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Oct. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 22, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, we're back.
Great to be back.
Rushland bought a brand new week of broadcast excellence on the EIB network.
Cleaning up the messes of the drive-by media and their various hits over the weekend, doing so happily.
800-282-2882 is the number.
If you'd like to be on the program, email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
If case you missed it, in the first hour, Harry Reid in the recording studio over the weekend, ladies and gentlemen, have written the letter.
Mr. Sterdley and I went back to his office during the top of the hour break.
We turned on the channel C-SPAN 2 because the Senate opened business at 2 o'clock.
So they had the guy come out and do the prayer to open the Senate.
And Dingy Harry took to the floor, which he always does when the Senate opened session to explain the day's business.
I looked at Sterling.
I said, I wonder if he'll once again try to horn in on this.
Sterling said, nah, no, no.
He's giving me the pushback gestures.
No, no, no.
He's glad this is over.
He doesn't want any more part of this.
I said, we'll see.
We got the sound down.
We're watching closed captioning.
And then we see on the closed captioning last Friday at 1 p.m., oh no, I can't believe it.
But he was talking about that was a deadline for some amendments to be offered or some such thing.
We thought he was going to with that horn in again.
Before we get to the audio sound bikes, ladies and gentlemen, of the Republican debate last night, a story in the UK Telegraph that basically says, based on computer model simulations, researchers think that they can spread pulverized car tires through the clouds to affect the path of a hurricane.
Now, supposedly, turning a part of the hurricane into a giant solar collector would affect how a whole storm evolves by a tiny bit changing its track.
Now, I ran this by our official climatologist here at the EIB network.
That would be Dr. Roy Spencer.
And Dr. Spencer said there are so many pitfalls to this idea, it's hard to know where to start.
First of all, you gotta understand Dr. Spencer is a scientist.
Dr. Spencer says, it's not like we're ever going to be able to give the storm a giant shove to one side.
In order to move a big hurricane, it would probably take many nuclear weapons days before landfall to accomplish something like that.
Instead, the idea partly takes advantage of the butterfly effect.
And according to the butterfly effect, everything affects the weather at some point in the future.
A tiny change in one location will supposedly, over the course of several weeks, dramatically change global weather patterns.
Of course, since there are an almost infinite number of small and large influences going on all the time, the butterfly effect has little practical significance.
Also, note that the butterfly effect in this story, Rush, can only be demonstrated with a computer model.
In reality, you cannot change one tiny thing in the atmosphere to see how it affects weather later because you don't know exactly how weather would have changed without that tiny change.
So it's simply, you can only do this on models.
You would never be able to know if what you did worked.
Let's say they got a bunch of granulated car tires and they throw them into a hurricane and all of a sudden it changes direction.
How do we know the granulated car tires made it happen?
Because had we not put the pattern of the car tires in there, it might have made the same turn.
We'll never know once we start affecting things like this.
But of course, the computer models are gospel.
Computer models, in fact, are the Bible of global warming, ladies and gentlemen.
Computer models are the scripture of the religion of global warming.
And so whatever the models say, we will believe it.
All of this leads to the next problem, and that is that you don't know all of the different big things that are going to happen in, say, the next few days that will alter the hurricane's course anyway.
For example, a cluster of storms that happens to form on one side of the hurricane rather than the other side.
You would have to be able to predict the weather in advance for many days in order to know exactly where the storm was going to go and then try to change its direction slightly days in advance.
This is totally preposterous.
It is foolhardy.
This cannot be the work of genuine scientists coming up with this.
This is so laughable.
All you have to do is look at this year, and I have shared with you my observations.
I'm just a layman when it comes to all of this, but I have gotten the biggest kick out of looking.
Okay, they got a little storm out there, and they've been desperate for storms this year, obviously.
So they've been naming the subtropical storms.
That's never happened before.
Then they put all these models out, these tracks, where it's going to go.
And there is likely quite a bit of divergence in the tracks.
So the Hurricane Center will pick the middle of the various tracks if there's a wide convergence, just to be safe.
But nobody knows where they're going to go.
And these haven't developed.
Four of them have developed into hurricanes.
One was a Cat 1 that went into Texas.
And I think they fudged that Cat 1 just to be able to call it a hurricane.
Two of them went down there into the Yucatan Peninsula area.
I forget where the fourth one went.
We've had nine hurricanes since Hurricane Katrina.
And all the global warming people were predicting massive 15 to 20 hurricanes a year after that because of global warming.
It has been laughable to watch the hurricane experts this year desperately try to make every disturbance out in the Caribbean or the Atlantic into a hurricane or a huge tropical storm.
And they've all fizzled.
And what's caused them to fizzle this year apparently is wind shear, which wasn't supposed to happen this year because the La Niña El Niño effect was not conducive.
But yet there's been a lot of wind shear ripping the tops off the storms.
Before they discovered wind shear, it was Saharan desert dust that was screwing these.
The bottom line is to come up with computer models like this, to suggest throwing a bunch of granulated car tires into a portion of a hurricane is going to cause it to move in a predictable way is simply stupid.
It is simply not possible because you don't know for sure what it's going to do before you drop the granulated car tires.
And by the way, the purpose of the granulated car tires, they're black.
Rubber is supposed to attract solar energy.
And that new solar energy introduced into the storm is supposed to have some sort of impact.
But then when do you do it?
Do you wait for two days out?
Do you do it a week out?
When do you do this?
The audacity of people who think that we're on the verge of being able to steer hurricanes.
And it's the same bunch of people, no doubt, who believe in global warming models.
It's just, it's getting more and more ridiculous with the passing of each day.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
Hey, Newsflash here, folks.
There are soon to be released more Democrat Party talking points on Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera has announced that it will soon air another audio tape by Osama bin Laden with the subject being Iraq, which means more Democrat Talking Party talking points are soon to be coming our way via Al Jazeera.
Can you tell folks that I don't really want to play these debate soundbites?
Keep saying I'm going to get to them, and I just don't get everything pops up here in the news stack that is the more interesting to me.
Snerdley's sending me a note here.
Are you sure Bin Laden's not going to be talking about phony soldiers?
Would that not be great?
Bin Laden reads Media Matters for America too.
Bin Laden with the tape on phony soldiers.
Oh, no, we couldn't be that lucky.
We just, we couldn't, we couldn't get that lucky.
Lee in St. Louis, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Megan Dittos from St. Louis, Missouri.
How you doing?
Fine, sir.
Thanks a bunch.
Good.
You just made a quick comment on the rubber being dropped into the hurricane.
Where are the environmental wackos on this to say what would happen to the whales and the porpoises and all that type of thing after they eat it?
Environmental wackos are coming up with this.
Oh, you got to be kidding me.
No, well, who do you think uses computer models to forecast global warming steer hurricanes?
This is the environmental wacko community coming up with this idea.
If you want to look at it that way, let's say that the granular, and by the way, these are when you say granulated, that's like sugar.
We're not talking big chunks of tires here.
We're talking gazillions and gazillions and gazillions of tires ground up.
Think of the energy to do that it's going to take.
So you put these granulated.
I'll tell you what, I don't know, you people watch football, but the latest rage and artificial surfaces field turf is made of granulated automobile tires and other kind of rubber.
And if you watch a game played on that field, that type of field, you will see little, if you're watching in a high definition, sometimes you don't need HD if it's a close-up shot.
But I'm sure you've seen what appear to be little black granules popping up as players drag their feet on the surface.
Gee, what's that?
That's embedded, granulated car tires and other kind of rubber in the field.
And so this is what we're talking about: the energy to granulate all these tires.
So it wouldn't have profound effect on marine or mammal life.
But I've just, you know, if the storm hits and this stuff doesn't stir it right, in addition to all the rain, we're going to get car tires raining down on us in the midst of the midst of the hurricane.
Imagine what that would do to our water supply.
All these granulated tires showing up at Lake Okeechobee, for example.
Orlando in Miami, Florida.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Maharashi.
We greetings from South Florida.
I'm a legal Cuban immigrant who applied for American citizens the very first date I was able to do that back in 1974.
Congratulations, sir.
I'm a proud American citizen.
This is the best country in the world.
Thank you, sir, very much.
And to prove it is that the whole world wants to come here.
Not many of us want to get out.
I don't know anybody who wants to get out there.
The liberals threaten to leave, but they never do.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That's the proof how good we are.
Now, we, your students, hear you day after day exposing Denji Harris real estate on ethical deals.
Mrs. Clinton campaigns on ethical campaign funds musky deals too.
And unfortunately, I have seen several presidential campaigns here, and I'm afraid that when the real debate becomes real between the real candidates, the Republican candidate will not expose all the things you say, and the left will continue to get away with murder.
Well, look, I understand this defensive nature that Republicans have.
It still exists in a lot of people's minds that the Democrats are aces, that they are in total control.
They get everything done.
They never goof up.
They never screw up.
They never make a mistake.
They're going to outsmart Republicans at every turn.
Republicans aren't going to have the guts to call Mrs. Clinton on the fundraising.
I don't think that's true here.
I think in the case of Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and McCain, especially given his love for McCain feingold, and whoever, you know, Fred Thompson, I think, folks, we really have not seen the kind of campaign we are going to see next year.
And because of the front-loaded nature of these primaries, we're going to have our, we could possibly have the nominees in both parties chosen by February or March.
And it's going to be a long, drawn-out knockout slug fest.
And it's going to be, we can't predict the direction the filth will fly, the dirt will go.
But if Rudy's the nominee, make no mistake, they're already hammering.
And this whole debate last night was about Hillary.
I don't think our guys are going to shy away from it at all.
In fact, I think most of our guys in the Republican field want to run against Hillary precisely because of things like this, because it is a gold mine.
It's a golden opportunity.
Already got 49 or 50% negatives.
So I think that this is something that they're looking at is made to order.
I'm going to use your call here, Orlando, as a transition into some of these debate soundbites.
We'll first have Fred Thompson here.
The question from Chris Wallace.
Senator Thompson, have these two guys, meaning Mitt and Rudy, convinced you that you're wrong and that in fact they are both consistent conservatives?
Actually, Mitt, I didn't know there was any room to the left of Ted Kennedy.
In fact, I didn't know there was any room to the right of him either.
I was conservative as soon as I put down conscience of a conservative when I was in the college.
Mayor Giuliani believes in federal funding for abortion.
He believes in sanctuary cities.
He's for gun control.
He supported Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat against a Republican who's running for governor, then opposed the governor's tax cuts when he was there.
So I simply disagree with him on those issues, and he sides with Hillary Clinton on each of those issues I just mentioned.
So this was started out.
They actually started debating each other as to who is the real conservative, who is more conservative.
Chris Wallace says, Mr. Giuliani, how do you respond?
Fred has his problems, too.
I mean, Fred was the single biggest obstacle to tort reform in the United States Senate.
He stood with Democrats over and over again.
He voted against $250,000 caps on damages, which they have in Texas.
He voted against almost anything that would make our legal system fairer.
Loser pays rules, things that would prevent lawsuits like that $54 million lawsuit by the guy who lost his pants, you know.
So they went after each other on this.
I thought they all were good last night.
I thought this was a pretty interesting debate because it was more like a debate funding.
By the way, Newsflash, we're hearing a rumor that the subject matter of Osama bin Laden's new audio tape is in fact the S-CHIP program, the state children's health insurance program, and how that money could better be spent from Iraq, take it from Iraq and spend on that program.
Later on in the debate, Chris Wallace said to Mitt Romney, Governor, is Hillary Clinton fit to be commander-in-chief?
The idea that someone wants to be president who's never worked in the private sector is really a big question, Mark.
She hasn't run a corner store.
She hasn't run a state.
She hasn't run a city.
She has never run anything.
And the idea that she could learn to be president as an internship just didn't make any sense.
So this is when the attacks on Hillary then began.
Chris Wallace said, Governor Romney says Republicans aren't going to beat Hillary Clinton by acting like Hillary Clinton.
And the point seems to be that on a lot of social issues, like abortion and gay rights and gun control, that there's not much difference between you, Mayor Giuliani, and Hillary Clinton, is there?
You've got to be kidding.
You have got to be kidding.
Wait a second.
There are two things I agree with Hillary Clinton on.
First of all, we're both Yankee fans.
Well, wait a second.
I became a Yankee fan growing up in New York.
She became a Yankee fan growing up in Chicago.
Do you believe that?
Second, she made a statement last week, and I've been very critical of her, but I want to tell her I agree with this one.
Quote Hillary Clinton: I have a million ideas.
America cannot afford them all.
I'm not making it up.
I am not making it up.
One more time.
I have a million ideas.
America can't afford them all.
No kidding, Hillary.
America can't afford you.
Yay!
And the applause went on and on and on.
So you see, it was a spirited debate, and the focus really was on Mrs. Clinton after they had the debates over who's the real conservative.
But the conclusion that I drew from watching this is that nobody's afraid of her in this field, and they're eager to run up against somebody with as much baggage as she obviously has.
This fundraising thing, the Republicans are going to use it when it's time.
Remember, folks, the election is not for a year, a little over a year.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
You cannot talk to me in there when it's time to rejoin the content portion of the program.
I got people demanding internet email answers.
I got people telling me what boy, the good old days when it was just me.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
Rushlin Boy here on the EIB network.
All right, moving on.
Let's get McCain.
Let's be fair.
On the Republican presidential debate last night, many people think this was the line of the night.
Chris Wallace, the moderator, said, Senator McCain, you're running the closest to Clinton, but you still trail her by three points in our latest poll.
The biggest issue between the two of you clearly is a war in Iraq.
You strongly support the troop surge.
She wants to start pulling the troops out.
Is that a winner for Republicans in 2008?
The debate that I have between me and her will be based on national security, on fiscal conservatism, and on social conservatism.
It'll be a respectful debate.
That's what the American people want.
In case you missed it, a few days ago, Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum.
Now, my friends, I wasn't there.
I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event.
I was tied up at the time.
Meaning he was in the Hanoi Hilton, is what he means by tied up when Mrs. Clinton now wants to celebrate what was going on at Woodstock.
A lot of people think that was a great line.
And it was.
No question about it.
Huckabee, he was probably at his best too last night talking about Hillary.
Chris Wallace said, Governor Huckabee, I'm sorry to say we didn't call the horse race between you and Senator Clinton, but you say that she'll win next November if the Republican Party doesn't do a better job of reaching out to minorities.
There's nothing funny about Hillary Clinton being president.
Let me tell you why.
If she's president, taxes go up.
Health care becomes the domain of the government.
Spending goes out of control.
Our military loses its morale.
And I'm not sure we'll have the courage and the will and the resolve to fight the greatest threat this country's ever faced in Islamo-fascism.
We've got an enemy that wants to kill every last one of us.
We cannot be soft.
We must be strong.
We'll sign crazy bills like the Law of the Sea Treaty and give away our sovereignty.
And that's why, with all the fun we're going to have talking about it, there's nothing funny about Hillary being president.
There you have it.
That's Mike Huckabee talking about Clinton.
Do you see what I mean?
I mean, all these guys last night were really on their game.
They were really to the point.
I mean, last night, I'll give you an example.
When I was in Philadelphia on Thursday night, the 11th, and I was in a riff on Hillary and the Democrats and all the way, and I stopped myself in the middle of the riff.
That always grabs the audience's attention.
They think I lost my place.
Oh, no, it's something wrong.
I stopped.
Of course, I never lose my place.
I said, folks, does it frustrate you as much as it does me that we don't hear this kind of thing, the things that I'm saying about the Democrats and Mrs. Clinton spoken by Republican presidential candidates.
They stood up and they cheered and so forth.
Well, now all of a sudden, we're starting to get from these candidates the kind of statements that reflect the views of people who are going to vote for them.
One of them who wins the nomination.
You know, Reddit and the policy wonk stuff.
This was the best one of the night last night.
And of course, it's happening on Fox.
And Chris Wallace did a good moderator job.
He turned these guys into each other.
They were actually debating each other.
It was a debate.
It wasn't a glorified press conference.
This is a network that the Democrats refused to appear on.
I think maybe because they're a little afraid of it, but it's also because they just don't want to validate Fox as a legitimate news organization.
Now, Rudy continued to hit on Iran.
Wendell Goeller, who was one of the moderators from Fox News, said, Mayor Giuliani, given our experience in Iraq, does the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iraq worry you more than the prospect of going to war with Iran?
Well, there's no question that the idea of going to war with Iran or even taking military action against Iran would be very dangerous.
It would be something you would not want to do.
It would be a last resort.
But if you're asking me the question, which is more dangerous, a nuclear-armed Iran is more dangerous.
And I think our taking a strong position here would be similar to the difference between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter when he was dealing with Iran.
Jimmy Carter had hostages for 444 days.
In one hour, the Iranians released the hostages, and they saw something different in Ronald Reagan's eyes than in Jimmy Carter's eyes.
The crowd went nuts on that, too.
See, people want partisanship.
Our side wants to hear what these people are saying about the Democrats.
Does this not tell you, by the way, the tone of this debate and some of the bites that I played for you, I made a prediction that this presidential election is going to be based and centered not on the war in Iraq, per se, as the theme or the number one issue.
It's going to be about the future of the country and where people like Hillary will take it and where people like guys on our side will take it.
That's going to be the fundamental debate.
That's going to be the fundamental thing that this presidential campaign is about.
So on CBS, on the early show today on CBS, the co-host Hannah Storm talked with CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.
And she said, so Bob, who won the I am the most conservative prize last night with derision and so forth and so who won the I am the most conservative prize last night at the debate?
Well, it was a contest as they all tried to accuse each other of who was the most like Hillary Clinton.
You know, I was thinking about this, Hannah.
Herbert Hoover, the Republican president, presided over the Great Depression.
Franklin Roosevelt started running against Herbert Hoover in 1932, and three decades later, Democrats were still running against Herbert Hoover.
I think for the Republicans, Hillary Clinton has become the new Herbert Hoover.
As you saw last night, they all want to run against Hillary Clinton.
They accused each other of being like Hillary Clinton.
I came away from this debate wondering what would they do without her?
You know, that is just stunning because, Bob, I'm going to tell you something.
Half the Democrats in this country are going to go vote for president in November next year and are going to be shocked when they see that George Bush's name is not on the ballot.
Who the hell are you Democrats that you are so in love with running against?
And who have they been running?
They're still running against Bush.
He's not even on the ballot.
Herbert Hoover was on the ballot.
These guys are not on the ballot.
Bush isn't.
They just can't stand it when people attack Hillary.
He just can't stand it, folks.
Just can't stand it.
So they've got to mock Republicans, make fun of them, and all that.
Back to the phones quickly.
Ron in Portland, Oregon.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Listen, John McCain is too old.
He talks too slow and he's too friendly with Hillary.
He said last night he respected Hillary.
He's going to have a respectable debate with Hillary.
We don't want that.
The country doesn't want that.
Here's the gal that's taken money from Chinese dishwashers that John McCain was supposed to fix, and he respects her.
Remember, John McCain was considered by John Kerry to be his running mate.
Anybody that's that close to those guys is no friend of mine.
Well, you know, I noticed it caught my ears when McCain said he was going to have a debate with Hillary, a spirited debate, but it'll be a respectful debate.
That's what the American people want.
You know what that is?
Ron, that's just Senate speak.
My good friend Harry Reid, my wonderful colleague Daniel Akaka.
That's all this decorum that exists in the Senate and so forth by rule.
You'll note that you know who the last senator elected president was in this country?
Take him.
Well, I'll guess it was John F. Kennedy, right, in 1960.
It's the last time a U.S. senator has been elected president here.
And it's because these guys don't delegate.
They're in charge of everything.
Their egos are out of control.
And that means they can't delegate to their staffs very well.
Their staff start screwing things up.
Now, Hillary's pretty good at delegating because she's had the war room all along, but she's intimately involved in it as well.
But this respectful debate and so forth is that's simply Senate speak.
And it's not, I don't know whether the American people want a disrespectful debate, but they don't want phony nice.
That's a myth.
The American people are sick of partisanship.
The American people want to return to civility.
All that is, folks, it's liberal jive.
And what it means is we've got to shut Republicans and conservatives up.
We just have to shut them up.
Because they, in their estimation, are impossible.
Impossible.
It is impossible for them to participate in or create or be responsible for any lack of civility or any partisanship.
So it's got to be all Republicans.
So when you hear people talk like this, it just means Republicans have shut up.
And so when McCain says it'll be a civil debate and a respectful debate, Republicans cringe over that because they know that Hillary ain't going to be polite.
She might be polite on stage.
She might be polite when they have debates, but the campaign's not going to be polite.
Nothing about it's going to be polite.
Most campaigns aren't.
Learn it, love it, live it.
Get used to it.
It's what they are.
You know, folks, one day we are going to wake up and we are going to have a real, severe domestic energy shortage.
One day we're going to wake up and we're not going to have any energy.
Get this.
Nuclear power on Thursday, wrong piece of paper.
On Thursday, for the first time in American history, a state, in this case, Kansas, denied an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to man-made global warming fears.
It was reported by the New York Times on Saturday.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday turned down a permit for twin 700-megawatt coal-fired generators that a group of electric cooperatives is seeking to build near Holcomb in southwest Kansas.
The ownership of the electricity would be shared by 67 cooperatives in Kansas and neighboring states.
Roderick Bremby, secretary of the Department of Health and Environment in Kansas, said in a statement, I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing.
Washington Post reported on this Friday, and they said, the decision marks a victory for environmentalist WACO group.
Well, they didn't publish WACO, I threw it in there, that are fighting proposals for new coal-fired plants around the country.
Maybe the first of a series of similar state actions inspired by a Supreme Court decision in April that asserted that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide should be considered pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
That's just outrageous.
It is just absurd.
The Chinese are going to continue to build coal-fired plants.
They won't let us use nuclear.
They won't let us drill for oil.
Now they're shutting down.
This is the first of a trend, the construction of new coal-fired plants.
Coal is our most abundant energy resource.
We've got tons of it.
And they're going to try to shut this down.
We are going to be in heap big trouble, folks.
We're going to be in deep doo-doo if this trend spreads with the Supreme Court granting the EPA the right to treat this stuff as pollutants and so forth.
Now the court system is involved in energy creation in our country.
And of course, it's all based on a total hoax.
It's like the alternative universe.
This guy at this Kansas department knows only one thing of global warming.
He hasn't tried to find out if Gore's movie is chocked full of lies, if the science behind it is not a consensus and is also fraudulent.
It's like the same people who refuse to see the truth about the dingy Harry Smear letter he wrote to me.
They think that whatever Media Matters said I said, that I said.
That's too many damn closed-minded people on the left, and they still, they profess to be the open-minded among us.
They see the gray.
They see the nuance.
These people are the most closed-minded, shut away from reality I have ever encountered among the sane.
And that's saying something.
They're literal shut-ins.
They are shut in away from reality by design on purpose so they don't have to have their little cozy world turned upside down by evidence that conflicts with the falsehoods they tell themselves in order to feel good every day.
Mike in Montgomery, Alabama, thank you for calling, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Mega Dittos from Shopton, Alabama.
Thank you.
If we get the cloud seating with ground-up tires, we can have the court system involved because the Democratic trial lawyers will love suing all the tire manufacturers, the airplane manufacturers, and everybody else that has something to do with it because the hurricane will eventually hit somebody somewhere.
That's right.
The idea that we're almost always going to be able to steer them out to sea, they're going to hit.
Yeah, that's a good point.
That is, you know, I don't do this enough.
I never do examine the role of the plaintiff's bar in all of these trial lawyers.
The aggrieved, the injured.
I'm sorry, the healthy who are aggrieved and injured, as stated in court.
I just, I never do factor that in.
It is always a relevant aspect to any of these type stories.
Reno, Nevada, this is Dale.
You're next.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
I appreciate the time to speak with you.
You bet.
Rush, I wanted to speak with you, but I totally agree with the fact that under the liable and slander laws that you don't have a case because you are a public figure.
Exactly right.
However, I think if you can answer five questions, three, maybe four questions in the affirmative, you may have another action.
First of all, was there a public official involved in this?
And the answer is yes.
Yep.
Secondly, was there more than one public official?
The answer is yes.
Yes.
Were they answering or acting officially during your regular workday?
The answer again is yes.
Yes.
Do they have the power to affect the rules, regulations, and laws concerning your industry?
The answer again is yes.
Yes.
The third thing is, did they then try to contact an individual who's part of your marketing program to affect your ability to make a living?
Yes.
Under those three circumstances, I think what you have is public officials acting under the color of law to deprive you of your civil rights.
Now, you know, this is interesting because I have, had this gone any further, that was the angle I was going to take it.
Because if they interact with my contractual agreements that I have made with people and prohibit me from fulfilling them, they have stopped and interceded in my ability to do business, and as such, they have harmed me and the people I do business with.
And that would be, you're absolutely right.
That would be the direction to go.
Not slander, not libel, not any of that stuff.
Well, the other half of that, the nice thing about it is, is that you report that to the FBI who hands it off to their civil rights people, the ones that go after the policemen for beating folks.
And if they don't do it, then you can go for a writ of mandamus to make them constitute.
I like the writ of mandamus, too.
But, well, it's interesting.
Look, folks, Harvey, I appreciate you, or Dale, I'm sorry, I appreciate your calling on this.
There's certain things here.
You've wetted people's whistle, but there's certain things we've got to keep close to the vest.
In terms of strategy, you get what I'm saying.
Absolutely.
One other thing that might be considered along this line is.
Right, well, let's go ahead and blow the strategy.
Go all the way.
Go ahead.
What's the other thing?
All right.
The other thing that might be considered along this was the ostensib media information provider was ostensibly set up by an individual that's a signator to that letter, which now includes media as well as the money.
I don't want to go any further.
I don't want to go any further.
You're giving away the secret here, and I got a break anyway.
We got to get.
Not enough time here to say anything other than I got to go.
Leaving for New York.
Super secret dinner this afternoon or tonight.
Actually, be doing the program from high atop the EIB building.
I'm down Manhattan tomorrow.
You didn't know that, Starley?
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