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Aug. 13, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 13, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You know what this is, and you know who this is.
And you know why we're doing it.
So live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Our turn to the most listened to radio talk show in America has been for a long time, will be for as long as I want it to be.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
And we will get to your phone calls in this hour, I promise.
I'm just I'm really riled up about this, folks.
I just cannot stand what these people get away with, what they cost this country, what they cost you.
This lying, this reactionary crisis mongering.
Look at poultry fingered as number one food poisoning couple.
Oh no!
Oh no, we're gonna die.
Cooking chicken on the grill this summer, be careful.
Health officials say that poultry continues.
What the hell?
Has anybody died of salmonella out there the last week?
What's the point of this story?
It's August for crying out loud.
People started using their grills in late May.
Why are we getting this story now?
Chicken, turkey, other poultry.
They counted for 17% of the food-borne illnesses outbreaks.
Reported to the government, beef and leafy vegetables were close behind.
Experts say it represents only a fraction of U.S. food.
What the hell?
Who cares?
Nothing new here.
You don't cook the food, you get sick.
Big whoop.
Something new about this.
A rare outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported yesterday.
Seven cases have been confirmed, three in California, four in Nevada.
Two more California cases are being investigated.
Five people hospitalized, according to the CDC.
They said five of the victims drank milkshakes or smoothies made with frozen Mamie fruit pulp.
Four of them used pulp sold by Goya Foods of Sea Caucus, New Jersey.
Mamie is a sweet, reddish tropical fruit grown mainly in Central and South America.
It's also known as Zopote or Sapote.
It is peeled and mashed to make pulp.
The company has recalled packages of the pulp sold in mostly western states.
A sample from one package found in Las Vegas tested positive for the bacteria that causes typhoid.
Here we are, the happy summer of recovery in Barack, Hoover, Obama's America.
Fruit smoothies linked to outbreak of typhoid fever.
Outbreak of typhoid.
Four people.
An outbreak of typhoid fever.
Four people.
Sierra Club Chief, this is from the Hill.com.
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Bruni said clean energy advocates are getting their asses kicked inside the beltway, calling an environmental groups to rethink their strategies following the collapse of climate change legislation.
The comments in a blunt interview with the online magazine Yale Environment 360, not to be confused with Anderson Cooper 24, came as the environmental movement is plotting its next steps.
Now that long-sought legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions appears dead in Congress.
The first thing we need to do is a good assessment of what went wrong.
Try telling the truth about the environment for once, Sierra Club.
Stop lying, and maybe you'll get some people on your side.
We need to rethink what the best way is to build momentum to fight climate change.
You can't do anything about it, you dingleberries.
There's not one damn thing you can do about it.
We're not causing it.
We can't fix it.
It happens despite us.
Go out of business.
You people are a menace.
You're frauds.
You're scaring people to death and you're taking money from them in the form of donations and you're doing nothing with it except enriching yourselves and creating panic.
Warming climate change.
Okay.
Back to this Gulf story.
Another dubious claim, the giant plumes of oil by mid-May.
Oil was still comparatively scarce in the Gulf.
Disappointed, the media began to try to figure out where it went.
Marine researchers were drafted to provide the answer.
Diluted oil was being found beneath the surface.
But how diluted, nobody was sure, and there was nothing vaguely resembling peer-reviewed literature.
Still, news reports implied or asserted that enormous oil plumes were out there, like submerged monsters waiting to rise and attack unsuspecting beaches and wetlands.
The New York Times summed up the media consensus May 15th, thus.
Scientists are finding enormous plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, three miles wide, 300 feet thick in spots.
The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
Oh, yeah.
Remember all those estimates.
It's a hundred thousand gallons a second.
No, it's 500 gazillion gallons a minute.
The government's lying.
BP is lying.
Pretty soon the Gulf is going to be nothing but oil.
All of this panic, and it was all untrue.
It was all a crock.
There were no undersea plumes.
It was light crude.
The stuff gets eaten alive by the ocean.
It's called Mother Freaking Nature.
As with the bogus doomsday model, industry experts say the giant plume threat was greatly overstated by scientists and further blown out of proportion by the media.
All of this greatly ignored the Gulf's well-known ability to break down oil.
Well known ability.
Arthur Berman, respected petroleum expert in Sugarland, Texas, points out the Gulf has for millennia been a warm, rich ecological gumbo of natural oil seeps, oil-eating bacteria, and marine life that subsist on it.
Yes.
Marine life that subsists on oil-eating bacteria.
His research, he says, suggests that the spill represents almost four times as much oil as seeps into the Gulf naturally every year.
In other words, it's eminently digestible by the native ecosystem.
And then there was the corexit threat.
The dispersants.
No aspect of the spill response had been more controversial than the widespread use of correxit, a family of detergent-like compounds that break up oil, hence the name dispersant.
Once broken up, oil evaporates, is also easily eaten by bacteria.
Dispersion turns thick, ugly slicks into widely distributed droplets, minimizing damage to beaches and sensitive wetlands.
Massive application of dispersants is the reason the spill disappeared so quickly.
But it's important not to spray the dispersants directly on living things like marshlands or coral.
Remember the panic about this.
When they couldn't find the oil, then they tried to zero in a dispersants.
Oh my god, the dispersants are gonna kill the beaches and fishies and the shrimps and everything.
Uh-uh.
The reality is enough of anything will kill you, but the amount of corexit dispersant in the Gulf is highly diluted.
As for the British ban on it, it was based not on toxicity, but on the product's slipperiness, because the island nation surrounded by a rocky, ecologically sensitive coastal environment, its version of the EPA makes sure that all small creatures that live there can cling safely to their rocks.
So they ban corrects there because it makes the rocks slick and the poor little creatures slip off the rocks where they're supposed to live.
plain and simple.
And then there's this.
So far, because of all of this, all this misinformation, even if, even if the regime quickly rescinds its ban on offshore drilling, the economic impact of the spill and the paranoia surrounding it will be huge.
Potential visitors and customers are scared.
So far the cost has been about 75,000 jobs and more than two and a half billion dollars in wages.
Two and a half billion dollars in wages, over 50,000 jobs.
All based on total BS.
Total hysteria.
Total, made up, desired hysteria.
A brief timeout.
Yeah, send them an unemployment check.
It was Obama's answer.
Send them an unemployment check.
Make them wards of the state.
Doesn't matter.
Quick timeout, folks.
Back with more.
We'll get to your phone calls when we get back, so sit tight.
Obama lied.
The Gulf did not die.
Obama lied.
The oil business died.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, great to have you.
Open line Friday.
We're gonna start in St. Augustine, Florida.
John, glad you called and welcome.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor.
Congratulations on your marriage.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You know, as a lifelong Floridian, someone who works in the uh tourism industry with some Gulf Coast uh areas.
I heard the story that referenced that the Gulf Coast was devastated by the oil spill, but I think the true story is the Gulf Coast areas were devastated by the media and the media coverage.
Exactly right.
Aided by the administration.
Absolutely.
Is that it?
Well, I guess that's it.
Brevity's a solo wit.
Now I applaud you.
Brevity's a solo wit.
Florida tourism, Gulf tourism, devastated by the media.
No question about it.
Group think, conventional wisdom, ruling class, the elites, smarter than everybody else, the best and the brightest, and they're idiots.
They're not even curious.
There is zero critical thinking whatsoever at the highest levels of our institutions of higher learning, even.
Tyler in Toronto, Ontario.
Great to have you with us here in America on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Hey, Russ.
Um, I'm one of the few young people out here who has not been brainwashed into liberalism, and I called to give you a warning.
Uh oh.
Uh, I live in Canada and I have seen what happens when a country tilts leftward.
And we do have a conservative prime minister, and Canada is a good country, don't get me wrong, but it is no America.
And one day I may live in America, and if I get there, I want it to be the same exceptional shining city on a hill that has always been.
So everyone out there fighting the good fight.
You have to keep it up.
You have to stand up for what has made America great, is worth the fight.
We will.
I don't want to see America just become another mediocre nation.
I want to arrive one day and enjoy the type of America you enjoyed.
So please keep up the fight.
I have confidence that you will succeed in preserving it for future generations, because you're Americans, you're tough, you're determined, and you'll do it.
I'm just here to give you some encouragement, because I'm someone who looks at America as the last best hope.
It really is.
Do not let it slip away because being an American is a privilege, and I think many people around the world would love to have that privilege, so don't take it for granted.
We don't.
A lot of people the problem here is not so much that people take it for granted is that they don't appreciate it at all.
They don't look at it the same way you do.
They look at America as a crime.
They look at America as unjust and immoral and all of those things, but they're a minority.
Tyler, they really are.
We're being led by people like that, though.
That's the problem.
And their allies in the media are of that same persuasion.
But check out November.
Uh we have an energized American public.
And as Fawat Ajami mentioned in his Wall Street Journal piece earlier in the week, a lot of people have sobered up and realized what a mistake they made in a fleeting moment in November of 2008.
We've elected an untested primadonna, zero zilch, nada experience, and it's coming home to roost.
Clear for one and all to see.
And the guy thinks he's better and smarter than everybody else is an aristocrat and elitist.
And is hell bent on getting even with whatever he thinks the grievances of this country have been in the past.
Barack Obama equals politics of grievance.
He has rallied an entire nation against him.
And believe me, it's a larger number of people than you would ever know, Tyler, because the media, of course, is not portraying these numbers accurately.
And when they do talk about the opposition, they're not kooks.
In fact, I have a story.
Where me find this story?
I probably put it back toward the end of the stack.
It's a p I think it's a political story.
Nope, nope, nope.
I may have found it.
I may have found it.
Yes!
It is a political story.
Will its offbeat candidates hurt the GOP?
A former professional wrestling executive, a libertarian ophthalmologist, and a man who thinks bicycle use could empower the United Nations file to run in elections.
That's not the start of a joke.
That's a sampling of the deeply unusual pool of candidates running and actually being nominated for high office this year.
That's the first paragraph of a political story by Alexander Burns about off-beat candidates.
Candidates, and they're all to be found in this story on the Republican Party side of the aisle.
And it shows just how disconnected the partisan political operatives in the media are.
This guy writes a fairly lengthy piece on how unconventional some Republican candidates are this election cycle.
As if Obama's an off-the-rack politician.
As if Michelle Obama's an off-the-rack first lady.
As if Charlie Rangel.
As if Chuck U. Schumer Barney Fiat.
Yeah, these are the common nor Maxine Waters.
These are the common ordinary everyday, these are the norms.
These are the great people to whom we should aspire.
These are the crooks that have taken over the place and been there for 30, 40 years, to the point now where Time magazine has a piece.
Did Charlie Wrangle just get caught up in business as usual in the House?
As no, no big deal.
What's everybody so concerned about?
This is just what happens in the House.
Big deal.
House bank, House Post Office, what's there's no big there's no story here.
Poor old Charlie.
The politico could run a list of the off-beat legislation a Democrats introduced every day in Congress.
Like Wrangell's constant efforts to reintroduce the draft.
Maxine Waters today blamed Bush for her ethics problems.
We got Fortney Pete Stark.
These are normal people.
All of these wondrous Democrats, but of course the politico has to go out and find off beats in the Republican Party.
This Burns guy gets one thing right.
It's almost impossible to imagine a group of nominees like this emerging in any other election cycle, and the willingness of primary voters to embrace such downright strange candidates underscores just how violently the 2010 electorate has turned against political institutions and the would-be officeholders who belong to them.
He's exactly right.
We've gotten so odd that somebody who wants to reform Social Security is a political offbeat.
We have somebody who wants to shore up Medicare and fix it a political offbeat.
We have somebody who wants to fix a department of education is considered an offbeat candidate.
Somebody who wants to bring the budget in line is an off-beat oddball weirdo candidate.
Somebody who wants to end the crime and the fraud and the waste in government is an off-beat candidate.
You want to this is this for the first paragraph, former professional wrestling exec, libertarian ophthalmologist, and a man who thinks bicycle use could empower the UN filed to run in elections.
You want to how about how about let's start a really tasteless joke?
How about if I wrote a story with this is the lead?
A man is sworn in as president of the United States who is enthusiastically advocated infanticide as a state senator.
It's true.
Is that not off-beat?
Barack Hoover Obama as a state senator.
Infanticide.
If a baby intended to be aborted survives the abortion, the doctor is not to save the baby.
Goes against the wishes of the mother.
Barack Hoover Obama.
How about this?
A man runs for the highest office in the land who's preacher of 20 Years is a racist, a bigot, and a mentor.
Barack, Hoover Obama is mainstream.
Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi.
All of Obama's close friends, they are the mainstream.
Treasury secretary who cheats on his taxes and looks weird is not off beat, little Timmy Geithner.
Or how about this?
A man takes a presidential oath of office who was good friends and a close business associate of an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
Would the people at the politico ever think to write that under the headline, will it's off beat candidates hurt the Democrat Party?
A phenomenon that began with physician Rand Paul's victory in the Kentucky Senate primary has effectively gone national.
Primary voters are again and again choosing off beat candidates, shunned by national party strategists and imperiling potential Republican gains this November in the process.
You know who the ruling class fears.
They will always tell you.
Primary voters shunned by national party strategists, including Republicans.
So even the Republicans are embarrassed at some of these women.
Yes, we know they are.
The same Republicans who guarantee the Republican Party be a perpetual loser.
A perpetual minority party.
Al Franken.
Al Franken, not an off beat candidate in the Democrat Party.
Oh no, only the off-beat candidates are on the Republican side.
Joe Bite me?
Mainstream, not a little oddball off beat candidate, Joe Bite me.
Now back to this political piece.
Democrats have a few cartoonish candidates of their own, including South Carolina Senate nominee Alvin Green.
Frankly, what's so cartoonish about this guy other than what they've said about him?
Everything I've read about Alvin Green is he was an intelligence expert.
He got some awards being in the U.S. military.
It's a Democrats making fun of this guy.
It's a Democrats making him out to look like a goofball simply because he's not part of the ruling class.
But what about Alvin Green so oddball?
We look at Alvin Green as oddball because his own party's making fun of him, not us.
Oh yes, and they say that uh baggage laden Florida real estate mogul Jeff Green, running for the Democrat Senate nomination, is a cartoonish candidate on the Democrat side.
But the year's unlikeliest nominees are overwhelmingly on the Republican side.
Now look at this is the politico, and this is what you get.
We have a coterie of 1960s hippies and neo-communists running the country.
And politico thinks those who oppose them are off beat.
We have Linda McMahon, yes.
She is so off beat.
She actually is in business.
She actually has grown a huge business.
The WWE, the ruling class finds it distasteful.
Cartoonish in and of itself.
She grew her business a thousandfold.
How offbeat that we ought to have somebody who understands business in politics.
How offbeat.
Really?
Meanwhile, practically every single Democrat who is currently running for state or national office is lying through their tree teeth, trying to portray themselves as anti-Obama, anti-big spending, anti-debt.
They're essentially trying to portray themselves as conservatives.
So as not to be slaughtered in the upcoming elections.
These these on beat, these down the middle mainstream normal people are about to get slaughtered.
They are about to be creamed.
Because they are out of the mainstream.
The Democrat Party is not America.
The American left is not America.
They're not On beat.
They are not the backbone of America.
They are not the heart of America.
And they never have been.
These very on-beat, non-cartoonish people are about to get creamed in November.
And the politico says that it's the Republicans who are offbeat.
Can they point to a single Democrat who's on beat?
Don't tell me Pelosi, don't tell me Obama.
These are all kooks.
Reed?
Not even stable for crying out loud.
A radio talk show host, a mere radio talk show host humiliated Harry Reed for months over a bogus claim in a letter that he wrote.
All for the benefit of charity.
Harry Reed, don't tell me he's on beat.
Whatever beat they're on, it's not the beat the American people are on.
The American voter.
They wouldn't have to be lying through their heads to campaign and win if they were on beat.
The people who win elections by lying through their teeth are offbeat.
If you have to lie about who you are and what you believe in order to get elected, how in the world can you be said to be on beat, mainstream, down the middle, American?
It's upside down.
Alvin Green is probably the most normal Democrat running for office this year.
We only think he's a joke because the Democrats make fun of him.
It's the Democrats that try to keep black people out of political powerful positions.
and It ain't us in the ruling class.
Some Democrats get it.
This is anecdotal.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, uh, I guess was um, I don't know when this was, maybe yesterday.
Forty-year-old unemployed African American woman, Michelle Rena, uh Michelle Rena Jones from Albion, Michigan, said this about voting for Obama in the upcoming elections.
2008, which year Tyler Party celebrated.
But he's made up quite a few promises, and I don't see that they're being fulfilled.
I understand as far as being patient and but how much patience do we have to have in order to become gangfully employed?
Most likely I won't be voting.
I'm a Democrat to my heart, but it's just the insight that is not working.
Lifelong black Democrats, as she's not gonna vote for Democrats anymore.
It's anecdotal.
It's anecdotal, but it's one voice, and there's millions more like her, folks.
That's the thing.
But you won't find her story in Politico.
Or the New York Times or the Washington Times or Washington or Washington Post, I'm sorry, you won't find a story there.
I want to take you back to July 23rd, 2009, I, L. Rushbo on TV, on the record with Greta Van Susteren, talking about Obama's economic design.
This is not about health care, it's about control, it's about remaking the country, the economy, proof of my point here that the joblessness is on purpose.
If your number one signature issues health care, and his is, and if, which is true that health insurance is not portable when you lose your job, what's the best thing you can do for yourself?
Create unemployment.
The more people unemployed, the more people losing their health insurance.
The more people scared to death, the more people clamoring for it.
Please save my health insurance.
Please give me health insurance.
I'm scared because they've been drummed into the fact that there's something in this country killing them every day from coffee to nicotine to whatever it is.
So all of this destruction is taking place or redistribution of wealth.
He wants to return the nation's wealth, it's rightful owners.
That was I, your host L. Rushbow, Mind Over Chatter, with Greta Van Zusterin last July.
We move forward to last night ABC's world news tonight, fill-in anchored George Stephanopoulos, who, by the way, George Stephanopoulos cannot understand why people are upset with Obama.
He doesn't it with all the wonderful things Obama has done.
George Stephanopoulos.
What more could the president have done?
All these liberal achievements, what more could he have done?
Stephanopoulos genuinely doesn't understand why people don't like Obama and his policies.
Neither does F. Chuck Todd at NBC.
F Chuck Todd, baffled by Wall Street's anti-Obama sediment.
The president's not done much to business.
Why why Why do they not like Obama?
So Stephanopoulos and F. Chuck Todd, two pillars of the partisan political operative media, don't understand why various people don't like Obama and his policies.
Hey, George and F. Chuck.
Leave town for a minute.
You'll find out his policies are killing the country.
Barack Obama's policies are destroying jobs.
Just go to the Gulf and look at the drilling moratorium for crying out loud.
Idle rigs, rigs going elsewhere in the world.
Obama shut down drilling for no reason.
People out of work.
Obama's policies have caused other people to be fired.
People on Wall Street did not bargain for the government taking over their businesses.
George or F. Chuck.
What more could the president have done?
His liberal achievements?
America's not a liberal country, George.
The American people do not want liberal achievements.
Which is the point.
They didn't think they were voting liberal when they voted Obama.
They thought they were voting post-partisan, post-conservative, post-liberal, post-democrat, post-republican.
Post-racial.
They thought they were getting utopia, George.
Instead, they got the most radical left agenda in the history of the country, and they now know it.
And they don't want it.
And they don't like it, George.
They don't like liberalism, and that's why they don't like what Obama's doing.
It's not hard to figure out if you just get out of Washington.
Same thing with F. Chuck.
Well, let's go to World News tonight last night.
George Stephanopoulos filling in, talking to another ABC news correspondent, David Muir.
Stephanopoulos said there are more signs today, the U.S. economy slowing down.
Jobless claims up to 484,000.
Is this a pause in the recovery?
Are we slipping into another recession, David?
There is a real fear that that's the chance that we could be headed for a possible double dip recession.
And while many economists still argue that that's not going to happen, what no one disputes is that this recovery has slowed to a near halt.
And now many ask, is this the new normal?
Is this the new normal?
Nine and a half percent unemployment with no hope for improvement, the new normal.
Don't tell me this hasn't been on purpose.
Which was my point in the sound bite to Greta Van Sustran I just played.
The new normal?
You think it'd be the new normal if we had a Republican in the White House that was author of this?
You think these people, these schleps in the partisan political operative media be running around saying, it's the new normal.
Don't sweat it, folks.
Nine and a half percent be lucky, you live in America.
Nine and a half percent.
Why imagine how bad it would be if we didn't have Obama?
The new normal.
Might go into a double dip recession, George.
It could well be.
Obama, George Stefanov, gee, I don't know why why are people so unhappy with Obama?
All these achievements, what more could he have done?
It's not a question of what more could he have done, George.
It's can we turn what he's done around and save the country?
Remember yesterday, Ron Mott, the reporter who said he couldn't be honest about what he saw in Atlanta.
Well, he's back last night on the nightly news.
I guess he got permission to be honest.
Because he was honest last night about what he couldn't say the day before.
We'll have that for you coming up when we get back.
Don't go away.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone open line Friday.
Barack Hoover Obama doing for the U.S. economy what Godzilla did to Tokyo.
Just stomping all over it.
Bill and Phoenix, open line Friday, your next.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I wanted to talk about the upcoming lame duck session of Congress and the very real threat that the Democrats will pass an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants.
Right.
As you know, Rush, the Democrats have 59 votes in the Senate, and they need only one Republican senator to pass an amnesty bill.
And we know that there are a number of Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham will support Amnesty, and they they're likely gonna vote for Amnesty during this lame duck session in in November or December.
Well, yeah, yeah, I know they're thinking that McCain might, but McCain's running against all this now uh to get re-elected.
If McCain runs if he does a 180 on this and votes for Amnesty and a lame duck, I don't uh he better never go back to Arizona.
Well, he's 74 right now, Rush.
If he gets re-elected, he he he he's go he'll be in for six years, he'll be eighty.
Um it'll be like having Arlen Spector in there.
Uh he's got nothing to lose.
And and after he gets past this Republican primary that he's in right now, what leverage does anyone have?
I mean, he he tried two times in the past.
We know that.
He wants to put I don't know who he's gonna co-sponsor this amnesty bill, whether it'll be McCain, uh Ree, Harry Reed or McCain, whatever, but they're gonna get this thing done.
Harry Reid is uh well, it'll be his swan song if he uh if he if he does this.
Here you the thing about this, though, Bill, it's not so much when you're talking amnesty, it's not so much what Congress does.
Obama's already looking at it by executive fiat.
We had the story a couple of weeks ago.
There's a memo circulating the highest levels of government about how they can create the equivalent to amus amnesty with simply uh a bunch of executive orders or other federal decrees, presidential decrees.
They're looking into it.
They were caught.
Well, who was it?
It was um what's his face from uh uh Iowa?
Chuck Grassley heard about it and sent him a letter said, What the hell are you doing?
Oh, well, we're just thinking here.
You know, we're just sitting around theorizing.
We're not really gonna do this, we're just theorizing.
Not really gonna do it.
They're planning it.
I I wouldn't I wouldn't wait for a for a lame duck session for this to happen.
Obama's gonna need those people.
He's gonna need these illegal alien votes come 2012.
He's not gonna wait for Congress to make that happen.
He doesn't care.
Mark my words, Lee, Richmond, Virginia, your next EIB network.
Open line Friday.
Hi.
Hi.
Kudos.
Yes, thank you.
I just wanted to uh tell you you should uh warn the Gulf commercial fishing industry to brace itself.
Uh next year or year after, they probably have a record take.
Um I taught high school science for twenty years.
I was in a classroom during the Exxon Valdez spell.
Yeah.
And of course, experts and the pundits predicted dire circumstances for fishermen for unforeseeable future.
Right.
Well, uh two years later they had a follow-up video that I showed in class that showed everything had returned to normal, and in fact, a year after the disaster, they had a record take of fish.
Right.
And it was worse than what happened in the Gough.
That was uh heavier oil, I believe.
In a smaller volume of water to boot.
And they had uh they uh actually added some of these uh oil consuming bacteria, which of course provide this super food source.
And uh I was on the same page with you with this one.
I showed this video to my class, and I said not to get too distraught about these dire predictions.
And so we've both been proven right.
Way to go.
He is, by the way, absolutely right, and that is a great prediction.
Record fish season next year in the Gulf of Mexico.
Okay, here's Ron Mott.
Now, this this is Wednesday.
This is Ron Mott when he felt that he had to be careful.
This was about the riots in Atlanta.
The first thought that I had when we pulled up on the scene here was whether we were in America, and I have to be very careful as a reporter not to overstep my bounds, but this was a very disgusting scene that we saw here in Metro Atlanta today.
Dozens upon dozens of people passing out from the heat, standing in the heat just to get an application to apply for public housing here in Metro Atlanta.
This does not guarantee them a place to live.
In fact, they had so many applications go out today, 13,000 applications.
There are exactly zero public housing units, zero subsidized housing units available in East Point, Georgia.
A lot of these folks will never get off that wait list.
First thought I had we pulled up on the scene here was whether we were in America.
But I had to be very careful as a reporter not to overstep my bounds.
We wondered what the hell does that mean.
Can't be honest about the who, what, when, where, and why, because the who, what, when, where, and why in journalism, the answer to every one of those questions is Republicans are evil.
So he went on Sergeant Sultas show on Mess NBC last night, he's NBC correspondent.
And uh, this is what he said that he couldn't say the day before.
The real shame for me as a reporter is that I'm told to keep my emotions in check.
And the first emotion I had when I showed up to that scene yesterday, I was sad, and then I just got angry that these people were stripped of the last thing really that they own and that is their own dignity, having to beg for an application that really for most of them will not turn up housing that they can afford.
And I think one of the things that we have to do as a country, if you have a heart and if you feel, you've got to wonder what we're going to do to try to build more affordable housing so that we don't have people who are not in prison who are law-abiding citizens living in worse conditions than this nation's prisons.
Mr. Mott, there is enough evidence to suggest the government cannot fix the problems of poverty in any community.
The government can't keep people out of jail.
The government can't do any of this.
We already tried affordable housing.
Mr. Mott, it is why we have an economic disaster right now.
It's called a subprime mortgage.
And we have all kinds of people in affordable housing that could not afford it.
If you want to fix what's wrong, Mr. Mott, get rid of Democrats in Washington.
It's just that simple.
And then tell people in minority communities to get married, stay married, but don't do it before they get out of high school.
We learned that the Philadelphia Housing Authority guy making 300 grand and he's being foreclosed on.
I wonder what the East Point, Georgia, this is Atlanta.
I wonder what that housing authority head is making.
I mean, Mr. Mott, the idiocy of you people, I'm it's not easy to suffer fools for so today.
You're just really getting to me.
The same government that cannot deport illegal aliens and enforce the border laws, somehow gonna find a way to put everybody in a house in this country.
They already tried it, Mr. Mott, and it's why we have an economic crisis called a subprime mortgage business.
Guys in the media, we're sunk, folks.
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