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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB network.
	I'm laughing because CNN has been running.
	I mean, we have such a job to do here on the first day of summer on the longest day of the year.
	We have such a job to do because CNN is running this story.
	When fish attack.
	And here's a guy on the upper Mississippi, they're reporter, and they're in a little boat and they're talking about how these these dangerous, these dangerous Asian carp, they've taken over.
	They've gotten so big, they're so voracious, they're they're so tasty.
	They're so they're so wonderful.
	Uh but when you put an electric charge in the river, this is what these guys are doing.
	They're putting an electric charge in the river, the fish jump out of the water and attack you.
	Well, we have such a job to do on the drive-bys.
	They have completely gone so crazy that it's now a problem that a new species of fish, apparently some escapee from the catfish farms or something, have uh gotten into the uh streams and uh and waterways of the Mississippi River and are are threatening to become great big sources of protein.
	And this is a problem.
	We have such a job to do, ladies and gentlemen, on this first day of summer.
	I hope it's wonderful where you are.
	It is wonderful here in San Diego at KOGO Radio.
	And uh I want to just we're we're gonna get right into it because there is similar news, quote unquote, that we have to combat.
	First of all, BBC reporting that fruit could make the next powerful fuel for your car.
	It's not enough that we're going to take corn that is supposed to be on the cob on my plate and turn it into by using uh more water than we have, more energy than you can imagine, and turn it into a fuel that doesn't burn as well as gasoline and put it into my car.
	It's not enough.
	Now they're going to take fruit.
	Here's the uh BBC environment reporter Matt McGrath, quote, the sugar found in fruit, such as apples and oranges, can be converted into a new type of low carbon fuel for cars.
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, before this gets too far, can we can we stop this?
	Fruit is for eating in the summer.
	Oranges and apples are wonderful.
	If you want to put something in your car, you know, what about sugar cane, which we wouldn't import from Brazil because uh there's about what, fourteen families that grow sugar in the United States that need to be protected?
	So we want to import sugar cane, which they're growing like crazy down in Brazil.
	No, no.
	We're gonna take your peaches and pears and and apples and oranges and turn them into gasoline.
	Yeah, because by the way, speaking of corn, and uh I I I was fascinated when uh, you know, we had the the the we we had the shows on Monday and Tuesday and um and we and and it were getting into uh this this issue about corn.
	And uh and uh the putting it into your gas tank.
	Turns out that uh the uh dry crops now in Illinois, they're threatened.
	There's no rain.
	And uh you can just imagine that the uh the price at the pump, as soon as we get this weather report, no rain, you know, for you should five years from now, no rain in uh Upper Illinois, the corn crop is threatened.
	You know, I could see the pump price going up for uh for ethanol.
	Man.
	You know, the New York Times today had to admit to American exceptionalism, and I want to call it out.
	This is a great country.
	We are unique people, we are unique in the history of humankind on this planet.
	For a variety of reasons, some of which I brag about and some of which I don't.
	But we are unique.
	And I want to brag about this one.
	Because this from the uh economic scene, New York Times Today, a wonderful story, quote, how the U.S. has kept the productivity playing field tilted to its advantage.
	Now, you in the New York Times, you cannot brag about America in an unfiltered way.
	The template is, of course, that we're always taking an unfair advantage.
	We're always exploiting.
	We're always doing harm as we gain, as we get more, uh as more people get a more productive lifestyle, uh, as the poor have big screen TVs and cars and are still, of course, whining about being poor.
	As we do all these things, we've tilted the playing field to our advantage.
	Here's the actual story, though.
	Um Americans' anxiety level over competitiveness With other nations has grown in recent years.
	A large number of Americans appear to believe the United States will not be able to succeed in an open world market, and they argue in favor of reducing our exposure to the outside.
	Now, why would Americans have an anxiety about our economy except for the New York Times and the stupid drive-by media telling us that the best economy in the history of humankind is somehow bad because Democrats aren't in charge.
	So the first paragraph is what they've produced.
	Anyway, they do go on, and this is interesting.
	The United States has kept its lead in what some economists have come to call the productivity miracle of the 1990s.
	Our productivity began to grow faster in the 1990s, the New York Times reports, than any other country.
	And this I love this quote.
	Quote, even though we were the richest to start with.
	Once again, you know, you've got to feel guilty.
	It's affluenza.
	You've got to feel guilty about being the best, the richest, the most productive.
	Otherwise, you know, it it isn't gonna work.
	If you're proud of that, wait a minute, you can't be proud of.
	Here's um Professor Van Rienen uh research, Americans do IT better.
	U.S. multin uh nationals and the productivity miracle, with uh Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Rafaela Sadan of the London School of Economics, John Van Renan at the London School of Economics has done this paper about what makes American economy so special.
	The professors found compelling evidence, says the New York Times, of American uh exceptionalism.
	Quote When Americans take over a business in Britain, for example, the business becomes significantly better at translating technology spending into productivity than a comparable business taken over by anyone else.
	Ladies and gentlemen, uh you live in an exceptional country, the most exceptional, the most productive the world has ever seen.
	So exceptional in the same edition of the New York Times, so exceptional that now dumpster diving, excuse me, freegans, uh have become a lifestyle that is so well off that they have a website, implying that they have computers.
	So not buying it by Stephen Kuritz is another article in the same edition of the New York Times quote.
	On a Friday evening last month, the day after New York University's class of 2007 graduated, about fifteen men and women assembled in front of Third Avenue North and NYU dormitory.
	They had come to take advantage of the university's end of the year move out when students discarded items are loaded into big green trash bins by the curb.
	NYU's student body is so affluent that their cast off supports a whole class of people.
	NYU's affluent student body says the New York Times makes for unusually profitable dumpster diving.
	So here was uh Ben Ibershoff, a dapper man in his twenties wearing two bowler hats, dug deep, and he unearthed the sharp television.
	Autum Brewster, 29, found a painting of a Mediterranean harbor, which she studied and handed down to another member of the crowd.
	Darcy Alia, 17-year-old high school student with a half-shaved head, was clearly pleased with a modest hall of what she called random housing stuff, a desk lamp, a dish rack, swift Swiffer dusters.
	This all part I'm sorry, I'm this is entertaining to me.
	Uh I am entertaining myself here.
	This is all part of this uh freegan movement.
	Uh they have a uh freecycle.org website.
	Uh they dress and cast off clothes, furnish their homes with items found on the street, live in places that are abandoned by others.
	Freegans, scavengers of the developed world, living ver very well by the crumbs of this most productive society in the history of the world.
	We now have an entire class of people maybe Jimmy, we got this wrong.
	Maybe we got this entirely wrong.
	You know, we we grew up in an era when, you know, we were taught you gotta you gotta work hard, uh you put yourself through college, you get a degree, uh four or four four jobs, uh uh you know, uh get married, buy a house, buy a car, raise kids, uh, they go to col Maybe we had this wrong in the first place.
	This is such a productive society, you don't need to do any of that.
	You simply stand by the right dumpster.
	Oh, and by the way, if you don't know where the right dumpster is, they have a dumpster directory.
	The freegan dot info's guide to recovering discarded waste in your community.
	Here it is.
	And oh, and I love the list because the list was prepared obviously by some of these uh freegans, and at the end of the list, where was that one you showed me that said uh and there are other ones that are uh there are other ones that are uh oh here it is.
	Oh, here's the one that's got different cities.
	San Francisco, Seattle, Orange County, etc.
	Then down at the end she says, this is one who assembled all of these places where you can get all this stuff, you know, free, hang out at the right time.
	She says, I have some more, but these are the two places I frequent most and have very good quality garbage.
	So this is uh the whole movement.
	We now are so productive that there is an organized movement that can live off just the crumbs of this society.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, we start uh this summer.
	We start this longest day of the year in celebration of a society so abundant, so productive, so much the wonder of the world in its economic prosperity, that huge numbers of people can make an entire lifestyle out of living free out of the cast-offs, out of the crumbs.
	The television sets, the home furnishings, the gourmet food.
	Uh I'm I'm stunned.
	I'm loving it.
	Um I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
	Let's take a break and come back.
	Your calls at 1800-282-2882 after this.
	More good news now.
	I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush today.
	More good news now uh in a couple of different places, and we're gonna get to it.
	One of them, of course, uh, and you may remember the um Hadithah massacre, Time magazine accusing the United States Marine Corps of a raid and and the deliberate murder of twenty-four Iraqi civilians.
	It wasn't true then.
	It's not true now.
	Some charges have been dropped, a polygraph has been passed.
	Information that the mainstream media is suppressing later in the program will get to it.
	The latest on the amnesty bill as well, now S 1639.
	And uh well, we're winning that one too, and I want to tell you the details of it later in the program.
	This was such a revealing moment yesterday, and uh I I just love it when stuff like this happens.
	The um Democrats, of course, elected uh to a Congress, by the way, which now has, according to Gallup this morning, a 14% approval rating.
	The Democrat-led Congress uh ridiculing George Bush as a lame duck, a lame dead duck, I believe was the phrase last used, uh because his uh approval rating is uh hovering in the high twenties, early thirties in most of the polls.
	The uh gallup approval rating for Congress, the Democrat-led Congress, 14%.
	Now, uh one of the main planks of the Democrat-led Congress was, of course, to clean up the culture of corruption.
	The ethics needed to be tightened up.
	We need full disclosure.
	Sorry.
	I have uh in front of me now the such a great article.
	I I mean, I just I treasure these kinds of.
	This should be framed.
	Quote a central plank of congressional ethics reform appeared in danger of collapse yesterday when government watchdog groups balked at disclosing their donors.
	Public citizen, common cause, and democracy twenty-one have made a s a uh crusade out of congressional ethics.
	They have demanded the creation of an office.
	Uh independent ethics panel to police the behavior of the house.
	They have lobbied extensively.
	And then when told that their ethical rules, what they're pushing for lobbying ethical rules would include full disclosure of all the people who give them money, they said no.
	We can't disc we can't disclose the people who give us money.
	Uh uh I mean, I mean, we're the ethical lobbyists.
	Uh you guys, you're the you're the evil uh uh people, and and and you need to disclose all the people give you money.
	But not us.
	You just love stuff like that.
	So the next time you give a couple of bucks to uh public citizen common cause and democracy twenty-one.
	Just know that they're going to protect uh like Alley Cats uh the right not to disclose your name.
	Um this is uh well a little California news here, and we we love this stuff out in California.
	Uh New York Post actually reporting it as well, so I'm apparently somebody else loves it.
	NBC is going to pay one million dollars for Paris Hilton's first after jail interview for the Today Show.
	This deal has infuriated ABC.
	They figured they had an inside with Barbara Walters and uh and Paris' uh mom Kathy, uh, which that back and forth went to went down right after the first couple of days she was in jail.
	Uh but Jeff Zucker at ABC knows Paris' father, uh Rick, and uh called him to make the uh to make the pitch.
	So apparently there was a lot of uh back and forth on that.
	Paris will now make a million dollars for describing uh what went on in jail.
	Some of the people that were caught up in the hypocrisy of this, however, uh are starting to get burned.
	Uh you may not know the story of the uh top city prosecutor in Los Angeles, the city attorney Rocky Delgadillo.
	People in LA know this all too well.
	Delgadillo, of course, in high dudgeon, uh critical to the max of um Paris Hilton getting uh early release, if you remember the big story of a couple of weeks ago.
	Early release after being uh driving with a suspended license and violating probation and all of that, and he was on the T every TV you could get in front of, you know, all I Al Sharpton trying to get out, you know, that this was a disaster for justice, and she should, and just because she's a celebrity and she should spend the time and blah da-da-da-da-da.
	Turns out, of course, Paris has spent more time in that jail than anybody else similarly filed, because we just don't jail people in California.
	This is a very unusual circumstance.
	Anyway, it turns out that the wife of the aforementioned prosecutor, Rocky Delgadillo, had to appear in court yesterday to plead no contest to driving without a valid license.
	It seems she had an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to appear in court on motor vehicle charges from the 1990s.
	It seems that in one of the instances, she was driving Delgadillo's city-issued car in violation of city rules.
	Oops.
	Now, uh, Mr. Rocky Delgadio, do you believe Michelle Delgadillo should also be spending the next 23 days in jail?
	We shall see more information to come.
	Big government has gotten too big in every possible way.
	I will try and every time I get behind this microphone to bring you yet another example of my firmly held belief in this regard.
	This from Wellington, New Zealand, AP reporting that New Zealand authorities have blocked a couple's application to name their newborn son for real.
	Number four, real.
	Now, whatever you think about parents who would name their son for real.
	Uh the uh government of New Zealand said that numerals are not allowed in a name.
	Names beginning with a numeral were against the rules, said the New England New Zealand uh Registry of Births, deaths, and marriages.
	You know what?
	I don't think government has a role in the naming of children whatsoever.
	Uh they didn't when uh Frank Zappa named his uh children, uh Moon and what was the other one?
	Um something, I forget.
	Uh we should have the right.
	Now, of course, these poor children, the rest of us are aghast when these poor children grow up, and I'm I'm so and so for real.
	Uh they'll have to live with that the rest of their life, and the rest of us are kind of critical, of course, of parents who would do that.
	But do you think government has a role in determining what you should name your children?
	I don't.
	Sorry, I don't.
	Uh the American Medical Asso um association, the AMA, is now going to vote that internet video game addiction is a medical Condition and should be treated.
	Internet video game addiction should be classified as a formal diagnosis.
	You see, we've gotten so healthy that now to keep themselves in business, they have to go out and find something.
	Because you know what's coming next.
	There's going to be a government funded program for recovery of people who are addicted to video games, and then of course there'll be a disability.
	And then you'll have to provide video games in your place of business for those who are addicted, for those who are ADA disabled by the fact that they are internet game addicted.
	I mean, what would Modern America be without this sort of news?
	I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh, taking your calls later in the program more on the Amnesty Bill, more on the presidential race.
	Got some fun stuff coming up.
	Stay with us on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	All right, welcome back.
	Now already the political process has responded to the Freegan dumpster diving culture that has sprung up as a result of our uh consumption uh prosperity.
	And uh Nancy Pelosi, as usual, is ahead of the curve.
	She has shown the leadership we have come to expect from her on these issues that are over the horizon.
	She has anticipated again how government uh needs to get out in front uh when when these kinds of cultural and social and economic uh trends uh open the door for uh more uh government uh involvement.
	In a speech yesterday, here's what Nancy Pelosi had to say.
	It is a health issue to clean up our environment.
	It's an economic issue for us to create good paying green collar jobs, green jobs.
	I know you're hearing, I think, from Van Jones on the subject, maybe you already have a new economy where again all kinds of people, young and old alike, can participate in this new economy.
	It is something that we must do.
	And America is lagging behind because the president doesn't accept the science.
	I'm sorry.
	You've got to love this stuff.
	Green collar jobs.
	This is a dumpster diving uh nation, and uh green collar jobs are coming your way because the the president just doesn't accept the science.
	All right.
	Anyway, you got uh this is just too good.
	Um now, even Maureen Dowd in the New York Times has uh has uh admitted in her analysis of the uh Clinton's take on the Soprano final episode and the selection of Celine Dion's tune for the campaign.
	Even even the liberals have gotten into why would Hillary outsource the song?
	Celine Dion is not only Canadian and a wonderful person, and I've been to her Vegas show and so forth, but uh Celine Dion is not only Canadian, but wrote the song as an Air Canada ad.
	It appeared first as an Air Canada ad.
	So here is Hillary and and and her uh somewhat uh bewildering to her followers uh outsourcing her campaign uh theme, which I don't know what this theme really means anyway.
	Here it is.
	I above the mountain or down in the dumpster.
	I can heal I hear voices.
	All right, so anyway.
	I'm telling you, the longest day of the year, the first day of summer is gonna be the funniest day so far of the entire year.
	Just going through just going through the news.
	Um this um presidential race, however, one more one more thing from George Bush yesterday, and I I don't even want to get back into Bloomberg uh and the vice president Schwarzenegger stuff or the bum bussing editorial in uh in uh U.S. News and World Report from uh Mortimer Zuckerman about uh about uh uh Bloomberg.
	But uh all of that I think I'm gonna pass on, but the Bush veto of the funding for embryonic stem cell research is going to be, contrary to what Nancy Pelosi just said, the real science.
	Uh Investors Business Daily getting into this today in some de uh some detail just to summarize it.
	The most exciting stem cell research now being done, combination of researchers in the United States at the Whitehead Institute for Medical Research and at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, coupled with Kyoto University researchers, they've come up with genes in mouse cells that are so-called pluripotent steam uh stem cells can be used to create virtually any type of cell in the body that would need to repair itself.
	We can grow it off the skin of mice.
	Now that is science, and that is progress, and that's what's going to help people, for instance, who have diabetes in a breakthrough clinical trial published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of Brazilian and American scientists had uh, for instance, successfully weaned uh diabetic uh patients off of insulin injections using stem cells from their own blood.
	That is science.
	That is progress.
	Embryonic stem cells haven't done anything.
	Embryonic stem cells are political agenda having to do with abortion.
	Bush has nailed it.
	He's entirely right, and that uh veto is going to be upheld.
	Now, uh the Democrats, however, have been at work and the United States Senate with their 14% approval rating, they're hard at work to lower it.
	They want to lower it from 14%.
	It's too high.
	And they've uh they're on the verge of doing it as soon as I tell you what they've done next.
	They've um passed an energy bill which will raise your gasoline price.
	Now I know all of America is now rejoicing.
	Hallelujah's are rising from every corner of our great dumpster diving land, because everyone knows we should be paying more for gas.
	Everyone knows this who've seen the Al Gore film.
	Everyone knows that you should be paying more for gas.
	Uh the supporters of the Senate bill uh say that it is, quote, far from perfect, but quote, a good start, unquote.
	The now get the name of this renewable fuels consumer protection and energy efficiency act of 2007 does not come but should come with a section prohibiting price gouging by Congress because a review of this bill,
	it is Senate Bill 1419, uh could increase the price of regular unleaded gas from the early national May average of three dollars fourteen cents to six dollars forty cents in two thousand sixteen.
	Heritage Foundation went into the uh gas tax uh aspects of this.
	And the the bad part about all of this is that instead of taking a position understandable to every American who has a car, uh, rich, poor, and uh dumpster diving, every American would understand that paying six dollars and uh forty cents for a gallon of gas is not progress and is not something you want to reward politicians with re-election.
	Instead of doing that, ranking Republicans, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Olympia Snow of Maine, Pat Roberts of Kansas concurred, twenty-nine billion dollars in new taxes on oil companies to subsidize wind and solar power, hybrid vehicles and biofuel.
	Now, once again, ladies and gentlemen, uh solar power is a good idea.
	I live in a place with a lot of sun, so I put solar power on my new house.
	It is a hundred percent solar power.
	Okay?
	Because it's a good idea.
	Uh my wife drives a uh very nice uh hybrid uh SUV that gets twenty-six miles to the gallon.
	I'm very happy about that, because if they're gonna go to six forty a gallon, I don't want to pay it.
	But you know what?
	Trying to get government to demand that you do the right thing according to them and have the Republicans sign off on it, the ones I just mentioned, of course, is beyond uh beyond belief and something that we just, you know, shouldn't put up with.
	Let's get some calls in here.
	Matt from Chicago, you're next.
	Matt, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hey, uh, I play a lot of video games, and if it were possible to get addicted to video games, I'd be a good candidate.
	But the way I see it, you know, you can smoke crack and you can get addicted to crack, but you're never going to become a better crack smoker.
	You know, with video games, you're going to at least develop some amount of skill.
	And if you play it to the extent that it has a detrimental effect to your life, then that just means you don't know how to know how to manage your time.
	That's all I have.
	Well, A, you don't have a life.
	Uh but B, it yeah, it sounds mad like you're in denial.
	I might be wrong.
	You see what I'm saying?
	I mean, it sounds like uh you're justifying this.
	Uh how many how many hours a week do you think you play video games?
	Oh, probably ten.
	How many?
	Ten.
	Ten.
	Yeah, I watched I I w I played uh video games pretty much instead of watching TV.
	You know, and then you know, I'll go on YouTube and look at some videos there, but yeah, I'd say ten.
	And if you say that's not having a life, I mean that's fine.
	But I I enjoy it.
	I think it's a lot of fun.
	No, 10 is not excessive.
	I I think, particularly if you're substituting one addiction for another, uh, as in going away from the TV.
	But see, I'll all I uh Matt now uh all I'm saying to you is it's kind of dangerous to get out there and deny you have an addiction when you know that there are politicians today who are asking their staffs to come up with some bills uh to combat the growing addiction of video games with of course more federal programs and more federal money.
	I mean, you're not gonna fit the template here, Matt.
	Yeah, that is a little ridiculous.
	I actually should put it they should put that in they should put that money into teaching people how to structure their time before anything else.
	You know, if you have if you may if you if you play so many video games and you have like a time management problem, you still might need to see a psychiatrist, but I don't think video games themselves are the issue.
	I think that's treating the symptom more than anything else.
	All right, Matt, we're trying to get to the heart of the problem.
	I appreciate the call and I appreciate your listening.
	Taking a short break now in the Rush Limbaugh program.
	I'm Roger Hitchcock in for Rush and back after this.
	Welcome back to the Rush Schlimbaugh program here at the EIB network.
	Uh Rush, of course, back on uh Monday, and uh what a pleasure it is to fill in and take your calls.
	I tell you, this um business of uh revealing your donors, uh, which uh the ethical types, uh common cause and so forth wanted to impose on Congress, but not on themselves.
	Uh it should be imposed on the Center for American Progress and Free Press.
	A the Center for American Progress and Free Press, which is anything but any of those words.
	Their new report, the structural imbalance of political talk radio, suggests right wing domination of talk radio and how to end it.
	The right wing domination of talk radio and how to end it, and they deny the two common myths, as they put it, offered to explain the imbalance in talk radio.
	The repeal of the fair fairness doctrine, and number two, simple consumer demand.
	No, that's not the root cause of the problem.
	They say here's the root cause.
	Now, if you can understand this paragraph, you've been recently in public school.
	Quote.
	Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules, including the requirement of local participation in management.
	Unquote.
	The best I can do, interpreting this for you, is that they believe that owners of stations should not make decisions on what's on their station.
	They should include government bureaucrats who are reliable liberals, and uh community activists who are reliable radicals, and that what that public trustee concept then would naturally lead to the kind of bias that uh informs us, for instance, at MPR.
	So there you go.
	The joint report by the Center for American Progress and Free Press.
	Oh my.
	Uh anyway, let's take uh Vincent in Norfolk, Virginia.
	Hi, Vince.
	Hi, Roger.
	It's great to be on.
	Thanks for calling.
	What's up?
	Do a good job filling in for Rush, by the way.
	Appreciate it.
	Um my comment was uh about Nancy Pelosi saying that we lag the world in environmental protection.
	Yeah.
	Um who do we lag behind?
	I mean, if anything, our our kind of Zimbabwe.
	We spearhead environmental protection.
	This is the cleanest country in the world.
	You do any traveling whatsoever.
	I mean, anywhere in the world, and I'm not gonna call out other nations, but uh I mean uh uh Canada probably is uh cleaner because there's one person for every ten thousand square miles.
	I mean, you know, I mean there's fewer people in Canada than in California.
	But you know, you can go to most other parts of the world, and you go, and and you you have a reaction to wow, it's really dirty here.
	The air's really bad here.
	The water really doesn't taste too good here, all that stuff, and there, you know, and you're in uh civilized uh nations of Europe and Asia and so forth.
	You're absolutely right.
	This is the cleanest country in the world.
	Yep.
	Amazing.
	Then we have green collar green collar jobs.
	Hey, Vince, thanks for the call.
	Uh look, because of the best economy in the history of the world because of our productivity as a model of the world, uh, and even advanced countries cannot understand how c companies taken over by uh Americans do so much better than similar companies run by other folks.
	And this in the New York Times of all places today.
	You have to be blamed for everything else.
	I mean, I'm reading the paper today, Palestinians killing Palestinians.
	That's our fault.
	And even Jimmy Carter thinks so.
	It's our fault.
	Uh Darfur.
	People are dying.
	Uh the uh United Nations Secretary General says your SUV is responsible.
	And I'll get to that in a minute.
	Oh, and uh Daniel Pearl beheaded.
	Angelina Jolie now does a movie called The Mighty Heart.
	In that movie, it's the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan that beheaded Daniel Pearl.
	Not the seventh century mentality of uh the folks who actually did it.
	Yikes.
	Anyway, back to the uh United Nations.
	I gotta get this in because this is good stuff.
	Um let's see, what is this guy's name?
	I don't think any of us know this guy's uh this guy's name.
	Oh, uh Ban Ki moon.
	Ban Ki Moon is the new UN Secretary General.
	He is blaming the Islamo fascist genocide in Darfur on global warming.
	He said, before Americans had SUVs, before we had global warming caused by the West, we had enough uh which altered the monsoon cycle of the Indian Ocean, which is causing famine and drought in Darfur, which is causing people to fight and die over food.
	Uh we had uh water and the uh Muslim tribes uh and the and the in Darfur and the Muslims in in in the rest of the country in Sudan got along very well.
	It's the lack of food and fighting over water that has led to the slaughter of Darfur.
	Uh Ban Ki moon, just so you know that we know that you know that you're lying.
	Um here's what it is.
	The Arab Muslims in Sudan are killing the non-Arab tribal Muslims because they're not Muslim enough.
	They are killing them in the name of Islam.
	They are killing them in the same way they'd like to kill all the Jews and all the Christians because murdering in the name of Allah is a part of their religion, as they see it.
	It is undeniable that famine takes place mostly because the farmers of Darfur have been displaced from their farms and they have been killed and run out to refugee camps in neighboring countries by the Islamo fascists of the Sudan regime, uh aided and abetted by the Chinese who want the oil out of Sudan.
	Did you think we didn't notice all of that?
	Ban Key Moon?
	I'm Roger Hitchcock, taking a short break on the Rush Limbaugh program back after this.
	Coming back uh in the next hour, because we're a little late here.
	I'm gonna uh get into the uh Iraq war.
	There is some great news coming out of the Iraq War for those of us who want to win the war.
	And also some great news for those Marines, I think, personal opinion, wrongly accused in the so-called Haditha massacre by Time magazine by a reporter I'm going to name, and I'm going to show you how he got duped by our enemy who knows perfectly well that their biggest ally in the United States is the United States media and knows how to manipulate that media so that a massacre.
	A la me lie.
	Remember that from the Vietnam era, me lie.
	That's the playbook they're working from.
	They have a playbook of how to get the media to accuse our military of atrocities when they don't happen.
	And now it's coming out.
	How it happened, how it happened, and how we've been duped by our own media who have been played perfectly by the enemy is what's coming up in the next uh hour.
	And then some more, if you needed more, proof of where reporters' political allegiances actually lie.
	That's coming up in the next hour.
	And uh we uh we continue to be, ladies and gentlemen, in this second hour, the most productive economy in the history of humankind.

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