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March 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Greetings.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh sizzling today in honor of global warming, raising the average global temperature, which is, by the way, there is no way to measure a meaningful average global temperature.
I've got this story in a global warming stack.
It's a myth.
It's not possible to do.
The climate's too complex, and an average global temperature is meaningless anyway.
We don't care here what the temperature is at the North Pole as it relates to ours.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Look at this, folks.
You thought that I was kidding about getting into the carbon offset business and selling the carbon offset to people who want to buy them.
This is a great scam when I get involved in it.
Look at this headline.
EIB comma World Bank launch carbon fund.
Today we can announce that we have joined forces with the World Bank to launch a fund to sell suckers carbon offsets.
Right there in the headline, EIB, World Bank.
This is from the WorldBank.org website, ladies and gentlemen.
It's essentially a press release.
The World Bank and EIB joined forces Tuesday.
I was embargoed from announcing this.
To launch a carbon fund to help countries meet commitments under the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Here, you don't believe me?
Let me zoom in.
For those of you watching on the DittoCam, let me zoom in on it there.
See that?
EIB World Bank launch carbon fund.
There it is.
And I'll tell you something else that we're going to do.
I'm not taking this fairness doctrine BS laying down either.
You know, the fairness doctrine is a liberal attempt to silence talk radio because there is no such thing as a fairness doctrine.
What it does, I'll explain to you very briefly.
The fairness doctrine requires that local stations grant so-called response time to anybody who thinks they've been maligned or criticized by anybody else on that radio station.
By the time all these complaints would roll in from programmed liberals, local managers, this is not worth it.
Watered down the programming wouldn't be interesting, would be boring, and they just cancel all the programming that generates these complaints.
However, one of the things that I've been investigating here, in addition to the new deal we have with the World Bank on the carbon fund, is liberal offsets to stave off the whole concept here of the fairness doctrine.
Just go out there and purchase some liberal offsets, which would allow me not to have to reduce my own content at all.
So I go out and buy liberal offsets, and that means liberalism will show up somewhere else.
The liberalism that's not on my program will show up somewhere else.
The people who will, and I will see to it that this happens.
We find plenty of places to put liberalism on the air, but not this show.
Any number of ways of dealing with this.
Now, in all seriousness, EIB here is the European Investment Bank.
I can't let this one go if I let this one go for the whole show.
But it says here, EIB World Bank launched carbon fund.
And you thought I was kidding.
It's getting ridiculous in Washington now.
As I mentioned earlier, all of these press hounds that drive by media badgering Tony Snow.
This is the new Watergate.
This is the next Watergate.
The president refusing to allow Karl Rove and Harriet Myers to testify under subpoena.
And by the way, the president also said the White House said, hey, look, this is a take-or-to-leave it deal.
You either let them come up there under the terms I have graciously submitted to.
I'll let you talk to my people, but not under oath.
If you reject that, they're not going, period.
And you can send subpoenas up here left and right.
So the drive-by is up there saying, What a gate, Watergate, Watergate, What a gate.
Folks, there is not one element of criminality in anything that's happened.
And Democrat senators from Chuck Schumer, all the way down, all the way up, depending on where you want to put him here on the totem pole, all say the same thing.
There was nothing illegal that happened.
This is predicted this to you last week.
Everything now is going to be compared to Watergate.
The war in Iraq is compared to Vietnam.
Liberals living in the past, old pages in their playbook.
The objective is to just keep people in chaos and tumult, unhappy, disquieted, and a number of things.
And my question is, how long are people going to put up with it?
And a lot of this has to do with the reaction of the Republicans on Capitol Hill in both the House and the Senate.
If they remain silent and docile, remain fearful of defending the president and joining him on this, then the public won't get tired of it because the Democrats are going to steal the show.
They're going to be the only voice measured against whatever comes out of the White House.
That's not again on Watergate.
After a certain passage of time, a bunch of Democrats on Capitol Hill went up to the White House, said, Mr. President, we can't defend you anymore.
You got to go.
It's not going to happen here.
But if the Democrats succeed in being the lone voice, and if the Republicans don't chime in here, Democrats could well get away with this, even though they do upset and irritate so many Americans, who I don't think want to be in a constant state of chaos.
I don't think most people in this country want to be in a state of upheaval, upheaval, and things with no answers in the future and so forth.
This is constant angst.
But we'll see.
Let's see.
Before we go to the break, ladies and gentlemen, the Reverend Sharpton, as you know, has been hanging out outside the campaign headquarters of Barack Obama.
He's fighting irrelevancy himself here.
You've got the first clean, articulate, well-spoken black guy, according to Joe Biden, who's now doing pretty well in the presidential primaries and the polling leading up to the primaries.
And of course, Reverend Sharpton thinks that Barack Obama is not down for the struggle, has not participated in any of these matches for justice and so forth and so on.
He's been shouting insults at Barack Obama outside his campaign headquarters, basically various insults about how fat Barack's mother is.
We knew it was bad, but we didn't know how bad that it had gotten.
Reverend Sharpton went into the recording studio apparently yesterday.
We have this song he recorded exclusively on the EID network.
And we are back, Rush Limboy, your host for life.
Going nowhere until every American agrees with me.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Have you seen the videotape of this cute little polar bear cub that's been abandoned by its mother?
How can that happen in nature?
How can this happen?
Ladies and gentlemen, we are told constantly over and over again that we human beings are the ones destroying the planet, that we're the ones who have wanton disregard for any life other than our own.
We, if we would only get out of the way, would leave the earth as God intended it, a pristine place for real creatures to exist all nacha.
And yet we learn that some slough welfare polar bear mother has decided to flee the nest and leave the cub.
And a German zoo has adopted this little baby polar bear.
They've named the polar bear Newt or Canute.
Don't know how they pronounce it, spelled K-N-U-T.
Cutest little thing.
He runs around.
He plays with a soccer ball.
He loves human contact.
They cuddle with the little thing.
It's very cute.
And now, after three months, and he's 19 pounds right now.
After three months, animal rights activists are arguing that Knut, the 19-month, 19-pound, three-month-old polar bear cub, should be given a lethal injection rather than be brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.
Frank Albrecht, the spokesman for some animal rights wanco group, said, quote, the zoo must kill the bear.
Feeding by hand is not species appropriate, but a gross violation of animal protection laws.
A gross violence.
So we should stop trying to save the whales and we should stop trying to save the dolphins and we should stop rescuing any injured animal, taking it into a clinic or a zoo or whatever and trying to these people are insane.
They are literally insane.
This little polar bear cub is happy as it can be.
It's having the time of its life.
And it's going to be released to the wild at some point.
Or maybe it'll go to a zoo or what have you.
The little thing was born in December.
His mother ignored him and his brother.
And his brother died.
Zoo officials intervene, choosing to raise the cub themselves.
But this Albrecht guy and other animal rights activists fret that it's inappropriate for a predator known for its fierceness and ability to fend for itself in the wild to be snuffed.
Well, where's this attitude on human beings?
You know, you animal rights people and you liberals are totally willing to compromise the ability of human beings to fend for themselves.
You want to take care of them.
You want government and government programs to take care of them.
Why don't you advocate they be killed?
How about this?
Every human being that can't take care of itself just be killed.
Human beings are predators after all.
According to especially animal rights activists, this is you, you animal rights, you animal lovers, I want you to learn who these people are.
They are saying that the treatment of this little polar bear cub is inhumane and could cause him future difficulties interacting with fellow polar bears.
Rudiger Schmiedel, head of the Foundation for Bears.
Mommy, Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be a big gun and a foundation for berries.
That's what I want to do, Mom.
Where do they find these idiots?
What's this guy's name?
Rudiger Schmiedl argues that the current treatment of this polar bear cub is inhumane, could cause him future difficulties.
They can't domesticate a wild animal.
Nobody's trying to.
They're trying to keep the little guy alive.
He's not going to be a pet.
And if he ends up a pet, he's a natural predator.
He's going to eat whoever owns him once he gets big enough to do it, which all these people know.
You animal rights people are absolutely insane.
You are dangerously insane.
You have more concern over a bear than you do human beings.
Let me read this to you again.
Ben, what's his name?
Albrecht.
Frank Albrecht and other activists fret that it's inappropriate for a predator known for its fierceness and ability to defend for itself in the wild to be snuggled, bottle-fed, and made into a commodity by zookeepers.
And yet look at the millions of human beings they're willing to turn into just that.
Commodities.
Assume they can't take care of themselves and provide cradle-to-grave subsistence for them.
I detest these liberals.
I detest them.
I don't care whether they're animal rights wackos, environmentalist wackos.
I detest them.
Such contradiction.
And we've got to do everything we can to save the animals.
Now we're trying to save an animal.
And by the way, the zoo is claiming it's under a lot of pressure here because of a single animal rights group.
Blow them off.
Screw them.
Tell them to go to hell for crying out loud.
What's happening to us?
Why do we have to respond to all these activists as though they have any say whatsoever?
They don't run the zoo.
They have nothing to do with the zoo.
They're just a bunch of professional whiners and owners, socialist, communist, liberals, whatever the hell they are.
Screw them.
Alan in Shreport, Louisiana.
You're next, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, first of all, you're a great American.
I heard you when you spoke in Shreport a few weeks ago, a few years ago at Hal Sutton's benefit, and I salute you for all the work that you've done.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I remember that night.
It was a good night.
I was sitting right at the table right in front of you.
And every time you said something I agree with, I stood up.
Terrific.
I remember you.
Anyway, I just wanted to take issue with what Governor Schwarzenegger said about, or at least implying that he could save the taxpayers of California money by extending everybody health insurance coverage so that they didn't have to go to emergency rooms.
As you well know, that is simply a myth, and you were kind enough not to throw it in the governor's face, but I'm not embarrassed to do so.
The experience in Massachusetts, if anybody needed a reminder, has redoubled that lesson.
Well, here's the thing.
I did tell him.
I don't think he heard me.
You know, he wouldn't be quiet.
He can say all he wants about all these emergency room people getting covered.
The fact is, and I've read this in no less than the L.A. Times, a lot of Southern California, last I heard it was, I guess, a year and a half, two years ago, 11 hospital emergency rooms in Southern California had to shut down because the only people showing up were people that couldn't pay the bill.
Yeah, they were covered, but the hospital had it covered or somebody did.
And there were ads on television advising people how to call an ambulance so that it doesn't cost you the money to call a cab and where to go to the emergency rooms and have to pay for it and so forth.
And I also pointed out to him, you know, that this business of covering everybody's talking, well, we got to get rid of the hidden tax.
Well, what's the difference of a hidden tax and a visible tax?
It's still a tax.
Well, the visible tax will be a whole lot higher bill than the hidden one.
Well, of course.
I mean, look, you have to understand, I went into this with the understanding, they told me he's got five to seven minutes, and that wasn't going to be enough time to get.
He ended up staying for a little over 15.
But, you know, the whole, if I would have had the time to get into it with him, and I, by the way, I'm not going to be rude and say, be quiet.
Let me ask you a question.
It's just not me.
But this whole business of health care reform, I wanted to ask him, well, is this reform, governor?
It sounds to me like we're just spending more and more on it because that's what the people want.
You can go broke giving to people what they want.
Open a free food center in the neighborhood and find out what happens to your budget.
Well, and the other point that you were trying to make, and also he wouldn't let you get a word in edge-wise, is that compromise is a great panacea.
But in fact, compromising with liberals is like Senator Graham used to say, Phil Graham always said it needed to be a good idea.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what I'm doing.
You betcha.
Exactly what we have here, real life.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, maha-rushy.
Now, I want to respond to one thing that what was the last caller's name, Mr. Snerdley?
Having a metal block.
But he said that I didn't get a chance to talk to Arnold about compromise.
Ocontrair.
Now, look, it's obvious that Arnold, Governor Schwarzenegger called here and wanted to talk and talk and talk.
But in so doing, folks, the governor illustrated that he has turned left.
I mean, he believes that government's the answer when it comes to health care, and it's obviously not.
If it were anywhere else in the world, it's been tried, it would succeed.
He obviously believes in the religion of global warming.
He uses liberal speak now, talks about fees rather than taxes.
He's acting like a liberal in Washington.
And his cover for it is not so much compromise, he's giving the people of California what they want.
And that's not what leadership is.
Leadership's not taking polls and finding out what people want and giving it to them.
That's how politicians keep getting re-elected, but that's not how they fix things.
Now, in this business of compromise, it was hard to get a word in without rudely interrupting him, which I'm sure was one of his plans.
And I'm not rude, and I'm not going to start being rude just for the sake of it.
But this business of compromise, and I said, look, Governor, you're giving up your ideology.
He kept talking about ideology is not the way to answer it.
Well, fine, you're giving yours up, but the libs aren't giving theirs up.
The libs don't give up their ideology.
I say, come on, Governor, you know these people.
You've known liberals all your life.
Liberal ideology is what governs their lives.
Okay, so you didn't give them what they wanted price-wise on a minimum wage.
They're going to minimum wage.
You gave them what they wanted.
The price is just going to go up from now.
It doesn't matter what starting point is.
On health care, everything the liberals want, they are getting under the guise of it's what the people want.
And he's a servant of the people.
But this business of compromise is not what's going on.
He's compromising his principles.
This is one of the first questions I was able to ask him early on in the interview.
We'll have that transcript up and the audio at rushlimbaugh.com as soon as we can so you can review this.
But, you know, he said that he's tired of talk and he wants to get things done.
But getting things done, if they're the wrong things, in the long term, are going to harm the state and the people.
And if so, these things shouldn't be done.
Getting things done, that's right out of the liberal dictionary here to get things done for people.
You know, government does best when it does least.
Something's happened.
I mean, he's clearly changed his attitude.
And I said to him, you were so inspiring in that first campaign.
You had so many people so hopeful.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's very appreciative of that.
But now it's not the case.
And he cited polling data where it is.
But it's obvious that for whatever reason, Governor Schwarzenegger has put his arms around a very liberal agenda out there, and he's running with it.
And he's running to the front of the liberal parade.
He's trying to get in front of that parade and now justifying what he's doing.
But here's the thing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is known first and foremost as the lovable characters he has played, even when he's in these futuristic sci-fi things.
A lovable, likable guy.
And that's everybody loves Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Everybody likes him.
He's got this constant smile on his face.
He has the charismatic and infectious attitude.
And when you strip all this politics stuff away, people still like Arnold Schwarzenegger as a human being.
And, you know, but his liberalism is what it is.
And his 180 on his own ideology is what it is.
By the way, more animal rights news.
This is a particular interest to those of you in Southern California.
After pressure from animal rights groups, Wolfgang Puck. famed chef and restaurateur, Spago and others, says he's going to stop using foie gras at his restaurants and bar.
And his restaurants, he's going to bar his $300 million food company from using several types of food that have been criticized by activists, such as eggs from chickens raised in battery cages, veal and pigs raised in confining crates.
He's just going to get rid of the foie gras.
This is, of course, you know, they take a bunch of ducks and geese out there and they inject them all kinds of food to the point that the liver almost explodes, and that's how you get delicious foie gras.
And of course, that process, once it's been learned.
You can't get.
By the way, this reminds me of this cute little polar bear, Canute, the 19-pound three-month-old little polar bear.
Doesn't his mother have the right to choose what it wants?
If the mother wants to abandon the little polar bear, fine.
Can do that, right?
We allow it for ourselves in a number of ways.
Anyway, my question to Wolfgang Puck, Wolfie, why are you serving any meat at all here?
I mean, don't you understand?
You've given them the first and they're just going to keep coming back.
You put the foie gras in the water, so to speak, and these guys are going to keep smelling these animal rights activists, animal rights groups.
Why do people buckle to these people?
Now, I can understand it if the mayor came around like it's happening in New York and banned trans fats and foie gras and so forth.
But, you know, you don't get away with this in Chicago.
I mean, the city council tries to ban this Chicago and these Chicago restaurateurs.
Screw you.
We're going to keep serving it.
Come find us.
Our customers like it.
New York, for the liberals, they bend over forwards and grabbed the ankles and wait for the health inspectors to come in.
And they'll get rid of anything the mayor tells them to get rid of other than the rats.
The rats still running around at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Of course, now we got big news about the Chinese restaurants not being up to snuff, but they're a minority, so what can we do about it?
They have the right.
But why?
I mean, I guess Southern California, this is the activist ruler.
Tell these people to go to hell.
You know, tell them to open their own restaurant if they don't want foie gras and don't serve foie gras in it.
If I'd Wolfban Wolfgang Puck, they'd leave me alone.
Of course, I guess his problem is a Hollywood community, big clientele out there.
They'll just have the foie gras in their house, Wolfgang.
They'll probably ask you to come serve it to them on the sly, bring it a little yellow van that looks like the phone truck or something like that.
You're still going to be serving to these people, just not in public.
Look at this, it's just, when are we going to stand up, folks?
Take your fluorescent, compact fluorescent internet or incandescent light bulbs and put them in a bodily orifice, as far as I'm concerned.
If you want to use them, fine.
Stop preaching to me.
You want to save the planet?
Go to Mars.
It's burning hell up there right now.
They can't figure out why because there aren't any human beings up there.
You want to save something?
Save yourselves.
You people are a bunch of losers trying to infect everybody else with your stupid doom and gloom misery.
You wonder why people are retreating to gated communities.
Who's next on this show?
John in Coastal, North Carolina.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you.
Glad President Bush grew some stones.
Johnny Donovan wannabe dittos.
Johnny Donovan want to be.
Well, he'll be.
He'll be thrilled, he will be thrilled.
Johnny has to send us an email every month to remind us he's still there, and and and to send him his check.
Well no no, that that happens automatically Johnny, we're just kidding, we're just.
We love Johnny, Johnny's Johnny, the voice of this program other than me, absolutely.
It is an honor, honor and a privilege.
You are my hero.
The reason I called was the John Edwards lie, as I told the screener there.
That is a damn lie.
What the regular lie.
Which one?
Which one are you talking about?
Oh the uh, the 300 electric bill.
He said three to four hundred.
The last one he saw that could have been five years ago.
Well, it's probably longer than that.
Uh, I live near the beach and don't use the heat a whole lot and a house the about a tenth the size of his and mine is over $300 a month.
You have a thousand square foot house.
Well no, not quite that small, but 1800 square foot stuff like that.
I was going with the 28,000 square foot.
Okay, all right, so you get.
You go.
Okay, so you get 2800 square foot house, something like that, and your bill's three to four hundred a month and you don't use much heat?
No, I don't, I've got now.
You live in this house year-round yes, what about summertime?
Use air conditioning?
Oh no, I use.
What's the hill?
What's the electric bill then?
Oh, it's a little uh, not quite double.
That's what I'm thinking.
Well, you know who's going to be comfortable, who's going to challenge him?
He didn't remember when the last bill was.
He saw.
So it could have been any number of years or months ago, but you know he's not going to produce.
He tried to get away with not telling Miles O'Brien what the answer to the question was.
I did notice that.
I did notice that.
It kind of reminds me of the.
What Mark Twain said about the lies, the three kinds of lies, the uh, the global warming thing.
The three kinds of lies are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
That's true.
Well look uh uh, I appreciate the call out there.
Uh uh John, very much.
Uh, you folks, how many of you bought this 28 000 square foot?
But uh, but we only live in in a small portion of 10 000 square feet, is all we live in.
Three to four hundred bucks utility bill.
Of course, it's not all constructed, it's still still being built out.
Well how, what's that cost?
You know, you don't.
You don't run construction equipment at no um, no charge.
What is this?
CNN still running this irrelevant store, even after the interview?
Look at that.
Governor says Rush Limb.
He doesn't say that anymore.
CNN, he came on here didn't say that.
Oh, now they got, they're running video.
Look at the way they stretched the video.
I've lost 28 pounds and they've made it look like i've gained 28.
The way they've stretched their video up there.
They're running a uh, a piece on it.
Maybe cookies rolling tape on this.
We can find out what they are.
Um saying, I got to run a quick timeout here at EIB.
Obscene profits break, ladies and gentlemen, back after this.
All right, we have the transcript posted of the um interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger when he called in.
So for all of you in the drive-by media and you want to get it out of context and get it's wrong.
Get it wrong, it's up there for you to take out of context now.
Transcript and the audio.
And we're back on the Rush Lindball program here, the EIB Network.
Denny in Long Beach, California.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
It's a great pleasure to talk to you.
I can understand.
Thank you.
I just think it's unbelievable that CNN can only find something to talk about as you and Arnold.
And get this.
They're the ones that are irrelevant.
Well, that's true.
You know, they finished fourth last week in prime time.
They came in behind Fox, Headline News, PMS.
I think they came in behind it.
Yeah, in the sales period, it's 7 to midnight.
They're bringing up the seller.
But you know what they just did?
They just ran a piece on Arnold's appearance here, and they had DittoCam video.
And these airheads at the end of it start speculating: will this be the next Rosie and Donald feud?
Now, anybody who heard that interview knows that there's no feud.
These people attached the word feud to it yesterday when there wasn't one.
They attached, they came to all kinds of conclusions about this yesterday.
And it's as though this interview today never happened except in the guise of their perception or whatever that is.
Will this be the next Rosie and Donald feud?
And of course, their little anchorette and anchor guy little chuckles.
After they postulate all this.
Crazy.
Well, look, I'm glad you called Denny.
Thanks so much.
I've not talked to a woman named Denny before.
Well, it's unique.
It is.
How do you spell it?
D-E-N-N-I-E.
Is it short for something?
Nope, that's my name.
Really?
Yeah.
What's your maiden name?
Wallace.
What's your middle name?
Sue.
Denny Sue.
Cool.
Very good.
With that name, how'd you end up in California?
Well, I was born in the Sao.
Ah, okay.
Well, that's my northeastern liberal bias coming out there.
No, just Southern California, that's all.
I'm California homebred.
Well, good.
Well, I appreciate your waiting.
I know you're in hole for a while, and I thank you so much.
Well, you're welcome, Rush, anytime.
Have a great one, Denny.
Thank you.
All right, by popular demand, ladies and gentlemen, the email circuit's melting here.
Rush played again.
I got to hear it again.
It may be the best ever.
Here we go.
This is Paul Shanklin as Al Sharpton about Barack Obama.
Poor Al.
He gets off the lyric line.
The chorus still sings.
Al keeps, he starts ranting.
Finally, the chorus gives up.
Walking around money, hard cash, collection plate.
Paul Shanklin.
And of course, this is a result of the.
You don't want to talk about a feud.
We got a feud going here between Reverend L. Sharpton and Obama.
Obama's out there stealing the thunder of the civil rights leadership who has made all these sacrifices in Obama, not down for the struggle.
Back to close it out here in just a second.
New Orleans governor Kathleen Blanco says she's not going to run for re-election.
The New Orleans Times Pickey Young had the story yesterday.
Said the decision comes amid low polls, party pressure.
Governor makes an announcement at an evening broadcast.
Who says Hurricane Katrina was all bad?
No, I'm just kidding about that, folks.
But look, I thought this is Bush's problem.
I thought Hurricane Katrina was Bush's problem.
How can the people of North Carolina, Louisiana have negative opinions of Governor Blanco when it was Bush's problem.
New York Times Company, February revenue down 3.6 from a year ago.
Yeah, all fine and nandy, but just how much was it down last year and the year before that?
This is a newspaper company in trouble.
Have a great Wednesday, folks.
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