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May 31, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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That's a second time today.
I've had about a five-second dropout.
A little inside broadcasting talk here to the engineering staff, ladies and gentlemen.
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rush Limboy and the EIB Network.
Great to be with you.
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Okay, uh came in today.
I looked at the weather forecast every day.
I don't know why, because as it rained here in months.
Uh and the last time it rained here of any significance, we got we got flooded in the uh in a parking lot.
We couldn't get out of here until midnight that night.
I had to walk down uh flooded flight of stairs, because still couldn't drive our cars down.
Yeah, that's the last time it rained.
And by the way, everybody, if you noticed we have a big lake here in Florida called Okeechobee.
And of course, everybody that drives by is down here and the uh water management resource people are panicked.
Oh no, Lake Okachobi's lower than it's ever been record low.
No, no.
What they are not telling us is, you remember last year during the hurricanes?
Or two years ago during the hurricanes.
Uh they drained four feet from the lake.
Because they're afraid of flooding and and uh vegetation so they have water management down here is a trick, you know, with all the canals and so forth, and they have to move it around when big storms come in.
So anyway, they're finding all kinds of evidence.
They're founding they find boats and bones and stuff down there at the bottom of the lake.
But there's another see that I always tell you there's good that happens in everything.
Since the lake has receded, they're able to go in there and clean out the muck that they're otherwise able to get get some of the junk out of there.
It's an opportunity.
Anyway, I'm looked.
I'm uh looking at the weather forecast, and I see that we got a 70% chance of boomers and rain starting uh tonight, maybe tomorrow, all the way through Sunday.
I said, So what's this?
So I came in here and I went to, I have a collection of NOAA maps, satellite imagery, and so when I'm looking at it, I said, whoa, look at that.
What is that there below Cuba?
So uh I sent an email to my buddy Roy Spencer, uh climatologist extraordinaire, University of Alabama, uh Huntsville.
And uh he said, don't worry about it.
Uh just a lot of rain, uh sea surface temperatures, not quite warm enough yet formation.
Then I went to the National Hurricane Center website, lo and behold, I've got an advisory out.
It's not gonna become a hurricane, it's just it's just gonna be a big big powerful low.
And so uh Spencer, Roy wrote me back and said, Look, I'll flip you for it.
We need rain here in Alabama.
And I said, Well, we need it here in Florida too.
I'll I'll I'll I'll if if we get the rain, I'll buy you dinner.
He said, Okay, and ditto vice versa.
Then I get a note from he says he is using all of his powers as a climatologist specialist to steer that storm to uh kipping.
He wants it to go to Alabama everybody in the southeast uh needs needs some rain.
There's also a report on Drudge about a Russian scientist who says that we can dump sulfur into the stratosphere to cause global cooling.
Now, uh this is not a new idea.
Uh and in fact it has been done before.
It has it.
It's called Mount Pinatubo.
A volcano.
Uh the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption put an estimated 20 million tons of sulfur into the stratosphere, which caused considerable cooling for a little over a year.
Uh now, I asked Roy about this.
I said, Well, what is this Russian scientist?
Sulfur in the atmosphere, yeah.
So he did it.
He ran the calculations, and Dr. Spencer said that it would take one 747 cargo plane, no passengers, the whole thing is cargo carrying 100 tons of sulfur every 30 minutes to do the same thing that Pinatubo did in one eruption.
The point is, well, we see that's the point.
It was just asked, can we encourage an eruption?
Uh yes.
If Mount Pinatubo does it, then that's fine.
That's nature too.
if we were to load a bunch of 747s and start dumping sulfur in the stratosphere, the environmentalists would have a cow.
Wouldn't do it.
But Mount Pinatubo does that the point of this illustration.
One 747 cargo plane carrying a hundred tons of sulfur every 30 minutes for a long period of time to equal the eruption of Pinatubo, we are nothing compared to nature, folks.
I mean, we're part of nature, but we wea that we're affecting all this stuff is uh is once again absurd.
Okay, ta-da-da-da-da, da da.
One more global warming story or two, get it out of the way, move on to other things.
Uh once again, uh Jose uh Los illegales and the Star Spanglish banner.
Today in the Wall Street Journal, one of the editors of the uh Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger, has uh has written a piece that uh frankly, uh ladies and gentlemen, with all due respect, love the people at the journal, many good friends of mine over there.
Uh I I'm in shock at the at this piece.
Now I know the journal has its audience.
Uh it's a business audience and business is very much pro uh illegal immigration.
Nevertheless, this is the uh the editorial page.
Uh let me let me let me read you a just some excerpts of uh of this.
The state with the highest percentage growth of immigrants in five years, the 2000 to 2005 of South Carolina, 47.8%.
If you round out the top ten high growth immigrant states, all up more than 30 percent, in New Hampshire, Tennessee, Arkansas, Delaware, Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Kentucky, and North Carolina, if you really want to get away from it all, head to Wyoming dead last with about 11,000 foreign-born and 49th in growth with a minus 5% growth rate, which is why people will move there.
Now, what that list of states with high rates of in migration tells me, writes Mr. Henninger, is that immigrants, legal or illegal, go where there's work.
They constitute what in one of the few felicitous phrases in economics is called labor force participation.
Study last September by the Pew Hispanic Center tracked migration flows back to 1990, found that the most notable factor affecting the rise and fall of total migration numbers was the state of the U.S. economy.
What this in turn suggests is that the best way to stanch the flow of illegal immigration would be to drive the growth rate of U.S. GDP back toward zero.
Labor force participation is as American as apple pie.
This country, as the saying goes, was built on work, and that may be precisely why Congress is having a hard time passing an immigration bill.
And no wonder it's hard to pass a bill.
It's hard because Congress is trying to elevate one American value, respect for the law, by demoting an American value that up to now has been an unambiguous, uncontested ideal, and that's respect for work and for labor.
The tension here, he writes, is especially difficult for conservatives.
Because we're we're const we're conflicted here over the rule of law and the American value of the rule of law versus well.
Yeah, we're conflicted.
Because he's talking about the divide in the conservative ranks on this.
Why then would Republican politicians and conservative writers want to run the risk of undermining, perhaps for a long time, their core belief in the broad benefits of free market economic forces in return for a law that hammers these illegal Mexicans.
And this this when I read that, that's what I've said I d don't believe somebody from the Wall Street Journal misses it like this.
They need to read Dr. Soule.
There's no free market in in terms of illegal labor.
We don't we don't just let anybody that produces a good or service flood the country with it.
There's no free market when it comes to illegal products.
We have all kinds of regulations and standards.
We don't let poison food come into the into the country.
But to compare illegal immigration to to free markets and other things is to is to exhibit I that well I just can't believe I'm gonna say this a lack of understanding about free markets.
Um conservatives also argue he writes with considerable force that any conceivable path to citizenship or guest worker status for these workers would be amnesty and so would make a mockery of the rule of law but so massively setting aside years of principled market based argument the environment, pharmaceuticals, labor, antitrust to thwart these movements of immigrants is a risky proposition.
Uh look, I'm not that smart folks, let's admit it.
I mean I'll be the first to admit this.
I'm not that smart, but I I just do not think that this is what I'm thinking or saying in my opposition to illegal immigration.
It's not it's not based on this.
You know the the market is intrinsically tied to our overall culture that these lauded workers are literally refusing to fit into and to assimilate into Mr. Henniger does and that it can withstand and adapt itself to using legal citizens who have immigrated from Mexico who share the vision of the United States instead of those who are here just to bleed us dry.
It's a very shallow argument I'm I I'm I was stunned that this got I'm so stunned they think this I I just I it's tough for me to say these journal people some of my best friends one of the things they have to recognize here we have a huge welfare state in this country now.
The United States has become among all other things that it is a huge welfare state and of course the doors to that welfare state are opened up to these formerly illegal immigrants if you do open those doors then the free market is not going to be so free because taxes are going to have to rise exorbitantly in order to handle the influx of these low wage,
unskilled and uneducated uh people I mean if you really want to talk about free markets, it seems to me you start in Mexico, don't you?
You st if you if you want to if you want to really talk about free markets, you start in Mexico uh and other countries that refuse to reform their their tyrannies, their dictatorships or their social economic policies.
Uh but this this notion that opening our borders here is going to lead to free markets in Mexico, we've disproved that.
That doesn't happen.
Free markets are the result of the proper distribution of capitalism.
And you don't you don't you don't redistribute capitalism by opening the doors and the borders of this country and expanding your own welfare state.
I just don't get how these people are missing this.
They want to talk about free markets all over the place.
In the meantime we've got a welfare state that's going out of sight out of control and we think that opening borders and allowing all these people from around the world who can Mexico wherever illegal, uneducated, low wage, unskilled whatever you say, how that somehow is is going to spread capitalism it it does no such thing.
And of course the primary reason for poverty around the world is the unequal distribution of capitalism open borders are not going to promote any of the things the journal stands for limited government, the traditional conservative ideals, fiscal policy, uh rule of law, uh open borders to pro promote none of these things.
I'm I was disappointing.
I just I almost I've tried to get through this show without talking about this today, but I had a duty to do it and did it.
Back in a sec.
Amidst billowing clouds of fragrant aromatic premium cigar smoke Rush limbo on the cutting edge of societal evolution speaking of dumping some sulfur into the atmosphere can you imagine if we loaded up a couple 747 cargo planes flew down to Venezuela and dump some ah ah ah ah imagine what Hugo Chavez would say.
He thought he smelled sulfur in the UN when Bush wasn't even there.
Bush had left all right uh this Rebecca in uh Noblesville Indiana nice to have is it Nobel or Noblesville?
Nobleville Noblesville great to have you with I saw Nobel and I know that I'm nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I just wondered if it might be pronounced uh no Bellsville.
But for today it is it's no Bellsville.
Glad to talk to you Rush.
Thank you.
Um I was at the Z yesterday with my kindergartner uh watching the the dolphin show and I was in awe, actually moved by these wonderful creatures until I got the sick filling in my stomach when they started to do is talk about what we can do to preserve the world of dolphin.
And so my question for you is how how long do you think it will be until there'll be some great stigma against having one point five more than one point five children in the world or in our society.
Because of global warming, to save dolphins, everything else.
Did somebody actually say that in talking about preserving the dolphins?
No, no, no, no.
But I I I see here and there when the subject of global warming comes up, people talk about it at length.
Yes, it's humanity that's causing we need fewer people.
It's all this all got started with Paul Ehrlich and his population bomb uh, which was a bomb of a book back in the uh in the early 70s.
You know what I look I keep going.
I am I am I'm gonna tell you the truth here.
When these people get going and revved up, you can't rule anything out.
The very fact that you conceive of such a question to me means that it is possible.
Because you are actively engaged in thinking, and you're thinking down the road, and you know how long you you hear what they say, and you know that there's more to that, and there's more to come, and you know that China has already done this for different reasons.
Right, and they failed.
And China's a bunch of communists.
Uh uh look at that's that's why I I I'm proud of you.
That is an excellent question.
It's the kind of question most people would probably think, Whoa, wow, this lady's all for rocker asking this.
Well, you know, talking about tomorrow, but but uh if these people aren't checked and if they're not stopped, they have all this collectivism that they want to do, and they're blaming all these problems on our affluence, global warming is caused by our affluence.
Nothing is impossible or improbable with these people.
Mm-hmm.
Well, it goes down deeply to what is the most important job to me, the thing I've always wanted to do, and that's to be a mother.
I lived in France for a few few months a couple years ago, was walking down the street with three children, two in a stroller, and some high school kids were walking by in French, they said, That woman has too many children.
Um I you know, this is something I can I encounter a lot, and I know a lot of people with large families encounter it, you know.
Stare, look, sometimes rude comments.
But it's the same thing, and that's because in France, all that socialism over there, they're talking about this.
It's it would be no different if you walk down the street smoking a cigarette.
Right.
Oh, she's smoking a cigarette.
I can't bel that's this stuff subtly weaves its tentacles into the fabric of society, and people get uh get caught up in it.
I mean, it it isn't how many people walk into McDonald's now, hope nobody that they know sees them.
You know, I mean this is it it it spreads this way.
No, wait, you have three kids now?
Five.
You have five, but when you're in France you had three.
Well, I have three in with me.
Yeah, three with you.
Yeah, right.
How old are your kids?
They are seven, six, four, two, and almost one.
Have you studied the length of their fingers?
Um they are probably relatively short.
I don't know, I've not studied them.
Well, here's what it says here.
This is uh Reuters Health Story.
The length of children's fingers uh finger length may hint at their natural abilities in math and language.
Uh-huh.
Well, I've got those covered.
I'm the math major and I speak French.
My father speaks French, he's French.
Wow.
Well, you you sound like you're very educated and intelligent woman's adult.
Don't let the don't let those zoo creeps at the dolphin show creep you out.
But the question is valid.
Also, go out and get the planet Earth DVD series and watch the dolphins.
You won't worry about 'em.
The saga continues.
Little kid from Missouri who never amounted a diddly squat, now the kingmaker of the Republican Party.
I'm sorry.
And dominant media figure in America.
800 two eight and what?
And the Mandarin, yes, the Mandarin of Talk Radio.
Bill in uh oh wait, the finger length story.
I gotta tell you the length and what it means.
Um the headline of the story here, finger length may foretell academic potential.
I almost didn't do this story, uh, folks.
It's rife with dangerous potential.
The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, according to news study of seventy-five children between six and seven years old.
Researchers found that finger length correlated with how well children performed on standardized tests of math and verbal skills.
Specifically, boys whose index fingers were short compared with their ring fingers.
Uh tended to uh do better on the verbal portion of the test.
The findings are reported in the British Journal of uh psychology.
Number of studies have now found that the digit ratio or the length of the index finger compared with a ring finger is connected to cognitive performance, some personality traits, athletic prowess, and the risk of certain medical conditions.
Seventy-five kids they studied it.
Well, it does see you know that's the I that's what disappointed me about the story.
I thought it was going to talk about the overall length of fingers.
Like Clinton's finger.
You ever seen Clinton's finger when he showed up at that oh man.
Clinton's uh I but it doesn't talk about that.
It just says the length of the index finger related to the uh uh uh ring finger.
No.
Wait a uh uh uh uh index fingers ring fingers.
Yeah.
Uh middle finger not calculated here in uh in this in this survey.
So I don't know.
I think this is all bogus.
I met a woman tell me in Kansas City that you look at somebody's feet, and if the second toe is longer than the big toe, then they come from refined stock.
If if it's if the second toe shorter than a big toe, then they come from peasant stock.
She believed it.
It did.
It had me looking at women's feet for about a year.
You know, just out of curiosity.
Looking as all, nothing was Bill in Union New Jersey.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, it's Rush.
Are you there?
Uh I'm there, yes.
All right, now I am here.
Rush, I've been trying to get through to you for years.
You are my idol, and I finally got through to you, but the reason why I got through was a negative reason, and it's bothering me.
You are using that that parody that you're doing lately.
It is it is great, it's making me laugh.
I agree with you all the way, but you're using the national anthem of the United States.
And uh it kind of hurt me.
It hurts you to hear the national anthem.
Used in the parody.
It's almost like burning a flag or something.
Burning the flag.
Interesting.
Well, I'm sorry that it affected you that way.
I it did.
Well, but you know that I mean no disrespect I know that, but that the thing is well, when I heard the uh the Spanish version of the emer of uh of uh the national anthem, that got to me too.
Yeah, but I mean that was at least with the real words.
Yeah, that was at least with the real words.
As far as we know, it was the real words.
That's all I wanted to say.
Well, I appreciate that.
Now you've now you've you've you've making me uh uh feel bad here.
I I didn't try to I was that meant no disrespect to the national anthem to Star Speaker Banner is just you know, we're into illustrating absurdity here by being absurd.
We thought that was a good way of doing it.
Um I'll t I'll take your complaint under advisement and I will uh I'll ask uh trusted staff what they think of it.
You are the first to say about it.
Uh I I just hope I'm not causing trouble, that's all.
Well, you're not causing me trouble.
I love finding out what the audience thinks.
Okay, yeah.
And that's great to hear from Patriot uh patriotic people like you.
So I don't feel bad about In fact, in fact, you said you've been trying for a long time to get through, and now you finally got through it with the same.
And everybody's got a negative thing.
Well, you're I'm sure you have a positive thing you'd like to say, and you can end the call on a very pleasurable note.
All I can say is uh you are my guiding light in everything.
Well except his one thing.
Well, I appreciate that.
I'll um I hadn't even thought of that, that it might hurt people's feelings that they think we're making fun of the National Ant, which we're not.
I mean, the purpose of the Star Spanglish banner is not to uh make fun of it.
Well we'll um uh yeah.
Blame it on white satirist Paul Shanklin.
I had nothing to do with it.
I was minding my own business as it showed up.
What's not my not my fault, Bill.
Yeah, keep a sharp eye for the video on YouTube.
We got some global warming news.
And here is white satirist Paul Shanklin as Al Gore.
One more time there, Al Gore letter rip.
That's uh former uh Vice President Al Gore has portrayed vocally by white satirists.
Paul Shanklin.
This is pretty big news here.
The NASA administrator, Michael Griffin.
I don't know if this guy's a dittohead or not, but uh he if not, he could be.
He appeared on uh uh National Republican Radio, which you know the libs are starting to call it that.
They think the NPR is going right, that it's it's getting it's getting less bold on the left.
Some guy somewhere wrote a National Republican radio.
Where was the salon.com, I think.
I'm memory is vague, but anyway, he hit Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator, uh, appeared on NPR, and he told him that while he has no doubt that a trend of global warming exists, quote, I'm not sure it's fair to say it's a problem we have to wrestle with.
In an interview with uh NPR Steve Inskeep that will air today, well, I guess it aired today.
Uh administrator Griffin said, Look, I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings.
I think it's a rather arrogant position for people to take, and that is a brilliant point.
As long as the earth has been around billions and billions of years, who are we to say that the way it is right now is perfection for everybody on the planet.
This just this drills one of the biggest holes in the whole hoax of global warming that there is.
The vanity, the assumption that the earth as it is now is precisely perfect, there has been, or it it should be, and that any change from this point is bad and that we are causing it.
How do we know that the the so-called perfect climate of the earth is now for all the people of the planet?
How do we know that the climate 30 years ago or a hundred years ago?
What the the point is there is no perfect climate because it's always changing.
The earth is constantly heating and cooling.
And to arbitrarily say, today, when we have this political religious issue that we're trying to infuse everybody's minds with, this is perfect.
Any change from here is bad.
When nobody can possibly know this.
The uh comments come at a difficult time for the Bush administration, which is under growing pressure from other members of the G8 club, uh, which under the current chair of Germany is pushing for global action on CO2 emissions.
Speaking of CO2, I um get this.
Again, and this this uh uh Roy Spencer sent this to me yesterday, Dr. Spencer, our uh resident expert, climatology, University of Alabama, Huntsville.
He said, Rush, people try to scare you by saying that humanity pumps 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, and it sounds like a b uh a big number.
You know, Gore's out there saying this in his uh his uh movie, an inconvenient truth.
30.
30 billion tons of CO2 and oh, 30 billion tons.
That's bad.
Uh Dr. Spencer's writing a book uh that's due out sometime in the fall about some of this, and he said, I came up with the following illustration of how little CO2 there really is in the atmosphere and how little humanity produces.
While Gore is out there saying that there are 30 billion tons of CO2 being pumped by human beings into the atmosphere each year, the current constitution of the atmosphere is this.
It contains 38 molecules of CO2 for every 100,000 molecules of air.
Folks, that's nothing.
38 molecules of CO2 for every 100,000 molecules of air, and it would take humanity five years to increase that number from 38 to 39.
So every five years we add one molecule of CO2 to each one hundred thousand molecules of air.
And yet, this is how the left sells stuff.
30 billion tons CO2.
And now Germany and the G8, they say, well, we got it, we got to stop CO2 emissions.
We're pumping 30 billion tons.
It's not a factor.
38 molecules for every 100,000 molecules of air.
Anyway, congratulations, Michael Griffin.
Great comment.
There's some other things that he said here as well, but that's the main point.
Who are we to say that's perfect now?
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Wow, listen to this.
National Football League has just announced that uh clubs, NFL teams, may no longer serve adult beverages at team functions or on buses or flights.
This extends a ban that until now applied only in locker rooms.
NFL owners and executives are told Thursday by the commissioner, Roger Goodell, that the rule pertains not only to players, but also to owners, coaches, and guests.
No adult beverages at team functions.
Well, what that could that could be a game.
That could be a game.
No adult beverages in the in the luxury suites up there where the where the owners are.
I know social NFL socialists at work, though, in their case.
We'll get to that in a minute.
Buses, team flights.
Man, oh man, oh man.
These guys ought to go to a baseball locker room.
I better not say any more.
But I uh uh Dave and Lafayette, Indiana.
Uh welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, infinite dittoes to you.
Thank you.
Best friend I never met, at least yet.
Um, I just want to say uh earlier you're talking about Hillary Clinton, 80% chance he's gonna be elected.
As we sit here today, yes.
Well, you're scaring me to death.
But anyway, I have a theory on this, it'll never happen.
It can't happen in my America because there are way too many ex-husbands that will vote against their ex-wife, which is basically what he reminds them of.
And there are way too many very nice women out there that are the majority.
Well, now that I don't know about the ex-husband business.
That's uh the husband of the ex-wife.
That's that clearly uh, you know, funny thing to discuss.
But you know, the one the one problem she is gonna have is with women.
It's just like this uh socialist babe in France, what was her name?
Uh Segaline uh Royale.
Yeah.
She didn't even get a majority, but she got the Sarkozy did.
And was watching all the drive-bys in her round table discussions on the Sunday shows, and all the women on these shows were just flabbergasted.
They don't explain her.
They don't want her to be representative of the first woman president of a woman president.
You know.
I what it look at there are probably a whole bunch of re I there's a I had a story to stack yesterday, I didn't get to it.
Martha Burke, back from obscurity.
She never left it.
You know, she tried to she tried to get Augusta National to be forced to admit female members.
She'd back, she was doing something over there at C-SPAN and uh on C-SPAN and talking about the women vote.
And how the women is still abortion.
That's all that matters to women.
And I if I'm a woman in this country and I listen to these groups make me into a monolith.
Uh the idea that women as a block think alike, do things politically, I'm talking about here, is is is ridiculous.
And to reduce the female vote to something that simplistic is insulting, if you ask me.
But yet there she was doing it.
Uh and these women uh on these round tables trying to explain Segaline Royale's loss, just assumed women would vote for her because she was a woman, and which is ultimately insulting.
Uh I I think the the female vote problem Hillary is going to have is that a lot of women don't respect her.
Pure and simple.
Uh, because of uh she's been calculating she has well, you know the drill on this, but she's that then that that's why we're hearing stories about this new creation of this new group of women, the SAFs, the single anxious females, who are between 18 and 44.
You get a demographic spread that wide, and I guarantee you, the things that an 18 and 19-year-old woman has in common with one 43 or 44, you can't you can't group people of that age disparity and say they're thinking alike and going to do things.
But the drive bys and Hillary know they've got this female problem, so they've come up with this new classification.
It's not soccer moms anymore, it's not NASCAR dads, it's not security moms, single anxious females.
And somehow Hillary is leading in this group.
Isn't that amazing?
And that's all because she is admittedly, and this is polling data, by the way.
Uh she's she's showing not nearly as strong as people thought she would in uh in women.
That's why the conventional wisdom on this stuff, you have to always uh throw it out.
I appreciate the call out there, Dave.
Uh I gotta go.
Quick timeout, clap uh come back and wrap it up after this.
Well, boy, it's just it's too bad here, folks.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence has to come to a temporary halt.
We take a um what, 21 hour break here, and uh babe.
Oh, I forgot to do that.
The woman organ story.
Yeah, well, remind me of that.
Remind me of that tomorrow.
I'll get to that.
Anyway, have a great one.
Open line Friday tomorrow, which we all look forward to, including uh me.
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