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March 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
You know, the longer you live and the more disasters you'll see, the more you realize, ladies and gentlemen, that in almost, and it's very close, and almost equally important part of the story is the media.
And it really is.
Media's getting really ticked off.
Why aren't the Japanese panicking?
Why aren't there any looters?
They're actually stories about this.
Of course, it is interesting that the Japanese are not looting.
And in fact, evil Japanese businessmen are lowering prices on commodities.
And in some cases, even giving things away to aggrieved citizens.
Hi, folks.
Hope you had a great weekend.
We're back.
El Rushball here behind the golden EIB microphone.
There are only two of those.
One permanently attached here and one that travels with us.
When we take this program on the road, very rarely that we do that.
But when we do, there's a second golden EIB microphone that goes with us.
Anyway, I'm behind it today.
Telephone numbers 800 28282 and the email address.com.
I actually heard a CNN reporter ask.
Hopefully, is there widespread looting going on?
These people are looking for disaster.
They want disaster upon disaster.
They want the nuclear meltdown.
They want the Japanese syndrome, if you will.
They want this stuff.
A friend of mine, ladies and gentlemen, is in the business of the film arts.
Otherwise, movies.
And he tells me that he once once had a movie director who used to say all the time, do not be afraid because fear kills.
And I have to wonder if you look at the coverage here if this isn't what he had in mind.
This is just the wanton spreading of fear.
When in fact, most of these nuclear reactors in Japan are behaving as designed.
They are containing.
There's not this widespread disaster.
I got our climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville, sent me some statistics.
The Chernobyl disaster, and that was, as we've now learned, Chernobyl was a horrible design run by idiots in the old Soviet Union.
The Chernobyl snur- Why are you frowning snurely?
Is something wrong in there today?
Did um Well, I'm not you're watching the coverage of the tsunami in the Hurst Green.
It is depressing.
That's the point.
It's depressing as it is.
We don't need this made worse.
We don't need this.
I've got a bunch of see I told you so.
The media making it about Obama.
The media saying it's due to global warming.
The media is saying within two hours, the media is saying it's gonna happen here.
The media is saying, well, that's the end of the nuclear power industry in America.
No, it shouldn't be.
But guess who owns the nuclear power industry in this country?
Good old General Electric, good old Jeff Immelt, good old buddy of Obama.
So what's Obama gonna do now?
Is Obama gonna throw MLT and GE overboard to satisfy his base?
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that we have to look at here in the face of human disaster.
We now have to wonder, okay, what's gonna happen with Obama and Melt?
Because GE, MLT is uh is a power player on one of Obama's consumer or some sort of economic committees.
And GE has paid a huge amount of money for the privilege, and they've they've been rewarded with a bunch of government subsidies for green energy.
Well, this ain't green energy.
Nuclear ain't green according to the way the leftists look at it.
So what's gonna happen here?
Meanwhile, Obama's out playing golf.
I didn't even go play golf.
I stayed glued to gathering the news.
Obama's out playing golf and playing basketball.
Most people, when it comes to Obama, you know what they're anticipating?
His NCAA brackets.
Every year at this time, people wonder what the president's brackets are gonna be, who he's gonna pick.
We got the world on fire, we got Libya, the Middle East, and the guy's out going playing golf.
Yeah, well, he needs his rest.
He needs his relaxation, Mr. Limboy.
He needs to be able to recharge.
Yeah.
Right.
All these times, our poor stressed out young president.
Uh in the meantime, I know I I told you on Friday, you look at this footage, you say you feel so insignificant.
I mean, it just if it doesn't put in perspective everything.
The idea that man meh.
Yeah.
I saw the picture of the fighter.
I've seen it all.
Fire plane swept into the building.
I've seen I've seen everything that you've seen.
And it's mind boggling.
It uh it is.
But would I get in trouble?
This is part of my theme today.
Would I get in trouble with you?
Would I get in trouble with you in the audience?
Would I appear to be, what's the word insensitive if I were to tell you it's not as bad as they're making it out to be.
For Japan at large.
This affects a portion of Japan that is responsible for 1.7% of Japan's GDP, for example.
Yep, 1.7% of their GDP where this thing happened.
Larry Cudlow even stepped in it.
Poor old Larry Cudlow, who, by the way, has been questionably one of us since Obama was immaculated.
Larry Cudlow stepped in it.
He's since apologized, but this is what happens when you work for an Obama news network.
Cudlow said the human damage is much worse than the economic damage, and we can be thankful for that.
He had to go out and do a correction on this, saying he misspoke, he was talking about something he just words didn't come out right.
But he had a he had a he did a he did a quick may a couple.
Anyway, here are the statistics from Dr. Roy Spencer, our official climatologist.
University of Alabama and Huntsville, Chernobyl disaster released 400 times as much radiation as the Hiroshima bomb.
Now hang on.
But nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 60s, when you were growing up, sturdely, when I was growing up, released 100 to 1,000 times as much radiation as Chernobyl.
Right here in our own fruited plane.
Three Mile Island.
What is your memory of Three Mile Island?
Folks, I just want to ask you, if you were, this is in the 80s.
What is your memory?
And I guarantee your memory of Three Mile Island is going to be almost 100% with what the media told you about it.
Okay.
Nobody died and nothing leaked out.
That's what you that that's that's but media didn't tell you that.
Total meltdown.
State of Pennsylvania was almost wiped out.
Everybody had to be evacuated.
You would never want to live in that region again.
All of Pennsylvania was worthless.
The country might be over.
I mean, it was a, it was, it was, it was disaster, times disaster on parade.
But the fact is nobody was killed, nothing leaked out.
It worked exactly as it was designed.
Three Mile Island, virtually no release of radioactivity.
Somebody, Dr. Spencer knows, talked to work there at the time, said they routinely got higher radioactivity readings when the wind was blowing from a nearby coal-fired power plant than any of the radioactivity released by the accident at Three Mile Island.
In addition, uh what what are the numbers here?
Um, put it in perspective.
And I always love doing this.
More and more I have found as this program evolves, unfolds, more and more, one of the important objectives, one of the crucial jobs I have is to put in perspective what the media is doing.
I've got a I've got a couple blog posts that I've found from nuclear physicists, experts, who are saying that everything that they have seen written or reported about nuclear anything in Japan is wrong.
Every paragraph contains something that's wrong.
Some so-called fact is Wrong.
And of course, all of this is written with the uh what would the the narrative is, my God, we're all gonna die.
Uh this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
Oh, geez, it's it's uh the worst it's in and nobody's denying this is a horrible thing, but emotions are pretty fragile, and you got people whipping them up into a frenzy simply because that's their job, not because it's rooted in reality.
So one of the ways to put this in perspective, and this according to uh number of reports, over the last 10 years, the wind farm industry has killed far more people than the nuclear power industry.
You remember the old joke?
More people have died at Chappaquitic than have died in nuclear power accidents.
That was true for the longest time.
Nuclear fatalities in the last ten years, seven.
Wind farm fatalities in the last ten years forty-four, and that doesn't count the birds.
And we certainly have got a heck of a lot more power out of nuclear plants than we have from windmills.
Have you seen all the news stories of how there are now shortages of bicycles in Japan?
Obviously the Japanese did not have their priorities in order.
Japanese shortage of bicycles.
So there's a there's a I mean, there's a whole industry that's that's cropped up now.
The environmentalists have seized upon this nuclear problem in Japan to try to shut down America's nuclear program.
Meanwhile, the USS Ronald Reagan steaming over there, which is Jed Babin said today in the American Spectator, is a game changer.
Once the USS Ronald Reagan, it's a Nemitz class aircraft carrier.
It can, because of its nuclear reactor, by the way, the Navy has had nuclear-powered vessels since 1953, not a single accident.
Since the USS Ronald Reagan showed up, 400,000, what is it, gallons of potable water produced every day because of desalinization.
It can take the salt water out of the that's how they get their drinking water on board these Navy vessels.
You couldn't possibly load all the water that you need.
So every nim's, well, every nuclear-powered Navy vessel takes seawater and makes it drinkable.
And it and the and the and the Reagan can do 400,000 gallons a day.
And they have the flight deck filled with helicopters running rescue missions back and forth.
United States of America.
So it's there are there are plenty of heartwarming great stories in association with this.
And now Time and Newsweek.
Let me get in the fear game.
They had a story in a latest issue, Newsweek magazine, Daily Caller, whatever the merger is.
Tina Brown's, you know, if you look at these earthquakes in the Pacific recently, there's one area yet to be hit.
First, you had New Zealand, Christchurch.
That's bad.
Almost exactly a year ago, we had Chile.
Then we had this thing in Japan.
There's one area of the Pacific plate yet to happen.
It's the Northwest, and it happens to be right near the San Andreas Fault.
So Newsweek's got a story saying San Francisco could be next.
If you just look at the Pacific Plate, where these earthquakes have happened, hey, three out of four in the four corners and uh fourth corner happens to be pretty close to the U.S., and it could be the next year or two, you never know.
Then I saw some guy from UC Davis on TV, 46% chance, a geology professor.
46, not 45, not 50, not 51, 46% chance that there could be an earthquake on the west coast of the United States in 30 years.
A 46% chance.
So I don't care what the story is, whether it's the government shutdown, whether it's the Tea Party not being happy with the Republican leadership, whether it's Libya, whether it's Obama and anything he's doing, whether it's Japan and the earthquake, whatever it is.
The other thing that you have to keep focused on and keep straight, the media.
It's a sad reality.
Somebody has to do it.
I, L. Rushbow, uniquely placed, and shall do so, as well as discuss all the other things.
For example, Wisconsin.
Have you heard about this?
I'll bet you haven't.
You might even live in Wisconsin.
We're hearing about this recall, Governor Walker.
Recall, Republican senators.
Going to recall these guys.
Do you know what's really going on?
There's a very muted, not getting any coverage happening below the radar.
Uh drive-in gas stations out of work closed up places.
There are recall efforts underway of these 14 Democrats.
Tea Partiers and Republicans in Wisconsin working under the radar to have recall elections on the cowardly 14 who fled the scene in Wisconsin.
There's all kinds of exciting stuff going on.
In the meantime, while the media is desperately waiting, dare I say, in some segments of the media, desperately hoping for a nuclear meltdown in Japan, desperately hoping for Godzilla.
We here at the EIB network are keeping our eyes on the media meltdown.
Back after this.
Did something I always do during the break.
It's always a telltale sign.
I check the email.
And it's some people, I just love doing this.
What do you mean, Rush?
These nuclear things are working as designed.
You see that place where 10,000 people.
That's the earthquake.
The reactor didn't cause the earthquake.
Before this is over, they're going to blame us in the Dakotas for causing this by fracking for oil.
They're going to blame us.
Before this ends up, the oil industry drilling for oil is going to have a role, played a role.
Because Japan, I told you this Friday, get a globe.
Japan's on the exact opposite side of the globe as the Dakotas where we're doing the fracking.
Fracking is a controversial kind of drilling to extract oil from the Bakken field.
It's as easily predictable that environmentalist wackos are going to blame us or big oil and whatever for uh creating the uh the shift in these plates that caused the earthquake.
The earthquake that causing the tsunami that's wiping out 10,000 people at a time, cities and so forth.
It's devastating.
You can't watch this without being totally helpless.
What can you do?
What can you do?
And then you ask yourself, what good are you doing by sitting there going, oh my God.
I mean, even caring about it doesn't accomplish anything, does it?
It's really frustrating.
You can sit there, you can watch this, you go, oh, geez, I don't believe it.
Oh man, I feel so bad.
But it doesn't do anything to stop it, does it?
It doesn't accomplish one thing.
Other than maybe make you feel better.
But everybody feels so powerless.
Nothing you can do.
The people working, people working in the nuclear plants.
There's supposedly melting down.
The Japanese have a very different culture in that regard.
No, the only people talking about leaving are Anderson Cooper.
He heard about the second explosion.
Maybe he asked his audience, maybe should I get out of here?
Let me make your prediction.
Since I'm often running here today, let me make you a prediction.
Anderson, no, he's snurdly.
I mean, you see, I can't win on a day like this.
There's nothing I can't win.
You, even if you remember that what we do here is illustrate the absurd by being absurd, even if you remember that.
You can't win here today.
Anderson Cooper, the only guy I know thinking of leaving.
The guys in a nuclear cleanup, they're still in there wearing their anti-nuclear suits and so forth.
They're still there.
They've got this commitment to it.
Cooper can split.
I'll just I'll make a little prediction.
I need a vacation.
This will probably guarantee one for a couple three days, maybe weeks.
I will bet you that the Japanese make more ground in their rebuilding and their recovery sooner than we get the World Trade Center rebuilt.
And we got a 10-year head start.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the Japanese make more progress in rebuilding all this.
Now I'll stop there.
I'll stop there.
Stered, let me just stop there.
That's that's a safe enough bet.
What?
No, not Haiti.
Katrina.
No.
I'm just they they're not gonna have, they're not gonna have the encumberments.
They're not, they're not gonna have all the obstacles.
They have, look at there isn't it even eluding going on.
Um the media in Japan is having to search for cultural decay and rot.
They can't find any.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden ER.
I B microphone.
Keep in mind here, folks, Japan's construction industry.
I is how to put this.
Japan's construction industry is um, maybe I don't want to go there right now.
But it's pretty good.
The bottom line is I've I've uh I've like you, I've I've tried to find as much as I could over the weekend about all this.
And I'm finding some people uh, and and I weigh everybody with you know what their vested interests might be, because everybody who offers an opinion on this has an agenda.
You have to know that.
You have to be able to read the stitches on a fastball.
You have to be able to uh uh reject the conventional wisdom, you have to understand where people are coming.
The media is liberal, you understand what that means.
So in case of somebody like me, I'm suspicious of everything they say, because they're liberals.
But Rush, but Rice, how did you know Obama wouldn't close Gitma?
He's a liberal.
That's all I needed to know.
But you had to know more than no, I didn't know any more than you did.
I might have had some educated guess characteristics thrown in there, but all I needed to know is Obama's a liberal.
It really is that simple.
And the media is liberal.
What do we know about the U.S. media?
We know that they are in an unalterable alliance with the American left and the worldwide left.
What do we know about the American left and the worldwide left?
What do we know that they oppose and what they hate?
It's very simple.
Once you once you understand who the people are, what their politics are, then you can understand the rubric and the umbrella in which they do their jobs.
So you therefore conclude that pretty much every story coming out of Japan from the American media is gonna be anti-nuclear industry, and it's gonna have not just reporting about what's going on in Japan, there will be accompanying stories of why we never ever should build another nuclear plant ever anywhere in the world, much less the United States.
Pure and simple.
Which of course has nothing to do with the story in Japan.
It has nothing to do with the facts on the ground in Japan.
The media is tweeting things left and right.
AP just tweeted, Japanese utilities says fuel rods at troubled quake hit nuclear reactor are uh are fully exposed again.
Oh no!
Oh god, oh the fuel rod!
Oh, oh, it's oh what are we supposed to include from this?
We have to.
There's a cumulative record from people like this.
I'm just trying to help you discern and understand how I observe these things, how I watch it, how I digest it, and how little of it I believe.
I believe more of what I see footage-wise than what I hear or read being reported.
You can't deny what you see.
You can't.
It's when I start reading the stuff that they write accompanying it or so forth that I instinctively begin scratching my heads.
For example, I have noticed, based on things I have learned as a student of journalists of the media.
There are things that I have I have noticed, several dangerous, disturbing things while watching the tsunami videos out of Japan.
Houses, cars, boats, and aircraft are not earthquake proof.
Nor are they tsunami proof.
Have you seen them?
They are they're tossed around like toys.
They are death traps.
They're like bowling balls.
Everything else in their way is the pins.
Therefore, we need a moratorium on the building of houses and cars and boats and aircraft in this country until the problem can be studied and safety measures enacted.
Well, I mean, if building nuclear plants in non-earthquake zones should be off limits, then so should things far less stable.
Now, from what I can tell, it would be safer working in a nuclear power plant during an 8.9 earthquake than practically anywhere else of all the things that I've seen floating along, I haven't seen a nuclear power plant floating.
The nuclear power plant has remained anchored where it is.
So I was curious, how does this happen?
The cars, the boats, the planes being tossed around like a bunch of matchbox toys, but there is the nuclear power plant.
So I found out.
Japanese businesses build these things to sway, to move, to accommodate earthquakes, because they know it could possibly happen.
They have the most recent designs.
I would feel safer in a newly built nuclear power plant during an earthquake and a tsunami than if I were in one of those cars I seen I've seen being tossed around.
Safety first, folks.
I wonder how many mercury-filled light bulbs were destroyed in Japan this past week.
What about all those automobile batteries?
Particularly all those the leaves and the uh the Priuses and stuff, they were made in this area.
A lot of automobile batteries.
I wonder how much of that refuse is being swept away now into the uh ecosystem for the general population.
Here's from the from Reuters, Japan nuclear woes cast shadow over U.S. energy policy.
They do.
What is U.S. energy policy?
U.S. energy policy is to shut down.
You know here's something fascinating.
You know, this folks, things do have a tendency to uh work out in strange ways.
Would it be a safe bet that since wind and solar really aren't capable of producing anything, they're just dreams of the environmentalist wackos.
Well, if you're gonna look at this and say, no more and no more nuclear, stop every nuclear development in its track, and we will, I mean, it's gonna be the focus here.
Well, then what by process of elimination is going to have to be ramped up?
All right, fossil fuels.
The regime's screwed.
The environmentalist wackos are screwed.
We're gonna have to intensify our development production use of fossil fuels, because they're gonna shut down nuke now.
Of course, again, that pits Jeffrey Immelt and GE against Obama, and they are bedmates.
Well, they could demand rationing, blackouts, uh, as a means of uh with this regime, you never know.
They could see this as a crisis too good to go to waste.
You don't know.
That's why, folks, this story is not going to be contained in Japan.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
I told you uh grab uh grab number 13, audio soundbite number 13.
This is what I said Friday on this very program.
How long is it gonna be before the press starts talking about this earthquake and the tsunami and how it impacts Obama?
And here they are.
Talking about it, a media montage Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
President Obama got that infamous 3 a.m. phone call this morning, though it was actually closer to four when Chief of Staff Bill Daly called to tell him Japan had been hit by a catastrophic earthquake.
President Obama had a press conference on Friday.
What was the purpose?
It was an opportunity for him to respond to the tragic earthquake in Japan.
So imagine Obama's job today.
As if all of this wasn't enough.
You now have a major natural disaster.
President Obama found himself battling twin global crises this week.
The natural and nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan and showdown in Libya.
President Obama, obviously, having grown up with the Japanese culture in Hawaii, has pledged every bit of assistance from the United States.
Was this a good opportunity for the President to remind everybody that he grew up in Hawaii?
What did I tell you?
He played golf.
Chris, what the heck does it have to do with where he grew up?
The female journalista prior to Chris Matthews with Melissa Raeburger.
President Obama obviously having grown up with the Japanese culture in Hawaii has pledged every bit of I thought Hawaii was uh American state.
And I thought Obama was uh black.
I thought Obama was Hawaiian and and and grew with a white.
Mother, grandmother.
Now all of a sudden we're learning, well, maybe the birth certificates in Osaka.
Who knows?
Okay to the phones, and we're gonna start Chicago.
Somebody uh Rich, it says here you just got in from Tokyo.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi.
Yeah, diddles Rush.
I I just couldn't uh as soon as I got in to the hotel, I turned you on, had to hear what you had to say.
You were right on.
I cannot believe how right you are.
About what you're saying about the Japanese people.
I I'd been uh trapped in the hotel over there all weekend, and uh one of the only uh channels.
Are you there now or are you back from there in Chicago now?
No, I'm in Chicago.
Uh over the over the n uh evening.
Right.
Okay.
Just wanted to make sure I understood the uh the uh the uh I was confused, but now I get it.
So you were saying.
Well, I was saying uh no one of the uh channels in the hotel, the English speaking channels we have a CNN.
I've been throwing things.
I finally had to turn it off.
I couldn't take it anymore.
Uh the the Japanese people, uh I'm just uh amazed at how well they're handling it and how quickly they're they're getting trying to get back to back to normal.
They're stoic even.
Uh what was what were you seeing on CNN that was so disturbing or or stupefying given while you were in Tokyo?
Uh the tragic stuff.
They kept reporting it n none of the good stuff that's going on.
They've even started cleaning up.
Uh Sunday afternoon, it was a nice day.
I went even went out for a walk uh on the outskirts of the city.
Even people are on the golf course.
People are uh it's uh it's disrupted very their lives are disrupted very uh little.
Uh you know, as for of course Tokyo is uh a hundred miles from uh Findai where the uh where most of the damage occurred.
I read a good analogy of this over the weekend.
It would have been like uh Mayor Daly in Chicago deciding to shut down the city after Hurricane Katrina leveled New Orleans.
Why?
What can you do?
You're two hundred miles away.
Chicago, what maybe two or three hundred miles, no five five, whatever the mileage is, it was similar.
New Orleans to Chicago is similar.
Tokyo to uh this prefecture where this happened.
And so, like you're telling life went on in Tokyo.
They're playing golf, they're doing everything.
They're going out to eat the uh air, as far as I can tell at the airport.
There's a little damage in the terminal buildings, but uh as far as I can tell, fights are back to normal or getting back to normal.
And uh very little disruption as far as uh the remainder of the country.
And uh well, one thing the Japanese do have experience rebuilding after nuclear accidents and blasts.
They do.
They've done it before.
Uh that's true.
Look at Hiroshima.
Well, and Nagasaki.
Uh it's an amazing city if you've ever seen it.
Well, I've not been there.
I've uh I've only seen it in the Fast and Furious movies.
Uh but no, I've I've I've not been.
And I'm I've uh but I know people who've been, they talk about it the way you have, the way you are now.
Uh hell, if Obama was there, he'd be on the golf course.
He was on the golf course.
He was on the golf course here.
Well, the weather's a lot better there than it is here right now.
But I can understand that.
But uh, give the people uh give the people credit.
I I don't think this uh I don't want to run down America.
I'm pro-American, but uh I don't think we would handle it as well.
A tragedy uh well we did.
I think we came back uh uh from uh 9-11.
We we did, but uh I think we're starting to uh uh you know be more negative about uh about the tragedies that occur here.
But uh and also there.
I why I don't know why they have to dwell on the well for crying out loud, I'm I'm sorry to interrupt you, but a lot of people in this country, if I dare say, have a reason to feel a little troubled about being positive in this country because we're led by an administration who does not believe in American exceptionalism.
We are led by an administration who believes this country's guilty.
We are led by an administration that does not have the traditional view of this country, can do rugged individualism.
Uh the United States is the solution to the world's problems.
This administration thinks we are the problem and have been.
There's a reason that people feel uneasy about uh cultural things in this country.
Again, what I want to stress, nobody on this program certainly.
Nobody is denying the reality of what's happening in Japan.
That's not the point here.
Um you can see what's happening.
I don't I you I can't tell you any more than you don't already know.
You can see the video.
You can but I can help you keep this in perspective.
By pointing out how the reporting is taking place and that and what the agenda is behind the reporting of the American media on this.
Look at Reuters.
By the way, Rich, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Uh headline, Japan nuclear woes cast shadow over U.S. energy policy.
Right here, Reuters is using Japan to stop the U.S. nuclear energy plans.
It's exactly what this is.
Let me ask you this.
Put it this way.
What lesson will Obama learn from the Japanese crisis?
The word in fact, does he even need to learn a lesson?
Will this not give him I don't want to I don't want to use the word comfort, but something like this happens, and as the left, media, whoever they are, everything's agenda-oriented.
Does this not fall right into the lap of people who are anti-nuclear power anywhere?
And as such, aren't those people sort of doing a little dance and go, see, I told you so, nya nya.
Reuters is.
What what'll what'll Obama's lesson be?
He'll learn the same lesson he learned from the BP leak in the Gulf.
He used that as an excuse to ban new drilling in the Gulf, practically everywhere else.
Now he's lying about the fact that he's increased domestic energy production.
Dana Perino even called him out on that.
We got the tape coming up on one of the Sunday shows yesterday.
She did it very artfully.
She said, it's amazing how the White House just lets this president lie.
Or how this White House provides this president with such obviously false information, something like that.
She did a very artful way.
Called him a liar in a very, very artful way.
But what's the lesson from BP?
Shut down oil drilling.
He used that as an excuse to ban new drilling in the Gulf and practically everybody everywhere else.
And now he's going to use Japan's earthquake as an excuse to arbitrarily impose a moratorium On nuclear power in the name of safety.
I mean, Reuters has it right here.
They're very excited about it.
Anxiety over Japan's quake crippled nuclear reactors has triggered calls from lawmakers and activists for reviews of U.S. energy policy activists, schmactivists.
Anyway, the die is cast.
Hey, if we're gonna, if we're gonna if we're just gonna stop the nuclear plant industry, and I don't think it's underway anyway, but if we why why not stop coal-fired power plants?
What's the difference?
Now these questions need to be asked.
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