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July 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, that if that's true, it means there's no civil war over there.
It means it's not a civil war.
The whole thing is a fake.
It's a whole trumped-up fake thing.
Well, holy cow, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Here we are back at you once again.
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So Bill Clinton's on Good Morning America today and says he doesn't think that Hillary, doesn't think that Hillary's trying to be a man.
He doesn't think Hillary is trying, what is going on here?
You've got Elizabeth Edwards speaking for her husband, who's the candidate.
You've got Bill Clinton speaking for his wife, who's the candidate.
Who's really running here?
We also have bad news.
Well, good news for me.
Bad news for all of you who buy into all the hype and propaganda.
Vitamin C does nothing to prevent a cold.
How many years?
Who was it, Linus Pauling, that came up with that?
I think it was a long time ago, but we've been hearing it all our lives and so forth.
And all it does is change the color of your urine.
It does not.
It has no effect.
There are lessons to be learned here.
Anyway, a senior operative for al-Qaeda in Iraq who was caught this month.
Now, this is not, by the way, Khalid Abdul Fatah Daoud Mahmoud al-Mash Haddani, who was captured yesterday.
This is a different guy.
He was caught this month, and he has told his U.S. military interrogators that a prominent al-Qaeda-led group in Iraq is just a front and that its leader is fictitious.
And they hired an actor to be this guy on the internet and so forth and make videos and streaming audio and so forth.
Brigadier General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and that means of Baghdad, like Saddam Hussein's full name was Saddam something or other, you know, Abdul whatever, al-Takriti, because he was born in Takrit.
Anyway, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, doesn't exist.
The Islamic State of Iraq was established to try to put an Iraqi face on what is a foreign-driven network, Bergner said.
The name Baghdadi means the person hails from the Iraq capital.
Bergner said that the information came from an operative.
Well, it did come from Khalid al-Mash Haddani, who was caught July 4th.
And he said that Mash Haddani was believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the Sunni Islamist Al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
In his words, the Islamic State of Iraq is a front organization that masks the foreign influence and leadership within Al-Qaeda in Iraq in an attempt to put an Iraqi face on the leadership of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
What this means is that this is not a sectarian war.
What it means is that this is not a civil war.
What it means is that the Al-Qaeda in Iraq group has been set up, is a phony group, its leader fictitious, designed to make it look like there is a civil war in Iraq, but actually this is al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan or wherever they are.
By the way, this Mash Haddani is talking, and he's saying a lot.
His cooperation, according to U.S. officials, stems from his strong sense of nationalism and anger that foreign al-Qaeda operatives were creating the false front and using Iraq as a staging ground for their own gain.
This quote comes from Rear Admiral Gregory Smith in a telephone call from Iraq yesterday with the Washington Times.
So the guy's out there blabbing his head off, folks, and he's upset.
He's apparently in Iraqi, and he's very much upset that this outside group's coming in trying to make it look like there's a group inside Iraq doing things when it's not.
His anger is that foreign al-Qaeda operatives created this false front using Iraq as a staging ground for their own gain.
Here's something else.
Over the past two months, U.S. forces have killed or captured 26 al-Qaeda senior operatives, but every month nearly 60 to 80 foreign insurgents enter the country.
Most foreign operatives in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, some from Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan.
Now, the move by coalition forces to continue to put pressure on the al-Qaeda network in Iraq is inhibiting the Islamist terrorist organization from developing a national movement from within the country, said Admiral Smith.
So this is more evidence that the surge is working.
And, you know, people are talking about this whole situation over there being a killing ground.
It sounds like it's a burying ground for al-Qaeda.
It sounds like Petraeus, you know, we don't talk in body counts anymore.
He told Hugh Hewitt this the other day on the radio.
We don't talk about body counts anymore, but they're pretty significant here.
And he really praised his special ops.
The special ops guys, we had the call from the wife yesterday of the naval special ops unit.
And apparently Petraeus is just singing the praises of these guys.
They're out every night.
They're doing some great stuff.
So Mash Haddani, al-Mash Hadani, Mahmoud al-whatever, is speaking.
And this is a pretty big admission here that the whole al-Qaeda in Iraq is a front.
Well, I hope we did obtain it through forceful means.
The point that the general is making is we didn't have to do anything.
This guy's mad, and he's speaking on his own.
I know that there will be some who will question the veracity.
Well, this could be a giant lie.
This guy could be setting us all up.
Or Bush and Cheney decided to do it.
Oh, get this.
This is incredible, too.
You know, yesterday we had the story, Keith Ellison, first Muslim member of Congress, retracted his comment that Bush reminds him of Hitler, called him Bush Hitler on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Today, Nick Christoph in the New York Times says, no, that's not the right comparison.
Comparison is to Dick Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmadinezad.
And he goes and gets a confirmation on that from the disgraced Iranian expert at Columbia University, Gary Sick.
Does the name Gary Sick remind you people of anything?
Gary Sick was the guy who made up the whole October surprising and wrote a book about it.
This is the story that George Bush in 1980 took an SR-71 or some other form of transportation over to France to meet with Iranian officials holding U.S. hostages and made a promise to them.
Just hold these guys.
Don't let them go before the election so that we win and we'll deal with you afterwards.
And the charge came out.
Gary Sick wrote this book some 10 years after that.
Tom Foley was the Speaker of the House.
I remember Foley going to the microphone and saying, these charges are very serious.
We have no evidence here, but the charges demand an investigation.
The seriousness of the charge here overrules and outweighs the nature of the evidence, of which there is none.
Other than Gary Sick's book, I don't understand why this guy has any credibility.
He was all over television.
Dana drive-bys were just lapping it all up in an ongoing effort to discredit the Reagan years from 10 years out.
I think it was 1990, something like that.
So anyway, Gary Sick, now the expert consulted by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times, Cheney and Mahmoud Ahmad Dinizad, they're the same.
They both have staffs that tell them what they want to hear.
And these staffs or staff, they don't staff members, they don't care whether it's right or wrong.
They're just pedal of the metal.
I've got the story in the stock.
I'll give you the exact quote as the program unfolds.
Here's an AP headline.
Blacks in U.S. imprisoned at five times the rate of whites.
And this tells us what exactly.
What exactly does it tell us?
We'll be back, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton on Good Morning America today when we return.
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If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015.
75% of U.S. adults overweight, 41% obese.
A U.S. researcher team predicted yesterday.
This team is at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, examined 20 studies published in journals, looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews.
Obesity is a public health crisis.
Well, hell, everything is a health crisis.
Everything is a crisis.
Everything in the media is a crisis.
So, of course, it's a crisis.
If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at this pace by 2015, 75% of adults, nearly 24% of U.S. children and adolescents will be overweight or obese, said Dr. Yufa Wang, who led the study.
You know, I'm noticing a new trend here in journalistic style.
The same information appears in just three paragraphs.
Usually that's not the way it was done.
And of course, overweight children and teenagers are commonly teased or ostracized by their peers, sometimes treated differently by teachers and even parents.
The stigma that society attaches to obesity can cause children immediate and possibly lasting harm, according to a research review.
Research has long demonstrated weight bias that heavy children face in a classic 61 study.
640 subjects between 10 and 11 years old were shown six people.
Well, this is not going to be a problem because in 2015, everybody's going to be fat.
So the fat don't make fun of the fat.
So the fat people are going to be making fun of the skinny.
And in 2015, 2020, we're going to be getting crisis stories about how the stigma attached to being skinny when you're a kid in school can cause lifelong damage and harm because they're going to be normal.
I mean, according to the other research, in 2015, it's going to be normal to be fat.
So I'd chow down.
You know, I start making this stuff come true.
Good morning, America today.
Diane Sawyer guest, former President Bill Clinton.
He says, you know, the wife of Senator John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, instead of Senator Clinton, I'm not convinced she's as good an advocate for women, meaning as Senator Edwards would be, and says, sometimes you feel you have to behave as a man and not talk about women's issues.
I'm sympathetic.
She wants to be commander-in-chief.
Do you have a response to Mrs. Edwards, Mr. Clinton?
On women's issues, I defy you to find anybody who has run for office in recent history who's got a longer history of working for women, for families, and children than Hillary does.
I'm proud of Hillary's record and her lifetime commitment.
And I don't think she's trying to be a man.
I don't think it's inconsistent with being a woman that you can also be knowledgeable on military and security affairs and be strong when the occasion demands it.
I don't consider that being manly.
I consider that being a leader.
Well, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
When your husband says, I don't think she's trying to be a man.
By the way, you know, Hillary, when she spoke on the floor of the Senate during that all-night blabber fest, the Slumber Party, she spoke at 4.10 in the morning.
It was the first time that she said something at 4.10 in the morning other than, where the hell have you been?
They have more Clinton here.
Sidesteps the timeline question.
Diane Sawyer says, if you were still president and these were your generals saying, give me more time, would you give them more time?
I think the problem is, first of all, I think there is some evidence that changes from day to day.
But while the violence is going up in many places, where we have more soldiers and where the Iraqis are fighting the outside insurgents, like the al-Qaeda insurgents in the Sunni areas, we've had some evidence of progress.
The point is that there is no military victory here, and there's no evidence that we have either the political reconciliation process within the country working or any diplomatic process that's got a chance to help with the neighbors.
Oh, we can't win.
There's no military victory.
There's no way we're going to have some success.
Sure.
The al-Qaeda insurgents.
Now, when you listen to that bite, keep in mind here that we've just learned that the whole notion of a civil war in Iraq is fronted by a fake group and that it's actually the official al-Qaeda that's running that operation, making it look fictitious.
It is fictitious and making it look real.
One more question.
It says, there's nothing General Petraeus could be saying in September that would convince you of anything but start pulling the troops out?
I believe that General Petraeus is a very able man, and I don't have any doubt that they'll win some battles.
And I hope this works.
I think every American hopes this works.
But it can't work beyond winning a few battles.
It has to be accompanied by progress on the political front.
The president has weathered the challenge in the Senate because of the filibuster.
As long as he can hold more than 40 senators, he can stop the Senate from voting for a change in course.
But in the end, September will come, and it won't be long.
Clinton doesn't, his voice doesn't sound strong there to me, just an observation.
But nevertheless, he got done in by the filibuster.
That's not what did them in.
The dirty little secret is that the Democrats had no intention of this thing passing.
They are not going to be, they're not going to preside over a bloodbath.
This is all a show, folks.
It's all a fundraising show.
It is all designed to weaken Republican senators out in other states.
That's why they're attacking the likely prospects, Olympia Snow and Susan Collins of Maine, other Republicans that are weak, not prepared to hold firm out there.
This is an ongoing effort here over the next number of months to just totally barrage Republican senators and states and make them defect.
But they have no intention of having.
In fact, Dingy Harry has pulled the entire defense authorization bill from the Senate.
He didn't pull just this amendment, just pulled the whole thing back.
And the anti-war kooks were all happy about that because they think there are too many compromises in the defense authorization bill with Republicans.
These people in the Senate, Dingy Harry and his crowd, are being led by the fringe of the kook base that they have into posturing and fundraising and so forth.
But like I said yesterday, if they really wanted to do this, they could defund the war.
That's how they do it.
If Congress really wants to have some role here, what they were doing with their all-nighter was pure show, pure hoax.
Nothing that would have, even if it would have passed, it would not have had the force of law.
And it would not have override veto numbers.
So it was all a show.
They don't intend to be the ones making it look like they are responsible for a bloodbath.
That will no doubt certainly occur.
We have also, you got to hear this.
John Kerry was on Washington Journal C-SPAN today with Susan Swain.
Caller from Lubbock, Texas.
He says, I remember the horrible killings after Vietnam when the boat people coming over here.
And I really hate to go off and leave our allies over in Iraq.
And I am concerned about that.
Let me just say to the first part of your question with respect to boat people and killing.
Everybody predicted a massive bloodbath in Vietnam.
There was not a massive bloodbath in Vietnam.
There were re-education camps, and they weren't pretty.
And, you know, nobody likes that kind of outcome.
But on the other hand, I've met a lot of people today who were in those education camps who are thriving in the Vietnam of today.
Ho, ho, ho.
There was no bloodbath in Vietnam.
Re-education camps.
Yeah, they're not fun.
But I've met a lot of people who've come out of those re-education.
A re-education camp does he know what he's saying.
Bloodbath, re-education camp, denying that the bloodbath that did happen happened.
And now coming out and talking about these re-education camps as though they were some sort of ultimate great thing.
I tell you, this guy came close to being president.
He came close to being president.
His view, if he could have gotten 110,000 more votes in Ohio, he could have.
And that's pretty close.
Anyway, I got to take a quick time out here.
Yeah, in answer to your question that you put in the box up there.
Yes, we'll do that.
800-282-2882 will be back in just a second, folks.
That's right.
You know it, and I know it.
Great to be with you, my friends, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I'm just sitting here.
During the break, I was thinking about some of these comments that Bill Clinton made regarding Hillary.
So I don't know anybody.
If I find anybody out there who's elected office number more for women and children and families that Hillary Clinton has.
And I kind of let that go back.
It's boilerplate.
I hear all this stuff.
I actually got to think, what has she done for women?
Dawn, you're a woman.
What has Hillary Clinton done for women?
Dawn can't think of anything.
They make these claims.
The point, they make these claims, and of course, it was Diane Sawyer, fawns.
Oh, if only me.
Why in the world did they get challenged?
has she done for women?
Okay, so did the Beijing conference, whoopee-doo, what happened with a Beijing conference?
They talked in it.
What has she done for women?
They make these claims, they throw these things out.
It's just like this number of uninsured.
You know, 40 million, 42, 9 million.
Who says?
How do we really know?
We just accept all this stuff as it gets thrown out there.
So she's a role model for women.
That's what she's done for women.
Smartest woman in the world.
What has she done for women that other elected leaders who are male, who have good policies, have done against women?
See, that's another thing.
That's another thing.
Elizabeth Edwards started all this by saying she's not sensitive enough to women's issues.
What the hell are women's issues?
On a national basis.
Throw out abortion.
What else is there?
Childcare?
Early prenatal care?
Nanny care?
What?
I mean, this is, you know, all raise.
She raised consciousness about what?
Pantsuits?
She's redefining, oh, raised consciousness about infidelity.
Well, she might, okay, if you want to say she did something for women, she stood by her man.
She stood by her man.
And other women are to take that as a lesson, learn from it, and you too could someday be a candidate for president.
Then Clinton also, and I've noticed a subtle evolution among the anti-war left.
Suddenly now, we're all concerned with the political side of what's happening in Iraq.
You know, we had the national intelligence estimate come out, and it did not paint a pretty strong picture for the al-Maliki government because the benchmarks weren't met.
But that's because the benchmarks are very high.
So now we've got members of Congress, our own Congress, which hasn't done diddly squat, telling the Iraqi parliament what it has to do, standards it has to meet, benchmarks it has to accomplish.
You got to get the oil sharing revenue bill done over there.
You've got to figure out how to do that.
Meanwhile, they don't let us develop any of our own oil in this country.
They don't let us build any refineries.
The left in this country is steadfastly against drilling in Anwar or in the Gulf or anywhere else.
They will not go through the process, let it start of building more refineries, that they sit there and tell the al-Maliki government in three years you haven't done enough on getting oil up.
Who the hell are these people?
So the NIE comes out and they gives them a little cover to go after the failing political side because the news coming out on the military and security side is good.
But before the surge, and this is just back to April, all we heard and saw on television was reports and complaints on the level of violence in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle and Ramadi, all these places.
All we saw was the obligatory burning car, people running away from the burning car, reports of troop deaths, military massacres committed by our troops and so forth.
Now, all of a sudden, while there's military progress on security, why we can't do that.
Let's focus on how they're screwing up on the political side.
My point I'm making here is that this is a subtle shift.
When good news happens, the drive-by media and their buddies of the Democratic Party have a plan to make sure they ignore it and focus only on the bad news because that is the objective, is to keep everybody in crisis and in panic mode over the fact that it's not working.
And Clinton's saying, well, yeah, we hope it works.
And we hope there's a lot of progress.
But it can't be one military.
There is no military victory here.
So in the face of good news, you go out there and you say something you don't mean.
I hope it works.
I really do.
And I think everybody hopes it works.
Well, we know for a fact that that isn't true.
We know we have an anti-war left in this country and a bunch of elected Democrats who want it to fail, who've already proclaimed it a failure and defeat.
They've already waved a white flag, led by none other than Harry Reid.
So, well, we hope it works.
I just don't think there's a military victory.
Just not a military victory.
So, in the midst of, you know, finally some good news, it doesn't matter.
Good news is irrelevant.
What's important is it can't be won militarily and the political side.
Those people over there are so screwed up, they don't know how to run a country politically from our guys.
You know, so that's a game plan.
That's what I have subtly noticed, ladies and gentlemen, as they constantly try to stay ahead of whatever news comes out of Iraq so that they can focus on the bad.
And there will always be bad news coming out of there, even to the extent that they have to ignore all the good news.
They will do so.
John Kerry got a caller, by the way, from Plymouth, Minnesota, on the Republican line this morning on C-SPAN.
This is what the caller said to Senator Kerry.
That would be less.
I will not vote for you, Senator Kerry.
And the reason is, is you're an old hat at undermining our troops.
Do you remember meeting with the Viet Cong in Paris during the Vietnam War?
And I don't know how anybody gets three purple hearts self-inflicted.
And also, you never answered why you didn't release all of your military records.
What you Democrats are doing are providing aid and comfort to Al-Qaeda.
You're undermining their effort while they're fighting.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
All right, so this is a montage.
We've got Kerry's answer.
This is a montage of his reply to that caller.
The Navy itself has said that every single one of the medals that I was awarded, I deserved, and they were appropriately awarded to me.
And I'm proud of what I accomplished there personally as a warrior on behalf of my country.
And it is a shameful tactic that Republicans see fit to attack the personal record of those who serve our country.
Moreover, none of those wounds were self-inflicted, and I resent and will forever resent the implication by anybody that that was the fact.
There are soldiers on my boat, sailors on my boat.
Every one of my crew has certified that what happened happened, and it was thoroughly vetted.
So enough of this Republican smear tactic.
With respect to the visits to Viet Cong, please, ma'am, I fought against the communists in Vietnam.
And when I came back, after having seen the lies that our government told, I stood up and told the truth about that wound.
I lied through his teeth about it.
You know what?
This guy's got, what's the word?
He's got so much resentment over the fact that this carefully laid image and plan got blown up in his 2004 presidential race.
I mean, he's worked on that legacy like Clinton is working on his.
And it just got blown up with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
And, of course, the national attention you're going to get when you want to be president.
Here's Mary in Sunset Hills, Missouri.
Mary, great you called.
Nice to have you with us.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I love your brilliant mind.
Well, I love your brilliant mind.
Thank you very much.
Oh, you're welcome.
Thank you so much for pointing out the other day, I don't know why I didn't think of this.
What business do our politicians have criticizing the Iraqi politicians?
Who cares what they say?
And I have taken that mindset a step further, and I feel the exact same way about the obesity experts.
We're not going to die.
You know, what they're saying is it's speculation.
I'm sure there are people out there who have health risks, but I just really appreciate you pointing out all it means is that the diet industry is a business to get into because every fat person loses and regains weight 10 or 12 times in their lives.
The diet business is where to go if you want to believe these experts.
But see, it's more hideous than that.
All of this stuff lays the groundwork for a big government to come in and start telling you what you can and can't feed your kids, what restaurants can and can't serve, what kind of oil they can and can't use.
I mean, it's all hideous, and it's all disguised.
It's, oh my gosh, we care about you and your kids, and they're going to be little tubs, and we want to help you.
Look, I think all this stuff is hideous.
I don't think the good intentions are a smokescreen.
Let's put it that way.
Right.
Well, I appreciate you questioning because of the good intentions, we want to believe them.
You know, of course, we want to believe, hey, they're going to protect us.
They're going to take care of us.
And I just, you know, I'm no longer paying attention to what the senators are saying about Iraq.
And I'm just, I'm really starting to question what I hear all the health experts say as well.
And I wanted to thank you for, you know, for pointing that out.
And I don't know how I don't know how you sustain the energy that you have every day to do what you do.
I really do not know how you do it.
How do you stay so enthusiastic?
I love what I do.
And I don't like being in bad moods.
Yeah.
Well, I can never tell when you're in a bad mood.
And that's what I don't.
I know you have to have them sometimes, but I can't ever tell.
I'm in sort of one now.
But everybody has them.
But I don't know.
When I get here and the show starts, the microphone goes on.
What really takes over is the audience I know has expectations.
This is the most listened-to show.
It's not an accident.
Why?
And the audience has expectations.
And then, no, if I take it, you know, if I phone it in one day, you'll know it.
And that's not good.
I don't want that to happen.
I abhor bad radio.
I abhor boring radio.
Just despise it.
I know, but you make it so easy.
I mean, the great make what they do work easy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, and the speed with which you can communicate and articulate your thoughts, I just, you do it so quickly.
And I mean, it would take me three hours to articulate what you can articulate in 30 seconds.
So anyway.
Remember, I've been, I've been, this is my career.
It's my job.
I mean, and I've been doing it for a whole bunch of years.
I didn't used to be as good at this as I am now.
Yeah.
I mean, I have to go back 40 years when I wasn't this good, but I was a beginner at the one.
No, I'm joshing with you.
You're very kind.
I very much appreciate what you said.
I really do.
That's very important.
I did not call to fawn over you, and I'm embarrassed that I'm doing that, but I just, we can't help it, Rush.
We can't help it.
You just bring it out of us.
So have a good day.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You do the same.
By the way, on this expert business, Mary, here's another thing to remember.
All these experts the media gets, we've been chronicling this.
Every month, the government releases economic figures from unemployment to economic growth.
Those are quarterly numbers.
And every month, the headline or somewhere in the story refers to the experts being shocked or the experts being surprised or the experts seeing the unexpected.
And you get to ask yourself at some point, why do they keep using these idiots?
They're not experts.
If they can't see what's going to happen, then they've got a built-in bias.
So when you know that the experts that they use for their economic analysis are always surprised, you should logically question every other expert they produce, be it in health or military matters or what have you.
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Diana Schneider, the editrix at the Limbaugh Letter, has been toiling away trying to figure out what is it that Hillary Clinton has done for women.
Her husband out there in Good Morning America today said that he's done more for women.
She's done more for women than anybody that he could think of.
And Diana said, well, you know, she did do something that's worthwhile for women.
She taught women to wear pink to distract them from guilt, to distract from their guilt in certain matters.
Wear pink when you're lying and sit under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln when one is handy.
You know, the Pretty in Pink press conference.
So there is something that we can say that she has done.
Get this, a judge has ordered, this is in Las Vegas, judges ordered a southern Nevada hospital to return a placenta to a mother who sued to retrieve the afterbirth for her own consumption.
Clark County District Court Judge Susan Johnson granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center to return the placenta to Ann Swanson.
Hospital officials said they'll comply with the order to turn it over within two weeks.
I'll tell you, I consumption.
Well, at least you can say score one for private property rights out in the West.
I mean, you're going to look at this, try to find the positive.
You can find it there.
Dave in Gurney, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, Rush.
This is a story keeping with the Epicurean motif and liberal absurdity.
I heard this story on NPR is All Things Considered two weeks ago.
And there is a push to take garlic out of Italian food.
Where?
Well, in America?
Well, listen to this.
For the crux of the story, they said they're going to go to a trendy Italian upscale restaurant in Rome.
And then the owner or the chef there, he said the reason they want to get it out of Italian cooking is, one, it makes people stink.
And two, it was always considered a poor man's vegetable.
So they're actually going to go to Italy to do this.
Who have they?
That's where they went with the story.
They went to a trendy restaurant in Rome.
Oh, they already did it.
Well, I don't know.
There's a push to do it.
Well, who is they?
Who's behind the push?
Well, the thing that made me go, aha, is because they said this restaurant caters to celebrities and show people.
Now, when they said that, I go, oh, my God.
And I just started laughing, you know, just for the idea that they would even think of taking garlic out of Italian cooking.
Before we can get there, I have to know who's doing this.
I mean, it's not NPR, is it?
It's reporting on somebody that's doing it.
So who's doing it?
I guess this is a surge that's starting in Rome over in Italy, from what I gathered from.
Okay, so it's not some dingbat American group trying to tell the Italians what to do.
It's the Italians.
It's some Italian wacko group that's trying to get garlic.
Because it makes people stink.
I thought garlic had health and healing powers.
Well, I always thought so too, but evidently those are trumped by the fact that it makes you stink.
And it's a lower-class vegetable, of course.
Of course.
then you know this is this is there's a solution here the Edwards Poverty Tour the poor in this country if garlic is a lower class vegetable then get it in their diets they already stink all right we got this story from the AP version of the garlic story it is from June 22nd and it looks like I haven't had a chance to read this thing in great detail,
but it looks like it's something that's typical here that it wouldn't be happening without the media being behind it.
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