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July 30, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Denver has told delegates and others already in Denver from the Democrat Party working on the Democratic Convention, no more tax-free gasoline.
What was happening was that the Democrats in town for the planning stages of the Democrat National Convention were going to the city of Denver's gasoline pumps.
Now, the city of Denver doesn't pay federal taxes because it's city gasoline.
So the Democrats were going to the city's pumps to gas up their vehicles for all their driving around, personal and otherwise.
And of course, this news hit last week to a huge uproar.
And so the city of Denver has finally told the Democrats, get your gasoline somewhere else.
So here we have the Democrats who want to raise taxes on everybody else, and they can't wait to do that.
Nevertheless, showing us how they intend to live for themselves, setting up the point that there are two sets of rules, one for everybody else and one for liberal Democrats.
They're going to make more stringent the rules by which we all have to live while not applying those same rules to themselves any time, any chance they have to circumvent their own rules on everybody else.
They take it.
In Chicago yesterday, Senator Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists, stopped short of endorse, this is in Chicago, I think it's actually a couple days ago now, stopped short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to American Indians, but said the country should acknowledge its history of poor treatment of certain ethnic groups.
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for, said Obama to hundreds of attendees at Unity 08, a convention of four minority journalism associations.
My friends, it gets worse.
Obama said, I personally would want to see our tragic history or the tragic elements of our history acknowledged.
I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.
This guy is obsessed with the imperfections of this country, imperfections that have largely been overcome.
There isn't slavery anymore.
The amount of racism that's official racism, discrimination is so small today, it's outrageous to even bring it up.
But these people, and he may even mention the word, when he was in Germany, my country is imperfect.
So he just continues to ram his country, run it down to any group of people that he thinks will be sympathetic to it.
When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so.
During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which is broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
This is not a surprise to me, but it's you've got these minority journalists and they're in a tank for Obama and they applaud him when he come out and they still want to say they're independent journalists.
But I mean, this was a giant get-together of a bunch of people that still have grievances about what's happened in this country in the past and they want to focus on what's wrong with this country.
And these are the people who are talking about change.
These are the people that want to bring us change.
That change is going to be payback, folks.
That change is going to be, we're going to get even with you.
Make no mistake about it.
By the way, New York City, the governor, David Patterson, says that New York State is officially in a recession.
Sent his budget director out to say New York State is officially in a recession.
Now, what is noteworthy about this?
I'll tell you what's noteworthy about this.
New York State, when you add up, if you are a prosperous property owner in New York State or city, if you add up all the taxes you pay, you pay a higher rate than they pay in Europe.
When you combine federal, state, city, property, all of the unincorporated business tax, there are countless taxes in New York and they add up to a larger tax bite than in Europe.
So with all of those high taxes, which is what Obama wants to do, is raise our taxes.
He even has a bill out there that they're working on that's called the Global Poverty Act, which would raise our taxes to wipe out poverty around the world.
Something you don't do with tax increases.
You do it with free trade.
You do it with open markets.
You do it with freedom, ingenuity, entrepreneurism, and liberty.
You don't do it with high taxes, and New York has just shown it.
They got the high taxes that Democrats dream of, and they are officially in a recession.
They have a budget deficit that's going to approach $6.5 billion.
So residents of New York City, productive and owned property, taxed at a total higher rate that the socialists in the EU charge.
And the governor of New York is now saying it's not enough.
It's not enough.
The evidence for what happens with high taxes in large welfare states is all over the world to see.
New York, the latest example of it.
And yet, the Democrat Party has announced, they've nominated a candidate who wants to do as much as he can to replicate the budgetary and tax policies of New York State into the federal government.
You realize, by the way, a story came out, homelessness is down 12%.
How does that happen during a Republican administration?
How does homelessness decline 12% in a Republican administration?
I'm being facetious, of course.
This is a story I can't believe it hit.
By the way, New Gallup poll out today.
And this is from U.S. News and World Report.
And there is just a little sentence in here that is buried.
And it dovetails very nicely with the story about New York State being in a recession officially with a combined tax rate higher than the socialist tax rates of the European Union.
Here is this little sentence.
A Gallup poll shows that no matter what their income or political affiliation, an overwhelming majority of Americans prefer economic growth over income redistribution as the best way to fix the economy.
Perhaps this poll shows that drive-by Democrat efforts to foist class envy and other tools in the arsenal of redistribution advocates for what they are anti-American and anti-capitalist.
Now, this has not been publicized.
U.S. News dug this out, but this is in a poll about something else.
This little sentence is in there, and the U.S. News doesn't even highlight it.
They just throw it in.
No matter what their income or political affiliation, overwhelming majority of Americans prefer economic growth over income redistribution as the best way to fix the economy.
Well, in a sane political world, Barack Obama, the Democrat Party would not even stand a chance here.
At any rate, we got to take a quick time out here.
When we come back, we will revisit 1992, my first appearance on Nightline, which happened to be a debate against then-Senator Al Gore on the environment.
Stay with us.
We're coming right back.
Rush, it's Glenn Beck, and I just wanted to wish you happy anniversary.
Thank you for not only changing America, but also single-handedly saving AM radio so schlubs like me could actually have a job.
Glenn Beck, part of the Premier Radio's stable syndicated broadcast shows.
Thank you very much, Glenn.
I appreciate that.
Let's go back to the archives, shall we, ladies and gentlemen?
Oh, by the way, Bob Wexler is going to lease an apartment in his Florida district.
Do you remember this came up?
Congressman Wexler does not have a Florida residence.
He lists his Florida residence as his mother's place, but he's got three kids, and they do not allow kids where his mother is.
He's never there.
He comes down here for appearances.
He says he pays property taxes in Maryland.
There is no state income tax in Florida.
So after the hubbub, he's going to lease an apartment in his Florida district.
Stung by claims he doesn't really live in Florida.
Wexler said today that he'll lease an apartment in his congressional district rather than declaring residency at the home of his in-laws.
He's got caught.
He doesn't live here.
And nobody's upset about it.
This story is from the Palm Beach Post.
My wife Laurie and I have decided to lease a residence of our own in Palm Beach County.
Way to go, Bob.
Way to clear up the mess.
But I remember Ann Coulter, they tried to put her in jail for voting what they said was in a wrong precinct.
They tried to turn that into some kind of a major crime here.
Wexler pretty much admits he doesn't live here.
Going to lease a place in Palm Beach County, probably down in Boca someplace.
Way to go, Bob.
Way to go, way to square it.
1992 Nightline.
Ted Koppel says to Al Gore.
Joining us is Senator Al Gore, whose new book is Earth and Lurch, Earthen Balance, and Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated radio show is heard across the country.
There is, Senator Gore, a growing feeling, and I don't want to say it represents anything approaching a majority yet, but a growing feeling that sometimes the environmentalists are putting the spotted owl and the snail darter ahead of human beings.
We now face a global ecological crisis that is more serious than anything human civilization has ever faced.
And there's a problem of scale here.
To discuss the friction in the passage and implementation of some of the laws on the local environment and to weigh at the same time that against this unprecedented global crisis, I think presents a problem of scale.
When you talk about military matters, you talk about local conflicts, regional theaters of action, and strategic conflicts.
Same with the environment.
You've got local environmental problems, regional problems like acid rain.
Now we've got a whole new category of global or strategic problems, which include the hole in the ozone layer, which now could appear above the United States, global climate change, the destruction of the rainforest at a rate that means they'll be totally gone in another few decades unless we stop, the pollution of the oceans and the atmosphere and the like.
These represent brand new challenges that call for a new kind of response.
Now remember, this is 16 years ago, 1992.
Koppel then said to me, Rush, I've listened to you many afternoons, as you know.
You tend to, I mean, I don't want to say you dismiss all these issues, but at least you dismiss them as having been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
There is no ozone hole over the United States.
If we want to get into a detailed discussion of ozone depletion, we can.
But I think, Ted, that there is not a crisis.
See, this is the problem I have.
I don't think the Earth is fragile.
I don't think the ecology is fragile balanced.
And I think that the doomsday industry that is typified by members of the Hollywood acting community who say we've only got 10 years left to save our planet.
We've got to act now.
There's no way, if what these people say is true, that we could solve these problems in 10 years anyway.
It's budget time in Washington.
NASA's being cut.
And I think that this fright and doom scenario is designed to frighten people.
Everything in this country today seems to be a crisis.
We can't do anything without having to face it as a crisis.
We don't have any time to think about it.
There are as many scientists, maybe even more, on the opposite side of all of these doomsday predictions.
And I think that they need to listen to it.
Oh, yes, there are.
It's not true.
Yes, it is.
Here Gore then continues.
Russ did identify, I think, the key point of disagreement early in his first response, and that is the question of whether or not the Earth is fragile.
Are we, as human beings, now capable of doing serious damage to the global environment?
That's really the key difference.
Do you think we are?
Yes, I think so.
I think for three reasons, Russ.
I think three things have changed in our lifetimes, incidentally.
Number one, the population explosion now adds the entire population of China every 10 years.
Number two, we've got new technologies we never had before, like chlorofluorocarbons, which magnify our impact on the Earth.
Just as nuclear weapons transformed warfare, these thousands of new technologies that magnify our ability to exploit the Earth change our relationship to the Earth.
Next, Koppel said, Rush Limbaugh, we've both run into politicians during our careers who know how to fake it on an issue.
I don't know of anybody up on Capitol Hill who is more knowledgeable on the subject of the environment than Al Gore.
You have to take seriously what he says.
The environmental movement, as fueled by the militants who lead it, I think is the new home of socialism.
I think it is, they've adopted a constituency here which can't speak.
That is trees and rocks and so forth, and can't reject the so-called help and concern that the advocates are giving it.
And it gives them a stage from which to constantly launch attacks at capitalism.
If you listen to what Senator Gore said, it is man-made products which are causing the ozone depletion, yet Mount Pinatubo has put 570 times the amount of chlorine into the atmosphere in one eruption than all of man-made chlorofluorocarbons in one year.
And the ultraviolet radiation measured on this country's surface since 1974 has shown no increase whatsoever.
And if there's ozone depletion going on, you're going to have UV radiation levels going way, way up, and they simply aren't.
The sun makes ozone, and there is an ozone hole in the Antarctic Circle and the Arctic Circle simply because the sun's below the horizon for a portion of the year.
Koppel finally says, I'll tell you what, gentlemen, we're down to our last 45 seconds.
So a closing thought then from you, Senator Gore.
We've just heard from Rush Limbaugh.
Well, there's a classic experiment in science, Ted, about a frog that's dropped in a pot of boiling water and jumps right out.
When the same frog is put in a pot of lukewarm water that's slowly brought to a boil, it just sits there until it's rescued.
A frog's nervous system needs a sudden jolt to get the connection.
We're like that frog.
We're getting the signals of ecological devastation around the world, but we're still dead in the water.
The ozone hole is threatening to open up above North America, above the bunk port.
It never does.
And still, we're not reacting.
The American people want to see us take this problem seriously and do something about it.
All right, Senator Gore, thank you very much.
Rush, you'll have three hours tomorrow afternoon to respond.
Thank you very much.
There's no ozone depletion.
There's no crisis.
Thanks, Ted.
That was 1992.
What was the February 4th of 1992 on ABC's nightline?
A debate of the environmental crisis.
I was.
I think I was in Buffalo.
I think I had to do this from Buffalo.
You're right, because I was up there on a rush to excellence tour.
Yeah, you're right.
The setup wasn't the best, but nevertheless, the thing to take from this, 16 years, Ozone Hole was going to break out over America.
It has not done so.
The ozone hole has been shrinking.
But you see, 16 years ago, this was the same arguments.
And they talked then about 10 years.
If we don't do anything, we're going to get 10 years.
Well, we haven't been doing much because they keep belly aching that we're not doing much.
We haven't done anything, actually, and they're still belly aching.
So I remember when this aired, I went home.
Whenever I, when I finished this, I went back to the room.
And my dad, who could not listen to the radio because of a hearing, probably just irritated him.
But he was able to watch television with closed captioning.
Now, you've got to remember my dad.
As I've mentioned over the years, my dad, for the longest time, I mean, up until the time, I was in 1991.
Well, that's sooner than I'll say, 1980.
So when I'm 37, he still considers himself to be a failure as a father because he couldn't convince me to go to college.
I'm the only member of my family that didn't graduate.
Hell, I barely made it out of, well, I didn't make it at a ballroom dance.
I quit because I had to go to it.
Taught by a drill sergeant in wax.
I said, this is just, this is not for me.
This place, I knew what I wanted to do.
I was passionate about radio.
Hell, folks, I don't even flunk speech.
Not because it didn't do the speeches, because it didn't outline them already.
He had a technique for doing speeches.
But they should have called the course Outline 101.
So my dad, even though my radio career finally broke out, success was happening in Sacramento.
And I had moved to New York in 1988.
And he was aware, even though he couldn't listen much to the radio because it irritated him.
My mom reported in.
So when he saw this program on Nightline, my mother called and told me the story.
He's watching.
They got to the first commercial break.
And my dad took off his glasses and looked at my mother.
Her name was Millie.
And she said he just had the most dumbfounded look on his face.
He looked at her and said, Millie, where in hell did he learn all this?
And my mother looked back at him and said, from you, silly.
He had thought that he had a giant failure throughout his life because I didn't, you know, come out of the Great Depression, World War II.
The key to surviving something like that was a college education.
That's what you needed to get a job, and I didn't have that.
So he finally realized that this was going to pay off and work out.
And I went back and I was expecting all kinds of accolades from people and great performers.
I heard from more conservative environmental types that I was the wrong guy to have been on this show.
They should have had an official environmentalist debate, Gore, blah, Rush Limbaugh program is not just a great personal achievement for one man.
It's a major contribution to society as a whole.
It broke through the liberal monopoly on the media, presenting not only facts that have been filtered out by the mainstream media, but a whole way of thinking to which even our highly educated people had seldom been exposed in our schools, our colleges, and universities.
The 20th anniversary is a red-letter day, not just for him, but for society as a whole.
Let's hope there'll be another 20 years to follow at least.
Thank you.
Thomas Fellow.
Wow, there's a guy I admire more than I can express.
Thomas Soule, whose work I proudly cite frequently on this program.
He's at the Hoover Institute down on the University of Stanford University on a campus there at Palo Alto.
And he's with a bunch of great people, but he's met him a bunch of times.
He's just a brilliant, brilliant individual.
Thank you very much for those kind, kind, and very, I must say, accurate words from Dr. Thomas Sowell.
By the way, audio soundbite number 24, Al Gore.
This is less than a year.
Less than a year.
Well, actually, it is probably a year and a half after the nightline debate.
This is November 9th of 1993, Larry King alive, the Al Gore debate with Ross Perot on NAFTA.
This is what Al Gore said.
Let me just finish this one point.
And distinguished Americans from Colin Powell to Tip O'Neill to Rush Limbaugh.
He was talking about people who support NAFTA.
So back then, I mean, this is even, this is Vice President Gore saying this.
In the first year of the Clinton administration, I was a distinguished American.
All right, back to the phones.
Tom in Sacramento.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Yeah, Ghetto's Rush Tom from Sacramento via one of your favorite towns, Berkeley, California.
Just pulled off the freeway so I could chat with you.
Appreciate that.
Thank you.
Well, we've talked off and on over the years.
I've silently sat in the back of the room, occasionally rose my hand to comment on your teaching, sir.
And where we go to on this is the shopping cart issue.
And I want to thank you very much for all your support over the years, to me personally, for being my wingman out there when I had to pick these carts up.
And no media outlet that I know of understood the problem like you did.
You were in the grocery store business?
This is the grocery shopping cart retrieval problem that you've talked about over the last year.
Yes, I know because the homeless were stealing the shopping carts.
And everybody was telling the grocery stores, hey, go ahead.
I mean, let them, they need something.
I mean, have a little compassion.
Have a heart.
And I thought it was outrageous.
Two things about it were outrageous.
Number one, for some liberal to approach a homeless guy, say, I love you, man.
I really care about you.
Here's a shopping cart is not a sign of compassion.
It's an insult.
And then to tell the grocery store owners, hey, look the other way.
Look the other way.
Let them have the shopping carts.
They don't have anything else.
And you're right.
Nobody was defending you guys.
Well, we didn't have a whole staff of people that we could go and talk to about it and be with.
My wingman for 15 years was you.
And if it hadn't been for you, I might have got a bad attitude and tried something else.
And bottom line, it was okay to me for a while.
I've branched out into something else.
But I talked to you a couple of times over the years.
And your support, believe me, has not gone unnoticed.
So everything you did, I think, might have pushed the envelope to getting these new systems in place to solve the problem, which, you know, the problem has been curtailed quite a bit.
Well, it was never as big as it was made out to be.
That was the original fraud, the whole Mitch Schneider Center for Creative Nonviolence with Martin Sheen and the boys showing up on cold winter nights, kicking the homeless off of their sewer grates so that Sheen and his buddies could sleep on the sewer grates in order to illustrate and raise consciousness of the problem.
All they did, I mean, sleep there homeless for one night, not even homeless.
Where do the homeless go?
They freeze.
The sewer grates at least had some sort of warmth coming out of them.
And they were running around with 3 million homeless, and they were blaming it on Reagan, like they were blaming AIDS on Reagan.
They were blaming it on Bush.
Lack of Republican compassion.
And they finally did a homeless census, and they found we're nowhere near 3 million homeless.
And this was an eye-opener for a lot of people to start questioning the numbers that the media just throw out and echo from these left-wing do-gooder public works sites like Mitch Snyder's.
And leftist activism is only about one thing.
It's about expanding government, raising taxes, and denying as much individual freedom and liberty to the general population as possible.
And all the causes are just the venues, the methods that they use.
Feminism, all of it.
It's just liberalism disguised as something else genuinely compassionate and concerning and caring and all these sorts of things.
So the problem was never as big as it was.
But Tom, I'm going to take your compliment seriously because this was one of these things that nobody criticized.
I mean, it had never happened in the media.
You have an aggrieved group of people that are homeless.
And of course, they were portrayed as homeless, not by any action they'd taken.
They were homeless because Reagan didn't care and Bush didn't care and America didn't care.
They were otherwise healthy and normal and ready-to-work people that were just tramped on every day.
That was never true.
Largely, they were mentally diseased to one degree or another and were thrown out of institutions, had no ability to take care of themselves.
And they were used.
They were used by Democrats and the leftists to once again blame America.
See how unfair America is.
See how unkind capitalism is.
How can you dare sit there and be comfortable and cozy and full when you see these people scrounging dumpsters for food?
How can we let this happen in our country?
And of course, we came along here on the EIB network and we didn't criticize the homeless.
We attacked the whole premise that the left advanced about homelessness and who was responsible for it and what the fix for it was.
That hadn't been done.
And we did it as an update with Clarence Frogman Henry Ain got no home.
And it did inspire other people to finally start opposing these things because most people didn't have the guts to because they didn't want the charge that they were unkind or heartless or cold or cruel, mean-spirited or what have you.
So people were just living with it or ignoring it or what have you.
Or in some cases, even being beguiled by it into donating money to fix it.
And when that led to the whole shopping cart business, and they started stealing the shopping carts and the advocates for the homeless, if you were homeless, would you want an advocate for your circumstance?
The advocates for the homeless never tried to get them out of the circumstance.
They exploited them by giving them a shopping cart.
And then they realized, by the way, that, you know, shopping carts have trouble at curbs.
Sometimes the wheels come off.
So they wanted to manufacture reinforced wheels on shopping carts.
See, they're the ones that had compassion.
Anyway, back to the phones to Colorado Springs.
Jennifer, you're next on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Well, Rush, you might change your mind about that.
I'm kind of angry.
All these accolades that you're receiving are literally making me sick.
And in fact, my doctor, believe it or not, actually maybe tongue-in-cheek, but wrote me a prescription for lowering my blood pressure.
And that is, is that I listen to your program as infrequently as possible.
Because in reality, you are the one who believes that you are the Messiah, not Obama.
And what's more, you're very sexist.
You're very sexist.
You think that the Democrats are sexist and racist.
You are absolutely the epitome of sexism.
Do you want to know why I think that?
Not really, because you're wrong.
I don't like to hear people tell me why they believe something when they're dead wrong.
I don't even know if you're really suffering high blood pressure, why are you even listening?
Well, maybe I'm a mastoccus and I can't help myself.
I don't know.
I know, I don't think that's what it is.
I think you're constantly enraged and angry, and you need reasons to stay that way.
I'll tell you why I kill the bill because every day it seems that you find a way by innuendo or any other means to put women down.
It's not by innuendo.
It's not by innuendo.
I do it directly.
I put down liberals.
If they happen to be women, I put them down.
There's no innuendo about it.
Can I give you an example of your direct comment?
I'd love to hear it.
Do you recall your comment?
I think it was about three months ago.
You were talking about Hillary when she was running against Obama.
You said that women are trying to move into a man's world.
If you had said that about Obama or a black person, you'd be off the air right now.
You would absolutely be off the air for a while.
Wait a second.
Why would I be off the air if I'd accused Obama into moving into a man's world?
No, into listen, if it were the same thing if you accused Obama of moving into a white man's world.
Off the air.
Well, that would never even occur to me.
There are black politicians all over the country as there are female politicians, but the presidency up till now has been a man's world.
Okay, you're not doing anything to change.
What's the big deal?
Hillary puts her pants on one leg at a time like all the other guys do.
I mean, why are you bothered by this?
See, like all the other guys do.
Yeah, see, this is something I've been wanting to ask you for a long time.
Why is it that you always call Hillary Clinton Mrs. Clinton and you never give her the respect of calling her Senator Clinton?
Are you trying to demean her?
I do call her Senator Clinton sometimes.
I listen to you practically every day, which is why I have high blood pressure.
And I have never heard you.
You really, you need to go take a test.
You're not.
There's something not right here about you, Jennifer.
Well, what's not right about you is I think you're insecure.
No, Jennifer, I'm trying.
Jennifer, please, I'm trying to help you.
Women have rejected you.
I'm trying to help you.
Women love me, Jennifer.
You had better get used to this.
And you have a way of leveling the playing field.
I'm not trying to.
I don't believe.
I don't believe a playing field can be leveled, Jennifer.
See, I am based in reality.
But, Jennifer, my concern for you is that you may die listening to this program from high blood pressure, and you don't have to.
You can turn it off.
You may be committing a slow form of suicide here on purpose.
That's not right.
I know it.
I know it.
So, you know, I know I don't always listen to my doctor either.
So, you know, I don't listen to you.
You're a woman.
You don't listen to men, period.
Uh-huh.
Well, men don't listen to women, so there's equality right there.
Listen to everything that you've said.
Uh-huh.
And you've had sexist reaction to it, too.
I enjoy, you know, this is my first opportunity to talk to you.
I'm really happy I got through.
I really am.
Well, I'm glad you did, too.
But I'm worried.
If I could say, could I say one more thing?
I'm in the Colorado Springs area, but I listen to K Howe Radio in Denver, and you are a topic of conversation almost daily, and women are calling in and talking about your sexism and the phenomenon of your ditto head women calling in and treating you as if they love you following your sexist remarks.
It doesn't make sense.
If you want the real sexism in this country was on display in the Democrat primaries, and it was aimed at Mrs. Clinton by Democrats.
The real racism in this country was on display.
The Democrat primaries aimed from the Clintons to Obama.
I helped Hillary Clinton, Operation Chaos.
I kept her in the race.
If you listen to this program as often as you say, you would know that I did everything I could to help her and did.
Operation Chaos was so important, it's now the subject of academic study.
Jennifer, I appreciate the phone call.
I'm glad you got through too, but I am worried.
This is the first, you're the first caller ever who has admitted, I mean, you're a masochist.
It's unhealthy.
I think you need to lighten up a little bit.
What you think is sexism is simply me poking fun at liberals, which, of course, that has been taboo for a long time.
But I must go because it's time for windfall profit timeout.
Be back right after this.
Stay with us, though.
Hi, welcome back.
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Jennifer, if you are still out there in Colorado Springs listening on KOA, you might be interested in this story today.
It's from it looks like it's the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Senator, Hillary Clinton's newest tactic to pay off her remaining campaign debt involves dinner under the stars.
Clinton's campaign launched a contest.
Contributors are automatically entered.
And the grand prize is a dinner for you and a guest with Hillary Clinton herself.
In an email announcing this, Hillary said, this is my first chance to sit down and spend some real one-on-time with you.
If you enter today, we could be having dinner together soon.
There is a second prize, and that is you get to have two dates with Hillary.
Just kidding.
Back to the audio soundbites, 20th anniversary cutting edge soundbites.
Let's go back to last night, Larry King live.
One of his guests was Dr. Ted Schwartz from New York Presbyterian and Cornell Hospital.
They have this exchange.
Dr. Schwartz, how do you use your cell phone?
I put it right up to my ear and don't use an earpiece unless I'm driving, which I think is the general recommendations.
Yeah.
You put it right up to your ear.
I have it right here, but I wouldn't take a call.
I think it is safe to use, again, based on the currently available data.
You know, we don't know whether watching a television has an increased risk of causing cancer.
We don't know whether using a hair dryer increases your risk of cancer.
And in fact, there are some studies showing that there might be a link, but they're not well-performed studies.
So we don't go around issuing public health warnings about it based on the fact that we don't really know.
Hair dryers.
Don't you think we've got enough evidence about hair dryers maybe causing cancer?
They are used every day, multiple times a day by gazillions of people.
You would think just as much as cell phones, you would think that we have evidence.
This guy admits they don't know anything.
He holds a cell phone up to his ear, but he will not answer it.
He will not use it because it causes cancer.
This is the latest attempt.
Here is me from my TV show.
We can barely squeeze this in February 5th, 1993.
You may be wondering what this is.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the latest cancer-causing agent known to exist in America.
This is a cellular phone.
And I toyed with the idea of showing my solidarity with the cellular phone manufacturers because this is such bunk.
These things haven't been out 10 years yet.
And the idea that we get cancer just like that from using these things, to me, is just a bunch of hysterical panic.
So I'm going to wear this thing the whole show, folks.
It's on.
We have dialed a 900-phone sex line.
I am going to be doing this entire show.
And I've got a big important dinner tonight, but I'm going to risk putting a dent in my hair with this clodhopper thing that we've arranged so that I can have the cellular phone on my face during the entire show.
I've got phone sex going on right in this ear.
And I am, no, I'm not going to go for it.
I'm going to show you just how devoted I am to you and how able I am to concentrate on this show.
Plus, I'm going to demonstrate my solidarity with the cellular phone people because I don't believe this stuff causes cancer.
You know, not long ago, they said milk causes cancer.
So we had everybody drinking milk on this show, and nobody who did is dead.
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