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Dec. 6, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Uh, where's that uh Damn what I do to it?
Well, must be in another stack.
I'll find it.
I can do many things at once here while you not even uh noticing.
Rush Limboy, the EIB network.
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Uh well, I'm watching television there during the break, and you know the uh editor, the uh one of the editors, I guess, of the CNET uh publishing empire, James Kim, is missing out there in the uh forests and the wilds, the rainforest, what he did, jungle uh in uh in Oregon.
Uh I guess they got stuck in a snowstorm in a over recent weekend.
His wife and two kids stayed in ESUV uh while he went for help.
They eventually found the SUV with the wife and the two kids, they can't find him.
And the Oregon State Police.
I mean, they're they're they're committed to finding James Kim, and uh we just saw that they're they're gonna be dropping survival supplies throughout the region where they suspect he might be in hopes that he's still alive might find the survival kits.
Uh this would no doubt include food uh and uh be able to uh find some somehow survive until he is uh found.
I'm watching this with uh Mr. Snerdley, the official program observer.
And Mr. Snerdley says, you know, this reminds me, what where did you see this?
What uh okay, there's a Snerdley was uh channel surfing around.
He found a show on the Discovery Network called Man vs.
Wild, and there's one episode finished uh uh featured this British special forces guy who snurdly described as incredible.
I mean, this guy goes out into just these kinds of places where they're looking for James Kim with nothing except the clothes on his back and survives for lengths of time that nobody thinks is human humanly possible.
So they took a crew out with him while they did this.
Now the crew obviously it's like going to Somalia.
You take your sandwiches, you take your food while you film people starving.
So they had to go out and take their coats, they had to take their uh heated tents and so forth while this guy's out there doing his thing for the uh for the camera.
And Snurdly was going on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how great this guy was.
And I looked at him, I said, You don't get it, do you?
That guy is a threat to human civilization.
He cocked his head and looked at what are you talking about?
I said, Don't you understand this country years ago decided that real men have to go, and this guy's gumming up the works now.
This guy is out there showing how real men are, and this isn't gonna sit well with people.
I was watching Fox the other day.
In the infobabe, there was a sad story, a bear had uh come out of the woods and uh killed a little girl and mauled her parents.
I think that's what it was.
They were camping or doing something.
And the infobe at Fox asked the animal expert who was the guest, uh this seems so abnormal.
For a bear to act this way, uh which me got my attention on.
Abnormal?
What do we think the bear is there for?
To help them put out a forest fire if they start one.
So this animal expert says, well, uh could be uh uh in fact, she even says that the bear mentally disturbed.
Could the bear be retarded?
Animal experts said, well, you know, it could be.
I'm watching all of this, and and it just boggles the mind.
Uh we got cougars, mountain lions now encroaching on people's homes in California because can't hunt the things anymore, so they're they're um they're just I I see the some of the things I see I just I I literally can't believe.
Like this.
This is unbelievable.
While we're we're dropping food to a guy in the wilds of Oregon who may not even be alive.
We don't know.
But we're dropping food.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a marketing campaign to promote milk by outfitting uh city bus shelters with cookie-scented cardboard strips has fallen apart.
City officials ordered CBS Outdoor, the company that holds the advertising contract for the bus shelters to remove the adhesive strips on Tuesday, just one day after they were put up as part of the Got Milk campaign.
The uh MTA, the municipal transit agency, canceled the plan after some residents raised objections.
Yeah, we got complaints of the MTA spokeswoman, Maggie Lynch.
It's controversial.
Now, what would be controversial about putting strips that smell like cookies at a bus stop?
What who in the world could possibly be upset?
Well, some critics express concern over potential allergic reactions.
The odor police, the odor Nazis, and they don't want any odors around them wherever they go.
Others complain the ads could be offensive to the poor and the homeless who can't afford to buy cookies.
And so you go they're at the bus stop.
They can't afford cookies, I guarantee you they can't afford to ride an EMTA.
So obviously hanging around the bus shelter, the bus, the bus stop for shelter or what have you.
But we can't we can't try to beautify in some small crazy way anyway, strips that smell like cookies.
I mean, having trouble visualizing this anyway.
What with wind and I mean it's not really an enclosed space that probably works.
But no, we can't do this because the poor and homeless uh would be offended.
Uh also the as I mentioned, the scent sensitive people are imperiled by this.
Of course, the scent sensitive people would have no objection if a smelly as happened in New Jersey homeless person who hadn't taken a bath in a month, walked in there, uh, and a Carter appointed federal judge.
You deserve to smell this stench because you Americans made this person homeless.
So, I mean, it's wacko time out there.
And then this, as I've been referencing earlier in the program, some of Hollywood's most successful women share an unexpected byproduct of success.
Hairy armpits.
That was one of the lighter messages brought home yesterday, the star-studded breakfast, hosted by the Hollywood Reporter in conjunction with the publication of its 15th annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 list.
It's a miracle I'm here, said keynote speaker Maria Bello, star of World Trade Center, in describing her hectic morning as a multitasking mom during which she finally got around to shaving two-week-old growth under her arms.
I still have one-week-old growth, quipped fellow World Trade Center star Maggie Gyllenhaal, another keynote speaker who, like Bello, earned accolades for her role in the Oliver Stone-directed drama about the September 11th attacks.
So, Hollywood women are too busy to shave their armpits.
We can't make bus stops in San Francisco smell nice because it'll offend the homeless who can't afford to go out and buy cookies.
Don't need to be eating them anyway.
Okay.
And uh and now we're worried about bears being retarded when they do what bears do.
I mean, you take it from there.
Uh we'll we'll be back and continue just a second here.
All right, 800-282-2882.
This is the award-winning Rush Limbaugh program uh numerous times.
We've won the Marconi Award for excellence and syndicated radio broadcasting.
Of course, there's a movement out there to now say that uh Marconi made it up that he stole the invention from somebody else.
Uh if they're able to make that stick, I will it doesn't matter.
I am not turning in the awards.
Uh you win the award, you win the award.
Joe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
I'm nice to hear from you.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Good, sir.
Um, I'm a pretty liberal guy, but I just wanted to say that I support you in criticizing this bus stop thing.
I mean, it's it's things like that that give liberals a bad name.
Well, I wouldn't take it personally, it is San Francisco.
It's I imagine the liberals in Cedar Rapids are a little different than the liberals in San Francisco.
Yeah, but I'm I'm actually from California originally, so I know.
What part of the what what what part?
The South Bay.
Why ho ho ho ho So you do have personal experience.
Well, why did you leave?
Uh mainly because it's too expensive to live out there, but I'll be moving back pretty soon anyway.
Too expensive to live out.
You're gonna be moving back pretty soon.
What is it to get rich?
Win the lottery?
Well, I'm gonna save up some money and then move back after I've you know got on my feet, but yeah, it's it's things like the extremely liberal things like the bus stop uh taking down the cookie scented posters that just go too far.
It's like these people wake up in the mornings and say, What can we blow out of proportion today?
Well, let me let me ask which which reason given for taking down the cookie-scented strips at the bus stop offends you the most.
Is it is it the fact that the poor and the homeless would be offended because while you know the smell can make you want what you're smelling, and they can't they can't afford cookies, or does that offend you, or is that the fact that um the s the the the the sentally the the scent sensitive the people that can't stand any kind of aroma except the buses that drive by there apparently uh are okay with them.
Which of those two excuses to you is the most absurd?
There's the one about how poor people can't afford cookies, so they'll be offended by the scent of cookies.
I mean, I think that's just ridiculous.
Well, you better be you better you might want to rethink your trip uh back out to the Bay Area because that's the most sensitive reason.
The the uh the smell thing, I mean, that's just nuts.
But having compassion for the poor and their inability to afford things, I mean, that you're being you're being very heartless here.
You're basically advocating that poor and homeless be taunted with things they cannot have.
Well, I open up a magazine and I see advertisements for things I can't afford, and I don't get offended.
Well, then why are you a liberal?
Well, I'm I guess I'm more of a libertarian.
I'm kind of in between.
Ah, okay.
Well, uh look, but best of luck.
I hope you get back to where you how how long have you uh been away from the South Bay?
About two years.
Well, how did you end up in Cedar Rapids?
Uh I have family out here.
Yeah, family there, okay.
Yeah.
Well, good uh well, all the best.
Do you still live at home?
Yes.
Unfortunately.
Well, uh, best of luck to you, Joe, and thanks thanks so much for calling.
I appreciate it.
There's a reason I ask that.
Because the next story here in the stack of stuff, seniors face quarter life crisis.
I've heard this term before, but it's been a while.
This is uh this is uh the daily targum.
It is uh the Rutgers University uh College newspaper.
The midlife crisis may be better known, but it's the so-called quarter life crisis that affects nearly every college graduate.
As students enter their mid-twenties, the uh sense of anxiety can take hold.
Similar to the personal and psychological events that happen as a person moves through his or her forties or fifties.
But for those in their mid-twenties, it means being faced with what to do after graduation more than ever.
Graduates are going back home to live with their parents after leaving college while others go on to graduate school.
Now we've chronicled this.
This is something that's uh very troublesome to me or troubling.
We've been talking about this, but this dovetails with precisely one of the things we were talking about yesterday, and that is this.
The baby boom generation and their offspring have had life so easy compared to their grandparents and parents.
I mean there's no comparison.
And as a result, we have had to invent our stresses.
We have had to invent our own problems, our psychological disorders, syndromes, and what have you, in order to convince ourselves that our lives have been challenging and difficult.
So now we worry about whether the cell phone will cause cancer.
We're all concerned about trans fats.
We get concerned about whether Oat Bran will constipate us or not.
I mean, we have real problems, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got road rage.
Why we have too much traffic.
So many cars and so many people buying gasoline that we have problems with it.
I mean, when you compare, it's silly.
And now listen to the way this college newspaper is written.
Uh Students enter their mid-twenties.
A sense of anxiety.
I'm hyperventilating here.
Can take hold.
Similar to the personal and psychological events that happen as a person moves.
You think this is new?
I guarantee these people think they're going through something nobody's ever gone through.
My God, I just got out of college.
What do I do?
Oh no, what do I do?
What do I do?
What do I live?
What do I go?
What do I eat?
Mom, Dad, I love you.
So they stay at home.
And this is a big moment of anxiety.
This is a this is a life-challenging moment.
They don't realize people have been doing this for gazillions of years.
It's called growing up and leaving home.
But now growing up.
Why?
It's full of anxiety.
Too much responsibility.
And people don't understand how difficult it is out there.
What a bunch of wusses.
Now it's getting sanctioned college newspapers.
By the way, New York City has changed its mind on the definition of gender.
Do you remember this?
New York City was toying with the idea that if you wanted to be a woman, even though you're a man, you could just say so.
You didn't have to go get any kind of surgical procedure.
You didn't have to get an adenicomy.
You didn't have uh you didn't get a chopodicomy.
Uh you'd have to do any of that.
You could just say it.
You had to promise to stay that way for two years.
I mean, you have what you want once you changed your identity for your gender, you had to stay that way.
And we raised a number of questions as when this happened.
Well, really?
Um that mean that uh man, you can go to an old girl's school.
I might sign up for this.
Uh go into the ladies' restroom when you're a man.
Uh what all kinds of things.
So now the New York Times reports that the city's Board of Health unexpectedly withdrew a proposal yesterday that would have allowed people to alter the sex on their birth certificates without sex change surgery.
Now, the plan, if passed, would have put New York at the forefront of a movement to eliminate anatomical considerations when defining gender.
These are the same people that wonder if bears and sharks who kill people are retarded.
It had been lauded by some mental health professionals and transgender advocates who said it would reduce discrimination against men and women who lived as members of the opposite sex.
They need to be in home.
Can we just be blunt about it?
But after the proposed change was widely publicized recently, board members and officials with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said that a surge of new concerns arose.
Vital records experts said that a new federal rule regarding identification documents due next year could have forced the policy to be scrapped.
Health officials said patients at hospitals asked how doctors would determine who would be assigned to the bed next to them.
And among law enforcement officials, there were concerns about whether prisoners with altered birth certificates could be housed with female prisoners even if they still had male anatomies.
There was um there was something we hadn't uh fully thought through, frankly, said Dr. Thomas Friedman, the city's health commissioner.
What the birth certificate shows does have implications behind just what the birth certificate shows for crying out.
Yes, ladies and do you realize how far gone we are?
There are mental health transgender professionals who actually thought that it would be enlightened and represent a significant advancement of civilization if Tom wanted to call himself Mary without changing himself into Mary.
And they didn't, it was just this is pure, pure liberalism.
Liberalism, people I just want to like myself.
I just want to feel good.
I want to be who I really am, but I don't really, I just want to feel like who I really am.
New York City says, we understand this.
Well, we're gonna propose an ordinance, uh resolution making this possible.
Then people started reacting to it.
Uh and these when I when I speak in this program of elites and the people who think they're smarter than everybody else.
This and these are the kind of people that I'm talking about.
Dr. Friedan, the um City's health commissioner said that uh this would bring New York City in line when uh with uh with most of the country would be it would help alleviate the transgender community's concerns about discrimination.
How many people are in the transgender community?
What uh what are we doing here?
These are people that need professional help, not professional assistance.
And instead, this is what liberals do take every form of imperfection, depravity or otherwise, they embrace it and make these people victims uh and that allows them to have no standards whatsoever other than we are good peoples.
By the way, one more thing on this uh this uh New York City decision, the Board of Health, and their unexpected decision to withdraw a proposal that would have allowed people to alter the sex, their sex, the birth certificate doesn't have sex.
People in New York Times can't be right anymore.
It altered their sex on the birth certificates without sex change surgery.
The the panel that the New York City uh Board of Health uh convened, the Blue Ribbon Commission study group, uh that they commissioned to discuss this proposal, consisted of two doctors uh doctors, I don't know how many, no doubt libs, mental health professionals and advocates who overwhelmingly supported the plan.
Board members said the city should not act alone, though the board has shown a little hesitance about jumping ahead of the country with bans on trans fats and smoking in restaurants with sex officials decided to uh to refrain.
This is going to happen.
So I mean, this stuff they when they proposed this, this does not go away.
They're gonna find a way to make this happen, make it palatable with a whole bunch of brand new restrictions on what you can't do after you do this.
By the way, we've been thinking about what to do about the situation out in San Francisco, those MTA bus stops.
This is where they put those uh cookie scented strips out there.
And they had to they had a they had to remove them because the uh the this the scent sensitive people who don't like odors, they didn't like it, but it would the the real reason was that it was deemed offensive to the poor and homeless to you know stop at the bus stop and then we can smell the cookies but can't go buy them.
Uh it was unfair.
So we have a solution.
It's a compromise to everything, folks.
And we we want consensus here.
We want San Francisco to be able to to come together and on on this.
Whiskey scented strips or gin scented strips.
You can't use vodka, it doesn't smell.
But um, you know, get some old crow, you know, so whatever.
It'd have to be expensive bourbon, uh, cheaper the better.
And uh just put some of those strips out there uh in in these in these MTA bus stops.
And I guarantee you there will be no complaints.
I I have a picture here uh that is it is just fitting on the day the Iraq surrender group releases its report.
It's a picture of Bill Clinton in Vietnam walking a red carpet with a the Vietnamese military official in full dress uniform.
And here's the caption.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton goes to pay tribute to late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi Wednesday, December 6th.
That's today.
Clinton came to Hanoi to sign an agreement with a Vietnamese government under which his Clinton Foundation will provide pediatric drugs to children living with HIV and AIDS.
Well, if there's one American besides Jimmy Carter to go pay homage and respect to a former enemy, a communist leader and thug and murderer of his own people, ho chi minute would be Bill Clinton.
Unreal.
And don't forget Pearl Harbor Day is tomorrow, and there won't be anything said about it.
Mark my words, Brian in Hatsfield, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Uh 15 years and one month of trying to call through mega conservative ditto, sir.
Thank you, sir.
It's great you made it.
I I love perseverance in callers.
It's a great honor.
I saw you three times when you had your television show, and uh just fabulous honor to talk to you today.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
You're welcome.
Uh and all all these years of trying to call through, I'm calling because uh you had just mentioned about the quarter life crisis about uh I'd say five years ago.
My wife and I were not even engaged yet, and she was kind of upset.
She went out and uh a little bit of uh careless spending and she bought a BMW.
It set her back a little bit at the time financially, and uh it's just funny that you mentioned it in that report that they came out with uh kind of hit home and uh but it's all worked out well.
I've curbed her spending at the time uh she couldn't afford it, you know.
I helped her.
Wait a minute.
I I'm not understanding something here.
What was the quarterlife crisis that she had to have a BMW to feel whole?
Or that buying the BMW sent her back home to live with her parents.
I'm missing something here.
What what what what's the quarterlife crisis?
She at the time, and she's seen the error of her ways since uh at the time she Well, that's what you think.
She's only making you think that, but she doesn't make errors.
Wives do not make errors.
That's right.
I'm sorry.
But I still want to know what is the quarter life crisis that she faced.
Uh at the time, she was uh gonna be thirty years old.
She's a pharmacist, so a professional and all, but she wasn't married, she didn't have the three kids yet, and uh it was very upsetting.
Well, that's not that's not a quarter life crisis, that's a biological time bomb going off.
That's true.
That's true.
But uh it's all good.
We got married.
She never voted before, she started voting ever since.
Uh her views at the time were uh soft on abortion.
Since then I've told her about it, and she's uh diehard now, and uh we're married happily, three kids, a two-year-old, a one year old, and one on the way next month.
So wow, wow, wow, congratulations.
Do you still have the beamer?
Uh no, because it didn't fit it wouldn't fit three car seats, so we just traded it in for uh a minivan.
But uh I I'm proud to say I own an SUV uh and uh we can sit the kids in that as well.
So it's terrific.
Well, you know, I'm I'm uh I'm glad you called.
It's it's it's uh it's it's fun to know so many people relate to so much of what we talk about on this uh on this program.
All the best to you.
Have Merry Christmas out there, uh Brian.
This is Jeff in Crosslake, Minnesota.
Welcome to the program.
Good afternoon, sir.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm calling in regards to the whole concept of uh disbanding the military in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.
Wait, disbanding whose military, theirs or ours?
Well, theirs, obviously, taking the the military away from the existing military.
When we went in there we disbanded the military in order to uh I say to train new ones because you wouldn't want to leave the Sunnis in charge of the military that were been raining terror on the Shiats and Well, you know what I think I think the calculation there was that uh uh it was a miscalculation.
We figured that the Saddam military police force would be happy to be liberated from him.
Uh and uh they disbanded themsel they w they they disbanded themselves and we didn't do anything to stop 'em.
And most of them cut and run and got out of there, but the ones that stayed were the Saddam Loyalists and the Bathists.
Um and had we made an effort to keep them unified and and and from that day forward brought them into our side onto our side in the fold uh and had them working for us if it would have been possible.
But that's all, you know, that's in the past.
It it's we can't we can't redo it.
Uh whatever happened happened.
True, but the whole it was brought up at the uh hearing the other day, and I just don't I guess I don't agree with it.
I don't think the Shiites and I don't think the Kurds would have gone along with it and it would have caused a problem down the road, and who's to say that they would not have formed a coup uh further down the road to to try to reinstall their their regime once again.
Well, w I don't see what the difference in forming a coup is or having a coup and what's going on now.
I mean the the um th there's there's still some some uh the insurgents, terrorists or whatever.
There's still a battle for control uh over the political future of the country and and this sort of thing.
And I I don't know that uh uh under the policy that we went in there with, it could have been avoided.
Uh remember our our policy was was not really victory, our policy was establish a democratic outpost, pro-American uh and uh friendly to the West, while while at the same time deposing Saddam Hussein and the actual victory over terrorists uh uh did not enter into the into the picture.
Uh and it still hasn't, uh and it's probably gone forever now, given the Iraq surrender groups uh report.
Richard in Oxnard, California.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, good afternoon, Rush from uh lonely conservative in Southern California.
Thank you, sir.
Regarding that uh Iraq surrender group report, it sounded to me as though they were a bunch of wusses.
They were stopped in fear of what the drive-by media would write about them in their report.
And uh so they abandoned the uh administration and gave them the wrong direction.
I agree with you.
Well, you know, we we spent some time on this the first hour of the discussing the motivation of these people.
They're not stupid.
Uh, but you have to question what their motivation is.
And I I can tell you right now, what they produced is not a military document, it has no military strategy in it, it discusses no uh no no in no context victory.
Uh it is basically a document that is designed maybe to do two things.
You know, one thing this document could do is provide cover for Democrats uh who have been way, way out on the extreme in an anti-war position to now join the fold as defined by the Iraq study group.
Don't forget there were Democrats on this commission, and Democrats are always political.
And this document for their purposes helps them pull some of their extremists, and I'm not talking about the kooks on the websites, I'm talking about elected Democrats, allows them to embrace this.
And what are they embracing?
They're embracing consensus.
And they're embracing bipartisanship.
And so it allows some of these wacko Democrats to come back into the fold so people can forget the way they were prior to the election.
On the other hand, the uh purpose of this thing is to unite the American people in defeat.
Unite the American people.
That's what consensus is all about.
This is what uh bipartisanship is all about.
Uh it is it is about uniting the American people under the context that this was a mistake.
It's going bad, and we have to find a way to reduce our presence there while making the Iraqis uh stand up, even if it means we've lost total sight of why we went there.
Brief timeout back after this.
Stay with us.
Let's go to the audio soundbite, shall we?
Uh, let's go to audio soundbite 10 and 11.
Uh one of the themes of recent busy broadcasts has been uh what a bunch of mindless twits uh we have become.
We don't take life seriously.
We have invented problems, we have invented things that tell us that our lives are challenging and difficult because they're so easy and relative relative to how people in prior generations have lived.
So we still I mean, can you believe that there are actually activists who get worked up over what it smells like at a bus stop in San Francisco?
And it becomes their life objective, to make sure.
I mean, that's called having too much time on your hands.
That's not a problem.
That's not something that actually threatens anybody.
What a bus stop smells like, be it whiskey or cookies or what have you.
So yesterday, Al Gore shows up on the Oprah show and talked at the Oprah about global warming and how what a crisis it is, and we're going to die if we don't act soon.
And we're destroying the planet and all of this.
And they lead things off talking to an environmentalist who has a website called Treehugger.com.
His uh uh I guess it's a she, Ms. Simron Cephy.
Environmentalist uh treehugger.com.
Uh what they're talking about here is um the best way to have a green Christmas.
And they conclude that these plastic artificial trees just don't get it done, so go out and cut down a Christmas tree.
You might think the greenest option would be to get a plastic tree that you could reuse over and over again.
But actually, plastic trees often contain compounds like polymchloride or PVC.
And when that breaks down, it's dangerous to wildlife, to our water supply, and to the planet.
So you're that tape!
How did we survive for crying out loud?
When I was growing up, there was lead in the paint.
There was asbestos in the ceilings.
All these things are gonna kill us.
There was there was uh gasoline, there was no catalytic converters on the auto.
How did I survive?
I still don't I rode my bike in the street.
We left the whole the the front door unlocked on the house every night.
My when I went out to play, I could be gone for four hours, and my mother never worried that I was gonna be absconded by some environmentalist wacko kidnapping me for ransom.
Do you believe this?
Well, of course, those are PVCs, polyvinyl chlorides, and that breaks down as dangerous to wildlife to our water supply and to the planet.
So this this tree hugger actually says I didn't stop the tape in time for you to hear the whole sentence.
She says, your best option would actually be to go with a live tree.
She would actually be to go with a live tree.
About 10 million trees end up in landfills, but they can be used for mulch or chips.
Okay, I got it.
You take the tree and you turn it into mulch, because I was like, you can't plant the tree, it has no roots.
And you you tried to do that?
Yeah, one year we got a live tree tried to plant it that uh didn't didn't work for us.
That was Al Gore.
He's a what kind of idiot would take a tree.
Have you you I don't know how many of you people get real Christmas trees anymore, but there aren't any roots in it.
You couldn't put the roots in your Christmas tree stand, and you couldn't pour your water and tree protector in there because it would overflow because all the roots.
So Gore went out, tried to plant a used Christmas tree, save the environment, and uh it it didn't work.
It didn't work for us.
Now let's uh let the the the play Al Gore's idiot slideshow from that stupid movie.
Uh and the the Oprah's audience gets it.
I mean it it's this is this is scary.
Oprah says to an audience member, stand up, stand up, stand up.
We're back with former vice president Al Gore.
We've devoted this whole show to try to educate our world, those of you who are watching us about the effects of global warming and what we can do.
I just said to the audience, does anybody feel differently about it than when you uh came in?
I just I get it now.
I get it.
And it it hit home, and what do you get?
I get that I can help.
I get that I can make a contribution that we all can, and that it's not some scientific thing far away.
It's something that we all we can make a difference.
What was it that got to you?
You know, uh the image of Florida and New York, yes, the uh the island in Alaska disappearing.
You know, that image is terrifying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's terrifying is the Oprah show.
What is terrifying is the audience of that show.
What's terrifying is Gore and his silly, stupid movie, which is based on a bunch of lies.
In fact, I've got a story here in the stack uh that I found during show prep today about how susceptible young people are to total lies on the internet, particularly in stories about the environment and the whole concept of uh environmental crisis.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back uh right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Okay, a couple more Al Gore uh soundbites, ladies and gentlemen.
Oprah says, so why have the skeptics been so skeptical, Al Gore?
You were saying earlier it's a lot of the companies who continue to pollute.
Yeah, some of the largest polluters have been financing these pseudo-studies.
Including mean putting carbon dioxide out there.
And oil coal uh companies, coal burning utilities, some of them.
It's exactly what some of the tobacco companies did years ago after the Surgeon General's report.
Right.
And so the the scientists there said, hey, we've got a consensus.
Smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer.
And the tobacco companies finance these pseudo-studies to convince people, oh, it's uncertain, we're not really sure.
Yeah.
Uh and so it delayed people hearing the warning bells, and a lot of people died as a result.
Okay, so uh big oil, big coal are falsifying stories on how they're damaging the environment causing uh uh global warming.
And this is convincing a bunch of bird brains uh who can't think for themselves.
And then you gotta hear this.
This, this, it's only six seconds.
Listen fast.
This is Oprah, thanking Al Gore for showing up.
Thank you, Al Gore for being here today.
A special thanks to you for thank you for having us being our Noah.
Thank you.
For being our Noah.
The Oprah thanking Al Gore for being our Oprah.
Uh, Noah Oprah.
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