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Jan. 24, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, welcome back.
I'm I've just been a little late here pouring through the audio soundbite roster, seeing where I want to go next.
As uh we got twenty-five of them today.
Let's look at uh Bush, we got uh Webb, we got Hillary, we got Obama.
Uh you know, let's 21 and 22.
I haven't heard from the Brecht girl in a long time.
So we'll start with the Breck girl John Edwards.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882.
Well, the uh Sturdley tells me that uh the phone calls uh we can't put up nearly as many as we get every day.
First, I asked him, you know, because we've been getting a spate over the last couple of three days of uh liberal phone calls, liberal seminar callers.
Well, actually these haven't been seminar.
The seminars try to disguise who they are.
Uh these have been flat out pedal-to-metal liberals.
And uh began to think about this.
Uh told Snerdley today, I think it's they've got a theory going on here about what might be happening.
You know the fairness doctrine is out there, and the libs are trying to get it reintroduced.
Uh Maurice Henshey, uh Dennis Kucinich, uh any any number of them are trying to get the fairness doctrine reinstituted, which uh the long and short of it is would basically end conservative talk radio.
Uh uh for a host of reasons, which we've discussed on previous occasions.
And the theory that I think is going I think the liberals are calling this show and a number of other conservative shows for the express purpose of either being interrupted, not being allowed to speak, yeah, come out with these outrageous, weird, insulting things that that that give a host no choice.
You've got to move on.
Or you have to deal with these people in a in a in a substantive way.
But regardless, they will then take in notes on all this, maybe even recording it, and they will either send the recordings or a report and in a complaint to their congressman.
Well, I don't know.
I try to call a Rush Limbaugh show and I get hung up on, I was disconnected, I was yelled at and screamed at after only thirty seconds, I couldn't explain what I wanted to be.
I think there's an ongoing campaign out there on the part of uh of the left to try to build this notion that they can document and send off to the FCC and other places that uh they just don't get a fair shake on conservative talk radio.
We will deal with that accordingly.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if I am right about this.
Second thing about the fairness doctrine uh itself.
Uh it it's Selwyn Duke, uh, whose work we've been quoting uh recently here and somewhat frequently as a piece at the AmericanThinker.com, which is interesting perspective on this.
Uh as I have pointed out constantly, we on Talk Radio are open and shut.
You know who we are, you know what we believe.
We make no bones about it.
There's there's no attempt to deceive uh when it when it comes to the expression of opinion or any of this.
Uh and as such, there's no there's no reason for the fairness doctrine to be implemented.
His point is that the real deceit in media today is the drive-by media.
The real deceit is found in major media, what's what he calls the shill media.
They constantly shilling for liberals and democrats, but they don't admit it, and they hide behind all kinds of subtlety.
Uh and if there's anything that needs to be balanced within its own confines, it's the drive-by media.
As I've said, this show is equal time.
This program is balanced to all the other lib media drive-by or whatever that uh that is out there.
I still think this is not going to go any place, but but they're not going to give up on it.
If they win the White House in 08, they probably will make a a uh a serious serious push for it.
But it's it's going to boil down the American people.
Would they just put up with it and say, Okay, well, if fairness doctrine, fairness doctrine, and not argue about it.
That's what's changed.
Uh the so-called new media talk radio, the blogs and all that.
They've got a uh sizable percentage of the American people that uh routinely listen, watch, and read, uh, and they're not just gonna sit idly by.
But anyway, I I do think I just wanted to share with you, that's my theory why they're spate of liberal calls, and of course, not all, but many of these liberals have been purposely provocative for the express purpose of having their time limited.
Uh And I think that's being done on purpose anyway.
So the best way, I've always found the best way with liberals, the best way with journalists to uh to alter their behavior to the extent that it can be done is just challenge them.
Now, this is what you're doing.
I know your trick.
I know what your purpose is.
I mean, I've I've uh you know I've gone through a learning curve from being interviewed by the media.
I used to be naive and think they were actually interested in truth and this sorts of things, and what I said to them was actually something interesting to them, and then simply because I said it they would put it in since they'd ask to talk to me.
Uh uh on the contrary, most of the stories are written in advance.
The call is simply perfunctory to get some quotes that can be massaged or taken out of context.
And since that's happened, since I've learned this, and this is, you know, twenty years ago.
Uh when I suspect, which is mostly all the time, that there's a hit piece involved, and I'm participating, I just tell them up front, I know what you're doing.
I know how you're going to go about doing it.
I'm going to answer my questions accordingly.
Oh, I am not how dare you.
They can't stand for me to be right about such things.
And so the times I've employed that there has been a reduction in the uh oh, the the intensity of the hit piece has still been a hit piece, but nevertheless, if you hear a lot of and I know I'm mentioning this because some of you people get upset when uh we take liberal phone calls.
I happen to like it.
I asked Snerdly, are we getting any of it?
No.
We haven't had one well, we had one, but the guy hung up after he insulted Snerdley.
And he just insulted Snurley and then hung up.
And he's probably going to say that uh the screener wouldn't let him on the program or what have you.
I mean, I'm sure this is part of an organized campaign out there uh designed to provide impetus uh behind the uh the whole reenactment re-implementation of the fairness doctrine.
At any rate, the brick girl.
Last night on CNN with Anderson Cooper, the um the uh Paris Hilton of News.
Cooper said, You started off your presidential campaign just a few months ago in New Orleans.
Were you surprised that this president did not mention New Orleans or the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast?
Really surprised, Anderson, when he was identifying a whole uh group of American heroes who were in the gallery.
And I sort of got this sense inside of what Americans, I think, want, which is a sense of decency and goodness and their people and their president.
And I thought back to a year ago when the president said, We're committed to New Orleans, we won't desert you, we'll stay with you until the problems are solved, and and they're not.
And I was I was very surprised to hear the president not focus on that tonight.
Yeah, so the global warming environmentalist wacko crowd was also let down.
They were expecting a uh a big Maya culpa from Bush, and they didn't get what they wanted.
Uh Edward's just trying to focus attention on where he announced his campaign.
He announced in New Orleans, and uh Kathleen Blanco, the governor of uh Louisiana, is also claiming uh that Bush he doesn't care anymore, and he never did care.
He didn't mention us in the State of the Union last night.
Uh what is there, six hundred million dollars for New Orleans that's just sitting around washing it hadn't been claimed yet by the mayor?
School bus Nagan.
Six hundred million dollars.
What's your source for that?
Where did you read this?
It AP story or something?
Uh it's six hundred million dollars, they haven't even claimed it yet.
School bus Nagan hasn't.
You know, the real question is, is it still there?
Because William Jefferson, Congressman Democrat Louisiana, uh, is still on the loose.
Uh he might portion of it might be in his freezer.
Edwards, by the way, uh reacted to President Bush's health care proposals by saying that the President's proposal offers much more help to a family making $300,000 than to one making $30,000.
The time for patching up our health care system is ended.
We need universal health care in this country, and we need it now.
Universal health cupboards.
So the program that's basically been Designed by Democrats, a whole HMO system set up by Ted Kennedy has now been pronounced an utter failure.
The Clintons made it their objective to fix it in the 90s.
They didn't.
Now it's Bush's problem.
Bush caused it, and it's so bad.
It's so out of whack.
It can't be patched.
It can't be fixed.
We just need to end it all.
Go for universal health care now, which is typical.
Grow government, put government in charge of as many people's lives as possible.
Now, next question from Anderson Cooper, the uh Paris Hilton of Broadcast News.
Was this how quickly, uh, Brett Girl, would you start pulling troops out of a rock?
Immediately.
I mean, I wouldn't bring them all out immediately, but I think that process has to be done over in a in a steady, uh careful way over time.
But I would take 40 to 50,000 out immediately.
Why?
What what what's the magic in 40 to 50,000?
Guys is grasping at straws.
The thing to remember is they are invested in quitting.
They are invested in cutting and running.
They're invested in giving up.
They are invested in surrender.
They are invested in defeat, and they're so invested in it now that if there is victory because of this most recent strategy, they are in deep do-do, folks.
They and that's why they have they have got to do everything they can to prevent it.
Actually, you know what, in addition, uh, Mike to Soundbite's 12 and 13.
I want you to grab one other Bush soundbite.
Look for it here on the uh roster.
Number 10.
Let's start with number 10 first.
I feel for those of you that didn't uh see this last night, and I frankly, I have not seen this replayed much on television.
Uh, especially today.
This this is the uh the president is opening remarks.
This is how he opened the State of the Union last night.
Tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words.
Madam Speaker.
In his day, the late Congressman Thomas Delessandro Jr. from Baltimore, Maryland, saw presidents Roosevelt and Truman at this rostrum.
But nothing could compare with the side of his only daughter Nancy, presiding tonight as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Uh in the interests of time, but what are you laughing at in there?
What is that that that is the epitome of class, if nothing else.
Uh he understands, regardless her politics, what an achievement it is for anybody to become speaker of the house.
It doesn't happen much.
There haven't been a whole lot of those compared to, you know, the number of people who host radio shows over the course of the years or uh other kinds of work, and he acknowledged that.
And boy, she was preening like a queen.
I have to the blinking hadn't started yet.
Uh the chewing or cud hadn't started yet.
Russ, why are you doing that?
Here's the president so classy, and you say that she looked like she was chewing her cut.
Well, I paint word pictures.
And William Shakespeare said brevity is the soul of wit.
The fewer words you can use to paint the picture, the more effective.
The painting of the picture is.
I can sit here and use countless words to describe, yeah, she will look like chewing on something.
It looked like chocolate or something stuck in her teeth.
Uh maybe the teeth weren't right in there.
Who knows?
If you've ever seen a cow chew a cud, this is what looked like was going on.
I'm just, I'm not commenting on her role as uh speaker at how I'm just describing what I saw.
Then the eye blinking started.
That was distracting.
People had to change channels.
He had to find a channel where the view did not include Pelosi and uh and and uh uh Cheney.
Cheney was blinking two or three times a minute.
She was clocked at twenty-five to forty times a minute.
I kid you not, that people did some research on this.
You know, Cheney's sitting there all relaxed and confident, conserving his energy.
You know, why he's been through these things so many times.
He knows it's a dog and pony show, it's a circus.
I I think the blinking, as I said earlier, was Morse code.
I think it's how she was signaling uh her lieutenants on the Democrat side of the aisles to when to stand up, when to cheer, when to sneer, uh, when not to.
Next Bush soundbite is number twelve.
Uh This this is the segment where the Democrats did not stand after this remark.
This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in.
Every one of us wishes this war were over and won.
Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk.
Ladies and gentlemen, on this day at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle.
Let us find our resolve and turn events toward victory.
And again, we've edited the applause out of uh all of these.
Uh half the room stood up.
Pelosi did sort of a jack in the box thing.
Uh she was halfway up and halfway down, and then she grudgingly stood up.
She knew that the camera was going to be on her.
Cheney bolted up, you know, like he'd be launched out of a cannon.
And so there was uh a a lot of this uh uh up and down stuff going on.
But the Democrats on their side of the aisle on the floor didn't budge.
Sat on their hands.
Here's um, you know, I I wish that we had the call yesterday from the soldier in Wiesbaden, Germany, who said, Where's the resolution for victory?
Where's the resolution for defeating the enemy?
I'm a member of the military.
Where's that resolution?
Been great for Bush to contrast the resolution that he knew was coming today from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and asked him, produce a resolution for victory.
And put some meat in it.
Uh I wish he'd done that, but he didn't.
Next, uh this is the president asking the Democrats to give the plan time to work and support the troops.
Ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East, to succeed in Iraq, and to spare the American people from this danger.
This is where matters stand tonight in the here and now.
I've spoken with many of you in person.
I respect you and the arguments you've made.
We went into this largely united in our assumptions and in our convictions.
And whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure.
Our country is pursuing a new strategy in Iraq, and I ask you to give it a chance to work.
And I ask you to support our troops in the field and those on their way.
Now they applauded that because that was the troops.
Everybody stood a Pelosi beat Cheney out of the chair on that one.
They want to be seen as supporting the troops, the hypocrites.
Uh but that that that was a pretty good line.
Whatever you voted for, you didn't vote for failure.
Here is Janet in Novato, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Janet, welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
What an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I was um thrilled last night when I thought I saw the president leading the Democrats down this track of security with his energy proposals.
I don't think he caved on global warming at all.
I think he loved it when people underestimate him, and he used the words challenge to climate change.
And I thought he was brilliant by identifying climate change, which is very different from selling CO2 and global warming.
You've talked to us about how much he wants an energy bill, and for some reason, an energy bill and security don't seem to compute with the liberals.
Well, because security is what they have trouble with.
Okay.
And that's what he was.
I think he's trying to head them in a direction where he may be able to connect with them.
And I have a question.
Well, wait a minute.
Well, did he talk about Saudi Arabia and Jordan while he was discussing energy last night?
Did he bring that up?
Don't remember.
Yeah.
He talked he mentioned them as part of um the war on terror, but I can't remember if it was folded in with his discussion on climate change or not.
I don't recall.
Nobody's gonna th there's no president that that that's gonna indict the Saudis uh when it when it when it when it comes to uh energy independence and global warming and all that because they pay for presidential libraries.
Yeah.
Well that's true.
Well, I think they do, folks.
I'm sorry, they they they do.
Uh Prince Bandar Ben Sultan, uh they contribute greatly to presidential libraries.
There's they that's well known.
They've done this for a long time, a lot of presidents.
Um but as as far as the The business on energy independence, again, it takes us back to ethanol, does it not?
I mean, the whole ethanol story is when you when you add every element in it, is just classic liberalism.
And so is this so-called energy independent.
Here these people are demanding energy independence, and yet they won't let us drill anywhere in this country for our own oil, such as Anwar, or in some sufficient uh places uh off our coasts, and yet they demand energy and how do they do well, we have alternative fuels.
That takes us back to ethanol uh and wind and solar, and this is not going to happen as long as oil remains the primary fuel uh and energy for for the world to revolve around, and there's plenty of it, and that will happen.
So it's all that's all moot.
Back in a sec.
Thank you.
We love truth on this program.
Truth does not need to be balanced.
Okay, let me draw the circle, if I may, on liberals and alternative fuels such as ethanol.
So we have a problem.
Gasoline prices sometimes go up.
They spike.
And when this happens, the liberals immediately blame big oil and Cheney and Bush, anybody in the Republican Party is getting to do with oil, for gouging the little guy.
It happens every year.
Sometimes two or three times a year.
When prices go down, oil price plummets.
There is very little praise for the work done on the behalf of people, part of people that make it happen because the market does it.
But even when the price goes down, the left is suspicious.
And they think that the price is being manipulated down so as to help Republicans' electoral chances.
The only problem is the price of oil has been plummeting after the election, which the Democrats won.
So in the midst of all these rising prices, and of course the greenhouse gases and the man-made global warming.
Oh, by the way, speaking of that, story after story today, Los Angeles Times, I think, about how wine, California wine, is now the wine grapes, are now the canary in the mine on global warming.
Uh if the warming keeps up, it's way the Napa could be as warm as low die in the next 50 years, and if that happens, it's going to wreak havoc on the Napa and surrounding region wine business, because they need a certain kind of climate.
If a climate gets too hot, oh no, it's going to be problematic.
But at the same time, if there is warming in Bordeaux, which is the primary uh wine-growing region of the world, well, they're all happy as uh as clams because they've got climate challenges.
They're very close to the ocean, and they don't think global warming is ever going to affect them because they're going to be close to the ocean, but they love it.
They say the more warming we get, the greater vintages we get every year.
Every year could be a vintage of the century for us.
But we're watching the Californians.
So now wine, the wine grape is the canary in the island on global warming.
I thought it was the polar bear.
I thought it was the melding ice sheets.
I thought it was expanding and shrinking ice caps at the North and the South Pole.
But now it's wine grapes, folks.
Uh and so just it just so all these things combine to create panic.
And lo and behold, alternative fuels enter the scene, also as a way to rid ourselves of dependence on those meanies in the Middle East.
Okay, so is it come up with the idea of ethanol?
A way to dilute gasoline with product made from corn, which makes gasoline go a little further and uh is a little cleaner to burn at we're told, and all of this.
And libs jump all over this great alternative fuels.
We love it, just like they love the Prius, just like they love the Segway, that two-wheeled thing you drive around on, a little uh hand cart that was called it, it was going to revolutionize everything, and it didn't.
Uh the electric car, all of these things, because there's a hand-wringing panic out there over oil and energy and global warming and planetary destruction, and you name it.
So the ethanol thing sets in, of course the corn producers love it, states and uh produce corn like Iowa, they absolutely love it because it turns corn into a um uh a product for something other than food products.
Uh and of course, we need a lot of fuel in this country, power our cars, diesel trucks, and so forth.
So the um uh the process starts.
And what happens is that this the intentions here are to be uh to provide cleaner exhausts, less pollution, less global warming, cheaper fuel, fits the fits the uh requirement of alternative, and uh and of course uh it uh uh uh benefits uh states that grow corn.
What could be better?
Well, it breaks down this way, because all of these things are intended to help the little guy, the victim that we all are, from being victimized by big oil and pollution and planetary destruction and global warming.
Then we find out that ethanol, uh gasoline with ethanol actually ends up being more expensive than gasoline itself.
We find that there are, and I'm not my memory is unclear on this, but we find that there are some distribution challenges with this stuff.
I'm gonna have to double check this, but you cannot put it through a pipeline.
It has to be trucked.
It is a it's a f it's a it's a food product.
It has not a shelf life per se like products uh preservatives and so forth, but it it it it just can't be shipped and transported around the country like oil can.
It has to be sent on trucks.
And that led to a shortage of this stuff in New Jersey earlier or late last year.
Uh and of course, shortages led to the prices going up even higher.
Then what happens to the commodity known as corn?
Well, the more demand for a product, what happens?
The higher the price.
So when you introduce a new use for corn like this into our fuel system, which ain't tiny, then you have the need for a lot more corn.
And in this case, so far the Mexicans have been hardest hit, but the further south you go in the southern hemisphere, it's gonna be even worse.
And the high prices of corn products and food in this country are going to go up as well.
So you and uh uh the Mexicans and the Colombians and whoever else's that rely on corn as their bread have the tortilla prices in Maine.
I know this sounds funny, but tortilla prices are up 400%.
Had that story two days ago, and I've been predicting riots in the streets over this.
The Indians are not well uh uh you mean the native and Native Americans?
Mays and so forth.
Well, I'm not gonna like it.
Orville Reddenbacher's not gonna like it.
I mean, no no nobody's nobody's gonna like it.
They the the so what starts out is these wonderfully great intentions, saving the planet is gonna cause riots among the very people the liberals claimed champion, the little guy, the downtrodden, the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the dirty.
And it's gonna end up costing more than gasoline does.
And the people that make out like bandits on this, of course, are the corn people.
Uh and the people that process corn and the food processors that use it and convert it into various uh products.
And Arthur Daniels Midgen uh Arthur's Arthur Daniels Midland is one of them, but you know, I'm I'm not gonna join the uh everything's a special interest.
It's not unique that the corn industry would be interested in methane or ethanol being used, it's the way things are.
Uh and believe me, there are plenty of average Americans who grow corn who are just throwing parties today over the use of corn and fuels.
So, but the point is that all of these wonderful things that were supposed to happen as a result of it are going to end up not working.
Or at least there will be glitches along the line.
When if you're a Mexican and your average pay is $4 a day and your tortilla costs three bucks, you're not going to sit still for it.
Well, you will head north where you can make more than $4 a day.
I don't know.
This is it's just it's classic.
All it's like the Great Society and the War on Poverty and all of these things, they have all these wonderful intentions behind them, usually led by compassion, care, and concern.
Uh and it's this is one of the things last night I've told some people that after the president's speech, the domestic side of it, sort of let me down.
Why pander to the ethanol crowd?
I know the domestic stuff doesn't mean much that the Iraq segment of the speech was the was the big deal, but wind and solar power wasn't long ago the president made the objective of going to Mars.
Where's that?
I mean, that's how little these things really matter in terms of substance.
Haven't seen the Mars colony since the State of the Union speech.
I mean, I haven't seen any work on it, maybe going on out there, nobody's talking about it.
So uh we don't know.
But it's just I don't know.
The older I get, the less patience I have for what are these predictable throwaways in these State of the Union speeches.
But and we end up doing things like ethanol or other things, they're better examples actually than ethanol, but we end up doing things just because they sound good, and people uh will associate compassion uh with doing them, which are really stupid to do.
And wind and solar power.
Come on.
Just would give me a break.
We how to express this.
We have such a roaring, growing economy.
And do any of you really think after the experiments in California, that windmills, even if they are on Cape Cod.
Or Martha's Vineyard, are they seriously going to do anything other than make a bunch of people feel good that something's being done when little, if anything, is being accomplished.
I can walk across the street four or five times and go nowhere and think I've really done something.
So people talk themselves into achievements.
They're diddly squat zeros.
We built the windmill, Myth and Lebo, because we care.
Well, you haven't solved any problem.
All you've done is made yourself feel better about it, and uh also more erudite and elite and smarter than everybody else.
Have you heard what's going on in Atlanta in Fulton County?
Oh.
Get this.
Wait till Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbonnet, pardon the interruption, here about this.
A potentially explosive dispute in Atlanta, taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north of the city from some of the metro area's poorest black neighborhoods.
Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county to be called Milton County was introduced by members of the Georgia legislature's Republican majority leader or majority earlier this month.
Supporters say it is a quest for more responsive government in a county with a population greater than that of six states.
Opponents say the measure is racially motivated and will pit white against black, rich against poor.
If it gets to the floor, there's going to be blood on the walls, warned State Senator Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat, and a member of the legislative black caucus who bitterly opposes the plan.
The legislation calls for amending the Georgia Constitution to allow the return of Milton County, which succumbed to financial troubles during the Depression and was folded into Fulton County in 1932.
The former Milton County is now mostly white and Republican, and one of the most affluent areas in the nation.
Atlanta and its southern suburbs are mostly black, are controlled by Democrats, and have neighborhoods with some of the highest poverty rates in America.
The only way to fix Fulton County is to dismantle it, says Representative Jan Jones, the plan's chief sponsor.
It's too big, and it's certainly too dysfunctional to truly be considered local government.
Milton County would have a population of about 300,000 if they did this, making it Georgia's fifth largest county.
Here's the rub.
Residents of North Fulton, the white Republican area, represent 29% of the county's population of 915,000.
They pay 42% of property taxes.
Atlas shrugged anyone?
Atlas shrug.
They are 29% of the population.
They're paying 42% of the property taxes.
A split, if they split the counties and recreate this Milton County.
It would lead to the loss of 193 million dollars in property taxes alone for Fulton County.
About 25 miles to the south in downtown Atlanta, the Reverend J. Alan Milner said he's afraid the tax revenue loss would have a devastating effect on those who need government help the most.
If you take that money out of their coffers, human services will suffer greatly, said Milner, a black man who runs a homeless mission, and is pastor of the chapel of Christian Love Church.
So the headline to this story, it's an AP story.
Back in just a second.
If you're just joining us, Senator John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, has said he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
I guess he read the lipstick writing on the mirror.
Uh because it's a reference to Teresa and being favorable of it.
But the joke that he told, I mean, he's got the guy's toast.
He doesn't have a doesn't have a prayer, and he's at least he's had the sense to realize it.
It's always been true.
Man has to know his own limitations.
You just do.
I mean, effort is a wonderful thing, but uh trying to do something you can't do is simply a uh a waste of time.
All right.
Family Pinellas County, Florida, whose son was put into a large body sock by teachers as punishment.
He is considering suing the screw board after an investigation found the sack was used uh appropriately on the boy.
So the parents got upset.
Yeah, they used the sack.
It was considered by the school board to be an appropriate punishment.
Recently, some school pre-kindergarten teachers came under fire when parent Patrick Holt complained that a body sock was used on his four-year-old son without his permission.
I don't like it at all, Holt said.
I don't think it should be used on anybody.
The manufacturer said no wonder pictures of Abu Grab were thought to be as horrible as they were.
The manufacturer said the body sock is designed to help children explore three-dimensional space.
Really?
Manufacturer said the body sock is signed to help help children explore three-dimensional space, and an occupational therapist said the body stock is primarily meant for autistic children.
However, Holt's son is not autistic or disabled.
Pinellas County Screw Board released the results of an investigation into the controversial teaching tool on Monday.
Body sock is a teaching tool.
It has this accompanying story from Orlando.
AirTran Airways on Tuesday defended its decision to remove a Massachusetts couple from a flight after their crying three-year-old daughter refused to take her seat before takeoff.
AirTran officials said they followed FAA rules that say that children age two and above must have their own seat and be wearing a seat belt upon takeoff.
The flight was already delayed 15 minutes, and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on board, the crew made an operational decision to remove the family.
Julie Kulissa, the uh mother.
They were headed to Boston on January 14th, a week ago, something like that, said we we weren't given an opportunity to hold her to console her or anything.
The um culeses said they told a flight attendant that they had paid for their daughter's seat, but they asked whether she could sit in a mother's lap.
Request was denied.
She was removed because she was climbing under the seat.
She was hitting the parents.
She wouldn't get in her seat during boarding, according to the spokeswoman for AirTran, Judy Graham Weaver.
So they said, okay, family, you're out of here.
Screaming three-year-old disrupting everything, won't sit down.
How can this be?
Folks, would you tell a three-year-old one of the parents has to outweigh the kid by 125 pounds at least, maybe 150.
How can this be?
Body socks on airplanes.
Back in a moment.
Okay, something for you to think about.
John Kerry dropped out of the presidential sweepstakes, Democrat President sweepstakes today.
Who will be the next Democrat to uh read the lipstick on the wall?
And say they then realize they have no chance.
Great time today, folks.
Look forward to tomorrow.
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