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Sept. 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I kid you not.
Look at this headline.
Man hides sex toys in sausage for Dubai trip.
You know, I love stories with Dubai in it, especially if it's got the words ports deal, too.
Staff at a German butcher shop were shocked to discover a customer had hidden two sex toys in their sausages for transport to Dubai, police said today.
It was too latex.
Well, I can't tell you what they were.
It was too latex uh blank blank there with a natural look, said a spokesman for police in the southwestern city of Mannheim after shopping there earlier today.
The man who spoke broken English returned to the butcher's with two large Schwarton Megan sausages.
He asked a shop assistant to wrap and cool them until he departed for Dubai the next day.
But the assistants noticed that the uh the goods had gotten heavier and uh alerted the cops.
Officers discovered a man who's about 50 had removed some of the meat and packed the sex toys inside.
Could have used a loaf of bread, the spokesman says not against the law here, but obviously I can't speculate on what customs in Dubai will have to say about it.
I'll tell you what, uh, you don't you don't want to take stuff like that into Dubai?
I don't you don't want to get caught with it, you don't, you just you do not want to do that.
If you're thinking of that, folks, stop yourselves.
Discipline, discipline, discipline.
All right, here's the answer to the question.
We had a call from uh Lewis in Houston, a liberal who acknowledged my insightfulness.
Uh saying, why not just one free checkup for every American a year?
Since the healthcare profession tells us that if we would just tackle preventive maintenance on our health, that it'd reduce costs considerably.
All right, so the question is a very seductive question, and I'm sure a lot of people say, Yeah, yeah.
Why not a free checkup?
Russia, what could possibly be wrong with a free checkup?
Well, how do you want to attack this first, folks?
You want me to go to the practical or the theoretical?
Which would you like first?
The practical?
First of the practical first.
How do things work in our country?
Uh, let me give you an example.
I was in Sacramento, as many of you know, and during the uh mid-80s, and back then homelessness was all the rage because Ronaldo's Magnus was in the White House or blaming him for it.
And they opened a homeless shelter somewhere downtown in Sacramento that had never been there before, and they started giving away free food.
And you know, the beat cops down there noticed far more people than ever before showing up down there started to show up.
So you start, you you you theoretically, and by the way, the the theoretically there's nothing free, we'll get to that in a minute.
The practicality is you offer something free, and you are you are gonna have more takers and more demands.
One free health care visit will then lead to two.
You have to understand out there, Lewis, what the objective of liberals proposing health care is here.
The this is the practical explanation.
They want as many people as possible to be totally dependent on government programs and politicians for their needs in life.
And unfortunately, uh it has evolved as such that uh health care is now a need.
And it's uh also evolved to the point, dangerously, that uh too many Americans think that it's an American entitlement to have health care paid for by their neighbors, by the government, by somebody else, or their insurance or what have you, in some cases both insurance and a treatment.
So, one free health care visit, if we ever agree to that, uh Democrat politicians, probably some Republicans too, was well, we mean let's make it two.
Let me go every six months.
We've already already halfway there with the Bret girl and Hillary demanding that you gotta get, you gotta go get a checkup.
You gotta do it.
You gotta go to the doctor once a year.
Well, it'll be the penalties if you don't.
Boils down, Lewis, to freedom.
The simplest way to explain why this is a bad idea is freedom.
This is gonna be a mandatory thing, and you're not left to your own device.
No, we have freedom in this country.
Freedom to do stupid things, freedom to have accidents, freedom to screw up, freedom to be brilliant, freedom to do the right thing.
We have freedom.
And it's under assault.
I'm not talking about constitutional freedoms.
I'm talking about everyday life decisions you want to make, just in the privacy of your own life living the way you want to live.
We got restrictions on what you can say now.
We got restrictions on what you can eat.
We got restrictions on what and where you can smoke.
We have restrictions or going to have restrictions soon on the kind of car you drive based on the mileage that it gets.
We got restrictions on whether or not you have to wear a seatbelt or a helmet when you drive a motorcycle.
These little things, they happen very slowly and they encroach, and people don't notice them in the context of losing freedom because it's always presented to us as improving the quality of our lives and making us safer.
Because we, of course, are too stupid to make ourselves safe.
And we're too stupid to know what to eat and what not to eat.
I don't know about you, Lewis, but I don't want anybody telling me what I can eat not, what I can eat and drink.
I don't want somebody telling me that.
Especially the government.
I don't know what I don't want a bunch of ninety-nannies who live in my neighborhood telling me what color my house has to be.
I don't want them telling me how far I can build it back from the ocean.
But these things exist.
It's happening all over the place.
So you start talking a free checkup, it's going to become two free checkups.
And that's going to lead to expanded coverage.
Well, why are we only offering a free checkup?
We need to offer free tonsilectomies.
We need to offer free this and free that.
Once it starts, once liberalism starts, Lewis, it never stops.
There is no liberal solution to a problem.
There's so-called solutions only create new ones.
Once we're going to give away a free checkup, then we're going to give away two checkups, because two's better than one.
And we're going to expand that.
If you need a tonsillectomy, if you need an anal exam, we're going to give you that too.
Everybody needs an anal exam now and then, especially you people who don't get yours from the drive-by media.
You have no idea what one's like until you get one of those.
Family leave.
Family medical leave back.
Let me give you an example, Lewis.
Yes, we need to have mothers and fathers be able to take 12 weeks away from job in order to raise the newborn child.
And take the dog to the vet and deal with these emergencies.
And when that happened, I made a prediction.
So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Who in the world out there can afford three months without a paycheck?
Folks, do you realize what's going to happen?
The next stage will be paid leave.
Mandatory, 12 weeks paid leave.
By gosh, it's happening.
Starting to happen now, state by state.
Feds are going to propose it at some point at Clinton's.
Pay you not to work, pay you to take time off.
And who's going to object?
Employer ought to pay me.
I hate my employer.
He's not fair.
Never give me a raise.
It's about time he had it sucked to him.
This is the attitude they've created.
Class envy, everybody hates the boss.
Of course, everybody hates the boss.
You don't need government to make you do that.
I'm not hated as a boss, but I've I've had bosses that I thought were, you know, idiots.
We all do.
So here come these brilliant politicians.
I'll help you get even with that brilliant boss.
I'm going to make sure you can take 12 weeks off when a dog gets sick, when grandma needs to go to the old folks' home, when the soup gets spilled or whatever, and your boss is going to pay for it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People lap it up.
Then 12 weeks is going to someday become 15 weeks.
And then that'll someday become 18.
And if you have twins, 24 weeks of paid leave.
If you have triplets, a full year of paid leave.
There's no end.
Once you start this stuff, Lewis, there's no end to it.
Uh on the theoretical side, the whole concept of free is something, Lewis, you're going to have to learn this.
There is no such thing.
When you say free, a one checkup, free checkup.
I assume at the doctor of your choosing, or you're going to tell, let the government tell you which doctor you're going to go to for this checkup.
And you're going to want gasoline money to get there since they're telling you.
And what happens if you have to wait a whole day in line because everybody else in Houston's going there that day?
Or if just one tenth of one percent of Houstons going that day for their checkup.
Oh, took some have to, the government's gonna have to mandate when you go so that we don't have a run and overcrowding of the various government health centers where the checkup's gonna take place.
And if you go to get the checkup and they tell you, you know what, uh, we've just discovered here that you have uh diabetes, type two diabetes, uh then what do you do, Lewis?
That ain't gonna be free.
Well, you'll think it's free.
But it isn't, Lewis, because your neighbors make it free.
If you want to understand the concept I'm talking about, Lewis, do this.
Pretend that we don't have your plan in place yet because we don't, but you want it to be.
So I want you to go walk up and down the street in your neighborhood, knock on the doors of your neighbors, especially those that you don't know.
And I want you to tell them you're going to the doctor for a checkup and you want 20 bucks from them to help defray the costs.
Then you go to as many of your neighbors as possible and get as much money as you need for the checkup, and you go and you knock on their door, say, I'm going to doctor, I'm gonna get a checkup, and I want you to pay for it.
So it'll be free for me.
Well, that's not what I'm talking about.
It's exactly what happens.
Somebody's got to pay for this.
The doctor has to get paid.
Have you ever thought about the doctor?
Is a doctor gonna give away the checkup to every American once a year?
What about the nurse?
What about the doctor's office utility bills?
What about his equipment and supplies?
What about the bills for the free clinics?
What about the record keeping, Lewis?
You have somebody in there in a computer or something that's going to record the results of your checkup because you gotta have a medical file, and who's gonna who's gonna pay that person when you go and get your free checkup?
There is no such thing as free anything.
I don't care.
It it it's somebody is paying for a service to be provided or a product to be manufactured and distributed sold.
The uh the concept of free is relevant only if you are selfish and think as long as it doesn't cost you anything, uh, then it's free.
But it's not free, you're being totally selfish.
And another question, Lewis, that you might want to think about is this.
Who is going to pay for the free lawyer you are going to demand when the free checkup fails to find your health problem until it's too late?
Who are you going to find to represent you for free as you bring your malpractice suit against a doctor who didn't get paid, who misdiagnosed what you have, gave you an anal exam and found out that you were full of it and couldn't do anything about it, you exploded later on.
Big problems like Castro, you need to go get redress for this free checkup that failed.
Who's gonna give you your free lawyer?
All right, let's go some audio soundbite, too, folks.
You got a pretty good roster here today.
I want to start with the uh the Reverend Sharpton last night on uh Hard Boiled with uh with Chris Matthews.
As you know, uh the Reverend Sharpton is now the chief of the speech police.
Uh the uh uh drive-by's uh have uh uh anointed uh the Reverend Sharpton and the uh Reverend Jacks uh with that power.
Now you remember yesterday we played audio sound bites of Isaiah Thomas, uh head coach of the New York Knicks.
He was on a witness stand, he's being accused of sexual harassment by a uh female staffer.
And apparently uh he called her a BIH.
And he was asked in a witness stand, is it different?
Who can say the word B I H would you would you uh would you get angry if a white person called a black woman a BIH?
Yes, sir, you can't say that.
I'm paraphrasing it.
What about when a black man calls a black woman a B I?
Well, Fran, I don't think that's as bad, he said.
So the Reverend Sharpton was asked about this by uh by Chris Matthews last night.
Matthew said, is there a difference, Chief, uh, between the word and who can say it?
No, I don't think so.
I think that the word is wrong no matter who says it, it's a misogynist and sexist term.
I do not agree with anyone using it.
We in Nash Action Network have fought it whether it was image or whether it was hip hop bodies.
I think that a sexist word or racist word or a word that is homophobic is that no matter who's the one using the word.
So that's a bad word in your vocabulary, period.
Correct.
All right, so the uh NAA LCP had a funeral some weeks ago for the N word, and now the uh Reverend Sharpton on Hardball last night uh has officially banned the B word from being used by uh by anybody.
Then uh Matthew said, how did you get this throne, Chief?
Uh your chief of the speech police.
Uh this position of influence where you can decree that Don Imus must go or must go, or the uh conditions upon which he can come back.
What where did you get this position in power, Chief?
What I said was that Don Imus and anyone else had the right to say what they want, but we have the right to organize people to say that we're not gonna pay for it, as I'm in Gina, Louisiana right now, organizing against a decision we feel is wrong in the criminal justice system.
All right, the uh Reverend Sharpton evaded the answer.
Let me answer it for you, Chris.
You want to know who it was that empowered the Reverend Sharpton to ban words and to uh sit and judge it over who can say what where in media.
Chris, it was you.
And all your buddies in the drive-by media, and all of you guys in the Democrat Party.
And it was CBS and it was NBC who bent over forwards and grabbed the ankles when the Reverend Sharpton came calling.
You're gonna sit there and empower these charlatans as power brokers in the Democrat Party and in the American left.
And then you're gonna sit there and wonder, well, who gave you the power?
You gotta realize who's legitimizing these guys.
They do not legitimize themselves.
You do, Chris, by accepting what they say as scholarly leadership on behalf of the civil rights movement.
And no mystery here.
Moving on.
Washington, D.C. at the policy senator.
Uh Senator Barack Obama spoke, and here um here uh he says he's got new ideas out there.
Uh and his new ideas are basically just a replay of the same old liberal ones, class warfare, and soak the rich.
At a time when Americans are working harder than ever.
We are taxing income from work at nearly twice the levels that we're taxing gains for investors.
I will restore simplicity to the tax code and fairness for the American middle class.
We will also turn the page on an approach that gives repeated tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of Americans, even though they don't need them and did not ask for them.
Uh wrong oh.
We always ask for them, Barack.
It's not a matter of your determining my needs.
It's none of your damn business, nor anybody else's in Washington to determine my needs or anybody else's, and then to construct policy on the basis of it.
The richer paying an ever greater share of the income tax burden than they ever have, Barack.
There are more middle class people not on the income tax rolls than ever in American history.
The rich are paying a lion's share of income taxes.
Now explain this to me, too.
I I'm for tax cuts for everybody, Barack, Senator Obama.
But this notion that somehow capital gains taxes or the rates are too low.
Uh we're taxing work at a greater rate than we're taxing investment.
Well, then lower the income tax rates and really watch revenue pour in.
No, we can't.
We gotta raise rates.
What what is what is why do we want to penalize investors now, Senator Obama?
What is it with you people?
You want to penalize success.
You want to penalize risk.
You want to pee if if how about these investors who go south who make bad risks, bad investments?
I'm not talking about these mortgages and just people invest the stock market or whatever.
The deal goes south.
You're gonna make it good for them, Senator?
You're gonna make up the loss?
Of course not.
What?
Why do you want to impugn investment?
What do you what the hell do you think makes a country grow?
Certainly isn't your stupid programs that you come up with that are just retreads of age-old new dealism that do nothing but kill off economic growth.
This stuff.
This stuff.
Yeah, he doesn't have a prayer anyway, but Hillary's even worse.
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All right, folks, you gotta hear this.
It takes a blogger with a video camera to ask Jack Mertha the questions that drive buys will not.
This is a courtesy of Hotair.com.
On Capitol Hill yesterday, the young American Foundation uh Jason Matera had this exchange with Jack Mertha about the Haditha trial in Reeve.
Jason, young Americans.
All right.
Now that the murder charges against Lance Corporals Justin Sherrat and Stephen Tatum have been uh dropped in the Hadita incident or in the process of being dropped.
Would you like to issue an apology for saying that they killed innocent civilians in cold blood?
Justin Sherratt and Stephen Tatum.
Two men you accuse of min murdering innocent civilians in cold blood.
No the charges in the process of being dismissed.
So what the process didn't mean the being dismissed.
Do you like the smirching our troops, sir?
Do you like the smirching on troops, sir?
You've been in the service.
I enlisted in Korea.
Sir in the B. You you accuse them of murderers and murdering innocent civilians in cold blood.
That's something that would come from Al Jazeera, not a congressman, sir.
Woo!
That's Jason Mateira.
He is from the Young Americas Foundation.
Um that was from the the Hotair.com blog, which is Michelle Mulkin's.
So um, you know, Mertha said, I served in Vietnam.
You've been in a service as a Korea, I enlisted in Vietnam.
I have another Mertha story.
This is from yesterday.
If pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq results in a bloodbath, the guilt will rest with the Iraqi people and not with the U.S. Congress, according to Jack Mertha.
Many have threatened that there will be chaos, a bloodbath when a U.S. redeploys to Maroc, and uh this in fact may be the case.
Mertha said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, if they continue to choose to spill blood, it'll it'll not be on the conscience of the United States.
Mertha said that ethnic violence in Iraq would be a continuation of decades of its own conflicts, which they and they alone can solve.
The fact that Representative Merth acknowledged that leaving Iraq in chaos would lead to genocide, but then says it wouldn't be our fault of striking, said Kevin Smith, who's a spokesman for minority leader John Boehner.
Post-withdrawal bloodbath would not be Congress's fault, according to uh Jack Mertha.
These guys want no responsibility for any chaos or sheer hell that they have caused or will cause this.
Jeff in Colfax, California.
Hi, Jeff, welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, hi, Larash.
Uh, nice to talk to you.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Um, I was just going to make an observation here.
Um Democrats tell us that they want to talk to our enemies, that we should talk and listen and uh be all warm and fuzzy with them.
However, uh Pelosi and Kacinich and Obama, they all I don't think Obama has talked, but Pelosi and Cascinich have talked to Assad uh recently, and do you think they didn't just talk to him, they went over there and and practically prostrated themselves before him.
Exactly.
And uh this um strike that the Israelis made on the uh North Korean uh weapons, uh nuclear stuff that uh Yeah, the possibility of possible nuclear installation in Syria.
We're still not sure if it was, but it was something.
Exactly.
And do you think that um Mr. Osad spoke to Pelosi and Kucinich about this uh beforehand?
No, come on.
We all know what happens.
This is this is this is classic.
The first place, don't call those nice gentlemen our enemies.
That's confrontational.
The Democrats speak with foreign leaders.
They're not speaking with our enemies.
We don't have any enemies.
Our enemy is George W. Bush.
So they went over to Assad and they talked to Assad, and I don't know this for a fact, but I know it's happened in the past.
I know, for example, uh didn't it come up in the Kerry campaign in 04?
And it might have come up during the um uh during the Reagan years with the Soviets.
Democrats have long gone over to foreign countries that are enemies of ours.
Just sit tight, we get rid of Reagan, get rid of Bush, everything will be okay.
Don't hold this against us.
You know, we're your friends here.
We we Democrats, we understand you.
We want to talk to you.
We want to give peace, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just hold I know they did it with Ortega.
Uh uh, and I think it happened with a couple Soviets.
I my memory is that Ted Kennedy, back in back in the Reagan days, went to Soviet Union.
Uh and and and said, Look, just bide our time here.
Don't, don't, you know, this guy's mad, mad he's got his button on the finger, but we're not gonna let him push it to just uh her finger on a button.
We're not gonna let him push it.
So just they do this.
So it wouldn't have surprised me if Pelosi and whoever else, uh no Kucinich went over there, but there have been others.
Uh among whatever else why would they go?
Well, one of the reasons they went was to upstage Bush, but they would go over there because hey, LeBristra Saad, you know, we realize that things are being said in our country about you.
We don't believe them, and and uh we can do business with you and uh just wait till we're in charge and blah, blah.
And when they walk out of there, I guarantee you Assad gets on the phone and calls Mahmud uh in Iran and calls his buddies down in Lebanon at Hezbollah.
Say you won't believe what just happened here.
I just had these two idiot infidels walk in here, these Democrats is Midget Kucinich and this uh and this Pelosi babe, and they're telling me how much they love ha ha ha ha.
You realize how we can wrap these people around our fingers.
And just to prove it, they start launching or they start loading a scud missile with a chemical warhead has sarin gas in it, and it explodes and kills a bunch of Syrians and Iranians that are working on it, and the Israelis have to take out some kind of installation.
It's clear that the conversation of Pelosi and Kucinich, nothing.
They just get laughed at.
I want to go talk to Iran.
I want to go talk to Mahmood Ahmadini Zad.
Now, Ahmadini Zad, uh, she might have to go to Iran because Ahmadini Zad and Hugo Chavez are both due in the United States on Sunday.
Uh, you know, the UN session, a General Assembly opens up next week, and it's time for a new round of speeches.
Uh so perhaps Pelosi get together with them there.
Or have them down to Washington for dinner or something.
Maybe a joint address to Congress.
Uh Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Achamadini Zad.
Uh it's been a year since the sulfur speech of uh Hugo Chavez.
This is correct, Mr. Snergley.
Time flies, does it not on this show and everywhere else?
So uh I I I uh look it.
These these are thugs, these are totalitarian dictators, and they see Pelosi and Kucinich and these other people what they are.
Rubes, idiots.
Uh people who can be lied to, people can be jacked around, people that can be used, manipulated.
Nothing changes.
It's always been the case.
Rockford, Illinois.
This is Mary.
Welcome, sir.
Uh pardon me, ma'am, to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Um my question goes back to the Hillary care problem or her program.
You mentioned earlier how people who made over 250,000 dollars if they wanted to get their own insurance, that there'd be better plans out there than what she's offering.
How about the doctors?
Where are they gonna go?
Aren't they gonna be wanting to make the most money?
Aren't they gonna go where the best doctors are gonna want to get into the best clinics and they're so what are we gonna be stuck with, those of us who can't afford uh our own insurance, get stuck with Hillary care.
What kind of medical care, what kind of doctors are going to be on to be in Mills program?
Yeah.
Uh the cast of Gray's anatomy.
We'll be doing your surgery.
Uh these are all very relevant points that you're making, and by the way, everything you're asking has happened.
Canada, Great Britain, the exact thing that you know, by the way, Mrs. Clinton, I should say, um the Wall Street Journal brings this out to let me find it in fact from their from their editorial.
Mrs. Clinton, very shifty about this.
If if if this thing ever happens, uh she is not going to immediately get rid of the employer-provided insurance program.
Uh the strategy now is is designed, as the journal says, to cause minimal disruptions to current private insurance coverage in the short run while dressing up the old Hillary care agenda with slightly different mechanisms and rhetoric.
Rather than fight small business like she did the last time around, this time she's trying to seduce it with tax credits for small companies that provide insurance for their employees.
Only later, when costs rise, will the credits shrink or other Texas uh taxes rise.
So she's uh that there's a bit of a stealth aspect to this.
The end result is not going to be how it starts.
It'll just fade into that or evolve into that purposefully by the way it's uh set up.
But this will this is being done to uh make it more difficult for people like me and others to oppose what she wants.
No, we're not changing anything.
We're just we're just gonna make it more efficient.
Uh, we're not changing anything at all.
We're just it's just it's just gonna be much, much more uh efficient.
But then if you read all the details, she might not be changing the original structure right off the bat, or current structure, but when you have to go out and have a policy coverage before you can get a job interview, uh and with penalties if you don't do this and that.
I mean, it's it's it's pretty breathtaking.
Your questions are exactly right.
You're gonna end up with inferior medica medical uh care providers.
Uh and you know the the other thing you bring up is really good, but the whole question of doctors in this uh it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to become a doctor.
And you have a lot of bills to pay after you've gone through your schooling and whatever else that you do when you first set up wherever you go to work, you've got a lot of expense.
I want to know what are the financial incentives for doctors in this plan.
I want to know for I I think what we need to hear from Mrs. Clinton, are doctors gonna be allowed to make money?
I don't mean will they not be paid.
I mean, but is is is is the profession going to be enticing enough for good people to go into it?
Once your plan is in full effect.
Are you gonna end up like you did in 1993 or four, telling doctors where they have to go and what specially they can study?
You're gonna allocate this uh the health care provider resources according to what you think is needed where?
And if so, what's in it for the doctors?
Uh there has to be something in it for the doctors.
What are we gonna do about malpractice insurance?
And Ms. Clinton, could could you do something very simply for us here at the beginning?
Would you tell us what medical services are going to be provided in your plan and which ones aren't, and which drugs are gonna be covered and which ones aren't.
So we just take this down to the basics.
She's the expert here.
This is do you realize how do you realize, folks, how literally obscene it is for any of us to think of Hillary Clinton or John Edwards, I don't care who, or name a Republican as the expert on health care in this country?
Is that not scary that so many people think that that makes sense?
Well, look at here, folks.
Uh this is certainly qualifies as big news, doesn't it?
And we have a poll out there.
This is uh a Reuters Zogmy poll.
One in three Americans expects a U.S. recession in the next year, and less than twenty-five percent think that home prices will rise.
According to a Reuters Zogby poll release today, less than a quarter think home.
Hispanics and African Americans.
Hardest hit here.
More likely than whites to predict a recession, reflecting a deeper sense of job and economic anxiety among menorah.
What a crock?
What absolute drivel.
You know what?
I read the other day.
I'm not making this up.
This actress out there, Kate Blanchett, is that how you pronounce her name?
She's from Australia.
She's gotten, she's lost her mind in this environmental stuff.
She is going to drink her own urine for the environment.
Well, it's not exactly going to happen that way.
She is going to put in something to recycle her own home's waste water.
And keep using it over and over again to save the environment.
She's doing it for the environment.
I kid you not.
Now I'm going to tell you something.
This stupid story from Reuters about this stupid poll needs to be sent over to the wastewater in her house and mixed in with it.
Because that's about what this is worth.
I tell you, you these people, they have their templates and they have their narratives, and I don't care what the hell the story.
What in the world?
This is a this is Emily Kaiser, by the way.
We need to identify the the uh the professional journalist here.
Hispanics and African Americans were more likely than whites to predict a recession.
Okay, fine.
Period.
But no.
No, we have to now editorialize.
What does that mean, Emily?
Oh, Emily's here to tell us.
Well, Myther Limbaugh, that reflects a deeper sense of job and economic anxiety among minorities, who represent a disproportionately large fair of lower income groups.
She doesn't know this.
She doesn't.
This is just the way they look at it.
Of course, minorities and Hispanics are going to be more filled with doom and gloom.
They're minorities.
They're victims of the evil.
Majority in the United States of America is constantly pounding on them and stepping on them and keeping them down and kicking them in the throat when they're uh Emily, you know why I don't care what numbers and why you had you want to break down the people in your stupid poll, but I'm going to tell you why you got the results.
One in three Americans expects a U.S. recession.
Who the hell's telling them that?
You are, Emily, you and your buds in the drive-by media.
You could one in probably one in three Americans expect to get fat.
Why?
Because you're telling them they already are.
And of course, minorities and Hispanics are hardest hit because they don't have any money, so they've got to go with fast food joints.
This is this job, this profession has deteriorated to uh sunk to such a low level.
You don't have to have a brain.
You have to have a memory to be able to recite the templates and the narratives of your worldview and incorporate what is supposedly news, the results of a stupid poll, into your worldview to produce a newspaper story.
And how do you in a story about why is it news that a third of the idiots you talk to in this country think there's going to be a recession anyway?
But then to have minorities hardest is just it's just too good.
Let me take a quick time out here, folks.
We'll try to squeeze another call in maybe.
I don't know.
See what the time is we get back.
Don't go away.
Here's another uh Reuters story.
The headline here, many of Earth's vital signs in bad shape.
Oh no.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Earth is dying.
We're on the life support.
More wood was removed from forests in 2005 than ever before.
One of many troubling environmental signs highlighted on Thursday in the World Watch Institute's annual check of the planet's health.
Uh I tell you, you know, I'm I'm I'm pausing here because I I haven't the time to deal with this as I would look.
Let me put it back over here in the global warming stack.
We're gonna do open line Thursday on Friday tomorrow, since I'll be in Sacramento on Friday for a big important speech.
What is what is so funny in there?
What are you?
Open line Yeah, open line Friday and Thursday.
Yeah, red's right.
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