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March 20, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hello, my friends, and welcome back.
You are tuned to the Rush Limbaugh program from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
This also the headquarters of Operation Chaos, meeting and surpassing all objectives.
Great to have you here.
Fastest three hours in media already in our third hour today.
Telephone number is 800 28282, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Before, ladies and gentlemen, we uh we get back to Operation Chaos.
Our last caller dealt with the subject of uh ethanol.
Is any pronounced it ethanol as opposed to I've been saying ethanol, but I don't listen to television.
I use closed captioning, which is why I sometimes have to ask for the pronunciation of things.
Uh regardless.
I got a story from the National Public Radio here, NPR, February 7th, all things considered, liberal broadcast outlet.
Study ethanol, worse for climate than gasoline.
One of the things that I have discovered, you know, I spend countless hours of show prep, countless hours of brilliantly conceiving a strategy and then flawlessly executing it on this program every day.
And I still run into people who listen to this program who just like sheep buy into this global warming business.
And you know what?
I figured out what it is.
You know, I always say that people's historical perspective begins with the day they were born.
And that's the period of time in their life, obviously, their life that matters most to them.
And history education, particularly in the public school system, is so woefully inept that people become susceptible to the constant drivel and bilge of the drive-by media and their agendas.
One of the agendas is pushing this whole concept of global warming as man-made, climate change, whatever you want to cause it.
I and what when I talk to people, I give you an example.
Uh ran is somebody the other day in a golf course.
You know, I I think you're I think you're misunderstanding is global warming.
This is serious stuff, Rush, and you're you're laughing at it making fun of.
I said, What do you mean serious stuff?
Climate change happens all the time.
He said, No, I think, I think I think the climate.
Well let me put it this way.
What he said to me was in my words, uh, indicated to me that uh he thinks that the climate on the planet today is as it has always been, that it's never been different, and that we are worsening it.
And I pointed out to him, I said, did you recall you may not have heard me discuss this, but maybe you heard it in the news, that uh they discovered deep down underground in Greenland, evidence of a long lost civilization.
Used to live there.
He said, Yeah, so what?
I said, Well, do you ever wonder why they call it Greenland?
It's not green, right?
Have you ever wondered why they call it Greenland?
Oh, whoa.
No, I said, because it used to be.
You know why it used to be?
Because it used to be warmer up there, and that's why there was an ancient civilization up there.
And interesting.
I never look at it that way.
I said, I know you didn't because you are so willing to accept the guilt, and you're so eager to think that the vanity, the vanity of all of us who are alive today to think that everything on the planet today is as it has always been.
The redwood trees, pristine ancient forests, and so forth and so on.
Have a global warming update, ladies, just to illustrate the point how the drive-by media does this, one of our three rotating global warming update themes.
White comedian Paul Shanklin as Al Gore.
White comedian Paul Shanklin, the vocal portrayal there of Al Gore.
Take off on Johnny Cash's ring of fire.
At any rate, AP, ladies and gentlemen.
Massive series today on the wire.
I just I just bothered to keep one of the pages.
On the dangers the dangers associated with the arrival of spring.
The Capitol's famous cherry trees are primed to burst out in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month.
Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom until around April 5th.
In Central California, the first of the field skipper Sacum, a drab little butterfly, was fluttering about on March the twelfth, just twenty-five years ago.
The creature predictably emerged there anywhere from mid-April to mid-May.
Sneezes are coming earlier in Philadelphia on March 9th, when allergist Dr. Donald Vorin set up his monitor, maple pollen was already heavy in the air.
Less than twenty years ago, that pollen couldn't be measured until late April.
Pollen is bursting, critters are stirring, buds are swelling, biologists are worrying.
The alarm clock that all the plants and animals are listening to is running too fast.
Said Stanford University Biologist Terry Root.
Blame global warming.
No.
The fingerprints of man-made climate change are evident in seasonal timing changes for thousands of species on Earth.
According to dozens of studies and last year's authoritative report by the Nobel Prize winning International Climate Scientists.
More than 30 scientists told EAP how global warming is affecting plants and animals at spring.
It's getting warmer.
My friends, and we are threatened.
We are in perilous times.
We are destroying our ecosystem.
Biological timing is called phenology, by the way.
Biological spring, which this year begins at 1 48 AM Eastern time Thursday, which has already happened, is based on the tilt of the earth as it circles the sun.
The federal government.
Some university scientists are so alarmed by the changes that last fall they created a national phenology network of the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor these changes.
The idea said biologists and network director Jay Welson is to better understand the changes and more important, what do they mean?
How does it affect humankind?
There are lots of winners, losers, lots of unknowns when global warming messes with natural timing.
People may appreciate the smaller heating bills from shorter winters.
Shorter winters.
This has been a hor it snowed big time Chicago today.
Wisconsin a record in Green Bay for the amount of Montreal may it's so much snow it may not all melt this summer.
There has been global cooling over this past winter of a degree Celsius enough to wipe out the 100-year increase.
And yet, and this is just one page of this series, spring equals danger.
I can remember, I don't know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
Seems like every year the cherry blossoms in Washington were early.
Don't you remember that?
And there was alarm and there was cause and that for concern, but prior to that, oh my god, the cherry blossoms are out.
Whoa, this is cool.
Get to Washington fast to see them.
No alarm about it.
Uh well, this, you know, this biological alarm clock stuff.
I'll bet you that these phenology people have not even accommodated for glu for for the fact that we moved the clocks up an hour a month prior to when we should be done.
You want to talk about biological alarm clocks.
This this is this is so absurd.
The idea that everything on this, this is exactly my point, that everything on this planet happens at the same time every year.
There's the same amount of snowfall, same amount of rainfall, same amount of cloud cover, same amount of humidity, same amount of tornadoes, hurricanes, same amount except when there's a slightest deviation from one year to the next, it's because of us.
Well, because of you, because I have no guilt About it.
I accept no blame.
I don't think we have the power to affect anything like these changes that they say are happening.
We're mere residents here.
What about our biological clocks?
What about our biological clocks in springtime and so forth?
How about these people in Chicago?
It's the first day of spring, right?
No.
Butterflies may be out in California, but they're not in Chicago.
I'll bet there's not a whole lot of pollen in Chicago.
And I'll bet you there are a whole lot of people that wish there was pollen in butterfly Chicago because they've fed up with winter.
Get this.
This is from uh Letha, Idaho.
A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say.
Uh as Marvin ProLife Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 because the state's policy bars the use of slogans on the ballot.
This is an Idaho strawberry farmer is running for Larry Craig's seat.
Uh and Marvin ProLife Richards because he changed his name to pro-life.
Uh his name is pro-life, not Marvin Pro Life.
It was used to be Marvin ProLife Richards and they wouldn't let him use pro life as a middle eastern.
It's not just pro life.
And uh he says if I save only one baby's life, it's worth it.
You know, folks, Snerdley is constantly talking to me.
It's just that you all wondered why you can't hear him.
Trust me, there's a reason why that there's a microphone in there, but I control it.
What is toe-tapping have to do with pro-life, Marvin pro life rich.
Why do you want me to mention that?
We're going to the phones.
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Angela, thank you for waiting.
You're next to the EIB network.
Hello.
Monogamous dittoes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Socially monogamous dittos, yes.
Socially.
Well, that's what the story was.
If I go out and cat around and get home in time to put the kids in bed, it's social monogamy.
Oh.
This has bothered me so much, Rush.
Um, you thought I was being when I get upset like this, I listen to your show, and it makes me feel better.
Oh no.
So I hope you can because that's just oh my god.
Well, now wait, you didn't think.
You didn't think.
You don't think that I was advocating those definitions.
No, of course.
All right.
Of course not.
I've listened to you long enough to know better than that.
Right.
I'm just telling you what's out there as a result of a bunch of Democrats getting nabbed in this.
And I was a there would you never get stories like that after Republicans get caught in affairs using prostitutes or what have you.
No.
The fingers always pointed very strongly in their direction.
That's why I'm just saying if you Republicans are going to mess around, keep a copy of the story in the back pocket because of the new definition of social monogamy, and all involves getting home in time to put the kids in bed.
Well, the reason I called, and I I talked to your screener and I told him that my belief is that the family is the fabric of this nation.
It's what makes us great.
Um, and it's because it's what fuels everything that we do.
Um, it's what we work for.
It's what we die for when we fight for this country.
I've heard soldiers say that they are in Iraq, so their kids won't have to be.
I totally agree.
And I just feel like this is a these attacks on the family.
I wonder if these people know what they're doing.
Hell yes, they know what they're doing.
Don't uh I don't know.
Look at uh Angela's serious stuff.
There are a lot of people in this country who want to do away with traditions and standards like you have discussed here.
Standards and traditions that have made the country great because they themselves don't want to face judgmentalism or judgment uh from anyone.
And they want they want no standards, and in order to have no standards where they can live guilt-free by doing what they want, they have to wipe them out for everybody, so they have to have to attack them.
And this is this is uh uh we're under this assault constantly.
You know, the it's been called a culture war, uh any number of things, and and great writers have uh have written about it.
Now I'm sorry if you thought I was being flippant, but I I think this stuff has to be laughed at.
And and to to uh to illustrate the folly of it is to is to uh uh uh make fun of it is the best way to do it rather than to get all righteous and start pounding the desk uh and and everything.
That's just my way of choosing to deal with it.
I did not mean to uh have my flippant attitude indicate to you that my devotion to such traditions and standards has wavered uh in any way, shape, manner, or form.
You can trust that this program will stand.
I mean, look at one of my I I am Rush, I'm protector of motherhood, supporter of fatherhood, defender of children, other people's.
Uh I I will constantly uh stand for these values.
So you don't you need not need don't worry about this program.
And I understand the flippancy might have made you think I was laughing at something very serious.
Uh thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Mary in uh Antioch, California.
Glad to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
Liberal socialist dittoes from the financially sinking state of Mexico.
Oh, jeez.
Nice to have you here, Mary.
Thank you.
I'm so glad to talk to you.
You know, I uh posed a scenario to Bo, and he acted like I was stupid.
I hope you don't think this is a stupid idea, but I think wait, wait, wait, wait just a moment.
Okay.
I'm gonna put you on hold for a second.
Okay.
Don't don't go away, okay?
I just want to put you on hold.
Did you tell a caller?
Did you even make you have to tell did you actually tell this woman she was stupid?
Did you make her feel stupid?
Don't give me this, you don't know.
You know exactly what you did.
Did you asked her if she was for real?
You're in essence asking her if she's a kook.
Yes.
You bring bring Mary back.
Mary, I it's not that I didn't believe you.
I just had I had to ask this myself.
I am terribly sorry you had this where snurdley insulted your intelligence and made you feel like you're a cook.
Well, I just kind of felt like he, you know, I he kind of my scenario wasn't so smart after.
No, no, no, what did you tell him?
Okay.
My scenario is the classical conclusion of your ultimate chaos.
Yes.
What would happen if the city fathers of Denver got cold feet and they got scared that maybe if there was enough social unrest caused by this convention that their city might go up in smoke?
Would they try to back out?
I think that's a brilliant question.
Okay.
I think that is a I love the way people I think you are very forward.
It'd never happen.
Well, it would be hilarious, though if it did.
I'll tell you why it'll never be around like liberal little bunnies trying to do that.
Tell you why it's not gonna happen.
It's not gonna happen because they're not gonna throw away the money.
Uh-huh.
And even if the Democrats come in and have a couple riots and torch things, there's repair costs for that.
It's a win-win for the city of Denver, however they look at it.
Happily so, making the complex understandable.
What are the many fine and strong suits?
Lovely EIB network.
Well, back to Operation Chaos, ladies and gentlemen.
Um liberals just want it over.
Uh why doesn't the Democrat parties this is AP from a national Tennessee?
Why doesn't the Democrat Party hold a presidential primary among its superdelegates to reach a quick decision between Obama and Hillary?
Tennessee Governor Phil Breedison, Bredison Breedison proposed the idea Wednesday, saying Democrats will suffer in November if a nominee isn't decided until the convention.
But that's about as far as the idea will go.
Howard Dean, chairman of Democrat National Committee does not endorse the idea of a superdelegate primary, said his uh spokes babe, Stacey Paxton.
Uh Breedison first proposed the idea in an opinion piece at Wednesday's edition of the New York Times.
Acknowledged that the superdelegate primary doesn't have a chance of becoming a reality if it's not run by the DNC.
Said he had spoken with Clinton, who certainly wasn't repelled by the idea, said he also planned to speak with Obama.
This is this is cool.
Do you understand, folks, what this means when you've got the governor of Tennessee writing on the op-ed pages of the New York Times to just end all this and do a superdelegate primary right now?
That is all about ending Operation Chaos.
And of course, it would be hell to pay if that happened.
So it's not going to happen.
Worsening polls reveal Obama's pastor problem.
Democrat Barack Obama suffered in the polls today after his speech on race, uh waging an acrimonious battle against Hillary.
Obama confessed to being bruised by the controversy surrounding his longtime preacher.
Obama said we've got the audio of this coming up.
In fact, play number 10.
This is this is the grab audio sign by 10.
This is exactly what Obama said last night on CNN.
Anderson Cooper said, How badly do you think this has damaged you?
How much does it hurt in some ways this?
Uh this controversy has actually shaken me up a little bit and gotten me back into remembering that get get this now.
Get this the odds of me getting elected have always been uh lower than uh than some of the other conventional candidates.
And if I bring something to this conversation, it's gonna be because I do what I did yesterday, which is hopefully open up a new conversation about a new direction in the country.
I'm beginning to think that we might be looking at the first stages of the slice of bread in the toaster.
People hitting the lever.
Not quite toast yet.
But do you realize what he just said?
He just you just lowered expectations here by about half the height of Mount Kilimanjaro.
He said, let me translate this for you.
He said, I have been shocked into remembering I didn't stand a prayer anyway because I'm black.
You know, I've uh my my odds of getting elected have always been lower than some of the other conventional candidates.
And if I bring something to the So he tried to get by with transcending race, he was forced into making his speech, now he's the candidate of race.
And now this is a sympathy play, this is a victim play.
Obama now asking us to look at him as a victim.
I know, Hillary cried, and now it's his turn.
And and uh but Hillary, she didn't more than cry.
I mean, she she's run the gamut.
You're right, though.
Hillary has had it, she's been allowed to play the victim card all over the place.
Operation chaos.
And from the Boston Globe today, Clinton Camp argues Obama is falling.
While not specifically mentioning the contract involving Barack Obama's former pastor, he uh pastor Hillary Clinton's campaign is already pressing the case that the polls excuse me, are showing its impact and raising questions about what it'll do to Obama's electability in November.
Mark Penn, her chief strategist, issued a memo this morning that argues that polls are starting to show a shift her way.
This is this now the the Clinton camp is gonna say, okay, we got the momentum.
The hell would a delegate count.
We got the momentum.
Obama's plummeting.
And even if you give him a nomination, you're not gonna be able to reverse the momentum.
And we're gonna give it to McCain.
Operation Chaos.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Yesterday in Detroit, a union event.
Hillary Clinton.
Here in Michigan, 600,000 people turned out on a cold and snowy day in January to cast your votes.
And you made it abundantly clear that you wanted your voices to be heard and your votes to be counted.
And in Florida, 1.7 million people Did exactly the same.
Now, these nearly two and a half million Americans are in danger of being shut out of our democratic process.
I think that's wrong, and frankly, it is un-American.
And we cannot let that continue.
All right, now stick with me on this one more soundbite here again from the same union event, Hillary Clinton.
Ignoring Michigan and Florida would be a grave mistake.
We won't be able to end the war in Iraq.
We won't achieve universal health care.
What?
We won't end the housing crisis and get the economy moving again unless we win in Michigan and Florida in November.
Who is it that destroyed the Michigan economy?
We got a one state recession in this country and it's run by Democrats.
Jeff Bush is sitting around, he's amused by all this in Florida.
But now, let's go back to October 11th last year, 2007, for those of you in Rio Linda.
This is on New Hampshire Public Radio.
The guest, Senator Hillary Clinton, the uh New Hampshire Public Radio hostette, Laura Canoy or Noy, K N O Y says, so if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan?
Why not just say, hey, Michigan, I'm off the ballot?
You know, it's clear this election they're having is not going to count for anything.
Hillary Clinton last doctor said election in Michigan not going to count for she knew it wasn't going to count.
And they didn't care it wasn't going to count for anything because she was going to be coordinated after Super Tuesday.
Operation Chaos.
Jeff in uh Mary'sville, Tennessee, or Maryville, Tennessee.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Ah, did it from the patron state of shooting stuff, Tennessee?
Thank you, sir.
Well, I'd like to refute what this uh agriculturalist was saying about uh ethanol, because I own the small business in Jacksonville and we sell chicken and Florida foods.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Jacksonville, Tennessee?
Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville, Florida.
You own a small business that sells chickens?
Yes.
Well, chicken, we have a winghouse.
Okay.
And uh in seven in a seven months.
Wait, wait a second.
Wait a second.
This is something that people of Rio Linda may know that I don't.
What is a wing house?
Well, actually, it's Dick's wings.
Uh it's kind of it's we sell chicken wings, we sell burgers, we sell rats.
No, it's a restaurant.
Oh.
Oh, I got it.
So you get the wings of the chickens, and then you prepare them for like buffalo wings and that sort of thing to go out to restaurants.
That's right.
Cool.
Cool.
You ever thought about advertising on this program?
Well, you know, uh that's what I'm doing right now.
Yeah, without paying for it.
Very smart.
Okay.
Touche, what's the name?
What's the name of your wing business?
It is Dick's wings.
It originated in uh Florida, uh, mainly Jacksonville, Florida, and uh we're spreading up uh through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina soon, so you'll be seeing it.
Wait a minute, how can you be expanding?
We're in a recession.
It's really hard with uh the price of chicken these days, too, and that's what I was gonna get for it.
Okay, so Dick's wings.
But now you don't sell retail, right?
You sell wholesale.
Uh no, actually we sell retail.
We sell directly to the customer, just like Hooters or you know.
Or like Allen brothers.
Or McAllen, but well, McAllen brothers, they're they're wholesalers, right?
Well, no, but they sell directly to customers, too.
Oh, okay.
No.
So Dick's wings, it's a restaurant?
Yes, it is.
Oh, I thought it was a processing plant.
That's that's why I was confused.
I wonder, what in the world are you only processing chicken wings for?
We need to get a wing plant.
You know, a plant to me is a factory.
I wasn't clear.
I I'm sorry.
That's my fault.
Not yours.
You communicated perfectly.
I just didn't know the lingo, but now I have.
That's such a learning experience for both of us.
What was it, Dick?
I forgot you call about or Jeff.
What what was it's a it's about the food price?
Well, no, it was about ethanol and how it does not affect uh food prices.
Oh, like the guy in Iowa said.
That's right.
The liberal in Iowa, because I know that your liberal radar had to be going off, because that guy was not a conservative.
He was full of subsidies.
Let me tell you something.
There let me no, I I'm I wasn't that confident.
There are a lot of Republican people in Iowa and in other in other carn corn states that really depend have come to count on these subsidies in any number of agricultural products.
And when anybody starts attacking the value of the subsidy, they got to call them defend and protect it because they don't want to lose it.
Ah.
So uh it's what is your evidence to support your claim on this program?
Well, this is what I got.
In the last seven months, our corn oil prices have gone up from five dollars to six dollars and eighty cents a gallon.
And a case of chicken has gone up from forty-four dollars a case to sixty-two dollars a case just in seven months.
Ergo, food prices by definition are up, not only retail, but at grocery stores.
But not all fruit prices.
You would expect that chickens and cows would be made probably in the same places, same areas, and with his theory about gasoline prices affecting it.
So it's only things that survive or are fed on corn.
You know, if chickens would eat rice, we'd be a lot better off.
We probably won't be seeing the increase in the tried it.
No, we haven't, but we are switching to rice oil to fry it.
Really?
Yes.
Rice oil from corn.
Have you ever thought about coconut oil?
What how does that price compare?
You know, I don't know.
Well, you ought to look into that because well, the Nazis, the food Nazis may not let you do that.
That they used to pop popcorn and coconut oil in all the big time movie theaters, and that's what gave the theater that great smell to popcorn the great taste.
And then this this two-person unit with a fax machine called the Center for Science and the Public Interest came out and said coconut oil clogs the otteries worse than anything, which it doesn't.
And so people are now using canola oil in these uh movie theaters and so forth.
But you want to look into it.
It it it would make it would make your wings taste like any nothing like anybody else's.
I would have to look into that.
You are to you ought to you you want to get a little I'll tell you what you you you can look at.
You know where to get coconut oil, you can you can find it.
Yeah.
And just put just fry up some wings or however you prepare them for yourself and some co test market and see what comes out.
I have no idea what the price of the coconut oil is, so it might be prohibitive.
I have one question.
Yeah.
Was there ever a single subsidy that ever did anything good for the consumer?
Single subsidy that ever did anything for the consumer.
Besides raised price.
Aside from...
Aside from what?
Besides raising prices, I mean, what what you know, most subsidies that I see, if the government gets her hand on anything that should be free market price, the consumer gets hurt.
Well, you know, here's here let me give you an answer.
I'm gonna long in this segment here, folks.
The next one's gonna be short.
But you could look at the home mortgage interest deduction as a subsidy to the housing business, for example.
And you could say that the home mortgage deduction has uh enabled a lot of people to buy homes.
And it's a bill allowed a lot of builders to build homes, and it has created revenue uh for people.
Now you probably have some people argue that uh uh yeah, it's a subsidy, uh, and uh therefore it's artificial, but uh you you try taking people's mortgage deduction away from them, and it's gonna be just like farmers trying to take their ethanol away from them.
They're not gonna let you do it.
So that'd be a hard question to answer.
I get your I get your point theoretically.
I'm gonna think about this more.
Uh great question, Jeff.
I gotta don't forget the coconut oil.
Try that.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Al Sharpton guessed it on Fox last night, Bill Hemmer said, uh, Reverend Sharpton, you said in part, I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you, meaning Obama, Hillary Clinton's never done nothing for us.
Do you stand by that?
Well, why don't you read the whole statement?
I said she's never done nothing for us as an organization talking about National Action Network.
The connotation is that I'm talking about blacks.
Well, I was speaking to people at National Action Network over the weekend with all of this controversy.
Uh I think the Senator Clinton certainly can't call on me not to say don't support she's never done anything for us.
That's the context.
Thank you, Reverend Sharpton.
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the LA Times column Barack the Magic Negro.
We intended to play this tune in honor, but we forgot it, so here it is now.
Sharp didn't sing it.
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Well, that's it, folks.
Uh the end of today's effort at more fun than a human being should be allowed to have tomorrow.
Open line Friday, and we will be talking in the second hour tomorrow to Senator Arlen Specter about his new book on surviving cancer, the NFL business with the spygate and judges and confront confirmation.
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