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April 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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And by virtue of the consensus, the American people, I am the most accurate media figure in the country today.
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I got more people that listen and agree with me than anybody else out there, so by virtue of the consensus, the American people, just like consensus of scientists, we got global warming.
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All right, kiss cardio goodbye and lose weight.
Right here.
I knew I was right.
Sometimes I'm right even more.
I think I'm wrong, but I knew I was right on this.
I when all I had to do was get on a stupid treadmill.
Say if I walked a mile in a half hour, I'd burn a hundred calories, which is what a fig Newton.
Give me a break.
I know for a f exercise, this guy says it in this book.
Cardioaerobic exercise kills everything but the appetite.
Which is not good if you're trying to lose weight.
Jim Karras, a New York Times best-selling author.
This is actually a uh ABC story, and it's a fitness trainer's book has caused controversy.
Of course it caused controversy because it's violating everything all these so-called experts have ever said about exercise and weight loss.
In the cardio free dry diet, Karas shares why, according to him, cardiovascular exercise alone will not help you lose weight and keep it off.
He says that instead of spending an hour running on a treadmill five times a week, you ought to learn how to perform strength training exercises for twenty minutes a day three times a week.
And then they have an excerpt from the book.
Are you interested in losing weight, keeping it off, and completely changing your body's shape to the astonishment of all your friends?
What if I told you this goal is best accomplished without ever stepping on a treadmill or elliptical machine again?
I know you're skeptical, but let me ask you something.
Have you, like millions of Americans, spent hours and hours per week on the treadmill trying to lose weight?
What about the elliptical trader, the bike, the stairstepper, or versa climber?
If so, have you dropped any pounds and kept them off?
No.
Well, what about spinning?
What about cross-country skiing?
Typo.
How about those nice long walks in the spring and summer?
They help keep the pounds off?
No, but sure pretty, weren't they?
Aerobics class, stepping, hiking, swimming?
No.
Snow shoeing, rowing, salsa dancing, sweating to the oldies.
The reason none of this works is both shocking and completely true.
Cardiovascular exercise alone won't help you lose the weight and keep it off.
Well, you're probably saying, well, I've been I've been told thousands of times that cardiovascular exercise is a key to weight loss.
Yeah, that's what we were all told.
But that was simply the wrong advice.
I ask people all the time, how are you exercising to lose weight?
And most people say cardio.
And I say, well, is it working?
They say, well, no, but I just need to do it more often and for a longer period of time.
How many of you people do how many of you people are out there doing this?
You're running around, you're walking around, and you come back and you're not losing any weight.
I gotta step it up.
Well, if something's not working, why would you do more of it?
You keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
Albert Einstein had a name for this type of logic.
Insanity.
Cardio is mindless.
You hop on the treadmill, you jump on the bike, you step on the elliptical trainer, you turn on the tube, you pop into earphones at your iPod, flip through your favorite magazines, and off you go to nowhere fast.
What are you accomplishing?
Absolutely nothing except a zen-like trance during which you should meditate on the following mantra.
Mindless exercise yields forgettable results.
How many of you people go to the gym?
Of those of you that go to the gym, I I don't go to the gym, obviously, because I already know all of this.
Well, let me ask you a question.
How many people in there do you think are liberals doing the same thing over and over again with no results whatsoever, but they buy into all of this pop culture rhetoric on this stuff.
You know, more than 20 years as a weight loss and fitness professional, Mr. Karas says, I have been working with clients one-on-one, and I've been leading teaching and training a team of the best and brightest physical trainers in New York and Chicago.
We've been in the field.
Identifying cutting edge research, testing it, and then bringing the best of the best information and instruction to our clients.
After twenty years of experience, I'm convinced cardio kills.
It kills your weight loss plan.
It kills your joints.
It kills your internal organs, and it kills your immune system, your body composition, kills your time, and it kills most of all your motivation to stay committed to losing weight.
But there's one thing that cardio doesn't kill, and that's your appetite.
The more cardio you do, the hungrier you get.
You burn a few measly calories, then you eat twice as many fig newtons afterward.
The result, weight gain, lots of it.
Cardio is the channel surfing solution of exercise.
It's mindless, and as you have experienced, resultless.
And then they go on and publish uh chapter one in this.
Any guy says, hey, I fell for this myself.
I mean, look, I believe like so many people that working up a good sweat equates to a good effective workout.
Basically, more sweat equals b better workout.
It's a common misconception, just like everything else in the world.
We have to learn to work smarter, not harder to get ahead.
In the last 30 years, since the cardio craze is taken off, do you think Americans have lost weight?
In 1987, there were 4.4 million treadmill users.
By 2000, that number had exploded to 40 million users.
More than a 900% increase.
Consumers spend more on treadmills than any other home exercise equipment.
Yet, since 1980, the number of overweight Americans has doubled.
According to Duke University, maybe not wise to quote them these days, but we'll stick with it.
63% of U.S. adults were overweight or obese in 2005 compared to 58% in 2001.
Now, given that there are 300 million Americans, that's an additional 15 million Americans who became fat or obese in just four years.
How can this keep happening?
It keeps happening because Americans continue to listen to the wrong advice.
They want to believe the answer to their problems is as easy as putting one foot in front of the other, but nothing worth having is that easy.
And then it goes into what I told you about losing weight.
It's calories in versus calories out.
And the key is your resting metabolism.
That's if you're just in bed all day, that's resting metabolism.
And do you know that 60 to 70% of daily calorie burn occurs during resting metabolism?
Have you let me ask you people this.
As a well-known diet expert, and that I am.
I have always noticed that I weigh the less or the least every day in the morning.
Get up in the morning.
What have I been doing all night?
Sleeping.
And I haven't been sleeping on a treadmill.
Well, Rush, that's because your food's digestive.
No, it's not.
You've got a steady resting metabolism.
I saw a story a couple months ago.
Sleep more.
You'll lose more weight.
Now I know you look at the doubting Thomas is in there.
Okay, try it.
You people that believe in all this cardio stuff, go out and do some cardio and get on a scale.
And see if you've lost weight after doing it.
Well, it doesn't happen that fast, Rush.
What do you mean to happen that fast?
Your least weight.
How many times you go to the doctor, get a checkup?
They want to weigh you.
You want to go first thing in the morning, right?
So you'll weigh the least, so the doctor will complain to you the least.
Last thing you want to do is go in there after you've had lunch.
Some of you probably go to the go to the gym, get in a sweat box, get in there and cardio and uh think you'll weigh a little less after you do that.
And you might, if you've sweated a bunch of water out, but it ain't gonna take long.
You start guzzling the old Perry A. And whatever you sweat out will be right back on.
So forth.
You really have to eat less.
And he goes on to say that it's weight training, and it's not described in this story, so I don't know what kind of weight training he's talking about.
You've got to buy the book for that.
Uh, but he says that uh that's what increases your metabolism by 15%.
And that's what increases the burning of calories.
Strength training is the key to weight loss because it's the only way to maintain and build lean muscle which boosts your metabolism, and of course you burn more calories the more muscle you have, just keeping the muscles in tone.
And I've heard this from uh exercise gurus who are trying to convince me to do it, but you know, me and exercise screw all of it.
But if if you're gonna use it as a weight loss plan, weight training apparently is the way to go, according to Jim Karas.
Hi, welcome back, my friends.
Nice to have you here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have Tampa, Florida.
This is Matthew Matthew.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Yes.
Mega Cigar City Ditto's to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I know, um I was sitting at lunch last week and I was enjoying uh La Florida Menical Garo.
And um That's what I'm smoking at this very moment, a La Florida Dominicana double Leguero chisel.
Oh, wow.
Um, it's a very good cigar.
Yep.
Um I was actually wondering about this uh annual cigar dinner you tell us about every year, and um I was wondering uh how uh fellow evil big tobacco supporting conservative like myself might get admitted next year.
Well what you have to do uh is is is get get hold of Cigar aficionado because they start talking it's a monthly magazine well every couple months I think and they they mention uh as we get close to the date when it's coming up and it's you know tickets are a thousand dollars, it's all it's tax deductible because it goes to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
It's black tie.
So if you get your um if you get your money in soon, I mean there are people there from uh uh out of town uh every every year, people I haven't seen before, so it's not a closed list, it's just it's just uh eight hundred or a thousand people whatever you can squeeze into this room.
Oh, sounds like a good time.
Oh, it's a hell of a good time.
It's it's uh it starts that well, the reception starts at seven, you get out of there at midnight.
Uh there's uh there's an auction.
Um the the evening leads off uh after after we've moved into dining room.
Marvin goes up to the podium and says, Okay, we're gonna auction off our first items tonight in like six bottles of wine wrapped in paper bags.
You don't know what you're buying.
And the bidding starts for the bottles of wine.
They're usually magnums or double magnums because you got ten people because the rule is you have to open it that night and serve it at your table when you buy it.
And I always buy the first bottle, whatever it is, because it's become a trish tradition.
And uh then it goes from there and and then you you eat the uh appetizer course or dessert in our case first, whatever, and and then the other auction items pop out, and there's a nice little catalog explaining the auction items.
And various people come up and make uh brief short comments that we had Rudy, we had Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Greenfield got up and made some remarks.
Shankin, of course, I always get up and say a few words.
It's just it's just a fun night, and and it's the great thing about these cigars is that they bridge all these gaps, all these ideological political gaps.
It's not a political night at all.
It's just uh people who have that one thing in common, and plus it's a beleaguered group.
We're all under siege.
Because we're smokers.
Everybody's trying to wipe us out.
And we're getting together as a form of uh of solidarity.
So it's it is a fun time.
You you you would love it if you could uh if you could attend one.
Just you know, get it get a subscription to Cigarfish You Not org.
Pick it up on a newsstand starting next, you know, late late next year, this year, late this year.
Uh because the dates always it was late this year.
It was April twelfth.
Normally it's uh first week of April on a Monday or Tuesday.
Uh but this time it was uh with it was a Thursday for the first time in a long time.
It had to do with the availability of the room, and I'm sure it had to do with the Board of Health and when we can get the exemption, one night exemption to light up and uh and all that.
Ellis in Montgomery Village, Maryland, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, before I get to my point, I just want to say thank you for doing God's work by creating an entire industry of conservative talk radio that has so successfully informed roughly 40 million Americans.
At mediareform.com, I am launching a revolution with this call today, Rush.
Today is the day that you start passing off the baton rush, because at Media Reform.com, we are going to take those 40 million conservative talk show listeners and lead a revolution to take this country back from the enemy within media that's undermining this country, Rosh.
Are you is this your website?
This is my website.
It's never been launched before.
This is the launch right here.
It's a blog, it's gonna talk it's gonna hold you guys accountable on conservative talk radio for not talking about re Democrat senators or Congress people who are powerless puppets, but to take our country back through the media, Rush, what we have to do is put them in the free market sector.
In other words, Rosh, the m entertainment, the media and information has to be delivered unsubsidized because only then, Rush, will they have to rely on our willingness to part with our discretionary dollars and say whether we think it meets our expectations of quality, Rush.
It's the same theory why you were so successful, because you have convinced us that you are worth listening to.
And the media rush, once they are completely separated from sponsorship, will have to rely specifically and solely on our willingness to purchase their uh property.
That's not gonna happen.
No, no, I I I admire your effort here.
And I also want to say one the no because this is a business.
I don't care what it's television newspapers or whether it's a business, and advertising is what they uh use to support it, what they sell to support it.
Now the practitioners in the drive by don't care about advertising.
Uh but the people that own the operations that do it do, and you're not gonna wipe that out, uh just as you wouldn't wipe it out on uh on talk radio.
And even if you say, well, you go to satellite radio, you're not wiping out, you're wiping out advertising, but they're still gonna sell the subs, still gonna sell the subscribers.
Uh also I would say to you, don't ignore these these so-called powerless elected Democrats.
The Democrat Party is all one machine, and they all coordinate and they live for it.
Um they're they're it's all it's all one big unit, big wheel, different spokes.
Mike Denham Springs, Louisiana, is that right?
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yeah, well, this is Mike.
I'm on a cell phone with an earpiece.
I think I'm having trouble.
Can you hear me all right?
Yeah, I hear you just fine.
Yeah, fine.
The thing about Imus.
I find it amusing me because I was actually watching the program as it unfolded.
And he was describing something he was watching on TV.
And he mentioned the hair and the tattoos.
But when a girls all got on stage, the hair was done to the perfection, and they were all wearing came jacket, so nobody could see the tattoos.
Now, this is what are you doing here?
I mean, not even Imus is trying to say people misunderstood.
It's not a question of misunderstanding, it's a question of overlooking it.
It's a question of o overlooking what?
What he said.
They're talking about uh the eighth word and the and a natural.
Well, here's the point about this.
I made this at the top of today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
Within the universe of the Imus audience, and I guess that includes you, and by the way, kudos for having the guts to admit it.
Um nobody raised the stink.
He said what he said, and nobody said a word.
The audience IMAs didn't uh audience didn't Imus audience didn't go crazy.
The guests on his show didn't go crazy all had a yuck about it.
And that was April the fourth.
And this thing blew up last week.
It took a while for the media watchdogs and the YouTube's and the moveon.orgs and all these you know, America, who is supposedly now so outraged, didn't even hear it.
I'm I'm not trying to be slimy here, but the audience for the IMUS show, folks, is tiny.
It it it's it's an insignificant audience.
But even those who do listen or watch it didn't there was no reaction to it.
It wasn't until all these other actors got in gear, and as they got in gear, they got in gear with their outrage, their mock outrage and so forth.
Uh and and that's how America learned of this.
America learned of it on YouTube.
And and here's the point, another point about this.
All these other sources and move on to YouTube, Media Matters, whatever, and all the television shows, they uttered the words that IMAS are uttered 10,000 times as many as many times as he did.
But there was the context of repeating these horrible words.
Can you believe this was said and then they repeated what he said?
I've got the sound tape, a soundbite tape of what IMA said.
You got to play it on this program.
I could maybe do it to illustrate a point, but I'm not going to, but but they were all doing it time and time and time again.
So I I I think there's a little illustration here of how this all goes down, how it all how it all happens.
Within the Imus audience universe, there was not even a blip about this.
And I'll tell you when I knew this was over.
I had I had a big party on Saturday night, about 35 people, and I had 13 people staying a weekend at my uh fashionable abode down here that Vanity Fair so hates.
Do you see what they did?
They made it they got their green issue, they published a picture of my house, talked about how I'm, you know, a buffoon, destroying the planet with a way I live anyway, and oh yeah, I've got the story right here.
It's not on the internet, but I people were telling me about it.
But they Yeah, this James Walcock guy.
It's funny.
I mean people who know me and listen to this program read this are gonna think it's a comedy bit, and but this guy is dead serious about all the at any rate.
We're we're all talking about everybody's got their their imus opinions of what happened to Imus and and this sort and so forth, and all the opinions were all interesting.
But I said, I knew what this was over when the Rutgers basketball team and the university, the president and the athletic director, and the coach did their one hour press conference.
That was it.
That's that's when the advertiser is going to peel away, and that's when they that's when NBC and the suits at uh CBS are going to say, well, we can't do anything about this.
A lot of people thought Imus blew it going on Sharpton, and then he did, but it wasn't until the Rutgers uh press conference that I knew that it was just uh just a matter of time.
So you can you can say whatever he's well, he just repeated what he saw on television, but I don't think on television they used the the description of that.
That was his producer's version of it.
I must made the mistake of repeating what the producer said.
It's not about him, folks.
All this stuff is not about Imus anymore.
You gotta understand that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine staying fingers an editorial from the San Francisco Chronicles from yesterday.
I had the uh story in the paper from last week that precedes this editorial, but I never got to it, but it is a story about how blacks, black people are leaving San Francisco.
It's an inhospitable climate they're leaving out there.
And the newspaper decided editorial uh editorialized on this yesterday.
And the summation I would give you on this is that it's notable because it's saying in this San Francisco Chronicle editorial that San Francisco has an attitude problem with blacks, and that uh that they're not open-minded.
I mean, the population isn't, not the blacks.
San Francisco officials putting together a task force to develop a strategy to preserve the city's rapidly declining African American population and possibly attract new African American residents, a laudable goal, but at this late date.
San Francisco's black population dropped from about 13.4% of the city to six and a half percent over the last 25 years.
Is there anything the city can really do?
If so, are other San Franciscans likely to be as enthusiastic as are their officials?
The mere fact that city officials feel the need to put together a task force to stem the bleeding of African American residents to other communities reveals how far this ship has already sailed past the horizon.
San Francisco likes to bill itself as a diverse city, but the numbers, 53% white, 33.5% Asian, mostly Chinese, expose its relative uh homogene homogeneity in comparison with other cities, such as LA or New York, San Francisco has the lowest proportion of black residents of any big city in the country, even lower than Seattle or San Diego.
Demographers have also noted that the African Americans who move out of San Francisco tend to be upwardly mobile, so that the few blacks who are left constitute a poorer underclass.
Certainly the isolation of these residents underscores San Francisco's uneasy feelings toward them.
It's this last point that truly underscores the difficulty city officials will have if they're serious about this task force.
Yeah, housing's expensive in San Francisco as it is everywhere.
It's also true that San Francisco and the left coast in general lack the rich troves of African American history that cities in the South, east of the Mississippi have to offer.
It doesn't help that when San Francisco bulldozed the Fillmore district in the 50s, it destroyed not only a vibrant community, but also the city's chance to create a repository for its own African American history.
That event, in fact, points to the real problem, San Francisco's attitude.
So here you have the San Francisco Chronicle editorializing about black flight from the city as an attitudinal problem in the city of San Francisco among the people who live there.
Now, this is a liberal Mecca, folks.
San Francisco is a liberal Mecca.
They pride themselves on all things liberal.
Diversity, tolerance, open-minded, and yet it's the upwardly mobile black citizens who are fleeing the city in droves.
Thank you.
By the way, let's go to the right coast here.
Well, Bradenton, Florida's on the left coast of Florida, but still it's let's go east.
Five years ago, Arlene Sweeting, noted activist, radio host, and unabashed free thinker opened a tiny cafe near McKeckney Field in Bradden, Florida.
In time, Fogartyville Cafe became something more than a hole in the wall joint that served tofu, organic coffee, and no war bumper stickers.
It became a refuge for aging hippies, would-be radicals and part-time poets, a liberal landmark in a decidedly conservative city.
But now, as Arlene Sweeting and co-owner Dave Beaton prepare to sell the um Fogertyville Cafe to focus in part on a small radio station over in Sarasota, the community that Fogartyville fostered is trying to save it.
We have to, said Billy Johnson, a stained glass maker.
We can't let this place close is too important.
The task of saving the Fogertyville Cafe is bigger than it seems, uh, because Arlene and her pal have already moved on to their radio station and so forth.
I you know, when I when I read this, and this is out of the uh I think it's the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
It goes on to all of the list all the things they could do to maybe save the Fogertyville Cafe.
I thought I was reading Scott Ott at Scrappleface or something from the Onion.
I thought I was reading a parody.
Perhaps the regulars need to start a co-op.
No, they decided there aren't enough of them to do it.
Perhaps Fogartyville could be rented out.
That's an idea, said another regular.
Maybe they could lobby an investment firm for the cash.
Only if they promise to think like us, though.
Just it's just these liberal landmarks falling by the wayside and um in several places.
Paul in Cincinnati, nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush.
Yes.
I think the two most important words to take away from the Imus thing is public airways.
That's going to be the Kool-Aid by which a drive by administers the poison.
Yeah, I've noticed that.
Public airwaves weak.
We are in charge of public airwaves.
The public can say what they want and don't want.
But there's a little irony in that too, in that the first place Imus got canned was cable, and there's no such thing.
There aren't any regulations on cable.
Say whatever you want there.
Hello, HBO, hello, MTV.
This does resonate, though, with the public.
Yeah, well, I'm still I I don't know.
I I uh you have a feel for how many of the American public really got this worked up over all this?
They're being worked up.
Well, they were, I know, but that's what point.
They were being worked up.
Correct.
But when they first heard about, when they f just first heard the news, do you do you think I mean I didn't see protests all over the country?
I I didn't I didn't see the evidence of national outrage.
It took them a while to gin this up.
Well, it's a constant, it's a constant.
That's what's that's where where the powers lie.
All right, so is there an antidote in your mind of this public airwaves phrase that they are using?
You're right about that.
Well, uh, you and a few others, uh uh when you see it coming, maybe you can divert it.
But uh this is uh this is gonna be the uh the standard phrase.
I mean it's gonna be you tell a lie long enough.
I understand.
I understand.
Look at it, it's all about it's all about ridding the public airwaves of conservative information.
And they'll do it by saying that conservatives lie and that conservatives are racists.
And that's that's their announced plan anyway.
I mean, they're this is one of their objectives is to just they don't want to hear it.
They're the tolerant, compassionate ones.
Stalinist, folks, is what this uh is what this is.
And it's all tied to liberalism and general principles, but make no mistake, the intensity of this directly tied to the upcoming presidential race.
This all about the Clinton machine.
I cannot emphasize this enough to you.
The Clinton Machine, the Democrat Party, the drive-by media is inseparable, same entity.
For all intents and purposes.
Tucson, Arizona says, TJ, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
Just a quick note.
Um, you can get uh an appetite suppressed in a health food store.
It's fennel.
Uh, you gotta get the miss medicinal grade.
But anyway, I was wondering if um if Al Sharpton really was set after Imus by the Clinton team because um because he's been in the habit of referring to Hillary S. Satan for the past fifty days or so.
I was wondering if you think this was more um personal and philosophical.
And uh my other question I want to get to you is uh what do you think Al's gonna get for uh being a hit man for the Hillary's camp on this radio?
I I I read that.
I forget where, but I read that I think this morning.
It might have been yesterday, uh that uh Imus would refuse to have Clinton on the show, Hillary, Mrs. Bill Clinton, and had called her Satan and so forth, and somebody speculated that that's what motivated the Clintons to aim at Imus and uh and finally take him out.
I don't know whether I look it.
All I know is this with the Clintons there are no coincidences.
But I I this is speculation on something that I I don't know.
Uh I I don't I think this would have happened uh whether the Clinton machine had sent marching orders out to anybody or not.
So I uh look at I I'm I'm I want to stress this again, and I don't mean to insult anybody here.
This is this is not about IMUS.
If you keep focusing on the Imus aspect of this, you are going to be distracted from seeing what the real objective here is.
Uh nothing against IMUS saying this, and he probably would disagree.
That's all about me, Limbaugh.
What are you talking about?
But it's this is he's irrelevant in this now.
The fact that it it's still being talked.
Look, if it was about Imus, it would be over with.
But you've got Sharp I got my list, he's saying.
I got my list of who's next, and I got this in the media matters, Peter.
Oh, they're all lining up to to do this.
This this is a big notch in the belt here.
And this is just the beginning.
Well, it's not even that.
This has been going this is the biggest get so far.
And of course, for people who who did the get, who got the gut.
This is fuel, motivation, inspiration.
Do you think these people aren't out there celebrating, flexing their mouth?
Look at the power we've got.
And of course, what is it that made them gave them that power?
It was a bunch of executives at CBS and NBC cowering in fear in the corners.
Do a number of things, and and uh the elevation of Al Sharpton, the uh Reverend uh Jackson, as the arbiters of public morality and public taste.
Now you go figure that.
If somebody can figure it out, I mean I know that they've got their positions of power because the Democrat Party has elevated them there, but there's nothing more absurd than that.
I mean, that's that's just it's just patently ridiculous.
But it is what it is because the objective is the point, not whether they have any credibility doing it.
They don't care about being credible when they do it.
All they want is their results.
Anyway, have to run here because of the constraints of the busy broadcast format.
Back here in just a second.
You see this story over the weekend in the uh in the UK telegraph.
The headline says it all.
Women may be able to grow own sperm.
This is filed into the category men.
What are they good for?
Absolutely nothing.
Women could one day grow their own sperm, says a scientist who today claims to have turned bone marrow into early stage sperm cells.
His team now studying how to grow fully fledged sperm from bone marrow as a means to restore fertility in young men who have undergone cancer treatments could be five years before trials start.
Along with cloning, this could mark the second technique that makes men redundant or ne unnecessary.
Grow their own sperm.
Roller room sperm.
Well, uh no, I'm just I'm thinking of all kinds of lines about growing your own sperm and all that, but I I'm gonna I'm gonna stay away from it there.
Anyway, here's uh uh Sunana, I guess that is Sunana in uh Encinitas, California.
Hi, Sunana, glad you uh called.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Um very quickly, I want to find out why no one is talking about the Diane Feinstein story.
It's been completely brushed under the rug.
It's bigger than anything that Halliburton and Cheney um was going on then, but yet nobody is talking about it.
Well, now let's do that.
Let's do a little exercise here.
Uh and I'm just gonna assume you people in the audience know it.
Let me brief you.
Uh she recently resigned from a subcommittee in the Senate that has great sway on the portioning of military contracts.
And many of them went to her husband, companies that her husband is prominently invested in or even controls.
She got out of there, and it's been a local alternative weekly, or I think in the Bay Area, which has been really pounding the drums on this.
But nobody in the drive by has picked up the story.
And that's what that's what Sunana here is talking about.
So my qu why do you think that is?
Obviously, I know where why it is, because nobody wants to bring up this impropriety when it's one of their own girls.
There you go.
Why is Fox not talking about it?
Why are, you know, senators not calling for her resignation?
Well, where's all the Republicans?
They're they're mom on this market.
Oh God, here we go again.
I look at if don't ask me to explain why the Republicans aren't talking about you should know that.
They're not going to make this is not what they do.
The drive-by's don't care about it because it doesn't fit the agenda.
They're going to take one of their own out.
That that's that's plus she quit when she realized that things had gone wrong.
I can imagine the way this whole thing would be spun.
Uh as for uh Fox News, I don't know that they haven't talked about it.
I I haven't seen them lately.
I can't believe that somewhere on Fox News, somewhere that this story hasn't at least been mentioned.
But you're whistling Dixie, you're going by the graveyard here.
Uh if you think the drive-by's are going to talk about this.
Uh Rush, she did not resign from being on the Senate Rules Committee, which is all about ethical behavior.
Well, no.
Why why should she?
She's Diane Feinstein, she's a liberal Democrat.
Why they never do anything wrong.
You know, look at back when Bill Bill Clinton was abusing women.
That was the women's fault.
They were trailer trash, and it was a bunch of right wingers bringing it up, and uh, you know, Hillary was out there defending her husband, showing her strength in the matter.
No, no, no, no, no.
There's there are two Americas.
There's a different playing field for these people.
And they see the the problem is Diane Feinstein is not corrupt.
She didn't, she wasn't trying to profit.
That's not who liberals.
Liberals cannot.
By definition, liberals cannot engage in anything that's racist, sexist, homophobic, or corrupt.
It's that's not who liberals are.
So whatever the truth is here, it isn't that.
Uh, and that it doesn't even interest them.
Well, I mean, I I I know you're laughing.
It's it's a laugh of frustration.
But it's that's what other explanation for this is there.
The only other explanation is that the San Francisco Chronicle hasn't done the story at some weekly.
Uh, or I believe somebody referred to it as an alternative paper.
And it's a bunch of leftists, I know it might they might chalk it up to uh being an uncredible source.
Uh who knows.
But glad you brought it up because it just shows the uh the total double standard that uh that exists.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll grab one more call, maybe two when we come back.
Portland, Oregon, and Brian, you're next with L. Rushbow.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Quick point here.
Uh Hillary's uh gonna go visit the girls' basketball team, the records of girls basketball team.
Yeah, I knew that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
She was reigned out of going out there last week, and Corzine was auto-acident out of making it there.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But we all know why Hill, she's got her reasons.
Um here, you know, I think right after that, why doesn't she go down and visit the Duke players?
Well, I love all these questions.
They're great, they're great questions, but they answer themselves.
Yeah, really.
I mean, the the um Well, all's fair and fair here.
Yes, I know, but I mean you'd have the doubting zombie.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, you can't compare these two things.
No, no, I'm not trying to compare them.
But you know, I mean, they you know, uh the girls they deserve okay, he always wants to go see them.
But you know.
How about the Duke guys?
Well, the Duke guys are already rich elitist white guys from the Northeast.
And they're strong and they've they don't they don't need to be pandered to.
But you don't understand how liberals look at their constituents.
Victims, weak.
Yeah.
Incompetence, need to be need to be uh need to be bucked up.
It's a presidential campaign.
This is just this is just pure pandering.
You know the answer to these questions and so forth.
This is See, I think these kinds of realizations are the part of more and more people that don't get expressed is is is a sign of progress too.
I wish I had more time, but I don't, folks, we have to get out of here.
But we're off to a great start here at a brand new week of broadcast actions.
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