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June 24, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Let's go straight to the audio sound bites.
The arrows are once again focused on Don Imos, who is now doing his morning program on our 50,000-watt flagship in New York, WABC, AM77.
This was yesterday on Imus' show talking to Warner Wolf, the sports guy, talking about Adam Pac-Man Jones, now with the Dallas Cowboys, drafted by the Tennessee Titans.
He's had some scrapes with the law out in Las Vegas, most notably during the NBA All-Star weekend a couple years ago.
Now, Warner Wolf is explaining all this to Imos.
Says defensive back Adam Pac-Man Jones, recently signed by the Cowboys.
Here's a guy suspended all of 2007 following a shooting in a Vegas nightclub.
Well, stuff happens.
You're in a nightclub, for God's sake.
What do you think is going to happen at a nightclub?
People are drinking or doing drugs?
Yeah.
There are women there, and people have guns.
So go ahead.
Well, he's also, he's been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005.
What color is he?
He's African American.
Oh, okay.
There you go.
Okay.
Now we know.
That's Imos.
There you go.
Now we know.
And, of course, everybody said, well, here's Imos again.
He's stepped in it.
He's making the point here because the guy's black, he's always having run-ins with the law.
This morning, Don Imos explained what he meant.
Why would I sit here and say, oh, yeah, there you go.
I mean, how does anybody kill?
How do you make that connection?
No white man with a radio or television program has had more discussions about race relations since December 3rd than I have.
I know there's some people who want to get me, but you're not going to get me for this is ridiculous.
And the case has been taken under advisement by the Justice Brothers, or at least one of the Justice Brothers, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
It still amazes me after Tawanam Brawley, after all of these charlatan-like things that Sharpton has done, that the drive-by media still go to him as the arbiter of who can say what when in American broadcasting.
And yet they do.
This is CNN this morning, Kieran Chetri, interviewing the Reverend Sharpton.
And she said, how did you take the original comments he made about Adam Jones?
We're looking into this.
We'll be talking later today.
Dr. Erlafar-Hutchison and others that have been involved in this.
But I think that one would be naive to think that we would not be disturbed at Imos making a statement without clarifying it at all at that point.
You look at the climate just from the presidential election, where we've had major candidates have to defend their pastor's remarks.
I think it would be very naive for people not to make Imos defend his own remarks.
Okay, so the Reverend Sharpton happens to bring up Barack Obama.
I still sit here.
It's just so typical of the laziness and the clichéed acceptance that the drive-by media has for the American civil rights movement, much of it populated by frauds, much of it popular.
Have you heard the fact that the IRS is investigating Sharpton for shaking down businesses?
Here's a guy who goes to business, Anheuser-Busch, you name it.
He shakes him down.
The New York Post cover story on this.
He shakes these people down for all kinds of money in exchange for promising no riots or no boycotts or whatever.
I mean, I remember once, way, way, way back, back in the old days of CNBC, Oliver North had a Saturday night show.
This was back when, I mean, I'm going, I think this is the early 90s.
And I had been asked to do a speech out at the Statue of Liberty for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And I gone out and I did the speech, and I was scheduled to appear on Ollie North's show.
I think it was at 9 or 10 o'clock at night.
So I finished my speech at the Statue of Liberty, which was a great night, by the way.
I mean, it was, I don't mean to gloss over this, but it was, I mean, it was very flattering to me to be invited to give this speech in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
I got in a car and I sped up to wherever CNBC was, to caucus, wherever it was.
I walked in there and I found out Ollie didn't tell me that I was going to be sharing the show with the Reverend Sharpton.
And that kind of made me mad.
I thought, I've been set up here.
You know, when my early days of doing a guest on TV, it took me a long time to learn that they never tell you the truth about what's going to happen on the program.
And they do these interviews of you in a green room or prior to these pre-interviews.
Really, the purpose is to find out what makes you mad so that they can make sure and bring that up.
So anyway, they trot Sharpton out after the first segment.
And I'm saying, I can't walk off of this.
So Sharpton comes saundering out and he sits there.
And I'm just, you know, I'm stunned.
And Ollie has taken Sharpton as seriously as anybody else ever has.
And after the first question to Sharpton, he came to me, and I looked at Sharpton and I said, Reverend Sharpton, I'm just stunned you have any credibility left with anybody.
And he looks at me and he kind of, his eyes, you know, got wide and his mouth fell away whoa, what do you mean?
I said, Tawana Brawley.
How in the world do you have credibility with anybody?
And Sharpton started defending himself and so forth.
But it was, it was, and I've, I didn't have any animosity toward Sharpton, and we got along when we were there and so forth.
I mean, he's got the kind of personality.
He's a likable guy.
But, I mean, for crying out loud, he's now the go-to guy for the drive-by media to pass judgment on who can say, meanwhile, meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, real racism is happening in this country, and it's happening in the Democrat Party.
Real sexism is happening in this country, and it's happening in the Democratic Party.
It's not happening on the IMAS show.
It's not happening on WABC.
Real racism.
How about Obama?
How about Obama throwing down the race cart?
How about Obama's preacher?
You know, Sharpton's right.
Obama's running for president.
He should have to defend that kind of radicalism.
And not only did he not do a good job of defending, he's thrown the Reverend somewhere.
He's in the Caribbean somewhere on a long vacation.
Who knows when he's going to surface?
But they got Reverend J. Wright the hell out of there real fast.
So you have that kind of radicalism, genuine pure racism emanating from a church that Obama attended for 20 years.
Then you have Obama last Friday down here in Florida saying he knows that the Republicans are going to talk about his race and his wife, his feisty wife, and all these other things when the Republicans are doing no such thing.
The Republicans are a bunch of cowards.
They're not even willing to criticize Obama, much less get into race.
They're running around doing all kinds of things.
Not us, not us, it's not us.
So Obama's throwing down the race card straight out of the cliched liberal left-wing handbook.
And then we mentioned, I don't know if you heard yesterday's program, and there was a story in the Atlanta Journal Constipation, a blog entry.
I forget who wrote it, but it was about the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference down in Atlanta.
And this guy, who's a Democrat, this guy is saying, hey, look, just because Obama may be elected president doesn't mean we're going out of business down here because he does not have slave blood.
Michelle has slave blood.
She's down for the struggle, but Obama doesn't have slave blood.
In other words, he ain't got no blood.
He ain't got no slave blood.
He's not down for the struggle.
So Obama winning the White House doesn't mean that race incorporated can go away.
It's going to be needed more than ever.
Now, these are Democrats saying these kinds of things.
No slave blood?
Obama has no slave blood?
We turn now, ladies and gentlemen, to the official Obama criticizer to close the loop on this, Bo Snerdley.
Mr. Snerdley.
This is Bo Snerdley, official EIB Obama criticizer, certified black enough to criticize.
I have a statement.
Mr. Obama, your highly publicized attack on Republicans this week, claiming they are readying a racial attack against you, is unbecoming and indefensible.
In fact, sir, your general attack on Republicans with no evidence to support it is an example of you using unfounded stereotypes to smear an entire group of people.
It demonstrates your own bigotry.
Your promise to change, your promise to bring hope.
Instead, what do we get?
You revert to the status quo race card in fear in order to inoculate yourself and your party from intellectually honest criticism.
It is your associates who utter racist and sexist remarks like Jerry Wright, Reverend Flager.
It is your Democratic Party, your liberal media pals that put race out there time and time again.
Bill and Hillary Clinton's race remarks, the smears about your drug days, the Muslim thing, the Hussein thing, all that came from Democrats.
Now, the SELC is saying you're not black enough because you don't have slave blood?
What's that, Mr. Obama?
And the entire country saw it except perhaps you.
That is, if we can believe you, after all, what you say one day changes like the wind.
You're running for president, sir.
Grow a set.
Comport yourself like a proud, strong black man, not a weak, cowering victim.
And now, a translation for E.I.B. Brothers and Sisters in the hood.
What's up, easy money?
I ain't trying to diss you, yo, but this race thing you fronting is counterfeit.
Everybody sculpted, yo.
It was your homies that were out there flat blast jamming you on the race thing, not those punk-ass Republicans.
Those lames are too afraid to call nighttime dog because they think you're homies in the press and will cocker them out of office.
Yo, look, yo, man, they ain't gonna use the race card on you, man.
They ain't gonna try to make the bodies drop on you like that.
Check it out, mean.
It's been your boys out there with the race thing, man.
Yo, fronting boy Jeremiah, your boy Farrakhan, your boy Flager.
Your boys are saying you ain't even got slave blood, yo.
What's up with that?
Michelle got slave blood?
You don't have none?
Yo, man, come on.
By the way, man, where is Michelle?
Man, you're kind of keeping her out the spotlight, yo, man.
She kind of looking lace, man.
You got to get her some FaceTime.
Yo, but check this out, man.
You're trying to be smooth.
You're trying to spin this all out of control, accusing those punk-ass Republicans of doing what your medieval Democrat racist brother has been doing all along.
But it ain't going to play.
Look, man, I told you before, you wanted the game, you in the game, so you got to play real or you got to get played out.
You can't run with the lions at night and play with the kittens in the day.
You talking all this change stuff, then change it up, yo.
Get off this race thing and come for real about what you got, what you're going to get, where we're going to be if you get in.
You feel me, bro?
That concludes this statement.
That's official Obama criticizer, Bo Snutlate.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Have you heard what Carl Rove said about Barack Obama?
Well, this is from Jake Tapper at the ABC blog.
And he says that Christine Klein, or Christiane Klein, who is an ABC News reporter, says that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club yesterday morning, Carl Rove referred to Senator Obama as coolly arrogant.
He said, even if you never met him, you know this guy.
He's the guy at the country club with a beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everybody else who passes by.
Rove said that Senator McCain needs to come right at Obama.
He referred to the latest Newsweek poll showing Obama with a 15-point lead over McCain as nonsense, though he used a more scatological synonym.
Rove said that he was heading over to the White House for lunch in a chat with the president.
So here he's got this picture of Obama.
He's standing up against the wall, a martini and a cigarette, and he's passing judgment on every coolly arrogant and so forth.
I wonder if Obama will say, see, this is racism.
This is racism.
And of course, no such thing was intended by Karl Rove.
I predicted this, by the way.
I can remember back in the early days of the primary season in this calendar year.
I had a number of people call here.
I had a number of people ask me via email, hey, Rush, isn't it true that if Obama is elected president, then it'll be the end of racism in this country.
The racists and the race industry hacks will have no credibility to say the country's still racist.
They said wrong, it's only going to get worse.
What do you mean it's only going to get worse?
Well, look at it now.
If Obama were happy, if he is elected president, any bit of criticism of him whatsoever, any vote in Congress that doesn't go his way, the race industry is going to say this is due to lack of respect for the first black president.
This is racism.
They're going to say racism about everything.
And you can see from this guy from the Atlanta Journal of Constipation yesterday that they're already setting it up that Obama will not inoculate anybody from being a racist because he's not reading any slave blood.
So he's not the first black president.
He's inauthentic.
He's not black enough.
He doesn't have enough slave blood or any slave blood.
So he doesn't come from the slave past, the civil rights past of American blacks.
And so he really will not be their first black president.
The closest they're going to get is Michelle Obama as first lady because she has slave blood in her.
This is just weird, folks.
The civil rights movement and the race industry in Democrat Party politics, it's just plain weird.
Another battle has erupted between Obama and James Dobson this time, as Obama Is broadening his outreach to evangelical voters.
One of the movement's biggest names, Dr. James Dobson, accused Obama of distorting the Bible and pushing a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution.
Dobson aired his criticism on his focus on the family radio program today.
It was about a, what, a 12 or 18-minute monologue, from what I understand.
The focus on the family group gave the AP an advanced copy of what Dobson's 18-minute commentary was.
And part of what was said was, even if we did only have, even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools, Obama said.
Would we go with James Dobson's or Al Sharpton's?
Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which biblical passages should guide public policy.
Chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is okay and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, quote, a passage so radical it's doubtful our own Defense Department would survive its application, unquote, said Barack Obama.
And then he said, folks haven't been reading their Bibles.
Dobson accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings of the New Testament.
Dobson said, I think Obama's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview.
He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.
Now, will this be said to be racist?
See, this is the thing.
Any criticism of Obama, that's what last Friday was about.
Last Friday was about throwing down the gauntlet.
Any criticism of him, any mention of his wife, is racist.
If you mention Jeremiah Wright, it's racist.
I think this is just, it's just, it's hilarious.
And this is the standard operating procedure that we've always had from the left, be it racism or any other subject.
Everything they're trying to do, every element of the campaign, every element of their existence on the left is designed to suppress speech.
It is designed to suppress speech with which they disagree.
Look at this guy, Hansen, this idiot, this absolute panicked idiot who's about to run out of his fame time.
20 years ago, he sounded the warning bells of global warming.
This week, he goes before Congress and demands that big oil executives be brought up on charges, leaving me out.
Nobody knows who these oil executives are.
I have been a more forceful critic of global warming, man-made hoax global warming, than the oil execs combined.
And Hansen ignores me.
Now he's out there saying this is a last chance.
We have no more chance.
And he wants, this is about criminalizing policy differences.
And this is what the left is about.
Which is why many of us say that there are strains of Stalinism in the American leftist movement, which has as its home today, the Democrat Party.
Be right back after this, folks.
Stay where you are.
Thank you.
Rushlin Boy, serving humanity simply by showing up.
We'll get to your phone calls here, El Quico.
So there's PMSNBC, DNC TV, now running a little bit on Charlie Black, who is a big-time old-line Republican guy.
He's worked with every president there is.
I mean, Charlie Black is Mr. Republican, good or bad.
He's Charlie Black.
I've met him a couple of times.
Nice guy.
And now we've got PMS NBC running a little story on Charlie Black politics of fear.
Politics of fear.
What did Charlie Black say?
Here's a classic illustration of how political correctness is shutting down free and open expression of ideas.
Charlie Black said, yeah, another terrorist attack would help McCain.
And of course, McCain dutifully ran out there, threw him under the bus.
In fact, we've got here, let me find the audio.
I've got so many soundbites here today.
I've got to find what page this is on.
Let's see.
Somebody help me out if they know what I'm talking about, where it is.
So I won't have to waste precious broadcast time.
I can't see the computer.
Cut 13.
This play Cut 13.
I think I know what this is.
Let it rip.
I cannot imagine why he would say it.
It's not true.
I've worked tirelessly since 9-11 to prevent another attack on the United States of America.
My record is very clear.
The Armed Services Committee and pieces of legislation are sponsoring the Joe Lieberman, the 9-11 Commission, so we could find out the causes and fix the challenges that we face as to the security of this nation.
I cannot imagine it.
And so if he said that, and I do not know the context, I strenuously disagree.
He wasn't suggesting or hoping that there be one.
This is the thing.
Senator McCain, somebody's got to grab hold of you before you go out there.
This was not about your record on terrorism.
This was not about anything other than Charlie Black saying, I've had people call me ever since 9-11-2001.
Rush, if there's another terrorist attack, will it hurt Bush or help Bush?
Will it help the Democrats or hurt them?
These are things that everybody asks and wonders about all the time.
Here we are in the midst of a presidential campaign.
And I'm telling you what, folks, we had a serious, serious difference in these two candidates in one area, and that's foreign policy and who will defend this country and who will seek to appease our enemies.
And we know damn well that it's Obama who will seek to appease our enemies.
We know damn well that it's McCain who won't put up with another attack.
It's McCain who will fight back.
McCain will not go talk to Ahmedine's out or try to find Bin Laden to talk to him if there's another attack.
He's going to try to find out who did it and then mount a counter response.
We don't know that about Obama.
This is just fact of life.
On the other end of the scale, if there were another Hurricane Katrina, guess who it helps?
Helps Obama.
Do you remember all the Democrats back in 2002, Dick Gephardt excitedly saying for every 100-point drop in the stock market, we pick up a seat in the House?
The Democrats have long wished for misery on the American people.
The Democrats have long hoped for collapse of some kind to help them politically.
What do you think?
You think they're rejoicing over these high gasoline prices?
I guarantee you they are.
You think they're rejoicing over never-ending media stories about the doom and gloom in the economy and the fact that there's no future left in America?
I'll damn well bet you and guarantee you they are.
The Democrats today, the American leftists, are doing everything they can to profit from the misery that they are trying to instill in the minds and hearts of as many Americans as possible.
So poor old Charlie Black comes out and states the obvious.
And then all hell breaks loose.
By the way, speaking of Hurricane Katrina, there's a story, I have it here in the stack, that all of the people along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois, that's been flooded, why they love FEMA.
FEMA's been doing a great job.
My reaction was, wait till the flood hits New Orleans.
Wait till the swollen Mississippi hits New Orleans and whatever good vibes that there are for FEMA will have.
I'm sorry.
See, I'm politically incorrect.
I, ladies and gentlemen, am laughing about this.
So, Senator McCain, you know, I wish he wouldn't have said it.
Look at my record.
I have done everything I can to stop a terrorist attack.
We know.
We know it's nothing about that.
If it happens, Senator, we know what you would do about it, and we know what Obama would do about it.
And we'd prefer what you would do about it, Senator, than what Senator Obama will do about it.
In fact, I'll go a step further.
Who else said?
Somebody said this.
I get so much stuff in the stacks.
I can't remember who said this.
Somebody made a prediction.
I can't remember who it is, but they're right, whoever it was.
There will not be, oh, no, no, no.
Take it back.
It was John Bolton.
John Bolton said there will not be an attack on Iran by Israel before the election, but there will be between the election and the inauguration.
That's what John Bolton said.
He said it in an interview with the UK Telegraph.
And he started, he said, I just, I'm beside myself that the Americans, the United States, have lost the will to take care of this.
They seem happy to farm it out to the Israelis.
The Israelis will do it, but they won't do it in a way to affect our election, but they will do it to protect themselves after the election.
So he's on record with that prediction.
Let me make one of my own.
Precisely because every time I hear Ahmadinezad speak, every time I hear a tape from Ayman Al-Zawahiri or a so-called dispatch from bin Laden, whenever I hear from any of these Middle East al-Qaeda terrorists, I think I'm hearing Democrat Party talking points.
I will guarantee you there will not be a terrorist attack before the election.
And you know why there won't be one?
Because they want Obama elected.
They wanted John Kerry elected.
They wanted the Democrats elected in the 2006 midterms.
Am I politically incorrect for saying this?
We all know it to be true.
Just listen, they've said as much.
We hear stories.
We read stories in the drive-by media about how some of these despots like Chavez in Venezuela, others are looking forward to the election of Obama.
Hamas has endorsed Obama.
Hamas has endorsed Obama.
You think they're going to do anything to upset the apple cart of Obama's election?
Why do you think they've endorsed Obama?
Because they want a very strong ally for Israel in the White House?
And I saw the stupidest poll.
What was the poll?
I don't even know what the poll was.
I got a glance of it on television.
It's the kind of poll I don't believe.
It's supposed to dispirit Republicans.
Something like 48 to 43, Americans prefer Obama to McCain on foreign policy.
Now, that's just absurd.
That is just, it's just, it might have been a Newsweek poll because I think it was PMSNBC.
You know, they're in bed with Newsweek.
They're not only in bed, they're under the covers with Newsweek.
Anyway, let me grab the phones quick.
We'll start here in Nashville, Tennessee.
This is Daniel Daniel.
Daniel just left.
What was he going to say?
Should McCain use Rezco at town halls?
Daniel was going to ask a question.
Should McCain bring up Tony Rezco at town hall meetings?
Should it's not that he won't.
McCain will not do that.
McCain wants an honorable campaign.
That's right, Limbo, honorable campaign talking about issues.
Yeah, sick to the issues.
And my record.
Hey, Rizco, Shmezko.
Does it matter to me?
Ever heard of the Keating Five?
Sorry, folks.
Well, that's why he won't bring it up.
Chad, in spring, spring, spring, what is where?
Oh, Nevada.
Spring Creek, Nevada.
Hi, Chad.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Ross.
Hey, I'm 26 years old.
I pay attention to these, you know, pretty attentively.
And I just hate to be the dim and gloom type, but it just seems like the way we're going is trouble.
And I wanted to tell you what I think is going to happen within the next six months or maybe the next couple of years.
And then I wanted to know what you think.
You know, the politicians have sold us out.
I believe that Obama's going to be president.
I think Israel will attack Iran.
Guess prices will double.
I think that'll just severely collapse our economy or, you know, put it in dire straits.
And I think the three possible outcomes that could happen is that, one, we finally wake up and have a political revolution where we completely gut the government and try to get it back to its basic needs instead of expanding it.
Or I think, you know, the possibility of America falling as a country like Rome.
Or, you know, I guess kind of I think the third possibility in my eyes is the rise of divine intervention of, you know, seeing the rise of, you know, the biggest liberal that.
And then the world ends in 2012.
Well, I'm not, you know, I don't know about 2012, but it just seems like, it just seems like we're in, you know.
Well, let me, let me ask you a question.
You know, I, I, um...
I have a lot of compassion for people like you who think in these terms.
And I hate to hear that you're thinking this way.
I really do.
But I can understand it.
I mean, you're pummeled.
You are pummeled every day with news reports that make you think this way.
And then you have real-life experiences like the seemingly unstoppable increase in gasoline, taxes, a number of other things that make you think there's no end in sight and that it can only go to the worst particular point and everything crashes in on itself when we start all over.
Now, I'm not clairvoyant, and I don't pretend to see the future, but I instinctively do not have that pessimistic a view of the future of this country.
I look at our circumstances today, and I can find for you times in our recent past when they have been worse.
I can find for you times in our recent past where gasoline prices have gone up identically in terms of percentage increase, and it caused just as much havoc, and in fact, worse.
I can remember gasoline lines or lines at gasoline stations.
I can remember talk of rationing.
I can remember working for the Kansas City Royals, where people actually did not come to ball games because of the price of gas.
That's not happening now.
I mean, these ballparks, people are still going.
They're still buying their Wii's.
They're still spending their money.
They're making alterations for it.
I'm not saying that there are not drastic alterations to lifestyle taking place.
What I'm trying to tell you is that because of my advanced age of 57, I've been through these things.
I've been through worse than this.
The country is better today than at any time in my life previously, economically and with opportunity.
So my attitude here is rather than succumb to the fait accompli that you describe, I would rather do what I can and urge everybody who listens to the program to do what they can to stop it.
We are not innocent bystanders here.
We are, Chad, the U.S. economy.
We are the U.S. electorate.
We do determine who our leaders are.
And if we've got too many morons that don't see things accurately, it's our job to become larger in number than they are and defeat them.
And that is the express purpose here.
There's no reason.
There's no reason.
I can understand if you lived in Chad.
I can understand if you lived in Zimbabwe.
I can understand if you lived in some poor, dirt, out-of-the-world third world country where you might feel the way you do.
But you live in the greatest country on earth.
Yes, we're in debt.
Yes, we have enemies circling us, not just the al-Qaeda guys.
We got China.
We got the Chikaws.
We got Russia.
The Russians are trying to get their power back.
The ex-KGB guy, Putin, trying to run a dictatorship under the guise of a democracy.
We have our challenges.
The point is that we need people leading us who are up to them and have the same note of exceptionalism that is America that we do.
And sadly, the Democrat Party doesn't offer any of that.
So it's, or very little of it.
Can you think of a Democrat off top of your head that's talking about American exceptionalism?
I mean, I can't.
I don't mean to indict a whole party here, but I guess I am indicting a whole party because I can't think of one Democrat who runs around saying anything good about this country.
Not nationally.
There may be some local Democrats, you know, on your town council.
I'm not talking about those people because I don't know them.
I'm talking about national Democrats.
I don't know any of them are talking about the greatness, the positive outlook for the future, anything.
I don't know any of them.
And as such, I don't want them anywhere around leadership positions.
There are too many of them now.
Say one thing.
I want to draw a sharp difference, one sharp difference for you in comparing today with oil and gasoline and the times in the past that I have been through.
I was just talking and chat about.
When you go back to the 70s and even the early 80s, when we had gas lines and the talk of rationing and percentage, I mean, dramatic percentage increases in the cost of a gallon of gasoline.
Even though that was happening, we had one thing then that we don't have today, and that's supply.
All those shortages back then were contrived.
There were no genuine shortages.
It was just people playing games in the oil market, primarily.
You remember the name Ahmed Zaki Yamani?
He was the first Saudi oil ministry of note.
And I will never forget the world.
I mean, this guy was on Nightline every night.
He's still around, too.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani.
He was on Nightline every night.
The world was just begging this guy to explain.
We had all kinds of stories of oil tankers out in the Atlantic Ocean not being allowed to come into port.
There were conspiracy theory rumors running around all over the place.
The point is we had supply then.
And so the price run-up had something to do with things other than supply and demand.
But today, it is the supply that is static.
And that's the big difference.
Now, it's a huge difference because there's one reason and one reason only that supply is static.
And that is the American and international left, which has done and is doing everything it can to keep exploration for new support, new supplies of oil from happening.
Now, all this talk about alternative fuels and all this talk about new sources of energy, I think people need to do some investigating to find out just how much of our daily existence is related to oil.
For example, yesterday I told you a funny little story about trying to find Gardenia candles.
And it led to a number of people assuming I become a metrosexual or what have you.
But the fact of the matter is, do you know that candles exist?
Most candles, I mean, they're substitutes now.
But candles are the result of their petroleum byproduct, paraffin.
You would saran wrap all these, these are trash bags.
A lot of things derive from petroleum and the offshoots at areas of it that are not used.
I mean, to think that we can get rid of oil and stop using oil and that there's something out there to replace it with, you don't know how much of your life uses oil byproducts every day if you believe that.
You have no clue.
And the Democrat Party and the American left, the worldwide international left, the global warming hoax left, all those people are the ones standing in the way of the increase in supply of oil, and there's plenty of it.
Just as back in the 70s, there was plenty of refined gasoline and there was plenty of oil.
It was just being diverted places for whatever reasons.
And of course, the price spike also, and it was huge then too.
And as I say, in a percentage basis, it was just as large then as it is today.
And it happened just as fast.
But we always knew there was supply.
Today we don't have supply.
We don't have an excess of supply.
We're using everything that we have.
Well, we're not using everything.
We're using everything that we bring out of the ground.
There's so much to get.
Decades and decades and decades and decades of it.
And yet people are falling for this ruse and this notion that we have no future if it's built on oil.
You try living your day without oil.
Find out all the ways.
You'll be in poverty.
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