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March 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Well, we have an hour of broadcast excellence left here.
Rush Limboy, your guiding light and living legend serving humanity, while at the same time utilizing talent on loan from God.
Still have uh Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Bill Clinton news today.
They got a percolating global warming stack out there.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Interesting piece from Robert Keg in the Washington Post yesterday.
The surge is working.
Drive-by media's continue to say, what's our plan B?
What's the plan B if the surge doesn't work?
And Kagan's question is, hey, drive-bys, what's your plan B if it does?
Hey, Democrats, what's your plan B if it does?
We'll get to that and a lot of other things, but by popular demand, ladies and gentlemen.
Deluged with requests for a repeat.
The Breck Girl John Edwards singing I Am Woman, the vocal portrayal here by Paul Shanklin.
That's the Breck Girl, John Edwards, the first female president.
Should he win the White House in 08?
The vocal portrayal there by Paul Shanklin.
Who, by the way, has a website, Paulshanklin.com.
We link to it at Rushlimbaugh.com.
You can hear many of his uh parodies that we have used in the past on this program.
Mrs. Bill Clinton basically said that she is JFK.
Uh she held a fundraiser with New Hampshire Democrats, the 100 Club.
Here is a portion of her opening remarks.
I hope the press was listening to Divinely Attractive.
Next time somebody says, you know, I wasn't crazy about her hair.
Or what on earth did she think when she put that outfit on?
I'm going to say, well, all I know is in New Hampshire they think I'm divinely attractive.
Oh, yeah.
Well, at least she didn't do a Northeastern accent there in New Hampshire.
That everybody's still talking, by the way, about her um her attempted black combo southern dialect uh down in Selma last Sunday, two Sundays ago.
This, after she, you know, jokes around about being divinely attractive, this is uh uh the bite of which she compares herself to the divinely attractive JFK.
There are some who say America isn't ready for a woman to be elected president.
What about John Edwards?
Well, that may sound familiar.
People in New Hampshire came together to offer their support for a presidential candidate who came from just south of here.
He was smart, he was dynamic, and he was Catholic.
And a lot of people back then said America will never elect a Catholic as president.
But those who gathered here knew better.
They believed America was bigger than that, and that Americans would give Senator John F. Kennedy a fair shake.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
And there you have it, Mrs. Bill Clinton comparing herself to JFK in New Hampshire.
There's an interesting story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
It ran yesterday.
The headline, Women No Sure Bet for Clinton.
The subheadline is despite her appeals for sisterhood, female loyalty split.
Let me summarize this article for you.
As a group, according to this article, as a group, women may not support Hillary just because she's a woman.
And some Democrat women are even supporting John Edwards over Hillary, like Kate Michaelman, because he would be a more legitimate first female president than she would.
According to Kate Michaelman of NARA, well, formerly of NARO.
Now, I think it's an insulting drive-by assumption that women are politically so simple and that their gender will play the dominant role in determining which candidate they'll support for I went to a dinner party last night.
I didn't have one, I was at one last night.
And for a while I thought I was back in Connecticut.
You know, this doom and gloom and paranoia.
What about Hillary?
What about Hillary?
None of the women there want the slightest thing to do with Mrs. Clinton.
Not a thing.
And yet there is the presumption to the drive-bys that she's automatically going to get the women's vote because women, of course, stick together and they understand that a woman can better represent a woman than any other man can.
Uh blah, blah, blah.
But you know, the the job of president uh too important to be subjected to the race and gender minutiae that often overtake more important uh political discussions.
You know, for a long time it seemed that Hillary was uh playing I'm sorry, that's right.
It's hard to break old habits.
For a long time it seemed that Mrs. Bill Clinton had played down her gender.
Uh and I think one of the reasons was that we were at war.
Being a woman might be seen as being too soft for the job, but now suddenly all of a sudden she's playing up her divine attractiveness and her outfits and what she wears, i.e., pantsuits.
Uh and if you know Clinton Inc.
like I know Clinton Inc., they don't do anything without focus groups and polls.
So what this obviously means is that her polls are indicating that it's a matter of necessity to go out there and be a girl.
Because they're having trouble attracting women.
It doesn't surprise me.
Gosh, I gotta get myself in so much trouble here.
But I mean, I this the the the idea that women are going to automatically support it.
Whoever said this does not know women and does not understand even the basics.
And by I am no expert, and I will be the first to say.
So don't misunderstand me here.
But I'll tell you what, men just don't see it.
They're too busy watching one woman to see what all the other women are seeing when they look at the one woman they're looking at.
And you can see you walk down the street and some all the guys are looking at some shapely thing strutting down the street.
All the other women are looking at her too with daggers in her eyes, but the men never see it because they're watching the woman.
Telling you folks, it's the Queen Bee syndrome and jealousy, all these things out there.
You don't think Nancy Pelosi would love for Hillary to be taken down a peg or two?
Those two are in a battle for who's going to run Washington.
And if Hillary becomes president, Pelosi, Mrs. Bill Clinton becomes president and Pelosi's chopped liver.
Uh I'm just I say anyway, the the notion that there would be blanket automatic support based on gender has always been uh ridiculous uh to me.
I think if you look at Mrs. Bill Clinton, she sees that she's losing uh black support to uh Barack Obama big time.
Uh they got Al Sharpton out there now trying to backstab Obama.
He's jealous because Obama's getting all this attention, and as Sharpton's out there telling his buddies Obama's not down for the struggle.
Obama doesn't know anything about the community.
Obama hasn't been into community.
He can go down to Selman say befoe, but he doesn't know the community.
And Rebra now owns the community.
So he'll probably become allies here and try and take Barry out.
Uh so she has to redefine herself as an exciting first to counter the greater sense of electricity that's around Barry.
In fact, it I've got a story in the stack here.
This this speech that uh we just played these sound bites from up in New Hampshire.
Story I have says the electricity in the room for Mrs. Bill Clinton was nothing compared to what it was when Barack Obama was here some weeks ago.
Not even close.
It wasn't even close.
It was sort of a dull, polite group, but when Obama was there, it was like rock star status.
Rockstar status does not greet Mrs. Bill Clinton when she shows up anywhere.
Because more and more people are beginning to figure out that she's just a candidate of inevitability, a candidate of entitlement.
More people starting to ask themselves, and I'm gonna ask you, what in the world is it that qualifies her?
What is it that recommends her to become president?
What has she done?
This is not a gender-based comment.
I'm looking at a human being in the political process.
What has she done that would force or cause people to say we want Mrs. Bill Clinton?
We want Miss Nothing.
She's being forced on them almost as though she's entitled for all the dirt she had to swallow while picking up after her husband, Mr. Bill Clinton, on his road to the White House.
Now it's just simply her turn.
She's owed this.
Because she gave up a great feminist life of individuality in her own career, subordinated herself to him, had to become the breadwinner, had to tolerate all the philandering and all the other things that went on, not just in Arkansas.
It's bad enough she had to go there, but to have to put up with that stuff in Washington, D.C., maintain a stiff upper lip, uh upper lip and so forth.
Her candidacy is just one of inevitability and and uh by the way, speaking of feminism, they're haunt a whole lot of women who think that she did honorable things by continuing to eat all that dirt.
Where was your self-respect, Mrs. Clinton?
They understand stayed with the dog in order to get to the dog house.
Plan always was hitch her wagon to slick Willie, and then when he got where he was going, take over.
And uh that's why she ate all the dirt, so she'd have an entitlement to it.
Anyway, because this focus group data, because uh Barack Obama is really genuinely exciting people, Hillary's falling back now on the gender card.
She's first, and she's the modern-day equivalent of uh JFK.
The dirty little reality is that uh the Brett girl has half a Hillary's women, Barack Obama's making inroads into Hillary's African American vote, not looking good out there.
We will link to this story.
It's by Carla Marinucci.
So you can uh read the entire thing.
Back in just a second, folks.
Stay with us.
Uh global warming update stack coming up in the next half hour.
It includes news of John Carey, death threats, another world leader is compared global warming to a religion.
And even ABC News.com points out that it is not a crisis.
Gallup has a poll, says that most Americans are sort of ho-hum about global warming, not in any big hurry to do anything about it.
All the details soon.
In the meantime, Maryville, Tennessee.
This is Diana.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
Um the other caller, the uh the male caller said that you enjoyed talking to women, but I don't think you're gonna enjoy my call.
Uh I just think that that uh you're a butt.
I've I have listened to you for a long time, and I I agree with you, and I try my best to I've tried my best to like you.
I am not a uh a leftist, I am a thinking human being, and I am feminine, not feminist, and so uh but the woman that called uh Barbara called and uh you you were awful to her.
I don't think usually I'm pretty perceptive and uh Why did that why did that call stand out to you as me being a butt?
Just the way you talk to her.
I'm not gonna be able to do it.
Yeah, but you know why.
You know why it stood out?
Is because I'm not a butt.
And so when I act like a butt your term, it stands out.
So this is a Well, I could have said first call I've had what what did well you can say No, you don't have to blip that.
She said, folks, she called me one of those.
Call her said it, not me, we're repeating it.
You can say whatever you want, but whatever.
It doesn't matter.
The point is I'm not that.
So when you thought I was, and you listen regularly, it stands out.
So you have to call in and uh and make the point.
That's why it stood out to you.
The woman frustrated me.
Well, she she was trying to defend our country, it seemed to me.
Now I may be wrong, but you know, well she because people uh companies have and I can't name them, but companies have taken their their business elsewhere and and uh have left a lot of people without jobs.
And she wasn't even talking about oil.
I agree with you about oil.
We've got oil right here that we we need to use, but because of the stupid environmentalist wackos, you know, we w we're we can't use it and that's what I'm saying.
Well, exactly.
But she she was out there blaming Halliburton, and she wants the government to force Hallibur.
Do you realize don't you understand the import of that statement?
The woman is a walking talking receptacle for propaganda offered by the left.
Sometimes it takes shock therapy to get through to people.
I was trying to help her.
Well, maybe, you know, I like I said, I can usually tell when uh callers call, and I can usually tell when they're seminar callers and and uh when they're total leftists, but she just she didn't seem like that to me.
She seemed like that she was trying to uh stand up for our country and and you just you just slapped her in the face.
I did not.
Yes, you did.
No, I didn't slap her in the face.
Yes, she did.
Yeah, not even euphemistically.
Not even metaphorically, not even in a pretend way, did I do that?
It was but I'm I'm telling you, she mu you she must m she might have been standing up for the country, but uh you really put me on the spot here.
Ignorant about it.
You know, and I I've I'm not i it it it's difficult here, you know, somebody can call and tell me the the earth's flat.
Am I am I supposed to sit here and ask them why they think it?
Well, of course not.
Well uh I just you know I've I I look it, I understand why you feel this way because I so rarely uh react that way.
But the woman wasn't interested in the conversation either.
It was rather well, that's true.
And and I was I was I did my best to try to uh to try to persuade her that that she just needs to open her mind.
I thought I was very uh uh nice, in fact.
I d sh she is after her call, I said look at you some of you people you can think you don't think you it it's not it it's hard, but it you open your mind, become skeptical about certain things.
Well, it just seemed like to me she was thinking, but she did have her own agenda, that's true.
Well now that I talked to you d and talking to you uh about it, she she probably did.
I'll tell you something else I thought, and I could be wrong about this, but I thought the way she was talking to me, the things that she was saying that she was a lib, and she wasn't honest about that when she told the call screener or me when she said that she was not a lib or a conservative or whatever, but didn't it didn't sound like conservatives?
How did you know she was a lib?
Because I couldn't tell you like I said, usually I can tell that.
And I could not tell that from her.
Because of her attitude that the government is the end-all beginning and everything in life that the government that they have to stop.
She is for some omnipresent force or power to start exacting penalties and punishment on people just because she thinks it should.
Uh anybody that I hear who has that view of government and the state is not a conservative, at least not not an informed one.
Well, I could be wrong.
I just wanted to, you know, I just wanted to vent.
Well, it's not a question of right or wrong.
Your perception is your perception, and oftentimes perceptions uh you know are reality.
I'm just glad that you called so that we could talk about this.
Well, I'll I'm glad to finally get on the air.
I've tried uh I've tried five times and been have been rejected uh all the all the time.
Wait, you mean call screeners have told you that you were not uh suitable?
No, they just didn't um they just didn't put me on the air.
I would state my um what I wanted to comment on and remember one of the things you wanted to comment on?
Uh I said no.
Yeah, little uh I think the last time I called um you were you had a story on that day uh about uh women uh um wanting to eat it that they eat more when they eat out.
Yeah.
And uh I I wanted to say that we we probably do because that is an outrage.
You should have been permitted on this program because you're an expert.
An excellent role model for the youth of America.
A man uh with whom you would totally trust your wife, your daughter, your little boy, uh pets overnight in the Motel 6.
Well, you were at the pig iron convention.
Rush Limboy at 800-282-2882.
This is Bob in uh what is this?
Harrigut, Tennessee, is that how you pronounce it?
Yeah, it's Harrogate, Rush.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hey, thanks a lot.
Mega Ditto's rush.
I tell you, I've been waiting since 91 to to talk to you.
Uh I listened on WBAP in Dallas until we finally ended up out here in Tennessee, but I still get you in.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh those last two ladies that called, I tell you, I I was screaming so loud at the radio.
That last comment that lady made, uh, she said that she couldn't tell uh usually she can tell a liberal by listening to her, but she had a hard time with Barbara, and I I just died laughing.
I said, you know, Barbara, the comments she was making were were just ridiculous.
And you know, Rush, what gets me is that uh these uneducated liberals who refuse to listen to common sense.
And to me, I mean, conservatism is common sense.
Uh you know, they these these are the people who keep Kennedy and Mertha and Clinton and Schumer in office, and it scares me to death, and they're uneducated and they vote.
You know, and that's the biggest problem I have.
And I do not have to know how to deal with it.
They vote.
You know, it drives me nuts.
That's br they're uneducated and they vote.
It is a problem.
Uh no question.
Well, you know, the problem I have I as host of this program and a broadcast veteran of um now thirty-five years.
I can actually say forty years.
I've I've detected, you know, I spot these people.
As I say, I know 'em every square inch of my glorious naked body.
They talk in circles.
And I don't want to have conversation.
They just rat tat tat, they say what they want to say and try to engage them in conversation, it interrupts them.
That's not and we I get to have conversations here with them.
I uh unlike the libs who are now gonna boycott this Fox debate and cancel it.
I'm not afraid to tell anybody who disagrees with me what I think and why.
They are.
They just want to come and and uh speechify and propagandize.
But when when there's no information, there's no knowledge behind the comments.
So it's just a bunch of gut reaction feelings based on being receptacle for propaganda gets frustrating, and I did get frustrated, as there's no question.
Anyway, uh Bob, I appreciate the phone call to Clemens, North Carolina and Barry.
Hello, sir.
Yes, good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Hi, greetings from North Carolina, and it's a pleasure to speak with the guru of conservatism.
It's uh pleasure to have you with us.
Thanks so much for that fine recognizable comment.
Well, I am a North Carolina environmentalist, and I spent a year down in New Orleans trying to solve the problems for the people down there.
How did you do?
Well, basically they took everything and put it into a landfill.
They didn't clean anything up, there's still ninety percent of the garbage is on the ground, they're people out of houses, it's just a mess.
But nobody seems to remember that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, got the contract for fifty-one billion dollars from the U.S. government to do that job.
Uh-huh.
And they sat on it for a year until they got paid.
It was just an unfunded mandate.
The contract that they got, they had to work out of pocket the first year.
You think this might be why Halliburton's moving to Dubai?
Well, that's part of it.
But what they did is they brought in the Shaw Group, they brought in Vechtel, they brought in uh Phelps and Jordan and a number of management companies, and then they hired local subcontractors.
A lot of them were bankrupted because they didn't get paid fairly and they didn't get paid on time.
The subcontractors are bankrupted?
Yes, a lot of them.
I had a group down there, we had 15 crews that ran uh uh construction projects, uh demolition projects, and and uh removing debris.
And uh we'd take it out to the landfill and dump it on a regular basis, and that's what we were supposed to do.
But we got paid very sparingly.
Why did you keep doing the work?
Well, because the work needed to be done, and the people down there need better than what they're getting.
Well, you know, if you if you're if you're willing, if you're if you show a willingness to work for little or nothing, that's what you'll make.
Well, I agree with you.
But when you are trying to solve problems and help people in a devastated area, everything that you can possibly do needs to be done.
Well, were those people were those people trying to help themselves along with you?
Well, a lot of them were.
We put a lot of local people to work.
Who paid them?
We did.
Who's we?
My company did.
Were you reimbursed by the feds?
We were reimbursed at so much a cubic yard.
Well, we we just barely broke even on the deal.
But that's not why I called.
KBR and Halliburton, you know, Halliburton's moving their uh primary business entity overseas to Dubai, that's right.
Uh you know, that's a nice thing for them to do.
The majority of the stock that that in Halliburton is owned by uh politicians.
The largest single shareholder is Lady Bird Johnson.
It's a matter of record.
A Democrat.
Yeah, and if they give uh But she's not a politician.
No, she's not a politician, but a lot of senators, congressmen, judges, governors, people that uh that have retirement plans have Halliburton or KBR stock backing their retirement.
So what?
So I mean a lot of people with their 401ks and their key plans and whatever their portfolio you invest in successful companies.
Why is that's just it's smart, it's smart business.
I understand that.
Well, then wh why you indict Halliburton over that?
I'm not.
I'm saying that they're moving out of the country now, so they aren't gonna have to pay additional monies and they can generate More revenues for the people that hold that stock.
And I think that's a good thing.
The problem is that we've had we've lost the majority of manufacturing in this country over the years.
We've lost electronics, we've lost textiles, we've lost uh uh durable goods, we've lost uh home equipment.
So many things have gone overseas and they're not going to come back.
What are we supposed to do for jobs over the next twenty or thirty or forty years?
Uh I'm I'm I'm really surprised.
You sound like a smart guy.
I am.
Well, I don't know why you're so doom and gloom and defeatist here.
Unemployment, unemployment is the lowest it's been historically in I don't know how long at four and a half percent.
Uh the the sectors in this country that are growing, you know, economics is economics.
Uh if if we've got a global economy, if a singer sewing machine can be made cheaper in Singapore than it can may be made here, guess where it's gonna be made?
Well, it's gonna be made in Singapore.
I I don't have a problem with that at all.
We we reacted our economy is constantly in flux and it's constantly evolving.
And for all of these manufacturing jobs lost, it's not as many as people think.
We still have a pretty huge manufacturing sector here, but uh there's there's a little myth attached to all this, and it's attached to people that don't like NAFTA.
Uh some manufacturing jobs have gone too, no no question, but you know, we're we're we're on the tails end of the auto business as well.
We're losing out to the Japanese, but there's a there's a principal reason there, and that is it's a non competitive playing field because they don't have to load up air cars with seventeen hundred dollars additional price to cover the health care of their employees.
And I agree that the laws that our nation has passed has handcuffed businesses here and made us unable to compete on a level playing field.
I agree with that entirely.
Well, I well, I don't know what we disagree about other than you think it's bad Halliburton's moving, and I think it's uh makes sense big given what their business is.
No, I think it's good that Halliburton's moving.
Well then what are we at odds over here?
We're not at odds over anything.
What I'm suggesting is that possibly the vacuum that's being created, we have a lot of illegals coming across the border, and they're gonna take the jobs that are available.
But uh we need to start looking at how to revitalize our economy.
We need to start looking at what we can do with what we have here to put people back to work at decent paying jobs.
You know, I file I feel like I'm talking to John Edwards.
And and no, I do, because you're you're talking we have an economy that on balance is roaring.
It is reducing the deficit tax revenues are up because there are more people working.
Uh tax cuts have created more jobs than we've had in this country before.
The job creation in the last two to three years is astounding.
Um there's some sectors where wages are falling behind.
Uh, but that happens virtually in every evolution of every economy.
We we the the great thing about this country is that we all have the ability to create our own job if we want.
We all have the ability to be entrepreneurs.
I was telling this dinner party I had last night with people.
Uh one of the most disappointing calls I received on this program that I ever remember receiving was from a 30-year-old man in Detroit who had just been laid off.
He'd been bought out, gotten a buyout from one of the auto companies, don't remember which, but he thought his life was over at age thirty.
Because he didn't have a job at the line assembly anymore.
And I'm thinking this is an American.
At age thirty, he hasn't even hit his prime yet.
There's so much opportunity.
There's so many things that people can do if they have the passion and desire for it.
This country is a waiting golden opportunity for anybody who wants to take a stab at it.
Uh and and for for all of the misery that people want to claim and talk about in this country, I can point out far more happiness and joy and success than there is misery.
Oh, I agree with you a hundred percent.
I'd like to see us take the garbage that we have in this country and turn it into building products and turn it into useful products rather than just burying it in the ground.
What do you mean?
You mean like landfills?
Yes.
Landfills are great.
They're some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world just built in New York on landfills.
Well, of course.
What else can they do with them?
Well, you build them.
Housing developments on you, any number of things with land.
What are they doing with them in New Orleans?
Well, no, they're just putting them in the ground, and if you know anything about New Orleans, when you bury something in the ground, it migrates to the ocean.
So they're just making a bigger mess.
The coral is dying off in the Caribbean because of that.
And we're not talking about global warming here.
You know, it's a solar event, it's not a global event.
Uh the ice caps on Mars are melting at the same rate as the ice caps here on Earth.
So, I mean, people are saying that it's a it's a it's a global warming thing and man causes it, and that's absolutely false.
Well, okay, t I you you have to tell me what if the name for this conversation has been sort of strange because I was expecting you and me to uh to be at odds, but we're not.
What's the one thing that is upsetting you here?
Oh, what's upsetting?
Is it it's KBR not paying people down to New Orleans and moving to Dubai, right?
Well, I think it's that they've taken a contract from the federal government using our tax dollars, and the day after they got paid, which was uh June 5th.
On June 6th, every KBR and Halliburton company moved out of New Orleans and left.
They took the profits and went home.
I I I uh this is Halliburton has spun KBR off or is in the process of it.
Okay.
And I don't know if that's a factor in this, but they're getting rid of Kellogg Brown and root, and they may already have done so.
It's a l KBR was a losing proposition for their bottom line.
Uh they were the food service contract for Afghanistan and Iraq.
That may have something to do with this.
Uh I don't know.
And I'm just gonna accept that you're right on this.
I because I I this is the first I've heard that KBR ran out on its commitments.
Uh that's I don't know, that it's news to me.
I'm gonna have to I'm gonna check it out just because I want to know.
Not that I doubt you.
I must take a break, though, because of the constraints of our busy broadcast format and timeout.
Uh uh Barry, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Enjoyed the convers.
This may be the most convivial uh with as little rancor as possible conversation with a confessed liberal that we've ever had here.
But Barry.
Not as lit as you think.
Where is it?
I've got this.
I we're not gonna be able to get to much of the global warming stack.
Uh it's just the way things have worked out, but I'm looking for a story that they've got some equal pay provision in the UK, and that equal pay provision is gonna cost a lot of men.
Here it is.
It's from the Times of London.
Hundreds of thousands of men working in the public sector are facing salary cuts of up to 15,000 pounds a year.
We're talking close to 25 to 27,000 a year as equal pay agreements take effect.
Compensation claims are up to one and a half million workers could cost the taxpayer more than ten billion dollars and mean that male staff lose up to forty percent of their salary, up to seven hundred thousand female council workers, similar number of NHS workers and tens of thousands of teaching assistants, and Ministry of Defense staff are now eligible for equal pay settlements stretching back over six years.
Uh so this leads to men and white collar women having to give up salary.
This is what you get with equal pay amendments and uh so forth, because the Libs assume there's just a whole stash of money not being used by business to make things right, and it's uh not the case, not what happens.
More details on that tomorrow.
Here's Ivory in Hayward, Wisconsin.
Hi, Ivory.
Hi, Russ.
It's nice to talk to you.
Nice to talk to you.
How old are you?
You sound young.
Um, yeah, I'm a senior in high school.
Oh, senior in high school.
You like it?
Um, yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Well, um I'm I'm going to be doing uh persuasive speech on global warming for my class um next week.
And I was just wondering, um I'm gonna I'm gonna be doing the speech on why global warming is not such a serious issue as people say, and I was just wondering um what you would say to my class.
How can I convince my liberal environmentalist teacher and classmates that um global warming's not a big issue?
In the first place, change your objective.
You're not gonna persuade them if they're really environmentalist activists.
Uh-huh.
You you're not, you're not you can try it.
I'm not but but but you don't don't think of yourself a failure if it doesn't work.
It's always a change the expectation on this.
Still try to do as persuasive a a speech as you can.
Uh I don't have a whole lot of time here.
I need to ask you, are you or your parents subscribers to my website?
Um, no, we're not.
Well, I'm gonna make you a complimentary subscriber.
You have a computer, you use computer?
Mm-hmm.
You go online and all that good.
I'm gonna make you a complimentary subscriber by a website so that call is over, hang on, somebody'll tell you how to access.
I've got a whole encyclopedia of the stuff uh that you can research and and and put together your own presentation, which would do you better than if I write the paper for you here on the radio.
But I'll give you a couple things.
And I know I'm going to get grief.
She sent you up, Rush.
You knew that I knew she just all she wants is a free subscription.
I don't think that about you, uh Ivory, but I'm gonna get all kinds of complaints from people.
But nevertheless, this is a worthwhile project.
Microsoft gives discounts, I give comps.
Now, uh the the first thing that you should say is that global warming cannot possibly be science.
Okay.
And the reason it can't be science is because there are too many scientists who disagree with it, and they are prominent, and there are many, and they have written books, and you'll find who they are, and you'll find the books on my website.
Uh the global warming advocates like to say that there is a consensus among scientists that global warming is man-made.
The problem is that when you're talking about science, there can be no consensus.
Science is not a subject to vote.
We don't take a vote on what we want our science to be, and whatever wins turns out to be our science.
Science is precise and it is what it is.
And there's a method for determining scientific fact, and it has not been met uh with with global warming.
Um that to me is the most basic point.
But you're gonna have a problem with that even because to most people like your teacher, uh uh I my belief is that their belief in global warming is more a religious belief than it is anything scientific, because it isn't scientific.
Uh people like your teacher and some of your classmates have just uh because of guilt, uh have bought into the notion that they are destroying, that we are destroying the planet, and that we must pay a price for this.
But what you need to point out to these people is that global warming is just the latest of long line of efforts on the part of uh liberals around the world to grow government, to raise taxes, to increase regulation, and to uh uh limit the behavior of a free people.
Uh because that is their real objective, and this is just the latest tactic used to scare people and make them feel guilty to get them agree because they have sinned against the planet to pay higher taxes and to accept reductions in lifestyle and uh and this sort of thing.
Now, I've only got ten seconds here, but all of this I have said some brilliant, brilliant monologues.
If you want to do, you can rewrite one of those in your own words and get an A. Okay.
But don't do that.
Well, yes, do it however you want, but do the work yourself so you will learn it.
Don't hang up, somebody will be right with you.
Federal deficit down twenty-five percent the first five months of this year compared to last year.
It means tax revenues are soaring.
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