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July 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, you know, on Tuesday on this program, discussed in some detail, and I think I was a little too lofty about this.
I'm a little too serious about this.
Sometimes I tend to get very philosophical and serious.
And this was the story about the memory drug.
They're working on this drug that can wipe out traumatic memories.
And I got very, very deep, I think, in discussing this in opposing it.
And I thought it was a more practical way to explain why this would not be a good thing.
And it's very, very simple.
If they develop the memory drug and you prescribe it or get it prescribed, you take it, I mean, all kinds of, you know, bad things.
You could end up marrying and divorcing the same person over and over again.
That's, I think, a simpler way to look at the, and notice I didn't say marry and divorce the same woman over and over.
I said the same person because it works for all.
You should have seen Dawn's face in there.
Every time I bring this stuff, a little grimace that eventually breaks out into a smile.
Let's see.
Would you believe it if I told you there's a story here that a federal program has failed?
That's not news.
Listen to this.
This is from Panorama City, California.
Federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education.
Fresh carrot, celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit.
Hundreds of, well, you better be careful of that.
It might spire other things.
Let's see.
Billion dollars on nutrition education for fresh carrot and celery snacks video of dancing fruit.
Hundreds of hours of lively sessions about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an AP review of scientific studies examining 57 such nutrition programs already in existence found mostly failure.
No, say it ain't so.
Big government programs fail.
That's right.
Just four of the 57 showed any real success in changing the way kids eat or any promise as weapons against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working.
Said Dr. Well, that's right.
Increase the budget and need more programs.
If it's like Soviet Union didn't work because we didn't give it enough time and they went into too much debt.
If we just been a little bit more patient, all these federal government programs, they're underfunded and they don't have enough redundancy in them.
The results have been disappointing, to say the least.
Last year, a major federal pilot program offering free fruits and vegetables to screw children showed fifth graders became less willing to eat them than they had been at the start.
Apparently, they didn't like the taste.
Well, why should that matter to liberals?
Liberals, they want you to do what they think you ought to do, whether you like it or not.
And particularly, kids.
Kids are running, inmates are running asylum.
I mean, if you really believe this stuff is good for kids, you force it down their throats.
You inject them with a syringe with the nutrients if you have.
You really think that it's the thing to do.
In Pennsylvania, researchers went so far as to give prizes to screw children who ate fruits and vegetables.
That really helps.
That bribes them.
That worked while the prizes were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later, the kids had reverted to their original eating habits.
Soda pop and chips.
Really?
How can we expect otherwise?
Most kids learn what tastes good and what tastes nasty by their 10th birthdays.
If we don't reach a child before they get to puberty, it's going to be very tough, very difficult to change their eating behavior, said Dr. Robert Trevino of the Social and Health Research Center in San Antonio.
But this story would not be complete without the obligatory women and minorities hardest hit.
And it hasn't.
Poorer kids are especially at risk because unhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available than healthy food.
Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised to get their own snacks.
Well, the government can fix that.
Low-income neighborhoods have fewer good supermarkets with fresh produce.
See how we hate the poor.
See how we discriminate.
And if mom can't find tomatoes in her local grocery store, nothing's going to change.
Oh, so now we're even depriving poor neighborhoods of tomatoes in the stores.
What a bunch of rotten evildoers we are.
Calorie burning has become the province of the wealthy.
Said, who said this?
Some guy named Zeitler.
I fear that what we're going to see is a divergence of healthy people and unhealthy people.
Basically, like everything else, it costs money to be healthful, healthy.
So now we're even dividing along health lines.
We've got racial barriers, we've got sexual gender barriers, we've got ideological barriers, and now we're going to be the healthy and the unhealthy.
All because the federal program didn't work.
Now, about this live aid stuff, I've got a couple stories here.
They're just hilarious.
But the real question is, you have to look at the lineup, and I don't see any big name.
Now, it's Saturday, and NBC's got three hours of prime time telecasting of this thing to do Saturday night.
And I don't know what they're going to do to fill it.
It's a whole 18-hour extravaganza, and I think on Bravo, which they own, NBC Universal owns, I think they're going to do the whole thing.
Their HD channel, Universal HD, is going to have significant coverage.
But I mean, I thought this is the most important issue of our lifetime.
Global warming, climate change, saving the planet.
Where are the big names?
I mean, the No Nukes concert had a better lineup than this.
LiveAid had a better lineup than this.
This is pathetic.
I mean, where is Bruth Springsteen?
Springsteen, nowhere around.
Where's Joan Baez, well-known communist sympathetic, anti-sympathizer, and anti-tax crusader?
Where's Eric Klappner?
I mean, Annie Linux will sign up for anything is not on this thing.
If Annie Linux is not on the bill, then there's trouble.
And the question is, is this a rejection of gore or is this a rejection of the issue?
People just not thinking it's a big deal.
There is this young 21-year-old group.
Let's see, what's the name of this bunch?
The Arctic monkeys.
You know, when I saw this headline, Arctic monkeys shiver at live earth hypocrisy.
I'd never heard of the Arctic monkeys.
So I was thinking, monkeys in the Arctic.
And I was picturing monkeys shivering.
And the headline made no sense, all because of my ignorance, naivete, but the name of this group.
But this group, the Arctic monkeys, they don't even understand what the big deal is.
Why do people listen to us?
We're 21-year-old kids.
We're a rock band.
We don't know anything more than anybody else does.
Why do people listen?
What is a rock concert going to do to this?
I've told you, people, and there's a companion story to this later on in the stack.
I have told you, when society appears to be crumbling from cultural and moral rot and decay, eventually a generation is born that gets old and sees what it's about to inherit as adults and says, uh-uh, we ain't putting up with this.
And we're not going to live this way.
We're not going to live the way our parents did.
We want a little more civility and solidity in our lives.
I frankly don't remember a young punk rock group, 21-year-old kids, having this kind of maturity about the political nature of what they do.
I'll give you all the details of this.
And there's also a funniest hell still.
Wembley Stadium is where the London venue is.
And PETA is all over them not to serve hot dogs and hamburgers, no meat, during the concert there.
And of course, others are worried about the carbon footprint that the whole thing is going to make and how to offset it, which, of course, isn't a problem.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll come back and get started with all the rest of that and whatever else is in the stacks of stuff right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbo, a man running America.
Sometimes a, what was it?
I keep forgetting the phrase here.
Well, generator simplicity, but the thing the Washington Post called me, there's something renegade off the reservation, oh, that wasn't the phrase, member of the untamed member of the GOP message machine.
Yes, occasionally untamed member.
Anyway, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, Live Earth concerts on Saturday. meant to spur action to fight global warming, must first tackle another environmental hazard, and that's the garbage and thousands of tons of greenhouse gases caused by the event.
John Rego, the environmental advisor for the eight concerts meant to rock the world around the clock on a rolling basis from Sydney to New York and organized by Al Gore, said, we want to set a new global standard for dealing with waste and recycling.
Well, then don't create any.
Don't do the series of concerts.
It's very simple.
Says here that Live Earth needs to lead by example to convince people to change their lifestyles in the long term to confront a climate crisis caused by rising emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels.
Concert props may live on long after stars such as Madonna, Shakira, and Bon Jovi have left the stage.
Live Earth has to be cautious.
It says it's quite common here for these things to go out of control.
And they've got green guidelines for Live Earth.
Say that staff ground travel be by hybrid or high-efficiency vehicles where possible.
At typical concerts, more than half the greenhouse gases are emitted by thousands of people traveling to the venues by bus, train, subway, or car.
Those totals can only be estimated.
It's a dilemma.
For Live Earth, they have to create carbon to save carbon.
Now, that's just insane.
They have to create carbon to save carbon.
That's the whole point of why this is a waste of time.
A bunch of hypocrites.
I mean, if you want to have a concert, go do the concert.
If you want to have a worldwide series of companies, don't sit there and say that you're setting new standards for carbon emissions or that you're even going to have one iota's worth of an effect on the climate of the planet.
It's a dilemma.
They have to create carbon to save carbon.
Michael Buick is the spokesman of ClimateCare, which helps invest in clean energy to offset greenhouse gases.
This is so typical of these proponents.
They go out and they don't reduce their emissions at all.
They don't reduce the amount they pollute.
They just, well, I'm going to go invest in these companies that plant trees and I'll make up for it.
That way, while demanding everybody else reduce their lifestyles and change the way they live.
Now, let me give you the details about this group, the Arctic Monkeys.
They became the latest music industry stars.
They're not the only ones, by the way, to question whether the performers taking part in this whole thing are suitable climate change activists.
He said that Matt Helders is the drummer.
It's a bit patronizing for us 21-year-olds trying to start to change the world.
This group is not on the bill, by the way.
The Arctic Monkeys are not going to be on the bill at any of Al Gore's concerts.
He was talking, the drummer was talking to the French news agency, said, look, when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for stage lighting, I think it'd be a bit hypocritical.
And he's exactly right.
This is a 21-year-old who's got more smarts on this than Al Gore does.
The bass player, Nick O'Malley, said, and we're always jetting off on airplanes.
Who are we to be telling people about cutting back and global warming?
Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield, this is where they're from, and a big flood there.
It's like, who cares what we think about what's happening?
There's more important people who can have an opinion.
Why does it make us have an opinion?
Because we're in a band.
Now, this group, the Arctic Monkeys, their first record was the fastest-selling debut album in British history.
And they're going to have their own tour, Asia, Australia, the next few months and be flying all over the place.
But they're not the only ones to take a cynical view of this.
Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials.
The car-loving rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year.
Bob Geldof got in a public spat with Al Gore, Geldof from the Boomtown Rats, and he got this whole thing started with Live Aid to stop the famine in Ethiopia, which, of course, was not based on anything that he could fix with a concert, but it made everybody feel good.
Geldof said, Why is Gore actually organizing these things?
It doesn't make any sense.
Roger Daltrey in a who told a British newspaper in May that the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert.
The Pet Shop Boys, a group from the 80s, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role models.
And I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't.
This is unheralded.
This is unput together a politically oriented rock concert, and the biggest of the big are clamoring to get there.
You can't keep them out of there.
And they are all wanting you to know how serious they are and how helpful this event is and how important it is to the virtual survivability of mankind and our planet and so forth.
Now you've got the Arctic Monkeys, a couple 21-year-olds.
You've got Roger Daltry.
You've got Bob Geldo.
Geldof may be just jealous here that Gore is encroaching on his whole theme territory.
Who knows?
These guys all have performers' egos.
When you have a performer's ego, you're susceptible to envy and jealousy.
But I mean, this is pretty new for me for these people to be coming out and opposing this and saying it's worthless and that we're a bunch of hypocrites if we go up and make statements with all the power that we use putting on these concerts.
Where's Barbara Streisand?
Where is Springsteen?
Where are the big names?
Where are the political activists that you would expect to be on stage preaching to everybody?
And I'm just curious: is it a rejection of the issue or is it a rejection of Al Gore?
Quick timeout, folks.
Back after this.
I want to demonstrate for you what a bunch of genuine morons all of these people.
The environmentalist wackos, the animal rights people, the militant vegetarians, all of these groups supposedly oriented toward saving the planet and saving it.
They're just a bunch of libs.
These organizations are just different names to make it look like they have a specific instance or issue that they're pushing.
But they're all libs and they all want to run your life.
They all want to control you.
Basically, miserable people haven't amounted to anything.
They want to share their misery with everybody else and try to make as many other people miserable as possible.
And then they get obsessed with the notion that they're better than everybody else because they care more.
And they wear all these ribbons, the AIDS ribbon, blue ribbon for what are all these different colored ribbons.
And by wearing those ribbons, they're saying, I care more than you do.
I'm a better person because I care more.
So, PETA, people for the ethical treatment of animals, is all over the organizers of Live Earth at Wembley.
They said, don't sell hot dogs.
Don't sell any meat.
Don't sell hamburgers in the concession stands.
Don't sell any of that stuff.
PETA campaigner Yvonne Taylor said it'd be hypocritical if the damage caused by the industry was overlooked at the concert.
And she said that the group had written to the managing director of Wembley's Stadium urging him not to sell meat at the event.
And then she said this: she said, there's no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.
Now, that's a pretty broad statement.
Let's examine.
If that's true, what does that tell us about them?
There's no such thing as a meat-eating environment.
Now, what she means, I'm sure that some of you out there care about the planet, and you're not filthy, and you're not polluters, and you eat beef, but that's not what they mean by environmentalists.
By environmentalists, they mean wacko activist socialist types that are committed to running as many people's lives as possible so as to ruin as many people's lives as possible so that they can share having their own lives ruined with others whose lives they do ruin.
It's just misery loves company with these people, but they're dangerous because they're unrelenting and they don't work.
They fundraise.
They live off the donations of others who are simply giving them money to shut them up and to be feeling good about themselves at the same time.
We're saying it's all a very good cause, and obviously we're very supportive of live earth, but one thing seems to have been missed, which is that even the UN says that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined.
Well, if that's the case, then your problem is with God.
Oh, sorry, they don't believe in that God.
So, no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.
Could we then assume that every vegetarian is an environmentalist and is a wacko environmentalist?
Could we assume that's well, I don't know.
She's the authority here, Snerdley.
You may have anecdotal evidence to support the contention that vegetarians are not environmentalist wackos, but she's the authority.
You're not, even though you're not one.
So I love it when these people open up.
I love it when they tell us who they are.
To the phones, Ben in Bakersfield, California.
Glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
My life is complete.
I'm talking to the big one.
Well, I appreciate that.
I thank you very much, sir.
My mind, when you first talked about all the trash, went to Dan's bake sale.
Absolutely.
There wasn't any trash at Dan.
Wait a second.
No.
I'm saying that.
There wasn't any trash at Dan's Bake.
Well, a couple people, maybe.
That's what I'm saying.
It's the complete opposite.
Oh, I misunderstood you.
They made no.
Yes, they cleaned up.
There wasn't any.
They cleaned up after themselves.
Absolutely right.
Just like the scouts we earned in Scout, you need the place cleaner than you found it.
Right.
Well, you know, it's a good point.
If you want to save the environment and do a concert, make sure the audience is conservatives.
There you go.
And you know, and we are the ones, by the way, who are mostly accused of not caring and being filthy polluters and using more than our fair share of all these resources.
A good point.
Great reminder to I appreciate that, Ben.
This is Bill in Redding, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
How do you do, sir?
I guess I'll go straight to my point.
I'm taking issue, although I'm against the live Earth concerts in general.
I don't agree with you when you say there aren't any big performers there.
And what I'm basing on is I'm looking at an email ad from XM, who's broadcasting concerts.
And I see some names that I think are big on there.
Like in London, I see Genesis, Duran Duran.
Has beens.
Has beens.
This is the whole point.
There has beens.
There may be good groups, but these are not current.
There has been.
Duran Duran, their career bombed out when they sang View to a Kill, the theme song of that James Bond movie.
Okay, keep going.
This is interesting.
Who else on the list?
Okay.
The police, Dave Matthews, Ludacris.
Okay, wait, the police.
Yeah.
They broke up years ago.
The police is basically one guy, Sting.
Yeah, but Sting Sing is the first thing.
This is Sting.
I know Sting got it back together with it, but it's not lightning fires out there.
You're talking.
Will you hang on just a second?
What are you groaning about in there?
Snirdley is sending me facial.
There has-bens.
No.
Snurdley's a music aficionado.
He kind of agrees with you here, Bill.
But come on, you know, you get going the list.
Keep going.
You said Dave Matthews and Ludacris.
Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson.
Yep.
Yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
I mean, we're still not here to the A-list.
Well, to me, I mean, I disagree with most of the A-list.
Where's Paula Abdul?
How can you have Kelly Clarkson without Paula Abdul?
And Simon Kroll, where are the big names in music these days?
Where are the heavy hitters?
Where's Dylan?
Is Paul Dill still a big name in music?
I thought you just did whatever that show is.
American Idol.
Yeah.
The Latvipe, which I can't understand why they're a big group, but I see them on commercials all the time.
Yeah.
Bon Jovi.
Did I mention that?
Bon Jovi.
I mean, Bon Jovi's pretty biggest name on the list, as far as I'm concerned.
The most relevant.
I mean, a guy owns a little football team.
He shows up at NFL concerts.
He's a good little activist out there.
That's what I'm talking about.
Where are these other guys?
Where are the Streisands?
Where are the Springsteens?
Where are the Save the Earth crowd?
I mean, where are the people that really be trumpeting the political message of this whole concert idea?
Oh, I see.
So you're saying that these groups I'm mentioning aren't ones that are really.
Not only that, I'm just saying that, you know, the Andy Nuke concert had a bigger playlist than this or Playbill.
And this is a whole bunch of different concerts.
And I just, I just, I don't see the big players, the big activists.
Well, I see some big players now in the big activists.
For example, consult your list there, Bill, and tell me if you too is there.
I don't see you too.
You don't see U2.
Who's the front man for you too?
Bono.
Bono.
And what's Bono trying to do?
Single-handedly get other people to save Africa.
And Africa's.
What's your real criteria on what are big names of the concert?
Do they have to be the activists also?
It's an activist concert.
The whole point of this is activism.
Why do this?
Where's Willie Nelson?
There's a guy.
Where's Willie?
Farm Aid?
All these things.
Where's Paul McCartney?
Where's Ringo Starr?
I mean, they may as well go out and try to find Jim Morrison to show up.
Uh-huh.
Okay, no, there's nothing.
Come on, baby.
Light my friends.
To me, those are still big groups.
Well, you know, music is a funny thing.
There's no right or wrong in it.
I mean, you might like Chinese opera and I don't.
It doesn't make your tastes bad or wrong.
It just makes them different than mine.
So if you're going to assign B-list talent as A-list talent, then they are A-list to you.
That's one of the great things about it.
Everybody's a critic.
And look, and I got nothing against Genesis.
We play a lot of Genesis songs in our bumper rotation here.
Well, I like them too, except I like them better with Peter Gabriel and Peter Gabriel's not with them.
Yeah, but Phil Collins is still with him.
Yeah, the commercial guy, which I look at.
You call here and gripe at me.
Now, you're complaining that all these guys are too commercial.
Why did I say I was complaining?
I was just disagreeing for discussion.
Now, you're complaining.
I asked you if you like Genesis.
I asked you if you like Genesis and Phil Collins.
A little too commercial for that.
I don't know how well you asked me.
I deal with whiners and complainers all day.
It's part of my job.
I can spot them.
You think that's whining and complaining?
Hey, you asked me, I'm pinned.
I gave it to you.
All right, it's an observation.
I'll grant you that.
But look, are you going to watch it?
That's the point.
Probably not.
Not that big a deal.
Why aren't you going to watch it?
Why aren't you going to watch it?
Because the talent's not big enough.
That's why you're not going to watch it.
It's going to make better things to do.
That's why.
Good.
That means you have better things to do than be preached to as well.
Well, look, Bill, I'm glad you called.
Thanks.
I got to run and take a quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Maybe I spoke too soon, ladies and gentlemen.
I've just been pointed to a story on the UK Guardian that Paul McCartney is thinking about closing the London show at Wembley Stadium.
He hasn't decided yet.
It's true that Paul has been asked to take part.
Source revealed.
He said that the cause is very close to his heart.
He's very impressed with what Al Gore's been doing to highlight it, but he's still deciding whether he can do it.
Whether he can do it at the moment, it's two days from now.
He wants to see if somebody shows up.
Nerdly says he's got a new album out.
He'll be there.
He's going to close the show.
If he doesn't do it, they're going to get Madonna to close the show.
But Madonna is not even known as, I mean, when you think about Madonna, I mean, the last thing you think about Madonna is green in terms of environmentalist type credentials.
How many houses does she own?
She owns seven or eight houses, stables, horse manure all over the property.
I know it's fertilizer, but at any rate, so I don't know what point.
Why is McCartney waiting to decide two days away?
Could be a matter of money.
Could be he's just not thrilled with the bill and doesn't want to be.
If he shows up, he would be the only big name there, making these other guys look like sandbox beginners.
Mike in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Maja Rushie.
It is an honor.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Speaking of manure and Madonna, I wanted to refresh your memory.
I don't know how many years ago it was, but the Dave Matthews band's tour driver dumped their chemical toilet in the Chicago River and was caught doing it.
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
They dumped on their tour bus, right?
Exactly right.
And I think it came down on top of some tourists in fucking one of them sightseeing boats.
I remember that story.
Now, that's exactly right.
Dave Matthews band, they dumped a toilet in the tour bus, all the refuse in the toilet, and it had some tourists.
They were spotted.
Speaking of it, where's Chrissy Hind?
Now, I know she lives in London.
Where's Chrissy Hind and the Pretenders?
I mean, it's an activist.
Joins these causes, joins left-wing causes.
And big animal person, too.
That may be why she's not there because they might be serving meat at Wembley Stadium.
Mike in Riverside, California, thank you for waiting.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush Dittos from the Left Coast.
My question is: I'm wondering if we can expect a visit from Reverend Sharpton out in California advocating no preferential treatment and jail time for Alcore's son, like he did for Paris Hilton.
I don't think Al Gore's son got preferential treatment.
He was booked.
He was charged with what he was charged with, that he had to make bail or $20,000 of $25,000.
I think his sister came in, and he's got a court date coming up.
So it's a little premature.
I'll tell you, there'd be no reason for the Reverend Sharpton to show up.
You know, this is a, it's really a sad thing.
I hope that they're finally able to get Al Gore III some focused and serious treatment because this can be, it can be beaten.
It can be done.
But one of the things that I think, and I probably even shouldn't have pined this, one of the things that the problem here is that public figures think they put obstacles in their way.
They think it's much tougher to deal with things like this because they're public figures.
It doesn't matter.
It has to be dealt with and there are ways to do it.
And, you know, when it's kids, you know, I tend to put myself in the shoes of the parents on something like this.
And having been through this myself, I can't laugh at it.
And there really isn't anything funny about it.
And you just hope that they're able to put away whatever, brush away whatever the obstacles to getting serious treatment started here because it's, you know, I'll just tell you this, folks.
And I haven't spoken much about this for a host of reasons.
I plan to someday, but I haven't been able to do so yet.
But I think I have mentioned that the five weeks I spent, but I saw the other day where somebody reported I went to Sierra Tucson and the rehabilitation.
It's not where I went.
I went to a place called the Meadows.
And it was, for a host of reasons that I don't have time to delve into now, it was the most valuable five weeks of my life in terms of understanding various aspects of why I was choosing things I was choosing and doing things I was doing.
And just, it was miraculous.
And I was saying to myself the whole time I was there, well, I wish this would have happened to me when I was 15, 18, 20.
This is valuable for people who don't have addiction problems, I think.
So Al Gore III is, based on my experience, is prime candidate to have this help him immensely for the rest of his life.
And it's all a positive if you take it seriously, go in there and roll up your sleeves and get into it.
It's not hard physically.
You just have to get out of denial and you have to be willing to be honest with yourself about who you are and why you're where you are and how you want to change it.
But boy, if you can pull that off and do it, it is one of the greatest things that could ever happen to him.
So I hope Sharpton does stay out of it.
And I hope a lot of people don't start making fun of the kid here, the young man, because you put yourself in the shoes of the parents here.
And the kid's not a political figure.
He's not a public figure.
He's trying to live a life of anonymity.
In fact, I got a quick timeout here.
We'll take it and be back after this.
Stay with us.
There is one thing about the Al Gore III story that puzzles me.
All these people pushing these hybrids, what have I not been telling us?
How in the world do you get a Toyota Prius to go 100 miles an hour without a cliff to go over?
I mean, this is the first time I have ever heard that one of these hybrids will do 100 miles an hour.
And if it will, what's the point?
How much fuel are you burning at 100 miles?
How much damage are you creating to the environment when you're driving one of these things 100 miles?
I thought that one of the points of having these things was that you couldn't go out there and burn up a lot of gasoline and get lousy miles per gallon statistics and so forth and so on.
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