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Nov. 6, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Whose fault was it?
Did somebody throw a switch in there?
Thank you.
The bars are down and we're ready to go.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, another three hours of broadcast excellence.
Straight ahead, it was really weird.
I mean, five seconds before the show theme starts, I lost all audio here and couldn't figure out what to get it back.
Finally did, which is why I was late joining you, but it's great to be back regardless.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
All right, Mr. Snerdley, you were right.
I have a story here from the, what is this?
The Anchorage Daily News.
Talk radio's Limbaugh bashes St. Michael's teen testimony.
Radio host criticized for saying youth was exploited.
Charlene Lockwood has never heard of Rush Limbaugh or listened to his radio program.
Perhaps it's just as well.
Monday, the talk radio king told listeners that Democrats were exploiting the 18-year-old Eskimo and that her emotional testimony earlier in the day in front of a U.S. House committee on global warming made him, quote, really want to puke.
I just want to throw up.
I did say this.
It's the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen, they quote me accurately as saying, for the advancement of a political issue that'll grow the size of government and increase the control over everyone.
Lockwood didn't let Limbaugh's comments phase her.
Her upbringing in the community of St. Michael included learning about respect and treating people the way you want to be treated, Lockwood said during a brief interview just before she flew home.
For Rush Limbaugh to make fun of young people coming in and trying to be a part of the political process, why, it really shows a disdain for political discourse and for the role of young people in that political discourse, said Evan Burnham Snyder, a spokesman for the chairman of the committee, chaired by Ed Mackey, Democrat Massachusetts.
Do you think we could be so fortunate as to get another letter?
First off, and you know, typically the left-wing blogs are all over it again.
Limbaugh making fun of defenseless child, limbaugh mocking child's crying voice, and so forth.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we get to some facts here, let me explain something to all of you liberals and all of you Democrats.
The days where you get to bring aboard to your committee hearings or in your television commercials, so-called innocent little victims, either of diseases or of age or of gender, and expect them not to be criticized when they enter the political arena.
Those days are over, Democrats.
I am not, I don't care what you say about me, and I don't care how you mischaracterize what I do.
You people have gotten away with misleading the American people and exploiting sick people and exploiting children, exploiting the elderly for way too long.
If you're going to bring average citizens into the political process, which you have just admitted to here, and expect them to be immune from criticism, you've got another thing coming, at least on this program.
I am not going to sit here and stand aside.
When I started talking about this yesterday, Snerdley was waving at me.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Dawn was echoing the sentiments.
Don't do it.
I did it, and I am going to keep doing it.
I am not going to sit here and let a bunch of liberals mislead and lie to the American people about a hoax issue that they are advancing for political purposes.
Now, if you're just joining us and you didn't hear yesterday's program, let's go back to the audio sound bites.
I am serious about this.
They can trot out whoever they want.
If they're going to put them in the political process and expect that they are not going to get criticized, that they are immune from criticism, that we're just going to sit back and believe what they say.
Uh-uh.
Not happening here, folks.
Here is Cheryl Charlie Lockwood testifying before Ed Machi's committee yesterday morning.
It's a House Energy and Independence Global Warming Committee hearing.
Just through my lifetime, I've seen so many changes in our community that it just hurts to not be able to have our...
It's really scary to lose our tradition, our culture.
And we've been living here for thousands of years.
And it's not just that we're losing our food.
It's losing our homes.
And because we are spiritually connected and emotionally and physically connected to our homes.
And there are so many, so many communities that are in trouble.
All right, so I did a little research.
That's the 18-year-old Cheryl Charlie Lockwood testifying before Ed Machi's committee yesterday in the House with all the Democrats expecting she's going to get a pass and therefore they are going to get a pass.
Now, she's from the west coast of Alaska.
It's a little town called St. Michael.
And before she testified, I wonder if anybody bothered to tell her that it has not warmed up in Alaska in her lifetime.
She's 18.
It has not warmed in Alaska.
In fact, it has not warmed in the last 30 years.
I have a great chart here from climate.gi.alaska.edu.
It's a little longer length than that.
Let me show this chart to you on the DittoCam.
Zooming in, you can see the chart.
The blue is cooling.
The red is warming.
It averages itself out.
But there is a reason for when it has warmed in Alaska why it is warming up.
And I'm going to tell you about that.
I wonder if anybody told Ms. Lockwood that the warming that has occurred in Alaska is a natural event.
It's called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
That's the PDO.
And it changed phase in the late 1970s, which has caused Alaska and the Arctic region to be warm ever since.
If you note from the chart on this website, it is also the likely reason why it was so warm in the Arctic in the 1930s, which is what Bob from Sedona was calling about yesterday.
The chart goes from 1949 through 2005.
And if you look at it, what it is is the mean annual temperature departure for Alaska.
It has not warmed.
Overall, Alaska is not warming up.
The mean temperature is pretty much staying, it's compensating.
It goes down, it goes up, it goes down.
And the reason for the fluctuation, once again, is called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
It is a natural event.
Yes, it's like a sine curve.
If you look at a sine curve wave on an oscillation machine, that's exactly what it is.
And so to say that what's happening up there is global warming is simply not true.
And that's why I say the 18-year-old little girl is being misled and thus exploited.
And look how it's affecting her.
She shows up and starts crying over this.
There is nothing we can do about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
Nothing we can do.
It changes phases naturally.
Now, as I said, I was not making fun of young people coming in and trying to be part of the political process, as the spokesman for Ed Machi said.
The obvious intent of having Ms. Lockwood testify was not just to have her participate in the political process.
Instead, it was a blatant exploitation of this girl's emotions over an issue that Congress can't do anything about.
Nobody in Congress can change the temperature in Alaska.
Nobody can make it colder and nobody can make it warmer.
They can't do that anywhere.
We're talking about one degree Celsius in the next 50 years or two degree, and that's because of our carbon emissions.
So to put the fear of whatever in this little girl and bring her up there and testify like this is pure and simple exploitation.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is going to do what it's going to do no matter whether we reduce greenhouse gas emissions by X percent or not.
And to brainwash this young girl into believing that we can fix the problem is what is outrageous and grotesque.
What's outrageous and grotesque is Congressman Machi and the rest of the Democrats and his committee and the rest of the Democrats in the Senate who are buying into all this, scaring little kids or scaring them all over the world with lies and distortions about melting ice caps, stranding polar bears.
The fact of the matter is a polar bear population is expanding in a bunch of parts of the world.
You know, this is outrageous and grotesque is what they call my reaction to this in this newspaper story, an Anchorage Environmentalist is her name, about my criticism of Ms. Lockwood's testimony.
So you see, the game here is, you bring up a little girl.
She's already been filled with a bunch of distortions and lies about what's happening to her village and her part of Alaska.
And she's emotionally distraught.
You can hear this.
And here you've got the adults responsible for it sit there using her.
And she is simply, she's a pawn in all of this to advance their political issue.
Their actions are outrageous and grotesque.
And I'm not going to sit here and let them get away with this any longer, whatever.
I don't care if it's Michael J. Fox.
I don't care who they trot out to make distorted cases and lies out of various issues for the liberal slant, the Democrat Party's point of view.
If when they do that, they're fair game.
The Democrats had better know that from this day forward.
We got to stop this, folks.
We've got to stop the exploitation of sick people and young people and the infirm for the advancement of liberalism on the basis that they can't be criticized.
Not here.
We'll criticize anybody once they enter the political arena.
I don't care what their age.
I don't care whether they're an animal.
I'm going to be Tony the Tiger.
If they use a Tony the Tiger cartoon, I'm going to rip Kellogg's.
Now, not to pile on here, folks, but let's pile on anyway.
Dean, up at the website, Coco's out today getting a root canal.
So Coco Jr. is operating things at the website, and he did a little biographical research here on Charlie Lockwood.
She's a member of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action.
Now, I just got a short, relative, irrelevant paragraph here of her biography.
It clearly shows that she's been indoctrinated, that she hasn't seen anything that she's describing in her testimony.
She's 18.
Keep that in mind.
She grew up in the coastal community of St. Michael, Northwest Alaska.
She attends Mount Eticum School, statewide boarding school, student population representing over 90 villages and cities in Alaska.
She became involved in the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action during her sophomore year of high school, so it's two years ago, and at first admitted to not really knowing much about global warming's impacts on communities.
But after hearing from her peers about flooding villages, receding glaciers, and altered hunting seasons, she decided to take a stand.
So in 2006, she quickly became a leader on the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action's global warming campaign, being personally responsible for signatures collected from 50 villages.
So she's not old enough to have seen anything of the notice anything about this till she joined the group.
Well, until she met members of the group.
She didn't notice anything was wrong until she was told.
It is obvious that the young girl has been brainwashed and propagandized.
And so it is outrageous and grotesque, but very typical for our friends of Democrats in Congress and the Ed Machi Committee to sit there and exploit this young girl who doesn't know anything.
She's not an expert.
She hasn't seen diddly squat.
And they know that and they don't care.
It's the tears.
It's the pain.
It's the suffering that they are content to have her continue to feel.
Somebody could grab her by the shoulder and say, Charlie, it ain't that bad.
But nope, they want her to suffer because they can use her.
This like all of their victims, the poor and the miserable and the hungry and the thirsty, keep them that way so we can point to them and say, see what evil Republicans and capitalism does to them.
They don't help anybody.
They don't solve it.
In fact, you know, there's a great column today in the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord, who writes some good stuff.
It's a list that is very thorough and it's comprehensive of all the recent liberal failures.
I'm going to print it out.
I'm going to share aspects of it with you because once you go through it and read it, when it's right in front of your face, you ask yourself, why in the world does anybody vote for these people?
It's a psychological thing.
It cannot be rooted in issues and it can't be rooted in success because they haven't had any.
Nothing they do works.
Certainly not in the last 30 years.
I mean, you could get a war on poverty, the great society, all these things, all these government programs that are bankrupt, spending wasteful amounts of money, not solving the problems in the first place.
Why would anybody support?
Look at the fiascos we get with all government bureaucracies.
Look at the recent passport fiasco.
You want those people running your health care?
Why would anybody, it's beyond me.
It really is.
If people are actually thinking and engaged, why in the world that you would want to put a woman like Mrs. Clinton who's never run a business, doesn't know diddly squat about the oil business, about the health care business, in charge of any of it?
But a lot of Democrats do.
Here, Barbara Boxer was on the MSNBC Live this morning with the anchorette Nora O'Donnell.
And O'Donnell says, why do you think so many Republicans are opposed to such a bill cutting emissions, etc.?
They range from Jim Inhoff, who is my ranking member, who says it's the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
If it is, I don't know why.
And I think that his comments are getting increasingly rare around here.
When the scientists told us that HIV caused AIDS, we didn't turn away from it.
When the scientists told us that tobacco caused lung cancer, we didn't turn away from it.
Oh, yes, a few still say that isn't true.
But we have the same kind of consensus on global warming, and we have to avert the catastrophe that could hit us if we do nothing.
Then nothing you can do.
That's the whole point.
Alaska may be warming up, but it's not because of us.
It's the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
There are natural reasons for this.
It warms and cools.
There's nothing we can do about it.
This is Sheeta.
What would be the purpose for the hoax?
You think we're idiots here, Ms. Boxer?
The purpose for the hoax is to raise taxes, reduce lifestyles, and try to control as many aspects of people's lives as you can.
Protesters, moving on to other things.
Protesters staged a waterboarding protest yesterday outside the Department of Justice, calling for a Senate committee to reject Attorney General nominee Michael McCasey because of his reluctance to define the interrogation tactic as torture.
The demonstration came shortly before Senator Benjamin Cardin, Democrat Maryland, said he would oppose McCasey.
It doesn't matter because Schumer is going to support him, and so is Diane Feinstein.
So he's assured of passage here, getting out of the committee.
Schumer even wrote a piece in the New York Times today.
So, look, we Democrats are going to handle this another way.
We're going to come up with a federal law on waterboarding.
And there won't make any difference what the Attorney General says.
Here is Senator Kennedy.
After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance McCasey to the floor, here is Ted Kennedy unbelievably graphically describing death by drowning.
My concerns begin with Judge McCasey's answers to our questions about waterboarding.
Waterboarding is a barbaric practice in which water is poured down the mouth and nose of a detainee to simulate drowning.
It's an ancient technique of tyrants.
The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet.
Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him.
Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in, and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to an almost instant plea to bring the treatment to a halt.
Goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia.
When done right, it is controlled death.
It's like saying every airplane landing is a controlled crash.
Senator Kennedy has become the expert now on death by drowning.
Is this not rich?
Senator Kennedy describing waterboarding.
I think I have been told by numerous military experts that many of our military's trainees, military people, undergo waterboarding training in case it happens to them.
It's described intricately by Vince Flynn in a couple of his novels, works every time it's tried.
Ask Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He was waterboarded into giving up all of the details, every last one of them, about the 9-11 event that he masterminded.
Anyway, I got to go.
Quick break.
Time out.
We'll be back after this and grab a couple of phone calls.
We are going to get to the Hillary Stacked today.
I can't avoid it today.
Dooba Dooba.
I said we're going to get to the calls and we look at the calls.
I got a couple things here first before we do.
Those of you on hold, be patient.
Washington Post today, Juliet Eilperin writing the story.
Climate is a risky issue for Democrats.
I saw this.
I said, what?
This can't possibly be in the Washington Post.
All of the leading Democrat contenders for the presidency are committed to a set of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that would change the way Americans light their homes, fuel their automobiles, and do their jobs, costing billions and billions of dollars in short term, but potentially, the candidates say, saving even more in the decades to follow.
Right.
Just like they never get it right every time they announce a new government program of what it's going to cost.
The strong medicine Edwards and his fellow candidates are selling, an 80% cut in greenhouse gases from 1990s levels by 2050 tracks with a plan espoused by some scientists.
But it is a plan that will require a wholesale transformation of the nation's economy and society.
And that's exactly why they want to do it.
What are we going to transform from?
We are capitalists.
We are primarily a capitalist economy in a capitalist country.
We're going to transform from that in our economy and our society.
It's exactly what they want.
By 2015, listen, this is the Washington Post.
By 2015, Americans could be paying 30% more for natural gas in their homes, even more for electricity.
At the same time, the cost of coal could quadruple and crude oil prices could rise by an additional $24 a barrel.
I'll bet you oil, if these guys do what they say they're going to do, oil is going to be $200 a barrel in five years.
Not by 2015.
If these guys get anywhere close, you're going to see $200 a barrel oil.
I'd be the first to tell you this is not necessarily the greatest political calculation.
Edwards acknowledges in an interview.
No matter what the politics are, there's such a moral responsibility to address the issue.
We've just got to do it.
While Democrats are out working to outdo each other on climate change, Bill Richardson and so forth getting in the game, this Washington Post story is warning them.
That's what this is.
Climate a risky issue for Democrats.
Yes, just like tax increases.
This is just a way to increase taxes without saying so and hide it behind some virtuous save the planet garbage.
Chuck Wrangell at least had the honesty to come out there and say, you're not paying nearly enough and I'm going to soak you.
So we've also got a story here.
Mickey Kaus, this is in his blog, worried about the Democrat Party's position on immigration.
And we had a couple of stories yesterday.
Immigration a tough, tough, tough issue for Democrats, as Mrs. Clinton's slip-sliding on driver's licenses for illegals in New York illustrates.
The Democrats are off the charts on both of these issues, and the media is starting to warn them about it.
That's what the Washington Post story really is all about.
Matt in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Russian Dittos.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Never better.
Well, it sounds like you're having a fine day.
I wanted to point out something, and that is, every time you talk about the global warming issue, I happen to think that you're correct.
But if you were wrong, how come most people don't refute it?
Or how come I don't hear many people calling in to refute your claims?
Because I listen to you all the time, and I do not hear people calling in refuting what you have to say.
Well, you know, that's true on pretty much everything.
Well, that's, yeah.
Well, it is.
I mean, they call me names.
They don't call and call me names outside of this broadcast.
You know, it's the usual.
They can't.
No liberal can get into the arena of ideas with a conservative and win the argument.
So they don't even try.
It's just, it's, let's assault the character.
Let's try to destroy the ability to do business.
Let's try to destroy the credibility of these successful conservative people.
Let's do the fairness doctrine.
Let's shut them up because they cannot defeat us.
Look at that.
If you still have any doubts that global warming is a political issue, ask yourself why it cuts right down the line left and right like every other issue does.
There have been liberals calling here about global warming, and they don't discuss the specifics of it.
They talk about it.
We've got to do it to save the planet.
They don't even know.
They cannot cite facts or reasons other than the usual propaganda they get in Gore's movie, which a judge has found, what, nine or 13, whatever it is, factual errors and misleading statements in.
They don't have to know the details.
Liberals do not have to have substance behind their beliefs.
It's all feelings.
It's all oriented toward power.
It's all oriented toward defeating Republicans.
It's all about big government.
And that's all they care about.
It's not about facts and figures being right or wrong or anything.
Well, it's about being right.
And in their sense, right defined by whatever they think, whether there are facts to support it.
If there are no facts, they'll make up their own facts.
They do it constantly.
Shannon in San Antonio, Texas, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the big program.
Thank you.
I just had to comment on the girl from Alaska who called in.
Charlene Lockwood.
When she was doing the crying, I just started laughing.
That town where she's going to school, I grew up in that town, and they started in on me when I was in high school, too.
That's St. Michael?
No, no, no.
The boarding school she goes to is in Sitka, Alaska.
That was my hometown.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Yeah, it's very strange.
You know, she at age 16, when it's a sophomore, she admits to not knowing a thing about it.
Then she meets up with these peers, and then she becomes an expert.
She never saw one instance or example of the so-called destruction of communities and animals and so forth.
She hasn't lived long enough to see any of that, so she's just believing the propaganda that she's been told.
She's been brainwashed.
Well, as far as losing their way of life, I mean, they have grocery stores.
They're like any other little small town.
I mean, if they were losing their way of life, that would probably mean the liquor store was closing.
You must have had a very pleasant experience up there.
Let's just say I'm a Texan by choice now.
But you're a native Alaskan.
Yes.
Okay.
Well, given the new rules of public discourse, you know, like one group cannot criticize another group, or a member of a group can't, like, I can't criticize women because I'm not a woman.
But another woman can rip, I can't criticize your family, snerdly, even after listening to you rip them to shreds.
But if I do it, I'm over.
She's an Alaskan, so she knows she can say that stuff.
Yeah, to be perfectly honest, most of those small villages, a lot of people just live off the government and they drink and have babies at 15.
That is what they do.
Live off the government.
Yeah, I was considered.
Liberalism has created a lot of that in the country, not just Alaska.
Let's not pile on here unnecessarily.
There's a lot of that going on in all kinds of places in the country.
I was considered weird because I wanted to go to college at 18.
Really?
Well, what finally motivated you to escape the liquor stores of Alaska?
I hate the cold.
That'd be a good reason.
Wait a minute.
It's warming up up there.
Not warm enough for me.
It gets to be close to 100 in Texas.
All right.
Look, Shannon, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Can I give you another fallacy here, though, of Charlotte Luckwood and the people like her?
You've heard me say on countless occasions, ladies and gentlemen, so eloquently, so brilliantly, so uniquely, that all living species, and we are at the top of that totem pole, little Indian lingo there, all living species must adapt the environment or to it in order to thrive.
We have to try to put out forest fires, for example, if we're going to live near forests.
We have to do what we can do to protect our homes if we live in a floodplain.
We cannot avoid natural disasters.
They occur everywhere, whatever, blizzard, snowstorm, windstorm, tornadoes, whatever.
We have to adapt in order to thrive as a species.
And so do animals.
So every living organism has to thrive.
Otherwise, the environment could kill us all.
Now, if indeed a particular place becomes uninhabitable and you are a human being and you have a family, what do you do?
Do you keep your family in the uninhabitable place and just perish and cry and moan about the loss of tribal this or traditional that?
Or do you move?
Do you try to escape whatever?
And I'm not suggesting, by the way, that what's happening to Alaska is making it uninhabitable.
I'm using that as an extreme example.
Why just sit there and put up with it if it's that bad when there's nothing Congress can do to change it?
If it's related to temperature, I am sorry.
I hate to break it to you, but there's nothing a single human being can do to make it cooler in the summer or warmer in the winter, other than to look at the forecast and hope they're right or wrong, depending on what they're saying.
There's not a thing we can do about it.
So if you're going to go before Ed Machie's committee and you're going to spout this stuff that you've been brainwashed with and demand that Congress do something about all they can do besides nothing is raise people's taxes and make it look like they're doing something.
It's just a charade from the get-go.
Back in just a second.
The Spencer Davis Group.
Trying to regain my composure here.
Get this.
I'm not sure where this is.
I'm thinking this is Michigan, but none of these names sound like they're from Michigan.
Yet it says that it's near Detroit.
A cow fell about 20 feet off of a cliff Sunday, landed on the hood of a minivan passing by Rocky Point, about one mile east of Manson.
Official said, Charles Everson Jr. and his wife Linda escaped injury.
It was just bam, you saw something come down and hit the hood, said Everson from his hotel room in Manson.
He and his wife are in the area from Westland, Michigan, near Detroit.
I don't know where this, I really, folks, I don't know where this happened.
This is one of these little local papers, and only the people who live there and read it know where this place is.
So I guess this couple is from Michigan, where you don't see cows.
I mean, at least when you're driving all the way, cow just jumped off the cliff.
Now, what could have brought this on?
The cow was a heifer that was estimated to weigh about 600 pounds.
And the cow was about a year old, belonged to a breeder in the area who had earlier reported the animal missing.
You know, I hope what didn't happen was that some environmentalist wacka was up there with a bunch of corks trying to plug the poor cow because they've heard about the methane that's leading to global warming.
And the cows, I'm not going to put up when it starts running and then just kept, you know, pulling off the cliff.
They don't know gravity.
They're cows.
Coney Flint, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Greetings from Flint.
It's storming here today, so it's not too much global warming happening here.
In fact, there's a big coal front headed up the Great Lakes in the Northeast this weekend.
Lake Effect snows, heavy rains at coastal New England.
Yeah, lots of snow up in the UP predicted for the next two days.
But my point is, my wife and I have a 12-year-old, Rush Baby, by the way.
We've been listening since 1989.
Thank you, sir.
Started in Louisville, Kentucky.
We got transferred up here.
And my son's in seventh grade, and he came home the other night and said to his mother, said, Mom, guess what?
We're watching the science class today.
She said, what?
He said, an inconvenience truth by Al Gore.
Of course, Kyle's been raised as a rush baby, and we keep him informed that, you know, it's a consensus only.
And said, well, what do you think?
He goes, well, it's very convincing.
So it kind of proves your point.
A lot of brainwashing going on in our public schools up here.
Oh, I know.
They were showing it here in Florida.
And in one instance, the parents were told they had to go and watch it with the kids or the kids would suffer grade consequences.
Pure pep.
Nothing but propaganda.
Of course, Al Gore on the Today Show yesterday says, We've got to get rid of this journalism tactic that covers both sides of the story.
This story is too important.
We've got to get rid of that journalism model.
So he's trying to intimidate the media into ignoring the people who have evidence that all these claims are bogus and not rooted in science.
Michael, in Oakland, Maryland, it's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Dittles, Rush.
Thank you.
I was going to talk to you about waterboarding.
Oh, yeah.
Senator Kennedy gave us a description of that recently.
Was he accurate?
Was he right about it?
Well, he should be after Chad Aquittig.
Well, I thought, you know, here's a guy that if anybody should know about drowning, it would be Senator Kennedy.
Well, I did 26 years in the military.
What branch?
Army and Marine Corps.
Both?
I was in the Marine Corps in Vietnam, and I went back to school after I got out and then joined the Army.
Now, wait a minute, that doesn't sound good.
You can't say it that way.
You left the Marine Committee.
Well, I did because what I did is I went into the Marine Corps.
I got out.
I wanted to get a higher education.
Yeah, see, that's you.
You left the Marine Corps, then you went to school, and then you joined the Army.
Right.
And I ended up in Special Forces and was going to go right back to Vietnam.
Then they had the de-escalation, and I went to Alaska instead.
We're closing the loop on a number of people today.
Yeah, but I wanted to tell you the reason why you aren't hearing more about this and from authoritarian people is that when you get out of the military, and let's say in my case, I was a document custodian for Top Secret, you have to do a disclosure of 10 years where you're subject to, if you release any of that information, being prosecuted.
That's one reason why military people don't tell you what they want because they jeopardize their retirement and everything else.
Right.
Okay.
It's done, though.
And what's happening is not necessarily the military.
The military might be follow people.
In other words, that they're with government evil like Abu Gray.
Hey, Michael.
Michael, I hate to interrupt you here, but I've only got a minute here, and I thought you were going to talk about waterboarding.
I will.
Okay.
Okay, it is done, and I did go to a guerrilla warfare school.
And while you're in that, if you're in a leadership characteristics, they tell you about it.
They show you how it's done.
If you want to volunteer, you can volunteer, but you know, and you can opt out at any time.
So they demonstrate it to you.
Is it part of the training or is it just a demo?
It's a demo.
You don't have to do it.
You could be a volunteer to be a demo.
Okay.
But not everybody has to go through it.
But they show you how to do it.
They show certain people that are in leadership positions that are going on classified or specialized assignments.
You know, I think we're missing the whole point of all this anyway.
Get focused on the details of waterboarding.
Who the hell are we talking about here?
We're talking about the type of low lifes that behead people and plot things like 9-11 and not just in this country, but around the world.
And they are still doing it.
And it's time we stop beating ourselves.
We are good people, folks.
We are a fine nation.
It's time we stop beating ourselves up over the steps we take to protect ourselves.
Oh, let's see.
Female absenteeism is about more than child care.
Wait till you hear this story.
And, of course, my expert comments about it.
And we're going to do the Hillary stack.
It's a good one today with some audio.
Sit tight.
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