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Feb. 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
As you people know, I normally do not watch the epidemic awards.
I did last night, and I don't know why.
I I I don't know what it is.
Made me curious to tune in.
Man, oh man, that was the boring most boring.
Did you watch any of it, Snerdly?
What about you, Don?
Do you watch?
My gosh, folks, it was.
It was embarrassing.
All that talent, and it went to waste.
It was just utterly, totally embarrassed.
Well, you know that when Al Gore takes the stage twice at the Academy Awards, and those two appearances are the high point.
I mean, if it weren't for his Vericost Veins, the guy'd be totally colorless.
You know it had to be a totally boring night.
Anyway, greetings and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh T G I M, thank God.
Goodness, it's Monday.
We got a new full broadcast week here on the EIB network.
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Big news this morning, a juror was dismissed from the uh Lewis Libby trial after court officials learned that this juror, the uh she had been exposed to information about the case over the weekend, meaning she had accessed media.
The judge, Reggie Walton, ordered the juror removed, saying that what she had exposure to obviously disqualifies her.
The judge declined to say what information the juror had seen.
He then uh questioned the uh remaining jurors individually, saying that they had not been tainted.
He would allow uh deliberations to continue with eleven jurors rather than calling on one of the two alternate jurors.
Walton said that uh they should continue with their deliberations.
I will emphasize again the importance of not having contact with any outside information.
Now, there's some interesting things about this, although it's difficult to know what to make of it.
It's really risky to start trying to analyze what's going on in a jury room uh uh in a courtroom when you're watching the jury react to testimony.
But normally, I mean, I think I think uh the uh the prosecutor here, Mr. Fitz Fong, has to be a little concerned over this.
I mean, look at we what they've they've been out there based two and a half, three days, what it is it the uh something like that have been deliberately.
If this is just a simple case of lying to a grand jury, I mean you have to you have to wonder what's taking the jury so long.
If Libby lied or he didn't lie to the grand jury.
So what this means is to me, well, I don't know what it means, I'm I'm guessing.
Uh it seems to me then that the jury is probably looking at the testimony of other witnesses.
And if they are doing that, and if Capitol I, Capital F, if they are anywhere near objective, then they have to wonder about this case, as we all have.
Now, this is also interesting.
Uh Fitzfong wanted a 12th juror.
He wanted one of the alternates in there.
The defense did not.
The defense is perfectly happy.
They said to go with 11 jurors.
So that tells me that uh the defense team is uh obviously feeling better about the deliberations and the way they're going than Fitzfong is.
Uh and it could also mean that the uh uh the defense doesn't like the first alternate.
Uh so just go in and and federal rules require uh or allow for in this circumstance like this for a jury of eleven uh to continue.
So there's gotta be has to be some concern here because if this is simply lying to the grand jury, how do you I mean is this four hours, four days, two and a half days, whatever it is to figure this out.
I am just surmising here, ladies and gentlemen.
I will make a prediction to you, and that is that if this case ends up in a mistrial or an acquittal, we will hear about it for two hours.
Excuse me.
We will hear about it for two hours from the drive-by media, and then they will forget it.
They will drop it like a hot potato, forget that it ever happened.
Now, if you people will permit I have to share with you some of my thoughts of the Academy Awards, and I'm doing it from this perspective.
You got four hours last night.
If you're you're a business, you're Hollywood.
You're in trouble.
Uh Box office receipts are not what they have been in the past.
You've got four hours to make your case to the American people of the world about your business and about your industry.
That was the dullest, the most bo this was the third lowest rated Oscar show ever.
And I uh I have been told by a reliable source that uh has seen the numbers, the overnight numbers from city to city.
If it weren't for New York and Chicago, saving this telecast last night, they would have bombed big time.
Would have been the lowest rated Oscar show ever.
I mean, it was it was uh from from the get-go, something about it seemed like a high school talent show to me.
You've got four hours, and you have whatever you think of their politics, you have some of the most talented people in the country out there.
Every song was a downer.
Uh every bit was a downer.
The audience seemed nobody seemed happy last night.
Even some of the winners seemed to be a little perplexed and uh and curious.
I it was it was a strange thing.
I haven't watched one of these in years, and as I say, I don't know why I did maybe it was because I was hoping for an implosion during the two Al Gore segments.
He was called up there twice, folks.
And as I say, I mean, if you if if Al Gore's your highlight, you are in trouble.
In the entertainment world, if Al Gore's your highlight, uh you're you're in big trouble.
Now, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on it, because it was so bad, and I'm a class act, as you people know.
So I don't want to dance on the grave of this show.
But I do want to offer you a a little comparison here.
You remember back when uh oh, by the way, half hour news hour last night warned you people, I'm getting emails.
Hey, Rush, it was a rerun.
I know, I told you it was gonna be a rerun last night.
You people are gonna have to start listening more closely.
Next Sunday, March the fourth is the second episode.
I happen to think it's better than the first.
But anyway, remember when the uh first episode originally aired a week ago yesterday, and of course, here came the critics and all the people that uh the there were people that praised it as well, but the critics of sophomoric.
I could have done a better job than that.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
Oh my gosh, and I tried to explain to people, look, this is an evergreen show.
They had to shoot this six weeks before it aired.
There's not a not a whole uh uh number of ways that you could do specific issues six weeks out, because who knows what they are, and if you do six uh i uh episodes uh based on um um issues that are six week old, uh that looks old.
That that's that's not gonna do.
But, you know, I I'm watching the Oscars last night, and I'm thinking, no wonder these people mess around in foreign policy.
I'm to the whole Hollywood community, Al Gore, DiCaprio, all of these people had to be some comment about about being green environmental, because that's easy.
It is it flat out it's easy to go up there and start ripping uh uh whatever you think is environmental destruction.
And by the way, did you happen to hear Al Gore make a point?
He said that um uh people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis.
It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue.
I told you, I told you folks, this is a religious issue to these people.
The facts are of no consequence whatsoever.
It's a scientific issue, Al Gore.
It is not a moral issue.
When you go out and call it a moral crusade, what do you do?
You remove it from any kind of cost-benefit analysis or serious investigation.
Because if you're gonna plug it, peg this thing as something that is morally imperative, then whatever it costs is irrelevant, and whatever you have to do to deny people's freedom, that's irrelevant.
Uh and a serious investigation, we can't do that because we've got a moral crusade uh going on here.
Um that gives them the right to say, what, you want to examine our claims?
How dare you?
Are you a tool of the devil?
Why you must be a you must be a climate denier, which they are calling all the people who don't uh who do don't buy into this stuff.
But my point is it it's easy to get up there and pontificate on foreign policy or uh uh any other kind of political issue.
Doing good entertainment is hard.
It is very, very difficult work.
It's not easy, even for the people who are very good at it, and it looks like no effort was put into this last night whatsoever.
I also uh was reading a blog last night by Nikki Fink of LA Weekly, and she made an excellent point.
She says, My gosh, if you have a foreign accent tonight, the odds that you're gonna or no, I guess it was degenerous that said that.
Uh uh Degenerate Degenerate Ellen degeneris.
If you she said if you've got a foreign accent, the uh the odds are that you're going to win.
It was Nikki Fink who said after the first half hour, my gosh, we've outsourced all the makeup jobs, we've outsourced all of the lighting jobs.
Are these jobs Americans won't do anymore?
In Hollywood.
Here's a little montage of just how it sounded uh of the uh the announcer and some of the uh the the I go, who are these?
The the recipients, the nominees, and so forth, just to give you the international flavor of the state.
This is the first Academy Award and nomination for Iugenio, Haballero, and Pilar Velcalam.
David Marty and Monse Rebe.
And the Oscar goes to Guillermo Navarro.
And the Oscar goes to Gustavo Santa Olaya.
This is the most international Oscars ever.
We have the record nominations for Mexico here tonight, which is a huge huge thing.
Yeah, and they're waving little Mexican flags in the audience last night.
Yes, they were.
People were waving little Mexican flags.
Uh it was it was and then last thing I'm gonna say about this until we get to the actual Al Gore segment.
I'm not even sure I'm gonna do that.
Uh but they brought Jerry Fine Jerry Seinfeld out to uh uh what uh he presented the uh award for the best documentary.
And he was very right when he said uh for the five most depressing nominees tonight, uh, one of them's gonna win and blah, blah, blah.
And then he started telling a joke.
Now, this is some people say he was auditioning for the uh host ceremony duties next year, but I have to tell you something, folks.
Just purely in a business sense.
What he did last night was idiotic.
As you know, Hollywood is not doing well, the box office receipts are down, down, down.
Uh, and the movies that do well, the movies that really gross don't ever show up in these awards.
The movies that people really go see, they're never in the nomination list.
Well, what is Seinfeld gets up there and insults theater owners?
That was the crux of his bit.
Now, these guys, the theater owners, are not doing that well lately because the uh box office receipts are not the whole thing was just perplexing to me.
And there wasn't any politics, and except now, Gordon, there wasn't a whole lot of controversy.
It was just boring.
It was it was the the mood, the the attitude.
These people did not seem ecstatic or happy in any way, shape, manner, or form, and I thought it was quite telling.
Anyway, quick time out.
We'll be back and continue uh right after this.
Oh, this is incredible.
We got an argument going on here amongst the well, Snerdley, probably speaking for the rest of you in there.
Snurdly thinks that opening the show talking about the Oscars, and I didn't.
I talked about Libby.
Well, I let it end with the Oscars.
But nevertheless, Snerdley thinks that I'm attempting to broaden the base of the audience here at the expense of the base of the audience.
I'm just trying to stay in touch.
I know that a lot of people were gonna watch.
It was so bad, I can't.
It was so again it kept getting worse.
I don't know, folks.
I I I look at these things perhaps in a different way than than others do.
I look at this as I'm a professional uh media person.
This was absurd.
It was it was just I don't know, it got boring more I did it it kept getting worse when I didn't think it could.
Uh they managed to the the pace this the show needed a pacemaker.
I mean it was just it was in uh clist crystallized the problems they've got uh as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, let's go to the audio sound bites.
My name got thrown around a couple times yesterday on the Sunday show's first slay the nation.
Uh Bob Schaefer has this conversation with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Somebody like Rush Limbaugh might say, What you really did, you just went liberal on us.
What do you say in response to that?
And right.
I always said that you don't have to give up your principles, all you have to do is just serve the people.
And when you have two parties, you have to compromise.
It's that simple.
It's never our way or the highway.
It is working together and finding in the common ground and finding solutions.
The ultimate goal should always be what is best for the state or what is best for the country rather than what is best for my party.
That is the key thing.
Oh, man, So much to say here.
The problem is that what's best for the country is never what's best for the Democrat Party.
Or seldom, especially in recent years.
But what is this question from Schiefer?
Somebody like Rush Limbaugh might there's nobody like me but me.
And Schwarzenegger says, well, I always say you don't have to give up your principles.
All you have to do is serve the people.
When you have two parties, you have to compromise.
The Democrats don't look at it that way, Governor.
They look at it as defeating their enemies.
Do you know the interesting thing about Mrs. Clinton?
I I um and the way she has reacted to the David Geffen thing.
If you've I've often wondered, folks, and I have I have raised this uh question with you from behind the golden EIB microphone several times.
A question basically is why is it that no one in the Clinton orb who served with them for eight years in their administration?
Why were there no leaks?
Why have there been no tell all books?
Why haven't there been the usual defectors?
And I think we now know when anybody goes public and criticizes the Clintons, bam, here comes the Clinton war room, and it is out to destroy you.
They have instilled literal fear into the people who have always been on their bandwagon.
Uh and Howard Wolfson made it plain the other day when he's the punk uh who now claims he was joking, Terry McCallough saying, I was just joking when I said you're either with us or against us.
Uh if you're not with us, then we're gonna remember you, blah, blah.
He's not joking.
He's trying to back out of this by saying that he was.
But it's a classic illustration of the Clinton testicle lock box.
Uh where the media's testicles are constantly uh locked up.
Uh and I think this this is a great illustration.
How do you compromise with that, Arnold?
How in the world do you compromise there?
They're not interested in compromise.
They are interested in defeat of people who disagree with them or have different policy.
They're not interested in compromise unless they're forced into it because there's no other way out.
And how does that happen?
Through political strength, welfare reform, a number of other things.
The Republicans won the Congress 1994 and were able to force Clinton to go along.
Plus he didn't mind doing it because he was trying to phony triangulate, make everybody think he was somebody he wasn't.
Uh while Hillary and the rest of the administration out there doing all the dead serious liberal dirty work.
Another question about the Geffen kerfuffle.
Uh somebody helped me out on this, but and I I don't think you can find evidence of this for me, but did anybody dispute what he said?
When Geffen said the Clintons lie, uh and all the other criticism, uh, that Hillary is ambitious, that she can't win, uh, that that uh that Clinton is this and Clinton.
Nobody disagreed.
That is called a politics a personal destruction.
But nobody came out and said that Geffen was wrong about what he said.
They were saying, Well, he's wrong to do what he did, and then he started destroyed Geffen.
There was a page six, New York Post hit piece uh Saturday or Sunday, I forget which day it was.
Well, you know, Gevin's just jealous.
He's always wanted to be relevant and he's not.
He's just jealous of Ron Burkle, Clinton's big bachelor buddy, and they'll go horn dogging around town when Clinton's in Los Angeles.
Uh it was I read that.
No question to me, this came from Clinton Inc., uh, and this is how they keep people in line and keep them forever quiet.
The Sandy Burglars, the Richard Clarks, who who knows what they've got on these people or what they, you know, they'll they'll willingly go out and destroy people in public.
My point is with Schwarzenegger, how in the world do you compromise with this?
He says the ultimate goal should always be what's best for the state, what's best for the country rather than what's best for my party.
Well, if you're a member of a party and you really believe your party principles, or if you have an ideology like conservatism, and if you really believe that conservatism would be the best recipe for what ails the country, then why compromise?
You know, I I forgot just taking, you know, looking at myself personally.
I'm a conservative before I'm a Republican.
And I firmly believe that conservatism is the answer to so many problems in this country.
Why compromise with you?
I do think it's best for the country.
To me, it's one and the same.
Um, but the this whole notion of compromise for the sake of it uh is you know, it's it's it's it's it's it moot.
It it defeats The whole point of having your own ideas and your own principles.
Now, remember I had a little criticism of Jonathan Carrell on ABC last week.
It came up on uh reliable sources, Howard Kurtz talking to ABC's Martha Raditz yesterday.
Now Rush Wilmore was very critical of Jonathan Carr for coming back and saying, didn't we fail when 3,000 American soldiers were killed?
Saying, look, it's war.
People die.
casualties are part of the process.
That question is a difficult one to look at and say anything about the troop loss.
I I have a difficult time.
I probably would have a difficult time asking that question.
Notice the hemming and hawing there for Martha Raditz on my criticism of the question.
And I I know Jonathan Carl, and I apologize to him before criticizing, but the idea that 3,000 troop deaths in a war, 3,000 troop deaths in a war, four years equals failure.
Um that's a bit of a stretch.
It was embarrassing.
And uh Martha Raditz, I think, of ABC as well, uh, found it very difficult to defend the question.
Just wanted to point that out.
We'll be right back.
We'll continue in just mere moments.
Ladies and gentlemen, thanks to an exclusive relationship we have with somebody at the National Security Agency.
We were able to intercept a phone call from President Clinton last night to uh former vice president Al Gore.
Hello.
Hey, Al.
This is Bill.
Congratulations on the Oscar.
I knew you could do it.
Well, it was close.
It was tough to beat out documentaries like Sage Rush of the Andes and Socks of the World.
But you did it.
And now you're a star.
Well, I I guess I am.
Sort of.
Do you think I should do a documentary?
Oh, yes.
On the tsunami.
That would be a great idea.
No, I think the tsunami thing is all played out for me.
Well, what about the plight of the endangered Balahandro tree?
Yeah.
What about it?
Well, deep in the rainforest, the Malachandro Tree.
No, no, no, no.
I need something big.
Uh like your global warming thing.
Something hot, like uh teenage sexual promiscuity.
Uh study it in depth.
Find out what the root causes of.
No, I don't think that would be such a good idea.
Uh you could help.
We could watch hours and hours and hours.
Bill, uh, to make this a carbon neutral call, I I need to hang up right now.
Do you all see that uh John Kerry and Teresa Hines Carey have a new book out?
Or it's soon to come out, I don't know, on the environment.
On environmental destruction, on how we got to save the planet, global warming and crisis.
I kid I kid you not.
I read about this Marty Perts, uh, who owns and is, I guess, one of the big time editors at the New Republic.
Just couldn't believe it.
Uh the the the book publishers puts out this blurb, it's due this spring sometime.
And Kerry talks about how he used to, you know, get on hands and knees and go through the marshes of Massachusetts and dig clams and mussels and actually eat them back then when you could.
Uh and he is at one with nature.
He and Teresa writing a book with personal tips drawn from their own lifestyle on how to protect the planet.
That's not not a joke.
It's a it's not it's not a joke at all.
I want to go back.
I gotta play this this uh Schwarzenegger bite again.
Because folks, this is let me tell you I understand.
I want to play this again for you for a simple reason.
Obviously, more analysis by me.
But we live in times that uh people say we're too fractured, we're too partisan, uh, we've never been more divided, and we need to find a way to work together, to get together and find our common dreams and our common goals.
And it's seductive.
Uh nobody likes confrontation all the time, and nobody likes, you know, a constant battle for things.
At times you want to be able to say, okay, we've triumphed here and enjoy successes at the same time.
You don't have to constantly stay girded for battle, but it requires that uh if if uh if eternal triumph uh or long-term triumph is to occur.
So listen to the Schwarzenegger bite here again with uh uh Bob Schaefer.
Somebody like Rush Limbaugh might say, What you really did, you just went liberal on us.
Uh uh, what do you say in response to that?
And right.
I always said that you don't have to give up your principles, all you have to do is just serve the people.
And when you have two parties, you have to compromise.
It's that simple.
It's never our way or the highway.
It is working together and finding in a common ground and finding solutions.
The ultimate goal should always be what is best for the state or what is best for the country rather than what is best for my party.
That is the key thing.
I don't know what he's got against the why why be a member of a party if you're not willing for your party to triumph.
See, I I I happen to think that you adopt or you have a set of core beliefs because you believe they should triumph, that they should dominate.
Why compromise on those?
Schwarzenegger here seems to be saying that leadership is compromise, and that compromise is what the people want.
Not in his party, not in the Republican Party.
That is not what is wanted here.
That's not what Ronald Reagan said.
Compromise isn't a principle.
And principle is not compromising unless compromising advances the conservative agenda.
But when you're giving up some of your agenda to compromise just to get along, why big boo-boo, big mistake.
How let's just pretend for a moment that Arnold's conservative.
How how is the conservative agenda advanced by Arnold, proposing the most radical spending, taxing and environmental laws and policies effort?
Where is the compromise?
This is a this is an adoption of the far left's agenda, and it's being called compromise for the sake of getting along, putting party second, third, or fourth to the notion of the principle of compromise, and compromise is not a principle.
With whom is he compromising here?
Where is the principle?
How does it help the people?
How does all this help the people, as opposed to helping him?
And this is my problem.
I I told you the other day that we're in a we're in a uh tricky situation here with the Republican presidential field because you know all of the uh candidates have their their little camps among uh among conservatives.
And in order for conservatives to adopt any one of these candidates, you have to redefine conservatism in some way.
Yes, well, this candidate's not quite what we want, but that's okay.
Well, all right, fine.
But don't then call that the new conservatism, which we run the risk of doing here.
Uh and of course, with McCain and Arnold and and uh and some others, uh this this is what uh is now passing as Reagan conservatism.
Uh as I said, I think conservatism is good for the people.
I think it's the best thing that could happen to this country.
Uh and and what what's happening now here, unfortunately, is Governor Schwarzenegger is developing a habit of defining his political compromises, uh, which, as we can see, involve embracing the agenda of the left, and then assuming that that's what people want and need.
Uh, I understand he's in California, and I understand that California tilts way left so forth.
But he uh he ran as a conservative, he ran as a conservative Republican, and uh and and part of that is carrying that banner through the day and doing what especially he's got his second term now, so you know this is uh th this is when you uh when you go for broke.
But second terms always add up for most people a legacies.
Rather than an opportunity to, all right, I got I'm running again, I got nothing to lose, I'm going to the wall.
That's seldom is what happens in second terms.
Uh it's tough.
You know, and I admit it's very hard to work to take a principled stand and fight for it, and to explain it.
And the reason is that if you're a conservative and do that, you get destroyed.
You get tarred and feathered.
They come after you and they don't stop.
They never disagree with your policies or challenge your policies per se.
They try to destroy you personally.
They try to discredit you personally, and they will throw in little things about how conservatism is oriented toward racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and all that, but those are all cliches.
Those are stereotypical cliches that have been around for decades, easily refutable simply by looking at the conservative policy record, if uh if nothing else.
But I understand it's hard to take a principled stand and explain it and continue this process time and again in the face of liberalism and the drive-by media and the never-ending liberal attacks, and of course, in the uh in the course of setbacks that are going to happen, but isn't that what leadership is about?
Leadership is understanding there are going to be setbacks, leaders leadership's understanding that you're in front of the pack, you're going to take the spears, you're going to take the arrows.
Pioneers always do.
That's part of being a leader and keeping the troops behind you motivated rather than caving and giving in.
Look at anybody, anybody can embrace the views of their opponents and claim it as a compromise, and then wrap yourself in a self-serving claim that you're operating in the public service because you've eliminated tension or you've eliminated confrontation.
That's easy.
It doesn't take a leader to do that.
In fact, takes somebody who is oriented toward caving in.
And so rather here than really jump on Arnold because he is who he is, but this is an abject or object lesson here in leadership and compromise, and how when you when you compromise your core principles and beliefs and call that a principle,
and when you embrace the wackiness of uh of your other of your opponents' agenda, just for the purposes of getting getting long and and and easing tensions in conflict, uh that's dangerous.
And as I say, this is a uh I think a great opportunity for people to learn about this and how this is actually done and taking place and what the mistakes involved uh are.
Uh he uses this argument time and time again to justify his lurts to the left.
He's calling it, well, this is compromise.
I'm doing the work for the people and so forth.
But anybody could do this.
You don't need Arnold Schwarzenegger to cave to the Liberals.
Um what Mr. Snerdley is asking me a question.
Why do they always use me as an example when they are throwing uh questions at Arnold?
I don't know.
I uh you tell me why do they always use me?
Uh that's the All right, I wasn't gonna say it, but since Snerdley said it, I will repeat it.
I I'm my ego is such that I'm not a braggart as you people know.
Snerdley said the reason they use me in questions to Arnold, as Schiefer did here, is because I'm the only one in the national media on the national stage that has not compromised my conservatism.
So I am the standard against which all of these other people are measured in the drive-bys, according to Snerdley.
Sounds good to me, I'll take it.
Plus there's something else.
I sell.
I do.
I sell.
And so I'm not surprised I'm uh I'm used.
Anyway, my whole point here is that that what what what Governor Schwarzenegger uh is saying is leadership for the party or the state is not leadership, folks.
Leadership is not caving on your core principles just to get along, and then adopting the mainstream agenda of your opponent.
That is not leadership.
All he's doing is is adopting a hard left agenda and telling his party to live with it.
And uh leaders don't do that.
Quick timeout, Carl on Meet the Press next.
Stay with us.
All right, before we get to Carl Levin, and it was amazing what he said yesterday on uh on Meet the Press.
Oh, Washington Post has this story out there, folks, about how the Democrats are all upset at Mertha for blowing it, for blowing the scheme, for blowing the strategy.
And we got a story from Mrs. Clinton that it's also about Mrs. Clinton, also in the Washington Post.
Clinton fights to keep impeachment, uh impeachment taboo.
So Hillary's is going to issue a sweeping order throughout the Democrat candidates and primaries.
You cannot discuss my husband's impeachment.
Just issue these sweeping orders that drive by media, and any Democrat opponent just falls in line and obeys.
That's apparently um what she thinks.
And of course, that's the purpose of the testicle lockbox that she's had for quite a while.
But for the phones first, Don in Lake Rock Concamera, New York, I'm glad you called, sir, and welcome to the program.
Oh, crush, it's great to speak to you.
Thank you, Diddle.
Hey, I saw the I saw part of the uh Academy Awards last night.
I really had to uh get my uh snow shovel in Roxwalt ready for the overnight snow here in the Northeast.
But I thought it was highly hypocritical to call the Academy Awards a so-called green event.
When it's detailed on the Academy uh of motion picture arts and sciences website, how the Oscar statues are flown into the event on a special United Airlines flight from Chicago.
Look, you know.
Excuse me.
Uh I uh I uh uh the the finding the hypocrisy with this crowd is not difficult to do.
I mean it's it's uh it's all over the place.
Look at since you brought this up again.
I want to tell you uh audience base members, and I had intended to let this go after my comments, but when when Melissa Etheridge uh uh who's up there singing the uh nominated song, the title song from Gore's uh stupid movie.
James, you should have seen this.
I'm this this was the most they had this giant screen in the back, bigger than the screen I have in my in my home.
Huge, huge screen, and as Melissa Etheridge is singing the song, they put things up there like take mass transit and light rail as often as you can.
Uh and and other little tidbits of advice on saving the planet.
Now, this is the Academy Awards.
Plus the song is a downer.
I woke up, I I don't even want to get into this.
It was just a total, total downer, and all of these stupid things that Hollywood people will never do.
They're never gonna take light rail.
They're never gonna get on mass transit.
They're they're they're never gonna uh I I forget some of the other I'm watching this and I'm just can't believe this.
You know, Al Gore got at least three million dollars of free political airtime for his issue last night from ABC.
Uh and and the uh and the and the uh the Oscar group.
I mean it it was just but that was the one of the funniest things.
I'm sitting there watching this in stunned dis my mouth was actually open.
I'm my mouth was open for so long to the whole song.
I was drooling because I didn't have the energy to swallow.
I was I was in such stunned amazement at this.
I wish I could remember some of the other things that they had on the screen up there.
It was like, you know, don't use toilet paper, use leaves.
It wasn't that, but it was it was things like that.
And I'm I'm looking out in the audience, of course, and there's nobody in that crowd that's gonna do any of the sort.
Here, try this.
I want you to grab let's say audio soundbite uh grab number six.
You gotta get this.
Uh this is Joan Rivers last night on the TV guide channel before the Oscars started, and she's had this exchange with one of the producers of Gore's Idiot movie, Leslie Chilcock.
Leslie Chilcott, who is the producer of an inconvenient truth.
She is wearing a gown that is biodegradable.
Explain to me about your gown.
It is organic cotton and bamboo fiber.
It's a brand new organic bamboo fabric that just came out just a few weeks old.
Did you plan to wear something like this and you're just waiting to find the fabric?
Or was this just luck?
I was really trying to either wear vintage to go with the recycling theme or to wear something organic.
Bamboo fabric now, ladies and gentlemen.
You know, the panda bears, we're already we're already crowding them out with their diet with all the bamboo steamers that are out there now.
If they're gonna use bamboo and put it on women's clothes, uh it's gonna cause a shortage of the primary food stuff of pandas.
But this is all this stuff, and I'm just my head spinning.
But the the greatest part of the night was when all those idiotic little tapes of advice were showing up behind Ms. Melissa Etheridge warbling this stupid tune.
Mike in Pittsburgh, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, Chad.
Hey, um I'm listening to Al Gore last night, and he was talking about this, and and I'm repeating what you had said, um, this being a moral issue.
And I know myself, I have a couple of quads, and I have a uh pleasure boat.
And a quad.
What's a what's a quad?
Well, an ATV, a small, uh small four-wheel drive.
Um, one of these things you're running around on the beach with.
There you go.
All right.
And uh and I'm thinking every time I get on this, am I an immoral person?
Because I'm not using these for transportation.
I'm using them for fun.
I'm I'm burning fossil fuel just for my own.
Yeah, and you're disturbing disturbing the natural tranquility of the beach.
You're putting tracks in there and and uh noise.
Uh all but I'm also burning all this fuel.
Uh yeah, you you you're you're totally sinning.
You're a reprobate.
Look at I'm telling you, when you call it a moral crusade, folks, as Gore did last night, you remove it from any kind of cost benefit analysis or any serious investigation.
That was a purposefully used word back in a second.
I actually think they made global warming look like the joke that it is last night.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, folks.
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