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Sept. 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Spend just a little more time on the President's United Nations address.
That took place a little bit less than an hour ago.
We do have uh one soundbite here.
The a Democrat has responded.
One thing uh Bill Richardson, a former UN guy himself at the Clinton administration, now the uh governor of New Mexico.
Uh well one of before we get to that, uh, one thing I forgot to mention from the list of complaints the Democrats will have, and the media is the president did not address the torture uh going on at Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo.
You wait.
I'm just I'm I'm telling you, everything that I told you that they are going to say, they will say at some point.
The speech was unhelpful, it was uh it was uh not useful.
Uh uh it it was uh unnecessarily inflammatory, it was unnecessarily provocative, uh it was unrealistic, you can't expect the world to have American type democracy imposed on them.
Who are we to tell the rest of the world how to live?
Uh it it was uh uncompromising, it was undiplomatic.
Uh the president telling us there's one choice, you're either with us or against us, we've made our choice, and to the rest of the world, screw you.
I mean, that's how they're gonna hear it.
That's how they're going to try to portray it.
You'll hear a little bit of that here with Bill Richardson.
He was on CNN today and was asked his general impression of the speech.
It's a hardline speech.
It basically uh says to the UN, this is our position, and we hope you support our position.
I wish it'd been more of I need your help, I need your help on Iraq.
I need your help in Afghanistan to get more troops there.
I need the UN to help more with uh peacekeep in the Sudan in Darfur in the Middle East.
I need sort of that cooperative spirit.
So no new diplomatic ground was broken.
Generally, I would say the speech was although it was a conciliatory tone, it was a hardline speech reiterating our hard line policies.
Uh conciliatory tone?
What what what am I missing there?
How can it be conciliatory and hard line at the same time?
Reiterating our hard line policy.
Ask for help.
Yep.
Let's let's go and ask uh these these uh these people for our help.
Uh you know how to translate that.
What when a Democrat says that it means he should have gone up there and groveled.
He should have gone up there and begged, and he should have gone up there and asked them for their forgiveness for all the harsh things that we've done and said over the years of our existence.
Uh folks, I I I'm telling you, I am I am I'm just I I'm I'm fed up with with this whole set of circumstances.
I'm fed up with the world acting like it's a bunch of cowards in the face of militant Islamic threats, slashing throats, killing people, marching on Rome, banging down the walls of Rome, killing the Pope, threatening his trip to Turkey.
I'm tired of Americans joining this parade.
Uh uh my question is, when are we, the civilized people of the world, gonna get offended?
And I'm uh for all the moderate Muslims that are out there, when are we gonna hear from you?
When are we gonna hear from when are we gonna hear some of this stuff denounced instead of the rest of the world cowering in fear and trying to blame George W. Bush and the United States of America for this.
Anybody with a student of history knows about the uh anybody who is a student of history knows about the the Crusades.
This is a battle that's been going on for the longest time.
It's nothing to do with George W. Bush.
Typical liberals unable to point the finger of blame at people who are causing the problem, be it domestic criminals, be it their own failure in social safety net programs, or be it militant Islamists who wantonly kill themselves and other innocent people.
And to still talk for we must have unity, must have negotiation, we must talk, we must have dialogue, all the while blaming our own country.
Uh all this I'm I'm you know, I uh I know why some of this is going on.
I mentioned in the first hour, there's a lot of chaos being created by the drive-by media, by the Democrats, because they are just frustrated and fed up.
They're about at their wit's end.
They were supposed to be rolling to victory about now.
They were supposed to be cleaning up.
Bush was supposed to be an afterthought.
Bush was supposed to be one foot in the grave.
In a political sense.
Well, I don't know, maybe not a political sense.
What that stupid movie that is being hailed as some great piece of art about the assassination of George W. Bush.
It got some award up there from these nutcases in Toronto.
And let me see if I can remember what they said about him.
They said it's outrageous exaggerations.
I wish I could remember this because it was this classic.
They basically said the whole thing's BS, the whole thing's a bunch of lies, but it really puts in focus how bad the times in which we live are.
And they and they gave it an award.
By the way, the president said as a result of um the situation in Darfur that he is going to send uh Andrew Nazios over there as a special presidential envoy.
Andrew Natzios used to run um the United States Agency for International Development, and I was with him on my trip to Afghanistan, and I can uh I can attest to his commitment and his I better not say anything.
They'll start trashing him now.
I'm not going to say any more about Andrew Nazios.
I'm just going to say I know him.
I went to Afghanistan with him.
That's enough.
Because if I start talking about things he said, they'll trash him, try to destroy him like they do anybody else I happen to admit to being uh to being friends with.
One of the reasons the Democrats are so out of it today, ladies and gentlemen.
Amid this is USA Today, surprised they actually printed this amid falling gas prices and a two-week drive to highlight his administration's efforts to fight terrorism.
President Bush's approval rating has risen to 44% in New York or New USA Today poll with Gallup, the highest rating in a year.
The uh poll also showed likely voters evenly divided between Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress.
Forty-eight to forty-eight percent among registered voters, Democrats had a 51 to 42 uh advantage.
Screw that.
Um how about likely voters, which is 4848?
They still hold out hope.
This is the famous generic ballot always reported on as the Democrats having a huge advantage.
The uh the new poll reflect a consistent, persistent, tenacious effort to make the Republican Party's ability to deal with terrorism a number one issue in the campaign, said political scientist Richard Eichenberg at Tufts University, who has studied presidential job ratings during wartime.
He called it a carbon copy of the successful 2004 playbook.
The uh the new poll found likely voters more prone to vote for candidates to support Bush on terrorism 45 to 28 percent and evenly divided on those who support and oppose Bush on uh on Iraq.
Uh gas price has a lot to do with this too, down uh $2.50 average price per gallon, still under $2 a gallon in some parts of the uh of the country.
Uh just repeat one thing, this is important.
You're reading all over the press today that the White House is caving in negotiations with McCain.
I don't know that that's true.
I know that the drive-by media has a vested interest in McCain being perceived as the power broker here.
And I also know this.
Uh the more political heat that McCain experiences, and he's experiencing a lot of political heat.
I imagine emails and phone calls to his office and Vice President Graham's office are burning phone lines.
The more he and his friends in the drive-by media will attempt to portray uh any compromise as one that favors him.
So if any compromise occurs, the drive-by media is going to portray it as they already are as the White House caving, because McCain needs to be seen as getting something out of this mess that he has created.
If the White House actually does cave on this, it would be a disaster at many levels, national security for one.
Uh second, you can't keep drawing lines in the sand with McCain and then brush it off and back off.
Uh and and some people are gonna stop sticking their neck out for President Bush if he keeps drawing a line and then pulling back from it.
Uh I I I think you people, I we've had enough of this.
Literally have had enough of this.
The president's ratings are going up because the base is coming home, because the president is standing firm, and because he's taking on the press's favorite Republicans.
Precisely because he's taken on McCain in that Rose Garden ceremony of last Friday and other occasions is exactly why his numbers are coming up.
For McCain, everything's funneled through the prism of what's best for his career and his experience as a POW, which reminds me, where are all the other POWs?
Don't tell me they all support this nonsense.
Where are all the other soldiers who oppose this?
Is Colin Powell, the only other man to ever fight for his country speaking out on this?
How about General Hayden and the others who oppose this?
They served.
Why don't their opinions count for anything?
You know, it's obvious that McCain decided long ago he's going to run the Senate and he could do it with a relative handful of moderates and liberal Republicans siding with left-wing Democrats, as in the gang of 14 on judicial nominations.
He's done this for the last six years, and he's gotten away with it, which is why he's so arrogant about the fact that he thinks he controls the agenda.
He's figured out he could stop the entire Congress from acting on something he disagrees with by controlling this handful of lapdog moderates and liberal Republicans that want to shine in the light that the drive-by media shines on him.
Everything from the uh the campaign finance reform, uh, security fence that Bill Fritz, by the way, is Frist says he's gonna take back up, immigration reform, another dozens of other things.
Uh he runs the Senate and he uses it to blunt the House and obstruct uh presidential initiatives and ideas.
Pretends to be a conservative because he votes against the budgets, but he supports all the entitlements and other big government initiatives, but he votes against the budget.
They claim he's a hawk because he wants to send more troops to Iraq, but then he at the same time leads the charge against Rumsfeld.
And he opposes or weakens every domestic effort to secure our neighborhoods from detention to interrogation to borders, etc.
Yeah, he's out there, he's he's running around the world looking for evidence of global warming.
Now, what does that tell you his his agenda is?
And I I, for one, am just am fed up with the cowtowing and the um needless ongoing slavish idolatry that the uh that the drive-by media have.
We've got a bunch of sympathy stories for McCain today.
LA Times, Washington Post, McCain's stand comes at a price.
Oh, how principled McCain is not putting himself first.
Why, he's really being criticized by his own people in the Republican Party in the base.
This is terrible.
It's a big-time media boo-hoo for McCain.
Could imperil his candidacy in 08.
But the McCain camp is said to see a political upside in this.
The Washington Post, of course, McCain stand on detainees, Napose risk for 2008 bid.
Opposition to Bush can alienate Republican base.
That happened long ago.
It happened in 2000, it happened with campaign finance reform, it happened with a gang of fourteen.
It's happening with this uh prisoner interrogation stuff.
Second article of sympathy for McCain.
And I'm telling you, this is why you're seeing all these stories about the White House caving, is because McCain must be the one to be seen getting something out of this.
And as he gets more and more heat, he and his buddies in a drive-by media are gonna attempt to portray any compromise as one that is favorable to him.
Meanwhile, there are other analysts out there who think that the White House, uh President Bush cares so much about this interrogation program that he is willing to go into negotiations with McCain to save McCain from himself.
And I'm not kidding, there are people who think that the president wants to help McCain avoid making a fool of himself.
For the uh for the good of the party, and so I'm just sharing with you what uh what other people think.
One other note before we go to the break.
U.S. government recorded record high overall and corporate tax receipts on September 15th, which was uh well known to many of us, quarterly deadline for tax payments.
Total tax receipts were eighty-five point eight billion dollars on Friday compared with the previous one-day record of 71 billion dollars, September 15th of last year, the Treasury said.
Within the overall figure, corporate tax receipts Friday were 71.8 billion, up from sixty-three billion in September of last year.
Now what's causing this?
What's causing all this uh cash to flow into the Treasury?
I thought we had tax cuts.
How the hell can this be happening?
If I had any guts, I'd tell you what portion of that $85.8 billion was mine.
Back in a second.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh.
Living legend, a harmless, lovable little fuzzball serving humanity on the radio.
A highly trained broadcast specialist.
Here's the way the uh this this movie Death of a President, which won the uh won some stupid award up in uh Toronto.
This is uh we call the uh the Fripresky Prize.
Yeah, I'd like to have that little statue in my house.
The Fipresky Prize and put it in a bottle of urine.
At Chosen by International Critics to film a fictional documentary showing the assassination of President George W. Bush, noted by the jury, quote, for the audacity with which it distorts reality to reveal a larger truth.
Now, is that not a bunch of hocus pocus drivel typical of liberals?
For the audacity with which it distorts reality to reveal a larger truth.
It distorts reality to reveal truth.
You know, look, I know liberals are liberals, and I know that the president of Iran and his little Ahmadinejad puppet and the mullahs, I know they're gonna say what they're gonna say.
And I know that the militant Islamists are gonna say and do what they say.
What I don't understand is why we are not so angry about it yet that we're not stamping our feet and saying enough is enough.
Why do we sit around and let our spiritual leaders be targeted for death and assassination, our political leaders be targeted for death and assassination, and somehow listen to half the world and half the country in this world, yeah, it might not be a bad idea.
It is our fault.
We're spreading misery around the world.
Makes me sick.
Greatest human achievements in the history of mankind, the United States of America.
More economic opportunity, prosperity, and freedom than any collection of human beings have ever produced.
And we've got spoiled brat insane lunatics who have not the slightest bit of appreciation.
Living right here in this country, who somehow look at the people threatening the Pope, blowing up innocent women and children, blowing themselves up and their own kids, threatening the president of the United States.
Somehow they find comfort with those people.
Somehow they relate to them.
Somehow they think those people have a grievance.
Well, I don't.
And we can sit around and we can have all these encounter groups and we can wring our hands and we can say, what are we doing to make them mad?
I don't care.
They are irrational.
In any sense of how that word is used to describe human conduct, they are irrational while portraying themselves as full of peace and love.
It's an insult to any rational person's intelligence.
And why in the world there aren't more people saying, I've had enough?
When is it time for us to get offended and outraged and say this goes no further?
Because the longer this goes unchallenged and undealt with, and it really frosts me that we have United States senators, aiding and abetting, willingly or not, I don't know.
With this with this needless debate over so-called torture in the Geneva conventions when don't even apply to these savages.
And unless the Supreme Court said so, now we got to get into a debate over not how to protect the country, but how to protect the enemy.
And how to not offend the enemy.
How to make sure they're not upset and made to feel bad.
While being interrogated, while being held in prison.
Not a Word about the safety of the United States or its people.
Some concern over the safety of the troops, but the troops undergo the very torture training that we're talking about.
They know what they're getting when they sign up.
By the way, I'm sure you know gas prices are coming down.
It's led in part to the president's approval numbers coming up.
MSNBC, John Shane, yesterday on their website, there's no evidence that we can find to suggest that anyone in the White House or Congress is manipulating oil or gas prices to make for an easier trip on this falls campaign trip.
Well, I'm glad they looked.
Tells us what their suspicions are.
USA Today reporting the president's poll today.
Gas price decline may spur inflation.
Oh no!
It's a bad thing.
Gas prices are coming down now.
I don't remember anybody talking about the pain and suffering of gas prices going up except when it comes to the political fortunes of George W. Bush.
New York Times, same story.
May cause inflation, bad economic news, gas prices coming down.
Gladly, although some of it is literally insane, and it's tough for a rational person like me to explain to you.
But I give it my best shot.
Russ.
Rush Limboy, your host uh for what's making you mad today?
What what?
Well, okay, if you're if you're mad now, you wait.
That's what I went through putting this thing together starting last night.
The football game last night didn't make me happy either.
That's not it, but it's contributing factor.
Steelers didn't even show up.
Didn't even show up.
I mean, they were there, but there was they didn't play Steeler football last night.
It's one of those things no coach can explain it.
You know why the momentum is what it is.
It just at any rate.
Really made I mean I had it all set up, but I had some egg rolls made, it's some chicken strips and little nachos.
I'm sitting there, the ESPN pregame show starts at three in the afternoon.
I didn't tune in that soon, but I'm sitting there and I thought, well, this is looking good, the same offense that rolled a victory in the last uh eight games of last year.
And then nobody could catch the ball, and nobody could block anybody.
Nobody nobody could do anything.
Jacksonville's a good team.
I'm not taking me away from them.
Those games are always brutal, the Steelers, Jackson.
Yeah, it is a brutal game.
Those then there's a rivalry.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have the season edge on the Steelers.
The series, I think it's 10 to 8, going nine to eight over the Steelers going in last night.
They creamed them last year, too, up in Pittsburgh.
Uh Rothlisberger didn't play.
But uh anyway, uh, just added to it.
All right, now a little bit more detail here.
USA Today, after running their poll, 44% approval rating, generic ballot, likely voters tied 4848, headline gas price decline may spur inflation.
This is my Barbara Hagen ball of USA Today.
The recent sharp decline in gasoline prices may help consumers.
But it also may stoke inflation fires, perhaps forcing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again later this year.
Some economists, such as those at Merrill Lynch and the bank at Tokyo Mitsubishi, say.
The argument, if consumers spend the cash in their wallets left over from filling their gas tanks, the economy may speed up.
I don't even want to finish the rest of this.
And here's the New York Times.
The good news about oil prices is the bad news.
The bad news about energy just keeps coming.
Oil prices have fallen sharply since July.
Do these people have any concept?
except...
Of how idiotic this sounds.
Nuclear tensions with Iran and Alaskan pipeline troubles haven't caused the upward spike.
A weakening real estate market and other possible harbingers of recession suggests that oil demand and therefore prices could erode even further.
Don't kid yourself.
Anything that reinforces the role of fossil fuels, particularly oil, as the industrial world's primary energy source is bad, not good.
This is Daniel Ox or Axed, A.K.S. A.K. S T, writing in the New York Times.
Now let me ask you a question, ladies and gentlemen.
Um, are you asking yourself maybe you're asking yourself before I ask you, uh, you never say you saw high gas prices are good stories.
You never I I don't I didn't either.
Uh When Bush was languishing in the polls, the high gas price was celebrated.
The high oil price was an exciting number.
It was almost as exciting to these people as the number of troop deaths in Iraq.
And now the price is coming down.
Damn it!
Nothing's going right.
We're supposed to be sitting on Easy Street here in the post-Labor Day election period.
And their scenario has gone up in flames.
They are rudderless.
Now they've got to take good news for the U.S. consumer and portray it as bad news for the U.S. consumer.
And they even went out there and said they tried to find evidence of a conspiracy.
And they couldn't.
By the way, when um when the uh when the oil price was going up and the gasoline price was going up, why were they worried about inflation then?
Only now when the price comes down, they're worried about inflation.
They're experts.
Which by my count, every story this year recounting economic statistics has featured experts surprised.
At the monthly results.
Here's a juicy one, Walmart.
This is from the Hill newspaper, the uh Walmart nation's largest employer planning to launch a voter registration and education campaign this fall, targeted at its 1.3 million employees in an effort to combat growing criticism from Democrats and labor unions.
I love this.
By doing so, the world's largest retailer is striding into the national political arena, which until this election cycle it has taken pains to avoid how it's not it's not out of the political arena.
The Democratic Party's trying to destroy it.
What do you people expect it to do?
Joe Biden, one of the already announced Democratic presidential candidates, has gone out there, as other Democrats have, and named Walmart as public enemy number well, what?
One, two, three big oil, ExxonMobil's one, big pharmaceutical two, uh Big Mac, big fast food, big everything.
Every commercial success, every corporate success is a Democratic Party's enemy.
And now this.
What's Walmart supposed to do?
Just sit there and let Democrats come after him?
This is fabulous.
A voter registration and education drive.
Why, this isn't fair.
It isn't fair.
We have rock the vote, and we had P. Diddy voter die, and we have all these other voter races.
We have the League of Women Voters.
This is our territory.
You can't come on our field and play.
Screw you.
You want to go out there and register a bunch of meaningless twit voters who wouldn't know what day the news is on if their lives depended on it, and then you want to work on getting them to the polls fine.
Walmart and the rest of us will register informed, educated, passionate voters.
I guarantee you, folks, chaos out there.
Democrat Party and on the left.
You understand they were Bush is supposed to be at 10 in the polls.
Cheney was at minus five by this time.
Democrats are going to win 400 seats out of 435, 80 seats in the Senate with Link Chafee changing parties.
Bush was going to be resigning, put in jail next January once the impeachment hearing started.
They had it all mapped out.
Had it all mapped out.
We're going to get out of Iraq tomorrow.
We're going to make a deal with Ahmadinezjad to give him nuclear weapons like we gave the North Koreans to the world will be stable.
Thank you, Madeline O'Bret.
Yep, that was the plan.
And it's all falling apart like Humpty Dumpty.
Don in Columbus, Ohio.
Welcome, sir to the EIB network.
You're next.
How are you doing, Rush?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Good, man.
I used to listen to Glenn uh Glenn Beck Show, but I caught your show.
I used to watch it on TV, man.
And I was wondering what you think about George Bush's speech, man.
It seems like he's almost like uh wanting more war.
Escalation.
Uh like as in, you know, like like uh ramping up for more war, you know what I mean?
Well, yeah, in a way, I mean he attacked a lot of nations in a way.
Um he did it like in a in a very did did you like it?
It wasn't nothing subtle about it.
He called him out.
Right.
Did you did you like it or not?
I understand our circumstances I do.
I'm not stupid.
Yeah.
But at the same time, I mean, I mean, he should take his fights.
I mean, we're gonna be at war with several countries soon if he you know if this escalates any longer.
He didn't no no no.
He didn't say we're gonna go to war with all these countries.
He told these countries shape up or ship out, join us or not.
Why?
But we're dealing with some very volatile countries, man.
You know, that that might take it like it is and be like, well, are we a volatile country or not, dude?
Yeah, we are pretty volatile country.
Yeah, see.
We we got our share of firepower here.
Our problem is we don't have the guts to use it.
Half the people of this country are afraid to use it because we might offend somebody.
Even when three thousand of our people get killed in one day.
We're afraid.
You know, we're actually afraid of we're afraid we're going to offend somebody.
We're afraid we're going to hurt somebody's feelings.
Like that lunatic running Iran.
That's a volatile country.
They're about to get nuclear weapons, you know what I mean?
I mean, you know, I listen to your show every once in a while, man, and I like you, but I'm just saying that I'm kind of afraid because of all this stuff going on, man.
You know what you ought to be you know, let me I I appreciate you listening to the show once in a while.
I can't hear any evidence of it, but I'm glad you do.
But I have to tell you something, you know, if you want to be afraid, if you want to go through life in fear, you're fearing the wrong people.
You shouldn't be afraid of George W. Bush.
You should be down on your hands and knees and thanking God there's one man in this country willing to stand up as a leader to that bunch of Star Wars freaks at the bar scene at the United Nations and tell them the truth of the world and about the United States of America.
You ought to be thankful you live in a country there's one man willing to defend your little rear end that you run around in such fear of losing.
If you want to be afraid of somebody, be afraid of the people who launched attacks on a World Trade Center and for twenty years prior on Americans, just because we're alive.
You want to be afraid of something?
Be afraid of Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
Be afraid of the wacko Islamic fascists in the Middle East who are willing to kill their own kids to consider having a victory.
Your fear, if it's placed in George W. Bush's words is placed in the wrong place.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us, folks.
The uh United States of America is a great nation at risk in a dangerous world.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, man, it really is.
All right, we're back at Rush Limbaugh having uh some fun, not more today than a human being should be allowed to have.
Can't do that each and every day.
Shoot for it.
Uh remember last week had a story about Democrats uh meandering all over the uh political swamp trying to find a policy and so forth.
And we also had a story that the Democrats wanted to have a reach out to uh to pro-lifers uh try to come up with a compromise to reduce the number of abortions, in which uh we pointed out that's not the way you compromise with pro-lifers is negotiating on a on a on an agreed to number of abortions every year.
Just not the way to do it.
From the Boston Globe today, John Kerry, who is a pompous stiff, uh called for a new national commitment to reduce the number of abortions, saying that both sides on the abortion date debate can reach common ground on the sharply divisive cultural issue.
In an intimate speech laced with pompousness and arrogance, and reference I just added that, of course, the Boston media would never say that.
With references to his Catholic upbringing, Carrie chastised abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion activists for the overly partisan tone.
See, there's no right or wrong on the issue.
Everybody's just being too mean.
Everybody's just being too partisan.
He said there are areas of agreement like tax credits for adoptive parents, more government aid for working mothers, and health insurance for everybody.
Yes, that's part of the abortion debate.
Health insurance for everybody, and government aid for working mothers.
It's like the mayor of New York City.
Have you heard his idea?
He wants to pay the poor for not working.
Is that right?
He wants to pay them.
He was I know they do it in France, why not?
He also wants to run for president as an independent.
Telling you folks, there there is some just plain old stupidity out there.
But this carry story is just a rehash of the Democrats' meandering story last week in which they want to strike a compromise to come up with the pro-lifers and a reduce an agreed to number uh of abortions every year.
Find common ground.
You know, I uh for this to happen.
Do you know what the state of the pro-choice movement, the Democratic Party must be?
If Kerry and the Democrats, this guy seeking the presidential nomination, can come out and start talking about compromise with pro lifers.
We must come together and unify on abortion and so forth.
It must be that the pro choice position is not that strong in the Democratic Party anymore, because these guys aren't afraid of it.
And here's these next two stories, I just love them.
First one from the Chicago Sun Times, about one-third of attention deficit disorder.
Cases among U.S. children may be they might not be either.
But we're going to run the story anyway.
Because it sounds sexy and it advances an agenda.
About one-third of ADD cases among U.S. children may be linked to tobacco smoke before birth or lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research.
Even levels of lead the government considers acceptable appeared to increase a child's risk of having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
When did they add the H in there?
When it first started out, it was just ADD.
Now it's ADHD, and they put it, because that's what got everybody all riled up.
Hyperkinetic behavior on the part of kids.
We've got a bunch of lazy baby boom parents who had no business becoming parents in the first place, and now they don't know how to deal with kids who are kids, have a lot of energy because they want the kids.
Just go hire a nanny.
You know, just do it the way just go hire a nanny and go do you what you want to do and let the nanny deal with the hyperactive kids.
But no, no, no.
Can't do that.
Got to drug them up.
Gonna put them on Ridley.
Now we're gonna blame smoke.
Tobacco smoke and lead.
Who did this survey?
Leo Trasunde of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The findings of this study underscore the profound behavioral health impact.
And I know you people get mad at me out there on this.
I know some of you do.
But I also have countless supporters on this as well.
UADHD monotheists do not rule the roost on this.
The findings of the study underscore the profound behavioral health impact of these prevalent exposures, highlight the need to strengthen public health efforts to reduce prenatal tobacco smoke exposure and childhood lead ex Look it.
Every day there's a new story about smoke, tobacco, hugs, horror.
Let's just ban it.
Why doesn't somebody ban can't rush?
Too much tax revenue rolls in from the stuff.
I mean, if it's killing kids, if it's causing ADHD, if it's doing all this horrible rotten stuff, folks, how irresponsible are we are to allow it to continue.
And uh leading U.S. climate researcher, NASA scientist James Hansen, says that the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert catastrophe.
He's widely considered the doyen of American climate researchers.
He says, I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change in a little longer than a decade at the most.
Now, when I started this program in 1988, Ted Danson told us we had 10 years to clean the oceans, or we were dead because the oceans are poisoned and dying out just yesterday, and I've got the story in a stack.
All these brand new species are being found in the ocean.
1985, I'm in Sacramento.
I'm watching this week with David Brinkley.
Bunch of global warming activists come on and say we got 20 years.
We're not sure if we're right yet, but we can't afford to take the chance that we are wrong.
We must stop immediately what we're doing and start immediately to correct the problem.
We've got 20 years.
Well, here it's 20 years later.
Now we got another 10.
Earlier this year and late last year, there were stories from Europe.
Too late, it's over, nothing we can do.
To which my reaction was, if there's nothing we can do, then how can we have caused it?
If there's nothing we can do to stop this, then how could we have caused it?
When we come back to the break, I have to share with I can find it.
Greg Easterbrook, who's one of my all-time favorite writers.
He's a senior fellow, or maybe an average fellow, I don't know what the Brookings Institution, I don't know how they brilliant writer.
He writes a football column called the Tuesday Morning Quarterback for ESPN.com, page two.
And he had the most amazing story about an astronomical event that would have meant the end of the world had it happened in our galaxy on last February 18th.
And he said, just freaked him out.
And I'm gonna see if I can find it here.
It just puts all this global warming stuff into perspective.
I have been attempting to do so in many, many moons.
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