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We have the audio soundbite of Mrs. Clinton this morning at the Democrat National Committee winter meeting.
The other day, the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world.
I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives, and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence.
I have to tell you, I am not running for president to put band-aids on our problems.
And in this, Hillary Clinton does her best impression of Hugo Chavez, who is in the process of nationalizing every industry he can down in Venezuela.
Uh I don't know that this ought to scare people.
Well, I guess it's everything she does scares some people, but for crying out loud, this is it it's ridiculous, it's sophomoric, it would never happen, and she knows it.
Now, if she really tried to do it, that's another thing, but it's rhetoric that it's designed to appeal to a certain group of people.
But this is who liberals are, folks, and this is what they've been keeping under wraps all of these years.
And now that they've got a little sense of power back.
Now they won the House, now they won the Senate.
They are slowly but surely telling the world exactly who they are.
And just have faith.
It is going to ultimately redound to their detriment.
I don't know when, but it will.
Gavin Newsom, as you know, the uh mayor of San Francisco, uh, had the big story yesterday, which uh that he had had an affair with the wife of his campaign manager.
And uh the the newsworthy thing about that to me was that that it let me know that there is heterosexual marriage in San Francisco.
I mean, who knew?
But he went out uh at a press conference yesterday and said this.
I want to make it clear that everything you've heard and read is true.
And I am deeply sorry about that.
I've heard someone I care deeply about.
Alex Turk and his friends and family.
Yeah, yeah.
And that is something that I have to live with, and something that I am deeply sorry for.
I am uh deeply sorry and am accountable for what has occurred and have now begun the process of reconciling it.
And now we'll be working aggressively to advance our agenda in the city in the work hard uh to build again the trust and restore the trust that the people of San Francisco have afforded me.
Oh, come on, Gavin, buck up out there.
This is a resume enhancement.
You could be the next Bill Clinton.
This is not uh how about this phony attempt to sound sad and pa the uh uh uh uh re uh uh oh I mean I for one am not fooled by this.
Now he's gonna get back to the agenda.
This is the agenda six is the agenda in San Francisco.
He's perfect for this.
Up next, Christopher Dodd.
This is at the Democrat National Committee Winter Meeting.
You want to hear some doom and gloom.
2008.
The American people are going to have an answer for the election defrauding, wiretapping, Abu Graving, dead exploding, Exxon loving, Brownie.
You've Done a hell of a job, crowd, and we're gonna give them something new.
Get the car out of the ditch.
We're not going to take fear for an answer any longer in America.
Those days are over with.
Man, this is just too good.
These people are frothing.
They are still enraged, even though they won.
So this he tells us how he sees America.
He sees all Democrats see America in this way, screaming a list of kook Democrat grievances.
Nothing though about waitress sandwiches.
Keep waiting it.
If he really wants to establish himself with Democrats, own up to that like Gavin Newsom has owned up to the infidelity that he engaged in as mayor of San Francisco.
But here, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the PS they resistance at the Democrat National Committee winter beating uh uh the uh presidential candidate, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
It's gonna be cynicism that we're fighting against.
It's the cynicism that's born from decades of disappointment, amplified by talk radio and 24-hour news cycle, reinforced by the relentless pounding of negative ads that have become the staple of modern politics.
It's a cynicism that asks us to believe that our opponents are never just wrong, that they're bad, that our motives in politics can never be pure, that they're only driven by power.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, I agree.
It's a game.
It's a blood sport with folks keeping score about who's up and who's down.
At best, it's a diversion with such cynicism.
Government doesn't become a force of good, a means of giving people the opportunity to lead better lives.
It just becomes an obstacle.
All right.
Now, folks, um, do you realize what you just heard?
Stop and think for a minute now.
Do you realize what you just heard?
You heard absolutely nothing new.
You heard a regurgitation of the same old Democrat liberal complaints that I have been hearing since 1988.
Talk radio, talk radio 24-7 news cycle, negative ads.
So what, Rush?
What's so unique about nothing being new?
What's unique about it is that this guy is supposedly a never ever before seen face and voice in American politics.
This guy is supposedly revolutionary.
This guy brings a presence and an attitude and a thought process and an intelligence to American politics that has never been witnessed before.
This is just a rehash, and it wasn't even delivered with any passion.
This wasn't delivered with any conviction whatsoever.
It was delivered in a halting fac nowhere near reminiscent of that Barn Burner Stemwinder 2004 at the John Kerry retakes Boston convention.
What's new about this?
The guy can't live up to the hype.
He cannot live not like this.
I mean, in this audience, this is the chance to show them we got something brand new.
We got something fresh, something that's never ever been before.
That's the hype.
Boring.
Well, just flat out plain old boring.
By the way, didn't see this earlier, just caught my attention here, called to my attention.
The New York Times has a blog.
And the blog is called the lead.
The L E D E. It's in their news section of their website.
It's not published in the paper, I don't think.
There is a lengthy entry with side-by-side photos.
Al Gore's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and mine, with quotes from the Al Gore nomination letter, juxtaposed against quotes from my nomination letter, written by the landmark legal foundation.
You know what's happening now?
I'm told Eric at the landmark legal foundation says they're being phone spammed.
All these little Democrats are calling and shouting insults at them and hanging up.
It gets even better.
It gets even better.
Listen to this.
Hey uh a good tip here from Michelle Mulkin.
The closing prayer at the DNC winter meeting, chaired by Howard Dean, was given by an imam whose closing line was a prayer for peace and the end of the occupation.
Meaning you're they had an imam given the closing prayer at the D. Rush, how can you laugh at that?
I don't know.
It just everything today that these people are doing is uh amusing me.
We have some more Hillary bites here.
Grab 19 and uh and 20.
Uh Democrat National Committee winter meetings, again just closed with a prayer offered by an imam.
Uh and he closed his uh prayer with a prayer for peace and an end to the occupation.
Don't know whether the Democrats stood up and applauded.
Here's uh first of two more Hillary bites.
I know a thing or two about winning campaigns.
And when our party and our candidates are attacked, we have got to stand up and fight back.
And destroy.
And I always will.
I know how they think, how they act, and how to defeat them.
And if you give me the chance, that's exactly what we will do.
Oh, right, the fisticuffs now.
Mrs. Clinton uh preparing her to get in the ring.
Uh one more bite, this the big finish.
We can make history and remake our country's future.
We can elect the first woman president, we can fix health care, we can stop global warming, we can stop the genocide in Darfur.
And yes, we can find the right end to the war in Iraq.
Americans are looking for solutions.
Democrats, we have them.
Americans are looking for change, Democrats.
We are that change.
Americans are looking for unity.
We can unify our country again.
Yeah, this is a great way to go about it.
So um anyway, fix health care, eight years that she was uh co-president.
Um none of any of this got done.
But that's just what's happening out there, the Democratic National Committee's winter meetings.
I'm not even sure where they were.
Uh but it doesn't matter.
It's irrelevant.
Now, uh, take a couple of phone calls here in the next segment, coming out of the next break, uh, the bottom of the hour.
I'm gonna take the time here to delve into this uh global warming stack that I have, especially since the Union of Concerned Scientists put out their their little summary today of doom and gloom and the apocalypse.
I'm I'm intent on as many of you understanding my perspective on this uh as as possible.
Let's go to phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Uh, this is Mark in Pasarobles of California.
Nice to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Uh hi, Rush.
Uh, appreciate you taking my phone call.
I uh I'll get straight to the point because I actually could probably talk for quite a while.
But I uh I grew up in an environment uh I'm 41 years old now, and I grew up in an environment, I guess you would call a generational democratic environment, very liberal.
Um military was not spoken highly of.
Anyway, long story short, September 11th happened.
I joined the military at 36 years old, got in, went overseas, was directly involved with Iraqi freedom and enduring freedom, came home, saw what they were putting on the news, couldn't believe it, and then about six months ago I was working my civilian job.
I was out in the field, and a guy had your had your radio program on, and for the first time, I heard somebody speaking about what was going on over there truthfully.
And I've been listening ever since, and uh I the last the last election we had, I I changed my affiliation.
I'm actually a registered Republican now.
Here, here, here, here.
And you know what, Rush, you have just given me a level of support and confidence that before that point I felt all alone, even though I was in the military.
So I just want to thank you.
Well, uh that's that's great to hear.
Uh and I I appreciate your kind words, but you know, I hear this a lot.
Don't be afraid to credit yourself here.
You did the uh work.
Um all you had to do was listen.
Somehow we permeated your skull full of mush out there and have turned you in now to a functioning cerebellum.
Exactly.
And and uh but you did it.
Now I but you know it's it let me tell you something here, Glenn, uh, or Mark, and I'm I'm I'm being in entirely truthful with you here.
Um it is it is the the enthusiasm in your voice for what you've done, uh, and we hear it from so many like you that call are what really buck us up, uh particularly when you come under attack, and you are uh more and more.
I I I want to take the occasion of your call to read an email uh that I got from a subscriber, Rush 247.
Uh it came in at 10 o'clock last night.
I I didn't get home from Miami till about 1.30.
So I'm up a little while looking at email and news and stuff, and this just stopped me dead in my tracks.
Now I want to I want to read this to you without pausing so that you get the full impact of this.
And it's going to be difficult to do, because as I am what I want to stop, pause for effect and really focus your attention on something, but I think to do it that way would uh l actually lessen the impact of this.
It's from a man named Christopher Rutter, and he's a sergeant in the United States Army.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I'm a soldier that was serving my second tour in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
May 7th of last year, my vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
The explosion instantly severed both my legs.
I've been recovering and going through therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for almost nine months.
Sir, I listen to your program every day.
I even try to schedule my therapy and appointments before noon or after 1500 so I don't miss any of it.
On behalf of my fellow soldiers and myself, I would like to thank you for standing up and bringing the truth to Americans.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support of the ideas that are America.
Once I complete my therapy and am medically retired from the Army, I'm returning to my hometown of Clinton, Missouri.
I'll be running for state representative in 2008.
Hope that I can begin to bring the ideas and the morals that founded this amazing country back to our elected officials.
Thank you for your time again, sir.
Please continue the amazing job.
America's counting on you to continue bringing the truth to her people.
Your fellow American Christopher Rutter, Sergeant United States Army.
Now, do you people realize how casually Sergeant Rutter mentions the instant severing of both of his legs from a roadside bomb and proceeds to start thanking me and this program and the rest of the country who support the troops and then talk about after his therapy and
after his medically retired, he's going to get into politics.
Now, back in October or November, I think it was November, it might have been the 16th, it was November 16th.
I'll never forget the date.
I took a tour of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and one of the Fisher houses that they have on uh on the grounds.
And I didn't obviously meet Christopher Rutter.
Um I'm not sure if he was there then.
Uh but I saw people with his circumstances.
I saw people with severed legs up to the uh the hip uh uh I saw all kinds of injuries.
And I saw nothing but optimism and good humor laughing in the therapy room, and they were laughing and they were smiling.
John Kerry had been there that morning.
I mentioned this.
And as I had gone through the room and I'm on my way out, one of the soldiers says, I wish you'd have been here five minutes earlier.
So why?
Well, Kerry was here.
Carrie?
Well, I wish I would have been here.
Yeah, I do too.
What did he say to you?
I said, he didn't he didn't say anything.
He just comes here to patent his resume.
You know, get the photo ops and so forth.
But I wish he had said something because I would have said, Senator, I'm too stupid to understand what you're saying.
I'm just a soldier, I was stuck in a rock.
But I I I read this email last night, and I just I started choking up.
I mean, the idea of having your legs severed by a bomb in a rock is insignificant in this man's mind in terms of his email and what is uh what his future is all about.
And you ask yourself, where do we get these people?
And what can we possibly ever do to repay them?
No matter the love and the acceptance, the support, the devotional, what what can we actually do to repay these people?
I don't think we can.
But they're not even looking for that.
That's the that's the amazing thing.
I just I I I had to share this with you, and this is a great opportunity with the uh call from Mark.
Quick timeout, folks, back with more.
After this.
Hey, try this, try this headline.
This is in the Scotsman.
The UK Scotsman, Russia, to analyze yellow-orange snow in Siberia.
What do you bet it's bears?
What do you bet it's just bear urine?
Everybody's out there looking for a disaster because of global warming.
Now look if there's some sign that the apocalypse is here.
It's bear pee.
Gary in Post Falls, Idaho.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Good morning, Rush.
First time caller, just two quick points on the uh global warming.
Yes, sir.
Uh, what's your reasoning uh behind debunking so many different fields of uh science uh in a situation?
Um good question.
And I'm I'm gonna take the occasion of your call to um uh transcend the or not transcend, but to jump into the uh the whole little monologue here that I was gonna do on this.
In the first place, um I don't believe that there is actual proved science.
I don't believe that a hypothesis has been proved.
In fact, I know it hasn't, because if there had been a a hypothesis proved, there would be no scientists who disagree with it.
Okay.
That's the nature of science.
What we're getting instead is a consensus of quote unquote the world's leading scientists.
And we don't know how many of them are being paid, we don't know how many of them are getting research grants.
Uh they all need to make money.
They're not private sector types.
They need grants from foundations and governments to continue their work.
Uh they always like to say that their opponents are being funded by big oil, as though that's some sort of a crime, but you can have a think tank that's liberal or a science organization or a government fund these people, and that's of course perfectly legitimate.
But there can't be consensus in science.
And I know that I'm sounding like a broken record on this, but my answer to your question goes far deeper than just that.
I got a great email uh from a guy in Lafayette, Indiana, whose name is Alan uh Nia Batsuck Nia Botowski.
Uh he said, Dear Rush, you're quite right when you say there can be no consensus in science, but the reasons are far more basic than the ones that you've been giving.
See, even when I'm right, there are people in the audience who think I could be writer if I was only as smart as they are.
To be called science, uh writes Mr. Nizabetowski, things must stand up under a process called the scientific method.
Three steps are involved.
One, observe a phenomenon.
Two, devise a hypothesis to explain the phenomenon.
Three, devise a test to prove or disprove the hypothesis.
If the third step proves it, you have scientific truth.
Every global warning uh warming item that I have read, Mr. Limbaugh, stops at step two, or uses an argument like, well, it started at the industrial age, therefore the industrial age caused it.
This is a common fallacy in logic known as post-hoc ergo propter hawk.
After it, therefore caused by it, which is utterly invalid as far as the scientific method goes.
Flat Earth theories were not abandoned because of a shift in consensus.
They were disproven by step three of the scientific method, and our current globe earth science stands up to the method.
Most pro-global warming people think that the hypothesis must be true, so it is true.
Even when a disproving step three happens, there will be more violent and numerous hurricanes this year because of global warming.
Now, this is key, Gary, and the rest of you.
Remember the last year's hurricane season, and starting on June 1, the drive by's had their cameras out there on the beaches of Florida and in New Orleans, waiting for the next Katrina to come along and wipe us all out.
The apocalypse.
And they said, because of global warming, we're it's gonna get worse and worse and worse.
We had no hurricanes to speak of in the United States last year, therefore, you can't say that the hypothesis according to step three has been proven.
When Einstein's theory of relativity was thought to be insane, E equals MC squared, Einstein provided a step three method of testing it, involving an eclipse and how light would behave.
Things happened like he said they would.
So we now accept the theory of relativity as science.
The point is if global warming theories were scientific fact, no scientist would be able to dispute it.
And yet, thousands of scientists do dispute global warming.
So if global warming and its supporters are not about science, then you have to ask about what are they.
Now, yesterday I read a piece by um uh J.R. Dunn in the American Thinkery as a follow-up today, and before I get into it, I want to go back some months actually to a question I got from somebody about this.
And in my common man, just common man, I mean, I'm not a scientist.
In my common man way, I explained to this caller why I do not believe in global warming.
And I gave as my primary belief that I believe in God.
I believe in the God of creation.
I'm not gonna proselytize here.
Don't misunderstand.
But I'm saying, as a believer in a loving God and a God of creation, that there is a complexity to all this that makes it work that we cannot understand.
That we cannot really control, that we cannot destroy, and that we really can't alter in its massive complexity.
Yeah, we can dam a river and do all this sort of thing, but to actually affect the systems that keep the earth here in whatever form, even if there are nuclear detonations left and right, life somewhere somehow will survive.
And the whole process will begin again.
We may not, cockroaches will.
That means some liberals will.
But I believe in the God of creation, and I believe as such, we're insignificant in all this.
I am just as a human being, offended by the notion that the automobile I drive and the way I air condition my home and the way I barbecue outside and the way all of you do the same things, as life for human beings has never ever been better.
I refuse to believe that a loving God creates creatures able to do everything we are able to do to solve various problems, to cure diseases, to get rid of that is gonna lead to an apocalypse.
I can understand moral decadence and those kinds of things leading to it, but I cannot understand some of the most brilliant work by human beings ever on the face of the earth in this country and in some other countries to actually improve living standards, the quality of life for millions of people.
It has never ever been better.
And I just, as a human being, imbued, created with a modicum of common sense, fail to see how that leads to destruction.
And then I wonder how can others think that it does.
And then I came to the conclusion on this call some months ago that many, not all, of course, but many of the really activist global warming people do not believe in the same God I do.
They are religious.
Their religion is global warming, uh, animal rights, all of these various causes that they get involved in.
The similarities are uncanny.
Global warming is, if I can say this without offending you.
Those of us who believe in uh loving God believe in the hereafter.
I, for example, believe that there is heaven.
Whether the Bible gives me that indication or not, I want more than just faith.
Faith is what we use to take comfort in what we can't prove.
So I think human beings are hot wired.
We are made with a religious component to our souls.
Even agnostics and atheists, which is a form of religion.
And so I look at the people who say that there is no God, or that their global warming is their God, and I I look at the similarities.
They can't prove global warming.
No care what you heard on television today, I don't care what's in the Union of Concerned Scientists Report.
They haven't done to step three.
There is not a hypothesis that they can prove.
Therefore there is no global warming in a scientific way.
So what are they doing?
They're relying on faith.
Just as you and I rely on faith that there is heaven.
I mean, the religions differ, of course, but they have the same set of basic principles.
There is also sin in the environmentalist wacko religion.
The sin is not recycling.
The sin is not following your dog with a ziplock bag.
The sin is any number of acts that you engage in to pollute.
The sin is secondhand smoke.
Sin is uh any any clear-cutting uh development that people don't like, of destroying wetlands, those are the sins.
Uh there the the beliefs are different, but the principles are totally the same.
And by the way, both rely feverishly on one thing to keep everybody in line, and that is the apocalypse.
The last days.
The day when hellfire and damnation will fall upon all of us who have sinned.
For those of us in Christianity, we know what the apocalypse is.
Some people believe it's found in the book of Revelation, don't want to go there, but that's what it is.
The environmentalist wackos and the global warming crowd, uh the apocalypse, the end days, global warming.
We get ten years, we're doomed.
Look at the very stories you get every, every day about global warming and whatever the if there if there was science, there wouldn't be 20 different stories in 25 different days over what's happening with global warming and how long it's going to take to wipe us out.
But the one common threat is it's going to wipe us out.
Do you realize to these scientists who say nothing good can come from the warming?
Forget for a moment that the argument over whether it's caused by men or not, humanity or not.
The simple notion that warming is going to destroy everything?
Come on, folks.
Why do most people live at the equator?
Why do more and more people want to have winter homes?
Do you see anybody dying and moving north to live in frigid areas if they don't have to?
But somehow global warming is going to wipe us out.
There's no science in that.
Where are all the stories about all the good that will happen from global warming?
The parts of the world that will be fertile for agriculture and other things that aren't now and that once used to be, such as Scotland.
Used to be able to grow crops and a lot of Scotland.
Where are these stories?
So I look at all of this, and then I get into the science of it after taking to it those basic spiritual and human beliefs, start breaking down the science and analyzing some of it, and then looking at the history of this whole movement,
which I will do next, thanks to the assistance of the brilliant J.R. Dunn at the AmericanThinker.com, and it'll help you once and for all understand why I think what I think, not why I feel what I feel, but why I think what I think about all this.
Back with that after this.
Before getting to Mr. J.R. Dunn's brilliant piece today, let me go back and and and uh remind you of uh elements, excerpts from a speech Michael Crichton gave uh not that long ago.
It it it it's it's it's his own much better way of saying what I just said.
I studied anthropology and c anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear.
They can't be eliminated from society.
And one of those structures is religion.
Today, it said we live in a secular society in which many people, the best people, the most enlightened people do not believe in any religion.
But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind.
I agree.
We're we're, as I say, we're it's wired.
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
Why do I say it's a religion, writes Mr. Crichton?
Well, just look at the beliefs.
If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.
There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace, unity with nature.
There's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions, there's a judgment day coming for us all, the apocalypse.
We are all energy sinners, doomed to die unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability.
Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment, just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free water that the right people with the right beliefs imbibe.
Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday.
These are deeply held mythic structures.
They are profoundly conservative beliefs.
They may even be hardwired into Well, look at he said it.
For all I know, I certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, is that I don't want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who rose from the dead.
But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know I can't talk anybody out of them.
These are not facts that can be argued, these are issues of faith.
Same the thing for global warming and militant environmentalism.
But unlike Mr. Crichton, I will argue with people, not the environmentalists, but with those of you out there who get caught up in this as a political issue.
I will I will I will try to change your mind about it within the context and the framework of liberalism versus conservatism.
Can I give you one more?
I'm not going to have time to get to Mr. Dunn.
I'll do that in the monologue segment next hour.
I want to give you just one more illustration here of what I consider to be the differences in these two quote unquote religions.
I mentioned a moment ago that I believe in heaven.
I believe in heaven, not just because the Bible says so.
I'm one of these people like Pascal.
French philosopher, I want more.
Always he went nuts practically looking for proof.
He was focused on the resurrection.
If I can prove that, I can believe anything, he said to himself.
Well, I don't have the brain of Pascal, but I can tell you this.
In the context of my belief that God is a loving God and created all that is for beautiful and wonderful reasons, and that we are turning this creation into what has never been before in terms of the quality of human life.
I don't see how that can lead to destruction of what God created.
But at the same time, I don't believe that that loving God would create a being like me or you could conceive of such a place as paradise or heaven or whatever you want to call it if it weren't true.
That would be an ultimate act of cruelty.
On the other hand, the environmentalist wackos uh stop at the apocalypse.
Uh they go no further than that.
That's they they are a doom and gloom bunch without any of the accompanying uplifting, upbeat, righteous aspects of religions of the Judeo-Christian ethic.
But make no mistake, it is a religion.
It is not science in the least.
Back in a moment.
Open line Friday rolling right on.
It's the fastest three hours immediate, and uh two of them are already down and in the can, but we got one more to go, ladies and gentlemen.