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July 27, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, yes, I know.
We're ready to go here, and it is the open line Friday edition of the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
It's Friday, folks, so let's make haste.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, and we come to the end of another busy, exciting broadcast week here at the Lindbrook Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Because if I'm bored, you'll be bored.
But on Friday, Great Career Risk.
Turning over content portion of the program we go to the phones to you.
Lovable wonderful people, but nevertheless rank amateurs.
So, and if I don't care about it, we'll still talk about it.
I will fake it, do my best.
It's uh it's always a fun day.
I you know, back in the days when the the early days of the gasoline price uh going up.
Uh everybody dumping on these guys.
We we compared the prices of various other liquids.
Milk by the gallon, water by the gallon, of course, when you buy it in bottles and so forth.
So my gosh, can you imagine how the the uh the oil company guys feel at the bottled water guys?
The bottled water guys, I said, and I'm making a joke.
All they gotta do is turn on the tap.
You know, put a bottle underneath the tap, put a label on it, says spring water, sell it to you.
They don't have to drill, they don't have to explore, there's no RD, there's nothing.
There aren't any regulations.
Don't even have to put fluoride in it.
And I was exaggerating about the bottled water guys putting it underneath the tap, but it turns out I was right.
Even when I'm joking, I was right.
PepsiCo will spell out that it's Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water.
Yes, right here I hold a story in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
This is a concession to the uh growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry, according to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group.
The world's number two beverage company will include the words public water source on aquafina labeled.
Well, that isn't gonna help them in real Linda, for example, understand.
Why don't they say this water came from the same kind of tap in your kitchen?
Public water source.
If this uh if this helps uh clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it's a reasonable thing to do, said Michelle Naughton of PepsiCola North American spokeswoman, the Pepsi Chief Executive Indra Nui, told Reuters earlier this week the company was considering such a uh move.
Pepsi's Aquafina and Coca-Cola's DeSani are both made from purified water sources from public reservoirs, as opposed to the Evian or the Poland Spring, uh, the so-called spring waters.
Look at Don Dawn's got a bottle of Desani in there.
She's drinking right now.
You may as well just have gone run water from the tap.
And knew it!
I knew it.
We go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
To the groove yard of forgotten favorites, we have a Gorbesm.
All right, for those of you who are new to the program, and there are many of you who are, we are getting, as an aside here, the spring 2007 rating book results.
They're pouring in this week.
This program has long been the most listened to radio program in the country, but it went through the roof this spring.
So all kinds of new people out there.
Okay, here's what a Gorbasm is.
Gorbasm basically is that feeling of uncontrolled joy and excitement that explodes, or I should say exploded, when Mikhail Gorbachev landed in Washington in 1987 to save the world from Ronald Reagan's finger on the nuclear button.
He had all these people, the drive-bys and the state, Department people are gathered there on the tarmac, and here came the Illusion 62, bringing Mikhail Gorbachev to visit with Ronald Reagan.
And they were panting out there on the tarmac, and they were excited.
He could barely contain themselves.
And a door to the plane opened, and Gorbachev appeared with that birthmark, and he has come, he's here, and they went nuts.
And thus the term Gorbasm was born, created by me on air in Sacramento about the same time we came up with the word feminazi, by the way.
Okay, Ed you can fade that down.
Here is the news.
Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the complicated situation in the world is largely due to the position of the United States, which suffers from winter complex.
This guy has not gotten over the fact that he lost one of the great empires or near great empires of the world.
U.S. is always anxious to win.
The fact that they suffer from this disorder, the winter complex, is the main reason why things are so complicated in the world, Gorbachev said a press conference at the Interfax News Agency earlier today.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. felt like it had its hands untied, he said.
They forced the war in Europe.
They thought that now they have a chance and must create a new empire, talking about us.
All intellectual and political forces were involved.
Now everything is calmed down.
It was wishful think.
What is he talking about?
What war in Europe?
Is he talking about World War II?
They forced the war in Europe.
What war?
The end of the Cold War is both sides' achievement.
This is what really grates on him.
He can't get it through his head that the fact that the cold winter drive-by's give him credit for ending the Cold War, and the American left does, but of course it would never have happened were it not for Ronaldus Magnus.
We all lost in the Cold War, said Gorbachev, and all benefited from its end.
We lost, and the U.S. did, as each spent $10 trillion on the arms race.
Without our proposal, there would be nothing, no end to the Cold War, no decision to reduce nuclear nuclear weapons.
So he's trying to jump in here again and claim credit for ending the Cold War.
Margaret Thatcher has said she said to me personally, she has said publicly that the straw that broke the camel's back, the Soviet Union was our decision, uh, the decision of Ronaldus Magnus to move forward on Star Wars, the strategic defense initiative.
Uh the Soviets knew that we could do it.
We are Americans.
We can do what we set out to do, we have the will to do it, and we have the economy uh to pay for what we want to do in our national defense.
Uh the Soviets didn't.
They were a third world country at best with a first-rate military.
And that um well, we we helped who by loop?
We didn't lose.
This is the he's he's well, okay, Gorbachev helped because he lost, but see, he's lumping us all in with him as losers, and uh there's no way.
I just the guy pops up uh every now and then.
Fact, you know, I met Gorbachev at George H. W. But's uh Bush's 80th birthday party, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh and uh we're amazingly wearing uh well suits that in the picture that was taken look identical.
Uh it was down in Houston at Reliant Park, the place that the Astros play baseball, uh, and and uh actually two pictures were taken, and we put we put one of those pictures on the uh on the website back when this happened a couple summers ago, and uh birthmark ended up on my forehead, was one of the big, big mysteries.
We'll post that picture at Rush Limbaugh.com in honor of today's Gorbazm.
Brief timeout, we'll come back.
Your phone calls all the uh rest of the just looking at some late late arriving show prep here, folks.
Save that for later.
Oh, guess guess what?
You know, there's a big controversy that's brewing out there uh over falling chunks of ice.
Falling chunks of ice in a clear sky.
And there are actually scientists who are claiming that this phenomenon is the result of global warming.
Now let me ask, even if you didn't go to high school, even if you did go to high school and you took a science course, let me ask you if you just in within your own realm, your own ability to think, do you think that it is possible that a giant ball of ice could form in a clear blue, cloudless sky, and then plummet to earth and hit your car or hit an or hit you.
Do you think that's yet we have su well, it's not.
It is it is impossible.
It cannot happen.
Anybody with a brain knows what's happening here.
You got airplanes flying all over the sky.
Some of the lavatory systems leak water out there.
That's why some of the ice is blue sometimes.
And it forms an ice ball and it falls off the airplane.
The airplane's long gone in the clear blue sky by the time the ice falls on your house.
But somehow scientists are trying to say that this is a phenomenon of climate change.
Back here in just a moment, folks.
Sit tight.
Welcome back to Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, a truth detector, doctor of democracy, well-known advocate for the disadvantaged and the poor and uh women as well.
Uh man you could and would totally trust with your wife, your daughter, your pets, uh overnight in some hotel while you're out traveling.
An excellent role model for the youths of America, all combined here as one harmless lovable little fuzz.
Well, we had a call yesterday to have a chance to get to this uh lady at the end of the program, so she graciously gave us her phone number, which we will then sell to all of our sponsors.
Uh so we could call her back.
Kathy is Fremont, California.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you.
Everybody has my phone number.
That's the post office number I gave you.
Okay, good.
The post office number.
Hi.
God bless you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
I was calling about um the uh people that were calling in yesterday regarding um the uh pit bull attacks versus the Michael Vick the famous Michael Vick situation, yes.
Yes.
And um it just strikes me that the people who are so head up over the animal thing, which is of course horrible, but they're not that upset about the family murderer, are people who are who tend to worship the creatures over the creator.
People who humble them.
Yes, yes, yes, but we understand why.
I mean, especially you talk about dogs here, man's best friend.
Yes.
And of course, the uh the dog will do anything to protect its uh homestead and its masters, you know, the cat would eat you if it were big enough.
Uh but these people will humble themselves before anything with the exception of God.
They're just uh Well, you were you were calling them because it w uh uh I had I had shared with the audience yesterday a couple of emails I got that said your callers are there dumber than usual, perhaps snerdily's uh not applying himself in there.
Uh and you had called to raise the overall IQ average.
That was kidding, of course.
Well, no, no, no, you obviously sound very intelligent and what we intelligent people do not need to be I mean, we we we can be humble about it.
We don't have to be braggadocious, but we don't have to downplay it either.
That's true.
People downplay their achievements too much.
They were because they're afraid to be uh thought of as uh braggadocious.
Yes, that's true.
Anyway, well, Kathy, uh, are you really at the post office?
Yes, I am.
Well, good.
Uh are you safe?
Uh at the moment.
But speaking of that, if I could say hello to one of our guys who worked here who's over in Kuwait right now, or Iraq right now.
Uh over in Kuwait.
Oh, yeah, what's his name?
His name is Carl Anderson.
Carly Anderson.
And I'm sure he'd be listening if they're allowing him to.
Well, too, I'm sure too.
Thank you, Kathy, very much.
I appreciate you letting us call you back, and we will not uh be selling your phone number to uh sponsors.
All right.
That was just key.
Well, you never know what people hear and believe out there.
All right, remember earlier the week, we had a story on a New York Times poll, CBS New York Times Poll that said that support for the initial invasion of Iraq had shockingly, surprisingly unbelievably increased.
And we reported this, and uh we couldn't believe a New York Times reported it.
They, as it turns out, couldn't believe they reported it either.
There is a story today in the Times by John at uh Janet Elder entitled The Story Behind a Polling Mystery.
The war in Iraq is the single most important ongoing news story right now, she writes.
Public opinion about the war is a critical part of that story.
That's why when we had a poll finding about the war that we could not explain, we went back and did another poll on the very same subject.
We wanted to make sure that we had gotten it right.
And it turns out we had gotten it right.
Support for the initial invasion of Iraq is measured by a question the New York Times has asked since December 2003 increased modestly compared to uh two months ago.
Uh so the the Times, and we can understand this.
I did the poll, people were supportive of the initial invasion.
It was a mystery to them.
So they went back and uh people were still supportive of the war when they did it a second time.
And I'm sure now that the Times is worried, maybe the template's not working.
Maybe the action line simply isn't working.
Here's a story from the Washington Times today by Elizabeth Miller's cynicism about American politics has risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds all the polls that constitute news.
How many stories today are poll-driven that and uh then treated as news?
Cynicism about American politics risen sharply in recent months, according to a new poll that finds growing numbers of voters feel the country's headed in a wrong direction, and that fewer think politicians can fix the problem.
Hell, that's good news.
That means people are waking up.
They are understanding the ineffectiveness of large government and bureaucracy.
More than two-thirds of likely voters, 71%, say that their member of Congress puts party politics ahead of them.
This is a George Washington University Battleground 2008 poll.
It was released yesterday.
This is Ed Goaz and Solinda Lake.
Uh she's a Democrat, he's Republican, it's uh well known a bipartisan poll, found that 70% of voters said the country's on the wrong track, 58% feeling strongly about it.
Only 32% of voters think that their children will be better off than they are now.
That's a drop of seven percentage points since uh January, which is actually very sad because they're wrong.
Uh frankly, with uh uh immigration, illegal immigration running amok.
Um, you know, I can understand how some people might think that uh your children's future will not be as bright as uh as your life as it is today.
Cynicism may be the hot new political trend the politicians are going to have to fight against, said Brian Neenaber, vice president of the group that did the poll.
People hold such a cynical view of how things are run in Washington that they're gonna have to try double hard.
What is so surprising at people being cynical about what's happening in Washington, particularly after the immigration debate?
What a debacle!
And this is great news.
People have woken up, have woken up, and I predicted this.
This is going to be a great opportunity to illustrate to people the folly and the ineffectiveness, the unresponsiveness, the arrogance, the elitism of big government and the elites that uh that populate it.
Despite widespread disapproval of the Republican president, Selinda Lake said that Democrats ought not get their hopes up yet because the Democrats look good, frankly, only relative to the Republicans.
Among the 2008 presidential hopefuls, the battleground poll shows that Rudy remains the most crectable candidate for Republicans, even if Fred Thompson decides to uh get in the get in the race.
So uh it's I think some of this is is pretty positive news, but it does distress me.
I understand the immigration aspect of this, but it does distress me that so many people, in the midst of the greatest prosperity the human race has ever known, uh, think that for the first time their kids won't do as well as they did or have done.
Uh that that is that is something that the the cynics and the doom and gloomers keep hoping for.
They want to be able to discredit capitalism as an unfair mechanism for distributing resources and riches and so forth.
But it hasn't been the case.
A simple historical examination of the economic performance of this country.
The technological advances, the uh uh inventions that have improved our standards of living, always gets better, and it always will.
Every day in America is better than the uh than the day before.
I've known this since I was ten.
That's why I always wanted to be older.
And I've been right.
Every year's been better than the previous for me.
Yes, yes, I I know.
I late arriving show prep here, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday and to Cookville, Tennessee.
Uh we go.
This is Kathy Kathy.
Great to have you with us.
By the way, Kathy, one of my all-time top ten favorite uh female names.
Oh, I am so impressed to hear that.
Thank you.
I'm so impressed to talk to you.
I'm practically speechless, which is if you knew me well, that's not happened very often.
I can imagine, because you're a woman.
Oh, well.
Maybe so.
Um I was thinking last night particularly that after doing some reading recently and uh biography of Winston Churchill.
Yes.
You really remind me a lot of him in his convictions and his ideology that that uh particularly in that war must be fought sometimes, and that you must achieve a victory and defeat your enemies in order to achieve peace.
And I just wondered, hypothetically, if um things had been different and Winston had been in your seat and you were a caller, would you be a ditto head at his.
Oh, yeah, I was I'm a great admirer of Winston Churchill's.
I I uh I think one of the most prescient uh brilliant men.
My my family, uh, when I was growing up, that's when I first heard of Winston Churchill.
My father and grandfather uh adored Winston Churchill.
They idolized him.
And uh we'd sit around on it's on Sunday go up to my grandfather's house and and uh give uh my grandfather would uh share us and my my dad would all share Winston Churchill anecdotes and stories, things that they knew and uh uh things they'd read about him.
So I had an early exposure uh to Churchill.
In fact, uh one of the the first time I went to England, I went to Blenheim Palace, where he was born, which is where the uh the Duke of Marlborough now lives, uh, who is also a member of a club where I am a member here.
Uh so I've got a little bit of a uh it's it's a fascinating trip uh to go see where Winston Churchill was born and and grew up.
And I've I've read something about him, but I'm very looking, I'm I'm uh uh uh blown away by your comparison of me to Winston Churchill.
Uh I thank you very much for that, but that's that's a stretch.
Well, you're welcome.
I know I know you didn't have the same backgrounds or or the same uh vocation, but there are a lot of similarities in your conservatism that he ultimately found, and particularly on his uh belief that you must achieve victory and you must suppress the enemies of the world.
And uh I just want to compliment you again for doing what you do.
Well, thanks for getting the word.
I'll tell you uh one I'll tell you something about Churchill since you you want to talk about him as a uh uh uh a commander in chief of sorts during wartime.
Uh Hitler was amassing power but did not have great military strength in 1936, and that's when uh that's when Churchill first started sounding huge warnings, and they and it wouldn't listen to him.
Nobody in Great Britain wanted to listen to him, nobody wanted to listen to him anywhere.
They just come out of World War I. They didn't know what it wouldn't want this bang the drums of war and stop this, and he ran around, he was doing everything he could to alert people.
And uh and and he said, look at trying to get everybody's attention.
If we deal with this now, the price is gonna be very small.
It's gonna be much easier to deal with Hitler right now than if we wait.
But of course, Churchill had to sit by and watch Neville Chamberlain travel to meet.
Uh Hitler came back and he was the most popular uh uh uh person in Great Britain at the time who's waving this uh agreement that uh that Hitler had signed, and we've got peace in our time.
I have brought you peace in our time.
And so, of course, a year after that, bam, uh uh, Churchill started his march.
The interesting thing is in 1936, if if Winston Churchill had been listened to, the French, believe it or not, in 1936, the French had far more military power and strength.
Machines, guns, ammo, soldiers.
Hitler was just consolidated.
He's got his power, but he hadn't put his military together.
The French could have wiped Hitler out the moment he made his move on the Rhineland.
And they didn't.
Thomas Sowell writes about this today.
In fact, it talks to this the uh moral paralysis, the uh the inability to deal with what faces you, and you put it off, and you're only gonna have to deal with it later, uh, be it Hitler or be it Al Qaeda or be it any enemy that you have.
You can't wish bad people away.
Sally Quinn today, I guess it was last night, yesterday afternoon, she was on hard boiled with uh with Chris Matthews.
And and you know this the drive-by's are fascinated, folks with this spat that's going on between Hillary and Obama.
Uh Hillary calling it silly, the name calling that's going on, uh, and about whether or not we should go meet with these thug dictators.
Obama in a debate said that he would.
Hillary said it's naive.
So the Obama Obama camp is firing back and uh calling Hillary names, and the drive-bys love this.
The headlines about this uh today that I mean, E.J. Dion Jr., the Washington Post today, this could be the tipping point in the campaign.
This could be the deciding they're just so excited for anything to happen, and they're so excited that the gloves have come off.
They're amplifying the importance of this.
And so they brought in Sally Quinn, who is the social secretary of Washington, D.C., uh former uh CBS news babe and Washington Post writer married to Benjamin Bradley of Watergate fame during the Washington uh Post days.
And uh she said, Well, you know, uh, Chris, um Obama may have a point.
These thugs, these dictators, just want respect.
You know, they're they're they're they're they're back room bullies and so forth, and if you just talk to them, if we just go talk to them, then it it makes them feel like they're respected, and you can talk them down from things.
Uh you sit here and you read this, and the mind explodes over the naivete because the lessons of history are you don't talk to them and you certainly don't give them respect.
They are murderous thug dictators, they're tyrants.
Their people live in impr live in oppression.
Uh so back to the Churchill exam.
Churchill said we could deal with this with so little cost and so little pain if we didn't nobody wanted to listen to him, and look what happened.
They had to deal with it, the whole world had to deal with it later on, uh, just three years later after 1930, or four years after 1936.
And we face the same situation here, but people want to put their head in the sands and pretend that the problem's not as bad as it is, because way over there.
The parallels between Iran, by the way, and Mahmud Ahmad, let's you know, he's just a guy who wants self-respect.
Let's let's let's do let's go talk to him.
He's just he's just crying out for help.
He's the Lindsay Lohan of the Middle East.
He just wants a little attention.
He wants some help.
Uh, you look away that country is run, and you tell me if you'd want your wife or daughter to live there.
If you'd want to live there.
By the way, the Iraqis, you're right.
You know, one of the things that is uniting the Iraqis against Al Qaeda is that these these uh Islamo fascists are coming in with the I love the media calling all kinds of new conservative behavioral rules.
And one of the things that the militant Islamo fascists of Al Qaeda have stopped is smoking.
And Iraqis love to smoke cigarettes.
And the Iraqis are having their their index middle finger of their right hands cut off if they are seen by Al Qaeda smoking cigarettes.
And this is making them mad.
Uh, we've got stories of of troops marching into areas and rescuing some people who've been pinned down for a while, citizens, and the first thing they ask for is cigarettes, not food and water.
And this is turning average Iraqis against Al Qaeda.
Can you imagine the goodwill if we just, you know, drop a bunch of camels, the cigarettes, a bunch of camels, a perfect brand, right into Baghdad, some of these areas we can own the place.
The cigar cigarette airlift across Iraq.
I mean, it makes all the sense in the world.
Little things like this.
At any rate, we're gonna have to deal with this one way or the other.
Whatever the Democrats do, pull us out, keep us there.
Um we have no choice but to defeat these people.
That's the Clarion call at Winston Churchill kept trying to get the British people to understand.
But the liberals of his day, just like the liberals of our day, liberals or liberals, didn't want to deal with it, didn't think that mattered.
Hitler could run roughshot all over Europe, but he wasn't going to touch us because he signed that thing with Chamberlain.
And of course.
Neville Chamberlain actually went and talked to Hitler, right?
Had to talk to him to get the signature, had to get peace in our time.
Followed the Sally Quinn rule.
And the next thing the Brits knew they're being bombarded with rockets and uh threats of attack all over the place.
You got to deal with the your enemy by defeating them if you uh want to maintain your own freedom.
Brief time out, we'll be back after this.
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Interesting.
I have two stories here about John Edwards and his uh Tax the Rich Plan.
One story from the Los Angeles Times, and the other one from the uh from the New York Times.
The New York Times takes him out on the story.
See, Edwards is leading in Iowa.
That's not the action line.
The action line is Hillary wins the nomination at the New York Times.
The LA Times treats this, whoo, pretty cool.
Edwards announces his tax the rich plan, the Democrat presidential hopeful wants to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and raise rates to fund breaks for lower income families.
This is, by the way, what every Democrat wants to do.
It's just that Edwards is the one out there making the big to do about it, because he's trying to move as far left as he can against, and so is Hillary or Obama.
Obama and Edwards are both trying to get left of Hillary in order to secure more power here and support in the in the uh campaign right now for the primaries that are coming up.
Tax hikes once anathema to Democrats trying to shed their image as tax and spend liberals are back.
How have we let this come back into being fashionable?
You know, it it it it with with the tax cuts that have produced this economy.
Well, I I know it's psychological.
I understand it.
Anyway, they go on to talk about what the plan is.
Um the only dissenting view in this story is provided by a democratic strategist who is neutral in the campaign but didn't want to be named, criticizing Edwards' proposal.
If we have an election where the dialogues about whether or not taxes should be increased, it's not a good dialogue for us, meaning a Democrats.
Good point.
Exactly why we all need to keep talking about this.
On taxes, however, Obama and Clinton may be more reluctant to follow Edwards' lead because of the political risks of proposing tax hikes as big as Edwards has.
But he's in third place.
He got nothing to lose.
His campaign's imploding, if you want to know the truth.
Carl Lubsdorf writing in the Dallas Morning News today says it's over.
And the whole thing with his wife, everything putting his wife out there front and said it's backfired.
Uh it ain't working.
You go over to the New York Times story about this.
Edwards proposes raising capital gains tax, and they play this is a classic wealth redistribution, taking money from the rich, uh, putting it in investment accounts for their investment accounts, and putting it into accounts for the poor.
Uh now, you go to the end of this story and listen to this.
Robert S. McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group whose calculations are widely respected by tax experts, said that if the cost of extending tax cuts for people earning less than 200 grand was added to the calculation, a plan would create a $35 billion revenue shortfall instead of the extra $50 billion predicted by the camp.
Of course it will.
Just like a $10 tax on cigars will put the domestic cigar business out of business.
Just like the luxury tax on yachts, lost the jobs of the people who made the yachts because people went elsewhere to get yachts.
Remember that luxury tax that they tried in the Clinton years?
Had to repeal that inside of a year.
But then McIntyre goes on to say, John Edwards is trying to do something nice for low-income people.
The question is whether he has a way to pay for it.
He is repealing tax cuts on the rich that really do not exist.
And the only part of substance is that he is expanding the Bush tax cuts to everybody else, but doesn't count it.
I don't want to go overboard in the criticism, but Edwards is being very deceptive.
Now, can you imagine the New York Times about anything of the Bush tax cut, quoting anybody, a labor backed, that means Liberal Democrat tax group.
Can you imagine them publishing a story saying he is repealing tax cuts on the rich that really don't exist?
This is the New York Times taking John Edwards out.
Or trying to trying to blow this tax plan of his up in his own face.
Stuart in uh Berth Dude, Colorado.
Nice to have you on uh open line Friday.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
I'm great.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, well, thank you.
And I can only assume that you intentionally didn't remember something Wednesday when you were asked the question about diplomatic successes over the last 50 years.
Uh, well, if I forgot it, then I'm still forgetting it.
What is it?
Well, the two that you did mention Reagan walking out of Reykjavik and Bill Clinton and his diplomacy with his wife.
Yeah, that's the big big example there, yeah.
Yes.
Well, you forgot the most important and probably greatest diplomatic success of our time just several years ago.
And that is that would be GW and his hard talk after 9-11, as well as his diplomatic effort through war in Afghanistan and Iraq that saw Mumar Qaddafi and Libya give up tons and tons of WMB.
Yeah, but that there wasn't no diplomacy about that.
You you even undercut your own argument with your own words.
You uh it was we invaded Iraq in the early 90s, took care of them inside of what, two days.
Yeah, well, it was big stick diplomacy.
Well, that's that's not big stick diplomacy is when you wave it around and threaten to use it, and somebody responds to it.
This time we used the stick, and we used the stick again in 2003, going back into Iraq.
And we went into Afghanistan.
It was it was pure fear.
It wasn't diplomacy, it was the fear of God or fear of Allah, uh, that was put into the mind of Qaddafi.
Don't forget.
He's already sitting there quaking in his boots because Reagan bombed his tent.
After, you know, Qaddafi was uh widely held responsible for TWA Flight 800 that went down over Lock, not 800, uh uh Pan Am Flight Pan Am 103 went down over Lockerby Spot Scotland.
Reagan, you know, sent a couple of what did he send?
F-18 hornets?
I forget what they were.
We had to fly around the Iberian Peninsula because the French and the Spanish wouldn't give us permission to fly over, so we had to go around.
Up the tunnel into the Mediterranean, handsome pilots targeting the tent, and Qaddafi's daughter happened to be in there.
So that's when it started.
That is not diplomacy.
I want to congratulate the state of Texas here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in at least a decade, Texas was declared drought-free yesterday.
Yes, John Nielsen Gammon, the Texas climatologist, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas AM said, We've gotten so much rain this year, we pretty much made up for the past few years' drought conditions in several areas of the state.
There have been so much rain, in fact, that flooding has become a problem in some areas.
Many farmers struggling to salvage crops that remain underwater.
At least sixteen deaths have been blamed on heavy rain since mid-June, and property damage has been widespread.
The U.S. Drought Monitor connected with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration shows severe or extreme drought conditions in part of the Southeast, much of the West, but Texas and most of the nation's midsection is now drought free.
Great news, thank God for global warming.
The global warming comes along, causes NOAA-like floods, but it ends the drought.
You have to look at this as great news.
All right, the first hour in the can on the way over to the museum uh warehouse where artifacts for the future broadcast museum being held.
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