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Nov. 28, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 28, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Don't doubt me.
Just don't doubt me.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I'm going to get to you as quickly as I can here.
But you know, we had a monster first hour.
In fact, I would say that first hour was conducted with three platinum butcher knives.
Ladies and gentlemen, the slice and dice was obvious.
All right.
It wasn't very long ago that I, from behind this very microphone, asked those of you in his audience to abandon the conventional wisdom in the drive-by media about the presidential primaries on both sides.
And I said, What happens to the Republican field if m if uh if Huckabee wins Iowa?
Not even a strong segment.
What happens if he wins it?
What does that do to shake up the field?
Then start thinking, what happens if Hillary does not get the Democrat nomination?
We are halfway, well, we're not, we haven't, nothing's happened yet, but this terms of votes.
But the latest Rasmussen poll just now breaking has Mike Huckabee up over three points over Romney, 28 to 25, Rudy Giuliani at 12%, and Fred Thompson is at 11%.
And the um Mr. Russmas Scott Rasmussen says, compared to our prior survey, the trend is unmistakable.
Huckabee's gone up, just about everybody else has gone down.
Huckabee's 28% support represents a 12-point increase from Erasmus and reports Paul conducted earlier this month.
Romney is down four points.
Giuliani and Thompson are each down three points.
McCain is down two, earns just four percent support in Iowa.
Ron Paul picked up a point and is now at five percent.
Ron Paul is ahead of McCain.
Uh forty-eight percent of evangelical Christians support Huckabee.
That's more than all the other candidates combined.
Romney attracts sixteen percent of the evangelical vote, and that's that's what's wait that was what was waiting to coalesce.
I mean, who are the co the evangelicals gonna coalesce behind?
And it appears at this stage, the Hawkeye Cookai is still a little over a month away.
Um have coalesced behind Huckabee.
Interesting too, AP has a huge hit piece on Huckabee today.
Mike Huckabee's rivals are pointing to Chinx in his record.
Can they say that?
AP said this.
I didn't think you could use that word.
Mike Huckabee's presidential rivals are pointing to Chinx in his record as uh all okay, never mind.
Uh as Arkansas governor from ethics complaints to tax increases to illegal immigration and his support for releasing a rapist who was later convicted of killing a Missouri woman.
So it's a huge hit piece.
He talked about he's raised taxes, which he did.
He freed or the Willie Horton, they got their own Willie Horton uh type ad here.
Free to rapist who later killed a uh distant Clinton relative, as it turns out, uh, and illegal immigration.
Uh Huckabee has consistently understated his role in the parole of rapist Wayne Dumond, who had been convicted in the 84 rape of a distant cousin of former President Clinton.
Two months after taking office, Huckabee stunned the state by saying he questioned Dumont's guilt and that it was his intention to free the rapist who had been castrated by uh masked men while awaiting trial.
Huckabee uh said then that he had serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt, and acknowledged later that he had met with Dumont's wife about the case while he was lieutenant governor two months after ascending the governor's office, Huckabee met with the woman again.
Uh Huckabee likes to say he was tough on taxes in Arkansas, noting a 100 million dollar tax cut in '97.
That until this year was Arkansas's largest, when asked about a fuel tax increase, he backed in 1999.
Huckabee says incorrectly he joined 80% of our percent of Arkansas voters in approving it.
Huckabee opposed a Republican lawmaker's efforts in 2005 to require proof of legal status when applying for state services that aren't federally mandated, and proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
He opposed those efforts.
Huckabee decided or derided the bill as on American and unchristian?
Said the bill's sponsor drank a different Jesus juice.
The same year, Huckabee failed in his effort to make children of illegal immigrants eligible for state funded scholarships and in state tuition to Arkansas colleges at the time, Huckabee said he didn't understand the opposition to it.
So this a full throated, full-fledged hit piece today, uh written by Andrew DeMillo, the associated press writer on Mike Huckabee, who now leads in Iowa in the Rasmussen poll 28 to 25.
I was watching CNBC right before the end of the first hour, and they got Sue Herrera as the info babe, and she was interviewing.
I didn't catch the name of this person, but it was a civil rights activist, I think from Cleveland or somewhere in Ohio.
And this person was demanding that uh victims of the subprime uh mortgage mess be given bonuses.
See, they got screwed.
Yes, Mithra Limbaugh, they got screwed by big Ritz Walthree guys, and it's time that they were made to pay.
The Walthree guys, Mithra Limbaugh, knew this was going to happen.
People should never have been qualified in the first place.
They were, uh everything goes south.
Now we're gonna we gotta we gotta bail them out.
Don't know if it'll happen.
Sue Herrera properly pointed out, but wait a minute, Ms. Civil Rights Activist, babe.
Not everybody in the subprime mess was a homeowner.
There were a lot of people buying these houses as speculation.
It was speculative, a lot of in fact, do you remember there was a so much of that going on.
Do you remember?
There people were flipping houses left or weren't even living in them.
They were flipping them.
Uh and at the time, remember everybody was worried about the the uh boom of the bus that was coming in the housing market because of this.
Because people weren't buying houses for legitimate reasons, folks.
They weren't buying them to live in them, they were buying them and flipping them.
And when you f when you buy anything to flip it, meaning resell it, a lot of these people got caught on the wrong side.
And when the uh when the when the bust hit, uh boom became a bust, and they end up on the wrong side.
So not everybody on the subprime side is actually a homeowner or resident that lost their house.
And of course, civil rights activists from Ohio didn't want to hear that.
Um course not.
That's that's uh that's irrelevant to the uh the whole situation.
We're also uh speculating here during the break about Ron Fournier of the Associated Press, who really today, and I I read you brief portions of his uh report on Clinton's lie about what he uh said about his support or opposition to the war in Iraq back in 2003.
Oh, I flat out opposed that war from get ago.
Uh Ron Fournier followed Clinton around and just I mean this is not flattering at all, talks about how Clinton's out there campaigning for his wife, but mentions his own name or pronoun, personal pronoun 97 times while mentioning Hillary's name seven.
Uh, talks about where he went for Thanksgiving, who the guest list was, all these where he had coffee that morning.
Uh it was I, I, I and me, me, me.
So, you know, these are the people that covered for Clinton all during the 90s.
This is a kind of coverage that Bill Clinton would never get from the drive-by media in the 90s.
They would marvel instead at how able he was to connect with that crowd and hold them in the palm of his hand.
He was able to speak to that crowd for hours with not a single word written down and no power.
The literal power of Bill Clinton crackling from his genes, as was once written by a Washington Post reporter when Clinton was out on Catalina Island.
So this Ron Fournier piece to this is this is this is quite interesting because this is not covering for him.
So began wondering why.
Well what what's changed here?
And I mean, this is a wild guess, and if I'm right about this, it's only temporary.
But it's almost, it's it's it's it's it's almost like these guys, some of them might actually feel a little dirty now.
They covered up for this guy for eight years, and they know it.
And they feel like whores.
They feel like sluts, and they're not gonna be used again.
There's a different, it's a different media uh uh climate and uh playing field out there now.
It's only temporary.
I mean, you know, battered wives, you know, they'll run away from house and so but they end up back there.
And battered liberals do the same thing.
I mean, there are so many battered liberals out there, but they never abandon the Democrats.
So, I mean, Fournier and his buddies will eventually be back in the fold.
Uh, but this is uh unique.
You didn't get this kind of coverage about the Clintons.
Also, did you see Hillary?
No sooner does Barack Obama announced that the Oprah is gonna hit the campaign trail than Barbara Streisand announces she's gonna go out for Hillary.
Uh Mrs. Clinton, I know you know Barbara Streisand.
I know she is actually not a friend of yours.
You kicked her out of the White House once when she was in there when you were gone.
Remember that?
Barbara Streisand was in the White House overnight in Lincoln bedroom when Hillary was out on some junk at somewhere.
But it's time to bury the hatchet on that, because now Barbara Streisand is back as an endorser.
Well, she may be a friend of yours, Mrs. Clinton, but she's no the Oprah.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have a poll here, uh latest poll of Democrats since this this Oprah and uh Streisand was announced, it's an overnight flash poll.
Check these numbers.
Question.
Who would you rather have lunch with?
Oprah or Barbara Streisand.
Answer Oprah 80%, Streisand 20.
Next question in the poll.
Who seems friendlier and nicer to you?
Oprah or Strisand?
It's Oprah 80 to 20 again.
Whose book recommendation would you read?
Oprah's or Barbara Streisand?
Oprah 94%, Strisand six percent.
Whose political endorsement would you more likely follow?
Oprah 60%, Streisand 10%, the other 30% laughed too long to offer an opinion.
You know, yesterday on the uh on the drudge report.
These two headlines are consecutively listed as just a riot.
Clinton relying on elderly women to help her win Iowa.
Streisand endorses.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Thank you.
Okay, to the phones we go.
We'll go to uh Mark in Bedford, New Hampshire.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Ross, I'm a rush baby from New Hampshire.
Well, thank you.
Great to have you with us.
I'm also a state representative, and uh I just want to say w the comments you've made about New Hampshire's voting is uh done more to establish the future integrity of the vote, and we've been working hard in the state representatives uh in the House for years trying to do, just by bringing out the truth.
Well, I appreciate your saying that.
Uh this was a report that we had yesterday uh about who all can and can't, and basically there's nobody who can't vote in the New Hampshire primaries.
That's right.
You don't have to be a resident of the state to vote in the New Hampshire primaries.
All you have to do is go there and tell somebody you're thinking about moving there.
Yeah, it's it's pretty loose and it and it favors the Democrats for sure.
Obviously, it favors the Democrats, they're the party of the rich now.
They can charter airplanes to bring people in from all over the country to vote in the New Hampshire primary.
Yeah, move on.org was here in huge numbers in the last primary and the in the general election.
What is uh what what's what's fascinating about this story, in addition to just the facts, are that when you go ask Democrat representatives or leaders in the state, well, but there's perfect nothing wrong with this.
Why, if if you oppose this, you're trying to instill fear, and you're trying to suppress the idea of voting, and we in New Hampshire think everybody should have the right to vote, it doesn't matter where it's that you vote that counts.
And actually was a quote almost similar to that, almost exactly like it from some Democrat official.
So if you that's the exact truth.
If you call them on it, they accuse you of of inciting fear and suppressing the vote.
That's right.
Well, what exactly right you you said that uh bringing light to this uh yesterday has done more to uh What, change it?
How's that gonna happen?
Uh because people are gonna be watching, you know, the people of New Hampshire are are pretty they they think that the having the first in the nation primary is important and you brought out the truth, and now uh at the uh when people vote to register uh you know, and they they have to register, they have to sign an affidavit that they're they're here, and you know, it's just gonna make it harder for them to bring in huge numbers.
There's always gonna be a few they'll bring in, but I'm hoping that that they won't bring in the busloads, which I expect.
Now, this is only for the primary, right?
This is not the case in presidential elections or any other local election, right?
Oh no, it's for everything.
Every election.
No, no, no, no.
You mean to tell me that next November anybody can show up in New Hampshire and vote?
Uh if they can get away with it for sure.
All they have to do is lie.
I thought this was you have you have informed me about something I was unaware of.
I thought this was just the primaries.
No, we lost we ha we had a Republican majority in the House of Representatives for over a hundred years and till the last election.
And move on.org was up here in huge numbers.
Wow.
All right.
Yeah, we lost an election.
Over a hundred years uh Republican state was uh because of thousands and thousands of them came up here.
You mean to vote?
To vote, yeah.
And then they left.
Oh yeah.
And they're running around accusing Republicans of stealing votes in Ohio and in Florida.
Uh perfect case, an example of projection.
You accuse your opponents of doing what you're already doing.
This is really this cannot be allowed to continue.
This this is something that's got to stop.
If we're gonna have integrity in New Hampshire, of course, you know, the uh what is it what what is it out there?
Mark, is it Dick's Notch, Notch, Dicks, whatever the the the Dickville Notch.
Dixville Notch, is that what it is?
Yep.
Dixville Notch.
Yeah.
Well, it w what's the population of Dixville Notch?
Like twelve or twenty-five, something like that?
Yeah, something like that.
Right.
Well, what if what if this November Dixville Notch has thousands of people that vote?
Because you can that's the polls open there first uh before anywhere else in New Hampshire, right?
Yep.
It's so remote that it's unlikely, but Yeah, because that would be fraud be easy to t easy to catch if you got a town of twelve people and two thousand moved.org people flood the polling place.
Um just think of how many people in the in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, they're only five minutes, ten minutes from the border.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
That that this is unreal.
All right.
Well, I appreciate that information, Mark.
Thanks very much.
By the way, Libs take note, Mark, a rush baby, a Republican, an elected state representative in New Hampshire.
That means that rush babies are of age to be elected officials like this gentleman.
That is the wave of the future slamming into your face.
And of course, our guys don't cheat.
Uh like like this.
And our women well, most of our women don't abort themselves.
You can't make a blanket statement like that because there are but the liberals are aborting themselves out of existence.
Uh slow process, but it's happening worldwide.
Kurt Radcliffe, Kentucky, welcome to the EIB network.
Res, sir, I'm very proud to be on the show with you today.
I I want to tell you, I I'm just so thankful for all the things you do for this country.
You're one of a kind.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
You're very kind.
I'm I'm very happy today also to be a uh after fifteen years of listening to your show, uh, today become a fifth-time caller.
Well, good.
That's that's quite a feat among my friends.
So I've got something to to rub in now.
I know that's uh that's every three years.
That's uh uh good effort.
Yes, sir.
I thought that was pretty good.
Uh I'm still I'm still really infuriated from the first hour.
You you really got me fired up with the comments about uh what Bill Clinton had to say about the inability to support the troops.
You know, uh what I'd like to know is where was his ability to support the troops for the eight years that he spent in office.
I live five minutes from Fort Knox, Kentucky, and during his time in office, you couldn't find an army tank with a metal detector.
After Reagan had built up our military and had us in a safe position, he destroyed it.
And now he wants to come back and claim that he supports the military?
No.
He wants to claim I couldn't support that because I didn't get a tax cut, Limbaugh.
That's that's the context in which he said this.
It said, Would have if he could have thing.
Well, but look at the poll the whole point is he was actively supporting the war from before from the days before it began.
The uh who cares what the context was.
He's out there now saying that he never did, and that simply is not true.
All right, uh, Kurt, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
We have uh got to hit the trail here for a couple minutes, we'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light.
Don't doubt me.
It's going to be the audio sound bites.
Uh, once again, we had this yesterday, have a chance to get to it.
This is Mrs. Clinton talking to Katie Kurick on the CBS evening news on Monday night.
Uh, we're now back to inevitability uh as the as the uh key word to describe Mrs. Clinton's candidacy.
Uh the perky Katie said, if it's not you who wins a nomination, how disappointed will you be?
Well, it will be me, but of course I'm ready to support the Democratic nominee, whoever it is.
I know that you're confident it's going to be you, but there is a possibility it won't be.
And and clearly, you're you have considered that possibility.
No, I haven't.
I get up every day intending to m meet and reach as many people as possible, and then I go to bed at night and I get up and I do it all over again.
So you never even consider the possibility.
I don't.
She's making it pretty clear there, folks.
She is inevitable.
So then Kurick says, Well, I asked her about the new more aggressive tone of her campaign.
It's time.
I have absorbed a lot of attacks for several months now.
My opponents have basically had a free reign.
I've tried to bring Democrats together, talk about where we are different from Republicans.
The Republicans have attacked me as well, which I think is also a badge of honor.
But after you've been attacked as often as I have from several of my opponents, you can't just absorb it.
You have to respond.
Hardly a day goes by when I'm not attacked.
And I just figure that it's about time now for me to draw the contrast.
Really?
She's only now going the attack.
Don't you just love that.
She's absorbed so many hits.
She's taken more than she can absorb.
You just can't absorb it all.
You have to respond.
And so and by the way, this is manifesting itself, uh, this this uh attack, if you will, uh, Hillary and Obama are in a snit over who is going to control more people with their health care plan.
A new front in the Clinton Obama rumble will open today, Clinton delivering a speech in Iowa at 115 Eastern.
So I guess the speech is ongoing right now, that will press the idea that you can't call yourself a change candidate if you produce a weak plan for the key domestic challenge facing the country today, health care.
That's what she's gonna say about Obama.
Obama's aides are pushing back by arguing that Clinton in the nineties opposed an individual mandate for health care, just as Obama opposes one now.
Clinton, in a nineteen ninety-four speech, circulated Wednesday morning by a rival campaign, probably the Obama campaign.
The only examples we have of individual mandates are those like auto insurance requirements in many states, as Mrs. Clinton speaking.
In spite of the fact that the state has access to all drivers through the licensing process, literally thousands and even hundreds of thousands of drivers remain uninsured in states with such an individual mandate.
So uh by the way, we're back to mandates again.
These people I asked you at the beginning of the program if you weren't here, I asked, listen to Democrats talk, listen to the presidential candidates talk, listen to their elected officials, Senate and House talking, just count the number of times you hear them use the word freedom in the context Of this country and the way it was founded and the way it survives.
Individual liberty and freedom.
Count the number of times you hear them discuss that either conceptually or using the word freedom.
You're going to be waiting a long time.
They're into some mandates.
The Brick Girl actually said in his health care thing a couple days ago, you're not going to have a choice.
You show up at any government agency, be it to pay your taxes, get a driver's license, or you are going to have to sign a form and sign up for health care.
You are not going to have a choice.
This is your Liberal Democrat Party today.
And the instances in which they will discuss individual liberty and freedom are so few and far between.
I can't recall the last time I heard a Democrat discuss it, especially one of these presidential candidates.
Vinnie in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
to have you with us here.
Hello, Uncle Rush.
Oh.
I'd like to say that President Clinton, well, the formerly impeached for lying president, should put his money where his mouth is.
And he should match what you put into the Marine Corps fund if he's really not lying.
He's the liar.
Hillary Clinton from the floor of the House practically regurgitated word for word what the impeached president was saying about Iraq.
She said it from the Senate floor.
She lies about everything and accuses the president of being a liar.
Every one of these Democrats, except for Obama is lying about it.
They all except for Obama, I think Edwards Edwards too.
Edwards did not.
Edwards did support the war, right?
They everybody in the field, he voted for it.
He voted for Hillary.
Yes, and it's time, and you have brought that out, and it's bringing out, and I think that's why you see these other reporters that are from the left starting to change their motion and and writing stories that aren't in favor of the Clintons.
But it's time to shut the Clintons down, and I think you've been doing an excellent job, Addict.
Well, I appreciate that.
Somebody has to do it.
Somebody has to do it.
Well, I think that's why I say Uncle Rush, because you are the new the new voice of America, and I think Benjamin Franklin would be very proud of you today as on the same stage as him.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate everything you've done for this country, and I've been listening for a long time, since ninety-two.
And my parents are listening right now.
I have two nephews who are based out of Fort Benning, who who listen, I'm sure, on armed services, one of which is the world skeets champion of the world.
He's number one, hold to the record the for the a perfect shoot.
Um we have uh a rich country of people like that.
And those are the people who make the country work.
They absolutely do.
And and for people like Clinton, just a disgraced person, who it it it it beguiles me to hear him speak in any ill form of our current president, because he's ten times the man stature and grace that Clinton could have ever been.
He Clinton wishes at at night that he was like President Bush.
I met President Bush down the vote of Grand Florida, where uh I got the pleasure of shaking his hand and looking straight in his eye.
Let me tell you something.
That man is not a liar.
He's never lied.
And for these people to call Matt just goes through me, especially when my nephews are serving under him.
And and and all their buddies that are there with them in Iraq.
Well, now I now I have a better idea why Clinton uh his words so upset you, because I mean what one thing you mentioned one of this is worth repeating.
Clinton said, after uh the he he was opposed to the war.
Remember, it says this in the context of criticizing uh Bush's tax cuts.
He made it sound like he couldn't support the troops because he didn't get a tax increase.
Meaning financial support.
We had to go borrow money from other countries, Clinton said, in order to fund the war, because people like me, he cannot stop telling people how rich he is, by the way.
We're not given a tax increase.
So all he's got to do in his mind is sit around, and this is what bugs you.
All he's all he's got to do is sit around and have the government take a little more money from him, and he thinks he's supporting the troops.
Right, instead of voluntarily doing it.
Exactly right.
Like my like my nephew who could have gone to any Ivy League school in this country and decide to uh perform for his country.
It's an amazing story, actually.
Well, but you know you're making an excellent point.
If if Bill Clinton thought it necessary to fund the troops somehow, then write a check.
Right.
Why sit around and wait for the government to take the money?
You put your money where your mouth is time and time and time and time again.
I've heard you over 15 years now do it.
He's never done it not once.
All they've done is bad mouthed you.
And that makes me sick to my stomach, too.
I guess I've been listening to you for a long time, and and I and I hear your words and and they're graceful in every bit and form.
And I I matter of fact, I think it was your ninety-two issue.
Uh no, nine ninety-four issue.
Uh it was the big lie or something.
And they were talking about the ninety-four Congress, and you wrote just an exquisite piece.
And then and then foreseeing in your book.
I think it was C I Told You So, page one fifty-five.
You actually wrote out Gore in the same line as environmental wacko, and you knew back then that he was on the trail to doing what he's doing, say lying about the environment.
They're they're they're the liars.
I just want that straightened out, if anything.
Not us.
We don't lie.
We just put the facts out.
Just the facts, ma'am.
And that's what they can't deal with.
They the facts are the biggest inconvenience to them uh in their daily existence.
Look, you blow me away here.
You're quoting from my book by page.
He's he's right.
See, I told you so.
I well, I debated Gore on the environment in nightline in 1990.
Uh, and he was he was getting he was off on the wacko trail back then.
It's interesting though that when he became vice president, he really didn't do much about it.
He sort of took the low road, uh, because he had, of course, to be subservient uh to the co-presidents, uh, and uh had to put it on hold for him.
We wrote a couple books back then, but uh uh didn't do much publicly.
Look, Vinny, I appreciate that very much.
Thank you so much.
A quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen, and the EIB network will roll right on.
Ha.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Manheim steamroller in the uh Christmas bump rotation now.
As we're officially into the uh the Christmas season, Fred in Oceanside California.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Hey, Rush, thanks a whole lot for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to bring your attention to uh an article in today's Wall Street Journal, and it said Cyber Monday sets record for record uh for retail sales on the web.
Yeah, I've got that story.
Um I actually have it here from the uh Financial Times dot com.
Uh a lot of people have the story.
Uh U.S. online retail sales have been growing at better than expected rates, and they run up to the holidays according to Wall Street analysts and internal um retailers, internet retailers.
Uh, and it was it was a record.
The uh cyber sales up twenty-one percent of her last year, right?
Right on, and by the way, uh you are right and the libs were wrong again.
Well, you know, that's becoming a habit.
Uh it's becoming something that you really don't even need to point out.
Oh, I appreciate you um you you pointing it out.
But even with this, you know, even with this news, will it last?
Will this news continue?
Will people continue to splurge, or was this just a one time thing or retailers wait nervously in the coming days.
They just can't report something good, especially on the eve of a presidential campaign election year.
Well, I'll tell you what, Russia, thank you for being there, and by golly, Merry Christmas to you, okay?
Same to you, Fred.
Appreciate that.
Let's go to Dallas.
This is Tom.
Tom's been waiting a long time.
I appreciate your patience, Tom.
Thanks and uh for waiting and welcome to the program.
Uh hi, Rush.
Uh, again, a real privilege.
Um I know this is a subject that you do you introduced early on in the show, but I just want to make a comment about the UN report and the livability and uh in a certain place called Iceland.
Yeah, Iceland is number one place to live in the world, according to the UN livability index.
Well, according to those of us who were uh sentenced to be stationed up there for a year, as I was, I found that place number one to be not uh the the bad weather notwithstanding, uh to be one of the most bigoted places I've ever seen in the world.
Uh their attitudes towards us because of the diversity within the services was was pretty shocking.
When were you there?
In the uh early eighties.
Well, obviously they've changed.
They've gotten rid of the bigotry and the uh bad weather and the uh alcoholism and all that.
I was gonna mention, not to mention the alcoholism, the drug abuse, the promiscuity, the unwed children.
We used to have a joke going around there was a virgin behind every tree, and anyone who's of course have been up to Iceland noticed there's no trees up there.
But but but it kind of it kind of goes to the it kind of goes to the uh you know the attitudes of the UN on where they pick the livabilities of purely socialist states.
They owe they must know this stuff.
They have to see this stuff and they ignore it to make a point about socialism.
Well, of course.
Of course, the UN is a collection of renegade socialists and dictators and thugs.
Uh, and their purpose for existence is to fleece the United States.
You've you've said that right.
I wish we would just uh essentially turn uh uh that uh that uh building of theirs into uh into uh uh condos uh and make it easier for people to live in that part of town.
Yeah.
I don't think it's ever gonna think the UN's ever gonna relocate out of New York.
I don't think New York can let it happen.
Uh I don't think the United States government wants it to happen.
Because we need we need for people to get in spy on us.
We need to have easy accessibilities that can spy on us so we can spy on them spying on us.
I suppose.
Anyway, again, I I just I just wish that more people would realize that when it comes to these so-called studies and and and where they're leaning.
I don't think any look at nobody's gonna take this seriously.
As I said at the beginning of this program, let's just okay.
The UN, yip, yep, yep, yep, Yahoo, has just issued its livability report.
Iceland's number one, best place in a planet to live.
Let's just see the hordes leaving where they live now and heading to Iceland and Drolves to move and live.
I mean, there the joke is the United States slipped.
We were eighth.
The eighth best place to live on the planet in the previous report.
Now we're down to number twelve.
And of course, I didn't dig into the reasons why, but it has to be our contribution to global warming and our national carbon footprint and uh our our lack of signature that killed us.
It's all whatever it is.
It's gonna be bogus right out of the playbook liberal reasons.
No question.
Quick timeout, clap uh we wrap the hour up right after this.
I was just discussing with our last caller.
Yeah, there's good economic news, but it's always accompanied by but will it continue?
Retailers wait anxiously to see if the trend is a trend or just a one-day spike.
Well, the Associated Press.
Here's the headline, says it all, U.S. virtually unscathed by hurricanes in two thousand seven.
Planners worried about apathy.
Don't worry, planners.
Don't worry about apathy with our drive-bys.
Don't forget they can wick people into a state of fear in a day.
Despite alarming predictions, the U.S. came through a second straight hurricane season virtually unscathed, raising fears among emergency planners.
They'll be fighting public apathy and overconfidence when they warn people to prepare next year.
Friday marks the official close of the Atlantic season, so unless a storm forms in the next few days, we hope we hope.
Only one minor hurricane will have hit the U.S. during the June to November period.
Mexico Central America, however, was struck by a record two top-scale Cat V storms.
A preliminary total for the season, 14 name storms, five of them hurricanes, two of the major, none of them near the United States.
There was less activity than the government predicted before the season.
So let me tell you, you planners, you're worried about apathy.
Let me say what you need to worry about.
You need to worry about the fact people aren't going to take you seriously.
We've had two years where you've been predicting Katrina after Katrina after Katrina.
We've had bad predictions because we haven't had anywhere near another Katrina, anywhere near this country.
There's no way you can predict these things.
And now you're worried that people won't believe you.
That there will be apathy.
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