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Dec. 19, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, folks, maybe this Miss USA business is so whatever it is to me, because in the 70s, in the 70s when I lived in Pittsburgh, I dated a girl who was Catholic,
and she was so intent on proving her purity to the Pope and to God that she planned on staying virgin three years after she got married.
I mean, I was out of there.
I think she works for the CIA now, but the uh uh the bottom line, when you see that versus this, I just got a note from a female friend of mine in New York who would never ever uh do anything like this at any point in her life, says, I think it's sort of funny, probably agreeing with you, snurdly.
Uh I think it's sort of funny and sad and fitting for the zeitgeist that Miss USA is tearful, troubled, and entering alcohol rehab.
That pretty much okay, here's our current Miss USA, troubled, and Trump said she is very troubled.
He said it a bunch of times.
She's very troubled.
They were all troubled this morning.
It was all kinds of trouble in the room.
So, tearful, troubled, and uh and entering rehab.
Uh Zeitgeist, by the way, for those of you in uh Rio Linda and most other places, I'm sure on this word, spirit of the times is the uh is the best way to define that.
Um keeping up with the uh story of uh uh Mrs. Bush's the first lady.
Um cancer, her malignant skin cancer tumor removed from her right shin in early November.
The drive-by media is seething because they weren't told in November.
I have a sample story here from Terrence Hunt of all AP.
The White House today defended Laura Bush's decision not to disclose that she had a skin cancer tumor removed from her right shin in early November.
Unlike her husband, the first lady is not an elected official, said Tony Snow.
Perhaps if there's something more major, this would be discussed.
The cancer was a squama cell carcinoma, the second most common form of skin cancer, said her press secretary, Susan Whitson.
She said the troublesome patch was about the size of a nickel.
Mrs. Bush decided it was a private matter, did not reveal it publicly.
On Monday night, the White House acknowledged the first lady had a tumor removed after Mrs. Bush was noticed with a bandage below her right knee.
Whitson said the first lady's still wearing a bandage more than five weeks after the incision because the skin on that part of the leg is thin, takes a little while to heal out there.
Asked if uh plastic surgery might be required.
Whitson said no further procedures are needed at this time.
Now, is this anyone's business?
They saw the bandage and asked, and the White House said, Well, we're not gonna lie about it, but is there a duty on the part of the first lady to uh go public in the country with something like this, a uh medical matter, which up until the time three or four years ago, medical records were private.
And then that sort of got blown by the wayside.
Perhaps perhaps uh Terrence Hunt will share his medical records with his readers and his uh editors, uh but perhaps the drive by media will open their medical records since they are so eager to see everyone else's.
I mean, these people are the self-appointed guardians of our freedom and our government and our country and the Constitution itself.
Are we not entitled to know the status of their health?
But rush, but rush, they're not elected.
That's right, and they're not accountable either.
There is no accountability for the drive-by media.
So isn't it about time of what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
You know, I I read the sports pages, I'm like every other guy.
I read the sports pages.
And it is funny to me to read these sports media, I don't care where they are.
It could be in LA, it could be in Dallas, could be in New York, could be anywhere.
The arrogant, holier than now, better than everybody else attitude with which these people write, be it about Barry Bonds or the latest brawl in the NBA at Madison Square Garden the other night, or any other professional athlete that has um, you know, a Miss USA kind of problem.
Uh uh these people write as though they are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and they advise commissioners and presidents and league officials what to do about these malcontents and so forth.
It always makes me wonder, could I see your high school and college transcripts?
Can we open up your police file?
Find out just I want to see the evidence of your clean and pure as the wind driven snow life.
Just because you got the job at the local gazette?
Does that automatically bestow upon you, a drive-by media reporter?
Infallibility?
I mean, if the rest of us in this society of ours are going to run around acknowledge our sh acknowledging our shortcomings and making admitting our mistakes and saying we're sorry and saying, gosh, if I'd have known then what I know now, X, then when's the media gonna join us in this?
When will Terrence Hunt tell us what his medical problems are?
When will any of the network news anchors do the same?
Well, you say never, but what if somebody formed an organization, a counterweight organization, to find out just this kind of stuff?
You know what the you know that the caterwalling that would go on for the drive-by media?
If somebody started doing the same kind of investigations of them that they do of everybody else, you know what the reaction be.
You can't do that.
We are journalists.
We are not the story.
It doesn't matter.
Oh, yes, you have become the story, you have wanted to be the story, and it's time you got treated like everybody else who is the story.
I would love to see what's in some of these people's backgrounds.
Who has Helen Thomas been married to?
Has she been married?
I should ask.
Um who asked her to get married?
I mean, there's any number of of things.
Uh see their tax returns.
You know, how many freebies do they take?
How many junkets do they go on in return for writing favorable things about things, of people and events and so on?
We don't know any of this stuff.
We just assume that everything they write is gospel.
And that it's uh it's it's you know, unquestionable.
Try this headline.
Al Qaeda in control of Somalia U.S. won't intervene.
We went to Somalia.
We went to Somalia to feed people who were being starved by the warlord Mohammed Farid Sahib Skyhook Ad.
And when the going got tough, we were on the verge of victory.
Bill Clinton pulled us out.
Leading to the famous book and movie Black Hawk Down.
Now, and by the way, Osama bin Laden has said numerous times on ABC TV in one instance, that when he saw us pull out is when he realized we'd become paper tigers and weak, and it uh he knew that we were gonna be more concerned over the fate of uh of Miss USA than uh than of the country.
He knew we'd become softies, can't take casualties, and that it was only a matter of time before uh we get hit again and again again and not do anything about it.
So now they're back in control of Somalia.
The United States has ruled out an attack on Somalia to oust Al Qaeda forces which have seized effective control of the country, officials said the Bush administration has no plans to send U.S. troops to oust the new Al-Qaeda-aligned regime in Somalia.
The regime is known as the Council of Islamic Courts.
It has defeated the U.S. backed militia and taken over much of the uh of the country.
Uh the Council of Islamic Courts is now controlled by Al-Qaeda cell individuals.
East Africa Al-Qaeda cell individuals said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jande Frazier.
Uh Fraser also said they're killing nuns.
They've killed children.
They're calling for a jihad, frankly, public executions, killing people for watching soccer matches is not inconsistent.
There's not consistent with the Somali culture and tradition.
Really?
Really, I'm glad to know that it's not consistent with Somali culture to kill people for watching soccer.
Meanwhile, where are we being urged to make an immediate move?
Darfur.
Yes, ladies and we have got to get out of Iraq.
Because there's Al-Qaeda in there.
We've got to get out as an abject failure.
We can't, we can't take seriously Al-Qaeda in Somalia.
Uh no, we have to go to Darfur.
Now I wonder if any of these uh idiot Hollywood types, any of these social do-gooder liberals who were wringing their hands over what's happening in Darfur will notice what's happening in Somalia at the hands of Al-Qaeda and demand people being beheaded for watching soccer.
See, that's that's okay.
We can't we can't get involved in these local customs.
But in Darfur, where there is a racial component.
Katie barred the door.
Same racial component in Somalia, by the way, but it just isn't portrayed that way.
Uh Darfur is.
Brief time out.
We'll be back and continue here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Stay with us.
All right, we'll get to your phone calls here in due course.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, a couple of stories.
I mentioned this shortly after the election, uh, earlier this month.
I admittedly didn't spend a whole lot of time on it, uh, but there is because I I I wasn't sure how accurate it was, but now the story has uh reappeared in the Washington Times today.
The Bush administration has sent signals since last month's elections that the president is prepared to accept some tax increases on upper income families.
Uh this is worrying congressional Republicans and fiscal conservative watchdogs who say he will compromise with Democrats to win a legacy accomplishment.
The watchdog groups uh have been demanding that the president repeat his earlier pledges not to raise taxes in order to reform Social Security, but the White House has refused, with officials saying everything's on the table, including tax increase.
Let me tell you what this is about.
This is about social security.
And uh the president gave a shot, the social security reform, the old private accounts gang.
It didn't work because there's this word in social security, security.
And uh the recipients really believe in that word.
And when they hear private accounts, it conflicted with security, so as uh it was uh it was valiant effort.
I was all for it.
It's a great plan.
That's the only way we're ever gonna really solve the problem.
But if the marketing of it just it didn't succeed.
So the press has two years left.
There's gotta be something done here.
And so here's, you know, there's the uh I'm gonna miss these numbers because I'm not gonna I'm gonna get them exact because I don't remember the story in that much detail from shortly after the election.
Right now, the current ceiling on income that's taxed under Social Security is around 94,000.
It's gonna go up to 191,000.
And they're gonna ra they're talking about that and raising the rates right now.
And again, correct me if I'm wrong because as a as an entrepreneur uh and an equity player and an asset owner, I I pay it all when it comes to Social Security, uh, as everybody else does.
I love this term.
Well, yes, the employer matches your social security counters.
BS, you're paying it all.
And I don't don't anybody caught an argument with me about this.
The notion is that you're paying 7.5%.
That's what your FICA is.
And the employer, God, what a great guy, he is matching your donation at 7.5%.
But you are paying it all because whatever it costs the evil boss to hire you, whether you see it or not, is what you are being paid.
Same thing with your health care benefits and your 24-7 family medical leave, whatever it is, it's all costing somebody that much to hire you.
You may not see it all in your paycheck.
Uh anyway, I pay the whole thing.
So I think it's it's 12% now or somewhere around there, uh, or 15.
I've I'm uh at this point I'm so frustrated just to sign the check.
But uh anyway, that they're thinking of raising that rate to what I don't know.
Uh and this has long been a a uh uh effort by the Democrats to say that social security taxes, even while we've cut income taxes for the vast majority of the middle class, Democrats have been saying debt doesn't mean anything.
That doesn't mean it's the Social Security tax.
Why that's where the rich are getting off scot-free because after 91% are 94,000, they don't pay anything, and most people don't earn ninety-four thousand dollars, so most people are paying a larger share of the freight on Social Security.
My attitude is it's about time the middle class paid their fair share in taxes.
But that's another story for another program and another time and another day.
This is something that is being looked at as a stopgap.
And here's the problem, even with if I'm right, if I'm memory remembering this, uh the new ceiling at 191,000, and not instantly, it would take years to escalate to that, but it would uh it would eventually get there.
Uh that's not going to save the program.
That's not gonna save it.
This is this is just uh the typical temporary passing the buck.
Now, uh I have no sympathy for Republicans in Congress, as this story describes them as uh as being apoplectic or uh um what do they say, uh worried uh because this will compromise with Democrats to win a legacy accomplishment.
Look, when the president tried to do this, if he'd had a little help from the people in his own party, who knows if it might not have had more success.
I mean, I will, you know, I'm not crazy about this plan either, don't misunderstand, but I got no sympathy for people who sat around sucking their thumbs for two or four years while the president was taking on hard things and wasn't getting a whole lot of support, particularly over in the Senate.
You know, so if these guys want to act like crybabies, you can't do that to us, you can't do that to us.
Yeah, well, where were you when the time came to get tough?
And this story from the Chicago Tribune by Michelle Keller.
I've there's a there's a a plethora of these stories out now on happiness.
And we have shared every one of them uh we can find.
Frankly, they depress us.
But they're out there.
Happy is helpful, but fear fosters focus.
Now the point of this is that, well, there's some good fear out there.
Fear can be a good motivator.
A bubbly mood may enhance creativity, but feeling happy can actually hinder your ability to focus on a task.
According to a new study, researchers found that happy subjects did well when asked to be innovative, but that they struggled when they had to concentrate on a simple activity and ignore distractions.
The reason uh may lie in how we're evolutionarily wired to process information, according to these uh researchers.
As the brain receives data from all the body's sensory organs, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the skin, and ears, it must decide what's immediately pertinent, acting much like a spotlight, the mind focuses on the most important information.
So you're just a robot, you have no control over this.
Your brain's doing all this, and you have no say so on the matter.
Uh acting much like a spotlight, the brain uh focuses on the most important information, responding to the task at hand.
Being happy can expand the size of the spotlight, giving the brain more room to roam, so to speak.
Positive emotions can help you in breaking down those systems that ignore information, said one of the psychology profs from the University of Toronto, lead researcher here on the study.
It's a good consequence.
By making you more distracted, it can make you a more creative problem solver.
But this is ultimately not good.
The first week of a campaign is an ode to joy when you have time to think about an idea, blah, blah, blah.
Sometimes when you have a deadline, you can actually do a two-minute drill and have a great outcome.
Deadlines can invoke what the researchers say are healthy fears, which help everybody focus.
The two-minute drill at crunch time, that's a healthy fear.
When you're down to the wire, when it's pedaling to metal time, and you don't have much time to get it done, that's when you do your best work.
Singularly focused.
When you're happy, you may be more creative, but you won't get anything done because you're being distracted by all the stimuli that are Making you happy.
So what's the solution here?
Do you want to be in fear most of the time?
Do you want to live your life in the two-minute drill?
You want to live your life in the two-minute warning with the uh the other team in the uh into prevent defense?
Or do you want to live your life happy and creative?
Well, the fact of the matter is we need all kinds.
Uh I am happy uh to run around and be happy and creative and innovative.
And uh I do hate focusing on one thing.
That's why I do.
I despise it.
Because to focus on one thing denies me the sensory perceptions of other things I like.
Well, there's certain things to focus on that enhance them.
Uh but deadlines of living in the two-minute drill, there are some people who live a panic-driven life.
They're wired that way, thank God for them.
Uh, and they take on certain jobs and get them done, while the rest of us can go out and be jocular and happy and creative and really make the world work.
Back after this.
Here is, ladies and gentlemen, another perfect drive-by media illustration.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained finger.
The story from the Boston Globe today.
There is a picture of a tiny little car crashing into a barrier and collapsing like an accordion.
The headline, big risks seen in small cars.
Twice as many fatal crashes found.
Wait a minute.
Thought it was SUVs that were killing everybody.
I thought it was SUVs destroying the planet.
I thought gas prices were such, and our selfish overuse of a precious world resource was such that we had to get out of our big monstrous gas hogs and get into these tiny little cars like Prius's and these little lawnmowers with a couple seats on them and a little body around them, we got 55 miles an hour.
Now all of a sudden, a drive-by.
How many of you have gone out and done this?
I'm gonna be a good citizen of the planet.
I'm gonna stop polluting, I'm gonna go out and buy one of these little cars, I'm gonna save gas, I'm gonna save money, I'm gonna feel good about myself.
Now you've done that, here comes the drive-by media telling you you got twice the chance of being killed in a crash because you're driving a little piece of junk.
This is typical.
This is typical drive-by.
How many how many years now have we been trying to destroy the SUV and its image and get people out of them?
And now that you're in them, ha ha, gotcha.
Gotcha.
Got you out of the SUV.
Now you can die like we want you to in the first place.
All right.
Paul in Albuquerque, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
In uh mega uh snowing my crazy day uh dittoes uh from New Mexico.
Thank you, sir.
Um I you know, I wanted to talk a little bit about uh Hillary uh running uh uh opponent or an opponent of hers that nobody's really talking too much about, and uh that's our governor here, Bill Richardson, and uh, you know, uh different ones have said, and you've made comment about in the past about you know Hillary's got some strikes against her about being because she's a senator for one thing, statistically speaking.
Uh she doesn't have any foreign policy experience, whereas on the other hand, Bill Richardson is a governor, and uh he is doing uh lots of foreign policy things when he was a protege of uh let me tell you something.
I know where you're going with this.
Uh are you a Richardson fan?
Uh no, absolutely not.
But you think he would you think he would pose a significant threat to Mrs. Clinton?
Absolutely, because uh, you know, when he was under uh Bill Clinton, he was uh ambassador and things like that, and now these high profile things like meeting with the North Koreans uh like you didn't have a lot of people.
Well, yeah, in fact, grab audio soundbite number four.
We just he was on uh he was on Neil Cavuto's uh uh show on Fox yesterday.
Uh he's uh one of the Democrats that's uh traveling the world meeting with our enemies.
He met with uh with the North Koreans, and he didn't get anywhere.
I mean go there and talk to him, getn't get anywhere.
Here is uh here is what he answered in response to Cavuto's question, what what did the North Koreans say?
The typical uh bombast of the North Koreans on a first day of negotiation is what happened.
You know, they're tough.
I said to them, look, you've got to take some concrete steps.
You've got to find ways to allow international inspectors in.
You've got to get rid of that, or at least take down that young beyond nuclear reactor as A show of good faith.
And what did they say?
You know, they list well, they said they listen, you know, they're they're they've got their own plan.
You know, they're they're they're not like we are, Neil, in terms of negotiating the way we do.
They're tough.
Yeah, we're not tough.
We cave in.
You want us to get rid of our nuclear weapons in uh in fine, we'll do that.
The North Koreans, what do you mean?
Take down the Byongyang nuclear reactor.
Screw you.
Who the hell are you?
You're not even an official member of the government.
What are we doing talking to you?
You know that's what the reaction is.
So uh Richardson for all these foreign policy, and I like the guy.
You have to understand I Bill Richardson wrote a letter of support to me during my uh during my uh legal embrolio, uh pledging do what he could to help keep medical records uh uh uh private and so forth.
Urge you to win this.
Uh this is something we need to all guard, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it was a handwritten note.
But he does.
You know, i h his his resume said that he was drafted by some major league baseball team.
It's on his resume for years and years and years.
And finally somebody looked it up and found that he wasn't.
He wasn't drafted by a major league baseball team.
And he held a press conference.
Well, I thought I was.
Uh because somewhere a long time ago in his life, somebody had mentioned it to him and oh, it's not just one of those things that he remembered.
Then ten days ago, he's talking to Carl Cameron of Fox, uh, clearly indicating I mean you'd have to read it between the lines.
He's running for president.
After they run the story, oh no, no, no.
I lied to my statement.
Uh or or that the that's not totally true.
And then a little while later, I I've got it gotta say, Carl Cramer Cameron did a good job.
He was just doing his job and so forth.
It just I don't know.
I I I uh like the guy, uh whether or not he's gonna propose or pose a uh problem to uh Mrs. Clinton all depends on what's in his FBI file.
Joyce in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Merry Christmas from the People's Republic of Massachusetts, Ryan.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Rush, I called to ask you what tack you think I should take.
Um or whether I should just uh do my regular old conservative shut up routine.
Uh my son's ten.
They showed an inconvenient truth to his class last week.
Oh no.
No.
Uh under the unit of learning about weather and meteorology and earth science.
I that was my reaction.
Rush, I was apoplectic, and I wrote a three-page letter to the teacher and did not send it because um having been an aunt at the picnic my whole life, living in Massachusetts.
Um I know I'm just gonna bring down some sort of unspeakable wrath upon my child.
Um do I just shut up and just explain the real truth to my son?
Or do I this is your kid's ten, right?
Ten.
Fifth grade.
Yeah, a long way to go in the public school system there.
I don't think I'm gonna make it, Russia.
I think I'm gonna end up in jail.
I you know, uh these are these uh for f this is a this is a really tough question.
I uh uh because the outcome that you suspect, although you can't really know it, there is uh experience guided by intelligence, and you've seen other parents complain other places around the country about this kind of thing and see what happens.
Hell, but you never know.
Up in Needham the other day, one parent went in there complaining about the honor roll being published in the principal caved.
So you never in Massachusetts.
Yeah, Needham in Massachusetts.
Yeah, but you could be the one parent to make him cave on the Al Gore movie being showed again.
Well, I'll tell you, you know what my son said to me, and this is what frosted it for me.
He said, Mom, if Greenland goes, we'll all be underwater.
If Greenland goes, look, look, I know this is happening all over the place.
Oh a young mother told me the other day that her kid came home from school and was watching Al Gore do this whole routine on Oprah.
And uh daughter's what, fifteen years old?
Mom, mom, it's gonna be horrible.
New York is gonna be underwater.
There isn't gonna be any more Greenland.
Great one told me there was gonna be no more Cape Cod, and we live on Cape Cod.
Well, there are a lot of Americans wouldn't complain about that.
What what uh what what did you tell your son?
I explained to him that in the multiple billion year history of the earth that it's been through lots of warming and cooling cycles and that you couldn't base what's going to happen on the last hundred years of record.
Right.
Okay, so I also showed him the crazy picture of Al on your webpage.
You said that's him.
Now here's the here's the question for you.
Do you think he was uh more impressionable or uh more he was he was he was do you think he was more affected by the movie of Al Gore in his classroom or by what you said attempting to counter it?
See, it's an important question because pictures he saw Greenland melt.
Al Gore's got this slide show that portrays all this destruction.
It's not just Al Gore standing up there lecturing if it's doing that, people fall asleep, even in tenth grade or fifth grade.
He's got all these pictures.
Yeah, he said, well, it's based on science, Mom.
How could it not be true?
So I had to explain to him that it was an opinion based on you know, unsubstantiated facts and that other people had different opinions and I, you know, went through what they were.
And uh the upshot of it was he was angry.
I think he uh to me anyway, angry at you or angry at Al Gore.
He felt betrayed by his actually by Okay, all right, then you don't need to call the school.
This is where I was headed.
As long as you are able to teach creative independent thinking, rather than just have him sit in any classroom and be a sponge.
If you teach him to be curious and uh uh, you know, a little doubtful about anything he hears, you know the old saying, I believe none of what I hear and half of what I see.
Um if you just get his mind oriented toward questioning things, it's tough because you know, kids respond to authority figures, uh other than their parents.
And uh if if you get him questioning these things, you'll you'll uh you won't need to call these professors or the teachers or the principal or what have you.
As a way of illustrating, you know, he but but mom, it's science.
And you said, well, no, uh, it's not science, it's an opinion.
That was great.
But pose it to him this way.
Uh what's his name?
Brooks.
You uh uh your son's name is Brooks.
Okay, say Brooks.
Um is the earth round or is it flat?
He knows it's round by now, right?
You know I gave him that argument.
Uh good.
Okay, but Brooks, but Brooks, what would happen if Al Gore came to your class with a movie and tried to prove to you with pictures the earth was flat?
Would you accept it just because some scientists say it is?
Well, we used to believe that it was.
What right, but we now know it's not.
But if a consensus of scientists came along and tried to make the case the earth was flat, nobody would believe them, even though they said there's a consensus.
Yet because there's a consensus that says 20 or 30 years from now, Greenland's gonna vanish.
People believe it.
Where is the where where's the critical thinking here?
Uh it's th there can't be science if there's consensus involved.
Science doesn't result from people agreeing on things.
The earth is not round because a bunch of people finally agreed that it is.
It's round because it is uh round and people are able to establish it.
And the flat earthers, and they're still around there, but they just believe other w oddball things, but uh science is what it is, and it cannot be created.
Science cannot be established by opinion.
That was a great thing to tell him.
And I'd keep pounding that into him.
Because this global warming thing is the primary tool that's being used to inculcate young minds like your sons into allowing government to tax them and to limit their behavior and to do all kinds of things in order to get more power over people's lives.
That's all it is.
Tell him that's that maybe it's a little young for ten years old.
He still thinks you're trying to do that to him.
Um but uh you know, I I was a ten-year-old, so I I know the parent routine that way.
But uh I I was.
Some people have trouble believing I was once ten, but I was.
At any rate, I have to run here.
I appreciate the uh uh the the call, Joyce, be right back with much more in jiffy.
I got an interesting email last night from a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Rush, I'm 70 years old.
And I remember that in the 1950s, the government and the AMA Told us all that butter and eggs were killing us because of cholesterol.
The only way to avoid this poison, they said was to eat margarine.
Now it's margarine that's being banned because of trans fats.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils and so forth.
And now people are being encouraged to eat real butter.
Because it's natural.
I bring this up because this is a classic illustration talking about doubting what these so-called experts, be it from government or anywhere else say.
There's too much conflicting information to buy into it.
Look at look at the panic that they have caused in the nutrition business.
Look at the absolute panic.
I was talking to some friends who had dinner one night last week.
We're talking about this.
Guy said, you know, I have bacon and eggs every day of my life.
I have butter.
And and my my you know is a lot of people are this way.
Uh, and they're perfectly healthy.
Uh it's everybody just goes nuts over this.
The panic that's created by.
And half the time they change their mind, like they did about coffee and like they did about oat bran, and hell, look at the silicon implants.
They're back now.
They're back.
But Rush, but Rush, they were disfiguring and killing women.
No, they weren't.
That was just a bunch of tort lawyers who arranged a big payoff with a class action suit when it turned out to be an irrelevant factor in uh in the death of some women.
Now they're back.
And best guess whether they're gonna cost more than ever, because Dow Chemical has got a recapture what they lost in the judgment in a class action suit.
Big boobs.
More expensive than ever, if God didn't give them to you.
Uh naturally.
Speaking of which, I referenced this story earlier.
Amsterdam Dutch women getting bigger breasts, and 32% of them now have a D cup or bigger compared with 20% five years ago.
And these are natural.
In Europe, Dutch women are ranked third behind British and Danish women in terms of bra size.
Uh, this uh the bra maker, whatever writ uh finds all this out.
Uh some forty-two percent of women age thirty to thirty-nine have decups and feel in general okay about that.
Uh women with large bra size are now the largest group in the Netherlands.
Some 44% surveyed girls aged 12 to 19 uh think uh eating fatty foods helps increase the size of their breasts.
And of course, uh the experts oh no, no, no, this is poor nutrition habits.
Um uh, and and they are the cause of increased breast size.
So eating high fat content food, uh, the hormones and so forth uh that are in various foods these days.
Um the size of your cup.
Clay in old uh Saybrook, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
I'm I'm a little confused about the story about uh the first lady and uh the uh the cancer situation.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I'm I it was my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, that if uh if a woman, after careful consultation, perhaps with her physician and her conscience, decided that she needed to have a uh non-viable tissue mass removed, that this was a private matter and um should not be uh open to public criticism or comment.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
This was an unviable tissue mass, this uh this tumor.
Uh and uh and and they noticed the bandage.
So the first lady had no privacy.
That's that that that's my point in in this whole thing.
Let these people air their own medical records.
Look, let's see, you know, what what what uh what their diseases are, you know, what they're being treated for, what their prescriptions are.
Uh Danny in Kansas City, Missouri, less than a minute, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
Thank you, Rash, for taking my phone call for megadittos.
Thank you.
Um I just wanted to let you know that till death to us part through listeners, that's when the media will recognize uh will agree with you or give you credit.
And um from it.
Till death do us wait, wait, what using the media will only give me credit when I have passed away.
Yes, just like Ronald Reagan.
Just for a brief time.
I, you know.
Thank God they do.
Because you're right.
On a lot of things.
Well, I think uh since I don't I don't think about passing away, it's gonna happen to everybody.
I really don't think about dying.
Not afraid of it.
I know it's gonna happen.
So I haven't conjured what's going to happen after I die because I got too much to do until that happens.
Sadly, my friends, uh, for you, uh, we are out of time.
No more precious broadcast moments remain.
But there is tomorrow.
We'll see you from New York tomorrow, and then back here at our EIB Southern Command on Thursday.
Look, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
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