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July 12, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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A couple days ago, talked about Senator McCain and the problems he's having in his campaign, how the drive-by media is out there saying, no, it's his problem here is he supported a war, troop buildup.
He's too closely identified with George W. Bush.
We're all just incredulous.
How can they miss this?
How can they, the blinders that these people in the drive-by media were, and they all do, it's amazing to groupthink.
And we went through the list of things that had harmed McCain, starting with McCain fine gold, gang of 14, the fact that he was against tax cuts, immigration, the wrong side, putting his arms around Ted Kennedy and so forth.
Those are the things.
He was never the frontrunner in the first place.
He was a drive-by media darling from the bus tour back in 2000, the Straight Talk Express.
So I have here a source this from.
This is from the Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Novak, in fact.
Staff shake-up gives fading McCain a chance.
You go to the end of the piece.
McCain's slimmed down campaign will concentrate on early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
A new campaign guy, far more adept than the old campaign guy, at singing McCain's praises.
Listen to this.
McCain's supporters hope his eloquent support for the Iraq intervention will earn him backing from the Republican base.
Now, this is in a drive-by paper, but it's not the drive-by media.
This is Robert Novak.
So once again, Rush is right.
McCain's supporters hope his eloquent support of the war will revive and resuscitate his campaign.
Now, here's the story.
This is, I think, from the Raleigh News and Observer.
The headline, schools want sun shelters for hot kids.
Principals of at least eight-year round Wake County scruels worried about how children will cope with scorching summer heat.
Want to raise thousands of dollars to erect large canopies and shelters over playgrounds.
A handful of Wake scruels have the shelters, which are more common in places like Las Vegas.
At least one has erected a 40-foot by 60-foot shelter that covers the entire playgrounds at cost of 25 big ones.
Even less extravagant shelters can still cost $7,500.
You know what's surprising to me?
I didn't know they let kids outside anymore.
They cancel recess, can't play tag, can't play dodgeball.
Now they're letting them outside.
They're subjecting them to all kinds of scorching temperatures in the summer.
Global warming.
And, of course, cancer, melanoma.
It's, I just heard something from Dawn just told me something her daughter's doing.
Yeah, would you would you explain to me how in the world, where was this when I was in school?
I was just told that Jessica's 15 or 16, 16 years old takes PE, physical ed, online so she doesn't have sweat in the summertime.
I know you don't want to mess your hair up for the boys.
I don't even want to know.
I think I'm.
Is this a joke?
I'm being set up.
It's not a joke.
P.E. online?
Oh, well, gee.
I hate to be a dunce on this, but I fortunately have no kids, so I'm not aware of these latest modernized techniques for physical education.
Apparently, PE online, you run around a block a couple times, take your pulse before and after, report back to the teacher.
Do you realize how easy it'd be to fake that?
Oh, where was this one?
Okay, so they're going to put these shelters up.
I guess it's a big deal in North Carolina.
They want to open the schools year-round to save money.
Save money opening schools in Pittsburgh.
The schools there, Pittsburgh Public Schools, will drop public from its name and adopt a new standardized way of referring to its screws as part of a campaign to brighten and strengthen the district's image.
For example, Shenley High School will be called Pittsburgh Shenley.
Superintendent Mark Roosevelt's staff unveiled the policy at a screwboard education committee meeting a couple nights ago.
And under the policy, the district simply will call itself the Pittsburgh Schools.
The district's logo, a pattern of circles, triangles, and squares will still be used.
By dropping public from its name, said Randall Taylor, the district might be able to avoid the negative attitude often associated with public schools.
Let me tell you people in Pittsburgh something.
It has nothing to do with what you call it.
It's called results.
You just have to marvel at bureaucrats and the way they tackle a problem.
Don't fix the problem.
Fix a name that maybe get rid of the bad image, but don't fix the problem.
And don't get mad at me.
I love Pittsburgh.
I lived there for four or five years in the early 70s.
I just.
Bureaucrats and bureaucrats, Democrats, Democrats, liberals or liberals.
Never fix the problem.
Just try to change the image.
How can we fool them today?
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Okay, let's see.
Let's go to its fat tax business.
This story is a classic.
It is a perfect illustration of the way liberals and socialists do everything they can to try to control as much of our lives as possible.
Now, right now, this is just London, but you know, this fat tax has been proposed here, too.
A fat tax on salty, sugary, and fatty foods could save thousands of lives every year, according to a study published today.
Researchers at Oxford University say that charging value-added tax at 17.5% on foods deemed to be unhealthy would cut consumer demand and reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes.
The purchase tax already levied on a small number of products like potato crisps, ice cream, confectionery, chocolate biscuits, but most food is exempt from the VAT.
The move could save an estimated 3,200 lives in Britain every year, according to the study.
A well-designed and carefully targeted fat tax could be a useful tool for reducing the burden of food-related disease.
Food-related disease.
See that?
Food-related disease.
Salt, sugar, fatty foods, all natural substances, all substances found on earth, just by the way, as is oil.
Now, they said, however, that their research only gave a rough guide to the number of lives that could be saved.
Of course, no, we wouldn't want you to be specific because then you could be tied to it.
They said more work was needed to get an exact picture of how taxes could improve public health.
This is how they operate, folks.
Any fat tax.
Now, get this.
You know how formulaic the drive-by media is.
Can I ask your question?
Who would be hurt most by an increase in the fat tax?
Who would be hurt most?
Just take a wild guess.
Who?
The poor and women and minorities.
It's a formula.
I don't care what the story war, women and minorities hardest hit.
And here it is in this story.
Any fat tax might be seen as an attack on personal freedom and would weigh more heavily on poorer families and minorities, the study warned.
This is right off the script for these socialists, folks.
The tax is in keeping with the these fat people cost socialized healthcare systems more money And they're dying and plus we're having to spend so much money on them before they die.
So what happens is first government takes over a private market function, which is you feeding yourself Then as costs of that function skyrocket because it's offered for free by compassionate socialists They have to find ways to cut costs after they make a boondoggle out of their own program.
But since they don't know the role of prices in free markets, they can't let prices adjust accordingly and make individuals choose the better uses of the product.
They have to find other ways of going about it.
They just aren't going to trust you to make the right decision for yourself.
You are incompetent.
You are incapable.
You are eating the wrong things now, and you are going to keep eating the wrong things, and they're going to tax you to get you to stop eating the wrong things.
So they're going to do this.
They're going to totally mess up the whole concept of market prices.
And when that happens, it's not just these three areas, salty, sugary, and fatty foods that are going to be affected.
And this is something, the unintended consequences, things they never ponder.
Bill in St. Petersburg, Florida, thanks for waiting.
You're next in the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Point is, and I was trying to tell you, call screener, is I'm one that believes we can't win this war.
I'm an ex-Marine.
I spent two years in Vietnam.
I love my Marines, don't get me wrong.
But I can't see where you can go into a place that is the same thing as Vietnam, where your enemy eats, sleeps, drinks, walks, talks, and looks just like your friends.
You don't know who to fight, and there's no way to win.
Oh, of course there is.
I beg your pardon.
We went through the same thing in Vietnam.
I can't believe, you know, you're not the first.
And I just, I can't believe attitudinally that we have people who actually believe the United States can't win.
Because I'm going to tell you something, Bill.
If we can't beat these people, it's only a matter of time before our way of life is we know it's over.
I agree.
But there's other ways to go for it.
Well, then losing isn't an option.
But losing, well, you're right.
Winning the war the way we want to win it is not an option.
We can't do it.
Ah, ah.
Now that's different.
Winning the war, but did you hear how Tony Snow defined victory?
I did, and I agree with him.
No, you don't, because you don't think we can win it that way.
He basically says we can't get out of there until the Iraqis can defend themselves against these insurgents, these terrorists.
If the Iranians attack, the Iraqis have to be able to defend themselves.
That's the definition of victory that he offered.
And you don't think that we can achieve that?
Go back to Vietnam.
We use nothing but start off with advisors.
This isn't Vietnam.
In the first place, the Vietnamese never attacked us like the Al-Qaeda people have done.
All these parallels I keep hearing about Vietnam.
We lost that war.
I argue we lost it.
We lost it because we mismanaged it and we didn't try to win it.
It was not being fought with the people who know how to win wars.
And I agree with that, too.
But also the point I like to make is you don't know who to fight when you're over there.
You sent your young men over there and they shoot the wrong guy and he lives it the rest of his life or he gets punished for it and something like that.
We should be training the Iraqis to win their own war or let them fight.
Well, that's what that's what we're doing.
And the interim report came out today saying that it's going well on the military side.
They said that these eight benchmarks, frankly, who are we to set benchmarks?
But we did.
The leftists in Congress.
And the Iraqis are out dying for their country now.
And more and more of them are ramping up and being trained to do so.
And they know who the enemy is.
This is a gutless enemy in one way.
I mean, they hide behind women and children.
They hide in mosques and so forth.
At some point, Bill, what's going to happen is, and I don't know how long it's going to take, but at some point, we're going to get the will to wipe them all out, wherever they're hiding and whoever else goes with them.
At some point, we're going to be so threatened and we're going to realize enough Americans are going to wake up.
I don't know when this is going to be, but enough of them are going to wake up and realize our way of life is threatened, especially if we don't pull this off over there, if we cut and run.
At some point, people are going to demand, just wipe them all out.
They're raising all those little kids to hate anyway.
They're raising all these kids to be future terrorists, especially the young boys.
That's, you know, you'll find some people who say this is really a 30 to 40 year project if we can get started now on trying to get hold of these cultures.
That's another thing the Iraq experiment is about, is to try to demonstrate that there's something more in life than strapping on a bunch of explosives and killing yourself.
You know, the leaders of this movement never do it.
The leaders of this movement are not out there dying for the cause.
They're using these little recruits that they moms and dads start drilling all kinds of hatred into from the minute they can understand language.
How do you think these highly educated professional doctors at the National Health Service in the UK ended up wanting to blow up 1,400 people in a nightclub and destroy an airport?
And they were Brits.
They were in the system.
They were trained to be doctors and so forth.
In addition to whatever medical training they got, they were filled with a boiling rage when they were growing up.
But it's happening all over that culture, the militant Islamist faction of that culture.
And the more they think that they can get away with impunity, the more they think they can get away with attacking and nobody's going to do anything about them, the bolder they're going to get.
At some point, we will do what it takes to deal with this.
We always have, and we always will.
It's just, we find ourselves in this situation right now where we're in the midst of all kinds of internal political hostilities in this country because the spoiled, rotten little brat Democrats just can't get over the notion that they haven't had the White House for the last eight years.
It's just not fair.
It's their birthright to run this country.
They're the best people to do that.
So to hell with anything else, including national security, to hell with defending the country, to hell with the morale of the troops, to hell with respecting anything that this country is trying to do to defend and protect these people.
It doesn't matter right now, right?
What matters right now?
Only one thing, and that's destroying George W. Bush, destroying this presidency, and setting up a sweeping victory for their nominee in 2008.
And that is all they care about.
And they have allies in the drive-by media who care about the same thing.
Democrats and the media holding hands, running the country again with a monopoly.
That's their dream.
And to hell with whatever disasters they create in the interim.
And then they say, we'll fix all this stuff.
We'll deal with it when we, in the meantime, you've got a country that is undecided.
You've got a country that's dispirited and demoralized.
And you've got troops that are subjected to the same attempt of demoralization.
And frankly, it is a criminal shame that the Democrats are behaving the way they are.
But don't for a minute think that we can't win.
We can and we will.
What did I do?
I just had it here.
I just had it here.
What did I?
It's this Rudy and the firefighter story.
Ah, here it is.
I thought I put it at the top of the stack when I did.
This is fascinating.
The International Association of Firefighters yesterday afternoon in New York released a video full of angry testimony belittling Rudy Giuliani's support of New York City firefighters.
And they're really, they're just, they're mad as Rudy's running around claiming he was a big leader and pulling everything together after 9-11 and he didn't do diddly squat.
Firefighters died.
Rudy didn't care.
Blah, blah, blah.
So this is being compared to a swift boat attack.
And The news on this is portraying the Giuliani camp as seeking to avoid a Kerry-type mistake.
Don't worry, media.
There's no comparison between John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and Rudy Giuliani, because he's not a wuss.
He's going to punch back at this.
You know what Kerry's problem was?
That what the Swiftboat guys were saying was true.
I keep hearing all this.
He should have fought back.
What was he going to say?
The Swiftboat, nobody has discredited anything the Swiftboat veterans said.
The big problem is somebody charges you with something and it's true, what are you going to do?
You do what Kerry did.
You try to ignore it.
You don't elevate it so that it gets any more attention.
The problem is, the Swiftboat guys kept running the ads.
And the drive-by media, when are you going to fight back?
Kerry's saying, when are you going to defend me?
I shouldn't have to.
You drive-bys are on my side.
When are you going to attack the Swiftboat guys?
So the drive-by says, okay, we will.
So they tried to attack the Swiftboat.
The Swiftboat guys were undaunted.
They were undeterred.
They had the facts on their sites.
Amazing what you can do when you have the facts, when you have the truth, and when the people you're talking about know it and can't refute it.
All they can do is, this is out of place in American politics today.
Why, this is hitting below the bill.
Why is this unkind?
This is just uncalled for.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's all you can do.
Then you're kind of toast.
And speaking of the International Association of Firefighters, guess who was their candidate in 2004?
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
They were all over the Kerry campaign in 2004.
They backed him then.
They helped salvage a listing campaign in the primaries.
The president, Harold Schaitberger, was a constant fixture behind Kerry as he took the stage in Iowa, New Hampshire, and other areas to claim victory on his way to winning the nomination.
Now, the first blow came from Giuliani came into release mocking the union as the International Association of Partisan Politics, showing pictures of the union president Schateberger standing with Kerry.
Campaign pointed out that the International Association of Firefighters has supported Democrat presidential candidates since 1998.
Giuliani's campaign also pointed out that Schaitberger has held a number of roles in Democrat organizations and has contributed financially only to Democrat candidates.
And don't forget the firefighters that called here.
Remember the firefighters that booed Mrs. Clinton?
The idea, this is another one of these union things where the leadership's coming out and saying, firefighters hate Rudy.
Firefighters think Rudy's phony baloney plastic men had a good time rocking rolling.
But rank and file doesn't all think that.
But the leadership does.
So Rudy's fighting back is not going to be anywhere near the Swiftboat thing because Rudy can fight back with facts and figures.
This one interested me.
A new survey finds that 60% of working mothers do not want a full-time job.
Say what?
60% of working mothers don't want a full-time job.
Why, this is not good news for the feminists.
This is horrible news.
An increasing portion of America's working moms say their ideal situation would include a part-time job rather than working full-time or staying at home.
It's a Pew Research Center survey being released today.
21% of working mothers with children younger than 18 viewed full-time work as the best arrangement, but that's down from 32% in 1977.
That's a huge plummet.
60% of the working mothers said a part-time job would be best, up from 48% 10 years ago.
19% said not working at all would be ideal.
Roughly the same as in 1997.
Carrie Funk, a Pew researcher on the survey, said the trend reflected women's latest thoughts on the ideal arrangement for their children.
It's an expression of the difficulties of combining responsibilities at work and home.
Only 16% of stay-at-home mothers, there's a big shift in their thoughts, too.
Only 16% of stay-at-home mothers said their ideal situation would be to work full-time outside the home, down from 24% in 1997.
Well, the feminists are taking it here on the chin.
Problem could be solved with abortions, but they're not having abortions anymore and not nearly as many.
That wouldn't have the problem of having the children determine how your day could best be spent.
Scott in Amarillo, Texas, you're next, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
I'm fine.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I've been an educator for 20 years, and in those 20 years, I've seen a lot of changes in our educational system, trying to keep up with the technology of our society.
And I'm really concerned that our current educational system could possibly be, and I wanted to ask your opinion about this, could possibly be educating a generation of Americans out of the labor market.
And what I mean by that is, you know, no matter how technologically advanced our society becomes, we are always going to need bricklayers and concrete workers and road workers and steel workers.
No, Illegal immigrants do that stuff now.
I know, but my point is our current educational system seems to be so geared to making everyone scientists and mathematicians and physicists.
And I'm just concerned that in 30 years, we're going to have a generation of Americans that will not do labor, and the only people that will are the immigrants.
And that's, you know, I know as an educator myself.
Well, now, wait, a second.
Two things here.
You may have a point, but how is it that we're educating people out of the manual labor market?
How does that happen?
When I have kids in my school, the kids that I teach, and I know that because of no child left behind and the demands that it puts on myself as an educator,
when I have a kid who isn't passing the subject that I teach, it's as if they're trying to get me to get a kid who isn't gifted for math.
He's not interested in math.
And it's the educator's fault.
I'm not teaching it right.
I need to get this kid interested.
I need to teach him.
Oh, no, well, wait, wait a minute.
You're talking, kid.
What are we talking about here?
Well, personally, I teach middle school.
That's junior Haskrule.
Right.
All right.
So, but math is part of a well-rounded education.
Just because somebody wants you to get the kid to do well on his math scores does not mean you're steering him to MIT.
You know, people that lay bricks and people that run companies that hire bricklayers and everybody in the world needs mathematics.
You have to have some kind of understanding in it.
Well, I'm not saying I know that every kid needs, I mean, we need to teach these kids reading and writing and arithmetic.
Well, when are we going to start?
Yeah, and I know that these things need to be done, but it just, it seems that our current educational system is so focused on making everyone Einstein's that in 30 years we're going to have a generation of Americans.
Now, I don't know.
That's what I wanted to ask your opinion.
Look, I respect your thoughts on it, and you're in the education system, but if that's our objective, we know it isn't working.
The scores prove it.
We've got too much indoctrination going on in schools, too much stuff that doesn't even, I mean, I'm happy to hear that they're making you teach math.
Sounds to me like you've got a problem with no child left behind because you've got an accountability problem, and you've got to get kids going into certain math and science because the scores were low, because there was no performance there.
And it doesn't just because I took all those courses.
Look at me.
You know, I'm not out in the high-tech fields and so forth.
I'm a common laborer.
This is a lunch pail job.
I can't be late.
I've got to be here when I've got to be here.
I've got to do a lot of work to get ready to be here.
I don't get to go to lunch.
I don't do any of these things.
A lot of people that are out laying bricks and whatever the manual labor you're talking about, building roads and so forth, a lot of them got decent math scores when they were in school because it was required.
It was called well-rounded education.
Now, the reason we were lagging behind is because rather than teaching math, we're teaching conflict resolution.
And we're teaching what a great guy Bill Clinton was.
One or two sentences on Abraham Lincoln in your average history textbook.
I mean, I got way out of whack here.
And we started punishing the achievers because, well, it's humiliating kids doing too well.
And so we couldn't offend the kids that weren't doing well and weren't really trying to push these high achievers to reach their potential.
But, you know, education is an interesting thing.
And one of the great things about an education is, among other things, regardless how you get it, is that it's probably one of the key factors, not the only, and there are exceptions.
It's a key factor in how people figure out what they want to do in life.
So if your kids happen to want to be physicists, encourage them.
If they want to be scientists, encourage them unless they want to go into global warming.
And then they won't be scientists.
They'll be activists and politicians.
The concern that you have that we're not going to have people, enough people to do these kind of jobs, I don't think that's going to be the case whatsoever because people are who they are.
And if you've got somebody that is showing a bunch of kids showing an aptitude toward these high-level pursuits, get behind them.
Help them light the fire.
Help them get there.
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy, America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, and truth detector, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
We go to Houston next, and this is Evelyn.
Hello, Evelyn.
Nice to have you with us.
Well, thank you.
How are you, Rush?
I'm fine.
Never better.
Well, good.
I'm so glad.
I put this on recording.
And I just wanted to see what your opinion is.
I want to write a book about growing up in the South in the 20s and 30s.
You think it's a stupid idea?
Of course not.
Well, I didn't think you would, or I wouldn't have called you.
Of course not.
Well, missing, would you help me?
I don't know exactly how to go about it.
But each chapter, Rush, would be something like, you know, different.
It could be talking about our old nanny, which we love dearly.
Or we could be talking about new deserted boat languages.
Wait, Evelyn, hang on here just a second now.
Can I?
This is not right to ask a woman her age.
Well, yeah, I don't mind telling you my age.
Okay, because I want to determine how much you've got to write about.
Plus, you said something that intrigued me, and that's really why I want to know your age.
I got to ballpark it.
You don't have to.
You figure it up.
It was 1920.
You know, 20.
Well, you're 87.
You're 87 years old.
Well, I'm going to tell you something, honey.
I always tell the people at church when they ask me how old, I say, when you come to the funeral, you'll find out then.
So you had a nanny.
Oh, we did have a nanny.
And, honey, we loved her so much.
When she was cooking in that kitchen, you better get out of there.
She'd fan that apron at you.
Oh, yeah.
And, honey, it was more fun.
We just loved her so much.
In fact, I would think I would dedicate the book to her.
Then, Evelyn, here's what you got.
You have a vibrancy, a buoyancy.
Oh, do what?
You have.
You have a vibrancy, a buoyancy, an energy level, and you have just what little that you've said about, by the way you just project yourself.
You're a very happy person.
Just sit down and start writing, Evelyn.
That's how you write a book.
And just Richard Nixon once said that to write a book, you need an iron butt.
And what he meant is when you sit down, you've got to sit there and you keep writing and you keep writing for as long as you can every day.
It's the only way it's ever going to get done.
Yep.
Each chapter, you know, would be about certain events that happened.
Absolutely.
You can sit down and, you know, sit down and come up with your idea.
Organize your chapters and what you want each chapter to be, and then put them in the order you think they ought to be.
They don't have to be in chronological order.
You can do it.
It's your book.
You can do anything you want to do here.
But the key is to sit down and start writing it.
You're going to have more fun doing this than you can imagine.
I know it.
I think I will have fun.
And obviously, you're going to have to end this book with a chapter on your listening to this program.
Oh, yes.
Yes, I would.
Oh, in other words, that's why you're going to help me, huh?
Well, I'm not going to write it for you.
Oh, no.
What kind of help could I offer you?
Well, just give me encouragement.
That's what I need.
I pray all the time for strength and encouragement.
But I don't work a computer much.
I would have joined whatever you had going, but I don't have.
Well, if you don't have a computer, it's going to mess up your flow.
If you write a book and you write long-handed, then that's how you should do it.
You don't want to get caught up in the mechanics of the writing.
And going to a computer would confuse you with the mechanics, and it would cause your brain to slow down.
And you need your brain at full speed.
And so the writing cannot be mechanical.
Writing has to just be an extension.
Your hand and the pen have to be an extension of what's in your mind as fast as you can get it down on paper.
But the key to it, there's no reason you shouldn't do this.
You'll find, you'll have, you'll start remembering things.
You think you remember everything now, but you'll remember things you have no clue that happened and you vaguely may remember, but you'll have all kinds of things popping.
This would be a great thing for you to do.
And you sound like just the kind of personality to do it.
You love your life.
You love your past.
You've got stories you want to share with people.
It's a great thing.
I hope nobody's trying to talk you out of this, except maybe yourself for whatever reasons.
But don't do that.
Just sit down and get started.
And I think you'll have a great time.
Keep us posted, too, on how your progress is, will you?
I will.
I'll do that.
Okay.
And now I'll go for my walk, Rush.
Don't be tired of it.
Your timing is perfect because the show's over.
Oh.
Yes, your timing is perfect.
It's not quite over, but I have to go to a commercial break here.
All right.
Have a good stroll out there, Evelyn.
It's great to have you on the program today.
All right, folks, that's it for today.
But Walter Williams will be here tomorrow.
I will be back on Monday, full week next week, and Walter will have our seventh iPhone, eighth iPhone, to give away tomorrow.
Have a great weekend, folks.
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