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Uh well, i'm watching television there during the break and you know the editor, the uh, one of the editors, I guess, of the CNET uh Publishing Empire, James Kim, is missing out there in the forests and the wilds, the Rainforest, what he did jungle, uh in uh, in Oregon uh, I guess they got stuck in a snowstorm.
Uh, in a recent weekend his wife and two kids stayed in the suv 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 uh, James Kim and uh, we just saw that they're.
They're going to be dropping survival supplies um, 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 featured this British special forces guy who Snerdley 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 looks like going to Somalia, you take your sandwiches you, you take your food while you film people starving.
So they had to go out and take their coats, they had to take their heated tents and so forth, while this guy's out there doing his thing for the uh, for the camera, and Snerdley was going on and 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 me.
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 going to sit well with people.
I was watching FOX the other day and the infobabe.
There was a sad story.
A bear had 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 infobabe 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 in fact she even says is the bear mentally disturbed could the bear be retarded animal experts and well you know it could be I'm watching all of this and it just boggles the mind.
We got cougars, mountain lions now encroaching on people's homes in California because can't hunt the things anymore.
So they're just, you know, some of the things I see, I just, I literally can't believe, like this.
This is unbelievable.
While 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 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 MTA, the municipal transit agency, canceled the plan after some residents raised objections.
Yeah, we got complaints.
The MTA spokeswoman, Maggie Lynch, it's controversial.
Now, what would be controversial about putting strips that smell like cookies at a bus stop?
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 they can't afford to ride on the MTA.
So obviously hanging around the bus shelter, the bus stop for shelter or what have you.
But 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?
I mean, it's not really an enclosed space.
Sure, it probably works.
But no, we can't do this because the poor and homeless would be offended.
Also, 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 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 at a 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 Bellow, 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 Gillenhall, another keynote speaker who, like Bellow, 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.
And now we're worried about bears being retarded when they do what bears do.
I mean, well, you take it from there.
We'll be back and continue.
Just a second here.
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If they're able to make that stick, it doesn't matter.
I am not turning in the awards.
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Joe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Nice to hear from you.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Good, sir.
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 things like that that give liberals a bad name.
Well, I wouldn't take it personally.
It is San Francisco.
I imagine the liberals in Cedar Rapids are a little different than the liberals in San Francisco.
Yeah, but I'm actually from California originally, so I know.
What part?
The South Bay.
Oh, so you do have personal experience.
Well, why did you leave?
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 going to be moving back pretty soon?
What?
Did you get rich?
Do you win the lottery?
Well, I'm going to save up some money and then move back after I've got on my feet.
But yeah, it's things like the extremely liberal things like the bus stop, 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, which reason given for taking down the cookie-scented strips at the bus stop offends you the most?
Is it the fact that the poor and the homeless would be offended because, well, you know, the smell can make you want what you're smelling, and they can't afford cookies.
Or does that offend you?
Or is it the fact that the scent-sensitive, the people that can't stand any kind of a room except the buses that drive by there, apparently, are okay with them?
Which of those two excuses do you use 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 might want to rethink your trip back out to the Bay Area because that's the most sensitive reason.
The smell thing, I mean, that's just nuts.
But having compassion for the poor and their inability to afford things, I mean, 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 guess I'm more of a libertarian.
I'm kind of in between.
Ah, okay.
Well, look, best of luck.
I hope you get back to where you...
How long have you been away from the South Bay?
About two years.
Well, how did you end up at Cedar Rapids?
I have family out here.
You have family there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, all the best.
Do you still live at home?
Yes.
Unfortunately.
Well, best of luck to you, Joe, and 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 the Daily Targum.
It is the Rutgers University 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-20s, the sense of anxiety can take hold, similar to the personal and psychological events that happen as a person moves through his or her 40s or 50s.
But for those in their mid-20s, 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 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 Oatbran 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.
Students enter their mid-20s, 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 am I doing?
What do I do?
Where do I live?
What do I go?
How do I eat?
Mom, Dad, I love you.
So they stay at home.
And this is a big moment of anxiety.
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, it's full of anxiety.
Too much responsibility.
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 addictomy.
You didn't get a chop addictomy.
You didn't have to do any of that.
You could just say it.
You had a promise to stay that way for two years.
I mean, once you changed your identity for your gender, you had to stay that way.
And we raised a number of questions when this happened.
Well, really?
Does that mean that, man, you can go to an all-girls' school?
I might sign up for this.
Go into the ladies' restroom when you're a man.
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 a 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 in 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 something we hadn't fully thought through, frankly, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, the city's health commissioner.
What the birth certificate shows does have implications beyond just what the birth certificate shows.
We're crying.
Yes, ladies, 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.
We're going to propose an ordinance, a resolution making this possible.
Then people started reacting to it.
And these, when I speak on 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. Frieden, the city's health commissioner, said that this would bring New York City in line with most of the country.
It would help alleviate the transgender community's concerns about discrimination.
How many people are in the transgender community?
What are we doing here?
These are people that need professional help, not professional assistance.
And instead, this is what liberals do.
They take every form of imperfection, depravity, or otherwise, they embrace it and make these people victims.
And that allows them to have no standards whatsoever other than we are good peoples.
By the way, one more thing on this 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 the New York Times can't be right anymore.
Alter their sex on the birth certificates without sex change surgery.
The panel that the New York City Board of Health convened, the Blue Ribbon Commission study group, that they commissioned to discuss this proposal, consisted of two 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 refrain.
This is going to happen.
I mean, this stuff, when they propose this, this does not go away.
They're going to 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 cookie-scented strips out there.
And they had to remove them because the scent-sensitive people who like odors, they didn't like it, but the real reason was that it was deemed offensive to the poor and homeless to stop at the bus stop and smell the cookies but can't go buy them.
It was unfair.
So we have a solution.
It's a compromise to everything, folks.
We want consensus here.
We want San Francisco to be able to come together on this.
Whiskey-scented strips or gin-scented strips.
You can't use vodka.
It doesn't smell.
But, you know, get some old crow, whatever.
You don't have to be expensive, bourbon.
Cheaper, the better.
And just put some of those strips out there in these MTA bus stops.
And I guarantee you, there will be no complaints.
I have a picture here that 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 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 the 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 Minh, it 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, Rush.
Hey.
15 years and one month of trying to call through mega conservative ditto, sir.
Thank you, sir.
It's great you made it.
I love perseverance in callers.
It's a great honor.
I saw you three times when you had your television show, and just fabulous honor to talk to you today.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
You're welcome.
And all these years of trying to call through, I'm calling because you had just mentioned about the quarter life crisis about, 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 a little bit of careless spending, and she bought a BMW.
It set her back a little bit at the time financially.
And it's just funny that you mentioned it in that report that they came out with.
Kind of hit home.
But it's all worked out well.
I've curbed her spending.
At the time, she couldn't afford it.
I helped her.
Wait a minute.
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's the quarterlife crisis for her?
At the time, and she's seen the error of her ways since.
At the time, she wasn't.
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.
But I still want to know what is the quarterlife crisis that she faced.
At the time, she was going to be 30 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 it was very upsetting.
Well, that's not a quarterlife crisis.
That's a biological time bomb going off.
That's true.
That's true.
But it's all good.
We got married.
She never voted before.
She started voting ever since.
Her views at the time were soft on abortion.
Since then, I've told her about it.
She's a diehard now, and we're married happily.
Three kids, a two-year-old, a one-year-old, and one on the way next month.
Wow, wow, wow.
Congratulations.
Do you still have the beamer?
No, because it wouldn't fit three car seats, so we just traded it in for a minivan.
But I'm proud to say I own an SUV, and we can fit the kids in that as well.
That's terrific.
Well, you know, I'm glad you called.
It's fun to know so many people relate to so much of what we talk about on this program.
All the best to you.
Merry Christmas out there, Brian.
This is Jeff in Cross Lake, Minnesota.
Welcome to the program.
Good afternoon, sir.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm calling in regards to the whole concept of disbanding the military in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.
Wait, disbanding whose military?
Theirs or ours?
Well, theirs, obviously, taking the military away from the existing military.
When we went in there, we disbanded the military in order to, I say, to train new ones, because you wouldn't want to leave the Sunnis in charge of the military that had been raining terror on the Shiites.
Well, you know what I think?
I think the calculation there was that it was a miscalculation.
We figured that the Saddam military police force would be happy to be liberated from him.
And they disbanded themselves.
They disbanded themselves, and we didn't do anything to stop them.
And most of them cut and run and got out of there, but the ones that stayed were the Saddam loyalists and the Bathists.
And had we made an effort to keep them unified and from that day forward brought them into our side, onto our side in the fold, and had them working for us, if it would have been possible.
But that's all, you know, that's in the past.
We can't redo it.
Whatever happened, happened.
True, but the whole ⁇ it was brought up at the hearing the other day, and 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 further down the road to try to reinstall their regime once again?
Well, I don't see what the difference in forming a coup is or having a coup and what's going on now.
I mean, there's still some insurgents, terrorists, or whatever.
There's still a battle for control over the political future of the country and this sort of thing.
I don't know that under the policy that we went in there with, it could have been avoided.
You remember, our policy was not really victory.
Our policy was establish a democratic outpost, pro-American and friendly to the West, while at the same time deposing Saddam Hussein.
And the actual victory over terrorists did not enter into the picture, and it still hasn't.
And it's probably gone forever now, given the Iraq surrender group's report.
Richard in Oxnard, California, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, good afternoon, Brush from Lonely Conservative in Southern California.
Thank you, sir.
Regarding that Iraq surrender group report, it sounded to me as though they were a bunch of busses.
They wussed out in fear of what the drive-by media would write about them in their report.
And so they abandoned the administration and gave them the wrong direction.
I agree with you.
Well, you know, we spent some time on this the first hour discussing the motivation of these people.
They're not stupid, but you have to question what their motivation is.
And I can tell you right now, what they produced is not a military document.
It has no military strategy in it.
It discusses no, no, no, in no context, victory.
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 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.
I'm not talking about the kooks on the websites.
I'm talking about elected Democrats.
It 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 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 bipartisanship is all about.
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 stand up, even if it means we've lost total sight of why we went there.
Brief time out back after this.
Stay with us.
Let's go to the audio soundbite, shall we?
Let's go to audio soundbite 10 and 11.
One of the themes of recent busy broadcasts has been what a bunch of mindless twits 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 relative to how people in prior generations have lived.
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.
I guess it's a she, Ms. Simran Seffi, environmentalist treehugger.com.
What they're talking about here is 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 polyvinyl chloride or PVC.
And when that breaks down, it's dangerous to wildlife, to our water supply, and to the planet.
See, 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 going to kill us.
There was gasoline.
There was no catalytic converters on the autumn.
Did I survive?
I still don't.
I rode my bike in the street.
We left the hole, the front door unlocked on the house every night.
When I went out to play, I could be gone for four hours, and my mother never worried that I was going to 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.
It's dangerous to wildlife, to our water supply, and to the planet.
So, 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.
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 thinking, you can't plant the tree.
It has no roots.
You tried to do that?
Yeah, one year we got a live tree, tried to plant it.
It didn't work for us.
That was Al Gore.
He's a what kind of idiot would take a tree?
Have 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 it didn't work.
It didn't work for us.
Now let's let the play Al Gore's idiot slideshow from that stupid movie.
And the Oprah's audience gets it.
I mean, 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 came in?
I just, I get it now.
I get it.
And 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.
Yeah.
It's something that we can make a difference.
What was it that got to you?
You know, the image of Florida and New York, 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 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 environmental crisis.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Okay, a couple more Al Gore sound bites, 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 putting carbon dioxide out.
And oil coal 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.
And so 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.
And so it delayed people hearing the warning bells, and a lot of people died as a result.
Okay, so big oil, big coal are falsifying stories on how they're damaging the environment, causing global warming.
And this is convincing a bunch of bird brains who can't think for themselves.