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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 247 Podcast.
What is it with the cleaning crew?
I come in here every morning.
I gotta 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, and it's glued to the desk.
And I never remember to do this until after the theme music starts.
Anyway, greetings, uh, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh here on the E. And they put the trash can over there where I can't throw anything in it.
Uh 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.
Uh telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, 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Five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary.
Well, but that's I don't care that five Democrats have withdrawn from the Michigan primary.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, uh, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam.
For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, I am holding here on my in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
The original copy, the original, of the letters sent to Clear Channel's CEO by Senator Harry Reed, demanding that they make me apologize and spank me.
And I have 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 it's uh it's a little bright there.
There we go.
You can see that the uh signatures are in uh actually, this is a scan copy.
I I didn't 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 uh letter, ladies, ladies and gentlemen.
I sh I hope uh 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 uh got a rush to excellence tour in Philadelphia tomorrow night.
Philadelphia, yes.
It's always exciting.
It just every every day holds new promise.
Never know what's gonna happen.
Uh, couple of things I want to get to before we get to an analysis of the Republican debate last night.
Uh some some truly hilarious news about Nancy Pelosi today.
Do you realize that she 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 tight 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 when Cindy Sheehan'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 uh and it and irritating her neighbors, yeah, she whines and moans and complains about it.
Washington Post has the story.
Details are coming up.
How many of you uh over the years uh have bought into the notion that fat eating fat is bad for you.
Snurdly raises his hand, Dawn's raising both hands, raising easing eating fat.
Uh 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 the reason I mention 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 he 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, uh, and 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.
Uh what happens is is a is a uh just 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 tenth person, it's it resembles not at all uh the original that was told to the first person.
It's the same thing here.
With the names of scientists and uh and all of that.
Uh but in this case, ninety-two percent 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 they and the science is 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.
Uh, including global warming.
Speaking of global warming.
What?
I'm saying 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 uh it's it's it's 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's 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 uh that you are supposed to eat.
Uh anyway, I 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 uh 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 Taub 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 Hagenda's was nothing like the evidence against Marlboros.
Now, it may seem bizarre that a surgeon general could go so wrong, after all, what did 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. Tobbs, a correspondent for Science Magazine explains in his book.
First, it wasn't clear that traditional diets were especially lean.
Nineteenth 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 new epidemic of heart disease, or 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, uh 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 staff were virtually unaware of the existence of any scientific controversy.
The report uh impressed uh another non-scientist, Carol Tucker Foreman, an assistant agriculture secretary who hired Dr. Hegstead to draw anyway, goes on uh to describe how 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 uh we the point of this is you can eat what you want, but I don't care what you eat.
It really makes no difference to me.
You know, I'm I'm not somebody who thinks I know what's best for you or best for my buddy.
It's your 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 eleven falsehoods and lies in this movie.
You have to tell them.
And uh the eleven are cited and and so forth.
I'll 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, L. Rushball and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Hey, Henry!
Somebody flag 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 uh worthy of harassing me over.
I just want to point them right to it.
So, hey, Henry, it's gonna be the new Hey Henry, listen to this.
This is out of 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 uh with Democrats still lacking enough votes to bring the troops home.
Uh, the party runs the risk of concluding its first year in control of Congress with little to show for its 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 ten 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.
Did you get that, Henry?
Henry Staff.
Henry, there's something else you might, Henry Waxman of Tory, 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 uh to the uh dark uh away from the dark side, and uh, you run the risk of having this happen to your committed staff of investigators.
So I just want to warn you just trying to protect your base, uh, if you will.
Here are the eleven items in Al Gore's movie.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, I predicted this this troop that this Iraq thing is going to be off the table very soon.
It's off table.
Um, 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.
I w 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 uh 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 uh the United States, with our border insecurity and people that uh 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 uh it's fascinating.
Here are the eleven corrections that a British judge has demanded that British school students be told about if they are shown Al Gore's movie.
Uh the uh 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 eleven.
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 melding.
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 a they're having in uh in order to make it look like we're having a tropical storm season, they're naming subtropical stiff systems.
They're that systems that never used to get named or now being named.
I go to all these hurricane blocks.
Folks, it's the most amazing thing.
I go to all these hurricane blogs with these hurricanes, and they're desperate.
They'll they'll point out, oh, we're watching a system 200 miles north of Puerto Rico, upper level sheer 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.
Then this thing down near Bailey near the Yucatan Peninsula, and the National Hurricane Service 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 haven't had those two cat fives down there that, you know, hit Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, but none here.
If it's global warming is going on, why aren't we being devastated by Katrina after Katrina after Katrina?
That's just my uh editorial input here.
Uh 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.
This the Gulf Stream is like imagine a conveyor belt.
And the Gulf Stream takes warm water from right here in Florida and this part of the world uh across the Atlantic, and it gets up and it gets cooler as it goes, but it it warms some of the water that it interacts with.
It keeps a veribly 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 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 a 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, now here's the Nancy Pelosi story.
She was talking on the fifth anniversary of the House vote to authorize the awark uh 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 Hulz, was seated about ten 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.
Ha!
Ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha!
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, uh, 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, that that's they could cut off the money, but they don't dare do that.
I mean, that's the proof of the pudding.
It's 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 from the trees, building all kinds of things, buddhas, I don't know what they're 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 is 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 uh causing all sorts of hassles for people down there.
Uh but they were homeless.
If they were a home, if they were just poor, then we could just sweep them away like General Dinkins did for the Democrat convention in 1992.
You can sweep them down to Mel Lower Manhattan or sweep them over to Tiburon or something.
Put them, 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.
Ten months of the most nothing, ineffective leadership, and coupled with dingy Harry, he's had a bad ten months too, uh, over in the uh in the in the Senate.
And what they're both known for is collecting the lowest approval ratings of Congress in uh in my lifetime.
This headline, I can't believe that they can write this story with a straight face.
It's uh by our old buddy uh Ann Cornblut, 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 says, 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.
Uh 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, uh 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 uh in telling you why Hillary pulled at $5,000 per baby trick off the table.
It does have to do with social.
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 the stack of stuff here.
In an interview aboard her campaign bus.
By the way, you know she's got the the middle class express.
She's got a bus tour going out there in Iowa.
It's called the 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 expect 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, uh, and uh and all that.
Uh she says that social security's not in a crisis.
Uh she was vague about how she would handle special interrogation methods.
She has, she's, of course, she's vague about everything.
On the one hand, she said she'd put she'd go all for the uh the nuclear time bomb uh use of torture.
Then she denied that that should be all over them.
But just like with her and her entire uh 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 uh 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 critic.
You can't 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.
Uh might want to f flag the tape.
Uh, Mike for Henry Waxman here from the Washington Times.
Uh 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 uh 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 you Are you getting this, Henry?
We've got Democrat talking points being used by Osama bin Laden and his tapes by Zawahiri and Ahmadini's not at Columbia.
Now you've got Islamo fascists encouraging the American people to vote for Democrats.
What are we supposed to And then the House moves to limit FISA so that uh it's gonna be harder to to uh intercept uh phone conversations with potential terrorists overseas.
No wonder the terrorists are encouraging Americans to vote Democrat.
You get that, and we get that back in just a second, folks.
Your phone calls are coming up.
Uh we've got audio sound bites in the Republican debate.
We'll get to that.
Uh lots of talk about Fred Thompson from the drive-by's, how bad he looked.
Uh play of the audio sound bites of that.
But first, the Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded.
Uh to uh 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 let's who has who is uh who has received this peace prize with m uh Mother Teresa has received the Peace Prize.
Others who genuinely worked, I mean, they may be dubious awards themselves, but they they 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 I haven't seen the details of this uh 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 reactions 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 diddly 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.
Uh by the way, a lot of people sending me emails.
Rush, what what what 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 I thank you for the question.
The centrist coalition for Mrs. Clinton means a coalition of Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, and socialists.
Uh 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 Shannon, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Sweet Southern Mega Ditto's 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.
Um I wanted to talk to you real quick about the uh the hole in the ozone layer theory and and man-made global warming and all of that.
Um my dad works for the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, and they are the folks that send down the uh weather balloons to Antarctica and 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 I'm concerned about, and I think I know the answer to the question, but I'm gonna get you to confirm what I already think.
So the runoff that we see in Greenland and all of the melting and everything else like that, somewhat to me confirms global warming, but I don't think it's man-made.
Um, you know, uh it's just the opposite.
And I'm I'm somewhere in my stack here.
When this whole Greenland, Greenland is 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 is uh former NASA.
He's now at the University of uh Alabama, Birmingham.
Uh uh not Birmingham, uh uh uh oh, come on.
Uh Hunts Hunts Huntsville.
Uh and when this 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 it's it's uh it's it's just pr it's just one of these places that provides pictures uh that can be taken out of context, like words can be taken out of context uh to suggest uh that that warming is taking place.
That uh uh Bjorn Lomborg, who I once interviewed uh for the Limbaugh Letter, which, by the way, have you seen the 15th anniversary issue of the Limbaugh?
If you haven't, you need to get hold of one by subscribing.
Um we're getting rave reviews on the 15th anniversary issue of the uh of the limbull rave review.
I get notes and people, this made me re-up for two more years.
This exceptional issue of this newsletter.
It's the largest and the most widely read political newsletter in the country, folks.
Uh anyway, 800 457 4141.
Uh, and I will I will pay myself the $20,000 that commercial just cost, so don't uh sweat it.
One account to the next.
Anyway, I'm gonna f I'm gonna get Dr. Spencer to to explain this to me again uh for you, Shannon.
Uh there's there's just so many myths, but but beyond Bjorn Lomborg had a piece in the New York Times over the weekend, you know, we're this is 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.
Uh and 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.
Uh I didn't I didn't bother getting into the detail of the of the column, and I should have, but we had a lot of other things going on.
I'll dig that back up and uh and get into it.
In fact, go to the Times website.
There's no longer behind closed doors or whatever.
That's no you don't have to pay for it.
And it's Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday uh look, it's in a week in 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 is uh 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 uh, yep, I'm a resident here of Michigan, aka South Canada, and I won't keep you on the line too long because I uh need my daily schooling.
I actually got rid of my TV, and your show's the only place I pick up news from.
So you've got to really be enjoying life then.
Oh, you are not kidding.
I uh I go into I'm a law school student, and 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 uh well, what about global roaming in the environment stuff?
Team America world police.
There you go.
I uh I just wanted to call and chime in real quick.
Uh you were talking about the falsities and uh the 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 months ago in a men's health article, they did a piece on some native uh Indians from Mexico right around the Yucatan Peninsula on the copper mining area, and how these people uh 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 um is some sort of like a soup concoction that's primarily high carbs, yet all of them live up to the hundredth.
They drink every day, and I think the moral of that is it doesn't matter what.
You 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.
Uh I wish I could elaborate on this, but I have to go to an obscene uh profit break timeout.
Thanks, Michael, for the phone call.
We'll be back, my friends.
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.
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