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June 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What time is it and what day is it?
Tuesday and it's showtime.
It's only Tuesday, okay?
It's only Tuesday.
Yes, greetings, my friends, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists.
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So my brother and his wife and their five crumb crunchers are in town all week.
Brought them back with me from Missouri on Sunday.
And it's great having them in the house.
It's just like last night.
Well, I mean, they're all over the property.
They're staying in their own place down the sidewalk, but they come over.
I mean, they want to hang around Uncle Rush.
So last night, it's 11.30, 11.45, and they come pouring into the library.
Uncle Rush, Uncle Rush, can we watch a movie?
Some popcorn?
Oh, geez.
Sure.
Well, if it's 11.45, let's fire up the popcorn machine.
What do you want to watch?
So I went through the disc selection.
I found that Kami Lib penguin movie, Happy Feet, because there's a three-year-old in the group.
We can't sit there and can't watch the Sopranos.
I still haven't seen the Sopranos.
I still haven't seen Sunday Night Sopranos.
So now this is not, it's not those, I just send them in there and just go, okay, kids, and when it's over, turn off the lights and go, the way the meeting room's set up, if you don't, because it's a Blu-ray player.
I've got a Blu-ray player and I got an HD DVD and I had to add them to my system and they don't coordinate well because they're brand new machines and they don't mix with the scalar real well.
It took a real jury rig to get them worked in there.
And so you have to turn things on.
If you're going to use the Blu-ray or the HD DVD, you got to turn things on in the right order.
You've got to put the disc in at the right time and you shut down the same way.
So I had to wait until Happy Feet was over.
And I think that was about, I think I strolled upstairs about 2.15.
But it's great having them in there.
It's fun.
They're just having a great time.
But it was a late night.
I got a lot of show prep done.
For example, there's a story today.
Kim Gandy of the Nags, the National Association of Gals, blaming me for spousal abuse.
Well, I'll give you details as a program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
I don't know how it's possible.
She blames me for spousal abuse, predatory male behavior.
And she says what really worries her is that there are a lot of progressives out there that she knows, i.e. liberals, who if you listen to them speak, why you might think you're listening to me.
I mean, it's a totally deranged piece.
I don't know.
You just wait for the details and I'll give you all of the details.
President Bush, either as we speak or soon, up on Capitol Hill to meet with GOP senators to try to revive the amnesty bill, I probably will get blamed in that meeting for so this is my day.
And Dingy Harry, the guy who actually runs the Senate, says he can only get 38 votes.
He can only get 38.
He's got 51 Democrats in the Senate.
He can only, 38 of them.
It's up to Bush to get these 22 other votes.
And if they're going to get these 22 other votes, there's going to have to be some compromise in there that Ted Kennedy might not like.
Well, we'll talk about all that.
You've heard everybody's going nuts here about this latest poll.
Let's say Los Angeles Times Bloomberg poll that has Fred Thompson, who hasn't even announced, in second place now, 27 for Giuliani, 21 for Fred Thompson.
McCain, to nobody's surprise, is slipping.
And Romney is going to, let's see, well, I'll give you the details as approval.
I'm just going to give you the highlights here of what's happening.
Congress's approval is the lowest in a decade.
It's 27%.
Congress approval lower than President Bush.
As we mentioned yesterday, Dingy Harry's personal approval is at 19%.
Get this from Evanston, Illinois.
U.S. medical scientists say that they've discovered a drug that slows and might even halt the progression of Parkinson's disease.
Northwestern University researchers found that the drug is radipine, rejuvenates aging dopamine cells whose death in the brain causes the symptoms of the disease.
Well, this is this is from monstersandcritics.com website, by the way.
It's a UPI story.
Drug may halt Parkinson's.
This is great news because I thought only killing babies would do this.
Well, that's what embryonic stem cells are.
And apparently this is going to be this exciting stuff.
We'll see what transpires here.
Try this headline.
This is from Marshalltown, Iowa.
Listen to this headline.
Butts charged with stealing toilet paper.
I'm not making it up.
AP story: police, excuse me.
Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse.
And while they're laughing about it, the theft charge could put Butts in prison.
She's facing potentially three years of incarceration for stealing three rolls of toilet paper, said the chief Lon Walker, who was stifling a laugh as he talked to KCCI-TV about Suzanne Marie Butts.
See, I can't say it with a straight face.
Workers had noticed the rolls disappearing from the courthouse much faster than usual.
Now, Butts is 38, was caught last week after an employee saw her taking three rolls of tuply tissue from a storage closet.
Well, she had to leave a paper trail.
That's how they caught her.
Kind of like Jackie Gleason and Smokey and the Bandit goes into the bathroom and the diner and the toilet paper is attached to the back pocket or something.
He's walking out.
Three years, no ifs, ands, or buts about it for stealing three rolls of toilet paper.
What do you bet Cheryl Crowe's involved in this somehow?
I mean, not directly, but if you're going to blame me for spousal abuse, you're going to blame Cheryl Crow for toilet paper theft from a courthouse of all places to get caught stealing toilet paper.
Anyway, from an environmental website, the Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care.
Unfortunately for them, unfortunately for you, Prius buyers, your ultimate green car is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America.
Yes, I love this story.
I love these kinds of stuff.
I love it when these do-gooders, these little social little things that are concerned about, they're not making a difference with whatever they do.
I love it.
Well, when they find out that what they're doing is, I just, you know, I want to make a difference.
Well, you are making a difference.
Polluting the planet more than a hummer, this thing.
It takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than it does a Hummer.
The Prius is powered by not one, but two engines, a standard 76 horsepower, one and a half liter gas engine, just like those found in most cars today, and a battery powered engine that deals out 67 horsepower and a whopping 295 foot pounds of torque below 2,000 revolutions per minute.
Anyway, the story will have details as the program unfolds, talks about how much it costs to build one of these things and the nickel battery and all this that goes into it.
Just it costs more to produce one of these things in a hummer.
Don't you just love that?
I absolutely do.
All right, let's take a quick break.
We'll come back and talk about all the political news that's out there.
We found, by the way, well, I had a friend send me a blurb from YouTube yesterday of Al Gore back in 1992 ripping George Bush 41 over the coals because of his Iraq policy.
And you know what Gore's complaint was?
That Bush 41 wasn't taking Saddam's terrorist ties seriously enough, nor his weapons of mass destruction.
I'm going to play these bites for you when we come back from this first of the day EIB Profit Center timeout.
Have you heard about Bill Clinton's latest idea for global warming?
Sod roofs, ladies and gentlemen, thatch roofs like they have in the third world.
You know, this is after we get Cheryl Crowe and her one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit.
Clinton is out making speeches to college students encouraging homeowners to skip the tar and the shingles and lay sod roofs.
Well, what do you do in a drought?
You got to water the sod roof.
If you don't water the sod.
This is absurd.
Can you imagine in the United States of America in 2007, an ex-president is suggesting we put dirt and grass on the house for his reason is that you put tar up there and then shingles.
That absorbs all kinds of heat in there, makes the house hotter, air conditioning bills go up.
So what you do is you put the sod roof, keeps temperature inside the house a lot cooler right below the roof.
Heck with that, just put a tin roof up there and paint it white.
Sod grass?
I mean, thatch roof.
Yeah, let's all live in huts.
You've got to hear this.
Al Gore, September 29th, 1992 at the Center for National Policy.
He is then Democrat vice presidential nominee Al Gore, is on the campaign trail, and he was speaking, again, to the Center for National Policy about the George H.W. Bush Iraq policy as vice president and president.
We have three sound bites.
Here's the first.
Bush deserves heavy blame for intentionally concealing from the American people the clear nature of Saddam Hussein and his regime and for convincing himself that friendly relations with such a monster would be possible and for persisting in this effort far, far beyond the point of folly.
Throughout this period, Saddam's atrocities continued.
In March of 1988, Saddam used poison gas on the Kurdish town of Halabja, brutally murdering some 5,000 innocent men, women, and children.
And none of us can ever forget the pictures of their bodies of parents trying to shield their infants, even in death.
Hold it a second.
Stop the tape.
You've forgotten about it.
It doesn't matter to you at all now.
It didn't exist.
This is incredible.
Here's the rest of this bite.
That were in our news media and around the world.
The Iran-Iraq war then ended in August of 1988, and Iraq had not prevailed, but neither had it been defeated.
As a result, you would think that the administration would give our policies a second look to see if they should be altered.
But the Reagan-Bush administration never hesitated, even when the news became much, much worse.
This is not an impersonator.
This is genuine and legitimate from September 29th of 1992.
Here's the second of three bites that we have.
In January 1989, President George Bush was sworn in.
Based on plentiful evidence, he had reason to know that his ongoing policy regarding Iraq was already malfunctioning badly.
Just last week, we learned of a memorandum written in March of that year, just two months after his inauguration to Secretary of State James Baker, as Baker prepared to meet with a senior Iraqi official, in which the author of the memorandum noted that Iraq continued to cooperate with terrorists, that it was meddling in Lebanon, that it was working hard at chemical and biological weapons and new missiles.
These are exact quotes.
The tape.
Al Gore, you heard it just said that James Baker and George H.W. Bush were ignoring the fact that Saddam was working with terrorists.
Now, the standard line of the Democrat Party today, the drive-by meeting, is there were no terrorists in Iraq prior to 9-11.
We're talking 1989, 1990 here.
There weren't any terrorists.
Saddam wasn't doing anything bad.
Bush lied.
Bush made it all up.
This is incredible.
Here's the rest of the bite.
These are exact quotes from the memorandum to the administration.
And most significant of all, in the same month, September of 1989, the CIA reported to Secretary of State Baker and other top Bush administration officials that Iraq was clandestinely procuring nuclear weapons technology through a global network.
Hold, Do you realize they want to impeach Dick Cheney over this?
They have been trying to impeach, well, his credibility, destroy him politically over his claims that Iraq was working on nuclear weapons.
Now, we've played for you the sound bites of Bill Clinton saying in 1998 everything that George W. Bush said about Iraq in 2002 and 2003.
But this goes back to 1992.
And this is vice perpetrator candidate Al Gore running for the office.
He's on a campaign trail here.
These are liberals.
This is who they are.
And he's laying out a real threat here, laying out a real threat.
And finally, somebody came along and did something about the real threat.
And they want to destroy the U.S. military for succeeding.
They want to make sure we don't succeed any further.
And they want to destroy the president who actually acted on these claims that everybody knew were true.
Here's the rest of this bite.
Of front companies.
Did all of this make any impression at all on President Bush?
Did his judgment on foreign policy come into play when he was told that this nation with a record of terrorism continuing was making a sustained concerted effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, and biological?
Well, evidently not.
Yeah, it apparently didn't make any difference to you when you and Clinton got in the White House because you didn't do anything about it either.
Now, I know this is a campaign trail, folks, but you don't get a pass for lying this big and contradicting yourself this much.
This is utter dishonesty.
It is utter hypocrisy.
And I'm just going to suggest to you that when you've got somebody as deranged as this, Albert, whatever his name, Gore, Albert Arnold Al Gore, that's it.
Albert Arnold Al Gore is his name.
You've got to take into account now what he's saying about global warming.
How can you believe anything somebody like this happens to say?
Here's a third bite in our troika.
The text of NSD 26 blindly ignores the evidence already at the administration's disposal of Iraqi behavior in the past regarding human rights, terrorism, the use of chemical weapons, the pursuit of advanced weapons of mass destruction.
Instead, it makes an heroic assumption of good behavior in the future on the basis of an interesting theory, namely that Iraq would suddenly and completely change its ways out of a fear of economic and political sanctions.
Well, it leaps from the page that George Bush, both as vice president and president, had done his utmost to make sure that no such sanctions would ever apply to Saddam Hussein.
The question is unavoidable.
Why should Saddam Hussein be at all concerned about a threat of action in the future from George Bush, the same man who had resolutely blocked any such action in the past?
To the contrary, Saddam had every reason to assume that Bush would look the other way no matter what he did.
He had already launched poison gas attacks repeatedly, and Bush looked the other way.
He had already conducted extensive terrorism activities, and Bush had looked the other way.
He was already deeply involved in the effort to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and Bush knew it, but he looked the other way.
You believe that Al Gore demanding action on Iraq because Saddam was associating with terrorists, was gassing people with mustard gas and other chemical weapons, his own people, and was trying to develop nuclear weapons along with other weapons of mass destruction, consorting with terrorists, Lebanon and so forth, and demanding that George H.W. Bush do something about it.
Now, you just contrast this with any of the rhetoric coming out of these guys' mouths today.
There was never any reason to go to Iraq Bush lie.
You know the drill.
You know all of this.
Now, there's somebody out there trying to sound another warning, this time about Iran, and it's Joe Lieberman.
This is Sunday on Slay the Nation.
What we did was present them with evidence that we have, that I've seen that I believe is incontrovertible, that the Iranians are training and equipping Iraqi extremists to come in into Iraq, and they're killing American soldiers and Iraqis.
And I think this is a very important moment.
If we're going to sit and talk with the Iranians, tell them what we want them to do, which is to stop doing that because it's killing Americans.
We can't leave it at that.
I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq.
And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.
All right, there's a voice, Joe Lieberman, trying to get people to pay attention.
The Iranians are doing what they're doing, and they're telling us before they do it that they're going to do it.
But nobody wants to deal with it in his party.
America's real anchor man, the doctor of democracy, America's truth detector.
All combined one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
These gore bites, we're getting overloaded here with the request.
You've got to put those on the website.
You've got to make it available for download.
It's on YouTube.
And we'll put the link to it at rushlimbaugh.com.
It's nine and a half minutes of this.
We just culled those three bites from the nine and a half minutes, but it's YouTube.
It was just posted yesterday on YouTube.
And we'll get you the link so that you can, thank God, Coco, put the link up there now.
Want to access that?
We'll find it for you and have it up there.
Hopefully, I'll let you know when we get it up there.
Coco generally pretty fast on these demands that I make.
Emily in Cary, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
Great.
It's great to talk to you.
I'm the call because I finally have a reason to buy a hybrid.
I've been waiting because I've been debating about it because I'm tired of the oil-rich countries becoming rich on the backs of Americans.
So I've been wanting to buy something that would use less oil.
So we would in turn give more oil to Chavez or wherever.
But now I have one because I just was thinking I might have to stop recycling or do something else.
But now I feel comfortable about going out and getting one.
I'm clueless here.
Why does what I said about the Prius costing more to make than a Hummer make you now want to go buy it?
Well, I just feel like now it's more balanced environmentally, you know, that I cannot worry that I'm going to be in the same group as those buyers.
Oh, I get it.
In other words, you can go out and cause more environmental damage than if you had a Hummer, but get credit for saving the environment by having a hybrid.
Well, no, I don't want to give money to the oil and the Middle East.
So I want to use less oil.
I want to, I want to.
Yeah, well, all right, stand by.
I got to talk you out of this because you're not going to be accomplishing anything.
That's the whole point of the story.
You will not be accomplishing anything environmentally.
You'll not be accomplishing anything in terms of the less use of oil.
And you're going to be spending a lot more money than you would have to.
This is actually quite curious that I thought I made it quite clear here that these hybrids are a joke.
They're a scam.
And it's, you know, these do-gooder liberals, the hybrid is the magic car.
Obama, the magic Negro, the hybrid is the magic car.
Liberals can go buy this car knowing nothing about it and think they're saving the environment and doing all these wonderful things and, of course, making a difference.
Well, let me tell you about the difference that you are going to be making.
Unfortunately for Toyota, the government realized how unrealistic their EPA tests were, which consisted of highway speeds limited to 55 miles an hour, acceleration of only 3.3 miles per hour per second.
The new tests, which affect all 2008 models, give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80 miles per hour and acceleration of 8 miles per hour per second.
And this has dropped the Prius's EPA down by 25% to an average of 45 miles per gallon.
So it's not going to get as much gas mileage, as good gas mileage, as everybody thought.
It now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less than half what the Prius costs.
Just go out there and buy a four-cylinder little lawnmower, put some seats on it if you want to be environmentally safe.
Now, here's this is what's really interesting about this.
Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that's on the road for three times longer than a Prius.
As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel.
Now, the nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario.
This plant caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the dead zone around the plant to test moon rovers.
Oh, you just have to love this.
The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.
The nickel mine, the nickel for the battery is destroying the environment.
The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius battery.
Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually, dubbed the Superstack, the Plague Factory, has spread sulfur dioxide across the northern Ontario, across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist nightmare.
The acid ran around Sudbury was so bad, it destroyed all the plants, and the soil slid down off the hillside, said Canadian Greenpeace energy coordinator David Martin.
All of this would be bad enough in and of itself.
However, the journey to make a hybrid doesn't end with the polluted nickel mine.
The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe.
From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce nickel foam.
From there, it goes to Japan.
And finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery.
Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce?
It is.
It's the magic car.
But the author of the piece is Chris DeMorro says, wait, I haven't gotten to the best part yet.
When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50% more energy than a Hummer to drive and produce.
Through a study by CNW Marketing called Dust to Dust, the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation materials, metal, plastic, hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a car.
The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles, which is the expected lifespan of one of these things.
The Hummer, on the other hand, costs $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles.
That means the Hummer will last three times longer than a Prius and use less combined energy doing it.
We're not focusing on just the Prius.
We got nothing against Toyota here.
I mean, but we're just talking, we're talking about hybrids here.
And this, this, the, the, well, the Hummer people could say, yes, save the environment by a Hummer if they compared it to one of these hybrids.
Yeah, I mean, now, you don't expect the environmentalist wackos to ever change their mind and suggest people go buy Hummers.
They're going to be busy circling the wagons here trying to defend their car.
The magic hybrid.
You know, every time I see one, I know it's liberals in it.
I'm tempted.
I follow them down here.
There's a bunch of them down here where I live.
You can spot these little things.
And I feel like getting up real close would give them an enema.
You know, just tailgating them.
But I don't.
I just know they're liberals in there.
And then they're probably heading to the closest thing they probably can find down here to a commune to get their vegetables and paprika and stuff.
I just love this story.
I love this almost as much as the cop on the plane in Boston whose wife didn't care a whip while he was subduing a couple of unruly passengers.
Anyway, Emily in, oh, we talked to Emily.
Yeah, Ralph in Manhattan.
Ralph, I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Wow, Rush, you have no idea what an honor and how privileged I feel to be on the telephone with you right now.
I got to tell you something.
I got a comment I want to make, and I really need your advice on something.
Sure.
I was driving down 2nd Avenue in the upper 80s when I was listening to the Al Gore soundbite.
And I was screaming at the radio, and these Upper Eastside Liberals were looking at me like I was a maniac.
And I got to tell you something.
I don't understand for the life of me why conservatives and Republicans that are on the Hill or hold any office at all never pull this card out and expose this hypocrisy that all these liberal Democrats prove over and over again that they're just capable of being completely dishonest and disgustingly misleading to people.
Oh, this is not misleading.
This is outright lying, hypocrisy.
This in the real world, with people who hear these bites, is going to discredit Al Gore from what he's saying on Iraq now.
This is going to harm him.
And I'll tell you why.
You get upset that the Republicans don't pull this stuff.
I didn't remember it either.
I didn't remember this particular speech.
I mean, there's too much that's gone on.
This has been 15 years ago that he said this, to put this in perspective.
But let me tell you something.
This YouTube and MySpace and all of these other video websites out there now are going to reach millions and millions of people are going to see this stuff, especially when you have a powerful media figure like me pointing people to this bite on the internet, which we are going to do via my website.
You remember, Ralph, the ad that somebody from the Obama camp produced about Hillary and put it on YouTube, and everybody went nuts because it was a very effective ad against Mrs. Clinton, and they were trying to figure out, who did this, who did this, and finally they found it was no.
That reached millions of people, and it wasn't run by a political party.
It wasn't a television commercial.
It was right there on the internet and on the web.
And this is something that the political class is going to have to worry about and be concerned with because these Al Gore bites are going to be all over this country.
Well, they are now.
And they're going to saturate this country.
And it's young people, by the way, who spend their time on YouTube.
They're the ones that are popularizing it, uploading things to it.
So now that it's out there, there might be some wizards in the Republican Party who might find a way to use this, but they may not.
If Al Gore doesn't get in and if he doesn't run, they may not.
But one final thing about this, Ralph, and I know this is very frustrating to me, probably is to you too.
When you, as a political party, have the presidency, it means that the guy in the White House leads the party.
The guy in the White House thus sets the tone for the party's behavior.
And George W. Bush has not desired to do this kind of partisanship at all.
You know, this immigration bill, he's been tougher on his friends.
Right.
For example.
So the underlings in the party, people in the RNC can't drag this stuff out and start using it unless, not unless Bush personally gives the go-ahead, but they know what the mindset is.
They know what the tone is.
But this is new.
It was just posted yesterday.
Let's see what happens with this.
I think it's going to find more coverage and more saturation than you think.
All right.
Can I ask your advice about something?
Yeah.
Okay, listen, I want to make this short and sweet.
I'm a 40-year-old guy.
I grew up in New York.
And a lot of my life, I was dominated by drugs, crime, and I spent a lot of my years, younger years, in prison.
Through the grace of God, I'm a hardworking guy.
I'm a loving husband.
I have a stepdaughter that's in Baghdad right now.
And I became politically aware, and I'm a hardcore conservative.
And I'm on my way to going to broadcasting school now, and I want to do conservative radio.
I just want to know what advice you could give me to help guide my path.
I am not joking about this.
Start calling radio talk shows.
Some program director will hear you and think you can host your own show.
Okay.
It happens.
Believe it or not, it happens.
I mean, the conventional route is to, you know, the one that people from my era did.
You start in a small town, you get experience, you get seasoned, you learn the various skills of actually doing a broadcast.
There's much more to it than just content, although that's key.
That's the main thing.
But there's some other things that you have to learn.
But you have to be willing to take whatever job you can get, and you have to be willing to apply.
And you might, you know what you could do?
I mean, I haven't suggested this to anybody, but the websites out there, you could start your own website and do a podcast of your own and then try to get people listening to it, get experience doing it, do it 20 or 30 minutes a day, whatever length of time you wanted to do, and just start doing it.
I mean, if this is what you want to do, find a forum, find a place, and start doing it.
Set up your own podcast on the internet, start calling radio talk shows and pretend you're the host, but don't be disrespectful to the host.
And then continue to drive down 2nd Avenue in the 80s and scream out your window at liberals and learn what, learn.
See for yourself what their reaction to you is going to be if you ever get on the radio.
Oh, I abuse them.
I abuse them in personal arguments all the time.
But from your lips to God's ears, I really appreciate it, Bob.
My pleasure.
Ralph, have a great one.
Thanks so much.
I'm a little long here, folks.
We'll be right back.
Okay, the YouTube link of Al Gore from September 1992, in which he blames George H.W. Bush for not taking Saddam seriously because of his weapons of mass destruction and his consorting with terrorists, is now posted.
The link, it's a YouTube video.
It's nine and a half minutes, and we've got the link posted at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
It's on the free side so anybody can access it.
I've been thinking about this here during the commercial break.
Ought this not to disqualify Al Gore from the Nobel Peace Prize?
Al Gore has, as you know, is my number one competitor.
I, too, have been nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
You know, I have done more for liberty and freedom and free markets and entrepreneurship and all this than Al Gore has in his whole life.
And has been nominated because of his global warming hoax.
Plus, he's running around ripping George Bush all of shreds.
And isn't that the point?
We're going to send this video over to the Nobel Committee.
I wonder, you know, he's on the board of directors at Apple Incorporated, formerly Apple Computer.
You know, this ought to disqualify Al Gore from the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was calling for hostilities.
He was asking for there to be a declaration of hostilities.
He wanted wall against Saddam Hussein running in the 1992 presidential campaign as vice perpetrator.
And no global test.
No, we already had the evidence.
We had the intel.
We knew it.
We had seen some of it.
We knew the people had been gassed.
The Kurds.
No global test.
No going to the UN.
He was beaten up on George.
But this is after the Gulf Wall, the first Gulf War that we had won.
And they were just, I know it's campaign mode, but we didn't go all the way to Baghdad and get Saddam out of there.
They were just trying to talk about the incompetence of George H.W. Bush and his administration.
Julia in Columbus, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
Well, thanks, Reg.
I'm calling to defend the Prius.
I have one, and I love it, and it gets great gas mileage.
Well, if you're happy, that's cool.
I'm not trying to.
All I'm trying to do here is, if you want to buy one, if you want to drive around, I mean, look at, I buy cars because I like them.
And if you like it, more power to it.
But don't buy this notion.
You're saving the planet, making a difference.
You're actually contributing to more pollution, as it turns out.
But if you don't care about that, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't, no big deal.
Well, that's true.
And we don't care about that.
My husband and I also have a Ford F-150 and a Ford Explorer and a couple Harley-Davidsons.
This thing was just too cute.
We bought it used.
It had been wrecked.
Wait a second.
Something's not computing here.
You got a Ford F-150.
Yes.
And I don't need to tell people Riolinda what that is.
They visit the showrooms, look at them all the time.
You got a Ford Explorer.
You got a couple of Harley hogs.
And you've gone out and bought this cute little hybrid.
It's because it's fun to drive.
It's cute as can be.
It's fun to scoot around town in.
We didn't buy it new.
We bought it used.
It had been wrecked.
He likes to tinker with cars.
And we've had a blast with it.
It's like driving around in a golf cart.
We love it.
Well, now that's a great sales message.
It's like driving around in a golf cart.
All right.
Well, Julia, I love getting calls from happy people, especially when they're causing environmental damage that they didn't know that they were causing.
Because it's not that big.
It's all a hoax, folks.
It's all a hoax.
It doesn't matter.
There's a new disease the drive-by media fearful of.
It's called campaign fatigue.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
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