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Aug. 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane, Rush Limbaugh back.
Final hour of broadcast excellence today.
From the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies having Having more fun today than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here's the telephone number, 800 28282, the email address rush at eIBNet.com.
Can I ask you a simple simple question?
Why do you think people who are overweight are overweight?
Well, I mean, is is there okay they they eat too much, right?
No.
How many stories have we had just in the last week?
That the obesity.
And of course, when we talk about it, these stories talk about it.
I forget what some of the other excuses have been in some of these stories that we've done in the last, say, week to ten days.
Uh oh yeah.
Mother's fault, uh, poor eating habits when she was pregnant, uh, and the uh and the the uh unviable tissue mass in the womb uh inherited the poor eating habit.
Well, it's just uh just throwing a bone out there to the uh feminizes uh with unviable tissue mass.
You people know I'm kidding.
Uh so yeah, and then doctors didn't give them proper training, the doctors are not giving proper weight, all these things.
But it really boils down that the people eat more than they should.
Well, there's a new excuse now.
In the buffet of reasons for why Americans are getting fatter.
Uh oh, this is our old buddy Seth Borinstein again, the science writer.
This is the guy who wrote on the artificial life recently.
In the buffet of reasons why Americans are getting fatter, researchers are piling more evidence on the plate for one still controversial cause, a virus.
New research announced yesterday at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in Boston.
Found that uh when human stem cells, the blank slate of the cell world, were exposed to a common virus, they turned into fat cells.
They didn't just change, they stored fat too.
Now this may be a guilt-free explanation for putting on pounds, but it does not explain all or even most of America's growing obesity.
Well, then why do the story, Seth?
If it doesn't explain anything, then what's the point of the story?
Well, he says here it adds to other recent evidence that blames expanding waistlines and more than just supersized appetites and uh underused underused muscles.
If uh if a viral cause of obesity can be confirmed, a vaccine could be developed, maybe within five to ten years, to prevent the virus from making some people fat.
However, it uh wouldn't help people who are already obese.
They're screwed.
Um but the uh this the researcher says uh that means for some people it's not their fault that they're fat.
Now we don't want obese people to feel it's all their fault because it's not all their fault, but clearly the buck finally lies with the person.
Now that's gobbledygook.
That's from Dr. Samuel Klein, uh director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University Med School at St. Louis.
Uh we don't want obese people listen to this.
This this is a scientist.
We don't want obese people to feel it's all their fault because it's not all their fault, but clearly the buck finally lies with the person.
So it is their fault.
It's their response.
Just a good lib, it can't offend anybody.
Women do prefer pink, researchers say.
Uh boys like blue, girls like pink, and there isn't much anybody can do about it.
Researchers said Monday, in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color preferences.
Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution, in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit.
Whoa.
See, this is one of the this is one of the reasons we are on a 40-second delay today, folks, because I am doing the program sleepless.
Reddish colors associated with riper fruit.
Uh and healthier faces.
Healthier, you know, cherubic faces.
uh for men.
Thinking about colors was less important, but blue seems to win out with most of them.
Uh because as hunters, they just needed to spot something dark and shoot it.
That's who said that.
The some guy named uh Hulbert.
Uh it's a woman, Anya Hulbert, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University led the study.
So uh it's evolutionary, folks.
The way um girls prefer pink, ripened fruit, uh or riper, riper fruit, and men just like blue because it's dark and you shoot it and kill it.
Uh yeah, I guess you could say that.
Men want to hunt it and shoot it, women want the ripe fruit.
And somewhere in there they get married.
Well, maybe the other stuff comes after that.
I I don't know.
Uh Project for Excellence in Journalism uh found that 15% of stories across print, broadcast and online dealt with Iraq related issues.
That's down from 22 percent during the first quarter of the year.
In the second quarter, Fox News Channel to vote a roughly half as much coverage of the war, eight percent as its rivals, CNN 18 percent, MSNBC 15 percent.
Now, why do you think the news media, when you can drive by us or covering the walk Iraq war less?
That's right, that's because it's succeeding, and that's how you tell if it's a success.
You people that watch the news, if you see less coverage of the Iraq war, you know that things are going well.
The Tucson Citizen, a newspaper in Arizona, has a uh intriguing article stating that the state's governor, Janet Napolitano, closely watching the results of Nevada's request that Mexico pay the health care costs of Mexicans living in the state.
Did you know this had happened?
Did you know that Nevada had uh uh requested Mexico pay the health care cost of illegals?
The article goes on to report Mexico's health department confirmed late Monday it is analyzing the feasibility of covering health care costs for its citizens in Nevada.
Uh according to a University of Arizona study, probably that study is over with what was the hurricane having hit.
That's a perfect built-in to excuse to ignore it.
According to a University of Arizona study released in July, immigrants account for 4.9 million uh dollars in uncompensated health care costs in Tucson and a total of a hundred and forty-nine point three million in Arizona.
That's what it health care is being uh spent on uh illegal immigrants.
Wow.
Anybody think that the Mexicans will actually do this?
Fat, fat chance.
Let's see.
We've got some incredible uh audio soundbites here from Christiana Manpour.
Uh she's uh uh Jamie Rubin's wife, uh former State Department spokesman for Clinton.
He just quit something, as he was working UN or doing something, and now he's working for Hillary and Christiana Munpour, still the objective uh and uh unconflicted uh Info Babe at CNN.
And he had a uh three-part series on CNN called God's Warriors that she did.
She went on Larry King Alive last night to promote it.
We have some sound bites.
Larry King said uh is each of the two hours specials, each of them devoted to one religion.
When you look deeper into it and you say, okay, violence is a symptom of a certain thing, there are significant, powerful segments of each religion who believe absolutely that it is the right thing to do to bring religion into the seat of power, and they're committed to changing culture and society in whatever country they find themselves.
Islam is, I suppose, the most prominent because of some of the world events, but also the rise of uh political Christianity, if you like, um the existence of political Judaism uh in Israel in terms of how uh certain aspects influence the political debate and shape the politics and culture.
Right, right, right, right.
Well then Larry King said to Christian and Poor, but how much does the Israeli-Palestinian situation affect the Muslim situation, affect the Christian opinion uh when they all intermingle here?
The war that exists in Israel and the occupied territories is a Powerful recruiting tool for those disaffected in the Islamic world.
There is absolutely no doubt about that.
But also, right now, another powerful recruiting tool is the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
It's equaled or surpassed at the moment the pool of recruits for those who would come into terrorism and who would do America harm.
The challenge for America and for American leadership is to get that back to reclaim its values, to reclaim its position in uh global society, and to be able to once again be considered the exporter of great and valuable morals and values.
There you go, Christianamon poor on CNN.
It's the Bush administration causing Muslim extremism.
How predictable is it any wonder that this network is losing viewers?
One more.
Larry King says to Christian Amanpour.
Christian is religion a failure.
It depends what you mean by success or failure.
I would say that it's a struggle.
They've been preaching this for hundreds of years.
The world is in a very, very serious and dangerous state.
All these figures show that most of the civil wars right now are fought about religion.
And that there is a war, right?
Yeah, and increasingly so.
God's in every war, right?
Yes, and increasingly so.
World's always been a dangerous place.
So there you have it.
Religion's a failure.
Bush created Muslim extremism.
Thank you, courtesy CNN.
I want to play for you our favorite Christian Amanpur moment.
This is March 29th of 2002 on the now defunct program Inside Politics.
He interviewed General Yasser Arafat on the phone.
He was live from his compound bunker.
Aminpore says Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to you, I understand.
He's also spoken publicly, called on you to rein in the violence.
What do you make of that statement?
You have to respect your profession.
Mr. Arafat, I'm asking you simply a question.
Are you able to rein in the violence?
You have to be accurately when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat.
Be quiet.
Mr. Arafat, what did you think of Colin Powell's statement?
How do you are coming with this question?
This purple activity of the Israeli profession and the Israeli crime.
Can I ask?
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Had a hang up there because of the uh gunfire folks.
Well, a New York Times has a story today.
Average incomes fell for most people between 2000 and 2005.
It'd be really interesting if it was true.
But it ain't true.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Randall Hoven at the American Thinker has analyzed this piece of propaganda in the New York Times today, in which they want you to believe Americans are getting poorer, is the point, that our average incomes are below what they were in 2000.
Now, in order to convey this misleading conclusion, writes Mr. Hovind at the American Thinker.
The paper plays a game well illustrated by my own family's situation.
Last year my daughter graduated from college.
She got a job, she moved into her own apartment.
Those actions contributed to the decline of the median household income in this country.
You see, even though the combined income of my family increased by my daughter's income, we were now two households.
Divide the total income by two, and it's less than it used to be.
The Times breathlessly reports on the same phenomenon on a national scale today, and I don't use the adverb breathlessly idly.
The story quotes Robert Magnum uh MacIntyre, the director of citizens for tax justice, as saying the data takes your breath away.
The story concludes with his quote that trickle down doesn't work.
Now the story is based on government data on median household incomes.
It declined from $55,714 in 2000 to $55,238 in 2008, adjusted for inflation, according to the story.
That's a decline of less than 1%.
However, other government data show that GDP per capita increased from $34,759 in 2000 to $37,532 2005 in inflation-adjusted dollars.
That is an increase of almost 8% in per capita income.
Well, there were fewer people per household.
Perhaps, as in my family More government data say yes.
The average number of people per household was 2.62 in 2000.
It was 2.57 in 2005.
That's a two percent decline.
Do the math.
If you spread the same people with the same income over more households, you're gonna get lower household income.
In fact, we would have expected a two percent decline in household income, but there was less than one percent.
Just what 500 bucks.
In simple terms, there was no decrease in income at all.
In fact, there was a healthy increase.
The New York Times simply spins a story about average household size into a class warfare story.
Now, if trickle down means my kids get good paying jobs and move out of the house, yes.
Then bring it on.
In fact, because Americans are richer, we can afford to support more household units, thereby creating an opportunity for the Times to mislead those readers who still think it's a credible news source.
The New York Times guilty of deception while sticking to the facts.
That's an art form it's worked long and hard to master.
Brilliant analysis here by uh Randall Hoven.
And the American thinker.
This is John in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
John, I'm glad you uh waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Listen, um reason for my call.
One's actually a comment, one's uh one to get uh your your view on it.
Uh you know, when you were playing Hillary, um speaking at that uh was it the veterans uh memorial?
Yeah, the VFW convention.
Yeah.
Well, you know, her tone, if you listen to it, sounds almost conciliatory.
It's like, you know, Hillary, who died?
I mean, you know, you can almost imagine her head down, you know, giving this speech.
I mean, you know, something.
You mean on the uh on the surge working?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, let's go like we got it here.
Let's go back and uh listen to here.
Grab audio soundbite number two out there.
Uh Mike, let's see.
This is uh Yeah, uh I we've I think this is the one you're talking.
Let's listen to this one um uh John and see if this is what you're talking about.
We've begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working.
We're just years too late changing our tactics.
We can't ever let that happen again.
We can't be fighting the last war.
We have to be preparing to fight the new war.
Well, I don't think she sounded like anything other than uh a couple of ex-wives there.
I don't I didn't sense that she sounded sad.
Well, I mean, I I don't know, maybe maybe it was the later on down the line.
I mean, that I mean that's that's what I heard.
I heard let's let's play the next one.
Maybe it's the next one you talk about because we played three of them.
Let's listen to the next one.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, let's hear what it is.
As we move forward in these next months, awaiting a report from General Petraeus.
We'll have some very hard decisions to make.
One decision I know we will make to continue to honor the service of our own American troops.
All right, that's it.
That's all I can stand.
That's the one you're talking about.
Yeah, that she yeah, she she's going to a funeral there.
Yeah, well, I would think any Democrat at a VFW convention would feel like they're at a funeral, perhaps their own.
Yeah.
You know, worrying if they get out of there alive.
Exactly.
I mean, you know, the death of the DNC.
We can only hold.
Well, you know, my other um was, you know, last week um you had talked about uh, you know, the Johnson years, and I was just wondering if you were uh if that were you're talking about when Clinton was in office.
Uh some of the Johnson years.
Yeah, you were talking it was something about Lyndon Johnson and um and you're talking about the Johnson years, and that's what I heard, and I'm like, Jesus, he's talking about when Clinton was in office.
You get it?
Well, no, but see.
Look at I know I haven't been to bed, but this doesn't make not even I could be fooled by this.
Johnson was dead when Clinton was in office.
How could how No, no, I uh it was a joke.
You know, the Johnson years, Clinton in office.
You don't get it.
Johnson.
Just Johnson here.
It's a what joke?
It's i it's a sex joke.
Well, I guess this is do we need to activate the 40 second delay on this?
Go ahead and activate the 47.
Activate the 40 second delay because I I don't I don't get the joke, and I don't even want people to hear that I didn't get the joke.
I'm stunned that you would try to say something like that to this audience.
I cannot believe that you would take the occasion and the opportunity of appearing on this program would tell such a rank and filthy joke.
I instituted the 40-second delay, sir, to protect the audience from me today.
And it turns out I had to protect the audience from you.
I apologize, folks.
Sorry that that happened.
You just you can't tell those kinds of jokes on this show.
Redefining hip on the radio, Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882.
The Pentagon said today that it's going to shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat.
Right.
Sure they are.
I just want to know what they're going to do with the info.
They say they're going to shut down the database, but the database isn't going anywhere.
And get this.
Liberals read more books than conservatives.
The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why.
And there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
The Carl Roves of the world have billed a generation that just wants a couple slogans.
No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes.
Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview, it's pretty hard to write a book saying no new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes on every page.
It's the Pat Schroeder.
The Pat Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat, uh, once uh one of Congress's most liberal House members, now is publishing's most liberal leader, was responding to an AP Ipsos poll that found people who consider themselves liberals are more prodigious book readers than uh conservatives.
Uh you know, that just that that I don't know what list of it's nonfiction list, that can't be true.
I mean, conservative books outsell a libs like that.
Practically automatic.
Uh a Kentucky man who was playing slot machines at the Caesars Indiana Casino claims he sat in a chair soaked with urine.
I did not know that Pat Lahey played the slots.
Must not have had the dependence there.
I thought Leahy would be spending time up in Connecticut or Vermont, uh, where he lives.
We have Lahey Soundbites, by the way.
Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Lahey with a news conference, all upset that Carl Rove hasn't shown up to be drawn and quartered.
Today was the deadline for the administration to comply with the Judiciary Committee subpoenas for documents related to the legal justifications for the president's uh warrantless wiretapping program for more than six years.
The Bush administration intercepted communications of Americans in the United States without warrants and without following the required procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We know as BISA.
It's been almost two months in service of the subpoenas.
Three weeks since the time they asked for additional time, and still we have nothing at all.
The time is up.
Time is up.
Waited long enough.
You're going to be waiting for quite a long time, Senator.
The uh White House had to give this stuff up, separation of powers.
They can paper you to death uh with court motions.
In fact, Leaky Leahy knows this uh because an unidentified drive-by reporter said, Will you vote to hold them in contempt?
Please.
I'll have no hesitation in voting for contempt.
That's what it takes.
But ultimately, what we have to find out is what happened here.
We can carry out a court battle for the next five or six years, or we can find out what happened.
Five or six years.
I told you they're gonna pursue Bush long after he's gone down to Crawford and is clearing brush every day with that tin of chewing tobacco in the back pocket.
One more from uh Leakey Leahy, another unidentified drive-by reporter says, Mr. Chairman, could you react to Carl Rose's resignation and how it might affect your committee's perusal, I'm sorry, pursual of his testimony before it uh well now I give you the answers I thought of when I was saying the front steps of my prime house in Middlesex, Vermont when I first heard about this, but more serious than that on this U.S. attorney thing.
I don't think he had a valid claim of executive privilege.
And they've just lost the other claim they could make that he's too important to the operation of the White House.
That's not going to be the case anymore.
Uh he doesn't have to go testify.
He's he's protected as the as a former employee.
But uh, you know, Leahy does a lot of things up there.
When he was getting ready for Judge Roberts or Judge Alito, he was sitting in under his apple tree.
Uh when he heard about Carl Rove uh resigning, he was uh sitting on the front steps of the farmhouse in Middlesex, Vermont.
And when he was uh contemplating telling everybody the time was up uh on the uh subpoenas on the FISA program, he was sitting in a chair at a casino in uh Indiana.
John in uh in Paddle, Mississippi.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, what an honor to speak to the man who runs America and who knows the world.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted to make an analogy for your friends in Rio Linda and apparently their double first cousins in Atlanta, Georgia, on this Michael Dick issue.
The bottom line of it is that we're talking about a man here who has been accused of racketeering, gambling, animal cruelty, and lying not only to the commissioner of the NFL, but to his owner of the uh Atlanta Falcons.
Well, but he hasn't been charged with that.
I mean, accused, okay, yeah, yeah.
But that those last two things are not going to be in the indictment.
But the bottom line of it is, Rush, you also at the same time you've got a person that has been indicted in in the NBA who happens to be white, who has resigned from the NBA, is cooperating and is going to name additional names that are involved in that.
Michael Dick hasn't resigned from anything, so don't come play the race card with me on on this uh on these.
There aren't too many people play the race.
The the way the race card's being played here is uh is to say that this is uh cultural thing and uh you came up in the ghetto, and these are the kind of things that go on in these poor poor neighborhoods.
That that that's and that we have to understand that.
Well, bottom line of it is one more comparison, Rush.
Back a few years back, you'll remember that Brett Farr went through some issues with some painkillers and and getting on drugs, and he came forth and he admitted he had a problem, and he dealt with the problem, and at that time the drive-by media just pounded on him unmercifully.
I mean, they didn't give this guy a single break.
And I turned the Monday night football game off last night because I got sick and tired of hearing about how we're gonna uh s you know save Michael Dick's uh career, which I think points back to uh something that you said way back a long time ago when everybody jumped jumped on you then when you said uh said the NFL likes to see black quarterbacks succeed.
So don't come in here with the race card.
The man needs to face the music.
He needs to give up his career and get out and try to earn a living like the rest of the world.
He's he's gonna all of that's gonna happen.
He's gonna temporarily lose his career.
And I it it they're saying he I uh well, this is all speculation, but it may be two thousand nine or two thousand ten before he's able to get back.
My memory of uh your situation in Brett Fay uh of your description of Brett Favre's situation is far different than yours.
Uh I don't I don't I uh I don't remember Favre being uh hammered on that at all.
I uh remember him being uh applauded for dealing with it as you said, uh coming out in the open with it, uh sort of getting it fixed and so forth.
There was one article, he did an article in Vanity Fair about It afterwards, and he said some things in it the coach didn't like, Mike uh Mike uh uh oh come on.
Oh Holmgrid, right, he's up Seattle.
Mike Holmgrid didn't like, but I mean it was not it was nothing controversial.
I Favre was lawed, it still is.
Uh in fact, that's very seldom mentioned uh uh when Brett Favre's talking.
But he's he's like uh Paul Horningham, he's a golden boy as far as the drive-by media is concerned.
But look, sir, it's it's just the media.
I mean, it's it's it's it's not unusual.
Um I've I've tried to tell you that drive-by media in sports is just as liberally biased and just as socially conscious uh as the drive-by news media is.
Uh, this is Charles in Fort Lauderdale.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Brush, a pleasure to walk the halls of higher learning.
Well, thank you, sir, even if it is virtually.
That is correct.
Uh when you talked about Castro, uh not Castro, but the medical care in Cuba.
Um, I do recall that uh Cubans brought in a European doctor to treat Castro.
So either the Cuban doctors weren't capable of treating him or they were afraid to treat him.
Well, here's what happened.
This now, this is what is rumored to have happened because with Cuba, you never really know.
Castro had uh a uh a colon problem, and the solution to it was to go to a colostomy bag.
And Castro said, I'm not walking around with a bag.
I'm not doing that.
You fix it.
So the doctors supposedly tried to reattach the ruptured colon where it should be there in the uh back end, and it didn't hold.
And bodily substances just flowed throughout the body of the beloved Cuban communist leader.
It was full of it.
After the Cuban doctors followed his orders.
Again, and I'm told that everybody d doctors don't do this.
This is you you you're this is bad, bad, bad thing that he refused to wear a colosmoby bag, and so ended up full of it.
And that's when they had to call in a specialist from Spain to fix this.
And I don't know how it's been fixed.
And I'm uh there was a there was a story out the other day that he's died.
It was unconfirmed, it was not from uh any sort of a credible source, but it did cause the official spokesman for Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, to deny it.
Which I had in the stack, I think, yesterday, but I didn't I didn't get to it.
But that's um that's that's what happened with uh Castro.
That's the best guess.
And well, it's not really a guess because the Spanish doctor talked.
The Spanish doctor gave enough hints when he got out of there to explain what had happened.
Be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
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This is from uh the Boston Globe.
More than half of uh black and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts have failed a crucial state licensing test.
Since the start of the test nearly a decade ago, 52% of Hispanics and 54% of blacks failed the writing portion of the test compared to a 23% failure rate among white applicants.
Well, the solution here is simple, just fail more whites to make it equal.
Uh blacks and Hispanics also fall behind white applicants in other test subjects like English history and math.
Education officials say the gap is making it harder to bring more diversity to the state's teaching rank.
Well, obviously, I don't care about quality teachers.
This is a problem with this whole quota business, affirmative action, diversity.
It doesn't focus on merit, doesn't focus on finding the best people you can.
And it's always stood in the way of employers finding the best people they can.
When you got to have all these quests, well, I mean, this this there is a shockingly high failure rate of uh blacks and Hispanics passing high school as well, and dropping out.
In addition to these teachers that are not qualified to teach.
Now, this is in Massachusetts, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, I think that's get to the the bottom of this before we uh before we get caught up short in all this, before we jump the shark, as it were, on this story, I will predict to you that the the uh obligatory follow-ups on this story will indeed,
after an examination of the test that these teachers are taking, they will find that the test is biased, that it doesn't take into account the cultural upbringing and the understanding of the minorities, the blacks and the Hispanics, uh, who are scoring so poorly.
Uh they're they're hinting that the rules that attempt to up the standards for teacher quality are too strict in this.
If you read the whole story, the rule rules are too strict, and the state uh is in jeopardy of losing funding if they don't license all their teachers.
So you know what libs will do?
Just lower the standards, just lower the standards here.
Get rid of the bias that somehow these great liberals in Massachusetts failed a spot when they wrote the questions.
Uh but we're not to examine their results, folks.
Only their their big hearts and their good intentions.
These are idiots.
Uh these i these idiot educators are near hysteria, because this is hurting their progress in diversifying the school systems.
They're so desperate they're considering other ways to assess teacher competence.
If you go and read the whole story, they want to come up with other ways to assess competency other than these.
I kid you not.
Um now, in the story, we get the argument from uh from from deans of education all over the place, education schools saying the tests are culturally biased, and the quality of education that minorities receive is not good enough.
So, even though these teachers have graduated from teaching institutions, they still uh their cultural experiences were not accounted for.
I kid you not, this is what the story said.
Um they're gonna see they're they're going to seek other ways.
Right.
They're gonna seek other ways to qualify the teachers since the tests isn't working.
They're not gonna go out and try to find people who can pass the test.
They're gonna try to find a way to qualify these people for the sake of uh of diversity.
I'm gonna grab a quick call here.
This is uh Dick in Williamson, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to talk about when I flew the 727 for Delta.
We used to cut the uh engines back to idle at uh twenty-six thousand feet, or you know, some give or take three or four thousand glide into the airport and uh land without ever touch the first time we attached the power was when we went into reverse to stop.
Wait a minute.
Did you do this with passengers aboard?
Absolutely.
Well, but idle's not a full shutdown.
That's true.
That's you you have about sixty percent power when you have uh your engines an idol, but nevertheless, uh the air going over the wings is what counts on the wings, so you just uh your distance would be shorter without any power at all.
Right.
Well, six six sixty sixty percent's not insignificant.
No, it's not You're not gliding at sixty percent.
Well, it's uh it's strictly cut back.
You you taxi out at sixty percent power, you know.
And uh but that it's uh they will fly without without any power.
Well, I I've I've been I've been corrected on this.
Um, but uh I uh I it's an i uh still not I've not heard of it happening very much as this uh I've learned of two examples uh here today.
Would you would you tell just so the audience here doesn't get scared to death, why are you cutting back to idle on approach?
Tell them, please tell them.
Yes, sir.
I uh figured uh I flew 33 years for Delta Airlines, and I figured one day we'd get some contaminated fuel.
And we would have to make an emergency landing somewhere, and so in low density airports, I'd kindly practice this thing.
I I intended wherever I had to land, I intended to walk away from the airplane.
And okay, but you but you did it basically to slow down, right?
Yeah.
Okay, that's it's a normal procedure.
I don't want people thinking that pilots are up there playing games with the throttles.
Yeah.
Well, I don't either.
People are too worried about aviation.
It's uh by far the No, not until not until I tell them that their plane won't land if the engines go out and so I we gotta be very careful here.
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Well, it's been fun today, folks, as I knew it would be.
And we'll do it all over again tomorrow.
It'll be uh Wednesday, the uh middle of the week.
Fastest three hours in media during the fastest week in media.
It's been great being with you.
I've enjoyed it.
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