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Oct. 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, yes, yes.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
A 21-hour timeout.
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There was an impromptu dinner.
Well, it wasn't an impromptu dinner.
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation does this every year.
It's not an official Foundation dinner.
It's just a little meeting at Don Pepe's out next to JFK.
Great little Italian restaurant out there.
And Dick Tarikian puts this thing on every year and Jim Kalstrom.
And they invite just military buddies.
Some Secret Service agents were there.
General Peter Pace, the former Chief of Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, sat next to me at the dais, and Jim Calstrom was on the other side.
What was sort of impromptu about this was that they gave me a first time ever award last night, and I can't tell you what it was.
And I can't show it to you.
And now, see, HR's in there doubting the fact.
I can't do this, HR.
If I put this on the Ditto Cam, that's loosely describe it.
Hmm.
But loosely describing it doesn't get anywhere near what it actually is.
It's a guy thing, folks.
It involves brass and a pear.
I'll send you guys, Snergly, I'll send you some, I've got a picture of it.
I took a picture of it last night when I got home with my iPhone.
Can't put it on a website.
Can't do it.
I mean, we could, but we have standards to maintain here on the EIB network.
But it was a hoot.
It was just a great time last night.
I want to thank everybody involved.
The real big MCLF dinner is every April.
It used to be at the Plaza.
Excuse me, before they shut that down to refurbish and remodel it.
So it's been at the Waldorf hysteria last couple of years.
But that's the biggie.
That's the black tie.
Everybody shows up in camouflage, black tie, camouflage tuxedos.
Anyway, here's big news, ladies and gentlemen.
And we had to go to a Swiss website to find this.
It's a Reuters story, but we had to go to a Swiss website to find it.
Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70% since the end of June when U.S. forces completed their buildup of 30,000 extra troops for the surge.
While the leaders have failed to agree on key laws aimed at reconciling the country's warring sex, the troop buildup has succeeded, has succeeded in quelling the violence.
Ta-da!
Reuters, they have no choice but then to admit it.
We have to go to Switzerland to find this Reuters story.
A success in quelling the violence.
A companion story here.
New York Times reads or Bush's request for war increases to $196 billion.
President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $196 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other national security programs, setting the stage for a new confrontation with Democrats over the administration's handling of Iraq.
Now, the Democrats are reacting with dismay and anger.
They can't believe they are having it rammed right down their throats, ladies and gentlemen, just after we rammed Denji Harry's letter right back down his throat.
The president comes at him with $196 billion.
They can see they're going to lose this again.
Here is Dingy Harry on the Senate floor yesterday, a portion of his remarks.
We've been fighting for America's priorities while the president continues investing only in his failed warp strategy.
And it wants us to come up with another $200 billion and just sign off on it?
Isn't this getting to be a little old?
Going on pretty soon, we'll be approaching the sixth year of this.
President Bush should not expect Congress to rubber stamp this latest supplemental request.
We won't do that, Mr. President.
In the coming weeks, we'll hold it up to the light of the day and fight the change in strategy and redeployment of troops that's long overdue.
And they're going to lose again.
Because they're going to want to lose it.
By the way, they're going to want to get this off the table because this is not going to be the focal point of the 2008 presidential race.
The Iraq war will not.
I mean, let's look at this.
The Democrats in Capitol Hill, they failed last week to override Bush's veto on the S-CHIP program.
And now they're reacting with dismay and anger.
They've offered 55 resolutions to get us out of Iraq.
They have failed on every one.
They've lost votes with most of the new introductions of new resolutions.
And if indeed they had the votes, if indeed the American people were all for this, then of course we'd be out of Iraq.
But they're not.
And the Democrats are just flummoxed.
They're just frustrated as they can be.
Osama bin Laden, by the way, we got, we go, wait, let me see me.
Let me find, I'm going to change up.
Let's go to, yeah, sites 10, 11, and 12.
Soundbites 10, 11, and 12.
Bin Laden, you know, we had the announcement yesterday.
Flash announced he's going to release another audio tape from Al Jazeera.
And we wondered if it was going to have some more Democrat talking points in it.
And when I first heard the reports, the initial reports of Bin Laden's tape, I thought, well, there are not a whole lot of talking points in here, but actually, there were some.
They were disguised.
You have to know how to read the stitches on a fastball, which I instinctively and habitually can do.
Bin Laden yesterday, they're failing all over the place in there, the Iraqi insurgents, whatever you want to call them.
And he called for the Iraqi insurgents to unite.
Actually, let's start with Soundbite 11.
Here's a portion.
This just runs six seconds.
This is a portion of his rant.
The interests of a group supersedes the interests of an individual.
Yeah, now, this is where you have to know, ladies and gentlemen, how to read the stitches on a fastball.
There were Democrat talking points in that statement.
That's not just a Democrat talking point.
That is liberal philosophy.
That is liberal ideology.
And it has been expressed recently, three years ago, by Mrs. Clinton.
Time to reject the idea of an on-your-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
Okay, so let's play these back-to-back mic.
These are soundbites 11 and 12.
First, bin Laden from his tape yesterday, Mrs. Clinton from 2004.
The interests of a group supersedes the interests of an individual.
Time to reject the idea of an on-your-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, so there were indeed Democrat talking points in the Osama bin Laden tape yesterday.
Remember the previous public relations by Osama, it was unite against the infidel.
This is after Saddam fell.
It was unite against the infidel, then to hell with the Shiites after the elections were held, and then kill the Sunnis collaborating with the new Iraq.
Now he's back to uniting.
It's just like the Democrat playbook.
They have pages, but they're not very many, and they just keep recycling them.
By the way, we have the actual translation of the bin Laden tape yesterday.
They can never trust these translators.
That's why we employ our own translators here at the E.
Well, we're a very prosperous and powerful network, and we can afford to do it.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the actual translation.
what Osama bin Laden actually said.
I interrupt pressing matters of state to remind you, my children, to remain united and focused in our cause.
There is no room for divisive extremism.
Yes, I mean you, most dingy one.
You and your funny soldier letter.
Where is your brain?
Using media matters as a source to attack Russian ball.
None of your brothers in the Middle East takes them seriously.
And they trust Al Jazeera.
Look in the handbook.
They are not in it for a reason.
Stick with Shorty Time, the Washington Post, like the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Repent your gross stupidity.
You're starting to make Pelosi look smart for the turkey face.
And about the S-Chip bill, do not fail to remind the American people they could all have free health care if only Bush weren't in Iraq.
Praise Allah.
Until we win in 08, yours also against Bush.
Osama.
Osama.
Some of that might have been missed by you who were laughing.
You might have laughed over things that followed.
We will play it again here in just a second.
But before we go to the break, audio soundbite number four this morning on the floor of the House during one-minute speeches, this is Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina.
Madam Speaker, last week, America's number one radio personality, Rush Limbaugh, auctioned off for charity a letter shamefully signed by a group of 41 Democrat senators.
The letter to Limbaugh's employer attacked Rush for comments blatantly distorted by media matters regarding persons who had lied about their service in the military.
I am happy to report that the Senate letter of infamy was auctioned for $2.1 million, an amount Rush says he will generously match.
That brings the total to $4.2 million.
The money will be donated to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
This charitable organization provides financial assistance to the children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers.
I wish to commend Rush for overcoming what was clearly a political ploy to chill his First Amendment rights of free speech.
Rush took an abuse of power by Democrat leadership and turned it into something positive.
Between Rush Limbaugh and Senate Democrats, America knows who really supports our troops.
Thank you, Congressman Joe Wilson.
From the floor of the House this morning during one-minute speeches, Joe Wilson, Republican South Carolina.
Also on the House floor this morning, the Republicans launched a bid to censure Fortney Pete Stark, congressman from California, for his outrageous comments of last week.
Now, remember, last week, Stark made these comments that Bush enjoys watching these kids' heads get blown off.
This is during the S-CHIP override vote, which failed.
And after this, I predicted Stark wouldn't apologize.
And his buddies in the drive-by media went to him.
What do you say?
I don't apologize.
I'm going to pile out even more.
Why should I apologize?
And a left-wing, the drive-by media went, you at least got to.
You got to praise this guy for not backing down.
You got to understand this.
least he gets a gold star for not backing down.
Well, he did apologize.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, and the Associated Press just cleared the wires at 1126 this morning.
Stark initially refused to apologize.
Moments after Tuesday's vote, you know, today's vote, he addressed the House to apologize to his colleagues, quote, to the president and his family.
And the U.S. troops offended by his remarks.
I hope that with this apology, Stark said, I'll become as insignificant as I should be in the continuing debates over Iraq and healthcare.
We've got that.
We've got the apology.
Well, must have come in late before I had a chance to see it all on the Soundbite roster.
Just came in.
Well, we'll play.
I've got to take a break here.
Otherwise, we're going to have 12 minutes of commercials right in a row.
That's not a wise format programming decision.
Stay with us, folks.
Hi, we're back, El Rushbow with talent on lawn from God.
Let's go back to last week, Fortney Pete Stark, California from the East Bay.
This is on the House floor during the veto override debate for the S-CHIP program.
They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq.
Where are you going to get that money?
You're going to tell us lies like you're telling us today?
Is that how you're going to fund the war?
You don't have money to fund the war or children.
But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement.
And this was roundly applauded on the Fringe Lunatic blogs last week and many drive-by cable commentators excited when Fortney Pete Stark refused to...
Boy, that was close.
Boy, that was close.
You just heard an example of extreme, highly trained broadcast specialists.
Because when I said Fortney, I didn't mean to.
Boy, was that.
That was quick, folks.
Whoa, Fortney Pete Stark was applauded roundly and held up as an icon for refusing to apologize.
However, today he did.
I want to apologize to my, first of all, my colleagues, many of whom I've offended, to the president, his family, to the troops that may have found in my remarks, as were suggested in the motion that we just voted on.
And I do apologize.
He did apologize.
He apologized to his colleagues.
He apologized to the president.
Now, look, what happened?
In all these dust-ups, you got Fortney Pete Stark apologizing.
And he should have.
They were on the verge of a censure motion in the House of Representatives against him for what he had said, so he apologizes.
Have I apologized, ladies and gentlemen?
No.
Have I backtracked from anything I have ever said?
Have I backtracked from the Michael J. Fox controversy?
Have I backtracked from the Donovan McNabb controversy?
Have I backtracked?
Hell, backtracked.
I moved forward and stuffed it back down their throats here on the smear letter from Denji Harry.
They backtracked on the General Petraeus ad.
They agreed to condemn it in both the Democrats, did in both the Senate and the House floors.
For everybody who thinks they're out there ruling the roost and running the show, folks, they are embarrassing themselves each and every day, starting to catch up with them.
By request, by popular demand, here again, the translation, real translation by our Arabic translators of the most recently released tape by Osama bin Laden and Al Jazeera.
I interrupt pressing matters of state to remind you, my children, to remain united and focused in our cause.
There.
There is no room for extremism.
Yes, I mean you, most dingy one.
You and your funny soldier letter.
Where is your brain?
Using media matters as a source to attack Russia and bomb.
None of your brothers in the Middle East takes them seriously.
And they trust Al Jazeera.
Look in the handbook.
They are not in it for a reason.
Stick with Short Time, the Washington Post, like the New York Times for the Washington Post.
Repent your gross stupidity.
You're starting to make Pelosi look smart for the turkey face.
And about the S-CHIP, though, do not fail to remind the American people they could all have free health care if only Bush weren't in Iraq.
Praise Allah.
Until we win in 08, yours also against Bush.
Osama.
Osama.
His tapes.
His tapes are coded messages of the Democrats.
He's this really upset that his side's losing in Iraq and that they're starting to act out as independent contractors.
He wants him to hang in there and be tough.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
The Politico has an amazing story today.
It's a story by Patrick O'Connor.
The headline is a laugher.
The headline, I was rolling on the floor when I saw this this morning, battered Democrats to circumvent mainstream media.
House Democrat leaders, concerned about the public's downbeat view of Congress, launched a PR offensive today to polish the image of the new majority after a series of legislative setbacks this month.
A campaign ranging from traditional events to conference calls with groups outside of Washington.
They've been doing all of this.
They've been doing it behind closed doors and under the cover of darkness.
Democratic operatives believe that Washington reporters are so fixated on the party standoff with President Bush over Iraq that no other message is reaching the public.
Come on, you guys.
You talked about me for 17 days, almost three weeks.
You talked about S-CHIP for two weeks.
Whatever Democrats want to talk about, the drive-by media follows suit.
We're dropping Iraq because the news is good over there, and there's so, therefore, no news.
They think they've got to circumvent the drive-bys now.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Harry Reid in the Senate recording studio over the weekend.
We debuted that yesterday.
In addition, by the way, to this absolutely hilarious story in the politico today that the drive-by media has to now be circumvented by the Democrats because the drive-bys are not getting their message out.
Where are they going to go?
They're going to come here to get their message out.
No, they're going to send individual members out because they have more credibility and do local media.
And so they really believe this, unbelievable.
They really believe the mainstream media is sabotaging them and not getting their message out.
And Pelosi has followed up with a similar, this is, where is this from?
This is from thehill.com.
Pelosi to launch PR blitz to beat 08 media frenzy.
What is this?
How do you promote a positive message when you're talking about surrender?
When you are immersed and invested in defeat, when you hope the U.S. military loses, how do you put a positive spin on that?
Latest poll that has them all bugged, Bush at 38% approval, Congress at 25%.
It's a Stan Greenberg poll.
And the message here in a dear colleague letter sent last week to lawmakers, six senior House Democrat leaders noted that bipartisan majorities have passed lobbying and ethics reforms, an increase in the minimum wage, a massive increase in student aid, legislation to implement the 9-11 Commission recommendations, and other initiatives that President Bush has signed into law.
Democrat leaders want the rank and file to do more to publicize those details because they're concerned the public is unaware of those accomplishments.
They aren't accomplishments.
They're big deal, yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo, compared to what the Democrats' expectations were of this bunch of misfits that they elected to the majority in November last year.
This is diddly squat.
This is absolutely nothing.
So you go out and tell voters we passed a bunch of things that haven't taken effect or are ineffective.
I'll tell you something.
In the bowels of the House, the Democratic leadership, I'm telling you, is seriously concerned and pondering the IQ of Nancy Pelosi.
This business of the Turkey-Armenian thing, that resolution, disaster.
Absolute disaster.
They had to abandon her on this to save themselves on this.
I'm telling you, I've got a couple quotes in the stack here over about how worried about the leadership in the House that they are.
And they ought to be worried as well about the Senate.
Now, I'm going to touch on this in greater detail in just a second, but along the way with this poll that shows the Congress's approval numbers way below President Bush's, and it doesn't matter what poll you look at, and it's Greenberg poll's 25%, some other poll it's 11%.
But there now is a poll out released yesterday.
It's a Zogby poll.
This is not news in the sense that it isn't new.
I have been telling you this for a bunch of, well, Karl Rove told us this in August when he came on this program.
Hillary Clinton may be the Democrat Party's 2008 presidential frontrunner, but she's also topping the list when the voters are asked for whom they would never, ever cast a ballot.
Get this number.
50% of U.S. voters say that when it comes to Clinton, she can campaign all she likes.
There is no way in the world she can win their support.
Her negative rating up slightly from 46% in March.
59% of those over 65 say they would never, ever vote for Clinton, according to the survey, which ranked leading Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls.
Nobody gets elected with those negatives.
With half the country, half the voters in the country by polling data say they're not going to vote for you.
What you need is a third party.
So you need to get hold of the Republican evangelicals and offer them something to offer up a third party candidate, call Ross Perot, or do something.
This is serious stuff.
I did an interview today on PMS NBC with Joe Scarborough.
It ran about 13 minutes.
It'll play the whole thing in two bites, two segments later on in the program.
I touched on this in the interview as we've discussed on this program countless times before.
For example, they're saying, example here.
One of the reasons the Democrats are in such a state of disarray, reality slapping them upside the head with these pollings, poll data.
You know, the drive-by media gives them such puff piece treatment, such friendly treatment, that they really don't understand how they come off of the American people.
They're never ripped, they're never criticized, never challenged, never questioned, not like I am or other conservative Republicans who were elected.
So they live in this little universe where they think, well, that's great press.
The country's going to love us.
It isn't the case anymore.
Used to be able to automatically assume that, but they can't.
An example is, I don't know if you've heard it or not, but the drive-bys and a lot of political commentators on television talking about the flawless campaign that Mrs. Clinton is running.
Somebody explained to me how a candidate with 46 to 49% negatives and disapprovals and in a Zogbi poll, 50% of voters say they will never ever vote for her.
How can anybody say she's running a flawless campaign?
They say Mrs. Clinton's running a flawless campaign.
In the truth, it's the media running her flawless campaign.
We hear, for example, she hasn't made a mistake.
That's because they've swept them all under the rug.
We hear she hasn't had a scandal.
That's because they ignore them and sweep them under the rug.
Can anybody say Chinatown dishwashers at a thousand and two thousand bucks a pop making campaign contributions?
And we hear that she's way ahead of the field on the Democrat primaries.
Well, that's because all of her serious rivals are AWOL.
There's nobody else in this race that stands a chance, particularly if she wins Iowa.
It's already over.
So flawless point number one, she hasn't made a mistake.
She hasn't.
She was against the surge.
She implied General Petraeus was a liar with her suspension of disbelief soundbite.
We see how the Senate Democrats were reacted to on the whole way they reacted to Petraeus, the way they treated Petraeus, the dingy Harry letter.
If Mrs. Clinton thinks she's immune from being lumped in with that bunch, she signed the dingy hairy letter.
She signed it, ladies and gentlemen.
She's part of the cabal that did.
Just because the media is not lumping her in with this, just because the media is not holding her to account like they are dingy hairy, don't think the American people aren't lumping her in.
She has said, we're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
She said, we just can't let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
Now, Maca was a word.
It was a harmless word.
Her pronouncements are scary, scarier, and scariest, and people hear them.
She hasn't made a mistake running a flawless campaign, a flawless campaign based on pure socialism in the midst of the greatest capitalistic country in the history of the world.
And she's not running an errorless campaign, or she is.
She's made more mistakes this early in an election cycle than probably any candidate in histoi, folks.
It's just, well, plus, no election cycles ever started this early, but it's not being reported.
It's not being cast that way.
Excuse me, even the $1,000 and $2,000 donations from Chinatown.
Well, you know, just error in judgment.
So eager to get the money, probably not properly.
That's not the way it is with the Clintons.
There are no coincidences with the Clintons.
And by the way, a bunch of people that get 500 FBI files can find out whether or not a bunch of dishwashers in Chinatown have the money to donate.
Don't fall for this notion they can't vet everybody.
Flawless point number two, she hasn't had a scandal.
Oh, no, of course not.
If the scandalous Norman Shu, $850,000 is not a scandal, if the Chinatown story is not a scandal, if her illegal phone taps of bimbo phone calls when her husband ran for president is not a scandal, perhaps the word scandal is the new taboo.
Maybe the media will not use the word scandal with Mrs. Clinton.
It's sort of like Clinton lied all the time, so lies became good.
So these kinds of scandals, they're not scandals.
They're creative fundraising techniques.
Proving that she's the smartest woman in the world.
Flawless.
Point number three, she's way ahead of the field.
What field?
We have a rock star with no experience at all, Barack Obama, who doesn't even have the sense to put his hand over his heart during a national anthem at a public gathering.
Did you see the video on TV?
All the other candidates, it looks like it's some barnyard somewhere where Democrats always go during campaigns, but would never go after they're elected someplace.
Everybody's got their hand over their heart.
Oh, who says it?
And Barama's standing there with his hands folded in front of him.
Edwards, formidable, couldn't even carry his own state when he ran as John Kerry's VEEP.
Ladies, this is not a field.
This is a pack of stalking horses that are in the race designed to make Lists Clinton look like she can overcome obstacles and win a fight.
They're there simply to make her look like a candidate.
How would she do in a real field?
Remember, Virginia Governor Mark Warner was the early threat.
He decided not to run.
John F. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, very haughty, a man who said he would have one if he weren't swift voted and robbed in Ohio.
He decided not to run either.
Al Gore, who knows what he's going to do, but there's all kinds of drumbeats out there to draft Al Bore, Al Bore, Al Gore, their radio ads, these newspaper ads.
He thinks he was president already.
He thinks he is the savior of the planet.
He's decided not to run.
So in summary, folks, this Clinton campaign being flawless, it's not flawless.
This has been fraught with errors that have not been reported, not been noticed, and have had no attention paid to them whatsoever.
And the Democrats think they need to circumvent the mainstream media.
Their biggest allies in the world, and they're going to try to go around them.
We need to actually congratulate the Drive-By media.
Didn't say respect them, folks.
We need to congratulate the Drive-By Media for itself running the flawless campaign for Mrs. Clinton, because they're the ones responsible for this campaign being perceived as flawless.
And by the way, these flaws do and will find the light of day.
In due course, after she gets a nomination, this stuff will find the light of day.
There'll be alleged proof for ABNC, some of these things.
And when that happens, the drive-bys will get into gear, right with Mrs. Clinton.
They'll call it a right-wing conspiracy.
They'll say she's now being swift voted, or whatever her victim machine puts out will be the explanation for it.
But she hasn't run a flawless campaign.
They are doing it for her.
Hi, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, let's get some calls in because people have been patiently waiting as John in Carlsbad, California, in the thick of the fire area in Southern California.
Hello, John.
Hi.
Well, at least you'd think that if you watch the mini Drive-By Media and training down here, I'm out in Carlsbad, and of course, we've had a voluntary evacuation since yesterday.
And oh, how that city wants to make it mandatory.
They want it so badly.
And don't get me wrong, there's people here who are losing their houses out in the fire area.
But to be honest with you, if you see where they lived, it's not a surprise.
I mean, these places go up in flames because they're in an area that's supposed to burn every so often.
And, you know, while I, you know, I feel for them because they're losing everything, you know, you shouldn't, you really can't be surprised about it.
But I can't watch television to find out any decent information.
If it wasn't for KOG or our local affiliate, given accurate information, you wouldn't know what was going on.
They're on TV.
What are you saying, John?
Let's cut to the chase here.
You're saying that drive-bys, the local drive-bys in training, are exaggerating this?
Yes, that would be an understatement.
Well, if they're exaggerating it, are the national drive-bys exaggerating it?
Absolutely, because that's where they're getting it.
Well, now, why would you think they would do that, John?
We've got examples of accurate and truthful reporting during the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina.
We have no, I've been wondering about this, having not been out there.
I know how media works.
They love this kind of stuff.
The worse they can make it sound better, the more crisis-prone, the more disaster-certain it is, the more excited by it they are.
And, you know, I've been emailing people in Los Angeles.
I've been emailing friends in Southern California.
Are you in trouble?
No, not really, not anywhere near us.
In fact, a couple people I emailed on Sunday didn't even know about it until they got back home Sunday night, even though the fire has been raging through the weekend.
You're right.
A lot of people are losing a lot of property here, but the idea that it may not be quite as bad as it is is an interesting media study.
You know what else is interesting about this, though, John?
Is since there haven't been any hurricanes this year to speak of, guess what culprit is?
Well, yeah.
Global warming is responsible for the fires.
There always has to be a global warming peg, and they bombed out on the hurricane.
So now this is being blamed on global warming.
Do you know the president signed a piece of legislation in 2003 called, what the hell was it, Save the Forests or, what is it, Save the Healthy Forests Initiative.
And there have been something like 59 lawsuits holding up the implementation.
Do you know what the Healthy Forest Initiative would have done, John?
I'm guessing it would have let fires burn.
No, it would go in there and clear out the deadwood and the brush and take away the kindling.
And these environmental groups, they are to blame for this.
They are the ones that are making these fires, which do happen naturally.
You're right.
They happen every year.
This is not anything abnormal or unusual.
What the drive-bys are saying is that the forest fire season.
Do you know now we have a forest fire season?
And the forest fire season, they say, is expanded by 78 days.
That's because of global warming.
That's BS.
It is purely and precisely because they can't have lawsuits to keep individuals and cities, communities and so forth going in and clearing out the brush, the dead stuff that's fallen from the trees.
It's on the bottom of the forest floor, and it makes kindling, and there's nothing we can do about it.
It's a federal crime right now because the bill is being held up in the courts.
It's a crime to go in there and protect your property by clearing this stuff out.
If you want to place any kind of blame in a situation like that, and actually, I don't.
Remember what we're doing.
We're reacting.
We've got a bunch of liberal activists again trying to blame a non-existent, man-made global warming.
We may be getting warmer, but whatever disaster happens, they've got to put global warming at it.
And so when they come out with a bunch of lies and falsehoods, you have to defend it and mention the truth.
Interesting story from the AP today.
Civility reigns at Qualcomm Stadium.
They're using Qualcomm Stadium for evacuees for the fires as the Superdome was used during Hurricane Katrina.
But wait till you hear how they're doing it differently at Qualcomm Stadium from the way they did it at the Superdome.
It's a good thing Ray Nagan is not in California.
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