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March 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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If you missed the heads up at the end of the prior hour, Governor Schwarzenegger scheduled to appear at this very moment on the EIB network today, has been delayed flying into Fresno.
I thought he was heading into Sacramento, but he's going to Fresno.
And he's been delayed.
Air traffic control problems, jet blue, whatever.
He's due to touch down a Fresno at 123 Eastern time, which is, you know, basically 10 minutes from now.
Uh eight fifteen minutes from now.
And when he gets uh when he gets down, I'm going to hustle him to a landline, no cell phones, and we'll have him at the uh at the first segment after the bottom of the hour break.
Governor Schwarzenegger will be with us uh uh at 132, 133 Eastern time, 1033 on the left coast.
And uh continue to get emails uh and admonishments.
You better not wuss out.
You better not, you better not become one of his best friends and talk about cigars folks.
Just sit tight, hang in there.
Hang in there and be tough.
The history of this is that Governor Schwarzenegger's office got hold of uh our office late yesterday afternoon and asked to appear on the program today is uh is one of his uh people in the office, Alan Mendelson, very nice guy, said uh in me.
This was not a personal attack.
I mean, this is what the media is doing, is misrepresenting this, and that's what Arnold uh wants to come on and address.
So delayed going into Fresno, and we'll have him uh at the bottom of the hour.
Have we heard from legal on that thing yet?
Haven't heard from legal on it.
All right.
Well, we we got a new uh Al Sharpton entry, ladies and gentlemen, we'll play it for you as soon as it's uh past muster.
Moving on to other things.
Special dedication time, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh InfoBabe and reporter at Carol Costello at CNN.
This is for you.
That's our John Edwards Breck Girl update dedicated exclusively today to Carol Costello, InfoBabe Extraordinaire at CNN.
Well, the Breck Girl was on CNN.
He was on uh American Morning yesterday, and the co-host Miles O'Brien asked him this question and said, Break girl, I gotta ask you about the house, though.
You got a house that's 10,000 square feet, the whole compound's 28,000 square feet.
I mean, that doesn't even complete it.
There's a whole other wing that we're not showing you there.
Uh, and of course, Miles didn't mention the 2800 square foot beach house, some island there in uh southern North Carolina.
Uh first of all, what's your power bill every month there?
It's actually not bad.
First of all, there's that the 10,000 square foot house, which is where we where we live, uh is a five-star energy-rated house, which is a federal government rating, is extraordinarily energy efficient.
We use solar to power part of the energy needs of our house.
And I might add, we have Elizabeth, myself, my family, uh, we've committed to operate this house in a carbon neutral way, which means in addition to using energy saving devices in the house itself, uh, to the extent that doesn't cover it, we're gonna purchase carbon credits on the market.
Oh, wonderful.
So the carbon credit scam now extends from former vice president Al Gore to the Break Girl.
And the dutiful wife Elizabeth's out there changing out all the light bulbs, putting in these uh compact fluorescents.
Speaking of which, a Democrat lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban, get this, ban the sale of traditional incandescent light bulbs, the old Thomas Edison light bulb would ban them.
Would ban these light bulbs, which are less energy efficient, uh, and prompt claims that they contribute to global warming.
One day after a colleague told a press conference that legislating a ban would be a last choice.
It was last week that Representative Dan, I'm sorry, Don Manzolo, a Republican of Illinois, Senator Mark Pryor, Democrat Arkansas, held a news conference calling for more efficient lighting options.
And Manzolo said the last thing we want to do is force legislation down people's throats.
One day later, Representative Jane Harmon, Democrat California, introduced legislation that would set target dates for certain types of light bulbs to be prohibited for sale in the United States.
Now these people are getting more and more out of control.
A bill to ban regular light bulbs has been introduced in the House of Representatives.
Harmon calls the bill an important first step toward making every household business and public building in America more energy efficient.
Now, I give you a brief simple definition between conservatism and liberalism about a half hour ago on this program.
And this is a great illustration here of liberalism.
You people are too stupid to know what to drive.
You're too stupid to know how to manage your lives.
You're too stupid to budget.
You're too stupid to go out and put the proper light bulbs on your house.
So Congress, the Democrats in Congress, figuring you to be the fool and idiot you are, are going to ban the sale of traditional light bulbs.
That's what they want to do.
Now, this clearly to so over the top, it's to be laughable.
But I've warned you, this is where they're headed.
This is the kind of thing, and of course, you know, when you when Al Gore's up there saying uh that global warming, we can cure global warming without any harm whatsoever to our economy, right?
Well, these things uh uh they're they're not revenue neutral.
There's all kinds of disposal problems that you have with these bulbs because they got mercury in them.
You drop one of these things, you gotta have hazmat people come out.
You drop one and break one in your house, keep the animals away, keep grandma away unless it's time for her to go, uh, and and bring the hazmat people out and clean the place out.
It can be it can be arduous, it can be a mess.
Anyway, the Brett girl out there now saying that his house is carbon neutral.
I I just want to tell you, as a functioning concept, that's impossible because we exhale.
And because we exhale, ladies and gentlemen, there's no way of neutralizing that.
You can't hold your breath all your life, and there's no way that you can go around and make up for all the exhalations.
But I mean, even beyond that, the idea that the Bret girl's house is entirely carbon neutral is absurd, as is the carbon offset or carbon credit scam.
Uh Miles O'Brien, though not satisfied with that politically correct answer.
Well, what's your power bill?
We're all just dying to know here.
What's your power bill?
I'm not telling you.
You're not going to tell me why.
It's uh it's actually not bad.
It's uh about three, four hundred dollars, the last one I saw.
Three or four hundred dollars for twenty-eight, thousand square feet.
Boy, I want to move there.
Orange County uh North Carolina's place to go.
I paid more than that for two thousand square feet in Manhattan.
But we've but we live in in part of the house, and part of the house is being constructed, as you pointed out.
So the part that we're living in, the house, the power bill is extraordinarily energy efficient.
The power bill is several hundred dollars a month.
Now wait a second.
He's got this twenty, he's got twenty-eight, thousand square foot of living space, but doesn't live in all of it.
Doesn't use all of it, lives in a portion of it, and the rest is under construction.
I I can we assume here that the uh some of the parts under construction are not yet uh under HVAC.
Uh you know, the big power drain and so forth.
Three to four, what do you say, three to four hundred bucks?
Three, four hundred dollars, the last bill he saw.
Who else sees the bills?
The last bill he saw, three or four hundred bucks.
Brett Girl.
Well, okay, I want you people in uh North Carolina to tell me if it's possible.
How many of you have 10,000 at 28,000 square foot properties and your electric bill is three to four hundred dollars a month?
I can tell you in Florida.
This is an out and out lie if somebody were to say that.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
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It works every time it's tried.
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Again, a program update, Governor Schwarzenegger, still in the air, should be touching down in Fresno in mere moments.
We will have him.
He was scheduled to be at the top of this hour.
We'll have him at the uh the first thing in the segment after the bottom of the hour break.
Uh what I have to remind you about this carbon offset business.
Uh, we spend a lot of time on this.
But John Edwards of the Brett Girl saying his house is neutral there.
By the way, speaking of this, how much uh energy does construction use?
You know, how do you offset the energy you use building a 28,000 square foot compound?
I mean, I only ask, I don't care, but if you're you got a guy out here trying to make his bones on the fact that he's uh he's environmentally neutral in all this.
This is all such a scam.
It's all such a hoax.
You have to understand his carbon offset term is code language for two things.
Carbon offsets allow the person supposedly buying them to not reduce their energy use at all, to claim that their energy use is being offset by the planting of trees or the investment in some newfangled technology or whatever.
But there's another way to define carbon offsets.
And it's code language for quote, I'm not willing to stop my over-the-top lifestyle, because I use global warming hysteria to attain or keep my power.
I'm using global warming as an excuse to use and and have a lot of power and so forth.
I'm gonna go out and get carbon offsets as a means of making you idiots think that I am responsible and I'm cutting back my usage when in fact nobody buying carbon offsets is reducing any of their consumption.
And this is something invented by liberals to give them an out while they preach to everybody else about what we have to do to reduce our so-called carbon footprint.
They go out and make even bigger ones and claim that their footprints being offset by uh investments in well, things like this.
I don't know if Al Gore knew this before he testified today.
This is a story from the independent online from South Africa.
It's actually dateline Berlin, but it was published in a paper in South Africa.
German scientists have developed a pill that stops cattle's bri uh cattle from breaking wind.
Passing gas, farting for those of you in Rio Linda.
Methane emissions from cattle are responsible for four percent of harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
It's actually more than that, some experts say.
Anyway, any reduction would be a major contribution to reducing global warming.
Scientists at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, say they've now tested a pill, which in combination with a special diet and strict feeding times should make cattle less harmful to the climate.
The pill still being tested, breaks down the methane in the cow's stomachs and also has health benefits for the cattle.
Yeah, what's the beef taste like, though?
Winfred Drukcher, head of the faculty for animal nutrition at the university, said it'll make this energy available for the cow's metabolism.
The cattle can use the methane to produce glucose instead of just passing it out and it'll enable them to produce more milk.
Oh, cool.
What human applications might there be for this pill to eliminate gas?
Hmm.
It's probably right.
I'll just ask him out there.
A lot of you women wondering if something like this would work for husbands.
Well, we'll have to wait and see.
Of course, you know these Germans do amazing things with genetics.
Uh well, yeah, everybody knows women don't need pill like that for this kind of thing.
Come on, don't don't don't take me down the road, but everybody knows that it doesn't happen with women.
It just no, the they would they would they would never, never ever need anything like this.
This is strictly for husbands and cows so forth.
By the way, I've told you people that this is a religion.
That global warming is a religion.
And again, a reminder, Vaslav Klaus, the Czech Republic president testified on Capitol Hill today, echoing the sentiments altered by me a decade ago.
Global warming, environmentalism is simply the new home for communists.
It is the single greatest threat to individual liberty since communism.
Vaslav Klaus.
No American has the guts to say this other than I, uh, other than me, but he said it.
Ed Markey, during the House Subcommittee hearing with former Vice President Al Gore, called Al Gore a prophet.
Told you this stuff is a religion.
I obviously sat here with you 30 years ago.
And uh what you were saying about information technologies.
What you were saying about environmental issues back then, now retrospectively do make you look like a prophet.
I mean, you had your finger on the pulse of the issues of the twenty first century.
Then that's the reason you're here today.
And I think that it would be wise for the Congress to listen to your warnings because I think that history has now borne you up.
By the way, we've got four Al Gore bites here, and let's play the first one.
Run on to uh let's move to Soundbite 16.
This is Al Gore tearing up.
He actually starts crying.
His eyes got red.
I saw this, talking about what the children will say as they burn to a crisp in the future because we didn't do anything.
Congressman Gordon, um, I want you to tell Peggy happy birthday, and I felt the emotion in your voice as you got to the end of your statement.
I have felt that too.
I say this to each of you as individuals.
I promise you, a day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask questions.
They will ask what in God's name were they doing.
Didn't they see the evidence?
Didn't they realize that four times in fifteen years the entire scientific community of this world issued unanimous reports calling upon them to act?
What was wrong with them?
That is an out and out lie, and it was illustrated just yesterday on Capitol Hill.
A number of scientists showed up.
There is no unanimity.
That is why they have to keep using the word consensus among scientists.
But as to this question about our children and grandchildren who look back and gonna ask what in God's name are they doing?
Hell, if you ask me, they already are, because their little minds are being polluted and propagandized with this polar bear garbage.
I know parents, they tell me about it.
Their little kids come home from school, have been forced to watch this gore tripe, this propaganda.
And they come home in tears, some of them, and they wake up in tears.
They come home agitated.
We're killing the polar bears, we're destroying the planet.
We only have one planet.
What are we doing to it?
Mom, we're driving too big a car.
Mom, turn off all the lights, mom, this, mom, that.
Uh, they kids are already asking these fool questions based on the propaganda that they've said.
What?
What?
What now?
What?
Well, of course they are snurdly.
What are you surprised about this?
The the the the Tony Snow's got the White House press briefing going on and the and the and the drive-by media is now comparing this prosecutor thing, the firing of eight U.S. attorneys to Watergate.
I predict everything is compared to Watergate.
I made this point last week.
Everything is compared to Watergate.
They're trying to put the culture country in tumult and keep it in chaos because they can't pass any legislation and drive by media carrying the water for these guys.
This is all because Bush yesterday said I'm not going to allow a fishing expedition.
I'm not going to allow these people to come up there and and get involved in a partisan fight.
You want to have conversation with people, fine, but no subpoenas.
I'm not going to allow any subpoenas, and he's vowed to fight this.
And the drive by's are furious.
How can he dare do this?
This is like Watergate so forth.
That's the only frame of reference they got that in Vietnam.
Screw them.
And welcome back.
We're here on the EIB network.
Uh, Rush Lindbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And uh we uh have now with us Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from California, just touched down in Fresno.
Governor, thanks for making time for us today.
Absolutely.
How are you today, Rod?
Never better, sir.
It's nice to have you.
Nice to speak with you.
Well, nice to talk to you.
The last time I think I saw you was at the fundraiser for cancer research.
Yep.
Right.
It was uh it was uh Michael Milken's thing.
It was the Bellagio.
That's right, exactly.
But they raised millions of dollars for cancer researchers was uh played a lot of golf that weekend too out of Shadow Creek.
Right.
So I mean, if we don't meet at the smoke out, then we meet at the cancer research fundraiser.
So here we are, and here we are talking uh today.
Uh and uh so I'm first of all I want to just say thank you for covering me yesterday after you know what I said about you that you explained exactly what I meant.
I really appreciate that.
You mean the irrelevant comment.
Exactly.
Well, you know, I know you, and I I I knew uh I see I think you're just uh probably get a little flustered every time you go on these shows they throw my name up at you, and and uh uh my interpretation was that that you you're just you know you're governing California, I don't live there, and you're gonna do what you're gonna do regardless of what anybody says.
Well, I think that the the point also is that you know that when you have a radio show or TV show, or you write papers and you write your editorials and all this stuff, you know, you your objectives uh different than mine.
You know, I have to ultimately, you know, make decisions that is based on bringing people together, bringing Democrats and Republicans together, and uh really working for the people and trying to resolve issues.
If it is uh issues that have to do with health care or environment, if it is creating more jobs, getting more businesses to California, uh all of those things, you know, I have to make tough decisions every day or prison reform and and so on, building more prisons.
So all of those things.
So what you guys are talking about and the ideology and uh philosophy and uh you know the right versus the left and all of the things.
I cannot deal with that as much because to me what is important is that they bring both of the parties together and that make things work to serve the people.
And this is what I do, and this is why I pay very little attention if someone criticizes me or calls me, you know, that I'm turning left and I'm selling out or whatever.
I have to stay focused on results.
Well, uh we're doing the same thing.
I mean I uh and and I'm I react the same way to criticism as you do.
Um I ignore it because there's too much of it and it's it's part of the uh part of the territory.
But you know, I'm all for I'm all for bringing people together but not compromising principles in the process.
Uh and you know, one of the reasons I keep throwing my name at you is because uh I have I have said that your compromise looks more like agreeing with liberals than maintaining your your your natural conservative beliefs.
Well, I mean, you know, like I said, this is uh your interpretation, but the fact of the matter is is that we are moving uh the state forward exactly of what my plan is.
You know, when we last year, you know, you maybe disagree with that, but we uh, you know, uh increased the the minimum wage by a dollar twenty five, and I think that the people of California, the hardworking people of California deserve that because for years they didn't have a minimum wage increase.
So we did it in a way that it is doable for businesses, but we also did it in a way where we did not go as far as the Democrats wanted to go, where they ask for two dollars and fifty cent increase and to have you know uh automatic escalator in there and so on.
So we didn't go there.
So we compromised and did something that I felt very comfortable with and thought that it was important.
Well the same thing is again with health care.
You know, some people want to go and have health care and reform the system, so we have a government run health care system.
Well, I disagree with that.
I think that the private sector can take care of it, uh, you know, that we just need to uh create some guidelines of what it ought to be, so that everyone is insured, that insurance companies cover everyone, and to create a pool, a risk pool, a bigger risk pool for the insurance companies, and to make it a partnership between the private sector, hospitals, doctors, the state and the federal government, and I was very happy that the Federal Government agreed to come in with three point seven billion dollars and help us with our health care reform.
So those are the the bottom lines.
So it's not selling out, it is just doing the work for the people because uh seventy-two percent of the people in the last poll said that our health care system is broken and yes, we need to fix it, and eighty-two percent of the people said that it needs to be fixed in a way where there's a shared responsibility, where everyone comes in and works.
So, you know, does it I don't see them as selling out, but I can understand from where you're coming from, where you look at it just the ideology or maybe you know, just more the conservative way.
We are a uh, you know, a state that is in a majority of Democrats, and I have always said during the election pro in the time I was running for governor three years ago, I said that when I become governor will be the people's governor, and I will represent everybody, Democrats and Republicans.
Well, look, I'm not looking at it ideologically.
You and I both want the same things.
We want what's best for people, but ideology is a fundamental argument in that.
Um I believe conservatism is the best way to provide the most opportunity and success for the vast majority of people.
Government simply can't do it.
You mentioned the minimum wage and compromising.
You compromised on the price, but you still accepted the premise of liberalism that minimum wage is somehow gonna improve people's lot in life, and it doesn't.
You mentioned health care.
Um let me let me just say say to you something.
That I have had many, many, I would say hundreds of hard working people in California come up to me and say it did improve their life.
So I mean I think it is wrong to say that it didn't improve people's lives.
I think those things do improve people's lives.
If you create health care for people, it does improve people's lives.
If you go and create accountability in education, it does improve education.
So I think I'm a resolved oriented person and I personally believed one hundred percent that we need to raise the minimum wage that the people deserve it.
So it was not like selling out or going the other way.
It is something that I believe in.
But I stuck to my principles of not doing it that chases businesses out of the state because I'm very proud of the fact that since I came into office.
Well have you reversed that trend of pe of businesses and people leaving California because they were they were leaving that state in droves and that was one of your campaign promises or premises uh after the Gray Davis recall that there were just fleeing the state example a number of things regulation forcing people out.
I give you an example I mean that made me actually very happy.
You know the other day we were at an event where a drywalling company that the manufacturing uh you know company that produces drywalls has moved actually the operation to California.
And this is the biggest one in the world.
And they came here because they said this is a great business environment.
They can do business here.
They can be part of the great growth and the success of California and say they they're moving their workers here and they're creating this huge business right here in California.
That's just one out of many many examples where businesses are feeling now again very very happy about coming to California.
That doesn't mean that other businesses don't think about going to another state but I would say a huge amount of businesses are coming back here because we are creating a much better business atmosphere.
And remember one thing and I know this is something that you love and that is giving money back to our private sector and to people.
And when we reformed workers compensation that has created now a an additional increase in in in money for the private sector of thirteen billion dollars a year.
Now think about how much money this is.
Now when we go and do health care reform, as you know right now, and this is the important thing for for for the the conservatives to think about that right now everyone that is uh you know insured here in California they are paying for the uninsured that means there's a hidden tax there a hidden a huge hidden tax.
As a matter of fact the private sector businesses in California are paying 14.7 billion dollars right now in the hidden tax what I want to do is get rid of that hidden tax, reduce the cost of health care through prevention and through insuring everyone and make sure that everyone carries insurance and that everyone is insured by the insurance company.
So those are the kind of things that we are doing.
Wait a second you you you you want to extend health care coverage to every child even the child the children of illegal uh aliens, uh immigrants in the country and you you want to raise taxes to do this that and you call them loans.
Well r Rush I just said that we are reducing the hidden tax of fourteen point seven billion dollars.
We want to get rid of that hidden tax that is being paid right now.
But a tax is a tax if you replace the hidden tax with a visible tax is still a tax.
No hold hold on a second.
Every single person that is insured right now is paying extra money if it is the premiums, out of pocket expenses, co-pays, all of those things is uh more money because of the hidden tax because every time you get insurance you pay for those that are uninsured.
And that is unfair to those people that are insured.
So what we want to do is ensure everybody and make it mandatory that each person has to carry insurance so we get rid of that hidden tax that is existing right now.
And this is why when we talk about a four percent increase it's not really a tax it is a fee because actually on the end those companies and individuals will profit by the lowering of our health care costs and getting rid of that hidden tax.
So it's a it's a washer it actually comes out even in in if they come out much more ahead than they are now.
Governor you were so good during your your your first campaign and you had you had the the whole country inspired.
You were so good at the two thousand four uh Republican convention and you had uh you had people in California particularly uh inspired and motivated well they see a lot you but but they see a lot of about faces.
For example uh you in two thousand five you vetoed a Democrat bill that would have expanded the state's health care coverage to children because the three hundred million dollar price tag was too high.
Now you've turned around on your health care plans being applauded by the State's Democrats.
No, you're absolutely wrong Rush Because I vetoed the bill to cover every child because they did not set up a revenue stream that shows where the money will come from.
We are a state that is still paying off our debt.
Anyone that sends me a bill that costs more money, I will veto it because it is not right until we pay off our debt.
This is why I want to have a comprehensive health care reform where we know where the money comes from, that we create a pool of twelve billion dollars where the state and the federal govern uh government comes in and helps us with that, and it is a shared responsibility, and that will cover everyone.
And now let me go back to your question that you had earlier about undocumented immigrants.
Undocumented immigrants right now get health care and get coverage.
They can go to any emergency room in the United States.
Because that's the federal law.
Right.
And many of them in Southern California have closed down because they can't they're not being paid for the visits by these.
But listen, Rush, it is not a question should we cover them or not.
They are covered.
That's for emergency health care, though, government.
Therefore, in my health care reform, we are debating not should they be covered or not, but it is a debate how do we do it cheaper and more uh cost effectively, and that's what we're gonna work out that it costs one fifth of the cost than we are paying right now, which is a great benefit to the taxpayers.
The emergency room coverage is emergency coverage.
What you're proposing is universal all over the place all the time.
You know when you don't go to an emergency room, do you know that ninety percent of the times there's no emergency?
If they would have a health clinic or some kind of a medical clinic, they can go get the things done for fifty dollars rather than paying a thousand dollars what they're doing right now.
Well they're not paying.
And it crowds up the emergency rooms, and therefore people have to wait five to seven hours.
So I mean there's believe me.
We are moving forward.
The important thing you need to know is that I got ninety-one percent of the votes uh from Republicans in the last election, which was just two months or three months ago.
Ninety-one percent.
I won with seventeen point seven percent lead over my opponent.
So I have a lot of Republicans that are my side, and they understand that they rather want to get the job done rather than fighting like they do in Washington over nothing.
Well uh fighting over who is right and who is wrong, and nothing gets done.
Imagine that for the years now we are debating over immigration reform and they can't get the act together.
That is embarrassing.
I think that those guys should sit down and be serious about it, forget a little bit about the ideology and get things done and represent the people of California and the people of America.
I think that's what the bottom line is.
The problem with that is the Liberals and the Democrats are not gonna punt their ideology because it defines them.
And so when we end up agreeing with them just to get compromise, even if the numbers they want are not as much as they wanted, we are still compromising our ideology.
They are not, and this is what people are upset about.
It's happening in Washington.
It's happening.
I happen to disagree with that, uh, Rush, because I think that's the same.
You know Liberals, Governor, you've been around them your whole career.
You know who they you know that they don't wait up.
I I I understand that, but I'm just saying that on the end, we have to represent the people and do the job for the people, and that sometimes takes compromise, and there's nothing wrong with that.
And you still can stick to your ideology and stay with that, but you still have to compromise in order to get things done.
And that's their job in Washington to get things done and to represent the people and to do a great job and to fix things, to fix health care, to fix uh immigration reform, not to argue year after year after year, and to make promises that they can keep.
So anyway, so you and I, we're gonna have a good time again in our next smoke out.
That we're gonna have the smoke a stoke together and we will be talking about this from here to eternity.
The key thing is is that uh people should know that you and I we don't have a fight.
We don't uh argue over those things, we just have different uh uh opinions, and uh, you know, and I am enjoying that because I think the Republican Party has a big tent.
Governor, I uh look, I've always liked you and I've always admired you.
And the first time I met you, that Planet Hollywood opening in in uh in in Dallas.
I had a I had a great time.
And I've I've I've we've all got so much hope for you.
Everybody wants you to to be who you are.
I know there are a lot of Republicans that it was in the paper today, hoping you wake up one day and and become a conservative again.
I'm sure you saw that.
Look at I appreciate your calling, and I appreciate it.
You got it.
All right, bye bye.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, we'll be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Welcome back.
Rush Limboy here on the EIB Network.
We went long with our interview with Governor Schwarzenegger.
By the way, I want to thank him.
His office told us five to seven minutes, and this went uh well thirteen at least fifteen minutes.
So this segment's gonna be very, very short.
Bad, bad programming.
I apologize to all of you and to our affiliate stations for this.
I also want to apologize to uh Governor Schwarzenegger for something I have uh uh implied in the past.
I've as have many people.
Uh we we have implied that perhaps one of the reasons for Governor Schwarzenegger's sharp turn to the left under the guise of compromise has been owing to the ideology of his wife Maria.
But after this interview, I'm not sure Maria gets a word in edgewise in their house.
Uh Governor Schwarzenegger obviously learned English and he hasn't he hasn't stopped talking since.
Uh I may have to revise uh my my thought process on that.
Uh who's next on the program here, Mr. Sturdley.
We have uh time to squeeze one in.
Dave in Williams, Port Pennsylvania.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Uh, thank you, Rush.
Uh, incondescent light bulb dittoes from uh Alabama, Pennsylvania here.
Um I got to watch the uh the C-SPAN 3, the uh entire most of the uh uh the discussion with Al Gore today, and he did make a few uh admissions on the scientific level that I think uh in response to questions from uh uh Mr. Bart Representative Barton.
Uh he admitted that uh CO two levels are uh lower now than they were during Ice Age, according to uh scientific calculations.
He also admitted that uh that hotter temperature rise in the Earth's temperature has increased the CO2 levels by its own virtue in the past, but that's not the case now.
So he does admit that there's some debate whether the it's kind of a chicken or the egg theory.
Um and he also talked about um water vapor being the most prevalent greenhouse gas.
And there's also uh He agreed to that?
Yes, well, wait, that was different.
Now that's that's news because he's about there blaming human beings.
We don't create enough of this stuff if we totally eliminated it to make a smidgen's difference.
Well, uh you know, I I I look I appreciate appreciate what you're saying here.
He made all these admissions, but I'll tell you why he felt comfortable making all these admissions, because the the science here doesn't matter.
He could admit that everything he's saying is wrong, and he's still gonna continue the crusade, because this is a moral issue, and this is a religious issue, and this is liberalism 101.
Grow government, make citizens feel guilty for the sins they're committing, so they'll agree to higher taxes and bigger government.
That's all this is.
It's a scam, it's a hoax.
I'm glad you called out there, Dave.
All right, folks, another exterling excursion into broadcast excellence hour in the can.
Lots more straight ahead.
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