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Sept. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 2, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in, undocumented and loving it.
And remember, it's racist to inquire about my immigration status, even though large parts of my body are overwhelmingly white, so don't even think about it.
Hurricane Earl, Hurricane Earl is coming.
I said yesterday, I found it hard to take seriously a hurricane called Earl.
It's a bit like being called Hurricane Bud.
But apparently, after Hurricane Earl, Hurricane Fiona is due to hit.
Hurricane Fiona.
I think that sounds like a nice upper-middle-class English horsey girl, Hurricane Fiona.
I think she dated Prince Edward in the 90s.
And then after that, it gets better and better because after Hurricane Fiona, we're getting Hurricane Gaston.
What's the French for Hurricane?
Oh, God.
This will come to me.
Our gain.
Ouraguin.
Our gain Gaston will be breezing in.
Hurricane.
So we're getting Hurricane Earl, All-American Hurricane Earl, and then Hurricane Fiona, and then Hurricane Gaston will be breezing in in his sophisticated Gallic way and be totaling the eastern seaboard.
And I should clarify yesterday, when I was talking about Maxine Waters, had objected to the racist names of hurricanes.
It was, in fact, her fellow Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who had objected to the racist names that we only gave white names to hurricanes.
And I hadn't actually given this any thought.
But when you look at the lineup this season, Hurricane Earl, then Hurricane Fiona and Hurricane Gaston, I'm beginning to think Sheila Jackson Lee may actually have a point and that the racist nomenclature of hurricanes is really a scandal in this country.
Her argument, as I recall it, is that blacks were being discriminated against because no destructive meteorological phenomena are given African-American names.
You know, apparently the black community can't relate to some white-bred hurricane like Hurricane Andrew blowing in and tearing up the joint.
There were never any Hurricane Leroys or Hurricane Latifahs, and it's deeply racist and insulting to imply that only forces of nature with these ephete wasp names are capable of inflicting billions of dollars of coastal damage.
So we'll see how it goes with Hurricane Earl, but I think the one to watch is Ouraguin Gaston, Ourguin Gaston, who is a couple of hurricanes behind Earl and in his duplicitous French way, I think is just going to total the Eastern Seaboard.
So we'll keep an eye on that with our EIB Stormwatch tracking.
Keep an eye on Ouraguin Gaston as he sweeps in.
Good news from Joe Biden.
Joe Biden was talking about the economy.
He goes, Joe Biden, this is Joe Biden on the economy.
We're turning this great ship of state around that was wandering out to sea and it's heading back to port.
Mr. Vice President, the point of a ship is to be at sea.
It's to go places.
It's to be out there cruising through the waters.
You're saying we've got nothing to worry about now because the American economy is back in dry dock and being worked on by unionized workers indefinitely.
That's great news.
There is actually another observation on the economy.
The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back, a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good.
This is from Bloomberg News.
The argument being advanced by Ethan Harris, head of developed markets economics research at Bank of America, Merrill, Bank of America, these are so amalgamated, I can't, the name's too long to read.
Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and about eight other subsidiaries in New York.
It's one of the supermerged mega banks now.
Ethan Harris says, the sectors of the economy that traditionally drive it into recession are already so depressed, it's difficult to see them getting a lot worse.
In other words, all the indicators are so bad, they can't get any worse.
The experts are telling you this.
You don't have to worry about it.
They're right there at the bottom.
The needle is down at zero already.
There's never been a better time to buy because they haven't invented a scale that is capable of showing things getting any worse than this.
The needle is right at the bottom of the tank.
The tank is on empty.
You can't get below empty.
So this is as good as it's going to get.
This is great news.
The economy is so kaput, it can't get any more kaputa.
So now is the time, is the time to buy.
The Russians comes to something when the Russians may be making more sense than anybody on this.
Russia's finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, has urged citizens to smoke and drink more to help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.
This is the consumer, you know, the consumerism, getting the consumer market confidence going again, getting the economy going again.
We hear a lot of people talking about that in America.
It's meant to mean that you go out and you buy a new car or you buy a plasma TV, you go down to the mall.
Well, consumerism in Russia means you smoke and drink more.
The Russians drink continuously.
Male life expectancy in Russia is, I think, about 57, 58.
It's like on a par with Bangladesh.
And that's because they're like chugging down the vodka.
Russian men are the unhealthiest men on the planet.
They've got everything.
They've got everything.
But fortunately, they keel over at 57 and drown in a pool of stagnant vodka on the bar counter.
And that absolves the Russian healthcare system for having to take care of them for the last 30 years of their life.
Smoking, every, you know, how can this finance minister say Russians need to smoke and drink more?
They can't drink more.
They can't, it's not possible.
They can't smoke more.
That's how I knew there was nothing to this secondhand smoke thing.
Because if there was anything to secondhand smoke, the whole of Finland would have keeled over and died from the secondhand smoke wafting over from the Russians smoking all week long.
So I think we might usefully import this program here.
You know, I think this is actually the easiest solution to Social Security.
We could waste our time with complicated social security reform, but why not?
Why not?
Why not just make vodka tax deductible?
And I think that is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that I want to see after the Republicans take Congress this November.
Pennsylvania, the capital city of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, has said that it will not make a 3.3 million municipal bond payment due in two weeks, a decision that could move the Pennsylvania capital closer to bankruptcy.
You know, a lot of us earlier in the summer were looking at Greece and comparing the United States with Greece.
I don't think it's actually really that useful because to compare Greece with the United States, but it is more useful to compare certain American states with certain member states of the European Union.
So Greece is like California.
Pennsylvania isn't quite as bad.
Pennsylvania is like kind of Portugal.
And the question then becomes: who is Germany in this scenario?
If California is Greece and Pennsylvania is Portugal, who is Germany?
Who is the one who gets stuck with the tab for bailing out all these other insolvent states?
California has got innumerable municipalities.
That place, Bell, California, the place where they've got the city manager on $800,000 a year, and the deputy city manager with his benefits, that comes to $1.5 million a year.
And his deputy city manager is on a combined package of $1.2 million a year.
And the city is bankrupt.
The whole of California is like that.
The whole of California is like that.
This great state of New York that I'm broadcasting from, illegally, by the way, because I am, as I mentioned yesterday, I am in non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
So if in the course of the show you hear the door being kicked open and my voice gets all muffly, it's just the SWAT team pumping tear gas into the room to take me out.
Come and get me, Governor Patterson.
Come and get me.
This state, New York and California, are all but ungovernable now.
They have so abused any kind of fiscal responsibility.
And if you think, you think you're a little pinprick on the map and you're in one of the six or seven fiscally responsible states in the Union and that you're going to escape what California and New York have done, you can't.
They are like two corpulent gin-soaped trollops that have rolled over to rub bellies on the Mississippi and squash everything underneath them.
That is what is being done to the economy of this country.
So the capital of Pennsylvania has skipped its bond payment and is going to be getting closer to bankruptcy.
We will talk about that.
We will talk about also later on the show today, we will talk about this guy, Imam Rauf, the Ground Zero Mosque guy.
He's a symbol of everything that's wrong with the way we're doing things.
Not because he's a Muslim, but because he's a freeloader.
He's like Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He's like California.
It's government money.
All he's done, every failed venture of his, has government money.
Like I said yesterday, he's as American as apple pie in that respect.
He and his wife, Daisy Daisy, have figured out that the way to make it in America is to get plugged into government.
Now, you know, if Islam wants to take over the world, that's fine, but they could at least do it on their own dime.
Nanny Bloomberg, the hectoring mayor of New York, says he doesn't want to investigate the funding for the Ground Zero Mosque.
Okay, well, why don't we investigate the funding for Imam Rauf's lousy book?
According to Human Events, the State Department acquired 3,000 copies of Imam Routh's book, What's Right with Islam, at a cost of nearly $10,000 under something called the Cairo Regional Book Program.
The State Department hands out hundreds of copies of Imam Rauf's book during his visit to Egypt last January and to his current three-country tour that he's on at State Department expense.
Do you understand what this means?
You, the United States taxpayer, are paying for Imam Rauf's book tour.
You're paying.
The United States taxpayer is paying for this guy's lousy vanity publishing venture.
We are an insolvent nation.
If we are going to start cutting back the insane spending, can we not at least start with Imam Rauf's book tour?
Why is the State Department spending your money on Imam Rauf's book?
Why can't he sell his book the way the rest of us struggling authors have to do?
You know, we have to go do the lousy book tour saga.
We have to go on Hate Talk FM at 2 in the morning and plug the book to some guy who hasn't read it properly.
Why can't he do that?
Why is his book tour paid for by the United States taxpayer?
So we'll talk about Imam Raouf.
We'll talk about where the economy's heading.
And we will talk about strange words I never thought I'd utter, the Discovery Channel bomber, and lots more straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush is off golfing, taking his annual golf vacation, and he will be back live on Tuesday.
The Discovery Bomber, the Discovery Channel Bomber.
You know, all of us like right-wing crazies are just like biting our tongues at the moment and trying not to surrender to the temptation here, because this is yet another story where something wacky happens, and the assumption is always that it's some angry white male, angry white male, angry white tea party rage, raging out of control, angry white male.
And then, of course, it turns out to be just another left-wing wacko.
You know, we had this with the Times Square bomber a couple of months back where Nanny Bloomberg, the minute they find a bomb in Times Square, it's perfectly obvious to like 99.99% of the population of the planet would figure, oh, there's a bomb in Times Square.
You know, I wouldn't mind betting that's one of these kind of jihad type, jihad-type people who's like maybe been to a training camp in Pakistan, something like that.
That's what 99.99% of the planet figure out.
But America's ruling class, Nanny Bloomberg, goes on TV and says, well, we have no leads on suspects yet, but it would seem to me likely that it is someone who is concerned about the healthcare plan of the Obama administration.
Yes, yes, of course.
That would be me.
That would be me.
So if you can't get me for being in non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance, send the SWAT team round to get me for opposing the healthcare bill.
Nanny Bloomberg, of course, turned out to be wrong.
It turned out to be a guy, a young Muslim guy from Pakistan, who wanted to, you know, one of the old Death to the Great Satan types.
But even actually, even then, the media didn't want to go along with that version of events.
Remember, he was behind with his mortgage payments in Connecticut.
And so they were saying that, in fact, falling behind with his mortgage payments had driven him to, well, or driven his car to Times Square and to park the car with the bomb in it.
And that this was so, it was nothing to do with any religion beginning with I and ending in slam.
Nothing to do with that.
This was like subprime terrorism.
It's a whole new thing, subprime terrorism.
People are being driven to it.
And of course, it's true, by the way, he had fallen behind with his mortgage payments.
If you take six months off to go to a jihadist training camp in Waziristan, it is actually hard to keep up your house payments.
The mail service from Waziristan, when you mail in the check, isn't terribly good.
Who knows?
He may have been trying to keep up.
And just, you know, four of the five Czechs just disappeared under the Waziristani Postal Office.
So there's always the urge on the liberal side to look the other way.
It's like, but if with the angry right-wing male, it's like this guy, the Muslim cabby, just the other week.
Oh, that's the angry right-wing rage that's out there.
And of course, it turns out to be just some left-wing wacko who took against this cabby.
Now we have this guy.
HR made the point that this guy made a big mistake.
He put his manifesto up on the internet too early because if he'd actually time delayed it, we'd have had all this stuff saying, well, you know, targeting the Discovery Channel.
That obviously sounds like the work of a right-wing hater, because like most of us right-wing haters hate the Discovery Channel, all those cute furry animals and all the stuff they got in there.
We would have been hearing all about the right-wing rage that is out there, that is out there.
And in fact, of course, it turned out to be some nut who is influenced by this book, My Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, and by Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and who wants to prevent the world from having any more parasitic babies because human babies are destroying the planet.
And he believes his heroes are this guy, Daniel Quinn, and he also wants to save the world for, and this is his list, the lions, tigers, giraffes, elephants, froggies, turtles, apes, raccoons, beetles, ants, sharks, bears, and of course, the squirrels, unquote.
Of course, the squirrels.
I've no idea why the Discovery Bomber...
Well, I guess, you know, the Discovery Channel Bomber, you can understand why he likes squirrels, because they really know how to take care of their nuts, unlike our cruel and unfeeling society.
So he's opposed to any kind of human reproduction.
He's got all these crazy ideas from the environmental movement.
We had Bob on yesterday.
Bob's accusation toward me and Rush is that when we criticize the Ground Zero Mosque, we're serving as recruiters for the Taliban.
This was Bob's sophisticated level of analysis, that everything Rush and I say drives recruitment for the Taliban, that it would never occur to these guys sitting in these caves to sign up for the jihad if it weren't for the stuff that Rush and I are saying.
Well, what about all these environmental novels?
What about all these people saying that the world is going to end in 10 years?
What about Al Gore referring to climate change as an environmental holocaust, an environmental crystalline?
Wouldn't you want to prevent something like that?
If you took Al Gore seriously, wouldn't you want to work to prevent something like that?
Oh, but no, no, no.
The Discovery Channel bomber has nothing to do with Al Gore's good works for the world, whereas Rush and I are generating extremism across the fruited plane.
Great to be with you.
Mark Davis will be here tomorrow, and there'll be a best of rush for Labor Day.
We're talking about this Discovery Channel bomber, 1-800-282-2882.
He wanted the Discovery Channel to change its programming to favor animals and bugs, but also to cut back on the birth of what he called parasitic babies, parasitic babies.
Nothing is more important, he said, than stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies.
And people say, well, you know, this guy's just a crazy.
He's just a crazy.
Stephen Cotler, Stephen Cottler says, quote, you don't need to ask what you need to do for the world.
You already know.
Stop having children.
It's that easy, unquote.
And Stephen Kotler is calling for a five-year moratorium on having children planet-wide.
So he wants, because he says a billion less people is a great place to start.
A billion less people is a great place to start.
Key word start, by the way, because experts agree that the official carrying capacity for the planet is somewhere between 300 million and 2 billion.
So we have sort of 5 to 6 billion people that we're going to need to unload.
But he says like just having a billion less people would be a great place to start.
So stop having children, a five-year moratorium on anyone having children.
Now, you may be saying, after what happened to the Discovery Channel bomber, where he has to get taken out by the SWAT team, you may be saying, oh, is this guy nuts?
No, he's not nuts.
He's so not nuts that he writes for psychology today.
That's how sane he is.
He's a guy who tells you you're nuts.
And he's saying we need a five-year moratorium on human babies.
Sir Jonathan Porritt, Sir Jonathan Porritt, who is something called the sustainable development chair for the British government, also opposes environmentally irresponsible breeding.
He thinks that your carbon allowance, the number of children you have, and your birth control methods should be factored into your carbon allowance.
So it would be increased.
Your travel allowance, for example, if you agree to only have one child, you would be permitted to take a vacation in Florida once a year.
And presumably, if you agreed to have your tubes tied, you could maybe get a beach house in the Bahamas or whatever.
These aren't lunatics.
These are respected figures who are saying exactly the same thing that the guy who tried to take out the Discovery Channel yesterday was saying.
The anti-humanism, the anti-humanism, because in the end, by the way, much of the liberal agenda boils down to a kind of psychologically unhealthy civilizational self-loathing.
You know, there's an easy way, by the way.
I would like these people to lead by example.
If you feel there are too many on the planet, by all means, go ahead and jump off a building.
But they never do because they seem to think that when we're talking about reducing the planet, it can only support 300,000 to 2 billion people.
So we need to get rid of 5 billion people.
Now, where are we going to start?
Well, we could start with Rush.
We don't really need him around.
We could start with everyone who works at the Fox News channel.
We could start with all those Rush Limbaugh guest hosts called Mark.
We could start with Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Sarah Palin.
They think they're going to be part of the 300,000 to 2 billion that are still left.
Why don't you lead by example?
If you're really so mired in civilizational self-loathing, why feel free to jump off a building?
Feel free to jump off a building.
The danger, I think, the danger is not that there are crazy guys out there who believe that and want to just swank into the Discovery Channel and blow the place up.
The danger is that there are people at high level in government who think like that and who carry on like that.
Al Gore is a, Al Gore is a very good example.
Al Gore has an almost insane view of environmentalism and what is necessary to save the planet.
But he's a widely respected figure.
And he gets to fly around the world meeting with other people who think exactly like he does.
Like this guy, the head of the climate change guy at the UN, Rajendra Pauchuri, Rajendra Pauchuri.
He's this Indian railroad engineer who hit the jackpot and was put in charge of the climate change panel at the United Nations.
Now he flies all over the world.
You never see the guy except in the VIP lounge at JFK, VIP Lounge at Heathrow, VIP Lounge at New Delhi.
And he's the guy who's saying, well, we can't have people going around, staying in hotels, taking flights, eating at restaurants.
We need to crack down on all that.
Environmentalism is fundamentally anti-human, and of course, it is the biggest pretext for big government ever, which is why these people are attracted to it.
Because if a Department of Transportation deals with transportation policy and a Department of Education deals with education policy, but a Department of the Environment deals with everything because everything is in the environment.
Everything you do, everything you eat, everything in your home is part of the environment.
And this guy, this guy, what is at issue with the Discovery Channel bomber is not that he is insane, but that so many of the people that he got his so-called crazy ideas from think exactly the same as him.
Now, here's a good example of where environmentalism leads, by the way.
Bedbug fears put bite on the hotel industry.
This is from the Boston Globe.
Have you been following this?
There's a spate of bed, the bedbugs are back.
Bedbugs went away with the old homestead on the frontier in the early 20th century because America got rid of DDT and invented DDT and got rid of bedbugs.
And then the environmental movement, in its first great victory, Rachel Carson's celebrated thing, got rid of the DDT.
They put it in songs.
Remember Joni Mitchell, whatever it is, big yellow taxi in all the hippy-dippy songs they say, hey, Farmer Palmer, put away, give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees.
Put away the DDT.
Yeah, Joni Mitchell, big yellow taxi.
They put in the old hippie songs attacking DDT.
Because we attack DDT, it's not just the malaria in the third world.
We now got a bedbug epidemic in the United States of America.
So you go away and you think it doesn't affect you.
You live in your home.
You don't have bedbugs.
You go and you stay in a chain hotel somewhere and you come back and you have quite a restless night.
You're not sure why, but there seems to be something sort of nuzzling in the third hair down on your calf.
And unfortunately, when you get up in the morning, the little fella stays in there on your leg and you introduce him to whichever bedbug-free state he's in.
And now we've got a bedbug epidemic in the United States of America.
Because primitive societies, believe it or not, are worse, are more uncomfortable, are more disease-ridden, are more filthy.
People talk about healthcare.
90% of healthcare is hygiene.
Cheryl Crowe, Cheryl Crow wants a prohibition on people using, he doesn't think people should use more than one sheet of toilet paper, more than one sheet of toilet paper.
It's the, you may recall the, they did the, they did the cover version of the fundraising cover version of the John Lennon song.
All we are saying is give one piece a chance.
That's all she's saying, is we should just use one piece of toilet paper.
They want to go to war against two-ply toilet paper, which is which is all made in Canada.
It would devastate the Canadian economy.
The Canadians are basically the Saudi Arabia of toilet paper.
So you would have a total societal collapse if you were to outlaw Tuply toilet paper.
But they're going to war.
They're going to war on hygiene.
You're going to live in a more disease-ridden society.
Did you see that?
That was on the Discovery Channel.
Did you see that thing?
Do you remember that, Catherine, where they flew all those Hollywood celebrities to the jungle to live among primitives for a week?
And Drew Barrymore, Drew Barrymore, I'm going to find this exact quote.
I'll leave this because this is such a great, this is such a great quote.
I'll find that precise quote when we come back.
1-800-282-2882, a more disease-ridden United States, thanks to the environmental movement.
Mark Stein in for Rush, your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network in the wake of yet another sick crazed left-wing wacko, driven to insane acts by the extremism and the hatred that's out there.
The Discovery Channel, the Discovery Channel, Barber, we were talking about how what is worrying is that in the context of the environmental movement, how normal his views are, the anti-humanism, for example, and the return of all these signs of a primitive society like bedbugs in American hotel chains now.
And I mentioned the way that the strange sort of fascination with reprimitivization that the elites in our society have.
Cameron Diaz, I mentioned just before the break, I wanted to get this quote right because it's not, I don't want to put words in her mouth.
Cameron Diaz hosted a series called Trippin in which she and fellow celebrities went to Tanzania, Honduras, Nepal, and so forth and praised the environmental friendliness of village life there.
Quote, I aspire to be like them, Drew Barrymore told viewers after spending a few days in a remote Chilean community without electricity or indoor plumbing.
Quote, I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal.
It was awesome, unquote.
That is the world.
That is the world the environmentalists are building for you.
You know, does a Barry bore crap in the woods?
Apparently so.
They didn't in Lionel's day.
John Barrymore didn't.
Ethel Barrymore didn't.
Lionel Barrymore didn't.
But this new generation is more enlightened.
Let's go to Scott in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Scott, you are live on the EIB network.
Well, Mark, there's just several different layers of irony and hypocrisy on this Discovery Channel hijacker, I guess.
You just know if he'd have been in there, he'd have been upset about, you know, if he'd have been a gun rights advocate or a hunting advocate, Keith Oberman and Nancy Pelosi, and that had been blaming Rush and Fox News and Glenn Beck.
And they'd been decrying the Republicans' overheated campaign rhetoric.
That would have been the lead.
The thing is, the Discovery Channel itself disseminates a lot of this crap.
The Discovery Networks, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel and History Channel, they have entire series devoted.
They have a series Life After People.
Yeah, no, no.
The premise is that people are bad for the planet and they take it's not just one two-hour special.
I mean, it's an entire series.
They look at how long does it take for this building to fall down and what happens to this city in morbid detail, one year out, two years out, 500 years out.
Even in some of their more intellectually strenuous scientific type programming, they had a special on the Little Ice Age and copious amounts of historical data about how the climate has shifted,
the medieval warm period where the Vikings settled Greenland and they had farms and group crops under what are now glaciers and the Little Ice Age where the River Thames used to freeze over and they'd have fairs in the winter on solid ice and how it used to be 20 degrees hotter, 20 degrees cooler than it is now.
And that's been natural and ever since before the Industrial Revolution.
But even at the end of that, they have to tap on five minutes of global warming garbage, which completely goes against the grain of everything they've just presented in the hour and 55 minutes before.
Yes, and I think that's – you make a good point that he's going up against the propaganda arm of the environmental movement on these issues.
That is what is so – I mean initially when this story broke yesterday and someone's – what?
Someone's in the Discovery Channel building?
They're holding the Discovery Channel hostage?
That's like hearing that, you know, the soft and easy listening favorites channel next door, someone's bust in there and is holding them hostage because they haven't got Debbie Boone in high rotation.
It's ridiculous, this.
They're a fellow propaganda arm of the movement, of the movement.
And where it leads is nowhere good.
This anti-humanism, I think, is sick.
You know, A World Without Us, I think that's what it was called, a couple of Christmases ago.
All the lefties were giving each other, this was the book they were giving each other for Christmas, A World Without Us.
It was about a planet in which man was extinct and it had returned to its bucolic state.
On the cover, there was, I guess it was meant to be Manhattan or somewhere in ruins and the jungle creepers and the vines reclaiming the city and it was being restored to its beautiful natural state, a world without us.
And this is what liberals give each other for Christmas.
Christmas, I can't remember all the details, but I vaguely thought it had something to do with new life and the birth of a little baby.
And they're all giving each other this thing about death, the extinction of the human race.
Isn't that wonderful news?
Now the three-toed tree sloth will just be able to hang from the tree without having to worry about a city bus coming by and wrecking the whole joint and there goes the neighborhood.
What is significant about the Discovery Channel bomber is that his views are so normal on that side of the fence.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more of your calls still to come.
Mark Stein, Inforush on the EIB network.
The director James Cameron, James Cameron, Canada's greatest export, has attacked DVDs as wasteful.
DVDs are harmful to the environment, and he thinks it's not compatible with 20th Century Fox's commitment to be carbon neutral by the end of 2010.
I'll love to see that, by the way.
James Cameron has just attacked DVDs.
He's got three DVDs out right now just for one lousy movie, just for Avatar.
He's got three DVDs, including one that's some, you know, super...
It comes in a super big extra plasticky cover because it's got all the bells and whistles in it and the 3D Blu-ray thing.
And this is a guy's...
Oh, DVDs.
DVDs are...
Why, by the way, are you in the movie business?
If every...
If anything has a huge carbon footprint, it's a film like Avatar.
You've got all these special effects, computerized effects.
You go somewhere, you've got a big set, you're filming everything, you've got a cast of thousands.
Why aren't you doing some crummy little play off, off Broadway with no sets and no costumes and one guy standing on a bare black stage?
Yeah, holding a Hershey bar.
That's all you need to do.
It's like, yeah, and the rock stars.
It's like when they have these rock, rock for the planet things and some huge rock super group.
Like, what was it last time for the Al Gore thing?
Sting got the police back together to save the rainforest.
And so they all fly in with their huge trucks and their huge sound systems and tons and tons of roadies.
Why aren't you just doing what we used to do in the 1890s when we just gathered round the piano and sang fragrant Victorian parlor ballads to ourselves of an evening?
Isn't that much more environmentally friendly than doing your rock supergroup thing to save the planet?
Don't look at what these guys say.
Look at how these guys live.
Environmentalism is really a racket to restore us to the divine right of kings.
You'll still have, you know, the Duke of Sting and the Duchess Cheryl Crow swanking around the planet.
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