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July 14, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 14, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Oh, this is just great.
Operation Chaos.
Phase two.
Clinton diehards want convention vote.
And in fact, Thomas B. Edsol, who used to work in the Washington Post and now posts his uh writings at the Huffington Post.
It's also positing, you know, Obama guy, he was up 15, now he's tied.
In the Newsweek poll, he is tied in the Rasmussen is losing ground fast.
He's selling us all out.
Maybe, maybe the cooler heads will prevail, and we'll go with Hillary at the convention.
This this is an undercurrent, starting to effervesce out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Greetings and welcome back.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address is Ilrushbow at EIB net.com.
Yeah, the polls.
Newsweek.
Uh Obama up 15, their last poll.
He's up three, that's a tie, margin of error tie in the most recent poll.
The Rasmussen Daily Tracking poll has them tied, Obama and McCain.
And it's funny to read the Newsweek people, they can't explain their own poll, but it's right in their own story.
They explain all of his so-called and these are not flip-flops.
This is just, you know, it these just Obama abandoning his primary voters, thinking he's got to expand, which he does.
He cannot win as a far-left fringe cook liberal.
No liberal can win a presidency on that.
They've got to move to the center.
The New York Times is all happy about this.
And other drive-by uh elements are happy because uh they they're now saying that both candidates are in the center.
In fact, there's a there's a story.
The LA Times are very LA Times here very quickly about how there's no difference now between Obama and McCain.
And isn't that just it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing.
Let's see, it's somewhere here in a stack, HR.
I know it's that's the that's the the essence of it.
Uh yeah, here it is.
Obama McCain agree on many once divisive issues.
Ah, is that beautiful thing, yes.
They're both centrists now.
Uh and you know, this let me tell you what this is.
I know the drive-by's folks.
This is an attempt to try to tell they're not they don't care about McCain.
This is an attempt by the LA Times to tell the American people Obama's not the extremist of his associations.
Jeremiah Wright and all these clowns that he is.
So they're happy to write Obama is centrist.
Uh McCain has long been known that he lurks around in there in in what is uh in what is the center.
That uh anyway, the polling.
I I think these polls, I don't think Obama probably was was up fifteen.
I don't know that it's tied now, and I can tell you this, it doesn't matter.
Because if polls mattered, it's just not close enough, even now it's not close enough.
Hell's bells, folks.
We haven't even had a convention.
There's all kinds of stuff that can happen at the Democrat Convention.
There's all kinds of stuff that can happen anyway.
These polls, if they were accurate, Rudy Giuliani would be the Republican nominee and Hillary would be the Democrat nominee.
That's how worthless.
All those polls a year ago were, and so are these polls now.
These are just excuses for the lazy drive-bys to create news stories using uh using polling data.
International Herald Tribune, which is the international version of the New York Times from today, a new American reality, the government as provider.
Yeah, this is what it's talking about in the first hour.
You didn't hear much of it, snurdily because you're screening calls.
In a country that holds itself up as a citadel of free enterprise.
Washington is morphed from being the lender of last resort into effectively the only resort for home loans for millions of Americans engaged in the largest transactions of their lives.
Before, the government's more modest mission was to make more loans available at lower rates.
Now it is to make sure the loans that matter most to middle class Americans are made at all.
Damn right, this is not good.
The government people love it, but it isn't good.
The new reality, it says here, is scorned by libertarians and conservatives who fear intrusions, by the state in the market, and by populists and progressives who rue a society in which education and housing increasingly rest upon the government.
Don't tell me progressives are upset about any of this.
That's uh that's they don't even call themselves liberals anymore in the New York Progressives.
They love this.
If you're a socialist, you love what's going on.
And most liberals are either socialist or leaning in that direction.
Uh audio sound by time, this is related to what we were discussing in the first hour of the program, all of this big government and all of this activist government and government helping people.
Um this is what our conservative intelligentsia thinks conservatism needs to morph to, uh, so that we can get the votes of the middle class, uh, the working class, like Ronald Reagan did.
So the big difference is, and I again hearken back to LA Times last week, the big difference Reagan converted, he moved the electorate to the right.
Reagan didn't move to the center.
Our new guys and some of our old guys want us to move to the center to where they think people are, rather than attracting people on the foundations of our own philosophy.
So you remember Mickey Edwards, retired congressman from Oklahoma, who uh had some fairly critical things to say of me on C SPAN once.
I forget exactly what he said.
Oh, he said that the he was asked about the election of McCandy's it probably wouldn't make Rush Limbaugh happy.
Or would make whatever.
Anyway, he was on Bill Moyers goes out and finds conservatives, quote unquote.
Now, if you I gotta tell you if if you are a conservative and you accept Moyers' invitation, you're not.
Well, I don't want to get into who's a conservative and who isn't, but I mean, let's let's face it.
If Moyers wants you, there has to be some question.
Let's just put it that way.
If if Moyers out there looking for people he thinks who are conservatives to come on his show, there has to be a reason.
You should be suspicious if Bill Moyers calls you and says he wants you to come on to discuss conservatism.
Mickey Edwards and uh let's see, did it's question.
Well, here's the exchange.
There's the question from uh Moyers and Edwards is all contained here.
The people who are attacking me are post Reagan people.
I don't even know what they represent, but it is not conservatism.
You know, but they call themselves conservative.
Don't you think Rush Limbaugh considers himself the voice of of conservatism?
Don't you?
Well, yeah, I am sure he considers himself the voice of everything.
I mean But but look, uh the the fact is the people who created the conservative movement, the people who were the Goldwater Reagan people who wrote those platforms that that insisted that the District of Columbia have a vote in Congress.
Arizona, the Planned Parenthood uh gives an annual Barry Goldwater award.
You know, because we believed in free choice.
What?
You see?
Do you see what said Goldwater, Goldwater went over the edge later in life.
Planned parenthood was part of Reagan's conservatism planks in his conventions.
And free choice.
This is a this is precisely what I mean.
So here's Mickey Edwards, who I don't know, he's from Oklahoma, he's a retired member of Congress, telling me that I'm not a conservative, and he didn't even know what a conservative is, but he's now defining it.
This is this is exactly what is happening.
Now, also on this show, uh uh Roy I don't know how to do you know how to pronounce Ross uh do that's last night.
I it's D-O-U-T-H-A-T.
And he and a buddy have written a book which also describes uh it was it's their it's their book that that has the belief that we need to, as conservatives adapt some of the things from the New Deal as as a means of of uh getting the electorate back into our camp so that we can win.
And I d I don't I don't do not know how to pronounce his name.
I'm sorry, I it could be it looks D-O-U-T-H-A-T, do that, doubt that, doubt it, do it.
I don't know.
And I'm not trying to make fun of it.
I just don't know.
But he was also on with Mickey Edwards with Bill Moyers.
And uh Moyers says, well, all right, the some somewhere between you and Ross, then uh the radicals Of conservatism took over.
Mickey and I, I think, disagree on a lot of stuff and represent kind of different visions for the Republican Party, but I think Rush Limbaugh would pretty much hate us both.
Yeah, I'm not longing for a golden age.
You know, I'm longing for adherence to the Constitution of the United States.
Because when we talk about American exceptionalism, that's what it is.
It's not our wealth, it's not our military.
What makes us exceptional is our form of self-government, you know, that keeps most of the major powers over whether to go to war, what our tax policies ought to be, how much we spend, keeps it in the hands of the people through their representatives.
Yeah, Mickey, uh, you do you do you see what's happening out there today?
Um the form of self-government that you lionize here is vanishing.
Self-government equals limited government, and they're not much limited about our government these days, particularly in the financial markets.
Now, American exceptionalism, I would define it in a far more uh far deeper way.
And I've done it before.
I don't have time to do it now because I've got a break coming up and I've got one more bite.
But I can just I can I get close by asking the question.
We've been around for less than 230 years, right?
240 years as a as a uh country.
Now compare us to populations, cultures, societies who have been roaming the planet for thousands of years.
In less than 250 years, the people of the United States of America have outrun the rest of the world in everything.
Don't care how you define it.
I don't care what measure you want to make.
And this is not an accident.
There is an answer to the question, how did this happen?
How is it that societies and culture, say in Europe or elsewhere they've been on the planet for thousands of years, did not come close to doing what we did.
And we're no different as human beings, DNA is the same.
We're not better people.
We're not a better quality or class of human being anybody else is on the planet.
How did it happen?
There are definite answers to this, and those answers define American exceptionalism.
You can't take the military out of it.
You can't take prosperity out of it.
You can't take wealth creation out of it and say that's not what you mean by American exceptionalism.
Because it all works together in driving these things.
Anyway, the next qu uh and this this business about uh Ross Dutat saying that I would hate both him and Mickey.
I don't hate these guys.
I don't uh where does this come from?
Anyway, the next next question from Moyers says, is John McCain a conservative by your definition?
I believe in a you know a big tent for who is and who is not a conservative.
I think it's fair to define Mickey as a conservative.
I think it's fair to define Rush Limbaugh as a conservative.
I think, you know, there's a lot of variety within the conservative family, and I think, you know, McCain falls into that camp broadly speaking.
We're talking the difference here between Republicans and uh and conservative.
You know, conservative doesn't have any modifiers.
Conservative has a singular foundation, individual liberty.
And it that individual liberty and freedom is never going to go out of style.
And so conservatism doesn't need to be remade, reformed, reflaged, reshaped.
Uh but the Republican Party's in the process of trying to remake reform and reflake uh itself so as to appeal to uh more voters rather than to stand for something and attract voters.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue phone calls next after this.
You know, it it is it is kind of interesting here.
We have we have some Republicans who seem hellbent in throwing away the one the one proven winning formula twice that won 49 states they want to just throw that out.
And somehow if these guys Mickey Edwards and Ross Douth it, that's how he pronounces his name.
I found out I endeavored to find out during the break, so I don't have to sound unprofessional about his name.
Ross doubt that the the they have more enmity for me than they do Democrats.
And that's one of the things that sort of th it's it's becoming apparent to many of us here on the right side.
Our our presidential candidate seems to have a closer relationship with Democrats than he does with members of his own party.
And seems to want it that way.
Anyway, it just it it boggles my mind.
It's right out the blueprint for success, overwhelming success.
Want to win, want to win 49 states is how you do it.
Throw it out.
They're gonna throw it out.
We're gonna throw it out.
We got we need to moderate it, modify it, uh we need to upgrade it.
Version 2.0.
Uh we need big tents and so forth.
You you start big tenting, if you want a big tent the Republican Party, go right ahead.
You start big tenting conservatism, and you're going to have it end up mean nothing.
Here is uh where are we going on the phones?
Let me give me one of the um Yeah.
Elaine in Central California.
I'm glad you waited.
Elaine, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rash.
Hi.
I wanted to talk a little bit about Tony Snow.
Uh I had the pleasure of meeting him in April of 07.
Um my husband and I and two of our friends were visiting Washington, D.C., and we were staying in Alexandria, and we were on our way to a fish restaurant on King Street uh one evening, and I looked over and saw Tony standing there talking to a gentleman outside of a restaurant.
And I just felt that I had to say something to him about thinking about him and wishing him well, and so I did call out to him and I said, Tony, Mr. Snow, we're praying for you, and we're hoping that things work out well for you because you're the best press secretary the White House has ever had, and we look forward to seeing you back there.
And to my utter amazement, he walked down to the sidewalk where we were, because he was about 15 feet roughly away from us, and he shook my hand and he shook my husband's hand, and he asked where we were from, and we told him California.
And he talked to us a little bit about the chemotherapy that he was getting ready to undergo.
He had just been out of the hospital for a short time from that surgery, I think.
And he thanked us for thinking about him and praying for him, and he was so humble and just I uh he just such a fine person of and as you say, he had great faith and great faith in himself.
And he had this big smile on his face and always did.
He ought no matter w no matter where you saw him, no matter what the circumstance, he always had that smile.
It made you smile too.
Oh, it made me feel so good, and I am so saddened that he passed.
I uh I I just thought he was such a such a wonderful person and well, you were you were surprised that uh that he reacted to you, correct?
Oh, I was very surprised.
I expected him maybe to smile and say thanks or mouth thanks and maybe wave at me, but Harry took the time to actually come down and speak to us and where we were from and if we were enjoying our visit to DC, and it was just I I I was kind of at a loss for words.
Well, I'm glad you told the story because that's that's the uh the kind of person he was.
You used the word that that is uh extremely accurate, very accurate about Tony, and it's humble.
He never became larger than the institution that he worked at, whatever it was, he never became larger than his job, he never became the focus of it.
And and uh he was uh I'm sure when you when you shouted out to him, he was uh stunned and very appreciative and wanted to let you know so.
Uh rather than just wave at you and acknowledge you.
Uh he was he's just a gentle soul.
He was just it just one of those uh rare people that had no airs.
And I mean, we all have an ego, but his was hard to detect.
And he never never acted uh better than anybody or superior to people in any way, shape, manner, or uh or form.
So look, Elaine, I'm I'm glad you had the experience of meeting him.
And you know, it just goes to show when when this this kind of thing happens if you see somebody you've always wanted to meet, shout at them.
You never know what's gonna happen.
They might turn out to be a Tony Snow.
Uh and you uh some people you see that you don't want to meet, you just stare at him.
Uh but Tony was the kind of guy that he had that he had that outreach.
You wanted to know him.
It was he had the ability, be it from behind a microphone or from behind a camera.
He was consistently genuine.
He was totally authentic.
There were no heirs about the guy, and he was, you know, when you met Tony Snow from one day to the next, he was Tony Snow.
He was never Tony Snow on television.
He was never Tony Snow on radio.
He was never Tony Snow at the uh at the White House briefing room and podium.
He was just Tony Snow.
President Bush now announcing the lifting of the uh executive order banning offshore drilling.
Won't mean anything.
Congress still has to act, but he is announcing it as we speak.
I guess the substitute engineer did not get the memo on ending all name shout jingles at the uh half hour break.
Did you ed?
I'm sure Mamon Mamon wanted to get you in trouble.
That's why he didn't give you the memo.
Uh welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh Rush Limboy here with the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Mark in Houston.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, well, I just like to say, as an individual U.S. citizen, I personally hold the U.S. Congress of the United States responsible for this mortgage debacle.
Explain that, sir.
Well, you can't blame it on Clinton because he's no longer the president of the United States.
You can't blame it on Bush because I believe this started it with the banking act of 1996, which is a whole nother story.
But these Congressmen are not taking any responsibility for their actions.
And it's it's amazing that they're the ones that are actually the oversight of all these.
You know, this is you know, this this is a good point.
These guys get to act like spectators after the laws and regulations they pass blow up on everybody, and then they sit around and say, what the hell happened?
Who's responsible for this?
It's like, guess what?
How many years?
How many years have we had members of Congress blame big oil for gasoline prices?
And they've had all these hearings and so forth.
And now guess what the reason?
Now it's speculators.
Now it's speculators.
Members of Congress and the Democrats, it's speculators.
Evil speculate.
What happened to all these investigations of big oil?
How can you just drop big oil, members of Congress, and now blame it on the speculators?
The bottom line is it's members of Congress who've been standing in the way of adding to our own supply.
Members of Congress passed the Psycho the Banking Act of 1996, which got got the ball rolling on this subprime stuff, basically making loans to people who uh who could not afford them.
All because it just wasn't fair.
Some people couldn't, and they would be denied the uh the American dream.
Speaking of this, this is from the uh what was it?
The Sunday Mail newspaper in Australia.
Teachers, teachers are being urged to give children safety messages after reading them fairy tales, warning not to copy characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, and Hansel and Gretel.
A new child protection curriculum being implemented by the education department in Australia also requires teachers to refer to children's sexual parts and use their correct anatomical names with children as young as three.
Child development experts have backed these measures, but critics believe they are an example of political correctness overkill that could turn children into nervous wrecks.
I mean, this is political correctness run amok.
Okay, so you go out and you read the kids' fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, and Hansel and Gretel, and then the teachers are urged to give children safety messages telling them not to copy these characters, that these are bad characters, that these are bad people.
It's just uh places, it's just it's incalculable.
The political correctness and the whining and the lack of confidence in ill anybody to take care of themselves and the desire that nobody ever get hurt.
I don't mean physically, I'm talking about emotionally.
This is just uh bad vibes for the future for these kids.
They're just it's they're they're they're gonna grow up uh and have had no seasoning whatsoever.
It's all because we've got so much prosperity, even in Australia, so much time in our hands.
We have people to sit around and worry about these kind of things.
From the Associated Press.
Headline from July 10th.
Life not worth as much, says government agency.
It's not just the American dollar that's losing value.
A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
A government agency.
The value of a statistical life is $6.9 million in today's dollars, according to the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency.
They reckoned this in May, which is a drop of nearly one million dollars from just five years ago.
Five years ago you were worth $7.9 million.
Today you're down to $6.9 million.
Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences, my friends.
When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the life-saving benefits of a proposed rule.
The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
So the more worthless we are, the less they have to do for us.
Because the less there's going to be a return on their so-called investment in us.
Another example of way too many people with way too much time on their hands allowing them to do stupid studies and stuff like this.
You know, you know where you could take this to a logical conclusion that, you know, the the the pro the pro choices out there could say, well, look at the value of life is plummeting.
We used to be worth 7.9 million each, now we're down to 6.9 million.
We may as well abort some of these kids.
I mean, look what they're going to grow into.
They're going to have a lifetime worth of 6.9 million to the government.
Who k the day that we exist, folks, when the primary thing known about us is what our government thinks our value to them is, is a day we are in deep trouble.
And it looks like it's already started.
Value is.
This is this is this is one of these days.
Everything just doesn't seem sane.
Uh Clark in St. Albans, West Virginia.
Nice to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh.
Sir.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
And Ditto's from uh Proud Liberal who has been tuning you in for nearly 20 years.
Thank you, sir.
Very, very much.
Um I offer my most sincere condolences to Tony Snow's family, friends, and colleagues, and especially to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
I know he was a good friend to you.
Um Mr. Snow is one of the brightest points of light in conservative thought and politics.
Beyond that, he presented himself as a true gentleman, and I'll miss him.
That's very nice of you to say, sir.
And you're exactly right.
You are you've you've hit everything.
You've nailed it.
Well, um let's hope for more folks like him.
Well, yeah.
He was a special person.
I mean, it's trying to define what was unique.
We're all unique.
But I folks, I have to tell you, in the business he was in, media, to find somebody as selfless without this ego of notice me, notice me, notice me.
Uh what do you think about me?
How are they reacting to me?
What's the feedback on for example?
He finished a press briefing.
Most people will go back and study the tape and see how they did.
Did they look good?
Were they funny?
And they'll let them wonder how do they how do they like me out there?
Think they like me?
Tony would go back and say, okay, did I present this as effectively as I could have?
He was looked at it in the context of his uh of his job.
That's why he was happy.
He was a genuinely happy.
They've thrown this term happy warrior around, but he was a genuinely happy person.
And one of the one of the things that was, I think, crucial in making that possible is he was not obsessed with himself all the time.
He was uh he had other things that he devoted his um I mean he had professionalism, don't misunderstand, but he was not he was not diva-ish.
And believe me, I'll tell you in this in in the business he was in the media business, that that was a uh profound thing to achieve, and that may be hard to replicate in uh in media business.
Here's Lisa in Indianapolis.
Hi, Lisa, nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, Rush.
Yeah.
Long time my husband and I love you.
We've been 17 year listeners, oh sire of conservative wisdom.
Thank you very much, madam.
Thank you.
I'm calling because, you know, everybody talks about how the economy's in a downspin and you know, oil prices, but look who has been in control of our House and Senate now since 06.
The Democrats, madam.
There you go.
Why?
Somebody just spread the word.
Just you know, look, people.
This is reality.
This is what happens when you choose these type of leaders.
And, you know, to not drill an anwar and not drill off the coast.
I was in that industry for eight years.
Wait a second.
Wait a second.
Wait a second, wait a second.
That's also true of Senator McCain.
Can't drill an end war uh with Senator McCain.
Well, right, he he scares me.
I mean, I I'm I am a Mitt Romney fan, and I was just devastated that he wasn't running.
So you know, I'm it it will be interesting to see what happens, but it also is a nerve-wracking time because things just need to change.
We need our conservatives back in office.
There is such a golden opportunity here from gasoline prices to the whole oil mess, and now these this bulging government bailing everybody out of a government between becoming the lender of only resort, with more and more people becoming dependent on government, this is a great opportunity.
Some on our side say, no, we've already lost it, Rush.
This is what you don't understand.
The electorate wants their government this way, we've got to find a way to appeal to them and give it to them better.
Fine, is what you believe, but it's it's gonna it's gonna end up wrecking the system of these people that want all this bigger government, a more active, involved conservative type government.
They ought to be celebrating with what's happening today back after this, don't go away.
Ha, we are back, L Rush bought the cutting edge of societal evolution.
And uh we go back to phones, and I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna share with you the details of how much jet fuel we use just in refueling into Iraq operations, Operation Enduring Freedom and uh Operation Iraqi Freedom.
It'll blow your mind.
It'll literally blow your mind.
Just we would you would there's all this discussion about oil or whether it's shortages, there aren't any.
It'll this that will blow your mind.
But meanwhile, Patricia in Minneapolis, I'm glad that you waited.
Welcome to our program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I just want to call and say thank you.
Thank you, thank you so much for your bullets.
If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't know what these idiots are doing up there in Congress.
Thank you so much for which idiots.
There's a lot of idiots up there.
The Democrat and the Republic public.
Republicans.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
They have they have appeared to have uh joined forces in some things, such as expanding government and spending money and so forth.
Uh not totally, but anyway, well, I'm I'm happy to be your Paul Revere.
Uh you don't need any other person, you don't need another place.
Feel free to constantly tune into the EIB network, and we will uh satisfy everything you want, and then some.
Now I got this note.
We were talking last week about jet fuel, and it was in the context of the aviation business And all the new airplanes that are being built and designed, and all the new airplanes being bought.
How much jet fuel they use?
And I don't know that a lot of people have uh a grasp of how much fuel one big jumbo jet uses.
So Mark Hassaro, who was the chief of the air refueling control team during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom sent me a note.
He says, We got a call late in the Iraqi war asking how much he uses gas here for the term, but this is jet fuel.
And by the way, some some some military jets use a combination of jet A and gas.
It's so he's just think fuel here.
We got a call late in the Iraqi war asking how much gas we had offloaded out of Air Force tankers.
The KC-10 and the plane I flew, the KC-135.
As of the 5th of April, on that date in late the Iraq War, we had offloaded 417 million, 233,000 pounds of gas to 28,783 coalition fighters in 5,834 tanker missions.
Our best day was the two days before Colonel Dave Perkins' thunder run into Baghdad International.
We're talking about the original invasion here.
We're not talking about the whole war.
We're talking about the original invasion.
So Colonel Dave Pergen's thunder run into Baghdad government, uh, Baghdad International Airport, the third ID was on the outskirts of Baghdad, and we had a lot of close air support and strike coordination and reconnaissance fighter and bomber missions supporting the ground troops.
We offloaded out of U.S. Air Force tankers on that day.
17.6 million pounds of fuel.
There is six and a half pounds per gallon as a conversion, six and a half pounds per gallon, and they offloaded 17.6 million pounds.
We were told by a Saudi official, you're in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Gas will not be an issue.
The 417 million pounds of fuel would allow General Mosley, the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, to make 1,037 round trips to the moon in his Ford F-150, as a way of illustrating how much the moon's what?
240 million miles up there or out there.
So the 417 million pounds that we had offloaded to 28,783 coalition fighters, that fuel would allow someone to make 1,037 round trips to the moon in a Ford F-150.
And Mark says, I know this because some newspaper people called me and asked me what the 417 million pounds of fuel was in human terms.
So I did the math and I came up with the Moon and the Sun trips.
It'd be two and a half trips to the sun on 417 million pounds of fuel in a pickup truck.
We went over one billion pounds offloaded out of United States Air Force jets over Afghanistan in October of 2002.
That would allow every man, woman, and child living at that time in El Paso, Texas, 533,000 of the population, the whole area there, to drive cars for over six months on the Air Force tanker fleet.
Thought you'd want to know how much it takes to run an air campaign like enduring Iraqi freedom.
All the best, Mark.
Now you can look at this one of two ways.
You can look at it as some people no doubt are.
Well, that's why we need to reduce the thigh of the military, Mr. Limbaugh, because see how much fuel we could be saving for ourselves and our children.
Look at how much they're wasting and they're coming.
People are giving me that reaction.
Or you could say, my gosh, this is so massive, I can't get my arms around this.
I can't, I can't comprehend this.
But one thing I do know, there cannot possibly be a shortage of any fuel from which jet A and gasoline are derived, i.e., oil.
That's just one day.
Two days, essentially, folks, back after this, got to take a quick timeout.
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