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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.
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 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, they did with the microphone out there before a TV interview, Gavin Newsome, Mayor of San Francisco.
Well, you just have to wait and see what it is.
Just be surprised.
Greetings.
No, this wouldn't, I don't think, well, in San Francisco, this could be a political 10-strike, actually, now that you asked me that, H.R. Nowhere else would it be a political 10-strike, but out there it could be.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us.
We're doing Open Line Friday on Thursday today since we're going to be off tomorrow for Good Friday.
Paul W. Smith from WJR Detroit will be sitting in on Friday from New York.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Snerdley has suspended himself for 15 minutes or the first segment of this program.
I saw him yelling and screaming in there.
I didn't say anything about it until the top of the hour break.
And I said, what?
I've told you, I don't know how many times, you don't scream at these people that we invite to call.
He said, I just got frustrated.
I'm going to suspend myself so that you won't have to.
But he just started screaming at a guy who called and said that.
What did he say I was doing?
I was not.
Yeah, I was doing a disservice to the country.
And Snerdley said, no, it's I'm doing the disservice of the country because I'm not going to put your call up.
And the guy is representing a campaign.
We don't do campaigns on this program 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.
When the caller insulted me, Snerdley said, no, you should be insulting me because I'm not.
I'm doing the disservice if you look at it that way.
We're not putting you up.
But knowing full well that this would require punishment of him by me, he's gone ahead and punished himself.
So for those of you calling now, there will be no answering.
Nobody's on the phones for the first segment.
Snerdley has suspended himself.
That's okay.
We don't take calls in the first segment of the program anyway.
It is Open Line Friday on Thursday, so you can talk about whatever you want, even if I don't care about it, which usually Monday through Thursday we have to do.
Now, you've probably seen this headline, Florida student who mooned teacher sues.
A high school senior acknowledges he went too far when he mooned a teacher, but he thinks the decision of scruple officials to send him to a new scroll for the rest of the year was too harsh.
So his family is suing.
Now, I've always said I'm not going to become an old fuddy-duddy 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 mooned, I mean, stuff we, well, I, you know, my resume, folks, as a prankster is, I don't think, topped by anybody's.
I mean, I pulled my share of pranks in school and out.
But if anybody, when I was in school, had mooned a teacher, there wouldn't be any family suing the school.
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, mooned a 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.
The teen, well, his lawyer 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.
Maybe the teacher was Trump.
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.
But I just struck.
I'm 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.
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 cancer cells.
It also was atrophied and painful, but doctors mistakenly removed the right one.
And the claim here seeks 200 grand for future care and unspecified damages, still hasn't had the correct testicle removed, one that might be harboring cancer.
Houghton told the LA Times, at first I thought it was a joke when they told me this, then I was shocked.
I told them, what do I do now?
So Houghton, his wife Monica, their attorney, Dr. Susan Freary, or Friary, said they hope to get the VA's attention by going public with the 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 Dr. Dean Norman, the chief of staff for the greater LA VA system, who has formally apologized to Houghton and his wife.
Well, that is a good point.
He's got only one testicle, so he could run as a Republican now.
So his future is not bleak.
This is what I try to tell everybody.
No matter what happens to you, there's always good in everything if you just look for it.
And in this case, with one testicle, might be a great Republican candidate.
New York's Tribeca Film Festival is to open this month.
That's Robert De Niro's big thing.
They're going to 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 Grommet, all focus on climate change.
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 shirts?
Because it's totally 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 an April Fool's joke.
Haven't been able to confirm this.
We're told now that you remember this, that they're going to charge people 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 going to have black helicopters fly around to make sure people obey the law.
Well, now it's been said that this was a hoax, a typical 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's jokes like this and hoaxes that people believe, 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 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 from 1,000 to 1,200, some days, 1,300 calories.
No mystery to it, no secret ingredients.
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 aerated ones.
Although the group snacking on the more aerated 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 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 mucili or granola.
I have granola three days.
See, this is what's a crock about this.
I have granola three days.
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 going to spawn the cheese puffs diet.
People are going to be buying these air-puffed pea cheese puffs like nuts, 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.
Hey, you know, before I get to my point, 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 as a baggage handler management person.
She 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 Thompson runs for president because I'd vote for him.
But don't you think that the two Americas thing is really real, that the Democrats in power are actually doing exactly what their base wants them to do?
That's a two-part question in terms of my answer.
Yes, there's two Americas.
Not in the economic sense, as John Edwards has said, but there are clearly just two Americas.
You can't visit some of the left-wing Looney Tune Democrat websites and conclude otherwise.
So are the Democrats pandering to their base?
Yeah, they're doing that.
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 moveon.orgs and all that, if the Democrats don't do what they want.
And the Democrats respond to them.
But, you know, this is like taking the advice of 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 infinitesimal.
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's one and the same.
The whole Democrat Party, you have to understand this, Sam.
The whole Democrat Party is a machine.
For example, when the Fox News channel was canceled with its debate in Nevada, it was said that moveon.org pulled this off.
MoveOn.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 Rah Emmanuel and John Podesta.
John Podesta runs the, there's an American Progress Think Tank, 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 Rah Emmanuel runs the Democrats in the House in terms of their electoral efforts.
They insulate each other.
Yeah, moveon.org did this.
Of course, 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 mobilize an entire party.
But from the feminists to big labor to the civil rights coalitions, there's a machine.
And it's a mistake to say that one element tells the whole party what to do.
And one element can shout up and make some noise and the whole party just falls in line.
That's not how it happens.
So there's not that great a difference between the Democrats in Washington and these kooks.
They're not just securing defeat because their base wants it.
People, you're going to have to understand who these liberals are.
And 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 in practically every war that we've had that was not started by a Democrat.
They are just hell-bent.
They're hell-bent on destroying Bush.
They hate Bush with a purple passion.
I think he's illegitimate.
Florida 2000.
They're just consumed with hatred.
They're consumed with irrational rage and hatred.
And they're trying to relive their glory days of the Vietnam War and Watergate.
So they're being who they are.
Now, if you want to say you can let them off the hook because they're just doing what their base wants them to do, you can say that.
But it's not as though they don't want to do it and are only doing it because their base is 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.
Yes, to start again.
We didn't get your button punched up quite in time.
Okay, 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 about one of them with your screener.
And my point was, Al Gore 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, 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 Niño.
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 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 religion.
No, it is.
It is a religious movement and it is an ideological movement and it is pure liberalism.
It's oriented toward growing government, raising taxes, and empowering government over the individual over a long period of time, such as 100 years and lose Palm Beach County, Florida.
Why?
Because it juts out there in the Atlantic Ocean.
Bill Gray doesn't work at the Hurricane Center.
He's at Colorado State.
He heads up the hurricane forecast team out there.
And, 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 named storms, we went through the alphabet.
We got to Z, then we had to go to Alpha and Beta.
There were so many named storms during the year of Hurricane Katrina.
Well, everybody thought next year, the following year, going to be even worse because those ocean temperatures are rising and high ocean temperatures are the fuel that feeds hurricanes.
Well, lo and behold, here comes little El Niño, whips the tops off of these hurricanes before they can get going.
Bamo.
Last season was zilch for all intents and purposes.
But yet, I thought we were going to have it.
It was going to be horrible.
Ocean sea surface temperatures are rising.
Nope.
Now, your question about how can I make these predictions?
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 is 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 cold, out-of-season cold or seasonable, real cold happens, they never say, gee, I wonder if this puts a chink in the armor of the global warming people.
You wait, what's going to happen?
We're going to have a scorching hot summer in some places, as we always do.
And they're going to say, see, global warming, global warming.
The media have become just a bunch of lapdogs for this.
It's not science, Steve.
Well, 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.
Looks like he's trying to swallow the microphone there, folks.
I think there's video of this.
I know the way Drudge operates, puts things up there in stages.
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 in a picture right below him.
And the San Francisco oral fixation is on display right there on the homepage of the Drudge Report.
How soon before Basher Assad's invited to San Francisco to share in the delights?
Little global warming news.
Well, sort of global warming news.
I think it is, in my sense.
It's from NewScience, newscientist.com.
The largest solar flare in the last 500 years may have shredded Earth's ozone layer to a greater extent than man-made chemicals have in recent decades, new research suggests.
If 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.
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 the global warming people never, ever factor the role of the sun into anything.
Their calculations.
Yesterday, we told you about the Edwards website.
If you 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 received 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 since this has been made public, the Edwards campaign has decided they're going to 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 future emails.
So why change it?
I mean, are they admitting here that they might have gone overboard?
Here's Carl in Tampa.
Tampa is a city that we own.
Welcome to the EIB network, Carl.
Great to have you.
Hello, Roche Mega Dittos.
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 Pelosi defining what far-left Democrat people they have all become.
And this has got to be unnerving to Mrs. Clinton.
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.
We developed the Queen Bee Syndrome Theory to explain this.
That's what I just explained to 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 something that's going to manifest itself.
If Hillary wins the presidency and the Democrats hold the House, that would be fun to watch.
But don't put out of your mind the notion here that they're not aiming at Bush on this.
I mean, 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 that might include Hillary.
Well, if she were going to take on Hillary in a direct confrontation, going for international support at this time.
Well, for what?
You think she's going to run for president?
She's already literally taking over that position at Speaker of the House.
So she doesn't have to run.
She's taking it by proxy.
I have to ask you a question.
Yep.
Carl, are you married?
Yes, I am.
Explains your thinking.
I'll take it one step further.
This is my third one.
I'm just kidding, ladies.
I just love stereotypical humor.
Now, back off.
That's the only picture I see.
Them going at it, and we're suffering for it.
Carl, I like the way you're thinking on this.
I get this turn of thought by listening to your show on a regular basis.
And the most frightening thought for America is if both of them have a certain time of the month at the same time.
No, no, no.
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 Snerdley 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 teacher stood by, did nothing, and watched while a fight between two 12-year-old girls broke out.
Seventh graders, seventh-grade girls broke out.
And one of the girls in the crowd watching videotaped it with a cell phone or recorded it with a cell phone.
The quality wasn't too good.
But the teacher's getting all kinds of grief here for standing around watching this and then not doing anything to 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, you know, I said to Snerdley, I don't blame the teacher.
I'd watch it too.
But now, you know, 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 12-year-olds.
Teachers can't win in this circumstance.
The school will get sued.
Teacher gets 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 Traverse City, excuse me, Traverse City, Michigan.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Thank you, sir.
You said a little bit ago that you always say there's good in all things.
And so I'm wondering, what is the good from that perspective in liberalism, in Democrats, and in Al-Qaeda?
And if there is good in all things, how can you ever say then that anything is ever evil?
Now, you're distorting this.
I'm talking about in personal circumstances that people encounter in life, that devastate people and that make them think that they're, oh my gosh, I'm snakebit.
There's good in everything, and generally it's an opportunity.
There's always something if you look for it.
There's good.
But in the case of liberalism, the good thing about that is it loses.
And when it loses, that's a great thing.
And Al-Qaeda loses too.
All right, sir.
Have a happy Easter.
You do the same.
This is 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 I'm a Rush baby who was actually promoted to a White House internship last semester in the fall 2006.
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 from the West Side.
And I just wanted to really thank you for always being an inspiration for me.
Actually, during my time in D.C., I had the honor of seeing you at the Warner Theater.
I was in there in the audience.
But you have always been an inspiration to me, Rush.
And it was just an honor to speak to you, and it was an honor to serve as the president last semester.
Well, thank you.
You were there for one semester?
I was there for a semester, yes.
And it was just a true honor.
And it all started.
I think it all started at two years old in WABC in New York.
Do you really remember that?
I actually, I really do.
My father, I remember as I mean, I always was into radio.
I actually had a, in college, I had a radio show of my own, and then I actually was an intern, later was an intern at WABC last summer, non-official intern.
But I actually do remember just two years old, especially coming home on Fridays early and or just coming home early, always making time for you, Rush, and always listening in.
Oh, my gosh, you're making my year here.
This is at two years old.
You remember my first day on WABC?
That was July 4th of 1988.
Well, yeah, and we actually consider it an early.
Well, I know last year you said you complained that nobody was wishing you a happy Father's Day.
So this year I'm wishing you in advance.
A true Rush baby wishing you a happy Father's Day in advance.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks so much.
I've actually retracted that nobody wishes me a happy Father's Day complaint.
I'm actually happy that that doesn't happen now.
Just kidding, people.
Back off out there.
You do.
You remember Dave Dawson introducing at two years old.
That's well, I thought, well, I know it's just for my father also that we both, and this is coming from the west side of Manhattan here.
I remember you got an email a few about months ago from somebody.
You said was from Manhattan on the west side.
And I just wanted to put in somewhat of a good name for the neighborhood rather than it was a rather unpleasant email, I think.
Now I understand.
People who know the west side of Manhattan, Moscow on the Hudson.
But there are pockets of refugees in there like you.
Or individuals who are just who are willing to stand up against to be unpopular and just willing to stand up and follow your ways, Rush.
Well, what are you going to do, Ephraim?
What's next for you?
You've done your White House internship.
What's next?
Well, I'm really, the truth is, I'm not sure yet.
I know that I've always been into serving the country, especially the last few years.
I've gotten more and more interested.
I'm interested in serving the country and really that we need, and like you always speak about, we really do need leadership these days.
We need leadership.
And I'm not necessarily looking to run for anything.
I mean, that's really not.
Maybe even more of a support role, but I'm just looking to, I mean, I don't want to be cliche, but make a difference, but in a real way.
Go ahead, aim high.
Aim high.
You can do a lot of things in a support role, but aim high.
I appreciate it, Rush.
I've always derived that inspiration from you.
And actually, you're one of the, there were a few people that I've really wanted to meet in life over the past few years.
And well, the president was one of them and got that done.
But you are really still one of those.
I've seen you in person, but still too far off at the Warner Theater.
But this is as good as it gets to the real thing.
Well, I really appreciate you 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 Noosa.
They just sort of made a move to swallow the microphone and then moved it away from it real quick.
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 they did last.
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 going to happen.
You're dead.
And if you stay in your house, you're going to die of some kind of lead poisoning in the water that Bush didn't remove.
Mercury is going to leak out of your compact fluorescent bulb.
Now, when you go to the grocery store, egg prices are going to 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 going to go up in price because there's a surge in demand to make corn to ethanol has boosted feed costs for egg producers, meaning chicken farmers out there.
Rudy 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.
25 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 on CNN talking about federal funding for abortion.
He was talking to my Dana Bash, a reporter out there at CNN.
And here's what he said to the first question.
I'm in the same position now that I was 12 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 you 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 there's nothing we can say 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, is about federal funding for abortions.
You know, this, this, just because you have a right doesn't mean you have to exercise it, and that when you do, somebody's going to pay you for it, particularly the federal government.
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 see that we protect the separation of powers, personal liberties.
And by strict constructionist judges, I mean judges who will interpret the meaning of the Constitution.
A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about Roe against Wade.
They can look at it and say, wrongly decided 30 years ago, whatever it is, we'll overturn it.
But what's your personal opinion?
They can look at it and say, it's been the law for this period of time.
Therefore, we're going to 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 touch Roe v. Wade, or they can overturn it claiming it's bad law.
He's not going to have a litmus test on this.
And we have time for this.
Yeah, we do.
Here's the final one.
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.
So you support taxpayer money or public funding for abortion in some cases?
If it would deprive someone of a constitutional right.
Yes.
I mean, if that's the status of the law, then I would, yes.
Well, that to me is interesting.
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 law of the land.
That's Rudy.
Folks, we are sadly out of busy broadcast moments here.
Paul W. Smith will be here tomorrow.
He'll 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 as well as today.
This week is a four-day week.
Paul W. Smith here tomorrow.
Have a great, great 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 bushytailed on Monday.
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