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Aug. 29, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Uh, ladies and gentlemen well uh, still a little frustrated here trying to track hurricane.
Well, it's not a hurricane it's uh, it's tropical storm Ernesto.
Uh, as a friend of mine said last night, perhaps an illegal tropical storm, at least undocumented.
Uh, and it looks to me.
I I, I can't get the satellite loops to reload consistently because I guess there's a lot of traffic at the uh, at Noah's UH website, their server farm.
Sometimes they load, sometimes they don't.
Uh, satellite loops will not load, the radar loops will not load.
All I can get still shots.
They update every five or six minutes.
To my untrained, unmeteorological eye, it appears and there's no defined center of this storm, there's just a just a giant thunderstorm right now.
The pressure's rising.
Pressure's a thousand eight millibars.
It was a thousand seven, three hours, two hours ago.
No definite center uh to the storm.
Whatever it is, it looks like it's tracking a little further west uh, than the forecast track, but there's supposedly some upper level high moving out of the way.
It's going to make it easier for it to curve to the northeast at some point uh, as they'll all do if a high gets out of the way.
Just to matter when that happens.
The whole, the whole Peninsula Florida, is going to be impacted by this thing somehow uh, mainly a rain event, but some people are going to get 40 mile an hour winds gusting uh, a little bit higher.
It was literally torn apart.
It's falling apart.
Last night over Cuba, you know, I think.
One of the reasons for this, by the way, is Castro is either dead uh, or incapacitated.
Couldn't get out of bed and go out there and shout at the damn thing to leave Cuba alone, like he did last time.
Last time he went out there, shouted at a camp, at a hurricane over on the on the east coast of Cuba, said, get out of here, hurricane.
And it uh well, it's what the Associated Press reported.
The hurricane missed Cuba.
This one didn't spent a lot of time over Cuba and it really wrecked it.
I just uh, just just tore it apart.
So it's having to reorganize and it probably won't have enough time to reorganize the cane between now and the time it hits uh, the Florida mainland.
It's just a little frustrating here not to be able to get out there and get these loops, satellite radar loops and so forth.
It's a great way of tracking where the thing is going.
John Kerry, senator John Kerry did not contest the results at the time, but now that he's considering another run for the White House, he's alleging election Election improprieties by the Ohio Republican who oversaw the deciding vote in 2004.
That would be Ken Blackwell, who just happens to be seeking the Senate in Ohio, which makes this doubly understandable.
An email will be sent to 100,000 Democratic donors today, probably has already been flashed out there, asking them to support Representative Ted Strickland for governor.
The bulk of the email critic.
Blackwell's running for governor, not Senate.
I'm confusing him with Michael Steele in Maryland.
Blackwell's running for governor of Ohio.
The bulk of the email accuses Strickland's opponent, Ken Blackwell, for his dual role in 2004 as Bush's honorary Ohio campaign chairman and the state's top election official.
He used the power of his state orifice to try to intimidate Ohioans and suppress the Democratic vote, said Kerry's email.
Blackwell, who is black, says the election was run fairly, citing a million more votes cast than in 2000 and record turnout among black voters.
Blackwell campaign spokesman Carlo LaParro said people will say anything for money.
Fortunately, the historical record contradicts Senator Kerry.
Poor Senator Kerry.
You know, have you ever known people just can't let something go?
That's actually the whole Democratic Party right now.
They just can't let 2000 go.
Just can't let it go.
And I know why.
I mean, I understand them psychologically.
They think they're incapable of losing elections in a fair fight when they can rig it.
You know, they're the ones.
Every attempt at voter reform to identify registered voters, guess who's against it?
The Democratic Party.
Photo IDs to vote?
Democrat Party against.
That's discrimination aimed at the blacks and the poor.
They don't have the money to go out there and get photo IDs.
Oh, we'll get it for them for free.
We'll even go to their house.
You're not getting in their house.
We know what that is.
That's just an attempt to break their Fourth Amendment rights.
You get in there and find them evidence of a crime.
We know what it's just absurd.
But they just can't let it go.
But Senator Kerry, it's over.
It's over.
You lost.
It's time to move on.
They want to keep refighting these old battles where they think they got the shaft and where they got screwed.
And as I've said constantly, they just can't lose.
Powers of birthright.
And so when they lose elections, it's always the fault of hanging Chads.
It's always the fault of voting machines.
You know, in a way, the Democrat problem can be explained by some of what I think is folly in the way that we are conducting war on terror in this country.
Let's take a look at this British plot some weeks ago.
21 people said to have found ways to get liquids aboard planes and carry-on baggage.
And then the passengers, the 21 guys, the Muslims, are going to blow them up up there.
10 planes blown up midair over the Atlantic Ocean, traveling to the United States.
So immediately, what did the Brits do and what did we do?
Well, we started banning liquids from airplanes.
Mother's milk, baby milk formula, shaving cream, shaving gel, you know the list, whatever it all was.
And of course, does that not miss the point?
Our enemy is not baby's formula.
Our enemy is not edge shaving gel or Gillette.
Take your pick.
Shick.
Don't want to leave anybody out.
Colgate.
Our enemy is not bottled water.
Enemy are the people who do this.
And we have excellent records of who they are.
But don't do that.
That's profiling.
That is not the American way.
We're not going to look the evidence straight in the eye.
We're not going to see what the evidence says without a shadow of a doubt and draw the obvious conclusion because that would make us feel guilty.
And that would hurt feelings.
And that would cause us even greater problems than the rest of the world because people would think we are biased.
So we focus on baby formula as the enemy now.
We focus on you picket, whatever these liquids were that they banned from the airplanes.
And you saw what it did in terms of check-in, at early arrival.
Airlines said, we can't keep doing this.
You are causing us to lose money.
This is absurd.
This is ridiculous.
Now, at first, blush on the day of the event, yeah, makes sense.
Because you never know if they rounded up all the guys.
You never know if they rounded up everybody in the ring.
So it makes sense to take all that stuff that was going to be used as the target off.
But after that, to focus on those things as the problem is missing the problem on purpose.
There's really, it's not hard to identify what to do here, but we're never going to do it.
We're just not going to, because it's racial profiling.
The liberals can't stand that.
And I can allow that to happen.
And then we're not going to offend people.
We'll let them blow us up before we offend them.
Well, the Democrats are sort of in the same circumstance.
They're losing elections, but they are not blaming and focusing on the real reasons themselves.
Because in their minds, these are the most cocky, arrogant, condescending human beings walking today.
It can't possibly be them.
It's not possible the American people would reject us.
They have to be voting for us.
Just that our votes aren't being counted.
Or they're tricking us with ballots in counties in Florida that we run.
Democrats ran Palm Beach County, still do.
They created a butterfly ballot, sends samples out to all the voters.
Somehow, that's a Republican scandal.
That people were tending to vote for Gore voted for Buchanan.
I always said that meant Buchanan could get the Jewish vote.
You get the Democrat vote.
Should have been on the Democrat ticket.
You never know what would have happened.
Anyway, the whole thing is just absurd when you look at it.
So now here's Kerry reliving, reliving, punishing himself in the depths of depression, no doubt.
I can imagine John Kerry at a dinner party at his house.
He's got Teresa over there having a little wine, consuming some adult beverages, got the guests in there.
And it's probably just a constant whine and moan and rant.
I said this and I did this and I misrepresented it and I should have won it.
And just imagine how it goes.
They just need to let it go.
But they won't.
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I had this story in the stack yesterday.
There's a lot of stories in the stack I didn't get to yesterday.
So I'm reviving this story from yesterday.
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Cohen, who writes for the New York Times, had a story yesterday.
New reason to be resentful of President Bush.
He has robbed America of its optimism.
Bush is out there giving speeches on optimism, ladies and gentlemen, in New Orleans.
He is always the one talking optimism.
Listen to this story.
President Clinton was often mocked for his declarations that he still believed in a place called Hope.
But he understood that instilling hope is a critical part of leadership.
Other than a few special interest programs, it's hard to think of areas in which the Bush administration has raised the nation's hopes and met them.
This president has instead tried to focus the American people on the fear of terrorism for which there is no cure, only bad choices or something worse.
Well, if you go back to President Bush's second inaugural address, he says this, we have seen our vulnerability and we have seen it's deepest source.
For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny, prone to ideologies that feed hatred, excuse murder, violence will gather and multiply in destructive power and cross the most defended borders and raise a mortal threat.
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and the tolerant, and that's the force of human freedom.
We are led by events and common sense to one conclusion.
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
As I say, the president is continually upbeat and optimistic.
There's a reason, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, that Americans fear terrorism more now than they did during the Clinton years.
And as James Taranto wrote at the OpinionJournal.com, it isn't because of anything President Bush has done.
How about all the lack of action on serious problems engaged by the Clinton administration?
The Clinton administration purposely avoided anything hard, anything difficult, in order to protect its approval numbers and legacy.
This is, to say that Bush has robbed us of our optimism is just a bunch of liberals admitting that they're unhappy, defeated, and miserable, which they are most of the time anyway.
Listen to them.
Listen to what Bob they note have a sense of humor.
They can't laugh about anything, especially their own constructs.
They are just humorless people, and they are enraged and angry, and some of them so much so.
They are descending into the early stages of madness.
Now, I want to go back to the business I was talking about right before the last commercial break, accepting reality.
Don't blame others.
The little riff I did on our enemy is not baby milk formula.
Enemy is not shaving cream.
The Democrats' enemy is not voting machines, and it's not this and that and the other thing.
It's themselves.
New York Times, big story, Obama, the savior of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama in Kenya, strode into a packed auditorium in Nairobi yesterday and attacked an issue that notoriously bedevils Kenyan society, corruption.
He urged people to reject the insulting idea that corruption is somehow part of Kenyan culture, to stand up, to speak out against injustices.
During his speech on Monday, Obama laid out tough prescriptions for Africa's ills, calling for government cutbacks, more openness, less ethnic politics.
Barack, bring it home, buddy.
Bring this speech home with you.
Make that speech in New Orleans, Barack.
Most of all, he told Kenyans to stop complaining about the injustices of the colonial past and to accept responsibility.
He said it's more than just history and outside influence.
It explains why Kenya is lagging behind.
Barack, bring it home.
Bring it home to New Orleans, Barack.
Isn't it amazing what these people can go out, these liberal Democrats, can say in foreign countries?
Government cutbacks, more openness, less ethnic politics.
Barack Obama, who is African-American, would never dare say this in America.
My God, it's got everything.
It's got corruption.
New Orleans has it all.
It's got corruption.
It has way too much government, needs cutbacks, more openness, less ethnic politics.
Stop complaining about the injustices of the past and accept responsibility.
In other words, Barack is saying what I just said.
There's a time to let it go.
Juan Williams is saying it in his new book, You Heard Imam of Walter Williams on Friday.
It's time to let it go.
Black politics is stuck 40 years ago in a paradigm that no longer exists.
Back to the phones.
Texarkana, Texas.
Alan, I'm glad you're patient.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Rush, thank you for your time.
I appreciate it.
You bet.
I don't, I'm not saying this certainly, and I think your earlier monologues about the lie perpetuated on the American people by this whole thing was perfect.
I think it would be premature to just assume that what Armitage did was just an accident.
He's not stupid.
He's former special ops, and I don't believe in accidents in politics.
I think everything in politics is calculated.
And I would not be a bit surprised to find out that Armitage did this intentionally.
He knew he was headed out of the State Department.
He knew his days were numbered.
He worked with Wilson in the State Department.
I really wouldn't be surprised to think that he did this on purpose, considering the fact he is a Bush critic.
He is a Rumsfeld critic.
He never supported the war in Iraq or going in to remove Hussein.
And certainly in his time in government, he knew the damage that this leak could cause and the attacks it would bring on by the media and the Democrats and the damage it would do that it has done to the Bush administration.
That's a little hard for me to believe.
The one thing that makes it somewhat believable is that long after the brouhaha started, he could have shut it down by going public and he didn't.
Right.
But he would have to know that by telling Bob Novak, and your point, you may have a point too, because they're trying to characterize the guy as a harmless, lovable little bear, a big bear.
He just loves gossip.
Would never during the harmony.
But it doesn't appear that this was intended to harm anybody, especially Valerie Plame or Valerie Wilson.
And it's, you know, he would have to know that her status was covert.
Well, it wasn't covert.
He'd have to be able to predict that exactly what happened with the media and with everybody else is what would happen in order to get this started.
He also told Bob Woodward this.
So I can understand why you would think it.
And you're very, very shrewd to think that much of politics is not coincidental.
But either way, the bottom line is, what do you want to say?
Armitage is innocent from a get-go or not.
The bottom line is everybody in the world knew that this had who the leaker was, and there was nothing illegal about it.
And the investigation should have been brought to a screeching halt.
Back in just a second.
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All right, this is funny.
Saddam Hussein is being forced to watch his appearance in South Park while he is behind bars.
The South Park guys did a movie spin-off, and they featured Saddam in there as a guy who loves the devil.
South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut featured Saddam Hussein and Satan attempting to take over the world together.
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, and they said that U.S. Marines guarding Saddam during his trial for genocide were making him watch the movie repeatedly.
Now, you know what?
I'm just going to predict you, once this gets wide play, once some of these crisis stories like Tropical Storm Ernesto and the pervert out there in Las Vegas, once these things run their course today, there will who?
What?
Yeah, now that I've met now that I've given it a little ink, so to speak, you're going to have the Abu Ghrab Club Gitmo crowd rise up in righteous anger and call this torture.
Forcing Saddam to watch something he doesn't want to watch.
Particularly a South Park movie featuring him as a partner in crime with Satan.
You just, I just know when if liberals listen to this program and you know who you are and you know you were out there, as do I, and I could just see your face when I said this.
I could just see your face.
There was a little shock.
You probably gulped a little bit, frowned, got just the first vestiges of anger and disbelief over this kind of cruel, cruel treatment of at least a man who once was the leader of his people being forced to watch a movie in which he is a partner in crime with the devil.
You heard about the IRS, they learned that these gift bags, things like the Emmys, could total as much as 70 grand.
IRS said, hey, wait a minute, that is income.
And we are going to be watching people and we are going to be auditing and we're going to figure out if people are reporting this income.
Well, USA Today had a story posted, I guess it was yesterday, about all of this.
Neither the IRS nor an episode from last season, Sopranos, could deter some stars from collecting major swag at pre-Emmy gifting suites over the weekend.
One of the stars of The Sopranos, Joe Gannis Scully, who played the gay mobster Vito, said, I feel like it's our duties as Americans to get away with what we can.
My kind of guy.
It's our duty as Americans to get away with what we can.
Participating vendors don't seem to mind celebrities loading up on the freebies.
They hope the stars will provide publicity when they appear with their wares.
But some of these people acknowledge the vendors' worst fears that the swag often ends up in the hands of the not-so-famous, the friends, the staff, families of the celebrities.
Here is a sample.
I don't want to go through the whole thing of what was collected.
But jewelry from $2,000 to $5,000 a piece.
Mac laptops valued at $1,500 a piece.
And a number of these celebrities, well, here was Jamie Lynn Sigler of The Sopranos says, I wouldn't blame us.
It goes way beyond that.
It's kind of weird to tax people on what's being called a gift bag.
And this plus Vito's comment here, I feel like it's our duty as Americans to get away with what we can.
I don't know what Vito's political persuasions are here, but it sounds like liberal who feels like he's imprisoned because there's a Republican administration.
I got to get it while I can because I never know when they're going to be in jail next.
But it illustrated to me the utter ignorance, and these are high-income people.
You know, one of the things that amazes me, we're talking $5,000 jewelry piece.
Folks, that is walking around money to these people.
One of the things that irritates me, I can't tell you.
I don't have too many things.
Arrogance bothers me.
Arrogant condescension, cockiness when there's nothing to warrant it.
That irritates me.
But something else that irritates me is people who earn a lot of money, who expect everything to be given to them, who refuse to spend their own money on things, including CEOs who will take a multi-billion dollar, multi-million dollar retirement package and still ask the company to fly them around on the jet.
Get your own jet.
Charter your own jet, pal, or to have an apartment provided for them in the city or baseball.
They just paid you 10 or 20 million bucks.
Get your own stuff.
Don't walk around with your hand out.
And here come these people, high-income people.
Well, we deserve this stuff.
Why we're American royalty?
Why, I want that $70,000 worth of giveaways.
Get it yourself.
You can afford it for crying out loud.
And then when it's given to you, to start crying milk over the fact that it's income and you might have to pay taxes on it.
Either way, I mean, the ignorance of these people in the tax code is stunning to me.
And it helps me to understand why they haven't the slightest clue about tax cuts.
It explains to me why when tax cuts are proposed, these people, high-income people, go nuts opposing them.
Guilt or whatever is the reason.
But if you're going to give somebody $7,000, do you know what the rules for giving away money are?
If you're single, you can give anybody you want $12,000 one time per year.
If you're married, you and your spouse can give away $24,000 to a single person, tax-free.
Nobody pays any tax on it.
Now, you have an exemption up to something like, I forget the exact number, like a million dollars.
You spend all your money giving it away up to a million dollars.
Then after that, you've got to start paying gift tax on it.
And the gift tax ain't cheap.
Gift tax, depending, can run in the 50 to 60 percent bracket.
So either way, there are tax consequences of this.
If somebody is taking $70,000 worth of stuff, that is considered income.
Now, if the stars want to look at it as a gift, okay, then it's the responsibility of the person giving it away to pay the tax on it because the maximum you can give anybody is $12,000.
Now, that weighs around this.
I mean, you can, if you want to set up like a retirement plan for your kids, I forget what it's called.
No, it's really not.
That's what you can give away max, single and married, per year.
It used to be 10, now it's up to 12.
It always goes up 1,000 or so every year or two to match inflation.
But that's it.
And you can do it one time, per person per year.
But beyond that, there are taxes on it.
Here are these people demanding to be exempt from it on two counts, demanding to be exempt from the taxes on the income or gift, and then demanding not to have to pay taxes on it and to still demand that it still be given to them because they're Americans.
And as Americans, they're supposed to get out there and get what they can.
There really is quite a divide out there, ladies and gentlemen.
You talk about the divide between the rich and the poor.
That's not the real problem, that gap, because that's always been, and it always will be.
The problem is dumb rich people.
The problem is stupid, arrogant rich people.
They're the ones that give everybody a bad name.
Bunch of greedy SOBs out there acting.
Everything should be given to them.
It's all theirs just because of what they do for a living.
All right, here's the next drive-by media disaster.
I want to get you up to speed on this.
I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen.
Imagine a black hole swallowing Earth, ending life in an instant.
It's not only the stuff of pulp sci-fi novels, but as scientists say, a looming possibility.
Oh, no.
Black holes.
I thought they were way the hell out there.
But one could come along, folks, and just gobble us up like that.
What happened so fast, we wouldn't even know it.
Neil de Grace Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
You've been there?
I've been there.
It'd be a bad day for the solar system if we got visited by a black hole.
Really?
Really?
In our vast galaxy, there are billions upon billions of stars, each of which is at a different point in its life cycle.
Citing the law of averages, some scientists believe at least one star dies every day.
And in death, stars occasionally give birth to black holes.
When a massive celestial body's core collapses, creates an immense gravitational pull, not unlike an invisible cosmic vacuum cleaner.
As it moves, it sucks in all the matter in its way.
Not even light can escape.
You shoot a nuclear weapon right into a black hole, the effect would be smaller than a pinprick compared to the enormous gravitational pull of a black hole itself, said a professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York.
A black hole lies in the heart of every large galaxy.
A monstrous one sits in the center of our own Milky Way.
Astronomers say probably more than 10 million black holes inhabit the cosmos.
So I want to see how long it takes for this story to generate cable news stories on the black hole and the possibility of a black hole swallowing Earth.
Crisis News on parade never ends.
All right, back to the phones quickly.
Richmond, Virginia, this is Bob.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush Dittos.
I wanted to make the point you were talking earlier about how the media kind of makes a complete fool out of themselves.
And I think a good example, you go back a couple months to the Duke La Crosse story, and it kind of ties in with the story today with this John Mark Carr.
Apparently, you know, when John Mark Carr's DNA doesn't match, you know, he's immediately, you know, innocent, no problem.
And the Duke La Crosse, if you remember that prosecutor, I think he had another agenda going, but if you remember, their DNA didn't exonerate them.
No, that's true.
Nor did the DNA of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, exonerate them.
Despite no DNA match whatsoever, Patrick Fitzgerald continued the investigation even after he knew Richard Armitage was the leaker.
Armitage's DNA is what matched, but they ignored that.
What is the big deal about this DNA business?
If there's not a DNA match in North Carolina and the Investigation goes on.
Why are they giving up on this pervert, John Mark Carr?
You hit the nail on the head.
There's an agenda in the.
Where's the trial, by the way?
Where is the trial of the Duke La Crosse players?
There is no trial yet, and the trial is not going to be till next spring, if it happens at all.
This is outrageous, really.
There's no DNA.
A lot of these players have alibis.
Nyphong did what he did for the express purpose of winning his primary election and then becoming re-elected a DA.
And then everybody that's looked at this is, where's the evidence, Mike?
He hasn't presented any solid evidence, and you have to.
And you have to let the other side know what you've got.
You've got to let the defense know there hasn't been any release that whatever has been released doesn't show much at all.
And then to set the trial back to next spring, that's what everybody said, whoa, whoa, what?
You're going to have this cloud hanging over these young guys' heads for a year?
It really is outrageous.
I'll tell you, folks, you look at Tom DeLay and Ronnie Earle and the Nyphong case, this thing with Scooter Libby and Richard Armitage.
You look at the incompetence of the Boulder people.
One email four years ago seems to be what really drove the John Mark car store, plus his confession.
It was a hoax.
A guy wanted to get out of Thailand, come back, got a nice meal, a bottle of champagne on board some airline flying in business class.
I'll tell you, criminal justice, this judge in eastern Michigan on the NSA foreign surveillance case, the criminal justice system just appears to be polluted with politics, and justice doesn't seem to have much of anything to do with it, no matter where you look.
Dorian in New York City, glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush Megadittos from New York City.
Thank you.
Just wanted to comment more on the agenda of the drive-by media.
It's amazing that a month ago we were told that gas prices would increase because of the Alaskan pipeline break and in Iran, but in actuality, they've decreased significantly over the last couple of weeks, and we've heard nothing about that.
No, of course, and you won't because it doesn't fit the action line.
But the minute they start going up, you know what will happen?
They'll start railing and whining and blasting the increase in gasoline prices without reporting the decrease that you just mentioned.
That's correct.
It's happened already a couple of times in a couple of intervals in this whole sordid affair.
Yep.
No question.
You've got it.
I don't know.
Drive-by media, what's called the mainstream media, is just scandalous, folks.
It literally is just, it's scandalous what's going on.
It's not just bias.
I want to say a quick timeout.
We'll come back, grab another phone call or two if we have time after this.
All right, we're being corrected.
I'm told in the South Park movie that Saddam and the devil were lovers, not partners in crime.
So my report to AP had it wrong.
I haven't seen the movie, so it's not my fault.
Well, it is my fault, but I don't have time to explain why.
Janie San Diego, welcome to the program.
Hi, hey, this is great, Rush.
My question is: why in the world aren't the environmentalists yelling to let New Orleans go back to nature?
Well, one of the reasons is that mostly liberals live there.
See, liberals are liberals first.
And in this case, the animating aspect of liberalism is Bush hatred and Bush criticism.
And thus, New Orleans to them represents an opportunity to advance that.
Everybody thinks that all these different liberal groups have their agenda items and their issues are number one of paramount importance.
And it's easy to think that.
But the environmentalists, the wackos, are as conflicted as any liberal group is.
Have their own conflicts of interest.
They have their own ironies.
They have their own inconsistencies.
They're basically just fronts for different ways to express and advance liberalism and to take shots at capitalism.
In this case, the thing that Adam, I mean, environmentalists despise capitalism.
They just hate it.
And they despise Bush and so forth.
And so anything that can show how those things are failures and don't work and you can't depend on them, BAMO.
That is the reason why.
Why don't they say that after any hurricane in a coastal area?
Well, don't rebuild Miami.
Don't rebuild Homestead.
Just let it sit there and be a dump.
Because the actual motivating factor is far more than environmentalism.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Oh, whoa, no.
Show is over.
See you tomorrow, folks.
I got to interview Lynn Swan next for the Limbaugh Letters.
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