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April 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Even Snerdley, even Snerdley, who has been for the most part paying attention for 20 years, got sucked in by Obama yesterday on this Eric Holder thing.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh back at you.
Open line Friday on Wednesday today.
Mark Stein will be hosting the program tomorrow.
And Mark Davis from Dallas will be here on Friday.
No, no, it's my annual spring fling golf trip.
I got a bunch of people coming in from uh all over the country for the weekend.
It's an annual thing.
Uh doing another one in May, uh, early, early part of May with a different bunch of reprobate golf buddies.
Uh so that's that's it's nothing more than that, folks.
800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program, the email address uh L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
We're doing open line Friday today, since I won't be here on Friday, so whatever you want to uh talk about on the phones, feel free.
So I'm I'm in Snerdley's office during the break, and she says, you know, I really thought it was just unseemly of Obama to dump this on on Eric Holder yesterday with the with the king of uh Jordan looking on.
I said, dump what?
All this business of uh conducting investigations of former Bush administration officials over the torture and the so-called uh uh interrogation techniques.
And I said, Snurdly, he didn't dump anything on Holder.
Do you think yesterday was the first time Holder heard anything about this?
You think Holder's minding his own business, having a tuna fish sandwich up there at lunchtime at the Department of Justice, and all of a sudden he hears Obama's What this was, folks, is just Obama taking himself out of it.
Think Bill Clinton and the Janet Waco invasion of Reno.
Well, you got the whole branch Davidian complex uh going up in flames after tanks fired all kinds of ammo at the branch divinian kids are in there, and they go ask Bill Clinton about it.
You gotta talk to the Attorney General about that.
I uh uh has nothing to do with that.
I didn't give that order, you gotta talk to Anna Reno.
So if Holder does authorize criminal investigations, the Bush administration officials, Obama can always say, Hey, I I left it up to Holder to do this.
It's all about keeping an approval rating of 65%, 70%.
That's that's just but to think that Holder didn't know about it till yesterday, but you know, I'm reminded we had that great call from Victor in Boca Raton, uh, who talked about people Stalin was murdered, murdering loved him.
Soljanitzen in prison in the gulag when it was announced Stalin had died, all the prisoners started crying, and then Stalin was the guy that put them there.
Uh, such as it is with cults.
Uh 800-282-2882.
If you want to put the uh be on the program, the email addresses L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
It's uh it's Earth Day today.
And of course, the purpose of Earth Day is to spread the hoax of global warming and human destruction of the planet.
It was interesting last night uh history channel, right?
History channel, you know history channel sometimes I wonder about these people.
They did a story on the earth from a from a from a purely left-wing slant that ended up just condemning the left.
It was sort of like they they they they did one of their their uh Marvel show, modern Marvel shows on oil, and everybody thought that the purpose of this was gonna be to cream oil, and it actually did just the opposite.
It illustrated how important and natural and uh oil is all the derivatives that we get from it, and all the people that work in that industry.
The point last night was to show what the earth would be like if there were no humans, if the left got what they wanted, if they got mass euthanasia, if the Obama administration and the UN turned into the hemlock society, and we all drink the Kool-Aid, we all die, and there are no human beings left.
What would the earth look like?
And it was it was fascinating.
Okay, this this is what the left wants.
We are the problem, and what the left totally misses.
For example, they said it gave an example of uh the average U.S. city.
You take the human beings out of it, wherever the city is, large or small, And in a short period of time, five years, everything will start crumbling, everything will start falling apart, the vermin will infest the place, animals will populate all over the place.
The earth simply reclaiming what it once had and all and never really lost.
We think we put up concrete buildings and skyscrapers that were destroying the planet.
Concrete comes from the earth, doesn't?
I mean, do we do we import anything from Mars?
Do we import anything from the moon?
Do we import destructive materials from Pluto?
No.
Everything on the earth is from and of the earth, including us.
We just happen to be the smartest living organisms on the planet, and of course because we're the smartest, we are supposedly the most deadly and the most dangerous and the most polluting and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just an example of the most polluting?
How about these stories?
We get them every now and then.
Some old lady with 50 or 75 cats in her house passes away and nobody knows about it for a month or two.
Finding the odor of the stench is so much that somebody has to go in there and they find the house littered with cat feces.
And yet we're the polluters.
You got to put people with hazmat gear on to go in there and clean up after cat poop.
When some old lady assumes room temperature and for you know that or or some woman doesn't feed the cats, and they start eating the furniture and so forth.
Concrete, asphalt, whatever in toilet paper, plastic grocery bags, all comes from the earth.
It doesn't come from anywhere else.
Yet we're accused of destroying the planet when we simply use what God provided on the planet.
They went, this history show went to uh Chernobyl, what was a town near Chernobyl that had been evacuated.
Town of about 50,000 people.
They went in there with their Geiger counters, and they weren't wearing any protective gear because the radiation levels barely registered on the Geiger counters.
So they're walking through this town that was evacuated after Chernobyl, which is for those of you in Port St. Lucy and Rio Linda, it's a nuclear plant that had a leak, a supposed malfunction.
And they walk through there, and the buildings in the town, some had fallen apart, they were crumbling to shreds.
All over the place, the animals had moved in.
The place was a junkyard.
It was an absolute junkyard, all of weeds, grass and grown over everything.
But it was natural.
It was the earth in its natural state.
And this show attempted to show how beautiful the earth would be.
And it ended up doing just the opposite.
But what it illustrated, if you if you, if you had, I guess you need some kind of a belief foundation to look at it and see it the way I did, but you have to see that everything here, everything that we this microphone, the golden EIB microphone, every element of that is from the Earth.
Every element of our plasma, plasma TV, California go to Banham.
Destroy the environment.
Every element's from the Earth.
We couldn't destroy the planet if we wanted to.
And yet, one out of three children between six and eleven fears that Mother Earth will not exist when they grow up.
More than half of them, 56%, worry that Earth will be a blasted heath, or at least a very unpleasant place to live, according to a new survey, commissioned by Habitat Heroes, conducted by opinion research, telephone survey pulled a national sample of 500 American preteens, 250 males, 250 females, and on a sliding scale of anxieties.
Minority kids have it worst.
Well, of course.
And after them, the women.
75% of black children, 65% of Hispanic children believe the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.
Should also point out that minorities are more likely to be in public schools that force defamatory lying through their celluloid movies like Al Gors and Inconvenient Truth.
Other interesting findings.
50% say that hurricanes and tornadoes are the natural disasters that scare them the most.
Twenty-eight percent say they fear animals like polar bears and penguins will become extinct and disappear from the and that's why this Doomkoff woman jumped in the polar bear exhibit at the Berlin Zoo.
I will guarantee you, and this might count against the opinion audit, because I'm I'm offering an opinion here.
And I don't have any backup for it because they say they don't know why.
This idiot woman jumped into polar bear exhibit.
I'll guarantee you she'd seen something, Al Gore's movie or a website that showed that fraud picture with the polar bears on about three square feet of ice that was supposedly a melting glacier, and she wanted to jump in there and hug them and tell them, don't worry, we're looking out for you, and we love you.
And probably wanted to blame Republicans and Bush.
And the polar bear Molder.
See, there's no wonder you got these kids fearing the apocalypse of the earth, which is exactly what the left wants, folks.
It's exactly what.
The Obama types want, because this kind of fear leads to two things.
It leads to asking somebody to fix it.
And who's that government?
And then whatever government does to ostensibly fix it is unanimously wildly supported.
If it means making your parents drive pitily little tiddlywink cars, if it means your parents pay more taxes, fine.
Parents these days will go along with it, just to kid get the kids to stop nagging them.
Girls worry more, according to the survey.
67% of girls between 9 and 11 versus 60% of boys 9 and 11 worry the earth will not be as good a place to live when they're adults.
57% of girls between six and eight.
Forty-three percent of boys six and eight worry that the earth will not be as good a place to live when they're adults, and urban kids are more anxious than suburban kids.
Well, it's working.
This is exactly what the objective of the climate change global warming hoaxers is, is to inculcate little kids with fear that the earth will not exist.
It is preposterous, plus it's wrong and it's irresponsible.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
Today is Earth Day, ladies and gentlemen, in my official role as America's anchor man.
I take great pleasure in leading our nation in a solemn tribute to some of the pioneers who have contributed to the well-being of planet Earth and its inhabitants, us.
Today, I think, and we here at the EIB network do celebrate the vision, the ingenuity, and the spirit of achievers, men and women who have contributed to the earth.
We begin our salute today by honoring, honoring a group of people unmarked, uncommented upon by history.
The first coal miners in America.
The first coal miners in America were a farmers.
They dug coal from the earth and they sold it by the bushel.
Their efforts at the dawn of our nation grew into an industry that today fuels our modern energy needs.
They burrow into the mountains of Earth, they get their hands dirty to bring up a resource that powers our lives.
So do all of the coal miners of America, past and present, and their daughters.
Happy Earth Day, because the world would not be the same, the Earth would not be as productive, the Earth would not be as advanced, human civilization would not have advanced as it has without The world's coal miners.
Happy Earth Day.
Next we turn our attention, ladies and gentlemen, to Charles and Frank Dourier.
On September 20th, 1893, these brothers constructed and tested the first gasoline powered automobile.
Yes.
They were also the first to incorporate into an American automobile business.
Other early auto industry giants include Ransom Olds, who invented the first assembly line.
His company, Old's Motorworks, produced the first mass-produced cars in America.
Henry Ford came up with the first conveyor belt-based assembly line, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Today we travel the earth in gasoline powered cars, and we owe these icons a debt of gratitude.
Instead they are impugned, besmirched, lied about.
Without the bountiful oil inside the earth, not only would cars be idle, so would our present day oil-based economies so vast is oil's reach.
We can't even list all the uses of oil or the millions of products that mankind uses on a daily basis.
And oil is au natural.
It was produced by the earth, it continues to be produced by the earth.
It is there for us to use, and we celebrate the ingenuity of the people who discovered it and found all of these miraculous, marvelous uses for it.
How oil gets to us from deep inside the womb of Mother Earth is a testament to man's ingenuity.
Two early figures must also be mentioned, Ludwig and Robert Nobel, who founded the Nobel Brothers Company of Oil Manufacturers in Russia back in 1879.
From these captains of industry came the first oil pipelines and the very first oil tankers.
It was not Nearcos.
These oil tankers bring oil over land, the pipelines transmit it or oversee and the pipelines transmitted over land.
They had a third brother, Alfred Nobel.
He helped us and the Earth in another way.
He was the inventor of dynamite, which helps us both to get what we need from the earth and to build things on the earth and to kill evil people so that they cannot kill even more.
It is Alfred Nobel whose earnings continue to fund the Nobel Prize and whose legacy has been taken over, co-opted by lefties.
But the three Nobel brothers, Ludwig, Robert, and Alfred, are still due many noble thanks this and every Earth Day.
The British company, JCB, cannot be overlooked on Earth Day.
In 1953, this outfit invented the front loader.
The front loader fueled a boom in construction that continues to this day.
They pioneered most of the modern day earth-moving hydraulic machinery that has moved so much earth around and brought so much prosperity and civilization to the people of the earth.
They have enabled the building of highways that our gasoline-powered automobiles traverse.
Creating the travel and leisure business.
Next we honor on this Earth Day an inventor whose legacy has spread all over the earth, Gordon Dancy.
Ever heard of him?
Gordon Dancy invented the first high-density plastic grocery bag, which can handle up to 40 pounds of stuff.
More than your average homeless person can carry.
That singular invention has benefited our daily life on Earth in multitudinous ways, and yet various cities want to outlaw this amazing intervention because somehow it pollutes.
Yet it is from the earth.
Actually a derivative of oil.
We cannot forget the man who is perhaps America's greatest inventor of all time, Thomas Edison.
His incredible inventions defined our modern world, among them the incandescent light bulb.
So we can see Earth at night and see each other at night and protect ourselves from the evil people a dynamite hasn't yet killed.
Thomas Edison in 1882 built the first successful coal-fired electric generating station which allowed electricity to be supplied to homes.
Today, coal powered generation stations are mankind's primary source of electric energy.
Thomas Edison is a hero to America and all mankind, and on this Earth Day, we salute Thomas Edison and so many other capitalist inventors whose efforts have brought so much joy to us, the billions of people who inhabit our dear old Mother Earth, and now even Edison is being besmirched with the invention of the spaghetti light bulb.
And how can we forget the Wright brothers?
Wilbur and Orville.
The first to fly a motorized airplane, which has led to man walking on the moon.
But today, airplane flight is considered destructive to our planet.
Polluting the skies, all of it lies.
And our deepest gratitude goes to one inventor and creator, who is always criticized on Earth Day.
I'll tell you who that is when we come back.
You got it.
We find it.
Drive you nuts if you can't handle it.
Rush Limbaugh the EIB network and Earth Day.
I got a note from a liberal during the break.
You didn't mention two inventors that we despise.
On the left, Marconi and Bell, because if it hadn't been for Marconi, we wouldn't have you, Limbaugh, and if we hadn't had Bell invent the phone call, the phone phone, there would be nobody to call you.
So the left today cursing the inventions of Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell.
But without question, on Earth Day and every day, we owe our deepest gratitude to one inventor who is without equal.
As long as men and women inhabit the earth, our very existence will be tied to his remarkable and unequaled creations.
They're too numerous to mention.
Too complex to ever fully understand.
He is known by thousands of names that we call him God.
The sole creator of the heavens and the earth.
What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand, much less create on our own, and that is Earth and all of its glories.
So today, on Earth Day, we here at the EIB network thank God for Mother Earth, and for allowing us to live in the greatest of nations on that Earth, the United States of America.
Jurassic Park, remember the book by Michael Crichton, Charlton Heston called here one day and wanted to read the forward.
So we said have at it.
You think man can destroy the planet.
What intoxicating vanity.
Let me tell you about our planet.
Earth is four and a half billion years old.
There's been life on it for nearly that long.
Three point eight billion years.
Bacteria first, later the first melt of cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea on the land.
Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years.
Great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away.
All this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval.
Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic Eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving in endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years.
Earth has survived everything in its time.
It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once, and all the plants, all the animals died, and the earth was clicking hot for a hundred thousand years.
Life would survive somewhere.
Under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.
Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again.
The evolutionary process would begin again.
Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety.
Of course, it would be very different from what it is now.
But the earth would survive our folly.
Only we would not.
If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth.
So what?
Ultraviolet radiation is good for life.
It's powerful energy.
It promotes mutation, change.
Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation.
Many others will die out.
You think this is the first time that's happened?
Think about oxygen.
Necessary for life now.
But oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine.
When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on Earth.
Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas.
Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life.
Nevertheless, life on Earth took care of itself.
In the thinking of the human being, a hundred years is a long time.
Hundred years ago, we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.
It was a whole different world.
But to the earth, a hundred years is nothing.
A million years is nothing.
This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale.
We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try.
We've been residents here for the blink of an eye.
If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Nor would the earth miss President Obama.
Charlton Heston, at his request, reading the forew to Jurassic Park.
Now, we've just honored some great people on Earth Day.
But here is a story from some newspaper called the Bulletin.
It is an American paper, but I'm not sure where.
Today is Earth Day, a holiday created to honor the planet.
And to raise the consciousness of man's effect on the environment.
I guess it's Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Philadelphia has a very strong tie to Earth Day.
One of Philadelphia's native sons, Ira Aynhorn, was a co-founder of the Jubilee of Earth Day.
But Mr. Einhorn has another line on his resume.
In addition to being an environmental guru, he is the unicorn killer.
He is a murderer.
While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Aynhorn dated a Brynmore College graduate with the name of Holly Maddox.
When the affair ended in 1977, Einhorn went into a jealous rage and murdered her.
This is a founder of Earth Day.
By the way, the unabomber was an environmentalist as well.
So was the son of Sam.
So is the most recently added name to the FBI's top ten most wanted list, an environmentalist.
But Mr. Einhorn concealed the crime he committed, murder for 18 months by stuffing his former girlfriend's body in a trunk that he kept in his apartment.
The foul odor of the decomposing corpse coming from his Powelton village apartment caused neighbors to complain in 1979, police found the trunk stored in a closet in Mr. Einhorn's apartment, Ira Einhorn, a member of the counterculture pantheon, one of the founders of the environmentalist movement, icon of the liberal intelligentsia, was charged with murder.
But it was not just a simple murder.
It was a gruesome case of domestic violence.
At the bail hearing, Mr. Einhorn was praised by a contingent of luminaries, all testifying to his character.
There were Ivy League professors, an Episcopalian minister, and corporate executives who worked with Mr. Einhorn raising money.
They all stated under oath that he was a man of the greatest integrity.
Arlan Spector was Mr. Einhorn's attorney.
He managed to get the bail set at a unheard of amount of 40,000 dollars for the suspected murderer.
Only 10% was needed to free him.
Barbara Bronfman, heiress to the Seagrim liquor fortune, paid it.
Proclaiming his innocence, Mr. Einhorn told all that he was framed.
He said it was the CIA.
Or the FBI who committed the murder, and they were trying to frame him for it because of his political activity.
Some will note that the other, another notorious Philadelphia murderer, Mamui or Mumia Abu Jamal, used this same defense a few years later.
And like Mumia, Mr. Einhorn had no shortage of leftist followers.
Mr. Einhorn skipped bail and left Philadelphia in 1981.
Founder, environmentalist movement in Earth Day.
Just like the Unibomber, murderers.
Just like the most recent edition, the FBI's top ten most wanted list, a leftist environmentalist, and yet Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, sends out this memo warning of returning veterans who might commit acts of terror.
In the United States, we will be back, stay with us.
I get some emails from people who want the rest of the Ira Einhorn story.
Here's the rest of the Ira Einhorn story.
Several years after the conviction, which occurred in abstention in 1997.
Mr. Einhorn was located after he'd fled bail.
He was living in France, had a new girlfriend, a Swedish woman.
The DA's office in Philadelphia immediately asked to have him extradited, but the humane French refused to extradite Einhorn.
French officials cited the use of capital punishment in Pennsylvania, and the conviction in abstention as reasons for their refusal.
Einhorn was able to convince the French courts not to extradite him until he received the promise of a new trial.
Pennsylvania legislator Dan O'Brien introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania General Assembly that allowed granting Einhorn a new trial if he asked for it, and if the French extradited him, the bill did not vacate the original verdict.
When France began extradition, Einhorn's representatives requested the European Court of Human Rights to review the case, which was denied.
He was extradited to Pennsylvania July 2001, tried convicted, sentenced to life in prison October 17, 2002.
We're talking here if he just joined us about the founder of Earth Day.
But as the writer Michael Tremugley at the Philadelphia Bulletin says there's a little mentioned irony about the Einhorn thaga.
Ira Ainhorn was arrested for murder March 28, 1979, the day.
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident occurred.
Ira Einhorn, environmentalist, was charged with murder during the same period as one of the greatest environmental accidents in U.S. history.
But the real irony is that more people died in the apartment of Ira Einhorn, co-founder of Earth Day, than at Three Mile Island.
The environmentalist killed more people than the so-called environmental disaster.
Happy Earth Day.
And not to leave this out, Investors Business Daily with a great editorial today called Safe Capitalism.
They say Wednesday's airwaves print media cable news show's Webisphere will be filled with nonsense about the scourge of capitalism, corporations, and Humanity, all of it will ignore the real truth.
Every year, Stephen Hayward, a scholar at the Pacific Research Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute compiles his index of leading environmental indicators every year.
His findings contradict the alarmists' warnings that the world is on the edge of environmental cataclysm.
From evidence that, quote, the tropical rainforest may now be expanding faster than they're being cut down, to the improving health of U.S. Ocean fisheries to better outdoor air quality in American cities with the worst pollution.
Hayward shows there's more to be optimistic about than there is to be troubled about.
The EPA has also published its own report on the environment.
Last year's report, the most recent, indicates outdoor air quality has improved.
There's been a net gain in wetland acreage.
Public source drinking water problems are uncommon in forest land is expanding after declining for a century.
Of the estimated one billion people who will observe Earth Day today, few will know about any of this progress.
Fewer still will know how the progress was made.
The media, uninterested in looking at the real story, will simply credit the environmental movement for whatever improvements.
When in fact it has been capitalism.
Greener is richer.
Thank you all for waiting on the phones.
I appreciate your patience.
Back to Orange County, California now for our next phone call.
Great to have you on the program, John.
Hello, Rush.
I just want to say what an honor and a privilege it is to speak with you today.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you for everything you do for our country.
I just wanted to comment on something that you uh discussed uh the other day regarding how you would hope to invoke an intellectual response from your audience rather than emotional.
Not no my audience, I think most of my audience does uh react intellectually.
It's the left.
Uh the the people the people that are reacting emotionally to Obama, even to me, I'd love to be able to get past their emotion and get through to their brains.
Yes.
Well, I agree with that a hundred percent.
And I want to say that I believe most of your audience does do that.
And I was trying to I started thinking about that myself.
What do I do?
And then the first thing I thought about was do I agree?
Is this good for myself, my family, my country?
But then it immediately I come up with an emotional response, and sometimes very strong one, where I believe on the left, if something is said, they come out with an immediate emotional response based on an agenda where I believe I would come out with an emotional response first based on an intellectual.
Well, of course, intellectual creates the emotion.
In learned people, in people who are paying attention.
The problem with people that have a strict emotional response or an emotional attachment to an agenda is that you can't get to them.
There is no rationality for their belief.
There's no ration.
That's why you can't argue with it.
You make a fool of yourself trying to argue with somebody who is simply emotionally attached to something.
It is so extremely frustrating.
I mean, I I I when I see this happen on a daily basis, and I think somebody brought this up the other day.
I'm wondering, they can't be thinking about the facts.
They have to be thinking about something that an agenda that they're going for and just dismissing everything else that's in front of them.
Well, they live in a worldview that's a cocoon, and anything, and it's it's it's it's created on their emotion.
And in many cases, the people we're discussing it's a desire for utopianism, where everybody loves everybody, and there's no crime and there's no arguments, and there's no differences between people.
I mean, they all have the same amount of money, same housing, same car, same nobody has any advantages and so forth.
Anything that challenges that worldview, they cannot deal with, and they strike out and try to silence it.
They don't want to hear it.
And that's what we're up against.
Well, well, please keep telling it, and and like you said, I also want to thank God on today.
Well, thank you very much.
The big problem is that we have irresponsible that play to that emotional cocoon worldview simply to get votes.
They're called demagogues.
And the uh current demagogue is Barack Obama.
From the UK Times, you know what the latest thing to cause cancer is?
Nicotine gum.
Nicotine lozenges.
Obama should sue.
These people are trying to save lives like our interrogators.
We need an investigation.
This is grounds for prosecution, what the nicotine gum manufacturers are doing.
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