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July 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you once again, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rush Limboy, your host for life.
Behind the Golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's the top.
We're doing open line Friday on Wednesday, by the way, so as I'm uh we're gonna be off on Friday, we'll have a best of show that day.
Uh also Jason Lewis uh will be here tomorrow.
It's exactly right, Snerdley, sign a new deal and take the day off.
Uh anyway, whatever you want to talk about is fine uh as it is on Friday when we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Make it count.
You can whine, moan, ask a question, make a comment, bring up something you think uh should be discussed that hasn't been.
Uh, don't know how that's possible, but if you think it's possible and necessary, feel free.
800-282-2882, the email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I want to take one more stab here at something I was talking about just before the previous hour concluded, and that is the news that popped up everywhere today on the uh Drudge Report, and my syndication partners at Clear Channel put out their own press release announcing that I have extended my partnership arrangement with them for eight years through uh through two thousand sixteen.
That's why I am your host for life.
I've always said I am not going anywhere.
It'll everywhere, uh everybody, every American agrees with me.
A daunting challenge.
I have not shrunk from it, nor shall I. But I I uh wanted to tell what this means to me, because the in in terms of my mind and my heart, you know, we all in this audience, you and I, we cherish this country and we cherish the freedoms that we have in this country, and especially when we stop to think about it on the fourth of July, the independence week and so forth.
It uh it takes on an even more important relevance.
For example, I have a story in the stack of stuff today.
The last batch of troops sent over to Iraq for the surge will be soon coming home.
They will not receive anything from the Democrat Party, along the likes of job well done.
We're proud of you.
And this is highly distressing.
Not only will Democrats not say, nor leftists say to any returning troops from Iraq, good job, job well done.
We honor your service.
No, they did just the opposite.
They sought to secure defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq.
They sought to discredit the surge before it had even begun.
They called the architect of the surge, General Petraeus, essentially a liar before he had even opened his mouth to give them in Congress a report.
We face really challenging times.
The left wing in this country is on a tear to restrict as much freedom and as much movement as they can.
I two days in a row.
I've had stories in the stacks of stuff here, celebrating drive-by media stories, celebrating the end of the SUV.
And this is because people can't afford the gas price anymore.
A uh SUVs use a lot of gasoline, so people aren't buying new ones, and they're trying to sell the ones that they have.
And there are people happy about this.
These are people who want to try to dictate to us what kind of car we can drive and how far we can drive it.
They want us in mass transit.
They want us blamed and feeling guilty for all of the ills in the world.
The United States is the solution to problems in the world.
We are not the problem.
Too many Americans, all of them on the left, believe just the opposite.
As such, there's a battle for the heart and soul of the United States of America.
And the battle can basically be described as one side wants to tear down the traditions and institutions that have made this country great and reorder Them so that they feel better about themselves.
And those traditions and institutions that have made the country great can be found in religion, can be found in family, uh, can be found in uh the strict interpretation of the Constitution and a number of other things.
They want there to be very little of that.
They want a utopia they think that can be created on the basis of perfection.
They look at the United States as a flawed country.
Yeah, I see.
Fox News.
Fox News is running a side by side comparison of the cover photo on the New York Times magazine of me with Don Vito Corleone.
Uh that's a great picture.
You know, I've had some people say, How come?
How come you let them take a picture of you where you look mean?
Hey, this is how the libs see me.
You know what that picture says?
That picture says dark.
Sinister, confident, dangerous.
And if you look at the eyes in that picture, it also says something else.
Two words.
Uh it it no, not Tony Soprano.
It's just it's it's a great picture.
They came down here and they did the uh the shoot right here at the EIB Southern Command.
They shot some here in the studio, and some of those are in the New York Times article.
Uh it's a huge piece to it's 8,000 words, and they shot some others out in our living room area, and that that's the one that uh that made the cover.
I think it's I saw it last night for the first time.
I thought, wow.
This is actually a good picture.
You know, when you start letting drive by's taking pictures of you, you know, what the I've learned now what not to do during sessions.
Don't look frustrated.
Don't start waving around and get all contorted looks on your face and so forth.
They can snap and to get anything.
But they were a very, very cooperative crew.
At any rate.
Back to the the internal war that we face here.
There are people who seek power to deny us freedom.
And this is something that's crucially important to me to maintain it.
Uh the thing that the drudge wrote today on his website, and it's appeared in a number of other places about the contract extension, it's for the most part accurate.
I mean, there's some things in it that are not quite true, but for the most part it's it's true.
But the main thing is that uh another eight years, right here, with you, defending and protecting the freedoms that we all cherish in uh in this country.
It's quite an honor for me to have this position, and it's you know, you you look around, and I don't I don't mean to sound smug about this, but you've seen it yourselves.
The print drive-by media is in trouble.
They are laying off newsroom staff in newsrooms and newspapers across the country.
Their advertising revenue is plunging.
Their circulation is plunging.
They don't know what to do about it.
The drive-by news media has a characteristic that is unlike most other businesses, and it is a business.
And you can listen to the editors and the managers of these papers talk about, yeah, we got to make these cuts so we can stay profitable.
They rip everybody else trying to make a profit, like big oil, but they reserve the right for themselves.
But most of their employees don't care about the profit, other than that's how they get paid.
Most people in the drive-by media, when a customer complains, the customer's told he's wrong.
The customer is told he's stupid.
The customer's told he doesn't understand how journalism works.
Well, if the customer gets sick and tired of reading something that's predictable, that goes against the grain of cultural and political beliefs that the reader has, then bam, the reader's out of there.
Why subject yourself to it?
And so it is it is happening.
They're out there losing jobs, losing advertising, losing subscribers.
Meanwhile, here at the EIB network, it's just the opposite.
And you know what the big difference is?
The big difference, and I said this a number of times, but I want to relate it to this instance.
The big difference, they have no connection with their audience.
When you get to the big drive-by media, such as in New York and Washington, most of them are writing for each other.
They write what they write, hoping other drive bys will then read it and be impressed.
They do.
And then they hope to come up with something unique that everybody will then copy for when they go on the round table discussions on cable TV shows.
And so it's become very incestuous.
There is no connection with the audience.
And newspapers have audiences.
They might call them readers, subscribers, but they are audiences.
And if they're unable to establish a bond with the audience, then they're going to have trouble.
That's what's happened here.
And it's even referenced in the Clear Channel press release announcing the contract extension in the quote that I gave them.
There's something special here, the bond of loyalty between audience and host.
And it is something that I cherish and am in awe of myself.
And as I said last hour and on numerous previous occasions, there's no way I could ever adequately say thank you in a way that expresses the depth of emotion I actually feel about it.
It's just phenomenal and it's unique and it's incredible.
And that bond, you know, is what makes me want to continue to do this.
You know, look at all of the attempts over the course of the years that have been made to weaken this bond to try to convince you that this show isn't what you think it is, that I'm some sort of lying fanatic making it all up, and yet you're here.
You stayed here throughout it.
And the reason for that is is that you know the truth because you have a daily relationship with the program, and we all we have a bond, and so what the media says about what happens here when it's mostly lies, what they say, doesn't affect you.
It goes back to the old thing.
If the media didn't make you, the media can't destroy you.
But if you allow the media to make you by word virtue of, say buzz, let them build you up bigger than you are, they can then tear you down.
That can't happen with me because they didn't make me you did.
And without you, none of this that you're reading about today would happen.
But the important thing is to be able to stay here for another eight years on our own terms, and not give up the fight that is in the midst of being of uh it's really a fevered pitch right now for our basic liberties and freedoms.
Just yesterday, and this is this is not anything that hasn't happened before, but it just continues to happen.
Just yesterday, we learned that uh owners of land will not be able to develop it in Montana because of a grouse.
The grouse population.
And the ultimate aim is to get the grouse put on the endangered species list, so the owners of that property can't do diddly squat with there's oil underneath that land.
And there's an opportunity for developers to make residential areas out of it, or what have you.
And so there are people active in this country doing everything they can to destroy the country's ability to grow, to remain prosperous, and remain a superpower.
Here's another example.
This is from Investors Business Daily.
A state judge has blocked construction of a power plant on grounds that its emissions permit does not set a cap on carbon dioxide.
So global warming, the man-made hoax of global warming, or the hoax of man-made global warming, has won another round.
Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore of the Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court, this is Atlanta for those of you in Rio Linda, invalidated yesterday a government permit issued in 2000 for construction of a coal-fired plant in the southwestern part of Georgia.
She based her decision on last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that forced the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, even though it's harmless to humans and animals and is necessary to plant life.
Supreme Court had no business taking the case, they did.
They're ruling obnoxious.
So this is how the left intends with unelected people who have lifetime appointments, institute personal prof uh policy preferences on the basis of their liberal beliefs to stop a coal-fired power plant.
We need more energy.
If we're going to grow, if your kids are going to have the opportunities that we had, and every parent wants their kid to do better than they did.
If you want a country that is constantly growing and proud of itself and remains exceptional in as many ways as possible, you're going to have to fight these people who want to establish an America in a permanent state of decline.
These are the naysayers, the doomsayers, the doom gloomers.
This is how they look at life themselves.
They want everybody else to be miserable with them.
Because in the midst of that misery, you might vote for people otherwise because you're so mad you want to change.
So I'm looking forward to the next eight years.
Looking forward to being with you.
Calling this, ladies and gentlemen.
The contract for America.
You made it possible.
I thank you much.
Gotta take a brief time out now, a uh windfall profit timeout, by the way.
Back after this with more of your phone calls and other exciting things from the stacks of stuff.
Don't go away.
And welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, a man, a living legend, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a prophet, and much much more, serving humanity simply by showing up here on the EIB network.
Here's Benny in Blue Springs, Missouri, dangerously close to independence, Missouri, where Obama was earlier this week to define his own patriotism.
Hello, Benny.
Hi, Rush.
Maha Russian Italian American megadiddos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Regarding the usage of swift boating, on Turner Classic Movie, Spielberg had the audacity to defend his movie Munich so he wouldn't quote be swift boated.
Wait a minute now.
Spielberg had the audacity to defend the movie Munich so he wouldn't what uh I think Spielberg's a big joke, by the way.
And the whole concept of swift boating.
Yeah, I'm I I'm not familiar with Munich.
I'm not that this is the what's what's the Oh, that's where he he made the Jews out to be Nazis going after the Arabs.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
I'm oh, I'm not familiar with the movie.
That's why I'm sitting here scratching my head.
What am I missed?
But anyway, the point was he didn't want to s want to be swift boated, which meant he didn't want to be criticized, lied about what.
Yeah, that's what he thinks.
He thinks that uh by him uh mispotraying history that uh that that's okay, that uh you know don't don't bother me, don't call my ears big.
Hmm.
Well, they're trying to redefine the term, I guarantee you.
It's like it's it's is it's no different than any other criticism of anybody who is a liberal that's accurate, they call it an attack.
You're not allowed to tell the truth about 'em.
Anyway, Benny, thanks for the call.
John in Corning, New York.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, real pleasure to speak with you.
It's an honor and a privilege.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I just wanted to mention something.
I took notes while uh Barack Obama was making its independence speech on patriotism.
Yeah.
And uh, you know, he's he's saying that patriotism is a gut feeling, an instinct, a feeling like something crawling up your leg.
Patriotism is not having to say you're a patriot.
It is living a heart love commitment for your country to serve, protect, and defend its constitution, and by two having U.S. Supreme Court justices who strictly interpret the Constitution to protect our rights and our ideals as Americans.
He said it's a gut instinct.
A gut feeling like something crawling up your legs.
Yeah.
You know.
And really, patriotism, it you live it through your life, through your associations.
Now, what I see with his wife, they've never been proud of America, through him having his radical associations with uh radical Islamists and the nation of Islam, his former pastor, by the way, is being protected by the Nation of Islam.
I, for the life of me, I can't understand.
Now I was raised up in the 60s.
I can't understand how it is that we need the nation of Islam protecting anyone in this country.
This is America.
Well, because the guy has sympathies for the nation of Islam and Calypso Louis Farrakhan, but you're you're you're exactly right.
The whole the the notion of patriotism is found in the heart.
That's right, it's a good idea.
It isn't found in change.
It's not found in the gut.
That's right.
It's you know it when you see it and when you live it, people know it.
You don't have to say you're a patriot.
You don't have to say that's what patriotism is not.
You don't have to say you're a patriot.
Exactly.
That's well, that that that's the the real question about why do this speech.
And I you know, Democrats are constantly defending themselves on this throughout the entire twenty year star-studded career of the EIB network.
I can I can count numerous times.
Dukakis had to do it.
A number of Democrats have had to go out and try to explain patriotism and try to define it.
Now, why?
If there's an instinct at play here, the it is this.
That is a lot of Americans instinctively understand that Democrats have a different definition of patriotism.
That it's not founded on love of country, it's founded on shame of country.
And a country needs to be changed because they are so ashamed of it.
They know that's not going to win any elections, and they come out with his flowery speeches defining their own patriotism as though they're guilty.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
And we are here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Mac.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
I'm fine, sir.
Never better.
Well, listen, I was on hold to talk to you back in 2000 because I was a supporter of John McCain.
Found him to be an honorable man, shook his hand, I'm a Navy veteran.
And uh here we are again, huh?
You were mad at me then back in 2000.
You had to be mad at me back in 2000.
Oh, I couldn't wait to talk to you about it.
But uh, you know, some of the things you said proved out.
And that's why I usually do.
Well, I agree.
I've been listening to you since uh, I believe about eighty-nine, maybe ninety.
I was in Sacramento right when you left.
Well, that would be eighty-eight, so you're you're almost uh a lifer.
Yeah, just about.
And uh this is a big moment.
I've gotten through a couple of times, but uh so uh I I'd like to thank you for standing behind him this time.
I think we've got the right man.
Uh I'd sure like to see him run in with Newt, though.
Well, uh that isn't gonna happen.
Uh but I I am hearing that the um the front runner now for the Veep is uh Mitt Romney.
Mm-hmm.
He I think he didn't tell me what it is you like about McCain.
What is it?
You liked him in 2000, what do you like about him now?
I guess just the character issue.
That there's a man that uh, you know, he he had a chance to go home early.
He showed his bravery in combat while he's being tortured.
Um I don't agree with everything he's done politically, but I think what he wants to do is reach across the line.
I if if there was one thing I wish he would do, I wish somebody would stand up for term limits for Congress.
Well fat chance.
Uh what do you what do you admire about somebody stepping across the aisle?
Well, I can't say that I I'm very conservative.
But I think I'm also like John McCain.
I've a great enjoyer of the outdoors.
Now I think we should drill an Anwar.
I think we're capable of doing that.
But I think there are some ideas that come from the left that that are weight.
Name one.
Well, I guess conservation.
And wait a second, you think conservation is an exclusively liberal idea and policy.
No, not at all, but I think back I'm uh I'm I'm 51 years old, and I remember when the uh Cuyahoga River caught on fire in in Cleveland.
And uh, you know, I think industry needed to be reigned in, but I think what we've done now is, and I find it amazing, that the uh the left has any credibility with labor because they are the ones that shut the factories down.
But something had to be done, and as the pendulum swings, sometimes it swings too far in each direction.
But I've always opened for new ideas.
Um let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
I'm I'm I'm listening to you with uh with a great deal of patience and a uh great deal of restraint.
We are at a crucial juncture in this country.
As the left is currently constituted, there's not one step across the aisle worth taking.
The biggest problem that we face is that too many on our side have a convoluted uh impression of the success inherent in crossing the aisle as you have just expressed.
There are some on our side, mostly in the media, who want to tout the advantages of a big government run by conservatives.
That they cancel each other out.
There's no such thing as a big government run by conservatives that stays big and is big on purpose and grows.
That's not what conservatism is.
The idea of crossing the line to get a lot, let them cross the line.
How come they never cross the line?
Why is it always up to us?
How come when we start criticizing things in the world, why do we always start criticizing ourselves first?
There's yet another poll out from uh from the McLaughlin group.
I think it's I forget which the actual name of the company, but they're famous, they're out there to do a lot of polls, and they're not they've come up with another conclusion.
Republicans must rebrand conservatism or find a new kind of conservatism.
There isn't a new kind.
There's only one.
Conservatism doesn't need revisions.
Conservatism is founded in individual liberty and freedom.
As such, it will never go out of style.
When we start crossing the aisle with these people, and by that I mean, accepting their version of things, if we're compromising principle in the process, then we are harming ourselves and we're harming the country.
If it's worth crossing the aisle with them, why don't we just all become Democrats?
If that's the answer, I would prefer to have somebody sit around and say to people on the left, oh, you want to get that done, come join us, because here's how we're going to do it.
Here's how we're going to fix education.
Here's how we're going to deal with health care.
Here's how we're going to deal with whatever problems on the board.
Here's how we're going to deal with the war on terror.
Here's how we're going to deal with bloated budgets.
If you're interested in fixing these problems, join us on our side of the aisle.
But we're not going to accept your premise, cross the aisle, work with you so that we can have a little bit of influence on the policies around the edges.
I'm tired of crossing the aisle.
I'm tired of hearing about what a great thing it is.
I'm I'm worn out with hearing that as the definition of open-mindedness and so forth.
We have got.
How many years?
Let's go back to the Great Society, 1964.
This is 2008.
So what do we talk?
44 years?
We have a 44-year domestic history of the failure, failure after failure after failure, of the left's prescriptions for things that need fixing or that need to be addressed or what 44 years of failure.
Nothing in anybody's common sense should recommend that we go back and do it again or continue to try it on the premise that we just haven't spent enough money.
We don't even have to just stop in this country.
We can go to any country in world history that has been run as a socialist or totalitarian country.
And we can see it doesn't work.
If you define work as having population with individual freedom and liberty, free to be entrepreneurs, economic opportunity, growth and prosperity, peace, free of crime, threat, this sort of thing.
You don't find that in any totalitarian socialist or communist regime.
It's never worked, not for individuals.
It works for the people in power.
So this business of crossing the aisle and have that be some sort of resume enhancement.
Until we get a handle on this and start getting a little confident and telling them it's time for them to cross the aisle.
But Rush but Rush, we're in the minority.
No, we haven't been.
We're just for the last two years.
We had the White House.
And we had a majority in the House of Representatives.
We were going back and forth with the Senate because Trent Lott was giving away Senate seats to Tom Dashell in order to share power to walk across the aisle so they would love us, so they would think that we're not mean spirited and all itself, so they would Think that we're fair.
And look where it got us.
It got us Harry Reed, who is one of the meanest, most extreme partisans Washington has ever seen.
Unapologetic about it, and he's not going to cross any aisle.
Not on a matter of policy.
He'll cross the aisle when the end result is he gets what he wants.
But they're going to sacrifice what they why should we?
You know, what's so fabulous about that?
Well, gosh, what you don't understand is it shows that we can be big people.
We understand a thing larger than ourselves.
That's not what it shows.
Shows that we don't have confidence in what we believe.
It also shows we have people who are more interested in winning elections, doing whatever they have to do, rather than actually winning elections on the basis of advancing a movement which gives you a mandate, which by the way, at the same time, inspires the American people.
Which which political party would you rather be part of right now?
Would you rather be part of a party that has to get up every day and tell people how rotten the country is, how rotten their future is, and how they're to blame for it.
You've earned too much money, you've been driving your cars that are too big, you've been wasting electricity, you've been voting Republican, whatever.
This is a party that has to blame you for everything wrong in this country, and then you, when they come to power, are going to get blamed even more, and you're going to pay the price.
There is nothing inspiring about the American left.
There is nothing inspiring about today's Democrat Party.
It is just the opposite.
They depress.
They can turn people to medication.
Their portrayal of the country, their portrayal of the U.S. military, their portrayal of our place in the world, is one of shame and guilt and rage.
How in the world does a movement like that get any votes at all?
Substantial enough votes, number of votes to win.
It happens when the other side doesn't do the exact opposite and start being optimistic, talking about American exceptionalism, telling the American people they're not to blame.
They are the reason the country works, that they are the backbone of this country, and more is going to be needed of them.
And we need people engaging in commerce, educating themselves, following their dreams, following their passions.
What our job is to do is get out of your way when you do it.
We're not going to have a bunch of regulations in your way.
We're not going to punish you when you succeed.
The Democrats and the leftists in this country are just the opposite.
And you don't have to improve their lives to make them temporarily happy.
All you have to do is tell them somebody else is getting creamed.
Tell them somebody else is getting hurt, somebody else is suffering.
You know, put a little Schadenfreude on them.
Tell them some of these taxes are going up.
Tell us tell them they're not going to be able to drive their big cars anymore, what have you.
And people who have will result have no resulting benefit to them, still go, yeah, yeah, yeah, you make it even, because there are people in the country who want to tear the top down to so-called dequalized people.
That's what the left does.
The left never seeks to promote equality by boosting those at the bottom.
It's always about tearing down those at the top.
There are fewer of them.
It's a much better bet, shotgun approach, to try to poison the minds of a bunch of middle class and lower class, lower middle class people, than it is the obstacles is a lot of them.
But it can be countered, it's been shown how it can be countered.
Conservatism articulated properly and with passion, love for the country.
American exceptionalism will attract a crowd.
But when it's not articulated by elected leaders or people seeking office, then it's dormant.
And then, furthermore, when people in the conservative movement, because they can't find elected leaders to articulate it, start saying, well, okay, let's let's let's redefine conservatism and let's let's now say that conservatism uh has got to find a way to attach itself to things like the New Deal.
Conservatism has to find a way to attach itself to entitlements so that the uh working class knows that we don't like them or that we do like them, and we're not against them.
This is gonna delay the eventual rebirth and salvation of the country's just gonna delay it.
I'm telling you, here and now, crossing the aisle and working with the left, is not going to make this country better.
It's not going to improve, and it isn't gonna do much for you.
Quick time out.
Be back and continue right after this.
Documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time, according to our latest opinion audit, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network, Joe Klein.
Time magazine, latest issue.
His piece is entitled Kill Your Air Conditioner.
Now, this is a political reporter, Joe Klein.
I I must seriously ask, because I've seen Joe Klein on TV a bunch of times the past two weeks, months, what have you.
And I'm reading this piece, and I'm I'm genuinely concerned.
What has happened to Joe Klein?
Joe Klein used to be a down the middle political reporter, and he's always been a drive-by, uh, oriented toward the left, but he has become increasingly angry, bordering on being out of control, not making any effort to hide the activist agenda that he has been responsible for.
But this piece is simply deranged.
There is no other polite way to describe this.
The unnecessary, this these words.
The unnecessary refrigeration of America has become a chronic disease.
It seems to have gotten worse over the past few years, with thermostats routinely set at 68 degrees Fahrenheit and sometimes even 65 degrees in the far too many hotel rooms I have suffered on the campaign trail.
Americans seem to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in the winter.
Uh winter amuses Edward Parson, an environmental expert at the University of Michigan Law Scruel.
It seemed to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in.
I don't know how they could ever prove that assertion.
How in the world does anybody know what the temperature in somebody's house in the summertime is versus what it is in the winter?
Secondly, what is an environmentalist wacko doing at the University of Michigan Law School.
Anyways, as Americans seem to keep their houses cooler in summer than they do in the winter, but it's hard to know for sure, since there are no comprehensive studies that measure air conditioning trend lines.
So Joe, why quote the guy?
What's happened to Joe Klein?
He then says, I will confess a bias here.
I love warm weather even when it slouches toward humidity.
I detest the harsh, slightly metallic quality of the air forced through even the fanciest AC systems.
The only air conditioner I own sits unused in my car.
My home is happily unrefrigerated.
But given the energy mess we're in, I can now gild my personal preference with a patina of high-mindedness.
Air conditioning is bad for the planet.
And for national security, and for our balance of payments deficit.
Unfortunately, it's not as bad as I'd like it to be, in part because not all of our electricity is provided by fossil fuels, although coal does predominate.
And also because air conditioning represents a relatively small slice of our energy use, an estimated 4%.
So he's asking for a greater crisis.
Joe Klein wants there to be a greater energy climatic crisis than there is because of air conditioning.
I don't know what his beliefs in toilet paper are.
I don't know what his beliefs on flushing the toilet are.
But this clearly is something's happened to Joe Klein.
He's on the meds or he's off of them.
What a thing to get riled up about.
What a thing to get upset about.
But then when you stop, no, he's in the left wing media, and the left wing media Is on a crusade.
To pro to promote the hoax of man-made global warming.
Folks, if these people were ever to succeed with this, you just need to go back and take a look at the 20s and the you'd want to talk about the work output that would cease, the productivity in this country that ratched it way up once air conditioning was discovered and installed.
Fastest three hours in media, two of them are already in the ether.
But we'll be back and wrap it up with the final excursion hour right after this.
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