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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 going to 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.
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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 5 o'clock.
And doesn't matter.
Some things have to remain private.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, well, let's start with what happened down in Broward County yesterday with those commissioners.
Here's the situation.
I don't know how you're going to miss this because it's all cable news.
It's been all over newspapers.
In fact, get this headline.
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 wire service runs that story.
Hurricane information may not reach wide audience because of rush.
I'm only on the highest rated station down there.
I mean, this is absurd.
Anyway, they're Broward County Commissioners.
Some of them were out of town, but the ones that were in town 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.
Broward County is worried that hurricane information news focuses on Dade County in Miami, not enough on Broward.
And so they made a deal with WIOD because of its reach and its coverage to anytime that the Broward County Commission decided to have a press conference on emergency status of hurricanes and any kind of weather calamity, that their press conferences would run in totality from front to back, from beginning to end.
All of a sudden, one of these commissioners, actually a babe, I finally saw her picture today.
Liberal babes are rare, and that's why they stand out.
This woman, at least a headshot, you don't know about the rest, but she's a babe.
Stacey Ritter is her name.
And she, what?
No, no, it's not.
No, it's in the Miami Herald.
That's not photoshopped.
Doesn't look like it's Photoshop.
I mean, at any rate, she said, you know what?
We don't want to cancel this contract here because we don't want to have our hurricane information on a station at Rush Limbaugh broadcast on all Sean Hannity.
You know, it's absurd on its face.
It's funny in a sense, but there are some real First Amendment concerns here, freedom of speech concerns.
It's typical of liberals who want to shut certain people up.
They talk about the fairness doctrine and so forth.
Anyway, we talked about this yesterday, and they were deluged.
They caved in a couple of hours.
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?
Well, 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 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 relief efforts in there soon enough.
And they tried to politicize that.
Now they're doing the same thing with this.
Now, 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.
Limbaugh Snub enrages fans, but is likely to fail.
And is likely to fail.
Not but enrages fans, but is likely to fail.
So on the air Wednesday, Limbaugh joked that under the deal, Broward County would have the power to preempt his midday broadcast.
I said, and 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, if they want to do a three-hour press conference, they can eliminate, preempt my show that day.
In fact, they can do it today.
They can schedule a press conference.
Not emergency information, but preparedness and things that you could do.
These people are blooming idiots.
There's a great line by the writer of this story, Amy Sherman, at the end of the story.
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?
Liberals will not tune to these station.
And everybody knows the IOD is the station you tune to.
I'm not going to listen.
I'm not going to listen to a hurricane report.
I tell you these people, I don't know what we'd do without them.
They really, I don't think, have any idea how silly they look.
Well, I'll tell you what's going to 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 1.
How to protect you.
I don't know how to protect your skin.
At any rate, I think what happened here is they got complaints from all over the country.
Even locally, I mean, some of the comments on the comments sections of the websites, the Miami Herald and the Orlando, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, were just priceless.
And you know, some of these people writing 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 program director, the operations manager down there is a guy named Ed Charles.
He said, look, for listeners who really can't stomach a right-wing hurricane report, 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 5 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 regarding Fred Thompson.
In an attempt to bash Thompson, the DNC posted the Fred Thompson Dummy's Guide to Diplomacy.
And some of the comments came in.
Democrats are 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 is intriguing to him.
Reagan Democrats is what they're afraid of.
So naturally, being the Castro Putin Chavez kindred spirits they are, they shut down the debate on the DNC website.
Something just like what the Lee Broward County Commission tried to do with emergency hurricane news.
Right-wing hurricane reports.
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More people than ever are driving alone to work as the nation's commuters bulk at carpools and mass transit.
Now, I know what you're saying.
Rush.
The Democrats have declared defeat.
They're 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're going solo.
We like our freedom.
We don't have backseat drivers.
We don't want to have a bunch of chit-chat in the 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 10 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 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 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 going to say?
What are all the politically correct 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.
Other researchers caution they don't yet know what proportion of carbon dioxide emissions are being offset by anthropogenic release of nitrogen.
Nitrogen is 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, 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, the 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 he just, I'm sure he has to laugh.
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 whatever damage we do, the world, nature finds a way to accommodate it, correct it, so forth and so on.
All right, let's get to the Democrats.
This is two things here.
Late yesterday afternoon, sometime last night, Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq.
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 Reid 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, the 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.
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 current life support status of the comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Act of 2007, otherwise known as the Amnesty Bill.
Now, what's especially egregious about 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, 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, or especially Bush League, excuse the term, because under traditional rules of civil-military relations, neither man can defend themselves.
They have to shut up.
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 surges 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 post story admits, yeah, right, Baghdad's a little quieter, but the violence has spread elsewhere.
Well, in Afghanistan, it's the same situation.
Kabul is pretty quiet, the capital there.
Other parts of the country, you know, where they're growing the poppies, and they still have some of the warlords out there.
Not as much order as there is in Kabul, but a stable capital is a great first step.
So you got Dingy Harry pronouncing it a failure.
Petraeus and Pace are incompetent.
Which leads me to say something.
I've held this in long enough.
I really suspect that these liberal tactics are damaging, maybe even killing the morale of our troops.
We hear that it does not undermine their morale.
They tell us they don't like hearing it.
They tell us it bothers them, but that doesn't affect their morale.
But who is the one telling us this?
Reed, Pelosi.
They get defensive.
Oh, no, no, we're not hurting morale out here.
No, we support the troops.
And who knows more about the troop morale than Reed and Pelosi?
Dennis Kucenich?
I just think this is the height of irresponsibility, and 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 29, Congress is lower than that.
So the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate go out and talk to these kooks, I mean, these fringe kooks, and just give them the red meat that they want to hear in order to shore up their own support.
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 who's incompetent.
The guy who can't run his own shop right now is Harry Reid.
The guy who cannot get anything done in the Senate is Harry Reid.
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 the war.
It is 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 more thing here about this nitrogen pollution drives trees to soak up more CO2.
There's a quote at the end of this story by who is this guy?
Magneni.
He's one of the researchers here.
Where's this guy?
Frederico, Federico Magneni.
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, sir.
Nature's doing it for you.
When you try and manipulate nature, it 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, Rush.
I believe that they don't want 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 discussing.
Well, I know that I know Tom Daschell.
You know, you may have more of a point here than I originally thought.
Remember, after the 2002 elections, Democrats were convinced they were going to take back the Congress.
Oh.
And then Tom Daschell called a press conference, said that experts at the Democrat National Committee had studied the audiences of popular radio hosts like me, and they were shocked to find that there were large numbers of Democrats listening.
Well, Rush, 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 I actually became informed to what I really wanted and actually became educated.
Well, that's great.
That's great.
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.
It's growing.
It's growing among the independents, the moderates, the communists, the socialists, and the liberals.
And I'll tell you that one other aspect about this business down in Broward County, I think they might be afraid that they might lose some people, but I don't think that's the major thing.
And you're right about it being fear, but they fear, well, you're actually, as I think about this, you're more and more right.
They are afraid of the viewpoints expressed by me being heard.
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, the pressure radio station to get rid of certain people, is indicative of who they are.
But these people down there, they all look, liberals are all dangerous, but these are the Keystone cops.
These are the small fry.
I mean, this is a county commission.
We're not talking big timers here.
These are wannabes.
They think they're big and important and so forth.
They're still liberals, and all liberals pose great threat to the future of the country.
No question of it.
But these are the small fry, and that's what makes this, to me, even a little bit more humorous.
Kimberly, thanks.
Ron and Bend, Oregon.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, you know, Rush, there's nothing sacrosanct 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 spent a lot of time in the Marine Corps and the Army, and I've 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-kissing.
Yeah, no, you don't die.
If you live by butt-kissing, you die of atal poisoning.
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 the best part.
Look, you may be more informed as a retired military, correct?
Correct.
Marine?
I started out in the Marines.
I retired from the Army Reserve.
All right.
Well, you may be more informed about this than I. My point here, I've met General Pace, and I was profoundly impressed.
I met him and Donald Rumsfeld the same night at a Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation dinner.
That's a charity that raises money for scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action worldwide.
And I'm on the board, and Rumsfeld was the featured speaker that night, gave a great speech, and that was where I first met General Pace.
And I'm telling you, I was profoundly impressed with him.
I've never heard the nickname Perfect Peter.
But let's say you're right.
Let's say he's self-focused on his career and so forth.
I've not heard anybody else say that.
But it doesn't matter.
Maybe he can be criticized.
But for people like the Democrat majority leader in the House and 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 structure prevents Pace and Petraeus from responding.
And I think it's not that I believe people are above criticism.
Lord knows.
That would cut off 90% of the speech that happens in this country.
But I'm saying there's got to be 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 sagging 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 not heard that from others, but I'm not, I don't even want to go there.
I don't want to debate whether he is or is not.
What Reed and Pelosi are doing in the middle of a war trying to secure defeat 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 going to pay a price for this.
They are paying a price.
The American people are fed up in mass with the United States Congress.
They're not doing anything on earmarks.
They're not doing, and in fact, they're still doing them.
They're trying to hide them.
And the Republicans are playing hardball on this and succeeding in trying to get this stuff into the sunlight.
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 who are leading American troops in battle while trying to secure the defeat of the mission of these troops is just beyond the pale, and they should pay a huge, huge price for it.
Janet in 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.
It's a column.
Yes.
So this is a local guy that writes about things going on in Iowa.
You got it.
Okay.
So it's an opinion piece.
Well, hell, everything in the news is opinion pieces.
Well, my mother-in-law sent it to me because she was shocked because he actually interviewed an chief warrant officer who is a Blackhawk helicopter pilot from Ames.
And it actually gives the pilot a chance to say what he thinks about the media.
And I was going to read a little bit of what he said.
No, no, no.
We don't.
I think, how long ago was this story printed?
This is, oh, she cut off the date, I think.
It's a few days or a week ago, so, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember this story.
This guy, the Blackhawk pilot, lays into the media.
He sure does.
He just rips them a new one.
And what does he say?
Just tell us in your own words.
Start reading.
You're not a highly trained specialist here.
You're going to 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 says we're treading water.
He says we continue to kick butt on missions and take care of each other, even though we know the American public and government does not stand behind us.
He says, hello, media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, and he goes on to say that you are the enemy's greatest weapon.
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 we're losing the war here at home.
No thanks to people like Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi.
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.
Yeah, I remember this, 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.
I don't either.
I don't blame him.
And, you know, it's rare for him to speak out like this, too.
Most of these guys for attribution are really not allowed to do things like this either.
He's evidently had it.
Well.
And I don't blame him.
My husband's former Army.
So I just, 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.
Oh, yeah.
Especially the Warren Register.
Incredible.
Yeah.
But we got it in the name of the.
Well, the only thing they care about is whether or not Hillary's going to show up with a straw pole.
All right.
I got to run, take a break here, 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.
Well, I was nervous.
I know.
That's right.
I know, and you're so sweet, so nice, that I decided to just waive the rule.
Thank you.
Janet is not in my top 10 names of all time.
I like the name, but I mean, I've got to limit it here.
Somebody's not in the top 10.
No offense, Janet.
That's my middle name.
What's your first name?
Janet.
My middle name's Evelyn.
Janet Evelyn.
Evelyn.
Evelyn.
Is that any better?
Is that your top name?
No, no, that's an 1800s name.
But Janet's cool.
I'm getting myself off.
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.
I 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 could lead to insubordination, insulation.
It could lead to subversion, any number.
It could lead to the truth getting into the country.
Hey, you talk about a bunch of mind-numb robots.
That's what citizens of North Korea are kept in that current state.
All right, there was a story in the Washington Times 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 1,700 in 2006.
As a result, the Muslim Rights Group's annual income from dues dropped from $732,000 in 2000 when the dues cost $25.
The total income last year was $58,750.
The group charged $35.
Now, forget for a moment their falling membership.
We'll deal with that in a minute.
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 highest their membership ever was, 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 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 if 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.
When they speak up, networks panic.
When they offer complaints and they threaten action, does some people in this country bend over backwards, bend over forwards, grab the ankles, whichever is more convenient for them?
29,000 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.
29,000 members down to what?
I'm telling you, and it's the same thing with 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 Philadelphia, the Cume is twice what we thought it was.
And so it's going to be a while before they roll this out into all of the markets that are raided.
But it's going to be even more than 20, 22 million people.
And yet this audience is treated by the drive-by media as a sideshow, not really worth listening.
But a group with 1,700 paid members is given the weight by the drive-by media of a group that has gazillions of members worldwide.
I'm going to tell you, and with so many other liberal groups like the NAGs, and like everything else, it's going to 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, the CARE people, the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations, put out a little agenda item on their website 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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