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July 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Wow, did you see this?
USA Today, the nation's McNewspaper, saw their advertising revenue plunge 27% in June.
Maybe Congress can bail them out too.
Bailout season.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
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Obama!
You know something?
I have come to a conclusion.
Inevitability in the Democrat Party is a death knell.
Hillary was inevitable, correct?
And where is she?
Her latest appearance been in that jib jab video.
And old Bill's out there Bill is out there warning of growing polarization in the country.
How can we get more polarized?
And these people were the ones that actually started it back in the in the 90s.
But poor old Obama.
Now he's he's he's uh well, I guess that the tag of inevitability has accrued to Obama, and he's screwing everything up now.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I say so myself, I had a pretty decent observation.
Yesterday, of course, by the way, the oil price plunging today, the stock market way up today.
Bad news for the Democrats, not good for them.
Anyway, uh yesterday when the economic news was just horrible.
You had the Fed chairman up there testifying before the Senate.
You got the president trying to shore up the economy, you had people being kicked out of their houses because they can't pay their mortgages, renters.
Oh, and this is a great story in the LA Times or somewhere today.
I've find it somewhere.
The big story on how home prices, the average home price in California has fallen.
23 or 27%.
But prices are still not low enough for renters to be able to buy.
And the line in the story is, and Congress has done nothing about it.
Well, what are they supposed to do?
This dovetails precisely with what I was talking about yesterday.
Congress supposed to help you buy a house even now after Congress helping a lot of people buying a house led to the subprime mortgage problem that we're having.
It's unreal out there.
Anyway, while all this was going on yesterday, there's Obama popping up somewhere doing a speech on Iraq and rephrasing and refining uh his uh his position on this, and it was strictly a speech to the far left wing fringe, which is upset because he said he's gonna consult the chief joints of staff and then the commanders on the ground and may not pull people out of there as quickly as possible.
Now he's pulled all the references to the fact the surge won't work from his website.
And I pointed out all this economic news is going on.
He's making a speech about Iraq, and nobody cares about Iraq right now because we're winning.
In fact, I actually think that the drive-bys are unintentionally screwing Obama.
Unintentionally.
The drive-bys are not reporting how well we're doing in Iraq, therefore he doesn't know how well we're doing, so he comes off as a know-nothing.
I mean, the drive-by are inadvertently damaging this guy.
I wouldn't say it's gotten to the point yet of destroying him, but he's in deep doo-doo out there.
Everybody knows that's paying attention that Iraq is doing well, the surge is working well, and Bush is talking about accelerating the troop withdrawal.
There's Obama giving a speech about Iraq as though it's 18 months ago.
Why?
He's got obviously nobody in his staff reads the papers.
Well, they if not, they they do read the papers, and the papers and the drive-bys have nothing in the news about Iraq, so he's stuck in a time warp.
Washington Post editorializes today with a point that I made.
This is this is really tone-deaf what he did yesterday, and he made the same impression on the editorial writers at the uh at the Washington Post.
Now, uh uh yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, as you recall, When the uh uh New Yorker cover cartoon was blowing up all over the place, and the Obama campaign was talking about how upset they were about this, and it was just uncalled for, and you know, all the yada yada yada.
I pointed out that the only people that get mad uh over cartoons, stupid cartoons, is Muslims, radical Muslims, are the only one and here's here's Obama out there, fresh off a cover cartoon, alluding to him satirically as a Muslim, and his wife is a terrorist, and he getting upset about it.
He's still upset about it.
He's still talking about this.
He's whining and moaning about it.
Uh, and now he's changed his tack.
He's his tact now is that this upsets Muslims, American Muslims, and it's just not fair, and it's just not right.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Last night on Larry King Alive, King said to Obama, that New Yorker cover depicts you and your wife, uh, you dressed in a Muslim outfit, your wife in a kind of military outfit.
Come on, Larry, she's dressed as a terrorist.
She got an AK-47, a bandola of bullets over there, look like Angela Davis.
Well, what is military outfit, Larry?
Say the word terrorist.
The New Yorker portrayed Michelle My Bell as a terrorist.
Oh Osama bin Laden's uh picture hanging and burning in the uh the flag burning in a fireplace.
Well, what what did you what did you make of that, Osama Obama?
I know uh it was the New Yorkers' uh attempt at satire.
I don't think they were entirely successful with it, but you know what, it's a cartoon, Larry.
And that's why we've got the first amendment.
And I think uh the American people are probably spending a little more time worrying about what's happening with the banking system and the housing market and what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan than a cartoon.
I've seen and heard worse.
I I do think that you know, in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead.
But uh, you know, that that was their editorial judgment.
And as I said, it's uh ultimately it's a cartoon, it's not where the American people are spending a lot of their time thinking about it.
What do you think they're thinking about?
They're thinking about Iraq.
Everybody's talking about this Obama in the places that you need to be interested in.
Everybody's fascinated by it, because in a drive-by's your pals are worried that the satire didn't come off as satire because they didn't put me anywhere in the cover.
And so he's it's it's it's just it's upsetting to him.
It does it it bothers him a uh a great deal.
So he says it's just a cartoon and all that, but doesn't think the satire was pulled off by the people at the New Yorker.
And King said, well, considering that, though, there's a there's a lot of emails going around.
It gets rather terrible.
A Newsweek poll shows that 12% of America believes that you are a Muslim.
Twenty-six percent believe that you were raised in a Muslim home, a lot of misinformation.
How do you fight that uh uh Obama?
Well, you know, by getting on Larry King and uh telling everybody I'm a Christian and I wasn't raised in a Muslim home.
And pledge allegiance to the flag and you know all the things that have been reported in these emails are uh completely untrue and have been debunked again and again and again.
You know, th this is actually uh an insult against uh Muslim Americans.
Something that we don't spend a lot of time talking about, and sometimes I've been derelict in pointing that out.
You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans uh all across the country who are doing wonderful things, and and for this to be used as sort of an insult or to raise suspicions about me, I think, is unfortunate.
And it's not what America's all about.
Bull, it is totally what America's all about.
America's all about political satire.
This is totally America.
I'll be telling you what he's doing here.
Uh, my good friends, Obama with this latest comment saying it's an insult of Muslim Americans, he's trying to incite them.
He's trying to incite Muslim Americans to also join the chorus of those complaining about this.
And of course, the irony here is, ladies and gentlemen, that uh he thinks American Muslims ought to raise hell about a cartoon that is intended to lampoon us.
This cartoon is intended to make fun of us conservatives.
And we out there whining About it?
No.
We're reveling in the fact that they didn't pull it off, and everybody on their side's worried that the idiots that make up a majority of the people of this country aren't going to have the sophistication to understand it.
So he hopes that this will end up inciting uh Muslims if he can convince them that this is lampooning them.
Now, there have to be in the Obama campaign, there have to be some really perverse minds at work in this campaign, constantly trying to manipulate the public based on emotions, such as race or religion, desperation, you name it.
And the reason for that is when you lack a good record.
Well, when you lack a record, period, 143 days, you're a community organizer in Chicago working for a corrupt voter registration unit called acorn.
When that's when when you when you have a record that insignificant, and then you have to embark on a on a campaign to conceal the real you, such as your buds, Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
You know, this is what you do.
You try to divert attention with emotional appeals and uh and rants, and that's what they're trying to do here.
And it's just funny that this topic will not go away.
Why why do you think that the drive-bys are so obsessed with this?
And why do you think Obama is, and why do you think nobody is really letting go of this?
There is an answer to this, ladies and I, of course, have it, but right now it's time for a windfall profit timeout here on the EIB network.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
Do not go away.
Just reviewing the audio soundbite ruster.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
We are such.
We are such a terrible country, ladies and gentlemen.
We just we just it's just I I don't know how collectively we get up and look at ourselves in the mirror every day.
After all, look at this Reuters headline, Obama not closing the racial divide, according to a poll.
You see how horrible we are.
Americans are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party, according to a New York Times CBS news poll.
The poll found that blacks and whites hold vastly different views of Senator Obama and are also divided on the state of race relations in the United States.
In the survey, 83% of blacks had a favorable opinion of Obama compared with 31% of white voters.
And then Reuters pointing out that here's here's what Reuters thinks of their readers.
The next line is this.
Obama will face John McCain, a white Republican senator from Arizona, in the November 4th presidential election.
I'm not so sure.
I got a blog story here coupled with a couple of other elements to it.
Apparently, eight superdelegates are preparing to change their minds here.
Away from Obama.
You know, there is tumult on Capitol Hill in the Democrat Party over Obama.
I had this story in the stack yesterday.
I didn't get to it, but I remember the uh premise of it, and that is they don't they think campaigns disjointed.
They don't like the fact he's moved it to Chicago, the DNC.
Um that they don't they don't like the fact they're not involved in it, and they they see it as a as as a as an elitist uh removed campaign, and the Obama people quoted in the story says, Well, sort of right.
Uh when we roll into Washington, we don't want to owe anybody there.
We don't want to have to pay anybody back until we get there.
And the story goes on to point out that's not how it works in politics, that you don't get elected president or nominated by your party in a vacuum.
Jimmy Carter tried the same thing.
Yes, I know.
Jimmy Carter tried the same thing.
Uh that's why there's nothing universally new here.
There's no change, nothing that's uh not been seen or done or said before by any political candidate.
Anyway, on the status of race relations, 59% of black respondents thought that they were generally bad in this country, compared with 34% of whites who thought that the race relations are generally bad.
It was a uh nationwide phone poll, 1,796 adults showed that 39% of blacks said there had been no real progress in recent years in getting rid of racial discrimination.
Only 17% of whites said the same thing.
Twenty-seven percent of whites said too much had been made of problems facing black people, while half of blacks said not enough had been made of racial barriers that they face.
Well half the blacks don't feel that way.
That's right.
Half the blacks do not feel that way.
You would have to suggest then that that's uh progress.
If half the blacks do not feel that way, they don't report to half the blacks that don't feel that way.
They only report to half the blacks that do.
Uh the poll was conducted July 7 to the 14th at a margin of error, plus or minus three percentage points.
So remember now the reason this headline, Obama not closing the racial divide.
This is one of the things that he lost early on in his campaign.
He was the he was the post-racial candidate.
He was going to transcend all of this.
His race was not going to be a factor.
That's how it started.
That blew up when Reverend Wright's videos hit the scene.
And then the Obama campaign began using race as a campaign tool.
So the so many things that started out with this campaign have gone overboard or been thrown under the bus, not just his grandmother, but a lot of things, a lot of the premises.
Everybody's living off of uh an image of Obama that doesn't fit anymore.
They they remember the Obama of six months ago in the early primaries where he was transcending all these things and was new and change was going to happen and revolutionary things were just around the corner.
And now he's just the same old regular Democrat presidential candidate, no different than any other others that have come down the pike.
And I think as a result of this, my personal opinion, ladies and gentlemen, he keeps whining.
And this is by the way, this is the Oprahization of America.
You go on Oprah and to prove your bona fides, you whine, you even cry a little bit, and you really pull it off if you get Oprah to cry over your story.
Then you've hit a grand slam if you do that.
And so Obama is following that model.
He's out there whining, he's asking for sympathy, either for him or uh all these uh Muslim Americans that are out there making these great contributions.
And I think he runs the risk of people getting tired of him.
You know, back in back in the early days of this, there was all this excitement, and everybody was wondering, my gosh, this oratory, is this gonna be enough?
I mean, people really vote on this because the comparison between an Obama speech and a McCain speech, there's no comparison.
And now all that all that glitter is gone.
The aura is gone.
Now we use the term Messiah and Lord Barack Obama as a joke.
That's how he thinks of himself.
That's how a lot of his campaign thinks of him.
Remember those days where those terms were applicable in a political sense.
But now I I just wonder if people aren't going to get tired of him as he's just constantly changing his mind on things, becoming more like an average run-of-the-mill day-in-day-out politician.
Here, he was on the uh the news hour with Jim O'Lara last night, guest hosting was Gwen Eiffel, and she said to Obama, people look at your shifts on issues from warrantless surveillance to gun control, and they say, Who is this guy?
What does he believe?
How do you begin to, in this stage in your campaign, tell people who you are and have it stick?
First of all, uh, I do think that this notion that somehow we've had wild shifts in my positions is simply inaccurate.
You mentioned the gun position.
I've been talking about the Second Amendment being an individual right for the last year and a half.
So there wasn't a shift there.
Sympathetic.
Well, campaign finance, there's no doubt that that was a shift.
The broader point, Gwen, is if you compare sort of my shift in emphasis on issues that I've been proposing for years, like faith-based initiatives.
Right, which uh have raised uh questions uh in the press.
Oh, yeah.
You compare that to John McCain.
And raised hackles among some of your supporters.
Well, uh raised hackles uh amongst uh some in the blogosphere.
Uh this guy is sounding like he's got less energy than McCain has.
Uh, recent soundbites that we have played of the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama.
He really, he's really, really down speed.
I mean, this is this is I I I'm listening to this and I keep going.
Come on, speed it up.
Is the broadcast engineer playing games with the playback speed on this?
But this is just a flat-out lie when he talks about his gun position.
I've been talking about the Second Amendment being an individual right for the last year and a half for crying out loud, he came out in total support of the DC gun ban, and he called it constitutional.
Then when the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional, he did a flip-flop.
You know, here's the thing.
Gwyn Eiffel asks these questions, and then Barry answers them, but there aren't any follow-ups.
He's allowed just to give his answer with no f but they know.
They know that he's flip-flopping.
They know that he's making these changes in positions, and this question, how do you begin to in this stage in your campaign tell people who you are and have it stick?
Ms. Eiffel, let me assist.
The express purpose of the Obama campaign is to avoid people finding out who he is.
Their goal is to make sure nobody knows for sure who he is.
Because he's a radical leftist.
And all this talk, these syllables are meaningless.
They are just calculated positioning because he knows radicalism will not be elected president, just like Jeremiah Wright could never be.
Oil price plummeted like six bucks in 15 minutes this morning, right before the program started, and the Dow Jones industrial average is up around 135 to 137 right now.
Uh a couple of things about this oil price.
Why is the oil price coming down?
Because there have a report this morning that inventories are increasing.
And why are inventories increasing?
Because people are using less.
Because the price has gone up.
Now, I remember, what was it, a month ago now?
We had a long discussion on this program.
When everybody's saying that the oil price per barrel was going to get $200.
And I said, folks, even if it does, it is not going to stay there because the market can't support it.
The market won't be able to support $150.
The aviation industry will not be able to stay in business if it gets that.
It's just that simple.
Market forces are market forces, and nobody's going to bail out airlines, and nobody's going to subsidize fuel costs.
It isn't going to happen.
And so lo and behold, look what happens when Congress just stays out of things.
Now when they just stay out of it.
And by staying out of it, I don't mean opposing drilling.
If if if we could come to an agreement on that, then these prices would plummet even further.
But that aside, doing nothing, people responded to the price.
We f there was a tipping point in the price of gasoline.
It was four bucks per gallon.
Once it hit that, people started making dramatic, noticeable changes, resulting in less usage, which resulted in greater inventories.
Guess what's happening to jet fuel?
Bloomberg had a story.
I think this was Monday, late in the afternoon.
I printed it out and was going to use it yesterday.
Again, didn't get to it.
But Bloomberg News had a story on what's happening to jet fuel.
Jet fuel prices are going down as well.
And you know why?
Because there's so much supply.
Look at all these airlines parking airliners.
I think what's the total one airline alone said they're going to cut back to the tune of grounding 400 airplanes, or maybe that's the total number of groundings with two or three big airlines.
I'm not, I'm not sure which.
But regardless, you parked that many airplanes, and that's a whole lot less jet fuel you're using.
And this story was a sob story about the price of jet fuel falling.
Because of people who sell it, that's bad news for them.
And I'm reading this and I wonder what people would think if they read with all these high prices, everything.
What would people think with a sob story about prices going down when that's what the consumer Wants.
It's what the airline industry wants.
But the people in the refinery businesses and so forth who sell these products, not good when the price goes down.
So in every bit of economic news is good and bad, depending on whose perspective you're looking at.
Anyway, this Bloomberg story suggested that the plummeting sales of jet fuel simply because there are fewer airplanes flying around was going to lead to a precipitous drop in the price of oil per barrel.
This story predicted well, it the story didn't it cited some experts who said if this keeps up, that the barrel price of oil next January, not jet fuel here, the barrel price price of oil will be $90 next January.
And I'm wondering how come this news hasn't made it beyond the Bloomberg wire?
Because every time there's a story about, you know, some Sheikh or some analyst or some liberal Democrat somewhere predicting that the oil price is going to hit 150 or 200, it's plastered all over the place.
But here's some people speculating that the barrel price might come down to $90 by January because of all this restricted usage.
So there isn't a shortage.
I even saw a story yesterday, somebody predicting gas lines.
Somebody's predicting gas lines.
It's just right around the corner.
All this all this doom and gloom.
It ain't gonna happen.
It is not going to happen if these supply concerns or these supply figures continue to uh increase as people continue to drive less.
I mean, people are not going on as many vacations.
They're not taking as many days.
They're not driving as far.
They're they're cutting back on uh on a lot of things.
Real market situations and circumstances having a real effect, and the members of Congress haven't done anything.
But the only thing that's happened here is that the president has uh has done a couple press conferences in which he's touted the uh the strength of the uh of the economy.
So these high prices uh that were forecast 150 a barrel, two hundred dollars a barrel, the market could not support those.
There's no way that they're gonna be kept that high.
If they if they if they got there for a day or an hour or whatever, and we've seen that they did get to 147.
What's the what's the um showing now?
1333.
You think it's 133?
Yeah.
133.
Got down to below 130 earlier today.
So that's it's just it's it's fascinating to watch this.
And watch now the the the oil price is coming down, and it's not being reported in too many places, and where it is being reported, it's being reported as a bad sign for the uh for big oil and the refiners and all these people who make their money selling the stuff.
Just it's just and after after six solid weeks of coverage bemoaning the effect on the poor American consumer.
The price starts going down and the drive-by's run sob stories even about that.
Sob story and the and USA Today and these newspapers wonder why it is that their ad revenue is plummeting, their circulation is plummeting, and why they're having to lay people off.
I I've never seen a more regimented business.
I the this the drive-by news business is becoming more and more regimented.
There is less creative thought, there's less curiosity.
It is it is it's like a formula that is getting tighter and more strictly controlled and followed.
To the point that I don't care what newspaper you pick up and read, given the subject matter of the story, you will be able to predict the take.
And when you can predict the take, when you can predict what's going to be in a news story, why, ladies and gentlemen, read it.
Want to go back to Obama for a minute before we go to our next uh windfall profit timeout.
Back in the days when Obama was sailing on the clouds as the Messiah, he didn't have any concerns about satire.
He was very balanced about it.
He was on WJR radio in Detroit, our 50,000 watt below torch affiliate there with Paul W Smith.
And Paul W. Smith said, I have to do this because Limbaugh is on our radio station, and we'll see him here tomorrow.
You've heard Rush Limbaugh's parody song, Barack, the magic Negro.
I you know, I I have not heard it, But I've heard of it.
I I confess that I I don't listen to Russia on a daily basis.
Uh on the other hand, I'm not one of these people who uh who takes myself so seriously that uh I get offended by uh every every comment made about me.
I you know, uh the uh you know what Rush does is is uh uh entertainment.
And uh although it's it's probably not something that uh you know I listen to much.
Uh I don't know.
But you said not every day, so you do listen a little then.
I you know, why wouldn't you?
I don't mind I don't mind folks uh poking fun at me.
Uh that's part of the job.
Well, well, well, ladies and this was back this was May the second of two thousand seven.
Over a year ago, he was totally fine with satire.
Now what do you think's changed, my friends?
Having more fun.
Human beings should be allowed to have Rush Limboy, your guiding lights back after this.
Stay right where you are.
That story about there being some unhappy campers in the Democrat Party on Capitol Hill with Obama was a couple days it was yesterday actually in the uh politico dot com.
After a brief bout of um Obama mania, some Capitol Hill Democrats are begun to complain privately that Obama's presidential campaign is insular, uncooperative, and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democrat victory in November.
They think they know what's right and everybody else is wrong on everything, growls the senior Senate Democrat aide.
They're kind of insufferable at this point, talking about the Obama people.
Uh th this is uh interesting because the Republicans think the same thing about McCain.
The Republicans think McCain's out there just trying to get elected president, doesn't care what happens to the rest of the party, and now some Democrats on Capitol Hill are saying the same thing about Obama that he doesn't care what happens to the rest of the party.
I don't think that's true in Obama's case.
I th I think I think the Democrats just assume that they're going to win in a in the biggest landslide in American history.
I think they think they're gonna pick up seventy seats in the House.
I think they think they're gonna pick up twelve in the Senate.
They're gonna win sixty forty in the White House.
I don't think they think they have to do anything for coattails.
Go to the phones.
We'll start in uh in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Dave, thank you for calling.
Uh your first today.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh glad to talk to you.
I'd like to address the uh issue about Rockport, Missouri, presumably getting a hundred percent of its uh electricity from four wind turbines.
By the way, I got a I got a story from somebody out of there yesterday saying the drive by report on that was wrong.
There are more than four.
Doesn't matter if there are four turbines or four thousand turbines, it's complete baloney.
Tell me it's not physically possible.
Well, in the first place you'd have to have strong winds at all times.
Twenty-four, seven, three sixty-five.
This occurs almost no place on earth.
Uh maybe the top of Mount Everest, perhaps.
Uh at best thirty percent of the time anywhere in the civilized world.
So uh without that, you have to have another source of electricity during the other seventy percent of the time, which comes from conventional sources.
Right.
Something to power gas nuclear.
Right, something to power the turbines.
Well, the the turbines are powered by wind, but when their wind isn't blowing, they don't produce any electricity.
And although most people don't know it and don't realize it, there's no storage on the grid.
There's no possible way to store that kind of electricity.
There are no batteries large enough.
So this is the fatal flaw of wind energy.
It requires fossil fuel backup of at least ninety percent of the installed capacity of whatever the windmills are.
So at least.
And uh just check the Eon report in Great Britain and it will confirm that.
Uh Great Britain.
I believe you.
You you have uh you you have a trustworthy uh not very confident voice.
Well, I am confident because I read and uh I know what's going on in Europe with respect to wind energy, and it's not a pretty picture.
Uh it's even more complicated than that because you can't predict when and how hard the wind will blow, and it causes havoc on a grid because you can't ramp these sources up, these conventional sources, coal nuke and gas, right take a long time to ramp up and down.
So basically they have to be running all the time to cover the intermittency of wind.
And bottom line is that wind turbines produce no net CO two reduction, Even though that's basically the only reason they exist.
Well, theoretically it's the only reason they exist.
Well, the reason they exist is tax credits.
And the reason that governments make the tax make the tax credits available, which by the way are incredibly high, uh, is because of the political pressure that the wind industry has placed upon greens and politicians.
And most people think they're I read something just recently that said eighty percent of all people think wind turbines are uh wonderful.
In other words, that they produce electricity and uh they're an answer to our energy needs.
It's very, very sad how many people have bought into this whole notion that uh alternatives are somehow pristine, clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, almost almost godlike versus the systems that we use now, which are totally destructive.
You know, you you could draw a similar analogy.
Let's say that the uh the hybrid industry, hybrid automobile industry, and all the related advocates succeeded in getting just half, let's say half the people in LA driving them.
When they all have to plug in somewhere to recharge batteries.
Well, that will cause a blackout or brownout immediately.
Yeah, but where does that power come from?
Is the point.
Well, we don't have much excess capacity.
Right now there is still a little bit of excess capacity in this country, but it's declining rapidly, and wind power and all the other alternative energy isn't really replacing it because it all requires backup.
I could the same is true of solar, although solar is such a minor factor that it doesn't even enter into it.
But basically, uh we will find out in a few years after we, you know, struggle through this process and after we watch what you is going on in Europe that wind power is the next ethanol.
In other words, it doesn't really work.
It was a nice try.
We wasted trillion or billions.
There's already been three billion dollars worth of federal money spent on it.
Polluted our countryside's appearance.
Sure.
And uh the difference between wind energy and ethanol is you can always abandon uh the cornfields and replant soybean or use the corn for feed.
But once the windmills are up, they'll never come down.
It it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to remove them.
They won't be removed.
Uh they will scar the countryside for decades to come, and they will be useless.
Well, it's it's going to be interesting when this comes to uh pass.
We could perhaps use them as cell phone towers.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe we could make uh thrill rides out of them.
You could have the, you know, a drop from them and charge admission or something like that.
And some of them are approaching five hundred feet tall.
Right.
They'll find something to make billboards out of them or sell advertising on them or something.
But the bottom line is when the scenario that you describe happens.
When down the road, we find out that this whole thing has been bogus.
The people that were responsible for it will never ever get blamed.
We will only be able to talk about their good intentions.
We will never be able to talk about the failed results.
At least they were trying to do something while the rest of you were all naysaying it.
At least they were trying.
This is how leftists pretty much excuse every failure, and there are too many to mention here, every failure that they author and engineer.
Be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
I guess the original plan for the homeless in Denver during the Democratic convention didn't work out.
Whatever it was.
Now they're going to give them movie tickets.
To get them off the streets during the convention.
We'll be back.
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