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April 18, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 18, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Limbaugh Time as America's real anchorman, a program here that meets and surpasses all audience expectations every day.
Our phone number, if you want to join us, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at eibnet.com.
All right, we're running a poll.
The poll is up and running, and you can participate in it now at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
The Reverend Jackson, the Reverend Sharpton, said last week during the IMUS flap that MSNBC, which is owned by NBC, just too white.
It's all white all night.
Forget the rest of the phrase.
And they're right.
I mean, you have to agree with them.
And these guys at MSNBC were the first to throw Imus overboard, talking about how unfortunate it was he used all this racial language all the time, all this racism and stuff, and demanding more equity for minorities out there.
And of course, when you look at the primetime lineup at MSNBC, you see nothing but white, And so these people are out there.
They're good liberals, and they're leaders.
They're among the smartest among us.
They are the smartest among us.
And they have the, they're so right that they tell us how to live, tell everybody else in the country how to live, what they're doing wrong, what they need to correct and so forth.
And so we thought that the only logical thing would be for one or two of those people who host primetime shows on MSNBC to resign out of the goodness of their hearts to show leadership, to illustrate for the rest of the world how they are willing to sacrifice their own careers or jobs in order that minorities might have a fair shake in major media.
So we're running a poll, which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host.
The choices are Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, and Keith Olbermann.
And you can go there and vote now, and the vote tally is instant after you register your vote.
We will, of course, keep the poll open and running until tomorrow's program, at which time we will announce the results.
Now, this comes in conjunction with the opening today of the Reverend Sharpton's National Action.
What is it?
National Network.
National Action Network Convention, four-day convention.
All of the 08 Democrat presidential candidates will show up to address the assembled gathering at the National Action Network Convention.
The Reverend Sharpton is going to target rap lingo, rap lyrics.
Oh!
Got to tell you something.
Snerdley and I were just talking during the break.
And we're in there watching one of the cable nets, and they're printing some of the stuff that the shooter at Virginia Tech wrote.
And I looked at the screen and I said, yeah, this guy was just, he was clearly out of it.
And Snerdley looked at me and said, we are making hasty judgments.
And we are coming to a conclusion that may not be fair to the shooter.
Of course, our mouth fell open.
I said, what are you talking about, Bo?
This guy was clearly not right.
He said, well, if you just look at what this guy wrote, I defy you if somebody gave you a raw screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, such as the Kill Bill Parts 1 and Part 2 movies, or if somebody gave you the raw screenplay to Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone, would you conclude they're insane?
Would you conclude they've got a screw loose?
I mean, this guy's no different than some of the trash coming out of Hollywood already.
And I had to concede, I had to concede it's a pretty good point, although neither Quentin Tarantino nor Oliver Stone or any of their associates have gone on shooting sprees.
But, well, you never say if this guy, he was in the wrong place, he should have been in Hollywood.
I don't know.
It was an interesting point that I thought Mr. Snerdley made.
I wanted to pass it on to you.
Now, as you know, we support Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson here in their quest to detoxify some of the airwaves that are out there.
Some of it's pure rubbish.
One of those places is MSNBC, and there's certainly a shortage of minority talent and voices in primetime at MSNBC.
Throughout most of the busy broadcast day, in fact, MSNBC.
And with this new association we have, that Reverend Sharpton and Jackson, they got this new firm called the Justice Brothers.
I want to play all three commercials that we are running for the Justice Brothers in order.
Well, the first one they gave us, the second one, they got a new one.
It did start this week.
Here the three are.
All right, that's the first spot.
By the way, I need to tell you about the poll we're running.
You vote one time.
You get one vote.
But to see the vote continue to tally, just refresh the browser.
Just hit reload on your browser and the vote tally will be updated in terms of which MSNBC host is leading in terms of who you think should resign in order to make room for a minority in prime time at MSNBC.
Here's number two, the second commercial from the Justice Brothers.
All right, that's the second commercial from our new client, the Justice Brothers.
And here's the spot.
We just got this yesterday to join the rotation today.
Interesting concept.
Go ahead and buy credits, insurance credits from the Justice Brothers, and they'll back you up if you happen to screw up on radio or TV.
As I said, the National Action Network, Reverend Sharpton, is, I'll tell you what, said this last week.
He's aiming at rap music and the lyrics.
That's the focal point of one of the focal points of one of the sessions at his National Action Network conference.
And I'll tell you what, the people he's aiming for are a little upset about this.
You know, the MTVs, the record companies and so forth, even some of the rappers, they don't dig what's happening here.
They think what they do is entirely different than when somebody else uses their terminology.
And what they have to understand, you know, Reverend Sharpton is a brilliant man.
And just by making this move, whether he achieves anything or not in the area of rap music, he will have anointed himself with some credibility, some street cred, as they say, for the next real perpetrators or perpetrator that he targets, the next radio or television person.
He'll be able to say, hey, look, we're not targeting radio guys.
We're going everywhere we find it.
We even went after the rap music people.
So at any rate, and I'm sure the eight Democrat, or the 08 Democrat presidential candidates, all of whom are attending Reverend Sharpton's National Action Network Convention, will get their digs in on this as well.
But the point is the rap guys are going to be in the crosshairs for a while during this convention.
And it'll be interesting to gauge their reaction to Reverend Sharpton and the Justice Brothers as opposed to others and the way they react.
Once again, our poll question at www.rushlimbaugh.com, which MSNBC anchor, we do this in solidarity with Reverend Sharpton and Jackson, who've made a correct observation about the lack of minority talent hosting primetime programs on MSNBC.
And we believe that these good liberals at MSNBC should show leadership and resign, one or two of them to make way for a minority.
Show the rest of us how this is done.
So, and you can vote which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, or Keith Olberman.
www.rushlimbaugh.com to make your vote.
And after you voted, you get one vote, but just reload the browser and you'll see how the vote is going.
Be right back.
And welcome back, Rushlinbaugh Talent on lawn from God.
Back to the Fawns.
This is David from Parts Unknown in Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello, Rush.
This is a privilege.
Thank you, sir.
I think you hit the nail on the head again with implying that political correctness is causing paralysis to action.
I teach, and we've noticed recently that students do not participate in class.
And this is at a bunch of colleges.
And we actually think that perhaps political correctness has gotten them in a situation that any time they open their mouth, they're afraid they're going to get dumped on.
Or they're going to offend somebody.
Or they're going to make somebody mad, and that's going to lead to them getting dumped on.
That's right.
And I think it is a very good idea that you hit that nail on the head.
I think you're right on target.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
In case you missed this, about an hour and a half ago, I posited a theory that rather than ban guns, we need to ban political correctness.
We just need to get rid of it.
It leads to paralysis.
It leads to fear.
And it leads to people not being who they are.
Give me a couple examples of it.
And these are true stories.
London Sunday Times headline, Don't Stare at Muslims says advice to schools.
Pupils and teachers have been told by an official body not to stare at Muslims for fear of causing offense.
A document intended to educate against religious intolerance and sectarianism urges teachers to make this quote make pupils aware of the various forms of Islamophobia, i.e. stares, verbal abuse, physical abuse.
Osama Said, a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, accused officials of going too far.
Look, there are far more serious elements of Islamophobia.
People look at all sorts of things.
That can just be a glance.
A glance and a stare are two different things.
Glances happen naturally when all sorts of things catch your eye, whereas a stare is probably gawking at something.
Personally, I've not encountered much of a problem with people staring.
I don't know how you would legislate for that.
That's not going to stop them.
I mean, good for him for speaking out, but don't stare.
This is not going to be stopped.
I'm just telling you that the pupils and teachers, they will continue to be told don't stare at Muslims.
That might incite them.
Then try this from, this was Tuesday's same paper, a different paper.
This is the UK Telegraph.
Don't stare at the apes.
Zoo tells visitors.
Most people visit the zoos to see the animals, but visitors to Antwerp Zoo in Belgium are being told not to look at the apes.
Now, here's why.
Visitors are now confronted with signs telling them that making prolonged eye contact with the apes leaves the apes sad and withdrawn.
Zoo staff reckons staring can result in the creatures becoming less sociable.
Multiculturalists usually claim to be respecting people from different cultures while in fact treating them with a decided lack of respect.
That's the conclusion of James Taranto at bestoftheweb.com.
So two different days, two different UK newspapers, don't stare at Muslims.
That's Islamophobia.
And don't stare at the apes in the zoo because the apes will become sad and withdrawn.
Well, I don't know if they're crying out.
How do you know if they're crying out for attention?
Yeah, just wink at them.
If you want to have eye contact with the apes, just wink at them.
Why stop with the apes?
Don't wink.
Don't stare at the tigers.
Don't stare at the lions.
Don't stare at.
I mean, you could go even further.
Don't stare at your own pet.
It might cause your own pet to become sad and withdrawn.
Might give your own pet an inferiority complex.
These are the outgrowths of political correctness.
I know it sounds funny, and it is, but these people are dead serious.
You know, there is insanity all over the place, and some of it is located in positions of power and authority all over our societies, the Western democracies.
Clyde and Boise, Idaho, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello there.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
You bet.
Listen, I've been listening to you, and I heard you talk about all the people that knew about this nut case in Virginia, and nobody did anything.
And I want to know if you'd have been one of those people that knew about him exactly directly.
What would you have done?
What could have been done ahead of time?
You're talking about the Virginia Tech situation?
Yes.
Well, this is a question actually for the people in positions of authority there.
And they did do certain things.
They put him on antidepressants, and they did send him.
He went to a mental institution in 2005.
But none of that apparently had any impact or had any effect.
But I know what you're getting at.
You're getting at, and it's a valid point.
Was there really any way to stop these things?
My only point in mentioning this is that don't forget the context.
Everybody's saying we've got to ban the guns.
We've got to get the guns out of it.
I'm telling you, it's all kinds of information long before the guy started pulling the trigger that something wasn't right with him.
And so banning the guns, banning, that's not the solution to this at all.
It would have had no impact whatsoever.
In fact, they already have banned guns on that campus.
But this guy was able to go out and get one because the guy that sold him the gun didn't know anything about him.
The people at the school knew that something wasn't right about this guy.
And I don't know what you do other than take him out of school and institutionalize him.
His parents felt he was suicidal.
There were all kinds of warning signs.
What is your ultimate point with this?
Have I touched on it or missed it?
The ultimate point is, I've heard other talk shows say that people were remiss in not doing anything.
And I've been associated with the courts enough to know that we can't arrest a guy because someday he's going to kill somebody.
No, we're not talking about it.
There's not a lot we can do about people like that.
We're not talking about, nobody's talking about arresting him.
We're doing this in the context of either sequestering him or getting him some serious help.
And the talk of paralysis enters the fray, enters the picture when we start introducing the notion of political correctness.
Well, we don't want to be critical because it might hurt his feelings.
It might set him off.
Yeah, I understand that.
Okay.
I just wanted to know if you had a solution.
I mean, if I'd have been there and knew this guy, there's not much I could do either.
So I hear all the criticism about why did everybody let this go on?
Well, there's not a whole lot in society that can be done.
Hmm.
We got the ACLU and attorneys, and we got the Constitution, and we can't just jump in and do something involuntarily on these people.
Well, you know what?
You're inadvertently making the case for what people here are saying because you're going to have people like the ACLU come along if the school had tried to do anything to sequester the kid until he could have been properly analyzed and treated and so forth.
He might have been able to get some ACLU lawyers.
I don't know.
That's speculation, too.
But you're illustrating the problem.
At the same time, you're making a point.
I mean, I have people email me today.
Well, if we don't get rid of the guns, we're just going to have an okay corral every day.
We don't have an okay corral in this country.
We got all kinds of guns out there, video games, everything else.
Thanks, Clyde.
We'll be back.
Hi, we're back.
The poll continues.
www.rushlimbaugh.com.
Which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host?
Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, or Keith Olbermann, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, all right.
All right, the last caller.
The last caller.
The question is actually the point.
We said, well, what would you do?
What would you do?
There's nothing that can be done, he said.
That's the whole point.
We need tort reform.
We need ACLU reform.
We need political correctness reform.
Now, the question is this: why can't somebody who is not right, as demonstrated an imbalanced nutcase as this shooter was, why can't he be expelled from campus?
Now, they didn't do it.
If you think he can be expelled from camp, he didn't do it.
Political, well, all right.
All right, well, they can do it.
Look at the Duke guys, they expelled the Duke guys from it.
Can be done.
Political correctness, though.
That's the whole point.
You can get rid of the Duke guy.
They're not a minority.
They were accused of a template crime.
Of course, you get rid of it.
You know, in fact, the lynch mob at that university, Thomas Sowell has a great column today.
The lynch mob, the professors, the administration at Duke University.
Now, many of them are trying to say, we never tried to railroad those boys.
We never.
It's one thing to be a member of a lynch mob, and you don't admit it when the lynch mob is proved wrong.
But I'll tell you what, the administration on that campus and some of those professors, the 88 that signed that letter, they're a disgrace.
They are a disgrace.
But the whole point of there's nothing can be done.
What would you do?
Look at here's the way to look at this.
Why can't the media look for solutions to this problem?
Why can't we get nutcases off campus?
Why can't Congress, led by Diane Feinstein, get serious about this?
I want to get serious about gun control again.
That's nothing but a political agenda for them.
Solving the problem is nothing they're interested in.
You know, to expend all this energy and attention on guns, we can't even remove a known nutcase from a college campus.
That's crazy, too.
So we're compounding craziness.
And the problem is the ACLU, not the NRA.
The NRA is being portrayed as the problem here.
These gun owners in Virginia.
No, the ACLU and the agents of political correctness are the problem.
Look, you can't fix a problem until you're honest about what the problem is, and nobody's being honest about what the problem is here.
At least not out there on the drive-by media and the Democrat Party.
They got their political agenda fully revved up, and that's what they're focusing on.
This guy, the shooter, was a no-nut by professors, by students, by the law enforcement of that community.
People in his former schools and neighborhoods, they had to know it too.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying that this could have been prevented, but it is amazing that people come forward, say in so many words they knew he was a nut, and it's just left there.
Just left there.
What?
Oh, people say Tucker Carlson is a little note here from Kit HR.
Tucker Carlson's only at 3% in our poll of which MSNBC anchor needs to resign to make room for a minority host.
The question is, does anybody know who he is?
It's true that his program airs at 6 o'clock, and I don't think they repeat it in prime.
That could be.
But it's too late to change it now.
He's on the list.
It's time for the global warming update.
Been saving a lot of stuff up here, folks, for the last four or five days.
That's our buddy Paul Shanklin as Al Gore and Ball of Fire.
Here we go with our global warming stack.
Headline Prius cannot pass Georgia emissions test.
I love this stuff.
Eco-conscious drivers in Georgia are finding out that the grass isn't necessarily greener on their side of the fence.
2000 is the first year drivers of the 2004 Prius are required to get their cars tested for emissions.
You'd think that the Prius, the hybrid, would have no problems breezing through the exam.
But as CNN reported, no matter how many times Georgia drivers try to test one, they all fail.
It's actually not that they fail.
It's more like the Prius refuses to take the test.
When the Prius is set to idle at 2,500 RPM on the tester, it does what it's supposed to do.
It shuts off the engine to save fuel.
Georgia's pre-hybrid equipment issues a failing grade because of an incomplete test.
So, you know, we got people like Laurie David and Cheryl Crowe and all these other people that, you know, they post their writings at the Huffing and Puffington Post, and they're out there trying to sell everybody on the virtue of the Prius.
The Prius is so smart it can't even allow it, won't even allow itself to be tested.
So it's failing emissions test.
This is a story from April 14th.
More than two dozen demonstrators braved cold, wet weather Saturday in Reno to attend a rally designed to draw attention to global warming.
The event was cut short by heavy rain and sleet, said organizer Lisa Stiller of the Northern Nevada Coalition for Climate Change.
It's kind of disappointing.
The weather kept people away, she said, but we still think climate change is something people should talk about.
The storm also, some of the, you can't make this up.
Listen to this.
The storm prevented the use of solar ovens for a potluck picnic, Stiller said, and caused the planned two-hour demonstration to break up after one hour.
Cold, wind, and sleet cancels global warming rally and prevented the use of solar ovens for a potluck picnic.
Well, you know, you're going to have cold and rainy weather and you're going to have sleet.
And if your solar oven won't work in those conditions, you may starve unless you have conventional cooking facilities inside your house.
Hey, better news from across the pond.
A group of British parents in New Forest, England are threatening legal action if soon-to-be Dr. Al Gore's schlachumentary and inconvenient truth is aired in their scruples.
This was in Tuesday's Telegraph.
Parents who claim an award-winning film on climate change is inaccurate and politically motivated are threatening a legal challenge over the government's decision to send it to every secondary school.
U.K. government has sent this movie to every secondary school, demanding that the students see it.
The film by Al Gore, as you know, won an Oscar.
The education secretary, Alan Johnson, says he wants teachers to use it to stimulate children into discussing climate change and global.
That's BS.
They want them to watch this to become indoctrinated to it.
A group of parents in New Forest, though, say the circulation of the film by the government amounts to indoctrination, political indoctrination, and that it's in breach of the Education Act of 2002.
Derek Tripp, their spokesman, has urged Alan Johnson to stop the film being sent out.
He said the film goes well beyond the consensus view and is not, therefore, a suitable material to present to children who need to be given clear and balanced, factually accurate information.
When the hell has that been going on in any public school system?
Fair, balanced, accurate information.
That's one of the problems.
New York City, according to AP, produces nearly 1% of America's greenhouse gas emissions.
That's an amount that puts it on par with Ireland or Portugal.
New York City polluting more than two countries.
The study released Tuesday was ordered by Mayor Bloomberg to assess the city's process in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
The study found that the buildings, the subways, buses, cars, and decomposition of waste in New York produced a net emission of 58.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gas in 2005.
The report said the city's emissions are currently as much as those of Ireland or Portugal.
They're not calculating here exhales of the citizens, which also is carbon dioxide.
From Reuters, scientists in the Netherlands have discovered a fungus in elephant dung that will help them break down fibers and wood into biofuel.
Bioethanol firms currently extract sugars from crops like grains and sugar beets.
Some of them are developing technologies to extract energy from fiber like wheat bran, straw, or wood.
Scientists working at the Delft University of Technology and a firm called Bird Engineering have found a fungus in elephant dung that helped them produce a yeast which can efficiently ferment wood sugars.
We really see this as a technological breakthrough, said Mark Wohlberg from Royal Nadalco, a Dutch alcohol maker.
Converting wood into ethanol will take more time, however.
Well, keep working out there on the elephant dung.
It's where the environmentalist wackos begin.
From the CybercastNewsService.com ahead of Earth Day on Sunday.
That's why Earth Day is Sunday, April 22nd.
Well, that's the date.
It is Sunday.
An advocacy group has warned that the U.S. is ignoring the most crucial factor in reducing global warming, and that's population control.
Human population growth is the paramount environmental issue, said Rick Oberlink, a spokesman for Californians for population stabilization.
Global warming, a very serious problem.
It's a subset of the overpopulation problem.
If we had half as many people, we wouldn't have much of a climatic warming problem.
Okay, so commit suicide.
You're telling us we got too many people?
Show us how to fix the problem, you people.
Back to the failed and stupid policies since have been disproved of Paul Ehrlich from the San Francisco Chronicle.
A new study warns of the health risks from ethanol.
It could end up creating a worse health hazard than gasoline.
L.A. would be hardest hit because ethanol creates more ozone than gasoline does, i.e. ethanol could end up polluting more than gasoline does.
Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a positively good result of climate change, according to new research released yesterday.
The study to be published today in Geophysical Research Letters found that climate model simulations show a robust increase in wind shear in the tropical Atlantic during the 21st century from global warming.
Now, the effect of global warming on wind shear is similar to the impact of El Niño.
Now, what's interesting to me, these guys are supposedly highly reputed that issued the study, but it was just two years ago after Katrina that global warming was going to cause massive hurricanes, big ones, larger than ever, longer hurricane season.
It's going to destroy everything out there because of sea surface temperatures rising.
Now, now these people are out there telling us, a couple of them are, that, no, no, no, no, global warming is going to cause wind shear.
You rip the tops off those hurricanes, they can't possibly form.
The point of all this, folks, all these stories, if you believe any of them, you are a nutcase and you need to be expelled from wherever you are because every day the stories get more ridiculous and they change.
There's no consistency to them and yet they tell us there's a consensus of the scientists.
There's no such thing as a consensus.
These stories illustrate that among many other things.
I'm long.
Got to take a break back after this.
I've been checking the emails here during the break, and we're getting some questions on our poll at www.rushlimbaugh.com.
Again, the poll question, which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, Keith Olbermann.
One question, can you be an illegal alien and vote in our poll?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
This is open to anybody.
This is on the free side of the website, so you can be an illegal alien and vote.
Another question, can you be an ex-felon and vote?
Yes, you can.
You can be a current felon and vote.
You know, the governor of Florida, a well-known Republican, is opening up to felons.
Mrs. Clinton wants the felon vote for the ex-felon vote for Democrats.
So yes.
Illegal alien, felon, ex-felons, all allowed to vote in our poll.
And somebody said, do you have a, you're going to have paper ballots to back up or paper trail to back up?
No, we don't, folks.
There will be no, there's no paper backup.
This is all being done electronically by you, and our tabulation is being done electronically.
So we might, you know, they might demand recounts on this.
We'll be very confident of our system here, and so we'll demand recounts.
We'll be glad to engage them in that.
James in Clearwater, Florida.
We've got about a minute and a half here, but I wanted to get to you.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
Appreciate taking the call.
I was just making a comment on the IMES situation that it seems hypocritical from the media that they're bashing him.
And you were unfortunately released from ESPN way back in the early 2000s.
The crew from inside the NFL, HBO, got on the bandwagon and bashed you for supposedly being racist when you were just making comment on Donovan McNabb's.
Make a comment on the media.
Not McNabb.
I made a comment on the media, not McNabb.
Right.
They misstrued it as you making a comment on the bottom.
Look at those guys are all.
Let me tell you what the, you know, what the real problem here was?
The real problem was, and I've had a couple people who are big-time sportscasters on the networks tell me this.
They were laying in wait for you, Rush.
They were just offended to no end that you were coming into their world, the world of sports.
And they were going to get you somehow.
They were going to try to get you no matter what, because they resented the fact that you were entering sports and you're not a sports guy and you haven't paid your dues and you're not a journalist and all that.
And what you said you saw happen on HBO's inside the NFL is a classic example.
HBO is a very liberal-oriented network anyway.
Inside the NFL's got its share of liberal producers and so forth, liberal host who's obsessed with race, Bob Costas.
And then, of course, they've got that baby Nirwanda Sykes, you know, who's this black comedian.
She can run around and say whatever she wants like a rapper.
And of course, no, because they just laugh at that, but she's protected because she is a minority.
And therefore, like all minorities, they can say what they want because they don't have the power to be racists or bigots or what have you.
All right, folks, I got to leave.
I'm going to go out and play golf at a couple of whacked-out, insane golf balls and make sure I expel them from my bag.
We will see you tomorrow.
Have a great Wednesday.
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