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April 23, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, a lesser person, a person of uh less stature and uh weaker constitution than I would have just five minutes ago been devastated and destroyed.
But not I. Greetings, folks, great to have you back.
Al Rushball, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling maha rushy.
Here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number, Rush at EIB net.com.
So two weekends ago, about eight or nine days ago, as you know, I had, and I've been on this diet since February 14th, and I've lost uh well, up till last uh uh what was it last well ten days ago I was down 40 pounds and and and uh then I went off the diet because at this weekend bash had a bunch of house guests and big party on Saturday.
Didn't go off it too bad, but I went off of it.
And what got right back on it on Monday when when when everybody left.
And from Monday, so week ago today, I have lost eight pounds.
I'm up to 48 pounds.
So I came in here today and I'm telling everybody about this.
And uh uh, and the last time they saw me was on Friday.
So uh Brian and Dawnson says, Oh, during the newsbreak.
Oh, so you've you think you've lost more weight since Friday, huh?
And I looked at them and I said, I know I have.
I've lost it from the omentum.
And they just rolled their eyes and shook their heads, and they and I walked into Snerdley, and Snerdley had on some head on Fox and there's some story of tornado somewhere, and the judge was named Rowdy Rhodes.
I said, gotta be Texas, right?
For proving that I'm biased against Texas, uh, or at least prejudice.
But I'm just gonna tell you something, folks.
I have lost eight pounds in a week, and my staff poo-pooing it, making fun of me.
A lesser person would have said, What's the point?
And I would have gone in there and I'd have gotten a hot dog or something, hell with it.
What's the point if nobody's gonna notice?
But I'm not doing it for the notice of others.
I'm doing it for purely personal reasons.
And I want this to be a lesson to you.
Nobody wants you to succeed when you do much of anything.
Uh I mean, what a lobe.
And I just read the Marietta Act.
You've got to be careful how you treat people.
You could have, if I were a lesser person, you could have destroyed my confidence, you could have blown my motivation and inspiration all to hell.
You're sitting in there laughing at me because I come in here and tell you I've lost eight pounds in a week after having gone off the diet and gone back on it.
And they're still laughing.
Now they're near laughing as a as them.
I don't play the ball game that way, Mr. But the broadcast engineer.
So you can just fire them.
That's not how I run the office.
It's not how I run the office.
Making fun of me because eight pounds in eight days after cheating on the diet?
In a minor, not cheating, I just went off of it.
All but fully intending to go back to it.
How do you spell jealous?
You know, if I want to start telling these people what all what other things you people don't know in there, like which president was in a wheelchair, I'll do that if it takes a getting even.
They never heard of the Great Society, and that's a great lesson for me, too.
They're relatively young people in there, and they never heard of the Great Society.
And that's when Head Start started.
We were talking about that in the previous hour.
Great Society is the modern welfare state.
Other than Social Security.
And I don't give me any calls from people who want to argue with me about.
All right, let's get on, uh, folks.
Um we we've we've got our we've got our global warming.
We've got so much global warming news, have to do two or three different chapters today, maybe only get to one of them, but we got to start with Cheryl Claw Crow, whatever name is.
And uh Lori David of White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday night.
Here's Paul Shanklin as Al Gore.
It's the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program, and this is a global warming update featuring the antics of Cheryl Crow and Laurie David.
Let it rip one more time.
Al Gore.
That's a takeoff on Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
That's uh Paul Shanklin as Al Gore and Ball of Fire Global Warming Update.
EIB Network Saturday night, White House Correspondents Denter, Carl Rove sitting near the Dais in a table with executives from the New York Times and reporters.
They invited Carl Rove as their guest.
This kind of thing.
I never go to this thing anymore because it's phony anyway.
Actually, I'm kind of glad this happened, folks, because it illustrated the true tensions that exist here in this uh in this room.
The White House Correspondent Standers held at the at the Washington Hilton every week, every year.
It's got 3,000 people that show up there, and they hate each other.
The media hates the president.
We all know that.
They hate Rove, but yet it's, you know, politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And so this is their Academy Awards, essentially.
And they all go make nice for a night, or at least they try to.
But the this this year they were unable to pull it off.
Uh because they had a couple of amateurs in there, Cheryl Crow and Lori David, who made a beeline for Rove's table, which uh was numbered 92.
Uh and uh uh uh Lori David said, I am floored by what I just experienced with Carl Rove.
I went over to him, I said, I urge you to take a new look at global warming.
He went zero to a hundred with me.
I've never had anybody be so rude.
Rove's version was she came over to insult me and she succeeded.
Now, who are we gonna believe here?
We're gonna believe that Rove felt he was insulted or that Lori David was just going over there to be nice, telling him he's gotta look at this in a more serious way.
Uh things got so hot that Cheryl Crow had to bulge in uh to defuse the situation, and she got into it with Rove herself.
You work for me, she told Rove.
Uh no was his response.
I work for the American people, and they came back with, we are the American people.
We have a couple of audio sound bites here.
This is from the Today Show, Lester Holt, a co-host uh Sunday morning today show talking to Cheryl Crow and Lori David.
He said, last night you had a unique opportunity.
You met with Carl Rove, you had a chance to really try and talk to him about global warming.
Understand that didn't go so well.
We were so excited.
I mean, I have never, all these years I've been working on this issue, I had an opportunity to talk to someone directly in the administration.
I mean, this was exciting for us, and we walked over to engage him.
I mean, the first thing I said is I would I I urge you to maybe take another look at what's happening with global warming.
And um, he immediately got kind of, you know, rough and hostile with us, and uh it kind of went downhill from there.
So um it was really just an attempt to engage him to talk directly to the administration, say, look, we have to do something about this.
And he um he he wasn't interested really in talking to us.
Why should he be?
This is the kind of stuff that nobody thinks is going to happen that night on this cut.
Yeah, she's Lori David.
You've got it.
Talk to me, Mr. Rove.
I am Lori David.
By the way, I understand she's very sensitive to criticism.
Um which somebody pass on to her.
Lori, when you enter the political arena, and and uh that's what global warming is, that it's a political issue, as evidenced by the fact you went up to Carl Rove, the White House chief advisor to the president to talk about it, but never, it's a political issue.
When you enter the political arena, you're gonna get criticism from people who don't agree with your side.
Well, Cheryl Crow um jumped in at that point after after Lori David said he wasn't really interested really in talking to us.
It's very disappointing, because really honestly, this is going to be the most important issue of our lifetime.
We need to stop arguing about it.
The science is already out there, and we need to move forward.
It's irresponsible at this point not to be addressing this because we have kids out here who are going to be leading this country, and we need to really be addressing this.
What do you mean we are addressing it?
We've been addressing it for all my broadcast career.
Earth Day, this, Earth Day, that, global warming here.
We've been addressing this to the point that people are fed up with it.
We for years people have been told, don't drive that, don't turn that on, Cheryl.
What do you mean we've got to address it?
Everybody's getting their their dibs in on this, whatever they want to say.
But notice she says we need to stop arguing about it.
The science is already.
It is not out there, Cheryl.
You're being closed-minded on this.
You're not open to any wh why why why shouldn't Rove go to your table and sit down and talk to you about how you're wrong about this?
Where does this presumption of arrogant condescension come from?
It comes from being a liberal.
And the idea that the science is already out there, we need to stop arguing.
Quintessential liberal.
There is no science, there's consensus.
And when you have consensus, you can't have science.
Somebody needs to tell these two women this.
When you have a huge number of scientists disagree with this, you cannot have science.
This is politics, this is religion.
And I have more to say about that here in just a second.
But also liberal, there's no debate.
We're not going to have debate on this.
We're not going to shut it down.
There's no debate on this.
And she admits it.
So Holt says, well, uh, Lori, let me ask you.
It's been almost 40 years, as we said, since Earth Day was conceived.
Uh Why does it seem like only now in the last year or two that we have suddenly really started talking about global warming in a big way in this?
Lester God, this is so frustrating.
We've been talking about it since 1979.
Go look at the almost uttered a bomb word there.
The covers of Newsweek and uh whatever was Time magazine in 1979 when everybody thought it was global cooling.
What do you mean?
Go look at Paul Ehrlich's population bomb.
What do you mean the last two years?
We have been inundated with this for the last 30 years.
Anyway, here's Lori David's answer.
The weather is unfortunately cooperating with this issue.
I mean, every I mean, right now on your news today, another severe weather um event.
And this is happening every single day in global warming is extreme weather in both directions.
And I think finally the American people are starting to understand that.
I mean, they've been grossly misinformed on this issue for a long time.
So I think finally people are starting to understand what's happening and that humans are causing it.
It's happening now, but we can solve it.
So every severe weather event, exactly as I have said, whatever, every severe weather event is new, and it's the result of global warming.
There isn't a severe weather event that happened this weekend or last week that has not happened before countless millions of times.
There's not one.
The reason the American people are starting to quote unquote understand this because the little kids are being propagandized with Al Gore's stupid movie in schools.
And after 30 years of being browbeat with this stuff, you're obviously going to make some converts.
30 years.
And of course, you've all heard about Cheryl Crow saying we need to get down here to just uh uh one square of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.
We can make it work, she said we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except of course on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.
What you want to describe the difference here between a regular restroom visit and a pesky one?
One square of toilet paper, these people think that they are in the mainstream and that they are the advanced thinkers among them.
Let me Cheryl, let me just warn you about something.
If you actually try this, you actually go out and use one square or even just three for every pesky bathroom visit.
The only thing you're going to be attracting in the next couple days is flies.
So what do they want us to do?
They want us to ban gas.
They want to ban light bulbs.
They want to ban charcoal lighter fluid.
They want to ban smoking.
They want to ban nuclear energy.
They want to ban trans fat.
They want to ban Walmart.
They want to ban lights at night.
They want to ban air conditioning during the day.
They want to ban fire on a cold night.
They want to ban killing animals for food.
Now they want to ban toilet paper.
Ban, ban, ban, ban everything.
Get rid of everything.
We humans, why don't we ban ourselves?
Let's just commit a mass worldwide suicide, Lori.
And Cheryl.
And one other thing about this before we go to the break.
This is a religion to these people, as you can tell.
What is happening is, and we've been through this constantly over and over and over again.
Uh in my theory on how this is just a religion.
They just have a different god, the gods of the planet.
It's got every element, it's got the Garden of Eden, it's got sand, it's got salvation, it's got guilt, it's got higher taxes, got everything that's got tithing, it's got all these things in it.
And can you imagine if a famous conservative Christian publicly voiced their religious practices and and and told every American they had to adopt them right now, or we're going to destroy the planet because the last days are coming, it's right there in Revelation.
Can you imagine if any Christian minister went out there and taught and talked about the particularly the apocalypse as it is in Revelation?
On a daily basis with the media hype, can you imagine that conservative would be shouted out of the mainstream?
Actually, the uh conservative has been shouted out of the mainstream.
But imagine If a Christian talked about Christianity the way these people are talking about their religion and said there's no argument and there's no debate and you're going to hell unless you do what I say.
Can you imagine the outcry?
I will wait for the next post in response to me by these two lovely women, Cheryl Crow and Lori David, where they blog at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Because that's where they respond to me.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
I got an idea for Sheryl Crow.
This toilet paper business.
Replace toilet paper with the New York Times.
And use as much of it as you want.
Get as many copies every day, fill it up.
Lori David on your G5, which is a large corporate jet that'll fly New York to Tokyo with one giant carbon footprint without stopping for fuel.
Do the same thing.
And his take on these people is they can't believe how lucky they've gotten, so all of this is their is their own soul purging.
This is how they they want to be known for who they are rather than the characters they play or the performances they want to be known for something other than an actor, actress, producer, or what have you.
So they they glom onto these leftist issues.
And of course, all this is true unless they don't get the A table at the charity dinner, and then they stay home.
Gotta get the A table at the charity dinner where all the flashbulbs are.
And if that doesn't happen, then they stay home and they wallow in their misery that they don't matter and that they don't care and that they're not loved and all this sort of stuff.
Now, what are the toilet paper manufacturers going to do here?
Let's, you know, she's serious, folks.
We sit here, we laugh at it, and it is uproariously funny.
But let's stop and think of the let's let's take this, you know, down the path.
Let's say that some idiot actually in Congress proposes the law that the toilet paper, you can only use one square per visit, maybe two or three on those pesky visits, as Cheryl Crow says.
And let's not even think about who's going to enforce it.
Uh let's let's go further than that.
What would the toilet paper manufacturers do?
You think they're just going to sit here and be forced to go out of business like the buggy whip industry?
You think you think Sharman's gonna sit there and put up with this?
Or whoever else makes this stuff.
And of course not.
You know what they would do?
They would still make toilet paper with one square, but the perforations would be two feet apart.
There are countless ways around this kind of this this naivety.
Or maybe, you know, each square would end up becoming a rectangle at three feet apart.
Each perf would be three feet from the next perf.
So when you rip off a square, you're ripping off three feet.
And that would be the really good stuff.
That that would be the black market toilet paper, really good stuff.
Uh, you know, like like well, it just it just would be.
But what'll happen, entrepreneurs in a toilet paper business will go out there, they'll figure out the loopholes, no pun intended.
They'll figure out the loopholes and they'll exploit them to meet the needs of people.
The needs of people are what drive all this, not a bunch of religious leftist zealots trying to force a lifestyle they won't even live on all the rest of us.
Your phone calls are next, folks.
Be patient.
You're coming up right after this.
All right, let's cut to the chase on this toilet paper business, shall we?
The fact of the matter is that women we're talking about here today, Cheryl Crow and Lori David, no doubt use a bidet.
Well, that's fine.
If you're a bidet, you can just dry off with a towel, and that's it.
You have to use any toilet paper if you have a bidet.
Well, not on a bus tour, that's true.
There's no bidet on the bus.
Well, you never know.
She may be demanding one and uh that be installed in the venues where she's going to play.
You never know.
These rock stars demand all kinds of stuff.
But not everybody has a bidet, and they're not out there suggesting everybody get a bidet, because that's just another toilet essentially Using more water.
So they're advocating, you think these women are actually going to use one square of toilet paper, folks?
I'll make this deal.
I make this pledge right now on the EIB network.
If it can be proven.
And uh I mean, I'm gonna have to see it.
Maybe I don't want to see it.
But you'll know what I mean.
If if it can be proven that Al Gore will only use one sheet of toilet paper, then I too will only use one sheet of toilet paper.
As I say, I don't I I I'm gonna have to have proof.
I have to see that, maybe not see it, but you know what I mean.
And of course, when Cheryl Crow talks about these pesky visits now, who's she talking about?
Well, what are these pesky visits to the bathroom?
Well, we all know, but two or three fine.
If it can be shown, if Rosie O'Donnell will only use one square of toilet paper, then I'll join this club.
Because the dirty little secret is I have a bidet.
I have two.
I've never yet figured out how to use the stupid thing, but I've got two of them.
They were put in when I had no choice in the matter.
Normal Illinois, Chris, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rosh.
I'm fine, thank you.
Nice to have you with us.
I'll tell you, you are the Mahay.
I you helped me develop so many political arguments for my the leftist friends, and you could help me lose weight and probably help my golf swing.
I could do that now.
I think I probably could.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Isn't this uh correspondence dinner?
I mean, it's like an unwritten rule that you don't come in like this.
Uh yes, it is.
It is supposed to leave your political agenda's kind of at the door.
Well, other than the the comedians who who the entertainers, they they they can, you know, go wherever they want to go.
Interestingly, Bush didn't do a joke routine this year, and Rich Little was the entertainment, he apparently was very down key because of Virginia Tech.
So they were all disappointed in there.
They wanted a bunch of depravity at this dinner, and they didn't get it, so they had to make it themselves.
Can you imagine somebody like I just keep thinking like if a Charlton Heston went and you know went to the you know gun control people and were saying, you know, you know, right to bear arms, right to bear arms, they would hang him out to dry.
Say he doesn't know the ethics, he doesn't know the protocol.
No, no, no.
Charlton Heston uh was the president of the NRA.
Who do you mean?
No, no, that's what I mean.
If he went during a you know a Clinton or or uh Carter administration and went to that same dinner, the the media would be all over him about breaking the protocol.
Look, uh no, I possibly.
Possibly.
Let me say something about that.
Uh because the you know, you're you're you're talking basically about boorish behavior at the best, and in other instances uh it it's worse.
Now, uh when it comes to the White House Correspondents Dinner, I've I've been to, I think three of them.
And after the third one, when Clinton tried to call me a racer, did call me a racist because I was defending Janet Reno because she was being attacked by John Conyers.
I you know, this it was not even fun, and it was phony as it could be.
As I say, this is an event for politicians, it's their Hollywood night, it's their Oscars, and politics is showbiz for the ugly.
And that's why they have certain Hollywood entertainers show up.
The big name this year was that loser from the what is it, American Idol, Sanjay, is that his name?
Sanjaya, whatever.
Uh he was the he was the he was the big draw.
But my objection to this is that everybody that well, given the makeup of Washington, over half the people in that room of 3,000 despise George Bush.
And yet they're gonna act nice and they're gonna act like all the stuff they've said about him over all these years doesn't matter, then the next day they jump right back in as though the night never happened.
And so the the idea of you know the White House correspondents get together to honor each other, give out awards to each other and some young, budding up and coming journalists and so forth.
Uh but you're right, there's an unwritten rule that the night is phony.
If it were real, nobody'd get along because the the partisan divisions that existed at four o'clock that afternoon would not be put to bed at seven o'clock that night.
And the problem with it is, is when these people act like they can put these things to bed at seven o'clock for five hours, it shows what?
That they're being phony the rest of the time or they're being phony for those five hours.
Regardless, they're they're phonies at some point in their lives.
And I just it for me it it it's it's not a place it's just not my place.
I get invited now and then.
I was invited by three different groups this year.
Uh I just no way.
It just it isn't fun.
Plus you gotta wear a tuxedo for that long.
And I'll wear a tuxedo to the cigar dinner.
It's all guys, it's all friends, that's mine and Danny, but this.
It's a zoo.
Now, about about what your your theory that the media would write if Charlton Heston went to the White House correspondents' dinner and charged up to say D. Myers during the day started railing against the White House in gun control or whether the media would write, you're probably right.
Now that I think about it.
Uh they had a great time writing about the Sheryl Crow and and Lori David accosting uh Carl Rove.
However, in all the Virginia tech discussion last week and so the coarsening of the culture and how we and and and my buddies on talk radio are uh are the focus of blame on this now.
One of the things I've noticed as a observer uh and as a a student, a doctoral student.
I have a doctors in studying the media.
I have a I'm I'm degreed out the Wazoo in this.
And I have I have noted over the years when there's been an MTV awards ceremony, for example.
If if if the MC's not throwing the F-bomb around every other minute, if there's no rhybald humor, no gutter humor, they write the next day about what a boring show it was.
Uh same thing with the Oscars.
Have you noticed and you read reviews of the Oscars how dull and if if they're classy and cultured, if they're no political digs, and if if um if it's just good old-fashioned wholesome entertainment, you ever notice how dull the Oscars are?
So my point is you cannot in this case we're talking about the entertainment media, you can't exempt them or leave them out of the equation because they're out there getting bored when stuff like that happened with Carl Rove and Lori David doesn't happen.
Now, the stuff with Carl Rove and Laurie David was not anything beyond boorish.
It was just it was just bad behavior, uh and so forth.
It wasn't profane or or any of that.
But it did violate this um unwritten rule that makes things like this uh somewhat appropriate.
Lori David uh who is it, Cheryl Crowe?
You work for me, Rove.
No, I work for the American people.
We are the American people.
Yeah, well, Rove probably makes 140.
I'm gonna guess Rove makes 140, 150 of 300 million people in this country.
So divide 140,000 by 300 million, you'll find out how much of that is being paid by Cheryl Crow, and that's a good indication of how much or how little Rove needs to listen to her.
At any rate.
I uh a lot of people won't probably want to weigh in on this, and if I keep going, there's not gonna be anything left to say, because once I say it, it's all handled.
Here's um here's Paul in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Nice to uh nice to talk to you.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
It's just wonderful the from beautiful northern Wisconsin here.
But you know, I think the media is getting it all wrong.
Uh the real reason Carl Rove didn't want to talk to Cheryl Crowe was he because he probably uh didn't want to shake your hand because he saw her coming out of the bathroom.
Everybody wants to get in the act, I've said folks, and I love you people on the phones.
Don't try this at home.
Uh the great like me make this look easy.
What happened was they went up and they grabbed his arm.
You know, they would have th they didn't respect his space.
As good liberals, they violated his faith.
They went up and grabbed his arm.
That's what I have been told.
That's uh that's something you don't do.
Madeline in Melbourne, Florida.
Hello, uh, madam, you're you're next.
Nice to have you.
Yes, sir.
Yes.
I just wanted to say uh I heard this j this ridiculousness of the Cheryl Crow nonsense.
I pulled up the drudge report, and for fun I decided to try this, and it is just physically impossible.
And wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You tried the one square.
Well, not that I want to try it.
I I pulled the one sheet off and I was looking at it and listed you can't it rolls up to the size of a penny.
I don't know what the heck you're supposed to do it.
You can't blow your nose and you can't do anything with it.
This is this is utterly insane.
Well, now wait, did you try the four-ply or were using the cheaper two-ply from the discount stores?
Oh no, I have the Angel Soft two ply, so it's it's okay.
It's not the Scott One Sheeter, so but but the point is we're all laughing about it today, and we all Know how utterly ridiculous is.
Do you understand?
Do you understand she is serious?
Yeah, unfortunately I do, but I don't understand why the American people are so gullible and they fall for this because she's a rock star.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.
What evidence do you have yet the American people are actually out there doing this now?
Oh no, I'm not saying that they're doing it, but people are, you know, like younger people, they listen to, you know, who's whoever's going to be voting, you know, like in the voting things, they'll get the this is one of those things where one attempt, I think, might show most people that it's pointless to uh pick this up and make it a habit.
But here's the here's the lesson.
She's serious about this.
Now, I fully expect, by the way, by before the end of the day, we were just joking to make a point, is what they'll say.
But they're serious about it.
And so what you have to I think they're serious about this, put this in the hopper with everything else is being said about global warming.
And as I went through the list, we've let me get the listing.
We've got to ban light bulbs.
We have to ban uh what did I do with the Wrote this all out.
You make sure I would uh not not forget it all.
We it I don't know.
I'll find it.
They want us to ban light bulbs, ban toilet paper, ban barbecues, ban charcoal briquettes, uh ban gasoline, ban oil, uh ban trans fats, uh ban smoking.
Everything to them is a ban.
Uh including this toilet paper business.
You've got to throw this in the hopper, and you have to put it in context with everything else they're saying and measure if they can be this off the wall or naive, while sounding totally committed and caring and compassionate.
What about all the other demands that they're making?
And of course, in this one instance, ask them, you gonna do it?
You gonna do it?
And you know they're not.
That's why they made the allowance for the two to three squares for those pesty differences.
I just got a note from a friend of mine in uh in Palm Springs says, you know, this bidet, I didn't know that was what it was for.
I use it as my dog's drinking fountain.
I tried that with my cat, punkin, uh, and it's not uh full stream, so she wouldn't have anything to do with it.
Um I have another I have another offer to make.
Not only will I use only one square of toilet paper if it can be categorically proven to me to both Al Gore and Rosie Donald are only using one.
I will not use any toilet paper for a month if the amount that I would use in a month would be accepted by Laurie David and Sheryl Crow and stuffed in their mouths so they couldn't speak for that month.
Well, I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm a cooperative person.
I want to work with these people.
We're trying to find compromise on all these issues, are we not?
Here's uh here's John in St. Louis.
John, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Yeah, hey, it's great to be here.
Thanks for having me on.
I uh was just hearing you uh talk about consensus in science.
Yes.
And it kind of gets my head all screwy when you say that, because I don't understand why you have a problem with consensus in general.
Because science is not up to a vote.
Okay, that's fine.
It's fine.
It's not just because you arrive at consensus doesn't mean there was a vote.
It's just a general agreement.
No, there's n no, no, no, no, no.
Science doesn't there's nothing general about science.
This is the point.
I'm not this is not my phrase, by the way.
This comes from other scientists, Michael uh Crichton.
Uh I've talked to the global warming scientists.
This this is not my creation.
They told me this, and I thought that makes sense.
Well, sure.
Yeah.
I mean, it sounds like it sounds like it makes sense.
But I mean, can you just talk about consensus?
It means it needs agreement, general agreement, right?
Are you a scientist?
No, but I understand I have a dictionary and I can look up the word consensus.
Well, but it just says general agreement.
Well, okay, let's say that we came to a general agreement that the earth is flat.
And let's say a majority of the scientific community came to make it true.
Consensus doesn't make it true.
I'll give you that.
I'll stipulate that.
Well, then science community.
Could totally be wrong.
You're right.
But it's just a judge.
Look at once it's science is not wrong.
This is the point.
There is Oh, i science can be wrong.
Why not?
How can you say that?
Science is wrong.
I mean, it's part of the method of of uh of science is science to the case.
Come up with a theory or a hypothesis, you test it.
It's not a good thing.
Science is wrong, it's wrong, right?
The science yes, but it's not called science during the whole testing process.
It's not called science during the consensus process.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
It is not called established science.
There is the scientific method.
Coming to establish.
So it so when when the when the conclusion is.
So what you're telling me.
And it's gone through the scientific process and it's proved, which is some people say nothing can be proved in science, but that that's okay.
Then it goes under the time.
There are lots of things in science that can be proved that are accepted, like where the moon is and where that the planets round, the space generals seen it.
What you're telling me is that you are willing, if you want to if you want to argue on global warming on this basis with me, in science on this basis, you're telling me that you need to redefine some words in order to have a case.
There is no consensus in established science.
It simply is not definitionally possible.
I appreciate the call.
John in St. Louis is who that was.
Uh where next?
Uh let's try uh Robert in Monument, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes.
Mega Dettos, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
You make my day every day.
I appreciate that, and I know.
Listen, I want to talk about a little something different here.
I think that it's time we call for Reed's resignation.
So I did that.
I was just astonished last week.
And then no one's come out and said anything about that.
I didn't know this guy.
I did.
We're going to be talking about this in the next hour because uh all kinds of Democrats trying to circle the wagons now.
Dingy Harry went out there and said a war is not winnable.
And you got Chuck Schumer over the weekends, uh yes, we can win it.
They're trying to protect Dingy Harry, but I called for his resignation last week.
In the midst of all these calls for Gonzalez to quit and all these other people, here is a man undermining the U.S. military demotivating, uh doing the opposite of inspiring them, proclaiming his own country and his own military defeated.
You've got General Petraeus coming into town this week, into Washington, the architect of the surge, and he's going to be well, he's willing to appear before Congress.
Guess what?
Pelosi can't fit him in the House agenda.
And the Democrats don't want to talk to General Petraeus.
They all confirmed him.
He was confirmed in the Senate close to unanimously, I believe, but they don't want to talk to him.
But uh I I think I think Harry Reid Benedict Arnold Harry Reid is what I called him last week, and he if if anybody out there in public life today in government needs to be resigning in shame and in disgrace, it is Harry Reed.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
When you have consensus said to be in science, what you're actually talking about is I early.
Theory.
You're talking theory.
So right now, global warming is just theory.
It's being passed off as established by using this word consensus, which is designed to fool people into thinking if a bunch of scientists just agreed, and that's it.
By the way, folks, I'm also thinking of offering to underwrite the remaining bus tour of Laurie David and Sheryl Crow.
If they'll keep talking about this toilet paper stuff, dividing everybody.
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