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Feb. 2, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The news of that nomination of me for the Nobel Peace Prize is sweeping the nation.
Greetings, my friends, El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring Maharashi, here on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Yes, one of the uh one of the greatest career risks taken by any megastar in major media is taken by me every Friday, turning over the all-important content of this program to veritable, lovable rank amateurs.
When we go to the telephones, it's your show.
You own the content.
Monday through Thursday.
We only talk about what I want to talk about, what I'm interested in, because I am a benevolent dictator.
I'm the only one that has free speech rights on this program, but on Friday, throw that aside, and you can talk about whatever, even if I don't care about it.
It's really a great opportunity.
You can whine, you can moan, you can uh complain, cheer, ask questions, what have you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIB Net.com.
Disaster overnight in Central Florida, at least.
Fourteen people killed because of a swath of tornadoes that went through there.
I was one by the way, I I need to point out to you that Florida and the governor here, Charlie Christ, have not waited for FEMA.
They're not on television today saying, We're FEMA, where's Mike Brown?
Where's Bush?
Nobody cares.
They're not shouting, they're not complaining.
They're already getting their emergency response in gear, handling it themselves here in the state of Florida.
No complaints, no demands that the feds get in there and uh and do anything.
The thing about this that that is curious to me.
Why couldn't they have predicted this?
I mean, this is the day that the Union of Concerned Scientists puts out a summary of a report that's not due in full until May, I think is the date.
The summary is not necessarily going to contain all what can't possibly by definition contain all the data in the full report.
And the purpose of putting a summary out three or four months earlier, so when a full report comes out with a bunch of contradictory things in it, uh nobody will pay any attention to it.
The drive-by media is all over this now.
We're doomed.
We're cooked.
It's over with.
Uh Fini.
Caput.
Don't even buy 30-year treasury bills, folks, because we're not going to be around that long.
Don't buy long-term bonds and put them in your IRA.
Because there is no long term.
I read it in this report.
If we're lucky, the planet will be around long enough for 10-year treasury notes to mature just before you die.
I wouldn't even mess around with the 10-year treasuries.
If I were you, stick with the three-month T bills because you never know.
What I want to know is is how they can predict.
And we're going to have, by the way, a lot more on this global warming business today, in uh in a whole bunch of areas.
I got it was a great question.
Yes, why do you keep harping on this?
And uh that we got it in an email.
And I get rebind.
Uh what?
What do you don't have Fox on.
I'm watching the NFL Commissioner doing his press crop.
See, I'm here, I'm in the middle of a great riff.
And these guys so excited to see me on TV, which to me is no big deal, happens every day.
So Snerdley starts shouting at the IFP, Fox Fox!
Looking around.
What?
Where's the Fox?
We have two of them here on the island, maybe four.
We do.
We have them here to get rid of the vermin.
And uh, so I don't have Fox on right now.
I've got the uh NFL network on watching goodness.
So they're they did a report on my Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Well, that's I said sweeping the nation.
It is.
It is it is sweeping the nation.
We've got some audio sound bites on.
I just want to say I got this great question about why you keep harping on it.
Folks, there is there is so much about this I want to expand on today, not to overdo it.
In addition to the discussion yesterday about how global warming contains every element of liberalism versus conservatism.
And it also uh uh you know the the it's a religion to these people.
Michael Crichton has written great speeches about this.
Uh these are people who do not believe in the God of creation.
And everybody, we human beings are hardwired for religious beliefs, even atheism and agnosticism are religious beliefs.
We're hardwired for it.
Nobody knows why, but it's there, and these wackos that uh that are involved in all this global warming, and look at the similarities.
One theme that constantly runs through every religion, who care what it is, is the end times, the apocalypse, another theme that runs through every religion is sin.
Well, in the in the environmental wacko uh uh universe, sin is not recycling.
Sin is destroying the planet.
Uh, sin is uh all the pollution, sin and and and accompanying all of this is what?
Something else that you find in many religions, guilt.
So theirs is a religion.
Uh the similarities are uncanny.
We've talked about this before with the Michael Crichton speech.
Other people are starting to uh talk about it.
So we're going to get into all of that uh as the program unfolds today.
Also, Super Bowl Friday.
We'll have some comments uh about that.
And I I I yesterday didn't request, I demanded phone calls uh from some of you on the Super Bowl saying that if I don't get them, I'm gonna call myself.
Because I could be a good caller on this program, too.
Uh in addition to a uh a steadfast host.
Speaking of that, I get this.
This is what is this AP out of Chicago, Lindsay Tanner is the uh is the writer.
For many football fans, Super Bowl Sunday is a greasy junk food orgy of chicken wings, nachos, pizza, seven-layer bean dip.
But health experts say it doesn't have to be a dieter's nightmare.
Die Hard Bears fan Scott Keeler plans to spend Sunday with friends in a bar watching the game and gobbling down pizza and wings.
I'm always glued to the set, but I love food.
It's usually a part that's almost as important as the game, said Keeler, 26-year-old Chicago Area magazine representative.
Nowhere will the gluttonous revelry be as intense as in Chicago and Indianapolis, whose teams how do they know that?
Just because the towns representing the representative two teams soup the going to be more gluttony and this is absurd, but it gets even better.
We have a group of people now, Lisa Farley, a nutritionist at Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis, said that uh there are generally two kinds of football fans, couch potatoes to sit back and watch it all happen.
They tend to eat more, and those who get physical.
So go ahead and jump off the couch, throw your hat in the ground and pace while riveted to the screen, she suggests.
It burns more calories and keeps your hands from automatically grabbing more food.
What must these people think of us?
We are nothing but a bunch of helpless little children, and they won't leave us alone even to watch the Super Bowl as we want to watch.
No, we gotta get up and exercise now.
It's hard to have a Super Bowl party without the good stuff, said football fan Nick Verma, an orthopedic surgeon in Chicago.
Dr. Robert Kushner, professor of medicine, Northwestern, offered another way to break the couch potato tradition.
Try spending a quarter of the game on a treadmill.
That way you can run along with your favorite receiver.
My gosh, this is insane.
It's it's it's sophomoric.
Or put out weights, resistance bands, and balance balls for your party guests.
If you are gonna sit and watch the game, you're actually going to develop more muscular toning by sitting on a fitness ball rather than a couch.
These people would just shut up and go away.
There are just so many miserable people out there trying to deny anybody else who's having a good time, that good time.
It's it's hilarious.
But yet, how do the media find these people?
Where does the concept for this story even arise?
It arises out of the good old liberal mindset that you people haven't the slightest idea how to do what's best for yourselves.
Everything you do is looked upon with contempt and contempt and condescending uh condescension, and you have to be saved from yourselves.
And, of course, your children have to be saved from you.
Uh Nobel Peace Prize nomination, sweeping the nation last night, WHDH Boston.
Good day.
for his work in drawing attention to the hazards of global warming.
His documentary has been nominated for an Academy Award.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is announced in October.
Anyone can be nominated for that award.
Also nominated this year, Rush Limbaugh, among others.
And this morning on Fox.
By the can somebody tell me what in the world raising awareness to a false phony premise like global warming has to do with peace.
What in the world does it have to do with peace?
Absolutely nothing.
By the way, I'm under no illusions.
I'm going to win this, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, and I should tell you.
Getting all kinds of angry email from liberals on this.
Frothing in their emails.
Simply unbelievable to them that I would be nominated for one of their own such prestigious awards.
And they feel powerless to do anything about it.
And I want to say to all of you libs who are just non-plussed by this.
It's a free world.
Call them up over there at the Nobel Committee in Oslo.
You can find the number.
They've got a website.
Call them up.
If you object to this, call them up and tell them so.
Tell them how outraged you are.
Whatever.
I mean, you can you don't have to sit there and take this in silence, or at least frothing amongst yourselves on your websites or whatever.
Take matters into your own hands.
Instead of complaining and whining about things like you always do, it takes some action.
Here's uh Fox's KTTV Los Angeles co-hosts Steve Edwards and Lisa Breckenridge.
Your name was entered by members of the Luigi Parliament.
On the other hand, Rush Limbaugh has entered as well.
He was nominated by the Landmark Legal Foundation, which calls Limbaugh the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today.
And we'll be back after this, ladies and gentlemen.
Stay with us.
America's real anchor man and truth detector El Rushbo, serving humanity, half my brain.
Tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Here's the audio of the Fox News Channel report about 15 minutes ago, a little over 15 minutes ago, of my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He's been called many things in his long and controversial broadcasting career, but never Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Well, he hasn't won it yet.
Radio Talk Show host Rush Limbaugh nominated today for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
The landmark legal foundation tapped the talker, calling him the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world.
Landmark, by the way, is the leading conservative public interest law firm in the U.S. and Limbaugh serves on its board of advisors.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded December 10th in Oslo, Norway.
Hey, hey, hey, it's unpaid position.
I'm an unpaid member of the board, which means I may as well not be a member of the board.
Now they're trying to say that there's some chicanery involved here.
I'm an unpaid member of the landmark board.
Well, anyway, there you have it.
So this it continues to sweep the nation.
Uh it's in uh many of the trade publications of the uh radio and broadcast business.
By the way, folks, speaking of uh all this, and I still don't understand what raising awareness to anything involving global warming has to do with world peace.
I really don't, and that's Al Gore's uh reason for being nominated.
But you know, the uh uh the story in California is that uh the three entertainment titans, Geffen, Spielberg, Katzenberg, are all into Obama, and they're sending out interview requests or invitations, actually, for all of their Hollywood brethren to show up at a big, big bash to donate money for Obama, who is clean uh and articulate.
Mainstream, first clean articulate uh black candidate uh in America, really, really clean.
And this has got to be upsetting the Hillary Cloud crowd, the Clinton crowd, but they owned Hollywood.
This is not good.
We know that behind the scenes the Clintons are doing whatever they can to see to it that as few Hollywood entertainment people show up for Obama as possible.
Uh, and we are we have our microphones everywhere.
And welcome back.
There are more of those, by the way.
Phone calls from the Clinton war room are going on at the feverish pace.
I don't know if you've checked the Drudge Report page yet today, but I mean, this is uh it's it's now uh it's gotten a point it's even beyond laughable, uh, this global warming business.
You've got to see this.
There is a picture of two polar bears on some ice out in uh the ocean.
Which is something that happens all the time.
Polar bears wander all over their environment.
They can swim uh and they're out there and they're just having a good time.
The deception, the deceit, the misleading tendencies of this, when you look at the headline and the accompanying story, ought to inform everybody of the utter desperation and phoniness of the entire global warming effort.
The headline says global warming sees polar bears stranded on melting ice.
They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice flow, their fragile grip, the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by convey Canadian environmentalist Wacos.
The pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice.
Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting even greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.
Swimming 100 miles is not a big deal for a polar bear, especially a fat one, said Dr. Ian Sterling of the Canadian Wildlife Service.
They just kind of floating along and kick, but as the ice gets farther out from shore because of warming, it's a longer swim that costs more energy and makes them more vulnerable.
Now, this is the picture I'm holding it up for those of you on the ditto cam to see.
Let me see if I can zoom in a little bit here to get a uh better shot of it.
There we go.
Now, and you really see this better at the at the Drudge Report.
I'm just telling you that that this picture is a total misrepresentation of the current state of circumstances for polar bears.
It's as though they wandered out on this ice flow, and it broke off, and it's fading off now toward the equator, and the polar bears can't do anything about it, and they're gonna melt and they're gonna die on all these horrible, or if they do jump off, they may have to swivel hundreds of miles and expend lots of energy because it's ice is all melting around them.
And of course, this picture has all the ingredients of the fraud and the deception.
We just went through what we went through with Barbaro.
Now we've got polar bears, stranded polar bears, animals, essence of innocence.
So cute, so lonely, so frightened, so panicked, bellowing out for hope from the nearest human.
Meanwhile, the Canadian film crew just content to let them float off to their deaths for the sake of grabbing the photo to mislead you and your kids, who will no doubt be shown this by a bunch of worthless teachers who are promoting a political agenda.
Yes, what's the question?
They can't, so I just said they can swim hundreds of miles.
This whole thing is totally misleading.
It is, it is, it is um they they're not even stranded on an ice flood that's broken apart.
They're just out, they're just playing around.
They're just out there.
You know, just like your cat goes to its uh uh litter box.
When's the last time your cat got stranded in its litter box?
Just like your pit bull attacks and kills the neighbor's baby horse.
Whatever.
I mean, these things happen.
I mean, the I i it's called nature.
Polar bears are survivors.
The spotted owl.
Remember that I'm gonna go through all these scare tactics that the environmentalists have tried since the 60s to prove this to you today.
I mean, the the what would I just say before I interrupted myself?
Remember the what?
You guys don't even remember either.
You're not even paying attention.
No, not the pit bulls killing baby horses documented to have happened in Pittsburgh.
Anyway, quick timeout.
Be back here in just a second.
Don't go away, folks.
It's open line Friday.
We're gonna get to your phone calls in an LGO here.
But first, you watch uh anybody out there watch Law and Order on Friday nights on NBC.
I've never seen an episode of Law and Order.
I have seen episodes of Law and Order SUV.
Uh or S S V U. Yeah, special victim SVU.
But I've never seen Law and Order.
Well, tonight's episode features an Ann Coulter character while who is making a speech on a college campus in cites a murder.
And while she's brought into the DA's office for questioning, she says in herself, and I can't stay here.
I've got to go have drinks with Rush.
And we have the clip.
They're running this as part of the promo for Law and Order tonight on NBC.
Here it is.
Friday.
A controversial speaker.
People love me.
You just became a real pain in the air.
If you like law and order surprises.
I've got drinks with Rush.
Wait for the trial.
Let's not pretend we don't know what's going on.
All new law and order, Friday on NBC.
I f we drive them nuts.
We we just from this no Bill Peace Prize thing.
So the NFL looks like a game between the bloods and Crips without the weapons.
Just drive them nuts.
It is just more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right.
As promised, go to the phones.
Start with Bill in Chicago.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
How are you, Rush?
Never better, sir.
Appreciate it.
Super Bowl dittoes to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, we spoke in 04 right before the uh presidential election when I called in and suggested John Kerry's confusion really stemmed from uh his belief that he was Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
I remember that call.
That uh I have a couple points here that I wanted to cover real quick.
First of all, um do you have the entire clip from the Hitlery conference the other day where uh she was talking about her ability to uh deal with evil men because it seems to me that because her audience is pre-selected both on the internet and in those meetings, that that was a planted question because uh you as you'll hear, she really rephrases it to uh to be just what she wants to hear.
I have no uh uh we don't have any more of the of the clip than what we played.
Uh and uh I whether the questions are planted or not wouldn't wouldn't surprise me, but uh I d we don't I don't have the full uh uh press conference, no.
This is not what you called about, Bill.
You're gonna I'm getting a little impatient here.
Um sorry about that.
The uh the keepers of odd knowledge rush, where have they been?
Well, that's that's some guy from in uh in Maine, I forget his uh banger may or something is a diesel guy, right?
He owns a diesel uh uh fuel facility uh and uh I haven't heard from him, the keepers of odd knowledge society uh in a long time.
And they and they got I think the keepers of Odd Knowledge Society actually ended up getting mad at me because I wasn't getting enough kooky or kooky enough for them on their on their uh it's been years since uh since I've heard I've uh email addresses are public, so um uh don't know what happened to the keepers of odd knowledge society.
I don't know if it was passed down uh somewhere else and they've they've gone elsewhere for their uh uh attempts to be publicized, but I have no clue what happened to him.
Here's Nate in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, happy groundhog day.
I'm sure that uh our ex-vice president is thrilled to know that Punks of Tony Phil did see a shadow today, and we are gonna have an early spring.
But on the other hand, I want to know your prediction.
I want to I want to know if you think that Dingy Dungey can take care of the bears.
You know, this is uh I I was I was down in Miami last night, went back down to a big Super Bowl party on uh on Star Island, and the last thing being discussed at this party was the game.
It was just it was all about all kinds of things, but I did find a couple people uh to to talk with the game about, and I have to tell you what the conventional wisdom is down there.
The conventional wisdom is that the Indianapolis defense is is gonna destroy Wreck Grossman.
Yeah, well and they are expecting a route.
Uh I had I had dinner on Monday night with Phil Sims and Jim Nance, the CBS broadcast crew.
They came up for a uh night of revelry here at my humble abode.
And uh I I'm not going to give away what what what they thought.
They asked me my opinion when I said I wouldn't be surprised if the Bears pulled it up.
They were stunned.
The Bears just don't have anybody.
And when you look at the game statistically, if you look at there's no way the Bears win here if you look at it that way.
But you can't.
It's going to be rainy all weekend long.
The field will be covered, but it's going to be raining on Sunday and Sunday night.
Uh who knows how that'll affect the Indianapolis passing game.
Weather elements are the same for both teams, obviously.
But I don't know.
I I'm such I'm I'm so tempted to always go against conventional wisdom.
And believe me, the can't conventional wisdom here is uh is is Colts uh big.
And I just don't think the Bears are that insignificant.
Uh an opponent, uh I I know the NFC is uh is much weaker, but I'm going to withhold uh my prediction on this game until the end of the program because if I predict it now, there'll be no reason for people interested in that before they place their bets uh to listen to the rest of the program.
I appreciate the question, uh, but we will um you know there are other ways to look at this game.
This this game, folks, you know, people loves.
The people like firsts.
And this Super Bowl is got a whole lot of first ever in it.
I'll I'll I'll get into this a little bit later as the program unfolds.
David in uh Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Thank you for calling and welcome.
Hey Rush, it's an honor to talk to you again.
Um Rush, you know, with all the bullhards on the uh drive-by media pushing uh the the African American coaches and you know, trying to make something out of nothing.
You know, there it doesn't matter what the coaches are.
I mean, they're human beings.
But instead of environmental wacko pick, I thought we could have a diversity pick because they're trying to make such a big deal out of this.
A diversity pick.
Where's the diversity?
There's any diversity in this game.
I know.
That's why I thought we could uh there's another way.
There's no diversity.
Uh I don't know.
You know, that that's not a bad idea.
Yeah, I let me I tell you what, we're gonna call Joe Biden's office and ask his input on that uh in in terms of how he would look at this uh in terms of the diversity sweeping the NFL.
I was I was watching the commissioner's press conference today, the new commissioner Roger Goodell, uh and before the program started, it started at 1130.
And I I tell I've I've told you people that the sports media is made up of just as big a bunch of pansy liberals as the regular drive-by media is.
And I I swear, if I had a chance to be down there and asked questions to the the commissioner of the National Football League, they wouldn't have been most of the questions this guy got.
And to his credit, you know, he he answered every one of these questions as though the uh person asking the question was an Einstein with great respect and so forth.
Uh but the first question out of the box had to do with Lovey Smith and Tony Dungey being black and what this meant for the league, as though this hasn't been discussed every which way from Sunday.
Uh, I think it was Dave Goldberg answered the AP reporter.
Later on in the session, somebody stood up and said, Well, you know, this is all well and good.
We've got the first two blackhead coaches, but where are the black offensive coordinators?
And where are the African American quarterback coaches?
I mean, these two guys both came from defense.
Dungey and Lovey Smith came from the defensive side of the ball.
But we got more and more black quarterbacks in the league, but we don't have any black offensive coordinators and black quarterback.
Where are they going to uh it you no matter what happens, it isn't enough.
Uh but but but where the where where was this there's nothing but a social sandbox to these guys, a little social playground to many of these people.
There is some Decent questions asked too, but I'm I was just sitting here uh in uh in amazement.
So I guess if we wanted to do a diversity pick, you know, we'd look at these coaching staff, say, you know, are they evenly split?
Uh you know, how many different they have female trainers, assistant trainers, all the but I don't have access to that kind of information on the coaching staffs of both teams.
Diversity pick would be uh would be tough.
Environmental wacko method uh is is gonna be hard enough.
You get the big two animals here.
And you got the you got the bears, and it's certain kind of bears are stranded, they're so stupid.
They're stranded out there on a on a floating uh floating iceberg uh heading off into the melting sun of the equator.
Uh and the Colts, eh, horses?
I mean, look what they're all out of it.
Have you ever seen the way these horses have been humiliated in the Budweiser commercials?
I mean, I I it's much easier to control and tame a horse than it is a bear.
I mean, there's a whole different with a bunch of ways we can go with the environmentalist pick on this.
All of which coming up.
I gotta take a brief time out.
No, though, sit tight, stay with us.
All right, get this.
Democrat National Committee winter meetings taking place, trying to get the audio now, but we all we've got is uh uh a rough, unedited transcript.
This is Hillary Clinton within the last 15 minutes.
The same is true with energy uh independence.
The Democrats know what needs to be done.
We're working to push this agenda forward.
The other day, the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world.
I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative, smarter, smart energy alternatives that will move us in a direction towards independence.
I have to tell you, I'm not running for president to put band-aids on our problems.
So she's going nuts.
They are literally going nuts.
They are totally cracking up every day.
Now you've got Loretta, well, yesterday was Loretta Sanchez quitting the Congressional Hispanic caucus because the president called her a whore.
President of the caucus.
You got Biden and uh in his remarks, John Kerry goes over to Davos, Switzerland and insults his own country, the freest, most prosperous, most opportunity prone nation in the world in the history of human civilization.
Um they're engaged, they are immersed, they are invested in defeat of their own country in the U.S. military uh in uh in Iraq and in the entire war on terror.
And now Hillary wants to take all the big oil profits and put them into some strategic fund.
Strategic energy fund.
You know, how many times could you do that?
You start taking their profits, and if there's no profit, there's no reason to be in business.
This is this is academics 101.
Anyway, Rick, Fort Collins, Colorado, your next open line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, good to talk to you, sir.
I had two points today.
Uh the second one about uh liberals and war, but the first one about the caller you had yesterday who was very upset with the frugal illegitimates in the Republican Party.
He referred to them as cheap bastards.
Oh, yes.
Yes, well that was the minimum wage caller, a guy named Mike from Troy, New York.
Yeah, in a battle of wits, he was unarmed.
Uh he made a comment about how much money you make, and you said, Don't insult me.
And what caught me is from his liberal point of view, he immediately said less money than he first said.
Right.
And you said don't insult me, and he said less.
So he thinks it's an insult to make lots of money or more money.
Well, what about I don't think that.
I think you're overanalyzing.
The guy's just basically stupid.
I mean, his argument on the minimum wage is testimony to that.
He's just plain stupid.
Some people are.
I mean, there's nothing you can do about it.
You have sympathy for him if you want.
He's not my problem.
I really couldn't care less.
Statistically, we're gonna have a certain percentage of stupid people live in this country.
The more I'm the call here on the left, the happier I am.
Yes.
Well, uh, secondly, here I was uh reading a lot about liberals' reaction to 9-11, the war, etc.
You can't help but read it if you open your eyes.
And I remembered uh 9-11 on that day.
Uh I work in liberal arts field, have been doing so for many, many years.
I was at an institute uh in New Orleans teaching.
I showed up for Work and one of the custodial staff was putting up an American flag in the lobby.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
And let me tell you, I was so proud to see that.
And as I turned, I saw my immediate supervisor standing off outside his office around the corner, looking at it, glaring.
And he just says, Come here.
Come here.
And I come right over to him, said yes.
And he said, look at that.
You know what that means?
And this is before noon on 9 11.
And I looked at it, I just kind of shrugged my shoulders and I said, What?
And he said, that means war.
And we turn around stormed his office.
And I stood there realizing how alone I was in that particular business.
Raising the American flag before noon on 9 11.
That means war.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, the burning towers didn't mean war.
Race raising the American flag means war.
No.
I walked in, it was on TV in one of the offices I went through after signing in, and I saw the second tower, and I just shook my head.
I said allowed, build them back.
Exactly as they were.
And as one, everyone just turned and looked at me like I was crazy.
Well, I got to tell you something.
New Orleans is doing a quicker job of rebuilding than they are in New York.
Uh, for all the complaining and whining about how slow it is.
Uh school bus Nagan, it happens every time somebody says school bus Nagan in the middle of being assaulted and attacked for being incompetent and so forth.
So, well, wait a minute.
What are you getting on me for?
There's nothing but a big hole in the ground in Manhattan.
Everything descended on him.
Didn't matter if he was clean, didn't matter if he was articulate, didn't matter if it was a Democrat.
They just descended on you.
And he ended up apologizing, but he's right.
Do you realize what the the the politics that have gone in to reap the the freedom memorial?
They want to they want to put up some treatise to how we destroyed the country first place first place and we came and stole it from the Indians.
I mean, everybody with a grievance against this country wants to have a plaque at the Freedom Memorial where 9-11 happened.
In the meantime, I don't even know if we've settled on a final design.
You think they have, and I do too, but I'm not, I'm really not sure if they have.
Or if they looked at the final design and said, Yeah, that's fine, but then somebody said, No, it's not.
Back to the drawing board.
Uh I thought so too.
I thought, build them back just the way they were.
My first reaction.
By the way, I should have kept this.
I read this.
What was it?
Must have been last week.
Some architect scientist group said that had there been asbestos in both those towers, the likelihood is the towers would have survived.
Why don't we have asbestos?
Liberals.
Asbestos kills people.
Asbestos destroys people, just like we had to get rid of DDT.
Because pesticides were killing people.
In the meantime, malaria has taken over where DDT was once used and has wiped out millions of Africans.
Uh it's the same, it's the same liberalism.
We're gonna get alternative fuels, we're gonna use ethanol, we're gonna get corn, we're gonna have less pollution, though.
It causes more smog, we've learned.
Plus, we've got tortilla riots happening in Mexico because the price of corn's gone.
I'm sorry, I just can't help but laugh at all of this.
I just I just and then Lou Saban, the new coach at the Alabama Crimson Tide in trouble, caught in an off-the-record conversation on the internet calling an LSU guy coonass, which is which is a slur of Cajun people in Louisiana.
Uh, which I'll tell you, everybody's walking around just offended as we can.
We're just waiting to be offended at things, folks.
It's an atmosphere and a market in which I thrive back in just a moment.
Brett Favre says he's not going to retire.
He's going to come back and play for the Green Bay Packers.
This is great.
Now we got a full one more year of never ending stories of will Favre retire after this season.
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