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Oct. 11, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 11, 2005, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I thought so.
We've got we got some more Louis Free on the Today Show with Katie Courick challenging his uh objectivity and this is exactly what I told you is going to happen to mainstream press circling the wagons around Bill Clinton once again.
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The uh the headline says it all, millions will flee degradation.
One of the biggest sources of refugees is land degradation and desertification.
For those of you in uh Rio Linda, we're not talking about dessert.
Uh uh that you would have, say, after a beer.
Uh desertification is the making a desert out of a once plush jungle, for example.
There will be as many as 50 million environmental refugees in the world in five years' times.
They just keep at it.
They just keep at it laughingly so when they fail to make any ground here in persuading people.
Now, environmental refugees.
What will we call these uh refugees in Pakistan environmental refugees?
That is the conclusion.
50 million environmental refugees in the world in five years' time.
That's the conclusion of experts at the United Nations University.
Oh my God, I didn't even know they had a school.
It's bad enough that they just have the UN.
There's a UN university.
How do you get in?
It is all past fail, but I uh I've I never heard of this place.
Dad, when I grow up, I won't go to the United Nations University.
Really, little Johnny, what do you want to learn to do?
I want to learn to be corrupt.
And get away with it, Dad.
And yeah, take a cutest blue helmets that can wear blue helmet for free.
United Nations University.
The uh experts at the United Nations University believe that already environmental degradation forces is many away from their homes as political and social unrest.
No, no, no, no, that can't be.
That simply cannot be.
When you look at what Bush has done to New Orleans, what Bush has done to Florida, what Bush has done to Louisiana, what Bush has done to Mississippi, what Bush tried to do to Texas.
I mean, look at all the political refugees in this country, folks.
How can they possibly be a smaller group than what the UN university is talking about?
The UN University issued its statement to mark UN Day for disaster reduction.
Oh.
Well, that makes me feel confident.
The UN is working on disaster reduction here, folks.
Yanos Bogardi, director of the United Nations University's Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany, said there are many different environmental issues involved.
There can be interactions between them.
In poorer rural areas, especially, one of the biggest sources of refugees is land degradation and desertification, which may be caused by unsustainable land use interacting with climate change, amplified by population growth.
A second issue is flooding, uh, caused, I would say, by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere superimposed with probably some natural fluctuation.
Nature may have a little bit to do with it, folks, but it's carbon-based.
All these floods and hurricanes.
This this university is on thin ice here, folks, because generally what causes floods is is rain and water.
And you don't know, you don't need to go to the uh uh United Nations University.
That is a good question.
Do they have a football and basketball team?
I I the peacekeepers, that's what their the logo is.
UN peacekeepers.
I haven't seen their schedule.
I just do I know they never win.
Uh let's see, that's like the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had a university once in uh in Ohio.
No, it was in Iowa.
Maharishi U. And uh, and they did have a basketball team, and their chant was block that vibe.
Block that vibe.
I don't know what the UN university peacekeepers uh I don't even know if they have cheerleaders.
The projected figure of 50 million environmental refugees is derived from a number of previous reports, including the 1999 World Disasters Report from the International Red Cross.
This calculated that natural disasters in the previous year had created more refugees than wars and other armed conflicts.
Oh, no wonder the UN's come out against disasters.
Uh it is can somebody show me the pro-disaster uh lobby.
Who are the pro-disasters other than Bush?
Who who's out there pro-disaster?
I mean, you gotta have a pro-disaster if you're gonna have a credible anti-disaster movement, and that's what the UN university says they are.
Uh the uh the uh International Red Cross said that falling soil fertility.
For those of you in real linda, that means the soil can't get pregnant.
Drought, flooding, and deforestation drove twenty-five million people from their homes, with many of these environmental refugees joining already fragile urban squatter communities.
It sounds to me like that this is the UN whitewashing a bunch of communist dictatorships and thugs, because if you no, seriously, if you want to know why most people fleeing for their lives, they're running from oppressive governments.
And here's the UN and his stupid university of theirs, trying to say that it's disasters and desertification and environmental calamity and all of this.
Uh we have proven in this country that we can live with environmental disaster.
We live where environmental disasters take place or natural disasters or whatever, and we rebuild.
We don't flee from them.
People flee from other things.
Now the other things might include a government that's incapable of rebuilding because there's there is no good, it's just a it's a dictatorship.
And that's what the UN is missing, and that's what they don't have the honesty to admit.
And in fact, they probably do know it, but they can't afford to admit it because they're a bunch of communist dictator thugs themselves.
When you get right down to it, the the BBC did a survey.
Get this.
I think we reported this.
I just saw it again in the news, but we reported this some time ago.
The BBCs did a survey.
Who would you like to see run the world?
Number one, Wilson Nelson Mandela.
Number two was Bill Clinton.
They wanted Clinton to be the deputy vice whatever of the world with Mandela running the show.
So don't, I mean, but but this is just, you know, we're having fun with it, but the best the vast majority of people that flee for their lives are fleeing other human beings, generally found in their government, comprised of their armies and police forces.
The uh John Kerry uh campaign, and there is one, carries around, he's he's he's fiddling around in uh in Iowa and New Hampshire, by the way, and there's there's only one reason to do that uh in a year like this.
Democrat lawmakers, including Massachusetts Senator John Kerry want the administration to add two billion dollars to an energy program that helps low-income families pay their utility bills.
Carrie says that funding for the program is not kept up with rising fuel prices.
The former presidential candidate says the extra money is critical to prevent a looming crisis.
The director of Catholic Social Services in Pennsylvania calls it a life and death uh situation.
And oh, have you heard about this?
New Hampshire, the worst floods to hit Southern New Hampshire in 25 years, killed at least three people.
They forced a thousand people to evacuate their homes, prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency.
Now let's see what the people of New Hampshire do.
Let's see if they flee to Massachusetts or Vermont or to Rhode Island, or if they rebuild there, thus blowing to smithereens the whole UN university theory of environmental degradation causing refugees.
This country doesn't have refugees because nobody wants to leave this country.
No matter what it is that uh that happens.
And there's boy, there's environmental news all over the place.
The worst drought in more than 40 years is damaging the world's biggest jungle.
The word for that these days is rainforest, but it's a jungle.
And this is plaguing the Amazon basin with wildfire, sickening River dwellers with tainted drinking water and killing fish by the millions as streams dry up.
What's awful for us is that all these fish have died, and when the water returns, there'll be barely any more, said Don Isvaldo Mendonca de Silva, 33-year-old fisherman.
Nearby, scores of piranhas shook in spasms in two inches of water.
What was left of the once flowing Piranha de Monkiri River, an Amazon tributary.
Thousands of rotting fish lined its dry banks.
Some scientists are blaming higher ocean temperatures stemming from global warming, which have also been linked to a recent string of unusually deadly hurricanes in the why global warming has become a catch-all.
You got a drought, it's global warming.
Hurricanes and floods, it's global warming.
Snowstorms, it's global warming, hurricanes, earthquakes, it's global warming.
Pythons eating cats and trying to eat alligators.
Global warming.
If the warming of the North Atlantic is the smoking gun, it really shows how the world is changing.
Since Dan Knipstatt, an ecologist from the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Research Institute, funded by the U.S. government.
Other scientists say severe droughts are normal and uh occurred in cycles before global.
Sorry, I'm doing this the wrong way.
Other scientists say that uh severe droughts were normal.
Normal.
And uh occurred in cycles before global warming started.
But to believe that.
To believe that, you have to believe that there was never any flooding prior to what, 1980?
There was never any drought prior to 1980.
The Kansas Dust Bowl never happened.
Uh we'll be back in just this.
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Uh 800 282-2882 is the number to call Karen in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Hi.
Yeah, Rush, I wanted to ask you.
I heard you talking earlier about habitat for humanity.
And it seems like every time you mention that, you mentioned Jimmy Carter.
And I I just wanted to know what it seems like you have something negative against the organization.
And I know that it's um it's nonprofit.
Uh people volunteer to build the houses.
I think they even require those who have houses built for them to help out, you know, sweat equity, that type of thing.
And is it just because it's a Jimmy Carter thing, or is there something about this organization that I really don't know?
I don't have any animus against habitat for humanity.
Yeah, well, I'm just saying animus.
I just it just seems like you're always saying, oh, it's habitat for humanity.
No, this is why you need it.
Put it in context.
You heard me talking about habitat for humanity because there was a bunch of media hypocrisy.
Just two weeks ago, there's Matt Lauer on the Today Show, outside their set at 30 Rock.
He's out on the street, and all week long, they're building a Habitat for Humanity house to show how it's done and so forth.
Yes.
Where it's not going to be used, it's going to be dismantled so they can take it out of there.
Is that true?
And then today, Matt Lauer giving Bush all kinds of grief for going down and helping to hammer some nails in a habitat for humanity uh project, calling it just a photo op.
It's well, what the hell was Matt Lauer's thing if not a photo op?
What is Bill Clinton's whole life if not a photo op?
Yes, I'm not sure.
Jimmy Carter used Habitat for Humanity to try to rebuild his lost presidential legacy because of his worst four years in office of any president in my lifetime.
So that but uh nothing against Habitat for Humanity.
I think they could use some better supporters.
I see.
But as far as what the program itself does, no, I've I've no I've no brief against them.
That's good to know.
I was afraid that you were, I don't know, almost maybe not want to give money to them because I wasn't sure anything about it that I didn't know about.
No, no, if you want if you not at all.
I've never said anything close to that.
I just this is this media criticism uh of mine.
I mean, I just I think it's absolutely I it it it I was beside myself today when I see this.
You know, and here's Matt Lauer quoting Democrat A, Democrat B, Democrat C, Democrat A says that this is just photo up.
Democrat B says you really don't mean this.
Uh Democrat Democrat C says uh this wouldn't have been necessary if you hadn't let the hurricane happen.
We're quicker with a response or some such garbage.
Uh and then and uh what do you say to these criticisms?
And Bush said you're talking to a lot of Democrats today, Matt.
Yeah, of course.
But you know, did anybody criticize NBC for trying to gain some kind of ratings advantage for for slobbering all over habitat for humanity?
Why is it okay for Matt Lauer to ham hammer some nails?
Or Katie Currick or whoever did it uh for five days straight on the Today Show, it's not okay for Bush.
Why is it okay for Jimmy Carter, not okay for Bush?
Why is it just become a cheap little photo op?
I'm not saying that Habitat for Humanity people are behind that.
I'm saying the media is behind it.
It folks, it tees me off.
If Habitat Humanity comes up in a conversation where I am teed off, I can understand where some of you might think I'm teed off at Habitat for Humanity, but I'm not.
So I appreciate the call, Karen, the opportunity here to clarify.
Since we're talking about the today show, uh Katie Currick interviewed Louis Free today.
And I wish I had made some big big nobody would have taken these bets because they were so understandably correct.
The mainstream press surgling the wagons around slick willy, Derschleichmeister and Hillary and so forth.
Louis Free has written a book, and they are just savaging the guy, Katie Courick.
We have three bites here.
Um she said, many people have viewed this book in reviews and newspaper accounts so far as your effort to settle scores with the by the way, still no cover of Louis Free on Timer Newsweek.
No excerpt from Louis Free's book in Timer Newsweek, nor is it serialized in the Washington Post.
Just thought you'd like to know.
I think time is uh story on a Mormon church, maybe Louis Free's a Mormon.
Newsweek is on aging and getting old and dying and how horrible it is.
And that's because the editors are getting to that age and they're worried about it.
Maybe it's time's one and newsweek's the other, but in either case, you can't find Louis Free anywhere in these magazines.
His book or on the uh on the cover.
So uh Katie, nevertheless quoting these these people.
Many people, uh view your effort to settle scores.
There's no love between lost between the two of you.
That's very, very clear.
Do you think your personal animus might be coloring your professional perspective so much that you can't be objective about what was really going on under in other words?
Why are you lying, you little former FBI skunk?
Why are you coming on this show and writing this book and lying?
Don't you have the guts to admit that Clinton was a great man?
I don't think I ever had a personal animus with respect to the president.
I mean, he wrote about me in his book.
He talked about me publicly and critically while I was the director.
I never responded.
Because I don't think you do that as a public servant.
But the book is really about what we did and the fact that we had to investigate the president of the United States.
Yeah.
And and so Katie says, well, in terms of technology, you write, we were in the dark ages.
When you say the administration were not put in a war footing, they didn't allocate the resources that your department needed.
Is that what you're contending?
Yeah, let me just uh talk about that for a second.
Um, you know, we had asked for 430 million dollars in 1995 for computer technology.
We got over the course of the next five years about uh 200 million dollars.
We asked for 1900 uh new resources, Arabic speakers, linguists, we got 76.
We asked for 381 million dollars, we got five.
We asked for 894 people, we got 17.
Doesn't uh doesn't sound good.
Now, I I left uh we've got a little montage here uh of Katie and her questions.
Check out her questions and her tone.
This is uh classic illustration of the media uh circling the wagons to defend Clinton.
Why did you want to write this book?
Do you think your personal animus might be coloring your professional perspective?
You really didn't have time to focus on critical issues of the day.
You came under blistering attack by the 9-11 Commission, which was a bipartisan group of very intelligent individuals.
How can you honestly say that you believe the FBI really focused enough on potential terrorism in this country?
You talk about the Bureau being hamstrung.
Is that what you're contending?
Shouldn't you have raised a red flag earlier?
A lot of people say you were never in those meetings.
The president did push the Saudis, and you really don't know what you're talking about.
Okay, no, it's okay as far as it goes.
I mean, I I can understand anybody being criticized.
Somebody writes a book.
The problem is that normally when somebody comes out and writes a book about a former president and ex-president, or a powerful political figure.
That person is celebrated.
Kitty Kelly writing about the Bushes.
That idiot who wrote the book on how to assassinate George W. Bush in the 2004 campaign.
We must read what that man wrote.
We must understand the rage that's driving these people.
Yeah, it's like we have to understand the rage of the New Orleans cops that beat up the guy who now says he wasn't drunk.
Normally, when these people, these whistleblowers come both, they are celebrated.
They roll red carpets rolled out for them.
But when somebody comes out and throws to blow the whistle on Bill Clinton, that person is savaged and suspected and set up for destruction.
Challenged.
Not believed.
In other words, there's a term for it.
He's Aldridged.
As in Gary Aldridge.
A quick timeout, my friends.
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Folks, have you heard uh the new term excuse me, new term uber sexual.
You snurdly, you've heard it.
I just heard it for the first time today.
I've known that there's metrosexual and heterosexual and homosexual, bisexual, uh, animal sexual, trisexual, and all that, but I've not heard of uber sexual.
Let me tell you what uber sexual is.
Well, first, snurtly, you tell me what you.
Oh, well, then what Disney says he doesn't know what it is, but you've okay, all you've done is heard the term.
All right.
Well, uh the the uh the definition for this, we got three audio soundmates.
Grab 15, 16, and 17 there, Mike.
This is from the PR Newswire.
So that should say somebody's trying to create a new word here.
Headline, Bono, the ultimate uber sexual.
Advertising giant JWT names top 10 uber sexuals, men who ooze M-ness, self-awareness, self-confidence, and almost always get the girl.
That's an uber uh sexual.
And Jay Walter Thompson is JWT, the big advertising agency, world's oldest advertising agency, largest one in America, has named the top ten men that it defines as uber sexuals.
These are the men who embrace the positive aspects of their masculinity or Mness.
That would be confidence, leadership, passion, compassion, uh, without giving in to the stereotypes that give guys a bad name, disrespect toward women, emotional emptiness, complete ignorance of anything cultural outside of sports, beer, burgers, and athletic shoes.
Uh Marion Saltzman, the executive vice president, points to uber sexuals in her new book, The Future of Men as a significant segment of the young male demographic that advertisers and marketers too often overlook.
Too often overlook.
Too often overlook.
There isn't one commercial on an NFL game that has anything to do with anybody who's over 12, including the beer spots.
Anyway, let's go to the audio sound bites here because you'll find out who these people.
I mean, I've got the list here.
But let's see what let's see what happens uh uh on the audio sound bites first.
Uh the let's see who is this?
Uh Al Roker is interviewing uh Marion Solzman of JWT and Ira Matha.
They are the authors of this book, The Future of Men.
And here's your Al Roker asks them what what is an uber sexual?
Excellence.
Excellence.
Excellence in everything.
Fine wine, good cigar, uh, understanding the finer things.
That's sort of quintessentially it.
Uber sexual is actually that much more machine.
He's more willing to go out with other guys for dinner.
He doesn't care what people think.
He's not worried people gonna think he's gay.
He knows he's straight, and that's all that matters.
Till they got to there, they were talking about me.
I always worry if people are gonna think I'm gay.
Um, noon, look at uh fine wine, good cigars.
That's me.
Understanding the finer things, uh confident, rather go out with the guys for dinner, doesn't care what people think.
Man, that's me.
Let's keep going.
So uh Roker says, you like the people they selected on the on the list.
Uh you You like Bono, you have Bill Clinton, uh, George Clooney, or are these the classic uber sexual men?
In Hollywood, when you become famous, you're pampered a little bit too much, and you can lose your uber sexuality.
You gotta make sure you get too many facials, too many minicures, and you carry your own luggage every now and then.
Talking about basically the alphabet.
We want the women really want is the great guy.
If you read what the uber male is really supposed to be, I think Rabono fits it because not only is he madly in love with his wife, capable to keep up a commitment, and he's passionate about causes, he's outside of the and he also has a mistress.
They conveniently leave that his wife knows about.
She's cool with it.
I guess that's part of being an uber sexual.
Okay, and the final bite.
Uh Roker said.
It doesn't that no, no, no.
The Uber sexual definition does not include having mistresses.
That's the point.
Bono snuck one in on them, and they don't know about it, I guess.
Or they do and they're ignoring it.
That's all I'm saying.
Uh all Roker's final question.
Do you believe this is all to sell a book, this new term uber sexual?
As though this is something new.
This kind of guy is something new.
They've got the definition right, but the people on the list don't fit it at all.
That's the problem.
Well, you hear the people on the list.
Definition is right.
By this definition, I'm one.
And I'm sure when they think of uber sexuals, this pair that wrote this book, I would be the last person they would think to include on it.
Here's the last question here.
Uh the uh Roker says, uh, final definition.
What is an uber sexual?
He already asked that.
Let's see what answer they give him this time.
To keep it simple, the bottom line is he's got to be a provider.
He's got to be a woman, a guy that a woman can rely on.
No, that's a good one.
Bottom line, uber sexual is a guy that has the capability to be trusted, who's honest, who's respectful, and can make you a priority.
You know, it just never ceases to amaze me.
There's nothing new in any of this.
In fact, this is what men were before feminism came along and neutered them.
Feminism came along and neutered men.
Men weren't supposed to be any of that.
They were supposed to be sensitive and be in touch with the feminine side.
And these liberal women married these guys and turned them into actual wimps.
And and now the feminist movement's imploding, and women in the feminist movement want what is now being called the new man, the uber sexual, which is simply what a man was before they came along and started changing basic human nature.
Now, here's the list.
What else?
You know what else amazes me about this?
I don't care how long you live, how old you are, when in human history you lived, it seems like people are obsessed and preoccupied with finding the perfect mate.
Does it not?
I mean, they're writing advice books.
The women magazines are writing advice books for 75-year-old women on how to find your perfect mate.
It's just, it's nothing wrong with it.
I just, I'm just it's so universal that it's.
Here's the list.
Number 10 on a list of uber sexuals is John Stewart.
Number nine is Guy Richie.
Number eight is Pierce Brosnan.
Number seven is Ewan McGregor.
Number six is Barack Obama.
Number five is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Number four is Donald Trump.
Number three is Bill Clinton.
Number two is George Clooney.
And number one is Bono.
And they have descriptions why each of these guys qualify.
Which one are you most curious about, Mr. Snerdley, of the top ten that I read here that you'd like to know why they are Uber sexuals?
Which one?
Trump?
Okay, here's what they say about Trump.
Love him or hate him.
Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred.
Women find his power almost as much of a turn on as his money.
Now is this what feminism has become?
None of that was supposed to matter.
That was supposed to be turn off.
All of that was supposed to be a turn off.
Right, Dawn?
All of it.
Especially the money.
Because you were just providing for yourself and you weren't supposed to be dependent.
Who else?
How does Guy Richie get on this?
Guy having can't even make a movie that people want to watch.
His man.
He married a married Madonna.
Well, you can call it marrying up.
Uh Guy Richie, his masculinity is unquestioned, even though he's married to one of the world's top music icons.
In fact, gravitating towards strong women tends to be an uber trait.
Uh Pierce Brosnan, uh, Ewan McGregor.
Who's Ewan McGregor?
Was it was he in this new Star Wars movies or something?
I don't even know who it is.
Okay.
Barack Obama.
Okay, let's see what they say about Barack Obama.
At the DNC, Barack Obama managed to marry sentimental love of family with a new face of patriotism, and he looks sharp in a suit.
Oh, wow.
Well, man, turn me on.
Dazzle me with blindness.
That qualifies Barack Obama.
And here's Schwarzenegger.
Now, I love Arnold Schwartz.
Don't misunderstand, but LA Times, all these babes that he's out there pinching and uh groping and so forth, lawsuits and stuff.
Well, that's what they're saying, but it's the same type of people that now put him on the list.
He journeyed from bodybuilder to mega movie star to politician, all the while is keeping his shoes buffed and hair in place.
He succeeded in every challenge he's faced, and he has a candidate for a wife.
Uh no, no, no, no.
It's not just Richard Powerful.
You've got to be, aside from Schwarzenegger.
You've well, Trump to you've got it, you've got to be, you gotta be lib.
Uh John Stewart, outspoken with regard to what other people think, as evidenced by his skewering his hosts during this year's advertising week, supportive of women, and pokes fun at himself in a self-deprecating way.
We're being led to believe here that these all unique traits.
That only these ten guys have these traits.
And these traits are nothing special.
Polk's fun of himself, outspoken without regard to what other people.
George Clooney appreciates the finer things in life, including his villa on the shores of Lake Como, strongly bonded with and loyal to a cadre of male friends.
His timeless image has allowed him to rise some B sitcoms to box office hits, some of which he's directed and or produced.
And Bono, global, socially aware, confident, compassionate, he commands a huge base of followers who are fans of his music and his humanitarianism.
Isn't he wonder?
Rumors are swirling around a Nobel Peace Prize.
Okay.
Okay.
Oh.
Oh.
and Who you're getting you're getting a who asked.
Oh, Mr. Snerdley is Mr. Mr. Snerdley is getting an instant message from a uh a female friend who wants to know where I get this information that Bono has a mistress.
He's outraged.
Well, unfortunately, I can't tell her to go look it up.
That's the...
You know, you people are just going to have to trust me.
Okay, it's half Maya Culpa time and half gonna cover my bets the other way, time.
Uh the person who confided in me long ago about the uh extramarital status of the rock and roll super crooner Bono has just now sent me a clarifying note saying, uh, maybe that was just speculation.
I wouldn't say it in the air.
I said, well, thanks for telling me this so many years ago.
Definitively.
Nevertheless, I will retract it, since I personally don't know it, and frankly, I can't imagine anybody.
It's rock and roll.
I can't imagine anybody being surprised, but but that's compounding my error, and so I take that back to Charter, uh Carter, sorry, in uh Wallace this is Fertile Minnesota.
Welcome to the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Megadles from Northern Minnesota.
Thank you, sir.
Say, uh, I was wondering um that the environmental regulations have driven up the price of fuel and home heating.
Up here, uh wood has become a pretty hot commodity.
I was wondering what the environmentals are gonna think when we start cutting down their precious trees.
You better be careful, because you know, I I have some friends who used to have a chalet in Vale, and they would go out there for uh the winter time.
They go out for Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's and a couple other times in the early winter, uh, late winter to ski.
And they weren't allowed, in Vail, Colorado, they weren't allowed to burn wood in the fireplaces.
Had to have gas logs.
And because environmentalists have succeeded out there.
That is absurd.
We're talking about a renewable crop, a renewable resource.
It's absolutely absurd.
So that has happened.
Let me tell you something.
If you want to know where the, because the thrust of the question is, where do the environmentalists come down?
The question of human life versus the environment they will always find in favor of the environment.
Why do you think there's so much starving in Africa?
There are many reasons.
One of the reasons is that worldwide environmentalists are telling African people what they can and can't do with their land.
They can't do this with it.
They can't grow cattle on it.
They can't farm it.
They can't do this because it must be kept pistine.
Folks, the blood of a lot of people's misery is on the hands of a bunch of leftist activists.
Around the world.
It's this story earlier today from the UN University about all these refugees fleeing disasters.
They're fleeing oppressive, tyrannical, murderous governments is what they're fleeing.
We have disasters all over this country all the time.
People do not flee.
They rebuild.
It's just, it's, it's asinine.
So your question, basically, the environmentalists will come down in favor.
Well, look at, look at, look at, look at the timber companies.
They're already siding with spotted owls over jobs in the, in the lumber business.
So your question is an easy one to answer.
Gus in Edinburgh, Pennsylvania.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
I'm 16 years old, Rush, and it's definitely an honor to talk to you, sir.
Thank you.
My, my basic thing is I want to talk about Harriet Meyers, the nomination here.
You know, I, I'm a conservative.
I'm very passionate about politics.
Remember on your site, love listening to you.
And I think the president, when he nominated her, I, like you've said, I don't have anything against her personally, but I think the fact that in my opinion, there are more qualified people to do this job worries me a little bit.
You know, it's, it's sort of like the president is a Ford salesman trying to sell a Chevy to more Ford employees.
I think if he wants to sell someone like her to conservatives, people like me, I think he needs to be on the offensive as much as he can.
And right now it seems like he's always on defense about something.
It's like, if you're conservative, it's a dirty word and you're looked down upon in the media.
And I know there's a bias, but I think the president needs to come out and be on the offensive with Just take it to everyone who is doubting her to make it seem and prove to people like us that it's really worth everything that we fight for and when we vote for them.
Hey, Gus, they are trying.
The president has taken to the airwaves a couple times.
Granted, in press conferences, so he is getting questions.
But they have emissaries, and they're sending people out to talk, to meet with conservatives, groups of conservatives and so forth, trying to do exactly what you suggest.
It's just that they're not having much success.
And it's because they haven't had much success that they've now reverted to using left-wing cliches and criticisms to launch at the people that are not happy with the pick of Harriet Meyers.
For example, say, as the first lady did, that it might be a little sexism.
I've tried to put this criticism in my words, these words in my mouth and hear myself uttering them.
That's not what's going on.
There's no sexism here.
Not when plenty of people would have been happy, ecstatic with Janice Rogers Brown or Priscilla Owen or Edith Jones, a number of qualified women.
It's not sexism.
Those are the kind of things, though.
the left says uh about us uh and I it it's just it's it's disheartening I mean it was uh that was the first 45 minutes of the program today and and how you know I'm saying confused by about all this and it's how people are missing the point and everybody thinks this is about Roe vs.
Wade it's not about Roe vs.
Wade it's about the Constitution it's not about just about reversing Roe because if Roe vs Wade is overturned abortion is still going to be legal that's not the question.
The question is a bunch of activist judges looked at the Constitution and somehow found in there a constitutional right to abortion and there isn't one.
It is a horrendous abuse of the Constitution and the the way, you know, you look when you look at the Constitution and you see something that's not there, that's a problem.
The Constitution becomes meaningless.
So that's why there's a concern of, you know, constitutional philosophy and interest and all that when it comes to these nominees.
At least speaking for myself, quick timeout, gotta go back in just a moment.
Rush Limbaugh, otherwise known as Uberman.
Now signing off after a busy three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence.
A busy broadcast day in the camp but we've got another one tomorrow and we will eagerly look forward to seeing you then folks.
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