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May 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I actually don't believe this.
Barack Obama in my own state raising money for his presidential campaign called me xenophobic at a fundraiser and said that said here the um Yeah.
A certain segment's basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia.
There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year.
If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that one.
I thought this guy was the Unity candidate for crying out loud.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Calling me a xenophobe.
Responsible for hate crimes.
Feelings are hurt here.
I mean, his preacher.
His preacher, his spiritual advisor is loaded with hate.
He and McCain got into a smackdown.
McCain fired right back.
We have audio sound bites of this.
McCain's health records are out.
See what ABC Due was did last night.
Thursday night, yeah.
They had their medical guy on, Tim Johnson, but 72 years old.
He's older than McCain.
And they had her medical guy on a medical guy who says, Well, you know, yeah, he's pretty good health, but he could get dementia at any moment.
He's got a 16 or 36% chance of losing his mind going nuts and getting dementia.
Uh, because it might live to be 86 or 89, but I mean, it's here's a guy the drive-by media was his base.
And they uh starting to turn on him anyway.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh here.
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Uh Maxine Waters yesterday made an absolute total fool of herself during the House of Representatives grilling of big oil executives.
If you see the video of this, you can see even her associates are laughing at her.
We have two bites to illustrate this.
The House Judiciary Committee Task Force uh investigating competition in all business.
The president of Shell Oil, John Hoffmeister, testified.
Maxine Waters said to Hoffmeister, can you guarantee the American people that the price of oil will go down if oil companies are allowed to drill wherever they want to off U.S. shores.
I can guarantee to the American people because of the inaction of the United States Congress ever increasing prices unless the demand comes down, and the five dollars will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.
Now, that's a yes, right?
He basically said yeah.
He he went about it uh answering it in a sort of a fatalistic way, says I can guarantee the American people because of the inaction of the U.S. Congress, meaning you, Maxine, ever increasing prices.
I mean, you people in Congress are going to be the reason the prices keep rising unless the demand comes down, and that five dollars that people are expecting to be paying soon is gonna look like nothing if we are prohibited from finding the reserves.
So basically he said yes, right?
Here's Maxine's reply.
And guess what this liberal would be all about?
This liberal will be all about socializing uh um would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.
She stepped in at big time.
She knew it when she said socialized.
She said it, and guess what this liberal will be all about?
This liberal will be all about social.
Oh no.
Oh no, the cat's out of the bit.
What do I do now?
She had no choice.
He had to go ahead and admit what she wants to do.
Now, I think there's a there's there is reason, uh ladies and gentlemen here to be a positively predisposed to the lovely and gracious Maxine Waters here for finally having the courage and the guts, whether it was an accident or not, but she realized she stepped in it, and rather than put the foot out, she's put the other foot back in.
So you put a bag of manure in front of a Democrat, and inevitably they're gonna step in it.
Maxine Waters stepped on it and in it.
Here, listen to her again here.
She gets caught here.
She has been honest.
She has told us what liberals and leftists in this country genuinely would like to do.
And guess what this liberal would be all about?
This liberal will be all about socializing would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies.
Now, as I say, if you see the video of this, uh some of her cohorts are sitting there laughing uh at this, even uh even the Democrats.
And then you have then you have these oil execs sitting there, and and what are they to make of this?
I mean, here they are.
They're talking to a genuine colossal fool, a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
Uh Maxine Water.
Put her, put her on the short list for Obama's vice president uh candidate.
I mean, she's uh she's more than qualified here.
Get this.
China, the Chicoms, signed a one billion dollar nuclear fuel deal with the Ruskis, strengthening Moscow's role as a supplier to the fast-growing Chinese nuclear power industry.
It seems that some countries are faced with a reality that they're dealing with, and that is growth.
Italy's building back up with nuclear power, and I guess, you know, the Chicoms, they're not going to put up with any environmentalist wackos.
They're not going to put up with anybody saying, hey, you can't do that because of the polar bear.
Hey, you can't do that because of the humpback whale.
Hey, you can't do that because of the Australian rabid bat.
And then the Russians are not going to put up with that stuff either.
So here's here's the ChICOMs and the Russians, especially the Russians, just years ago, we saw stories on TV about how their population can't make it economically.
Maybe freedom isn't going to work out.
And these so-called backward societies are moving post-haste to go into nuclear as an alternative source of energy.
Imagine.
And yet we cannot do that.
And in fact, get this.
The head of the uh the IPCC that UN Global Warming Group that got the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore.
His name is Dr. Pachori.
He said this.
It is ruinous for developing countries to pursue growth in the same path.
He said that human addiction to petroleum products was the root of the climate problem.
Climate change is unequivocable or unequivocal.
The number of skeptics is dwindling.
The number of skeptics is growing.
31,000 of them just signed a piece of paper, one-page piece of paper signaling that they are skeptics.
But look, here's the bottom line.
Who is this guy?
He is a politicized scientist.
He is a United Nations liberal, and he's telling the poor people of the world, stay poor.
If you're eating dirt, keep eating dirt.
If it turns to mud, take a bath in it.
But don't you even think about growth.
Now, guess who else who else has been instigating that policy?
American environmentalists.
They are equating growth with pollution and Destruction of the planet.
And they, U.S. environmental leftists, these people at the United Nations, Rachel Carson, a whole bunch of leftists are the primary reason the whole subcontinent of Africa remains a third world country.
There are people outside of Africa standing in the way of that continent's economic growth and progress from the UN to the United States, all a bunch of leftists, all on the basis of a hoax.
Now, if they are willing to tell the some of the poorest people in the world to stay that way, if they are willing to threaten the poorest people in the world to stay that way, can you then come to realize what their intention is for us?
We'll be right back.
Good call.
Hey, we're back.
It's open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh got to bed at 430.
the This morning, ladies and gentlemen, a super secret meeting in a different part of the country last night ran long and got back very, very early this morning.
And when any of this happens, as you know from previous and past experience, uh giddiness sets in.
Some of the guardrails that normally govern my uh behavior and performance sometimes slip a little to the sides.
Just some advance warning.
There's the just printed this out.
Following the news that the guy running the UN's global warming hoax has told the world's poor to stay that way and has every intention of spreading poverty to as much of the world as possible.
There is oh wonderful.
I you know I hate these British websites.
I literally hate these British websites.
A show up on the internet as page where you print page one takes page four to get to page one.
Anyway, here's the bottom line, because I don't have time to print it again.
There is a story in the um oh let me find it what it's it's the uh independent, UK independent.
The first two paragraphs of the story tell the tale.
They have had over three years experience with cap and trade.
McCain's big plan, uh and Lieberman's big plan to deal with global warming.
Basically, you know, these carbon offsets where you go out and you the government assigns you and your business uh X number of uh uh carbon molecule, whatever that they set up how many, how much how big your carbon footprint can be?
They tell you what it's gonna be, and then if you exceed that, and you will, you pay a tax on it, and you can buy unused carbon footprints from other companies, but either way, the company that either exceeds the limits or has to buy others for exceeding the limits is gonna have to raise their prices.
Just it's a huge tax increase.
They've been doing it now for three years in the European Union, and people are starting to wise up.
They are they are they don't believe that any of this, any of this cap and trade stuff is about changing behavior.
They have figured out that they don't think it has anything to do with saving the planet.
It's just a backdoor ruse to rating uh raising taxes, pure and simple.
Uh and when I get to the break in half time, I'll print the story, read those first two paragraphs to you because it's fascinating.
There is this story from Billings Montana, it's the Associated Press.
A new report from the Bush administration says that most of the oil and more than 40% of the natural gas beneath public lands in the U.S. are off limits to drilling.
Opening those reserves would give energy companies access to an estimated nineteen billion barrels of oil, ninety-five trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
That would require Congress to roll back environmental safeguards and lift drilling prohibitions on vast areas from Alaska to Florida and across the Rocky Mountain West.
Now, this report came from the Bureau of Land Management, and according to AP is likely to add to growing political pressure to curb fuel imports and dampen prices by ramping up domestic energy production.
But then they say this.
But it comes amid a development backlash in some parts of the country where drilling rigs are blamed.
Where drilling rigs are blamed for interrupting Wildlife migrations, fouling water supplies, and marring natural vistas.
If we want to lower the cost of energy, we must be willing to use our own energy resources as part of a balanced and rational policy, said the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, C. Stephen Allred.
You know, here's the problem.
I'm feeling pretty irrational about this right now.
None of this is making any sense.
Unless you look at it in a political sense, unless you unless you want to believe that the Democrat Party is interested in causing as much economic distortion, malaise, and misery as they can lead up to the November elections in order to secure their electoral chances or to improve them.
Because none of this makes any sense.
They sit around, have to go send our president over to beg the Saudis, have to beg OPEC, have to ask others to increase their production.
We've got plenty here.
And we have all these obstacles in the way.
The polar bear being placed on the endangered species list.
By the way, the humpback whale has come back.
It was on the endangered species list, it's come back at 20,000 of them out there.
Does this mean it gets off the list?
No.
No, no, no.
It's just like a tax increase.
Once it's there, it's there.
Just like an entitlement.
It doesn't change.
And the governor of Alaska, the Ms. Palin, is out there going to sue the federal government over this stupid idiotic ruling on the polar bear.
There are more of them today than there were in 1974.
Of course the answer to that is, well.
Yes, but the ice is shrinking up there.
Their habitat.
Well, it's not shrinking.
And even if it were, let them adapt.
They're animals, they'll be fine.
They don't need icebergs to live on.
Hell, I've seen a couple of them in the city zoo in New York.
In the summertime.
Now they do have to, you know, lay on ice now and then.
They have to keep the water cold, but for crying out that the things would adapt.
I mean, it's never going to get so warm in the Arctic circle and up there that the polar bear is ever going to be threatened.
Hell, we have to hunt the damn thing.
500,000 a year shot or something like that because they pose threats and danger.
All of this.
None of this makes any sense whatsoever.
Especially during a period of time like this.
Most of the oil, more than 40% of the natural gas, is on government land and it's off limits to drilling.
Almost all of our oil we are not allowed to access.
Almost half of our natural gas.
We can't get to it.
Opening up these resources would give energy companies access to 19 billion barrels of oil, 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Based on current consumption, the inaccessible reserves amount to a two-year supply of oil and a ten-year supply of natural gas.
That's that's it might look ugly.
We can't do that.
It might it might foul water foul and and wildlife.
Natural House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahul pointed out that drilling on federal lands has increased steadily since 2000, even as gas prices rose.
He said that the report here gives the absolutely false impression that more drilling results in cheaper energy prices.
He said we simply cannot drill our way to lower prices at the pump.
Really, Nikki?
If we can't, then somebody explain to me why we're asking everybody else in the world to increase their output.
These people are damn fools.
Why is it?
How did it ever happen that we began to treat members of Congress as something special and five or ten cuts above everybody else?
When the evidence goes to show that they're just like everybody else, they're morons half the time.
How in the world can you say that no evidence that drilling, we simply cannot drill our way to lower prices at the Okay, fine.
Then let's shut down all of the drilling that we're doing in this country.
Let's really go safe.
Let's really be environmentally correct.
Let's shut down everything since it doesn't matter, since our own production doesn't matter.
This is absurd.
And this guy, as the chairman, is obviously a Democrat doesn't say this in the AP story, but I know enough to know that a chairman of a committee is dominated by Democrats is also going to be a Democrat.
Nick Rayhol, a House Natural Resources Committee Chairman.
Hey, Nick, why don't we try it and see what happens?
Why don't we try drilling some?
Why don't we try?
Why why don't we what we gotta get started?
I mean, the Chicoms and the Russians, and the Italians are moving forward on nuclear, and what are we doing?
We're putting windmills off Ted Kennedy's place up in Cape Cod.
We can't do that because he can see them.
And the windmills, what kind of havoc are they causing on birds and so forth?
And now we're talking about capturing solar power and all this other wacko leftist stuff.
It doesn't make common sense.
Yet there are explanations for it.
And then in Illinois, you know, Dick Durbin, little Dick Durbin, sits in Washington, points his finger at oil executives for their excessive profits.
His home state is bleeding people in taxes.
Details coming up.
Sit tight.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, as America's real anchor man, a truth detector and doctor of democracy.
All combined, one harmless, lovable little fuzzboy, finally in the break at a chance to print out this story from the UK independent.
Here are the first two graphs.
More than seven in ten voters, that's 70%, more than 70% for those of you in uh in real Linda.
More than seven in ten voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to pay for projects to combat climate change, this according to a new poll.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe green taxes on SUVs, plastic bags, and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise money rather than change behavior.
While two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.
Amen, bro, because they've been at it for three years now.
They've been doing a stupid carbon credit thing, the cap and trade thing, and they haven't seen any reduction in global warming.
And they still hear these same naysayers and fear monk promising even more doom and gloom.
They're paying more taxes, they're getting rid of their cars, they're doing all the things that good little socialist people do when their leaders tell them to do it, and all of a sudden, what the leaders promise isn't happening.
And then they finally see what this is all about, separating them from their money.
The next paragraph is hilarious.
The findings make depressing reading for green campaigners who have spent recent months urging the government to take far more radical action to reduce Britain's carbon footprint.
The UK is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 60% by 2050, a target that most experts believe will be difficult.
It's impossible.
It's not possible.
Well, I mean, you could turn the whole world into a third world planet.
You might, but I mean nobody would want to live here.
And some of the people aren't going to put up with it.
This is not possible.
The results of the poll by Opinium, a leading research company, indicate that maintaining popular support for green policies may be a difficult act to pull off, and attempts in the future to curb car use and publicity fund investments in renewable resources will prove deeply unpopular.
As long as they still have their freedom.
As long as they still have their freedom to say, screw you, greenies.
Screw you, Labor Party.
We're not paying your new taxes.
As long as they still have the freedom to vote those people out, then yes, that's a point.
Now, little Dick Durbin sits there all sanctimonious, lecturing these oil company executives.
Dick Durbin would not know what an oil derrick looks like if he saw one.
He wouldn't have the slightest idea how to produce a drop of energy.
The same guy who accused our interrogators at Club Gitmo, where I, by the way, have a thriving merchandise business in Club Gitmo gear.
Accused them of being Paul Pot-like, Nazi gulag-like, Soviet gulag like, and Nazi-like.
He has the nerve to complain that in his state of Illinois, Chicago residents are paying the highest gasoline prices in the country.
And he points his finger of blame right at the big oil executives.
Thank goodness.
Even in the era of the drive-by media, we still have some news outlets who will not let this idiot get away with that.
It's none other than CBS television in Chicago, the local CBS affiliate.
Tired of seeing the price of the pump jump every time you need to buy gasoline.
Well, the record high price of gasoline in the Chicagoland area is linked to a record high rate of taxation, nearly twenty percent of the Chicagoland price.
As CBS two political editor Mike Flannery reports, tax refugees wait in long lines on Indianapolis Boulevard in Northwest Indiana.
They jockey for position at a pump, lured by prices twenty cents a gallon or more cheaper than just a few blocks away back in Illinois.
Yeah, it was $4.20.
But I can come over here to Indiana, I can get it for $3.93, said Tikva Wadley, one of the many fleeing Illinois taxes.
Tikva Wadley.
That is a great name for someone fleeing taxes.
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin complained to oil company bosses at a hearing on Capitol Hill about Chicago having the highest gas prices in the U.S. largely ignored the role taxes are playing.
There's an astounding ten levels of taxation on gasoline in Chicago.
And also in in Chicago, when the when the price of gas goes up, the tax goes up.
And federal tax stays the same, 18.4 cents.
But in uh in Chicago, a lot of other places too, Illinois states, you raise the price per gallon and the tax goes up proportionately.
And that, of course, is exactly the point for the politicians.
Governor Blagoyovich is counting on the high price of gasoline to bring in an extra two hundred and twenty million dollars to the state treasury in the fiscal year that begins this July, and most of that will be used to balance the way out of balance federal budget.
So while these guys, Durban Blogoyovich are all over television whining and moaning, trying to relate to the consumer about this high price of gasoline and pointing evil fingers at the big oil execs.
They're privately behind closed doors, they're rubbing their hands.
They're going to say, Boy, we are soaking these people, and we are never going to get to blame, and we're going to be able to get some money.
And they're not going to reduce any damn deficits in Illinois.
No government ever does.
They're going to spend it on something else.
And then they're going to have to raise taxes again.
So the prices in Chicagoland are higher because of government taxes.
Ten levels of taxation on gasoline in Chicago.
Not to mention it's largely because of these new formulas.
All these different formulations for various pollution requirements that have been set up to the phones.
It's open line Friday.
This is Jason in Hammondon, New Jersey.
Jason, I'm glad you called your up first.
Hi, Russ.
Nice to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, so I'm calling Ross to take uh uh to object to your argument as of about a week or so ago concerning global warming.
Uh usually I think you do quite well with with half your brain tied behind your back, but I I have to take exception at this particular argument.
Um you you were arguing at the time, if I had this right, that that uh we we we are vain to think that we can affect climate because we couldn't possibly create it.
Uh that if you took the brightest person uh of all time uh and had them attempt it, they would they would not be able to do it, and therefore uh we we it's pure vanity to think that we can uh create it.
I mean to precisely because we have the slightest understanding about it compared to what actually goes on so complex.
We are uh we're we're we're not even at the kindergarten level of understanding how all this all works.
That's right.
Now I will agree with you.
I have uh I have no agenda here.
I'm not a scientist, I have no idea if global warming exists or doesn't exist.
Well it doesn't.
Let me it it it always does there's the globe's always warming and cooling.
It does exist.
Climate climate change happens all the time.
But here but here's my here's my exception to the argument.
It I I believe that it's vastly uh more difficult to create something than it is to destroy it.
I I I by myself cannot create life, uh, but I can certainly take one.
I I possibly I I can't create maybe a very complex model, But I can step on it and destroy it.
Uh, you know, we we have the power on this planet at this moment to completely end this climate in about fifteen minutes.
Uh and none of us here, you're you're right.
Not none of us can none of us can create a decline.
No, no, no.
You're talking about a nuclear blast.
No, I'm not saying it will end the world.
Well, it will drastically redefine the nature of the Earth's climate within moments.
All right.
Wait, wait, wait, wait just a second.
We've done this.
We have heard of Hiroshima and Naguzaki.
That's true.
Have you have you heard of all the above ground nuclear testing?
Remember the mushroom clouds?
Yes.
I I I understand that we I understand that we from time, you know, we that nuclear.
Oh, I want you to tell me how any of those change the climate measurably.
Well uh well, Rush, when I when I say we can I'm talking about an all-out fall.
If we had an all-out fallout across the globe, I mean all out total thermal nuclear war, this climate would be affected.
I don't think that that is uh unreasonable.
I don't think that's an unreasonable statement.
I think that my only moment.
Wait a second, now you're you're losing you're losing the argument here on your own without any help from me.
Because nobody, nobody in the climate change movement is accusing us of destroying the climate or changing it inalterably with nuclear weapons.
They're saying we're doing it by exhaling.
They're saying we're doing it with four by four SUVs made by one of my sponsors, General Motors.
Well they say we are doing it by not unplugging our stupid damn cell phone charges at night.
I understand, right?
I understand.
Yeah, I don't want to argue with any of that.
Like I said, I I don't know if there what causes what.
I have no idea.
My my uh phone call was solely dedicated to the premise of your argument that by my not being able to understand something, I can't then destroy it.
Uh there's many, many things that I have no understanding of.
Yep.
And you know something?
This is I'm you're you're defeating yourself again.
You can take a life, right?
You can't create life, but you can take a life.
On my own, I can not create a life.
But you can't destroy life.
Well, I can destroy a life.
You can destroy a life, but you can't destroy if we're gonna talk about creating life, we gotta be consistent logically in talking about destroying life, and you can't do that, nor can I. Uh you can take a life.
I mean, how many ants have you stepped on in your life, and it's still ants.
I've stepped on a few.
How many cockroaches have you sprayed raid on and they're still swimming around there under your kitchen sink?
You can take life.
You can yes, but you can't create it.
The world has things that are destroyed every day.
Trees are cut down, new ones grow.
We have not destroyed all trees by cutting down a tree.
We haven't destroyed all trees by cutting down gazillions of them.
The point could passably possibly be uh better illustrated this way in terms of our power.
We just had two dramatically devastating tornadoes rip through areas of Colorado.
There's not a damn thing we could have done to reduce their power.
There's not a damn thing we could have done to steer them in different places.
There's not a damn thing we could have done to prevent them from forming.
There isn't one thing we could have done about the size of the hailstones in some of these storms.
And yet, because humanity, we think, despite having no ability to stop any of these disasters, to prevent them, to alter them, to change them.
We think that by virtue of living our relatively simple lives, we are causing them.
It's absurd.
That's a good question.
Why do we care about Denise Richards and her divorce from Charlie Sheen?
Why do we care?
You people who care have.
You gotta get some serious meaning in your life.
And I think HR said, Who's Denise Richards?
Exactly right.
She had one big role, she was a bond girl.
And she was married to Charlie Sheen.
Anyway, they w I'm I'm sorry for bringing it up.
I got evidence here.
Nuclear blasts do not destroy things.
This is from Live Science.
Live science.com.
Back from April 2nd of this year, half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated bikini at all.
And by the way, uh you mentioned these places, but where is Bikini at all?
It's an island, folks, in the South Pacific, where Fox News breeds its blonde anchors.
It's where they come from.
But here's the here's the story.
Half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated.
I've talked to Roger Ayles about this.
So where do you get them?
He said we got a factory.
Bikini atoll.
Anyway, half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated bikini atoll.
Vast expanses of coral in the area seem to be flourishing once again, much to the surprise of scientists.
American government scientists detonated a hydrogen bomb on a tiny island.
March 1st, 1954, about 20 other nuclear tests were carried out on the atoll.
Between 1945 and 1958, many of the natives were moved to Keeley Island and today are compensated by the U.S. government as employees of Fox News.
So the coral is coming back.
Here's uh Marcy in Greenfield, California.
Hi, Marcy.
Welcome to the EIB number.
Hi, Ross.
How are you today?
Fine, thank you.
Hey, um, you know, earlier this week I've heard a little bit about the UN investigation of the U.S. for um human rights violations.
It's not human rights violence, racism.
Yes.
That's that's but they're calling it human rights violations.
Well, it's they've also calling it they're here to investigate racism because of the Obama campaign.
Right.
Right.
I think it's kind of a reverse uh uh racism thing, if you ask me.
You seem to be taking this rather mildly.
Well, I don't know.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I think we should pull out of the UN.
Exactly right.
But before we pull out of the UN, we kick this guy out.
Yeah.
What the hell right do they have to come examine racism here when racism is rampant all over the globe?
This is just this is just more of the never-ending onslaught from every angle you can think of on this country because we are the world's superpower, and what's really dangerous about this is that you have an absolute loco weed like Barack Obama, who, if he's ever in the Oval Office, will welcome this kind of stuff and actually say, Don't worry about it, you in, I'm gonna handle this myself.
We're gonna prove this is a racist country, and I'll just use my campaign as evidence.
You want to hear about real racism and xenophobia, Thomas Lipson at uh lift at the American thinker dot com.
To the left, America is irredeemably racist, and those who want our border protected are xenophobes, as Obama called me last night in my own state.
Called me a xenophobe.
For those of you in real Linda, don't look it up, because you'll not find it in the Z. The insanity of these claims is evidenced by what real racism and xenophobia look like in black-led South Africa, a country that is held to the embodiment of the triumph of a victory over racism, no less.
We have already covered the horrific racial violence, black on black, directed towards South African immigrants.
But after almost two weeks running, it is spreading, according to this report from the French news agency.
A wave of anti-immigrant violence in South Africa spread to Cape Town on Friday, even as troops and the cops appeared to have quelled the unrest in the hot spot of Johannesburg.
Police reported attacks against immigrants and foreign-owned shops in a slum area of picturesque Cape Town.
Police also reported pockets of overnight unrest in Durban in the KwaZulu Natal region, where an unidentified foreigner was shot in Northwest Province where two Pakistanis were stabbed.
Now, this is real xenophobia.
This is real racism.
Black on black crime, South Africa.
And this, of course, is held out as one of the great triumphs of the world.
This is where the UN needs to send their little investigator back after this.
How about this headline to an AP story?
Oil prices was not a headline.
Oil prices tumble from record.
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