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April 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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I am not believing.
I'm not believing this.
I haven't seen it yet.
I haven't seen it yet.
Apparently, the mayor of San Francisco has done something amazing prior to a television interview.
It's going to be up on the Drudge Report pretty soon, I'm told.
Keep it sharp.
I know what it is, but I I've until I see it, I'm not going to believe what I've been told.
You know, I believe half of what I see, none of what I hear.
Apparently, uh they did with the microphone out there before TV interview, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco, uh well, I would just have to wait and see what it is.
Just be surprised.
Greetings.
Uh no, this wouldn't, I don't think.
Well, in San Francisco, this could be a political 10 strike, actually, now that you ask me that, H.R. Uh nowhere else would it be a political 10 strike, but uh out there it could be.
Greetings, folks, great to have you with us.
We're doing open line Friday on Thursday today.
Uh since we're gonna be off tomorrow for Good Friday, pull W. Smith from WJR Detroit will be sitting in uh uh on uh on on Friday from New York.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, uh Mr. Snerdley has suspended himself for 15 minutes, uh, or the first segment of this program.
Uh I saw him yelling and screaming in there.
I didn't say anything about it.
Uh, till the top of the hour break, and I said, What?
What what I I've I've told you I don't know how many times, you know, scream at these people that we invite to call.
He said, I just got frustrated.
I'm gonna suspend myself so that you won't have to.
But he just started screaming at a guy uh who called and uh and said that I what did he say I was doing?
I was I was not Yeah, I was doing a disservice to the country and uh and and Snerdley said, No, it's I'm doing the disservice of the country because I'm not gonna put your call up.
Uh and the guy is this representing a campaign.
We don't do campaigns on this program.
Uh as other talk shows do.
I mean, we don't tell you to rip up your credit cards.
They don't form massive armies to make phone calls and this sort of stuff, and that's what the guy wanted.
And when uh when the caller insulted me, Snerdley said, No, you should be insulting me because I'm not.
Uh I'm I'm doing the disservice if you look at it that way by not putting you up.
But knowing full well that this would require punishment uh uh of him by me, he's gone ahead and punished himself.
So for those of you calling now, um there will be no answering.
Uh nobody's on the phones for the first segment.
Snerdley has suspended himself.
That's okay.
We don't take uh we don't take calls in the in the first segment of the uh of the program anyway.
Uh it is open line Friday on Thursday, so you can talk about whatever you want, uh uh even if I don't care about it, which usually Monday through Thursday we uh we have to do.
Now, uh uh you've probably seen this headline, Florida student who mooned teacher sues.
A high school senior acknowledges he went too far when he mooned teacher, but he thinks the decision of screw officials to send him to a new school for the rest of the year was too harsh.
So his family is suing.
Now, I've always said I'm not gonna become an old fuddy duty uh as I grow older.
But I have to ask, what would have happened to us in high school if we had done something like this?
If we had moon, I mean the stuff we well, I you know, my uh my resume, folks, as a prankster, is uh uh I don't think topped by anybody's.
I mean, I pulled my share of pranks in school and out.
But if if anybody, when I was in school at mooned a teacher, there wouldn't be any family suing the school.
Uh I don't care who the kid was, and I don't care what kind of reprobate family the kid might have come from, there wouldn't have been any of this.
Tyler Tilling, 18, moon to teacher, suddenly and without thinking about the consequences in February, according to the lawsuit filed yesterday, or actually Tuesday.
The teacher had declined to let him into a February 21st school lip sync show that was full.
He was suspended for six days and reassigned to a new school.
But the teen wants to graduate with his Palm Harbor University High Class in six weeks and complete his final season on the varsity baseball team, the lawsuit said.
Uh The teen uh uh well, his lawyer uh said, look, we're talking about his graduation here.
It's an important event in the guy's life.
This kid deserves a break.
Without knowing the allegations, we're confident in the administration's position on this case, said school board attorney Jim Robinson, Paul Harbor Principal Herman Doc Allen described the mooning as disgusting, and the teacher as traumatized.
Suing.
Traumatized.
Traumatized.
Well, it doesn't, I I maybe the teacher was trauma.
We don't know.
Well, it must have been some moon.
It must have been some butt.
Who knows?
Tattoos, you never know what's on somebody's butt these days till they do moon you.
Uh but but uh I I just struck.
I'm I uh suing the school over this.
One of these things would have never happened.
An Air Force veterans filed a federal claim after an operation at a VA hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
Uh Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed June 14th at the West LA VA Medical Center because there was a chance it could harbor cancel cancer cells.
Uh uh it also was atrophied and painful, but doctors mistakenly remove the right one.
And the claim here seeks 200 grand for future care and unspecified damages, still hasn't had the correct testicle removed.
The one that might be harboring uh cancer.
Houghton told the LA Times, I at first I thought it was a joke when they told me this, and then I was shocked and I told him, What do I do now?
So Houghton, his wife Monica, their attorney, Dr. Susan Freary, or Friary, uh said they hope to get the VA's attention by going public with the uh situation.
We're making every attempt out there that we can for Mr. Houghton, but it's in litigation, that's all we can tell you, said uh Dr. Dean Norman, the chief of staff for the Greater LA VA system, who has formerly apologized to uh Houghton and uh and his uh and his wife.
Um, that is a good point.
Uh he's got only one testicle, so he could run as a Republican now.
So his future is not bleak.
This one I try to tell everybody.
No matter what happens to you, there's always good in everything.
If you just look for it.
Uh and in this case, with one testicle, might be a great Republican candidate.
Uh New York's Tribeca Film Festival is to open this month.
That's Robert De Niro's big thing.
They're gonna have a series of short films about global warming at a gala ceremony hosted by former vice president Al Gore.
The seven films taken from a selection of shorts by figures as diverse as Last King of Scotland director Kevin McDonald, the creators of Wallace and Gromit, all focus on climate change.
Uh this Al Gore is.
You know, this headline is wrong.
This headline, I'll tell you what I thought Gore to kick off Tribeca Film Fest with green shorts.
I thought he's going to wear green shorts.
They're talking about short subject movies.
And I'm looking here through the whole story.
Well, where's the paragraph about Gore wearing green shorts?
It's only believable that he would do this.
What was the thing that happened the other day?
What was oh.
We are told that the Belgium barbecue pit story is a April Fool's joke.
Haven't been able to confirm this.
We're told now that the you know you remember this, that uh they're gonna charge people uh 20 or 30 euros a year of barbecue tax to barbecue in the backyard because of all the pollutants that come out of there.
And they were gonna have black helicopters fly around to uh make sure people obey the law.
Well, now it's uh it's it's been said that this was a hoax, a typical uh April Fool's joke.
And if it is an April Fool's joke, look at how many people believed it.
And there have been plenty of April Fool jokes like this and hoaxes that people believe, uh, you know, War of the Worlds and all that, but this is a bit of evidence to validate something I've always said.
Good comedy is only good comedy because it has an element of truth in it.
This was believed because the global warming uh bunch is so nuts that this is something totally within the realm of something they would do in a lot of people's minds.
All right, quick time out.
We'll be back.
And continue after this.
Don't go away.
You know, I love reading about diets when I'm on one.
I've been on one since February 14th, now 39 pounds now, since February 14th.
It's basically it varies every day.
It's a thousand to twelve hundred, some days thirteen hundred calories.
Uh no mystery to it, no secret ingredients.
Uh but look at this.
This is from LiveScience.com.
Air is a key ingredient that can cut some calories from snacks.
The researchers invited people who were not on diets to snack on as many cheese puffs as they wanted over the course of four afternoons.
One group munched on those dense Cheetos while others munched on the puffier, more air-rated ones.
Although the group snacking on the more air-rated puffs ate more by volume, they ended up consuming 21% fewer calories on average because there's a lot of air in there.
And so now they're suggesting eat a lot of air, foods with a lot of air in there, and and you'll end up eating less calories.
They cite cereals, another biggie, eating puffier, irregularly shaped cereals are better bet than dense, tightly packed cereals like mucilie or granola.
They have granola three days.
See, this is this is this is what's a crock about this.
If I wanted, I can have it seven days a week.
I just vary it.
It's just how much of it you eat.
There's no mystery to any of this.
Everybody's looking for a way to get away with what you can't get away with.
Now they're gonna try they're gonna spawn the the uh the uh uh what are these the the these cheese puffs diet.
People are gonna be buying these air puffed pea cheese puffs like nuts uh going on a diet.
This is Sam at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago.
Nice to have you on the program, sir, and welcome.
Limo driver ditto to you, Rush.
Thank you.
You know, I I gotta before I get to my point, you you made my day.
I was listening to all of your ads, you know, and waiting for you.
And I think that the Pelosi could probably get a job at the baggage handler management uh person.
She might be might be qualified for that, yeah.
Now, the question I have, I'm an independent, and to be honest with you, I hope that Fred uh Thompson uh runs for president because I'd vote for him.
Um, but don't you think that the two Americas thing is really real that the Republic or the Democrats in power are actually doing exactly what their base wants them to do.
Uh that's a two-part question in terms of my answer.
Yes, there's two Americas.
Not in the economic sense, as John Edwards uh has said, but there there are they're clearly just two Americas.
There's you can't visit some of the left-wing Looney Tune Democrat websites and conclude and conclude otherwise.
So are the Democrats pandering to their base?
Yeah, they're they're doing that.
They've they've uh, you know, there's there's an element of that behavior necessary for fundraising to keep these people.
These people are very militant.
I mean, these people are threatening to take over the Democrat Party, the move on.orgs and all that if the Democrats don't do what they want, and the Democrats respond to them.
Uh but uh you know, this is this is like taking the advice of uh anybody whose advice is wrong and is not in the best interest of the country.
You know, this is not leadership.
But the difference here between the Democrats and their base is very m very infinitesimal.
I I don't think the Democrats are a bunch of what you and I would call reasonable down the middle moderates who are cowed by these kooks on the left and their base and acting frightened of them.
I think it'll want in the same.
The whole Democrat Party, you have to understand this, Sam.
A whole Democrat Party is a machine.
For example, when um when when uh uh the Fox News channel was canceled with its debate in Nevada.
It was said that moveon.org pulled this off.
Move on.org and a couple other websites pressured the Nevada Democrat Party to cancel debate, and they did.
And that misses the whole point.
The whole Democrat Party is a machine, and I will guarantee you that that would not have happened without Rom Emanuel and John Podesta.
John Podesta runs the uh uh there's an American Progress Think Tank.
What the Center for American Progress, which they set up because they thought the Democrats didn't have enough think tanks to compete with the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute and things like that.
And Ram Emanuel runs the Democrats in the House in terms of their um uh uh uh their electoral uh efforts.
Uh the the the this they they insulate each other.
Yeah, move on.org did this.
Of course they they say that because they want moveon.org to sound omnipotent.
They want moveon.org to be perceived as this massive, powerful internet club that can move and move mobilize an entire party.
But the whole the from the feminists to big labor uh to the civil rights coalitions, there's a machine, and it's it's it's a mistake to say that one element tells the whole party what to do uh and that one element can shout up and make some noise and the whole party just uh just falls in line.
That's not how it happens.
So there's not that that great a difference between the uh uh Democrats in Washington and these kooks.
I they're not just securing defeat because their base wants it.
You got you know, you people, you're gonna have to understand who these liberals are.
This then it's not new.
This is one of the things that frustrated a caller earlier this week, and we spent all this time talking about.
The Democrats did this in Vietnam.
The Democrats have done this uh in practically every war that we've had that was not started by a uh uh a Democrat.
Uh they they are just hellbent.
They're hell bent on destroying Bush.
They hate Bush with a purple passion.
I think he's l illegitimate.
Florida 2000, they're just consumed with hatred.
They're consumed with irrational rage and hatred.
And this is they're trying to relive their glory days of uh the Vietnam War and Watergate.
So there's they're they're being who they are.
Now, if you want to say you let them off the hook because they're just doing what their base uh wants them to do, yeah, you can say that, but it's not it's not as though they don't want to do it and are only doing it because their base is uh demanding it.
These people are who they are.
Make no mistake about it.
Minersville, Pennsylvania, Steve.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You are on the EIB network.
Hey, Steve.
Steve, welcome to.
Yes, to start again.
We didn't get your button punched up quite in time.
Okay, I I said it's an honor to talk to you.
And I had two points I wanted to make, but I only got to talk to one uh about one of them with uh your screener.
And my point was uh Al Gore and and all of the left-wing people keep saying that we are causing global warming and we're ruining the planet and we're causing the temperatures to rise.
And yet just this week, uh Mr. or Dr. Gray, the head of the hurricane center admitted that last year he could not properly predict the number of hurricanes because of one weather pattern known as El Nino.
And my point is if he could not make that prediction because of one weather pattern, how can they possibly say we're causing global warming with all the weather weather patterns and all the solar storms and things that occur every year?
Because global warming has nothing to do with science.
Global warming is liberal ideology.
Global warming is liberal rel.
No, it is.
It is a religious movement and it is an ideological movement, and is it is pure liberalism.
It's oriented toward growing government, raising taxes, uh, and and empowering government over the individual uh uh over a long period of time, such as we've got a hundred years in the lose uh Palm Beach County, Florida.
Why, because it juts out there in the uh in the Atlantic Ocean.
Bill Gray doesn't work at the hurricane center, he's at uh Colorado State.
He heads up the hurricane forecast team out there.
And uh, you know, the you know, he had to revise his predictions downward two or three times last hurricane season.
But after Hurricane Katrina, remember Hurricane Katrina was said by the global warming advocates to be so strong and so bad and so unprecedented because ocean temperatures were rising.
And everybody, and we had so many name storms we went through the alphabet.
We got disease and we had to go to Alpha and Beta.
There were so many name storms during the year of Hurricane Katrina.
Well, everybody thought next year, the following year are gonna be even worse because those ocean temperatures are rising and high ocean temperatures are what are the are the fuel that feeds hurricanes.
Well, lo and behold, here comes little El Nino, whips the tops off of these hurricanes before they can get going.
Bam o last season was was was zilch for all intents and purposes.
Uh but yet I thought we were gonna have it, it was gonna be horrible.
Ocean sea surface Temperatures are rising.
Uh nope.
Now, your question about how can I make these predictions?
Uh it's not about that, man.
Like I mentioned at the top of the program today, the day Gore testified on Capitol Hill about global warming.
It was so cold in Anchorage, Alaska, where it's always cold in the winter.
It was so cold the fire hydrants froze.
Some of them cracked on the day Gore's talking about this irrepressible heat that's coming.
So what was their reaction?
Well, of course, global warming is causing all kinds of irregular weather patterns.
When that kind of stuff happens, when when cold, out of season cold or seasonable real, real cold happens, they never say, gee, I wonder if this puts a chink in the armor to global warming people.
You wait, what's gonna happen?
We're gonna have a scorching hot summer in some places, as we always do, and they're gonna say, see, global warming, global warming.
The media have become just a bunch of lapdogs for this.
That it's not science, Steve.
Well, they uh uh the Drudge Report has just put up a still shot of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.
I alluded to this at the top of the program.
It looks like he's simulating oral sex on the windscreen of a microphone.
Uh looks like he's trying to swallow the microphone there, folks.
Uh I've I I think there's video of this.
Uh you know, I know the way Drudge operates, puts things up there in stages.
So I think there's video of this.
But what's interesting is I look at the page, there's Gavin Newsom simulating oral sex, and there's Pelosi eating something uh in a picture right below him.
And you know the the San Francisco oral fixation uh is on display right there on the homepage of the Drudge Report.
How soon before Basher Assad's a sighted uh invited to San Francisco to share in the delights?
A little global warming news.
Well, sort of global warming news.
I think it is, in my sense.
Uh it's from New Science, New Scientist.com.
The largest solar flare in the last five hundred years may have shredded Earth's ozone layer to a greater extent than man-made chemicals have in recent decades, new research suggests.
And as in if such a fair uh such a flare occurred today, it would likely be even more damaging to the ozone and could increase the rate of skin cancer around the world.
Scientists have calculated the ozone depletion from the 1859 solar flare for the first time by studying chemical deposits in Greenland ice cores.
Now, without getting into all the technical data here, this story, essentially, my good friends, is telling us 500 years ago, in five minutes, the sun did more damage to the ozone layer than man has done in 1,000 years.
Which I mean, this is something I've been trying to cement in people's minds for the longest time.
Without the sun, there's nothing here.
There's no life.
There's no well, there might be life in the deepest depths of the ocean because that's warmed from the Earth's core.
But I mean, for the most part, life on the surface wouldn't exist without the sun, and then global warming people never ever factor the role of the sun into anything.
Their calculations.
Yesterday we told you about uh uh the Edwards website.
If you sent the go to John Edwards for President website, you get an opportunity there to send a sympathy card to Elizabeth Edwards.
And if you did, you were put on an email list where you then receive solicitations from the Edwards campaign.
Now, what are you laughing at in there now?
You got some caller on the phone you're trying to be polite to?
All right.
It must be one of those days in there.
Well, what's happened now is that the since since this has been made public, the uh the Edwards campaign has decided they're gonna give you an option to be put on their solicitation list.
Yeah, you were just automatically on it if you sent Mrs. Edwards a sympathy note via email.
After being confronted by questions from reporters, the Edwards campaign said it'll add an option to allow well-wishers to decline getting uh future emails.
So why change it?
I mean, if uh are they admitting here that they might have gone overboard?
Here's Carl in Tampa.
Tampa uh is uh city that we own.
Welcome to the EIB network, Carl.
Great to have you.
Hello, Rush Megadettoes.
Thank you, sir.
I'd like to give you and your listeners something to think about.
I don't think this Nancy Pelosi thing is against Bush, but I think she's more trying to establish her power base before Hillary gets elected.
Well, you know, I don't know if that's true, but you raise a great, great point, and I will tell you this.
Hillary Clinton is out there trying to get elected president, camouflaging her liberalism.
And here's Pelosi defining it for the world.
Here's here's Pelosi defining what far left Democrat people they hope all become, and this has got to be unnerving to Mrs. Clinton because and I think you're right.
Pelosi is seeking to be the power in Washington, the most powerful woman in Washington.
There's no question.
That's what the we developed the Queen Bee syndrome theory to explain this.
That's what I just explained to uh the screener that there's no way you can have two Queen Bees in the same hive and have the hive function correctly.
Well, that's that's something that's going to manifest itself if Hillary wins the presidency and the Democrats hold the house.
Yeah.
That would be fun to watch.
But don't don't don't put out of your mind the notion here that they're not aiming at Bush on this.
I mean, they're Bush is clearly a target.
Yeah, but he's in the last year of his lame duck presidency.
There's nothing he can really do to harm them, and she's looking towards her future, and and that might include Hillary.
Uh well, if if she were going to take on Hillary in a direct confrontation.
Well, for what?
You think she's going to run for president?
She's already literally taking over that position and speaker the house.
So that she doesn't have to run.
She's taking it by proxy.
I I have to ask you a question.
Yeah.
Carl, are you married?
Yes, I am.
Explains your thinking.
I'll take it one step further.
This is my third one, so I'm just kidding, ladies.
I just love stereotypical humor now.
Back off.
Um that's the only picture I see.
Them going at it and and we take we're suffering for it.
Carl, I like the way you're thinking on this.
I get this train of thought by listening to your show on a regular basis, so and the most frightening thought for America is that both of them have a certain time of the month at the same time.
Now I'm moving out of the state of Tampa and I'll talk to you later, Rush.
All right.
I appreciate that, Carl.
Thanks.
Thanks a whole lot.
You know, we saw Sturdly and I, when he was telling me that he was going to suspend himself at the top of the hour.
What was it?
Fox?
Fox on apparently was it in Florida?
I'm not sure where it was, but a uh a teacher stood by, did nothing, and watched why it while a fight between two twelve-year-old girls broke out.
Seventh graders, seventh grade girls broke out.
And uh one of the uh one of the girls in the crowd watching uh video taped it with cell phone, or recorded it with the with a cell phone, a quality wasn't too.
But the teacher's getting all kinds of grief here uh for standing around watching this and then not doing anything to uh stop it.
And I was reminded of this when Carl was going through the possibilities here with Nan.
It was in Orlando, I knew it was in Florida.
And uh, you know, I said to Snerdly, I don't blame the teacher, I'd watch it too.
But now, you know, teacher, pe teacher probably afraid of getting sued.
If you break this up, you might be choosing sides.
If you break it up, you might hurt one of the twelve-year-olds.
Teachers can't win in this circumstance.
The school will get sued.
Teacher get reassigned to a new school, probably with this clown that mooned his teacher.
They'll probably end up at the same academy somewhere.
Brian and Trapper City, excuse me, Traver City, Michigan.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, you said a little bit ago that you always say there's good in all things.
And so I'm I'm wondering, what is the good uh from that perspective in liberalism, in Democrats, you know, in and in Al Qaeda.
And if there is good in all things, how can you ever say then that anything is ever evil?
Uh now you you're distorting this.
I'm I'm talking about in personal circumstances that people encounter in life.
There is good that what that devastate people and that make them think that they're Oh my gosh, I'm snake bit.
There's good in everything, and and generally it's an opportunity.
If you look for it, there's there's good but but in in the case of liberalism, the good thing about that is it loses.
And when it loses, that's a that's a that's a great thing.
And I'll cite Al Qaeda loses too.
All right, sir.
Have a happy Easter.
Yeah, you do the same.
This is uh Ephraim in Manhattan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor.
Actually, the name is Ephraim, but uh I'm a rush baby who was actually promoted to a White House internship last semester uh in the fall two thousand and six.
I'm 21 years old, and I actually started listening to you with my dad when I was two years old when Dave Dorson introduced you in New York.
On the bastion of liberalism up from the West Side.
And I just wanted to just really thank you for always being an inspiration for me.
Actually, during my time in DC, I had the honor of seeing you at the Warner Theater.
I was in there in the audience.
But uh, you have always been an inspiration to me, Rush, and it's it was just it's an honor to speak to you, and it was an honor to serve the president last semester.
Well, thank you.
You you were there for one semester.
I was there for a semester, yes.
And uh it was just um it was uh just it's true a true honor, and uh it all started.
I think it all started at two years old uh in WABC in New York.
Do you really remember that?
I actually I really do.
My father, I remember as I mean, I used to I always was into radio.
I actually had uh in college I had a radio show of my own, and then um I actually was an intern, uh later was an intern at WABC last summer, not official intern.
Um but uh I just I actually do remember just two years old, especially coming home on Fridays early and uh or just coming home early always making time for for you, Rush, and always always listening in.
Oh my gosh, you're making my year here.
This is uh at two years old, you were you remember my first day on WABC.
That was July 4th of 1988.
Well, yeah, and we actually consider it uh an early uh f well, I know last year you said you would complain that there was nobody was wishing you a happy father's day.
So this year I'm wishing you in advance that true r a true uh true rush baby, wishing you uh and happy father's day in advance.
Thank you, thank you.
Thanks so much, true.
You are this is um I've actually retracted that that nobody wishes me a happy Father Day complaint.
I'm actually happy that that doesn't happen now.
Uh just kidding, people back off out there.
Uh you do you remember Dave Dawson introducing uh that that at two years old.
That's that's uh uh done.
Well, I've well I know it's just and uh from my father also that uh we both uh this is and this is coming from the west side of Manhattan here.
I remember you got you got an email a few about a month ago from somebody uh you said it was from Manhattan on the West Side, and I just I just wanted to put in somewhat of a good name for the neighborhood rather than uh it was a rather unpleasant email, I think.
Um I understand the people that know the west side of Manhattan, uh Moscow on the Hudson.
Yeah.
Uh but but there are pockets of uh of refugees in there like you.
Or individuals who are just uh who are willing to stand up against uh to be unpopular and uh and just willing to stand up and uh and follow your ways, Rush.
Well, what do you gotta do, Fryam?
What what's next for you?
You've done your White House internship.
What's next?
Well, I'm really I'm the truth is I'm not sure yet.
I know that I'm always been into serving the country, especially the last few years.
I've gotten more and more interested.
Uh whether it's I just I'm interested in serving serving the country and uh really um that we need we and like you always speak about we really do need leadership uh these days that um we need leadership, and I'm not necessarily looking to uh to run for anything.
I mean, that's really not I'm maybe even more of a support role, but um I'm just looking to I I mean I I'm a high I don't want to be cliche, but make a difference, but in a real way, not no, go out aim high.
Aim high.
You know, you you can do a lot of things in a support role, but aim high.
Well, I appreciate it, Rush.
And it's I'm always I've always derived that inspiration from you.
And actually you're one of the there are a few people I've always wanted I've that I've really wanted to meet in life that I've uh over the past few years, and well, the president was was one of them and uh and got that them, but you are really still still one of those.
I've seen you in person, but but to still too far off uh at the Warner Theater.
So but this is this is as close as it this is as good as it as as gets to the real thing.
Well, I really appreciate your saying that.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Rush.
You better have a great weekend.
We'll take a brief time out here and be right back.
I just watched the video of Gavin Newsom.
He just sort of made a move to swallow the microphone and then moved away from it real quick.
Uh the still shot makes it look a little worse than it is.
Still did it.
Still did it.
But I guarantee you resume enhancement in San Francisco.
Shoppers heading to the grocery store to buy Easter eggs.
Ought to be prepared to shell out a lot more cash than it did last year.
See, folks, you can't have peace.
Every time you leave your house, you are threatened with higher prices, destruction, auto accidents, meteors.
Something's gonna happen.
You're dead when you and if you stay in your house, you're gonna die of some kind of lead poisoning in the water that Bush didn't remove.
Mercury's gonna leak out of your compact fluorescent bulb.
Now when you go to the grocery store, egg prices are gonna skyrocket.
You know why?
Because a surge in demand for corn to make ethanol has boosted feed costs for egg producers.
Not only is there going to be a corn shortage in the third world with riots.
Now eggs are gonna go up in price because of the uh there's a surge in demand to make corn to ethanol has boost feed cost for egg producers, meaning chicken farmers out there.
Rudy uh Giuliani.
By the way, Obama fundraising told you this yesterday.
ABC was late.
I told you Obama raised more money than Hillary, and he did it with almost twice as many donors.
All of his money is for the primary.
Twenty-five mil for the primaries, Hillary 26 million total for primary in general.
ABC finally on the case.
Rudy Giuliani may have stepped in it here uh with on CNN uh talking about federal funding for abortion.
He was talking to my Dana Bash, a reporter at there at CNN.
Uh and uh here's here's what he said to the first question.
I'm in the same position now that I was twelve years ago when I ran for mayor or as mayor, which is personally opposed to abortion, don't like it, hate it, would advise that woman have an adoption rather than an abortion.
I'll help you find the money for it.
But it's your choice.
It's an individual right.
You get to make that choice, and I don't think society should be putting in jail for it.
All right.
Now, what he's saying is he's making the case here for federally funded abortions on the base, hey, look, it's a constitutional right, folks.
I mean, and and there's nothing we can say that that that makes it otherwise.
A constitutional right.
All right, fine.
As far as it goes, but nowhere does the Constitution say that people get paid to exercise their rights.
And that's what the snafu here is about federal funding for abortions.
You know, this this by just because you have a right doesn't mean you have to exercise it, and that when you do, somebody's gonna pay you for it, particularly the federal government.
Uh Dana Bash said, well, one of the things that you've said is that you will appoint strict constructionist judges.
That's my philosophy.
It's the only way I can really uh uh see that we protect the separation of powers, personal liberties, and why strict construction of judges, I mean judges who will interpret the meaning of the Constitution.
A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about row against way.
They can look at it and say, wrongly decided.
Thirty years ago, whatever it is, we'll overturn it.
What's your personality?
And say it's been the law for this period of time.
Therefore, we gonna we're gonna respect the precedent.
Conservatives can come to that conclusion as well.
I'd leave it up to them.
I would not have a litmus test on that.
So he's given the strict constructionist nominees a wide berth.
They can respect precedent and not not touch Roe v.
Wade, or they could overturn it claiming it's bad law.
Uh he's not gonna have a litmus test uh on this.
Uh and we have time for this.
Yeah, we do.
Here's the final one.
Um the answer speaks for itself.
You don't need the question.
Generally, that's my view.
Abortion's wrong.
Abortion shouldn't happen.
Personally, you should counsel people to that extent.
When I was mayor, adoptions went up, abortions went down.
But ultimately, it's a constitutional right, and therefore, if it's a constitutional right, ultimately, even if you do it on a state-by-state basis, you have to make sure that people are protected.
See, you support taxpayer money or public funding for abortion in some cases.
If if if it would deprive someone of a constitutional right.
Yes.
I mean, if that if that's the status of the law, then I would, yes.
Well, that's that's that to me is interesting.
Uh, if you have a right to do something, but don't have the money, then you're being denied your access To the constitutional right, so yes, we should fund abortion since it is the uh law of the land.
That's uh that's Rudy.
Folks, we are sadly out of busy broadcast moments here.
Paul W. Smith will be here tomorrow.
Be back on Monday.
Everything will be cool, but it'll be off next Friday, too, for reasons I cannot and will not say.
Four-day week next week is uh as well as today.
This week is a four-day week.
Paul W. Smith here tomorrow.
Have a great, great uh weekend, Easter weekend, or whatever it is other than that that you celebrate.
And we'll see you on Monday, and we'll look forward to it.
Well, we still have one more time to say goodbye, so hang on.
And again, have a good one here, folks, and be back, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on Monday.
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