Selecting Lindsey Graham of South Carolina as his vice presidential running mate.
Sitting around here listening to all the drive-by media tell us what a bold choice it would be for McCain to choose a Democrat or a liberal or a pro-choicer.
How dumb do they think we are?
Greetings, folks.
Rush Lindbaugh back, having more fun than I should be allowed to have.
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This business of bold and the pro-lifers aren't going to vote anyway.
It's just you turn it around and you apply this to the Democrat presidential nominee.
And if anybody started seriously talking about him picking a conservative Republican as his running mate, there would be hell to pay.
I'll tell you something else about Obama.
In fact, Mike, forget the recent instructions.
Keep them in a hand, but grab Senator Sunbite 17 again.
This is just, I think this is unhinged.
I think Obama is getting small.
He is looking and sounding small.
In stature, I mean, I think that the pressure is getting to me.
He can't stand being criticized.
I think this guy's led a protected life, a charmed life his whole life.
He's always been treated as something special and messiah.
He's always looked at himself that way.
And now we're in the pressure point of a campaign and he's unraveling.
Listen to this again.
I don't intend to lose this election.
John McCain doesn't know what he's up against right now.
I don't intend to lose this election.
He can talk all he wants about Brittany and Paris, but I don't have time for that mess.
Why are you bringing that up?
Everybody knows that's one of the reasons why you are plummeting because that ad was effective.
That's why the drive-bys are upset because it was effective.
It worked dreamly well.
And by the way, Barry, McCain is not quaking in his boots there after that admonition.
I'm going to go back to this Russian business for a second.
In case you're just joining us, this is major.
This is big.
Vladimir Putin, the Russians, have finally reacted officially now to the decision by us and the government of Poland to put interceptor missiles.
These are not offensive.
They don't have tips on them.
They don't have nuclear tips.
They're not offensive weapons.
They're just launched in case somebody launches a nuke at Poland.
Blow them out of the sky.
The Russians have said our response will, if you do this, will go beyond diplomacy.
There is no mistaking what that means.
What Putin is saying is, hey, I'm not just going to react with words.
And there's also a little slam at us because that's exactly what we've done as he's marched in and out of Georgia and South Ossetia.
All he's wanted.
All we've had are words from Obama, McCain, Bush, Rice.
That's all we've had is words.
I'm not being, you know, it is what it is.
And Putin's saying, it ain't going to be me.
I'm going to do something other than talk if you do this.
Now, it's time to start figuring out who is best prepared to deal with this circumstance.
And it ain't Obama.
Obama, everything he's been taught would make him fold.
He would fold on the shield.
He'd tell the polls, sorry, we can't do it.
We don't want the Russians running around militarily and just cancel the whole thing.
There's no doubt.
Don't think McCain would be anywhere near as likely to fold or decay.
One thing about Putin, I remember after he met with Bush, first time, came over here.
And remember when Bush said, I looked into this man's eyes and I saw his soul.
It was something akin to when a lady Thatcher said that after she met with Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev that she could do business with him.
And I remember the next day, because that happened after the programming.
And I remember the next day in a monologue I said, I'm not so trusting of this because the guy's a communist.
He's the KGB.
He's not Boris Yeltsin.
He's not these reformers.
He wants to reform the other way.
No one ever leaves the KGB.
I don't care what they call it.
They change the name of it, Committee for State Security, whatever it's called now, nobody leaves it.
Voluntarily.
But when I really knew the truth about Putin, I'm not making this up.
When he first came over here to meet with Bush, Bush took him down to Crawford, Texas, and had a good old Texas barbecue.
And the next day, Putin was less than enthusiastic about it.
He didn't much care for barbecue.
Now, folks, you don't like barbecue.
You're not one of us.
You don't like barbecue?
Fine, but don't tell everybody about it.
You go out there and express your lack of appreciation for Texas barbecue.
That means you're going to give me vodka and borscht versus a Texas barbecue.
Take the barbecue every time.
That little episode, that told me a lot.
Little things like that tell me a lot.
Well, Putin's not a vegetarian.
Don't give me that.
That's not why he didn't like Texas barbecue.
What do you mean Putin's a vegetarian?
No, he's not a vegetarian.
Come on.
You're trying to make excuses for the communists now.
But poor Pootie Putin, he was just a vegetarian.
I guarantee if he's vegetarian, Bush would not have had a barbecue.
They'd have found that out at the White House.
A CIA, somebody would have known it.
Putin vegetarian.
Audio soundbites.
The drive-bys continued.
Last night on hardball, Chris Matthews had Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and Howard Feynman.
And they're saying about Lieberman.
Will he play in Peoria?
Well, I don't know.
First of all, I think a lot of conservative activists, including Rush Limbaugh, wouldn't take Joe Lieberman either.
They respect him.
They wouldn't take him.
They said they wouldn't take Lieberman.
He's wrong on Title 20, full funding for higher education.
They say that he's, except for the war, he's wrong on cultural issues.
But if they go that way, it's a play for Florida.
And by the way, yesterday could not deliver Florida for Al Gore.
Now, there's two things about that.
Lieberman could not deliver Florida for Al Gore.
That's true, but Matthews just admitted they genuinely lost Florida, didn't he?
I thought we stole Florida from him.
Chris, welcome back, by the way, from pneumonia.
But did you come back too soon?
This is a major, major slip to a trained eye like mine.
Highly trained broadcast specialist as well as political analyst, you have just admitted that you guys lost Florida.
And the whole reason for your existence the last eight years is to make up for the fact that we stole it from you.
And then this exchange continued on.
Isn't he handing out permission slips to vote against Barack?
Inexperience is my favorite because you could have all kinds of problems with Barack Obama, ethnically, politically, culturally, class.
I don't know what the adjective is for class, but classily.
And you can have every problem in the world with Mrs. Obama, but you can hide it all under, not hide it all, you can present it all under one word.
You know, I got nothing against him.
He's a bright young man with a quality education, interesting new ideas, but he's not quite ready yet.
And that's a fair critique, which covers all your reasons for opposing him.
So this is an absurd assertion about Obama's experience.
Actually, it's just rooted in racism.
It's rooted in racism.
He's such a poor victim.
Everybody ganging up on poor Baoie.
Who, by the way, if you're just joining us, his half-brother found today, a long-lost brother, a half-brother found in Kenya in a remote shack, a hut, actually, six by nine-foot hut in a shanty town outside some little burg in Kenya.
He's very proud to be hidden and not known.
Vanity Fair Italy found the guy somehow.
And I would think, you know, if you end up at a hut, at a shack, at a shanty in the outskirts of some unheard of place in Kenya, you've got to be going there to get there.
This is not the kind of place you're going to just accidentally stumble into.
It's kind of like San Angelo, Texas.
You got to be going there to get there.
And somebody's working on this.
And this guy, he's got pictures of, I think he's got some newspaper pictures of Barry on his wall there, but he's living on less than $1 a month.
That's less than $12 a year.
Now, look, as I said earlier, this guy is not Obama's responsibility.
Every family has its oddball or two.
And the thing about those, the oddballs always think they're not the oddball.
Every family has these oddballs, but the oddballs think that the oddballs are somebody else in the family.
So I'm sure this guy might think Barry's the oddball.
Barry probably thinks this guy's the oddball.
Barry's saying, why in the hell did they find this guy?
Because I got family member now living on less than $12 a year.
And yet my favorite biblical passage is the one about whatever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me.
Obama, I mean, millions of dollars from the sale of his two Audacity books.
And of course, Michelle Mybel was doing well too, $300,000 doing community agitation at the hospital where she worked.
So family members are all over the place for Barack.
And by the way, Barry's half-brother's name is George Hussein Obama.
We had a brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen.
We put all this together and continue right after this.
Do not go anywhere.
A new Reuters poll out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Sharp turnaround.
Republican John McCain has opened a five-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters Zogby poll released today.
Five-point lead for McCain.
The dip in support for Obama cut across demographic and ideological lines.
He slipped among Catholics, born-again Christians, women independents, and younger voters.
He retained the support of more than 90% of black voters.
He's not attracting new voters, folks.
He's not coming unhinged out there.
There's no question.
By the way, I know, I know what Obama could say to explain the discovery of his half-brother, George Hussein Obama.
You say, I knew about him.
I knew where he was.
He's run a pilot program on my new global warming way to stop it.
And my green brother.
Because that, the way this guy lived in a six by nine foot shack in the rural hills of Africa, this is exactly what they have in mind for us, folks, with all the global warming rot.
Back to the phones, Tom and Atlanta.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Eternal Ditto is your imminence.
Thank you, sir.
I say that, though.
Let me qualify that.
I consider you the imminent voice of conservatism today, unless you be accused of idol worship.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Appreciate the clarification.
Listen, you know, they have propped this guy up as an American idol candidate, and they've made a big flaw.
They've undermined the American people, actually, underestimated the American people.
You see, what happens with these reality shows is at some time they got a thing.
And so Obama has got through with the lip-syncing through the primaries, and now, you know, Mila Vanilli is being exposed here.
Nope.
Look at it's a little early here to say this is over.
I just, it's clear that there has been a significant change.
He's losing ground in the polls.
The magic and the aura that surrounded the halo, if you will, has evaporated.
It's gone.
And now people, you're right, you're beginning to listen seriously to what he says and what he does, and it isn't computing.
Exactly.
After the convention, we'll all be paying, or the vast majority be paying attention, and the contestant will have to sing.
And guess what?
They get voted off.
Just like Heidi Klum says, you know, one day you're in, the next day you're out.
Yeah, Heidi Klum, that great philosopher.
I've read a lot of her work.
Tom, thanks, thanks.
Thanks very much.
Here, Michael in Kingsport, Tennessee.
You're next, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
How are you today, sir?
It's a beautiful day in Northeast Tennessee.
We've been listening to you for several years now.
Thank you, sir.
I had an observation here that maybe not as profound as Rod earlier, but I was noticing, particularly after the thing down at the Saddle Ac church the other day.
Yeah.
I go and I look on some of the other websites, mainly just to kind of find out what they're saying because it amuses me.
What Democrat websites do you visit?
Well, it's ones like CAS and Democratic Underground.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, those two.
And you can have a field day.
You've got to check your sanity when you log off of those two sites just to make sure you've held on to it.
But they can be fun experiences for a short time.
As I read them, I sit there and I think I may not be having as much fun as you, but I'm having a lot of fun.
But the observation that I was coming to, I was reading a lot of them where they were talking about the hesitation that Obama gets.
The stuttering, yes.
Versus where McCain just flat out answers a question.
I mean, you ask him a question, he has the answer.
He's ready to go.
Let me guess what they're saying.
They're saying Obama was thoughtful, nuanced, and was precise, whereas McCain was just robotic and automatic and wasn't exhibiting any depth whatsoever.
And why do we not want somebody who is quality thinker?
Why do we want somebody who's just knee-jerk reaction?
Everything.
See, the dirty little secret, folks, is that Obama's not a thinker.
When he's in those forums, he's defensive.
He is trying to avoid saying something that will betray the truth.
Remember, we're dealing here with a marketed package.
We're dealing with a story that has been created.
And that story is false.
It's fraudulent, just like the John Edwards story was.
But it looks good when all the lights are right.
And so they've got to make sure the lighting doesn't change, and they've got to make sure the script is held to.
And that's what they worry about with Obama when he slides off the teleprompter.
Fair Hope, Alabama.
This is Carrie.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Well, hello, and thanks to Mr. Snerdley for putting me through.
Yes.
Great to talk with you.
More years on the radio, more golf streams, more jackrabbit starts in the GMs that you and your staff drive.
Thank you, sir.
Sure.
Very much.
Carbon footprint should be that of the fraud that they found here in the Bigfoot.
Barack Obama's complaint that John McCain's ferocious attacks bring Barry down, run down the same road that McCain knew the questions in advance.
It's always someone else's fault that Barry performs poorly.
Had McCain known all the questions, it could only help McCain, not Barry.
Obama's poor performance is not tied to McCain.
It was Barry's choice of words alone.
He needs some cheese.
He and his campaign need some cheese with their wine.
In addition, John McCain is a son of an admiral, a Navy fighter pilot, and a POW for five years.
I doubt if he has a scintilla of fear in going up against Barack Obama, a young, inexperienced, and obvious puppet of someone.
Right.
And finally.
And that's what makes it even funnier when Obama starts threatening McCain.
You don't know what you're up against, McCain.
You don't know what you're up against here, boy.
What is John McCain's depth of experience in terms of fear?
Cheese him, criminal.
Give me a break.
But one more last thing.
You were talking about that Barry should have, maybe, you know, with his quote of his favorite Bible verse.
Yeah.
We've got to, as we've done it to the least of them, we've done it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got 25 seconds here.
Is Barry implying that he should do that or that the government should be the one who saves us, who does it to the least of us?
Look, it's all what that quote was about in that forum is trying to convince people that Christianity equals socialism.
That's all Obama's trying to do.
And he failed at it.
We will be back.
Stay with us.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
You know, all these drive-bys that we've played to the soundbites today, they're all upset here that McCain might be listening to me, and he shouldn't, it'll be diminishing to McCain if he listens to me on his vice presidential ticket.
And I remember it wasn't that long ago when the same drive-bys were praising me for brilliantly inserting myself into the race.
This happened when I came out and said that Huckabee is not a conservative.
Rush Limbaugh brilliantly inserted himself into the race.
Limbaugh meddling on a campaign to dash the hopes of Governor Huckabee, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
All I have to do is say something.
I call it a campaign.
But of course, Operation Chaos, which was a campaign, they ignored it for as long as they could.
A couple sound bites here from yesterday, Monday on the Fox News Channel's Happening Now show with John Scott.
They talked to the co-founder of Recreate 68, the militant protest group planning to gear up for action in Denver next week, the co-founder Glenn Spagnolo.
He was asked this question: You've seen some pictures of what this holding cell looks like, and you're not too happy about it, eh?
No, we're not, John.
We went and saw this holding facility, and right now it really does look like a little Guantanamo, basically.
It's a bunch of fenced-in cages with Constantine barbed wire around the tops.
There's no bathroom facilities, no running water, no telephones in the facility.
You know, this building has a long history here in Denver where equipment that used to be stored there during the city of Denver's electronic voting machine fiasco was removed from that facility because they said it didn't have proper fire suppression systems and that the temperatures were too hot in that facility to store equipment.
Come on, Glenn, man up out there.
You can't possibly be serious comparing this place to Club Gitmo until they put a waterboard in there in anywhere near Gitmo.
They really have.
They have put up this prison, this building, a turned to prison where they're going to take arrested protesters, and they do have some barbed wire fencing in there.
They're going to get them out of the way.
But for these guys to compare it to Gitmo, to Club Gitmo, that just shows you how off-base they are in judging Club Gitmo.
And by the way, ladies, I want to thank Mr. Spagnolo for mentioning this.
We have a thriving licensed merchandise business involving Club Gitmo.
You can see it at the EIB store at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
So the next question to Spagnolo is: well, you know, you're calling your group Recreate 68.
I mean, you want to aspire to the kinds, you know, head-knocking scenes that happened back then in Chicago.
What we want to recreate is the spirit of change that existed in 1968.
That mass participation to move your government in certain directions.
And we saw a lot of similarities on the political landscape of a Democratic Party who was refusing to stop a war in Vietnam.
And now it's 40 years later, you have a Democratic Party that continues to vote to fund this illegal war in Iraq.
So that's kind of where the name came from.
But we're not ashamed of being associated with Chicago because you had peaceful protesters going to Chicago who were confronted by a violent police department.
And we're only hoping that the police here don't act in the same way that the Chicago police did.
It's not true, Mr. Spagnolo.
The cops, Mayor Daly, took it as long as he could.
The cops took it as long as they could.
But finally, the protesters got out of hand and the heads had to roll.
But they're excited, folks.
They think they've got the same, they think they have the same opportunity, the same set of circumstances now that they had in Chicago in 1968.
Iraq versus Vietnam.
Finally, ladies and gentlemen, this is just indescribable.
This is just unbelievably hysterical.
And the sad thing is that the mayor of New York is dead serious about this.
Last night in Las Vegas.
The blackout that hit New York and the Northeast five years ago was a wake-up call that it was time for us to change course and fast.
Some evidence shows that wind farms located far off our shores could meet up to 10% of our city's electricity needs within a decade.
So when it takes to producing clean power, we're determined to make New York the number one city in the nation.
Now wait a second.
You know what he's talking about?
He wants windmills atop the skyscrapers on tops of the bridges.
Mayor, if the liberals in Cape Cod, led by Senator Kennedy, would not allow windmills 30 miles away from them, what makes you think the liberals of New York are going to allow these windmills on top of skyscrapers?
We're not going to allow it.
We are not going to have a windmill farm on top of the EIB building in midtown Manhattan.
This is not going to happen.
Tops of bridges.
Yeah, but imagine putting one on top of the Chrysler building.
Imagine putting one on top of the Statue of Liberty.
Totally out of his mind.
They're all nuts.
There's something about this green movement that has got a poison flowing through the minds of these people.
Schwarzenegger's gone.
We have totally lost Schwarzenegger.
He's about on the same page as Obama in saying things that make sense these days.
We've lost.
We're losing our guys.
And now, well, that's another thing you've got to consider.
That's another thing.
What are those two hawks?
Those two hawks led to the breakup of Paula Zahn's marriage.
Well, it was in part, yeah, because her husband was a co-op board president of that building.
And those two hawks didn't want the hawks there.
The hawks are doing some crazy things.
Didn't want the nest there.
Some of the people wanted the hawks there.
And there was a bunch of strife over these birds.
Anyway, the hawks caused up, but imagine what's going to happen to the birds in Manhattan with all these, put windmills in Central Park.
Here's one more Bloomberg bite.
It would be a thing of beauty if when Lady Liberty looks out on the horizon, she not only welcomes new immigrants to our shores, but lights their way with a torch powered by an ocean wind farm.
Sorry, folks.
I just, this is the mayor of New York City, and he's serious.
Wait a minute.
I don't believe this.
For the last 30 minutes, we have been hearing about how Stephanie Tubbs-Jones died.
And a doctor was out there, and a family friend went out there and said she was going to go to the convention, but obviously now can't go.
And now it says that Stephanie Tubbs-Jones is in critical condition after an aneurysm.
Whoa, folks, this.
If she really died, then she's come alive again.
That means, is Obama anywhere near where this happened to her?
Back in just a minute.
You know, I sit here and I listen to what passes for intelligence and reasonable commentary from people like the mayor of New York about immigrants being greeted by a Statue of Liberty lighted by a windmill farm in the ocean.
And then I listen to Schwarzenegger agreeing with this sophistry that we can stop importing or producing oil or drilling for more if we just use a tire gauge.
And then I hear these people say, yes, and Mr. Limbaugh, if you avoid your jackrabbit thart.
I'm going to tell you something, folks.
If Obama and if Mayor Bloomberg and if Schwarzenegger were serious about the things they're talking about, they would demand that everybody get a Renaille tankless water heater.
A Renai tankless water heater, by the way, is exactly a jackrabbit start.
You turn on hot water, it's right there.
We save energy with jackrabbit starts, with the Renai tankless water heater.
It doesn't waste a bunch of time heating up water that you're never going to use.
It's a miracle.
It's magical the way this thing works.
It will save you big bucks.
If they were serious about all this, they would demand that everybody get one of these.
And don't forget this jackrabbit start business is crucial to how the thing works.
Go to foreverhotwater.com.
It's a website.
Find out how it works, how much money that you can save.
And if you really want to do something to save energy, that would do it, as opposed to all these inane, unbelievably, embarrassingly stupid suggestions we're getting from our leaders.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, it's getting seriouser and seriouser out there.
Norway's defense ministry says that Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.
Ministry's spokeswoman Heidi Langvik-Henson says the country's embassy received a phone call from Russia's defense ministry saying that Moscow plans to freeze all military cooperation with NATO and allied countries.
Norway was told in the telephone call of a written note about this that it would be sent out shortly.
Russian officials were not immediately available to confirm the information, and officials at NATO headquarters said they had not been informed of any such moves.
NATO foreign ministers Tuesday suspended formal contacts with Russia as punishment for sending troops into Georgia and Putty Putin said, well, screw you.
You know what?
We'll just pull out a NATO and then you can't tell us anything.
Just do it.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the bottom line of this is, why is Putin calling Norway?
Of all people to call, why call Norway?
There are no meetings in Norway, but nevertheless, we give them a little grief for going into Georgia, and Putin comes back and says, all right, fine.
We'll pull out a NATO and you can't tell us anything.
I mean, the stakes are getting higher and higher and higher.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I bleeped myself.
I had to do it because I uttered a dirty word.
Now back to the phones.
John in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Roger, pleasure to talk to you.
First-time caller.
Thank you, sir.
My question is: would Senator Romney be a good choice for Vice President for John McCain?
My feelings are this, is that I would like to see it happen, but there's still a conservative Christian base out there who don't like Senator Romney's Mormon background.
I think that would kind of hurt him instead of help him.
But he does bring some good things to the table.
Do you think it's enough to bring some grassroots conservatives to the table or the voting table?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Compare because I think a lot of conservatives would have preferred Romney be the nominee.
True.
Tell you the truth.
And I think, especially if you compare a choice of Romney to, say, Lieberman, I mean, there's no question which way you go there.
Exactly.
Do you think that Mormon background would hurt him or hurt Senator McCain in any way?
I don't think it would, but I think there's going to be a lot of people.
That depends on how much of an issue Huckabee wants to make of it.
Well, or the Democrats want to bring it up, too.
Well, let them.
If the Democrats start bringing up religion, that's all good.
That's all fine and dandy because that opens up Obama.
That opens up Reverend Wright.
That opens up all kinds of doors the Democrats don't even want us to see.
Let them do it.
Let the Democrats go after Mormons.
I would love to see that.
Here's Tom at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello?
Yeah.
Hey, hi.
Yeah.
I'm just calling to figure out why McCain's not raising as much funds as Obama, and the polls show McCain ahead.
Well, here's why.
The actual numbers, I saw this this morning.
I don't have the actual numbers.
I saw this morning that McCain, when you combine what McCain is raising a lot of money recently, and when you combine what McCain has on hand, which is around 80, with what the RNC, the Republican National Committee has on hand, cash on hand, that total is larger than the Obama DNC total.
So it is a myth that Obama has been raising all this money and McCain hasn't been raising any.
McCain's doing okay.
He's doing okay.
When you combine him with the RNC, he's ahead of Obama.
Daytona Beach, Nick, welcome to the EIB network.
Are you floating?
Are you doing a lot of it?
The water is rising, but it's not rising too high.
Good.
Glad to hear it.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
You know, what I love about this campaign is that it is beginning to prove that competition is superior to affirmative action because Obama has not been fully vetted.
He's been protected even during the Democratic campaign, and he has not reached his best.
He's not reached his personal best level yet, and he's paying the price for it.
And so is the Democrat Party.
And McCain, on the other hand, gets better and better because he has to fight for every single thing he gets in this election.
Excellent point.
That is an excellent point.
I'm glad you made it.
I appreciate your calling out there, Nick.
That really is an excellent point.
I was looking for something here.
You know, I just, I can't get over, ladies and gentlemen, this notion of windmills in New York City on tops of the bridges and skyscrapers of windmill farm out there before you get the Statue of Liberty.
And I had a story here in a stack.
I didn't get to it.
But they've got a windmill farm somewhere out in Oregon.
And the people who live near it are going nuts.
The frequencies put out by the turbines.
You need power for a windmill farm to work.
I've got to find the story.
I won't be able to do it before we close out today, but I'll find this story and I'll have it for you tomorrow because it is an absolute ⁇ it's hilarious to read this.
All of these do-gooder green people.
Put up a windmill farm.
Put up a windmill farm.
We'll save energy.
We'll save the planet.
And they're literally being driven nuts by it because of something related to the noise.
I mean, they're loud as hell.
Remember that guy from Pennsylvania yesterday who did everything he could to keep a Walmart from being built in his neighborhood?
So the place where they're going to build a Walmart, they put in a recycling center that recycles steel.
And the thing sounds like bombs are going off all day and night.
And people there are going nuts too, all in the pursuit of a green lifestyle.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks.
We will continue in mere moments here on the EIB network.
I have an idea for Mayor Bloomberg.
Statue of Liberty, get rid of the torch.
Replace the torch with a windmill.
Let the newly arriving immigrants be greeted by Lady Liberty and a windmill.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, shocking news here.
250,000 schoolchildren got spanked, paddled SWATs in 2006, 2007.
I don't know how they arrived at this, but this is what they claim.
In two years, 250,000, and the vast majority of them were black and Native Americans.
Minority's hardest hit.
I mean, you got it.
Minorities hardest hit, literally in the national school spanking statistics.
This is in the Boston Globe today.
I'll have details on this story and lots of others tomorrow when we get back.
Looking forward to it.
Been a blast today, folks, and we'll do it again tomorrow.