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Feb. 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, folks.
It's a pleasure.
It's a distinct thrill and an honor to be with you here on the EIB network.
Rush Limbaugh, rock and bulwark of conservatism.
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I just had to deal with a sad disgruntled employee during the break, Mr. Snerdley, complaining to me that uh when I go into my global warming riff that the calls that come in are useless.
Uh and not that the calls are bad.
It's just they did they all day all they're doing is uh telling their own stories and they're being anecdotal and they're not saying anything other than what you're saying.
And I said, don't worry about it, Mr. Snurdley.
Uh global warming, this is one of these topics.
When I say something on it, there is nothing left to be said.
Especially as uh in the last hour spent the bulk of the hour, 45 minutes on the subject.
Mr. Sturdley was worried uh that he couldn't find any decent calls uh to discuss uh all of this, and they said, I don't expect calls on that.
What can there be to say after I've said what I've said?
And we don't, you know, we don't want to take calls from people say, yeah, Rush, you're right.
Uh it'd be nice if somebody called and said, Man, I never looked at it that way before.
But the one thing that Snerdley pointed out that's true.
Talk about the war, we got all kinds of libs calling here.
Talk about taxes, we got all kinds of libs calling here.
Talk about global warming, we don't get any libs.
They don't call to dispute.
They don't call to uh to disagree.
But look, I have long said, ladies and gentlemen, that when I have said something about something, there's really nothing left to be said, which is why sometimes I hold back allowing you the opportunity to say something.
Uh I know how it is.
It's very thorough discussion.
I that's why we have open line Friday, folks.
Uh and I I uh uh I I I told Mr. Snerdley, I am I I have taken this on now.
I have a goal.
I'm gonna beat back this whole global warming notion in this country.
It's it's it's just it is a scam from the get-go.
It is a repeat of several other tried and true liberal techniques over the years to instill fear and guilt in people that will make them accept higher taxes, bigger government, and a rollback of American lifestyles.
I have to share this with you too.
Have a friend responding to the Huffington Post comments that we shared with you at the opening of the program today, in which many of the protesters, or commenters, I should say, many of the people posting comments, uh expressed anger that Cheney had not been assassinated, and uh wishing the Taliban well in their next attempt.
Uh friend of mine in California has just sent me a copy of an of uh of an instant message chat that he had with a comedy writer of a prominent late-night American talk show.
He will not tell me which show.
Uh, but he said you're free to use this.
He said, just don't try and figure out what show.
I'm not I'm I'm not gonna tell you what show it is, I'm not gonna give you the guy's name.
It's probably more than one show anyway.
But here is here is what he sent me.
Comedy writer.
If Cheney wasn't such a pegins with a Ped, uh it'd get killed and bring some happiness to the country, and I'd have a much needed day off.
That bloated F word can't do anything right.
My friend, if you want me to think you're a vile scum, you're doing a precision job.
Comedy writers, not just me.
We all think it'd be a hoot if Cheney died.
My friend writes back, you and your ignorant pals who think global warming and carbon offsets are the issue of our times, and who ignorantly put head in sand while a global jihadist movement continues.
Comedy writer, nope.
We just want Cheney to die.
My friend, you're pathetic.
Comedy writer.
I'm hilarious.
I wish that bloated excrement was dead.
We all do.
This is a comedy writer at a prominent late-night talk show, and he claims that all the writers on this show have the same.
Now, this clearly, uh ladies and gentlemen, is sick.
These people have a hatred and a disgust for Cheney and probably Bush that cannot be explained other than that they're liberals.
It cannot be explained.
This makes no sense whatsoever.
This thir their day happens to be dominated by how much they hate people.
Which is why I've often said I wonder what it's like.
I can't imagine what it's like to get up with such anger and hate every day.
What must life be like?
Well, have you seen this AP story?
U.S. officers said Monday they had discovered a factory for assembling sophisticated roadside bombs from Iranian-made components.
First such facility uncovered in a religiously mixed province north of Baghdad.
The officers who displayed weapons for reporters at a U.S. base in Baghdad said the find provides more evidence that the Iranians are providing weapons used to kill Americans.
They include EFPs, the explosively formed projectiles, that fire a slug of molten metal capable of penetrating armored vehicles.
They've been blamed for killing more than 170 U.S. and coalition soldiers since 2004.
The display was the latest in a series presented by the U.S. military to bolster its allegation that Iranian weapons are being supported or supplied to Shiite militias.
Iran's denied the charge, and some private defense analysts say Iranian weaponry is widely available on international arms markets.
U.S. ordinance experts maintain the workmanship and component parts is uniquely Iranian and too high in quality to have been copied by Iraqi extremists without access to advanced machinery.
In addition, um they have uh captured an Iranian general, a cuds general.
They captured this general late last year.
He's still in uh in custody.
Now, I'm sure that the owners of defeat will find a way to explain this.
I'm sure that our beloved Democrats and comedy writers at prominent late night American TV shows will find a way to explain this away.
Well, of course the Iranians are there.
Bush is threatening to wipe them out.
Bush is threatening to bomb their nuclear facilities.
It's Bush Bush Bush.
Bush will be responsible for all of this.
Uh, in terms of the owners of defeat explaining this away.
And this is an interesting story, too, from the Washington Post, John Solomon and Matthew Mosk writing.
U.S. Senator Hillary Arab McClinton and former President Bill Clinton have operated a family charity since 2001.
But she failed to list it.
On annual Senate financial disclosure reports on five different occasions.
The uh Ethics and Government Act requires members of Congress to disclose positions they hold with any outside entity, including nonprofit foundations.
Ms. Clinton has uh served her family foundation as treasurer and secretary since it was established in December 2001.
The foundation's enabled the Clintons to write off more than five million dollars from their taxable personal income since 2001, while dispensing one and a quarter million dollars in charitable contributions over that period.
Clinton's spokesman said that her failure to report the existence of the family foundation and the senator's position was an oversight.
Yes, her mind was jello, jello, jello.
Her office immediately amended her Senate ethics report to add that information late yesterday after receiving inquiries from the Washington Post.
You know, the one thing we don't know about these people is 40 million dollars Clinton's earned, largely foreign sources making speeches.
But we don't know how much of that how much money has gone to the Clinton library and massage parlor, and we don't know how much of the money that goes to the Clinton Library and massage parlor might find its way back into the back pockets or the bank accounts uh of the uh of the Clintons.
Speaking of which, uh female koala bears indulge in lesbian sex sessions, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers in Australia.
The uh furry eucalyptus eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity.
In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Scientists monitoring the Marsupials with digital cameras counted three lesbian interactions for every heterosexual one.
Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in lesbian encounters immediately after.
On several occasions, more than one pair of females shared the same pole.
Pole.
And pole dance the koala bears are pole dancing out there.
And multiple females mounted each other simultaneously.
At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.
One theory put forward by the researchers here is that the females do it to attract males.
Another is that it is simply hormonal or that it's a stress reliever.
Now where does this come?
They do it to attract males.
That koala bears, female koala bears get involved in lesbian uh uh uh fun to attract males.
This is a classic illustration of how we humans project our own behaviors uh and instincts to animals.
They have no clue, ladies and gentlemen.
They can't possibly have a clue.
At any rate, a brief timeout will come back.
Your phone calls are next, so don't go away.
Folks, get this.
You all remember Max Mayfield, right?
Ran a hurricane center.
He retired on January 1st.
He's uh he's now uh under investigation by his former employer for possibly violating fishing laws.
That would be the U.S. government is investigating Max Mayfield.
Here's what happened.
Max Mayfield caught a 200-pound Goliath grouper while fishing with friends in the Gulf of Mexico a few days after his retirement on January 1st.
The boat captain and the crew slid the grouper into the boat through a door in the back.
They unhooked a grouper, they snapped a few celebratory photos, and they slid it back into the water, and the grouper swam away.
Sounds fine, doesn't it?
Oh no.
No.
Such photographs are common fare in fishing magazines, but since the Goliath grouper is protected, bringing one into the boat is illegal, even if just for a few minutes doing so can damage a protective slime that covers the grouper.
Mayfield said Monday he had no idea he had done anything wrong until newspapers published a photo of the catch, and somebody complained to the National Marine Fisheries Service, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the Hurricane Center.
Max said, I love to fish, but I haven't I haven't done any in a long time.
I don't know the rules.
Nobody in a boat knew the rules.
Tracy Dunn, who oversees Federal Fishing Enforcement Florida, would not discuss specifics of uh Mayfield's grouper because it's under review by the fisheries service general counsel.
Sanctions can range from a written reprimand to a civil fine for bringing the grouper into your boat.
Poor Max.
Working hard all those years trying to warn people that wouldn't listen to him about approaching hurricanes, catches this big fish, brings it aboard for photos.
Now he's under investigation.
By the way, Governor Schwarzenegger is going to put his jet on a global warming registry.
They got a picture of his jet here.
It looks it's a G3.
Uh I assume it's Schwarzenegger's.
It's black and red with the Batman logo painted on the side.
Uh here's here's the bar uh the uh uh plan.
Schwarzenegger, in order to offset the pollution created by his private jet traffel, uh, is developing a program that would calculate his carbon emissions from January 1, 2007 forward.
California EPA confirmed that they are looking at putting the governor's travel on the California Climate Action Registry, which would offset his carbon emissions by planting or protecting trees and other efforts.
Now the carbon footprint for this jet uh is eighty, seven hundred pounds of carbon dioxide for just a one hour flight from Santa Monica to Sacramento.
And so they're gonna they're gonna calculate the carbon footprint every time Schwarzenegger flies, and they're gonna go out and offset this.
And this is absurd.
To offset this, they're gonna plant some trees.
Or they're gonna make sure some existing trees don't cut down.
Now that's a real penalty for Schwarzenegger, right?
Here all these what five uh Western governors listening to hell with the federal government on this.
We're moving forward with global warming.
We can't deal with this anymore.
We can't wait for the destruction.
We got to try what we can do to stop it.
Now, this is how easy is this.
You don't reduce what you fly.
You don't reduce how often you fly.
You just calculate how many tons of pollution you're putting up in there and make sure some trees are planted to deal with it.
Folks, don't fall for this.
This is we've been flying airplanes and jets in the world for this is driving me nuts.
This is literally.
I'm gonna have to work hard to maintain my sanity on this because this is just it's just over the top absurd.
And one more thing.
This stuff just keeps rolling in.
Prince Charles today said that banning McDonald's fast food was the key to a healthy lifestyle.
His comments came as he attended the launch, excuse me, the launch of a public health awareness campaign.
Uh he asked the nutritionist at the uh Imperial College uh London Diabetes Center.
Uh uh uh have you got anywhere with McDonald's?
Have you tried getting it banned?
That's the key.
Royal observers said that Charles would have been aware that his comments would be picked up by the media.
He knew there was a reporter there.
This is subject close to his heart.
Banning McDonald's.
And they're going after Max Mayfield for bringing a grouper aboard a boat for some photos.
Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Harry, glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, good afternoon, Rush.
Uh yesterday on uh Wolf Blitzer, he interviewed the foreign minister of Iran who flatly stated that Iran had supplied the EFPs to uh over into Iraq and they were thinking about stopping it.
I noticed the drive-by media which attacked our military for trying to cast dispersions on Iran hasn't said a word about it.
Really, the Iranians uh said they were gonna try to stop it.
Yep.
They're thinking about stopping supplying EFPs and IEDs to thinking about stopping it.
But flatly admitted they had done it.
Yeah.
What was Wolf's reaction?
Uh surprise.
Surprised that they admitted it?
Yes.
I guess the U.S. military never tells the truth as just a propaganda bunch, right?
We don't only can believe it when the Iranians tell us.
Appreciate the uh update, Harry.
Thanks much.
Who's next?
Andrew, Dix Hills, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
On the issue of uh Mitt Romney being a Mormon, the other, in addition to all the things you you were talking about yesterday about the media, in addition, they've been trying to create this misconception that evangelical Christians will not vote for him.
And I tell you, as a preacher, Christian evangelical minister in the area, I will vote for him because he is a conservative.
And you know, Rush, on the flip side of that, uh, the other misconception is that Christians voted for Bush just because he was a Christian, and it's not true.
I didn't vote for George Bush just because he was an evangelical Christian.
Look, the drive-by media, the American left, have fears themselves.
They are afraid of a lot of things.
And one of the things they are most profoundly afraid of is religious people.
Uh whether you call them evangelicals or whether you call them the Christian right, uh, they're scared to death of them.
And the the the they have there has been an ongoing attempt, as I'm sure you know, to discredit these people and make them look like dangerous uh foods, comparing them.
I mean, you can find Rosie O'Donnell comparing them to jihadists, Muslim jihadists.
Um because it's fear.
These are people who have no belief in God.
Rush, yeah.
Why I'm sorry.
What why I'm on the subject.
You know, they tried to create this this image that Bush is, you know, you've heard the term uh messianic complex, and yet, besides the faith-based initiative, they cannot, you cannot, no one can name a single policy that George Bush has tried to implement because he's a Christian.
No, they here's what they think.
Um they they think that Bush is stubborn on Iraq and stubborn on the war on terror because he believes he's being guided by God.
They think that Bush is alone on this, and he's talking to God.
Uh and worse that God's talking to him.
And I think Bush is insane.
I think Bush is loony tunes.
Scares him to death that he would eschew all this expertise from the think tanks and from the Democrats and the generals and so forth.
And continue to plug away on something that's hopelessly lost, i.e., the war on terror and the war in Iraq.
Don't don't that's what their fear is.
Uh and it's uh you know, it's pronounced.
They don't say it, but I know these people, and that's exactly one of the many things that they fear about religious people.
Got a quick break here.
Stay tuned.
Exactly what we do here, make the complex understandable.
Um bites.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, first, authorities in London are considering taking an eight-year-old boy who weighs two hundred and eighteen pounds into protective custody unless his mother improves his diet, official said yesterday.
Social service officials will meet with family members Tuesday to discuss the health of Connor McCready, who weighs more than three times the average for his age.
The worst case would be Connor getting taken into care.
He is well cared for, the boy's mother, Nicola McCowan, told ITV Television.
Unidentified health official quoted as telling the Sunday Times taking custody of Connor would be a last resort, but said the family had repeatedly failed to attend appointments with nurses, nutritionists, and social workers.
The mother says, look, kid won't eat anything but junk.
I've tried to give him vegetables and salads, and he just, he spits it out, and he won't eat it.
What am I going to do?
He's got to eat.
The headline here, Britain may take custody of obese boy.
What's your reaction to this?
What is what would your what what is your gut reaction to this?
I will wager, I say frighteningly, that some of you think it's a good idea.
Government moving in, taking a child away from an abusive parent.
Be very careful, folks buying into this.
Your child could be next.
I mentioned earlier that the drive-by media was having quasi orgasms over the possibility that Al Gore would seek the presidency.
Following his big night at the epidemic awards, we have a little montage from last night and this morning of news anchors and reporters from ABC, NBC, CBS.
Here's how it sounded.
Al Gore won an Oscar.
So does he want now to win something else?
Gore is definitely the coolest guy in the room.
A bigger, looser Al Gore now rolls red carpets, and he's up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Which leads to the question will he run again?
Now that Al Gore's won an Oscar, people are wondering if he'll use it as a springboard for another presidential run.
Al Gore says he is not planning on running.
He's well known to be able to raise a ton of money.
So who thought that you and I were talking about Al Gore being hot?
He's not just another defeated presidential candidate.
He's an Oscar-winning environmental evangelist.
Yes, it's a religion.
He's an evangelist.
We can call Gore an evangel.
He's an Oscar-winning evangelist.
Oh, they're beside themselves at the drive-by media.
Now, what must Hillary think when she sees this?
Not excited with her, not excited with Obama.
Here is a montage of uh NBC's Andrea Mitchell and her report on Al Gore seeking the presidency.
He could be Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare by next fall.
A Democrat with plenty of star power, years of experience, and access to all the money Silicon Valley and Hollywood can offer.
It is the new Al Gore.
He is suddenly cool and coy about keeping his options open.
Flushed with the success of his documentary on climate change, Al Gore is the darling of Hollywood.
He is circling the globe, preaching the danger of global warming.
He's nominated for a Nobel Prize.
What some people may not know is that Al Gore is now on the boards of both Google and Apple with huge personal wealth and instant access to the richest and most powerful contributors.
And since his Academy Ward win, traffic on draft gore's website say the supporters is at an all time high.
Well, we wait here with baited breath, ladies and gentlemen, to see if Al Gore starts a diet.
Because the Hillary Clinton campaign says that's what they're looking at.
And I'm going to pay attention to anything else.
If he starts losing weight, that's what they think will be the indication he is going to get into the race.
This is a fascinating story.
This in the Los Angeles Times studies link big egos in youths to programs for self-esteem.
Growing narcissism could pose societal problems, experts say.
Here we go, another liberal unintended consequence.
All the effort.
Say they say no wonder YouTube is so popular.
All the effort to boost children's self-esteem may have backfired and produced a generation of college students who are more narcissistic than their Gen X predecessors, according to a study led by a San Diego State University psychologist.
The Internet, with all its myspace.com and YouTube braggadocio, is letting that self-regard blossom even more.
In the study released today, researchers warned that a rising ego rush could bring personal and social problems for the millennial generation, also called Generation Y. People with an inflated sense of self tend to have less interest in emotionally intimate bonds and can lash out when rejected or insulted.
And makes me very, very worried that Gene Twing, the San Diego State Associate Professor, who is lead author of the report.
I'm concerned we're heading to a society where people are going to treat each other badly, either on the street or in relationship.
What do you think is happening now on the street?
The narcissistic personality inventory asks students to react to such statements as if I ruled the world, it would be a better place.
The researchers seek to counter other theories that college students are more civic minded and involved in volunteer activities than their predecessors.
Where did all this start?
It's all started.
You go back to outcome-based education or any number of things.
The self-esteem classes and efforts in all of the K through 12 grades.
If you thought 2 plus 2 was 5, that was great.
That was fine until you learned that it was four.
You were never wrong because we didn't want to harm the psyche of our precious young people, the future of America.
So we never wanted them to be humiliated, and so the high achievers were sort of punished.
Low achievers were made to feel special, and now all this all these self-esteem programs have created a bunch of self-absorbed, narcissistic, egocentric college-age kids who think the world revolves around them.
Now, in truth, is that something new?
Kids thinking the world revolves around them.
There may be something to this.
I just often blanch folks when I when I read, here we are in the whatever, the billionth year of human civilization, and somebody wants to tell me something's new.
Ha ha.
Not buying it.
We've been through all this before, but anyway, it's interesting to tell you about it.
Katie in Lavonia, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, make a dudos for the stay-at-home mom, Rush.
Nice to have you on the program, Katie.
Well, thanks for taking my call.
I was calling because I wanted to comment on the Bob Bob Woodruff uh piece going on on ABC tonight.
I just thought it was a perfect example of the liberal media thinking they're the heroes of the of the war instead of the soldiers who put themselves in harm's way every day.
You know, um th there there that you you there's a grain of truth in what you say.
You gotta be very careful here because nobody is unhappy that Bob Woodruff is recovering from uh his his injuries.
Everybody's happy about that.
But we do not get stories of valor uh in the drive-by media about soldiers.
And we do not get too many uh profiles of the seriously injured and their recovery and the great strides they make.
We get some of that, but not more.
Normally what we get is how there are rats running around the hospitals.
It's Bush's fault.
Bush doesn't care.
Uh we we get uh that there is some sympathy for these people, but never valor.
But there is valor for injured journalists and their quest to return to normal and the hard work they uh put in during rehabilitation, and it is constantly chronicled, and we are we are asked to um have all this great respect and so forth, which nobody is denying the return to good health at Bob Woodworth uh Woodworth would rough.
But it is interesting that this kind of reporting does not make it uh and is not common with uh with injured U.S. uh servicemen.
Sheila, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Good afternoon.
I'm just driving my kids around and uh putting some carbon emissions into the air here.
I'm gonna go home and plant the tree.
And I just about spit out my Starbucks when I heard about that Arnold Schwarzenegger uh registry, carbon emissions registry.
I had no idea there was such a thing.
And I want to know is global warming going to go the way of such wonderful, uh important early nineties PC issues like homelessness.
I mean, I remember that being a huge issue 14 years ago back when I was in high school and college, and you don't even hear about it anymore.
I'm wondering what the fever picked up.
Yes, you do.
You occasionally hear about it.
Going anywhere.
Republicans are in the White House, you hear about it.
Um, it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
This they've been looking for something they get years and years, decades and decades of mileage out of.
Uh the the nothing is gonna deter this.
I mean, the the way they've they've got it set up uh is that no matter what the weather extreme, in whatever time of year, it's global warming.
It's the climate crisis.
It's something that's supposedly abnormal.
Uh and uh let me tell you how seductive this is uh to people.
I I can remember I was talking with uh with my brother the other night, uh chatting back and forth uh email, and I I uh I remember when I was playing little league baseball, maybe Baby Ruha, twelve or thirteen years old.
And it was July and all, and it was screaming hot.
And I remember telling my brother, you know, I I think it's I think we're getting close to the sun.
Seems hotter this summer than it was last.
And uh that's before anybody put the notion of global warming in my head.
Uh people just naturally are inclined uh to think in this way.
So now here comes all this so-called scientific research.
You got Al Gore getting an Oscar, uh Hollywood types, celebrities are always looking for an issue to make them feel uh relevant and to make them appear solid uh and uh concerned and and so forth.
This is made to order for them.
Uh and you've you've got the president, you know, moderating his tone on this, you got Schwarzenegger going pure liberal on this.
Uh there's a story today that four or five Western governors are tired of the federal government's uh uh laziness on this, and they're gonna go ahead and take steps to reduce all these uh uh global warming uh emissions and so forth in their states.
Uh it's it's g it's gonna be around for a while.
Uh it's you know, I uh I I don't I'm I'm not gonna give up trying to uh alert people to it.
I I've and I'm I'm not, by the way, giving up, period.
I'm just telling you, it isn't going to go away.
It's gonna be around for a while until something else comes along, or until I tell you what's happening in this, though.
The claims are becoming more and more outrageous and unbelievable, and they're becoming extreme.
And the like this newspaper story in uh in uh or the magazine story from India blaming the U.S. for all this is gonna this is gonna start to reverberate with more people, and there's starting to be more and more scientists that are popping up and saying this is bogus.
Uh so it's it's it's gonna remain as an issue that is uh that is argued about uh but the key is to keep an eye on elected officials to see which way they go on it, because that's where your taxes get raised.
That's where uh uh uh laws can be written to dampen the improvement of lifestyles or government can grow to fix this so-called problem.
So now this is made to order for big government types, it's made to order for liberals, it's a giant fundraising issue for the wacko environmentalist groups.
So it's uh it's it's gonna be around.
Just be skeptical of all of it because it's a scam.
Back in just a second.
Couple of things I mentioned earlier in the program, I want to give you the details on Washington Post's story.
Race and gender are less relevant in 08, uh, talking about here the uh presidential race.
Campaign 2008 has raised a question of whether voters will hesitate to back a major female or black contender.
But at this early stage, voters seem to weigh other criteria more heavily in determining which candidate they might favor, according to a Washington Post ABC news poll.
According to voters, a candidate's being over age, 72, or being a Mormon, or being twice divorced, or a smoker.
All are bigger drags on support than is gender or race.
In this poll, nearly six in ten Americans said they would be less likely to vote for an older candidate.
Three in ten less likely to vote for a Mormon, twenty-five percent less likely to support a candidate with two divorces, and twenty-one percent less likely to back somebody who smokes cigarettes.
There's only one person.
There's only one person who does not fit any of these profiles.
Can you tell me who it is?
It's Hillary.
They have they have wiped out McCain.
They've wiped out Romney, they've wiped out Rudy.
And they've wiped out Obama.
Because he's a smoker.
So the ABC News Washington Post.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
I just uh these people, they just they just amuse me to no end.
And uh the next story, by the way, in the stack here.
Boston Globe, big stakes as Obama tries to kick habit.
Barack Obama trying to get rid of a bad habit.
His wife has put out the word.
Anybody who catches the Senator from Illinois lighting up a cigarette should let her know so he can catch hell from her.
Well now, Barack, that's really gonna help the campaign.
Your wife's out there putting out a hit on you.
The wife's out there announcing that anybody catches you smoking, she's to be told about it so she can give you grief.
It's uh it's with this blend of seriousness and playfulness that the Obama campaign is portraying the Senators' efforts to give up tobacco.
The campaign knows that a president who lights up like Humphrey Bogart is a non starter.
But Obama's team also seems to be hoping that by framing his smoking habit as a matter of friction with his wife, who of course is only thinking of his health, they can take the edge off it as a campaign issue.
So they think you people are idiots.
These two stories back to back are just Washington Post, Boston Globe.
Washington Post wipes out every potential candidate except except Hillary, and now they're going to excuse Obama's smoking uh as a matter of friction with his wife.
Okay.
Roy in Huntsville, Alabama.
Welcome to the EIB News.
I could say more.
I'm I'm I'm restraining myself.
Roy, welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush.
Uh Global Warming Optimus Ditto's from Huntsville.
Thank you.
Huntsville.
I once had somebody tell me that nobody has rocket science, a rocket scientist in Alabama, somebody hates the South.
They said, Oh, wrong all.
Oh, well, we love it.
We've been here for twenty-four years.
Sure you do.
Thanks for the call.
Uh, I wanted to support your gut instinct on this whole global warming thing.
Um, you know, this the natural greenhouse effect that the Earth has is mainly water vapor and clouds.
And the weather has almost total control over the greenhouse effect.
It adjusts how much water vapor and clouds exist in the atmosphere to keep a relatively constant surface temperature given a certain amount of incoming sunlight.
Now, what I just told you, most climate scientists uh haven't ever thought that way, or they wouldn't agree because they think, you know, that the climate is like on a knife edge that if we push it in any little direction that it's it's you know it's gonna careen off in the middle of the city.
The whole environmental movement is based on the Earth's fragility.
Right.
And uh what I've finally decided after many years of this uh researching this issue and some other scientists, this isn't my idea, is what mostly controls the temperature of our climate is precipitation systems.
And it turns out that that's the one component of our climate that we understand the least.
And can't control and sp when you throw clouds in the mix, there nobody can predict what the cloud cover is going to be and what kind of clouds were gonna look.
Look, uh Roy, I'm out of time, but I want to talk to you uh tomorrow about this.
I'm gonna ask Mr. Sturdley if we can find a way to get in touch with you because uh uh you're gonna be a valuable resource here.
I appreciate it.
I gotta run.
We'll be back after this.
Sadly, uh out of busy broadcast moment, do you get Roy's uh phone number?
You gotta good.
We're gonna talk to Roy tomorrow because a genuine thinking researched scientist on this global warming thing.
See you tomorrow, folks.
We'll look forward to it.
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