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Well, Super Bowl Commercial Time, a restaurant trade group says it is insulted by an insurance company's planned Super Bowl ad that stars Kevin Federline or Federline.
How do you pronounce this guy's last?
I know it's K-Fed, but is it Federline?
Is that how he pronounces it?
He's the John Kerry of Pop Culture.
I mean, if Kevin Federline hadn't horned in on Britney Spears' action, and if Kerry hadn't horned in on Teresa Hines' action, but this restaurant trade group says that it's insulted by an insurance company's Planned Super Bowl ad that stars Federline as a fast food worker.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company's 32nd cop spot shows Federline, who is performing in a glitzy music video, but the punchline is that he's just daydreaming while cooking French fries at a fast food joint.
The ad amounts to a strong and direct insult to the 12.8 million Americans who work in the restaurant industry, wrote the National Restaurant Association president and chief executive Steven Anderson in a letter to the nationwide CEO Jerry Jurgenson.
The commercial would give the impression that working in a restaurant is demeaning and unpleasant.
Come on, gang, can we get a grip?
This is getting out of hand here.
It's a commercial.
If it insults the restaurant industry, it is that Kevin Federline is portrayed as working in it.
I mean, heck, I mean, Democrats can run John Kerry for president.
Why can't this insurance company use Kevin Federline in a Super Bowl ad?
Speaking of restaurants, cholesterol-raising trans fats may be disappearing from supermarket shelves and restaurants, but one type of fat taking its place may be no healthier.
This, according to new research.
I must say, this makes me smile.
I love it when the food Nazis go nuts and then the panicked change that results is even worse.
Artificial trans fats are formed when they hydrogenate oil and inject hydrogen into it, solidifies it, makes it last longer on the shelf and so forth.
Supposedly changes its flavor and increases the stability of a food's flavor.
Research has shown that trans fats in these oils may be even worse for heart health than the saturated fat found in foods like meat and butter.
Not only do trans fats raise bad cholesterol, the LDL cholesterol, as saturated fat does, but they also lower heart-healthy HDL cholesterol.
With trans fats so out of favor, New York City recently banned them, of course, the search for alternatives is on.
One of these replacement fats, the so-called interesterified fats, try that again, interrestrified fats, may carry their own health threats, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism.
You ever heard of that magazine?
Nor have I.
These new oils may not only lower HDL levels, but also cause a significant rise in blood sugar, making you a diabetic.
What's funny about a mithrilimbaud?
What's funny about it is just eat what you want and die when you're going to die.
It's going to happen to all of us.
This is just absurd.
People have been eating bacon and eggs for breakfast their whole lives and beef, all these different things.
Do you realize how self-absorbed we are?
It just never ceases to amaze me.
All right, time for the audio soundbites now.
And we'll start with Vice President Cheney, who was on the situation room with Wolf Blitzer, who had to sneak in under the guise of a group of critics, a question about the Vice President's daughter.
Blitzer said, Your daughter, she's going to have a baby.
Statement from someone representing focus on the family.
Mary Cheney's pregnancy raises the question of what's best for children.
Just because it's possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn't mean it's best for the child.
Do you want to respond to that?
No, I don't.
She's obviously a good daughter.
I'm delighted.
I'm delighted I'm about to have a sixth grandchild, Wolf.
And obviously, thank the world of both my daughters and all of my grandchildren.
And I think, frankly, you're out of line with that question.
I think all of us appreciate it.
I think you're your daughter.
All right.
Would you like to hear media montage reacting to this?
Who do we have here?
We've got Ann Curry of NBC, Soledad O'Brien of CNN, Jim Vende from the Washington Post, Amy Roebach from MSNBC, and Democrat strategerist Mark Walsh talking about this.
The vice president wristled during an interview.
Combative interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Things got pretty testy.
He's very in your face.
The vice president got visibly angry.
Dick Cheney is a pompous, egocentric maniac.
Right.
Well, let's go back to September 24th, 2006.
I'm being asked this on the Fox Network.
ABC just had a right-wing conservative running their little pathway to 9-11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9-11 Commission report.
So you did Fox's bidding on this show.
You did your nice little conservative hit job on me.
You set this meeting up because you're going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch's supporting my work on climate change.
And you came here under false pretenses and you don't care.
You falsely accused me of giving aid and comfort to bin Laden because of what happened in Somalia.
You intended, though, to move your bones by doing this first, which is perfectly fine.
I always get these clever little political deals where they ask me one set of questions and the other guys another set.
Okay, so here's Clinton.
You all remember this.
Losing is cool.
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday.
Following that, that was on September 24th, 2006.
The Associated Press ran a story on September 27th, three days later.
Is it cool to lose your cool?
That's one of the questions of the week as we evaluate and re-evaluate Bill Clinton's finger-pointing, knee-poking interview with Chris Wallace on Fox.
The first debate, of course, was whether Clinton had actually lost it at a full-bore tantrum, one conservative columnist called it, or knew exactly what it was doing.
The piece goes on to analyze, is it okay to lose your cool on TV now when you're insulted?
Is it okay to do it?
Just like when the lies got too many to count, and remember the 90s, we got stories in the AP on how little white lies are actually healthy.
They're good for us.
They spare people's feelings.
So here you've got Clinton, who was in your face and pointing his finger at Chris Wallace and doing a pretty good intimidation job.
Well, he tried to.
Cheney is calm, cool, collected, and so forth.
And the drive-bys are going nuts over how he just, he lost his temper.
He's a pompous, egocentric maniac.
He got visibly angry.
The contrast could not be more stark.
We pick up now with the Blitzer-Cheney interview.
Blitzer said, some of your good Republican friends in the Senate and in the House are now seriously questioning your credibility because of the blunders of the failures.
Wolf, I simply don't accept the premise of your question.
Remember with me what happened in Afghanistan.
The United States was actively involved in Afghanistan in the 80s supporting the effort against the Soviets.
The mujahideen prevailed.
Everybody walked away.
And in Afghanistan, within relatively short order, the Taliban came to power.
They created a safe haven for Al-Qaeda.
Training camps were established where some 20,000 terrorists trained in the late 90s.
And out of that, out of Afghanistan, because we walked away and ignored it, we had the attack on the USS Cole, the attack on the embassies in East Africa and 9-11, where the people trained and planned in Afghanistan for that attack and killed 3,000 Americans.
That is what happens when we walk away from a situation like that in the Middle East.
Does that sound like Cheney is standing up in a righteous indignation and pointing his finger at Blitzer and demanding that he shut up and accusing him of doing a hit piece?
Does it sound like that at all?
No, it doesn't.
Next question from Wolf Blitzer.
What if the Senate passes a resolution saying this is not a good idea?
Will that stop you?
It won't stop us.
And it would be, I think, detrimental from the standpoint of the troops.
As General Petraeus said yesterday, he was asked by Joe Lieberman, among others, in his testimony, about this notion that somehow the Senate could vote overwhelmingly for him, send him on his new assignment, and then pass a resolution at the same time and say, but we don't agree with the mission you've been given.
Right.
By the way, we had a caller call, couldn't stay on the air.
Got a new name for Senator Hagel in Nebraska.
We got General Petraeus, and we got Senator Betraus.
New name for Senator Hagel.
Here's now one final bit with, well, two more.
Question from Blitzer.
Here's the problem that you have.
The administration, credibility in Congress with the American public because of the mistakes, because of the previous statements, the last throws, the comment you made a year and a half ago, the insurgency was in its last throws.
How do you build up that credibility?
Because so many of these Democrats and a lot of Republicans now are saying that they don't believe you anymore.
Well, Wolf, if the history books were written by people who have been so eager to write off this effort to declare it a failure, including many of our friends on the media, the situation obviously would have been over a long time ago.
Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes and we will continue to have enormous successes.
It is hard.
It is difficult.
It's one of the toughest things any president has to do.
It's easy to stick your finger in the air and figure out which way the winds are blowing and then try to get in front of the herd.
This president doesn't work that way.
And then they have this exchange about Hillary.
Do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president?
No, I don't.
Why?
Because she's a Democrat.
I don't agree with her philosophically from a policy standpoint.
Do you think she will be president, though?
I don't.
Sound angry?
Sound like an egomaniacal, pompous buffoon, as he was called by a Democrat strategist there?
And yet with Bill Clinton losing it, we got stories on maybe this is cool.
Maybe it's time for this kind of thing to stop this bullying tactic that Fox News is so famous for.
Anyway, you can't get more direct than that.
Hillary Clinton made good president?
No, I don't.
Why?
She's a Democrat.
People have been patiently waiting On the phone, so let's reward that patience.
We'll go to Long Beach, California.
This is Robin.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I love your show.
Thank you.
I am what I refer to seriously as a recovered liberal.
And I want the audience to know that you're just too nice to liberals.
They are pernicious.
They are diabolical.
They are liars.
They hate America.
They will do anything to destroy America.
They need to be stopped.
Well, now, most Americans hearing you say this about most liberals, first question would be, why do they, they understand hating the code.
Why do they want to destroy it?
Well, it's almost like a cult attitude.
They are, I think it is like a psychosis within us.
But we grow up angry, and we have a serious character flaw.
At what do you grow up angry?
Well, probably it starts in the home.
I was angry at a dysfunctional family.
And then I was angry because I was poor.
But they're not all poor.
But I mean, there's just, there's something, it's a character flaw, and it's where you're not willing to go out and build something, and it's easier to tear it down.
And so when you go out in the world and you're a failure, you can point to this ideology.
You can use this ideology to make yourself feel good.
Right.
It is a refuge for miserable people.
It is a refuge for miserable, characterless people who are not willing to really do what it takes to utilize what we have available to us.
And when you're angry, it is a pervasive ideology.
It goes across the board.
You have to buy into every part of it.
The environmentalism, the abortion on demand, lack of, that's another thing.
There's no morals.
We had no morals.
Now, I'm telling you, I'm recovered because I don't live like that any longer.
Don't want any.
I mean, they don't want any judgment.
There's no moral restraint.
That's why the attack on Christianity.
And that's why Bill Clinton was our favorite president.
I can tell you that before I started to examine my life, I got sick and tired of being miserable.
And I started to examine my life.
And I have brought myself, I think, 180 degrees.
And I say that because I raised two children that are conservative.
My son got me to listening to you, so I'm proud of him.
Good boy.
I was thrilled when Bill Clinton won the election because as I saw it in my liberal days, a pot-smoking- Philandering.
Go ahead and say it.
Yeah, philandering.
And what did he, you know, he cheated Vietnam.
He didn't go to Vietnam.
See, I used to be an organization that used to get traitors, young men, who would not go fight for their country and escape up to Canada.
So that was something to respect.
Oh, yeah.
Anything.
And we used to tell each other after the revolution, you know, our criminal record will be our flag.
People will be proud that we have a criminal record after the revolution.
And we used to do anything we could think of to destroy the system.
Break the system.
Destroy the system.
People like Timothy McVeigh.
I mean, people would go to that extreme.
Anything to destroy the system.
And people used to challenge me and say, well, why don't you build something?
If you're unhappy with this country, why don't you get into it and build something?
Well, it's easier to tear it down.
But my fear, Rush, is that people like me are in our schools.
They run our schools.
They run all of our bureaucracies.
They're getting elected to office.
And see, that was it.
When the hippies washed up, cut their hair because they got tired of sitting on their butts and not earning any money.
I mean, we want the good life, too.
Liberals want the good life, too.
Oh, well, believe me, I know.
Absolutely.
So hippies running around in Thule's eating natural nuts and stuff.
That wasn't cutting it.
So a lot of them started cutting their hair, going back to school because mommy and daddy would pay for it.
And they went into the social sciences and they found a good, you know, like they're eating in the trough of the bureaucracy.
Thank God I'm not a liberal rush.
And you're too hard on the woman that called and said, where do they come from?
It is so pernicious.
It is so prevalent in this society.
I'm ashamed of what I did in the past.
Wait, wait.
I'm not, sure.
Did you say I am too hard on liberals?
You're not hard enough.
You're not too easy on them.
Because, see, what happens is you're so funny, you're so gracious that people think you're exaggerating.
And it's when you get a liberal on the phone that I really start talking to the radio.
Yeah, Rush, go, Rush.
Because people think you're exaggerating.
You're not exaggerating.
You have liberals down to a net.
I mean, the only other person I think has it is willing to admit it.
See, I would like other liberals, other recovered liberals, to call your station and admit who we were.
What is the liberal?
How characterless we are.
And while I keep saying in the present, I mean, it was in the past.
I can see myself so clearly what I used to be.
And it was disgusting.
I have nothing to be proud of when I was a liberal.
But I had children, and I knew I could not raise them.
The mother instinct took hold when I had children.
I looked at them and I said, I cannot hand over a world to these children with that ideology.
Well, God bless you.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
And God bless you.
Well, I know I was worried about that.
But I don't know how you know us that well.
But Tammy Bruce, she wrote a book about it, and she comes very close to telling the truth about liberalism.
It's a sickness.
It is an absolute sickness.
It is going to destroy this country.
It's gone a long way to destroy this country.
And us baby boomers, the hippies that you saw years ago sticking their thumbs out with nothing better to do but smoke dope, sex, rock, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
That's all we cared about.
And power to hurt other people.
And so what we wanted to hurt was America.
And all of it motivated by the anger and the rage that you say is systemic and related to the ideology.
Look, I have to run, but that's Robin.
Can't thank you enough for the phone call and what you said.
I mentioned earlier at the beginning of the program, ladies and gentlemen, that many in the drive-by media are orgasmic over the arrival of Jim Webb to the Democrat Party based on his response to the state of the union on Wednesday night.
One of the examples is a piece from salon.com.
I think it's slaughtered.
It might have been slate.
When I printed this out, it omitted the first paragraph from the authorette's name.
I think it's Joan Walsh, but I'm just memory.
But they're just all excited here that finally there's a real man on the scene.
They gave it a shot, but John Kerry didn't work out.
But now, Jim Webb, they got a guy that can go on TV and talk about his family's military history.
And he also didn't vote against the war.
And he can look tough and make the Democrats look tough, which to me is ironic because all these years the Democrats have been trying to feminize our culture, and they've succeeded.
The liberals have, in telling us how wonderful women are in position of power, and it's so different and so unique and blah, And then, of course, we had to accept the trashing of men at the same time.
Let me just read you some excerpts here.
It turned out that on television, there was a zero-sum game of political credit for Democrats.
So Webb's win meant that others lost.
And mainly that seemed to mean liberals and women, especially liberal women like Nancy Pelosi.
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews and Mike Barnacle were tripping over themselves to laud the manly web.
And thank their lucky stars the Democrats had not picked somebody who'd have used his or her time to fulminate over gay marriage or other effete concerns.
He didn't mention a woman's right to choose.
He didn't talk about civil unions, Matthews gushed.
Barnacle called Webb a member of the Democratic Party of my youth, of our youth, Chris.
He went on to mention a list of men and men and men and men and men who defined the greatness of the Democratic Party of their youth.
Now, whoever it is that wrote this and wherever this appeared, then wrote next, I happen to love Matthews on Hardball.
He is what he is and blah, He's an insider's insider, is wrong about impeachment, but right about the Iraq War, who likes his men tough and his ladies pretty and doesn't bother to hide it.
He can get silly with women guests, but never sillier than when he's fawning over manly men.
I'll never forget the way after savaging Gore through the whole 2000 campaign, he lost it over Gore's sad, dignified concession speech when Antonin Scalia made George Bush president.
Anyway, meanwhile, Republicans are showing that they fear Jim Webb by savaging his speech.
In a breathless special a Newsweek op-ed, former Bush speech writer Michael Gerson proclaimed it full of clichés.
A lot of men seem strangely spooked by the rise of Nancy Pelosi and the lead Hillary Clinton currently holds in the Democratic presidential field.
Is this a party, ladies and gentlemen, that doesn't have a clue as to who or what it is?
The Republicans know that Jim Webb's the real deal, that jokes about his speech won't cut it.
The Democrats need to learn how to savor victory and build on it rather than join pointless battling about who wears the pants in this party.
Leadership diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
It'd be a shame to let pundits lure party leaders into battle of sexists.
It is Joan Walsh.
I don't know that anybody's leading anybody in the battle of sexists here except Joan Walsh.
Well, and Chris Matthews and so forth.
But is it, folks, isn't it telling that you've got these guys like Matthews and Barnacle who when a real man shows up as a Democrat, they lose it.
They're so happy.
You think these guys are maybe tired of being henpecked?
Sorry, Dawn.
That's a marital term.
Doesn't go well.
That didn't mean it.
I meant it in a political sense.
I mean, the Queen Bee syndrome is circulating throughout Washington.
These are the people that claim we shouldn't see people as members of groups.
We shouldn't see their skin color first.
We shouldn't see their gender first.
We shouldn't see their sexual orientation first.
And they just can't help it.
Because of the contempt they have and the condescension they have for human beings, liberals just can't avoid seeing the things in people that they think make them victims, that they think make them imperfect, and so forth.
It's just, now they're struggling.
Oh, they're so happy.
They finally got a man in the party.
What about Ted Kennedy?
What about Chris Dodd?
Those guys are real men.
Ask the waitresses and the waitress sandwich at La Brasserie in Washington.
Or is that not how we define real men anymore?
For so long, real men in the Democratic Party were the, you know, these pencil-necked neat girds, pencil, you know, these real thin-neck guys, these little nerds, these geeks that ran around and always talked about feminism and so forth.
Those were the real men in Washington.
They're always bending over forwards and backwards.
That's my fault.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
Whatever you.
Peggy and Aquabog, New York, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Listen, I believe in you.
I trust you.
And I have a question.
What?
You've got us out here frantic.
What can we do to punish these Republicans who are not true Republicans?
How can we get rid of them?
How can we either get rid of them or pull them, yank their chain and put them back where they belong?
The age-all question.
You know, I could be, I don't mean this directed at you personally, but you have raised the question.
And I could answer this in a number of different ways.
One way I could say it was I warned you, so many of you people thought it would be good for the Republicans to lose for them to be taught a lesson.
Not me.
Well, good.
Elections have consequences.
And look, I'm not for violent overthrow, and I'm not for coups, and I'm not for revolution or any of that.
I think we have that handled pretty well in our Democratic process.
I'm going to tell you something.
The best and loudest message you can send to any of these people is to not send them any money.
And when they send you solicitations for money, send it back with a picture of your rear end on it.
I have to tell you, I don't, I refuse to send money to the senatorial committee.
I will choose the Republicans that I wish to give money to.
And I want these people who are parading themselves as Republicans, and they're not.
And this is the most desperate and horrible thing that they've come up with.
They're not going to fund these people over there.
Well, no, they haven't gotten there.
This is a non-binding resolution.
You've got to understand what this resolution is.
Peggy, this resolution is pure Democrat politics.
It's playing politics with the troops.
It is non-binding.
If it were binding, they don't have the guts to do it.
The majority of American people do not want to lose.
The majority of American people want to kick button, get out of there.
They want to win this.
They want the enemy to suffer.
They're sick and tired of this.
They want to do it now.
They think it's taken way too long.
We're the United States of America.
Come on, let's get with it.
The hell with democratizing the place.
Let's win the war.
This is about a U.S. national security and our enemies, as well as it is about stabilizing Iraq.
Let's do the first thing first, and that's win and then stabilize the place.
We got rid of the people that are trying to destabilize it.
Seems to me that's what the American people want.
Get in, get it, and get out.
We're the United States of America.
We can do it.
We don't want to listen to a bunch of malcontent senators who are out of touch with the country.
That whole city is out of touch with the country.
If the American people were really as anti-war as they say, then they would defund the war.
They would put muscle behind this resolution.
This resolution is designed to scare a bunch of Republicans like Chuck Hagel and Voinovich into joining the Democrats so that the Democrats can make this look like a bipartisan thing and take the heat off of them as the sole anti-war party.
And these idiot Republicans who fail to understand that they are the targets of a political operation instead act like they've got the moral high ground and trying to save the lives of the troops.
And they are an absolute abject embarrassment in a political sense as well as in the real life sense.
Look at Mr. Snerdley, who's screening calls today, tells me that, Peggy, you are one of just thousands of voices that are so hot today, angry over all this, and I don't blame you.
But, you know, the only way to get rid of these people is at the ballot box.
Yeah, that's a little late right now.
I mean, I'm going to do something now today.
I can't help it.
Well, look at, in a way, and I don't, I'm not trying to be patronizing here, but in a way, it is good in the sense that it's identifying for Republicans, the ones that are the bad apples and need to be dispatched.
That's it.
At the next election.
You know, this is the kind of things going on in politics all the time.
They have since the inception of the country.
It's why it's a never-ending battle.
And that's why it is so disheartening and frustrating to watch our own guys join the give-up squad.
Oh, it's maddening to me, utterly maddening.
I'm, as that lady beforehand said, there are days that I scream and rant at the radio or the television.
I do everything I know, but I'm impatient now.
I don't want these people to be able to do what they're doing, sending this terrible message to these people.
I don't know about, I read that book, America Alone, and realized the danger that we have in our own country.
And our own enemy is at the gates.
And it scares me.
Yeah, and you know that probably better than most, given that you're in New York.
Well, look, I understand.
I wish there were more I could tell you to do, but short of the Buchanan brigades picking up the pitchforks, heading into town to start bonfires.
No.
You've got to do this with the Democrat process.
I've got three sons, and I have one who is a complete liberal, highly successful, good, and loving person.
I have a middle guy who would follow Bush to the end of the earth.
And I have the oldest one, Aubrey and the oldest one who says, I don't trust any politicians anymore, Mom.
That's right here.
And they're all brought up to love their father.
We're part of the greatest generation.
Well, yeah, disown the liberal son and encourage the other two.
I got to run.
Peggy, thanks for the call.
We'll be back in just a second.
Yeah, the story I had a couple minutes ago about the insurance company's advertisement with Kevin Federline daydreaming he's a rap star while he's actually just a fast food worker making french fries.
There's a companion story to it from Reuters.
More than four out of five U.S. workers do not have their dream jobs, which most people describe as work that is fun.
This, according to a survey released today, salary was one of the least important requirements of a dream job.
Of course, that makes this whole survey worthless because that is absolute BS.
On a dream job or no, if you're going to tell me that the last thing people care about, the least important requirement, is what they earn, then I'm sorry.
And I don't want to hear again about the disparity between what workers make and what CEOs make.
If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
So shut up about the gap between the rich and the poor because apparently the middle class and the poor are perfectly fine.
Having fun at a dream job was cited by 39%, with 17% saying making a difference in society was most important.
Thank God it's only 17%.
Hitler made a difference.
The fun was more important than money.
That was reassuring when you're looking at the workplace and what defines happiness for people in their jobs.
Jennifer Sullivan, spokesbabe for CareerBuilder.com.
Overall, 84% of respondents said they are not in their dream jobs.
It doesn't necessarily mean they're unhappy.
They may just not have the job they've always been looking for.
What's your reaction to this, Mr. Snerdley?
Don't have the job they're looking for.
They don't have their dream job.
Oh, woe is me.
Don't have my dream job.
I don't want my dream job.
So go get it.
Jobs are not assigned in this country.
They are sought.
Go get it.
This is a country in which you can create your own job.
You know, most people's dream job would be their hobby.
Okay, find a way to get paid doing your hobby.
Find a way to earn money.
A lot of people have.
One thing about this that's absolutely correct, though, nothing replaces passion.
Nothing is better than passion.
Like, I told people I'm doing what I was born to do.
I'm fortunate.
I knew when I was 12 what I wanted to do.
Most people never find it.
One of the problems at a dream job is most people don't know what it is.
They don't know what they want to do.
They're not sure.
But when you tell me that the money is not a fact, that just, you know, I could believe in a communist country where you don't make any and it's not a factor.
But come on, all this whining and moaning about the disparities and who makes what, how it's not fair.
Democratic Party has built an entire plank of their platform on this.
Here's Gigi in Naples.
Gigi, thanks for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Diddles from not-so-sunny southwest Florida.
Thank you.
Yeah, it is kind of cold and overcast down here today.
A little bit of a cold front's gone through.
It's only 74.
Well, global warming hasn't hit us here yet today.
Your call screener told me to get right to the point, so I will.
My brother died from suicide, and global warming has absolutely nothing to do with the disease that afflicts people with depression.
Well, now, you may say that, but there's scientists who have come to a consensus on this, and their research paper is coming out.
And these are Italian scientists, and they say that global warming increases the risk of suicide.
Well, as a matter of fact, if you live up north and you suffer from a certain type of depression, which happens in the winter months, they give you artificial light therapy.
Right.
So, I mean, I can't recall the name of it, but I'm 47 years old, and I'm sitting here, and my rear end is frosted.
I'm ready to be a gun owner, and they can be the result of my demise.
Wait a minute.
What are you frosted about?
I'm frosted because these liberals keep harping on this global warming, and before you know it, you know, every, well, as you said, Osama bin Laden said that that had something to do with why they're attacking us.
Yeah, yeah, because we won't sign the Kyoto Accord.
We're destroying the planet, and that's why there's terrorism.
But that's not the big deal.
Big deal is that a British, leading British governmental scientist cited his words as why the United States needs to shape up.
If it weren't for our global warming pollution and all that, then there wouldn't be as much terrorism.
Folks, I want to jump ahead.
How long is it going to be before we are told that embryonic stem cell research may hold clues to solving global warming?
All right, folks.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast time here for the program today.
Tomorrow's going to be Open Line Friday, the week zipping by.
Then next week, Super Bowl week gets started, and it's down here in our backyard, in our neighborhood, down the road in Miami.
Well, I'd do the Super Bowl prediction on the Friday before the game.
Where else would I do my Super Bowl prediction?
What would I do it every day and change it?
You know, like the weather forecast is.
I'll do the no, the key to my getting this game right, picking this game this year right, is to not talk to the hutch about it.
It's a hutch that's screwing me up about things here.
Anyway, folks, have a great day and a great evening.
We'll see you back here tomorrow for Open Line Friday as we eagerly look forward to it.