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Jan. 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 1, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Have you heard what the latest disorder is?
Yeah, but it's road rage disorder, but that's not the official clinical name of it.
The official clinical name is Intermittent Explosive Disorder, or IED.
I'll tell you, this is exactly what I mean.
When I say that we're such a bunch of softies, we have to invent our own syndromes and stresses to tell ourselves how tough life is.
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Democrats also have been advised on military relations, how to communicate with uh with soldiers.
We'll have details on their that that's fascinating.
That's fascinating as we as we head into the um effort here by the uh the Democrats, uh the drive-by media and the American left to uh finally take us out of Iraq and destroy the uh U.S. military once and for all, which is what Hadith will be, as I told you um, as I told you yesterday.
Uh here's here are the details on intermittent explosive disorder.
It's an AP Medical story.
To you, that angry horn blasting tailgator is suffering from road rage, but doctors have another name for it intermittent explosive disorder.
And a new study, you know who you know who this ought to be called Kennedy syndrome.
I mean, if if if we're gonna if we're gonna be serious about this, we want to raise consciousness about this.
Uh Kennedy syndrome.
They've got this one nailed.
New study suggests that it is far more common.
Intermittent explosive disorder.
You know what this used to be called, folks?
Back back in the in the in the old days, this used to be called just had a bad temper.
But now if you if you have a bad temper, uh you have a syndrome.
You have a disorder.
You have something not your fault that's wrong with you that you need to go see somebody about so that you can get treatment or medicine.
It is far more common than doctors realized.
Uh it affects now up to 16 million Americans.
How the hell do they know this?
They did a survey.
This is a wild guess.
Dr. Emile Cacaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago Medical School, says that people think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment.
What they don't know is that there's a biology and a cognitive science to this.
Uh road rage temper outbursts that involve throwing or breaking objects and even spousal abuse can sometimes be attributed to intermittent explosive disorder.
Uh, though not everyone who does those things is afflicted.
So you may give chase in your car.
You may play dodgeball or dodge cars with uh somebody on the highway, you may beat up your spouse, you may throw a rock through a window, and you may not have intermittent explosive disorder.
Others who do this do have intermittent explosive disorder.
By definition, intermittent explosive disorder involves multiple outbursts that are way out of proportion to the situation.
These angry outbursts often include threats or aggressive actions and property damage.
The uh the disorder typically first appears in adolescence.
In the study, the average age of onset was 14.
I don't believe this.
This is folks, I have told you constantly, I have had this this theory that uh our parents and grandparents really knew what tough lives were all about.
Uh World War One, Great Depression, World War II, Cold War, they had to grow up real fast.
They didn't have time to think about themselves.
They didn't have time to be self-absorbed.
They had to establish themselves as adults very early on in life and and uh and did so, and in the process of all the hard work they've they've they've bequeathed Us untold prosperity and opportunity and loads and loads of free time, as evidenced by all of the wacko leftist groups out there that don't appear to have jobs.
All they do is fundraise and march and protest and do this.
I mean, there's so many people out there that seem to have limitless amounts of time on their hands, and when you have that kind of time on your hands, and you can't stop thinking about yourself, uh you're gonna have guilt, you're gonna have all kinds of things, and but you don't want to hear that life is good.
You don't want to hear the economy's good.
You don't want to hear that there's lots of prosperity out there.
You don't want to hear there's lots of opportunity because you're lazy and slothful and you're not accessing it.
So it's got to be somebody's fault, and you've got to have basic problems that are not your fault, not your responsibility to overcome this and to give yourself an excuse.
And we've come up with all of these different syndromes.
And now we've got bad temper and occasionally criminal behavior being diagnosed here as something cognitive and psychological.
Now they did a study on this, and the study was based on a national face-to-face survey of 9,282 U.S. loser adults who answered diagnostic questionnaires in 2001 and 2003.
It was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
I see some IQ tests of people at that group.
About 5% to uh 7% of the nationally representative sample had had the disorder, which would equal up to 16 million Americans.
That's higher than better known mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
Well, that's going to make those people mad.
The bipolar people think they rule the roost these days.
And the schizos, they think they now they intermittent explosive disorder outnumbers them.
Oh, there's gonna be a battle for who can say we're the sickest.
The average number of lifetime attacks per person was 43, uh, resulting in about 1,400 in property damage per person.
About 4% had I did more than that in junior high just in pranks.
And I wasn't I wasn't enraged.
I was simply trying to have fun out there.
At any rate, findings were released Monday in the June issue of the uh archives of general psychiatry, and the findings show the little studied disorder is much more common than previously thought thought, said lead author Ronald Kessler, health care policy professor at Harvard Medical Screw.
It's news to a lot of people, even who are specialists in mental health services, that such a large proportion of the population has these clinically significant anger attacks.
And so the moral relativists of our society, people continue to justify their existence by virtue of their studies and their research projects, now uh find a way to grant even more people uh an exemption from accepting responsibility for their own actions and from being told they do have ways to control it.
Now they don't.
They can take refuge in the fact, hey, you know what I when I got mad and I ran that guy in the SUV off the road and sent him over the bridge abutment there and a little explosion happened.
It wasn't my fault.
Wasn't my fault.
I'm just, you know, I just I just I've got IED out there, and and I'm just I need I need help.
Need help.
In fact, who can I sue?
Uh I sue my parents for the genes that made me this.
What who where can I go?
There is a story, late, late arriving story today.
Just hit the wires about an hour ago, and I it just leaves me stunned if this is true.
And I I have to add that caveat, ladies and gentlemen, because it's the associated press.
In a uh major concession, the U.S. is prepared to provide Iran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium, according to diplomats today.
The offer was part of a package of incentives presented to Tehran Tuesday by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, uh, uh said the diplomats who were familiar with the proposals.
The diplomats demanded anonymity in exchange for discussing details of the offer, which was agreed on last week by six world powers in a bid to resolve a nuclear standoff with Iran.
I predicted this, folks.
I don't know how long it was within the past two or three months, and this Iran thing was effervesc out there, and I said there's some possibilities.
And one of the things that we could do, and I I did it, by the way, under the i i thinking this.
You know, we had there's a battle going on for uh a lot of things uh in the Middle East, including all.
And the uh the Chikoms are trying to get really tight with the Iranians, as are uh the Ruskies, the uh the former Soviet uh Union comms.
And so the Russians and and the and the Iranians and the SHICOMs of the Iranians, there's a battle there, and I suggested, I predicted, that it might well be that one of the options that we choose here instead of taking out their nuke facilities militarily, is to make a deal with them and get them on our side rather than let it happen with the uh SHICOMs or the Russians.
So i if this is if this is true, I hope it's under those auspices, but we all have the very fresh memories of this exact kind of deal made by Jimmy Carter, Madeline Albright, and Bill Clinton with the North Koreans, and it resulted in precisely the exact opposite uh of the plan.
That is uh the nukes uh that we ended up, the nuclear assistance we gave North Korea led them to enrich uranium faster and uh end up with a nuclear weapon or two.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue at 800 282-2882 right after this.
I just got a note from a friend of mine I played golf with now, and it says you have IED, because you throw your golf club sometimes.
I think I've thrown a golf club once in the last two years.
I sometimes bang the driver on the T box if I hit a bad drive, but see, I get that's right.
I I could say I I hey don't blame me.
I have IED.
Uh don't send me a letter to the uh to the to the chairman of country club, please don't get me in trouble.
It's a disease.
I promise you'll get help.
Astinine.
Bush's approval numbers are up, folks.
Uh this is the Gallup poll.
Latest USA Today Gallup update on George W. Bush's presidential job approval rating finds 36% of Americans approving of the job the president's doing.
57% disapprove.
This represents a modest uh improvement in that measure from recent weeks.
A finding mirrored in several other national surveys.
In early May, just 31% approved of Bush, marking a low point of his administration to date, a subsequent poll in May found a 33% rating.
Now he's up to 36%, uh, which is in line with his public standing in March and April.
So modest improvement.
Tracking back up.
Imagine if you went back and looked at uh several other second-term presidents at this time in their terms, you'd find almost uh parallel poll results.
We know that Bill Clinton was down in the twenties at one point, Jimmy Carter was waiting at Reagan was down.
This is really really not unique.
But this next paragraph in the uh Gallup news service analysis of their own poll is what's fascinating to me.
While it is difficult to pinpoint a precise reason uh for Bush's improved ratings, several events in recent weeks may have had an impact.
Gas prices have stabilized, though they remain high.
Uh Bush's nomination of Henry Paulson as Secretary of the Treasury has been well re Come on, Gallup Paul, do you you really think what percentage of the American people even now have ever heard of Henry Paulson?
And even if they have, and know he's the new secret secretary of the treasury, what possible iota of a difference could that make in their determination of how the president's doing it?
This is this is inside the beltway out of touchness, uh, if you will.
Also, the uh possibility that uh Bush addressed the nation regarding immigration, and he admitted some mistakes in his uh prior statements on the wars in Iraq.
And against Osama bin Laden.
So those are the reasons.
What do you think of those reasons?
If the White House chooses to look at these polls and believe this stuff, of all these reasons, which one do you think they will cite yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah?
That's why our numbers are going up.
My guess is it will be uh Bush's immigration speech and his traveling around the country talking to uh people about it.
And I uh I hope they don't make that mistake, but that's uh my guess is that that's what they'll decide on.
They certainly will not conclude that it has anything to do with Bush admitting mistakes or Henry Paulson.
Gas prices could be a factor in that they have stabilized.
I got a follow up on something yesterday.
I mentioned to you, you know, we talked about Robert Kennedy's piece in Rolling Stone Magazine, in which he recites a bunch of kook data that's been out on the internet and those kook blogs uh since the uh presidential election in 2004.
There's nothing new in Kennedy's piece, and it's been even I think it was Salon, uh no conservative rag salon.
Salon.com had a piece recently on it yesterday where they just destroyed this whole effort by Robert Kennedy to uh to drum up the the same old, same old about how the Republicans stole something like a hundred and seventy thousand votes in Ohio.
And I mentioned to you yesterday discussing this, so to tell you what the real reason for this piece was, because Salon.com didn't didn't get it.
There's a villain in this piece, and it's none other than Ken Blackwell, who was the Secretary of State in Ohio at the time and is now the Republican gubernatorial nominee.
And my my and this is my guess, but my guess is that the real purpose Kennedy wrote this piece was not to rehash all of the election business in terms of the Democrats had it stolen, but to indict Ken Blackwell and to uh drum up support against him.
Let me tell you something.
Uh a a black Republican governor, a black Republican senator to the Libs is just as dangerous as a Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.
And I I guarantee you that they'll um they'll they'll load the guns and fire the ammo at Blackwell all again.
I think that was Kennedy's actual purpose, my guess in uh in in doing his piece.
Jacksonville, Florida, this is Richard, you're up first today on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Longtime listener, first time caller.
Thank you, sir.
I am calling just to put my two cents in about this uh finding the uh this intermittent explosive disorder, my background as a psychologist, counselor, uh therapist, we do a lot of work in our work around the country, but I'm just here to say and go on record, it's not an explosive disorder.
In my opinion, it's adults who've never learned to grow up, be mature, and handle emotional energy.
And because of that, they give over to their emotional energy, lose their rational ability to think, and they make impulse decisions.
And it's not a disorder, it's immaturity.
Okay, so since you're part of the uh the the uh the community, if you will, that uh works on people with these kind of disorders.
Why would uh people invent this uh if it weren't true?
What why would doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists invent this if it weren't true?
What's in it for them?
Uh I believe there's money behind it.
I believe if you can create um a disorder, then you've got uh you can create medication for it, those kind of things.
I I I refer you back and maybe to the listeners to Daniel Goldman's book on emotional intelligence that has a lot to do with the fact that people get themselves in trouble the higher they go up in the business because they don't have emotional maturity, emotional IQ, if you will.
And this is no different.
This is no different.
This is people who've not learned to develop their emotional self, and they're very immature people.
And when emotional issues show up, they give themselves over to that.
It's not a disorder, it's a maturity issue.
All right, so uh but but they've they've they've called it a disorder, and it it it's see the the i I know you you're right.
There's got to be a money angle in this.
There almost always is in everything.
Uh follow the money, and you'll often get to the uh bottom of something.
But I also think you've got a bunch of touchy feely libs here.
And they are moral relativists, and and one of the things that libs m you have to understand the liberal mindset, self-loathing.
Uh, and and and they they refuse.
So like this this this Dana L yesterday from the Washington Post, or Sunday, we talked about it yesterday, um, who got pregnant at age 42 because she forgot to use her diaphragm and then couldn't find an abortion doctor, then couldn't find a doctor to prescribe plan B. They couldn't, it's all Bush's fault.
It's all it's not her fault.
She had no intention of accepting the responsibility for anything, nor did I I reread that piece today.
You know who I can't find hardly well, there's one reference to, and that's that's her sad sack husband.
The one reference to this guy in this piece is, yeah, we work busy schedules, and we have rare couple time anymore.
We found some time in March, and bang bang, I, in a fit of passion, forgot to put my diaphragm.
And that's it.
This poor guy ceases to exist.
We never learn what role he played in getting Plan B in an abortion or anything.
Because he's a non-factor, it's all Bush's fault.
And conservative politics, conservative political policies.
And this thing comes along.
It's like all these other disorders.
People aren't responsible for themselves clinically now.
You have uh people who want to make these claims with some high authority, and it is all what it leads to, folks, as far as liberal mindset is concerned, is blaming culture, blaming the American lifestyle, blaming American ex, whatever it is about America, this has caused it.
Uh, it has nothing to do with the individual's lack of discipline, maturity, or anything of the sort.
It is America's fault, basically because of America being what it is.
I'm not kidding back in just a sec.
I want to go back to the archives.
Sometimes we do this, folks, and I just had some pretty tough things to say about the American left when it comes to all these syndromes that they're assigning to people, basically attempting to blame America, our culture, our way of life, uh, whatever they don't like about it, for all of these maladies that all of us suffer.
Uh, in the in their bid to change the way America is, because somehow they just don't fit in with it.
They don't enjoy it for whatever reason.
Uh I want to take you back to my television show.
June 29th, 1994.
Uh, June 29th, 1994, I uh uh basically announced the fourteen commandments of the religious left in America.
The audience reaction and laughter you hear uh is the studio audience at Rush the TV show.
They, my friends, are the religious left.
And there are certain things they believe, and many of the things they believe, and many of the policies they've enacted are things that people believe have done great damage to the overall moral and societal fabric of the country.
So I have prepared the 14 commandments of the religious left.
Number one, thou shalt have no other God except thyself.
After all, it's thy self-esteem that counts.
If thee don't love thee, who will?
Number two, thou shalt not make any graven images out of any substances which cannot be recycled.
Number three, thou shalt not take the name of liberals in criticism, including feminists, racial minorities, or any person who thinks he is a victim of America.
You cannot criticize any of those groups.
Number four.
Remember the anniversaries of Roe v.
Wade and Anita Hill's testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee and keep them holy.
Number five, honor thy mother.
If she's dysfunctional, it is thy father's fault.
Thou shalt not kill with these exceptions.
Life forms under the second trimester and those opting for medically assisted suicides.
It's true, this is what the religious left believes.
Number seven, thou shalt not commit adultery unless thou aspire to high political office.
Use a condom or if you just can't help it.
Number eight, thou shalt not steal unless thou art disadvantaged or upset with a California jury verdict.
Number nine, thou shalt not bear false witness unless thou art discussing the histories of the 80s, are campaigning for office, or can afford good legal counsel in the event you are discovered to be bearing false witness and can ask the American people to pay thy legal witness.
Number 10, Thou Shalt Not Covet...
Thou shalt not want, desire anything, unless thou art the victim of a gender-related oppression, institutional racism, or art still angry with Reagan's tax cuts.
Number 11, always hide the real truth about thyself.
Number 12, never admit who or what thou really art when campaigning for public office.
Number 13, Always blame someone else for what thou doest, even so far as to blaming the entire society.
And number 14, thou shalt oppose all punishment.
Those are the 14 commandments, and I'm sure we're going to build on those as the days progress.
From Rush the TV show all the way back twelve years ago, June uh 29th, 1994, the 14 Commandments of the Religious Left.
Here is uh Alan Porchester, New York.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Thanks for taking a call, Rush.
I was just calling.
You know this Mrs. L or Ms. L or whatever that is.
Dana L. Get it right there.
Dana L out there.
Yeah, her husband ought to get a paternity test done on those unborn children.
Because that this woman knew what she was doing.
She came home.
She hops into the sack.
Quick does this thing.
Oh, yeah, it was all passion, and now they're stuck.
I I I don't buy it.
Somebody that professional forgets and then can't call and doesn't know about Planned Parenthood.
Let me tell you that.
Now I look a lot of people are offering opinions here on poor old Dana L, and I I love yours.
But let's be honest about Planned Parenthood.
She says she didn't think of it.
She says she said yesterday in a blog in the Washington Post, in all of her panicked uh uh uh state of mind that she was running around trying to solve problems.
She just simply forgot.
Oh, she she was panicked all right, but but I'll bet you it wasn't because of that.
She how am I going to tell him I'm already pregnant with her with her problem.
Honey, look at Debian is mine, you know.
No, I just forgot.
You think you think you think she's out there sleeping around in a guy?
Yeah, well, she d with one or more, but she whoever.
She it wasn't him.
It wasn't him.
I'll bet you anything it wasn't him.
Let me tell you something.
I don't know about any of that.
See, a caller, you can say that.
As host, uh I can't I can laugh at when you say that.
But I just I just I just want to talk about the planned parenthood business.
I don't what I don't believe among all of this in this story that she wrote, this this column, was that she didn't know you could get Plan B or anything else or an abortion at Planned Parenthood.
What she knew is she wouldn't dare step foot inside Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood is for the serfs.
Plan parenthood is for the downtrodden, the victims, the uh uh the the shall we say the the the trailer park crowd a professional woman and lawyer and writer not gonna caught dead stepping foot inside of Planned Parenthood.
No way.
I I can see your point.
I still think her husband ought to get a paternity test done.
That's well you mean on the two kids they already have.
Yeah.
Well, and on the unborn children.
Did she abort all three of them then?
No, no, no.
You're no, you're confusing people now.
Wait a minute.
You're talking which who who are you talking about?
The woman who lived in uh in uh down in the East Village in New York who had triplets.
No, no, no, no.
Danielle L is the one I was talking about.
Dana.
Dana L. Yeah.
Did she get pregnant?
She got pregnant.
She had the abortion.
There's no paternity test possible.
It's it's uh You didn't do a paternity test on an unborn fetus.
Uh well.
Well, if he could exhume the body.
I'm telling you, this guy ought to.
If he's listening, she's dying because we got her.
Well, uh I know the the the the basis under which Al or on which Al's making these uh these assertions.
And it's it's it's basically his sexist view of the kind of woman Dana L is.
Uh and he's me drawing a conclusion because his poor husband, this sad sack, doesn't get any mentions whatsoever in this piece.
Let me read the only mention of the husband in this piece.
I'm a 42-year-old, happily married mother of two elementary schoolers.
My husband and I both work, and like many couples, uh, we're starved for time together.
Uh one Thursday evening this past March, we managed to snag some rare couple time in a sudden rush of passion.
I failed to insert my uh diagram.
Diaphragm, diaphragm.
Um, it's diaphragm.
Uh no, that reminds the reason I'm laughing is it reminds me of a joke.
Uh uh, no, it's not a joke.
It's a no, it's a true story, and I can't tell the story.
I'm sorry.
It's an actual truth.
I can't I can't tell a story on the air.
It's about a f former Royals baseball player.
I can't I can't I can't tell the story.
Anyway, that no, no, that's that's that's that's the uh no, I can't tell the story, Mr. Snergley.
Don't even try to coax me.
You just trust me, I cannot tell the story.
And it's it's it's it it was not protecting him.
It is the language that would be necessary to tell the story.
I can't do it.
Sh don't I'm not a uh I'm if I uh the words if I changed his words, it wouldn't convey the humor of the situation.
Just stop.
I am not gonna tell the story.
Anyway, after this uh reference to the fact that they had this uh passionate uh night back in March.
That's that's that March, that's the last reference to the husband in the piece.
Uh if he was consulted on uh plan B or abortion or whatever, it doesn't reference that.
Oh, uh I take it back.
There's one other after making the decision with my husband, I was plunged into an even murkier world.
So uh there is an allusion to him being a participant in the decision, but it's this piece is an I I I and here you go.
This uh it was a decision I'm sorry I had to make.
There was no we had to make here.
Decision I'm sorry I had to make, it was awful, it was painful, sickening.
But I feel that this administration gave me practically no choice but to have an unwanted abortion because the way it is pol unwanted.
What's the difference in plan B and an abortion?
Come on, this is what what were you split hairs here?
So she gets pregnant, she's go get plan B. That's not an abortion.
She had didn't take plan B in time, had to go get an abortion, that's an abortion.
She was pregnant and she's not, and there is no baby.
She had an abortion.
You can hide behind plan B, and it's just an immediate period or whatever you want, but it's an abortion.
At any rate, it's all Bush's fault.
No mention of the guy after supposedly having some role in the decision.
Jennifer in Reno, Nevada, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Um, yes.
I was just wondering, what does this do for us as parents that are trying to teach our children that there are consequences for their actions?
Well, I think parent you know, uh you are you're you're uh becoming a part of a vanishing breed if if you're that kind of parent, because I happen to think that and I get in trouble every time I say this, but attention deficit disorder, ADD, that's another one of these fabricated things.
It's just a kid.
A lot of energy needs recess.
They've taken recess away from the kids.
Some of these kids are bored in school, they run around uh and they're just typical little boys.
And uh a lot of parents don't want to put up with the hassle of a raising little boy.
They take him and he won won't pay attention, he's not getting good grades, he doesn't study, blah, blah, blah.
He's not interested in anything.
Is it video games?
I'm worried, but he tears up the house.
He's got attention deficit order.
Here, take this drug and zombie your kid out.
And so parents have been co-opted uh i in this, and and uh you're you're probably part of a vanishing breed who wants to stand up and suggest that there are consequences for actions.
And you're right, by the way, because uh now somebody engages in road rage and says I have IED.
I'm I'm actually not responsible or some chemical imbalance in there that caused me to do that.
No, you're right.
And it's just ridiculous.
I and I already went through it.
The kindergarten teacher, my son is eight years old, and his kindergarten teacher already said, Well, have you ever thought maybe he has ADD?
I said, when they can show me that it scientifically is proven to exist, then we'll talk about it.
I said, until then, he's just active.
Well, of course they say it's scientifically uh proven to exist.
They can announce anything is.
They can they can pretty much call any behavior outside of an established norm, uh, some kind of syndrome if they wish, go out and do research and a study on it.
And I mean, is it you you think it'd be that tough to find a lot of people with bad temper?
I mean, they're all over the place.
People with bad temper are all over the place.
I'm surprised only sixteen million Americans have this disease.
Anyway, I appreciate the call out there, Jennifer.
Quick timeout, back with more after this.
Being bombarded with questions.
Asking me to explain my ridiculous assertion uh that there's no difference in an abortion in plan B. Typical question, well, well, what's the difference in all seriousness here, L. Rushbo?
What is the difference uh between um uh birth control and plan B. Well, that's easy.
Uh birth control prevents conception.
Life begins at conception.
I don't care what anybody says, It can't begin anywhere else.
Life begins at conception.
Human life begins at conception.
Plan B comes after conception.
Ergo.
I mean, my logic is unassailable.
Don't even try to argue with me on this.
Don't doubt me.
Uh, folks.
Brian in San Antonio, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megadetta's rush from the Alamo.
How are you?
Great to have you there, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
It is an absolute pleasure to talk to you.
I've been listening for 18 years.
I'm a baby.
I'm 24, currently a meteorology student at a liberal college university.
So I'll let you know that the Republican conservative youth out there are fighting the can be liberal.
You mean you you're you are 24.
You've been listening since you were six years old.
Yes, sir.
My father's a retired Air Force Colonel, and uh he wrote it, he uh raised us upright.
You literally are you fit the uh quintessential definition of a rush baby?
I am, sir, and uh my brother is a uh five tour veteran of the Iraq War, currently stationed up in uh Colorado, and we're very proud of him, and I just wanted to thank you for everything you've done for myself personally, uh my family, and the rest of America.
You you're a great American.
Thank you very much.
I really really appreciate your saying that.
Can I ask you a question about your education?
Sure.
You're uh you're you're getting a you're you're studying meteorology.
Yes, sir.
I'm actually in my internship with Fox here at a local state right now.
Internship.
You you study meteorology to be uh uh do weather on television or radio?
Uh hopefully hopefully broadcast on TV and then I'd like to move up to uh what what what's the most radical thing they're teaching you in meteorological school?
Uh, you know the answer of that.
It's global warming, the myth.
I kind of figured that'd be the answer.
Uh all it takes is a little intelligence and uh some some fact finding, and uh it's pretty simple to figure that the earth uh revolves in cycles.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All it takes is a little common sense and a little intelligence.
And uh furthermore, if you if you examine the countries that the environmentalist wackos say are to blame for global warming, and then say are the targets that need to adjust things in order to fix it.
Take a look at what their fixes are, and you find it's nothing more than a not even very well hidden recipe for extracting more freedom from you and uh enlarging government and uh declining choices on the part of the population, because of course, folks, it's all of our fault that uh planet is warming.
Now, this is not to say that there isn't any warming going on out there.
I'd be foolish to deny that that might be happening uh with the effects of the sun and who knows.
I mean, but this this is this is uh I I'll tell you something I also think I also firmly believe, and this is going to rock some of you.
But I I've given you, I've I've told you one of the reasons in the past why I believe uh so so stridently in the fact that that we are just specks of irrelevance when it comes to control and power over something like the ecology and the climate of an entire planet.
Uh if you believe in creation, if you believe in God, you believe in creation.
Uh it is impossible uh to believe that we are destroying that which we can't create, didn't create, had no we're just we're just residents.
We're stewards, we can exhibit stewardship over some aspects, but something as magnificent as the climate and as large and and as incomprehensible and and as inexplicable as the climate.
Say that we are uh villains where it's concerned when we're mere residents here is absolutely patently absurd.
Then the environmental movement, I guarantee you this.
Um in addition to being anti-capitalist, has at its roots being anti-religious as well, or at least anti-conventional religious, anti-Christian Judeo ethic.
Uh, and it is a it is a desire to disabuse anybody of the notion of grandeur, greatness uh uh anything to do with creation and God.
It's it's it's designed to reduce all that to something as tangible as a pile of water in the backyard that we can either suck up or we can uh water it, we can do whatever.
It's it's just it's absurd uh the links to which they will have gone in order to try to persuade people of their case.
But it's an attack on a number of things that form institutions and traditions that have made uh this country and his culture great.
We'll be back and continue in a second.
You see the uh final episode of Sopranos on Sunday night.
It really let me down.
I had such high hopes.
And even during the program, there were a couple of times I thought, all right, but it's sort of like Dallas.
It's just it's it it's it hadn't been the way we want it to be in the last two or three years, maybe.
Got more straight ahead.
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