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His brother's in the hospital.
Maybe dead.
Why would Raul be hiding from his brother?
Everybody wondering where Raul is.
Nobody's seen anybody running Cuba in, well, a couple of days now.
And the intrigue continues to mount since Raul Castro Ruse officially became Cuba's interim president on Monday.
Nobody's seen him.
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Senator John McCain may be coming around, ladies and gentlemen.
And I know that that might shock some of you to hear me say that.
But I want to present you a couple bits of evidence here and get your thoughts.
Not only get your thoughts as you think about it and see if you don't agree with me.
Last night on CNN, the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, he was asked, Senator McCain was asked this question.
Do you think there should be an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbo's?
I think there should be an immediate ceasefire at the moment when Hezbollah has been, at least to a large degree, neutralized.
Well, Senator McCain has just tacitly endorsed the Limbaugh Doctrine, which is no victory until there's peace.
Neutralized, defeated.
Same thing.
And then he was asked by Wolf Blitzer about Chuck Hagel, Maverick in waiting in the Senate.
Republican Maverick in waiting.
Question from Blitzer.
Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, a man who wants to be like you.
I added that.
Wolf didn't really say that.
A man you know quite well.
He caused a little stir earlier in the week by saying this fighting must stop and it must stop right now.
President Bush and Secretary Rice, they're refusing to call for an immediate ceasefire.
Who's right?
Who's wrong?
To restore the status quo where the Hezbollah has thousands of rockets.
Their announced goal of the extinction of the state of Israel is not a workable situation.
I respect the views articulated by my dear friend from Nebraska.
I just have a disagreement on this one.
So, two soundbites, smack dab in a row, where it is clear as can be, Senator McCain is standing with me, both in the Limbaugh Doctrine and in our position on Senator Hagel.
Last night on KDKA in Pittsburgh, political editor John Delano interviewed Washington County Commission.
This is cut one, Mike.
Diana Erie, am I pronouncing that right?
I think so, who's running against Mirtha, Mirtha's opponent coming up in this next election.
And the political editor of the host said, you know, you were mentioned on Rush Limbaugh show, and I have to ask you this.
He called you babe.
How did you react to that?
Well, it's a little humbling.
I know my children thought it was hilarious, you know, three teenagers.
But I did hear about it.
I didn't actually hear him talk about me, but people talk about it.
Humbling to be called a babe by America's anchorman, El Rushbo.
Yes, I'm aware I have that effect on millions.
All right, folks, bad news for the drive-by media.
Not only is Tropical Storm Chris falling apart, the hurricane experts that make predictions have reduced the predicted number of hurricanes to seven.
And this is bad news for the drive-by media.
This is not supposed to be happening.
With global warming, what's supposed to be happening is that the Atlantic Ocean is supposed to get even hotter and hotter and hotter every year.
And this year was supposed to produce more hurricanes, more destruction, more death than even last year.
Ain't going to happen.
Now, what happened to Hurricane Chris or Tropical Storm Chris?
Two things happened.
Top is being sheared off of it.
High-level winds are shearing.
If you shear the tops off hurricanes, they can't form.
And this is, some people are suspecting an outbreak of El Niño, which is a warming of the waters in the western Pacific Ocean, which does affect wind currents aloft and can also really damage the ability of hurricanes to get going.
Noted hurricane research team today reduced its forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season, said it would still be above average with 15 tropical storms, seven of which would become hurricanes.
In May, the Colorado State University team, formed by the expert William Gray, had predicted the season would bring 17 storms and that nine would become hurricanes.
The new forecast updated several times each year said three of the hurricanes would be intense storms.
That means the drive-by media can still hold out hope of category three or higher on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
The May forecast predicted five intense hurricanes.
So it's, no, pretty good nine intense hurricanes.
So the drive-by media, no doubt, disappointed with this news and the fact that Tropstorm Chris is not going to become anything.
Looks like it.
They always hold out hope that it could reform and strengthen, but it doesn't look like this one's going to.
Even the guys at the National Hurricane Center are a little, when you read their discussion, they're a little sad.
Something happened to this thing and they can't explain it.
I mean, they're forecasting it to be a hurricane by now.
Yesterday.
They can't explain, well, other than the shear and this or that.
But the drive-by media has something else to glom on to here, ladies and gentlemen.
This from AP, summer nights heating up, scientists say.
Well, you can take that one of two ways.
America in recent years has been sweltering through three times more than its normal share of extra hot summer nights, government weather records show.
And that is a particularly dangerous trend, really.
During heat waves, like the one that now has a grip on much of the East, one of the major causes of heat deaths is the lack of night cooling that would normally allow a stressed body to recover, scientists say.
Some scientists said the trend is a sign of man-made global warming.
Wow, it only took two paragraphs to get to that.
A top federal research mediorologist said that he almost fell out of my chair, quote unquote, when he looked over U.S. night minimum temperature records over the past 96 years and saw the skyrocketing trend of hot summer nights.
Now, just stick with me on this, folks, because as usual, the pretext of the story is destroyed by the facts of the past.
From 2001 to 2005, on average, nearly 30% of the nation had much above normal, average summertime minimum temperatures.
That'd be low temps for you in Rio Linda.
This, according to the National Climatic Data in Asheville, North Carolina, by definition, much above normal means low temperatures that are in the highest 10% on record.
Yet, in both 2005 and 2003, 36% of the nation had much above normal summer minimums.
In 2002, 37%.
While the highest ever figure was in the middle of America's brutal dust bowl.
All right, so what is this story about?
We're not setting records because the record was set before man-made global warming set in.
Back during the Dust Bowl, 41% of the nation had much above normal high summer night temperatures.
The rolling five-year averages of 2001-2005 is a record by far.
Well, you take any five years or three years or four and average it, do whatever, but it still does not beat the record.
And of course, if they're all going to start wallowing and moaning about global warming, the facts of the past can blow it apart.
In fact, before we go to the break, listen to this.
It's cool.
Yesterday at National Review online, there was a little post by Ian Murray, Global Warming 1948 style.
Before I get into this, let me ask you all a question because I did this when I was a kid.
Played Little League Baseball, played Bay Ruth League Baseball, was outside in the summertime all the time.
That's what kids did then.
They didn't hang around with video games.
The baseball games are only on Saturday afternoon.
So we went out and played baseball.
And it was hot.
And I can remember being in seventh grade, younger than that, older than that, talking amongst my friends.
You know, I think the sun's getting closer to the earth and the earth's getting closer to it.
Did you, when you were a kid, didn't you think it, come on, didn't you think it was hotter every summer than it was the year before?
And didn't you, and when it got hot in April, didn't you, oh my gosh, there's something really wrong.
I bet you we're moving closer to the sun.
You didn't do that.
I think everybody does that.
You're weird in there.
Everybody, here's my point.
Everybody has, I'll bet you, just like every generation has its group of people that think these are the last days, I'll bet a number of you through your Ute before you even heard of global warming.
And this is key.
Before you even heard of it, and this is why the politics of global warming works, because most people think it's happening anyway without some pointy-headed scientist telling them.
I, of course, the ability to research and analyze this with independent thought and my ability to apply political instincts and understanding to a bunch of liberals, understand clearly what's going on.
To make my point, this post at National Review Online 1948, a scientist friend discovered an article from 1948 entitled The Present Climatic Fluctuation, written by Professor Hans Allman of the University of Stockholm.
It begins this way.
The present climatic fluctuation has been discussed since the 1920s almost exclusively in scientific circles, although it has recently become a subject of more than academic interest.
Ordinary people are beginning to realize that something's happened and is happening, which is of great interest to themselves.
The last dry summer, which transformed large parts of Western Europe into a virtual steppe, increased this interest and also caused anxiety, though this drought cannot be said with any certainty to belong to the present climatic fluctuation.
Sound familiar, folks?
All that's missing is a documentary by Thomas Dewey on the subject.
Anyway, the professor documents rapidly rising temperatures.
1948, glaciers melting like crazy, atmospheric circulation changes, species shifting, sea level rise, and so on from all over the world.
But he concludes: if we find the Antarctic similar in the Antarctic, similar evidence of the present climatic fluctuation, as has been found in other parts of the world, we shall be justified in concluding that the present fluctuation is a worldwide phenomenon, probably the result of variations in solar activity, which, slow as they may be to take effect, are actually resulting in an improvement in the climate of our world.
Point is 1948, a bunch of pointy head scientists out saying the same thing the fear mongers are saying today, except these guys concluded it wasn't man-made.
They had no political agenda here, but they thought it was getting hotter.
Like, I'll bet you did too, Dawn.
You and you were dubious.
You're just in there being insolent.
Back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
Yes, be patient, folks.
We're going to get to the testimony today.
Secretary Rumsfeld with Hillary Clinton.
Just it's voter turnout day for the Democrats up there.
That's what you all you have to understand.
She's not interested in what he has to say.
She makes her statement, asks her question, and that's it.
What he says after that is irrelevant because she knows that whatever he says isn't going to really get reported, especially not to the kook fringe blogs that she's reaching out to with this question and statement today.
Basically, I can sum it up for you.
The Bush administration screwed this up.
There never were enough troops there.
We had no chance.
We should have never gone to Iraq.
This is crazy.
You don't know what you're doing.
Neither do the generals.
This is an embarrassment, and we need to get out.
That's pretty much the summation of Hillary Clinton's point.
She's playing Voter Turnout Day.
This is all this is.
And I don't want to get hogtied and tied down here into an in-depth analysis of something that's purely, purely political, that has no bearing on what's happening in Iraq and won't have any bearing.
One more thing about the heat.
Now, you people may be getting a little impatient with me.
Would you get off the global warming stuff?
Some people are saying.
No, I'm not going to get off of it because what's at stake is the U.S. economy, folks.
What's at stake is our lifestyle.
The people that are trying to force this on everybody and take the natural fluctuations of our climate.
It's hot.
It's the summertime.
You know how the drive-by media loves to create messes.
You know how they come in, they stir things up, they amplify.
They've got a storyline, they've got an action line, and that is that America and high-tech and advanced lifestyles are destroying the planet as we know it.
And we've got a limited amount of time if we're going to fix this.
And the only way we can fix this is by reducing our lifestyles.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm not doing it.
I don't believe it.
I know it's an absolute joke, and I'm trying to convince as many of you as possible.
And I'm not going to quit this job until that happens.
Latest story from the Drive-By Media.
Where's this?
The AP medical writer, listen to how juvenile this is written.
This is the AP medical writer.
Listen to how stupid he thinks you are.
Obese people face a higher risk of passing out or worse during heat waves.
Some health experts say.
Layers of fat make it extra difficult for a body to dissipate heat or to move to a cool location.
Yes, if you are fat, it's harder to get off your butt and find the shade.
And you might have a heart attack in the process of doing that because you are fat and you can't dissipate your heat because of all the layers.
What has to happen is the blood has to rise and go to the surface of your skin, which causes the sweating, which cools your body.
But the fatter you are, the more layers and rolls you have, why the tougher it is for your body to cool itself.
Who does anybody think this is news?
Emergency room physicians will tell you that obese people are the ones collapsing, said Thomas Adams, a Michigan State University physiologist.
So, in addition to that, Gallup poll out, Americans are not warming to Al Gore.
That's my last global warming news, and I only put it in this global warming stack because of the headline.
It is a Gallup poll.
Americans not warming to Al Gore.
If you want the details, I'll give them to you, but it shouldn't surprise you.
Who in the world warms to a dead fish, particularly in the heat of the summer?
You want to be around a dead fish in the heat of the summer.
It's already bad enough if you're a little overweight.
You might have a heart attack moving to the shade or into the air conditioning.
Crisis world we live in.
The Israeli Defense Forces in a press briefing yesterday said that we're going to control the security zone by today in southern Lebanon.
The officer was asked whether the operation at the hospital was aimed at locating intelligence information on the kidnapped soldiers who may have been treated there before being moved elsewhere.
He refused to answer that question.
According to the officer, the IDF so far carried out 15 similar operations away from the border.
And referring to the continuation of the war, he said that the operational goal will be reached tomorrow morning, i.e., today, an operational control of the traditional security zone in the central region.
Now, a region.
Now, Mahmoud Ahmadinezad is in Malaysia.
And Mahmoud, and I'm going to tell you something.
He's a nut.
He's a lunatic.
He's out there saying the price of oil could hit $200 a barrel if you sanction us for doing our nuclear enrichment program.
But Mahmoud said that the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel.
From his standpoint, that's exactly right, folks.
The dirty little secret here is that that's been the mission of all these Arab nations throughout Israel's existence.
Mahmoud is giving us a gift.
He's informing everybody just exactly what the strategy is.
There's no land for peace going on here.
There's none of any of these proposals that have been made over the years to construct a workable peace.
He said, the solution to Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel.
From Israel's standpoint, the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy every Arab army that comes at it.
And only then are you going to get peace, not with cessations of cessation of hostilities or the numerous ceasefires or this sort of thing.
Mahmoud understands what war is all about.
I think Mahmoud had this meeting because not enough Arab nations are joining him in condemning the Hezbollahs.
I think he went to Malaysia to try to gin up some support.
I think Mahmoud's a little surprised that there's less support for him, at least being stated publicly, and that's what he's attempting to rouse here.
All right, a quick timeout coming up.
We will go to the phone calls right after this break.
Lots of lifestyle stack stuff today as well.
But we'll do your calls next, folks.
Looking forward to it.
Sit tight.
Be right back.
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I want to clear one thing, not clear one thing up.
I want to put an exclamation point on one thing from yesterday before we move on.
The two soundbites we had, Anderson Cooper and Jeff Goldberg from, I think it was Jeff from The New Yorker, which they were discussing with dismay the virulent anti-Semitism of the Hezbollahs.
And they were shocked, literally shocked, fascinated.
It was interesting, Anderson.
It was very interesting.
What's really, really, really interesting about it is they're so open about it.
And they went on to talk about how Noshar Nasrallah, the sheik who runs the Hezbo's, was so, I mean, it was fascinating.
Interesting and fascinating.
He's so outspoken about his anti-Semitism.
And they both wondered why, why this rhetoric?
Why doesn't he tone it down?
And of course, the reason for that is, you know, we don't want to criticize these guys.
These guys are fighting against the ally of George W. Bush, and we hate Bush.
We need Bush to lose in the area of foreign policy if our Buds of Democrats have a chance to win the next two elections.
And it's going to be real.
If these guys keep talking about their anti-Semitism, why we might have to think about treating them 10% as tough as we did Mel Gibson.
I mean, these guys are actually killing Jews.
It's their objective.
It's their career.
It's on the resume.
It's on the calendar.
Everybody, get up, kill Jews.
Lunch, kill Jews.
Dinner, kill Jews.
Tomorrow, strap bomb on our own kids to kill Jews.
Yet Mel Gibson, nail his ass.
Get him out of Hollywood.
He's never going to make another movie as long as I'm going to do it again.
Half his outrageous.
We're not going to put up with it.
Isn't Nasrallah fascinating to listen to, Anderson?
Listen to his virulent anti-Semitism.
And why is he so plain spoken?
It's fascinating he's so plain spoken.
Well, I was thinking about all this yesterday and was watching the O'Reilly factor last night.
And Dan Blather was on.
Would you like to listen to what Dan Blather said?
Dan Blather, here's the question.
O'Reilly says, here's the problem with the American reporting.
Some networks give moral equivalency to the Hezbollahs in the reporting of this war.
Do you agree that it happens?
I agree it happens, and I agree it's a problem.
That is a problem that those of us in journalism have been reluctant to address.
I do not exclude myself from criticism.
Reluctant to address.
He said that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization.
It's committed to the destruction of Israel.
It isn't committed to trying to just gain territory.
It's committed to its destruction.
Well, then, this is a fine time to say it when you don't have a job and you can't report it to anybody.
Well, obviously, he does have a job at the HDNet.
And I love the HDNet.
I absolutely love it.
They're one of the two HD channels actually broadcast in 1080i, 1080, small I, for those in Real Linda, it's lines of resolution.
And it's just fabulous.
But they just don't have a big audience.
That's where Dan's gone.
Did you hear that?
Yes, there's a moral equivalence.
We're reluctant to say Hezbollah is a terrorist story.
Is that, well, why?
Why?
Why is it so stunning that the Hezbollahs are anti-Semitic?
Why is it such a shock?
And there is, aside from the narrow focus of everybody in the drive-by media, and aside from the action line, and nothing else will permeate that, there's something else that has to be there for this to be possible.
For Dan rather say, yeah, yeah, there's no moral equivalence and do nothing about it his whole career.
Liberals are liberals first.
Like somebody asked me the other day, how come so many Hollywood people and liberal Jewish people are not actively for Israel in this?
They're liberals first.
Now, the drive-bys, and what rather here, Butcher says, I told Snerdley this when we left yesterday, and he didn't think I knew what I was talking about.
I'm one of the few bosses where when I tell a subordinate what I think, they can tell me that they think I'm wrong and they can act like I'm stupid.
And I just smile because after 18 years, they still think they have a chance at prevailing.
So I said to Snerdley, I said, look, the drive-bys cannot acknowledge hate on the part of the hizbos.
Hate, hate is bad.
They have made hate a crime in this country.
So they can't acknowledge that the hizbos hate.
That's why Nasrallah is interesting.
That's why his anti-Semitism is a fascinating aspect of this whole dynamic, this whole rubric, this whole paradigm, this whole context, this whole war.
So anti-Semitism, yeah, that's bad, but you know, it's not hate.
It's not hate.
And he can't be hateful because he's being honest.
Anybody who's honest cannot possibly hate.
So, you know, hate is a big obstacle for these people.
And to assume that the Hizbos are compelled and motivated by hate would make it difficult for the drive-bys to support them or to be sympathetic.
I'm not kidding.
If you're like Snerdley and you disagree with me, you're going to have to really think about this.
There are many things that liberals say and do and react to that we all scratch our heads and so forth and don't understand.
But I'm telling you, hate crimes, they want added penalties.
If you go out and rob somebody, that's fine.
But if they're a different race and you're the majority race and you rob them, and it's going to be assumed you targeted them because of their race and you hate them, they're going to call it a hate crime.
And you get added jail time.
Thank you, liberals.
I mean, that's the way they think about this.
So they want to penalize the way you think.
Well, if they're going to penalize hate as a thought, they cannot assign it to people that they have invested moral equivalence or even hope.
Yes, I think the Hizbos have their hope.
To the phones, John and Topeka, you're next and you're first on the EIB Network Today.
Hi.
Hi, Rush John Cooney, a 10-year, at least a 10-year listener and a daily listener, first-time caller, and a Pap Buchanan conservative right up front.
And I'm very much concerned about our Middle East policy.
I just see the whole Middle East disintegrating.
And I don't want to get into Rumsfeld, but I do want to think, I think that Israel is falling into the hands, literally, or falling into the playbook of Hezbollah.
And I think it's going to radicalize more of the Middle East.
I think the domino effect is falling backwards on us.
Where am I wrong?
I think in all of it.
Okay.
I think there's a major transformation going on here that's in the early stages of remaking the Middle East.
And it's not something that should be abandoned over momentary bumps, speed bumps, what have you, in the middle of the road.
In fact, I think Israel is turning this around fast.
I think Israel is making massive progress.
Israel, I think, is going to neutralize the Hezbo's.
Okay, but are we losing the hearts and minds of the average Muslim?
I say we are.
When do we have it?
Okay, when did we have their hearts and minds?
Do we have their hearts and minds on September 11th?
I saw all the cheering and dancing in the streets in Muslim cities around the world.
When did we have their hearts and minds when Kennedy was sending milk over there in the 60s?
So, how are we going to win their hearts and minds if that's the case?
We're not winning it now, and Israel is not helping us with the hearts and minds.
If that is the objective of the United States to win the hearts and minds of people, we may as well close up shop and say we're not a superpower.
We're going to build a wall around our country, and nobody gets in.
We don't want to mess with the rest of you miscreants in the world because you are scum.
I mean, that's that's it's absurd to win the hearts and minds.
But, Rush, isn't that what George Bush is saying?
We need to democratize and capitalize and win the hearts and minds and say that you guys should adopt our system by what Israel is over.
I don't know.
I don't think you're losing.
I don't hear that that's what the objective is.
It may be one of the hoped-for ancillaries.
Are we winning it?
Are we winning it?
Or should we just give up and just say they're all Muslims?
Forget it.
Let Israel and the Muslims all go at it, and then we'll come along and we'll help them.
I'm not saying I'm not a fatalist.
I don't live in the world of pessimism and fatalism.
But you're not a realist.
You're not realizing what's happening over there.
Bull, I am a total realist.
That's the point.
I realize that every day in this country is better than the day before, and tomorrow's going to be better than today.
We're talking about the Middle East.
And look at the Middle East could not continue to go on as it is or as it was.
We are a prisoner to it.
We are a prisoner to it.
It cannot continue to exist as it has.
It's got to change.
It's got to reform.
Like New Gingrich, should we have Third World War now, basically?
That's what Newt Ingrich is saying.
Let's get it over with before the Muslims get the bottom of the world.
I said on this program on the day the Hezbo's stole the or kidnapped the Israeli soldiers, this is a gift to the world.
And Israel's falling into the radicalization of all of the moderate Muslims.
They're falling into the gift.
Falling into what?
They are playing into the hands of Hezbollah.
They are going to unite the Muslim world even more than that.
That's the exact opposite of what's happening.
You've got to stop reading people or just one group of people.
You've got to open your mind here.
The exact opposite of what there's a transformation in that region going on.
Big time.
The Arab League is not behind the Hezbollahs.
This silly Ahmadinezad is in Malaysia trying to gin up Muslim opposition to Israel because it isn't there.
Because the Arab world is more afraid of Ahmadinezad than it is of Israel.
The Arab world behind closed doors knows that Israel will never make a move on its oil fields, will never make a move to unseat any other Arab country unless they are attacked.
They don't know that about Iran.
They fear just the opposite.
Iran's on the verge of getting nuclear weapons, we're told.
You want to deal with them before or after that?
You want to get out of there and just pretend that they're not hit us if we leave them alone?
You want to sacrifice Israel?
You people got to wake up and start thinking for yourselves and stop being so damn pessimistic and understand that great things are possible from people who make commitments to try to improve things.
I can't stand this pessimism on a daily basis.
I am fed up with it because it represents laziness of thought.
And nobody in this audience is lazy of thought if I have anything to do about it.
Look at it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I try to maintain my composure, try not to lose my temper.
I don't think I lost my temper.
I was just frustrated there.
Sometimes it happens.
I don't like yelling at people we invite to call a program.
But sometimes I just, well, you know, did Emel Gibson lost control out there?
At any rate, for all of you, for all of you, oh, looky, lookie, Sheikh Nosher Nasrallah is going to speak on Hezbo TV.
Really?
Oh, how excited must the drive-by media be?
What will Sheikh Nasrallah say?
When is this going to happen?
They're not promoting a time.
I mean, he's going to probably wouldn't get into a studio.
It's not under assault by the Israelis.
Look, for all of you people out there in the hearts and minds crowd who are out there, you believe in this lunacy, this idiocy, this mistaken belief that, well, we're not winning the minds and hearts of these Muslims and Arabs the way we're going about this.
We're not winning the minds and hearts of anybody.
Caller the other day on this program reminded me there's an age-old philosophy in warfare and marriage.
Grab the enemy by the gonads, and a heart will soon follow.
Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
And we're not going to sit here and win wars or win our own peace by getting into little Oprah encounter groups and asking, what must we do to win their minds and hearts?
Let me, the question ought to be asked by them, what the hell do we do to keep them from coming after us?
They're the ones that keep hitting us.
9-11, the first World Trade Center 1993, I want to turn this around.
The question ought to be not why do they hate us and what are we doing?
The question ought to be, what are we going to do about this if it keeps up?
Doesn't matter why they hate us.
The fact is they do, and it's an intolerable circumstance if they start getting nukes, portable and otherwise.
Reality, folks.
Reality.
It's the only way to solve problems.
Here's John in Flemington, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
I have had so much fun listening to the New York news media cover the weather this week.
Every day it's been forecast that it's going to be 102, four days in a row.
It's Thursday, four days in a row.
It's been 97, 98, and that's plenty hot.
Heat index, heat index, heat index, heat index.
Plus, it was 104 at LaGuardia yesterday.
Was that the heat index?
Well, I think maybe on a runway, you know, if you put a thermometer on it.
Well, they do have these official huts out there with the thermometer.
But it's hot.
I mean, there's no question it's hot.
I've seen that Con Ed has asked Eastsiders in Midtown and Upper Manhattan to sort of dial back on the AC.
But now sometimes they're not giving the temperature.
They're saying, but it feels like.
It feels like 110.
But not New York.
I'm glad you're not.
97 is 97.
It's always muggy in the summer in New York.
It's never not muggy.
97, it's always, it feels like 97, and that's real hot.
But it doesn't feel like 110.
But it feels like 110 every night.
Well, it wouldn't feel like 110 unless they told you.
Can somebody tell me what does it feel like thermometer is?
You got the thermometer with a real temperature, but does Walmart sell it?
Does Costco sell it?
Where do you go for the thermometer?
It says feels like.
And it's not.
So they put the thought in your head.
They put the thought in your head.
And then if you're overweight, you might have a heart attack trying to get into the shade because it's harder to cool.
You know, scientists said this the other day in AP.
It's really bad.
You know, in six months, those same reporters are going to be standing in foot-high snow drifts telling you in New Jersey that it's snowing.
They are on the job.
They're right there.
I think they're going to be all disappointed about this hurricane that didn't happen.
They'll have to find 20 minutes on the evening news to talk about something else.
But it's just a lot of people.
Don't give up on Tropical Storm, Chris.
Don't give up.
Let me pretend to be a drive-by media reporter for a second.
Folks, I can do this.
I know just how to do it.
The National Hurricane Center today suggested that Hurricane Chris, or Tropical Storm Chris, is failing to organize.
Upper-level wind shear has ripped the top off the storm.
experts not sure if it will dissipate or if it will just fade away into a low-pressure area.
We here at XBB News will follow the track of this thunderstorm for the next number of days because ladies and gentlemen, experts have told us that the hot and warm waters of the Gulf could reignite this tropical storm that is dissipating and it could become the next Hurricane Katrina headed for parts unknown in Louisiana and Texas.
So even though the hurricane center says that the storm is dissipating, other experts are carefully watching to see if it makes it intact enough into the Gulf waters where it could actually intensify and become another killer hurricane.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, XBB News.
Enjoy your day.
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