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Oct. 10, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 10, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What is it with the cleaning crew?
I come in here every morning.
I got to move the phone because they put it too close to the console, but it's like they glue it to the desk.
It's got these rubber stoppers that's glued to the desk.
And I never remember to do this until after the theme music starts.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh here on the EA.
And they put the trash can over there where I can't throw anything in it.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the middle of the week.
It's Wednesday, the fastest week in media, the fastest three hours.
Great, great, great to have you with us.
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And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Do you see the story?
Five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary.
Well, but that's, I don't care that five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary.
What's funny to me is that, and it's just, it's such a delight to be able to say this Hillary is not pulling out of Michigan.
Okay, there.
I did it.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, I am holding here on my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the original copy, the original of the letters sent to Clear Channel's CEO by Senator Harry Reid demanding that they make me apologize and spank me.
I have secured the original of this.
I'm holding it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It is signed by 41 Democrats.
And let me show you the first signature page here.
And let me zoom in because I know it's a little bright there.
There we go.
You can see that the signatures are in.
Actually, this is a scanned copy.
I did not want to do any damage because we got plans for this.
I cannot tell you, and I will not announce exactly what our plans are.
We have special plans for this letter, ladies and gentlemen.
I hope to be able to announce our special plans for this letter on Friday.
By the way, HR, who's the guest host tomorrow while I'm on my way to Philadelphia?
Oh, yeah, Jason Lewis out of Minneapolis will be guest hosting the program tomorrow.
I've got a Rush to Excellence tour in Philadelphia tomorrow night.
Philadelphia, yes.
It's always exciting.
It just, every day holds new promise.
Never know what's going to happen.
A couple of things I want to get to before we get to an analysis of the Republican debate last night.
Some truly hilarious news about Nancy Pelosi today.
Do you realize that she's been Cindy Sheehan for the last five minutes, the kooks?
Her fringe basement camping out in her yard, in her garden, and she's fit to be tied about it.
She can't get rid of them because the t-shirts they're wearing say impeach Bush, which is a free speech issue.
They're out there politically protesting.
So I get, you know, when Cindy Sheehand's across the street from Bush's house down in Texas, well, that's worthy of celebration.
Well, that's just cool.
We need to support her.
Now that Pelosi's being bugged by her own kooks and irritating her neighbors, she whines and moans and complains about it.
Washington Post has the story.
Details are coming up.
How many of you over the years have bought into the notion that fat, eating fat, is bad for you?
Snurdly raises his hand.
Dawn's raising both hands.
Eating fat, and I touched on this briefly yesterday, will lead to heart disease, coronary artery disease.
It'll increase your cholesterol, all those sorts of things.
And we just accepted this.
And why did we accept it?
We accepted it because there was a consensus of scientists, a consensus of scientists.
Like 92% said this was the case.
Well, John Tierney wrote a column in the New York Times yesterday and describes how the whole fat is bad legend became incorporated into the American psyche with possible serious implications for our health.
People who don't eat enough fat are running a true health risk.
Now, the reason I mentioned this to you is because it's another in a long line of examples of how science tells us one thing, and it turns out to be dead wrong.
It was never any science in the first place.
It was just people's personal ideas and thoughts.
And the way this works, Tierney describes it in the piece, the way this works is that they, if you, here's the point.
If you put, like in global warming, they say there's a consensus of scientists, but these scientists have never been in the same room with one another.
You put them all in the same room, and it's going to be much different to get the same number of people voting on the science as they do when they're not in the same room.
What happens is, it's like a keep up with the Joneses thing.
The more people sign on to a theory, the more scientists say, well, if everybody else believes it, I guess I must too, in order to look good and smart and so forth and so on.
And it just spreads, just like you tell a story, and by the time it's told to the 10th person, it resembles not at all the original that was told to the first person.
It's the same thing here.
He documents it exceedingly well with the names of scientists and all of that.
But in this case, 92% of all scientists, the number quoted in this story as believing that fat caused heart disease, is wrong.
A consensus of 92% were wrong.
And the science has now demonstrated they were wrong.
So if 92% of scientists can be wrong about something like this, you have to take into account that 92% of scientists can be wrong about anything, including global warming.
Speaking of global warming, I'm saying fat's not bad for you.
And I'm saying that fat is needed as part of a daily dose or regimen for health.
It's not bad.
It's natural out there.
And it's found in many foods that we eat.
You like peanuts?
They're loaded with fat.
All kinds of, every nut is, macadamia has had a little bit less than some others, but they're loaded with fat.
And yet, health food freaks recommend nuts and berries and twigs.
You know, all this stuff you pick up out in the rainforest that you are supposed to eat.
Anyway, I'll give you some details here since you seem so curious.
In 1988, the Surgeon General Everett Coop proclaimed ice cream to be a public health menace right up there with cigarettes.
Alluding to his office's famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Coop announced that the American diet was a problem of comparable magnitude, chiefly because of the high-fat foods that were causing coronary heart disease and other deadly ailments.
He introduced his report with these words.
The depth of the science base underlying its findings is even more impressive than that for tobacco and health in 1964.
That was a ludicrous statement.
As Gary Taubes demonstrates in his new book, Meticulously Debunking Diet Myths, Good Calories, Bad Calories.
The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data.
When scientists tried to confirm it, they failed repeatedly.
The evidence against Haagen-Daz was nothing like the evidence against Marlborough's.
Now, it may seem bizarre that a surgeon general could go so wrong.
After all, was it his job to express the scientific consensus?
But that was the problem.
Dr. Coop was expressing the consensus.
He, like the architects of the federal food pyramid telling Americans what to eat, went wrong by listening to everybody else.
He was caught in what social scientists call a cascade.
And the cascade is where a scientist agrees to something and another scientist hears about it.
Ooh, that guy, I like what he thinks.
And it just cascades with people signing on to it simply because other people have signed on to it before them without actually looking into it.
There were two glaring problems with the theory of fatty foods.
As Mr. Taubs, a correspondent for Science magazine, explains in his book, first, it wasn't clear that traditional diets were especially lean.
19th century Americans consumed huge amounts of meat.
The percentage of fat in the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers, according to the best estimate today, was as high or higher than the ratio in the modern Western diet today.
Second, there weren't really a new epidemic of heart disease.
There wasn't.
Yes, more cases are being reported, but not because people were in worse health.
It was mainly because they were living longer and were more likely to see a doctor who diagnosed the symptoms.
The evidence that dietary fat correlates with heart disease does not stand up to critical examination.
And that was stated by the American Heart Association in 1957.
But three years later, the association changed position, not because of any new data, but because doctors and an ally were on the committee issuing the new report.
It asserted the best scientific evidence of the time, quote unquote, warranted a lower-fat diet for people at high risk of heart disease.
At any rate, as the fat is bad theory became a popular wisdom, the cascade accelerated in the 70s when a committee led by Senator George McGovern issued a report advising Americans to lower their risk of heart disease by eating less fat.
McGovern's staff were virtually unaware of the existence of any scientific controversy.
The report impressed another non-scientist, Carol Tucker Foreman, an assistant agriculture secretary who hired Dr. Hegstead to draw.
Anyway, goes on to describe how this myth came into existence, how it became reality.
Mr. Taub, the author of the book here, argues that low-fat recommendations, besides being unjustified, may well have harmed Americans by encouraging them to switch to carbohydrates, which he believes cause obesity and disease.
So the point of this is you can eat what you want.
I don't care what you eat.
It really makes no difference to me.
I'm not somebody who thinks I know what's best for you or best for my life.
Live it.
My only point here is that this is another glaring example where a consensus of scientists had the whole country believing a myth, the whole country believing something was wrong.
This is a story.
I've got to find it here in my global warming stack.
Over in the UK, a judge has told schools, if you play Al Gore's movie, you have to tell them there are 11 falsehoods and lies in this movie.
You have to tell them.
And the 11 are cited and so forth.
I'll give you the details on it.
We take a break here, come back from the break.
Lots of stuff to do on the program today, folks.
Sit tight, settle in, strap in if you need to.
We'll be back before you know it.
Greetings and welcome back, El Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Hey, Henry, somebody flagged the tape.
Well, Henry Waxman's staff monitoring the program, I want to clue them in when items they might find to be irregular or worthy of harassing me over.
I just want to point them right to it.
So, hey, Henry, it's going to be the new, hey, Henry, listen to this.
This is out of the Chicago Tribune.
Debate on troop withdrawals put on hold.
Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner legislation ordering troops home from Iraq and have turned their attention to war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to reject.
The legislative agenda marks a dramatic shift for party leaders who vowed repeated votes to end combat and predicted Republicans would eventually join them.
But with Democrats still lacking enough votes to bring the troops home, the party runs the risk of concluding its first year in control of Congress with little to show.
For it's the only thing that this Congress, this has been one of the most disastrous, Henry, listen to this.
This has been one of the most disastrous 10 months for a Speaker of the House in the history of Speakers of the House.
The only thing of note that this House of Representatives has accomplished is the lowest approval ratings in I don't know how long.
Do you get that?
Henry, Henry's staff.
Henry, there's something else you might, Henry Waxman, you might want to be warned of this.
The more liberals are exposed to this program, such as your crack investigative staff, the more likely they are to question their own beliefs.
We've turned many to the right side, to the dark, away from the dark side, and you run the risk of having this happen to your committed staff of investigators.
So I just want to warn you, just try to protect your base, if you will.
Here are the 11 items in Al Gore's movie.
Ladies and gentlemen, by the way, I predicted this Iraq thing is going to be off the table very soon.
It's off the table.
And there's a quote here from John Tanner, conservative Democrat from Tennessee.
We can no longer approach the discussion on Iraq as a partisan issue.
Really?
I wonder why.
Do I know these people?
Do I know these people?
Knew this was going to happen.
They're not going to saddle themselves with defeat.
Plus, have you noticed there aren't any pictures on television at night anymore of burning cars and bombs exploding?
It's because it's not happening.
It's because the progress over there is amazing.
I've got a piece in the stack later on today from a guy at the American Thinker who says we're on the verge of victory and that that brings its own perils.
It's a fascinating piece.
And well, he goes back and uses an analogy to the Battle of the Bulge to say, you know, what we've got to be vigilant for here, because victory in Iraq is the insurgents cannot, the terrorists cannot simply allow the world to see them defeated.
So they'll strike back somewhere and they'll go for the softest spot they can.
And the theory is that the United States, with our border insecurity and people that may be part of cells already in the country, represent perhaps the softest spot that they could hit.
So it's something we need to be vigilant for.
I'll give you all the details of it because it's fascinating.
Here are the 11 corrections that a British judge has demanded that British school students be told about if they are shown Al Gore's movie.
In Britain, I should add, teachers are at least required to be more careful before force-feeding such hype to children.
And this is an example of it.
Here are the 11.
Gore presents Mount Kilimanjaro's melting snows as a proof of global warming.
In fact, the snows are vanishing thanks to local factors, including deforestation.
Gore suggests America's or Antarctica's ice cover is melting.
Most studies say it's increasing or stable.
Gore shows scary graphics of cities drowning in seas that rise seven meters, causing millions of refugees.
But the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the seas will rise at worst by 59 centimeters this century.
Gore uses images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests it was caused by global warming.
The government's expert in this case admitted such one-off events can't be blamed on warming.
And by the way, if it's blamed on warming and warming's happening, where the hell are the hurricanes this year?
I mean, they're having, in order to make it look like we're having a tropical storm season, they're naming subtropical stiff systems.
Systems that never used to get named are now being named.
I go to all these hurricane blocks.
Folks, it's the most amazing thing.
I go to all these hurricane blogs, these hurricane, and they're desperate.
They'll point out, oh, we're watching a system 200 miles north of Puerto Rico, upper level shear should be decreasing.
This system could provoke interests on the eastern coast of the United States to take precautions.
We don't know yet, but it looks good for development.
And this thing down near Belize near the Yucatan Peninsula.
And the National Hurricane Service is doing the same thing.
And they all have dissipated.
They've all not amounted to a hill of beans.
They never became anything.
And yet, the hurricane blocks, and some of them are good guys, but they're doing everything they can to make it look like thunderstorm activity out in the ocean is posing a threat to the east coast of the United States.
Two years in a row here with veritably no hurricane activity striking the U.S. coast.
We have had those two cat fives down there that, you know, hit Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, but none here.
If global warming is going on, why aren't we being devastated by Katrina after Katrina after Katrina?
That's just my editorial input here.
Gore suggests that ice core evidence shows rising CO2 caused temperature rises, which ended the past seven ice ages.
In fact, the CO2 rises followed temperature rises by 800 to 2,000 years.
Gore claims that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, causing an ice age in Europe.
Recent studies deny it.
We told you about the most recent study.
The Gulf Stream is like, imagine a conveyor belt.
And the Gulf Stream takes warm water from right here in Florida in this part of the world across the Atlantic.
And it gets up and gets cooler as it goes.
But it warms some of the water that it interacts with.
It keeps a variably mild, temperate climate over Great Britain.
And Gore's movie says it's dying.
It's dying.
The Gulf Stream is dying out.
It isn't dying out.
They find that it fluctuates many times during the course of every year.
Remember, a judge is making teachers teach this stuff to their kids watching the movie.
Gore blames global warming for species losses and coral reef bleaching.
The government couldn't show evidence to back this claim.
There are many more.
Interesting thing, too, is in Gore's movie, he doesn't want people in Western Africa to improve their lives because it would require electricity and so forth.
He wants them to remain poor rather than advancing their lifestyles in order to save the planet.
It's absurd.
He's probably going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
That was Harry Reid when he heard my name mentioned.
Welcome back.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector and doctor of democracy.
All right, here's the Nancy Pelosi story.
She was talking on the fifth anniversary of the House vote to authorize the Iraq war.
And she acknowledged Tuesday that the failure to end the war is hurting Democrats in Congress, and lawmakers will have to take bold action.
The reporters were basically asking her, why haven't you done Jack?
She took a little shot at two New York Times reporters who wrote a story published Tuesday saying Democrats were giving the White House much of what it wanted in a new wiretapping bill because they feared being depicted as soft on terrorism.
One of the reporters, Carl Hulse, was seated about 10 feet away from her.
With all due respect to the reporters, I completely disagree with the article.
This isn't about Democrats being concerned about the next election.
Of course it is.
This is about Democrats saying the law must be followed.
We will collect whatever intelligence we need to protect the American people under the law.
She fired back at a reporter who asked her to name her biggest mistake in her first nine months as the first female speaker of the house.
She said, why don't you tell me?
Because I think we're doing just great.
This is not actually responsible temperament, ladies and gentlemen.
They've been after George Bush to admit he made mistakes for how many years?
Six?
Seven?
And now Pelosi can't take the same question.
Why don't you tell me?
Very, very defensive.
She said that she knows that she has angered many in her party's base, including some in her home district, by refusing to impeach the president or take a more confrontational approach to ending the war.
How could they take a more confrontational approach to ending the war than what they've done?
Well, they could cut off the money, but they don't dare do that.
I mean, that's the proof of the pudding where they really stand on this.
And here's what she said.
She launched into a surprisingly personal description of the protesters camped outside her house.
I've had for four or five months people sitting outside my home going into my garden in San Francisco, angering my neighbors, hanging their clothes from the trees, building all kinds of things, Buddhas.
I don't know what their couches, sofas, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk.
You can imagine my neighbors' reaction to all this.
And if they were poor, if they were sleeping in my sidewalk, they'd be arrested for loitering.
But because they have impeached Bush on their chest, it's the First Amendment, four or five months into that.
So I'm well aware of the unhappiness of the base.
Nobody knew this until she told us.
I mean, this has not leaked out beyond San Francisco.
Obviously, people in San Francisco have known it, but nobody knew this.
But now notice how she doesn't like it.
And the neighbors don't like it.
It was fine and dandy when Cindy Sheehan was down in Crawford and causing all sorts of hassles for people down there.
But they were homeless.
If they were homeless, if they were just poor, then we could just sweep them away like General Dinkins did for the Democrat Convention in 1992.
We just sweep them down to lower Manhattan or sweep them over to Tiburon or something.
Put them on a boat and take them out to Alcatraz if they were poor.
Just treat them like dirt if they were poor.
But no, they got impeached Bush shirts on, so I can't do anything about it.
This is your Speaker of the House.
10 months of the most nothing, ineffective leadership, and coupled with Dingy Harry, he's had a bad 10 months too, over in the Senate.
And what they're both known for is collecting the lowest approval ratings of Congress in my lifetime.
This headline.
I can't believe that they can write this story with a straight face.
It's by our old buddy Ann Kornblut, who recently at the Washington Post, who has been marveling at how brilliantly clever Hillary is at avoiding reporters.
So she doesn't have to take tough questions.
A headline of this story, Clinton cites lessons of partisanship.
And the story is because she's been smeared with the best of them, she can she can unite America and build a centrist coalition that that because she's been smeared by the I'm no, no, no, no, no.
That's that's the summation of what of what she says here.
The political battles that she's been through make her uniquely equipped to bring the nation together and build a centrist governing coalition.
There is nothing centrist about this woman other than her public persona.
And even with that, if you look at her policy proposals, there's nothing centrist about any of them.
By the way, I hit the nail on the head.
I hit the nail on the head or very close to it in telling you why Hillary pulled that $5,000 per baby trick off the table.
It does have to do with social security.
Guess who's talking about perhaps privatizing a portion of Social Security?
Mrs. Clinton.
Yes, yes.
I kid you not, kid you not coming up in this stack of stuff here.
In an interview aboard her campaign bus, by the way, do you know she's got the middle-class express?
She's got a bus tour going out there in Iowa.
It's called a middle-class express.
And in an interview aboard her middle-class express bus, Clinton acknowledged that she has contributed to the divisive politics of the past decade, but said that she's learned from those experiences.
And she said that if she becomes president, she will attempt to assemble a broad centrist coalition on such key issues as health care, energy independence, national security, and all that.
She says that Social Security is not in a crisis.
She was vague about how she would handle special interrogation methods.
She has, of course, she's vague about everything.
On the one hand, she said she'd go all for the nuclear time bomb use of torture.
Then she denied that that, then they should be all over the, but just like with her entire flip-flop on her position on a war every day.
Now, this quote from Mrs. Clinton, pardon me, folks, for making this about me, as you know, I very rarely talk about myself on this program.
I do my best to keep this program focused on the issues.
But I must admit, when I read this next quote, I actually considered whether or not Mrs. Clinton was talking about me.
You can't wake up and say, let's all just hold hands and be together.
You've got to demonstrate that you're not going to be cowed or intimidated or deterred by the criticism.
And then you can reach out and bring people who are of good faith together.
You've got to learn from the criticism.
You can't just wish it would go away and you can't run away from it and you can't pretend that it doesn't exist.
You have to learn from it and fight back.
And when you do that, you're able to bring people together in a centrist coalition.
Hey, Henry.
Might want to flag the tape, Mike, for Henry Waxman here from the Washington Times.
The House Democrats yesterday introduced a bill that would restrict the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terrorism suspects.
This is the issue the Senate punted yesterday.
But Nancy Pelosi's House is maintaining its support for America's enemies.
Did you get that, Henry?
Well, I mean, we've had these jihadists.
We read the quotes from these jihadists, these terrorist leaders in their book endorsing Hillary.
We've got Democrats talking points being used.
Are you getting this, Henry?
We've got Democrat talking points being used by Osama bin Laden and his tapes by Zawahiri and Ahmedine's not at Columbia.
Now you've got Islamofascists encouraging the American people to vote for Democrats.
What are we supposed to do?
And the House moves to limit FISA so that it's going to be harder to intercept phone conversations with potential terrorists overseas.
No wonder the terrorists are encouraging Americans to vote Democrat.
Did you get that, Henry?
You get that.
Back in just a second, folks.
Your phone calls are coming up.
We've got audio soundbites to the Republican debate.
We'll get to that.
Lots of talk about Fred Thompson from the drive-bys, how bad he looked.
Play you the audio soundbites of that.
But first, the Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded to some egghead who did a lot of work understanding the thinning ozone layer.
So it appears that this year's committee is focused on radical environmentalism as being equal to the peace movement.
Now, who has received this peace prize?
Mother Teresa has received the peace prize.
Others who genuinely worked, I mean, they may be dubious awards themselves, but they were focused on people.
Gore is about to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for making a movie about himself.
It's now got at least 11 documented lies and falsehoods in it, according to a British court.
Ladies and gentlemen, I haven't seen the details of this chemist's work on the thinning ozone layer, but I can bet, I shouldn't speculate.
I'll just remind you, it was only last week that we had news, maybe two weeks ago, that scientists discovered that the chemical reaction they thought was causing the depletion of the ozone now cannot explain it.
It's not the cause in 70% of the ozone depletion, plus the hole keeps filling in.
So we're back to square one.
They don't know Diddley Squat, and so the Nobel Chemistry Prize has gone to some chemist who's helping us understand the thinning ozone layer.
I'll print the story out here in a moment, get details and find out what his theory is and see if he's this new guy.
By the way, a lot of people sending me emails.
Rush, what is Mrs. Clinton talking about when she talks about centrist coalition?
You know, I'm sorry for not explaining that.
There's certain things that I just assume people know.
So I thank you for the question.
A centrist coalition for Mrs. Clinton means a coalition of Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, and socialists.
Pure and simple.
So when you hear her talk about a centrist coalition, think of it in those terms.
Cell call from Houston up first.
This is Shannon, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Sweet Southern mega dittos from a long time, listener Rush.
I've been listening to you since 89, and I'm really proud to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I wanted to talk to you real quick about the hole in the ozone layer theory and man-made global warming and all of that.
My dad works for the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and they are the folks that send down the weather balloons to Antarctica and do a lot of calculations on the weather.
And I've talked to some of the scientists, and my daughter has talked to some of the scientists that work with my father.
And they pretty much say, you know, the hole in the ozone layer being man-made global warming, blah, blah, blah.
That's all a myth.
But what I'm concerned about, and I think I know the answer to the question, but I'm going to get you to confirm what I already think.
The runoff that we see in Greenland and all of them melting and everything else like that somewhat to me confirms global warming, but I don't think it's man-made.
You know, it's just the opposite.
And I'm somewhere in my stack here.
When this whole Greenland, Greenland is the new rock concert for global warming, it is where all the politicians go to see water melting and then proclaim global warming.
Pelosi was the last to go there.
And we have an official climatologist on this program.
His name is Dr. Roy Spencer.
He's former NASA.
He's now at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Oh, come on.
Huntsville.
And when this Greenland stuff started, he sent me a very simple explanation for what this so-called glacier melting and reduction actually is.
And it is not warming at all.
And it's just one of these places that provides pictures that can be taken out of context, like words can be taken out of context to suggest that warming is taking place.
Bjorn Lomborg, who I once interviewed for the Limball Letter, which, by the way, have you seen the 15th anniversary of the Limball Letter?
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And I will pay myself the $20,000 that commercial just cost, so don't sweat it.
One account to the next.
Anyway, I'm going to get Dr. Spencer to explain this to me again for you, Shannon.
There's just so many myths, but Bjorn Lomborg had a piece in the New York Times over the week.
He said, you know, this crisis over global warming is ridiculous.
He said, we can stipulate anything we want.
We can stipulate that warming is happening, which everybody thinks it is.
We can even stipulate that man's contributing to it.
It's not a crisis.
In fact, it may lead to a whole lot of good things happening.
And it's based on the premise: who are we to say that the climate as it exists now is the only climate we can ever have and we must save it or we're dead?
That's absurd.
I didn't bother getting into the detail of the column, and I should have, but we had a lot of other things going on.
I'll dig that back up and get into it.
In fact, go to the Times website.
There's no longer behind closed doors or whatever.
You don't have to pay for it.
And it's Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday.
Look, it's in their weekend review section, I think.
It might have been the Washington Post now that I think.
I'm not sure.
One of the two, and it was on Sunday.
But I'll get you the answer to that, Shannon.
Here's Michael in Lansing, Michigan.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you with us.
You too, sir.
It's a wonderful opportunity for me to speak with you.
And I just want you to know that, yep, I'm a resident here of Michigan, aka South Canada.
And I won't keep you on the line too long because I need my daily schooling.
I actually got rid of my TV, and your show is the only place I pick up news from.
Well, you've got to really be enjoying life then.
Oh, you are not kidding.
I go into, I'm a law school student.
Every day I walk in there and I get in debates and arguments with people.
And once I've done my spiel, which is a lot of times just a regurgitation of what I heard on your show, the people look at me and it reminds me of the parody from that movie Team America because all I hear is, oh, well, what about global loaming in the environment?
Team America World Police.
There you go.
I just wanted to call and chime in real quick.
You were talking about the falsities and to deal with our people's diets and how we've for so long had these preconceived notions that fat were bad for you.
Well, a couple of months ago in a mental health article, they did a piece on some native Indians from Mexico right around the Yucatan Peninsula in the copper mining area and how these people live up into their hundreds.
There's relatively no incidence of natural occurring disease, and yet they subside almost wholly on a diet made up of beer that's processed from corn, and that their everyday meal is some sort of like a soup concoction that's primarily high carbs, yet all of them live up to the hundreds.
They drink every day, and I think the moral of that is it doesn't matter what you eat.
You know, you just need to get off your fat duff and exercise.
Well, no, that can kill you now, too.
You have missed that story.
Too much exercise can also kill you.
I wish I could elaborate on this, but I have to go to an obscene profit break timeout.
Thanks, Michael, for the phone call.
We'll be back, my friends.
Sit tight.
Got a great quote here.
San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.
People have realized they can hate George Bush, but still not want homeless people crapping in their doorway.
That's a quote from somebody in San Francisco about the homeless problem getting out of hand.
I'll have details.
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