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All of this is worthless.
All of this is a hoax.
I'm telling you, I cannot emphasize this enough.
Those of you who call yourself scientists, if you don't conduct your own investigation here, your entire field is bunk.
Your entire field will be viewed with as much cynicism as people view politics.
Because that's what you've become.
You're destroying what once was a pursuit of truth.
Confirmed and confirmed and confirmed and confirmed, and now science is one of the four corners deceit in the universe of lies.
Here is an email.
One of these emails from the Hadley Climate Research Unit from Phil Jones to his partner in crime, Michael Mann.
Dear Mike, see the attached odd quote by McIntyre in the middle of this.
He's not interested in challenging the science of climate change or nitpicking.
He's simply asking that the data be made available.
The only policy I want people to change is their data access policy, he says.
I must have been in a parallel universe for the past seven or eight years.
I'm off at noon today, back on August 20th.
I'll be checking email once a day.
This is the point.
There's a Canadian scientist who just wants the data.
Will you guys just release the data?
It hasn't been peer-reviewed.
That's the whole point, Mr. Begley.
They haven't let anybody see it.
They're saying, trust us.
These emails, we will destroy the data before we let people see it.
We're not going to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.
We will delete it.
We will destroy it before we let people see it.
They admit it here.
McIntyre, he's not interested in challenging the science.
He just wants to see the data.
They are not and never have released the data that confirms all of this because it doesn't confirm it.
If it's science and if it's the truth, and if you are so brilliant to have discovered it, let the world see it and earn your reputation and money that way.
But that's not what this is about.
This is about advancing socialism, liberalism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it.
It's about advancing an agenda that takes people, freedom away from people, their individuality, it destroys capitalism, and seeks to establish everybody under the auspices of a giant world government somewhere in the United Nations.
That's what this is about.
And it has been exposed.
Here's Jim Inhoff, Senator from Oklahoma, last night, also on your world with Neil Cavuto, Stuart Varney.
Senator, I believe you have an announcement fresh for us at Fox News.
What is it?
Today, announcing the investigation, I'm the ranking member of the Environment Public Works Committee.
We have sent out letters today to a number of government agencies, to the IGs, as a part of the investigation into the disclosure of emails and so forth.
Also, we've sent them to the scientists whose names have appeared on some of the documents that have been revealed the last few days.
And many of these scientists are scientists I'm very familiar with.
They're the insiders of the IPCC that I think all along have been trying to hide the real, avoid the real science in this whole notion about global warming.
He's exactly right.
So a Republican senator is calling for an investigation.
But I'll tell you, I'll pound this for as long as necessary.
Those of you, and I know that many of you in this audience are scientists, if you don't demand the truth on this, this is going to take you down.
Anybody calls themselves a scientific researcher, especially in climate or global meteorological systems?
If you don't challenge this and demand an investigation in the truth, you're going to get swept up in it.
Want to go back to 1992?
My first ever appearance on Nightline.
It happened to be a discussion of global warming with Al Gore.
This was before he was vice president.
He was February 4th of 1992.
Ted Coppel.
Joining us is Senator Al Gore, whose new book is Earth in the Lurch, Earth in the Balance, and Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated radio shows heard around the country.
There is Senator Gore a growing feeling.
I don't want to say it represents anything approaching a majority yet, but a growing feeling that sometimes the environmentalists are putting the spotted owl and the snail darter ahead of human beings.
We now face a global ecological crisis that is more serious than anything human civilization has ever faced.
And there's a problem of scale here.
To discuss the friction in the passage and implementation of some of the laws on the local environment and to weigh at the same time that against this unprecedented global crisis, I think presents a problem of scale.
This is 17 years ago, folks.
Unprecedented.
In fact, the Politico today has a story ripping the Obama administration for using the word unprecedented about everything that they do.
This poor guy from India, this 77-year-old leader of India, he gets to come to Washington.
He has to sit there and be insulted by this 48-year-old man-child.
Well, such an honor for you to be my first guest.
First day dinner.
How about that?
And then the Indian prime minister learns that his glorious state dinner is being held in a pitched tent outside.
He could have stayed home for that.
And now back to me and Al Gore on Nightline.
I showed no fear going up against a U.S. Senator, even when Gore said I was lying.
Coppel said, Rush, I've listened to you many afternoons, as you know.
You tend, I don't want to say you dismiss all these issues, but at least you dismiss them as having been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
There is not a crisis.
See, this is the problem I have.
I don't think the earth is fragile.
I don't think the ecology is fragilely balanced.
And I think that the doomsday industry that is typified by members of the Hollywood acting community who say we've only got 10 years left to save our planet.
We've got to act now.
There's no way, if what these people say is true, that we can solve these problems in 10 years anyway.
Everything in this country today seems to be a crisis.
We can't do anything without having to face it as a crisis.
We don't have any time to think about it.
There are as many scientists, maybe even more, on the opposite side of all of these doomsday predictions.
And I think that they need to listen to it.
Oh, yes, there are.
Oh, yes, there are.
That's not true.
That's not.
See, the consensus argument was forming even then.
Now, as you listen to this, I want to tell you one thing that happened after this show.
Actually, two things happened because of this show.
But the one I'll tell you about right now, remind me about the other one, Snordley.
What happened was when I got home, I checked my email at night and the next day, and I got ripped to shreds by scientists on my side of the issue for letting Gore get away with that argument or this argument or that argument.
And then they said, why'd they have you on?
You're not a scientist.
Gore's out there spouting a bunch of phony science and you're not even talking on the same.
And I wrote back and I said the next day on the radio, this is exactly how this issue is going to have to be approached because it's not about science.
I told him that back in 1992.
It's not about science.
It's about a political tactic, crisis, and guilt spreading, all designed to raise taxes and get people to willingly give up their freedom under the guise that they have caused this destruction that's going to wipe us all out in a few short years if they don't submit to tax increases and a loss of freedom.
And this is why this has been a pet peeve issue of mine.
It's one of my foundational issues in, in fact, defining my whole worldview.
Let's keep going with this.
We just heard Gore say, that's not true.
And I said, yeah, oh, yes, there are.
Al Gore then said this.
The question of whether or not the Earth is fragile.
Are we, as human beings, now capable of doing serious damage to the global environment?
That's really the key difference.
Do you think we are?
Yes, I think so.
I think three things have changed in our lifetimes, incidentally.
Number one, the population explosion now adds the entire population of China every 10 years.
Number two, we've got new technologies we never had before, like chlorofluorocarbons, which magnify our impact on the Earth.
Just as nuclear weapons transformed warfare, these thousands of new technologies that magnify our ability to exploit the earth change our relationship to the earth.
So Coppo then said, Rush Limbaugh, we've both run into politicians during our careers who know how to fake it on an issue.
I don't know of anybody up on Capitol Hill who is more knowledgeable on the subject of the environment than Al Gore.
You have to take seriously what he says.
The environmental movement, as fueled by the militants who lead it, I think is the new home of socialism.
I think it is, they've adopted a constituency here which can't speak.
That is trees and rocks and so forth and can't reject the so-called help and concern that the advocates are giving it.
And it gives them a stage from which to constantly launch attacks at capitalism.
If you listen to what Senator Gore said, it is man-made products which are causing the ozone depletion, yet Mount Pinatubo has put 570 times the amount of chlorine into the atmosphere in one eruption than all of man-made chlorofluorocarbons in one year.
And the ultraviolet radiation measured on this country's surface since 1974 has shown no increase whatsoever.
1992 is 17 years ago.
The other thing that happened was most of my life, my father thought he had failed because I didn't go to college.
And I quit ballroom dance.
And I quit college because I was forced to take ballroom dance.
And my mother took my car away from me and drove me to ballroom dance class every day.
So not for me.
I moved to Sacramento.
I started my radio career.
Throughout my radio career, my dad never understood where I was going.
He didn't see the value in playing Donnie Osmond records on the radio.
And then he certainly didn't understand the value of playing Knights in White Satin by the Moody Blues every 54 minutes, as I had to do in Pittsburgh.
As a DJ, not in charge of my destiny.
At any rate, finally got Sacramento in 1988, but he couldn't hear me in Sacramento.
That's where my success track began.
So in 1984, 1988, national program starts.
His hearing loss accelerated.
He never got to hear me on radio.
He could not hear.
He had to listen to everybody tell him what was going on.
The first time that he heard me on any such show was that Nightline show.
And in the first commercial break, my dad turned to my mother.
My mother told me this story.
My dad turned to my mother and said, Millie, because remember, I didn't go to college.
I'm not supposed to know anything.
He said, Millie, where did he learn that?
And she told me that she turned to him and said, from you, silly.
I wrote about the incident in one of my books, which incidentally both sold 2.5 million copies.
And my second one sold 2 million copies in about six weeks.
That seems to have been forgotten in the recent frenzy tabulating book sales back in the moment.
I just got the most curious email.
A guy writes, Rush, how did you have email in 1992?
I had email back in the late 80s.
I got my first computer in 1985.
It was an Apple IIc.
And I stepped up, used ProDOS as the operating system.
I stepped up to a Macintosh when I could afford one.
And I got a CompuServe account when I was working in Sacramento out in the late 80s, 1986 or 87.
And started reading news wires and so forth online on my Mac, even when I had the Apple IIc and had CompuServe and had email.
And I was talking to people on the internet at the time.
Before you needed browsers, there wasn't a browser.
The internet was just a military and scientific tool that's who was using it that Al Gore invented, by the way.
And so that's, I mean, I've had email.
I mean, when they first started doing stories about me, ladies and gentlemen, they referred to me as the most connected with this audience host out there because of Trailblazer in so many ways.
People have forgotten.
To the phones, we have Eric from the Washington area.
Hello, Eric.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Fine.
Thanks much.
Good.
Just want to say thanks for taking my call.
First time caller.
And I am currently active duty military, been in the military for about eight years, and I appreciate you putting out the story about my three brothers being charged with assault.
They're not blood brothers.
They're brothers that I've served with.
The eight years I've been in the military, I've supported naval special warfare for the majority of it and am familiar and have worked with these guys for the better part of the last year and a half directly that were involved in that operation for September.
And it strikes me with nothing but fear as to what's taking place.
And we saw it three years ago with the situation in Haditha.
We're so constrained now by the rules of engagement in Iraq, and Afghanistan, everywhere else that we conduct these quote-unquote overseas operations.
This guy was fighting us.
And the SEALs used the absolute force they deemed necessary to subdue him to take him into custody so that he could be turned over to the Iraqis.
A fat lip, a bloody lip for a guy who murdered four Blackwater people, hung them over a bridge and burned their bodies.
Folks, if you want to see the picnic, if you want to see how horrible this incident was, Debbie Schlussel at her blog has pictures.
I warned you before going and looking at them, pictures of the militants celebrating the deaths, and the corpses are still hanging over the bridge here.
And the guy that did it was captured by these three SEALs and bloodied up a little bit.
And now they're being charged criminally.
I don't know how you guys keep doing what you do.
First, they charge you by reputation with rape in Hadith.
And you got members of Congress joining that.
They charge you and make you out to be torturers.
You're out there defending freedom and liberty.
You sign up.
You're enlisted.
And you're under assault by your own country.
I don't know how you do what you do.
And that's the other thing that absolutely irritates me with this is that it's the operators that are being charged with assault and not, you know, the officers aren't taking the fall for it.
Just like we saw in Abu Ghraib, the enlisted took the fall for that despite, I mean, and Abu Grave was not correct.
And that's another thing I want to make clear in this is, you know, the alleged assault that took place was as the team was on target and preparing to capture or kill this guy.
And they could have killed him, but they chose to, you know, take him into custody despite him fighting them.
Eric, Eric, can you hang on?
I got a commercial break.
Can you hang on?
Yeah, Rod.
I hope they mirandized this guy before they punched him.
And we are back with Eric from the Washington, D.C. area, who is a Navy SEAL.
We had to stop you for a commercial break.
You were explaining what happened at Abu Grab, how the officer corps somehow found a way to exempt themselves from any blame or punishment.
Yeah, exactly.
And real quick, I am not a SEAL.
Never have been a SEAL.
I'm active duty military, and my job is to support Naval Special Warfare.
I support SEALs.
So I'm an intelligence analyst.
I'm not a SEAL.
And that's the thing is, these guys are going to end up taking the fall for it.
I don't think it will.
I don't think they will take the fall for it, but they didn't do anything wrong.
And even the officer leadership, they didn't do anything wrong.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
We're living in two different universes here.
These guys are in a war.
They're on a battlefield.
They are up against an enemy which has murdered four Americans.
And they're charged as criminals for punching a guy and giving him a bloody lip in the middle of a war.
And another thing is, you know, look at the guy that killed Mike Monsor, Medal of Honor recipient, who actually went through the same survival.
He was in the same survival class as I was.
I had the very fortunate pleasure of knowing Mike Monsor.
And that guy is still on the streets in Iraq, and the Iraqi government's not doing much to help us in getting him off the streets.
But if, you know, he is captured, be prepared for some street justice to come on that.
And you know what?
Things happen, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that because he killed one of our brothers.
Actually, in 2007, I lost my best friend, Stephen Doherty, who is the first naval intelligence professional killed since September 11th.
And thankfully, the guy that killed him was killed during the course of that because it was an IED on the way back.
But anyways, you know, it's the leadership.
Leadership needs to step out in front of this.
And right now, I'm calling on Secretary Gates to stand up and get rid of this situation.
And I'm calling on the Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command to absolutely defuse this.
What about the Commander-in-Chief?
Well, I don't hold much faith in him, but I better watch my words on that so I don't get charged with treason or mutiny.
And I'd also like to say right now, you know, you were talking a little bit about Afghanistan earlier.
It's absolutely unsatisfactory that President Obama, and I use that term loosely, president, had took so much time to, quote-unquote, debate the situation.
They've made General McChrystal, who I used to work for and very deeply admire.
They made General McChrystal the front man on this.
General Petraeus is subordinate to not only the president, or General McChrystal is not only subordinate to the president, but he's also subordinate to General Petraeus as the commander of U.S. Central Command.
Where has General Petraeus been in all this?
And I'm calling on, just so that he can save faith, General McChrystal should resign before he takes the blame for President Obama's failure.
And the public needs to hold President Obama accountable for what's going on in the AFPAC region and not General McChrystal.
I have full faith that that being held to account will occur at some point down the road at the ballot box.
I do too, Russ.
I do too.
Well, Mike, or Eric, I'm glad you called.
And it's, I got to tell you, it's thrilling to hear you say what you said.
I can imagine the frustration people like you go through every day when you see this happen to your brothers, as you say.
And watching what happened to Abu Grab and the stuff down at Guantanamo Bay and now the whole notion that you're rapists, thugs, and torturers is an image that has been purposely crafted to discredit the U.S. military.
It has been purposely crafted by the Democrat Party.
Exactly.
And I can tell you right now the sentiment amongst the intelligence community, because not only am I, you know, in the military, but I'm also an intelligence professional.
And the consensus amongst the intelligence community is proceed with caution because you don't know what's going to happen down the road to basically who's going to see your analysis.
Is it going to be made public?
And are you going to be chastised for it?
So everybody's proceeding with caution.
Which means the United States is on defense.
Well, everybody's on defense right now in the Department of Defense, unfortunately.
And, you know, it's unfortunate.
And I wish that, you know, I didn't agree with every, I was a supporter of President Bush.
I didn't agree with everything he did.
But, you know, one thing's for sure, he was a leader.
And our current commander-in-chief by far lacks leadership characteristics and abilities.
Eric, thanks for the call.
Great.
Great to have you here.
And happy Thanksgiving.
All right.
Happy Thanksgiving to you.
You bet.
That's Eric from Parts Unknown in Washington, a naval intelligence officer.
Ladies and gentlemen, during that call, show prep never stops.
During that call, I received an email from the editrix of my newsletter, the most widely read political newsletter in the country.
It's called a Limbaugh Letter.
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And Diana, who edits the newsletter, signed herself up and she gets it.
It's called At Stake, What's at Stake This Week.
Now, I haven't had a chance to open the PDF file or to download the actual cheat sheet.
I don't know if you have to pay for that.
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But at the end, contribute now, send to a friend and so forth.
I'll check it out here during commercial timeout and see what it's all about.
Greg in North Carolina.
Great to have you on the phone here, sir.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Good.
I just wanted to call and kind of give a little more insight on this SEAL team situation.
I was in the teams for 20 years.
I have multiple decade military service and came in not long after Vietnam.
I also worked for Blackwater for a few years in Iraq and know one of the guys that was killed at Fallujah quite well.
But, anyways, the point I'm going to get at here is that I think there's quite a bit of evidence that this is kind of a backwash from the situation of a couple months ago when the SEAL operators rescued Captain Phillips off the coast of Somalia.
You may recall that situation.
I do.
Well, the truth behind that situation is that the SEAL operators were kept off the scene for well over 36 hours.
There was a lot of foot dragging by the commander-in-chief's people on letting them in the theater.
After they were in theater and in place, they were given a very restrictive ROE rules of engagement.
The ROE was so restrictive that really they couldn't engage their targets.
There were two previous opportunities to rescue Captain Phillips, and they were not allowed to take those opportunities.
Let me stop you here because people may not know.
We're talking Somali pirates.
We're talking the Maersk cargo ship that a bunch of Somali pirates, teenagers, took over, and one of them eventually died.
And the media credited Obama.
Honest to God, folks, the media credited Obama with giving the order to pull the trigger.
Now you may resume the story, sir.
Okay.
Well, anyways, when they finally did engage the hostels, they did it liberally interpreting the ROE.
And the on-site commander finally was kind of fed up with the situation and gave them a weapons-free command, and they were able to engage and then rescue Captain Phillips.
The fallout from that was immediate and rather violent in its anger.
The White House people, I don't know the president himself, I just know their representatives with the chain of command were absolutely livid with this, and they did not want the rescue to be conducted in the way that it was.
I cannot prove this because I would have to give names, and I'm not given names for obvious reasons.
But the bottom line is that on very good, solid inside information, the National Command Authority past the Pentagon was not happy.
Let me cut to the chase here.
So, what I think I hear you saying is the blowback that you mentioned is this is payback for the SEALs violating the ROE on this captain of the Maersk.
And this is the chain of command reasserting itself, letting everybody know whose boss is what's going to happen to you if you don't follow orders.
That is my rather experienced opinion.
And frankly, the opinion of others.
I live very close to the special operations community here in North Carolina, and that opinion is surfacing.
These people are very vindictive.
And you have to understand, Mr. Limbaugh, you're very pro-military, and you always say wonderful things about our people in service.
And we greatly appreciate it.
But I do have to say this, and I'd like to make this one point.
And I've had two sons, by the way, my two eldest sons that have done multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The military of today is not the military that fought World War II.
It is not even the military that fought the first Gulf War.
It is a military that has been thoroughly politicalized.
It is a military that is suffering the fallout of Patricia Schroeder's ridiculous politically correct policies that still have great power and sway in the military.
And I just going to have to tell you, I do not mean to impugn the junior personnel in the military.
The line troops, the junior officers, I'm not talking about these people.
These people are doing a fine job.
They're outstanding people.
But the senior ranking, the civilian and senior ranking military personnel are thoroughly indoctrinated and on board with this politically correct agenda that is in the military.
I'll tell you the most recent example of it, glaring example, was General Casey, more concerned about the diversity in his army than the loss of life at Fort Hood.
General Casey, sir, and Wesley Clark are not the exceptions in the upper echelons.
They are the rule.
Those are the kind of men that are running the show, and they will throw the junior personnel under the bus to save themselves every time.
And that is my opinion.
And again, I don't mean to impugn any of the junior personnel.
We know what you mean.
We know exactly what you mean.
Yeah, everything's been politically characterized, chickified, if you will.
That's one of the things I call it.
Can you hold on for a break?
Certainly.
I want you to explain to people what you mean.
I think I know what you mean by Patsy Schroeder stuff, tailhook and all that, but I want you to explain exactly what you mean by that, because I'm sure you've got a lot of people curious.
We'll be back right after this brief timeout.
Welcome back.
We rejoin our call with Greg from Parts Unknown in North Carolina, former member of the Navy SEAL team, two sons, served two tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What was it that Pat Schroeder did when she was a member of Congress from Colorado?
Well, I guess the question would be, what didn't she do?
She was very influential in passing legislation and pressure, putting pressure on the military to basically and fundamentally feminize the military.
I can speak most clearly about the Navy because that was my experience at the time, especially when Admiral Kelso, who was the CNO at the time, kind of completely caved in after tailhook and started instituting things like putting females on men-of-war, having the mixed training companies in boot camp and the like.
And what Patricia Schroeder did was with a really rather small cabal of very ambitious military officers who, by the way, violated military rules and regulations by petitioning in uniform on Capitol Hill for these changes, but nobody seemed to notice that.
We're able to pass a lot of regulations through the Navy and the other branches that have frankly incorporated women into areas of the military where, being old-fashioned, I do not believe that they belong.
And this has caused numerous problems throughout the military.
You know, beyond that, I'm not exactly sure what else you would like me to add.
No, I thought that's what you were talking about.
I wanted people to hear you say it.
Pat Schroeder was a very liberal, huge feminist.
And I wanted you to say the feminization.
My word for it is chickification.
But it's happening throughout the culture.
It's happening throughout the media as well.
And it's turning people soft and touchy-feely and so forth.
And there's no room for that.
I know what you mean.
There's no room for that on the battlefield.
There is none.
And I'm very concerned about the future of our nation's military when we do get in.
And again, I do not mean to minimize the dangers that our military personnel are facing in this war.
However, it isn't a full-scale knockdown dragout between conventional fighting forces.
And I am concerned that if we ever do engage in that sort of warfare again, and I think it's ultimately inevitable, I'm afraid that our military is not in the place where it needs to be.
Meaning, I mean, this is scary.
Meaning, they're not committed to victory, that there are other things which take precedence?
Absolutely, sir.
And frankly, there's a billion Chinamen that are becoming more and more bellicose by the day, are being armed at our expense and with our expertise, and are becoming a growing threat by the day.
And I probably wouldn't worry about Obama charmed him on that trip over there.
Yes, I bowed down to young people.
I saw that as he bowed to their prime minister as well.
Greg, I got to go.
I'm out of time, sadly, but it's wonderful that you got through.
Thanksgiving blessing.
This audience got to hear you today.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much, Mr. Limbaugh.
We'll be back after this.
My friends, one of the most famous lines ever uttered by Patsy Schroeder was, I have a vagina and I know how to use it.
And I replied, I have a brain and I have a penis, and I only have to use half of either.