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Feb. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back.
Ladies and gentlemen, music lovers, conversationalists, thrill seekers, all across the fruited plain.
I am Rush Limbaugh, host of the program, highly trained broadcast specialist.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations here on a pardon the sniffles here, daily basis.
The telephone number, as always, if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882, the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Uh let me say something about these uh these uh compact fluorescent light bulbs.
I'm I'm getting deluged, deluged uh with email today from some physicists and scientists who are telling me, Rush, this is smoke and mirrors.
You can't put a 14-watt light bulb in a socket and get 60 watts worth of power.
You just can't do it.
It is not possible, according to the laws of physics and Einstein and whoever else.
In fact, let me find it.
Let me just let me let me go to this right now.
It should be right near the top.
Oh, and another another another person said you can't put them in because they create a buzz and it gets in the way of AM radio reception.
And then somebody else says they got mercury in them.
Uh let's see.
Then somebody, what's what's happening to you?
You used to be so humble, now you're bragging about the fact you don't need fluorescent light bulbs and so forth.
Uh okay, let's see.
This is not it.
Uh let me see.
Another guy says, I'm gonna go out and get some of these light bulbs because of you.
Still looking for this.
Why didn't I print this out?
Because I didn't think I was gonna still be talking about this.
That's why.
Here we go.
Hi, Rush, I'm a power engineer.
Follow this simple rule.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted into different forms.
A 14-watt fluorescent bulb will not put out as much light as a 60-watt incandescent bulb.
A power engineer.
All of that having been said, let me say this.
I know that there are a lot of you out there who sell these light bulbs, and you sell them because you believe in them.
And you sell them because they will benefit you if people buy them.
And you think they will benefit the people who buy them.
I'm sure that's why you're in the business.
You might be in the business because you think there's a big wave of purchases coming because they've been now included in the environmental disaster global warming, and people don't want to contribute to that because of their guilt or whatever.
If you are a salesman or a manufacturer, somebody that's in this business of manufacturing or selling these carbon fluorescent bulbs that have mercury in them that buzz and prevent AM radio receptions, if you do that.
I apologize to you.
I am not trying to harm the sales of these bulbs.
I'm not trying to talk anybody out of buying them who wants them.
It's a free country.
Get the light bulb you want.
Just don't tell me I have to get one when I don't want one because I'm destroying something with light bulbs.
Is this as ridiculous as this story out of Australia today that global warming is causing more fever in young kids.
But I apologize to any of you who are in the business of selling these things.
I've if if they're if they're new and and and fancy and have all these wonderful benefits that people will enjoy.
Reds are redder, blues are bluer, whites are whiter, blacks are blacker.
Whatever you want fine.
I just not trying to harm your business.
I'm not trying to harm your sales, not trying to tell people not to buy them.
I just don't want just don't want to get caught up here in another one of these massive media bubbles of conventional wisdom oriented toward panic with people buying things just because a bunch of wacko activists are out there suggesting that if we don't, all kinds of hell's gonna break loose on our planet, our country and so forth.
And Snerdley, I want you to keep an eye out in there for seminar light bulb callers.
Because I know what's gonna happen.
Even though I have apologized, we're gonna get seminar light bulb callers now.
And you know what?
I'm a big fan.
I've listened to Rush for years, big ditto head.
Only thing I've ever disagreed with Rush on is light vote.
Be on the lookout.
More on the uh the infighting going on now in the Democrat Party.
It's more serious, I think, than anybody believes.
We've been having a lot of fun with it ourselves.
Starting yesterday, we first heard about the Geffen Obama Hillary contratempts.
But I tell you, this is this is let me tell you what this is akin to.
Hillary's fight with Hollywood, and that's what this is.
A fight with Geffen is a fight with Hollywood, would be just the same as Republicans fighting with the evangelical wing of the party.
It's a very ominous sign for her that this is happening.
It is truly ominous that a major Hollywood mogul is not just defecting, but is openly criticizing her and her husband.
This would be uh think of McCain in 2000 in South Carolina, ripping Bob Jones University and Evangelicals and Pat Robertson and uh Jerry Fowler, whoever, evangelical worshipers.
That's that's what this is.
And if that were happening in the uh uh in place of this, you make book on the fact that the drive-by media would be talking about this a major, major rift, can the party survive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, what Mrs. Clinton is trying to do is to isolate Geffen and make him the only Hollywood guy, and they're tacking him, and they got Carville out there on him, and they've got Howard Wolfson on him.
They've got uh they've got uh Terry McCulliff, the punk, you'll hear in just a second.
You've got all these people out there focusing on Geffen, sending a message to the Spielbergs and the Katzenbergs and the whoever else is out there, uh, you know, both uh the management types, the owners, the actors, the key grips, the best boys, the whole schmooze.
They are sending a message.
The Clinton team is sending a message, it's gonna be only Geffen.
Uh and and uh they're trying to put this fire out before it spreads.
And the drive-bys are trying to downplay this a bit and gonna make it funny or curious uh or what have you.
And then you've got the the black vote is a serious component.
That's the the thing that Clintons need.
I mean, Bill Clinton's the first black president, it's a white guy, and he's afraid of the first real black president maybe being elected, who's half white and half black, that would be Barack Obama.
And now why do you think there are stories in the drive-by media about Obama not being black enough, as though Bill Clinton is.
But Obama isn't.
Do you think that just happens?
It doesn't just happen in Clinton Inc.
Also notice this.
Who instigated this?
Who really brought this to light?
None other than Modo.
Maureen Dowd of what?
The New York Times.
Now, Maureen Dowd is a reliable, whacked out liberal.
It's a shame how unhappy she is.
I'm tempted to think I could change that with just one dinner.
You know me.
I'm an eternal optimist.
Just one.
Just one.
Never happened, but we can fantasize.
Nevertheless, she's a reliable whacked-out lib.
She was the voice for Geffen.
She gave Geffen's words amplification in the New York Times.
Now, where's the New York Times going to come down on this?
The New York Times now in the middle of a rift between the Clintons and Hollywood.
I mean, I gotta get rid of her.
Don't no misunderstand.
Uh but I'm just telling you, this is far more serious.
And even though it's entertaining to us, it's far more serious than anybody really knows.
And this is why this was supposed to be Hillary's coronation.
This whole thing, this whole campaign, this whole primary season, this was supposed to be her coronation.
She wasn't supposed to have to answer tough questions.
She's on the listing tour, she's got the chat room there on her website.
She's not supposed to be dealing with any of this.
This this is this is not what was intended.
This this is a coronation.
She's angry.
She's angry that anyone would seriously contend her nomination.
And so is Bill.
This is about every bit about as uh much about him getting back to the White House as her.
Don't doubt that for a second.
Now, Los Angeles Times today, gentle jabs turned to punches for Clinton Obama.
And get this.
Her campaign chairman, Terry Terry McCallough, the punk, recently warned donors that Clinton would remember those who did not back her.
You're either with us or you're against us.
McCaulaff told potential uh potential donors during a dinner at the home of uh uh Haim Saban, who is a big Hollywood producer and uh big honcho of the Clintons.
Now, when was the last time we ever heard your with us or against us?
George W. Bush, George W. Bush, and the Wall, and this is after 9-11, and he was telling the world, you're either with us or you're against us.
You were the terrorists, you're against us.
What are the demoes a threat?
Democrats are just they were they were they were creaming over there.
They were just mad as they could be.
They could you don't threaten the world like Here's the punk.
Warning.
Warning donors that Clinton, this is Hillary, would remember those who did not back her.
You're either with us or against us.
Um you know, folks.
Warning would remember those who did not back her.
That's a threat.
Would remember those who don't what does that mean?
And whatever happened to diplomacy.
Has anybody talked about diplomacy in solving this rift?
I have.
I offered myself to mediate.
I am a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
I would happily bring my peacemaking skills to this fight.
Yeah, we can call the Palm Beach Accords.
They could come down here, we could talk at my estate.
If they want a carbon fluorescent bulb in the room, I'll make adjustments.
I'm not gonna alter my house, I'll bring in a special lamp for it.
But if they want, I'll even do that.
I will go that far for peace, the Palm Beach Accords.
But they don't want peace.
And they don't want diplomacy.
They're not they're not, when fighting amongst themselves, they're not utilizing any of the skills, requirements, policies, techniques that they demand the country use when dealing with people who want to wipe us out.
And the punk telling people you have been warned, Mrs. Clinton will not forget those who were against her.
I just hope Obama and Geffen know those places in Washington to avoid it.
All right, now I am being deluged with a tax on the power engineer.
Whose email I read about energy not being created, just converted, dear rush.
And this will this this is this is in the interests of uh of uh of uh fair free exposure of uh equal time, whatever you want to call it.
Dear Rush, I too am an electrical engineer as opposed to the power engineer whose nonsense you quoted a moment ago.
The power rating of a light bulb has nothing to do with the light produced.
If two bulbs have the same lumen or candle power rating, they put out the same amount of light.
The wattage difference is due to the fact that most of the power used by incandescent light goes to the heat.
The fluorescent lights are much more efficient and produce much less heat for the same amount of time.
All this confusion convinces me that most people, including you, Maha Rushi, are ill-informed when it comes to energy issues.
Use of these should be not be mandated, I agree.
There are times, however, when you sound like a Luddite.
Look at we got fluorescent bulbs in here.
These are fluorescents, correct?
And I like them.
They don't produce any heat.
Fine and dandy.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
They are not compact fluorescence.
I don't want to, I don't want to, I'm gonna ask, but I don't want to know.
Not on this show.
What's the difference in a compact fluorescent and a fluorescent?
I'm not against fluorescent light, you people.
Hey.
All right.
Back to the phone.
Shirley in Waldo, Ohio.
Hi, Shirley, thanks for waiting and welcome to the program.
Well, I'm glad to speak to you, Rush.
I just uh agree with you about um the Democrats owning defeat, but I would take it one step further.
Okay.
I would say that they have cost the lives of each and every one of our soldiers.
Because they have not backed our president.
And they and because of this, they have prolonged this war.
And they have enabled and encouraged the enemy to keep going.
Well, uh, I understand what you're saying, but th there's a key point about which I must contend.
They did support the war.
They voted for it.
They want everybody to forget this.
It is only when they decided the time was right to back out of their support for the war and blame Bush for the trickery when the body count got high enough that they took the current tack, which uh i is is akin to agreeing with you, but it'd be a stretch to say they're responsible for all the deaths.
Uh but but clearly the blood's on their hands.
That's right.
The blood is definitely on their hands.
I have a son who is three years from being eighteen years old.
I went through Vietnam.
And I blame the Democrats for that defeat.
And I'm just saying You should, and they want another one just like it.
I know that.
And I have a son who will be eighteen in three years.
And I do not want to send my son to a war that the politicians vote for, and then in the middle of the war decide, oh well, we're just going to get out of this.
I decided that long ago during the Vietnam War.
If you're not going to vote and stay committed, don't vote.
They're Democrats.
That's right.
They look for flexible positions.
They don't want to be tied down to one thing or another.
They can move with what they think public opinion is.
Well, I don't think the public opinion is there.
It isn't.
And I'm telling you right now, I think the American people are smart enough to see what's going on.
They are.
And the Democrats are going to pay a huge price for this down the road.
Some point.
They may win oh eight.
I don't know.
But they're gonna pay a huge price.
They are sowing the seeds for their eventual landslide defeat down the road.
Mark my words.
I I think so too.
But can I say something about the the thing that you said yesterday about the women who choke?
Women who choke.
I didn't say it.
Was reading an article at Slate dot com.
Right.
But I just wanted to bring it up that I think there's two women in history that didn't choke.
Golden Meyer and Margaret Thatcher.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
And they were in competition with men, but they were not feminists.
They were um they were conservative women.
I didn't know that they that that was the criteria that they were feminists.
It may not be, but it's a it's a lib publication.
Oh, okay.
Uh and uh and so forth.
But your your evidence is irrefutable.
I mean that you you cited two women here who do not cave, did not choke, uh in competition with men, bad guys or whatever, and I'm just pointing out they were both conservative.
Well, can we draw conclusions from it?
Yes, we can.
Well, it was nice talking to you, Rush.
I listen to you every day as I'm exercising at the Y and walking around and wherever I'm doing my errands, I'm listening.
Thank you, Shirley.
I appreciate it.
I'm I'm I'm happy to hear your thoughts on this today because uh I I think you are far more representative of the majority of the American people in this war than um than uh than than not.
Uh by the way, the staff and their side of glass is laughing because they think I'm gonna give you a little grief here about exercising because it's worthless if you're trying to lose weight.
I wasn't even gonna mention it, but I can't.
I'm not doing it just for that.
I'm doing it for health reasons.
Good.
Good, good, good.
Just understand you're not gonna lose weight doing it.
No, but my mother has heart disease, so I'm trying to prevent that for me.
That's good.
That's that's fine.
Uh that's absolutely r responsible and very bright, very intelligent.
Not not not condemning exercise here, just like we don't condemn the compact fluorescent bulb.
Greg in Houston.
Oh, Greg, I've got thirty-five seconds.
Can you do this?
You need to wait.
No, I can do it now.
Great one.
Yeah.
Since you won't ride in an electric car or in a co an electric car.
How do you feel about electric golf carts?
I love them.
You do.
Well, what's the difference?
They both have four wheels.
They're both electric.
Gotta be kidding.
The electric golf cart may go ten miles an hour max.
Well, but it wouldn't be practical for normal everyday transportation.
It's perfect for what is designed for.
Plus the wackos are not trying to make everybody drive them.
That's coming later.
Actually, they've made some inroads in old folks' communities.
Beyond that, no farther.
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All right, we got this big battle going on in the New York Times in the in the Democratic Party.
Clinton, Obama Geffen, right?
So how does the New York Times treat this?
Headline in both parties, 2008 politeness falls to infighting.
Gotta cover up what's happening in the Democratic Party.
This story is about the uh uh the the drive-by's are equating uh Dick Cheney and McCain and uh McCain's statement about Rumsfeld Cheney's response.
They're equating that to the uh uh the snit going on with Hillary and Geffen and Obama.
Uh and the story also kind of calls Geffen out for daring to bring up Hillary's baggage in uh in all of this.
Uh in addition, the uh this story also says near the end of it.
This is quite curious.
Obama has gotten under the campaign skin for weeks, of the Clinton campaign skin for weeks now, especially his free ride in the media, and Hillary's people were just waiting for their first chance to attack his image as Mr. Positive, said one Clinton advisor who is not part of the day-to-day political operation.
So the New York Times says Hillary just been waiting for this, waiting for the chance to go after Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, Senator Clinton in Miami aligned herself directly with President Bush on the issue of immigration, using a campaign stop in South Florida to highlight the rare point of agreement with Bush, whom she criticizes at every turn,
speaking to about 300 community leaders in an area with a large immigrant population, Mrs. Clinton snaked out a centrist position on the hot button topic, saying that she supported a pathway to legalization for the nation's 11 million to 12 million estimated undocumented immigrants, but only if they waited in line and paid fines.
She described her stance as basically what the president has proposed.
Now, wonder what wonder what the uh wonder what the left is gonna have to say about that.
They hate anybody in a Democratic Party agreeing with George Bush on anything, and the San Francisco Chronicle has a story.
Immigrant advocates blast raids, crackdown, city officials stand by pledge to give sanctuary to illegals.
Yes.
Bay Area immigrant rights groups denounced the arrests of illegal immigrants in the region, and they call for immigration reforms yesterday, while San Francisco officials reiterated the city's long-standing pledge to give sanctuary to immigrants.
Leaders of the groups assembled at a news conference at 16th and Mission Streets, called for an end to the um immigration and customs enforcement's uh agencies crackdown, which has resulted in the arrests of 13,000 people nationwide, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So San Francisco is going to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
Now, if Hillary is all for enforcing existing immigration law, she should be for this crackdown, should she not?
But she's not.
She's all over the place.
With uh, by the way, speaking, let me something else.
I've got this.
Oh, yeah, I've got you've got, folks, there's a group of kids out there.
Uh a group of students, I should say.
I mentioned them yesterday, the new NYU students who have this game.
Uh about about uh story too.
Where did I put this?
I thought I put it at the bottom of the stack, and it must be closer to the top.
Anyway, these NYU students who are out there uh having this game find the immigrant, and all kinds of garbage is being spoiled out.
They're racists, they're sexists, this is dangerous, we shouldn't be doing any of this.
This is horrible.
Um bottom line is these people need support.
These these students at NYU need our support in this.
They need your support because this is just exactly what should be going on on college camp eye.
Precisely what ought to be going on.
I guess I didn't print it out.
I thought I did.
Uh but they're they're facing all kinds of pressure and crackdowns, a lot of national media attention.
But this is gutsy.
This is a this is a Republican student club at NYU, and they say all we're trying to do is is create debate about the issue.
Because apparently debate doesn't exist in the classrooms of this university, and they want debate on the issue on campus, which is what I thought universities were for.
They open an at free exchange of ideas.
Of course it's not.
It's about uh indoctrination more than uh anything else.
Here is uh Dave in Pasadena, Texas.
Dave, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
It's great to have you with us.
Big and ditto is Rush from a long time listener since 1991.
Also a marathoner, ultra marathoner, and power plant worker, busy pumping millions of global warbing warming gases into the atmosphere.
It's a pleasure and an honor to have you on this show, sir.
Oh, I couldn't get that all out in one breath.
Well, you did it.
Frankly, I think it wouldn't be bad if the world got warmer.
The world's cold place, so it needs to warm up, especially in the wintertime.
Well, not down here in Pasadena.
The summer it gets pretty hot, 95 to 100 sometimes.
Yeah, but isn't that quite normal and natural?
It's been happening for many decades.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Many centuries, in fact.
Yeah, I want to talk to you about exercise.
I kind of change the tempo a little bit.
Yeah, now he's going back for those of you that I just want to set you up here because I want people to know what you're talking about.
I opened the program today with a new scientific research out there that diet and exercise are not necessary to lose weight.
You can lose weight dieting alone.
That's all it takes.
You can also lose weight exercising, it's just gonna be tougher.
Uh but you don't have to exercise.
That's probably true, but I don't recommend it.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not either.
This is the the point here is that there is see those of us who have battled weight problems all of our lives have been preached to.
You gotta exercise.
And I think no, I don't.
I've lost I don't know how many pounds without it.
Well, that's why you can't keep it up because you don't exercise.
That's not true either.
Because I know I'm not I know me.
I'm not gonna exercise enough that will allow me to eat whatever I want.
I'm gonna have to control my weight with what I eat, pure and simple.
That's true for 99% of the people in the country.
If you want to go if you want to run marathons, that's great.
I couldn't if I wanted to.
I couldn't when I was ten.
I'm not made for it.
You are.
That's great.
Not condemning it.
I'm just telling you that the the notion here that you can only lose weight by exercising is uh BS.
Yeah, that's true.
I agree.
All right.
Well, that's what I mean to comment on, so go ahead now make your original intended comment.
Uh oh, all I was saying was that you're joking about uh 200 calories, exercising for an hour to burn 200 calories.
And as a runner, I tell you, it it'll run about 800 for if I run for an hour, I'd burn about 800 calories, more or less.
Okay, then maybe it was you gotta run an hour to burn a dessert.
I don't know what it was, but some dessert.
But even so even so, eight hundred calories.
And you have and you're a marathon, you've got to run.
Not walk.
Not trip.
Nothing.
Well, plus you get well, the other thing is you get some other uh unintended brushes they're intended to consequences.
I don't I'm not disputing.
You continue, all I say is you continue to burn even after you're done for several hours.
Yes, but the point is, yes, all that's true, but you have to do it every day.
And some people just aren't made to do it.
Oh, I agree.
Well, I have a friend, uh Paul Westfall, who uh is a coach at Pepperdine, he coached the Phoenix Suns, played for the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns.
And when I when I met him and got to know him, I I when I watch a basketball game, what I marvel at is that they can constantly run baseline to baseline all the floor length of the floor and never get tired.
Yeah.
The fact they shoot and make point I can't do it.
I've never been able to the 600-yard walk and run in junior high.
I couldn't run the whole thing.
Some of us just can't do it.
So I'm I'm just being realistic.
You know, you say you go out and run for an hour and your metabolism is going to keep if i uh that's exactly right, but that ain't gonna work for me because I'm not gonna run for an hour.
And I'll tell you, even if I could, I wouldn't do it.
I got better uses for my time.
I agree, and that's I understand.
It makes more sense.
I'd rather have you on the radio doing your job.
Exactly.
But I'm not condemning anybody who wants to run for an hour and can.
I'm not jealous of you either.
It's not something I wish I could do.
No, it's an individual thing.
What?
It's an individual choice.
It's an individual choice.
No.
But that's why the health Nazis are trying to tell everybody that there's only one way to do things, and that's kill yourself on a treadmill, or exercise or do this.
And I I just, you know, I'm in a feisty mood today because I'm I'm just I'm battling all this conventional wisdom that's out there and all these and it it it wouldn't be so bad if the conventional wisdom types weren't a bunch of snot-nosed elitist know-it-alls.
Uh, just it it's it's uh it's an irritating personality trait, you know, arrogance and condescension and know-it-allism uh from people who don't know anything, especially, is uh is offensive.
Robert or Dave, I'm sorry, you keep running and you keep pumping those global warming gases from your power plant out there and call here any time.
We'll be back after this.
Hi, welcome back.
By the way, Ed may not get to the homeless update today depends.
It's gonna be tight.
All right, from the New York Times.
Uh New York, New York City tops eight big cities in taxes, according to a new study.
Uh as you know, New York City has long had a notorious reputation for high taxes, but an independent analysis released yesterday uh shows that uh just how much the city stands out in this regard, state and local taxes.
Excuse me, folks.
New York City swallowed $9.02 out of every $100 in taxable income.
This puts New York's tax burden far above those of the eight other American cities with populations over one million.
The new analysis attributed much of the disparity between New York and other cities to the exceptionally high costs that New Yorkers bear in paying for Medicaid, uh, which is run by federal and state governments but partly financed by the city.
New York City has its own welfare state in addition to the state and the federal government.
Now, what's the solution to this?
Well, uh Representative Anthony Wiener, Democrat New York represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn, called the report a surprise to no one and called for imposing hefty surcharges on incomes over one million dollars to lessen the tax burden on the poor and the middle class.
I guess it's it's not amazing.
When shown this report that New York outranks any other big city with a population over one million in tax rates and taxation, the Dem's first thought is to raise taxes even more.
The idea that they're gonna cut middle class tax rates in New York.
Fat chance.
Now, on the other end of the scale, this is from the Christian science monitor, no offense, uh Islamists.
Despite the ongoing costs of U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the outlook for the federal budget has grown substantially higher.
Tax revenues are rising much faster than spending, according to Treasury Department numbers released last week.
The recent trend is strong enough that were it to continue, the budget could move into surplus in barely a year.
According to one economist's calculations, already the federal deficit is shrinking toward about half the size that it has averaged since 1970, when analyzed as a percentage of the gross domestic product.
The shift reflects a strong economy with a higher incomes and corporate profits generating a bigger flow of tax revenue.
In turn, the Treasury's progress could help the economy by booing investor confidence in the nation's fiscal position.
Tax cuts raising revenue.
Where were we heard this before?
Faster than anybody predicted could be in surplus in the budget in a year.
Higher incomes, corporate pro yes, higher incomes and more people working, producing more taxes.
With lower tax rates.
McCain slams Bush on global warming and Iraq policy.
Arizona Senator criticizes White House decision making during a tour of the Los Angeles in Long Beach ports.
And he went out there and sang the praises of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Fine and dandy, Senator McCain.
Go ahead and slam your own president on global warming and Iraq policy.
After slamming Rumsfeld, just don't tell us that you are a conservative.
Don't try to tell us you're concerned.
Do whatever you want to do.
Try this.
Little more than three months after the anti-gun incumbent Mike DeWine lost the support of his conservative base and was tossed out of orifice in Ohio.
The AP is reporting that John McCain's decided Mike DeWine is the perfect man to lead his presidential campaign in Ohio.
Huh.
Don't tell me Mike DeWine is a conservative either.
That's just unbelievable, ladies, and totally unbelievable out there.
Mike DeWine is your campaign chairman in Ohio, who lost the election last uh uh November.
All right, Helen in Royal Oak, Michigan.
I'm glad you called Helen and uh waited.
Welcome to the program.
Well, thank you, first of all, for working for the benefit of our country.
I appreciate that.
But my point about this warming this lighting situation that no nobody seems to be bringing out.
About five or six callers back, this home builder said to you that if he built a home for you, that he would certainly try to talk you into uh fluororescent and halogen lighting.
Well, I didn't he might have said halogen, I didn't hear everything he said.
Compact, compact, compact fluorescent.
Don't anyway, I just want to point out a couple of things.
Um, as far as the halogen, I read in one of these scientific articles that the halogen is very hot, and sometimes it's behind a lamp is behind a couch or something or a chair, and it's so hot they'll start a fire, and start a lot of fires, so much for halogen.
But as far as the fluorescent, now there are these fluorescent bulbs that a lot of people have over their sinks, the bulbs.
And uh I read this that uh a lot of people stand over their sinks a lot, and the the fluorescent bulb is right in their face, and that it it leads to cataracts.
So I don't know if that's the same.
Well, there you have it, folks.
A halogen causes fires, fluorescent causes cataracts.
Right.
What more is there to be said?
Right.
Helen, that's a great contribution uh to your country.
Nobody nobody brings out a lot of things that they don't know.
That's why we're here.
You called and you did.
Thank you.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you.
Have a wonderful day and a nice weekend.
Uh, Robert in Naples, Florida.
About a minute here, sir, but I wanted to squeeze you in.
Hello.
Yes, hi.
Good afternoon.
You're on the air, yes.
Hey, Russ, how are you doing?
Fine.
Uh, just a uh question.
Uh, you said earlier that you believe the Democrats are setting themselves up for defeat after 08.
No, didn't say necessarily 08.
They may win.
I mean after 08.
Uh, yeah, if if they don't lose in 08, they're gonna lose the next.
They are setting themselves up.
Well, if they own defeat, they are they they they want this country to lose.
They're doing everything they can to secure defeat.
Uh, the American people don't want to lose.
The American people don't want soldiers pulled off the battlefield before we win.
They don't want the soldiers not to get reinforced.
Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine victory.
They are the owners of defeat.
This is not what the American people want.
They don't want to pull out.
They don't want reinforcements not to go.
And until the Democrats are sowing the seeds of their eventual landslide defeat.
I'm not saying it's going to happen in 08, but it will happen, and it's going to happen in a massive way, because they're not going to be able to point fingers at anybody else to for the blame that they have created, the problems they created.
Back right after this.
I don't think people uh understand how much exercise I get doing this show.
And they wouldn't believe me if I had told them.
Anyway, folks, see you tomorrow.
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