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April 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, a lesser person, a person of less stature and a weaker constitution than I would have just five minutes ago been devastated and destroyed.
But not I. Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling maha-rushy here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
On telephone number, rush at EIBnet.com.
So two weekends ago, about eight or nine days ago, as you know, I had, and I've been on this diet since February 14th, and I've lost, well, up till last, what was it?
Last, well, 10 days ago, I was down 40 pounds.
And then I went off the diet because I had this weekend bash.
I had a bunch of house guests and big party on Saturday.
Didn't go off it too bad, but I went off of it.
And got right back on it on Monday when everybody left.
And from Monday, so a week ago today, I have lost eight pounds.
I'm up to 48 pounds.
So I came in here today and I'm telling everybody about this.
And the last time they saw me was on Friday.
So Brian and Dawn sit in there.
I said, oh, during the news break.
Oh, so you think you've lost more weight since Friday, huh?
And I looked at them and I said, I know I have.
I've lost it from the omentum.
And they just rolled their eyes and shook their heads.
And I walked into Snerdley and Snerdley had on some fox and there's some story of tornadoes somewhere.
And the judge was named Rowdy Rhodes.
I said, got to be Texas, right?
Proving that I'm biased against Texas, or at least prejudice.
But I'm just going to tell you something, folks.
I have lost eight pounds in a week and my staff poo-pooing and making fun of me.
A lesser person would have said, what's the point?
And I would have gone in there and I'd have gotten a hot dog or something to hell with it.
What's the point if nobody's going to notice?
But I'm not doing it for the notice of others.
I'm doing it for purely personal reasons.
And I want this to be a lesson to you.
Nobody wants you to succeed when you do much of anything.
I mean, what a loba.
And I just read the Mariot Act.
You got to be careful how you treat people.
You could have, if I were a lesser person, you could have destroyed my confidence.
You could have blown my motivation and inspiration all to hell.
You're sitting in there laughing at me because I come in here and tell you I've lost eight pounds in a week after having gone off the diet and gone back on it.
And they're still laughing.
Now they're near them.
I don't play the ball game that way, Mr. But the broadcast engineer says you can just fire them.
That's not how I run the office.
It's not how I run the office.
Making fun of me because eight pounds in eight days after cheating on the diet?
In a minor, not cheating, I just went off of it fully intending to go back to it.
How do you spell jealous?
Let me ask him that.
You know, if I want to start telling these people what other things you people don't know in there, like which president was in a wheelchair, I'll do that if it takes a getting you.
They never heard of the Great Society, and that's a great lesson for me, too.
They're relatively young people in there, and they never heard of the Great Society.
And that's when Head Start started.
We were talking about that in the previous hour.
Great society is the modern welfare state other than Social Security.
And don't give me any calls from people who want to argue with me about.
All right, let's get on, folks.
We've got our global warming.
We've got so much global warming news.
We're going to have to do two or three different chapters today.
Maybe only get to one of them, but we've got to start with Cheryl Crowe, whatever her name is.
And Laurie David, a White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday night, here's Paul Shanklin as Al Gore.
It's the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program.
And this is a global warming update featuring the antics of Cheryl Crowe and Laurie David.
Let it rip one more time.
Al Gore.
That's a takeoff on Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
That's Paul Shanklin as Al Gore and Ball of Fire Global Warming Update.
EIB Network Saturday night, White House Correspondent Center, Carl Rove sitting near the dais in a table with executives from the New York Times and reporters.
They invited Karl Rove as their guest.
I never go to this thing anymore because it's phony anyway.
Actually, I'm kind of glad this happened, folks, because it illustrated the true tensions that exist here in this room.
The White House Correspondent Center is held at the Washington Hilton every week, every year.
It's got 3,000 people that show up there, and they hate each other.
The media hates the president.
We all know that.
They hate Rove.
But yet it's, you know, politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And so this is their Academy Awards, essentially.
And they all go make nice for a night, or at least they try to.
But this year, they were unable to pull it off because they had a couple of amateurs in there, Cheryl Crowe and Lori David, who made a B-line for Rove's table, which was number 92.
And Lori David said, I am floored by what I just experienced with Karl Rove.
I went over to him.
I said, I urge you to take a new look at global warming.
He went zero to 100 with me.
I've never had anybody be so rude.
Rove's version was, she came over to insult me and she succeeded.
Now, who are we going to believe here?
We're going to believe that Rove felt he was insulted or that Lori David, and was just going over there to be nice, telling him he's got to look at this in a more serious way.
Things got so hot that Cheryl Crowe had to bulge in to diffuse the situation, and she got into it with Rove herself.
You work for me, she told Rove.
Noah was his response.
I work for the American people.
And they came back with, we are the American people.
We have a couple of audio sound bites here.
This is from the Today Show.
Lester Holt, a co-host, Sunday morning today show, talking to Cheryl Crowe and Lori David.
He said, last night you had a unique opportunity.
You met with Carl Rove.
You had a chance to really try and talk to him about global warming.
Understand that didn't go so well.
We were so excited.
I mean, I have never, all these years I've been working on this issue, had an opportunity to talk to someone directly in the administration.
I mean, this was exciting for us.
And we walked over to engage him.
I mean, the first thing I said is I urge you to maybe take another look at what's happening with global warming.
And he immediately got kind of, you know, rough and hostile with us.
And it kind of went downhill from there.
So it was really just an attempt to engage him to talk directly to the administration and say, look, we have to do something about this.
And he wasn't interested really in talking to us.
Why should he be?
This is the kind of stuff that nobody thinks is going to happen that night on this cut.
Yeah, she's Lori David.
You've got it.
Talk to me, Mr. Rove.
I am Lori David.
By the way, I understand she's very sensitive to criticism, which somebody pass on to her.
Lori, when you enter the political arena, and that's what global warming is, it's a political issue, as evidenced by the fact you went up to Carl Rove, the White House chief advisor to the president, to talk about it.
But never, it's a political issue.
When you enter the political arena, you're going to get criticism from people who don't agree with your side.
Well, Cheryl Crowe jumped in at that point after Lori David said, he wasn't really interested, really, in talking to us.
She's very disappointed because, really, honestly, this is going to be the most important issue of our lifetime.
We need to stop arguing about it.
The science is already out there, and we need to move forward.
It's irresponsible at this point not to be addressing this because we have kids out here who are going to be leading this country, and we need to really be addressing this.
What do you mean?
We are addressing it.
We've been addressing it for all my broadcast career.
Earth Day, this, Earth Day, that, global warming here.
We've been addressing this to the point that people are fed up with it.
For years, people have been told, don't drive that, don't turn that on.
What do you mean we've got to address it?
Everybody's getting their dibs in on this, whatever they want to say.
But notice, she says, we need to stop arguing about it.
The science is already, it is not out there.
Cheryl, you're being closed-minded on this.
You're not open to any.
Why shouldn't Rolf go to your table and sit down and talk to you about how you're wrong about this?
Where does this presumption of arrogant condescension come from?
It comes from being a liberal.
And the idea that the science is already out there, we need to stop arguing.
Quintessential liberal.
There is no science.
There's consensus.
And when you have consensus, you can't have science.
Somebody needs to tell these two women this.
There's no science when there's consensus.
When you have a huge number of scientists disagree with this, you cannot have science.
This is politics.
This is religion.
And I have more to say about that here in just a second.
But also, liberal, there's no debate.
We're not going to have debate on this.
We're not going to shut it down.
There's no debate on this.
And she admits it.
So Holt says, well, Lori, let me ask you.
It's been almost 40 years, as we said, since Earth Day was conceived.
Why does it seem like only now in the last year or two that we have suddenly really started talking about global warming in a big way?
Lester, God, this is so frustrating.
We've been talking about it since 1979.
Go look at the almost uttered a bomb word there.
The covers of Newsweek and whatever was Time magazine in 1979 when everybody thought it was global cooling.
What do you mean?
Go look at Paul Ehrlich's population bomb.
What do you mean the last two years?
We have been inundated with this for the last 30 years.
Anyway, here's Lori David's answer.
The weather is unfortunately cooperating with this issue.
I mean, right now on your news today, another severe weather event.
And this is happening every single day.
And global warming is extreme weather in both directions.
And I think finally, the American people are starting to understand that.
I mean, they've been grossly misinformed on this issue for a long time.
So I think finally people are starting to understand what's happening and that humans are causing it.
It's happening now, but we can solve it.
So every severe weather event, exactly as I have said, whatever, every severe weather event is new and it's the result of global warming.
There isn't a severe weather event that happened this weekend or last week that has not happened before countless millions of times.
There's not one.
The reason the American people are starting to quote unquote understand this is because the little kids are being propagandized with Al Gore's stupid movie in schools.
And after 30 years of being browbeat with this stuff, you're obviously going to make some converts.
30 years.
And of course, you've all heard about Cheryl Crowe saying we need to get down here to just one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.
We can make it work.
She said, we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.
You want to describe the difference here between a regular restroom visit and a pesky one?
One square of toilet paper.
These people think that they are in the mainstream and they are the advanced thinkers of the moment.
Cheryl, let me just warn you about something.
If you actually try this, you actually go out and use one square or even just three for every pesky bathroom visit.
The only thing you're going to be attracting in the next couple of days is flies.
So what do they want us to do?
They want us to ban gas.
They want to ban light bulbs.
They want to ban charcoal lighter fluid.
They want to ban smoking.
They want to ban nuclear energy.
They want to ban trans fat.
They want to ban Walmart.
They want to ban lights at night.
They want to ban air conditioning during the day.
They want to ban fire on a cold night.
They want to ban killing animals for food.
Now they want to ban toilet paper.
Ban, ban, ban, ban everything.
Get rid of everything.
We humans, why don't we ban ourselves?
Let's just commit a mass worldwide suicide, Lori.
And Cheryl.
And one other thing about this before we go to the break.
This is a religion to these people, as you can tell.
What is happening is, and we've been through this constantly over and over and over again.
And my theory on how this is just a religion, they just have a different God.
The God's the planet.
It's got every element.
It's got the Garden of Eden.
It's got sin.
It's got salvation.
It's got guilt.
It's got higher taxes.
It's got everything that's got tithing.
It's got all these things in it.
And can you imagine if a famous conservative Christian publicly voiced their religious practices and told every American they had to adopt them right now, or we're going to destroy the planet because the last days are coming?
It's right there in Revelation.
Can you imagine if any Christian minister went out there and taught and talked about particularly the apocalypse as it is in Revelation on a daily basis with the media hype?
Can you imagine that conservative would be shouted out of the mainstream?
Actually, the conservative has been shouted out of the mainstream.
But imagine if a Christian talked about Christianity the way these people are talking about their religion and said, there's no argument and there's no debate and you're going to hell unless you do what I say.
Can you imagine the outcry?
I will wait for the next post in response to me by these two lovely women, Cheryl Crowe and Lori David, where they blog at the Huffing and Puffington Post because that's where they respond to me.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
I got an idea for Cheryl Crowe in this toilet paper business.
Replace toilet paper with the New York Times and use as much of it as you want.
Get as many copies every day, fill it up.
Lori David on your G5, which is a large corporate jet that'll fly New York to Tokyo with one giant carbon footprint without stopping for fuel.
Do the same thing.
I have a friend out in Hollywood.
And his take on these people is they can't believe how lucky they've gotten.
So all of this is their own soul purging.
They want to be known for who they are rather than the characters they play or the performances they want to be known for something other than an actor, actress, producer, or what have you.
So they glom on to these leftist issues.
And of course, all this is true unless they don't get the A table at the charity dinner and then they stay home.
Got to get the A table at the charity dinner where all the flashbulbs are.
And if that doesn't happen, then they stay home and they wallow in their misery that they don't matter and that they don't care and that they're not loved and all this sort of stuff.
Now, what are the toilet paper manufacturers going to do here?
She's serious, folks.
We sit here, we laugh at it, and it is uproariously funny.
But let's stop and think of the, let's take this, you know, down the path.
Let's say that some idiot actually in Congress proposes the law that toilet paper, you can only use one square per visit, maybe two or three on those pesky visits, as Cheryl Crowe says.
And let's not even think about who's going to enforce it.
Let's go further than that.
What would the toilet paper manufacturers do?
Think they're just going to sit here and be forced to go out of business, like the buggy whip industry?
You think you think Charmin's gonna sit there and put up with this or whoever else makes this stuff?
And of course not.
You know what they would do.
They would still make toilet paper with one square, but the perforations would be two feet apart.
There are countless ways around this kind of this naivete.
Or maybe, you know, each square would end up becoming a rectangle at three feet apart.
Each perf would be three foot from the next perf.
So when you rip off a square, you're ripping off three feet.
You have black market toilet paper?
Oh, yeah.
And that would be the really good stuff.
That would be the black market toilet paper, the really good stuff.
You know, like, it just would be.
But what will happen, entrepreneurs in a toilet paper business will go out there.
They'll figure out the loopholes, no pun intended.
They'll figure out the loopholes and they'll exploit them to meet the needs of people.
The needs of people are what drive all this, not a bunch of religious leftist zealots trying to force a lifestyle they won't even live on all the rest of us.
Your phone calls are next, folks.
Be patient.
You're coming up right after this.
All right, let's cut to the chase on this toilet paper business, shall we?
The fact of the matter is that women we're talking about here today, Cheryl Crowe and Lori David, no doubt use a bidet.
Well, that's fine.
After a bidet, you can just dry off of the towel and that's it.
You have to use any toilet paper if you have a bidet.
Well, not on a bus tour, that's true.
There's no bidet on the bus.
Well, you never know.
She may be demanding one to be installed in the venues where she's going to play.
You never know.
These rock stars demand all kinds of stuff.
But not everybody has a bidet, and they're not out there suggesting everybody get a bidet because that's just another toilet essentially using more water.
So they're advocating, do you think these women are actually going to use one square of toilet paper, folks?
I'll make this deal.
I make this pledge right now on the EIB network.
If it can be proven, and I mean, I'm going to have to see it.
Maybe I don't want to see it.
But you'll know what I mean.
If it can be proven that Al Gore will only use one sheet of toilet paper, then I, too, will only use one sheet of toilet paper.
As I said, I'm going to have to have proof.
I have to see that.
Maybe not see it, but you know what I mean.
And of course, when Cheryl Crowe talks about these pesky visits, now who's she talking about?
What are these pesky visits to the bathroom?
Well, we all know, but two or three fine.
If it can be shown, if Rosie O'Donnell will only use one square of toilet paper, then I'll join this club.
Because the dirty little secret is I have a bidet.
I have two.
I've never yet figured out how to use the stupid thing, but I've got two of them.
They were put in when I had no choice in the matter.
Normal Illinois, Chris, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Nice to have you with us.
I'll tell you, you are the Mahe.
You helped me develop so many political arguments for my leftist friends, and you could help me lose weight and probably help my golf swing.
I could do that now.
I think I probably could.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Isn't this correspondence dinner?
I mean, it's like an unwritten rule that you don't come in like this.
Yes, it is.
You suppose to leave your political agenda is kind of at the door.
Well, other than the comedians who are the entertainers, they can go wherever they want to go.
Interestingly, Bush didn't do a joke routine this year, and Rich Little was the entertainment.
He apparently was very downkey because of Virginia Tech.
So they were all disappointed in there.
They wanted a bunch of depravity at this dinner, and they didn't get it, so they had to make it themselves.
Can you imagine somebody like I just keep thinking, like if Charlton Heston went and went to the gun control people and was saying, you know, right to bear arms, right to bear arms, they would hang him out to dry.
Say he doesn't know the ethics.
He doesn't know the protocol.
No, no, no.
Charlton Heston was the president of the NRA.
Who do you mean?
No, no, that's what I mean.
If he went during a Clinton or the Carter administration and went to that same dinner, the media would be all over him about breaking the protocol.
Look, no, I possibly, possibly.
Let me say something about that.
Because you're talking basically about boarish behavior at the best.
And in other instances, it's worse.
Now, when it comes to the White House correspondence dinner, I've been to, I think, three of them.
And after the third one, when Clinton tried to call me a racist, did call me a racist because I was defending Janet Reno because she was being attacked by John Conyers.
You know, it was not even fun.
And it was phony as it could be.
As I say, this is an event for politicians.
It's their Hollywood night.
It's their Oscars.
And politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And that's why they have certain Hollywood entertainers show up.
The big name this year was that loser from the, what is it, American Idol, Sanjaya?
Is that his name?
Sanjaya, whatever.
He was the big draw.
But my objection to this is that everybody, well, given the makeup of Washington, over half the people in that room of 3,000 despise George Bush, and yet they're going to act nice.
And they're going to act like all the stuff they've said about him over all these years doesn't matter.
And the next day, they jump right back in as though the night never happened.
And so the idea of, you know, the White House correspondents get together to honor each other, give out awards to each other, and some young, budding, up-and-coming journalists and so forth.
But you're right, there's an unwritten rule that the night is phony.
If it were real, nobody'd get along because the partisan divisions that existed at 4 o'clock that afternoon would not be put to bed at 7 o'clock that night.
And the problem with it is, when these people act like they can put these things to bed at 7 o'clock for five hours, it shows what?
That they're being phony the rest of the time or they're being phony for those five hours.
Regardless, they're phonies at some point in their lives.
And I just, for me, it's not a place.
It's just not my place.
I get invited now and then.
I was invited by three different groups this year.
I just, no way.
It isn't fun.
Plus, you've got to wear a tuxedo for that long.
And I wear a tuxedo at a cigar dinner.
It's all guys.
It's all friends.
That's fine and dandy.
But this, it's a zoo.
Now, about what your theory that the media would write if Charlton Heston went to the White House correspondence dinner and charged up to, say, Dee Dee Myers during the dinner started railing against the White House and gun control and what the media would write.
You're probably right.
Now that I think about it, they had a great time writing about the Sheryl Crow and Laurie David accosting Karl Rove.
However, in all the Virginia Tech discussion last week, and so the coarsening of the culture and how we and my buddies on talk radio are the focus of blame on this now.
One of the things I've noticed as an observer and as a student, a doctoral student, I have a doctor's in studying the media.
I'm degreed out the wazoo in this.
And I have noted over the years when there's been an MTV awards ceremony, for example, if the MC is not throwing the F-bomb around every other minute, if there's no ribald humor, no gutter humor, they write the next day about what a boring show it was.
Same thing with the Oscars.
Have you noticed and you read reviews of the Oscars how dull and if they're classy and cultured, if there are no political digs, and if it's just good old-fashioned, wholesome entertainment, you ever notice how dull the Oscars are?
So my point is, you cannot, in this case, we're talking about the entertainment media, you can't exempt them or leave them out of the equation because they're out there getting bored when stuff like that happened with Karl Rove and Lori David doesn't happen.
Now, the stuff with Karl Rove and Lori David was not anything beyond borish.
It was just bad behavior and so forth.
It wasn't profane or any of that.
But it did violate this unwritten rule that makes things like this somewhat appropriate.
Lori David, who is a Cheryl Crowe?
You work for me, Rove.
No, I work for the American people.
We are the American people.
Yeah, well, Rove probably makes $140,000.
I'm going to guess Rove makes $140,000, $150,000 of 300 million people in this country.
So divide $140,000 by $300 million.
You'll find out how much of that is being paid by Cheryl Crowe.
And that's a good indication of how much or how little Rove needs to listen to her.
At any rate, a lot of people probably want to weigh on on this.
And if I keep going, there's not going to be anything left to say because once I say it, it's all handled.
Here's Paul in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Nice to talk to you.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
It's just wonderful from beautiful northern Wisconsin here.
But, you know, I think the media is getting it all wrong.
The real reason Karl Rove didn't want to talk to Cheryl Crowe was because he probably didn't want to shake her hand because he saw her coming out of the bathroom.
Everybody wants to get in the act.
I've said, folks, and I love you people on the phones, don't try this at home.
The great, like me, make this look easy.
What happened was they went up and they grabbed his arm.
You know, they didn't respect his spaith.
As good liberals, they violated his spaith.
They went up and grabbed his arm.
That's what I have been told.
That's something you don't do.
Madeline in Melbourne, Florida.
Hello, Madam.
You're next.
Nice to have you.
Yes, sir.
Yes.
I just wanted to say I heard this ridiculousness of the Cheryl Crow nonsense.
I pulled up the Drudge Report.
And for fun, I decided to try this.
And it is just physically impossible.
Wait, You tried the one square.
Well, not that I want to try it.
I pulled the one sheet off, and I was looking at it.
It rolls up to the size of a penny.
I don't know what the heck you're supposed to do.
You can't blow your nose and you can't do anything with it.
This is utterly insane.
Now, wait, did you try the four-ply or were you using the cheaper two-ply from the discount store?
Oh, no, I have the Angelsoft Tuply, so it's okay.
It's not the Scott one sheet or so.
But the point is, we're all laughing about it today, and we all know how utterly ridiculous it is.
Do you understand?
Do you understand she's serious?
Yeah, unfortunately, I do, but I don't understand why the American people are so gullible and they fall for this because she's a rock star.
Wait, What evidence do you have yet?
The American people are actually out there doing this now.
Oh, no, I'm not saying that they're doing it, but people are, you know, like younger people, they listen to, you know, whoever's going to be voting, you know, like in the voting things, they'll get that.
This is one of those things where one attempt, I think, might show most people that it's pointless to pick this up and make it a habit.
But here's the lesson.
She's serious about this.
Now, I fully expect, by the way, before the end of the day, we were just joking to make a point, is what they'll say.
But they're serious about it.
And so what you have to, I think they're serious about this.
Put this in the hopper with everything else is being said about global warming.
And I went through the list.
Let me get the listing.
We've got to ban light bulbs.
We have to ban.
What did I do with the root this all out?
Make sure I would not forget it all.
I don't know.
I'll find it.
They want us to ban light bulbs, ban toilet paper, ban barbecues, ban charcoal briquettes, ban gasoline, ban oil, ban trans fats, ban smoking.
Everything to them is a ban, including this toilet paper business.
You've got to throw this in the hopper, and you have to put it in context with everything else they're saying and measure if they can be this, gee, off the wall or naive, while sounding totally committed and caring and compassionate.
What about all the other demands that they're making?
And of course, in this one instance, ask them, you're going to do it?
You're going to do it?
And you know they're not.
That's why they made the allowance for the two to three squares for those pesky bitches.
I just got a note from a friend of mine in Palm Springs says, you know, this bidet, I didn't know that was what it was for.
I use it as my dog's drinking fountain.
I tried that with my cat, Punkin, and it's not a full stream, so she wouldn't have anything to do with it.
I have another offer to make.
Not only will I use only one square of toilet paper if it can be categorically proven to me that both Al Gore and Rosie Donald are only using one, I will not use any toilet paper for a month if the amount that I would use in a month would be accepted by Lori David and Cheryl Crowe and stuffed in their mouths so they couldn't speak for that month.
Well, I'm a cooperative person.
I want to work with these people.
We're trying to find compromise on all these issues, are we not?
Here's John in St. Louis.
John, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Yeah, hey, it's great to be here.
Thanks for having me on.
I was just hearing you talk about consensus in science.
Yes.
And it kind of gets my head all screwy when you say that because I don't understand why you have a problem with consensus in general.
Because science is not up to a vote.
Okay, that's fine.
It's fine.
It's not just because you arrive at consensus doesn't mean there's a vote.
It's just a general agreement.
No, there's not.
No, Science doesn't, there's nothing general about science.
This is the point.
I'm not, this is not my phrase, by the way.
This comes from other scientists, Michael Crichton.
I've talked to the global warming scientists.
This is not my creation.
They told me this, and I thought, that makes sense.
For sure, yeah.
I mean, it sounds like it makes sense, but I mean, just talk about consensus.
Are you a simple word?
It means it means agreement, general agreement, right?
Are you a scientist?
No, but I understand I have a dictionary and I can look up the word consensus.
And it just says general agreement.
Okay, let's say that we came to a general agreement that the Earth is flat.
And let's say a majority of the scientific community.
Doesn't make it true.
Consensus doesn't make it true.
I'll give you that.
I'll stipulate this.
Well, then.
Science.
If you reach a consensus, it's wrong.
You're right.
Absolutely.
It could totally be wrong.
You're right.
But it's just a judgment.
Science arrived at by most of those concerned.
Look at once it's science is not wrong.
This is the point.
There is.
Oh, science could be wrong.
Why not?
How can you say that?
Science is wrong.
I mean, it's part of the method of science.
You come up with a theory or a hypothesis.
You test it.
It's wrong.
It's wrong, right?
Yes, but it's not called science during the whole testing process.
It's not called science during the consensus process.
No, it's not.
No, it is not.
It's not scientific method.
It is not called established science.
There is the scientific method of coming to establish.
So what you're telling me.
And it's gone through the scientific process, and it's proved, which is, some people say nothing can be proved in science, but that's okay.
Then it goes under the title science.
No, no, don't say this.
Some stuff, there are lots of things in science that can be proved that are accepted, like where the moon is and where.
And that the planet's round, the space shuttle's seen it.
What you're telling me is that you are willing.
If you want to argue on global warming on this basis with me, on science, on this basis, you're telling me that you need to redefine some words in order to have a case.
There is no consensus in established science.
It simply is not definitionally possible.
I appreciate the call.
John in St. Louis is who that was.
Where next?
Let's try.
Robert in Monument, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes.
Mega Ditto's Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
You make my day every day.
I appreciate that, and I know.
Listen, I want to talk about a little something different here.
I think that it's time we called for Reed's resignation.
I did that.
I was just astonished last week, and then no one's come out and said anything about this.
We're going to be talking about this in the next hour because all kinds of Democrats are trying to circle the wagons now.
Dingy Harry went out there and said, a war is not winnable.
And you got Chuck Schumer over the weekends.
Oh, yes, we can win it.
They're trying to protect Dingy Harry.
But I called for his resignation last week.
In the midst of all these calls for Gonzalez to quit and all these other people, here is a man undermining the U.S. military, demotivating, doing the opposite of inspiring them, proclaiming his own country and his own military defeated.
You've got General Petraeus coming into town this week, into Washington, the architect of the surge.
And he's going to be, well, he's willing to appear before Congress.
Guess what?
Pelosi can't fit him in the House agenda.
And the Democrats don't want to talk to General Petraeus.
They all confirmed him.
He was confirmed in the Senate close to unanimously, I believe, but they don't want to talk to him.
But, you know, I think Harry Reid, Benedict Arnold Harry Reed is what I called him last week.
And if anybody out there in public life today in government needs to be resigning in shame and in disgrace, it is Harry Reid.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
When you have consensus said to be in science, what you're actually talking about.
Sorry, is I early?
Theory.
You're talking theory.
So right now, global warming is just theory.
It's being passed off as established by using this word consensus, which is designed to fool people into thinking if a bunch of scientists just agree, then that's it.
By the way, folks, I'm also thinking of offering to underwrite the remaining bus tour of Laurie David and Cheryl Crow if they'll keep talking about this toilet paper stuff, dividing everybody.
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