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April 3, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Shots fired in the CNN headquarters building in Atlanta.
It's a big building.
There's a big complex in there.
There's a hotel inside.
There's a large atrium.
You um uh when you go in there, you're you're not necessarily at CNN.
Uh but I'm just I'm you what here's what we know.
We know that uh there are three people involved, a gunman, uh Mr. Sturdley, it what two two two two injured.
I know but it has to be three people.
If if if if the gunman fired, and then somebody fired at the gunman's among the wounded.
So you're back oh, the CNN's backing off all this.
Well, I was all prepared to say that you know, shooting at CNN, women and minorities hardest hit, because one of the victims a woman, uh, she's black.
Uh the gunman is supposedly black.
Apparently the gunman was dragging the woman by the hair down the escalator of the steps or some such thing.
Um but I'll tell you what, y if if if if you don't think CNN is genuinely now a drive-by media location, not just a drive by media outlet.
Uh and I'm just I'm just wondering if uh as early as tonight we'll see a special on CNN.
Why do they hate us?
Special report.
Um, such yeah, blame me, what whatever.
Uh but it's a shame negotiation didn't work here.
Um and uh, you know, CNN uh has has shown video of American soldiers being shot.
Uh sniper video from Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Uh I wonder if we'll get similar treatment to this episode inside the CNN headquarters.
We'll just have to uh wait and see.
Uh but both victims are black, according to the latest reports that we have.
Uh one of them is a woman, and thus CNN shooting women and minorities, hardest hit.
A predictable perfunctory drive-by media headline on virtually every event that happens in the country.
All right, now finally on to Mitt Romney and the stupefying effect.
Oh, speaking of that, folks, the uh that sculpture of uh Barack Obama as Jesus Christ has caused quite a stir, and they've taken the thing down because of uh of of controversy over it.
The uh the who's the artist, uh David Cordero, 24, made the sculpture for his senior show.
Uh after noticing all the attention Obama has received since he first hinted he may run for the presidency.
Cordero said this all of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing.
The idea that Barack is a sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins.
In a lot of ways, it's about caution and assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual and expecting them to change something uh that many hands have shaped.
Uh wearing Jesus robes, neon blue halo, looks like uh Barack Obama.
This Chicago Arts School is where this thing was on display.
Undergraduate students paper mache sculpture as a messianic figure, entitled Blessing Went on Display, Saturday, and it's caused quite a stir.
Now, when I read what this guy said about his perception of Obama, I of course was reminded of me.
How is it that I first attempted to explain this seemingly inexplicable appeal of Barack Obama?
I said he is godlike to the godless.
You may not have heard that, Rachel, because you were watching Al Gore's movie.
But I said it.
He's godlike to the godless.
And here comes this guy.
David Cordero with his uh with his paper machet sculpture of Obama, which pretty much saying in more words the same thing that um that I said.
All right, now to Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney, 23 million dollars raised, announced yesterday.
That's almost twice as much as McCain raised in uh in one say his is all for the primaries, by the way, so that's even more than Mrs. Clinton raised because she got 36 million out there, but a lot of that came from her uh her own campaign coffers, and then the other uh was made up with people contributing both $2300 to the primary, $2,300 to her general election, should she win the primary, all of Mitt's $23 million, I think it's for the for the primaries.
Chris Matthews, among others, I just couldn't understand this.
I mean, the guy has no poll numbers.
How can he raise this kind of money?
And he concluded had to be rich fat cats.
It has to be rich fat cats, and of course the Mormon church, one drive-by media outlet reports today.
On the Matthew Show last night, there was some info babe from the Chicago Sun Times as she spoke up and she cautioned uh Chris Matthews look, nobody knows where his money came from.
The breakdown of donors hasn't occurred yet.
But Matthews continued to insist that Romney donors were all rich fat cats, as though nobody else in politics contributions are coming from rich fat cats.
How many rich fat cats have donated to Hillary or Obama?
Rich fat cats, we got a Hollywood crowds divvying up his money between the two of them.
See, this is another illustration, folks.
You got Mitt Romney's a Republican, and of course it has to be rich fat cats.
My gosh, the rich fat cats in this country are Democrats, and they give to Democrats.
Uh then Matthews is out there, he went nuts on Fred Thompson.
Hey, loves Fred Thompson, called him a daddy figure, as gravitas.
Says he's not a Dan Quail.
And then he said, you know, I just I I I don't have any idea who Mitt Romney really is.
And he's he's even a total mystery to the people of Massachusetts.
Now, what is it that's striking about that comment?
Here is Chris Matthews, PMS NBC.
I don't know anything about Chris Matthews.
Chris, what is your job?
You are a journalist.
If you want to find out about Mitt Romney, you can do so.
You're he's not a mystery fig.
You're cloaked in all black that you can't see through.
Uh a mystery to even the people of Massachusetts?
I mean, Chris, this you you this is not credible statement here from you about how good you are at your job.
There's no excuse.
There is no excuse for any journalist saying, I don't know who Mitt Romney is.
I don't know anything about him.
He's a mystery.
He's only been running for president for how many months?
He'd been governor of Massachusetts.
How and he ran the Olympics and so like, how in the world can anybody in a journalism say I don't know anything about Mitt Romney?
And then to assume all of his money comes from the fat cats.
And the whole theme continued earlier today on the Today Show.
Matt Wauer was interviewing Romney, said, some say you've tapped into a lot of financial support from the Mormon community, and that's a natural.
New York Times puts it this morning just that way that Mike Dukakis got a lot of support from Greek Americans.
Lieberman got a lot of support from Jewish Americans, but that because Mormons make up a relatively small percentage of population explains why you haven't reached higher poll numbers.
Is that fair?
It's not terribly accurate, but it's an interesting point.
Uh I'm sure people in my faith have contributed, but overwhelmingly our money has come from all 50 states.
The number one state in our contribution list is uh California.
There are people coming from all over the country to support my effort.
I ran for governor, of course, got good support here in Massachusetts.
And uh and so I'm pleased that the my message is connecting.
This isn't about uh a particular ethnic group or religious group or or subset.
Mitt, it is.
You know, you it's not, but as far as these people are concerned, it is.
All right, number one state, number one state in listed donors is California.
Does that not just explode the and it by the way?
Not only is it a myth, it is now the template.
And I don't care what Romney says, I don't care what anybody else says, and I don't care when he releases the breakdown of donors, it isn't gonna matter.
Mitt Romney got his money from the Mormon church and rich fat cats, and that's gonna be it.
And they're not gonna be able to understand it because his poll numbers are so low.
So it has to be that every Mormon in the country got together and decided to contribute to Mitt Romney.
Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense because he does so low in the polls.
Up next, Mount Wower says you also wrote yourself a check, wrote your campaign a check for 2.3 million, and it raises a question.
You've heard a lot, Governor.
How much are you willing to spend of your own money to win the presidency?
Gosh, I hope as little as possible.
I'd like I'd like to get as much as possible from people across the country, and that's why we're working hard to do that.
But of course, I'll always keep op open the uh uh the the very unfavorable idea of having to write a check myself at some point because this is a very important campaign.
I think McCain Feingold, the campaign finance reform has been a real bust.
I think there's more money in politics, not less.
Uh, the money is going around the uh the the old regulations, it has not worked.
It's time for us to completely revisit McCain Fein Cold.
I'd repeal it uh and let people make the contributions they'd like and disclose them.
Absolutely.
But you know, this whole thing about money in politics a straw dog anyway, the total amount of money spent in politics.
You might have heard these type analogies.
Total amount of money spent in politics is less than what the American people spend on potato chips in a year.
You didn't know that.
Hell, people spend more on candy than they spend on politics.
It's just it's not reported that.
Can you imagine if every month Hershey and Mars and all these other companies had to report how much what their sales were in a public whether they do in a you know, you know, they're publicly traded companies.
Just imagine it was reported the way the political donations are reported.
And imagine if everybody who bought candy was treated as a suspect.
Or if everybody who bought potato chips was treated as a suspect.
But rush, but rush, those are food audits.
That's my point.
Everybody says it's so outrageous of spending money on politics is how we manage and govern our affairs.
Costs a lot of money to get into business.
Uh doesn't help, and you got people like McCain out there saying all this money corrupts people, good people in politics.
I mean, it's just who was it?
Jesse Unru.
Out in California.
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
Yeah, I guess you could say McCain's not corrupt.
He's not getting any money.
He got 12 and a half million.
Hell, the drive by's ought to be happy with it.
Look at McCain.
He got less money than anybody.
He's our guy.
They're dumping all over McCain for not getting enough money.
They're getting on Romney for getting too much.
And I don't know, what was the New York Times or some Washington Post?
Somebody said that the money came from the Mormon church, which of course is a New York Times.
It was flat out untrue.
Folks, we need to get the money out of movies.
A top-grossing movie this past weekend, 33 million dollars, three days.
It took Mitt Romney, what?
Weeks, 12 weeks or longer to raise 23 and a half million.
Hillary Clinton is 36 million.
We got to get the money out of movies, 33 million dollars in three days.
That's patently absurd.
We got to find out who's giving it to them, too.
Because whoever's giving the money to the movies is supporting trash, ladies and gentlemen, and debauchery and the and the uh uh destruction of our culture.
Let's find out who's giving money to the movies.
It's time for a global warming update.
Oh.
What if we could convince the schools to play that song after they screen that lying piece of propaganda and inconvenient truth?
All right, big news in a global warming update today.
First, from Brussels, Belgium, the government of Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, which has a population of about four million, has approved a tax on barbecuing.
Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbecuing beginning uh beginning June 2007.
That's this year for those of you in Rio Linda.
Residents of Walone, Wallonia in Brussels in Belgium, will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling season.
Local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters.
They are gonna have helicopters fly over people's backyards to see if they're barbecuing and whether or not they paid the $20 or the 20 euro tax.
Helicopter black helicopters flying over people's backyards.
They think a 20 euro tax is gonna limit barbecuing.
It is going to raise money.
It's like everything else about global warming.
It's designed to get you out of guilt and shame and the feeling that you've committing a sin to give these governments money to keep conducting the sin.
And in Al Gore, your buddy, your buddy, he says, Well, I fly around in my private jet and I got this giant house and I'm moving.
But I'm I'm I'm offsetting my carbon footprint because I'm buying and I'm buying carbon offsets and they're planting trees to absorb all the carbon dioxide.
Well, he's not reducing any of his electrical usage, and he refused to sign a pledge to do just that.
Yet in his stupid movie, telling everybody, you gotta cut back.
You gotta live no more luxurious than the average American.
He asked his ass take the pledge to do that, and he refused to do it at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
So barbecues in Belgium will now be monitored by helicopters for compliance with a new tax.
And mark my words.
There's some commie libs in this country who are gonna think this is a fabulous idea.
And we're gonna get stories.
You marked my words on this.
We're gonna get stories about how everybody in Southern California alone lit up the charcoal brick hats at the same time on a Friday and Saturday afternoon, the amount of pollution, global warming pollution put in the sky at the same time, and it's gonna become a crisis.
Barbecuing will become a crisis.
Mark my brilliant words on this.
That's how this stuff starts.
Now the question is, is CO2 even a pollutant?
Is it an air pollutant?
Because if it is, then all the water vapor in this country in this planet is a pollutant.
The vast majority of CO2 that's in the atmosphere comes from water vapor.
Some of it comes from our exhaling.
That's what we exhale.
And guess what?
The trees and the greens and the grasses need it to live.
And then they breathe in the carbon dioxide, they convert it to oxygen, and we can live.
It's a brilliant setup by God.
And so what we do in our natural existence, exhale, is now creating pollution.
Now, folks, if you're going to buy into this, there's no hope for you.
There's literally no hope for you.
But even at that, man-made CO2, even with all the SUVs, even with all the smokestacks accounts for 4% of the CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yet there's Gore's movie with this expanding envelope of CO2, choking, swallowing up planet Earth.
Well, the sun becomes less and less significant.
It's being blocked out.
And we're going to die.
And the polar bears are going to die.
And Greenland's going to melt.
And Manhattan's going to be flooded.
Which wouldn't be a bad idea.
And all other sorts of calamities are going to happen.
All because you do this.
Now, do you actually believe that you are polluting when you breathe?
Not talking about you people having hangovers.
That may be another matter.
I'm just saying this is absurd.
But I want you just you just watch.
It isn't going to be long before we're going to get these detailed studies of how just in Southern California, or someplace, you know, where they do a lot of barbecuing.
If everybody lit up.
You probably have staggered days.
You can barbecue on even and unnumbered days based on your license plate.
Light bulb news coming next.
A little breaking news here, folks.
Turner broadcast security says that one of their officers shot the suspect at the CNN Center.
Which is cool.
I'm just surprised that their security people are armed at uh CNN.
Anyway, welcome back.
Continuing story here to Global Warming Update.
There's a great piece by somebody who calls himself Luminous Maximus.
Uh, who is a longtime observer of the electricity industry at the American Thinker.com on banning the light bulb.
Now you laugh at this, but they're working on this in North Carolina, a ban on the incandescent light bulb in ten years.
Save the planet, Rachel.
Incandescent bulbs are causing global warming.
So we got to go get these little corkscrew, curly cued things that look like white French fries.
Uh compact fluorescence.
And in a few weeks, the U.S. Congress is likely to vote to phase out the standard Incandescent light bulb within a decade as well.
If I were you people, I'd start hoarding.
Oh no, Limbo.
Yeah, I would.
This is this is Nutcase Center.
You're going to ban the old Thomas Edison light bulb.
So start hoarding the things.
The frantic race to see who can best appease the global warming alarmists will claim another victim, the friendly glow of the incandescent light bulb of Thomas Edison's invention.
Now, why would the light bulb, a staple commodity that has raised the standard of living throughout the world be in the bullseye?
It was the incandescent electric light bulb that abolished the tyranny of the night.
Our 19th and 20th century ancestors believed it one of the greatest gifts of civilization because they had directly experienced life before it changed everything.
In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld briefly reminded us of this blessing when he commented on the satellite imagery revealing the nighttime darkness in North Korea.
But other than this brief moment, we seem to have forgotten what a blessing the invention of the light bulb has been.
Ironically, the lowly light bulb became one of the icons of the New Deal, forever connected with the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
The REA and the Tennessee Valley Authority enabled cheap electric power to be available everywhere, even on the remotest farms and ranches.
And a substantial part of the American people fell in love with big government because it brought the light bulb.
It brought light, the rollback of the night to all Americans.
But today, more than anything else, the light bulb is altogether another sort of convenient symbol for big government, a technology dinosaur, perpetrator of evil crimes against the planet.
Stopping the wasteful use of kilowatts by American households in the war on greenhouse gases is the new battle cry of the lovers of governmental control over our lives.
There are about four billion conventional screw-in light bulb sockets all across America.
Four billion of them.
The vast majority are in homes and apartments.
Incandescent light bulbs are in most of these sockets, with some two billion or more of them replaced every year.
It's estimated at least 15 billion dollars of electricity is consumed by these inefficient anachronisms, and that by replacing them with the more energy efficient types of light bulbs, the postmodern compact fluorescence, that 15 billion could be cut in half.
We are told that as kilowatts could be reduced, we would need fewer nasty coal-fired power generating plants while winning a major battle against global warming with little pain and even less effort.
Everybody wins by getting rid of Edison's light bulb.
Well, not exactly.
Once again, a nice sounding theory overlooks significant details of the practical outcomes.
And this is classic liberals.
They have these great intentions, but they never examine the consequences of their actions.
Energy conservation lobbyists conveniently overlook the obvious fact that household light bulbs are primarily used at night.
Exactly opposite the time of day in which utilities experience peak load demands for daytime heating and air conditioning and commercial lighting.
Folks, you let them take away your light bulbs, and the next thing they're gonna come get is your air conditioners.
Because if you think light bulbs are causing a problem, you have no clue.
You know what one of the largest consumers of electricity in your house is is your computer.
And if you have servers and something, if you I mean, those things eat up your plasma TVs.
My s my never mind.
I'll get 30 of them.
And they tell me that I gotta get rid of my light bulbs.
So what's really going on here?
Follow the money.
The lobbyists for the incandescent crowd, or I'm sorry, the compact fluorescent clock crowd is on the way.
I mean, utilities have to build up their physical plant to meet the peaks, which happen in daytime.
And they have to do this.
The capital to finance that equipment has to be paid for 24 hours a day.
Thus, utilities are gonna have to raise rates on the remainder of the kilowatt hours we use for everything else, from washing machines or hair dryers to computers.
Household power used by light bulbs is actually dwarfed these days by major appliances and high-tech consumer electronics like widescreen TVs, computers, video games, internet servers, which are the biggest energy hogs besides cars and trucks.
And since the new compact fluorescents produce inferior light than incandescents are gonna need more of them to read, to shave, to comb our hair, to brush our teeth.
Assuming literacy and personal hygiene are still hallmarks of our country after the global warming alarmists are done with their crusade to rid us of the blessings of the evil civilization that rapes Mother Gaya.
Now, by banning the incandescent light bulb, Congress will forcibly remove a staple commodity from the marketplace, replacing it with products that are far more expensive, less reliable, far more hazardous because of the mercury in there, notably the compact fluorescent light bulb.
They've been around for about ten years.
Only recently have they come in enough varieties and flavors to capture about 10% of the available sockets, four billion of them out there, four billion sockets.
But they are still at least five times more expensive than regular incandescents, which, if replaced in their entirety, would cost consumers an extra four to five billion dollars at cash register.
No doubt millions of Americans will enthusiastically embrace this and will be willing to pay extra to get it because they didn't convince their sinners.
And that they're destroying the planet, and they'll put any stupid-looking little crazy light bulbs and go to bed at night, confident and safe that they are saving the planet.
Bunch of dork idiots.
But millions others will not fare so well, folks.
This ban on the incandescent will be a tax on the poor.
The poor and minorities will be hardest hit here.
They'll have to come up with money they don't have to pay for the new do uh compact fluorescence.
How about retirees on fixed incomes no longer will they have to choose between dog food and medicine?
Now it'll be a choice between dog food and medicine and light.
What, Mr. Snerdley?
Bulbs.
Okay, bulbs sub- Yeah, okay, we'll have to repeat history.
We have to subsidize people to get bulbs out there since we're going to take them out of their houses, put these new things, and you people can be paying for the subsidy.
Otherwise, old people are going to be having to choose between dog food, medicine, or light bulbs.
How about low wage earners working double shifts or two jobs along with the average Joes and Marys who live each week paycheck to paycheck?
They don't have cable TV to watch the Home and Garden Channel.
They can't afford to replace their functional if drab table lamp fixtures, much less employ a green ideology toting residential lighting designer.
For these Americans, burdens come in large packages.
Relief arrives less often, less often, and uh and then it comes in small envelopes.
Of course, Walmart's yet another enemy of the trendy effluent class that wants to dictate how the rest of us live.
And guess where?
Guess guess where the extra purchase prices for these compact fluorescents will wind up.
They'll wind up in the pockets of Chinese manufacturers because not a single compact fluorescent bulb is produced in the United States of America.
Not one.
But it gets even worse as Chinese manufacturers add enough manufacturing capacity to produce ten times as many of these compact fluorescents.
They're gonna need several new coal-fired power plants to run the new factories.
This comes on top of the already breathtaking pace today of construction and coal-fired electric power plants in China at a clip of one plant every week.
Don't even think about asking about what kind of pollution control be operating on those Chinese plants, because there won't be any.
Attacks on poor people in the U.S., so the Chinese can add more coal-fired power plants.
Now there's a bright idea.
CFLs contain mercury.
Well, it's just a drop, you say.
Well, how about up to five milligrams per light bulb?
If all four billion incandescent sockets were filled with CFLs, we'd have 20 billion milligrams of mercury spread around every single U.S. household.
By the way, 20 billion milligrams is about 50,000 pounds of mercury that's not there now.
That 50,000 pounds of mercury among 300 million people, if indiscriminately thrown away, will eventually find its way to your favorite landfill in your public drinking water supply.
You knock over a table lamp and shatter one of these CFLs in your house, you got a toxic waste situation on your hand right in the living room, the bedroom, or the dining room, you got to call the hazmat people.
On the other hand, at least half of all mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants currently is captured by scrubbers, and clean coal technologies promise to eliminate two-thirds of what remains, but not so for CFLs, which can't operate without mercury.
So there you have it.
Congress is going to soon enact legislation to oppose a tax on poor people that'll directly pass to Chinese companies, contribute to lower literacy, less personal hygiene, while making industry possi industrial policy that'll increase greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and spread a hazardous heavy metal into the environment.
That's what we're gonna get with compact fluorescence.
Ten years if they ban the incandescent light bulb.
And that's not an insignificant point that all these Chinese, not one of these things is made in America, and uh to fill the void left by the ban of the incandescent, these Chinese factories are going to be built to the tune of once a week, and they are coal-fired.
Chinese don't care about the pollution they're putting up.
They still coat Kyoto.
Uh it's just typical, ladies and gentlemen, of the American left and the environmental movement, all of these so-called great intentions, the unintended consequences, or in this case maybe the intended consequences.
But this is another one of those circumstances where we talked about it all day all day today.
What is it about the American people that makes them such dolt sponges to soak up all this stuff?
And I'm telling you, it's easily explained.
If day in and day out for 20 years, you are inundated with how you are destroying the planet, and you are killing polar bears, and you are creating global warming, and you are committing sin.
Anything you can do to make yourself feel better, such as one of those cockami light bulbs, you'll do it.
Everybody wants to feel good.
Everybody wants it to matter.
Everybody wants to contribute.
Everybody wants to make a difference.
Well, just remember, Hitler made a difference, too.
A quick question for you idiots in Belgium.
What is the carbon footprint going to be of all those black helicopters flying over people's backyards checking to see if their barbecue pits are lit up?
All right, Howard and uh Ninotonk in Minnesota.
I'm glad you waited, Howard.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, uh good afternoon, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you for that.
And I watch your program almost every day.
Well, happy you do.
What channel?
Uh on Fox News.
Good.
Oh, I'm on TK D L uh TK D L, I think it is.
It's a local radio station.
But uh they carry your program every day, and I watch and listen to it every day.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate the fact that you're out there.
Yeah, and uh what you say is absolutely true in most cases.
In all cases, actually.
That's the consensus of the American people.
Well, I have one suggestion.
I have I got a couple of items I want to talk to you about quickly, Rush.
Yeah.
Uh first of all, I the far left keeps jabbing at you all the time on different issues.
And I think you ought to adopt the old Popeye uh slogan.
I am what I am, and that's all I am.
Well, I don't respond to them.
I mean, that's uh that's basically my philosophy.
That let them take their shots.
Yeah, but you are what you are, and you do a good job at what you're doing.
That's why my main question, Rush.
Again, reflecting the consensus of the American people.
Yes.
Yeah.
I watch uh Fox News quite regularly, and I have not yet seen on this hostage thing.
Uh, were those uh fifteen sailors and marines, were they the total crew on that ship?
Yeah, that's right.
And so they just gave up.
They just gave up.
They didn't fire shot, they didn't resist.
Yeah, why didn't they fire a shot at the end?
Well, Winston Churchill is having a scotch in his grave right now, asking the same question.
Uh Winston Churchill probably cannot believe this.
You know, they pretty much mothballed their Navy.
They that that country, I'll tell you, it it's gone PC in ways you wouldn't believe.
Let me the best way to answer your question, Howard, is to tell you this story.
And if you people haven't heard this, I want you to sit down.
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
Schools in the UK are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons.
They are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim students, according to a government study.
The study found that some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity of the Holocaust for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century crusades where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem, because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history as a vehicle for promoting political correctness.
Political correctness, it's worse than that.
The Brits are not teaching a Holocaust because there are Muslim students in there who are Holocaust deniers.
They don't want them to be offended.
They're worried that they're going to start blowing up the schools or something, I guess.
There is a consensus on the Holocaust, but the Brits are willing to say the hell with consensus.
The Holocaust is not consensus, it's fact.
But the look at you wonder what's happened to the Brits' political correctness running amok.
Conflict resolution.
Uh anybody think that 15 United States Marines would just sit there, allow themselves to be taken when they had not invaded Iraqian waters, and then in two days start apologizing on Iranian TV.
You think 15 United States Marines would do this?
No way.
Simplify.
No way.
But all you have to know is the story I just told you.
Not teaching the Holocaust might offend Muslim students who don't believe it.
David in Tampa, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Russia, it's an honor, man.
I can't believe I know I've got just a short period of time here to talk to you.
Um two things.
One with this Diane Feinstein thing.
Uh nobody, I have not seen it one place except for your show.
They've even talked about that.
I can't believe the media just blew that off.
That's a great example of what we've been talking about earlier.
Diane Feinstein had to leave the Milcon Connecticut subcommittee.
It's a Senate subcommittee on military construction appropriation.
She resigned last week, uh, less than two months after Metro newspapers, a group of alternative weekly papers in Northern California, Lib Papers, detailed a number of defense contracts awarded to Pirini Corp and URS Corp, both of which her husband Richard Blum has ownership.
The investigation partially funded by the investigative fund of the Nation Institute, nonprofit organization affiliated with the Nation Liberal Magazine.
It was a critique from the left.
And she was steering defense dollars to companies owned or invested in heavily by her husband.
This is bigger than Congressman William Jefferson.
This is Duke Cunningham kind of stuff.
And it's nowhere because she quit.
It is nowhere.
The drive-bys are not interested.
This is something that ought to.
This dwarfs the U.S. attorney so-called scandal.
This ought to be a mushroom cloud over Diane Feinstein.
But the drive-bys are not interested.
Her local media, San Francisco, is not interested, and it is what it is.
Classic illustration of why and how, if you spend all your time with the drive by media, you are going to be so poisoned and distorted.
You will not have any idea what's true and what isn't.
Well, where did it go?
Fastest three hours in the media, and it's gone, folks.
But that's okay because there are three more tomorrow, and we can't wait for them to start.
We'll be here.
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