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Nov. 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Well, I I really I really hope all of you had a uh a nice Thanksgiving weekend.
I had a blowout Thanksgiving weekend.
It was just a hoot.
As you know, I had uh I f I I guess the total number was about uh 55 family.
Well, a couple stragglers showed up, so close to 60.
Uh and the first eleven got here last Monday, and then the rest of them showed up on Wednesday.
So Wednesday night, a bunch of people over at the house for dinner.
That went to like one o'clock in the morning.
I got up Thursday morning with four or five of my uh cousins went out and played golf.
Came back four o'clock, seventy-five people show up for Thanksgiving.
Uh and they're there till, you know, midnight, uh one o'clock in the morning.
Sort of took a little veg day on Friday, uh, and then took them out to uh uh dinner uh on Friday night.
Then Saturday at noon, here came 55, 60 people over for a barbecue in the afternoon, uh, and that was a hook with all these kids in the swimming pool.
Uh Cookie Draw, my cookie was in town, and she dropped by and she was Boy, this is this is so wonderful to see so many children in your house and in your pool.
I said, They're not mine, and make sure you tell people that.
And it was f it was I'm just kidding.
But it was a uh no, I'm not kidding.
I did say that.
Uh but they were just having a time of their lives.
It was just it was just fabulous.
I had to take a couple breaks.
I don't know how many of you have read The Great Gatsby, but Jay Gatsby in the book uh loved to throw huge parties, and he'd stay in his house and watch from a little alcove, not actually participating in them.
Uh that was that was that was his fun.
I had to take a break a couple times.
You know, so I go upstairs to the skybox, the uh little deck off the bathroom, and I just look out and survey things and sit there with a cigar or what have you, and I run back out and say uh get involved in the activities for a while.
But it went all day long, and then uh uh Saturday night about 7 o'clock, uh whole new group of people, for 35 or 40 people showed up for the MUKU game, uh, and that went till it was uh over.
Uh and then the uh the group started leaving on Sunday.
The last of them actually left the house at 530 for the uh for the airport, and I've got a stack of bills to pay now, but not because of this, it's just been putting it off.
Probably about a foot high.
So uh that's that's what I get to do when I get home this afternoon.
I want to get it done in time for the Steelers, hosting the Miami Dolphins tonight on Monday Night Football.
That a definite no, it's a trap game.
I don't know the outcome.
They should have cleaned the clocks of the New York Jits, as O.J. Simpson used to pronounce it when he worked at NBC, call them the Jits.
Uh they should have they should have creamed the Jets, and then they got smoked.
And this is a trap game, too.
You got an 0-10 team uh coming in.
The next three games after this for the Steelers, not easy.
Cincinnati at New England, and then uh who's it?
Baltimore.
I think it's Baltimore.
Whatever.
And then the next 15 games, and so they've uh 15 days, so this is a trap game.
It'll look this is one of those games you might look past because you got more important, and you're facing an O and 10 team.
Uh and they've, you know, they've they haven't won anything, but they play all four quarters.
They don't they don't give up like the Jets gave up on Thursday against Cowboys.
The Jets just phoned it in.
The Dolphins are not gonna phone in.
Anyone to get all this done so that I can uh I can sit back and uh and watch the Steelers and the Dolphins tonight on uh on Monday Night Football.
Let's go to the uh presidential campaign.
Uh uh Senator Barack Obama confirmed what's it sh-I think this morning that um uh Oprah, the Oprah is going to hit the campaign trail with him.
Uh she will join Barack for stops in Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire on December the 8th and December the 9th.
She will December the 9th, by the way, is the day the Steelers go to New England to play the Patriots.
She will uh attend two events with him in Iowa and one in each of the other states.
The December 8th Iowa stops will be in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
December 9th will be in Columbia, South Carolina, and Manchester, New Hampshire.
This is a this is this is you you just have to wonder what the Clintons are going to do here.
Don Vito Clinton Leone.
Will he get on the phone with the Oprah?
Will Hillary get on the phone with Don Vito Clinton Leone?
And it's why Oprah.
I mean, I they knew she's supporting him, but to head out there on the campaign trail.
Now you've got uh ABC News has a story today, a day on the trail with Obama, the Senator on his hard knocks, foreign policy, and how he differs from Mrs. Clinton.
But they they missed the lead, and it's in their own story.
There is no doubt, he said, that Bill Clinton had faith in her, meaning Hillary, and consulted with her on issues in the same way that I would consult with Michelle if there were issues.
On the other hand, I don't think Michelle Obama would claim that she's the best qualified person to be a U.S. Senator by virtue of me talking to her on occasion about the work that I've done.
Major Goose.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, a major goose, because what he's saying here is that okay, fine.
Says she's got experience.
Just because she talked to her husband, who happened to be the president, doesn't mean she's qualified.
And certainly doesn't mean she is the best qualified, but this seems to be a theme that the Clintons are trying to uh pass down.
Meanwhile, in Iowa, uh Obama is saying, and he's trying to set the table, this is smart.
He's saying she's got to win.
If she doesn't win Iowa, then all bets are off.
The Clinton camp is trying to do everything it can to avoid her coming in third in Iowa.
That's that's their fear.
Uh they think she can withstand coming in number two, but not number three.
And so they are setting the stage.
Here's a shock Chicago Sun-Times story.
Hillary bracing for possible letdown in Iowa.
Obama's narrow lead in polls prompts her to beef up staff.
The pull quote from this story uh is from the Clinton campaign spokesman Mark Daly.
Our definition of success doesn't necessarily mean coming in first.
As long as we have a strong showing on caucus night, we'll be fine.
So this is the old gambit of lowering expectations.
Their internal remember the Clintons are always a week ahead of everybody.
They got their internal polls.
So it it's apparent that uh the polling that they have indicates she's not gonna win Iowa.
And even last week there were there were stories out there, well, she can withstand uh loss in Iowa.
New Hampshire is really the key.
If you go back to 1992, Clinton, Bill Clinton didn't even run in Iowa.
He pulled out of Iowa because it was looking so bad.
Then he finished second in New Hampshire, and then the drive-by is just went nuts.
Come back kid.
And so what they're trying to do now is create the uh the whole image of uh of Hillary as the comeback cadet uh by lowering expectations in Iowa and looking forward uh to uh New Hampshire.
In fact, we've got audio soundbite on this, if I can find it.
Let me time here, folks.
3, 3, 3, 4, Well, I know I saw it here.
I guess I'm just overlooking it.
Give me be patient here.
Let me look at this one more time.
I know I saw it here.
Ah, here we go.
Audio sound bites nine and ten.
This is Carville and Madeline on Meet the Press yesterday.
Russert goes through the latest poll numbers.
And he asks Mary Madeline, what's your take on Iowa Democrat side?
The best thing that could happen to Hillary Clinton is to lose Iowa.
And I'm not being a contrarian or a wisenheimer.
There's a fast calendar.
It's a change election, but it's a completely unique and fluid and dynamic situation.
If she loses, she gets knocked back.
We've seen repeatedly, this is the energizer bunny of candidates.
She takes a lick and it she keeps on ticking.
She needs to have some new narrative.
The comeback kid.
That's how you guys did it, and it's a good narrative, and it's one that would work for her.
Come back cadet.
So they're trying to set this up.
Uh Then Carville, um Russert says, Do you think that her answer on the driver's license immigration issue and on other issues or her reluctance to answer hurt her with honest, trustworthy questions that were asked in this poll.
I would say some, sure.
And I said that I said that I loved her, but I did not think that that was the best performance.
She subsequently said the same thing.
I think this driver's license thing is a idea whose time has not come.
Uh-huh.
But you know what?
The drive-by still don't get that.
There are stories you can find them all over the place.
There's one in the Boston Globe today that the uh the writer of the story says, This is just this is just this is this is just an unfortunate wedge issue.
The Republicans use illegal immigration as a wedge issue.
They don't have to use it as a wedge issue.
It's a wedge issue only to the Democrats because 72% of the American people oppose the Democrats' stance on this.
Besides, folks, one more thing before we go to the break here.
Uh and Mary Maddalena know you'll love me for pointing this out.
I hate to correct you.
Uh, but what what Hillary uh is is not who you're talking about.
It was Bill Clinton at the Energizer Bunny that uh took the lick and kept on ticking.
That's the way you need to.
As usual, ladies and gentlemen, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
By the way, speaking of this uh Obama comment, uh hey, just because Hillary Clinton's husband was president, and he sometimes talked to her doesn't mean she's qualified.
I want to take you back to the news archives.
This is March 17th of 1994 in the New York Times.
Now, this is this is before obviously the 94 elections in which the Republicans took over, quote unquote, the House.
Tempers flared today when a California Congressman asserted that a Republican Congresswoman had obtained her knowledge of health care through pillow talk with her husband.
A gynecologist in New Britain, Connecticut.
Representative Fortney Pete Stark, California Democrat, who heads the Ways and Means Committee's subcommittee on health, made the comment about Representative Nancy Johnson, a Connecticut Republican, during a meeting in which the panel was considering proposals to limit drug prices.
Mrs. Johnson criticized the proposals as an extraordinary expansion of federal authority.
Fortney Pete Stark said the gentlelady got her medical degree through pillow talk.
Mrs. Johnson, a Radcliffe College graduate who's been in Congress since 83, said I get my knowledge of the medical system from endless hours as a representative in this Congress in hospitals and in physicians' offices talking with patients.
Mr. Stark apologized later for personal characterizations that were not in order.
Now you might say, so what's the big deal, Rush?
And I know you're right, because the Clintons probably don't share a bed, so pillow talk is um is one thing.
But it still makes the point that back when talking about a Republican, Fortney Pete Stark said, she doesn't know anything about it.
She's in a her husband's a doctor.
Just because she's married to a doctor doesn't make her an expert on health care, which is what Obama is saying about Mrs. Clinton and her so-called experience to be president.
All right, as you know, Al Gore today, he's either been there or he's gonna be there, uh, in the oval orifice, as Bush welcomes the Nobel Prize winners in for a uh ceremony.
It should have been me in the office today with all the other Nobel Prize winners, but it wasn't to be.
But they cannot take my nomination away from me.
That they can never do.
Anyway, we have a we have a montage of the drive-by's hyperventilating, and Al Gore finally gets to take his rightful place in the Oval Office.
President Bush welcomes America's 2007 Nobel Prize winners to the White House.
Among them, of course, will be Al Gore.
Seven years ago, Gore won more of the popular vote, as you may remember, than Mr. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.
A lot has happened in the seven years since Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush.
While Mr. Bush saw his popularity plummet, Mr. Gore made an Oscar-winning movie.
The meeting in the White House comes seven years after their bitter election battle.
In the Oval Office today, it's a social interaction that's going to likely be pretty odd.
The former vice president has not been back to the White House since he was here, part of the Clinton administration.
Al Gore, and he might think that he probably should be the one sitting in that Oval Office.
The President has got the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize coming to the White House, which includes, of course, Al Gore.
The dynamics there, too delicious to even conjure up.
But will be something we'll all be watching.
I know I'll have my eyes peeled on the gate here to see if we can actually see Mr. Gore come in.
Al, I can't wait.
Well, uh, ladies and gentlemen, our microphones were there.
Welcome, Mr. Vice President.
Uh it's been a long time.
Uh America's proud of your winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, thank you.
Uh didn't know you were supposed to wear it around your neck on a gold chain.
I feel it gives it that extra special something that it deserves.
No hard feelings about the uh two thousand election, I hope.
Not at all.
You're not gonna make me uh watch that slideshow uh to get me back, are you?
Of course not.
But I I would like to sit down for just a moment.
Sure, uh here you go have a seat.
No, no.
Uh over there behind the desk.
The desk, yes.
My desk.
I spent eight years here living under Hillary Clinton's thumb, and I want my desk.
No, don't take me away.
It's mine.
I'm sorry, Tipper.
You're right.
It was a bad idea.
It was a bad idea.
Poor Dawn, what are we putting you through today?
Everything comes out of my mouth today.
She's just grimacing.
We are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Back to the phones now.
People have been patiently waiting for Austin, Texas.
Ed, nice to have you, sir.
Great uh great you called.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
I'd like to start out.
I'd like to start out with saying that I first found you on the radio about two years before Clinton was first uh uh elected, and I literally listened to you every day uh all the way through his election up till about the after the first year with uh the Bush and of course you kept whining over the even into the bushes uh uh era and I kind of turned you off uh but uh recently turned you back on and
uh still love your show.
You know, I felt turned on uh recently, so uh it was you.
It could have been, and everybody that I told needed to listen to you.
I have two subjects that I'd like to discuss.
One is uh your comments on how the Dems have it wrong as far as the war, and then the other subject would be uh why should I believe the Republicans have to get pulled uh uh since they've been in office.
But if we can, uh I think the the Dems, I think they still have it right, and I think that the right has it wrong.
And uh I think I have a point of view on that that I haven't heard anyone on talk radio speak of.
And I I think it's important for us to to recognize uh how many people have actually left Iraq since we went into Iraq.
And and keep in mind their population.
I don't exactly know what their population was originally before we went in, but I had heard it was around twenty-five, twenty-seven million.
Uh what I've been able to see is and read is it's around four to six million people have actually fled the country.
And that's an important factor in in why the surge has or changes in the year.
The last part of this year has occurred.
So many people have left the country, but even more so than that.
There has been such cleansings of the neighborhoods.
We have to look back.
We went in, these three religious groups or these three ethnic groups.
Let me state the city.
Wait a minute.
Let I'm I've got a time constraint problem coming.
Let me ask you a question.
Why why why do you want to persist in seeing negative news?
People are moving back in.
And Baghdad is functioning.
It's been rid of Al Qaeda.
Um, some of these people that left, some of these people that left Iraq after Saddam was routed, left because they've been wanting to leave for a long, long time.
They've been dying to get well, what is the point?
Why why why do you want to see negatives here?
That well, uh I'm not seeing negatives.
What I'm I want to say is more factually the truth.
You're saying that the surge has is what has changed it.
Uh, My contention is it isn't the surge that has changed it.
It is that we allowed those three ethnic groups, those three religious groups to go in there.
Right.
And what caused that to happen?
The surge plus Al Qaeda brute brutalizing these people.
They are joining forces.
These three, well, two of them are.
The Kurds are still kind of lagging up there in the north, hanging behind.
But regardless, it's all good news.
It's a positive outcome, and the Democrats are the ones that are having a tough time explaining their position on this.
I continue to be uh well, not really amazed.
I'm actually a little bit enthused that we have so many liberal Democrats that they're still focused on losing, still focused on the negative, still focused on there isn't any success there.
Uh, and I think a lot of them are just reading talking points that they see on their blogs or hear from their elected officials.
But it's really, you know, it's really bad for the country.
It's not bad for the election coming up.
It's bad for the country when you've got half the people or half, you know, political party in this country looking victory and success right in the face, doing everything they can to deny it.
Now, who cares how many people left Iraq?
What was so great for them there in the first place?
There were tortures and the rape rooms and all of this, there were the uh chemical weapons used on people.
What was so great for them there?
Uh how come you liberals who are so focused on the number of people left Iraq, how come you're not similarly focused on how many people are leaving Mexico?
Why is that not a big deal?
Yeah, and if it's so bad now, why are they coming back?
They're starting to stream back in.
Well, it's not as many who left, Myth or Limbaugh, and you're just trying to create a false impression and think they're going well there.
I hate to tell you libs, but the source disinformation here is in the AP and the New York Times and Reuters and the Drive By Media.
But there's a there's another point that needs to be made about this, and our last caller was uh doing it, the three the the the ethnic or religious groups, the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds.
Now here's a piece by Christopher Hitchens.
This is from uh Slate.com.
It's from uh October 17th, 2005.
Let me just read you the relevant paragraph here.
When it comes to Iraq, one of the most boring and Philistine habits of our media is the insistence on using partitionist and segregation language than most journalists would I hope scorn to employ if they were discussing a society they actually knew.
It's the same mistake that disfigured the coverage of the Bosnian war, where every consumer of news was made to understand that there was fighting between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims.
There are two apples and one orange in that basket, as any fool should be able to see.
Serbian and Croatian are national differences which track very closely with the distinction between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic beliefs.
Many Muslims are Bosnian, but not all Bosnians are Muslim.
And in fact, the Bosnian forces in the late war were those who most repudiated any confessional definition.
And when did you ever hear the media saying that today the Orthodox shelled Sarajevo?
Or yesterday the Catholics bombarded Mostar.
His point is that the idea here that we're dealing with three dis distinct and separate groups, uh religious groups or ethnic groups, uh, is not accurate.
But it's become the template uh or the the narrative is a popular word today, and so people simply think that that's the case.
But who cares how they're coming together and why?
The fact is they are, and it's good news.
Um I just happened to have here at the very top of the Iraq war stack a story from the New York Times today.
News analysis by Damian Cave, pressure for results, the politics of tallying the number of Iraqis who return home.
So while there's great news being reported out there, the drive-by still have to, it's just like the economic news we talked about at the beginning of the program.
Oh yeah.
Sales were up eight percent, but people didn't splurge, and it was only people at Walmart and Target, Kmart.
Uh Nordstrom's didn't see a big increase, and so forth and so on.
It's not that good.
Uh that uh should have been much higher.
No matter what the news, they can spin it badly.
At a row of travel agencies near the highway to Syria, the tide of migration is reversed.
The buses and GMC suburban vans filled with people heading to Damascus run infrequently, while those coming from the border appear every day.
By all accounts, Iraqi families who fled their homes in the past two years are returning to Baghdad.
The description of the scope of the return, however, appears to have been massaged by politics.
Returnees have essentially become a currency of progress.
On November 7th, Brigadier General Kasim Al-Mussawi, the Iraqi spokesman for the American Iraqi effort to pacify Baghdad, said that 46,030 people returned to Iraq from abroad in October because of the improving security situation.
But in interviews, officials from the ministry acknowledged that the count covered all Iraqis crossing the border, not just returnees.
We didn't ask them if they were uh displaced, and neither did the interior ministry.
Uh 46,000, 20,000.
What what what is it?
Uh by all accounts, and this story even admits it, families are returning to uh Baghdad.
But the whole point of this story is to sneer at the turn of events.
Uh and in fact, on page two of this story, there's even, well, yes, but Mythra Limbaugh, thummer leaving theory and going back to Iraq because they can't afford to live in theory.
These people are just actually nomads.
So there you have it.
Good news is happening, cannot be allowed to stand, has to be shaped, uh formed and flaked.
Bob in Castle Rock, Washington.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I want to give you some small business owner dittoes and thanks to you for the for getting me started on a small business.
Um before I tell you my comment, I want to say hello to my dad in Edwardsburg, Michigan, who had a heart attack this morning.
And uh hope he'll take care of himself.
Hi, Dad, I love you.
So my comment, Rush, is uh just went to a party this weekend, uh welcome home party for two Marines just back from Iraq.
I've known these guys since they were kids.
One's my nephew, uh he's an enlisted man, a Lance Corporal.
The other is his best friend, a captain.
One was in Hadith, the other was in Karma, Iraq.
And what sh uh was really striking to me was to hear them tell exactly the same story from a very different perspective.
The enlisted man, my nephew, says the kids loved them.
People invited them eat in to eat dinner with them.
Uh they were welcomed on the street.
Uh we're winning.
The officer who's in charge of a recon battalion said there's neighborhood watches being formed, the police and everyday groups are being formed, are driving Al Qaeda out and they're all joining together.
He says, We're winning.
It was exactly the same message from the narrow enlisted perspective and the larger command perspective that really struck me.
I thought I got to tell Rush this.
Because this is exactly what we're not hearing, and they both said the same thing as well.
The media reports is not at all like what's being reported on CNN and MSNBC.
And uh it was uh really striking to me to see those different perspectives from different levels of command or involvement, and yet they said exactly the same thing.
Well, uh, we've we've heard it a lot on this program.
They call us.
Uh you know, returning military personnel from Iraq, even Afghanistan, call us and they tell us these things.
And they they tell us the same story, they're upset with what they see in the media.
What what the truth is now there's not much about this in the media at all, uh certainly not on TV, because there's there's no bombs to show, no IEDs blowing up, no smoking cars, no burning fires, no this or that anywhere, and so they the uh the news is is it's gone off the front page, and now the story is uh how the Democrats going to massage the turn of events here for their own uh political advantage.
Thanks.
Thanks for the call, Bob.
I appreciate it.
Raleigh, North Carolina, and Philip, you're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Uh thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's uh I've been listening to you since the White House was under siege uh back in the early nineties.
I appreciate your being here that long, sir.
Okay.
Well, what I wanted to I had two questions that I wanted to address with you, one very brief, one a little more comprehensive.
Uh I'd like to start with uh mainly the the the health care.
As a health insurance broker, uh small businessman, I might add, um I I've done a lot of research into the market.
I talk to people all the time, and what the government is essentially playing to do, or Hillary is, is to I'm going to uh regulate it better than the people who are already regulating it now.
When government has never regulated anything better.
And attached to that, why aren't those questions being asked in the presidential erase as opposed to who's doing what in Iowa and how much money they're raising?
Well, because there's a simple answer to the question.
In the case of the drive-by media, there there is no doubt that the federal government should be in charge of as much of your life and your business and mine as possible.
And so when Hillary Clinton, if I'm understanding you right, if Hillary Clinton and Obama are offering competing plans as run by the government, uh nobody's asking the question, oh, wait a minute.
You guys have never run a health care business.
You guys have never done anything in that why in the world are you qualified more than people in the private sector?
No, they're not going to ask that question because they think you understand what liberals think the private sector's corrupt the government's angelic.
Huh.
I mean, I guess based off of what do they expect people like me to believe that.
No, they don't expect you to believe it.
They expect your customers to believe it.
They think that most and your employees.
They they think most people are dumb and foolable and so forth, and can be made to hate you because you're the boss and love government because they are going to protect your customers and employees from evil people like you.
That's the gambit.
Right.
But unfortunately, but the the sad the truth of the matter is I just like to add that folks like me, the the brokers, the agents out there, are the are always a phone call away if there's ever an issue.
Versus you ever try get on the phone with Medicare.
Uh hope you've got at least.
Well, I know, look, I I I keep making this point.
If you don't like going to DMV, imagine if the only place you can go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.
Anyone who's ever had a an experience with a large bureaucracy, and by the way, when they finally if if Mrs. Clinton's elected and she gets her arms totally around this, and the only place you can go is government.
Folks, take a look at Canada, take a look at Great Britain when that's the only place you can go.
The people working there have no incentive to make you happy.
They have no incentive to speed things up.
They're government workers on, you know, G pay scale, and it's not gonna matter.
And they're gonna work at their own pace.
And it's just it's just the way it is.
It's a m it's a mystery to me why people think well, it's not a mystery, I understand it, it's just something we have to combat.
People think the government is beneficent, uh benevolent, uh that it is angelic, uh, it has only the best of intentions for its people.
And the private sector is where the average consumer gets screwed, and it is people like Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama who who spread that uh image, make that notion uh each and every day, and it it's it's it's just an offshoot of the class envy thing.
Quick time out, back after this.
Don't go away.
And it's now after Thanksgiving, so we're in a Christmas season here, folks, even though it's only the twenty-sixth of November.
Most overweight people want to trim down, but they aren't looking to lose enough weight to put them in a healthy weight range, suggesting larger body sizes are becoming more acceptable.
This from a study at New York's Cornell University, which assessed the current and ideal body weight of three hundred and ten college students in a survey, and then determined the corresponding body mass indexes, and they found that nearly ninety percent of normal weight women wanted to weigh less, with most desiring a body weight that still fell within the normal weight range.
Overweight women also wanted to shed a few pounds, but for half of them, the body weight they wished remained in the overweight range.
The results were more varied among the men, but for the overweight group who wanted to weigh less, fifty-nine percent, would still have an unhealthy body weight when at their personal ideal weight.
Lori Neighbors, who worked on the survey with uh Jeffrey Sobel of Cornell, said this study suggests there may be a shift toward accepting for normal weight women, normal, healthy body weight as well as potentially larger body sizes.
Most surprising was that many of these uh classified as overweight didn't realize the weight that would be considered normal or healthy weight by objective body mass index standards.
And one of one more little reference here.
Uh there seems to be social movement.
Uh the movements that are really pushing inclusion and a health at any size viewpoint.
People are becoming more accepting of heavier body weights and body sizes.
About two thirds of adults are overweight or obese in the U.S., according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
The bottom line is you're getting fatter and you don't care.
And you want to lose some weight, but not enough to make you healthy.
And uh society seems to be more accepting of it.
If that's the case, and how come I just saw what I saw on television?
Where some people want to propose a tubby tax on airliners or passengers on airlines that uh that weigh in too much and they're just general nuisances up there.
The idea that acceptance of this is again more panic from the drive-by is all oriented toward health.
Don't forget, it was just a month ago that we had the story that if you're overweight, you're probably healthier than somebody who's thin.
Uh might left the you know, nuclear war lasts, uh happens, you're gonna last a little bit longer if you're overweight.
And your uh your skinny neighbors, Scott, Nashville, Tennessee.
Welcome to the program, sir.
It's great to have you here.
War Eagle Rush, six in a row ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, there's uh may have been a big game in Missouri this weekend, but it doesn't matter who's wearing the polls, there's only one game that counted, and the good guys won number six in a row.
So um I w I wish I had heard.
I hadn't heard when I first called in the clip you played, the first Carville clip you paid about an hour and a half ago.
Because it dovetailed nicely with what I was talking about.
And I found it fascinating he brought up 1991.
Um theory is there is just no way that Iraq cannot be the issue for Democrats.
They've really painted themselves into a corner.
It it can't be the issue.
They've bet the farm on it, and they're really kind of stuck.
And and the the choice they're gonna have is to, you know, if things progress, go well, they're just gonna have to ignore it.
And they're gonna have to do the same thing they did in ninety-two with the economy.
We had a rough patch in 91.
It wasn't even a real recession.
We had no growth for you know the fourth quarter, but it became their hook.
It's the economy stupid.
They tied their hitched their wagon to it, they had to hammer it home, and despite the fact that we had a really good 1992, all we could hear about was worst economy in 50 years.
I mean, uh, they count on the mainstream media to not column over.
Well, no, listen to what you're saying.
You are comparing two things that really can't be compared.
When the Clintons talk about the worst economy in the last fifty years in 1992, they're actually talking about the future of the country.
And that's what uh presidential elections are about the future.
The Iraq war is the past.
I guarantee you the Republicans are gonna make the night the 2008 election about the future of the country and what it'll look like if Mrs. Clinton wins.
It's not going to be about things in the 90s with fundraising and the Charlie Trees and uh Jennifer Flowers and the you know the stained dress.
And the reason that Iraq is not going to be on the table is Iraq will by then will be the past.
They if they ignore Iraq, they will lose what has become their base.
I mean their base is now the um Iraq haters, for lack of better words.
Where else is their base gonna go?
You will see a 15 to 20 percent turnout for a Ralph Nader type candidate.
Well, that may be that.
That may be.
So what?
I hope it is.
I hope Mike Bloomberg gets in there and decides to siphons and votes away from Mrs. Clinton.
All right.
Uh but presidential elections are they're gonna be about the future, and and uh if the Democrat In fact, I'll make it this prediction.
I mean it last week.
You're not even gonna have to wait until next summer for that.
You're gonna see Mrs. Clinton if she gets a nomination start shifting on Iraq and national security and showing she cares and she's strong about it as early as March of next year.
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