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Jan. 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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And a hearty welcome to each and every one of all of you.
Uh out there enjoying uh yet another excursion into broadcast excellence today.
I'm Rush Limboy, your host, your guiding light, your rock.
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I just checking the email here during the top of the hour break, and and uh I don't know, just at randomly found this.
Uh so just scour subject lines.
And somebody giving me grief for my analysis of the student loan uh interest rate reduction.
Uh yes, of course, I pointed out you people are missing the whole point of this.
Uh the whole point of lowering the interest rates on student loans and increasing the tax deduction for uh uh tuition when you pay to send your crumb crunchers to universities.
All this is designed to do is two things.
Actually, it's designed to uh uh allow universities to charge even more if interest rates come down and you get to deduct deduct more of the tuition, then the institutions of higher learning, which have a symbiotic relationship with our buddies in Democratic Party, get to raise their tuition.
And then somebody says, but Rush, you you just don't understand.
Anytime interest rates come down, it's good.
It's good, it's the banks getting hurt, not a frustration sets in and permeates, overwhelms the host.
Anytime the banks get hurt.
Yeah, because Congress making you think they're getting the banks, they're hitting the banks, they're gonna make sure the banks have to make it easier for a student to go to college because they're gonna make sure the banks have to lower the interest rates.
Do you seriously think?
Do you seriously think the banks just gonna sit there and take it in shorts?
The next time you go get a loan for something other than a student, guess what happens to your interest rate?
Pshh!
Can you say space shuttle launch?
Uh want you to hear some audio.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh this did CNN today.
American Morning, the uh co-host Soldad O'Brien interviewed the estimable Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator from Nebraska.
And she's talking to him about this, and Hagel gets roughed up here by the drive-by media.
She's talking to him about this resolution that the Senate is going to pass that uh opposes the surge in troops in Iraq.
Her question to Hegel, the resolution actually has no effect on the president's plan to send these troops into Iraq.
Well, first of all, this is a process.
This resolution that we presented is a process that will engage the Congress and the nation in a national debate over rocks.
Nothing.
Let me finish.
Let me finish.
Let me finish, please.
This is a beginning of a process.
No one is suggesting Soledad in this resolution.
I never have, I don't think any of my colleagues up here have, to cut and run, to leave a rock in the mess that it's in.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about better ways to do it.
You know, this is this is so gutless.
Then tell us what the better ways to do it are, and tell us how this resolution that you're joining is not undermining the effort to win this.
You get to hide behind a resolution that you say is just process, and it's just an opportunity to start to start the debate.
Somebody needs to end the debate, and we all need to come together and decide what we need to do is win this thing.
Stop the debate, start the debate for crying out loud.
We're not talking about that.
We're talking about better ways to do it, but O'Brien is having none of this process talk.
Listen to this exchange.
But you raised the point of the number of dead uh U.S. service people, which is now at 3,027.
And you say it's a start of a process, and there are plenty of people who would say, Well, that's great about a process, but sir, I can almost guarantee you by tomorrow that number, 3,027 dead, is going to be up two or three or four or five soldiers.
So some people would say, Well, Congress is debating the process, people are dying.
Why not do something a little more tangible?
Well, uh, let's look at the facts.
Already in process right now, and this is a process business.
You may not like it.
May not be fast enough for you or some people, but that's the reality of it.
Well, we didn't get the facts.
Well, let's look at the facts.
Already a process is he stopped to defend process.
See, this is the difference in being president and being some senator.
Senators have all the good fortune and time and luxury, run around and get involved in process.
Yip, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Process is for intellectuals.
Process is for a bunch of people who aren't accustomed to getting things done.
Process is for people who want to tell everybody how smart they are, but never have to face accountability because they never implement anything.
Process schmasses.
Imagine this program were a process, I'd never end up telling you what I think.
I'd be debating with you what I think.
And sharing my angst with it.
But when it came down to take a position, I'd be afraid to because of the accountability that would result.
Now I'm going to tell you something else about this.
Let me go back to the oh six elections.
And Elizabeth Dole ran the Republican senatorial campaign committee.
And as you uh may know, that job that she had is designed to uh make sure that as many Republicans as possible get elected, re-elected to the Senate to go out there and find good Senate candidates to run in open seats and so forth.
And she was raked over the coals over uh the defeat last year, uh the loss of these many seats.
And it was said that she was a rotten fundraiser, that she just wasn't any good, that the emails and the fundraising appeals she sent out were horrible.
Let me tell you the truth about it.
One of the things that she was doing and that the administration was doing, and it was very public, they were they were pedaled the metal trying to re-elect Lincoln Chafee.
Well, I'm gonna sit here and tell you right now, the people who are going to contribute to the Republican senatorial campaign committee didn't want Lincoln Chaffee re-elected and resented the fact that a whole bunch of powerful Republicans are going out of their way to elect somebody who is essentially turncoat and join the Democrats on a very crucial issue.
And if there was a reason for fundraising is was down, that's a big part of it.
Now, add to the list of senators that are going to provoke pro uh provide the same problem in 08, Senator Hagel.
I believe he's up in 08.
And the more he keeps up with this, the greater the impact on negative fundraising for the Republican uh senatorial campaign committee.
I think John Ensign is is running it this year.
Uh Senator from Nevada, former member of the House, truly good guy.
But he's got his work cut out for him.
And any other if there are any other Republicans that are joining this this this meaningless process to start this debate that we need to have over Iraq, what a chuckler that is.
If there are any others besides Hegel that are joining this, they are also gonna impact negatively the fundraising efforts among the base, because I can tell you right now, the base is not going to respond favorably to fundraising appeals to re-elect people like Chuck Hagel, just like they didn't respond favorably to re-elect people like Lincoln Chafee.
And I couldn't blame you.
So you know, there are consequences to this stuff that the practitioners don't seem to understand.
Now, one thing before before we go to the break, sold it at O'Brien.
But Senator, but Senator, the uh the number of dead U.S. service people is now 3,027.
And I can almost guarantee you by tomorrow the number's gonna be up two or three, and even if it's not, we'll say it is.
Okay.
3,027 dead.
I have a story.
In yesterday's stack.
I'll have to dig this out if any of you people refuse to believe me on this.
Do you know how many deaths there are in this country because pharmacists can't read a doctor's prescription and prescribe the wrong medicine?
Seven thousand.
Seven that's what this story says.
I'm going to find this.
Seven thousand uh a year die in this country because they're prescribed the wrong medicine because pharmacists can't read the uh you know the the chicken scrawling of s of most of these doctors out there.
That's why, by the way, there's an effort underway to make sure doctors have this uh like a stylus like a trio and email the prescription and they're gonna have to paper back up, but but so that they can uh you know get the right medicine and so forth, because I mean some of these doctors, you can't read what I've looked at prescriptions.
I've got what is this?
Pharmacists never had a doubt.
Oh, well I understand this.
I was lucky I'm still alive.
Three seven thousand a year.
And we're counting soldier deaths in ones and twos.
We've got three thousand in what three years in uh in Iraq.
There's no sense of proportion in any of this uh by design and on purpose.
Quick timeout.
Sit tight, back with more in a moment.
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Found that story.
It's in Time magazine.
Uh this week's issue.
Actually, it might have been last week's January 15th issue.
I don't know how they date these things anymore.
It's anyway, cause of death, sloppy doctors.
Doctor's sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually.
It's a shocking statistic.
And according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine, preventable medication mistakes also injure more than one and a half million Americans.
So 7,000 die, one and a half million are injured every year.
Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and the illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion scripts written in the U.S. every now.
Where are the hearings?
Where's Senator Hagel demanding a resolution here that this end?
Get this.
Just posted on a Drudge Report, just a little tease.
This is gonna set off fireworks.
The Pentagon has completed a manual for upcoming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorists to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence and coerced testimony.
The Pentagon has completed a manual for upcoming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorists to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence and coerced testimony.
Folks.
Once this hits, there may be some nukes going off in Washington inside the Capitol.
Dennis in uh Chatham, Illinois, thanks for waiting.
You're up next, sir.
Hi there.
Hi there.
How are you this afternoon?
Fine, thank you.
I'm telling in about the Pfizer court.
Good.
I want to talk more about that.
It is my opinion that they gave in to it uh to prevent congressional hearings.
Uh come again.
I said that the administration gave in to using the Pfizer court for the domestic surveillance to avoid uh congressional hearings.
Well, no way the administration is not the program goes on.
The administration is not saying they caved to FISA, they're saying they beat Pfizer.
They say they're saying this is a win-win for them.
But but you think that the administration caved because they're afraid of hearings coming up?
Correct.
So you think the administration punted the program.
You think that they're no longer going to uh monitor terrorist phone calls because the administration is afraid of Oh, I didn't.
I didn't say they were not going to monitor phone calls, but they're using the Pfizer court to do it.
To avoid hearings.
Correct.
Uh since they no longer own Congress, they were bound to get trapped into hearings over that.
Oh, I see your thought, Press now.
Since they've lost the election, you're saying they're afraid of the hearings.
Well, I know they're trying to avoid it, but they're not afraid of it.
Well, I don't I I don't think they're doing a good job.
I mean, Gonzalez got roasted today and we'll be getting roasted all day before the judiciary committee on this very thing.
Nothing's gonna stop the hearings.
The that's all the Democrats are gonna end up being able to do.
They're not gonna be able to pass much of their legislation because the Senate's gonna bottle most of it up, and so that's gonna leave them and and Bush is gonna, you know, cave on some of it.
Uh but but I'm fascinated at thought process here.
Bush afraid of the hearings, so he's basically trying to stop them and ward them off uh by surrendering authority and surrendering power.
The thing the thing that you're misunderstanding about this is th Bush Bush could resign.
There would be hearings.
They're not they're not gonna be finished till they bury Bush.
Whoever who if Bush resigned and Cheney took over, there would be hearings.
If Pelosi ascended to the White, there would be hearings on the Bush administration.
This is the way liberals are.
The liberals are going to make sure they're going to do everything they can with their buddies in the drive-by media that nobody ever, ever again even thinks of voting for Republicans to lead the country.
That's going to be the purpose.
The hearings are going to do the hearings regardless, and they're going to do whether there's a reason to or not.
So I I'm I'm I'm fascinated to talk to these guys.
Get their uh thought process.
Trish in Manhattan, welcome to the EIB network, madam.
Nice to have you.
Hi there, Rush.
It's really nice to talk to you.
Thank you.
I never talked to you before, but uh I I think very highly of you.
You know, uh I was thinking uh you know, maybe it's the time that you you request an audience with President Bush and and tell him that, you know, these people are making uh I mean the here's the thing.
He's a southern gentleman, and he you know what I mean?
He's he's such a nice guy, and he's just he doesn't he doesn't really see that these Democrats, I mean these liberals are, you know, he doesn't know who they really are.
You know what I mean, Rush?
And I feel like you know now this I I find this pretty incredible.
Because you know what I have What I have to uh conclude as I listen to your plea, your request, is that you have to assume you must believe that this administration doesn't understand what Democrats are and what liberals are and uh how they are the enemy.
You He doesn't.
He really doesn't.
You know what?
I think he's just such a nice guy.
He's a born-again Christian.
The guy is just such a decent man.
But he has you know, he he can't he couldn't imagine that there are people that would really literally be wanting our country to lose, you know, to lose this war.
No, he knows that.
He's pretty much said that.
He's pretty much in press conferences pretty much uh uh you know uh uh alluded to the media that they are uh engaging in helping the enemy with their television pictures and no, he's he's fully aware of that.
There's nothing I could tell him that he doesn't know.
But you know, uh didn't he wasn't that already in place?
Didn't he how can a co I mean how can a uh any kind of court overrule the president's uh you know decision on a certain thing like wiretapping in time of war.
How can they do it?
Well because they assert their own authority where they have none, and then you have to go to the Supreme Court to have that decided or a further appellate court.
Uh-huh.
But doesn't the president also have like his attorneys and and the people up there and in his area but but but that can strike that down?
Doesn't it doesn't he have to fight for everything?
He could if you wanted to if he wanted to uh engage in a so-called constitutional crisis.
There's there's why doesn't he?
I think that's it's time for him to get a little bit tougher.
I mean, the guy's just been too nice.
He's just he's a great president.
I love him dearly.
Uh and he's doing the right thing.
But I mean, I I get so upset when I I see them blatantly, you know, undermining him, and it's just so obvious.
I mean, uh you know, they just it's terrible.
I mean, you know, we have to know what's going on.
We have to know.
I mean, if if if there are people that are uh are in the you know, if there are sleeper cells here and there are things going on right under our noses, we have to find out about them.
Not not not for them to happen.
You know, it's too late, you know, once they they already go through you know what I mean?
Oh, totally.
I d I don't think he's given up on that.
I I I don't I don't I I think that's that's still going on.
You're talking about the uh the foreign surveillance program.
That's that's that's still going on.
I we just don't know, you know, this news yesterday with the process.
Oh, that's what I'm talking about.
The news yesterday.
Doesn't that mean that the wiretapping has come to an end?
No, no, no, no, no.
It doesn't mean that I got that wrong again.
No, no, no.
And not real political.
You must not have had the first hour of the program on.
Well because that's all we discussed.
You must have been at Bergdorf or product.
Not quite.
No, but uh, you know, I just I think Well, no, don't look.
I'm running out of time here.
I appreciate Cultrice, but that's that has not happened.
Uh we don't the they're they're trying to get it to happen, not.
Well, the Democrat, but the White House is claiming that they had a big win with this FISA court business.
They just won't tell us what it is.
Uh anyway, gotta take a quick time out.
Don't go away back rightly.
You're all.
Okay, other news percolating out there.
Here is some of it.
This I love.
It is in the New York Times today, appeals court rules for Walmart and Maryland health care case.
When Maryland legislators passed a first of its kind law in 2006, forcing Walmart stores to spend more on employee health care, the measure was held up as a model for other states grappling with mounting Medicaid bills.
But yesterday, after a second court found that the Maryland's fair share health care rule violated federal labor law, the concept that states can compel companies to offer more generous health care is suddenly in doubt.
By a two-to-one ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Baltimore found that the Maryland requirement, which only affected Walmart, if you recall, violated a 32-year-old federal labor law known by its shorthand ERISA.
The law, known to regulators as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, was intended to allow big companies to set up uniform health benefits across the country rather than navigate state by state requirements.
By forcing Walmart to revamp health care plans in Maryland, the court found, the Maryland law directly violated ERISA.
Again, that is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
That decision, upholding a lower court decision in July, threatens to derail health care legislation known as fair share that is under consideration in states across the fruited plain.
State level health care reform is still possible, but it's not going to be the Maryland model, said Naomi Walker, the director of state legislative programs of the AFL CIO, which lobbied for the Maryland laws.
She said, We have to go back to the drawing board.
Parentheses to find a new way to shaft the private sector on health care.
Now, this in and of itself is fabulous.
I detested this law from the moment I heard these arrogant, condescending male body parts propose it.
It infuriated me and insulted my intelligence.
Because in addition to telling these clowns how much they had to pay, if Walmart didn't pay it, they still had to pay the state.
It was extortion.
Now, in addition to this being good news, guess what else this ruling does?
It more than likely just undercuts Schwarzenegger's new health care plan in California, takes the central pillar out of it, because the central pillar is that he was going to force businesses or somebody to pick up the tab for health insurance for every child.
And person in California, including the children of illegal immigrants.
John Fund writes about this today in uh the Wall Street Journal.
Well, uh their opinionjournal.com page, their web opinion page.
Ted Kennedy, the nation's most persistent backer of nationalized health care, must be smiling at the irony.
Almost four decades after he first proposed the idea, Governor Schwarzenegger, a Kennedy relative by marriage, is touting Kennedy's own version of universal coverage, And if adopted, the idea could go nationwide quickly.
It's no wonder critics are already dubbing the ostensibly Republican chief executive Schwartz and Kennedy.
Now I have to disagree here with Mr. Fund on just one small item.
Ted Kennedy, the nation's most persistent backer of nationalized health care, must be smiling at the irony.
There's no irony here.
What do you think the Kennedy family's been doing the last 30 years or however long Warren whatever long it's been in a family, Schwarzenegger's been married to Maria?
How long do you think they've been beating up on the guy, working on him?
No irony here.
There's success.
As far as the Kennedys are concerned, liberals are overjoyed at the about face by governor who in 2005 vetoed a Democrat bill that would have merely expanded the state's coverage of children, saying the $300 million price tag was too high.
Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez praises the governor's new proposal.
This is a plan Assembly Democrats could have written.
Well, we'll see how far it goes given the uh Maryland ruling here, but it seems to chop the central pillar of his plan just right out of it.
Uh the deep freeze that has destroyed some one billion dollars worth of California citrus.
Folks, we have it.
We heard about all of the problems with this regarding uh the price of citrus that's going to go up three to four times, give windfall citrus profits, uh maybe taxes as well on them.
By the way, did you see Apple?
Apple, they don't, by the way, they're Apple Incorporated now.
They dropped computer from their name.
Apple Inc.
First quarter.
Net income seven billion.
Profit one billion.
That in one quarter.
Are we going to get windfall profits or taxes on apple?
Just like we should get it on citrus.
Just a little aside.
But get this, the deep freeze that destroyed some one billion dollars worth of California citrus could also mean months of unemployment for thousands of quote unquote farm workers.
Packers, and truck drivers during what is already a lean season for those who work in agriculture, according to industry officials.
The bad news was already trickling in Wednesday at Harris Farms, 7,000 acre operation, 25 miles east of Fresno.
Yeah, all of my sisters-in-law, my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, just got laid off from the packing sheds at Valentino Mexicano, a ranch hand whose family of five lives in nearby Sanger.
He and other members of the farm's night crew were just getting off a 15-hour shift monitoring miles of orange and lemon trees.
It's bad out there.
People just gonna be looking for little jobs to survive because the bills won't wait.
Okay.
Well, this is really bad because these people are the people who are doing the jobs Americans won't do, right?
And now their jobs are not there because they've been frozen out.
So we apparently we're gonna have a bunch of unemployed illegals.
Will they get unemployment benefits?
They might find a way to make that happen.
All right, it's time to get into a little global warming here, business folks.
And I've been patiently waiting for enough stories to accumulate here so as not to be doing this every day.
But we've seen the ice storms.
It's gonna get Texas is bracing for another one.
There are people dying from ice storms and snowstorms.
We've had snow in Malibu.
Today or tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the first snowfall in South Florida.
It even snowed over in the Bahamas.
It was snowing on Miami Beach.
Thirty years ago.
Do the math if you want to know what year that was.
I don't have time.
A little dusting here.
They've had to close the grapevine on I-10 in the higher elevations.
It's freezing.
The first day the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic was yesterday.
What the temperature was when they teed off?
8:30 in the morning is 27 degrees.
And they had to delay the tee off because of frost on the fairways.
Ice on the fairways.
Now you can talk to me all you want about the warm weather that you've had in the Northeast, but what is it today?
And what's your forecast for the foreseeable future?
If all this gobbledygook of global warming going on out there, and it's just it is continually absurd.
Now we've got Pelosi, intent on putting global warming atop the Democrat agenda, as though it hasn't been, is uh shaking up traditional committee fiefdoms dominated by some of Congress's oldest and most powerful members.
She's moving to create a special committee to recommend legislation for cutting greenhouse gases, most likely to be chaired by Representative Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts Democrat leadership aide said yesterday, and Markey is a wacko.
He's advocated raising mileage standards for trucks and cars and SUVs, one of the biggest critics of oil companies and U.S. automakers, and here they go.
Great piece in the Wall Street Journal as the environmental warming or global warming stack goes on.
We interviewed this guy once, Bjorn Lomborg.
Bjorn Lomborg is an environmental scientist who has been a vocal critic of the whole concept of man-made global warming.
We interviewed him once in a limb letter.
We got to him a little late.
By the time he spoke to us, he was pure pro-global warming.
I had to totally change tack in interview.
I'll never forget it.
But he's back with a piece here in the Wall Street Journal, Will Al Gore Melt.
His piece is basically we knocks a bunch of the science that Gore seems to promote.
He just knocks it to Smithereens and then makes the point that Gore's a coward.
Gore will not appear with any scientist who disagrees with him.
Al Gore traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization.
Due to the threat of global warming, today he's in Denmark to disseminate this message.
But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground.
It should be based on the best facts, not just the convenient ones.
This was the background for the biggest Danish newspaper to set up an investigative interview with Mr. Gore, and for this, the paper thought it would be obvious to team up Bjorn Lomborg, author of the Skeptical Environmentalist, who has provided one of the clearest counterpoints to Mr. Gore's tune.
The interview had been scheduled for months.
Mr. Gore's agent yesterday thought that Gore meets Lomborg would be great.
Yet an hour later he came back to tell us that Bjorn Lomborg should be excluded from the interview because he's been very critical of Mr. Gore's message about global warming and has questioned Mr. Gore's even-handedness.
According to the agent, Mr. Gore only wanted to have questions about his book and documentary and only asked by a reporter.
These conditions were immediately accepted by the newspaper.
Yet an hour later, we received an email from the agent saying that the interview was now canceled.
What happened?
Well, one can only speculate.
But if we are to follow Mr. Gore's suggestions of radically changing our way of life, the costs are not trivial.
We have we need to ask hard questions.
I'm going to we'll post a link to this.
Well, I think it's a subscriber site.
I don't have time to read the whole thing, but uh uh he just Mr. Lomborg and his uh co-author here, Fleming Rose, just do a great job via common sense, not a whole bunch of scientific facts, figures, and stats.
It's common sense, and there's some of that in there.
Just nuking what Gore is out trying to say and pointing out how he is attempting to mislead the gullible.
Uh just give me a couple paragraphs here, one paragraph.
Gore considers Antarctica to be the canary in the mine, but again, doesn't tell the full story.
He presents pictures in his movie from two percent.
From the two percent of Antarctica that is dramatically warming.
He ignores the 98% of Antarctica that is largely cooled over the last 35 years.
The UN panel estimates that Antarctica will actually increase its snow mass this century.
Similarly, Mr. Gore points to shrinking sea ice in the northern hemisphere, but he doesn't mention that sea ice in the southern hemisphere is increasing.
Shouldn't we hear those facts?
Mr. Gore talks about how the higher temperatures of global warming kill people.
He specifically mentions how the European heat wave of 2003 Killed 35,000.
But he entirely leaves out how global warming also means less cold and saves lives.
Moreover, the avoided cold deaths far outweigh the number of heat deaths.
For the UK, it is estimated that 2,000 more will die from global warming, but at the same time, 20,000 fewer will die of cold.
Why does Mr. Gore tell only one side of the story?
He's on a mission.
If he has his way, we can end up choosing a future based on dubious claims that could cost us $153 trillion over this century.
And then the authors say, Mr. Gore, you chickened out on us once.
We'll meet you anywhere to discuss your theories.
Bottom line, Gore will not appear anywhere where there are critics, particularly scientific ones.
Back in just a second.
Has anybody seen Bill Clinton lately?
and Saw the most amazing story.
There's a chimpanzee, female chimpanzee, chimpanzee, the zoo, that is pregnant, but all of the male chimpanzees in this zoo are sterile.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here.
You know what?
Stalinism, ultra-liberalism, has even found its way to the weather channel.
The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of man-made catastrophic global warming.
The latest call to silence skeptics follows a year in which skeptics were compared to Holocaust deniers and Nuremberg style war crimes were advocated by several climate alarmists.
We're talking here about Heidi Cullen, who is the Weather Channel's host of a weekly global warming program called the Climate Code.
And Ms. Cullen is advocating that the American Meteorological Society revoke their seal of approval for any TV weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.
In a December 21 weblog of the Weather Channel website, uh she said if a meteorologist, uh meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give him a seal of approval.
Clearly the AMS doesn't agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns.
Uh she wrote, uh it's also worth taking a look at the comment section at the bottom of her blog, but if you go look at it, it's very interesting.
It's uh climate.weather.com.
Well, that's a long.
This uh this release, by the way, is put out by the uh U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
That is where I got this.
But um she says it's like it's like allowing a meteorologist to go on air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather.
It's not a political statement, it's just an incorrect statement.
Uh note to Ms. Cullen as the climate expert, you should know that hurricanes in the southern hemisphere do rotate clockwise.
So I mean, this is just she's probably some innocent.
I I've never seen her.
I don't I don't watch features on global warming because I don't watch propaganda.
I'm interested in truth.
But here's his way these people should have their certification stripped if they are skeptical of the predictions.
Finally, Prince Charles got a fly to New York.
He's booking the entire first class and business class section of a jumbo jet for his 20 strong entourage.
He's doing this rather than take a private jet, because he wants to have a smaller carbon footprint on pollution.
The problem is the business and first class sections are 63 seats.
He's only going to use 20 of them.
It turns out he well, I'll have to give you the details of this when I have more time.
But this is another example of how these people think they're smartest people in the world are lame brain idiots when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Man, oh man, time's flying here, folks.
Always does, fastest three hours in media.
But sit tight, be patient.
Another hour of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, is right around the corner.
We'll get to it El Quico.
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