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April 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Snurley, what do you think?
Uh you think I ought to play the uh interview excerpts with Greengrass today.
Play them tomorrow.
We got we got the leukemia curathon tomorrow.
I know the movie opens tomorrow, uh uh United 93.
Uh but uh I'm still I'm still debating.
I can play one today and one tomorrow, a couple of, we can split them up.
Uh think I'll do that.
But in the meantime, folks, a plan to build the uh largest, the world's largest offshore wind power farm off of Massachusetts is dividing the residents of the region, Cape Cod, in a debate involving million-dollar ocean views, migrating birds, and soaring energy bills.
Now, Cape Cod is the exclusive compound of a bunch of libs.
A bunch of people that hate big oil, a bunch of people are all on all at Twitter here about global warming.
So somebody wants to build a wind farm up there.
Oh, no, no, no, not where we live.
We'll build a wind farm elsewhere.
No, not where we live.
Opponents seeking to block the project, which is about 900 million dollars, include older crownkite, uh and the Democratic Senator Ted the Swimmer Kennedy, whose family is Hyannisport compound, is in sight of it.
Kennedy's brother, the former president John F. Kennedy, created the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961.
After several years of intense lobbying on both sides, many Cape Cod residents are deeply divided as Congress approaches a vote as early as next week that could effectively block uh what would be the first U.S. offshore wind farm.
Backers say that the wind farm could save millions of dollars in energy costs and help the U.S. uh wean itself off foreign oil at a time of record high crude prices, but opponents say that the turbines, big steel blades could kill migrating birds, and the sight of them could threaten the lucrative tourist industry.
Cape Cod, the nearby islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are famous for mansions, scenic beaches, hot summers, bitterly cold winters, and a centuries-old fishing industry.
The wind farm would take advantage of the region's strong winds, shallow depth, and historically small storm waves.
A poll by the University of Delaware released this week shows a tilt on Cape Cod against the project.
No surprise to me.
Bunch of hypocrites.
Fifty-five and a half percent of 500 respondents in the Cape Cod area oppose the wind farm.
43.8% support it.
This is just typical.
Oh, yeah, we gotta take these drastic measures, folks, to solve our energy problem, but not where liberals live.
No, no, no, no, no.
Can't disturb their views.
Uh can't kill their birds.
Uh I think it's a good idea.
Build a refinery there instead.
Build a refinery, an offshore refinery.
All right, Jimmy Carter was on Larry King Live last night.
A caller said, would President Carter compare and contrast the oil crisis of today with the oil crisis during his administration?
That was a shortage that was caused by the war between Iraq and Iran, and all the all from Iran and Iraq was cut off for the entire world.
So all prices went up dramatically then.
Uh we were able to accommodate it, and um, I think our country now is very strong and economically uh capable.
Uh we still pay in this country not much more than half what they pay in Europe or in Japan.
So Americans are resilient, tough, competent.
We can survive this.
Now, why do you think?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, why do you think that Jimmy Carter is not piling on big oil uh with every other Democrat out there?
Why do you think that you want to take a stab at this, uh Mr. Snarkly?
Answer can be found in Carter's own legacy, because if he were to start berating big oil, uh, we would go back and look, and here's this business of the Iran-Iraq war is uh is a it's a little bit of an obfuscation out there, folks.
We had a misery index.
The economy was so bad during Jimmy Carter's term from 76 to 80.
We had a misery index.
You won't remember this, Jessica, because you weren't alive.
You might not have even been a thought then.
But the fact is that we was inflation was so high, unemployment was high, interest rates, they were all double-digit.
It was astounding.
We had to have the misery index in order to chronicle just how bad the Malays was, and that was the word that was created to describe the Jimmy Carter economy, the Malays.
And so uh oil companies back then, the price of oil was 10, 15 bucks a barrel.
I don't know what he's talking about with the Iraq Iran war causing uh uh oil price to go dramatically up.
Tell tell that to to Lee Raymond at uh at ExxonMobil because he's out there saying, I don't remember anybody in Washington offering to help us out when we were capping wells and firing people and laying them off, and the price was ten to fifteen dollars a barrel.
And that, my friends, was during the era of Jimmy Carter.
But see, even then, the consumer benefited wonderfully.
Uh in the gasoline prices came way down uh uh but the oil industry was just it was just savage.
The domestic oil industry here was bad shape.
Jimmy Carter was also asked about the uh quote unquote shakeup at the White House.
This is about Tony Snow becoming the new press secretary.
I think the recent choice uh apparently of a new press secretary is is interesting.
He's coming from Fox News, uh, as you know, and uh uh several comments that I've heard today while teaching at Emory was from the students why should they pay him at the White House?
They've been getting his full support for the White House uh without pay.
Let Fox pay him.
This is an ex-president saying this.
This is an exit.
Let's not forget that uh who was it was uh Jody what was Carter's Jody uh Jody Powell became a commentator on this week with David Brinkley in the eighties after the Carter administration slinked away in embarrassment, and uh Hamilton Jordan was out there as they pronounced his name, uh be Jordan for those of you in uh Rio Linda, but he pramilton Jordan Twin Towers.
Uh uh, I don't remember that.
I don't remember all I remember is that that they were both out there commentating on television and and uh and and Jody Powell ended up being a commentator on ABC.
Uh so it's okay if Democrats go to the media uh that uh fine and dandy, but let let a Republican go from media to government uh uh or conservative like Tony Snow and uh all these snide comments surface.
Uh John in Cincinnati, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Yeah, hi, Raj.
Hi.
Um I wanted to make a comment about why everybody feels like the oil companies are ripping us off.
Uh Katrina happened on Monday, Tuesday morning the price of gas went up 50 to 75 cents.
Everybody knows, or it's fairly obvious.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out they still had old gas in the tanks.
And the other point is, you know, uh the futures go up, say five dollars on the market, and the gas price goes up ten cents the next morning.
People aren't buying that.
Yeah.
And I think that's one of the reasons why everybody is upset over this.
And they're positive that the gas company and then then, you know, three months later, Exxon posts a 12 billion dollar or whatever it was profit.
You know.
I mean, it's just it's just so odd.
No, that profit keeps going up.
It was 8.4.
Well, I'm just I'm just throwing out a number, Rush.
I I don't know, you know, but you know what I'm you know what I'm saying.
People see this and they say, now, wait a minute, you know?
Okay, let's let's let's be realistic and maybe a month from now raise the price of gas.
Don't raise it the next day because the price of crude went up yesterday.
Uh well, you know, it's it's sort of like um when I when I used to go to the bank and get loans, uh, and I'd I that uh I'd look at what the published interest rates all over the country were, and when I go to the bank, the interest rate would be like five or five or six points higher than that.
I said, Well, what is this?
Say, well, we're gonna have to replace the money we borrow we we we loan to you and and it's gonna cost us, and we're here to make money on this loan.
We're not here just to help you out.
Um and so the oil company people would tell you they were they were factoring in replacement costs and they were gonna have trouble replacing because of the interruptions in the supply.
I still what you're saying is that somebody was able, somebody pulled a switch, and two days after Hurricane Katrina, we got the price up seventy-five cents a gallon in some place.
I know that's that's uh that that's very suspicious.
And you know, the the next morning it was the same oil that was in the tank the day before.
Yeah, but that's that's where they would start talking to you about replacement.
Well, yeah, but it's I don't know what the lead time is, but it's got to be four or five months from the time that Exxon buys a barrel of oil in Iraq or Iran, and I buy a gallon of gas from that same oil here in Cincinnati.
Yeah, yeah, but well, I don't know that it's four or five months.
I mean you're you're you're gradually.
Well, you gotta be careful when you start throwing out the figures.
I mean, I mean we've got to both agree that it's not the next day.
You know, they're not gonna get that $75 barrel crude here tomorrow.
Uh what I have to tell you is that I don't know the oil business well enough to say that that's not the way it happens in what all I know is that there were examples, like for in Atlanta, there were a couple stage stations charging six bucks a gallon.
Now that is gouging.
There's no no question that that was gouging.
That that might have been some uh uh slick operator at the gas station trying to uh uh get by uh pull a fast food.
This happens.
No, I mean we we know that there are uh shysters everywhere out there.
Well, I think the average American sees the you know the price go up a dollar on the futures market, and the next morning gas goes up a nickel, and they say, okay, well, all the oil companies got got this something worked out, they're in conspiracy, and there goes the price of oil again.
And it's it's I think that's what's got a lot of people upset.
I I gotta go, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Okay, well, John, I I'm glad you called and uh stuck the audience with that.
We've got to take got a brief uh uh time out here, my friends.
Uh but uh one other one other comment.
Uh do this.
Uh John, I know you're out there.
Uh let's say you're in the market to sell your house.
I'm gonna I'm just gonna grasp uh uh a fact out of the uh the sky here and assume that you own your house uh and that you're not uh you're not renting.
Uh one thing that you might want to do if if the if the prices in your neighborhood for homes start rising for whatever reason, I mean who will who can know why?
It's generally what people will be willing to pay for it.
But if uh if the prices uh of houses in your neighborhood uh uh start rising, you should be the good guy and and sell your house for what it was worth yesterday or or last month.
Uh to be fair to the to the next buyer.
Back after this, stay with us.
Talent on loan from God.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and out of my adopted hometown of Sacramento, California, John, welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Well, I've got a comment on or uh I want to get your opinion on something you mentioned earlier about the price of gasoline bringing out the entrepreneurs and the American change and and uh ingenuity.
Uh I want to find out what your opinion is on why we haven't seen that in Europe in places like Amsterdam where gas is seven dollars a gallon.
It seems like they're more interesting.
Come on, can you've got to be able to answer this yourself.
You've got to be able to answer this yourself.
Well, is it uh well, you tell me.
It's very simple.
We are the United States of America for a reason.
We are a capitalist country with free markets, and we've got regulations and restrictions compared to the rest of the world, we have a pretty free market other than when Congress gets involved in in a in ways.
But we also uh are eternal optimists.
We this this freedom and this sense the the essence of being an American is that today is a great day and tomorrow can be even better and will be.
Uh that's the expectation we all wake up with every day.
This is why the Democrats are not gonna go anywhere with their doom and gloom negativism, the salad days of America are behind us.
Um it's not It's not true.
Every day in America is a better day than the day before.
That attitude does not exist in Europe.
They are a an entitlement welfare statist, socialist bunch of people, governed by a bunch of elites who are cowards who uh who shrink away from challenges around their I'll guarantee I'll tell you what, the European Union's combined economic output is soon going to be eclipsed by China, a communist country.
They simply, I mean, there are pockets of it there.
I mean, they've got their own share of entrepreneurs in Great Britain and in the United Kingdom, but But you're not you you're talking about countries that are more concerned with legalizing all kinds of uh trashy social customs and and uh and worrying about those kinds of things and how the state can uh pay people to not work as is going on in France is just simply don't have the mindset of the the great inventions,
the great technological advances that have improved the human race, uh the production of food to feed the planet all happened to the United States of America and will continue to do so as as as long as uh we maintain this certain level of freedom and hold on to the optimism that's the essence of being an American.
Well, do you suppose it's that optimism of an easy way out that is keeping Americans from doing the conservation that the Europeans are doing?
No, no, and I don't think so.
No, no, no, no.
America, we're doing conservation, we're cleaning up our messes better than anybody else in the world.
We've got we've gotten uh uh uh cleaned up our air, we've cleaned up our water.
It's so clean the wackos on the left are saying it's causing global warming.
Because more sunlight's hitting, and we can't win no matter what we do.
But we're conservation is only half the equation, if not it's not even half the equation.
We are a growing economy.
People expect their children to do better than they did.
And the only way this can happen is if we continue to be productive and in uh ingenious, uh creating new sectors of uh economic activity, be it service or whatever, adapting to global change.
Uh conservation is only part of this.
We have to increase the supply of virtually everything we want food, energy, entertainment, uh the the and that's what the left does not do.
They don't focus on growth.
To them, growth is poison.
We've maxed out the earth can't support any more people, it can't support any more growth.
We've plundered it, we've destroyed it, we need to conserve.
We need to go back to using uh getting rid of toilet paper, use leaves from trees, uh, or worse, bury our cars.
Uh, they're just they're they're wacko.
Leftists uh you can't depend on leftists to grow anything.
They're eternally pessimistic.
And most of European is com uh European uh uh most European people are comprised of that of that kind of mindset.
So uh uh can't count on them.
They're they'll sit there and whine and moan, and they'll go out and buy these cheap little cars that look like bubbles with two wheels under them and drive them around, risk their lives and their kids thinking they're saving the planet.
They're not advancing, they're not moving forward.
Plus, if you've ever been there, the streets in Europe are not much wider than what's necessary for two lawnmowers.
So they have to have these tiny little bugs that run around over there.
I've been there uh a number of I love it.
It's it's it's great historical uh uh lesson to go there, and there are parts of it that are quaint, and there are parts of it that defy what I'm saying.
But as a as a uh uh general proposition, I mean the question answers itself.
If you look at the price going up here and what it is at three bucks now, and this country is outraged.
They have had it.
They want action.
They're gonna do something about it.
Somebody's gonna figure out something to do about this because this is intolerable.
It's getting to the point now where people of this country almost think they're entitled to two dollar gasoline just like they're entitled to health care from somebody.
And if it goes above two bucks, why somebody's gonna pay the price.
At some point, th it's gonna lead to uh uh the ingenuity to solve the problem in the form of alternative fuels or technological advance.
In Europe, they may complain about the price, but they don't do anything about it, they just pay it and uh and and then they are lauded as uh as as people who are conserving uh and uh not plundering the planet and not causing global warming and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's it really is uh not hard to uh uh fathom this at all.
Uh Eric in Pittsburgh, uh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Megadiddos from the hometown of the Super Bowl champions.
Yes, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Uh a couple things here.
I'm uh you know, John from Cincinnati had called you, and he is trying to come up with ways by which the oil companies are gouging us.
It was ironic.
I had a conversation with a couple friends of mine who were pretty stiff liberals the other day, and they felt the same way.
And what I did was I said I challenge you to come up with a scenario by which in a free market economy you can price gouge.
I said, because if you think that the chief executive officers of all these big oil companies are calling each other on the phone and saying, hey, let's ride let's raise the price of gas so we can make some more money.
You're crazy.
A free economy is.
Hold that thought.
Hold that thought out there, Eric, because I got to go to a break here.
Uh remember where you were there, because I want to hear the rest of the story.
Be back and continue right after this.
Yes, I know.
Uh thanks very much.
Back now to Pittsburgh and Eric.
All right, so you're talking these libs and what happened.
Well, I'll tell you what, Rush, I I challenge them.
We began an argument over their arguing with me that the oil companies are gouging us.
And I said I challenge you to come up with a way by which in a free market economy, any type of of company can price gouge.
Because simply put, their argument to me was don't you think that all these big oil executives talk to each other?
And I said, you know what?
If they were all best friends, if you had five big oil companies that were all best friends, and they turned around and they said, you know what, we're we're gonna skyrocket the price of gas.
Get what?
Guess what?
Another entrepreneur is gonna come in the door.
He is gonna start to refine gasoline, and the next thing you know, he is gonna force the price of gas back down.
Well, theoretically that's true.
We know that there have been instances in the past of uh price fixing.
Uh and uh back, I think, you know, the the old uh uh the original, you know, the Rockefeller oil company, Standard Oil, uh they had to bust it up.
Uh the government did uh trust busters on the on the theory that uh there was no competition, that they were a uh a monopoly.
Uh so there have been instances of price fixing.
Uh it would be tough in your scenario for an entrepreneur out of the blue to start refining gasoline since we haven't built a refiner in thirty years, and it takes about I think the regulatory process, the permit process, it'd probably take ten years, about like doing a nuclear power plant uh in order to get permission to do it.
Uh but uh your overall point is well taken, but it still doesn't matter.
There are people out there who think that exactly what you described happens.
Uh that there's somebody behind a curtain that says, okay, uh time is right.
Raise that price twenty-five cents a gallon, and automatically it uh goes up.
People think that.
And it well, we're dealing in a political situation.
Uh uh, oftentimes in politics, perception is the reality, and if you want there's no greater proof of that than to watch how these sycophant members of Congress and the Senate are behaving on this.
They are reacting totally uh to the people's perceptions out there, and they're falling right because it is an election year.
So we will uh we'll see where this goes.
Thanks, Eric, for the phone call.
Now look at this.
At the Senate committee, in fact, grab grab audio soundbite sixteen.
Listen to Susan Collins here.
Your tax dollars at work, the geniuses in the Senate want to change the name of FEMA.
FEMA has become a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy in which the American people have completely lost faith.
We propose instead the creation of a new national preparedness and response authority, which will be led by a director who will report directly to the president in times of catastrophes.
We would put preparedness and response back together.
All right, so we're gonna abolish FEMA, and then we're gonna recreate it and call it something else.
We're gonna have a report direct to the president instead of Homeland Security.
This is just classic.
Uh look at what we got a mess at the CIA, and uh we got a mess at the State Department.
God knows what other messes are Lurking out there in other bureaucracies.
So we have these great government bureaucracies, and they just cannot sustain themselves.
The liberals put them in place to make themselves look good, then decades later, we have to go in and clean them up or tear them down because they're ineffective and they're inefficient.
So we've got a b the problem was a bureaucracy.
A huge bureaucracy just can't deal with emergencies like this.
But and so we're gonna we're gonna go out and we're gonna abolish FEMA, and we're gonna create a new one, we're gonna call it something else, and we're gonna say that uh we're gonna put preparedness and response back together.
What can I tell you?
They have to go and make it look like they're doing something to satisfy your complaints over um uh the their lack of uh response.
The same people who created this boondoggle now sit in judgment of it as though they had nothing to do with creating it.
They proclaim it a total failure and then say, we are gonna do it again.
We will fix it by creating another one.
All right, I have made an executive decision.
As you know, tomorrow we have our annual Rush Limbaugh Curathon for leukemia and lymphoma.
We do this once a year.
Uh also tomorrow the uh uh movie United 93 opens, and I have uh seen the movie, saw a screening a couple of weeks ago, and I asked uh for an interview with the writer and the director, Paul Greengrass, uh conducted that interview last week.
It's for the upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
I want you to know how rare this is, folks.
We have um I I can count on one hand the number of times over the course of many years that we have actually played audio excerpts of uh of an interview in the Limbaugh Letter uh and and and done so in advance of uh the issue coming out.
So I'm not gonna put a whole interview, this is just tease you.
But we have three different excerpts here.
I'm gonna play one excerpt today, uh, and the other two tomorrow.
And this I told you about this yesterday.
Uh this is uh the interview portion where Mr. Greengrass suggests that um uh we need a consensus uh in in f in in coming up with ideas how we're gonna ultimately defeat uh terrorism.
And this this little uh excerpt begins with um with Mr. Greengrass talking about his experiences uh looking at terrorism and dealing with the IRA.
I'll tell you one of the most chilling things that that I ever learned from my experience of of of looking at terrorism.
About twenty years ago, the IRA bombed the hotel where the Prime Minister Prime Minister Thatcher and her cabinet were, and about ten people were killed, and um Prime Minister Thatcher, I never agreed with politically in the entirety of her career, but she was our prime minister, and I don't agree with blowing her up.
Luckily she escaped.
Later that night, the IRA issued a statement.
They said, Tonight you are lucky.
You have to be lucky every time.
We only have to be lucky once.
And in that expression is the heart of the mind of of the terrorist operation.
We only have to be lucky once.
You have to be lucky every time.
And the truth is we can't always be lucky.
That's why we've got to find somewhere solutions to these things.
And we have to be prepared, it seems to me, and maybe you and I aren't gonna agree about this, to look at what we do and ask ourselves some tough questions about it.
Are what we're doing, are the things that we do the things that they want us to do.
Because one of the things terrorists want to do is goad us, make us react in ways that make the problem worse.
I'm not making a political point now, I'm just you know, some questions.
And that also is in this film.
You know, we all of us, wherever we stand on the political spectrum, if we're going to confront this problem and prevail, have got to ask ourselves hard questions and be prepared to challenge our beliefs.
Because unless we get some consensus here, we're not gonna prevail.
Well, I don't I uh we I don't think we're gonna get the consensus because as I say, there's a significant number of Americans who'd who would prefer not to believe that this is an ongoing reality that we face.
Yeah.
It's a one-time occurrence, and that we're actually causing it.
What we need is leadership on it, and the kind of leadership that was displayed aboard United 93.
Let me ask you finally the question that was asked of me by a couple people I watched the movie with.
They came out and they said, first thing they said to me, have we you think we've learned anything, Rush?
Do you, Paul, do you think we've learned anything?
You know, when I go on the underground in London, I think maybe I agree with you that we don't want to confront the reality of this.
We don't want to confront the fact.
I think that this problem is with us for the rest of our adult lives.
It'll probably fall to our children to when they grow up to try and find some solution, because that's what happened in Northern Ireland.
It's a generational thing, you know.
Young men go off to fight.
And it's not until they're older men and they've got children of their own that they're willing to lay down arms.
But but I think there's some truth to what you're saying.
I think we are in a state of denial.
But I'll say to you Russia, I've got to say this.
If you were to ask me, do I think that we're being as wise as we should be in in combating this?
I'd say not yet.
Now let me tell you where this went, because and we we had plenty of laughs in this interview, and he was amazed that uh that we were getting along, because he is uh admittedly, uh when you read the whole interview, very liberal.
Um when he said um that he think we uh if he if I would ask him if we think we're being as wise as we should be in combating this he'd say not yet, and I said to him, I know what you're talking about, you're talking about a rock.
And he's he agreed, yes, talking about Iraq, and we started to talk about it, and he said, let's let's save that for another conversation because that that doesn't uh have anything to do here with uh with United 93.
And I said, Well, it does.
I said there's a lot of misinformation out there about uh about Iraq.
Uh but we shelved the topic.
But the point here uh is you I I would urge everybody to go see this movie, and I would I would uh tell you it's gonna be intense, and you are uh uh I can't oversell this point.
People who've gone to see screenings of this, you've you've never been in a quieter theater, and you will never walk out of a theater with uh uh the sound of silence as penetrating uh as it will be when you walk out of the theater after seeing United Ninety Three.
But what I found interesting here was that I I suggested to him that, you know, we don't need consensus, uh we need leadership, the kind of leadership that's in your movie.
Uh the way to deal with these people is to kill them, uh, which is what happened on United 93.
Once the passengers on that plane, uh, because they were forty-five minutes late.
They they basically, if it weren't for the busy uh air traffic control schedule at Newark, then they would have been off on time forty-five minutes earlier.
Uh they would have already been on their way to the target, and they may not have been able to make those phone calls to the ground to their families to find out what had happened at the World Trade Center in the Pentagon.
So it was because they were 45 minutes late.
That's why that crew, and that's why that that uh bunch of passengers had uh uh every bit of knowledge of what had happened as you and I did.
They just hadn't seen it, but they had been told about it.
And so they've they moved into action and they prevented the terrorists, and there were four of them on United 93 from completing the mission.
Uh they didn't take a vote on that plane.
Uh there were people among and and the the movie portrays the passengers as as uh pretty much unified, though not all of them participated, uh, but most of them did.
But there there wasn't any detractors.
There weren't any votes.
There weren't should we should they just gathered together, Todd Beamer and these people uh led the movement.
They set out, had a plan, and they executed it.
And and the portrayal of that in in this uh in this movie is uh it's inspirational.
Uh you you just you want to stand up and cheer, and there is no sympathy whatsoever for the bad guys in this movie.
And I applauded Green Grass for that.
Uh you end up coming away without any question who's responsible for all this.
Uh there's no political pontificating in this movie.
There's no political statements.
This is just a a factual as much as can be known about it, uh uh presentation and portrayal in an intensely dramatic way of uh of what happened.
I have a couple more excerpts of the interview, and we'll uh we'll play those tomorrow as we are also conducting the annual Curathon uh for leukemia and lymphoma.
All right, CBS MarketWatch.com reporting that the futures market uh is now pricing oil at below $71 a barrel.
That's the lowest in two weeks.
And it's obvious why uh uh whoever at Big Oil sets the price here is feeling the heat from uh from all of us.
They know they've maxed out.
They can't go any higher than this.
And so they've heard you.
Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that George Bush trained his sights on them earlier this week.
The price fell from 75 at that point when Bush uh got on this bandwagon as well.
Uh Craig and Spoken Washington, you're on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, an honor and a privilege in megadiddos.
Thank you.
Hey, I just wanted to uh ask you how you compare to the Passion of the Christ to Flight uh 93 in that somber moment and uh humbled and respected attitude.
Well, uh, you know, I I um I didn't see the Passion of the Christ uh in a theater with uh large numbers of people.
And when I saw United 93, there weren't a large number of people in there, but maybe about twenty.
Um uh but I saw Passion of the Christ at my home and I saw uh rough cut of it.
Uh I I I don't think anything will will compare to Passion of the Christ in terms of that profound a reaction at the end of the movie.
I mean, that that that movie was just uh intense and the violence in that movie uh is uh unparalleled.
Uh United 93, uh there's not that much gore.
There's some uh uh interesting in both movies.
Uh the audience knows what's gonna happen.
Uh uh both are historical uh stories that have uh definite uh conclusions to them that everybody knows.
Um I don't I don't think that United 93 approaches that.
I don't want to oversell it.
Uh uh the Passion of the Christ was uh uh a profoundly moving thing, although I have I've heard uh that when they screened United 93 at the Ziegfeld uh theater earlier this week in New York that there were some family members were there uh and others.
In fact, it was interesting.
They had a red carpet, had a big premiere type uh rollout for this thing.
And they had a bunch of Hollywood people who have nothing to do with the movie show up, and they're walking in a red carpet and uh paparazzi's interviewing them.
And then you had the family members uh from 9-11 and some from United 93, and just uh some some ordinary Americans who are not celebrities.
And it was quite a mixture.
That usually doesn't happen at a Hollywood premiere.
Hollywood Premier is strictly the stars of the movie and uh related Hollywood celebrities, agents, lawyers, uh, you know, the usual circus.
And some uh one actor, and I forget his name, described this premiere of uh United 93 at the Ziegfeld as Hollywood meets integrity.
Uh which I thought is an interesting way to phrase it.
Average ordinary Americans, family members, with the usual parade of celebrities who, when the movie was over, were asked for their thoughts on it and they're waxing eloquent and so forth.
At this screening, there were people crying.
Uh there were people who refused to sit down.
They stood near the exits if in case they had to make a fast mad dash getaway if they if they couldn't take what they were seeing.
Uh uh it's intense.
It's it's there's there's no question uh that it is.
And enough time has gone by.
This is gonna this is gonna slap people upside the head, as is said.
Uh because it's, you know, we've we've had five years go by here where there have been an ongoing effort to make people forget that it really happened.
It was a one-time thing, it really didn't mean anything.
And we've tried uh we've had a whole political party in this country try to uh structure mindsets in this country back to a pre-9-11 mindset where uh uh all of this is the result of George Bush being elected president and blah, blah, blah.
So this is as this is a wake-up call, and it's gonna it's uh it's a reminder.
It's why the left is not crazy about this movie being out there.
It's why they tried to stifle it with the uh reaction to the trailer.
It's too thin, it's too thin.
But I wouldn't think that this is going to match the uh intensity.
I don't think the box office is going to match the intensity of Passion of the Christ either.
But it is its own experience, and uh the uh uh reaction people uh have had to it in screenings uh has been pretty much uh uh the same.
It's been universal.
And that is stunned silence.
Uh there are points where you want to clap, but you don't.
Because you know how it's gonna end.
Quick time out, back after this.
Well, we've had a lot of fun here today, folks.
I have thoroughly enjoyed uh uh uh this, as I do each and every day, and I look forward to tomorrow, open line Friday.
Uh and also it's our annual uh Cure-athon for leukemia and lymphoma.
Uh, this is always an uplifting uh uh day for us here at the EIB Network, and uh it shall be the same thing tomorrow.
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