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Aug. 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I know.
I'm just trying to figure out what I want to lead with here.
Hang on just a second.
Yeah, I was running way behind in show prep today.
I had a real near emergency.
And I've been here since uh what, 8:30 this morning, and I've been printing things out.
Well, I just, you know, hit the print button and forget it and move on.
Everything was printing in Florida.
And I didn't discover that till 1130.
And there was I I could go to the log to see what I printed, but it wouldn't let me print from the log, so I had to go find every and I've just finished finding everything I printed this morning, and I've just been going through it here at the break and trying to uh reorganize this.
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Welcome to those of you watching on the Ditto Cam today at Rush Limbaugh.com.
And let me say this about that.
I am receiving a few inquiries, shall we say, uh, from Ditto Cammers inquiring about the less than expected quality picture today from the uh from the Ditto Cam.
So our our technicians, our our our engineers, our broadcast uh brains, have been feverishly investigating the problem for the past, I'd say seven or eight minutes.
And here is the verdict.
Uh the verdict is that much of the lighting in here is fluorescent.
And uh during this, my most recent absence from the uh EIB building studio here, some of the bulbs blew out, and they got replaced with a different color bulb.
So there are two different shades of fluorescent lighting in here in almost every fixture.
One color and another color, and this has supposedly uh screwed up the color of the ditto cam.
We continue to work on this program.
You might say, well, why did these brains put in different shades of fluorescent lights?
I asked that question because I'm an actually curious individual, and I was told that's all that were available.
It's the that's all that were available answer.
So this is um something being worked on even now.
I I took a look at the picture.
I mean, I that doesn't look bad to me.
I don't know what kind of expectations you people have.
But just kidding.
We're trying to get it fixed.
We want it to be the best that it can be.
We got a new camera down in Florida.
We ought to put a new camera in up here.
Uh that would I don't know what kind of it's a it's a it's a much bigger camera, and it's uh I it's a Sony, but I don't know what the model number of it is.
What kind of lights?
Uh not nearly as many as in here.
Not nearly as many, but we don't have any of these little pin spots down there.
It's uh well we do, but they're not like it's it's it's it's uh it's different.
Regardless, the lighting, we ought to be able to accommodate for it, and we're trying to do that.
So that's that.
Now on to the programming content portion of the um of the program.
I guess Kofi Annan doesn't like Chinese people.
Uh uh the Hezbol-based mortar attack, which fell short of its target in Israel on Sunday and injured three Chinese members of the United Nations interim force in Lebanon, has received scant media attention and no reaction whatsoever from uh UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Now, what's interesting about this to me is that when they uh when this unifill group was uh was hit by Israeli fire, and of course, there was a lesbo rocket launcher within close proximity.
Why, Kofi was out on a war path.
He was talking about how this this was in this was uh the purposeful.
This was done with intent and so forth, and he had to apologize uh later on.
But when the Hisbos do it, it's just nobody, nobody says a word.
Nobody, especially Kofi Annan at the United Nations.
Let's move on.
CNN.
I just saw a portion of this, I'm sure it on a CNN International, trying to humanize once again Hassan Nasralla, the the grand Puba Sheikh of the uh of the Hezbows.
Last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
This is how the CNN staff announcer opened the program.
Deep inside Hezbollah Country, a corner of the war you don't always see, and you'll only see here.
This is a special edition of Anderson Cooper 360.
Crisis in the Middle East, day 27.
Oh, we're counting the days now.
I'm panting with excitement, baited breath.
Why inside Hezbolla country?
Well, I was hooked.
So let's go.
Anderson Cooper says, there are those who say that Israel underestimated the strength of the Hezbos.
We have CNN's Tom Foreman to look at where the Hezbollah get their military strength.
Hezbollah may seem like many guerrilla armies, but military analysts say Hezbollah is much better prepared than most for open warfare.
These ballots forces are brave, they know how to find cover, they know how to use their weapons effectively.
Most guerrilla groups don't.
They fight poorly, they run away in the face of danger.
Another thing Hezbollah has going for it is sheer geography.
Their homeland here in southern Lebanon is full of mountains and trails and little villages, and they have had almost 25 years to dig in.
And Hezbollah has help.
Decades of running social programs, hospitals, and schools for Shiite Muslims have produced allies, willing to provide a haven for Hezbollah.
Here we go again.
Last time I was here in New York, which was not that long ago, shortly after this thing broke out.
We heard about what a great bunch of social workers the Hezbos are.
In an attempt to human.
Yes, they have hospitals, and they have they have programs, social programs at schools for Shiite Muslims.
I guess that's where they teach them to strap bombs on each other and blow themselves up.
And then they say, Hezbos have help.
But did you hear them say in this segment that the help is coming from Iran?
No.
Did you hear them say the help is come from Syria?
No.
I wonder if in the ensuing bouts that we have, we will hear that the help is coming from Iran.
They have oh, of course we won't, folks, because that's not the storyline.
No.
What we're going to hear, they're brilliant.
Tacticians, guerrilla fighters, never been anybody alike 'em.
They're brave.
They know how to find cover.
They know how to use their weapons effectively.
Most guerrilla groups don't.
They fight poorly.
They run away in the face of danger, but not the Hezbollah.
And of course, they have help.
I'm going to tell you something, folks.
This royally offends me.
Because this is nothing but spin.
Once again, nothing but PR.
All of this BS about how tough Hezbollah is.
Let me ask some important military questions.
Has Hezbollah taken one inch of Israeli land?
No.
Have the Hezbols won a single battle?
No.
Have they taken out Israel's infrastructure?
No.
They're lobbying rockets into towns.
They haven't accomplished a damn thing.
Unless you want to say they're making it tougher on the Israelis than they've had it before to wipe them out.
But we're not even sure that's the case because we don't know at what force strength the Israelis are actually proceeding with here.
This is nothing more than a PR victory that is being anointed the Hezbows, meaning no victory at all.
But here's a classic example.
Media trying to help them.
It's not just CNN.
New York Times, we uh had a couple stories on Sunday shared with you yesterday still on the website about about how great these guys are and how tough they are and what uh what odds they're up against and so forth.
Uh but they're they're they're purely pursuing a PR victory and the media helping them get it, but you cannot find in strict military terms uh traditional signs of victory or success.
Uh, and yet it's being assigned to them.
Here is um here's another one, Anderson Cooper uh with an exchange with a reporter Tom Foreman, uh again fascinated by the Hezbos.
Tom, it's fascinating.
I mean, they're fighting a guerrilla war, yet in many ways Hezbollah acts as though they are a government within a government.
They have all the advantages of being guerrillas, they can move quickly, but they are in many ways acting like a government in this region, and that's no accident.
Hezbollah has grown much better at manipulating its public image.
Stop the tape to look at the tape.
How is that possible, Mr. Foreman?
Do you think you might be complicit?
This is amazing to me.
And the Hezbows.
They have they have grown better at manipulating their public image.
I guess Bill Clinton was pretty good at it too, because you looked the other way.
Or you helped him craft an image that he didn't deserve.
And you're doing the same thing for a bunch of terrorists, calling them guerrillas, marveling at their tactics and their bravery and their social work.
This is obscene, folks.
It is it is genuinely obscene.
Here is the rest of this.
It's to look like a real army for a real nation, even though they are not fighting against another real army.
And they want to look like the underdogs who are standing up against it.
Do not want to look like a real army.
How in the world can these guys say this?
They're dressed up as civilians.
How in the world can it be said they want to look like a real army?
And don't tell me tactics.
You don't see them on the move into le into into Israel.
You don't see them advancing.
You don't see them doing anything that you do to achieve military victory.
My God, this is absurd.
This is this goes back and reminds me of the conversation Anderson Cooper had with this clown from the New Yorker.
You know, really, really interesting.
Uh how anti-Semitic Nasrale is.
He's so open about he's so he's so outspoken about his anti-Semitism.
He's a really interesting Anderson.
Yes, it is, uh Jeffrey.
It's really interesting.
It's amazing what interests these guys.
Uh quick time out back with more after this.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to uh make it fair.
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All right.
A uh a Hezbo fighter captured by Israel has told interrogators that he received training in Iran and arrived there on a flight from Syria, uh, according to a tape of the interrogation released by the Israeli army.
During questioning, the man also confessed to taking part in a cross-border raid on July 12th, in which two Israeli soldiers were captured, the incident which sparked the current conflict.
We trained in Iran.
We went from Beirut in civilian cause to the airport in Damascus.
His name is uh Jose Suleimas, and that's uh Mahmud Ali Suleiman, uh, who gave his ages 22, said between 40 and 50 people went with him for the training to uh Iran, which involved instruction on the use of anti-tank weapons, didn't say when the training took place or how long it lasts.
Now, this is not news to me, and it's not being widely reported in the drive by media, but nevertheless.
Uh it just it's it's not the storyline.
Uh it's not, it's not, it's you're you're not gonna find big media reporting it, ladies and gentlemen, because it doesn't fit the storyline.
This is the beleaguered little gorilla band that just does great social work and has hospitals and ambulances, and they feed the poor and they clothe the hungry and they do all these other things.
Uh it can't be tied in with Iran, I mean, that would destroy the whole notion of what a bunch of small little victims up against big band Israel uh they are.
Yeah, in fact, we'll probably get a children's book in the public school system in this country not long from now, and titled The Little Gorilla Band It Could, and it'll be all about the Hezbows.
Arab nations told you this.
I told you this would be the case.
I told you this yesterday when the uh this resolution between the United States and France was first announced by the president.
Arab nations will press the UN Security Council on Tuesday to demand an immediate Israeli pull out from South Lebanon to make way for the Lebanese army in any resolution to end Israel's four-week-old war with uh the Hezbos.
Now not possible.
According to the resolution, there's gonna be an international force go in there, not the Lebanese.
Well, the Lebanese army.
That's a joke, too.
But the Israelis are not leaving.
And the Arabs are gonna say, we're not doing a deal to the Israelis.
Get out of uh Lebanon.
What does that tell you about who's winning this?
We get all these reports about how great this little band of gorillas that could is doing, and yet who is it that has made incursions into enemy territory and continues to rout them out?
It's not the Hisbos.
United Nations Human Rights Council, oh whoopee, will hold a special session this week to examine alleged rights violations in the month-old war in Lebanon, a UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Now, how stupid is that?
We're talking about a war.
Human rights violations.
A special session of the UN Human Rights Council is planned this week.
We receive an official request, said UN spokeswoman Marie Huzi.
It is expected to be held on Thursday or Friday in Geneva.
The meeting sought by a group of mainly Muslim countries, and all this means is that the Israelis are winning.
They're just trying to find any way to stop this they can.
So the Hezbows, the little guerrilla band that could be rearmed with service to air missiles from Iran.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Monday that the incident appeared to fit a pattern of violations of this is talking about Kana.
Annan said on Monday the incident in Kana appeared to fit a pattern of violations of international law marking the fighting between the Israelis and the Hezbows.
The real pattern here is the anti-Israel pro-terrorist pro rogue Arab state behavior of the United Nations led by Kofi Annan.
That's what the pattern is here.
And I'm sorry to say another resolution is just the furtherance of that same pattern.
Jerry in Mansfield, Ohio.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, an absolute universal pleasure, my friend.
Thank you.
And I praise every day that you're there telling the other side of the story.
Thank you, sir, very, very much.
I appreciate it.
Hey, I just wanted to know if I can get me a comment here.
Because I'm calling from Ohio, and I know that's how we speak here.
As was uh eloquently stated by John Kerry when he went for the hunting line.
Can I get me a hunting?
Absolutely.
Yeah, I wasn't appalled or anything by that, but that's not my comment.
Uh my comment to your screener was I'm observing the uh the media, really being like a ring announcer.
You can watch a fight, and each corner has to be given equal opportunity and equal praise and equal equal capability in order to make it a fight, Rush.
They don't they expect it to go 12 rounds, just like anything else, because if you don't build a hype, you don't get the viewers.
And the media is playing that.
They need a protagonist and an antagonist, and they'll make them both this way.
And in this particular case, the winner can't be portrayed as the winner.
Timeout.
Time out.
I have to mildly disagree on this basis.
I think in this case, and in many other cases, the drive-by media couldn't care less about ratings.
They couldn't care less if CNN cared about ratings.
If MSNBC cared about ratings, they would have got tired of being in last place and second to last place years ago.
But they don't.
They're content to sit there in last place.
They're content to have the same garbage on a radio that's keeping them in last place and in our television and second to last place.
The New York Times is losing subscribers.
The LA Times is losing subscribers.
Newspapers around the country are losing subscribers.
I don't see any changes in the coverage of anything designed to recapture subscribers or viewers that all these places have lost.
The big three evening newscasts combined have lost tons of audience over the last 15 or 20 years.
I haven't seen significant changes on the part of any of these people to try to get that audience back.
I see stubbornness.
I see them insulting the stupidity of the audience.
I see them telling each other to the audience a bunch of idiots.
I think that most of these losing media outfits are reporting for each other.
I think a reporter on MSNBC is trying to impress other reporters at other networks, not inform his viewers or her viewers about what's really going on.
They're trying to demonstrate to each other how they are part of the click.
When one of them says that Cheney brings Gravitas to the administration, 50,000 of them join in and say the same thing so they'll all know That they're all equally brilliant.
If they cared about ratings, they'd be doing something about the fact that they're in the cellar.
No, I'll tell you what's more important than anything here, Jair, and that's the agenda.
And the agenda is we hate Bush.
Bush is a fraud.
Bush did not win the election in 2000.
He stole it.
He shouldn't have won in 2004.
Power has been taken away from us and our guys, and we're going to get it back no matter what we have to do, including destroy foreign policy in the immediate term.
And therefore we hate every Bush ally.
And if Bush is on the side of Israel, then we are going to be on the side of the Hesbows.
And we're going to tell everybody what great social workers they are, educators they are, how when they great hospitals and so forth and so on, and that they're just a ragtag little gorilla band that could.
It's all a bunch of lies.
Yes, yes, exactly what we do here, folks.
Cut through the noise and make the complex understandable.
Now I don't, I don't profess to know what's going on in Cuba, and I have no clue what's going on with Fidel Castro, but I will tell you this.
When the Cubans trot out people like Daniel Ortega, the former head honcho of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and Hugo Chavez, and say that Ortega is traveling to Havana to meet with Castro.
And that Chavez says, yes, I talked to him, he wouldn't shut up, and he needs to shut up, but he won't shut up because he talks too much.
I am not inspired by these sources, telling me that Castro is uh recovering from whatever.
I have no clue.
I'm just telling you, I've said that the the steps to which the uh Cuban government is going to establish that Fidel's up and around, he's talking, is eating.
Gonna be back sooner than uh anybody thought.
Blah, blah, blah.
There's a parallel here.
You know, this is this is uh when Stalin died.
The Soviets didn't want to announce it.
They couldn't bear themselves when Mao died.
There's all kinds of parallels here.
Other Soviet leaders died.
Uh, you know, it was uh the announcement was never direct when Stalin died.
You know how the people ended up knowing it?
People knew it because the there was dark, dank music on the radios, state-run radio, funeral dirges, uh, and uh then the then the bells in the towns started tolling, and they figured something was up.
But they weren't quite sure uh what it was.
That's the way the communists did it.
This is a this is a really encouraging uh bit of news here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, U.S. authorities are searching for eleven Egyptian guys who arrived in the United States last month but failed to turn up at Montana State University for a scheduled academic program.
According to the FBI and U.S. Emigration and Customs Enforcement officials, the men were among a larger group of students who arrived at JFK International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29th with valid visas.
The special agent of the FBI, Richard Kalko said there's no threat associated with these guys.
A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the men are between 18 and 22 years of age.
Hello, great.
This is just wonderful to know that eleven missing Egyptians are roaming around and nobody knows where they are, and it's no big deal.
This is encouraging news for um uh well immigration hollow thing.
Uh encouraging news for national security.
I just wonder if uh one of these 11 Egyptian guys had been carrying Viagra, he would have been detained.
Uh and uh we might know where these guys are now.
Customs people need to get their priorities straight.
Hunt for Viagra, people with Viagra, and you will find real problems facing this country.
On this, on this program, I have tried to um I've tried to alert you to the fact, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that news, network news, big time news is becoming more and more of a chick presentation in industry.
More and more women in the production uh jobs, the editor jobs, even the infobabe host jobs.
And of course, women bring a different perspective to things, whether they know it or not, whether they want to believe it or not, uh, they do.
And it's gotten to the point where a lot of men are saying I don't want to go into news business because I don't I don't want to be assigned to go out and do these sappy little Oprah type stories based on crisis this crisis that I have an example a mild example of what I mean by chick news and it comes from ABC and of course it's by Felicia Stoller.
Now I know it's 2006, but I think I'm safe in assuming that the name Felicia identifies this person as a as a woman.
I don't know how long we'll be able to say that, but as for now, Felicia is a woman.
And she's with the ABC News Medical Unit.
And here's the headline of the story.
How much is too much?
Is the president too chunky?
His body mass index puts him overweight.
But what does that mean?
God.
The angst.
Last week, President Bush underwent his annual physical.
It revealed he was in pretty good health, except for one thing.
According to his body mass index, he is overweight.
His BMI was 26, putting him in the lower range of the overweight category, weighs 196 pounds, meaning he's gained five pounds since last year.
His percentage of body fats increased to 16.8%, which is overall pretty good for a guy who just turned 60.
Still the appropriate body weight range is 157 to 192 for a 5'11-inch guy.
Is there cause for alarm?
Should the president go on a diet?
Possibly, say dietitians.
When you're 60 and your BMI is 26, it's a risk, said dietitian Kathy Nonis, another woman.
Chick seeks out chick for opinion on president's weight.
She's a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
As you're getting older, uh you are more prone to other ailments, diabetes, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease.
It is helpful to not add another BMI point each year.
The notion everybody gains weight as they age is not an excuse.
Say health care professionals, and here's another chick, quoted.
Leslie Bunkey, director of the sports nutrition uh place at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
I don't know if I would say he's overweight, but like if you if you look at the trend, uh increasing body weight is not a good pattern.
Uh this weight gain trend is important as we get older.
Well, some experts have voiced concern about the president's weight.
Who has whose voice 196 pounds 190, yeah, 196 pounds.
He's 5'11.
Do you know what I would give to weigh 196?
Anyway, it's this now now we got we got a real problem here.
President's five pounds overweight, body mass index, way out of whack, needs to go on a diet.
Three nagging women disguised as a reporter and health experts are now telling us that the president's in bad shape.
Who's next on this program?
Donald in San Antonio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Hey, I couldn't be better.
Yes.
I'd like to go back to the pictures out of Beirut and why that represents what should, you know, a picture's a thousand words, right?
Yep.
Well, here's a thousand straws on the back of the camel, and it's broke.
Because this will emphasize that the press.
It's not the you're right.
It's not the lead the bleed mentality.
It's the fact that they give no background information.
They never qualify their story.
Like I told the screener, the only reporter that I've seen actually admit that the report he's about to give out of Beirut, and this happens in Baghdad too.
The information came from Hezbollah.
Hezbollah told him what he could film, and I was so impressed to actually hear him say that.
And to relay that to Baghdad and why people's perception that these wars are going so poorly and wars horrible, it all makes us feel bad, but sectarian violence has been going on for a thousand years.
They don't remind you of that.
They don't tell you that Saddam would go in and kill everybody.
And so the violence would stop.
There's really important pieces of information that they leave out.
Do you uh do you feel like that?
Oh, totally agree.
Totally agree.
The history began the day we went into Iraq.
Uh, History began, and in terms of sectarian violence, history uh began with the Israelis and the and the Hezbollah group uh 24 days ago.
You're right.
No context, no history.
No nothing.
That's why they keep talking about we need a ceasefire resolution.
Hey, can anybody point to where one has actually brought about peace?
No.
May have brought temporary so-called stability.
No, you're absolutely right.
And one other thing, though, that that CNN reporter you're talking about that admitted that he had been talking about taken around by the uh by the Hezbows.
That was after the fact.
His name is Nick Robertson.
Uh and it was after the fact.
It was three or four days after the report ran, and he was asked about it on the on CNN by Howard Kurtz of the of the Washington Post.
I guess better late than never.
Better late than never.
Yeah.
Hey, Rush, I like to give solutions sometimes.
And real quickly, the sectarian violence will stop when the imams and the heads of these Arabic states come out and tell their people, hey, we can stop killing each other.
We can stop going outside of our bill borders and killing other people.
We have our territory.
Stop it.
It's, you know, we've got to go in and pound them a little to make them realize we better stop it.
Yeah, but they're only going to stop it when there are no more Jews and there's no Israel in the Middle East.
And then they're going to turn their sights full full force on us and anybody else that they define as an infidel.
And they're here.
Well, ominously said by Donald and San Antonio.
Yes, they are.
And they are here, as are twelve Egyptian guys.
That uh we don't know their location.
They got off the plane of JFK, showed valid visas.
Where have we heard this before?
And now they can't be found.
As I say.
If just one of them had had Viagra, we'd know where they are back in just a time.
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Now look at this.
Look at this.
I am holding this latest story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Forecasters see less active 06 hurricane season.
The United States hurricane season will be slightly less intense this year than first predicted, with nine hurricanes expected to form.
Government forecasters said uh on Tuesday, they warned the most dangerous part of the season was still yet to come.
Really?
We know this.
The peak is in the middle of September.
NOAA said that the 2006 season could produce between 12 to 15 name storms, the seven to nine becoming hurricanes, three to four of them becoming uh classified as a major hurricanes that could threaten the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast.
Now, you know, I I want to be very careful here because these people have a tough job, and I don't because they're they have incredible expectations placed on them, and it's those expectations are not helped by all the media hype uh about about hurricanes and disasters and so forth.
But come on.
Does anybody really expect that they can tell you in April or March what's going to happen in a hurricane season?
And they think they do, but they've got the the best that we can do is issue a wild guess based on data that we have collected and analyzed in computers over a number of years in the past.
Well, we were expected, well, we remember we were told we're a new cycle here.
Global warming was a debated topic as to whether or not affected hurricanes, but regardless, new cycle, intense hurricanes, a lot more of them.
Brace yourselves.
Well, guess what?
The upper level winds are shearing the tops off these babies when they form out there.
And you know what else?
Atlantic ocean surface temperatures are not nearly as warm as they were last year.
Oh, how can that be, ladies and gentlemen?
Uh global warming should be consistently heating things up.
Uh, should it not?
Speaking of global warming, may I say global warming, anybody?
I mean the same it's i i it's All of this is just patently ridiculous and nonsensical.
And so we've had we've had what?
We've had three namestorms, no hurricanes yet in the Atlantic theater.
The ones that have formed haven't amounted to much.
The last one, this dude Chris.
I mean, forecast track had it going all the way to either Mexico or Texas and so forth.
In the next two hours, sorry, it's dissipated, it's gone.
It's just the low pressure, just a bunch of thunderstorms over Cuba.
I mean, even a forecast of just two or three days ahead was not right.
With an existing storm out there.
Now, the models, some of the models said it was going to dissipate, but the hurricane center, they can't afford to predict it's going to dissipate because people's guard will be let down.
My only point in all this is here they are revising it down because now there's less time for a whole bunch of hurricanes to happen.
They uh didn't expect the shear.
You can't predict the winds.
I mean, anybody would think they can predict the winds a year out.
You can't predict cloud cover.
Even you can't tell people what the cloud cover tomorrow is going to be.
Maybe as a percentage of the sky that's covered by clouds, but even that is a wild guess.
Cloud formation still defies the most brilliant among us.
We can just look skyward and marvel at it.
Uh so any of these attempts to suggest that there is global warming.
Global warming, by the way, ought to be totally refuted just with what's happened here in the hurricane season so far.
Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures alone should be an indication.
They're not nearly as warm this year as they were last, and yet global warming is intensifying and getting worse every year.
How do these two things coexist?
One's a forecast, one's a wild guest, the other one is reality.
And the reality, as always, disproves the wild guest.
Jason in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the program.
Uh good morning, Rush.
I would like to make a comment on the president's supposedly being overweight and what a crock of squeeze that the uh BMI is, the body mass index.
Yeah.
It in no way uh takes into consideration an individual's lean body mass.
So the president conceivably could have gained two pounds of muscle and well they said the set is body fat 16.8%.
But you know, the one thing that's perfectly within range.
Yeah, but the one thing they don't report, his blood pressure is that of a man 30 years old.
His resting heart rate is of that a man half his age.
Well, according to US, he just has no heart.
Yes.
Just has no heart.
Yes.
But see, it look, it's chick news.
It's chick news.
I don't even think this so much was bias against Bush saying you ought to go on a diet.
Uh but I mean, there's there's nobody in the world that would look at President Bush and say, fat, overweight, needs to lose weight.
Ain't gonna happen.
Uh and and to look at these uh uh figures like the the body mass index.
How old is that, by the way?
Are you an expert in this, Jason?
How is I'm a little experienced in the in the application of lean body mass and how how that's more important to an individual uh than a body mass index.
That's that's a cookie-cutter gauge, and it's and it's not fair to an individual person.
So that's how you'd hire a TV anchor, maybe the body mass index.
More than likely, or you know, something else.
But uh but two people of the same age and height can weigh the same amount, and but one will have a higher lean body mass and therefore be within range of a healthy weight than than the other person.
And it has to do with with the lean body mass, which is bone, muscle, tissue, it's everything but the fat in an individual.
Well, I appreciate the input on that.
Now, folks, I don't want look at especially uh you women I'm not I'm not trying to be provocative here, but the there is a phenomenon called chick news.
I mean, that's my name for it, but women more and more taking over news, and they're bringing their emotions to it, and they're bringing the the the whole Oprah mindset, and it's like shopping cart accidents yesterday in the in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Shopping cart accidents, big story, kids falling out of shopping carts, more wing wounded by shopping carts in America than soldiers being wounded in uh in Iraq.
There just is.
It's undeniable.
There is a difference in the way news stories are assigned and they're covered.
Uh, particularly on the local level.
Uh uh, and when you give the medical and the economic uh reports, uh reporters, and that sort of thing.
Uh I'm I'm just commenting on a business and the way it's being chicken, nothing else.
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