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Nov. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, it's time to clean up the mess again.
An amazing number of messes made over the weekend, especially have you seen what NBC Universal is doing?
Going green all week long on their cable outlets on their broadcast network.
An objective news outlet is trying to drum up support for a political issue.
Started last night on their stupid football coverage.
I thought politics was no longer supposed to be part of the NFL after the ill-fated Donovan McNabb episode with me on ESPN some years ago.
Greetings, folks, and welcome, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-feeling Maha Roshnishi here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I have to issue a warning.
Folks, I'm in a blue funk, and I don't know why.
I've been in a flat-line blue funk since Friday.
Just, I don't, I have no clue.
These things happen to me sometimes.
They're rare.
But just, you know, one of these things where nothing excites me.
Nothing jazzes me up.
Well, it's not like the malaise that people claim to be feeling about the country because I feel great.
I feel great about the country.
Feel great about everything.
Feel great about myself.
No, it's not male menopause.
There's no such thing as...
No, no, no, no.
It's...
Don't make me laugh.
I don't want to laugh here.
I'm in a blue funk.
That's the point.
I don't want to laugh.
When I'm getting one of these blue funk things, I don't want to artificially get out of it because when I realize it's been an artificial escape, the realization I'm still a blue funk is going to make the blue funk worser than it was in the first place.
Anyway, folks, let's just get straight to it.
A global warming update to kick off the program.
The crazy world of Arthur Brown's fire with one of the wicked witches in there.
So here I am.
All I want to do, I'm in a blue funk, even though it was a great football game between the Patriots and the Colts yesterday afternoon.
And I was looking forward to it, but I'm in a blue funk.
All I want to do is watch the football game.
I don't want to answer the phone.
I don't want to answer any emails.
I don't want to answer any eye chats.
I don't want to talk to anybody.
I just want to watch the football game because I want to escape from the blue funk.
And so what happens?
I'm watching a pregame show.
And toward the end of the pregame show, Bob Costas announces they're turning out the lights in the studio.
They show a satellite map of the country.
And they say, look, all of you all over the country, look at how lit up our country is.
Please turn off your lights.
And then he introduced, and I thought politics was not supposed to be part of the NFL.
I thought the NFL didn't want politics to be part of what they do.
It's a football pregame show.
ESPN's done a bad enough job botching Monday night broadcasts.
You can't watch them anymore.
You have to watch them with the sound down.
And then even when you try to watch the game, you got to put up with some B-list celebrity in the booth yakking about something that's irrelevant to the game.
And so anyway, it's tough enough on Monday night without NBC botching things.
Listen to this.
As part of NBC Universal's Green is Universal initiative, we have turned out the lights in the studio to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.
And as part of that, we will now head north, very far north, as our colleague Matt Lauer, as you can see, is standing by live.
That is not a movie or television set.
All appearances to the contrary.
Matt is actually live somewhere in the Arctic Circle.
Hello, Matt.
Hello, Bob.
The giggling from the guy is not helping the matter at all.
I should tell you that.
We've got two extraordinary shows planned over the next couple of days.
Part of Green is Universal.
You're doing your part there in the studio.
We're doing our part.
We're traveling to the ends of the earth to take a look at the state of the planet and what we're doing to it and what we can do about it.
What we're doing to it.
I wonder how much carbon footprint, how many carbon footprints were made traveling up there to the global, to the, whatever it is, the Arctic Circle, to look at what's happening.
And the silliness of turning out the lights in a television studio as to somehow set an example and try to influence the American people on a football show.
It would be ridiculous if it was on a news show, but it is going to be.
It's going to be on 150 hours of their programming.
Pure 100% advocacy of a political issue in the middle or at the end of a football pregame show.
This is not what people tune in to the NBC Football Night in America pregame show to watch.
It is Collinsworth.
You heard him laughing.
I wonder how many of these people in that set actually think this is idiocy.
And Collinsworth actually had to turn on a flashlight.
So what's the point of turning out the lights?
You still have to go get a battery.
A battery's made of what?
Carbon.
Anyway, then it continued this morning on the Today Show.
They had Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
He said the peace prize is not about him.
It's about saving the world from the biggest challenge human civilization has ever faced.
Meredith VieR, with a question.
Back in 1992, Al Gore, the first President Bush, called you ozone man.
He ridiculed your efforts to bring attention to climate change.
He even called you crazy at one point.
Is this vindication of a sort for you?
It's not about me.
It's about getting this message out to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.
We face a planetary emergency, Meredith.
The climate crisis is by far the biggest challenge human civilization has ever faced.
And we're putting 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every single day, as if it's an open sewer.
And that pollution is trapping a lot more of the sun's heat, and that's raising temperatures, melting the ice, making the storms stronger, lengthening and deepening the droughts, ironically also making flooding worse and moving tropical diseases into temperate latitudes and causing a range of other changes that are not good for human civilization.
This is irresponsible.
This is totally irresponsible to take a political issue and to make it a cause celeb of an entire company, NBC Universal, and make it part of the week-long 150 hours worth of programming on NBC.
And what Al Gore said here is just ridiculous.
Raising temperatures, melting the ice.
The ice melts all the time.
Temperatures constantly go up and they constantly go down.
Storms stronger?
What storms?
Tropical diseases into temperate latitudes.
Everything that's happening that has always happened throughout the course of this planet's life is happening today.
And it's now being laid at the feet of us, our feet.
We are the ones responsible for it.
Now, listen to this next bite from Al Gore.
Meredith Vieira says, Al Gore, you share the prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, with scientists from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Not all of whom agree on all this, by the way.
I'm adding that.
Meredith Vieira did not throw it in.
One of those scientists, John Christie, wrote an op-ed last Thursday in the Wall Street Journal in which he criticized your dire predictions about the impact of global warming.
He wrote, I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.
So what do you make, Al Gore, of his assessment?
Well, he's an outlier.
He no longer belongs to the IPCC, and he is way outside the scientific consensus.
But Meredith, part of the challenge the news media has had in covering this story is the old habit of taking the on-the-one hand, on the other hand approach.
There are still people who believe that the earth is flat, but when you're reporting on a story like the one you're covering today, where you have people all around the world, you don't search out for someone who still believes the earth is flat and give them equal time.
He is taking an argument that I have made about this and turning it around.
The scientific consensus.
When you have consensus, there is no science.
It is not up to a vote.
Now, he's right about one thing.
This business, this habit of journalists, no matter what the story, no matter what the fact, they always go to go by and find some wacko critic somewhere.
And that's just part of the formula.
But Al Gore wants to suspend that on his issue.
He doesn't want both sides covered because his side cannot stand, cannot deal with the exposure it would get from the critics.
And there are many of them.
This is just amazing.
We've got to get rid of anybody who questions this.
And comparing this to people who think the earth is flat, I can remember using that example countless times, but not in the discussion of the media, but in the discussion of consensus and science.
Suppose that there was a consensus of some group of science that the earth is flat.
Well, that's the equivalent of what's happening here with global warming.
And yet, if you ask me, it is the other side of this issue, our side, my side, that is getting short shrift.
Let's move to the final soundbite in this roster.
This is this morning at the House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee hearing with Ed Mackey of Massachusetts.
Student Charlie Lockwood of the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action testified, and here is a portion of her remarks.
This is this morning before a House committee.
Just through my lifetime, I've seen so many changes in our community that it just hurts to not be able to have our...
It's really scary to lose our tradition, our culture.
And we've been living here for thousands of years.
And it's not just that we're losing our food.
It's losing our homes.
And because we are spiritually connected and emotionally and physically connected to our homes.
And there are so many, so many communities that are in trouble.
So once again, it's the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen, for the advancement of a political issue that will grow the science of government and increase their control over.
I really want puket.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, utilizing talent on loan from God.
Now, Matt Wauer of NBC says that none of what they're doing is political.
In fact, it's apolitical.
He made a comment like this to some reporter at the New York Post today.
He said, we'll give you the information and then you decide.
Sounds like Fox News, Matt.
We report, you decide.
He said, in Antarctica, for example, the ice there on the shield is melting twice as fast as experts thought 10 years ago.
The Antarctic ice shelf is growing.
There is a part of it that's melting, but the whole thing is growing.
One, two.
Okay, I made it.
In Antarctic, for example, the ice there on the shield is melting twice as fast as experts thought 10 years ago.
Is it a normal pattern of climate change?
Is it global warming?
You decide.
Wrongo, Matt.
You're not leaving it up to people to decide.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be doing it this way.
You wouldn't be politicizing a football game.
Why turn off the studio lights in a football set in a pregame show if you're not trying to reach people who actually have lives?
You know, people that watch football are not paying attention to politics day in and day out.
So you do this little global initiative thing during the pregame show.
You're going to reach quote unquote the targets of people whose minds you want to change.
And Lauer also said that they're buying carbon credits in order to make up for the carbon footprint they are making and traveling to all these different Arctic and Antarctic circles.
That's bogus.
What are they doing?
Planting trees?
They're investing in sham industries.
The idea is to reduce the carbon footprint.
It's typical.
Here's NBC saying, turn off your lights, America.
Look at this satellite map.
Look at all the lights on over this country.
This is outrageous.
And we're going to show you the way.
We're going to lead the way.
We're going to do our pregame show from now on out for the rest of this show in the dark.
Except it wasn't in the dark.
You could see them.
Let me tell you about television.
If they turned out all the lights in the studio, you couldn't see diddly squat.
They had to keep their monitors on in a control room.
They had some little set lights that are decorative on.
They did turn off the big Klieg lights, but they still had lights on to work.
The whole thing is so hypocritical.
Collinsworth out there with a flashlight to show himself what he had to say next or what he was going to talk about next.
All of this is just, it is just a sham.
And here, you got to hear this 13-year-old girl.
Let me find her name here.
I get to put it at the bottom of the stack.
I thought we were through with it, but I'm getting requests to hear this again.
And I know what the requests really aren't to hear this.
The requests are from my reaction to this.
This is Cheryl Charlie Lockwood crying in House Testimony, Ed Maki's committee today, the House Energy Independence Global Warming Committee.
Just through my lifetime, I've seen so many changes in our community that it just hurts to not be able to have our.
It's really scary to lose our tradition, our culture.
And we've been living here for thousands of years.
And it's not just that we're losing our food.
It's losing our homes.
And because we are spiritually connected and emotionally and physically connected to our homes.
And there are so many, so many communities that are in trouble.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
A lot of communities are in trouble over a lot of things.
Go to New Orleans.
Talk about losing homes.
Sorry.
I'm just reminded here of the old, remember the old television PSA that used to run back in the old days when we were kids?
Iron Eyes Cody, the Indian, the Native American, sorry, standing by the roadside as, you know, worthless Americans drive by on the way to their trailer parks and so forth and throwing trash out the window of the car.
And they zero in on Iron Eyes Cody, a founder of the country, a true founder, a Native American.
Turns out he wasn't.
He was an actor made up, but doesn't matter.
Little tear starts rolling down his cheek over what the white Europeans have done to his country.
This stuff is oppressive.
It's always been around.
Shreport, Louisiana.
This is Chad Chad.
You're up first today on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Make it count.
Well, here's the deal.
I'm going to make the assumption that the young lady testifying is of Inuit descent.
They would think so because the Inuits have joined the crusade up there.
Yeah.
How did her people get to North America from the Asian continent?
Didn't they come across a land bridge that has melted?
I don't know.
They might have hitched a ride with the Vikings.
Who the hell knows?
Well, they tell me.
No, I know you're right.
I'm just on a blue funk here.
I'm in a real cynical mood here about all this.
Go ahead, but make your point.
It's a good point.
They tell me that the Inuits came across the weld.
You learned it in a college classroom.
We can't trust it.
No, just the public school education.
But if that did, in fact, melt, why did it melt and there is no connection to Russia between Alaska and Russia today?
There must have been some global warming in the past.
Well, we know there has been.
So your question, how'd they get there in the first place?
Yeah, if she's worried about the climate changing, it's been changing since the beginning of time.
You know, of course it has.
Here's the thing, folks.
With all of these scientists out there making the case, this so-called consensus, saying that global warming is happening, we're causing it, we have reported and shared with you any number of times the number of scientists among that consensus who now say it's too late.
It's simply too late to reverse what we've done.
And it's, let me tell you what the real purpose of all of this is.
It's a Reuters story.
It's out of London.
Millions of people around the world are willing to make personal sacrifices, including paying higher bills and taxes to help redress climate change, according to a global survey today.
The survey found 83% of those questioned believe lifestyle changes would be necessary to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon gases and would gladly pay them.
And that false what this is about.
Absolutely right.
We're back, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
A little bit more time here.
I won't have to run through this too fast.
This is what all of this global warming stuff is about, folks.
I don't care what the story, I don't care what the tearjerker testimony they get before Congress.
I don't care what they tell you.
I don't care what they do.
The actual purpose can be found in this story from Reuters from London.
Millions of people around the world are willing to make personal sacrifices, comma, including paying higher bills and taxes to help redress climate change, according to a global survey today.
Survey found 83% of those questioned believed lifestyle changes would be necessary to cut emissions of climate warming carbon gases.
The survey was conducted by two polling organizations for the BBC World Service, covered 22,000 people in 21 countries.
In 14 of the 21 countries from Canada to Australia, 61% overall said that it would be necessary to increase energy costs to encourage conservation and reduce carbon emissions.
Hell's bells, the market's doing that.
Can anybody see what the price of oil is?
And by the way, the price of oil, Washington Post even admits it.
This, I've been pounding into the depth too.
Traders and not political or supply concerns may be pushing fuel towards $100.
There is no current shortage of oil, no current shortage, but no one deals on today's market.
They make deals based on tomorrow's market, and that's what they're worried about, said Joseph Stanislaw, an oil consultant and senior advisor to the accounting firm Deloitte and Touch.
I just saw where the Chinese, the Chikoms, have an oil company that's grown bigger than ExxonMobil.
Bigger oil company, ExxonMobil.
You've got Hugo Chavez, who has nationalized all the oil wells and operations in Venezuela.
You got a New York Times story today praising Hugo Chavez for doing this.
And they say the same thing should be done.
Well, they imply that the same thing should happen here.
That government, which has no experience and no business running anything in the private sector, should start nationalizing all of these industries.
Meanwhile, the Chikoms are drilling for oil not far from Key West.
The Chikoms are making deals with the Cuban comms to make oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and we won't.
So we sit around, we complain about the rising cost of oil, which the market is taking care of, by the way.
And now we've got to have these new carbon taxes and these lifestyle rollbacks.
That's what this is all about.
Take a look at Charles Wrangel's proposed tax increase of a couple weeks ago, $1 trillion.
You don't think the world's leftists are serious about this?
You need to think again.
All right, who's next?
Lou in Short Hills, New Jersey.
Hi, Lou.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
You said that Senator Gore was concerned about 70 million tons per year of carbon going into the environment.
Now, wait a minute.
Gore said it himself.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I could have said it, but he said it.
He said we played a soundbite from Gore on the Green Today show today, which is not political, of course not.
But how much?
It's not political when you have the number one advocate for this socialism as your primary guest.
Of course it can't be political.
Who do they think they're fooling with here?
Do they think we're idiots?
I'm sorry about this, Lou.
What were you going to say?
How much does that compare to the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere by natural sources?
You know what the number one source of greenhouse gases on this planet is?
Hot air from liberals?
Water vapor.
Water vapor is the largest greenhouse gas on the planet.
And you know where it comes from?
The oceans.
Well, yeah, that's a good guess because there's where all the water is, is in the oceans.
Water vapor.
Any climatologist will tell you this, and there's nothing we can do about it.
But people exhale 2.2 pounds of carbon every day.
Of course we do.
And let's not forget, you know, the cows and whatever, the caribou, the moose, you know, expelling gas and so forth up there.
This is so absurd.
It just so absurd.
And it has no reason, by the way, no bearing on my blue funk.
Isn't the 70 million tons just a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount that's put into the environment?
I'm going to have to ask our expert climatologist here on staff at the EIB Nedberg Royce Spencer.
He told me once, but the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere right now, I'm 30%.
If every one of these outrageously wild predictions would come true, it would raise the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere maybe 31% to 31 to 32%.
I'll get him to correct me on this, the numbers.
But it's minuscule.
You are exactly right.
What's missing in all this is that the Earth somehow is powerless to do anything to help itself.
The earth just sitting there waiting to be destroyed by wealthy capitalists who have brought prosperity to this planet and the people of this population like at no other time in American history.
That's what I resent the most about this.
The fact that prosperity, a rapidly growing economy, opportunity for gazillions of people on this planet is causing this stuff, folks.
That ought to be the first dead giveaway as to who it is pushing this stuff.
Bunch of damn socialists.
I tell you, this is, and when they co-opt an entire TV network, and they think they're going to get ratings out of this, why they're doing it.
Well, plus they're pushing the political agenda side.
There's no question about that.
But they think they're going to get ratings out of this.
But I'll tell you, my good old boy buddies that watch football, the pregame show, and all of a sudden we get 30 minutes of preaching to us about turn out your lights.
How am I going to get to the beer if I can't see the refrigerator?
Is what the average football fan's saying.
You want me to sit here and watch a game?
How can I watch a game if I got to turn off my damn television set?
That's a damn light.
What are you doing?
You're making me watch the game.
I want to watch it.
You're broadcasting it.
You're putting it on my TV.
Go dark.
If you really mean this, don't televise the game.
Take your network dark all night.
If you really want to save power, don't sit there and tell us we should do it.
Well, you're making a show of turning off some Kleeg lights in the studio.
Mike in Lexington, Kentucky.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Bluegrass Dittos, Rush.
Happy to talk to you.
I just wanted to say how I accommodated their stupid request on NBC last night.
It follows what you just said.
I turned them off.
What, did you listen to the game on the radio?
No, I just didn't listen to it at all.
Well, it was a blowout.
You knew it was going to be a blowout.
The Eagles didn't have a chance.
Their season's over.
It was over before last night.
Well, it is.
I mean, it's a bad year for them.
And the Cowboys are Cowboys are for real.
Yeah, they are.
They really are.
Hell, I went to bed at halftime.
I wasn't such a blue funk.
I got tired.
I went to bed at 10 o'clock.
I didn't even watch it past halftime.
Nope.
But I left some lights on in the house.
Damn it.
I left more lights on my house last night.
I turned on all the turtle season is over, and I've got all of my outdoor lights blaring, blazing.
Screw it.
That's good.
And if NBC really wants to save energy, why don't they just go dark for 150 hours?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Make people miss them.
That's right.
If you really want to set an example, set the example.
Oh, preach to us.
Well, I don't think anybody would miss them.
Well, that's why my point.
Some of these clowns have missed the football game on Sunday nights.
Some of their other programming.
But you have a point.
I got to run.
Thanks for the call out there, Mike.
This is David in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Breeding the Maharashi.
Along the same lines, you know, I was going to go to Universal Studios during my Christmas break this year.
And, you know, I think I'll just stay home and not do that.
Yeah, because if you go there, you're going to make them run the exhibits, run the rides, show all the neat tricks they can do making Hollywood movies and so forth.
They ought to shut down the Universal.
It's up there at Disney World, right?
Shut it down.
Well, I mean, if they want to save some money and some power and they want to be communist, let them be communist.
Let's not use communists here.
Let's just say liberals and socialists.
They're being activists right now.
And believe me, they're doing two things here.
One of the things they're doing is proselytizing and preaching.
Number two, they're trying to get ratings.
They think this is a big ratings getter.
Don't forget that's the purpose of all media, is to get rating.
I mean, it's a business.
I don't mean that in a cutting way.
That's how you define business success.
And this is clearly what they're attempting to do.
Monte in Nashville, thank you for waiting, sir.
Welcome.
It is awesome and great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
You agree with me about 99% of the time.
The one place that we separate are the Dallas Cowboys.
I had a question for you.
Yeah.
Last night, I know your feelings about Donovan McNabb.
Who did you pull for, the Cowboys or the Eagles?
Oh, now you're trying to box me into a corner.
Absolutely, Rush.
How could you not root for the Cowboys?
Amen.
I agree with you, but I know being a Steelers fan, that's hard to do.
I don't have intrinsic dislike for teams that have been easily beaten by the Steelers in the past.
Well, it seems to me we won the last Super Bowl we played.
Yeah, that's true, but that's because there's something crazy about that game.
I don't want to sit here and talk football, but the quarterback throws these two interceptions where there's not a Steelers receiver anywhere around.
Can you say conspiracy?
I've always thought he was paid off, but I'm glad from a Cowboy standpoint that he was.
Yeah.
I'll tell you the truth about this NFL season is there's no NFC team that has a chance of winning a Super Bowl.
Cowboys included.
I agree.
Pure and simple.
Good.
See, you do agree with me more often than even you know it.
Quick timeout, folks.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
I'm going to have to turn them off or I'm not going to be able to get through this.
I'm watching PMS NBC and all their graphics are green.
And their weather guy is out on the streets of New York talking to some five-year-old about recycling.
How do you recycle?
Well, I asked my mommy, and she says, put it in that bag.
I really care about the earth.
This is how they do it, folks.
This is how they do it.
By the way, I got the statistics here on the carbon in the atmosphere.
38, get this now, 38 of every 100,000 molecules of air in the atmosphere are CO2.
That's 380 parts per million.
It takes mankind five years to add one molecule per 100,000.
So we've got 38 of every 100,000 molecules of air CO2.
Do you realize how small that is?
And it takes five years to add one more molecule.
So in five years, we'll be at 39 out of every 100,000 molecules.
And yet we get this BS on how polluted the planet is.
By the way, one of the callers today had a great point.
I don't know how we're going to reduce this because we all exhale.
And that's CO2.
Who's next?
This is Wayne in Eastern Virginia.
Hi, Wayne.
Nice to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Good, sir.
Thank you.
Sorry, Master Blue Funk, but I may add to it a little bit.
You know, the Blue Ridge Mountains stretch all the way from Maine to Georgia.
Yep.
They get their name with Blue Ridge Mountains because I'm a Ph.D. chemist, and pine trees exude a compound called pinene that is all carbon and hydrogen.
How do you spell it?
Pinene?
P-I-N-E-N-E.
Pinene.
And it's all carbon and all hydrogen.
Yes.
Yes.
It's also got a double bond in it, which makes it reactive.
So what's the point?
We've got to cut down pine trees.
It is.
That's right.
Every pine tree in the country should be cut down to reduce the carbon we put into the atmosphere.
But then what would happen to the Blue Ridge Range?
In despair.
Well.
Cut down all the pine trees.
Well, we can't cut down trees.
The environmentals won't let us cut down trees so that they'll burn the next time a fire breaks them.
I know that.
But they're just being so idiotic about the whole thing.
So you are not a member of the consensus of scientists who believes in this man-made global warming hoax.
No.
I believe that there may be some climatic change going on, but I don't believe it's global warming, and I don't believe that we have enough data to predict what's going to happen in the next 50 years.
Of course not.
That's why they say 50 years instead of next year, because 50 years, oh, we can't afford to wait.
We've got time to fix it, raise taxes, roll back your lifestyles, make some sacrifices, vote Democrat, and go socialist.
That's right.
I've done enough modeling, computer modeling, to know that I can tweak the parameters on the model and make it say anything I want to.
Well, of course, exactly.
The models do not factor in all the relevant data anyway, such as precipitation.
Because we can't even measure every drop of precipitation that happens on the planet every day.
We simply don't have the ability.
We don't have the systems.
We don't have the equipment.
And when you leave precipitation out of these models, it renders them worthless.
You know, you, as someone who doesn't believe in the man-made aspect of the warming that is going on, according to Al Gore, you, Wayne, are an outlier.
Yes, I know.
In scientific data, I would be called an outlier in physics.
It's just chopped off at the ankles.
Now, you know, but I want to make sure everybody else knows, outlier is spelled O-U-T-L-I-E-R.
And it means you're on.
It's not that you're lying.
It means that you are on the fringes.
You're way outside the mainstream of accepted science on this bogus hoax.
That's right.
And in science, outliers are ignored.
In fact, they are totally ignored.
And that's why they're called outliers.
All right.
Thanks, Wayne.
I appreciate that.
Well, so we're going to have to cut down every pine tree to eliminate.
Well, that's sacrifice.
Bye-bye, Christmas trees.
Cut down all the pine trees.
I mean, Christmas tree is a relative of the pine tree, which, by the way, the Brits, some stupid government agency in the UK has warned Santa Claus to lose weight because he's setting a bad example for British kids.
I kid you not.
I have that and more coming up on the program and the stacks of stuff.
Taylors, South Carolina, this is Katie.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just needed you to clarify something for me.
Yes, I'll be happy to.
I saw on the news that the polar ice cap is melting.
There's three different countries going for the oil that's underneath where all this ice had melted.
And Al Gore promised me that when that ice cap melted, that New York was going to wind up all flooded and it was going to be wiped off the face of the earth and it's still there.
What happened?
Excellent question.
Excellent question.
It is when Greenland melts that Manhattan will flood, not the Arctic Circle.
They had said the Arctic ice cap to start with.
Now they're changing the Glenn.
I know, it's a minor distinction because Greenland's very close up there.
Parts of it probably are in the Arctic Circle.
I hate it when they change their minds.
Yeah, well.
They got my hopes up.
We'll take a break on that and be back.
You hear the bump he's playing?
You hear the green onions?
Everybody's trying to get my goat today.
Way to go, Mike.
Santa Claus been tall to slim down to set a better example to children in the UK.
The Hollywood writers' strike, well, it's actually more than Hollywood, is going to impact some comedy shows, late-night TV shows, could impact news broadcasts.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have some comments on this in the next hour.
And of course, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that last night while NBC's preaching to everybody about turning the lights off, their blimp is showing two stadiums in Philadelphia, none of them being used, fully lit up.
The Phillies Baseball Park and what was Franklin Field.
Now, there was something going on there, but there are about 20 people in there.
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