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April 15, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 15, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, and Operation Chaos continues to unfold right before our very eyes.
When I dreamed up Operation Chaos, when I put it into play, not even I, ladies and gentlemen, in my wildest dreams could foresee all that is transpiring here.
It's fun.
It is, it is, it is um it's a godsend is what it is.
Uh, Operation Chaos is actually causing liberal Democrats to admit exactly who they are in their own words.
We're not having to tell people.
We're not having to persuade anybody.
We're just having to play their own words.
We got an audio soundbite roster today that will do that and plentiful snacks of stuff.
It's great to have you with us.
Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
There's all kinds of conversation out there about how the Democrats have become elitists.
Uh it's it's a joke to listen to Hillary Clinton, whose family made 109 million dollars since 2000 talking about Obama being an elitist.
She's right, but as though she's not.
Boston Globe headline today: Democrats must renew bond with working class.
The premise of this story is that when Democrats moved away from redistributive economics, uh it uh it frayed their bond with blue-collar workers.
Uh the stereotype, this is also becoming the Democrat presidential race is becoming a race of stereotypes.
The Democrats are clearly identifying how they view people in stereotypical fashion, such as Obama referring to his uh his blessed grandmother.
What what a what a job this woman did?
He's thrown her under the bus, referring to her as a typical white person.
Uh now we're getting the stereotypes what the Democrats have always thought of average Americans, white-collar, blue-collar white Americans.
Uh the the stereotype is that the blue-collar workers want somebody to take what other people have and give it to them.
And this Peter Canelo story in the Boston Globe focuses on how the Democrats lost their bond with the working class when they gave up redistributive economics.
What do you mean gave up redistributive economics?
If anything, what has hurt the Democrats is redistributive or redistributive economics, meaning uh take from one group, give to another, because as people have done increasingly well in our economy over the recent years, uh their incomes have gone up, their taxes have gone up, and these people are seeing what happens when Democrats are in charge of all that.
Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, a billionaire, says that Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white, and that the Illinois Senator's campaign has a hair trigger on anything racial.
Now, we know that Bob Johnson is a Hillary supporter.
He's basically coming out and echoing Geraldine Ferraro, and he says Ferraro was right.
The Charlotte Observer reported on its website Monday that Bob Johnson was commenting on remarks previously made by Geraldine Ferraro.
He said this.
What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called Jerry Smith, and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90% of the black vote?
Johnson said.
The answer is probably not.
Geraldine Ferraro said it right.
The problem is Geraldine Ferraro is white.
This campaign has such a hair trigger on anything racial, it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.
Noted historian John Hope Franklin yesterday, this is from the Raleigh News and Observer, uh, endorsed Obama for the Democrat nomination.
Um Bob uh John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, and his endorsement was announced by the Obama campaign.
And this is what he said.
Senator Obama is a truly exceptional leader who understands the struggles of people from all walks of life.
As president, he will be the voice of regular people.
Something that has been missing from the political landscape for so many years.
Regular People.
Just who are regular people.
You regular people out there know who you are.
Regular people, as far as Obama is concerned, are not people who go to church.
Regular people, as far as Obama's concerned, are not people who have guns.
Those people are bitter.
Folks, do you understand what's happening here?
I mean, that to me, I I can't tell you how upbeat I am.
I know we've got inflation going through the roof.
I know food prices, but we can explain it.
It doesn't, it doesn't make it any easier, but we can explain why all those things are happening, and we can trace it back to liberalism without any question.
But what's happening here is that for the 20 years, it'll be 20 years August 1st, that I have been serving humanity from behind this, the golden EIB microphone.
I have been endeavoring to explain liberalism in as simple and uncomplex a way as I can.
And uh we're had mad massive success in doing so.
Uh but because of Operation Chaos, and remember now what Operation Chaos is.
Operation Chaos does not care which of these two schlubs gets the nomination.
Operation Chaos has as its objective, and you'd have to agree that it is it is unfolding like a script, brilliantly written, flawlessly acted.
The purpose of Operation Chaos is to keep this race going and to create huge animosity between the two candidates.
It is to make sure that Mrs. Clinton doesn't get dispirited and quit the race, keep this campaign going, have these two attack each other, uh, have them continue to campaign.
If if if Mrs. Clinton gotten out of this uh after Ohio or Texas, had Operation Chaos not gone into effect, had we not implemented the operation prior to Ohio and Texas.
She might have uh not quit on her own, but the the pressure that could have been brought to bear on her to get out would have been much higher than it than it was after, or much greater after she won Ohio and Texas, or it was thought to, and then also did much better in Mississippi than she was expected to do.
So this allowed her to stay in with some momentum and some energy and with some vigor, which forced Obama to continue to campaign.
And up till that point, Obama had gotten away with simply being the messianic candidate.
He was saying nothing, and nobody demanded anything but nothing.
And he was attracting young people.
And he was attracting young people who didn't care what he was saying, it's just they wanted to relate and identify with him because he was young, and they had this, he was the candidate that had nothing to do with race.
Since Operation Chaos, the Obama campaign has fallen apart.
It has totally changed its direction and its identity.
Now we have to credit the Reverend Jeremiah Wright for this as well, but all this is part of Operation Chaos.
And now both of these campaigns are in full swing.
Uh and and the uh the caution that would normally happen in a primary like this, where Democrats would not get personal and create advertising opportunities for the eventual Republican nominee, all that's been cast aside.
And we have arguments galore between uh white women in the Democrat Party and black voters in the Democrat Party.
It's just it's just it more than I could possibly have imagined.
And the drive-by media is fully aware of it, and and they are talking about it without mentioning Operation Chaos, as the audio sound bites today will clearly illustrate.
Speaking of the uh audio sound bites, let's go to them now.
Yesterday in Washington, Obama addressed the associated press luncheon, and here is the chairman of the newspaper association of America, Dean Singleton's introduction of Obama.
Oprah Winfrey has called him the one.
Pundits call him a rock star.
Rush Limbaugh calls him the Messiah.
You believe this!
Obama sitting there and he's listening to uh his introduction, and this guy quotes me as referring to him as the Messiah.
Now that is totally taken out of context.
I have said that he's messianic to his lame brain supporters.
I have not said he's the second coming.
I wouldn't dare.
But it gets it gets.
You know, if for any of you, I I remember back in the early days of this program, and I'm snurdly can back me up on this.
And I was kind of taken aback by this.
We started 1988.
For the first two or three years, when I would do riffs on the left wing bias of the media, we'd get phone calls from people telling me I was wrong.
And you don't know what you're talking about.
And I persisted because I was right.
And the whole process was an informative educational while being humorous at the same time process.
You take a look at this whole session yesterday, QA between these AP people, these news junkies and reporters in Obama.
I may have it there was nothing there was nothing journalistic about, but it was one giant total fawn.
It was it was uh uh these reporters are so in the tank for Obama.
Uh there wasn't one tough question.
In fact, they made it a point when they got to the last question.
The uh moderator, whoever it was, said Senator Obama, we have time for one last question, which means it will not be on your comments in San Francisco.
Bittergate, it's being called.
The questions will not be about bitter gate.
And they asked him that they threw the biggest softballs they possibly could.
Here, listen to this.
This is an exchange uh that took place.
Uh Dean Singled again, Singleton again, uh, had this exchange with Obama.
Can you imagine shifting a substantial number of Afghanistan uh a substantial number to Afghanistan?
For the Taliban has been gaining strength, and Obama bin Laden is still at large.
I think that was Osama bin Laden.
If I did that, I'm so sorry.
No, no, no.
The the the uh the the this is the exercise that I've been going through over the last uh 15 months.
Which is why it's pretty impressive.
I'm still standing here.
Oh don't forget who first mispronounced his name.
It was none other than Obama endorser Ted Kennedy at the National Press Club who referred to him as Osama Obama or Obama Osama.
Go ask Obama, go ask the new guy from Chicago, whatever it was.
I but but oh, it's just they had to put up with this Hussein business and these uh dyslexic confusions of his name with Osama bin Laden for 15 years.
It is amazing that he is still standing there after 15 years.
I got to take a brief time out.
Uh more operation chaos sound bites are right around the corner.
Don't E.J. Dion Jr. in a he's a just twisted into a pretzel of anger today over what's happening in the Democrat primaries, as are a lot of other Democrats and liberal media types in the drive-by's back after this.
Are you Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up?
Latest opinion audit shows I'm documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time.
Bob Herbert, New York Times, fed up, angry.
He basically says in his column today that Obama should have just said that those uh those clingers, those bitter people, those bitter poor people in Pennsylvania in a small towns, those people that cling to guns and cling to religion, and don't like anybody that doesn't look like them.
Just you should have just gone all the way and call them racists.
Because that's what they are, according to Bob Herbert.
And no mystery here, he says, except for people who have been hiding in caves or living in denial, pretty widely understood that a substantial number of those voters, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, elsewhere, will not vote for a black candidate for president.
Pennsylvanians themselves will tell you that racial attitudes in some part of the state are to be kind, less than enlightened.
The governor of Pennsylvania, fast Eddie Rendell, uh put it bluntly last February.
I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African American candidate.
But Obama danced all around the truth, Herbert writes.
Unless you're Fred Esther, if your dance steps get too intricate, you're bound to make a misstep, and this was a big one.
If I were advising him, writes Herbert, I'd tell him to confront the matter head on, Meeting as often as possible with skeptical and even hostile working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, let the questions rip and answer them honestly.
No one has an obligation to vote for Obama, certainly not racist to vote against him, but the senator can make it clear that it's wrong to dismiss a candidacy out of hand solely because of the race or ethnicity or gender of the candidate, Mr. Herbert.
You know Obama's comment about all these bitter people.
You know who the bitter, angry people in this country are Democrats and the left.
They are constantly on edge and enraged.
And you can read it in Bob Herbert's column today.
You can read it in E.J. Dion Jr.'s column today.
You'll hear it in audio sound bites coming up shortly.
So Herbert says that the Senator can make it clear that it's wrong to dismiss a candidacy out of hand solely because of the race or ethnicity or gender of the candidate.
Well, Mr. Herbert, it's also wrong to dismiss voters out of hand solely because of the race or economic circumstance of the voter, which is what Obama did talking to the trust funders in San Francisco.
George Will has a great column today on this little transformation of the Democrat Party into a neo-Marxist bunch of socialists.
And it points out that FDR, the FD of the New Dealism and FDR, World War II.
You can say what you want about FDR, but that in those days the Democrat Party was the true champion of the so-called little guy.
And the first Democrat presidential candidate that decided to smear the little guy was Adley Stevenson.
In 1952 and in 1956, in fact, let me find, rather than paraphrase this because it's really well crafted.
You know, George Will, when he's on, doesn't write, he crafts.
And uh, and this is a this is a great one.
It's called Obama on his high horse.
Uh Adley Stevenson, like Obama, energized young educated professionals for whom Michael Barone wrote, what was attractive was not his platform, but his attitude.
And that's the same thing that attracted people to Obama.
Those people sought from Adley Stevenson not so much changes in public policy as validation of their own cultural stance.
They especially rejected American exceptionalism, the notion that the U.S. was especially good and decent, rather than in Michelle Obama's words, just downright mean.
American exceptionalism.
I gave a little speech on this Saturday night at dinner, in fact, in front of my guests at the dinner table, and how disappointed I am that nobody on our side is willing to talk about anywhere.
I mean, you won't find any politician willing today to talk about American exceptionalism.
They all have to beat up the country.
They ought to blame the country.
And this is what Adley Stevenson did, and this is what Obama and Hillary are in the process of doing.
Now back to Adley Stevenson, as Will says, who was the first Democrat candidate to attack the voters.
And Will points out that Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism.
When a supporter told Adley Stevenson, the losing Democrat presidential nominee in 1952-1956 that thinking people supported him.
Adley Stevenson said, yes, but I need to win a majority.
Meaning a minority of people in this country have brains.
So you had an elitist supporter of Stevenson come up and say, Boy, the thinking people supported.
Steven says, Yeah, but I need to win a majority.
Another supporter told Adley Stevenson, you educated the people through your campaign.
Stevenson said, Yeah, but a lot of people flunked the course.
Here's Obama and the Democrat Party, which has now taken up the step of Adley Stevenson, and they simply in the process of ripping their own voters, ripping the American people.
Now, this is nothing new.
They've always thought this.
I, ladies and gentlemen, have nearly gone hoarse over the years, attempting to explain, and I know these things are hard to understand, not well, not hard to believe, not hard to understand.
But I have Been trying to inform as many people as possible that the modern day Democrat Party, as liberal as it is, looks out over the landscape of America and sees contempt.
They hold contempt for average people.
It is an arrogant condescension.
They have to look at people that way in order to advance policies and ideas.
Those people are too stupid to know what's good for them.
That's why they need government running their lives, government managing their affairs.
And what's happening now is, as I mentioned at the top of this riff, is that the Democrats are saying all this for us.
They are confirming everything that I have said about them.
But they're doing it in their own words.
E.J. Dion Jr. dissecting Bittergate.
But then there are those two Obama words that shook the campaign, cling and bitter, really dumb word choices.
The second paragraph, far less sympathetic than the first, makes Obama sound like the author of an undergraduate paper, not a candidate for president.
At one level, who can blame Hillary for going after Obama's mistake?
But something doesn't parse when a Wellesley and Yale law school grad whose family made 109 million since 2001 relentlessly assails a former community organizer on the grounds that he is an elitist.
So here we have the two remaining Democrat candidates, Obama by speaking carelessly, and Hillary Clinton by piling on shamelessly, doing all they can to make it easy for Republicans to pretend one more time that they are the salt of the earth.
E.J. Obama didn't speak carelessly.
Unless you mean by carelessly, he said the truth, and that's not what liberals are supposed to do.
Clinton didn't pile on shamelessly.
She's running a campaign trying to beat the guy.
We Republicans do stand for the little guy now, E.J. Yes, I know.
Thank you.
We are back, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
I just checked the email.
Subscriber email, Rush 24-7.
Rush, why are you spending so much time on this Obama stuff?
Well, I mean, it is what it is, it's over with.
The story's not.
Let me tell I understand there are probably people that uh uh might say or think that this is redundant and being repetitive.
Let me let me tell you a little story uh to try to explain this.
I had a bunch of people in town for the weekend uh names will remain private to protect their privacy, but uh you would know all these people.
Uh they were from various fields, not all from politics, very few, in fact, very few from politics.
That's what made it so much fun.
And Saturday night, after dinner is about one o'clock in the morning, maybe it was Friday night, Saturday morning, 1 a.m.
We're all sitting around outside by the pool, and uh one of the participants mentioned for the third time during the weekend that, you know, we we're we're not we're not up to speed here on the threat that the Islamo fascists pose us or pose to us.
This is a very, very serious problem.
And everybody agrees with this, of course.
Uh and and the uh the guy that made the statement was saying this is this poses the greatest threat to America, and uh not a not enough Americans are aware of it.
The Democrats are trying to uh do everything they can to dissuade people of any fear of Islamo fascists and terrorism.
And since this was the third time uh my guests had mentioned this, I popped up and I said, if I may be so bold, I totally agree with you that we have a major threat.
And it's gonna be a threat that we have to deal with for quite a while.
I don't deny that Islamo fascism is huge.
I said, I have to tell you guys something.
We had 15 of us sitting around us.
I said, I have to tell you guys something.
Without question, the biggest threat facing this country is liberalism.
And I went on a 20-minute riff.
I wish it had been recorded.
I would just totally ad-lib this thing.
Uh as everybody, I mean it was it was similar to monologues I do here behind the golden EIB microphone.
But I went on for 15 minutes, nobody said a word while I was speaking.
When I finished, one of the guests said, if you would give that speech to the Republican National Convention, the people of this country would demand you be elected President.
We wouldn't have anything to worry about in terms of winning this election if you would give this speech.
The next day they were still buzzing about it, and they said, if you rush, if you'd have told us to turn around, we're marching into the ocean, we'd have followed you.
I said there was never a problem.
I don't go into the ocean.
I go to the beach, but not to the ocean.
Now the point is, and I'm going to do my best to try to reconstruct this.
You've heard it all over the course of, you know, many programs here, but I just, I happen to get on a roll and I put it all together in 15 minutes.
I attack everything that I could think of that the left is doing on the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness concept.
They're not for life, they're not for liberty, they're not for the pursuit of happiness, as I have done and you have heard.
How can they be for life when they're sponsoring and have sponsored and promoted and have promoted abortion as a political objective over the years?
Liberty.
What liberty?
You give these people half the chance and we won't have any.
And it's happening very slowly, and it's happening under a false premise in a false guise.
And that is we need to give up some of our literary liberty as punishment for destroying the planet.
So we've got to we've got to get rid of light bulbs.
In 2012, we've got to put in a bunch of worthless, dangerous light bulbs.
They said, This is not America.
This is not the America I know.
We have a situation coming up.
Harry Reed and his boys are trying to pass piece of legislation in the Senate.
He thinks he's got 60 votes for it.
I think it's called Lieberman Warner.
What this does, in fact, parts of this are going to happen in 2009 regardless.
Do you realize, folks, that the U.S., because of a Supreme Court decision, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be able after 2009 to proclaim that a Walmart store or any other kind of factory in Tennessee cannot be built because its carbon footprint might impact anything on the endangered species list or the melting of Arctic ice, which is not happening.
So if the fish and wildlife, a bureaucracy, nobody on there elected by the people, and a judge, a circuit judge, and Supreme Court have given the Fish and Wildlife Service this power to declare in the EPA to declare that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and none of these people are elected, and they have no accountability.
Can you believe you have to believe it because this is true?
Starting in 2009, a fish and wildlife wants to say that an apartment building in Chicago is going to have a carbon footprint too big that would impact species on the protected species list or endangered list or cause Arctic ice to melt, it can't be built.
Without some formula where the people that want to build the Walmart, or people who want to build the apartment have to uh complex have to go somewhere else and buy up somebody else's permission to pollute.
We are we are propagandizing young kids.
We are propagandizing them in school, and we're not teaching them anything.
We got a dropout rate that is embarrassing.
We've got an illiteracy rate that is embarrassing.
Liberalism has destroyed the black family, it's destroyed the incentive of way too many Americans.
It has dispirited their effort and their ability to realize how good they can be.
Liberalism survives today by blaming this country for virtually everything, making sure as many Americans as possible don't like their country, don't respect their country, hate the traditions and institutions that have made this country great.
And we got two liberal Democrats running for the Democrat presidential nomination, who, if elected, will continue this tide almost unstoppably, because they're going to have increased majorities in the House and the Senate if they win the presidency.
And it's going to be four years of trouble, four years of a huge mess.
And it's going to take a long time to reverse this.
It's and reverse it, it's going to take a long time to stop it.
Liberalism, and I know it sounds maybe a little simplistic to just blame a single word for liberalism, but it's true.
They have destroyed everything they've tried to fix from poverty To racism, to economic injustice, to social injustice.
They have everything they have tried has failed.
And they're not, they don't permit their results to be examined.
No, no, no, we have to imagine their intentions, their honorable intentions.
They believe the world can be perfected.
We don't.
Anytime they think that the people who don't think the world can be perfected are standing in their way, and we are evil, because we disagree with them, they're entitled to do anything.
They can destroy the careers of people on our side.
They can destroy their lives.
They do it with the aiding and abetting of the drive-by media.
Liberalism is the greatest enemy this country faces because too much of this country is ignorant.
It's the most expensive commodity we have, ignorance.
If there were half the education in this country that there used to be, liberalism would have died long ago.
It would still be around, but it wouldn't be anywhere near a majority, because people wouldn't in any way, shape, manner, or form trust it or believe it, because there's no evidence anywhere in the history of the world that it works.
It does not deliver on its promises.
So why am I focusing on Obama today?
Why am I focusing on that?
Because these people are telling us for us.
They're telling us themselves exactly who they are and what they're going to do.
And it is important, I think.
American exceptionalism, George Will wrote about it in his column today on Obama and Adelaide Stevenson.
As I mentioned yesterday, you know, it's it's it's patriotic today.
The liberals have redefined patriotism.
Hate your country, hate the military.
Seek America's defeat.
Hate American corporations.
Hate all of these things that have made this country that's patriotism, standing up to our evil, guilty country.
If you are proud of your country, there's something wrong with you.
You are a jingoist or you are stupid or you're ignorant.
You are bitter and you cling to your religion or you cling to your guns.
And the fact that you love your country means that you've been hoodwinked.
And that you're a NASCAR fan, and that you're stupid.
Because you don't have the enlightenment to see exactly all of the evils posed to the peoples of the world by the United States of America.
Well, if I think it's the greatest enemy that we face, the most serious challenge that we face.
And I'll t you but Rush, how can it be bigger than Islamo fascists?
Because they don't find anything wrong with Islamofascism, folks.
The liberals think Islamo fascists are Islamo fascists because we've made them that way.
Because of our support for Israel, or because of our unfair treatment of various countries, or because of our wealth, because of our prosperity.
They think it's justified that we're hated on this basis.
They think it's justified that our reputation's in a tank, in their view.
And what do they want to do to fix this reputation?
They want to cut the U.S. down in size.
They want to let people take shots at us.
We deserve it.
You think I'm making it up?
How many liberals have we quoted on this program, among them Jeremiah Wright, who said America's chickens are coming home to roost.
We deserve to get hit on 9-11.
We deserve those two jets to fly into our buildings.
We deserve the Pentagon to get hit and we deserve more.
Our illustrious State Department after 9/11 convenes a serious forum on why do they hate us.
Who cares why they hate us?
Nothing justifies the murder of 3,000 innocent people.
We have liberals saying, "Oh yeah?
How many innocent people have we killed?" We deserve this.
So if the liberals triumph and they triumph in such a way that they have four or eight years unabated to mess this country up.
And if liberals do not find a great threat in Islamo fascism, then where are we?
So all of this, all the rest of this is academic.
Liberalism is the greatest threat this country faces.
Because liberalism today is so damn close to socialism, and in some of these statements, some of these Obama supporters are making, and in fact, some of the statements he's making, it approaches Marxism.
It's just it's stunning.
And yet, how many people do you think know what's wrong with Marxism?
Just throw the word out there and say, you know, Obama campaign.
Boy, it sounds a little Marxist.
What's that, Rush?
Uh Groucho.
So you need to do an education on who Marx is, because if there has been any education in our high schools and junior highs on Karl Marx, it's all been laudatory.
This means we share everything, Rush.
That's right.
Marxism doesn't mean you share.
We have too much.
And we're raping the planet and we're stealing other resources that are rightfully the ownership of other peoples around the world, and we're keeping them poor and so forth.
The only thing keeping people poor in this world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.
Socialism, liberalism, communism, whatever you want to call it, everywhere it's been tried, it has failed.
Look at the former Eastern Bloc nations that have escaped since the Soviet Union went south.
Almost all of them have the flat tax.
They almost all are using a flat tax from anywhere from 15% to 22%, and their economies are booming.
The evidence of the failure of the Soviet Union, of Cuba, of any so Robert Nugabe in uh Zimbabwe, any, it's just out there for everybody to see.
And yet, people don't see it.
Well, you and I do, and these things are vitally important if we love the country.
And if we believe in American exceptionalism.
We're the greatest country in the history of humanity, and we are a force for good.
We are the solution to the world's problems.
We are not the problem.
And yet, we have to fight this battle.
We have to somehow get into arguments about the greatness of this country with other Americans.
And so this is why I'm focusing on Obama, and this is why I'm focusing on Hillary, and this is why I'm trying to get as many people as possible to recognize who these people are by virtue of their own words.
What bigger indictment can there be than Obama and Mrs. Clinton and all the rest of these Democrats admit they have contempt for regular people, average people, or what have you.
James Carvel said on Meet the Press, a lot of people in the Democrat Party would love to be able to win an election without those union workers and those blue-collar white voters, because they can't be trusted.
Sometimes they vote Republican.
And they're an embarrassment in the party.
They're stupid, they're idiots, they're regular people.
They're not elites.
They're not thinkers, they're not smart like the rest of liberals are.
So any time these people come along and they want to tell the truth about themselves, I'm going to help them, which is essentially what this is genuinely all about.
Be right back after this.
Now let me address liberalism in another fashion here.
As uh I had a story from the Washington Times yesterday about the administration uh supposedly changing its direction in tune on global warming, going ahead and endorsing um the whole concept and uh meeting now to uh officially establish carbon dioxide as a pollutant, which I mean do you realize that there is no evidence?
I've got a couple scientists, I've they've got theirs, I've got my couple scientists.
There's no evidence that carbon dioxide affects climate, that it's a pollutant at all.
How can it be?
We exhale it.
At any rate.
Uh this story in the Washington Times, it made me mad.
It made it made the administration look like a total sellout on this.
Second term, lame duck, last year of the administration, realizing gotta get things done for the legacy, that's how I read it.
Did some research on this, and I've here here and I've addressed some of this.
But here basically what I think has happened is, and the the latest cover of the Limbaugh Letter attacks this very subject.
Why do we accept liberal premises and then try to add our own little twist?
And that's apparently what's happened here.
We've accepted the liberal premise that CO2 is a pollutant and it's a greenhouse gas.
Then what we're going to try to do here is to, at the same time we've done that, tell people who already believe that.
I guess the thinking is that 50% or more of the people, this particularly young people.
If you're under 35 today, you probably believe, because of the Saturday morning cartoons and the uh other media assaults.
If you're between 1835, you probably believe uh that greenhouse gases are a pollutant and are causing the climate to warm up, and that we may have lost the battle to inform them otherwise.
Okay, so the apparent objective here is to go and accept the premise and then delay as long as possible the implementation of the Al Gore-type fixes.
Uh, and as in the in the process of delaying this, try to change people's minds about how to go about this rather than changing them their minds that it exists in the first place.
There's a bill called Warner Lieberman.
Harry Reid's got 60 votes, he says.
Uh Bush is promising to veto this.
But uh you've you've got you've got a uh uh Fish and Wildlife Service will be able to determine who can open a Walmart in Tennessee, whether somebody can build a shopping mall in Chicago.
Uh and that, ladies and gentlemen, is um just we got judges making those decisions, and we got bureaucrats deciding these kinds of things.
What I think the administration wants to do, uh, there's some sort of a meeting in Paris tomorrow and the nation's getting together to try to battle this.
And the administration is willing to accept the premise, but they don't want another Kyoto to come out of this.
So they're going to insist that any new restrictions include China and India, who are exempt, and China is the biggest polluter on the planet.
And if uh China and India will not accept, will not go along, then the hope is that we can scuttle uh the uh the whole thing.
But this is where we have come now with liberals.
We accept the premise rather than shoot it down, because we've lost the opportunity to do that, and now after accepting the premise, we have to tell the American people well, there's a better way of dealing with this uh rather than the Al Gore method.
Now that's sad.
Look, I ran out of time to finish this riff on global warming.
There's two more things they want to add to it, and we'll get to your phone calls, a great audio soundbite roster.
I got more than I can squeeze in here today, I think.
So we're gonna give it a shot.
You'll have to listen a little faster than usual.
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