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June 14, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, it's gonna be a great day.
I got to bed at 5 a.m.
I've got the U.S. open on the top TV today, so I don't have to watch MSNBC.
Yes.
Greetings, uh friends, enemies, uh rich Republicans, uh those who want to be, that's uh program is tailored exclusively for you.
This is the Rush Limbaugh program from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Not going to tell you what I was doing up, it doesn't matter what I was doing up.
I was up till five o'clock.
And uh doesn't matter.
Some things have to remain private.
At any rate, uh ladies and gentlemen, well, let's start with what happened down in Broward County yesterday with the uh those those commissioners.
Here's the situation.
If you I don't know how you're gonna miss this because it's been it's it's all cable news, it's been all over newspapers.
And in fact, get this headline.
What I wanted to print this out, read this headline to you.
This is from last night.
Hurricane information may not reach wide audience because of Rush.
That's wire service runs that story.
Hurricane information may not reach wide audience because of Rush.
Only on the highest rated station down there.
I mean, this is absurd.
Anyway, the the the Broward County commissioners, some of them were out of town, but the ones that were in town uh earlier this week said, you know what?
We want to cancel this deal that we've got with WIOD AM610, which of course our blowtorch affiliate down there in Miami.
Uh Broward County is worried that hurricane information news focuses on Dade County in Miami, not enough on Broward.
Uh and so they made a deal with WIOD because of its reach and its coverage.
Uh to uh any time that the Broward County Commission decided to have a press conference uh on uh emergency status of hurricanes and this is any kind of weather calamity, that uh their press conferences would run in totality from front to back from beginning to end.
All of a sudden, one of these commissioners uh uh actually a babe.
I finally saw her picture today.
Uh liberal babes are rare, and that's that's why they stand out.
This woman, at least the headshot, uh you don't know about the rest, but she's a babe.
Stacy Ritter is her name.
And she uh sh what?
No, no, it's not this.
No, it's in the Miami Herald.
That's not photoshopped.
Uh doesn't look like it's photoshopped to me.
At any rate, she said, you know what?
We um we we we we don't we don't want to cancel this contract here because uh we we don't want to have our hurricane information on a station at Rush Limbaugh is broadcast on all Sean Hannity.
I said you know, it was it it's absurd on its face.
It's it's funny in a sense, but there are some you know some real First Amendment concerns here, freedom of speech concerns, and it's typical of liberals uh who want to shut certain people up.
They they talk about the fairness doctrine so forth.
Anyway, we talked about this yesterday, and they were deluged.
They caved in a couple of hours.
Uh some of the commissioners who were out of town found out what had happened.
They're all Democrats.
It's a nine-member commission.
It's all Democrats.
Some of them are out of town, they found out what was going on, and they said, we got to stop this.
Look, if your roof's getting blown off, does it matter if the radio station telling you about it carries conservative programming?
When you see this headline, hurricane information may not reach wide audience because of rush.
What this means is that liberals in the face of utter disaster will not tune to the station to get information because my show's on it.
So who's stupid here?
This is this is politicizing a nonpartisan issue.
I mean, hurricane emergency information is nonpartisan.
Remember Hurricane Katrina.
It was the Libs who were blaming Bush and FEMA and everybody not getting information out and not getting uh relief efforts in there soon enough, and they tried to politicize that.
Uh now they're doing the uh the same thing with this.
Now the the Miami Herald story today, it's got an equally screwy headline, but it's still funny.
Limbaugh snub enrages fans, but is likely to fail.
Uh Limbaugh Snub enrages fans, but is is likely to fail.
And is likely to fail.
Not but enrages fans, but is likely to fail.
So uh on the air Wednesday, uh Limbaugh joked that under the deal, uh, Broward County would have the power to preempt his midday broadcast.
I said, and I did they got they quoted me accurately here.
I said, all these idiots on the Broward County Commission have to do is schedule their press conferences from noon to three.
And by the terms of the deal, they have to, if they want to do a three-hour press conference, they can they can eliminate preempt my show that day.
In fact, they could do it today.
They can schedule a press conference.
Not emergency information, but to, you know, preparedness and things that you could do.
These people are blooming, blooming idiots.
There's a great line by the writer of this story, Amy Sherman at the end of the story.
Uh for listeners who really can't stomach a right wing hurricane report.
What is right wing about a hurricane report?
For listeners.
Who does this make look like idiots?
Uh it liberals will not tune to the station, and everybody knows the IOD is a station you tune to in such an emergency.
I'm not gonna listen.
I'm not gonna listen to a hurricane report.
I tell these people, I don't know what we'd do without them.
I they they really, I don't think they have any idea how silly they look.
Well, I'll tell you what's gonna happen tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning there will be a press conference or a little statement will go out.
A sunshine emergency declared in Broward County.
Press conference at noon.
Drought emergency press conference at one.
How to protect your skin, I don't know, how to protect your skin.
At any rate, uh we we I think what happened here is they got they got complaints from all over the country.
They got come even locally.
I mean, some of the some of the comments on the on the uh comments uh sections of the websites, the Miami Herald and the uh Orlando, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, uh, were just were just priceless.
Uh and you know some of these people riding in were even liberals, but if your roof is being blown off, does it matter that you're being told about it on a right wing radio?
And of course, the private program, the operations manager down there is a guy named uh Ed Charles.
He said, Look, for listeners who really can't stomach a right-wing hurricane report, the the county's information we simulcast on another station.
A Lib station.
So he said, we got both sides of the aisle covered here for our emergency news.
I'm sorry, I'm a little giddy here, and you can probably understand why, but not having gone to sleep till five o'clock, but I just love this.
I just sitting here minding my own business, apparently bothering liberals like nobody ever has.
Speaking of liberals and censorship, get this.
Free speech not alive and well within the Democrat Party.
The Democrat National Committee had to close the comment section on their blog.
They had a post uh regarding Fred Thompson.
In an attempt to bash Thompson, the DNC posted the Fred Thompson dummies guide to diplomacy.
Uh, and some of the uh some of the comments came in uh Democrats a little afraid of Thompson, they're worried he's reawakening the old Reagan Democrats, and there were some Democrats posting that they like Thompson, and they disagreed with the post, and so they pulled the post and they eliminated any comments because they didn't want any pro-Thompson comments on their website.
They put a piece out trying to make fun of him and ridicule him, and some Democrats post, hey, we like this guy.
This guy's intriguing to Reagan Democrats is what they're afraid of.
Um naturally, being the Castro Putin Chavez uh uh kindred spirits they are, they shut down the debate on the DNC website, something just like what the um the Broward County Commission tried to do with emergency hurricane news.
Right wing hurricane reports back in just a second.
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More people than ever are driving alone to work as the nation's commuters balk at carpools in mass transit.
Now I know what you're saying, rush.
The Democrats have declared defeat, their ways in the right flag.
It's flag day, and you're talking about the way people drive to and from work.
Stick with me on this, folks.
You know that I never ever waste your time.
Regardless of fuel prices.
Housing and work patterns make it hard for suburban commuters to change their gas-guzzling ways.
Despite all the efforts of liberals and the government to get us to carpool in the HOV lanes, do all of this.
We ain't doing it.
We are going solo.
We like our freedom.
We don't have back seat drivers.
We don't want to have a bunch of chit-chat in a car.
We want to just get where we're going in our own time in our own way.
However, there is a great caveat here.
Carpooling is most popular in the West, driven in part by immigrants.
Yes, the only people doing it right.
The only people behaving responsibly are immigrants.
Seven of the top ten metro areas for carpooling are in California.
Most are in the center of the state, where a lot of immigrant farm workers share rides.
So here they're doing another thing, America.
They got jobs Americans won't do, and they're carpooling the way Americans won't carpool.
They are virtuous.
They're carpooling, because they the seven eight of them together can only afford one car.
I've got a great lighthearted stack here, and we'll get to it.
Well, let me just share one more here with you.
Because I love the these stories that disprove all the previous myths that we've been showered with.
Among men with symptoms of heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than their normal weight counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers found that among nearly 6,900 male veterans assessed for symptoms of heart disease, those who were obese were less likely to die over the next seven and a half years compared with normal weight men.
So obesity now helps with heart disease.
What's the AMA gonna say?
What all I what are all the uh politically correct uh friends of ours going to say?
One more before we get to the serious stuff.
Love this story too.
Nitrogen pumped into the environment by human activities such as driving cars and farming is fertilizing tree growth and boosting the amount of carbon being stored in forests outside the tropics.
According to researchers, their study provides a surprising example of how one type of human pollution is helping to counter another.
The researchers caution, they don't yet know what proportion of carbon dioxide emissions are being offset by anthropogenic release of nitrogen.
Nitrogen's an important plant nutrient.
It's widely used as an agriculture fertilizer.
Two studies in 2006 suggested its availability in nature will ultimately limit the capacity of forests to soak up human CO2.
But it turns out they were wrong.
Now, what the point of all this is not really the detail here.
What this article does is bears out a couple of truths that I have tried to pound into people's head for years.
Nature will always find a way to survive.
We cannot destroy it.
We don't have the means, we don't have the intelligence, nor do we have the desire.
And it's pretty arrogant, this is second thought, it's pretty arrogant of mankind to think that we can destroy the world.
I do.
I actually think of God looking down as people watch an inconvenient truth and buy into it and believe it.
And think.
God is laughing at liberals, if he's not crying.
God is laughing at some of these people.
He say, you think you can mess up what I made.
Go ahead and try.
So uh whatever damage we do, the world far up the nature finds a way to accommodate it, correct it, so forth and so on.
All right, let's get to the Democrats.
This is um uh uh two things here.
Late yesterday afternoon, sometime last night, uh Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over a rock.
They sent him a letter ahead of a White House meeting later today, and they said as many had foreseen the escalation has failed to produce the intended results.
The increase in U.S. forces has had little impact in curbing the violence or fostering political reconciliation.
In other words, the Iraq surge is a failure.
Pelosi and Reed have told President Bush, and then a companion story to this.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry called Marine General Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs, incompetent.
During an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers.
It's a comment that was never reported.
Reed made similar disparaging remarks about Army General David Petraeus, a top U.S. commander in Iraq, according to sources familiar with the interview, but the drive-bys didn't find out about it.
They weren't interested in it.
Uh this is just the latest example of how Reed, under pressure from liberal wacko kooks to do more to stop the war, is going on the attack against President Bush and his military leaders.
The timing of this is done specifically to coincide with the uh the the well, the current uh life support uh status of the uh comprehensive destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007, otherwise known as the Amnesty Bill.
Uh now what's especially egregious about this.
Uh this Reed has gone, I think where he was finally destined to go.
From criticizing the war to now criticizing the troops and the military leaders.
Uh is it any surprise he did this in an interview with liberal bloggers and not drive by media reporters?
The Democratic attacks on General Pace, General Petraeus are especially Bush League, uh excuse the term, uh, because under traditional rules of civil military relations, neither man can defend themselves.
They have to shut up.
They uh they can't say one word about this.
Now, this is flag day.
June 14th is flag day, and while most of us raise the red, white, and blue, Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry have raised once again the white flag.
They surrender, they proclaim defeat.
After declaring the war is lost, the terrible twos now say the surge has failed.
The thing is, it's really debatable as to whether the surges fail.
I got a couple stories.
There's one in the Washington Post.
You know what?
Baghdad is quieter.
Baghdad is a little more stable.
The Washington Post story says that the violence has spread to other areas.
Well, now, excuse me, but wasn't the point to stabilize Baghdad?
Wasn't the point to go in there and root out some of this violence and make it a little bit more stable.
So under those terms, that has happened.
The stow the post story admits, yeah, Baghdad's a little quieter, but the violence is spread elsewhere.
Well, in Afghanistan, it's the same situation.
Kabul is pretty quiet, the capital there.
Uh other parts of the country, you know, where they're growing the uh the poppies, and you still have some of the warlords out there.
They're not uh not as much order as there is in Kabul, but uh, you know, uh a stable capital is uh is a great first step.
So you got Dingy Harry pronouncing it a failure.
Uh Petraeus and Pace are incompetent.
Which leads me to say something, and I've I've I've held this in long enough.
I uh I really suspect that these liberal tactics are damaging, maybe even killing the morale of uh of our troops.
We hear that it does not undermine their morale.
Uh there they tell us they don't like hearing it.
They tell us it bothers them, but that it doesn't affect their morale.
But who is the one telling us this?
Uh Reed, Pelosi.
They they get defense.
Oh, no, no, we're we're not we're not hurting uh morale out here.
Oh, we we support the troops.
And who knows more about the troop morale than Reed and Pelosi?
Dennis Kasenich?
And I I just think this is the height of irresponsibility, and it's uh it's in response to their plummeting numbers that Pelosi has, the plummeting approval numbers that Reed has, they're at 19%.
Everybody's making hay here about Bush's approval numbers.
At twenty-nine, Congress is lower than that.
So the uh the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate go out and talk to these kooks, I mean these fringe kooks, in uh and just give them the red meat that they want to hear uh in order to shore up their uh their own uh their own support.
Uh I think Dingy Harry also, didn't he once criticize Justice Clarence Thomas, saying his opinions are stupid and uninformed and some such thing.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you who's incompetent.
The guy who can't run his own shop right now is Harry Reed.
The guy who cannot get anything done in the Senate is Harry Reed.
And over in the House, if you want miss incompetent, it's Nancy Pelosi.
And I got a couple stories about Pelosi and how hard, how hard it is to get anything done on a war.
It's really hard.
They can't come up with enough Democrat votes on getting rid of don't ask, don't tell.
She can't get anything done other than to harass Bush.
The true incompetence is in Dingy Harry's office and Nancy Pelosi's office, and to insult yet again the troops and their commanders is beyond the pale, folks.
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One one more thing here about this nitrogen pollution drives trees to soak up more CO2.
Uh there's a quote at the end of this story by uh uh who is this guy?
Magneni.
He's one of the researchers here.
Uh where's this guy's Frederico, Federico Magnani of the University of Bologna in Italy.
He says, Finally, in excess, nitrogen can be toxic to plants, causing them to suffer more from drought.
When you try and manipulate nature, you have to be careful, says Magneni from the University of Bologna.
Just as I would not put dust into space to shelter air from incoming solar radiation, in the same way I would not pour nitrogen onto ecosystems to soak up carbon.
Well, you don't have to.
Uh sir, nature's doing it for you.
The when you try and manipulate nature, gives you an idea of some of the arrogance and the conceit that these people have.
Kimberly in Sarasota, Florida.
Let's go to phones.
Let's start with you.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, Fresh.
Um, I believe that they don't want um the hurricane information on the radio station that you and Hannity are on out of fear.
Fear that they might tune in to listen to one of those hurricane updates and actually become a listener and actually get informed.
That could be.
I think liberals are afraid of people disc well, I know that I know Tom Dashell.
You know, you may you you you you may have more of a point here than I originally thought.
Remember, after 2002 elections, Democrats were convinced they were going to take back the Congress.
Oh.
And in Tom Dashell called a press conference, said that experts at the Democrat National Committee had uh had studied the audiences of uh popular radio hosts like me, and they were shocked to find that there were large numbers of Democrats listening.
Well, Rash, I was raised in a socialist American school where I never got the true picture.
After 9-11, I started listening to you after I voted for Mr. Gore.
And um I actually became informed to what I really wanted and actually became educated.
Well, I that's great.
That's great to be.
And I'm not the only one.
There's lots of us out here.
Oh, I know.
I know, because the audience is expanding in geometric proportions here.
Absolutely.
And that's what happened.
We already have all the conservatives, those it's growing, it's growing among the independents, the moderates, the communists, the socialists, and the liberals.
Uh and I'll tell you that the uh the one other aspect about this business down in Broward County, I I think they might be afraid that they might lose some people, but I don't I I don't think that's the the major thing.
And you're right about it being fear, but they fear uh well, yeah, you're actually, as I think about this, you're more and more and more right.
Uh they are afraid of uh of the viewpoints expressed by me being heard.
They would they would prefer nobody be able to say these kinds of things, but the arrogance and the conceit that they have in thinking that they have the ability to stop it to pressure radio station to get rid of certain people is indicative of of who they are.
But these these these people down there, I mean they all look liberals are all dangerous, but these are the Keystone cops.
Uh these are the small fry.
I mean, this is a county commission.
We're not we're not talking big timers here.
These are wannabes.
They think they're big and important and so forth.
They're still liberals, uh, and all liberals pose great threat to the uh future of the country.
Uh no question of it.
But these are the small fry, and that's what makes this uh uh to me even a little bit more humorous.
Camberly thanks.
Uh uh Ron and Bend, Oregon.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, you know, uh Rush, there's nothing sancrosanct about Peter Pace and his career.
If he deserves criticism, he deserves it.
He does.
The important thing is the lives and well-being of the soldiers.
Now I've I've spent a lot of time in the Marine Corps and the Army, and I known a lot of guys like Pace.
There's a reason he's called perfect Peter.
His career comes first.
You call these guys careerists.
They make their way up by pleasing their superiors in the civilian world.
And you know there's an old saying if you live by butt kissing, you die by butt killing.
Yeah, no, you don't die if if if i uh you if you live by butt kissing, you die of atle poisoning.
That's that's the phrase.
Well, you know, the point is, once upon a time you and I talked, and we said the important thing was the lives of the soldiers, right?
And you agreed with that.
And these are the guys who are getting shortchanged by crummy leadership whose career comes first.
That's that's the right.
Look, you you may be more informed uh as a retired you you're retired military, correct?
Correct.
Marine?
I was started out in the Marines, I retired from the Army Reserve.
All right.
Um, you you're you're maybe more informed about this than I. My my point here, and I've met General Pace, and I I was profoundly impressed.
I met him in uh Donald Rumsfeld the same night at a Marine Call Law Enforcement Foundation dinner.
That's a charity that uh raises money for scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action worldwide.
Uh and I'm on the board, and and uh the Rumsfeld was the uh uh featured speaker that night give a great speech, and I that was for where I first met General Pace.
And I I'm telling you, I was profoundly uh impressed with him.
I've never heard the nickname Perfect Peter.
But let's say you're right.
Um let's say he's uh self-focused on his career and and so forth.
I've I've not heard anybody else say that.
But it doesn't matter.
Maybe he can be criticized but for for people like the Democrat majority leader in the House in the Senate to come out and attack him as incompetent in the middle of a war in a situation where they can't respond.
Protocol and s and structure prevents Pace and Petraus from uh from responding.
And I think it it's it's not that I believe people are above criticism.
Lord knows.
Uh that that would cut off uh 90% of the speech that happens in this country.
I'm but I'm saying there's there's got to be some some civility, let's say.
There's got to be some reason here.
You talk about being oriented toward their career.
That's Harry Reid.
Harry Reid's oriented toward his stagging approval rating.
Harry Reed's trying to get some stature back, and he's dumping on people whose uniform he couldn't wear, whose job he couldn't do.
He's proving his own incompetence.
Now, Pace, maybe what you say, I've I've not heard that from others, but I'm not I don't even want to go there.
That's I don't want to debate whether he is or not.
What what Reed and Pelosi are doing in the middle of a war, trying to secure defeat, uh for the sake of their own political advancement and their party's advancement is repulsive and it's repugnant to me, and it angers me to no end.
And they're gonna pay a price for this.
They are paying a price that the American people are fed up in mass with the United States Congress.
They're not doing anything on earmarks.
They're not doing any in fact they're still doing them, they're trying to hide them.
And the Republicans are playing hardball on this and and succeeding in uh in trying to get this uh this stuff into the sunlight.
Uh they're they're uh they're an absolute disgrace.
They are a mess, and for them to sit there and start talking about the competence or incompetence of people uh who are leading American troops in battle uh while trying to secure The defeat of the mission of these troops is just uh it's beyond the pale, and they should pay a huge, huge price for it.
Janet and Augusta, Georgia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Yeah.
I have an article in the Des Moines Register.
Not a credible source.
Yeah.
I know.
By John Carlson, and it was surprising.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is it a column?
It's John Carlson's Iowa.
It's called.
Yeah, it's a column.
Yes.
So this is a local guy that writes about things going on in Iowa.
You got it.
Okay.
And so it's an opinion piece.
Well, hell, everything in the news is opinion piece.
Well, my mother-in-law sent it to me because she was shocked.
Because uh he actually um interviewed an and chief warrant officer who is a black hawk helicopter pilot from Ames.
And uh it's actually gives the pilot a chance to say what he thinks about the media.
And I was gonna read a little bit of what I'm saying.
No, no, no, we we don't.
I think uh how long ago was this story printed?
This is Oh, she cut off the date, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember this story.
Uh this this guy, uh the uh the black hawk pilot lays into the media.
He sure does.
Just rips them a new one.
Uh and I uh what does he say?
Just tell us in your own words.
You start reading, you're not a highly trained uh specialist here, you're gonna sound monotone.
I'm doing this to protect you.
Okay.
Only people highly trained like me can read and make it sound like I'm telling and speaking.
So you in your own words tell me what this guy said about troop morale.
Well, he says for morale, he he says we're treading water.
Um he says we continue to kick butt on missions and take care of each other, even we know even though we know the American public and government does not stand behind us.
Uh he says, um, hello media.
Do you know you'd indirectly kill American soldiers every day?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, and he goes on to to say that you are the enemy's greatest weapon.
Uh they can't beat us on the battlefield, but basically all they have to do is turn on the television.
That's right.
There are two fronts in the war here at home and over there on the battlefield, and uh we're losing the war here at home.
Now, no thanks to people like Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi and I I don't care.
However, incompetent Peter Pace is, he is not doing anything to lose the war at home.
He is not befriending the enemy as the drive-by media here does, and allow themselves to be used as a propaganda megaphone by the Al Qaeda in Iraq crowd.
Um I remember this uh this uh I didn't see the actual story, but I had a lot of people telling me about it.
Well, he says he's tired of busting my butt over here and coming home every night and turning on the TV and hearing how we're failing miserably.
I don't blame him.
No, I don't either.
I don't blame him.
I I uh and you know, these it's rare for him to speak out like this, too.
Most of these guys uh w for attribution are are really not allowed to uh to do things like this either.
So he's evidently had it.
Well and I don't blame him.
My husband's former army, so uh I just I d I don't blame him, and she was surprised to see an article like that in the newspaper, and that's why she called it.
Well, yeah, especially the warrant register.
Yeah.
But we we got it in the mail.
The only thing they care about is whether or not Hillary's gonna show up for the straw poll.
All right, uh we gotta I gotta run, take a take a break here, uh Janet, but thanks much.
It's been great speaking to you.
Thank you, you two rush.
And by the way, I knew you were reading in defiance of my rule, but because you were doing okay.
Oh well, I was nervous, and I had no that's right.
I know, and you're so sweet, sir nice that I just I decided to just waive the rule.
Thank you.
Um Janet is not in my top ten names of all time.
I like the name, but I mean it they gotta limit it here, somebody it's not in the top ten.
No offense, Janet.
That's my middle name.
What's your first name?
Janet.
My middle name's Evelyn.
Janet uh Evelyn.
Evelyn, Evelyn.
Yeah.
Is that any better?
Is that your top?
No, no, that's an eighteen hundreds name.
Uh but uh it Janet Jan Janet's cool.
I just you better just hang out and save yourself.
I've been trying to.
Okay.
See you.
Try this story.
Let me just give you the headlines.
This is an associated press story.
Found this in the Jerusalem Post.
Executions of cell phone users up in North Korea.
North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users And those who circulate outside information in the communist country.
This, according to a South Korean government think tank.
They execute, they execute you for using a cell phone.
Oh, yeah, because that's that could lead to insubordination, insulation.
That could lead to subversion, any number.
You can allude to the truth getting into the country.
Hey, you talk about a bunch of mind-un robots.
That's what citizens of North Korean are kept in that in a in a that current uh current state.
All right, there was a there was a story in the Washington Times uh a couple days ago.
The drive-by media did not spend any time on this at all, but the Washington Times did.
Membership in the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CARE, has declined more than 90% since the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to tax documents obtained by the Washington Times.
The number of reported members spiraled down from more than 29,000 in 2000 to fewer than 1700 in 2006.
As a result, the Muslim rights group's annual income from dues dropped from 732,000 bucks in 2000 when the dues cost 25 dollars.
The total income last year was 58,750.
The group charged 35 bucks.
Now forget for a moment uh the falling membership.
We'll deal with that in a minute.
Uh the membership declined more than 90%.
You mean to tell me that a group with a maximum number of members of 29,000 is said to be a spokesman for all what, two, four million Muslims in this country?
The drive-by media did the same thing with the nags.
Do you know the nags, the the highest their membership ever was 250,000?
And yet, whoever the president of the Nags was was speaking for every woman.
And not because the Nags were oriented towards uh female and women's issues, they were liberals.
And the drive-by media is liberals.
And the same thing here with care.
I don't know, but care is care is trying to shut down right wingers.
Care is trying to silence anybody who criticizes them.
They had 29,000 members.
Nobody ought to give them a sweat.
Nobody ought to care what they say.
Well, when they speak up, networks panic.
When they offer complaints and they threaten action, uh some people this country bend over backwards, bend over forwards, grab the ankles, whichever is more convenient for them.
Twenty-nine thousand membership.
Now it's down to what?
1,700 paid members.
They've gotten people fired from radio talk shows.
They have pressured radio stations into silencing certain comments made about Islamo fascists that don't even live in this country.
Twenty-nine thousand members down to one.
I'm telling you, and it's the same thing with this this uh this this stupid bunch of idiots, the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
It's probably three idiots.
Three anorexic pallid idiots.
And they claim to represent the entire health industry, or they're given that kind of weight.
Meantime, this audience, 22 million, and we're learning, by the way, it's even larger than that.
I can't give away trade secrets.
But there's a revolutionary new way that radio ratings are being taken, and it's been tested in a couple cities, and we're finding in one in what Philadelphia, the Cume is twice what we thought it was.
Uh and so the the uh and they're gonna be it's gonna be a while before they roll this out into uh into all of the uh uh markets that are rated.
But it's it's gonna be even more than 20, 22 million people, and yet this audience is treated by the drive-by media as side show.
Uh not really worth listening.
But a group with 1700 paid members is given the weight by the drive-by media of a group that has gazillions of members worldwide.
I'm gonna tell you, and it's uh I'll with with so many other liberal groups like the nags, and like everything else, it's gonna be the same thing.
These are just hand-picked, cherry-picked organizations that the drive-bys and the liberals can cite, make them sound big as they can be to advance the leftist agenda.
Back in just a second.
By the way, uh the uh care people, the Council on Arab Islamic Relations, put out a little agenda item on their website uh calling for action to show the Washington Times what you think of its biased reporting.
And I have their little post here, and they don't disprove one fact in the Washington Times story.
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