Rush Limbaugh Program - November 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #3

All Episodes

Previous Next

Nov. 5, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program

36:17

November 5, 2007, Monday, Hour #3

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	It was uh it was Billy in Denton, Texas.
	Good, okay.
	Hiya, folks, welcome back.
	It's Rush Limboss, serving humanity simply by showing up, even in a blue funk, as I have been in since Friday.
	It's still broadcast excellence.
	Looking forward to talking to you.
	Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address is rush at EIBNet.com.
	You know, I got a lot of people say, Rush, how come you don't have a phone number like everybody else does?
	One eight hundred something or something rush.
	Because I'm not an egomaniac.
	We've had the number 800 two eight two two eight eight two for a long time, and it didn't know sense to change it.
	Everybody knows my name.
	Don't need a 1-800 rush number.
	I want to talk to you young people out there.
	I really do.
	Uh this uh little brief monologue upcoming, inspired by our call from Billy in uh in Denton, Texas.
	Good guy, don't misunderstand.
	This is this is not meant to be critical of Billy.
	Wouldn't do that, especially since Billy isn't here.
	But I have I have, I think, noted on this program on several past occasions that something about uh the new media, that the the explosion in new media and the effect that it's having on attitudes among young people, and I'm talking about recent college grads, uh high school students, uh people that are going to be entering the workforce soon, is this it's troubling to me, the all of the Myspace.com pages, uh uh My Face, uh you know, all of these things.
	YouTube.
	Uh it seems that what drives all of this is something that these these young people have not lived long enough to learn to cherish.
	What's driving it is this desire for everybody to know everything about them.
	And the desire th the desire to maintain some privacy about oneself is being cast aside.
	And that's you know, that's not good.
	Uh, you know, all of your life is not everybody else's business.
	But what is it that's driving this?
	What's driving this is in a in a media world, we clearly live in a media world is a desire to be heard, a desire to be known, a desire to be seen.
	Uh and that all boils down to a desire for fame.
	Now we've always had this uh in our culture, and has been typified by Andy Warhol's everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame at one point, but that was not something said uh in a complimentary way, means everybody's gonna make a fool of themselves one of these days, we're all gonna know it.
	Uh it's good if it only happens once for 15 minutes.
	When you make your life's mission to have everybody know everything about you, you are missing a key ingredient of motivation for success.
	Now, I re I don't know what you're saying.
	Some of you young people, what about you?
	What about you?
	You're famous.
	Yeah, but that was never my objective.
	Uh and you know, I don't have any regrets, but I'll tell you, uh I would trade it in a minute, but I can't.
	But I would gladly get rid of all of this fame.
	Unfortunately, I can't for a whole host of reasons.
	Number one, I'm in a show biz.
	But the the fame aspect is not had nothing to do with with getting into this.
	There are all kinds of motivational uh ploys that people use.
	Some are good and some are bad.
	Uh I myself have been fired in this in this business seven or eight times.
	Uh and there was one time that I thought, okay, I'm gonna show these people wrong motivation.
	Uh there was one time in my life where I didn't have any money, and I was surrounded by people who had gobs of it.
	And it made me feel you know what was this Well, not one of the gang.
	And so I became focused on earning money.
	It was miserable.
	Uh fortunately that only lasted for a year or maybe two.
	But the you know, if you want fame, uh it's like Billy and Denton said, Denton, Texas, and I think a lot of young people do, which is one of the troubling things about this new media, that everybody can get a little bit of it whenever they want it within some sort of limited audience.
	But it's not really fame if fellow MySpacers know who you are.
	You know, it's a it's contained within that universe, but what have you done other than put yourself out there?
	Have you accomplished anything to get that fame?
	Have you achieved anything?
	Is anything about your life noteworthy other than what you've had to tell people?
	Or is what you've done go beyond your telling people and people realize it?
	The key for for genuine happiness is to set high expectations for yourself in terms of work and achievement, and then go it go go go go uh meet them, and possibly exceed them.
	And then all these other ancillary things that uh that you think you want will fall in place.
	They'll happen if you if you if the achievement part takes place.
	Remember when I when I wanted to get on radio when I was twelve, my motivation was I hated school.
	I despised it.
	To me, it was prison.
	And I would get up every morning with my brother and my mother'd be fixing breakfast and she had the radio on.
	The guy on the radio was having fun, and I knew he wasn't in prison.
	And I knew when he finished his shift at nine or ten o'clock, he might have another job to go to, but he wasn't going to go to school.
	He was running his life.
	And when I was twelve, I wanted to run my life.
	I didn't want to have to be told by a bunch of people you've got to sit in this room and listen to stupid lecture on the thousand minor characters of Shakespeare, which I know I'm never going to use the rest of my life.
	But what about a rounded education?
	I think my education is pretty rounded.
	Took care of it myself.
	I mean, I paid attention class, I got okay grades in some places, but I hated it.
	But but when I finally got into radio when I was sixteen, the only thing that drove me was doing it as well as I could, just being the best I could be at it.
	That's what drove me, you know, and kept me going by getting fired all these seven or eight times.
	And we've all been fired.
	People that mount to anything have been fired.
	Uh and uh we're all of us who have been fired have all been told by some boss who fired us that we're no good, that we don't have what it takes.
	Uh what sustains you through that?
	Uh your self-knowledge that you are good, self-knowledge that you can do it, self-knowledge that you can excel at it.
	Not to prove them wrong.
	It's because of your your love for what you do.
	And you're not going to let somebody who fires you, who tells you you're not good or don't have what it takes.
	You do you're not going to let them ruin your dream.
	Now, naturally you have to have the dream, and you have to have the love.
	You have to find out what it is that you love doing, and then go for it.
	And if you do that, you'll never work a day in your life.
	Well, I take that back.
	There'll be drudgery days, but for the most part, doing what you love will never be talked of as work.
	You'll say, Yeah, I gotta go to work today.
	You'll want to.
	You'll want to go to work, and it will you won't look at it as work.
	It's where you it's where you go to be the best you can be.
	Uh we all have problems at work.
	We all have, you know, co-workers and people that are gonna snipe at us when we succeed and get on a success track, they're gonna be jealous.
	But hell, that's part of life.
	There's nothing new about that.
	You learn to deal with all these kind of things, but you can't you can't set out as your primary well, you can, and you might even achieve it.
	If you want fame, and if you want to be heard, noticed, or seen, you might be able to do it and pull it off, but I will guarantee you you're going to be miserable.
	Because then your whole existence is dependent on that kind of feedback, because fame and notoriety are the results of uh of things happening to you from others.
	And they can leave you as quickly as they found you.
	And then where are you?
	If you've got no foundation or substance that has generated the notice, the achievement, the fame that people uh claim that they want, then you've got nothing to fall back on.
	This is why I said last week, and I forget what this was about, uh, but uh the media was taken out after somebody, and it was it was uh it was relentless when I said this person's in trouble because the media did make them.
	Their achievement has not made them.
	And if the media, for example, if other people can make you in the sense of providing you notoriety and fame, then they can also destroy you.
	And you don't want to give people that kind of power.
	You don't want to give people on the one hand who love you in the moment and make you famous and so forth, you know how fickle people can be down the road, but if they don't care about you, then you're not famous anymore.
	And you don't have any notoriety unless you've got a foundation.
	So the motivation uh for anything work-related in life ought to be a finding out what it is you love, be honest about it, and then go do it.
	And if you can't find anybody to pay you to do it, find a way to get paid doing it, to pay yourself.
	Um, a lot of people are doing their hobbies, and that's what they love.
	And I'll bet a lot of you in this audience wish you could find a way to be paid to do your hobby, because your job is simply something you have to do in order to have money and time for your hobby and for other responsibilities in life that you have.
	So it really is a gift if you know early on what you want to do, and if you have a genuine passion for it, because that's that's what drives people who are really good at what they do.
	It is that desire alone to do it better and better and better.
	And if it ends up being done better than anybody else has ever done it, then you're in Fat City in all kinds of ways.
	But most importantly, the self-satisfaction and the inner glow of success and achievement, nobody can take that away from you when it's real.
	But they can take it away from you if it's phony and artificial, and if it's based on you just want to be famous, well, there are ways to do that, but they're not going to last long.
	I know a lot of people like this, by the way.
	I'm not going to mention any names.
	But I know a lot of people who are simply obsessed with fame.
	I hear from them now and then.
	Uh and I just, it makes me sad.
	Uh because I know they're unhappy, they're miserable, they're doing great work, but because others haven't noticed it yet, uh they're they're they're they're they're running around feeling miserable.
	Or maybe they're doing great things and others are getting the credit for, and they're running around being miserable because they're not being noticed or given the proper credit.
	If you live if if if your happiness is going to be defined by the feedback you get from others, uh if your if your happiness and success is going to be determined by making sure that uh others are willing to accord you the status that you want rather than earning it, then you're always going to be miserable because even when you get the fame without any substance, even if that's what you want, then you're going to be focused on keeping it.
	And nobody's going to want to be around you because you're only going to be thinking about yourself.
	You're only going to want to talk about yourself when you're with other people.
	You're only going to want to share your own tales of woe and love.
	Nobody wants to hear that.
	You have your own achievements, then you have confidence you don't need for other people to know it, feel it, or whatever, because it ought to be self-sustaining enough.
	Besides, all that stuff will happen, all the ancillary is the feedback and the success or of the success, the feedback, the notoriety to fame that will accrue if you're in a business where those kinds of things happen.
	Uh and there are a lot of businesses where fame does accrue to somebody where you wouldn't consider it to be a business of true fame, and it's all based in those people's case on their genuine achievement.
	So motivation's key.
	But I've been I have been concerned for people that are young over this this quest to just put every aspect of their lives up on various websites on the internet, because what it does say is notice me, notice me, notice me.
	But notice you for what?
	Notice you for just being who you are.
	Well, fine and dandy, but there's no achievement behind.
	It's no achievement to put all your data up on some website, have other people read it.
	Uh especially when they don't know you.
	You can lie about yourself and what a great person you are, all these achievements you've had, but who else knows it besides you and the others reading it and who knows whether they believe it.
	So it just it bothers me in the sense that it's not it's not a healthy uh motivation for for people to have.
	And since I care about young people, and I care that uh you know it like it really it really bothered me.
	Billy and Denton, Texas, is it a blue funk today, he said, because of the news.
	And all I would say to you about that is, you know, especially young people don't have the historical perspective, because with all people, our historical perspective begins the day we were born, and things that happened prior to our birth are not as important to us.
	We're not being taught about them very much.
	Uh and so that causes us to think more and more and more about ourselves.
	But I'll tell you this: do not, any this goes for any and all of you, not just the young people in this massive audience.
	Do not let the the never-ending drumbeat of catastrophe, apocalypse, doom and gloom that is on virtually every media outlet and in way too many movies.
	Don't let that affect you.
	You are an American, you live in the United States of America, you live in the most prosperous country the human race has ever produced and known.
	You have no reason to participate in this doom and gloom and apocalypse.
	Because for everybody who's participating in it, take a look out there at all the people who aren't.
	And ask yourself, why aren't they affected?
	Why are how come some people are happy here?
	And how come they're doing well?
	Because they're doing what they love, because they have confidence, and because they know the opportunities that exist in this country, and they're out there trying to access as many as possible rather than getting depressed over what a bunch of stupid idiot socialist liberals in the media are tr doing and saying and trying to make you feel rotten.
	Don't give them that kind of power.
	Okay, Madeline in Melbourne, Florida, hang on, we're coming to you real quickly, but before I get to you, we've got a contradicting uh survey.
	We had a BBC survey earlier today of 22,000 Britons, people all over the world.
	Something like 70 some odd percent of them would gladly pay higher prices, gladly pay more taxes, and gladly make sacrifices of their lifestyles to fix global warming.
	However, uh this is a uh story in the at PlanetArk.com Daily News.
	Uh people over fifty, this is the relevant uh graph.
	People over fifty among the most climate aware and affluent group were deeply suspicious of any government move to raise green taxes, viewing it as a money-making mechanism.
	People between sixteen and twenty-nine, especially men, were most likely to say the environment was a low priority for them.
	They offered a range of reasons for not changing their lifestyles.
	The survey by Millennium, an agency specializing in marketing to the uh mature, uh found eighty-four percent believe the government was capitulating on climate fears to raise funds, and also found little willingness among respondents to change lifestyles much, if at all, to benefit the environment.
	This another survey from the UK.
	Uh so good.
	Glimmer of hope over there to counteract the stupid report from the BBC.
	Here's Madeline now in Melbourne, Florida.
	Thank you for waiting, Madeline.
	Pleasure to talk to you, Rush, and my day off.
	Well, I've got three lights on in my house, the air blasting, got the oven, the TV on, and using as much toilet paper as I want.
	Had away, babe.
	My uh comment is um this is just getting so nauseating already with this hip global warming hypocrisy, and I want to know why they keep putting these whiny rug rats on Capitol Hill to be testifying, you know, for the for whatever matter.
	It's just getting ridiculous.
	Why don't you take a stab at answering your own question?
	Hmm, for the sympathy.
	Exactly right.
	If the children are crying, and if the children are upset, it's no different showing adults pictures of crying children than showing children pictures of so-called stranded polar bears.
	True.
	The children say, Mommy, mommy, polar bears are dying, and we're caught in it.
	What are you gonna do?
	What are you gonna do?
	In this case, you got all these adults.
	Oh, that poor child.
	Oh, that poor it's just Democrats exploit.
	You want to hear this with me again, Madeline?
	I know it drives you nuts, but uh people haven't heard it in a while.
	Love to haven't played it since the first hour.
	This is from an actual House hearing this morning, chaired by Ed Maki from uh Massachusetts.
	And the child is Cheryl Charlie Lockwood, and she's uh an Inuit uh from uh from Alaska.
	Just through my life, I 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 live lose our tradition, our 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.
	Republicans are gonna cut my school lunch too.
	I don't know what to do, Congressman Maki.
	That's the last time they tried that that I remember the Republicans out there, they got all these kids to go up there, we're gonna cut the school lunch program.
	The kids said they were gonna starve.
	You know, what are your parents gonna let you starve?
	Are they gonna feed you before you go to school?
	It was absurd, but um it's this stuff is it the you're you're right, Madeline.
	This is to tug at the heart strings of people uh because nobody wants a child to cry.
	Not even in Congress, where everybody should cry uh over what happens.
	Nobody wants child to cry.
	So it's it's it's just an attempt uh here to tug at people's heartstrings.
	And you know, to do whatever we can to make sure the child stops crying, and what do we got to do?
	Well, we gotta stop global warming.
	So the child's spiritual connection to her homeland and her communities and so forth doesn't uh melt away into the Arctic.
	Um we've all had a move for a uh host of reasons.
	Madeline, I appreciate the phone call.
	I got a quick timeout.
	We'll be back and continue here after this.
	Redefining hip on the radio, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
	And we go to San Antonio.
	This is uh Megan.
	Hi, Megan, nice to have you with us.
	Hi, Rush.
	It's such a such an unbelievable privilege to talk to you today.
	I appreciate that.
	By the way, Megan is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names, too.
	It always has been.
	Well, that's fabulous.
	It seems to be most people have been in their top ten for the last three years.
	It's been on the list.
	Well, I don't I don't doubt that.
	Yeah.
	Well, Rush, I wanted to um talk about what you were saying about my space and how you were getting a little discouraged about um well, I guess my generation.
	Um, I'm not not discouraged, I just want to remain hopeful.
	Okay.
	Well, I want to give you a little bit of hope, but I also want to give you a little bit of an explanation.
	Um my parents are uh baby boomers, and they are also probably listening right now and freaking out.
	Um they are very conservative and wonderful people who raise me right.
	Um obviously I listened to you for the last twenty years.
	Yeah, you pretty much.
	I think I was about nine or ten when we started listening.
	So that qualifies.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Um but I I know that my dad would freely admit that um the baby boomer generation um is really selfish, and a lot of me kind of stuff and find your dinner or whatever.
	I'm a baby boomer too, and I'm gonna tell you it would have been even worse if we'd have had things like MySpace and a Facebook, whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	Well, the thing I wanted to do.
	Exactly.
	Well, and then the problem with that is is that when you have children and you're in intensely selfish, and I know this because there's a big part of me that's selfish, and I have three little girls of my own now.
	Um, and they have really bad days when I'm focused on me.
	And uh they do more things to act out, they do more things to seek attention.
	So really, if you're looking at a bunch of teenagers and 20 somethings and even early 30 somethings that are plastering their lives on my space, I think honestly it is the whole look at me, look at me, look at me, because they were never really looked at.
	Um Well uh uh you might have a point, but I think isn't it quite common?
	It's why I didn't include teenagers in my brilliant monologue.
	Teenagers, it's always about meme, it's always about wanting to get noticed, wanting to be in a big click.
	Whether you're whether your parents have paid attention to you or not.
	Absolutely.
	So then you look though at the 20-somethings who should be kind of making their own way, and and because of you know, their own choices.
	I mean, they're still choosing to decide to plaster their lives on MySpace.
	But I think that that's uh a little bit of an explanation for why, and also just to give you a little bit of heart.
	Right, just so I understand.
	You say because their parents did not pay enough attention to them.
	Right.
	Or or that their only example was their parents being really selfish.
	See, thankfully, my parents at least knew enough to, you know, turn on the radio for me to learn the right stuff.
	But yeah, this is a big shout out to that lovely.
	They are gonna give you a little grief now.
	Oh, yeah, they are.
	But that's okay because I love them.
	And uh my father-in-law is listening right now too, I'm sure, so uh all of them.
	But I have to tell you, Rush, that there's a lot of hope.
	There's a huge chunk of people, a rise of like creative professionals who are doing what they love and loving what they do, and uh just keep your chin up over there.
	Now I understand that.
	By the way, I I I I'm I was trying to be helpful.
	I was not being critical.
	I was I was making some observations of things that I have seen, and I know because you know, I'm I'm probably close to the age of your father.
	I I know what the quest for fame can do if there's nothing uh Behind it, there's not there's no foundation underneath it.
	There's not there's no there.
	There's there's nothing you can hold on to when it uh when it will always fade.
	Uh it will uh it will always go away.
	But I appreciate that perspective, Megan, from the uh the fact that they're uh some baby boomer parents were too selfish and didn't pay enough attention to kids when they were young, and a kid's just trying to make up for that, just want some attention.
	But I think I think there's uh there's also a little bit more to it than that, and and this you know, our the baby boom generation did not have the opportunity to plaster every detail of our lives all over the internet.
	Uh this generation does, and uh this this is let me in fact I got an I got a letter here.
	I have a cousin who lives in Los Angeles, and he's in a band, he's a musician, very accomplished songwriter, still attending a university.
	And he sends me a note, it listens every day as a rush baby too.
	He says, Hey, I've got a MySpace page that I use as a promotional tool for the band, but there's one really important part about MySpace that you missed.
	The chicks.
	I put up a YouTube video of me playing piano, I started getting all these messages from girls, hot ones too, who are like, I've got to get to know you.
	You're so talented and cute.
	Say what you will about meeting girls online.
	MySpace has its uses, uh purposes.
	I know a bunch of friends who've closed the deal with a pretty girl they met on MySpace.
	All right, now we've talked about this before, too.
	Stephen, I don't know what closing the deal is with a girl on MySpace.
	But I know too many guys sitting around on Saturday night talking to their beloved via YouTube or via you know video uh instant message or what have you, rather than actually getting together with the girl.
	Like we used to.
	You know, what's the difference in meeting them online and hanging around in a parking lot of 7-Eleven waiting for somebody to come out you think is hot and then make your move.
	I used to do that.
	I used to go to grocery stores.
	When I lived in Pittsburgh, I'd go to grocery store and I'd just troll around waiting for some somebody I thought was attractive to go walking in, put make sure it didn't have a baby.
	You'd do the ring check, frozen foods exactly.
	Frozen food is the best section.
	And if I saw somebody, I'd be lurking there and I'd go up to them, I'd say, Pardon me.
	Do you know where I can find the frozen raccoon TV dinners?
	You know, because there's no such thing.
	I know nobody else was asking them that.
	It never worked.
	Uh primarily because there wasn't too many people I cared to ask.
	But I I admit, for guys, MySpace is uh, you know, probably a very good tool for securing chicks because let's face it, at that age, that's life's purpose.
	Um they will not listen to the advice of us oldsters uh who can tell them to look find one, buy them a house, pretend you hate them and leave.
	Because they can't afford to buy them a house yet.
	So they have to live it and learn it.
	Bob in Sedona, Arizona.
	Nice to have you with us on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Well, hello, Rush.
	Kudos to you from our family in Red Rock country.
	Thank you very much.
	I've been there.
	Yeah, well, we oh good.
	Yeah, we've uh we've been listening to you since you the first week you went national.
	Thank you.
	Bob, you know, I I I'm sure you've heard of you live in Sedona.
	I took the Pink Jeep Tour.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, that was that was great.
	Yeah, it was.
	Oh, they're all over the place.
	And I met one of the best massage therapists I've ever met out there.
	Oh, we got a million of them.
	Yeah, I forgot her name.
	Yeah, well, she'll call you and let you know, I'm sure.
	Hey, listen, I'm at the other end of the spectrum from uh Billy in Texas and that poor blubbering little girl in Congress.
	I'm eighty-six years old.
	And I've uh I've been through several of these warming and cooling uh uh cycles, and they're perfectly natural, and it disgusts me the the way these agenda-driven environmentalist wackos and and politicians are scaring the hell out of uh all the young people.
	And my message is them would be buck up.
	Um that's buck up with a bee, folks.
	Buck up with a bee.
	Yeah, just buck up.
	But uh I uh and just to prove my point, uh back in uh 1932 or 1933 in that area.
	Uh my it was depression back then, but my mother used to scrape up a nickel a week so that I could go to the picture show, they called them, now they call it the movies.
	And uh I can recall they had news reels, which uh, you know, it it gave uh uh news from all over the world.
	And uh one particular newsreel showed.
	Um melting ice, and it was at one of the poles.
	I can't re recall now whether it was North Pole or South Pole.
	Uh, but uh it was melting ice.
	I went home to my mother and I said, you know, one of the poles are melting.
	And she said, Oh, really?
	It didn't scare her a bit.
	And uh it just struck me as odd because back then they taught geo geography and the Constitution and stuff like that in the public schools.
	And uh uh it it just struck so this has been going on Rush for I know.
	You know, Bob, I've uh I'm gonna have to dig this story out of the archives because it's gonna prove very useful.
	But a couple of guys, and I forget who and from where uh chronically went back and covered media reports of climate change starting back in the late 1800s.
	And what they found was that there's a twenty-five to thirty year cycle.
	And every twenty-five to thirty years they change from global warming to global cooling.
	And they go and they they can always find a scientific expert quote to say, yep, it's cooling out there, we've got big big problems.
	No, it's warming out there, we've got big big problems, but they documented it with actual quotes from the New York Times and the late 1800s and other publications, uh, talking about the global cooling that was going to happen.
	Uh, and then twenty-five, thirty years later, that changes to global warming.
	And the the most recent cycle of this was nineteen seventy-nine.
	Yeah, basically.
	When Newsweek and Time both had cover stories on the coming global cooling and the coming ice age.
	They scared the people in Buffalo half to death.
	Up in upstate New York.
	Yeah, I know.
	And I it's it's it it it is a cycle, and it's what's happening here, and you've you've you've nailed it.
	Uh this is this is just a bunch of alarmists who have a political agenda trying to scare people into making sacrifices in their lives, which equals pay more taxes, pay higher prices, and roll back their lifestyles.
	Uh and people why would liberals care about that?
	Uh liberals care about controlling your life.
	It may be hard to accept that, because this is the United States of America, but that's the objective that these people have.
	I mean, when they want to take more income from you, leaving you less disposable income, uh, and and then when they want to make you uh turn to them for your health care, for example, and turn to you for whatever else that you need in life, tell me how much freedom you're gonna have when you can only get it from them, because A, they've taxed you to death, and B, they're the only ones providing it.
	Um you're stuck.
	This is exactly what they're aiming for.
	And the destruction they do to the society and the culture is not they don't care about that.
	They're after power, pure and simple.
	And the uh and the exercise of it.
	Bob, I appreciate the phone call.
	1933 newsreel.
	One of the polls was melting.
	He saw it at the picture show.
	Back by the way, we just remembered here after the call from Bob out in Sedona, Arizona, he went to the picture show in 1933.
	That's what my dad called it, the picture show.
	And he watched a newsreel, and one of the polls was melting in 1933.
	Uh 1934 was the hottest year on record in the United States of America.
	By the way, these two guys that were this report, uh just printed it out on the website.
	It takes eighteen pages to print as the as the website displays it, and it's not that long if you get the text version of it.
	But uh one of them is Dan Gaynor from the T-Boons Pick and Free Market uh Foundation.
	So I'm I'm gonna keep this handy here because you know, let me get it.
	Let me just read one thing to you from it.
	New York Times, May twenty-first, nineteen seventy-five.
	Scientists ponder why world's climate is changing.
	A major cooling, widely considered to be inevitable.
	The New York Times, May twenty-first, nineteen seventy-five.
	Listen to the way the story starts by uh Warren Anderson as a research analyst, Dan Gainer, the Boone Pickens free market fellow.
	It was five years before the turn of the century.
	Major media were warning of disastrous climate change.
	Page six of the New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of geologists.
	Only the president at the time wasn't Bill Clinton.
	It was Grover Cleveland.
	And the Times wasn't warning About the um uh it wasn't warning about global warming, it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.
	Page six New York Times, I'm sorry.
	The year was eighteen ninety-five, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last one hundred years where major print media predicted an impending climate crisis.
	Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be wiped out or lower crop yields would mean billions will die.
	It's a media phenomenon.
	Not saying that they spread it, although they might, it's that there are always experts out there who will say these things that the media will dutifully report because the media is oriented toward crisis.
	And there's always a bunch of crisis mongers out there who are crisis mongering to raise money.
	And it's no different than what's happening now.
	Gary in Pittsburgh, welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hey, how are you doing, Rush?
	Fine, sir.
	From Pittsburgh.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Hey, listen, uh, just to ease your blues a little bit.
	I'm about two miles as a bird flies from your favorite stadium.
	And uh, that would that would be Pines Field.
	Yes, sir.
	And if I climb to my roof right now, I'd guarantee you there's about 50 million watts worth of lights on.
	I know for a game that doesn't start for five and a half hours.
	Exactly.
	I hope that makes you feel a little better.
	Uh, but listen, uh, the reason I call is I we've got a mission here for uh you being the director of what we call the IRA.
	And which is uh Rush Intelligence Agency.
	That'd be the R I A. R-I-A-D-Don't confuse me with the I R A. No, no.
	It's like this little girl at call once and said she'd just gotten a puppy, they named it Mr. Limbo.
	I said, don't call a vet and say Mr. Limbaugh needs to be neutered.
	That would not be good.
	Uh but listen, the mission is this.
	Uh, with your spies and your uh uh and all your resources, I would love to know how many millionaires have been created out of this global warming.
	Well, Al Gore's one.
	Well, he's the biggest moose of them all.
	And uh uh but I I would be willing to bet that uh this is what drives it.
	Yeah, I mean, I think I think you're probably right.
	Follow the money.
	You've got these people selling carbon offsets, carbon credits, saying, Oh, yeah, I'll sell you these carbon credits for a hundred grand and I'll plant some trees for you.
	And all they're doing is uh is is accepting money from people so it could assuage their guilt over all the pollution that they're causing, but not actually cut back on using any.
	Exactly.
	If they would put that money towards uh uh hydrogen vehicles, it would probably be solved by now.
	Yeah.
	Good point.
	Uh we do have the Rush Intelligence Agency does has have tentacles and microphones everywhere.
	And we will see what we can do.
	That's actually a good point.
	Uh we got time to squeeze one more in here.
	This is uh uh Nick Rick, I'm sorry, in Alliance Ohio.
	You're next, sir.
	Hello.
	Uh hi, Russ.
	Hi.
	Uh yeah, you just hit on it, I think, the follow-the-money concept when it comes to NBC and GE.
	Yeah.
	Uh I think everybody knows that General Electric is the largest, I think the world's largest producer of wind turbine electric generators.
	And what better, what more green way to generate electricity is through wind power.
	So why wouldn't they be on all week promoting green technology?
	Uh well, um.
	Uh let's see if they promote technology down the road.
	They got to fill 150 hours, so I bet they do.
	What they've started out doing, they're not promoting green technology, they're promoting green sacrifice.
	That's true.
	But I think the only green they're looking for, Rush, is the green that goes to GE's bottom line.
	Well, I mean, of course.
	Well, whether uh whether developing an an audience, a loyal audience to GE and the NBC because GE cares.
	Because NBC cares, uh, and so forth.
	But no question that uh money is behind a lot of this.
	And to almost every question you ask, almost, just follow the money, and you will eventually get to the answer of the question that you are asking.
	All right, I promise we'll get to the Hillary Clinton stack that I had today.
	We'll get to it tomorrow.
	I've just been in a blue funk since Friday, and I just I just didn't want to talk about Hillary Clinton.
	I didn't want to talk about the Democrat presidential race.
	But I'll gut it up, and we'll do it tomorrow.
	In the meantime, have a nice evening, ladies and gentlemen, and I, all of us here back tomorrow to do it all over again.

▲