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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 really done a great job.
You have made me so proud the way you responded yesterday to an item to a 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, I had 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've actually put together the first all-female peacekeeping force, 105 Indian police women, in New Delhi.
We'll have details coming up.
The Clinton campaign, the Hillary Clinton campaign, raising questions publicly about the Muslim background of Barack Hussein Obama.
Now, don't be fooled by this.
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 Democrat, basically the media, the Hillary people as well, are content right now to let Obama be the frontrunner.
Let him, because Hillary, you know, she needs to prove that she can surge.
She needs to prove that she can overcome opposition, that she can overcome adversity.
Frontrunners sometimes win, but it's rare.
The first out of the gate in politics, the presumed conventional wisdom winner, seldom ends up that way.
There are exceptions, but most time not.
If Hillary appears to be shockingly, shockingly out of the race, 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.
And I think that's what the media is doing by building Obama up is giving her something to overcome.
I do think that by the time this Muslim stuff gets out there, and whatever they do at the Clinton campaign to take Hillary out will be made to look like the Republicans did it before 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 said, and either written, posted on her blog or what have you, that all of these local and cable weather forecasters who have been certified by the AMS,
the American Meteorological Association, American Media Society, American Meteorological Society, 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.
There is no consensus in science, Ms. Cullen, or Ms. Cullen.
Not sure if she's married or not.
Doesn't matter.
It's irrelevant to this.
There can be no consensus in science, Ms. Cullen.
Even if a majority of scientists agree on something, they know that if they don't agree on it, they're going to not get their funding anymore.
They won't have jobs.
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 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 up on thedrudgereport.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, but what other 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 wanted to take a moment to stop the spin.
I am a scientist and I'm a skeptic.
You can't be a skeptic, 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 base.
Well, there might have been a few minor ones that didn't come from you people.
But I mean, you sliced and diced this, babe.
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 this mess.
Many of you have accused me and 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.
Yeah, the sea level might be rising 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 Enelgore, how in the world could, 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?
Here's the interesting thing about this.
This is the woman who's now going, oh, no, 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 Meteorological 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.
This story gets even better, however, ladies and gentlemen.
I got a story here from 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 warmings and 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 the 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 10 years is not much different 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 is going to be the next seven days, not the next 100 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.
No, she didn't.
She's not trying to silence me.
She wants more debate, she says, after the initial statement.
Well, the piece de resistance to this comes next.
Nancy Pelosi has stepped in it again.
We'll be back in just a second.
These 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 because it leads to government and United Nations solutions, and that's where liberals like power vested.
And of course, when people come along and don't agree, they got to 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 deniers, global warming deniers, as in Holocaust deniers.
He ended up having to apologize for the outrageous attempt at stifling free speech.
And he was some, 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 Dingell, who normally, his committee, oversees this kind of thing.
Let's take a look at Pelosi's checklist because they're all happy.
They have, she's all happy.
They finished their 100-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.
And she's also ticked off her own House committee chairman.
Now she's picked a fight with the Dean of the House, John Dingell.
Now, she forms this committee, and Ed Markey is going to be the chairman of this committee.
He's from Massachusetts.
Dingell said we should probably name it the Committee on World Travel and Junkets.
Dingell is a 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 that he has no purview over.
And so 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.
Dingell further said, we're just empowering a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs to go around and make speeches and make commitments that will be very difficult to honor.
They're going to 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 Dingell 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 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 going to take before Reed and Pelosi stop speaking to one another.
The Boston Globe on this story about Marky being the chairman of this new committee, and it's all about how he's caught in the middle of all of this.
They quote Dingell.
Dingell had announced hearings on global warming before Pelosi moved to create this new committee.
Environmentalists regard Dingell 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 Dingell wouldn't be hard enough on this, has gone over his head and puts her in direct conflict with committee chairman.
Ways and means committee chairman Charles Wrangell has expressed skepticism about Pelosi's idea, but said he's not decided whether to support it.
Now, I 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 Dingell.
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'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 is making a 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 suspend?
The gentleman, how many times could not conceivably be a point of order?
The chair will not answer my question.
The gentleman will not interrupt.
Is exempted from this legislation.
Well, the chair is presiding.
The gentleman will not make speeches in the guise of a parliament inquiry.
Comments.
The gentleman will suspend.
Gentlemen from the point of order.
The gentleman from Texas.
The gentleman will not respond.
Well, the chair is presiding.
Pew, pew, pew.
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 icicles.
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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 10 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, 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 there was some clown from some, you know, hoify-toy elitist group named Alan Oppenheim, I believe was 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.
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, 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 10 years and to stop global warming.
It says to the American people that we are about the future, about dressing how we create jobs, how we care for our children, how we grow our economy, and how we preserve our planet.
I'll tell you, the economy is 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.
A 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 10 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?
And stop global warming.
Stop global warming.
The arrogance, the conceit.
What are you going to do?
You're going to find a way to make the earth stop rotating on its axis?
You're going to put out the sun?
What are you going to do?
Anyway, as I told you, Dingle criticized her, said, this is just something that's going to relate to junkets and all kinds of things.
They're not going to get anything done.
Good morning, America.
Today, Diane Sawyer was interviewing Pelosi, quoting Dingle as saying, we need more committees like a fish needs feathers.
There are already what, five committees dealing with this.
Pelosi's response.
And they all continue to deal with it.
This is a new way.
We're democratizing Congress.
Really?
We're democratizing Congress.
Let's see what do we have here.
We had every one of her six issues in the 42 hours instead of 100.
They really rammed it through.
There was no bipartisan input on new Democratic Congress.
We're democratizing Congress.
He told the Republicans to go to hell.
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 bipartisanshiping everything and you're democratizing, madam, when you're not.
All these issues, except the minimum wages you've rammed through there, are flawed and unfounded and denounced as dead in the Senate.
So this is a big nothing.
She's democratizing Senator.
So this is 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. Lindbaugh, how are you?
Just fine, sir.
I've listened to you since September 11th, and I 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 Ladanian Tomlinson had to say about Bill Belichick this past week.
Okay, I'm going to take your call.
I'm going to use this to expand the answer to incorporate all of the National Football League, if you don't mind.
Not at all.
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.
It was just all kinds of stupid mistakes.
And I found it fascinating.
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 Ladanian 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.
Now, Ladanian 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 and Marvin Harrison are the two most classy individuals playing in the National Football League that they 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 no bigger.
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 got to 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 where Brady was third and long.
He was sacked, fumbled a 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, head-butts him, and starts jawing.
This is the reason these guys are getting shot in bars, folks, late at night.
15-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 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 who knows what led to it?
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, I'm glad he said something because Belichick's getting away here with an image that he doesn't deserve.
I don't played golf with Belichick.
He was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken.
I didn't even saw him at a cocktail party here in Palm Beach for dinner one night, and he was just that whole organization to me exudes class, as does Tom Brady.
And they don't, you know, they don't, they don't, 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 something culturally wrong here that is leading to all this.
And it's got to be dealt with at the top because it simply is classless.
And I can understand Laudanian Tomlinson being upset because he doesn't do this kind of stuff.
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, borish, classless behavior to a minimum so that you don't lose it on account of that.
It's just, to me, it's disappointing, and it's a mystery to me why it's being allowed to continue.
Well, actually, I understand partially why it continues, and that's because of ESPN.
ESPN lives off this gut.
ESPN created Terrell Owens.
I don't care.
Terrell Owens is who he is.
But if Terrell Owens weren't constantly on television 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 Fortiners pulls a Sharpie out of his sock, autographs the ball, and gives it to 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 up, pull a Sharpie out, call it.
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 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.
Stay with me.
Really?
Too bad you lost that guy.
Well, you got to be careful when he sell calls.
I can't understand half of these cell phone calls anyway.
Apparently, we had a cell phone call.
Guys, there wanted to react to my comment about the NFL being classless with some of this behavior.
It's just unnecessary.
And I tell you, it's going to keep getting worse.
This guy's calling and said, you're the one that's obnoxious.
You're selling club getmo 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 getmo gear.
Is that what the basic point?
I'm classless and obnoxious.
I love those compliments from the left.
I have 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, a Muslim seminary in Indonesia.
He was a Muslim.
But he concealed it.
His opponents within the Democratic Party hope this will become a major issue in the campaign.
This is leaking out up there.
It's been out there for quite a while.
And now 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?
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 sea, 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 $4 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 exactly predicted there would be riots in the southern hemisphere over the rising price of corn.
And it was just two weeks ago I said this.
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 and 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 dittos remain, thanks to you.
You know, thanks to global warming, I'm in Southern California chilling among millions of dollars in frozen citrus.
And seriously, I wanted to know what the true scoop is, what your take is on the potential pardon for the Border Patrol agents.
Well, I know that earlier this week, it looked impossible.
Looked dead.
Looked like it wasn't going to happen.
But now the White House is considering it.
It's a microcosm for the lack of understanding that people have at the highest levels of this country, just how irritated people are by the 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 the buttocks.
And were disciplined in 11 and 12 years jail terms that they started serving later this week.
And 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.
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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