are throwing her out there uh as as their face and voice, and it's it really is it's um it's it's embarrassing.
Uh we played.
In fact, grab grab that second of the two bites of her on MSNBC talking about Canada.
What was the number?
Uh, let me find the cue sheet here.
I guess it's the yeah, it's number uh number eight.
Just just listen to this, Ryan.
I don't know if you heard this earlier, but she was uh uh on uh MSNBC on the night of August the 15th, and Chris Matthews said uh in she had just said and answered her question that she would have still protested uh even if her son had gone to Afghanistan, because Afghanistan's no different than Iraq.
Which of course, that's even you know, that's not even what the hard left said.
Hard Left says Afghanistan at one time was okay, that's where Bin Laden was.
But Iraq is not Afghanistan.
But she's she sort of blurred that line.
He says, Well, Afghanistan, I mean, uh, they were harboring the Taliban, harboring Al-Qaeda, which is the group that attacked us on 9-11.
Now listen to this answer.
Then we should have gone after Al Qaeda, and maybe not after the country of Afghanistan.
That's where they were headquartered.
Should we go after their headquarters?
Doesn't that make sense?
Well, but there were a lot of innocent people and killed in that invasion too.
I'm not a military strategist.
But I'm saying that we're sending our ground troops in to invade countries where the entire country wasn't the problem, especially Iraq.
You know, Iraq was no problem.
And why do we send in um invading armies to march into Afghanistan when we're looking through a forest elect group of people in that country?
So I believe that our trips um should be brought home out of both places.
We're obviously not having any success in Afghanistan.
Osama bin Laden is still on the list, and you know, that's that's who they told us was responsible for.
So um, you know, you listen to that, and you just bow your head or you shake your head.
It's um it's almost cruel and unfair to comment on that.
It it it's it, I mean, as I said earlier, where this woman wouldn't wouldn't get past our call screener.
Uh she wouldn't qualify to appear on this program.
We I mean it's obvious now why they have not let her appear as the lone guest for an hour on say meet the press or nightline or what have you.
But um, you know, I I heard that and I said, this it's it's it's really pathetic and and sad what people who are supposedly her friends uh are allowing to happen in her name and uh and in her voice.
This is just uh I I just I don't know.
I I don't feel right even commenting on this, folks.
I just don't.
It would it would be like taking a call from a a seventh grader and expecting them to have an adult education.
You just couldn't do it.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Political correctness is out of control in this country.
Rochester, New Hampshire.
A Rochester doctor says that he is mad at being called on the carpet for telling a patient she was obese and needed to lose weight.
His name is Dr. Terry Bennett.
He says the complaint that the woman was insulted by his advice is baseless.
It's an epidemic in the U.S. and it's croaking us, Bennett said.
It's a lecture he said he gives to many of his overweight patients.
It's your weight.
There are dozens of programs.
You don't have to come here and be my acolyte.
You can join Jenny Craig, you can go to see Weight Watchers.
Bennett said that he tells obese patients their weight's bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to write a letter to the Board of Registration and Medicine, which passed it on to the attorney general's office in New Hampshire.
Bennett said the attorney general's office tried to get him to settle the matter by agreeing to attend a medical education course, which he refused to do.
Did I sleep with somebody?
Did I give somebody drugs?
Was I careless?
No.
End of story, Dr. Bennett said.
That should have been the end of it.
Now other overweight patients are coming to his defense.
Medical board would not comment, but member Kevin Costin said, physicians, physicians have to be professional with patients, and remember, everyone is an individual.
You should not be inflammatory or degrading to anyone.
So this ended up at the New Hampshire Attorney General's office.
Because some overweight woman walked in and a doctor.
I mean, hell, we've got Center for Science and the Public Interest out there.
We got everybody claiming everybody's overweight and fat.
The doctor is supposed to be doing this for people's good.
He gets called before the board.
Go to a sensitivity training session and we'll drop this.
And he said uh no.
He was he was he was on the Today Show talking about it.
Two comments.
This is the first.
No.
What I said was statistically speaking, you're gonna outlive your husband who is also significantly obese.
And then you're gonna find yourself in a field of many, many obese women who are not desirable on polling information released by Associated Press, NPR, and so forth.
I mean, obesity is not a new topic for the for the media.
You guys have been all over it.
Let me tell you one other thing that I think is important.
About sixty percent of us, depending on how you read the numbers, are obese.
About sixty to seventy percent of providers are afraid to confront obese patients, and it begins with pediatricians.
So what happened apparently is this guy tried to tell her, look, your husband's gonna croak before you do, because he's fat, and it's gonna leave you alone as an obese woman, and nobody's gonna like you.
Nobody's gonna be interested in you because we know that apparently she does well, I'm not gonna put up with this, and she writes the letter.
Um so um the next questionist was uh Mount Our.
He said, You don't think that this case uh should rise to an investigatable offense?
Well, the rules at the Board of Medicine read as follows, and that's in the article in the Union Leader, that we do not address bedside manner issues, we do not uh do not address rudeness issues, we do not have addressed fee issues.
So, what in the hell is going on here?
This is a year, and they're trying to get me to admit that I am a disruptive physician for telling somebody the truth.
I I think this is beyond outrageous.
Wait till it goes two years, Doc.
And it still isn't resolved, and then talk to me.
Back after this, stay with us.
All right, let me uh yeah, Santa Rosa, California.
Joe, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Good morning, Rush.
Good morning, America.
Hubbahubba from an old sergeant in his twenty first year of service in the 101st Airborne, home on leave.
Thank you, sir.
Our perspective uh in regards to the anti-war activists and uh Mississian, and and she's in my prayers, um, is we fight for uh the freedom of speech and whatnot, and the morale amongst our troops is extremely high.
Uh i.e.
Afghanistan.
We've been there for four years, and it's gone so well it's not in the media much.
It's kind of like one of the forgotten battles.
But uh the morale amongst us is very high.
And uh, like I put the things in perspective in regards to the collar Jared, uh, as far as troops lost in the last four years.
Uh 9-11 in 15 minutes, we lost three thousand innocent Americans and a little under four hundred uh firefighters.
So uh uh relatively speaking, in five years of frontline combat uh we've sent a lot more terrorists to uh and seventy two.
And you know so that that is we never hear about that.
We never get enemy casualty numbers, and that's that is a fabulous point.
Uh Joe, God bless you.
And uh the American people listening to this program love hearing you say what you said.
Thank you so much for waiting and appearing on the program today.
We're out of time, folks.
Fastest three hours of media, they're gone back tomorrow, though.
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