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Dec. 29, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, the EIB network and to the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Roger Hedgecock here, broadcasting from the studios of KOGO Radio in sunny San Diego.
I just was watching the reports here of all the flooding and and uh and damage in uh the West Coast.
We are south of the West Coast uh here in San Diego.
We don't get any of that.
Uh it's about uh well, of course it dropped under 70, which it's below 70 degrees, which is winter in San Diego.
Uh wherever you are, you may take that into account.
Holiday bowl uh coming up.
Uh well, you know, after below 70, we have to close the schools.
Uh nobody's allowed to drive.
It's uh it's crisis out here.
In fact, we uh tried to get the governor to declare an emergency at uh 66 degrees uh the other day.
Uh it's we're still in the works there for uh loans.
And uh emergency aid.
Uh we're not expecting much, but you know, anything would do.
New surfboard uh would be nice.
This is uh we you know, we're we're spoiled and we know it uh in San Diego holiday bowl coming up uh tonight, actually is the talk of the town, uh, ducks versus Sooners, uh, Oregon versus Oklahoma should be a fun game.
Uh today, if you've turned in to uh tuned in rather to the uh Rush Limbaugh program to hear about whether the Rose Parade will get uh rained on or uh whether Dick Clark uh will look like Dick Clark on New Year's Eve.
It's just not going to happen.
But we are going to cover a lot of the stories that uh in this last two broadcast days of the year, a remarkable year, 2005.
We will cover some of what has gone on and more importantly, what we expect to go on in 2006 here at uh the Limbaugh Institute.
Uh first of all, I want to update you on an issue I brought up earlier in 2005.
I had finally had it.
Uh I had I had had it up to here with the ACLU.
Uh its recent war on Christmas and Christianity, uh, the hundreds and hundreds of school districts that have been intimidated to uh to not uh well and in fact some orders were issued to simply if you if you're going to say the word uh describing the holiday, you had to whisper Christmas.
You know, you couldn't say it above a whisper in most of the townships I was aware of uh at uh at all.
So anyway, the ACLU has been a big pain in the uh backside for a long time, pretending masquerading as a champion of your individual liberties while at the same time trying to snuff uh those liberties out.
Uh whether we're talking about the second amendment uh with regard to gun ownership or we're talking about uh the uh the First Amendment with regard to your right to uh express yourself religiously in any way you you s you seem fit.
One of the things I brought up on this program, and it's not still widely known, is that you uh are subsidizing the ACLU.
Let me explain.
In 1976, Congress passed the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act.
A blatant, a blatant attempt to subsidize the all kinds of so-called civil rights lawsuits.
In fact, it was a full employment for attorneys act, one of many that has been uh passed by a an attorneys-dominated Congress and and most of the state legislatures.
I speak, of course, as a recovering attorney in the 12-step program, telling the truth is one of the most important steps.
So I'm I'm into it here uh in with a f with a fervor that I hope you understand uh comes from my recovery period.
Uh the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Act of 1976.
Um, awarded attorneys' fees in uh in uh religious establishment cases.
In other words, if you sued the local uh courthouse for displaying the crash, the nativity scene on the lawn of the courthouse during the Christmas season and won, you were entitled to sue to to get your attorney's fees.
Now we found out what that meant uh locally here in San Diego with a local attorney who has been on the on the on behalf of his annoyed atheist client uh suing to tear down a cross here in San Diego.
The cross, of course, uh erected right after the Korean War to commemorate the sacrifice of those who fell in that conflict.
On top of Mount Soledad in La Jolla, of a pretty prominent place here in San Diego County.
This uh for sixteen years we've been in this lawsuit, the recent uh the recent uh chapter in this long saga was one in which 76% of the voters in San Diego City had voted to transfer the land under this war memorial to the feds because the Congress had passed a law designating the designating the Mount Soledad Memorial as a national war memorial.
And they said to complete this national war memorial status, uh the city should just deed the land over to the feds, and the feds will take over responsibility for the war memorial, and if necessary, keep fighting this atheist's uh annoyance.
That's what he said.
He actually said, I'm annoyed by the sight of his cross as I drive by.
You know, if I got to tear down all the things that I was annoyed by, I mean, there'd be a there'd be a far fewer things around.
I don't think we get to do that in a free society.
Anyway.
So this uh this uh act of 1976 has allowed the ACLU and similar groups to and and uh and it's been taken off in true in truth by the conservative side as well.
Conservative law firms have been suing when they win these civil rights cases, when they get the nativity scene to be uh displayed properly in a public place, for instance, in the last couple of weeks.
They have sued the local communities, they have uh uh petitioned local communities to get their attorneys' fees.
The ACLU has been making remarkable amounts of money.
You may be aware of this in your community.
Just a quick uh the Boy Scouts, the ACLU has been after the Boy Scouts in San Diego.
They're trying to get a Boy Scout camp out of uh out of Balboa Park uh in San Diego.
Uh that's been there for a long time.
And as part of that lawsuit settlement, the city wanted to bail out because they agreed with the ACLU.
They wanted to bail out and leave the Boy Scouts defending their rights.
Uh the city agreed to pay the ACLU 790,000 of taxpayer money under this act.
Well, all this is recap.
Earlier in the year I told you all these stories.
I told you then that we would be after the ACLU to try to amend the federal law to get them uh out of the uh taxpayer-supported harassment lawsuit business.
And uh thank you to Congressman John Hostetler, a Republican from Indiana, who has uh put in uh House of Representatives Bill H.R. 2679.
H.R. 2679, Public Expression of Religious of Religion Act, the Public Expression of Religion Act, H.R. 2679, and that bill would prohibit judges in civil suits involving the First Amendment Establishment Clause, this freedom of religion clause, this one that the ACLU thinks says freedom from religion.
They they they've I don't know where their version of the Constitution comes from.
Mine says freedom of religion.
Uh this uh this would uh the attorney's fees then would not be awarded to those who are offended by annoyed by religious symbols or religious actions in public places.
So I wanted to follow up with you on that.
Uh many of you have uh written and emailed and uh and accosted me on the streets and whatever, asking me what my follow-up was on the ACLU matter, and this is it, uh Hostetler's bill again, H.R. 2679.
It can't come too soon uh for the beleaguered taxpayers of our area.
Uh I have my own favorite list, and I wonder what yours is of those issues that were so misreported as to clearly identify the agenda of the uh elite media.
Uh I think, for example, just to just to give you the example, the obvious one is uh is the war and the many stories involving Iraq, but Katrina, it seems to me, was obviously one as well.
Uh for instance, it is widely believed because it was widely reported that only poor blacks died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
It is now known statistically, I don't think it's known emotionally because it just doesn't fit the agenda.
It is now known statistically that far more white people died in the in the in the New Orleans area because of the flooding of Katrina than blacks did.
Far more.
And, of course, that has not made the national news.
It is now, it was it is now still widely believed, because the media, the elite media reported it, that uh George Bush killed those black people by uh allowing the uh if he didn't allow the collapse of the levies, he blew them up personally, uh, according to Congressional testimony of a couple of weeks ago.
Uh of course, the reality has yet to be reported as widely.
The reality is that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had designed a project for the New Orleans uh levies to prevent a category five hurricane storm.
They designed that back in the 1970s.
They designed it uh to be in the aftermath of Hurricane uh Betsy in uh 1964, and uh it was authorized uh president all the way back to President Lyndon Johnson.
Now, for those I know I get I I often delve into ancient history.
In fact, today I'm gonna I interrupt myself to tell you this breaking bulletin.
Today I'm going to have uh the actual words, the spoken words of Franklin Roosevelt on the subject of another wartime president and another era of pessimism and partisanship, which Roosevelt had to address.
Uh the words of President Roosevelt, we will also talk, of course, about the in in that war issue, the intent of the founding fathers, who uh are not on tape, uh, unfortunately.
Now, if they're really smart people, they would have had tape.
I, you know, it's kind of a controversy, but we don't have them on tape, but we believe we have their words anyway.
But back to the uh Hurricane Katrina aftermath, uh Bush blowing up the levies and killing black people personally.
The truth is that all of those plans brought forward by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Hurricane V category, all of those were stopped, cold by U.S. District Judge Charles Schwartz Jr. in response to lawsuits filed, a lawsuit filed by the Save Our Wetlands Association.
Save our wetlands thought that if you just had more wetlands, uh you would not need levies.
You would not need this expenditure.
This expenditure was harmful to the toads and frogs and and crab and whatever else uh it was.
And if we just had more wetlands.
Well, of course, after Katrina, we had lots of wetlands, formerly called New Orleans.
But the truth is that we don't have the levies because of Save Our Wetlands.
I'm Roger Hedgecock with a lot more truth telling about 2005, your favorite underreported or misreported story as well at 1800-282-2882 when we return.
Ten insurgents trying to uh place an IED on a road in Iraq have been obliterated by the American um pilots uh aloft in that area.
Oh, God bless those pilots.
Uh I'll tell you what, uh Roger Hedgecock here for Rush Limbaugh, talking about 2005 and your take on the stories that made headlines that made a difference.
Are they underreported, misreported, about right?
Uh what do you think?
I I have to let me just add to my list.
Uh Katrina was my my uh poster child for this, but you know, the the unrelenting pessimism, the doom and gloom nonsense of the elite American media is refuted by so many facts that I just want to skim through a couple of them to give you a flavor of where I'm coming from.
Um worldwide incomes are at their highest levels in history and are rising.
The economy of the globe is the best it's ever been.
Since 1960, more than one billion people have pulled themselves out of poverty.
World Bank figures.
World Bank says, quote, the past two decades have witnessed one of the most rapid reductions in poverty in human history, unquote.
Why?
Because of free trade.
Because of free trade.
Free trade has made the communist dictatorship of China wealthy.
Free trade has lifted even places like Bangladesh out of poverty.
The globalization of the world economy is not, as the lunatic left would have you believe, a problem.
It is a blessing.
One billion people pulled out of poverty.
By communism?
No.
By socialism?
No.
By freedom.
No, I know.
I know.
It's not leading the uh NBS news, I understand.
Uh health and education.
People are living an average of seven years longer than they did as recently as the nineteen seventies.
The gap between life expectancies in the richest and poorest countries has closed by ten years since nineteen sixty.
Childhood mortality rates have steadily declined worldwide.
Literacy is rising in developing countries.
Of course, it's declining in our own United States, but it's rising in developing countries, now reaching an average of 76%.
Literacy.
And fully one half of the world's population now lives in countries that have multi-party electoral systems that respect basic human rights, the highest level in history, one half.
Of course, the biggest news in that, the biggest advance, the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, uh courtesy of Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher and Pope John Paul.
All right, so I'd like to hear from you.
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And oh, by the way, those of you who think, of course, uh war and and uh it's on the upsurge and all the rest.
Nonsense.
Nonsense again, I'm sorry, this is just not true.
Uh the twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history, there's no question about that.
But the number of armed conflicts um, about fifty in nineteen ninety, if you look worldwide, is less than thirty today, the lowest level since the end of World War II.
The number of men and women in uniform, the total world military spending is down from Cold War peaks.
And of course, catastrophic wars uh between major states, the so-called world wars, have been replaced by these smaller scale, restrained uh conflicts that we have seen in more recent uh years.
Is there still the danger of a nuclear exchange?
Well, maybe between India and Pakistan, but uh or Iran and Israel, but uh between uh the United States?
Well, maybe.
And everybody says, Well, what about North Korea?
North Korea, ladies and gentlemen, would like you to believe it has a threat.
What the North Koreans know that the American public does not know is that there is a boomer.
Uh may I translate for you, an Ohio class submarine uh equipped with multiple warhead missiles parked, well, somewhere outside in the international waters surrounding North Korea.
Any movement by the North Koreans to use nuclear weapons would obliterate North Korea and they know it.
So, again, a reality has to creep into some of these discussions about the news of 2005.
Doom and gloom is nonsense on every possible level.
The economy, I'm gonna explore in the second hour with Art Laffer a little more about the economy.
The mis uh reporting of the American economy, again directly traceable to the animosity of the elite media to George Bush, is uh is inexcusable, and we're gonna talk about that in some detail.
The war, of course, and in the third hour I want to get into this, the war, of course, has been the uh poster child here, and uh Russia's gotten into it in the great, great detail that he does.
Uh doesn't need me to do much but recap.
But in the meantime, your take on the kinds of issues that you'd like to uh the story that you'd like to see better reported, the one you thought was misreported the most, or the one you like the best for that matter, at 1800-282-2882.
And uh let's see, I don't know that I have time to go, let's try one call.
Jack in Albany, New York is going to be quick.
Hello, Jack.
Hello, Dr. Hitchcock.
It's always a pleasure to hear you on the radio.
Thank you.
Um the one that absolutely drives me crazy and it's been uh going on since the beginning of uh of the conflict is the use of the term insurgents.
What should we call them?
They should be called terrorists, and especially now when the newly elected government finally takes play uh takes their places, the term insurgents should be outlawed because now truly one of the insurgents insurging against their own people terrorists and that's the same.
They're surging against their own people.
They are terrorists, people who behead, people who blow up wedding parties, people who blow up mosques, people who blow up women and children, which is what they're doing now.
Uh People who uh are are blowing, trying to blow up and destabilize the government that the people have turned out to elect.
I think it's absolutely right, Jack.
They are terrorists, they are thugs, they are murderers, and they deserve their fate.
Jack, a good call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, In for Rush with much more after this.
Among my favorite phrases of the news cycle 2005, uh the homeless, uh described in uh one article as urban outdoorsmen.
I also liked the looters in the uh post-Katrina world, uh post-catastrophe tourists, but in any event, I also think that this business of Hollywood, and of course you can touch on this in so many ways this last year.
They made complete fools out of themselves, and as a result are losing money like crazy with people not going to movies.
Uh the uh uh Celine Dion talking on CNN in the aftermath of Katrina saying about the looters, oh, they're just stealing twenty pairs of jeans or or television sets.
Who cares?
She said maybe s maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that, they're so poor they've never touched anything.
Let them touch these things for once.
Uh that's why, ladies and gentlemen, not too many people are following the uh Hollywood celebrity lead.
Yikes, what a year.
I I think it's been a very bad year for celebrity dumb, which we've uh a dumb and dumber, which we have become uh so uh enamored of in previous years.
The uh the celebrities who have revealed themselves in so many ways in 2005, I think are taking a big hit.
Let's take some calls.
Here's Charlie in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Hi, Charlie.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, hi, Roger.
It's a pleasure to be on the air.
Thank you.
Uh my point of view is this, sir.
I am a victim of Hurricane Wilma, along with thousands and thousands and thousands of other people down here in South Florida, and you don't see a word of it on the air on any TV station.
All we hear is Katrina, Katrina, Katrina, Katrina.
And hurricane Katrina hit us here in Florida before it hit New Orleans.
We've been hit by eight hurricanes in the last two years down here in Florida.
And the reason they don't report this story is because uh the response of the Republicans down here, the Bush, the uh Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, and all the Republican administration in the state of Florida, has been overwhelmingly positive.
FEMA was down here, they had water and ice the very as soon as the storm was over.
I mean, they were they were distributing stuff literally within five hours after the all clear was given by the Red Cross, and the Red Cross was down here helping us out.
The reason Katrina gets all the headlines is because it's negative to President Bush and the Republican administration.
So they keep beating that drum over and over and over again.
Katrina, Katrina, Katrina, and Rita, but you never hear anything about all of us victims down here of Hurricane Wilma, and eight hurricanes in the last two years, all of which were handled effectively by Jeb Bush and the Republicans in the state of Florida.
Yeah, but you guys are wealthy and white, doesn't it?
Mr. I'm telling you, I am on food stamps and Red Cross, and if it wasn't for them and FEMA, I wouldn't even be able to keep my house.
I lost my ceiling last year to Hurricane Francis.
I lost I had to move and live with my friends for over a year.
I got a new place this year in June.
I lost my patio and my roof this year to Hurricane Wilma.
And I'm telling you, every single house in Key West to Vero Beach, Florida has had roof damage.
And I'm not talking minor roof damage, I'm talking major.
Still, as we as I look around right now as I'm looking around my block, I can count at least nine blue tarps within eyesight of my front porch.
And that's just looking out my front door.
My neighbor just had her roof fixed directly behind me, etc.
etc.
It goes on and on.
We're still fixing street lights down here, but you don't hear a word about it on the news, not one word.
No, it's a good point, Charlie.
I'm kidding you, and it's a good point.
And I guess my only question for you, uh, you know, everybody lives in an area with a minus earthquake, I suppose, where there's risks.
But uh why do you still live there after the last two years?
I mean, wouldn't it be logical to the whole beautiful place?
It's got so much natural beauty.
I mean, the the the whole entire country of the United States is the greatest place in the world to live.
So all those who've never come to Florida, you gotta come down here and see us.
Well, you're right.
You know, Charlie, you're you're right about this.
Uh you are not going to be uh in the news because you're optimistic, you're rebuilding, you have faith in the future.
Uh you're you're uh you're uh you're led by competent political leaders.
This is not news.
Yeah, that this is a great story, You know, that the difference between the way Jeb Bush and the Republican administration handled eight hurricanes versus how one hurricane was handled by two Democrat administrators, the governor and the mayor of Louisiana.
I mean, i i if it wasn't such a tragedy, it'd be a joke.
That's a great point.
Charlie, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I guess they had Katrina and Rita in uh New Orleans, but the point is still well made.
Here's uh Jim in San Antonio, Texas.
Hi, Jim, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for having me on.
Yes, sir.
The comment that I had is that uh from a positive note is that our employment is uh what, less than five percent?
Unemployment's under five, yeah.
Why don't we use the term that our employment is ninety-seven percent rather than always the negative side.
Well, we've gotten used to looking at unemployment rates, and I I want to continue to look at them because in the Clinton administration, the definition of full employment, Robert Reich and the rest, uh the labor uh secretary, in those days in the mid-90s, the definition of full employment was five percent.
The figure uh was deemed to be the figure of those people who were really transitioning between one job to another.
Uh much like you look at an apartment building, 95 percent is probably full uh occupancy because you always have about five percent moving in, moving out.
So the same idea of uh of the of the economy is that if you're at five percent unemployment, or as you put it, ninety-five percent employment, then you're talking about full employment.
Now they never could say that uh because we have to have the worst economy in the world in order to for Democrats to to succeed after the year two thousand.
Uh so five percent became a problem uh of uh and and you're absolutely right.
When when you look that this glass isn't even half full, this glass is is nearly full.
There's just a lip, there's just a uh a couple more drops to put into this glass, and you can't keep looking at the empty part of the glass.
Absolutely.
Jim, I appreciate the call.
This uh you know, the other thing, and out and this is another story coming out of Katrina were all kinds of crazy stories.
Uh for example, uh home heating oil would just cost uh more than anybody in the Northeast could possibly afford uh in the coming uh horrible winter brought on by global warming.
And I mean, if you could even follow that, people go, wait a minute, wait, wait, it's gonna get colder because of global warming, and therefore my home heating oil is gonna cut.
Well, first of all, as I understand the East Coast uh weather patterns uh hasn't been all that cold.
In fact, today's pretty warm.
Uh the heating oil prices have come down, according to the Christian Science Monitor, some sixty cents a gallon since September.
Since September.
That is, since Katrina and Rita and all of that stuff.
By the way, the natural gas issue was also played up the same way.
Uh gasoline prices going through the roof.
Uh remember the uh the windfall profits tax, even some Republicans talking that way, windfall profits tax on those gouging oil companies.
Hello, when the government, and more recently Hillary Clinton, proposed higher taxes on gasoline, it's never called a windfall profit to government.
But if the oil companies raise the price of gasoline, it's called the windfall profit to the oil companies.
I never was able to understand that.
By the way, the price of gasoline, of course, has come down, even here in the highest price area of the country in San Diego and Southern California.
This uh this other issue is natural gas, where natural gas was supposed to just be unbelievably I mean, just out, uh gone.
We're gonna have horrible natural gas increases, seventy-five to eighty percent of the natural gas production uh KO'd by uh Katrina and Rita and so forth and so on.
Uh today, nineteen percent of natural gas production is still out of commission because of those.
Nineteen percent.
Not seventy-five, not eighty, nineteen.
Why?
Because the government isn't in charge of that.
If the government was in charge of it, it would have been eighty eighty-five.
You know, that's just the way it works.
The private companies, as much as I also despise the oil companies just on principle.
The fact is that the uh private companies have come back in uh the Gulf and are producing for the market, and the price has come down.
So what's your story that you found to be the most misreported or the best story of 2005?
Here's Rich in Kansas City, uh, Missouri on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, Rich.
Hi, Rogers.
How are you today?
I'm just fine, Rich and you.
Well, I'm good.
I need your help, Roger.
I I may be out of touch.
I don't know if it's underreported or under-prosecuted, but what whatever happened to Sandy Burglar?
Well, that's right.
Uh the stuffed pants guy, and he wasn't just a rap star, it was a serious issue.
He had to do with uh had to do with taking uh secret documents that may have implicated you remember the story.
And is that just me or did that kind of well uh he was fined uh a dollar twenty-three and he lost his uh security clearance for two days.
I don't know.
I mean it's completely underreported.
Uh the if it would have been a Republican, if it would have been a b uh Bush guy, there would have been a nine-year special prosecutor, uh hundred and forty million dollar prosecution.
We would still be reading about it.
Oh, every day.
Every single day, no question about it.
Yeah, Sandy Burglar.
Good grief.
All right, Aaron in Kokomo, Indiana.
Hello, Aaron, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Merry Christmas and happy new to you, Roger.
Same to you, sir.
My uh comment uh the story that I think just got totally glossed over was what about the people of Lebanon take them to the streets and saying to Syria, hey, get out of our country.
And then the Hamas group and Syria forces everybody to come out and kind of counter-demonstrate.
And then the Lebanese come out in even bigger numbers and say, no, get the hell out of our country.
Do you does anybody think that would have happened if we hadn't gone into Iraq?
No.
No, absolutely.
And it just no big deal.
Yep, it mentioned.
Aaron, it's uh exactly right.
Thank you.
This is the kind of thing I was hoping to to provoke a little bit today and the last two broadcast days of 2005.
What about those stories?
The wonderful stories of freedom breaking out in the Middle East in an area that the last part of our globe where democracy has not uh has not touched, and therefore, of course, the most barbaric and the most uh uh strife-torn area of our globe, uh the Middle East, uh Arab nations were not democratic prior to the three elections in two thousand five in Iraq.
What's been the fallout?
Even Egypt has had to have a semi-free election.
Lebanon has thrown off the Syrian uh yoke.
Uh the the the uh the whole area while while it has a long way to go, has shown some uh signs that yes, the twenty-first century might intrude into their seventh century thinking.
This is a dramatic breakthrough.
Of course it's underreported because it happened when a Republican was present.
I'm Roger Hedgecock on the Rush Limbaugh program, whispering when I have to.
Back after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in here today and tomorrow, the last two broadcast days of 2005, talking about 2005 and what's ahead in 2006.
I'll tell you one thing that I gotta get off my chest here early in the program, and that is that 2005 was the year in which the much ballyhood Kyoto Treaty, negotiated in nineteen ninety-seven, was to come into effect.
The conference in Montreal in November was in effect, and I'm sorry that the uh proponents of the Kyoto Treaty had to face this so radically, it was a blow to their self-esteem.
The Kyoto Treaty is dead.
It is dead.
Kyoto's goal was to get rich nations by 2012 to cut their output of greenhouse gases by eight percent from the levels of nineteen ninety.
So by 2012, they were supposed to be eight percent below nineteen ninety.
This year, two thousand five, Canada's output, and we were, you know, lectured to by Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, accusing the U.S. at this Montreal conference of quote, gl uh of lacking a quote global conscience, unquote.
Um the greenhouse gas output in Canada has increased by twenty-four percent since nineteen ninety.
Spain has increased forty-one point seven percent.
Ireland twenty-five point six percent.
Austria sixteen point five percent, and on and on in the holier than thou European Union.
By comparison, the United States is up, true, since nineteen ninety, by thirteen point three percent.
Who is most abiding by Kyoto?
It's the United States.
Now there's some there's some st differences there.
Germany is not down, but down below below thirteen.
Uh Britain is also uh closer.
Although it's interesting, Prime Minister Blair came to Montreal, Tony Blair, and he said uh Kyoto, in effect, he said Kyoto's over.
He said he said it this way: quote, no country is going to cut its growth, unquote.
Well, since cutting economic growth is the only way you reduce ad uh admissions uh uh emissions, at least we don't know how to get those greenhouse gases down unless we lower standards of living.
It's not going to happen.
And moreover, it is still true, and isn't this becoming uh wildly hypocritical that India and China are exempt from Kyoto.
They are the the growingest place for greenhouse gas emissions.
Oh, and the other thing that got me is global warming.
Global warming has become a caricature of itself.
It's like a Saturday night live skit now.
At the same Montreal meeting about uh Kyoto, activists, uh climate change activists warned that among the other dangers, among the other evils of global warming is the unthinkable.
The end of ice hockey in Canada.
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Chris in New Orleans, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Go ahead, Chris.
Yes, I'm not calling about any falsely reported or underreported stories.
I'm calling about a caller we had a few minutes ago.
I'm from New Orleans.
And I normally don't call shows, but I am getting so fed up with people just minimizing this.
He's saying he's been through eight hurricanes.
Well, in comparison, he lost his roof.
I'm living in a tent.
My family's living in Missouri.
I'm trying to rebuild my home now.
No one in the United States really has an idea of what's going on around here until they come here.
It's like a third world country right now.
And I'm so fed up with people.
There was a senator from Florida saying he's getting hurricane uh Katrina fatigue.
Please live in my shoes for a week.
I'll show you fatigue for Hurricane Katrina.
And everybody's putting this Democratic against Republican.
Everybody knew this was coming.
Nobody did a thing.
The governor, the president, FEMA, everybody was just like mind boggled by this tragedy.
When tsunami hit, we were there what, two days later?
It took them four days to get to New Orleans.
And I'm tired of just this guy saying that that no one hears about the hurricanes in Florida.
Well, there pretty much you're done within a month or two.
This is going to take years.
A whole city wiped out, not a roof gone.
My whole house was gone.
There's whole whole taking off the slab.
Nobody has any idea what is going on down here except for these little five minutes of stitch on the news.
If people would just notice and look and see what's happening, it is enough blame to go around, but let's stop pointing fingers and get it done.
Then we can point the blame.
But nothing's being done right now because everybody's fighting each other on it.
And and shows like this are saying, well, well, I guess uh the blacks in uh New Orleans, we're not all black.
I'm not I'm not asking anyone for anything.
I'm doing it myself.
Don't these these small number of people who who who looted.
Okay, there's criminals everywhere.
Look at Los Angeles, they looted.
But the thing is, most of the looting, which is not reported was grocery stores, people wanting food, people wanting, you know, ice, water.
And y'all, y'all, y'all based on what y'all see about the looters, that is not even a a hundredth of what New Orleans is.
I'm just fed up with all the negative reporting come out of the order about he is.
Okay, Chris, and you you've made your point about the under-reporting of this story in two thousand five.
Let me ask you when we come back about what you are doing to recover.
Chris, so stand by.
Don't leave and don't leave me.
We'll come back to you after we take this short break.
Back after With just a minute to go, Roger Hedgecock in for rush.
Let me get Chris in New Orleans back in here.
Chris, what are you doing to recover from this disaster?
Well, I did on a construction company before the hurricane, which is gone.
I am back in construction, trying to earn a small living, and then in the evening, working on my home, which could be or should be demolished, but this is my family home, which I'm going to rebuild.
And just I have no electricity yet, because there's parts of this area of New Orleans East, which they cannot get to for some reason.
That's a whole nother subject.
But from pretty much sun up to sundown, I'm tearing down, rebuilding what I can all around the city.
Well on this on this level, Chris, I think you're absolutely right.
Uh you know, my sympathies go out to you.
I can't imagine trying to rebuild everything from scratch.
And I appreciate what you're saying about the underreported uh issue there.
Uh the the uh the people who are in these hurricane areas just can't, I mean, it's like uh losing a child.
I mean, you can't uh uh hope to understand it or empathize with it, uh, Chris, but I appreciate the call.
We're gonna come back talking about the economy, another underreported issue with Art Lapper.
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