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Feb. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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Hey, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh.
Great to be with you.
Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
America's Truth Detector, Doctor of Democracy, all combined into one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIB net.com.
All right, I got to tell you a funny little story or two here.
As uh as I mentioned last week, you might have, you might, if you were listening, you might have heard uh I uh bought a suite, a 24-seat suite for the Super Bowl yesterday in Miami, never intending to go myself.
I gave the suite to uh clients here of the EIB network uh and a couple friends and uh some employees who wanted to go.
And I'm I'm I had some people over my uh my theater room to watch the game last night, snack on the usual sports bar menu that I set up.
And I'm watching it in the rain and so forth.
I'm hoping everybody there had a good time.
It's an end zone suite, no glass in front of it, really a really great, great view.
So I um I get up today and I'm I'm start reading some things about what happened Super Bowl, and there is this um story that Tom Cruise was in a suite that was uh owned by Dan Snyder, the uh owner to Washington Redskins, and that Ken Griffey, Ken Griffey Jr. of the Cincinnati Reds was in a suite somewhere, and so forth.
And it was you know, they're one of these gossip things about who was there and doing what.
So Brian, the broadcast engineer here, was one of the people that uh that went to the game yesterday, sat in my suite.
So I was eager to find out how the thing went with the rain and everything.
And I said, Brian, how did it go?
He said, Well, Tom's suite was four suites away.
Tom Cruise was four suites away.
Everybody in the suite was looking over there, taking pictures and so forth.
He said the funniest thing was this.
These suites did not have a bathroom in them.
There's a common, I went down to look at it, and there's a there's a common area on the suite level at uh at Dolphin Stadium where people from four or five different suites will share bathrooms.
Uh it's not with the the the uh the regular crowd at the game, it's just the people on these suite levels.
So Brian tells me that uh you had to go out and use the bathroom, right?
And you couldn't get in there.
There was a mob of people standing outside the men's room.
And what it was was a bunch of security people for Tom Cruise who were waiting for everybody in a bathroom to finish and get out so they could clear the bathroom for Cruz to come out and use it.
They were doing the same thing for the ladies' bathroom.
So when the security people had cleared both male and female restrooms out, out came Katie Holmes.
And she went in the bathroom and used it.
A minute and a half later, out came Tom Cruise, went into the men's room and used it.
They both came out and they went back, and paparazzi was up there somehow snapping pictures of them walking to and from the bathroom.
And then Brian got to go in afterwards.
I said, Did you know what urinally used, and did you try to steal it?
I'm surprised somebody didn't try to steal the urinal they thought Tom Cruise used.
Anyway, it was funny.
Also, I put uh gave uh Roy Black, my uh my attorney, uh a ticket for himself and his wife and a friend, and and one of the sponsors that was in the uh in the suite was our new advertiser Renai Tankless Water Heaters.
So I get a thank you note from Roy Blank this morning.
That was a great time.
We just had the great food was fabulous, the drink was we didn't get wet, it was just fabulous.
And Rush, I really love these new water heater advertisers of yours.
We've come up with a new commercial.
They will get you in the hot water, and I will get you out of it.
And I no, no more of that for me.
Anyway, uh Brian said everybody had a great time.
He showed me some of the pictures that uh that he took.
Uh and it was I just I just think the Tom Cruise story is is uh is funny and typical.
Did you have to wait long?
Was it long?
They get him in and out of there in five minutes on a clear place out.
So what do you think has to happen in Dan Snyder's suite?
Tom Cruise says, I gotta go to the bathroom.
And about 15 guys spring into action like a paramilitary unit, walking out of the hallway, going in the bathroom, seeing who's there, clearing everybody out, not letting anybody new in.
When the people are in there out, then it's empty, they form a corridor and Cruz walks through it.
Then uh and Ken Griffey, though, nice game was signing autographs for people, right?
Nice guy.
So um, well, I'm glad everybody had a good time that went down there.
Listen to this Arctic blast.
Shuts down schools, trains, roads.
This is an AP story.
Schools in Ohio, Wisconsin, upstate New York have canceled classes.
Temperature drops to 38 below zero in one Minnesota town.
Below zero temperatures, common across the Midwest and the Northeast.
Several feet of lake effect snow expected in upstate New York.
So, I mean, you shut down schools, trains, and roads.
Even the Nielsen ratings for Chicago last night were delayed because of the cold weather.
This is a disaster.
There were 30 water main breaks blamed on the cold in Detroit, according to City Water and Sewerage Department spokesman George Ellenwood.
Detroit News, it says here.
Anyway, the uh fuss in a hubbub over my Nobel Peace Prize nomination continued to sweep the nation.
Last Friday, MSNBC, the Tucker Carlson show talking to his producer Willie Geist.
They had this exchange about my Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Rush Limbaugh may not be the first person who comes to mind when you think of the Nobel Peace Prize, but to the people at the conservative public interest law firm, Landmark Legal Foundation, Rush is a regular Nelson Mandela.
Landmark was nominated Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Prize, saying, quote, Rush Limbaugh is the foremost advocate for freedom and democracy in the world today.
Wow.
End quote.
This news, of course, sets up a Nobel smackdown for the ages between Limbaugh and Al Gore, whose nomination by a pair of Norwegian parliamentarians was announced yesterday.
Wow.
Look at that.
Nose to nose.
Tucker, Rush has the weight advantage.
Al has the reach.
Who do you think takes that smack?
Actually, I think Gore's got the weight advantage these days.
So you would take Gore over Limbaugh?
Or are you just still deciding?
That would make Gore even more pompous and ubiquitous, so no, probably not.
I think I go Limbaugh.
Now the um the word of my nomination just continues to royal drive-by media outlets.
Uh and it continued over the weekend.
Then on uh George Stephanopoulos's show on Sunday, he had uh Chuck Hagel as his uh as guest.
They had this exchange.
You've taken a lot of heat from conservatives over your position.
Here was Rush Limbaugh this week.
If Chuck Hegel had been around during D Day with the same kind of media we have today, he would have demanded that the invasion stop after the landing because there had been so many deaths.
War is not something you put on a timetable.
He calls you Senator Betrayas.
Well, listen, everybody has to be somewhere.
Everyone has to make a living.
Rush has to make a living.
Uh and he has a right to say whatever uh he wants.
But note he doesn't comment specifically on what I say.
Well, you know, Rush has to be somewhere.
He can say whatever he wants, but uh didn't dispute the substance of uh of my point.
That we move over to the Chris Matthews show, talking to his panel.
Uh, you'll also hear Time Magazine's Michael Duffy in this exchange.
With all these guys angling for the job of Mr. Conservative, the base is underwhelmed.
Here's conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh.
There's nobody out there that revs me up, so why should I pretend that there is?
Limbaugh isn't impressed by Brown back, by Huckabee, but by any of these.
It used to be if you were a conservative Republican in the premise, you've backed a loser.
You got behind a loser.
That was part of being a conservative Republican, but ever since 2000 when they backed Bush.
Now they expect to back someone who could win.
But they don't like McCain.
They're not crazy about it, of course, Rudy Giuliani.
So, of course, if if they nominate Giuliani, they're gonna call him a conservative.
Yeah, we'll figure out a way, Michael.
We'll figure out a way to call our nominee a conservative.
Damn right.
We don't expect to win elections.
To be a conservative was to back a loser.
No, to be Bob Michael was to back a loser.
We don't back losers since Reagan.
We're not intentionally.
Uh there was one time in 96 where it was just Bob Doole's turn.
And it was it was thought not, you know, Clinton's second term, riding high, monica yet to come, a lot of excitement on the horizon.
Uh but uh he may be describing conservatives of the old days backing losers like Goldwater and expecting to lose.
It was a matter of principle.
But problem we have now is the conservatives have had such a taste of victory that they've kind of gone full circle and actually want conservatives to lose when they're not pure enough.
Thinking that this will teach them all the lesson.
And we get what we've got now.
Uh which frankly is quite fun and amusing to me, so I'm not bothered by it anymore.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
This John Kerry story in the New York Times is just too great.
But people have been patiently waiting here on the phones, and I've got to reward them.
So we'll start in Bedford, Indiana with Tracy Tremblay.
Tracy, thanks so much for the call.
I appreciate your patience.
Rush, it is such a pleasure to talk to you.
I cannot believe I got through.
I've been listening to you since your TV days, so it's a long time.
That'll be back to nineteen ninety-two.
Thanks very much.
Um listen, we're freezing our tails off in Indiana.
So I, for one, am happy about global warming.
I can't even imagine how cold it would be without it.
Yeah, right.
Okay, here's my problem.
My son, um, three or four weeks ago, two, three, four weeks ago, came home from school, and he had seen that picture of the polar bears on the melting ice.
And he was really upset about it, telling me, and he told me that the solution was to uh we had to turn off our lights more at home.
And I laughed and I didn't take it seriously because it sounded so ridiculous.
I said, You gotta be kidding me.
But I could tell he was really upset about it, and he said, No, mommy, the the something from the plants where we make the electricity gets up into the air and it it's causing the ice to melt.
Now, he's I mean he's pretty level headed, he's only ten about stuff.
Something from the plants.
So see, this is it's it doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong.
This is what he believes.
And this is what he took from the lesson.
Something from the plants is getting in the air and causing the ice to melt.
He believes it.
He does.
Yeah, yeah, whatever the teacher said, that's what he heard.
That's exactly right.
And the melting is stranding polar bears.
Yes.
Right.
Yes.
And and what I wanted to ask you is how to combat this, because he's a he's m level headed about most things, but he loves animals, and I do not want him turning into some kind of environmentalist wacko.
You know, because of this crazy stuff he's hearing at school.
So honestly, what do you suggest?
I'm real serious about this.
It sounds ridiculous, but I I've never been a parent, I've never had a desire to be a parent.
You're asking me how to counsel a ten-year-old.
Well, you are brilliant, so you know, take take a crack at it anyway.
Well, but a ten-year-old's not in my league.
I mean, if I start talking to a ten-year-old about this, I think that with their attention span, I'll lose them in thirty seconds.
Well, all I could think to say, because it caught me so off guard was, you know, well, other scientists don't believe that, but you know, he saw the picture, and I didn't know where to go to get information that contradicted that.
I really didn't.
It caught me totally off guard.
All right, well, here's one thing you can do.
I I don't know what his reading level is, but but there are enough pictures in this.
The um uh story that I referenced earlier today about the hoax that is the polar bear picture.
Yeah.
Uh and somebody will well, I'm gonna have that linked on my website.
Are you a subscriber at Rush Limbaugh dot com?
No, but I got well.
I well, I okay.
Problem solved if you were.
Uh well, my husband is an associate pastor.
He always has me never have any extra money for all this stuff, because he doesn't think I'd sit on the computer that long and read it, so it's a long story, but no, I'm not sure.
It's marriage.
Yeah.
Well, um really agreed with that pretty quickly.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, but goodness of my heart and the desire to help your child.
I'm gonna I'm gonna make you do use a computer.
Oh, yes, I do.
Now I even have a Mac.
Can you believe it?
Well, that's good.
That's great.
They're easy.
Yeah.
Now I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna make you a complimentary one year subscriber, and you get um uh the limball letter as well.
And so hold when the call is over, hold on, somebody got on the phone and tell you what you need to do to become uh you can start probably start using the the website this afternoon.
We update it between five thirty and six every day to reflect the contents of today's show.
And we'll have the link up that has all the information that I cited uh in the first hour of the program that about the bogusness of this whole polar bear thing and the bogusness of the people.
Now they the picture is still there, but uh you can you'll be able to show your son.
He I don't know how well he reads, I don't know ten year olds that well.
He's pretty he he he's pretty efficient.
He's a good reader.
Okay.
Now here's the problem.
You're gonna even when you show him this, and even when you read it with him about about the the hoax and that was not you know an uh a broken off part of uh of a glacier or uh or an iceberg, it was it was something created by the waves of the ocean, a nice sculpture, and the polar bears went out to it.
You'll read a polar bears can swim a hundred miles.
Uh you would see that's good.
That that's all good information.
That will that will help convince him.
They they were out there on their own, and the and the the guy that that uh is claiming credit for the picture, a guy named Crosby, uh was actually out digging a hole in the ice in another occasion uh for some study of ice thickness, and it was so much thicker than he thought uh that they he writes about how they had to get a bigger auger and this sort of thing, and there's a picture of his buddy with a shotgun.
And the reason for the shotgun is protect them against polar bears.
I heard you say that.
I was laughing so hard.
If they were attacked by polar bears, they were gonna kill them.
No, it isn't that crazy.
Uh the so uh but but i look at you you're what you're up against is you're the parent and the teacher's the authority figure.
I know, I know, yeah.
And so you gotta be you gotta be you gotta be uh uh careful because the the I don't the kid is he saw the picture and he's he's he wants to believe what he wants to believe.
That this is the s this this sort of the um uh the secret uh the and how they're so seductive.
He w people are oriented toward believing that helpless entities like bears, supposedly helpless, are being destroyed by man.
It's it's uh it's a cruel psychological hoax that they're playing on everybody.
And so it's gonna it's gonna be a challenge for you.
But you'll have some evidence there.
But I I would uh you know, if if it were me, you know, I wouldn't even get into science.
He's ten years old.
Uh I I would I would go about it much as I did last Friday, just in a common sensical uh fashion.
And I'd more than anything, rather than trying to convince him, I would pr I would try to persuade him, and it's not too young to do this, to be curious about everything he's told.
Don't just accept everything.
To be curious about it, yeah.
And challenge it and be, you know, uh and and be uh somewhat suspicious of uh of things until he can figure it out himself or ask other people about it, because you can tell him there are people that do have an agenda that he grow up thinking what he's thinking now for political purposes.
Yeah.
And you might tell him, I don't know this is you you might tell him that there's there's very little science associated with all this, that it's all politics.
And it's all true.
I just don't know what his you know acumen is and his perception of of of things political is at age ten.
So I mean, you know him and I don't.
You're gonna have to figure all that out yourself.
But you can start with what you'll see on the website.
Uh you don't know how much I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Now don't go away because the uh I won't.
Yeah, we'll get the guy on the phone here as soon as soon as we get to the next call, you'll be on hold and he'll talk to you, okay.
Can I um can I tell you something?
Sure.
I've been mad at you all weekend because you picked the bears.
If you would eat some crow about the Super Bowl, I would really appreciate it.
Well did you hear the whole pick?
No, I didn't.
I had to leave him for picking up.
I heard I turned on at like two fifty-eight and you said, okay, I picked the bears.
Pick the bears to be contrary.
Because everybody was picking the colts, and I don't go along with conventional wisdom, and in my little office pool, I was the only one who picked the bears.
Okay, well, so okay.
So I'm okay with that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm okay with that.
I mean, if you look at this game on paper statistics, uh there's no way the bears can win it.
That's why every that's why they're the underdogs.
That's why everybody was picking the colds.
Okay, I just wanted to clear it up.
Because I know you do think sometimes to be contrary, and I didn't hear it all.
Let me tell it.
It was a contest.
Okay, who do I make mad here?
Indianapolis or Chicago.
Yeah, well, you really did make me mad.
Well, but Indianapolis is smaller city.
That's true.
All right.
Okay, all right.
We're good.
Thanks, Russ.
You bet.
Harry in Potstown, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Uh you sounded like a liberal uh when discussing the uh proposed uh two oh eight budget.
Yeah, to be kidding.
They talk one side of the equation on things like the deficit and the total federal debt.
And don't recognize that the G D P is thirteen and a half trillion.
Now that that's so I think if you took a little time and look at the OMB historical budgets to GDP.
Well you would realize that it's it's really pretty good.
That was not my point.
My my my my point is that we're going to get into some details because there's you know some things in the Democrats are gonna hate tax cuts being permanent, balancing the budget in five years without raising taxes.
That my point was I want people to understand.
2.9 trillion.
I don't care about GDP, ADT, HBB, DDS, any of those economic statistics.
2.9 trillion, and people say we're not spending enough on A, B, C or D. It's absurd.
And I that that was just the point that I know Democrats are going to say it's DOA in this area.
It's 2.9 trillion dollars of your money being taxed.
Okay, Tracy in Indiana, I know you're still out there still gleeful and ecstatic over becoming a new subscriber to Rush Limbaugh.com.
Um I I I should have said something to you during your call asking and seeking my advice on how to deal with your ten year old child who came home from a propagandized session, uh propaganda session on global warming.
Look, here's here may be the simplest way to do this after you use the stuff you're gonna see on my website later this afternoon.
Uh you all uh religious family, I think I think she said that uh her husband's a pastor.
One of the simplest ways, I think, to deal with all this is your ten year old comes home and says, Mommy, we've got to turn the lights off because there's something in the plants that's heating up the planet, melting the ice.
What one thing you could try, Tracy, is a very simple question.
Son, do you really think God would create and design a planet and systems where something that natural causes disaster and destruction?
And if he did, why hasn't it been happening since the beginning of time?
Right.
Oh all the electrical plants, the electrical plants.
Well, okay, even even that that's it's still it still follows because you could then say to your son, son, do you really think of God who created human beings who can create inventions that improve the quality of life and have done so for years.
The quality of life on this planet has never ever been better.
Do you really think God would create people who in improving their own lives would destroy destroy the planet?
That power plants are actually what's causing ice to melt.
I mean, go at it.
There's a there's a number of different ways here.
I the challenge here is ten years old.
I don't talk to ten-year-olds.
And when I do, I still am tempted to say goo goo and gaga.
So I'm in this in this in this regard, I am woefully, and I will admit it, I am woefully inept in trying to figure out how to reach it.
A ten-year-old, uh well, you know, I think they run away in tears.
You know, my voice is loud.
I'm tempted to spank them if they get too loud.
I know that's not the way.
Uh Ruben in St. Louis, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, thanks for having me on.
Great to have you on.
Uh I first of all I wanted to thank you for your adopt a soldier program.
It uh really helped with my deployment to to Kuwait.
Well, thank you, sir.
You're more than welcome.
Uh I I was um kind of hesitant to call, but I would just uh I know people are out there trying to trip you up at every uh every step.
And um I was uh going through that uh article in the LA Times, and um I just wanted to correct you there about what they were saying uh about the CO two emissions and going back to the Stone Age.
Basically, I think it's what it's saying is that the United States is the worst defender uh putting out about 25 percent of the CO two emissions in China's uh a little bit second.
Right.
And um then it kind of goes on saying if the rest of the world uh goes back to the Stone Age cards carbon concentrations would still rise.
So I thought that too until I reread the story.
Oh, okay.
Well, I think that's the same thing.
If you start the first line, everybody in the U.S. could switch from cars to bicycles.
Right.
Okay, that means we're not continuing our own lifestyles or getting rid of the automobile, that's a biggie to the environmentalist wackos.
Then they mention the Chinese should close all their factories, and then Europe could give up electricity, return to the age of of the land, and we still be putting out more junk.
Now we wouldn't be shutting down industrial under this.
I d I didn't misinterpret it.
I'm sorry, maybe you misinterpreted my interpretation of their interpretation of the IPCC report.
Because all I'm saying, I'm taking the information that they provide and turning it around against them.
Right.
If the whole world shuts down producing carbon, which is not possible.
Right.
Not even the wackos are suggesting we go to the Stone Age.
If we go to the Stone Age, and we're still going to have more carbon emissions than we've got now, then the whole point is moot.
The whole COT argument's moot.
There's no way that we can cut to zero, and even if we did, it wouldn't matter.
That was the point I was trying to make.
Okay, I'm sorry if I misinterpreted.
I know these guys are anti-U.S.
They blame us for global.
I know that before half the country knew it.
Yeah, that's exactly what uh I wanted to ask you why you think they're doing that.
Why, you know, because I I I agreed totally agree with you that this is a political agenda to to make it sound like we're doing global warming or we're causing it.
And I was just wondering why you thought overall.
That's the easiest answer in the world.
And every that's the easiest question of all the questions of global warming.
It's very simple.
Liberals are liberals.
Socialists are socialists.
They are trying to create as much guilt in average people as possible.
And that guilt is heavy.
They want a heavy guilt-laden burden based on the fact that guilt is rooted in destruction of the planet.
They want people to feel so guilty over what they're driving and how they're using electricity, all these things that they say are causing rampant emissions of CO2s up there.
Uh-huh.
They want people to accept larger government, higher taxes, and more control over lifestyles, loss of liberty, in order to ostensibly fix this.
This there is no science in this.
This that's why I said last week, this the whole global warming argument is the perfect it's it's got all the ingredients to illustrate the the fundamental arguments between conservatives and liberals.
This is pure unadulterated, undisguised liberalism that is propelling global warming.
It is not science.
Now I'm not I'm not talking about some of these dumb cough little pr teachers in these grade schools.
You know, these these there are people, most people are followers, not leaders.
They get caught up, and everybody wants to think they're doing good works.
Saving the planet is a damn good work.
And so they get caught up.
I'm talking about the people that put together these propagand propaganda campaigns, people like at the United Nations, uh, the various scientists who depend on research funding uh for a specific position on this.
Uh and uh the the whole the whole I I think environmentalism is the is the new home of communism since the Soviet Union went uh went defunct.
It's but it's actually, as I said, it's a religion.
You've got an apocalypse, you have an Eden, uh, you have sin, uh you have belief, just not in God.
When you don't believe in God, you'll you'll believe anything.
Uh and uh G.K. Chesterton says Chesterton said that, and I must uh accurately attribute it.
But this is this is no more than the latest attempt um to uh get people set up with the notion that they're committing a huge crime, uh that their lifestyles are too fabulous, too rich, too wealthy.
The United States, it's unfair all these resources we're stealing from all these poor people around the world.
Look what we're doing.
We're polluting the planet and destroying it, and we don't care.
And so we have to pay.
The United States must be shown a lesson.
Yep, that's what that's kind of what I thought.
I thought they were trying to knock the United States down a peg and try to create like a kind of a global community where no country is greater than another community.
Well, that may be long term.
I think for right now they're just trying to cut the U.S. down to size, period, uh and do do so by by raping us of as much of our wealth as possible.
Um this is why I spent so much time on this.
Uh it's it's you know, I'm I'm a conservative.
I'm in opposition, and one might say at war with liberals.
This is a conservative versus liberal issue, or you could say this is a this is an issue of freedom and Liberty versus losing freedom and liberty.
And this these these campaigns that these people wage like this are really seductive.
They position themselves rather well.
If you oppose them, you must be for dirty air.
If you oppose them, you must be for dirty water.
If you oppose them, you must want the polar bells to die, polar bears to die.
Um that that's that's um that's how they've they've they've set it all up.
Uh and it's why it takes a lot of time to deconstruct it.
You know, you can look at the science of it too.
I mean, it it's not science.
According to the scientific method, they have not proved or even disproved the hypothesis.
It's just consensus.
There can't be consensus in science.
As I gosh, I'm sounding a broken record on that.
But I know you have to pound people with things.
Go back to the uh hurricane season two years ago.
Worst ever.
Went through all the letters in the alphabet, and we had hurricane alpha and hurricane beta and so forth.
And they said the next year for hurricanes was going to be worse still because ocean temperatures were rising.
And of course the next hurricane season was last year when we didn't have any.
Right there.
That should disqualify the whole global warming argument.
And what they're making modifications that you're not gonna see them make that mistake next time.
Uh they will use the destruction of a hurricane Katrina uh to propagandize the media, and they will blame every weather extreme year round, whatever it is on global warming.
Even the cold that we're seeing this week will be blamed on global warming somehow.
Every weather extreme.
But if there's global warming, how can it be record cold right now in much of the country in Hawaii?
How can it be?
Just simply how th they've got an answer.
Well, we're not talking about tomorrow or next year.
We're talking about a hundred years from now, fifty years from now.
And these are signs that something is abnormal in our climate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh and and so it's gonna take a constant effort to beat these people because it's look at are you seeing any stories in the drive-by media today, folks, questioning the validity of global warming with all of this record cold?
Nope.
And you won't.
Not one print story, not one broadcast story will question any aspect of global warming.
Yet, if later this month, somewhere like New York or Washington, the temperature gets to 65 or 70.
You'll see all kinds of stories, what happened to winter, global warming back with a vengeance.
If it happens to hit a hundred degrees in June somewhere, uh global warm.
In fact, I've got a story in the snack here.
They're actually, you know, punksatony Phil showed up last week, and uh punksatony Phil, the groundhog, forecast an early arrival of spring.
And they're all all these stories, the groundhog must be reading Al Gore's book.
The groundhog is foretelling global warming.
And they're I'm sure they're telling little kids this in Pennsylvania to buttress the point.
Yep, the groundhog came out.
Punkstatony Phil, yep, global warming's happening.
Even the groundhog knows it.
Not making this up.
That's how they do it.
And little ten-year-olds get scared and they come home and tell their parents about this and run through the house turning off all the light bulbs.
Because the power plants melting the ice.
That's absurd.
Just think about it, Paul.
Okay, Coco at the website just told me that we've posted the uh the real worldview blog piece on a fraud and the hoax of the polar bear picture and the truth behind some of this stuff.
So it's up there now at WW.rushlimbaug.com to Bunker Hill, Indiana.
This is Bobby.
Bobby, nice to have you on the program.
Yes.
Uh, congratulations to you, Rush, on your nomination.
Thank you.
And um very well deserved, by the way.
Nobel Peace Prize, yes.
Yes.
And also congratulations to our Indianapolis Colts.
Um, yeah, you know what?
You know what?
You know what?
Dungey's cheer, I just got an email from somebody who knows what Dungey uh he sent these guys, you know, he's it doesn't ride's not a rah-raw guy.
We know what kind of coach he is.
He just sent them out with one phrase.
Win it for Barbaro.
And apparently it worked.
Well, I I also wanted to uh point out the fact, I you know, it's less than your show.
Uh before he ever even said thank you for accepting the trophy.
He wanted to, you know, ask for prayers and and said that their prayers went up for the people that were hit by the tornadoes there in Florida.
That would Jim Ursay that said that, right?
Um well I think uh yes he did, and I believe Donji does back that up too.
But um I I also wanted to say that I appreciated the fact that you were um having some compassion for Grossman.
I sat there last night watching the game and I felt sorry for him.
He has a hooser, by the way.
His grandfather played for the Baltimore Colts.
Yeah.
And I you know, he's a young guy.
Uh you know, it's a team effort.
They're just all over this guy.
They can't wait for this guy to fail.
They are hoping he fails.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
They're talking about before the game, they're calling him as the worst quarterback ever to play in a Super Bowl.
And they're asking Lovey Smith all during the week.
When are you gonna bench the guy, Lovey?
At what point in the game.
I mean, that's the only time Lovey Smith apparently lost his cool a little bit during the week with uh with media sessions.
You know what this is.
The media.
You you know the social thing, so I don't need to go into this.
Well, they just want this guy not to do well because he's a white quarterback.
Even during the game last night, before before they went on the air, they were all saying who they were gonna pick and why and everything.
And when the you know, the they made their first uh run back with the score, then they started turning the tables on everything.
It's like, no, wait a minute, I heard what you said before the game started, you know.
Now they're changing tunes because they're now they were all acting surprised.
Everybody's actually, whoa, wow, Grossman can actually complete a pass.
Why, nobody thought this would happen.
Let's stop everything and give him the MVP now.
He actually completed a pass.
But he came through for him in the end.
Uh all those fumbles, the f the the wounded duck interceptions.
Uh he gave them the copy they wanted to write today, all last week.
They've been hoping to write that Grossman was an embarrassment, and that Lovey Smith needs to seriously bring in somebody compete with him next uh training camp.
Uh I could uh look at I I um I feel for the guy.
He's apparently bores uh the bears up under it rather well, or has borne up uh under it rather well, so his teammates say and so forth, but guy's been targeted for destruction.
I hope that Lovey and the team and the people in the Chicago area will do like the the Colts fans here have stepped by.
I mean, we have some games, you know, early on in in the Indianapolis Colts franchise.
They had even one game.
Wait a second, Bobby.
You can't tell me that the media was ever hoping and praying that Peyton Manning would bomb out big.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm not saying that.
No, no.
I'm saying that that the fans have stayed behind the team.
Well, but the Bears fans will stay behind the team.
Yeah.
But I I hope that they're giving him a chance.
If I'm if I'm a Chicago fan listening to you, I'm not thinking they say, Don't fool us, babe.
If it came down to Colts and Bears again, you'd be against us.
You know, you want the Bears fans to hang in so they can lose to you again.
They understand that.
Uh but uh even I'll tell you something, even with Peyton Manning.
I'm seeing rumblings.
Okay, Peyton, this victory.
You can win the big one.
But now do you need to win two to really be in that elite category.
Before the game, Peyton, will your career mean anything at all if you lose this game?
Are you gonna be the next Marino that's never won a Super Bowl?
And uh Manning's no, it's about the team.
I don't know, I don't have there's no monkey to get off my back.
But they won't let it go.
Now he what what bull?
What?
What was bull?
Oh, well, no, I don't know, I don't know Peyton Manning, but everything I hear about Peyton Manning is he's uh straightforward, straight shooter, solid citizen, uh so forth.
At any rate.
What's he gonna say?
Yeah, boy, I'm glad I got the monkey off my back.
Yeah, I've been sick and tired of what you guys been writing about me for all these years.
I'm I don't think he's gonna say it even if he uh if if that's the way he thinks or or feels.
But even now you can start seeing uh his one enough to get the monkey off his back.
I'm gonna stop here because I could ask questions about other quarterbacks that have not been asked that question after they won their first Super Bowl back in just a second.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
We still got some um some fabulous audio sound bites.
Diane Sawyer talked to Basher Assad.
It's incredible how much like a Democrat Basher Assad uh sounds.
Some pretty interesting soundbites from John Edwards uh on Meet the Press yesterday.
And of course, John Kerry has been called a pariah by the New York Times, which makes our Kerry calling America a pariah parody quite prescient, which means that we'll play it for you in the next segment.
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