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July 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Let's go back to April the 19th of this year.
And this is Dingy Harry.
I don't know where it was.
I don't think this was on the floor of the Senate.
Might have been one of his press conferences.
This war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.
This is April.
The surge didn't reach full strength until a month ago, and the interim report says just the opposite of what Dingy Harry is trying to convince the American people of that.
That's really what's going on.
The American people do not disapprove of this war by anywhere near the poll numbers that people like Reed and the other Democrats want every other American to believe.
They are trying to convince the American people that they don't support the war when uh in such great numbers.
Uh by taking these incidental roadside bombs explosions, the obligatory burning car on the nightly news.
Uh and I just I'm just telling you, if they had succeeded in doing this, they wouldn't have any trouble passing these resolutions.
So how how did Dingy Harry feel after his all-nighter after his hoax and after his failed Senate vote?
Well, he followed in the footsteps of Barbara Boxer.
This is breathtaking.
We all know what that's about.
It said it deadline further.
Be a change of direction in Iraq.
Again, they wouldn't allow us to vote on that.
Although we picked up four Republicans.
Progress is being made on these Iraq amendments.
And finally, with the National Intelligence Estimate, which has just come out.
Isn't a good idea to pass the appropriations bill that deals with Holman Security?
That too is blocked.
And I want to reassert what I said out there this morning.
My friend, Senator McConnell says everybody knows the 60 votes on controversial issues around here.
Well, last November Iraq wasn't very controversial because we had simple up and down votes.
It's obvious to the American people that the war in Iraq has gone the wrong way.
And all of a sudden, now seven months later, after the last defense authorization bill, they're saying you need 60 votes.
That's a new math that was developed by the Republicans to protect the president.
That's what it's all about.
That's unbelievable.
Sixty votes is standard.
They are, he is this if if they're not careful with this, you know, they're they're gonna blow that one sky high.
What?
What is it?
The Republicans do not have control of the Senate.
That's the whole thing.
The uh Snurley asked me, when did Republicans get control of the Senate back?
They don't have control of the Senate.
That's why I said last hour, this is the most incompetent majority leader that I think the Democrats have ever had in the Senate.
He keeps losing votes every time he tries one of these resolutions, blaming the Republicans for not wanting to vote when that wasn't the case, blaming Republicans for forcing him, the leader, to require 60 votes.
That's why I say this is breathtaking.
Just just breathtaking.
And uh he couldn't even peel off uh enough Republicans uh to go along with this, even after trying to fatigue everybody into just voting to get out of there.
So the whole thing blew up in their face, and it's uh it's I'd say it's an embarrassment.
All right, let's change gears here, ladies and gentlemen, other things out there.
Um this headline fruits and vegetables do not stop the return of cancer.
I just love stories like this.
And I'll tell you why I love stories, and it's not that I like cancer returning.
It's that I love all these nanny do-gooder types who try to tell everybody how to live, be proven wrong.
All these health nuts and health freaks demanding it's not enough for them to eat the way they want to eat.
They've got to force everybody else to do it.
They got to force feed what they think everybody else should eat, like that that little nerd from the Center for Science and the public interest.
It uh got coconut oil banned from movie theater popcorn and so forth.
They're out constantly attacking Chinese food or pasta or what have you.
Shut up, don't eat it if you want to look like a cadaver, go ahead.
But leave the rest of us alone.
They've been telling us for years.
Vegetables.
Vegetables and fruits, and eat a lot of nuts.
If you do that, you'll stave off cancer.
Your odds of getting cancer will improve or depre disc d decrease by X number, but it's all BS.
Here are the details.
Hopes that a diet low in fat and chalk full of fruits and vegetables could prevent the return of breast cancer were dashed yesterday by a large seven-year spearmint in more than 3,000 women.
The government study found no benefit from a mega veggies and fruit diet over the U.S. recommended servings of five fruits and vegetables a day, more than most Americans get.
Researchers noted that none of the breast cancer survivors lost weight on either diet.
And that led some of the experts to suggest that weight loss and exercise should be the next frontier for cancer prevention.
Oh, sorry, forget the vegetables.
Your kids are right.
They don't like them.
You shouldn't serve them.
Just lose weight and start exercising.
Well, how how old is that?
Uh the study appears uh in in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Why don't they look into the abortion breast cancer risk just for the fun of it?
We've I've heard things about that.
That won't happen.
Uh Susan Gapster of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine said it sends us back to the drawing board.
I love all these food stories.
You know it was Oat Brand had to do, had to have some of that, all the fiber and stuff, and then came out that wasn't true.
Coffee was gonna kill you, increase the risk of of uh heart attacks with caffeine or that wasn't true.
Uh nicotine, of course, now turns out to maybe show some promise for people with Parkinson's disease.
Should we really have focused on dietary components like fruits, vegetables, and fat, gapster asked, or should we be focusing on, in addition to diet, on lifestyle factors, including physical activity and weight.
As though they haven't been focusing on that.
I mean, you can't turn on a TV.
You can't go get a woman's magazine anymore without finding five or six articles on exercise and losing weight and all this pummeled with it.
What do you mean refocus?
The research was kicked off by a uh five million dollar grant from the late Walmart heir John Walton, got an a million uh additional 30 million in support from the National Cancer Institute.
Uh anyway, the details are in the in the seven years after breast cancer was discovered, and they and they they asked these women to chowing down on all those vegetables and fruits and nuts and things, the cancer returned in about the same proportion of women in both groups.
About 10% of both groups died during that time, most of them from uh breast cancer.
And it didn't matter whether the breast cancer was the most common type fueled by hormones or not, the special diet did not prevent the cancer from coming back.
You know, the crime is that anybody ever thought that it would.
You know, it's just but I can understand do anything to ward off the return of cancer.
But anyway, I I just I I love it when these little ne'er do well nanny do gooders who constantly can't stay out of our lives are proven to be totally all wet.
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This is of a condom update.
One of my uh all-time favorite tunes, folks, so one of the first songs that I ever played as a struggling young disc jockey, a star of the future, back in 1967.
And I remember introducing the condom update.
You go and fade the whole thing out.
I uh remember introducing the condom update in Sacramento, 1984, and it you would not believe this times have changed.
It just I mean, my dad even heard about it.
What are you doing?
You can't say that word on the radio.
You can't, you did it.
And I had little old ladies in Sacramento up in arms when this happened.
Here's the news.
And the only reason this is this is funny is because of the uh cigar tax that came out yesterday that they're trying to get $10 per cigar.
In order to promote safe sex among India's prostitutes, Hindustan Latex LTD has developed uh tobacco flavored condoms.
Uh making a man's cigar resemble a cigar.
It has a band.
It has it tobacco flavored condoms.
This is the ultimate liberal quagmire, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, they gotta get these in the United States.
Nate in Buffalo.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rosh.
Pleasure to talk with you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, we disagree on a lot of things.
And I was just, you know, I know the study came out saying that the sun uh was not the cause of global warming.
I know you disagreed with that.
But uh I was just wondering if you knew what the first two planets were.
Closest to the sun.
The first two planets closest to us?
Uh no, to the sun.
The closest planets to the center, Mercury and Venus.
Yeah.
Well, Venus is much warmer than Mercury, even though it's farther away from the sun, and I guess that wouldn't make much sense, but it's because of the gases that are in the atmosphere.
Well, but there are geophysical reasons that we can learn from the first glacial age on our own planet to explain this.
What is that?
The problem is, well, well, one thing, you can't compare that the atmospheres of the Earth to especially Venus, uh, nor Mercury.
And by the way, I'm not willing to concede that Venus is hotter, but if it is, uh, then it it has it it has things to do with uh circumstances do not exist on this planet at all.
So I'm uh not only do I reject the notion that the sun has nothing to do with it, I think it's absurd.
I think I think it's literally absurd for anybody to think the sun is not a factor.
They don't factor precipitation in whether or not how the the effect on climate in this country.
I think it's absurd for anybody alive today to sit there and think that this is how vain we are, that the climate today is ideal, and that from any variance from here is going to be destructive.
No, we don't know that.
You know, we were we adapt, and and human beings and other life forms of this planet have adapted to things that we can't control, and climate's one of them.
It is just it it's ridiculous to me.
It's intellectually depraved to me.
That's this is a religion.
This is a political issue.
It's liberalism on the march.
And I'm glad you called, because I had this story in a global warming stack, and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get to it today, but your call has provided the perfect transition to it.
It is a story in businessandmedia.org.
It's a website.
It is written by R. Warren Anderson, a research analyst, and Dan Gainer of the uh is a Boone Pickens free market fellows.
These guys are think tank people, and they've done an analysis of the last 100 years of journalism on global warming.
It's entitled Fire and Ice.
It's 17 pages when you print it out.
But it is it this puts the blame for all of this hysteria on global warming exactly where it belongs, and that is the media.
For 100 years.
Now, for a hundred years we've had wacko scientists trying to advance agendas.
And if the agenda happens to fit the media, and the agenda here, by the way, is chaos.
The agenda is crisis.
That is why in 1979, Newsweek had run a cover on global cooling, the coming ice age, and there was a cover story of Time Magazine, some magazine of a glacier, totally surrounding Manhattan with only Empire State Building protruding.
Just as today, Al Gore's movie has a flood wiping out Manhattan.
It doesn't matter.
Global cooling, global warming, it's crisis.
It's we're in trouble.
It's we need big government to fix it.
We need to punish people.
We need to control their lives.
People are causing this.
It's been going on for 100 years.
Here's the opening paragraph.
It was five years before the turn of the century.
Major media Were warning of disastrous climate change.
Page six of the New York Times was headlined with serious concerns of geologists.
Only the president at the time wasn't Bill Clinton.
It was Grovert Cleveland.
And the Times wasn't warning about global warming.
It was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.
The year was 19 or 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis.
Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be wiped out, or lower crop yields would mean billions will die.
Just as the weather has changed over time, so has the reporting, blowing hot or cold with short-term changes in temperature.
Following the Ice Age threats from the late 1800s, fears of an imminent and icy catastrophe were compounded in the 20s by Arctic explorer Donald McMillan and an obsession with the news of his polar expedition, as the Times put it on February 24th, 1895.
Geologists think the world may be frozen up again.
Those concerns lasted well into the late 20s.
But when the Earth's surface warmed less than half a degree, newspapers and magazines responded with stories about the new threat.
Once again, the Times was out front cautioning the Earth is steadily growing warmer.
After a while, that second phase of climate cautions began to fade, and by 1954, Fortune magazine was warming to another cooling trend, ran an article titled Climate, the Heat May Be Off.
As the U.S. and the Soviet Union faced off, media joined them with reports of a more dangerous cold war of man versus nature.
The New York Times ran warming stories into the late 50s, but it too came around to the new fears.
Just three decades ago in 1975, the paper reported a major cooling, widely considered to be inevitable.
They have graphic portrayals of newspaper covers and magazine covers.
Here's Science News, March 1, 1975, with Manhattan being enveloped by a glacier.
1975.
The future looked cold and ominous with this science depiction from March 1, 1975.
And then Time magazine, June 24, 1974.
Story showed how Arctic snow and ice had grown from 1968 to 1974, and the cover uh was that a cover, it might just be the story, but it had a graphic here of the expanding North Pole.
1975.
Uh, New York Times timeline.
September 18th, 1924, McMillan reports signs of new ice age.
March 27, 1933, America in longest warm spell since 1776.
Temperature line records a 25-year rise.
Now, from 1924, we're talking about a new ice age.
And nine years later, they're warming us of go a warning us of global warming in the New York Times.
From 33 to 1975, scientists wonder or ponder why world's climate is changing, a major cooling widely considered to be inevitable.
Global cooling was all the rage, all the magazines and newspapers back in 75 through 79.
December 27, 2005, past hot times hold few reasons to relax about new warming.
This is nothing more than typical media behavior.
Nothing more than typical media distortion, and really what it is is it's constant focus on crisis.
And if somebody they think is credible, a scientist or an expert comes out and says, we got global warming and this is going to happen.
You got a former vice president with a movie out there, they love it.
It's crisis.
It sells newspapers, it gets ratings, it promotes liberalism, it promotes big government.
So I don't the temperature rise, we don't I don't think folks, based on where some of our thermometers are that take official temperature readings in this country and around the world.
I don't think we can possibly know for sure whether it's getting warmer or colder, climate-wise worldwide.
How can in the middle of global warming we set record lows in the summertime and have record highs in the winter?
Uh some of these things just don't make sense.
But aside from all that, you don't factor precipitation.
You throw the sun out of the equation, and you only factor in rich countries and wealthy human beings, and then point the finger of blame.
You don't think that's liberalism, that's liberalism to its core, combined with a compliant media that is focused not on facts and truth and open exchange of ideas, but just promoting crisis.
Pure and simple.
Don't fall for it.
The hoax.
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You know, I know I got I got I got I got pretty passionate there, folks, this global warming thing.
But I just I I uh I really I have a tough time dealing with people that end up being robots.
Uh and this is a very, very insidious at the same time ingenious campaign that the people on the pro-global warming side have of trying to persuade your kids and everybody else that this is actually happening, and it's of course America's fault and uh the fault of other Western uh civilizations,
uh highly achieved, highly advanced, uh travel anywhere in the world and not you where it's not advanced, and tell me that they don't clean up their messes as well, they clean up their messes as well as we do, and you're gonna certify you.
Uh but beyond all that, uh this is I'll explain this.
At the root of this is political activism everywhere, from all the scientists on this who say it is this, and uh then you've got the media that just loves to promote all this stuff.
I don't question it.
This this this great, great story called Fire and Ice, I'm just I just shared with you minute amounts of data, but it's a total study of the media.
And uh and some of the scientists over the years, every twenty-five years it changes.
Warming, cooling, ice age, destruction, uh uh and it's all our fault.
It's happening, and they're n if n they haven't been right in one hundred years about it.
They have been predicting catastrophe for one hundred years.
It hasn't happened.
And they're doing it again now.
And they're revising the out year catastrophe.
Now they don't say the next five or ten, and they're smart about it, twenty or thirty, because you can't say in ten years it's not gonna happen, so they still have twenty more years to scare you and so forth.
But it's it's uh it's just an absolute total one hundred percent hoax.
Now, the climate changes all the time.
I'm not disputing that.
I'm talking about the fact that only certain human beings and only certain countries are causing this to happen.
And it's I mean, it's got everything.
Class NV, it's got rich versus poor, it's got haves and have nots, and of course the haves are once again victimizing the have nots.
And we're stealing all the resources, and we're burning all the fuel or putting all the CO2 up there, and then that's thinking we're gonna we're gonna create an atmosphere like Venus, as we're all gonna die.
Frankly, ridiculous.
It's not gonna happen.
And we're adaptive and can deal with it, but but anyway, I've said my piece on this.
Uh Chris in uh Martinsburg, uh West Virginia, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Psst.
Hello.
Um, I wanted to comment on what the last caller was saying about temperatures on Mercury and Venus.
Um Mercury has no atmosphere.
So when the side of Mercury that's facing the sun, it is extremely hot, but the side of Mercury that is in nighttime or away from the sun is very cold.
If you take those two temperatures and you average them, you're going to get a temperature that is probably a little bit lower on the average than Venus, which has a hyper atmosphere, and therefore has a constant temperature.
Um there's just no variation in Venus' temperature, and it's always going to be a little bit higher than an average temperature of Mercury, which has a day and a night and vast temperature swing on its surface.
Well, Venus's atmosphere, correct me if I'm wrong, and I know it's it's got a very strong greenhouse effect, but it's a dense atmosphere.
Uh extremely dense.
Um you can't see through it.
Right.
No, you can't see through it.
And Venus That's how dense it's so to compare that uh with and plus look how much closer to the sun.
Because of the density, you don't have any the the people that leave this factor out of the warming claims on our on our own planet.
Um we we've got CO2 here.
There's a greenhouse effect here, there's no question, it's a huge one on Venus.
Um but the CO2 portion in our atmosphere is minute compared to that which is on Venus.
And the the reason it it it changes very slowly is because the the warming effect is short circuited by by weather that happens on the Earth, such as clouds and precipitation that they still don't model in factor.
None of that's taking place on Venus.
Or very little of it because of the density of the atmosphere.
No, you're absolutely right.
And Venus, what's going on with Venus is that um oceans never form.
So a lot of their atmosphere is uh is is water vapor and a lot of other greenhouse gases.
Right, water vapor a huge greenhouse gas.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So you know, I mean, you can uh you can be very misled if you only look at that the the data that you don't need to do.
That's the point.
That that's that's glad you called.
That's exactly the point.
You can be misled, you can be propagandized, and you can be brainwashed.
But that guy that called, he was hi his point was political.
You know, his I mean he asked me about Venus a little bit.
He's trying to he's trying to get me screwed around so that I end up tripping up and agreeing with his political point.
I guess the best way for people who are ambivalent about this or even mildly curious is think of it.
It's just a political issue.
It is a political issue that is uh shrouded in science.
Uh it is pushed forward uh with the best of intentions to save the earth and to save all living things, except humans, because the earth really will not be safe, and it will not be saved until a mass of humanity is destroyed by a virus that doesn't kill anything else.
And there are advocates of that who got serious treatment in a recent uh newsweek.
College guy's written a book.
Thanks for the call, Chris.
I appreciate it.
This is uh Nick, Daytona Beach.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, thank you.
And uh, you know, the first thing I want to say is uh thanks for everything that you do to support the troops.
I called you about ten months ago when my daughter, the love of my life, went to Iraq.
The day that she landed in Iraq, I'd called you, and I was very angry at the Congress and the way things were going.
And I just want to let you know I'm still angry, so thank you for keeping up the fight.
I now have You're probably angrier.
I am angrier, and for a lot of reasons.
Not only do I have a daughter there, I also have a son there.
I have a brother there.
One's my daughter's in the army, my my son is in the Air Force, my brother is in the Navy, and my son who's about to graduate high school wants to join the Air Force, and my eight-year-old daughter just told me she wants to join the Navy, so I've got a lot at stake.
Well, you uh you have an inspirational effect on these children of yours that's profound.
We love our country and we love our God, and that's all I can tell you is that we'll pay the price when other people are afraid to.
Unlike the folks who had their slumber party last night, um, I've stayed up many nights, not just last night.
Um and I mean to tell you the thing that upsets me is it not only have they disappointed me and other people, they're actually they're actually asking for a pay raise today.
There is legislation in front of Nancy Pelosi for a pay raise for the slumber party Congress that has passed nothing except a minimum wage increase.
So it's a wage increase for the minimum wage earners who, by the way, after six months a minimum wage earner does not even earn minimum wage, but let's leave that aside.
Plus for themselves, that's what they've accomplished.
A pay raise for themselves.
I'm disgusted.
I and let me tell you, this will hit the fan.
This I'm as angry as I was then, and I'm telling you, more people and the sediment that's growing out there is incredible because we are sick and tired of this Congress not listening to us, and all Congress not listening to us.
I want a damn fence run across Mexico.
It can be done, it's cheap, and that'll keep the Iraqis, who by the way, are sneaking across our border now.
I do not understand what is going on.
I really I need to deploy my let's redeploy my kids to the s to the South American border.
You know, the border in Texas.
Is that what we really need to do now?
I really cannot understand what is going on.
Well, what he's referring to here is that uh the Mexican smugglers have decided to start smuggling Iraqis in because the Iraqis will pay more to get in here than the Mexicans will.
So it's um, you know, it's black market under the table capitalism uh working here.
But we don't the the the it it's true, we don't have the ability to stop it.
You're right, it's frustrating as hell.
And not only that, you you've got you've got the Democrats in the Senate, slumber party Senate as you call them, uh trying to act like there's no threat that we face, and trying to act like the biggest threats George W. Bush and trying to proclaim the mission lost and trying to secure defeat uh for their personal political fortunes or gains.
Uh I've That's right.
I'm not sure.
I'm surprised I'm sorry, go ahead.
I'm surprised there aren't more people in this country outraged and livid over what's happening here.
We are believe me when I tell you this.
This is going to change the way America thinks.
It's every I don't know how many decades, but every so many decades, this country goes through a major change where they've got to pay the price and they've got to do important things.
And the Democrats do not understand that.
They won the legacy of Congress by fighting World War II, and they have destroyed their legacy.
I'm telling you right now, it's really going to be ugly, and it's coming, and we are going to take back that Congress, and we're going to keep that White House because we need to.
We have to.
Fighting over global warming, warming is irrelevant when you have no freedom to fight for it or against it.
It doesn't make sense to me.
I wish that people would wake up and start to fight the real enemy, which is Al Qaeda.
It's not me.
It's not me and my kids.
It's not my president.
It's Al Qaeda, and it's the people who hate us and want to destroy our culture and our way of life.
And I'm not stupid.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I'm about to pay off my house in six months.
If I were younger, I'd be joining up right now too, picking up my rifle.
Well, God bless you.
I'm sure you've got people around this country standing up and cheering you on.
And I think you're probably right.
The latest approval numbers of Congress, 14%.
They better not ignore that on Capitol, and they better not misinterpret it.
Do you feel better?
We lost, he lost the cell call.
I know he feels better after vetting like that.
Especially to the largest audience in broadcasting today.
Thanks for the call out there, Nick very much.
We'll take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue in mere moments.
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All right, let's uh change gears uh for just a minute here.
Head to the lifestyle stack.
Uh this is in the Los Angeles Times today.
It's uh written by Denise Jelene.
And it's chick news.
News, as you know, we've discussed it frequently here has been chick chickafa.
Well, because this is important chick news.
Uh the news have been chicken out there, but this is this is you love this snerd.
This is right up your alley.
I say it's chick news, but it's it's not.
The headline, girl talk linked to depression and anxiety.
If you keep talking about it, you'll be miserable.
Constant venting over crushes, popularity, other personal problems may lead to anxiety and depression in girls, but not in boys, according to new research.
Study of 813 students between eight and fifteen found that excessive discussions and rumination about problems strengthened friendships for both sexes, but those tighter bonds came at a cost for the girls.
Study appears in this month's issue of developmental psychology.
Lead author Amanda Rose, a chick, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Missouri Columbia, said the results might reflect a cultural tendency among girls to blame themselves when they aren't invited to parties or when boys don't call back.
The more they talk about it, the more depressed and anxious they feel.
Boys reported no change in feelings of anxiety or depression, but girls said they felt worse.
Uh uh the the the uh Amanda Rose, a study authorette, said that girls got caught up in a vicious cycle in which depression or anxiety spurred rumination, which in turn led to increased depression or anxiety and kept talking about it.
They never closed the loop and just kept making a circle.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, whatever it is about, and it just makes you feel worse.
So next time your little girl comes and starts to just tell her don't talk about it anymore.
She'll she'll feel better rather than going over it again and again and again and again.
I wish they'd do this research on adults.
I really do.
I I might even fund it.
Research something called relationship analysis.
Uh Keith Ellison, the nation's first Muslim congressman, said uh yesterday he had erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to September 11th to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany at an appearance before a group of atheists in Minnesota.
Keith Ellison, Democrat in Minnesota stand, called September 11th the juggernaut that led to war, tolerating torture and increased discrimination against religious minorities.
Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag, the German Parliament building to suspend constitutional liberties, and that's what Ellison was saying that Bush was trying to do here.
And he called him Busch Hitler.
Well, a couple of uh Republican congressmen, uh, Zach Womp and I forget who else were just outraged that nobody thought anything about this.
As a member of the United States Congress saying this, they sent a letter to Pelosi demanding she'd do something about it.
I don't know what led to this, but uh Ellison said on the f.
Uh oh, the the ADL did.
The aunt D the AD Oh, he re Ah, yes, here it is.
The ADL released a statement Tuesday calling on Ellison to apologize for his comments.
Abraham Foxman, the national director, called the uh comparison outrageous and offensive to all Americans, whatever his views may be.
On the administration's response to 9-11, the conduct of the war on terrorism, liking it to Hitler's rise to power and Nazism is odious, demeans the victims of 9-11, the brave American men and women engaged in the war on terror.
Furthermore, it demonstrates a profound lack of understanding about the horrors that Hitler and his Nazi regime perpetrated.
So Ellison, he called AP.
And uh he uh in an interview, telephone interview said, in hindsight, I I wouldn't have used that reference point.
Probably inappropriate to use that example, because it's it's a unique historical event without really any clear parallels.
Uh now, this is the nation's first Muslim congressman.
Um pondering whether to go forward here verbally.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Let me take a break and ponder it further.
Michael Vick, indicted by a federal grand jury on dog fighting charges.
Well, charges relating to the dog fighting probe uh connection with the property that he owned in Virginia.
I read the indictment.
Uh you never know.
I read these indictments, I with I'm gonna wait for the trial or whatever else happens here.
But if that stuff in there is true, the degree of cruelty to those dogs is breathtaking.
Just because they lose, you hang them, you electrocute them, you drown them or what have you.
I mean, uh just it's it's uh sick.
Five years in prison he could face here.
The Libs are saying, well, hell, that's five years more than Scooter Libby got.
Uh for lying to a federal grand jury.
And what else?
Who else is going to get more time than Vic for doing uh what was your example in there the other day?
Oh, yeah, the woman, the woman that killed her the preacher husband?
Yeah, that's right.
The woman that killed her preacher husband got got what?
Uh two years, two years.
Yeah, because yeah, men are predators.
And you gotta deal with them whenever they come at you.
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