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Dec. 11, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 11, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Just late arriving show prep, all kinds of stuff.
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Well, you know, it's a good thing Iran has no plans for a nuclear weapon because the president over there, Mahmoud Ahmad Nuttajob, said that Iran needs 50,000 centrifuges within five years so that it can make enough fuel for one nuclear power plant.
50,000 centrifuges.
Their enrichment plans, this is a Reuters story, are part of Tehran's nuclear program that most worries the West because the process can be used to make both fuel for nuclear power plants or, if desired, material for warheads.
What are we going to do about that?
We've got so many conflicting reports now.
Yeah, they stopped the program in 2003, but then they resumed it in 2004.
There is only one man.
I've been thinking about this.
There is only one man, ladies and gentlemen, who can get to the bottom of this whole thing and find the truth.
Did Iran really stop their nuclear program in 2003?
Is the alleged new intelligence accurate or a clever leak from the Mullahs?
If they did stop in 2003, did they restart it in 2004?
Are we at less risk or are we at greater risk?
Why are our allies scornful of the conclusions in the NIE?
This report has raised more questions than it has answered, and we need answers.
We have enough questions.
We need hard data.
We need facts.
We need the truth.
And there's only one man up to the task.
America's greatest living fact-finder.
A man who can go to Iran for three days, sit in a cafe, sip tea, has all the contacts that will secure all the information, and that man is Joe Wilson.
Mr. Valerie Plame, the super spook who can get to the bottom of anything except who sent him to Niger.
We got to get Joe Wilson on the case here, folks, because obviously there are many, many confusing things.
All right, presidential politics.
Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it.
I knew this was going to be the case.
I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Democrat Party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Mike Huckabee.
According to Democrat Party Insiders, a Democrat National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire until Huckabee secures the party's nomination.
The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party.
And within the DNC, Huckabee is known as the glass jaw, and they're just waiting to break it, quote unquote.
In the last three weeks since Huckabee's surge kicked in, a Democrat National Committee has not released a single press release criticizing his rising candidacy.
The last DNC press release critical of Huckabee appeared back on March the 2nd.
Yeah, the Clinton said, leave him alone.
That's right, Limbaugh.
You understand this better.
My own party does.
We'll take care of this guy after he gets nomination.
Got that glass jaw.
He's Marcus.
I'll know how to deal with those people.
One senior Democrat operative Tuesday morning from Washington said he'll easily be their McGovern, an easy kill.
His letting out murderers because they shout, Jesus, his wanting to put 300,000 AIDS patients and Magic Johnson into isolation.
That ain't even scratching the surface of what we at the DNC have on Huckabee.
The discipline the Democrats have shown in not engaging Huckabee has earned the praise of one former Republican Party official.
Said the Democrats are doing a much better job of restraining themselves than the Republicans did in 2003 when Howard Dean looked like he was on the brink of winning the nomination.
A close friend to Huckabee responded and said, look, Mike is Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare.
They should be squirming at the Democrat National Committee.
Let's go back and listen to me on this show, December 3rd, 2007.
This is what I told you about the drive-bys of the Democrats and Huckabee.
Why is the drive-bys, why are they pushing Huckabee?
Because they think that Huckabee is a nut.
They think that Huckabee is a Bible-thumping preacher that's going to be marching into every woman's home and telling her, no, you must not and cannot have an abortion.
And then they think he's going to hijack the Constitution and write Roe versus Wade out of it without even going to the Supreme Court.
And then he thinks he's going to make every liberal kid go to Sunday school.
This is what they think of him.
This is what they think of any God-fearing pastor or conservative religious person.
And as such, they think that would be easy to beat.
So who needs the Democrat National Committee leaking stuff to Drudge?
I told you this over a week ago, that this is how they're looking at him.
And there's one other aspect in addition to how they're looking at him.
And that is they need George W. Bush on the ballot, and they think they can make Huckabee Bush.
They have so engendered hate and rage in their electorate.
They need somebody on the ballot that they can say is the reincarnation of Bush in certain ways.
CNN today has a story out, a poll, basically.
While presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee surging in new polls of Republican candidates, CNN poll released today shows that he would lose to all three leading Democrat candidates by double digits in hypothetical contests in head-to-head matchups.
The first time the CNN poll has included Huckabee, he loses to Hillary by 10 points, 54 to 44, loses to Obama by 15 points, 55 to 40, and to the Brett girl by 25 points, 60 to 35 percent.
The poll comes on the heels of a CNN opinion research poll released Monday that showed Huckabee doubled his support nationally among likely Republican voters in the last month and is in a statistical dead heat with Rudy.
So, oh, and here's another story.
This is in the New York Times today.
And here again, another glittering jewel of an example of how if you listen to me, you will know things before they ever show up in a drive-by media.
The New York Times, all excited, they've got a new poll out.
GOP voters uninspired by candidates.
Now, I hate to admit having said it, but I did.
I said, one of the reasons, way back when, when Fred Thompson wasn't even in the race, was just toying with the idea.
And I would go out.
I remember it was in Detroit, Rush to Excellence tour stop sometime this past spring, mentioned Thompson.
Well, that place stood up.
And I said, the reason this is happening, not a whole lot was known about Thompson.
The reason this is happening is that nobody in the Republican field has really fired anybody up.
I said it just the other week.
That's why nobody's up higher than 32, 33% among our guys.
So now the New York Times has gone out and done a poll to conclude what you in the EIB audience have already known.
And you probably know this yourself because you're the ones that create the results of the poll.
Three weeks before the Hawkeye Cokey, Republican voters across the country appear uninspired by their field of presidential candidates, a vast majority saying they have not made a final decision about who to support.
This is a CBS New York Times poll.
And of course, by contrast, Democrats are happier with their field and they are more settled in their decisions.
For all the problems Senator Clinton of New York appears to be having holding off her rivals in Iowa and New Hampshire, she remains strong nationally.
Even after what her aides acknowledge has been two of the roughest months of her candidacy, she is viewed by Democrats as a far more electable candidate in the general election than either Brock or the Brett girl.
And get this.
More Democrats said that Mrs. Clinton could bring the country together than those who said Mr. Obama was someone who could unite different groups.
And it's just a flowery presentation of how wonderfully qualified and experienced Hillary Clinton is and how she can be.
She's got the, I know, she got the highest negative any candidate that's ever run for president.
She got her negatives to 49, 50%.
And so, but that's precisely why the story, that's precisely trying to give the way these polls work.
Okay, let's say you average John Q public out there, Joe Sixpeck, and he looks at Hillary and he sees all these negatives.
And I don't like her.
She's too icy.
She's like Nurse Ratchet.
Whatever they say.
And then they read a poll somewhere, see on TV that, why, Democrats lovely, so happy she could be the best one to unite the country.
They say, oh, maybe I'm wrong about this.
So this is just another example of polling data attempting to change people's minds about Mrs. Clinton and something else.
Another, we got two CI Told You Sos in one story.
The poll found that former President Bill Clinton could be an effective campaign weapon for his wife.
44% of Democrats said his involvement would make them more likely to support Mrs. Clinton.
So half, close to half of people who like Hillary actually are voting for Bill, which is something else you heard on this program prior to the New York Times and their brave, courageous publication of this fact.
By the way, let's go to Ames, Iowa yesterday, a campaign event for Hillary, and former President Bill Clinton spoke.
I ask you, who is he talking about here?
When she came down here and we got married, I was a defeated candidate for Congress with a $26,000 salary and a $42,000 campaign debt.
Now, if she were half as calculating as somebody says, that's a really great way to run for president someday.
I think I'll go to a site I'll barely see and marry some failed politician with a $26,000 salary and a $42,000 debt.
Who is he talking about?
Who is this somebody that Clinton's talking about?
Who else has evolved the theory that this whole thing on Hillary's part was a calculation to follow this guy wherever he was headed and take over when he got there?
So it just establishes once again, I am never out of their minds.
Somebody, not some people.
Let's go back to the archives March 8th, 1994, 13 years ago.
Audio for me on the television show.
The Hillary Clinton story basically is this.
And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised his head.
You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do?
You go off to college.
That's what she did.
Why do you go?
To meet your husband.
That's what she did.
She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.
So she goes to college, finds some guy that she thinks is going somewhere, latches onto him.
Maybe she steers his career, as some women are prone to do.
Maybe she followed.
Who knows?
But the point is that when he got wherever he was going, that's when she moves in to take over.
Right.
And here's Mrs. Clinton herself last week on ABC.
Wordled news tonight with Charles Gibson.
His question to Mrs. Clinton, well, his comment.
She fell in love with a fellow student, Bill Clinton, but she was reluctant to marry him.
He was a force of nature.
He was the center of most of the attention.
I'd never known anybody like him.
I just had no frame of reference.
But I knew I was getting into something really big, whatever it was, you know, and therefore I was hesitant.
I never understood how difficult it would be to navigate his political career on my terms.
Navigate his political career on my terms, she said.
So he had power crackling in his jeans even then, ladies.
Let's go back.
You've just heard me say it back in 1994.
She calculating, figured out what she wanted to do.
A little tough to navigate his personal career, political career on her terms.
He said this in Iowa yesterday, one morning.
When she came down there and we got married, I was a defeated candidate for Congress with a $26,000 salary and a $42,000 campaign debt.
Now, if she were half as calculating as somebody says, that's a really great way to run for president someday.
I think I'll go to a site I've barely seen and marry some failed politician with a $26,000 salary and $42,000 debt.
Yeah, but, you know, Limbaugh's smart because what Limbaugh's going to figure out what he's going to remember is that we got Hillary that gig down there at the Rose Law Firm.
He has $120,000 a year.
You know, we got it a cattle futures deal, $10,000 into $100,000.
So she wiped out my debt and our plan moved forward and everything.
Oh, Limbaugh's the only guy who's going to remember that.
Let's, I don't want to harp on this.
I really do, but let's look at this scenario that Clinton just said.
He was $26,000 salary, $42,000 in debt, and she hightails it to Arkansas.
Could we also not speculate that maybe she was desperate for anybody to marry her?
And that this represents not a wise decision whatsoever.
I mean, it is.
He's pretty.
She came down there to be with me, Limbaugh.
We've never heard of any other boyfriends that she had.
Well, we haven't.
We've heard everything else about this two, this pair, but we've never heard any about that.
I want to document one more thing about, you know, the Democrats needing Bush on the ballot.
They have enraged their base so much, those people, when they go in to vote for Hillary or whoever in November next year, are going to need voters to think Bush is on the ballot.
They're going to try to make Huckabee into Bush too.
Listen to this classy comment from the forehead, Paul Begala, yesterday on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
Blitzer said, look, if you're a Republican, that's not running on Bush's record necessarily going to get you a lot of votes, but going after Hillary Clinton might.
Hillary Clinton in some Republican areas is unpopular.
George W. Bush across America, he would poll behind several different forms of venereal disease in most of this country.
I mean, they hate Bush in America.
And that's what I would do.
I would put Bush out there if I was the Democrats.
I'd put them out there every day.
What do you mean if you were a Democrat?
But very classy.
Bush's, there's several venereal diseases that Bush would poll behind.
So they're committed.
They're invested in defeat in Iraq.
invested with Bush on the ballot.
Other news here before we continue on with the serious stuff of the presidential campaign, a police uniform is not just a set of clothes, but this is out of San Francisco.
A police uniform, not just a set of clothes, but an emblem of authority that conveys special powers and deference in our society.
And that means police officers should be paid for the time needed to put the uniform on and take it off.
This from a federal judge in San Francisco.
Does this include putting on underwear and socks or just the pants and the shirt and the gun?
And what about undercover cops?
I mean, they have, quote-unquote, a uniform as well.
This is from U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel.
She ruled in favor of police in San Leandro who sued for about a half hour pay per day of paid donning and doffing time, either as part of their shifts or as premium pay.
San Leandro officers have estimated they need 25 to 35 minutes a day to put on and take off the uniform, that it's part of the gig, and that they want to be paid for it.
And the federal judges agreed.
Putting on and taking off uniform is not integral and indispensable to police work.
The standard established by the Supreme Court in compensation cases, said Breyer, Charles Breyer ruled in August that police in Richmond did not have to be paid for time spent putting on and removing their uniforms.
A combination of rising Chinese demand, Chikom demand, and the biofuel boom is pushing up Christmas tree prices in Germany.
Producers say they can't keep up with demand from Asia's economic giant.
Did you realize what great news this is?
The Chikoms, a communist regime, buying up Christmas trees?
This would never have happened to the Soviet Union.
Well, if it did and the state caught you, you'd be shot at a firing squad.
Religion was not allowed in any shape, manner, or form.
The Christmas tree may be a quintessential symbol of Christmas, but it's also a natural resource.
And like other natural resources, it's subject to market forces.
And it's a crop.
It's like oil is a crop.
According to the German timber industry's umbrella organization, the HDH, demand for Christmas tree is rising due to increasing exports and the growing number of single-person households.
And guess where else Christmas trees are in huge demand?
Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Lufthansa is already flying trees to Abu Dhabi and Dubai while freshly felled trees are being transported in refrigerated containers in China.
A Christmas tree decked out in the American style has become a status symbol in China, and many retail stores there are adopting the tradition as well as retail and homes in Dubai.
Christmas trees.
A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a way of life.
All right, I'm getting some emails from people.
We'll see.
So what are you joining the cabal here against Huckabee?
Say it ain't so.
I'm not doing anything, folks, about Huckabee.
I'm not against Huckabee or any of these guys yet.
You know I don't choose signs and primaries.
I'm just telling you what's out there.
Please try to keep this stuff in context.
It was I, not the Democrat National Committee, who told you in the last week or two that the Democrats were going to set Huckabee up as the next Bush, Bush II.
They need somebody they can hate.
And I was also telling you that they despise and fear anybody of faith, and particularly a candidate like Huckabee, who's out there making no bones about his Christian faith and beliefs.
That just instills great fear in the hearts of liberal Democrats.
And as such, they're going to be making moves on him.
And now they've started, even though they say they're withholding their fire, they're not withholding their fire because they're leaking the fact they're withholding their fire.
In the process of the leak, they gave some indication of what they're going to do when they do start firing, which they did with the leaked drudge.
And I am merely pointing out what's happening out there.
You know, it's, you want me to ignore it?
You want me to ignore what's going on on the Republican side?
You know, something else that I think we had some soundbites on this yesterday.
I didn't get to them.
We were so jam-packed yesterday.
But look at Tim Russert.
Tim Russert asked Rudy Giuliani personal question after personal question.
Fair enough.
But where are the personal questions aimed at Democrats?
You know, who gave the money to the Clinton Library?
What countries?
What businesses?
Clinton's not releasing any of that data.
I got to protect the privacy of my donors, Limba.
I promise them confidentiality.
You understand how that works.
Not releasing any papers from the library and massage parlor about Mrs. Clinton's experience.
All these questions to Rudy about whether the NYPD was used to ferry his girlfriend around.
What about Secret Service ferrying Clinton's girlfriends around?
Why are those questions not asked?
Well, I know the answer to this, and I've endeavored to explain it a number of times.
You know, there are no standards on the left.
They can't violate standards which don't exist.
Republicans, on the other hand, have made it clear and conservatives as well over the years that believe in standards and differences and the things that are defined in the founding documents of this country.
Democrats don't.
Doing what the liberals don't, they're doing what they can to tear all that down, remake the country in their own image, primarily what the 60s anti-war crowd would love to do with the next presidential election.
But, you know, the fact is Democrats are on a warpath against any and all of these Republicans.
And when it happens, I'm going to sit here and tell you about it regardless, because that's what we do here.
Comment on it sometimes, tell you about it at all times.
Michael, Grand Rapids, Michigan, we'll go to the phones first with you today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush, for taking my call.
I have two questions for you.
Yeah.
You think if the Clintons get the nomination, that they're going to Willie Horton Mike Huckabee if he was to get the nomination?
And number two, you think that if Mike Huckabee is to get the nomination, that all those pardons that President Clinton had at the end of his term will be off the table since Governor Huckabee pardoned 12 convicted murderers.
I don't think, regardless, the Republican candidate, the Clinton Inc. war machine is going to go into destroy mode.
Whether it's Huckabee, whether it's Rudy, whether it's Fred Thompson, and their opposition research is busy now collecting all the data.
They've been working on it for months and years, and whoever the nominee is, they'll go after it.
And they're not going to be immune from it.
As I was just discussing, the questions that Tim Russert asked of Rudy Giuliani, and he would ask of a lot of other Republicans, will not be asked with any kind of the same zeal by anybody to drive-by media of Democrats.
So in your pardon question, they're going to go after Huckabee for his pardons.
The media is going to, well, the Clinton pardons are an old story.
And besides, he's not on the ballot.
Mrs. Clinton is.
There's any number of ways that they will finesse it.
The Willie Horton thing, I'm sure that they will use that, but I think Republicans are going to end up using that on Huckabee before the primaries are over.
So look at this.
Huckabee moves into the upper tier here and in the lead in certain places.
Romney is already readying what was being called a negative ad in Iowa.
not really all that negative.
In fact, I think, let me conduct my audio soundbite roster here, I consulted.
I think we have the audio soundbite.
Yes.
This.
Yep, this is the Romney ad.
We have the audience number 20, Mike, and this is just the audio of it.
30-second ad, said to be negative.
I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.
Two former governors, two good family men, both pro-life, both support a constitutional amendment protecting traditional marriage.
The difference?
Mitt Romney stood up and vetoed in-state tuition for illegal aliens, opposed driver's licenses for illegals.
Mike Huckabee supported in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants.
Huckabee even supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens.
On immigration, the choice matters.
Okay, so this is now, this is heating up.
And there are going to be more and more of these kind of ads aimed at Huckabee.
He's going to be sliced and diced by the Republicans before the Clintons get their shot at him, is the point.
So we let this stuff play out and see where it heads.
Chris, in Searcy, Arkansas.
Now, this happens to be where my sweet blessed mother was born in Searcy, Arkansas.
And it happens to be also where my mother met Margaret Thatcher.
And it also is the case that Margaret Thatcher and my mother were born on the same day in the same year, October 13th.
So, Chris, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Good to talk to you, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Here's a question I have for you.
I'm wondering if possibly the reason for the Dems not attacking Huckabee thus far could be their take on his lack of viability and maybe a desire not to give them any viability by attacking him.
And the reason I wonder that, part of the reason, there's a story that is being reported on the Politico by Jonathan Martin right now.
He's posting a response to all this by the communications director of the DNC, Karen Finney.
And she has apparently come out a statement saying, quote, the Romney campaign should take heart in the fact that the Drudge Report is buying their spin, hook, line, and sinker, because nothing in that story came from us.
And Shiva says that they've been tracking Huckabee for a year.
So there's more of your take on that.
Wait a second.
The Politico's got a story from Karen Finney, the DNC, saying we didn't give Drudge the story.
Exactly.
They're saying nothing in the story came from us and even charging the Romney.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Who is us?
Story came from us.
Who's us?
This quote is coming from the communications director of the DNC.
No, no.
Wait a minute.
You're confusing me because I'm having trouble hearing you, so I'm having to read the transcription.
Did you say that at first that Karen Finney says the report did not come from us, the stuff about Huckabee, we didn't give Drudge that?
Exactly.
That's what is being reported on the Politico by Jonathan Martin currently.
Okay.
But then I thought you said they're saying the story did come from them.
No, so they're saying Romney put that story out to Drudge as the DNC and that Drudge fell for it?
Right.
The exact quote is, the Romney campaign should take heart in the fact that the Drudge Report is buying their spin, hook, line, and sinker, because nothing in that story came from us.
Hmm, plot thickens out there.
It does.
It does.
So the DNC is saying, we didn't do it.
We didn't do it.
We didn't do it.
Maybe Romney did.
Interesting.
Well, politics is what it is.
I just, you know, I think back, and I hate to keep rewinding the clock here and going to my mental archives, but I remember this was way before Thanksgiving, too.
I ask you people, what happens if Huckabee wins Iowa?
What does that change in the conventional wisdom?
What if Hillary doesn't get the nomination?
And look how prescient on my part were those thoughts.
All right, a brief timeout.
I got to take a quick break here.
We'll be back and continue on the EIB network before you know it.
Now, about this report that's on Politico, that Karen Finney, the spokesman at DNC, said, Hey, this story about us creaming Huckabee on Drudge It didn't come from us.
It's nice to know that they're accepting spin from the Romney campaign.
Now, look, the DNC doesn't speak with one voice.
It could be any number of people at DNC leaking this, and Karen Finney wouldn't know about it.
Plus, why should we accept the word of Karen Finney?
She's in the DNC.
Of course, they're going to deny it.
If somebody leaked this and they didn't want it out, don't forget that CNN poll that I mentioned to you in the first half hour of the program.
This stuff is not coincidence.
Here we have a CNN poll says that Huckabee would lose to top Democrats by double digits if he were the nominee.
And the same day, we got a story that the Democrats are so excited that Huckabee might win the nomination, they're withholding all fire until he becomes a nominee because they've got enough to wipe him out.
Where the drive-bys are concerned, there are no coincidence, particularly with essentially the same story.
He loses.
The CNN did their duty.
DNC got hold of Drudge.
Somebody got hold of Drudge, shows up.
But look at who is it that's being talked about?
Tuckabee.
And Huckabee will take it right.
Guarantee you.
Adam in Barrington, New Jersey.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megan Dezrush from the longtime Rush Baby.
Thank you, sir.
Hi.
Following up on your story about Huckabee being the glass jaw of the Republican Party.
I personally know a college Democrat student who's real big into getting on the campaigns and helping out and stuff like that.
And I found out he was going up to New Hampshire to help out with the Huckabee campaign.
I was thinking, why in the world is he going up there?
And I asked him about it.
He's like, well, it's a mystery.
You know, what I'm, you know, my beliefs and stuff like that.
I'm thinking, wait a minute, he's been on these Democrat campaigns.
And so now I'm thinking, wait a minute, was he possibly trying to help Huckabee so that the Democrats can cream him in 08?
Anything's possible.
Look, when you start asking me a question about, you know, what's possible in politics, look, this wouldn't be the first time something like this happened.
I think my memory is a little vague on this, but I think in the 2000 Republican primaries, you know, McCain was out doing everything he could to attract moderates and to get them ending up voting in the Republican primary.
There were all kinds of tricks being played to pull that off.
If the Democrats have got stealth employees up supposedly drumming up support for Huckabee, when did your friend tell you this?
About maybe like a week ago or something like that.
And it was really weird because is he up there now?
Is he up there now working for Huckabee or is he going to go?
He's going to go in maybe a couple weeks, like between his winter break for college.
Wow.
That means he's probably going to be replacing people who are already there doing this.
Hell, I don't know what's going on with this kind of stuff.
I just don't discount any of it.
Again, at this point, what you have to look at here, and I know the substance of what's being said is relevant in some ways, but look at who's being talked about here today.
Look at who's making all the news.
Look at who it is the Democrats are talking of.
It's Huckabee.
You know, Huckabee will take that at this point.
He's probably eating all this stuff up.
Adam, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Where were you?
Where are you going next, Mr. Sterling?
All right, this is Liz, Kansas City, Missouri.
Are you iced in, Liz?
I am.
I'm sitting here in Icy Kansas City, and I was thinking, I think I'm going to call Rush and tell him my global warming story.
Oh, good.
Well, I am a school librarian.
I work with kids kindergarten through sixth grade.
One of my upper grade teachers wanted to do a research project on global warming with her class and wanted to talk with them about the impact on third world countries that we are having because of the global warming.
So the kids came in for the discussion, and before they started researching.
Now, is your kindergarten, this kindergarten, is there sixth graders that came in for this?
No, it's upper grade, sixth grade Upper sixth grade.
Okay.
So the kids are in there, and I realize that I have a great opportunity to kind of help them along to understand some of the truths about global warming.
So much in the rush frame, I talk to the kids about looking at sources and making sure you have the correct sources, but then I tell them about the cycle of the earth and how everything happens in a cycle and how we've warmed and cooled before and how humans probably didn't have as much impact as they would like you to believe.
And the teacher was dumbfounded.
She did not know what to say.
I told the kids that we had to be careful that sometimes people tried to make something into like a hoax so that they could sell the carbon offsets.
And we needed to be careful when we looked at this that it is true that the earth is getting warmer, but that's based on information in a rather short frame.
And to look at the true history of the earth, you have to remember that it cycles and that this is a part of the cycle.
Oh, you're doing the Lord's work out there, Liz.
What does teacher do?
Does teacher bring them in for just the opposite order?
Exactly, exactly.
She was expecting me to send them right to Al Gore's website.
And it just didn't happen that way.
Let me tell you, this is undoubtedly going to come up again.
And I want to go back to the first premise that this teacher said, that countries like ours, America and developed countries, are polluting and making it very difficult on third world countries.
Exactly.
Well, let me tell you how that's true.
It is true in the sense that the environmentalist wackos, the socialist ecologists and so forth of the Western democracies are denying third world nations the opportunity to grow their economies, to improve their technological base, to modernize.
And when they don't have the ability to modernize, these people want them continuing to live a primitive lifestyle because they think that will cause less damage.
In fact, the greater the poverty, the greater the pollution and the destruction of the environment in third world countries, go to any of them and you'll see what I'm talking about.
You wouldn't want to live there.
The only way out for these people is the world to help them via capitalism.
The problem with the third world is not rich countries like us stealing from.
They got nothing to steal.
Right.
We are not keeping them down.
Socialism, communism, and dictators are.
Yet they make a pretty picture for the environmentalist wackos who want to advocate a primitive lifestyle as a way of saving the planet from global warmings.
And the thing to tell that teacher is that if you really care about the third world, the fix for the third world is not reducing the productivity and prosperity of the free world.
It is increasing the productivity and prosperity and the modernizing of these third world countries.
And it takes capitalism and leadership from countries like the United States of America, not environmentalist wackos like Al Gore.
Let's see, I guess there's a new poll out there that says only 1% say that the Oprah endorsement of Obama affected their vote.
And of course, the drive-bys, nah, this poll can't possibly be accurate.
They're rejecting it.
We'll have a montage of the drive-bys rejecting that poll.
Other things straight ahead, too, folks.
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