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Jan. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Boy, I have to tell you, I am so proud of you people.
You have you have really done a great job.
You have made me so proud the way you responded yesterday to an item to his story on this program.
You did it with class.
You did it with precision, and you did it with the sharpest knife that you had available to you.
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Well, a lot of stuff going on today.
The United Nations finally ripped me off.
They've ripped off the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion idea that I had for women in combat.
They have uh they've actually put together the uh first all female peacekeeping force, one hundred and five Indian police women in uh in New Delhi.
We'll have details coming up.
The uh uh the Clinton campaign, the Hillary Clinton campaign, uh raising questions publicly about the Muslim background of Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, don't be fooled by this.
I I folks, I think I've figured out what this Obama thing is all about.
I mean, this is a pretty good possibility.
I haven't nailed this or etched it in stone, it's a pretty good possibility.
I think what's happening here is that the drive-by media and the Democrats basically the media, the Hillary people as well, are content right now to let Obama be the front runner.
Let him because Hillary, you know, she she she she needs to prove that she can surge.
She needs to prove that she can overcome opposition, that she can overcome adversity.
It's, you know, frontrunners sometimes win, but it's rare.
Uh the first out of the gate in politics, the presumed conventional wisdom winner, seldom ends up that way.
Uh, there are exceptions, but most times not.
If Hillary appears to be shockingly, shockingly out of the shockingly in second or third place.
Whoa, we can't believe this.
Look how bad she's doing in Iowa.
Look how bad she's doing in New Hampshire, and then all of a sudden she surges back.
Then that will make her look like a proven candidate, a big winner.
Uh, and I think that's what the media is doing by building Obama up, is giving her something to overcome.
Uh, I do think that the time this Muslim stuff gets out there, the and whatever they do with the Clinton campaign to take Hillary out, will be made to look like the Republicans did it before it's it's all said and done.
Now, why am I proud of you people?
Yesterday we had the story on this program of somebody I had never heard of until yesterday.
That would be Heidi Cullen, the climate specialist at the Weather Channel.
Heidi Cullen had uh said in either written, posted on her blog or what have you, that uh uh all of these local and cable weather forecasters who have been certified by the AMS, the American Meteorological Association, uh American Media Society, American Media, American Meteorologicists.
And it should be decertified if they refuse to accept the proven science of man-made global warming.
And as I adeptly and accurately pointed out on this program, that's typical of the left and the global warming movement.
If you don't agree with them, you don't count, and you have to shut up.
And she talks about how the science is conclusive on this and it isn't.
There are numerous credible scientists, including William Gray and Patrick Michaels, a number of them, who have not been convinced that this is anything other than sunspot activity or normal cycles that the Earth has gone through for billions and billions and billions and billions of years.
And so science can't prove man-made global warming.
They simply can't.
So they come up with this notion of consensus.
Well, the scientific consensus is there is no consensus in science, Miss Cullen or Ms. Cullen.
Not sure if she's married or not, doesn't matter.
It's irrelevant to this.
There is there can be no consensus in science, Ms. Cullen.
Even if a majority of scientists agree on something, they know that they if they don't agree on it, they're gonna not get their funding anymore.
They won't have jobs.
If if there if it could be proven that there is no man-made global warming, Ms. Cullen might be out of a job.
Anyway, she has responded.
Do I have to explain this?
I'd be happy to explain that people.
How can there not be consensus in science?
Let me let me try this again.
Science is science.
Science is what is.
After discovery test trial, if a consensus of scientists today said that the sun orbits around the earth.
Would we say that they're right simply because there is a consensus?
No, because we know the earth orbits around the sun.
Just as if there were a consensus that the earth is flat, would we agree with them?
No.
So there can't be a consensus on something that hasn't been proved.
This is a political movement.
This whole global warming thing is a political movement.
It is a refuge for displaced socialists and communists who simply want big government and total control or as much control over people as possible.
It's a way to get money, it's a way to get paid via study grants and this kind of thing.
Anyway, you people responded to her post in mass, in droves.
I was reading your posts, your response to her blog today.
It's it's up on the Drudge Report.com if you want to go there.
And I recognize she even admits that she got grief yesterday on a radio show.
She doesn't, of course, mention me.
Uh, but what of the radio show would there have been to generate this kind of response?
She said, I wrote a post recently that has generated some pretty strong reaction.
And I I wanted to take a moment to stop the spin.
I am a scientist and I'm a skeptic.
You can't be a skeptic.
Uh uh, Ms. Cullen, based on your attitudes about this.
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity.
Not conformity to conventional wisdom.
There's no science here.
This is pure politics.
Anyway, your posts.
They were full of logic and reason.
There were no personal attacks.
There were no insults at this bay.
Well, there might have been a few minor ones that didn't come from you people.
Uh but I mean, you sliced and dice this, babe.
Um this one woman says, when I get my graduate degree, it is going to be my objective to disprove this political notion of man-made global warming.
So you can go read that.
She has responded on her blog with a written statement and also an audio post on her blog, and we have it.
And I'd like you to listen to it.
This is Dr. Heidi Cullen, climate expert, the Weather Channel.
Scientists have learned something very important about our planet.
It's warming up.
Glaciers are melting, sea level is rising, and the weather is changing.
And the primary explanation for this warming is the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels.
With that knowledge comes responsibility.
Here at the Weather Channel, we have accepted that responsibility and see it as our job to give you the facts on global warming.
Many of you have accused me and the Weather Channel of taking a political position on global warming.
That is not our intention.
Our goal at the Weather Channel has Always been to keep people out of harm's way, whether it's a landfalling hurricane or global warming.
You know the sad thing about this.
I love the weather channel.
They've turned it now into a political cable channel with with with this mess.
Uh many of uh you have accused me in the Weather Channel of taking a political position on global warming.
It's not our intention.
Who cares about your intentions?
The result is that you have.
The reality is you've taken a political position because this is a political issue.
It has not been settled by science.
Our goal at the Weather Channel has always been to keep people out of harm's way.
How are you going to keep them out of harm's way of global warming?
There's nothing we can do about it.
That's the big little secret.
There's nothing we can do about it.
And even some of these global warming scientists have been saying for 20 years it's too late, it's too late.
And who's to say if it is warming, man-made or not, that it's all bad?
There's so many assumptions here, presumptions that are just shoddy.
Uh, yeah, we uh the sea level might be rising uh where glaciers might be melting.
Yeah, the glaciers in the northern hemisphere might be melting a little bit, but they're growing in Antarctica.
How can this possibly be?
Global warming is global warming.
And if you've got expanding ice flows and glaciers in Antarctica, conveniently ignored by Engore, how in the world can I mean this is just absurd.
Everybody's talking about this mild winter.
Do you know the winter of 1931 and 32 was far milder than the one we've just had?
Uh here's the interesting about this.
This is the woman who's now oh, no, no, no, no, I don't I uh we just we're just trying to keep our people out of harm's way.
This is the woman who yesterday or the day before wanted to decertify American Meteorical Society members who didn't mark the tune that they wanted to be marked, that didn't fall into line and didn't start marching in lockstep with the political left on global warming.
Any weather forecaster who dares publicly to question the notion that global warming is man-made should be stripped of their professional certification, is what she said yesterday.
Because by doubting, see, her theory is if we, any of us who doubt what she thinks is settled science, we're being political.
But if you agree with Dr. Cullen, then you're being scientific.
And this is the arrogance and the conceit with which the left sets themselves up.
Their position is automatically based on virtuous characteristics, and their opponents are nothing but a bunch of mealy-mouthed politicos.
Uh this story gets even better, however, ladies and gentlemen.
I got a story here from a a uh uh a weather forecaster at an ABC station in Alabama who says, well, well, some climate expert on the weather channel wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent global warming's a natural process.
So much for tolerance, huh?
I've been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country.
Our big job is to look at a large volume of raw data, come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days.
I don't know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype.
I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.
Here are the basic facts that you need to know.
Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon.
No man-made global warming, the money dries up.
This is big money, make no mistake about it.
Always follow the money trail, it tells a story.
Even the lady at the Weather Channel probably gets paid good money for a primetime show on climate change.
No man-made global warming, no show, no salary.
Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem for many.
Global warming is a big cash grab.
The climate of this planet's been changing since God put the planet here.
It'll always change, and the warming in the last ten years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 30s and other decades.
And let's not forget, we're at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.
The great perspective here is she wants to strip certification from TV weather forecasters whose job is to tell you what the weather's gonna be the next seven days, not the next one hundred years.
And because they don't agree with some political conclusion of global warming, she wants them stripped.
And then claims that she was not doing anything of the sort.
She was no, she didn't.
She's not trying to silence me.
She's she wants more debate, she says after the initial statement.
Well, a PS the resistance to this comes next.
Nancy Pelosi has stepped in it again.
We'll be back in just a second.
Global warming people ignore nature.
They ignore water vapor.
They ignore sunspot cycles and sun activity.
It's typical liberal guilt and politics wanting to blame Western societies and lifestyles for causing all these problems.
Uh, because it it leads to government and United Nations solutions, and that's where liberals like power vested.
Uh and of course, when people come along and don't agree, they gotta be shut up.
This Heidi Cullen is not the first to suggest that people that don't march in lockstep be shut up, silenced, or discredited.
Somebody else out there, forget who started calling them uh deniers.
Global warming deniers, as in Holocaust deniers.
He ended up having to apologize for the outrageous attempt at uh stifling free speech that he was some I forget where he's from Canada or Norway or some such thing.
But Nancy Pelosi, yesterday when the temperature was 37 in San Francisco, 36 in Santa Barbara in the 30s all over the country, announces the formation of a new global warming panel, and she has stepped in it because her committee chairman, some of them are not happy with this, led by John Dingle, who normally his committee oversees this kind of thing.
Let's let's take a look at Pelosi's checklist because they're all happy.
They have uh she's all happy.
They've they finished their hundred-hour project in 42 hours.
They rammed legislation through the House, got that done.
Made it easier to raise taxes, got that done.
They've irritated some Senate Democrats.
Pelosi's done that.
Um, and uh she's also ticked off her own House Committee chairman.
Now she's picked to fight with the Dean of the House, John Dingle.
Now she forms this committee, and Ed Markey is going to be the chairman of this committee.
He's from uh he's from Massachusetts.
Dingle said we should probably name it the Committee on World Travel and Junkets.
Dingle is a uh chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees the Clean Air Act and the EPA, and he's miffed that a new committee is being formed.
Uh that he has no purview over.
Uh and so he's he's dishing right back at Pelosi.
Let's name it the Committee on World Travel and Junkets.
And by the way, let's start calculating the carbon footprint of these clowns on this committee.
Dingle further said, we're just empowering a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs to go around and make speeches and make commitments that'll be very difficult to honor.
They're gonna get under the feet of and interfere with those who are trying to do a decent job of legislating.
I'm unaware of anything they will do that will be of any value.
This is John Dingle ripping in to Nancy Pelosi.
You know, she's mad at Harry Reid because the Senate's stifling their legislation and gumming up the works on the uh minimum wage bill.
They're really upset in the House, which I predicted.
I said to you, the real bet that you want to make is how long is it gonna take before Reed and Pelosi stop speaking to one another.
The Boston Globe on this uh uh story about Markey being the chairman of this new committee, and it's all about how he's caught in the middle of all of this.
Uh they quote Dingle, uh Dingle had announced hearings on global warming before Pelosi moved to create this new committee.
Environmentalists regard Dingle with deep skepticism because of his ties to the auto industry.
His wife Debbie is a lobbyist for General Motors.
So Pelosi, probably responding to leftist fears that uh Dingle wouldn't be hard enough on this, uh, has gone over his head and puts her in direct conflict with committee chairman.
Ways and means committee chairman Charles Wrangle has express uh expressed skepticism about Pelosi's idea, but said he's not decided whether uh to support it.
Now, they also went and talked to Barney Frank about this, and he said, I don't understand what their problem is.
There's a mistaken view that, quote, this is my turf, he's talking about Dingle.
Uh, we're talking about public policy here.
We're in this together.
Yeah, well, Barney, you've got your turf.
Easy for you to let's listen to Barney Barney's turf, shall we?
Yes, the gentleman may state the inquiry.
So the chair is saying that I may not offer an amendment exempting American Samoa.
The gentleman's legislation.
She gave speech and will suspend.
The chair is not saying anything.
The chair will let me finish my question.
The gentleman will suspend.
The chair has answered the gentleman's question.
The gentleman will state the point of order.
How many times did I just do that?
No, no, the gentleman.
The gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
Chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempt from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding.
The gentleman will not make speeches in the guys of a parliament inquiry.
No, the gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen, the gentleman could take it was out of order in the hand.
The gentleman will not be spon.
Well, the chair is presiding.
That's Barney Frank on his own turf.
I love Drudge Page here.
Pelosi announces global warming panel.
That headline is under a picture of a frozen orange with five-inch long icy.
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Couple more sound bites in right to the phones.
This is Nancy Pelosi.
It was 37 degrees in San Francisco.
It was 36 in Santa Barbara, 43 in San Diego, 37 in Houston.
And Nancy Pelosi announced that her new committee on global warming will save the planet in ten years.
Remember back in 1988, Ted Danson said we only had 10 years to save the oceans.
And if we bombed out, then we're finished.
By the way, Ms. Cullen, I just before we play the Pelosi sound, I just want to say 1984, 85, Sacramento, California.
I was working there, watching this week with David Brinkley in the first ever Sunday morning show on global warming that I saw, not that ever existed, but I saw.
And it was some clown from some, you know, hoity-toity elitist group named Alan Oppenheim, I believe is his name.
He said, Mr. Brinkley, we don't have time to wait.
We can't conclusively prove it's happening, man-made global warming, but we don't have time to wait.
We've got to proceed as though it is.
We only have 20 years.
If we don't get this solved and start reversing what we're doing in 20 years, then it's irreversible.
We won't be able to stop anything.
Well, that was 84 years.
It's been 22 years.
And depending on where you read, the global warming political community, and believe me, it is all politics, it is not science.
And these people are out there, the man-made aspect of it.
And these people are as disparate in their opinions.
There are people out there saying, it's too late.
We can't fix it.
There's nothing we can do.
My question is if there's nothing we can do, how could we have caused it?
Simple common sense.
If there's nothing we can do to stop it, then how in the world could we be responsible for it?
But anyway, they're still saying the same thing.
We don't have time to wait.
We can't wait for the evidence.
We have to proceed now.
The risks are too severe.
Anyway, here's Miss America.
Today I am announcing the creation of a select committee on energy independence and global warming.
Its purpose will be to communicate with the American people on this important issue.
I promise to do everything in my power to achieve energy independence and to do so within ten years and to stop global warming.
It says to the American people that we are about the future of outdressing how we create jobs, how we care for our children, how we grow our economy, and how we preserve our planet.
I'll say the economy is uh undergoing its biggest growth threat right now with these people in charge.
The economy is doing fabulous.
And it has been for a while.
You know why it's not a story anymore?
It's because we are so affluent, we expect a good economy.
That little recession, we get mad.
Do something about it.
Somebody fix it.
Do it now.
Good economy, no longer a big political asset.
We expect it.
And yet, listen to her.
We've got soup line America still out there.
She's going to achieve energy independence in ten years.
These are the people who will not let us drill for oil anywhere near our border Or on our land.
How are we going to do this, madam?
Uh, and stop global war.
Stop global warming.
The arrogance, the conceit.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna find a way to make the Earth stop rotating on its axis.
You're gonna put out the sun?
What are you going to do?
Anyway, as I told you, Dingle criticized her, said this is this is just uh uh something that's gonna relieve to junkets and all kinds of things.
They're not gonna get anything done.
Good morning, America today.
Diane Sawyer was uh interviewing Pelosi, quoting Dingle as saying, we need more committees like a fish needs feathers.
There already went five committees dealing with this.
Pelosi's response.
And they were all continue to deal with it.
This is a new way.
We're democratizing Congress.
Uh, really, we're democratizing Congress.
Let's see.
What do we have here?
We had there every one of her six issues in the 42 hours instead of 100.
They really rammed it through.
Um there was no bipartisan input on new Democratic Congress.
New what new we're democratizing Congress.
They told the Republicans to go to hell.
I, by the way, I would do that too if I were the Republicans and I were in the majority.
But I mean, don't sit there and tell us that you're bipartisanshipping everything and you're democratizing, madam, when you're not.
All these issues, except the minimum wage that you've rammed through there are flawed and unfounded and denounced as dead in the Senate.
So uh this is a big nothing.
She's democratizing.
So this is this who's running the place, folks.
We couldn't have asked for anything more, believe me.
Here is a Lance El Paso, Texas.
You're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Mr. Limbaugh, how are you?
Just fine, sir.
I've listened to you since September 11th, and I've found that I almost always agree with you.
I'd say I only disagree with you about 1.5% of the time, coincidentally enough.
But the reason I'm calling today, sir, is I wanted to get your thoughts regarding what Ladini and Tomlinson had to say about Bill Belichick this past week.
Uh okay.
I'm going to take your uh call.
I'm going to use this to expand uh the answer to incorporate all of the National Football League, if you don't mind.
Not at all.
Uh to set the table for people who do not know, after the Chargers and Patriots game, the Chargers sitting around moping all depressed, because they had the game.
Well, it was just it was that it was just all kinds of stupid mistakes.
And I found it I found it fascinating.
What we let me tell you what happened.
The Patriots, some of the Patriots, went to midfield where the Chargers logo is and started doing an imitation of a victory dance done by Chargers player Sean Merriman after he sacks a quarterback.
Now here are the Chargers who have lost a game they should have won, who lost a game precisely because of the same kind of behavior they're ripping the Patriots for.
And Ledanian Tomlinson says that was classless.
We went in there, we beat them twice on their field, and we didn't disrespect them.
This obviously comes from the head coach, meaning Belichick.
No, Ladanian Tomlinson Tomlinson was accusing Belichick of ordering his players and creating a culture that would make it okay for players to go on the field and taunt and so forth and so on.
Now Ladanian Tomlinson, to me, is the classiest player in the National Football League.
He doesn't do a dance, he doesn't spike the ball when he scores.
He doesn't, and he and Marvin Harrison are the two most classy individuals playing in the National Football League in its skill positions.
They just hand the ball back to the referee.
They act like they've been there and done that, like scoring a touchdown is nobody.
They don't taunt.
They don't act like they've been dissed or any of this.
Well, let me tell you the Chargers would not have lost that game were it not for a bunch of.
I gotta be very careful here.
It's not just irresponsible, but there's a cultural problem in the NFL that has resulted in a total lack of class on the part of professional players.
And there was a play uh uh where the Brady was third and long.
He uh was sacked, fumbled the ball, the Patriots recovered it.
It would be fourth and long, forcing an interesting decision late in the game by the Patriots.
And after the play is over, a Chargers player gets in the face of a Patriots player, headbuts him and starts jawing.
Uh this is the kind this is a reason these guys are getting shot in bars, folks.
Late at night.
Fifteen-yard penalty, automatic first down.
So for the Chargers to complain about the lack of class by the Patriots, I found laughable.
And I think something ought to be done about it, because I I love the game of football.
And I don't like the kind of culture that's taking over.
That you can't diss me, you can't disrespect me.
After every sack, players are acting like they've won the Super Bowl, and they're calling it, they're prancing around with these idiotic dances.
They've got this the latest thing is to act like they're making a jump shot in basketball.
And it's all done to taunt.
It's all done to taunt the other team's fans.
I don't want boring football.
I don't want the no fun league.
But you can certainly have great football games without a lack of class.
And I don't know how it's been allowed to happen this way.
I guess the coaches don't feel confident to continue.
This was very rare for the Patriots to act the way they did.
And I, you know, who knows what led to it?
I don't, I don't know.
I don't think of Belichick as that kind of coach, but Tomlinson's words reverberated around the lead.
A lot of people say, I'm glad he said something, because Belichick's getting away here with an image that he doesn't deserve.
I don't I've played golf with Belichick, he's one of the mild-mannered, soft spoken.
So I'm at a cocktail party here in Palm Beach for dinner one night, and he was that whole organization to me exudes class, as does Tom Brady, and they don't, you know, they don't, they don't have, you know, you don't see them doing this kind of stuff.
I mean, one of the reasons the Pittsburgh Steelers had trouble this year with a total lack of discipline.
In addition to all their turnovers, total lack of discipline, 15-yard penalties, unnecessary roughness, taunting after plays are over, after successful defensive stands, they blow it.
And there's there's something culturally wrong here that is uh leading to all this.
And it's it's got to be dealt with at the top because it simply is classless.
Uh and I can understand Ladanian Tomlinson being upset because he doesn't do this kind of stuff, uh, end in the sea.
But in the current NFL climate, the best way for the Chargers to prevent that from happening is win the game and keep this insidious, ridiculous, boorish, classless behavior to a minimum so that you don't lose it on account of that.
Uh it's just to me, it's it's disappointing, and it's a mystery to me why it's being allowed to continu.
Well, actually, I understand partially why it continues, and that's because of ESPN.
ESPN lives off this gun.
ESPN created Terrell Owens.
I don't care.
Terrell Owens is who he is.
But if Terrell Owens weren't constantly on television with the with his antics after touchdowns, I remember.
I called this.
You remember the Monday night game on ABC in Seattle when after scoring a touchdown, T.O. playing for the Forturners, pulls a Sharpie out of his sock, autographs the ball, and gives it somebody.
And I said, folks, this is going to lead to nothing but trouble.
And everybody, come on, Rush, lighten up.
That was funny.
It was classless.
Go back and look at the greats who played this game that would not do anything of the sort.
Maybe hand the ball off, but not sign a pull of Sharpie out, call a when everybody started to talk about how much fun that was.
Oh, how cool, how creative.
Then we got Joe Horn of the United States Saints after he scored a touchdown, pulling a cell phone out of his socks, and Faye making a phone call.
Well, guess what shows up on ESPN?
So these guys get validated.
Everybody wants to stand out.
They want to get endorsement deals and so forth.
So television making stars out of people who engage in classless behavior helps lead to it and contribute to it.
No, no question in my mind about it.
I'll bet the guy that called from El Paso did not expect this as an answer.
We'll be back, Stephen.
Really?
Too bad you lost that guy.
Well, you gotta be careful when he's sell calls.
I can't understand half of these cell phone calls anyway.
Apparently, we had a cell phone call.
A guy was there wanted to react to my comment about the NFL being classless with some of this behavior that it's just it's unnecessary, and I tell you, it's it's gonna keep getting worse.
So this guy's calling, so you they're not obnoxious.
You're the one that's obnoxious.
You're selling club Gitmo gear in the middle of war on terror, in the middle of torture and so forth.
You're the guy out there profiteering by selling club Gitmo gear.
Is that what the basic point?
I'm I'm classless and obnoxious.
I love those compliments from the left.
I had a question.
We've all seen this story.
Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a madrasa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?
This is the question Senator Hillary Rodham Rodhamskamp is asking about Senator Barack Obama.
This is an Insight magazine.
An investigation of Obama by political opponents within the Democratic Party has discovered that he was raised as a Muslim by his stepfather in Indonesia.
Sources close to the background check, which haven't been released yet, say that Obama spent at least four years in a so-called madrasa or Muslim seminary in Indonesia.
He was a Muslim.
But he concealed it.
His opponents within the Democrat Party hope this will become a major issue in the campaign.
This is leaking out of there.
It's been out there for quite a while.
And now the insight says that Hillary's team is doing some of the opposition research trying to find out about this.
My question is this: Does anybody know whether Obama ever kissed the wife of Yasser Arafat like Hillary did?
If we're looking here to Muslim ties, you know, she's not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow on all this.
And another see, I told you so.
You know, folks, I'm right so often it's not as big a thrill as it used to be, but there's still those exceptions.
Headline, New York Times, Mexico City.
Cost of corn soars, forcing Mexico to set price limits.
Facing public outrage over the soaring price of tortillas.
President Felipe Calderon abandoned his free trade principles yesterday and forced producers to sign an agreement fixing prices for corn products, skyrocketing prices for corn on the world market, have pushed up the price of the lowly tortilla, the mainstay of the Mexican diet by nearly a third in the past three weeks, to 35 cents a pound in Mexico City, even higher.
In other parts of the country, half the country's 107 million people live on four dollars a day or less.
Many of them survive totally or largely on tortillas and beans.
Even members of Mr. Calderon's own conservative party have called on him this week to do something.
Investigate big corn.
Well, this is ethanol, folks.
It's exact predicted there would be riots in the Southern Hemisphere over the rising pice of corn.
And low it was just two weeks ago I said this.
And and of course, the liberals, the left who want these alternative fuels because we're polluting the planet, we're destroying the planet, we're robbing the world of its precious resources because of our selfishness.
We are stealing the resources of the rest of the world, and you know what we're doing.
We're using it for our own selfish reasons, destroying the planet.
Now look what we're doing.
The do-gooders, the militant environmentalist movement demanding, and there's some others too, demanding cleaner fuels, pushing this ethanol business, which is causing the price of corn, which is a staple in many poor countries to become unaffordable.
That's equivalent to bread becoming unaffordable here.
And of course, they should just shut up.
Don't they know we are helping save the planet from global warming?
Lakewood, California, and Jeff, welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, former pointy-headed liberal.
Now nothing but dittoes remain, thanks to you.
Um, thanks to global warming, I'm uh in Southern California chilling among millions of dollars in frozen citrus.
And and uh seriously, I I wanted to know what your what the true scoop is, what your take is on the potential pardon for the border patrol agents.
Well, I know that uh earlier this week it looked impossible, looked dead, looked like it wasn't gonna happen, but now the White House is considering it.
Uh it's a microcosm for the lack of understanding that people have uh at the highest levels of this country, uh, just how irritated people are by whole concept of illegal immigration as I understand it.
These two border agents shot a drug dealer who was retreating, who was running away.
I mean, shot him in a buttocks.
Uh, and were disciplined in 11 and 12 years uh jail terms that they started serving uh later this week.
And uh people who don't know the full details of the case say, well, what the hell are we doing here?
I mean, for crying out loud.
What with the the border patrol agents charged with keeping the border safe and then ensuring the law are going to jail and they throw their hands up in frustration.
Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the bloods and the Crips without any weapons.
There, I said it.
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