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Nov. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 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 and 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 uh couldn't figure out what to get it back, which 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 EIB net.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.
Charlie 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 a 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 uh Ed Mackey, Democrat, Massachusetts.
Do you think we could be so fortunate as to get another letter?
First off.
I I and you know, the 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, uh 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 know 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 gotta put them in the political process and expect that they are not gonna get criticized, that they are immune from criticism, that we're just gonna sit back and believe what they say.
Uh-uh.
Not happening here, folks.
Here is Cheryl Charlie Lockwood testifying before Ed Mockie's committee uh yesterday morning that's a House Energy and Independence Global Warming Committee hearing.
Just through my life, I 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 live lose our tradition, our culture.
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 that's uh the 18-year-old Cheryl Charlie Lockwood testifying before Ed Maki's committee yesterday in the House, with all the Democrats expecting it, she's gonna get a pass, and therefore they are gonna get a pass.
Now she is uh 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.
That's a little longer length than that.
Let me show this chart to you on the Ditto Cam.
Zooming in, you can see the chart.
The blue is cooling, the 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 uh 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 uh website, it is also the likely reason why it was so warm in the Arctic in the 1930s, which is what Bob from uh you know Sedona was calling about yesterday.
The chart goes from 1949 through uh 2005.
Uh and the the if if if you look at it, it what it is is the mean annual temperature departure for Alaska.
It has not warmed.
Overall, Alaska's not warming up.
The mean temperature is pretty much staying uh it's 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 sign curve.
If you look at a sign curve wave on an oscillation machine, that's exactly what it is.
Uh and so the 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.
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 Markey said.
Um 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 this this 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 gonna do what it's gonna 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 Maki 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's expanding in a bunch of parts of the world.
You know, the uh uh this is outrageous and grotesque is what they called my reaction to this in this in this newspaper story, an Anchorage Environmentalist uh is her name about my criticism of Ms. Lockwood's testimony.
See, 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 she's uh she's she's a pawn in all of this to advance their political issue.
Their actions are outrageous and grotesque.
But I'm not gonna 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 uh to make distorted cases and lies out of various issues for the liberal slant of Democrat Party's point of view.
If when they do that, they're fair game.
The Democrats have better know that from this day forward.
We gotta stop this, folks.
We 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 an animal, I'm gonna be Tony the Tiger.
If they use a Tony the Tiger cartoon, I'm gonna rip Kellogg's.
Now, not to pile on here, folks, but let's pile on anyway.
Dean up at the website, uh, Coco's out today getting a root canal.
So uh Coco Jr. is uh is operating things the website, and he did a little uh biographical research here on Charlie Lockwood.
Uh she's a member of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action.
Now I just got a you know, uh a short relative uh relevant paragraph here of her biography, and it clearly shows that she's been indoctrinated, that she hasn't seen anything that she's describing in her testimony.
She's eighteen.
Keep that in mind.
She grew up in the coastal community of St. Michael, Northwest Alaska.
She attends Mount Eticomb School, statewide boarding school, uh 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.
And she didn't notice anything about this until she joined the group.
And he well, yeah until she met members of the group.
She didn't notice anything.
She didn't notice anything was wrong until she was told.
It is 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 Maki committee to sit there and exploit this young girl who doesn't know anything.
She's not an expert, she hasn't seen Diddley 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, 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, I've there's a great column today in the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord, who writes some good stuff.
He um it's it's a list that uh uh is very thorough and it's comprehensive of all the recent liberal failures.
I'm gonna print it out.
I'm gonna 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 thirty years.
I mean, you could 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 uh support look at the look at the 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 I it it 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 um a lot of Democrats do.
Here, Barbara Boxer uh was on uh well, the MSNBC live this morning with the anchor at Nora O'Donnell.
Uh and O'Donnell says, Why do you think so many Republicans are opposed to such a bill cutting emissions, et cetera?
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 uh 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.
I this she what would be the purpose for the hoax?
Hey, 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 uh as uh as you can.
Protesters, moving on to other things.
Protesters staged a waterboarding uh protest uh yesterday outside the Department of Justice, calling for a Senate committee to reject Attorney General nominee Michael Mucasey 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's gonna support him, and so is Niane Feinstein.
So he's rele he's he's assured of of passage here, we're getting out of the committee.
Um Schumer even wrote a piece in the uh in the in the New York Times today.
So look, we Democrats are gonna handle this another way.
We're gonna come up with a federal law on waterboarding, and that won't make any difference what the attorney general says.
Here is uh Senator Kennedy after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Mukesy 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 prisoners found 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 control crash.
Uh 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 uh trainees, uh military people, undergo waterboarding training in case it happens to them.
Uh it's described intricately by Vince Flynn in a couple of his uh novels.
Works every time it's tried.
Askhaled 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, uh I gotta go.
Quick break.
Timeout.
We'll be back after this and uh grab a couple of phone calls, and we we are gonna get to the Hillary Stack today.
I can't avoid it today.
Dooba doobah.
I said we're gonna 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, uh, 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 gonna 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.
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 twenty-four dollars a barrel.
I'll bet you oil.
If if these if these guys do what they say they're gonna do, oil's gonna be two hundred bucks a barrel in five years.
Not by twenty fifteen.
If these guys get anywhere close, you're gonna see two hundred dollar a barrel oil.
I'd be the first to tell you uh 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 uh to outdo each other on climate change, uh Bill Richardson 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 uh virtuous save the planet garbage.
Chuck Wrangle at least had the honesty to come out there and say, you're not paying nearly enough, and I'm gonna soak you.
So we've also got a story here.
Uh Mickey Kouse, this is in um his his blog, uh worried about the Democrat Party's position on immigration.
Uh and there 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 uh really is all about.
Matt in Grand Rapids, Michigan, uh nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rosh and Diddles, how are you doing?
Fine, sir.
Never better.
I well, it sounds like you're having a fine day.
I I 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.
Um, but if you are 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 I listen to you all the time, and I I do not hear people calling in um refuting what you have to say.
Well, you know, to the uh the that's true on pretty much everything.
Uh well that's yeah.
Well, it is.
I mean, they d they they call to call me names, or they uh they don't call and call me names outside of this broadcast.
Uh they can't that no liberal can get into the arena of ideas with a conservative and win the argument.
Though so they don't even try.
Yeah.
It's just it's it's let's assault the character.
Let's uh let's try to destroy the ability to do business.
Uh 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 the if if you've 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 they cannot cite facts or reason other than the usual propaganda they get in Gore's movie, which a judge has found what, nine or thirteen, whatever it is, factual errors and misleading statements in.
Uh 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.
If you d that's and that's all they care about.
Uh it's it's not about facts and figures being right or wrong or anything.
Well, it's about being right, and there's in their sense uh the right defined by whatever they think, whether there are facts to support it, or 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.
Um I just had to comment on the girl from Alaska who called in.
Charlie Lockwood.
When she was doing the crying, I just started laughing.
Um 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 uh St. Michael?
No, no, no.
So the boarding school she goes to is in Sitka, Alaska.
That was my hometown.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Yeah, it's it's very strange.
You know, she um uh at age sixteen, when is this sophomore?
She admits not knowing a thing about it.
Then she meets up with these peers and then she becomes an expert.
She never she never saw one instance or example of the so-called destruction of communities and animals and so forth.
Uh she hasn't lived long enough to see any of that, so she's just believing the propaganda that she'd 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.
Uh, let's just say I'm a Texan by choice now.
But you're a native Alaskan.
Yes.
Okay.
Well, give given 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, be perfectly honest.
Um, most of those small villages, a lot of people just live off the government and they drink and have babies at fifteen.
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 how what what finally motivated you to escape the liquor stores of Alaska?
Um 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 a hundred in Texas.
All right.
Look, uh, Shannon, thanks for the call.
I uh I appreciate it.
Can I give you another fallacy here, though, of of um Charlie Leckwood 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 gonna live near forests.
Uh we have to do what we can do to protect our homes if we live in a floodplain.
We uh 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 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 gonna go before Ed Mockie's committee and you're gonna 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.
But...
It says that it's near Detroit, uh a cow uh fell about twenty feet off of a cliff someday, landed on the hood of a minivan passing by Rocky Point, about one mile east of Manson.
Uh 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.
Now this, 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 cow just jumped off the cliff.
Now, what could have brought this on?
The uh the the cow was a heifer uh that was estimated to weigh about sixteen hundred or six hundred pounds, and it was a cow is about a year old, belonged to a breeder in the area who had earlier reported the animal missing.
You know, I hope 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 gonna put up with it, starts running and then just kept, you know, pulling up the cliff.
They don't know gravity.
They're cows.
Coney Flint, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
Greetings from Flint.
It's snoring here today, so it's uh not too much global warming happening here.
Uh in fact, there's a big cold front headed uh up the uh the Great Lakes in the northeast.
Uh this weekend, Lake Effect snows, heavy rains at Coastal New England.
Yeah, lots of lots of snow up in the UP uh predicted for the next two days.
But my point is uh my wife and I will have a twelve year old rush baby, by the way.
We've been listening since late nineteen eighty nine.
Thank you, sir.
Started in Louisville, Kentucky.
We got transferred up here.
And my son's in the seventh grade, and he came home the other night and said to his mother, said what we're watching the science class today.
She said, What?
He said, An inconvenience truth by Al Gore.
Of course, Kyle has been raised as a rush baby, and we keep him informed that uh you know it's a 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 is 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 got to get rid of this journalism tactic that covers both sides of the story.
This story's too important.
We got to get rid of that journalism model.
So he's trying to intimidate the media into ignoring the the people who have uh evidence that all these claims are bogus and not rooted in uh in science.
Michael in Oakland, Maryland.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Biddles Rush.
Thank you.
Uh I was gonna talk to you about waterboarding.
Oh, yeah.
Senator Kennedy gave us uh a description of that recently.
Was he accurate?
Was he right about it?
Well, he should be after Chattaquitick.
Well, that's I thought, you know, here's a guy that uh if anybody should know about drowning, it would be Senator Kennedy.
Well, I did twenty-six years in the military.
What branch?
Uh Army and Marine Corps.
Both in the 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 you can't say it that way.
You left Well, I did because what I did is I went into Marine Corps, I got out, I wanted to get a higher education.
Yeah, see, that's 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 gonna go right back to Vietnam, and 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 you're an I wanted to tell you the reason why you aren't hearing more about this and from uh authoritarian people is that uh when you get out of the military, and let's say in my case, I I was uh document custodian for Top Secret.
Uh you have to do a disclosure of ten years where you're subject to if you release any of that information uh being prosecuted.
That's the one reason why uh military people don't tell you what they want because they jeopardize their retirement and everything else.
Right.
Okay.
It done though.
And uh what's happening is not necessarily the military.
The military might be follow people, in other words, that uh they're with uh government evil like uh Abu Gray.
Hey, Michael, Michael, I hate to interrupt you here, but I've only got a minute here, and I thought you were gonna talk about waterboarding.
I will.
Okay.
Okay, it is done, and I did go to uh uh guerrilla warfare school, and why you're in that uh 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, and but you know and you can opt out at any time.
So they demonstrate it to you.
They is it is it part of the training or is it just a demo?
Uh 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.
Uh they show certain people that are in leadership positions that are going on, you know, classified or special specialized assignments.
You know, I think 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 uh we're gonna do the Hillary stack.
It's a good one today with some audio.
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