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Feb. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, folks.
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I am Rush Limbaugh, America's ankle man, lover of other body parts on women as well, serving humanity here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, coming to you live from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I opened the last hour talking about exercise and diet and how you can lose weight without exercise if you diet.
You don't have to do both.
You can lose weight exercising too.
You're just not going to do it as fast.
When I learned this, I mean, when I found out you got to run an hour to jog off a 200-calorie dessert, you can't fool me that exercise loses weight.
Well, here's another related story just to show you how stupid the drive-by media thinks that we are.
This is from Health Daily News.
The signs of binge eating.
If you have binge eating disorder, here are the signs.
A person with a disorder often eats quite rapidly, may not stop eating when they are full, and usually feels unable to stop.
These actions often are a response to stress, anger, or being emotionally upset, according to the Niemers Foundation, whatever the heck that is.
And the foundation offers this list of common warning signs for binge eating disorder.
Eating very quickly, eating until extremely full or uncomfortable, eating large amounts when not hungry, being too embarrassed to eat around other people, eating alone, feeling guilty or disgusted after binge eating.
And if you are gaining weight rapidly, you may be binge eating.
Why don't we add another one to this?
This is so worthwhile, so timely, so informative.
Let me add another one to the list.
If all the food in your house is gone, you have a problem.
Brian, something's happened to compression.
I hear the room noise being sucked up in here.
I'm not complaining.
I love compression.
I'm just telling you something's different about the setup today.
And I know if it doesn't show up on a meter, the engineer says it's not happening.
I trust my cochlear implant.
I'm sensitive.
Well, what is compression?
It's hard to describe compression.
We in the broadcast community describe it as, you know, giant suck.
The room noise, the white noise in the room is what it is.
When I stop talking, I hear it louder.
It keeps getting louder.
There it comes.
There it comes.
It takes about two seconds after I quit speaking.
I don't know that you can hear it out there in radio land.
It may just something be internal here.
Nevertheless, moving on here back to the Democrats.
They gathered together in Carson City, Nevada for a so-called forum.
Democrat forum on, well, the campaign is supposed to be a debate.
You know what this was really about?
Hillary's loser stance on the war dominated the first Democrat forum.
As the frontrunner, Mrs. Clinton drew perhaps the closest scrutiny, as the L.A. Times reporting.
In particular, over the 2002 Senate vote to authorize the war, unlike others in the field, she has not apologized or called the vote a mistake.
Asked about that, Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut said Clinton will speak for herself, then mused on the difficulty public figures have acknowledging ignorance or error.
Given her turn, Clinton was asked by ABC's and the former Clinton White House lapdog George Stephanopoulos, the forum moderator, about apologizing.
My vote was a sincere vote based on the facts and assurances I received at the time.
She lied, adding that the most important thing now was to focus on changing the direction of U.S. policy.
There were no assurances.
We've got the soundbites.
The drive-bys won't play it.
They will not go out and repeat for you what her Senate floor speech before her vote was all about.
She said she independently investigated all this.
She's trying to now say she was tricked that Bush misled her and so forth.
We have some soundbites.
Well, we have a soundbite from Mrs. Clinton.
And this, of course, was about Obama and the little spat that has erupted.
I have to tell you something about this.
There's a cardinal rule.
What is Mrs. Clinton?
23, 24 points ahead of the guy in the polls.
And I've not totally abandoned my theory about the role of Obama in this campaign.
I'll get to that in just a second, explain that to you again.
But there's a cardinal rule, ladies and gentlemen, in all areas of competition.
And that is, when you're at the top, you don't talk about anybody else beneath you.
All it does is elevate them and make them important.
You ignore them.
You don't dare mention them.
It's only the riffraff at the bottom of the poll that starts squawking and making noise about the people at the top.
They're entitled to because they're at the bottom and it's not going to hurt them.
I don't understand, therefore, in one sense, although I do in many others, I don't understand Mrs. Clinton giving Obama the time of day on this David Geffen thing.
I don't understand it.
Ignore it.
Who's David Geffen?
All right, yeah.
But that's not the Clinton way.
You don't diss Hillary Clinton.
You don't disrespect Hillary Clinton.
You do not criticize Hillary Clinton.
You don't do it.
You don't criticize her.
If you're a Democrat, you don't criticize her husband.
If you do, you are going to pay the price.
Nobody dare, but it's a mistake for her to do this.
Now, my theory about this, and I'm not wedded to it, but it's a possibility.
Mrs. Clinton's the frontrunner.
She's come out of the gate, the frontrunner.
She's entitled.
She's presumptive as the nominee and all of this.
And you know what happens to frontrunners?
They generally fade because somebody comes out of the pack, big surprise, and knocks them off.
Bill Clinton was not the frontrunner in the Democratic battles in 1992.
He came from behind, had the Whitewater stuff show up in the New York Times, and Clinton showed he could defeat those SOBs.
However, he did it.
He showed that he could overcome this.
Hillary has to do the same thing.
Obama's out there as an, and now Hollywood, some parts of Hollywood out there is an obstacle for Mrs. Clinton to overcome, except she's 23 points ahead of him.
So I'm not saying Obama's part of this, but the way the Clintons are reacting to this, it is as though Obama's a serious opponent and she's got to knock him down to show she can do it, show other Democrats that she can do it.
What's actually happened is that you got people that say, gosh, I like this Obama guy because he's not backing down to Clinton Incorporated.
He's not intimidated.
He's firing right back at them.
And that's one thing he's got to do.
He's got to show he's a tough guy.
He's only been around, what, two years in the Senate.
Besides that, nobody knows what he did much.
Well, we do in the Illinois Senate.
Wait till you hear some of the things that this guy voted for.
All that's coming up later when it's important.
But right now, I mean, I got emails from friends of mine last night.
I like this Obama guy.
Oh, no, no, no.
Why?
Simply because you tell me the American people don't want to win.
The American people are sick and tired of Clinton, Inc.
The American people, some Democrats, too.
I read some Democrat websites last night.
They are sick and tired of the Clintons.
They're tired of dynasties, Bush Inc., Clinton Inc., whatever it is, and they like this guy, Obama, slapping back, not taking this.
Mrs. Clinton was asked about this.
Let's see, this is Stephanopoulos.
Your campaign's gotten in a bit of a press release scuffle with the Obama campaign today.
Began with comments by David Geffen, blah, But do you personally believe that Senator Obama should denounce David Geffen's remarks?
I want to run a very positive campaign, and I sure don't want Democrats or the supporters of Democrats to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
I think we should say, focus on what we're going to do for America.
And, you know, I believe Bill Clinton was a good president, and I'm very proud of the record of his confirmation.
Should he denounce me?
Does Senator Obama denounce?
Well, I'm going to leave that up to the other campaign.
What do you mean?
Leave it up to the other campaign.
Your campaign's out there saying he should denounce it.
What?
Are you not part of your campaign?
You got Harold Wolfson out there, or Howard Wolfson, suggesting that Obama's this or that should stop, should shut up, and should make Geffen shut up.
And he's also out there saying that, calling Geffen the campaign chair for the Obama campaign, which he's not.
And Obama should give back the money that Geffen raised.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
The problem is that Geffen's not the campaign chair.
A woman named Penny Pritzker from Chicago is, and she's part of the Pritzker Fortune family today.
They own the Hyatt hotel chain.
Last night on Hard Boiled with Chris Matthews, he interviewed the Hillary Communications Campaign Director Howard Wolfson.
And Matthews says, you find what Geffen said vicious, I guess.
I find it unacceptable political discourse, yes.
Our expectation was that Senator Obama, who is running a campaign premised on changing our politics, who has decried the politics of slash and burn, would denounce the comments, say that these comments don't represent his thinking or his campaign.
We were frankly surprised that he didn't do that.
It makes you wonder whether or not he agrees with them.
Well, what Geffen said was not personal.
What he said was not slash and burn.
What he said was pure politics.
Clinton lies.
Hillary Clinton lies.
They find it easy.
And frankly, they're reckless.
And I'm tired of them.
There was not a slash and burn thing is what I said.
You don't criticize the Clintons.
No, You don't diss the Clintons.
So Matthews said, well, Senator Clinton was on that panel today out in Nevada.
She was asked by Stephanopoulos if she wanted the Obama campaign to denounce the words of Geffen.
She said, I'll leave it up to them, but you're not leaving it up to them.
Are you saying what Hillary's thinking?
I'm saying what the campaign is thinking, exactly.
What's the campaign?
Senator Clinton's campaign.
Is that different than her?
Sometimes I'm going to speak and sometimes she's going to speak.
Does it mean that Hillary Clinton wants Obama to give the money back?
Yes, if the campaign, the campaign speaks for Senator Clinton and speaks for absolutely.
But she said today she doesn't care because she's in front of a group of people who have come to hear her and the other Democrats.
Wait a minute.
She can't be truthful in front of even Democrats.
She leaves it up to you to tell the truth of what she thinks, but she didn't have the guts to say it, and she wants to be president.
Mr. Wolfson, are you going to be the guy negotiating with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
Back in just a second.
Before going any further with these audio soundbites, and I've just got four more quick ones to do, and I want to get to your phone calls very quickly.
So if you are on hold, be patient.
Appreciate you're there.
But I've got to tell you this.
This just arrived in my email stack in my anonymous.
I've got a filter for.
You don't need to know who sent it to me.
It doesn't matter.
But it goes back to my stirring monologue in the first hour about how the American people don't want defeat.
The American people don't want to lose.
The American people don't want to defund soldiers.
The American people do not want to deny soldiers reinforcements.
on the battlefield.
They don't want to demoralize them.
As you recall, when the House passed its non-binding resolution against the surge, there were 17 Republicans that signed on with them.
One of them was new North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones.
Walter Jones has been given a lot of support from conservatives in North Carolina, but he's been very, very wrong on the war.
And we mentioned his name on this program, and I'm sure it was mentioned in a number of other places, too, after he signed on and flipped and went over with the Democrats on this.
Well, today, Congressman Walter Jones sent a letter to Congressman John Murtha.
He plauded his leadership in properly equipping and training our armed forces, but also urged Chairman Murthy not to cut off funding for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Now, this is a flip-flop without the flop.
Something has happened.
Congressman Walter Jones must have heard from the American people about this, certainly his constituents in North Carolina.
And I think this is a reflection of what is really happening in this country, not what the drive-bys are telling us is happening or what polls are telling us is happening.
Because if a majority of the American people, which would have to include some conservatives, really wanted the war to be defunded and for the military to be demoralized and for the surge not to happen and for no equipment and for no reinforcements to be sent to the troops, then Walter Jones wouldn't have heard anything but praise from his constituents.
But he apparently got enough grief that he sent Murtha a letter urging Murthy not to cut off funding for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Here are a couple of excerpts from this letter that Walter Jones sent.
However, I believe that we must take great care to ensure that any effort to provide for our armed forces not be used as a proxy for resolving larger issues concerning the war in Iraq.
Any attempt to starve the war as a way of bringing it to a conclusion, which is the bleed, the slow bleed strategy of Murthy's, rather than through a serious policy debate about the best way forward, would be wrong.
So Walter Jones wants back in on the Republican side on this.
He doesn't want to be associated with Mirtha.
This is proof, I think, of my point in the first hour.
The American people are not on board with the Democrats on this.
One more excerpt.
I have been and I will continue to be willing to hold accountable those institutions and individuals who have made serious misjudgments leading up to and during the war in Iraq.
But I also have assured the citizens of eastern North Carolina and our brave men and women in uniform that I will never cut off funding, never vote to cut off funding for our troops in the field.
So he's sort of flipped as far as he can here without being called a flip-flopper, but clearly he got a little grief.
Wouldn't have happened if the Democrats and the drive-bys are right that most Americans want defeat.
They don't.
The Democrat Party owns defeat.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Once a Clintonista, by the way, always a Clintonista.
Bill Richardson says Obama should denounce David Geffen.
Was asked this at this Carson City, Nevada forum yesterday.
Yes.
Because I think that if we're going to win, we have to be positive.
If there's anything about Democrats that in the last few years, being a governor, I felt is we just can't criticize the president.
There's plenty to criticize.
We should advance our own policies, our own solutions.
Yeah, well, do what you want to do.
But look at this.
Stop criticizing each other.
Stop criticizing each other.
Bill Richardson thinks that Mrs. Clinton shouldn't be attacked.
Here's Obama last night in Iowa.
He didn't even bother showing up at Carson City, Nevada in this forum.
Obama responding to the Clinton war room criticism, and he does not denounce Geffen's comments.
My sense is that Mr. Geffen may have differences with the Clintons.
That doesn't really have anything to do with our case.
I've said repeatedly, I have the utmost respect for Senator Clinton and have considered her an ally in the Senate, and we'll continue to consider her that way throughout this campaign.
Not backing down to the Clintons.
The Clintons have ordered him to renounce Geffen and give the money back.
And Obama says, no, not going to do it.
I respect Mrs. Clinton-Obama.
That won't buy you much with the Clintons.
And of course, Geffen also had to ream Carville.
He said he's tired of seeing James Carville on TV.
Carville wasn't crazy about it.
Wolf Blitzer said, James, what do you think about Geffen's comments?
Hollywood guy like that.
You try to get him to open his wallet and shut his mouth because inevitably he gets around worrying about he's going to make a fool of himself.
Geffen is a guy that as much as he knows about politics, he knows that little about Hollywood.
He knows that little about politics.
Somebody needs to say, hey, Bill Clinton has a 95% favorable among Democrats.
This Geffen-led strategy of attacking Bill Clinton to win a nomination is indicative of Mr. Geffen's political stupidity.
Well, interesting, isn't it, that Carville's advice to Hollywood guys, open the wallet and shut up.
Now, wait, they don't tell these people to shut up when they're out there bemoaning global warming or anything else, but don't talk about the Clintons.
Open your wallet and shut up.
Wolf then said, well, here's what Geffen said, James, about you.
He said he's basically tired of hearing James Carville on television.
That sentence is truly remarkable.
People would say, as annoying as I may be, how are you equating me with people like dying in a war?
I mean, it goes to, again, it just goes to show you that this guy lives in some world that is, how do you go tell 3,100 widows that James Carville being on TV is jealous, James.
He's jealous.
I'll tell you what, Mr. Goffin, you can have my TV time.
I'll take your money.
Wait a minute.
That was not a Brazil saying that Geffen is jealous of Carville.
How could that be?
They're both bald.
Well, shaved heads, what have you.
But once again, this thinks these Hollywood people are idiots.
They're eating their own, ladies and gentlemen.
They're eating their money bags.
Say, Ed, grab those Carville soundbites again, 9 and 10.
A couple other thoughts occurred to me during the break that I want to comment on.
This is Carville.
He was with Wolf Blitzer yesterday talking about the comments that David Geffen made about the Clintons and so forth after supporting Obama.
By the way, have you noticed?
Have you noticed that all these liberals are now jumping the black guy?
Here's Obama.
He's black.
And he's black because people make him feel that way when he was a kid.
Not black because he decided it.
He said this.
And all these libs are jumping the guy now.
Hillary's jumping on a black guy.
Bill Richardson jumping on the black guy.
I mean, if liberals were honest, they would get out of the way and let him have a nomination, affirmative action.
First black president and all that.
Instead, they're jumping the guy.
Anyway, here's the first carville bite.
Don't need to hear the questions.
Just a couple things occurred to me in the process of listening to these.
A Hollywood guy like that, you try to get him to open his wallet and shut his mouth because inevitably he gets around worrying about he's going to make a fool of himself.
Geffen is a guy that, as much as he knows about politics, he knows that little about Hollywood.
He knows that little about politics.
Somebody needs to say, hey, Bill Clinton has a 95% faith among Democrats.
This Geffen-led strategy of attacking Bill Clinton to win a nomination is indicative of Mr. Geffen's political spirit.
All right.
All right.
What's the message?
We're not supposed to attack Bill Clinton.
We're not supposed to attack Bill Clinton.
We're not supposed to call Clinton reckless.
We're not supposed to say he and Hillary are good light.
We're not supposed to do that.
No, Not permitted in the Democrat Party.
Here's the second Carville bite.
That sentence is truly remarkable.
People would say, as annoying as I may be, how are you equating me with people like dying in a war?
I mean, it goes to, again, it just goes to show you that this guy lives in some world that is, how do you go tell 3,100 widows that James Carville being on TV is it was jealous, James.
He's jealous.
I'll tell you what, Mr. Goffin, you can have my TV time.
I'll take your money.
What are we to conclude from this?
Here's what we're to conclude.
It's real simple.
We can undermine the troops.
We can undermine the commander-in-chief.
We can demoralize the troops.
We can threaten and promise a slow bleed of the troops.
We can deny them reinforcements.
We can deny them troop rotations.
We can deny them upgrades in equipment and armor.
We can lose the war.
We should lose the war.
America should lose because Democrats own defeat.
And we can unleash a genocide in Iraq by pulling out.
But whatever the hell you do, don't call Bill Clinton a liar.
You can say whatever you want about Bush.
You can say whatever you want about Limbaugh.
You can say whatever you want about the troops.
You can own defeat.
You can rip your own country to shreds day in and day out.
Don't you dare criticize Bill or Hillary Clinton.
That, my friends, is what you conclude from that.
All right.
I appreciate your people's patience.
Time now to go to the phones.
This is John in San Diego.
You're first today.
Nice to have you.
Oh, thanks for the leadoff spot, Rush.
You've been ankle-loving dittos from actually Carlsbad, California, which is outside San Diego, home of the Fighting Lancers, Carlsbad High, two-time back-to-back champions, Division I. Hey, yip, yip, yep, yip, yahoo.
It's also the home to Callaway Golf and Taylor-Made.
That's right, absolutely, right here in our hometown.
Okay, real quick, you're quoting one of our country's great warriors, General George C. Patton, when he said that Americans don't like winners, or Americans like winners, love winners, and will not tolerate losers.
And I don't think the Democrats get this.
And my other point is, I want to comment, if you would, on, I saw the Wolf Blitzer.
You had him up earlier on CNN, and I just couldn't believe this.
I mean, it is getting serious for me.
He has a so-called general, and they're questioning him.
They have a model of our helicopter out there showing everybody in the world how to shoot it down with a rifle.
Yeah, the Blackhawk, how they shoot it down.
How do they do this, Rush?
How do they get away with this stuff?
Isn't that sedition?
No, no, they have freedom granted by the Constitution.
It's not.
No, no, that's not the way to look at this.
Way to look at this is just observe it and see what they are doing.
They own defeat.
The drive-by is the Democrat Party, the American left.
The purpose of that is to show you how ill-equipped the United States is to deal with a committed enemy.
We just can't beat these guys.
Why, if they can shoot down our black hawks with a rifle and they can blow themselves and everybody else up with IEDs, how can we possibly win?
They're trying to demoralize you, sir.
They're trying to demoralize as many people, or as few, as I should say, as are watching CNN.
That's the point.
And I'm telling you, this is going to come back, and they're all going to rule it.
Look at what's happening to the drive-by.
Look at CNN's audience.
It's plummeting from what it used to be.
The New York Times, all these major newspapers, circulation is down.
Advertising revenue is down.
MSNBC can't get an audience.
I mean, they're being beaten by a combination of headline news and something else out there.
I mean, the American people don't want this garbage, folks.
They'd be watching it in droves if they wanted this garbage.
And this is just a symptom of what's going to happen to the Democrat Party at large.
They are sowing the seeds of their eventual landslide defeat and humiliation.
Understand it for what it is.
This is Abe, a cell call from DeForest, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
I think I've been waiting about 18 years to talk to you.
I got into your call screener once when I was in elementary or middle school, and I got too flustered and scared, and I hung up the phone, and I've been waiting about 18 years, I'm pretty sure, to get into your and talk to you today.
Welcome back, sir.
It's nice that you stuck with it that long.
Most people are only on hold for a couple hours.
You've been on hold for 18 years.
No, no, no.
But, you know, I enjoy the show.
I want to say mega dittos.
And I think it's going to be more challenging and fun to talk to you today about something that I disagree with you about than about the things that I agree with you about.
All right, I love that.
And so what I wanted to ask you about is the compact fluorescent light bulbs.
I think that, okay, I know that you appreciate things of quality.
And one thing that you're missing out on is the quality of light, because there are issues with compact fluorescents, that they actually provide a more natural sunlight effect than incandescent bulbs.
And I'm wondering if you've ever had the opportunity to appreciate that.
Well, I don't know that I would appreciate it if I ever saw one.
I've never been in the presence, knowingly, of a compact fluorescent light bulb.
Okay, well, you know, I...
That has been turned on.
I just don't know.
I don't even know what one looks like.
Snurling said it looks like a snake.
Yeah, they're a little spiral and they do fit in normal light fixtures.
And they actually do a better job of showing colors, making things look natural like sunlight than an incandescent or a habitat.
That's fine.
If you like compact fluorescents, more power to you.
Go ahead and put them in there.
You're going to need more of them than your normal incandescent bulbs.
That's not true.
Yes, it is that much.
And I'll tell you something else.
You can't use dimmers with them, can you?
You can.
You need to buy special ones, but they have dimmers with them.
I have them in my own house.
Oh, you have to buy special ones.
Dimmers don't work with the normal ones.
Look, if you want to do that, I mean, that's fine.
The only thing I object here to is, again, this myth that compact fluorescent light bulbs are going to save us from global warming.
That light bulb, sir.
Do you not find this patently ridiculous?
That light bulbs are going to destroy the planet.
Light.
Man-made light is going to destroy the planet and create global warming.
Do you really believe this?
And I will agree with you on that, Rush, but I don't think that you need when someone like you speaks out with so much influence, you discourage other people from exploring and finding out that they might actually like something better.
And the other thing is, no, it is false that you need more of them, Rush.
And the other thing about it is that are you a compact fluorescent salesman?
No, but I'm a home builder and a remodeler.
And so annoying.
No, no.
It is.
It says.
But I design for people, Rush.
And in my own home, I have a mixture of compact fluorescent and of halogen.
Let me ask you this.
They have their own specific purposes.
And if you ignore, if you ignore.
Hold on, Rush.
If you ignore either one of them, you're missing out on the benefits and the quality and the enjoyment of getting the best possible lighting in your house.
I think this is a crock, but you are selling them, then that's fine.
I appreciate salesman.
I am one myself.
Let me ask you this.
If I build a house and want you to do some work on it, and I tell you I don't want one compact fluorescent bulb in my house, are you going to still do the work?
I would still do the work, but I would try and educate you about the benefits so that you have the best quality house and that you enjoy it, Rush.
You're enjoying it.
You're not a contractor and a remodeler.
You are an advocate.
You've become a proselytizer for these things, which is fine.
And look, in all candor, if some people put these things in and they think they're seeing the colors in the room better, fine.
If they put these things in and the light appears more like sunlight, fine.
Get a suntan.
Get a sunburn.
Just don't tell me that I have to put these things in or everybody else does or the whole country does or we're going to kill ourselves.
I am not.
I just don't want to be insulted with this stuff.
I'm not going to ever own and drive, and I pledge to you today, I am never going to ride in a Prius or a hybrid, not to pick out a brand name.
I'm not going to ride in one of those things.
I'm not going to ride an electric car.
And I'm not going to exercise to lose weight.
I will exercise for other reasons, but not to lose weight because I don't fall prey to typical conventional wisdom that seems to seduce people into believing a bunch of gook.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
I think those of you listening to the program today would have to agree we have been particularly focused and brilliant today, stirring and uplifting.
You know, what do I have here on the roster of phone calls?
People don't want to talk about light bulbs.
I'll talk to you.
I just, some days I sit here and am amazed.
I wonder if I brought up Anna Nicole Smith.
We get some calls about that.
Don't give them to me.
I don't care if you get them.
I don't want them.
Brittany, all that garbage.
Paris Hilton.
What about it?
Look, ladies and gentlemen, I'm looking at all this stuff going on in the Democrat Party, and I've even got more here.
I'm not going to get to the soundbites maybe in a minute.
Let's see.
We've got Hillary again, John Edwards, the Brett Girl, twice, and Charles Barkley.
There is a real war going on in the Democrat Party, and the media is trying to underplay this as like a cat fight and a skirmish.
But I'm going to tell you what's really going on here.
The Clintons are ticked off because Obama may, in fact, be the real first black president, replacing the phony first black president, Bill Clinton, the whitest first black president from the scene.
Make no mistake, this is about the black vote.
This is all about the black vote.
The Clinton's, Hillary's not going to get anywhere without it.
That's why all these stories about, is Obama black enough?
You think these aren't coming from the Clinton War Room?
Ha, ha, ha.
Guarantee you they are.
Is Obama black enough?
This is coming to you from the drive-by media.
Is Obama black enough?
It's about the black vote in the primaries.
Look, somebody needs to ride to the rescue here, my friends.
I, as you know, have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
As such, I am prepared to moderate the fight now going on between the first black president who is a white guy and the first would-be black president who is half white and half black.
I can bring a perspective to this that perhaps the participants can't.
And I offer this my peacemaking skills to help the libs in this so that they end up embarrassing themselves further.
All right, Sandy, Oregon, and Jim.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Ditto's Rush.
You're one of my heroes.
I started my own business so I could listen to you more.
Thank you.
I appreciate that, sir.
And I am a pro-war libertarian.
And I think what Australia did on this compact fluorescent light is brilliant.
I wouldn't want to see us do it here because I don't like telling other people what to do.
Then why is it brilliant in Australia?
Well, it's brilliant because of the energy it's going to.
I don't support it, but I understand why they did it.
I myself went to fluorescent bulbs probably four or five years ago.
They were about seven bucks a piece at the time.
And I saved 15% every month on my electric bill, which is a substantial amount.
Now you can buy the darn things for as cheap as a buck when they're on sale.
So they're a great product.
They do give you better light.
I used to sell them 20 years ago when they were 26 bucks a piece.
So I highly recommend them for everybody.
And if you don't really look into them, it's not a very smart thing to do because they will save you a ton of money and a ton of energy.
I appreciate this.
I really do.
But I have to be honest.
I have had more people talk to me about these bulbs who say the exact opposite of what the last two callers have said, that they don't put out as much light, that you need many more light bulbs to equate the current light you have with your Thomas Edison jobs.
As far as saving money and this sort of thing and saving energy, that may be.
I don't know.
And if saving 15% on your electrical bill is fine, then do it.
Again, I just want to be very clear.
By the way, I find it a bit contradictory.
It's okay for Australia to mandate everybody in their country have these things in their houses by 2012, but we shouldn't do it here.
Don't quite understand why, if it's good for the Australians, a big ally in the war on terror, by the way, why it's not good enough for us.
My point is, when Hollywood activists start promoting these things and do so under the guise of stopping global warming, at the same time they're promoting these light bulbs, it's Lori David running.
Make sure you unplug your toaster and your microwave when you're not using them.
That will save energy too.
Who cares if the little clock doesn't run?
Who needs a clock on a toaster or a microwave?
Unplug every appliance that you're not using when it's not in use.
Come on, folks.
If you want to do that, fine.
Don't tell me it's that or else we cook or die from global warming.
Let me ask you guys on the other side of the glass.
Am I not making myself clear about this?
Well, then why are people continuing to call here and be so argumentative with me?
People who save their dinner.
Well, they think I'm wrong.
How can they possibly think I'm wrong after 19 years, 18 and a half years of being right?
Well, so what if I don't have, maybe I'm right in not having one?
I have dimmers.
I've got a light control system.
There's no way that compact fluorescent light bulbs would function at all in any of my properties.
Unless I tore them down and started over.
This is just absurd.
My whole point here is, don't tell me that this is the kind of thing that's necessary in order to save the planet.
If you want to put a light bulb in, fine.
Just don't give me this light bulb activism.
We've got enough stupid activism on a number of other stupid things without adding light bulbs to it.
Somebody just told me that these compact fluorescent light bulbs have mercury in them.
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