Topic: Seattle Sonics Sold
Guest: Nick Licata, Seattle City Council President
Summary: John continues to discuss the newly announced sale of Seattle's basketball team to a group from Oklahoma. He says that while staying at Key Arena in Seattle is not going to happen, it's possible that this group from Oklahoma would keep the team in the area if there was a new arena built in the suburbs. Listeners are asked whether they would support such a deal.
Time: 01:00 - 01:30
Topic: Stem cell research, Israel, evolution
Guest: Ann Coulter
Summary: John spends 30 minutes drooling on Ann Coulter, picking her expert brain on topics such as stem cell research and Israel. Several illuminative stem cell quotes are below, and on the issue of Israel Ann was clearly uncomfortable in disagreeing with a Pat Buchanan quote suggesting that Israel's recent actions were designed to draw the U.S. into the conflict. In the more amusing moments, Ann giggled at the concept of this "Kirby" (who she obviously didn't know from Adam) seeing her in New York for one of the Hannity freedom concerts.
Classic Quote 1:
CARLSON: This is of course the bill that would have liberalized the President's federal funding of stem cells. People of course overlook that this liberalizes a policy that had received no federal funding until 5 years ago.
COULTER: Right, right, and in 50 years has produced no treatments or cures, unlike adult stem cell research, which is what's really going on here. Both adult and embryonic stem cell research has been proceeding since the 50's, but adult stem cell research has produced over 80 cures, treatments, and has even helped the paralyzed begin to walk, at least in a few experiments in South Korea and Portugal. Meanwhile, embryonic stem cell research hasn't been used in a single human clinical trial. It treats nothing, it cures nothing, and so consequently all the venture capitalists are putting all of their money into adult stem cell research. And that's when you started hearing about all of the fundamentalist Christians who are preventing us from finding a cure for Alzheimer's. The whole thing is a fraud designed to persuade Americans to give ground on human experimentation. They aren't' producing anything. If they were they could get private funding for it, and the hoax of promoting the stem cell research that isn't working ot the detriment of the one that is working is what is going to prevent us from finding a cure to Alzheimer's.
Classic Quote 2:
CARLSON: Charles Krauthammer, a friend of yours, and a highly respected physician, psychiatrist, turned neo-conservative writer, he says that he would have drawn the line where the US Senate drew the line. Why, in your opinion Ann, would that be unreasonable?
COULTER: Um, where did the Senate draw the line? [giggle] I'm sorry, I've been on a book tour, I know nothing that has happened.
CARLSON: Embryos discarded at fertility clinics.
COULTER: Did he say that recently, or was it when Bush first
CARLSON: Last week.
COULTER: Oh, ok, um, I don't know, you'd have to ask him. The one thing I noticed in researching that portion of the chapter in the left's war on science is how difficult it was to get information on what I'm describing right now about a lot of minds and the great science writer Micheal Fomento. But for example the paralyzed women in Portugal and South Korea who were treated with adult stem cells have been paralyzed, one for nineteen years, I forget how long the other one was paralyzed for. They started to walk. One with a walker, the other was beginning the process of recovery. Something the embryonic stem cell research is not close to. I read about this in a Michael Fumento column, and I did a Lexis/Nexis search, and I could find no mention of it any place in the Nexis archives. So I emailed Fumento, and I said 'Our you sure about this? Why is no one listed?' , and now it's come out a little bit more since then. But they are burying the truth on this, and maybe Krauthammer is unaware of this, and many are.
Classic Quote 3: "You know what I think about the evolution chapters in your book. Best stuff I've ever read. And I think that's the most enduring part of your book, and that is alone reason for everyone to go out and buy 'Godless'
Time: 01:30 - 02:00
Topic: Is Israel overreacting?
Summary: John talks about recent Pat Buchanan quotes that criticizes Israel's recent actions in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and ends up saying he's glad about Israel's actions and hopes they continue.