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July 2, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, I saw it, snerdly.
I saw it.
The CNBC apparently going to be talking about my new contract extension with a round table group of experts.
The topic is, am I worth it?
Yes, yes, they are.
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We're doing open line Friday on Wednesday today.
Jason Lewis will be here tomorrow.
We've got a best of show, a doozy, uh, that will run on Friday, the uh the 4th of July.
Uh and so when we go to the phones today, whatever you want to talk about is fair game.
The content of the program when we go to the phones is up to you.
Ladies and gentlemen, time to talk a little bit about the Democrat National Convention.
What do you mean?
What am I going to talk about?
Is it worth it or am I worth it?
Can we how about a little basic econ 101?
You know, this do you remember there was a the left attempted at one time to establish a a uh a policy, a program called comparable worth, where they wanted themselves, they wanted the government to establish the value of various jobs, from teacher to garbage collector to what have you.
Because the whift is totally absorbed with the equality of outcomes so that there won't be any unfairness and all that.
It's actually their desire is more devious than that.
But the concept of worth.
Uh the the one one thing I think people still may not understand this.
Nobody's paying me this.
This is earned.
There's this little thing called ownership.
And it's it's earned.
And you are worth what you earn.
If you undersell yourself and don't charge the proper value for what you think you are, then you're never going to get proper value.
You're never going to get accurate value.
You know, one of the one of the biggest problems in pricing for people who have a great product or service is to not underprice it too much because it might be perceived as not having a whole lot of value.
And you can overprice things to the point that people aren't going to go anywhere near it for a host of reasons.
But for in in any way you want to discuss worth and value, whether it's a product, whether it's a service, whether it's a salary, you're worth what somebody will give you for it.
Or you're worth what you can earn doing it.
So to sit here and pass judgment on is somebody worth this or with it, it's a foolish question, and it is not applicable.
Now I know it comes up when big oil executives or some CEO of uh some failing company leaves, gets a golden parachute of 56 or 60 million dollars and something.
Well, he wasn't worth that.
I mean, the company went to hell.
Why are they giving a big golden parachute?
It wasn't not worth that.
See, somebody thought he was.
Or she.
And all it takes is one on a compensation committee or a majority in a compensation committee.
And uh, and that's that.
This this value, this business of value and worth when you're talking about individuals and uh and what they earn is rooted in class envy.
More than uh more than anything else.
At any rate, we're gonna go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen.
The Democrat National Convention, as you know, is coming up.
If in case you haven't heard, no fried food for delegates at the Democrat National Convention.
The food is going to have to be color coordinated, so that it's pleasing to look at.
No fried food whatsoever at any official function at the Democrat National Convention.
It is the weirdest of the extreme wacko left on parade.
But they've also got a price, as you know, there are a bunch of protest groups out there called Recreate68.
Number of others.
They also have, much as New York had in 1992, in Denver, they've got a little bit of a problem about what to do with the homeless during the Democrat National Convention.
Clarence Frogman Henry.
From the Groveyard of Forgotten Favorites.
Official homeless update theme.
This is the frogman imitating a frog.
Wrap it up here, Clarence.
Clarence Frogman Henry from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, a homeless update theme.
I take the job, he once said to us on the phone here.
We're going to do a rush to excellence appearance somewhere.
Wanted him to go along.
I take the job, he said on the phone from uh from New Orleans.
Now, they got 4,000 homeless people in Denver.
Did you know this?
You never hear about the homeless in Denver.
You hear about them in San Francisco.
You hear about them in New York.
I never hear about the homeless in Denver.
They got 4,000 of them out there.
And Denver has promised to make these nearly 4,000 homeless people comfortable during the Democrat National Convention in August.
They have enlisted private donations for extra hours at local shelters.
They want private donations to go out and buy flat screen TVs to install at the homeless shelter.
And they want those flat screen TVs turned to cable news in the evening.
So that a homeless will watch the Democrat convention.
They want to sweep them off the street.
Now, not even New York thought of this.
Back in 1992, they just came around, picked them up like a bunch of vagrants, put them in paddy wagons, and took them way down near Wall Street and said, okay, gang, it's up to you to walk back.
This was at Madison Square Garden.
It took them over two weeks to get back up there, but they swept the homeless from the area at Madison Square Garden.
We did.
We sent Lobianco out with a video camera out there trying to find the homeless.
They were nowhere to be found.
I think if Denver, if you let me give you some advice here.
We're dealing, we're dealing with a homeless, and you're dealing with Democrats, and you don't want them seen, right?
You don't want the homeless seen anywhere near your convention.
This is crazy.
The homeless are your voters.
The homeless are people that you turn to.
These they're living a life of misery, and they are the people that you think make up the country.
This is they're suffering from the Bush administration policies and all of this.
So you want to get them out of the way?
No, don't get them out of the way.
Give them some walking around money.
If you're gonna get them from flat screens, go out and get them some cigarettes.
Buy them some adult beverages so they can watch television, little popcorn.
And while you're at it, put some voter registration cards in the homeless shelters while they are watching your convention.
And make, in fact, make registering to vote a requirement to get into the homeless shelter.
The Democrats are losing touch.
They used to be smarter than this.
Now, such accommodations, it says this is a New York Times story today, such accommodations will not be offered to the dozens of groups planning to protest the convention, who have complained that they are being forced to protest from fenced enclosures.
Freedom cages, the protesters are calling them.
Well out of earshot of the convention site.
Tom Mestnick, a member of the Recreate 68 Alliance.
And stop and think of that.
If you want to recreate 68 at a Democrat National Convention, what do you want to recreate?
Mayhem.
Riots.
General anarchy.
And so Denver and the Democrats are going to put them behind a fence, a freedom fence.
Freedom Cage.
And this member of the Recreate 68 Alliance, an umbrella group organizing the protesters, said, We're going to be like zoo animals.
We're going to be hundreds of feet away from the delegates.
They won't be able to see us.
They won't be able to hear us.
It's really creating Boston and New York all over again.
The ACLU helped file a lawsuit on the behalf of more than a dozen protest groups, arguing that their First Amendment rights are being violated by the restrictions that Denver and the Democrats are putting on them.
Glenn Spagnuolo, the uh spokesman for Recreate 68, said the planned freedom cage site was obscured by news media tents, which will be placed between the protest.
Everything is fallen apart here.
You know, this is this is well, that's a good question.
H.R. wants to know how they're gonna tell the homeless apart from protesters.
Uh The protesters will be behind cages.
The uh the homeless will be in shelters watching television eating fried food.
The fried food will be at the homeless shelters, not inside the convention hall.
But this this disappoints me.
The Democrats used to be, particularly protesters, fence never stopped anybody.
Chicago.
All these restrictions never stopped anybody in Chicago.
Jump the fence, Glenn.
Crying out loud, you guys aren't worth your name.
Recreate 68 if you're just going to sit there as a bunch of docile little puppies and agree to be absconded and placed behind a cage.
You guys are not the protesters I always thought you were.
I mean, you're gonna you you're you they might be too old to jump the fine.
I hadn't thought of that.
Too old to j don't go in the fence in the first place then.
Or if you go in there, go in with some wire cutters so you don't have to jump the fence.
These protesters are letting me down.
These people used to nothing would stop them.
And now they're becoming a bunch of conformists.
The media and the Democrats want them in cages, and they're gonna go inside cages and complain about being treated like animals.
You know, what was shaping up to be a riotous, in a humorous way, of course, uh Democrat National Convention is gonna be a giant bore fist.
I mean, for crying out well, why don't you guys at least go talk to Bill Ayers in Chicago, get some tips here, maybe a couple bombs somewhere?
One of Obama's supporters to sit, well, I mean, that's it may sound a bit much, but I mean that agree to be imprisoned as a protester in a cage.
And have Democrats put protesters in cages.
I don't know.
I think the protesters have to bring their own food.
I don't think the Democrats are gonna give them food.
They give the media food, but they're not gonna give the protesters food.
Now this is this is a bad sign.
This is disappointing.
Uh I have to take a quick time out here, folks, a little long.
Be right back after this.
Don't go away.
So you think 35 seconds before the drive-by's pick up on the uh the Bill Ayers comment.
35 seconds.
Well, 35 seconds has gone by, and they uh haven't picked up on it.
Arthur in Knoxville, Tennessee, you're next as we go back to the phones here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush.
Hey.
What kind of position did you put the fairness freakos in now?
What kind of position did I put the fairness uh freakos in now?
You mean the people that are uh uh advocating for the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine?
Where are they gonna find anybody to match what you did?
Uh their legs right from under him you did.
The fairness doctrine as defined by finances.
I had I had to look at it that way.
I have had some people email me today, Arthur, uh, that this is you know, Rush, this is gonna make you a bigger target, and this is just gonna make the fairness doctrine advocates uh even more intent on uh shutting you down.
That doesn't matter.
Where are they gonna get the money to fight you?
Arthur, I like you.
You just you cut to the chase out there.
Uh you know, the fairness doctrine, uh, we we this this comes up, and we talk about this every now and then.
Now, Obama, I have to tell you, I've got the story in the stack.
It's from a couple of days ago.
Obama says, or somebody in his campaign said, we don't care about the fairness doctrine.
We got bigger fish to fry than that.
We have no intention of reinstating the fairness doctrine.
Obama doesn't have to say it because Nancy Pelosi has.
A number of other Democrats have.
But the fairness doctrine, I mean, they may try, folks, but look, they're not going to just be able to succeed with this overnight if they try it.
They're gonna have all kinds of opposition.
And the kind of opposition that they fear most, and that's going to be from you, the American people.
The American people are not gonna put up with it.
There's too too high a level degree of sophistication now.
Understanding what would happen if the fairness doctrine were implemented and reinstated.
Uh, the broadcast community.
Yes, it's regulated by the FCC, but you look at uh when I started my national radio show in 1988, there were 125 radio stations doing talk.
Today, some twenty years later, it's over twelve hundred.
Now that means that the talk format has withstood all the other downturns formatically in radio.
You know, certain music formats are having trouble.
Uh certain certain a lot of formats are having trouble.
Uh talk radio is not.
The industry is just not going to sit aloud sit around and let the Democrats make it worthless without a fight.
It's it's not, it's going to take much more than the snap of a finger or the waving of a magic wand to uh to to bring this about.
So, I mean, I have no doubt the Democrats want to do it.
I have no doubt that Nancy Pelosi wants to try it.
They are typical in that way.
They don't want to put up with people that they disagree with.
They don't want to put up with criticism.
They don't want to engage it.
They just want to silence.
What do you think political correctness is?
Political correctness is nothing more than using intimidating tactics to make people shut up and not say things that liberals don't want to hear.
Pure and simple.
Ed in Wheeling, West Virginia What?
Oh, Snerdley just interrupted me, ladies and gentlemen, to describe for me what is being discussed about my uh new deal on uh CNBC.
There's somebody up there who looks like Lex Luthor.
And you say he's upset, he really upset.
Really?
Really?
Lex Luthor on CNBC, and he's really upset.
Well, you look like you're enjoying it in there.
I'm sure I know who it is, it's Michael Wolf.
Michael Wolfe, he's a New York journalist and and uh is he's uninformed, doesn't know how these things work, uh, just jealous, angry.
I heard before I with a commercial break in and you know, I don't know who would make this deal a stupid deal.
I mean, Limbaugh is uh said to have been this great revival factor for conservatism.
So I don't know if anybody's seen the news lately, but conservatism is about over.
So you just you just have to laugh at these people.
And Snerdley is laughing, he just couldn't wait to tell me.
Uh look at Ed in Wheeling, I'm sorry for teasing you, buddy, but stay on hold for a couple more minutes, and we'll come back after this timeout and get to you.
Okay, Ed and Wheeling, hang on here just a second.
We've got a couple audio sound bites from CNBC.
Uh what we were just talking about.
Uh here's Cut 18.
This is the info, babe.
Uh uh Amanda Drury, who is promoting the upcoming segment.
And is Rush Limbaugh worth 400 million dollars?
Is anyone worth that?
Well, that is what Clear Channel is reportedly paying for him for an eight-year contract.
Should you be buying clear channel?
Am I?
Am I with it?
I I uh never mind.
Here's Michael Wolfe, uh, the guy you thought was Lex Luthor.
Uh he's beside himself.
AJ just beside it is a monster error.
I think it's a monster error.
I'm sitting here saying, what are these people smoking?
You know, the truth is that Rush Limbaugh has been um uh he's ridden the rise of conservatism for 25 years, and I I don't maybe nobody quite quite has been following the news, but that's coming to an end.
It's gonna be over, and Rush Limbaugh in a relatively short period of time is gonna look like a kind of really out of it oddity.
And I cannot, for the life of me, imagine how someone could have made this deal.
CNBC, if if you keep this up and you keep putting inane ignorant people who have no understanding of how media works, if you keep putting them on to discuss me, I am going to buy your network and start doing things right or else shut it down.
Now, Ed, in Wheeling, West Virginia, we're back to you, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you, and you're worth it.
Thank you, sir.
My son, who I love more than life itself, is as far left as I am right.
He's a believer in global warming.
But the one thing we have in common, we both are not smokers, and we both enjoy a fine cigar.
But my question is, what if the global warming people are correct and we do nothing?
Well, two things.
Uh two things about this.
Depending on how far back you want to go.
I mean, I if you go to Rush Limbaugh.com, do our essential essential stack of stuff, you will find numerous stories on global warming where the advocates say it's already too late.
That we've passed the point of no return.
There's nothing that we can do.
My answer to you, Ed, is I don't think we could cause it.
And if we can't cause it, we can't fix it.
Uh when all of this industrialization started and people began to buy automobiles and electricity and electrically powered items, utensils, and gadgets and so forth, did anybody warn us back then that this might lead to the climate getting warmer, that we were going to perhaps bring about significant catastrophic climate change.
Nobody did this.
This first came up in 1984, shortly after five years of a global freeze attempt that was headlined in both the New York the uh Newsweek magazine and Time magazine in coming ice age, they said.
This is a purely political movement.
It is ideological.
Ask yourself why people on the left and right disagree.
Because it's understood that liberals are pushing this.
It is the latest platform to expand what they believe in.
Big government, higher taxes, less mobility, less freedom, blaming America.
This issue has it all.
And it has it all in an in a way that is is uh brilliant in this sense, because what the damage isn't supposed to happen for 30 years or so.
The real the catastrophe is not supposed to happen for thirty years, and so they get they get to own an issue for thirty years.
Now they're really wrong about that, because if we did everything that they say, the earth would get dirtier, pollution would not be cleaned up, we wouldn't have the energy or the power, the technology to do it.
Lives would be lived in a uh uh a much dirtier fashion.
There would be far more pollution, sanitation wouldn't be nearly as good.
Uh it would be like in the eighteen hundreds, late eighteen hundreds when your average city had horse manure in the streets.
This is they if they successfully ban the use of fossil fuels, all it would do would create a much larger mess.
We already clean up our messes.
We have already expanded the uh the uh ability and the technologies to clean up pollution far better than any other major industrialized country in the world.
If we sat around and did nothing, uh I can't tell you what's gonna happen with the climate, and neither can anybody else.
Their models are flawed.
If we did nothing, what's gonna happen?
Why can't we we can't tell?
Why can't there be a compromise?
Just L Platoon and carbon emissions.
And do something.
I believe in cyclical, but my son believes it's it's it's happening.
See, I don't I don't want to compromise with communists.
I don't want to compromise with socialists.
I don't want to compromise with people who are going to blame one country for this, while we are supposed to compromise and be concerned about our carbon footprint.
The Chicoms have basically told the world to go to hell when it comes to that.
That they've got an economy to grow, that they have people to feed, that they have people to move around.
Uh I I don't what what what what what kind of compromise?
Carbon footprint?
Do you realize CO2 is not even a pollutant?
It's a necessary element.
For life to take place on the country?
The complexity of the climate is such that that there's there's no way to measure why things happen climatically.
In this in the that they all this is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
I've had a lot of people what what if what if what what if we do nothing?
I would suggest to you that for the last twenty years we've actually been doing a lot.
We've been engaging in carbon offsets, and people have been trying to conserve a lot of Priuses and hybrids out there.
And people, you know, some people are actually unplugging their appliances.
And some people are not using their air conditioning.
I mean, there are a lot of guilty people out there who think they're to blame.
And for ten or fifteen years they've been following the recipe.
I ask you, have you yet heard one environmentalist wacko say, good job, we're making progress.
You don't hear that.
What you hear is, my God, it's getting worse.
My God, we don't have it in ten years and it's over.
The oceans are gonna die.
They have some of the most they they say terrorism will increase with global warming, all these scare tactics.
The people in the UK, in a recently released poll, say they are fed up with all the tax increases that and the restrictions in driving and other lifestyle areas that they have made to in order to uh reduce carbon footprints, because they've been at it a lot longer than we have, and they now say they're fed up with it because they understand that all this is a ruse to raise taxes.
Because while they have been following orders and driving their little bubble cars and reducing their carbon footprints and paying the increased taxes, the advocates of man-made global warming continue to berate them and continue to wind and moan and sound apocalyptic.
And so the people of the UK are saying, wait a minute.
We've been doing a lot here, and you're not going to give us any credit.
They've figured out it's not about ending global warming.
It's about expanding government, it's about raising taxes, it's about making people feel as guilty as they can with prosperity.
It is about making people think they are to blame for taking action with the way they've lived to destroy the planet, and therefore they have sinned because global warming is a religion.
And the the wages of sin are new taxes and more control by bureaucrats over people's lives.
It is a hideous, hideous, deceitful policy that is designed to do only one thing, and that is not affect the climate of the planet because we don't have that power.
It's plain and simple.
So why compromise with them?
The one thing I keep thinking about is I'm a downsize energy manager and manufacturing engineer.
And I'm a total believer in cause and effect, and maybe possibly.
Possible.
I'm saying we are, because I'm a believer I believe this is cyclical.
We might be causing some problems.
That's my right comment.
Okay, you're you're a downsized energy manager and manufacturing engineer.
Yeah.
And you're a total believer in cause and effect.
Yep.
Is that what you said?
Yeah.
And you think we might be causing some problem.
What problems are you might or we may be causing?
Well, nothing just happens.
There was a cause of the emissions that we are.
Do you think that the uh the Earth has been around uh how long?
Many years.
Some people think 10,000, some think four and a half billion.
The Earth's been around a lot longer than we have been around, and it's been around a lot longer than we have been around and living our lifestyles.
Our lifestyles really got to this degree in the 50s, and there was a boom.
Now you could go back to the invention of telephone and a light bulb and the uh in the trains and so forth.
But you go back, don't have to go back very far, and you will find evidence of the world much warmer than it is today when there was nothing but you know, just rank poverty all over the planet.
There was nothing industrialized at all.
The idea that we can destroy something as complex as the climate of this planet is it's it's intellectually absurd.
Where do we where do we where do we get this vanity?
Have you ever I I was I was in Miami a couple weeks ago, and I this happens no matter where I am.
I was sitting in a hotel, had a hotel room high up, and there was a nice balcony, and I got home from an event of about two o'clock in the morning, and I'm looking at the skyline and the city of Miami, and I'm looking at all the lights on, and I'm watching all the jets taking off from Miami International, and I'm watching all the cars on the highway.
And I start thinking about all these people who want to shut down all those lights and ground all those airplanes and put all those cars away in garages.
It's never going to happen.
Light at night is necessary for security.
It's never gonna the and the idea that Miami and cars and airplanes out of any city is destroying the climate, is j it's laughable to me.
It is utterly laughable.
If this were true, we would be able, in the dread of winter, to be able to take temporary steps to warm it up.
In our own yards, punch out a bump, a bunch of carbon.
Really affect the atmosphere, enclose it.
Except we already do that.
We do that with heat.
And we do it either with natural gas or heating oil.
And to say that, you know, adapting to the extremes of climate is going to kill the climate?
We don't have a clue.
We are so vain.
You know, there's this global warming business, and we have discussed this before.
It's it's not all that complicated.
I forget who it was that said it.
G.K. Chesterton or somebody in that.
If you don't believe in God, you will believe anything.
Global warming is its own religion.
It has every element.
It has a pristine beginning.
It has original sin.
It has salvation.
And it also has faith because none of them can prove it.
Now I'm not suggesting it everybody who believes that global warming is happening caused by man doesn't believe in God, but I'm telling you the people that are trying to move opinion on this are probably intellectuals who think it's beneath them to accept the concept of something like God.
No, no, it can't be a God.
No God.
We are all that is, and we mustn't maintain stewardship over this lest we destroy it because they're nothing else, blah, blah, blah.
Very simple to me.
People who do not have an understanding that there are many things larger than themselves.
People who think that the world revolves around them are more than likely to buy into most liberal causes.
Particularly something like global warming.
Time magazine.
Amanda Ripley, ten things that you can like about $4 gas.
The world had long assumed that Americans were just unrepentant energy pigs.
That's the lead.
So the lead has to do with what the world thinks of us.
Talking about $4 gasoline.
The world just assumed we're a bunch of unrepentant energy pigs.
If gas prices went up, well, we kept our explorers aimed at the horizon a little changed.
We truthfully didn't have lots of options.
Unlike Europeans, we didn't have jobs we could bicycle to.
We didn't have convenient public transit.
Gasoline prices never stayed high enough long enough to force those kinds of shifts in how we lived.
But now here we are.
Gas prices are near $4 a gallon, and they're likely to stay that way.
Most of us still don't have the alternatives we need to adapt with grace.
Adapt to $4 gasoline with grace.
We don't have the ability.
So we will adapt by suffering.
We will run out of gas on I-80, ease our minivans over to the shoulder, and tell the kids that everything's okay.
We'll fall behind on the visa bills to pay for gas so we can buy food made ever more expensive by energy costs.
But it's also true that Americans are finding options where there seemed to be none.
They're ready to change, just waiting for their infrastructure to catch up.
They're driving to commuter rail lines only to find there are no parking spaces left.
They are running fewer errands and they're dumping their SUVs.
Public transit use is at a 50-year high.
Gas purchases are down 2% to 3%, and all those changes bring secondary hard-earned benefits.
Now, here, in the final paragraph, is the real reason for writing this story.
Eric Rostin, author of a new book about energy, The Carbon Age, says, You suddenly are reminded how the economy works.
Nobody wants high prices for oil, but there's also no faster mechanism to change behavior.
The suffering will go on, but the story, like any good tragedy, is not without redemption.
This Time magazine.
Amanda Ripley.
And so what's the great thing about gas prices going up?
You, pigs, will change your behavior.
You unrepentant energy pigs will change your behavior.
And you'll get on a rotten, unreliable mass transit if you have any.
Otherwise, you'll find a job where you can ride your bicycle to, like these brilliant Europeans.
But you are an unrepentant energy pig, and it's about time your behavior changed.
And thank God for $4 gasoline to do that.
So here we have the arrogance and the elitism and the snobbery of the drive-by media and their noted experts.
In a short little piece, 10 things you can like about $4 Gas.
And it's all predicated on the fact that you are a pig, that you are guilty, that you deserve to suffer, but there is redemption.
And so we're happy for high prices in energy because you are going to change your behavior.
Because you are destroying the planet.
You are greedy.
You are this, you are that.
Hello, global warming.
This is a microcosm.
The same kind of arrogant, snob effites, want to tell you how to live because you're too stupid to know how to live right.
And when you are too stupid and don't live the way they want you to live, then you embarrass them in the eyes of Europeans.
And our elite effete snob, drive-by media leftists and other leftists do not want to be embarrassed in the eyes of Europeans.
So you, you worthless shreds of human debris.
We're going to change your behavior because you're too stupid to live in a way that won't embarrass the elites.
Folks, have a wonderful Independence Day weekend.
Jason Lewis will be here tomorrow, and we have a bang up best of show on Friday.
Be back Monday, reared and ready to go.
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