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Jan. 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
On the tenth day of guest hosts, Rush Limbaugh gave to me ten guest hosts are leaping.
But fear not, EIB listener, the twelve days of guest hosts are ending early.
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It's only the uh eleventh day of Christmas, but Rush is so eager to launch a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting that he'll be here, guest hosting for the prescheduled guest host live at twelve noon tomorrow.
So no eleven guest hosts are guesting tomorrow.
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Uh and so for today it's your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever, still a little stiff from being bent up in the trunk of the car when we cross the northern border.
You know how it is, you uh you book the Lincoln Town car, but the guy shows up in a nineteen eighty-four Honda Civic with a uh barbecue he's returning to Home Depot in the trunk, so I'm a little stiff from being wedged in there.
Uh we're coming to you live from uh uh the Rush Limbaugh Show's newest studio, Ice Station EIB, as uh H.R. christened it, Ice Station ERB in far northern Grafton County, New Hampshire.
So far north that Mitt Romney has yet to host a 2012 Exploratory rubber chicken night in this town.
Uh actually Mitt is so uh Mitt is so flushy as a rubber turduckin.
Uh but ISTA EIB is is uh on the air.
Last week we were assisted by Mr. Snerdley at Southern Command in Florida because Nanny Bloomberg prevented him flying into New York uh to produce uh the show, so he was unable to get uh to New York City thanks to Nanny.
But today I believe H.R. has managed to penetrate the snowbound wastes of uh Nanny Bloomberg's midtown Manhattan.
So uh he oh he he came through he came through New Jersey.
The tunnel, they haven't put the the the plowed snow in uh in the Lincoln Tunnel then and blocked it up, have they?
They've you you okay, okay.
So he landed uh he landed at New Jersey.
Uh and uh and in fact I wonder with I want to take back a lot of my criticisms of Nanny Bloomberg's big government uh last week because uh of this uh story of your heartwarming big government at work in the New York Post.
Uh suicide jumper saved by pile of trash bags.
Uh this was a man in the Hell's Kitchen district of New York who jumped from his ninth floor apartment window but survived because he landed atop a mountain of uncollected trash bags that the New York City Sanitation Department had uh decided to leave uh frozen in the snow.
So he threw himself off the ninth floor of his apartment building, but he only fell about eighteen inches before he landed on the uncollected trash bags left by the uh New York City Sanitation Department.
Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg.
It's uh big government at its finest.
It just goes to show, you know, this could be the whole solution, by the way, to the uh to the whole death panel problem.
I think if you merge the Obamacare death panels with the New York City uh sanitation department, it uh it should all uh all work out fine.
But uh uh so I want to withdraw my criticism of the New York City uh administration of Nanny Bloomberg somewhat.
But then we have this story also from the New York Post, which is about a group of on-duty sanitation surviv uh uh supervisors.
Uh they're under investigation because they were buying booze and partying at partying it up in their cozy uh department car for hours on Monday night, last Monday night, after the blizzard stranded a bus uh three blocks away.
So while while uh taxpayers of New York were stranded on this city bus and shivering on this city bus all night stuck in it, the guys who are meant to plough and clear the streets were in fact boozing it up.
Uh they they were they were observed buying six packs of beer from a uh Brooklyn store and then walked back to their car, past the stuck bus, and uh just stayed in the parked car, uh parking beer.
Now I was critical of Nanny Bloomberg's incompetent administration last week.
So I don't want to jump to conclusions about New York City Sanitation Department workers boozing it up all night long when they're supposed to be clearing snow.
Because you may remember there was a story, I think it was a guy from Slovakia a couple of years ago.
And he'd been uh driving uh through the Tatra Mountains uh in Slovakia in his car when he got buried by an avalanche.
Uh and he opened the window to try and claw his way out, and instead all the snow kept coming in through the window, and he realized he could never do it that way.
Uh and he looked around, and with the inventiveness that one associates with with the wily Slovak, he spotted uh the dozens of half-litre bottles of beer he happened to have on the back seat.
Uh and uh and he had a drink, and midway through the first beer, he realized that he could urinate on the snow to melt it.
And he and apparently he did.
He I think the headline uh at the time, this is I said this is like three or four years ago now, but the headline was man peed way out of avalanche.
And he drank so much beer, apparently he had k he got kidney and liver problems, but he successfully urinated his way through the avalanche.
So I I uh feel certain that when uh this deplorable New York Post story casting aspersions on New York City sanitation department supervisors, boozing it up all night.
I feel sure they were only chugging their way through all these uh six packs of beer from the Brooklyn convenience store while people were stuck in city buses a couple of blocks away all night long.
Uh I think I think uh they were they were just chugging their way through all these six packs of beer because uh they they had realized that it would be actually far more invent environmentally friendly instead of using these snow plows uh uh to uh clear the snow, actually just to urinate the snow off the city streets of New York.
And judging judging Yes they Yeah, they might well I don't think no that that's that's the just the wrong way of looking at.
We've had a I've had a suggestion that maybe in that case they should have given some six packs to the bus passengers and they could have contributed.
No, because we we want a government regulatory urination regime in New York.
Yeah, it's a union.
You can't just have ununionized urinators urinating all over New York City streets.
You know, they've got to be unionized urinators.
Otherwise the big government thing uh just falls apart, you know.
Otherwise any like homeless people uh on the streets of New York would just be urinating all over the city, and that would never do.
So uh so we only want unionized uh urinators with gold-plated pension plans to clear the streets of New York.
And judging by the rate at which they've been clearing the snow from New York City streets, uh that's that's working uh that's working out just grand.
Uh I used the phrase uh last week, the pansy left.
And uh I I was careful to explain this wasn't just a cheap insult, but it was actually George Orwell's term, George Orwell.
It's a literary quotation.
George Orwell used to call them the pansy left.
Uh and I mentioned that because it's not clear to me the left always picks up on uh on these literary allusions.
Uh y you may remember Richard Wolfe on MSNBC, who was mocking Sarah Palin for saying she reads uh C. S. Lewis, uh, and he'd never read any C. S. Lewis, and to the pansy left, the depri the defining proof of uh Sarah Palin's ignorance is that she cites an author you've never read.
You know, it's not like the smart lefties who pretend to read Maya Angelou or Rigaberta Menchu or the other unreadable sludge of uh identity group uh boosterism.
So I I want to make clear that the pansy left is a term from uh George Orwell.
And I said it was great at solving problems that didn't exist.
And I was talking then, you know, and uh Nanny Bloomberg is a great uh example of that.
Nanny Bloomberg, uh he can't put salt on the roads, but he can take the salt out out of your fast food joints.
Uh that was that's that wasn't a problem in New York City, but he decided to concentrate on that rather than on snow removal.
He's a he's a monument.
He's a monument uh to to the triviality of big government.
That th the big government inserts itself into every aspect of your life to no useful purpose, though.
And we were talking at that uh point about the curly fry light bulb, the C FL, the curly fry light bulb, I believe that's what CFL stands for.
And I I read out the official State of Maine guidelines on how to dispose of a curly fry light bulb and listed the the convenient fourteen easy steps you uh if if a curly fry light bulb happens to break in your house.
Uh you just need duct tape, latex gloves, baby wipes, a drop cloth, a pack of playing cards, Two mason jars and a new carpet.
I mean, who doesn't have that within handy reach of uh of every light bulb?
Uh and it was pointed out to me by uh several listeners that it that as much as we might like to mock the pansy left for this legislation, in fact, uh three hundred and fourteen members of the House of Representatives plus eighty-six senators, eighty-six out of one hundred senators, and one president, name of George W. Bush, passed this thing into law uh a couple of years ago, 2007.
Uh so it was it was admirably bipartisan.
Uh eighty-six out of one hundred senators and a Republican president passed the curly fry light bulb law, banning Edison's great iconic invention.
Uh and I would like to suggest in today's show that we roll back this thing.
That a demon useful demonstration of the seriousness of the Republican House of Representatives would be if it undoes that vote and restores Edison's great iconic invention.
U.S. patent number two hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, granted on January twenty-seventh, eighteen eighty, if they restore that to legality in the United States, it would be it would be a a great demonstration uh of the Republican Party's seriousness in the times we face.
Just because there's a pansy left is no reason why a pansy right should be so eager to climb into bed with them.
Now, is that likely to happen?
Well, look, the guy who heads the relevant committee is a fellow called Fred Upton.
And uh Fred Upton is a man who actually uh was responsible for drawing drawing up the curly fry light bulb law.
So he he in part gave us uh this curly fry light bulb law.
Uh and so I I'm not persuaded that this is going to be the this is the best sign of health and seriousness uh by the new Republican House.
That this guy is uh is is the one in charge.
And in fact, if you look at his own state, he's from Michigan.
And if you look at uh the um uh the the the the list on the State of Michigan thing is even longer than Maine.
It's not just a convenient fourteen-step disposal plan for your curly fry light bulb.
They've got like an 18 uh step disposal plan, because you don't just need uh the drop cloth and the baby wipes and the pack of playing cards and the two mason jars and the new carpet.
You also need additional items like an eyedropper.
You know an eyedropper for putting drops in your eyes, apparently you need an eyedropper.
Just to throw out a light bulb.
The light bulb they're making us all have, because they ban the light bulb that doesn't require you to have a pack of playing cards, two mason jars, a new carpet, and an eyedropper handy when you uh when you happen to break them.
And uh so I would like the the Republican Party to demonstrate its seriousness in one easy way in the new House by voting to repeal uh the Energy Independence and Security Act that banned Edison's great defining invention from the age of American dynamism in the late 19th century.
Uh let's not kill dynamic America by banning all the stuff that made this country great for no good reason.
Uh uh just because there's the pansy left solving problems that don't exist, there's no reason for a pansy right to get into bed with them.
Fred Upton is going around now pretending he's a conservative, that this idea that he's just some rhino squish pansy right guy from Michigan is all a lot of hoo he got up by his opponents, and in fact he's seen the light and he's now Mr. Conservative.
Well, he can demonstrate it by undoing the absurdity uh of this particular of this particular nonsense.
1800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush.
Don't forget, rush back live tomorrow.
Yeah, Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network, rush back tomorrow.
Talking about this guy, Fred Upton, who heads the relevant committee uh in the House of Representatives, the new Republican incoming chair.
I I'd like to see that I'm sick of this uh uh pansy left laws on problems that do not exist.
There was no need to ban Edison's light bulb.
And just looking at what uh Fred Upton's own state, the official State of Michigan recommendations for what you need to have handy uh when uh a a s a curly fry light bulb, the CFL breaks.
Uh you need an eyedropper, uh duct tape, uh playing cards, a small artist's paintbrush.
Now I don't know whether that is an artist's small paintbrush or a small artist paintbrush, such as, say, Toulouse Latrec might have had to have.
But uh whether it's an artist's small paintbrush or a small artist paintbrush, and you don't want to get it wrong, uh you need one of those as well to absorb the mercury beeps.
You also need foam type shaving cream.
Well, wait a minute.
I thought that isn't that foam type shaving cream, isn't that what was causing the hole in the ozone layer?
So in other words, to introduce the environmentally friendly light bulb, we're going to need to have far more of the uh of the old uh foam type uh shaving cream.
That's for your pets' feet, because if your pets go anywhere near the broken bulb, you've got to apparently put sh I don't know whether you actually have to shave their feet, uh but uh but uh it's not clear from from the official state of Michigan recommendations, but you need foam type shaving cream.
It's no good, by the way, just uh mixing it up yourself with the old uh with the old brush like they do in the silent movies with Charlie Chaplin where he shaves half the guy's mustache off.
You can't do it that way, you've got to have the foam type shaving cream.
Uh and you also need uh rubber shoes.
You've got to have uh shoe covers as well.
This is if if you're now uh as as a listener called uh said yesterday, when the next San Francisco San Francisco earthquake strikes and uh and Nancy Pelosi lands millions of bulbs break, they're gonna have a class action soon.
But this is just, by the way, if something goes wrong, but i even just being in the presence of a non broken bulb raises certain health issues.
Uh Britain's Health Protection Agency, which is a leftist big government agency, says you should not be within a foot of a curly fry light bulb for more than one hour a day.
In other words, to do this three hour radio show with environmentally friendly lighting, I have to sit in the dark for t for for two thirds of the show.
Uh although although, you know, they may force us to keep the lights on, and uh those of us in the guest hosts union, me, Mark Belling, Mark Davis, we're gonna have one hell of a class action law lawsuit against the EIB network uh when we all come down with uh various strange illnesses in ten years' time.
According to the BBC, by the way, also a lefty organization, the constant, if barely perceptible perceptible flicker of the CFL can trigger headaches, migraines, and epileptic seizures.
Medical charities in Britain are demanding an opt-out for quote, vulnerable people because of the risk of epileptic fits, skin rashes, and other environmentally friendly side effects from this superb product.
I love that phrase, by the way, vulnerable people.
Because the genius of big government is to make us all vulnerable.
That's the thing.
It assumes we're all children, we're all vulnerable children, so we all have to be regulated by the big nanny uh state.
And uh because the big nanny doesn't actually uh ha suffers from um what uh uh the uh the writer Austin Williams calls the poverty of ambition, what it means is that as in this light bulb uh business, so-called progressives are actually at at war with progress.
That's why the stimulus failed.
Because the stimulus didn't stimulate anything except government.
Even in blue states now, uh the the Vermont stimulus said the stimulus totally failed in Vermont.
Doesn't create any real jobs, doesn't create any real economic growth.
Uh because big government 21st century style, when your progressives are at war with progress, they're at war with prosperity, uh the result is what we have under Obama.
We have money, no object government spending uh tons of money, but to no great uh great objects.
Obama's um I think she was the assistant secretary of the interior, I think she still is, a lady called Deanna Archaletta.
Uh she told an audience in Nevada uh last year, you will never see another federal dam.
And she she didn't just say this as a kind of tragic announcement that we couldn't afford to build them anymore.
She promised them, she pledged them that that the the old style federal government in FDR's day built the Hoover Dam.
The new style federal government uh just uh r regulates the kind of light bulbs you can have in your i in your house.
It's got uh it it's it's micro micro regulatory trivia, uh solving problems that uh that don't exist.
If you don't like the phrase the pansy left, I I used to uh in well after Do you remember Howard Dean when he ran for uh president in two thousand and four and he revealed that he'd quit the Episcopal Church over an over a doctrinal dispute about the bike path in Burlington, Vermont.
Uh and I started calling them at that point, the bike path left.
And that's that's the terms they think of.
They think, oh, well, if we if we close every f if we close the Hoover Dam and convert it to a fish hatchery, if we if we carpet the land with bike paths, then this will get the economy booming again.
Now that worked for Clintonism in the nineties, uh, because the times were good, we were prosperous, nothing much happening.
We could afford uh leftist trivia like Al Gore's Federal Toilet Tank regulation.
But we can no longer afford uh the the trivia of the left's poverty of ambition.
That's why the uh the stimulus failed, because the left no longer understands uh the the fundamentals either of government or of economic regeneration.
So the result is uh we spend a trillion dollars and have nothing to show for it.
Nothing at all.
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Let's go to Carol in St. Louis.
Carol, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Happy New Year.
Hi.
Um, I want to first call uh and talk about the reason that George presented was because that was an appropriation spell.
Okay.
And you know how those go.
Right.
The reason I have done enormous amount of research on these bulbs because I hate them so much.
Do you know that the reason all the mercury mines closed in California because the mercury, so they are the jobs.
We've actually lost our and VE had to ship all the uh jobs and the incandescent bulbs to Mexico and China.
Right.
So we've closed all those factories down, so we can make these bulbs in China in Mexico.
And it's all because of the mercury.
Right.
So everybody who is too lazy to uh recycle these bulbs will now put them in the trash.
The trash and the mercury will now seep into our water supply.
But I don't see any environmentalists.
I've thought about that.
No, nope, nope.
It's exactly No, exactly.
Nobody wants to make that so so as you say, we've outsourced the product and I don't even know whether actually uh there are uh any environmental uh uh any environmental benefit uh to importing a uh uh mercury-laden light bulb from China rather than having uh the Edison light bulb made at an American factory and traveling to your living room two hundred miles up the road.
Uh by the time it now now they all have to come from across across the ocean because uh another characteristic of the pansy left is they want the benefits of a advanced prosperous society without having to see any of the industrial activity that goes to produce it.
So as you say, they don't want any uh anything involving mercury uh or any uh factory requiring um uh uh the use of mercury to be in a pristine state like California.
So all this has to be done, all this has to be offshore to China and uh and everywhere else.
And as you say, uh in twenty years' time, we're gonna have massive uh mercury seepage and people with birth defects and all kinds of other things and kidney damage and epileptics are gonna are gonna have uh like this nine eleven first responders bill, except it will be a gazillion billion zillion bazillion trillion or whatever the number is up to by then in the class action lawsuit.
Uh Carol, this is the insanity.
Uh you say you don't like it, but why what can you as a freeborn citizen do about it?
Well, you know what I've done?
I've looked into it, and the first one's with the gone of the hundred watt incandescent bulbs.
I have literally half of my basement filled with light bulbs.
I have a lifetime supply.
All my cute little chandelier bulbs.
Right.
All my specialty bulbs in my kitchen.
Right.
I have an entire basement full of them.
And that's the last man standing.
I refuse to ever use those in my lifetime.
That that's good.
As you say, the hundred the hundred watt ones are the first ones to be banned.
In fact, I think they uh this very month they go out of circulation in Europe, and the price of the uh the curly fry light bulb replacement is apparently about to triple now that there's no longer any alternative.
Uh because that's also how these things were.
But you can do something else too, you know.
If you don't like these fourteen-step plans that the state of Maine and the State of Michigan and no doubt your own great state imposes on uh users of light bulbs, then I think it w it's appropriate if you do break uh one of these light bulbs and you are concerned about disposal and you are concerned about it maybe seeping into the sea the sewage system and leaching out into the environment,
then I think it might be appropriate actually to uh when you do break a bulb to mail it to the uh to your legislator who voted to introduce this uh this curly fry light bulb.
Because I'm sure they wouldn't have done it if they weren't responsible people who knew the responsible way to dispose of them.
So maybe the best thing to do with a broken bulb is just to pack it in a box and mail it to your congressman in Washington, and I'm sure he or your Senator, and I'm sure he'll know how to dispose of it.
Well, it's funny that the EPA now is so concerned about lead.
Why are they now concerned about mercury?
It's just as bad.
Yeah, no, I no, no, I know, I know.
Because because it because it's in fashion uh it's like Al Gore has now come out against ethanol.
Uh uh the the we we we have the we diverted uh the uh we we we made corn production part of the energy system, and as a result, there were third world people starving uh all over the map, there were food riots around the planet, because geniuses like Al Gore, the United States Congress, and the European Union, all the people who who drunk the uh the ethanol uh decided that they were going to make corn production part of uh the the energy supply system.
And Al Gore is now belatedly recognized that like so many of his other terrific ideas, this one was a uh uh a complete bust, a complete flopperoo.
And all it did was cause uh, you know, uh uh fetching attractive people of many lands in bucolic unspoiled corners of the world to starve to death or get trampled to death in food riots because pampered prosperous, decadent Western lefties like Al Gore decided to make corn production uh part of the part of the uh part of the food supply.
And that's exactly how it's gonna go with this mercury-lead thing.
In a in a couple of years' time, uh the the uh the environmental winds will change direction, and all the finger in the windy types uh in Congress will decide that we now need a new regime and a new massive expensive cleanup uh to do to mercury light bulbs what we did to lead paint.
This is the stupidity uh the government created this problem uh and government will need a massive new expensive regulatory regime to correct uh the problem.
Thank you for your call, Carol.
But do do think about that uh that uh that the best way, the easiest way, instead if you don't find all the fourteen-step disposal plans confusing, maybe easiest just to mail that uh broken CFL light bulb to the Senator who voted for it.
Thank you for your call, Carol in St. Louis.
We're talking about uh the uh w what uh uh I uh I quoted George Orwell on the pansy left, the pansy left uh solving uh problems that don't uh uh exist.
And it it applies to it applies to everything.
I I laughed my head off the other day when Katie Couric decided that uh one of the one of the great issues, burning issues of the year, uh, was the rampant rise in Islamophobia in America.
She thought it was very disturbing uh that the objections to the uh to the the pro proposed ground zero mosque, and uh she decided that this was one of the biggest uh underreported stories of the year.
Um and uh to show how serious she was, she's uh have you noticed Katie's taken to wearing these uh reading glasses to give her a kind of uh more gravitas, like uh like uh President Clinton does when he wants to.
No, no, Katie isn't old.
She's uh have you not seen that video on the internet of her dancing like the most abandoned cougar in town at the uh at the CBS Christmas party, CBS News Division Christmas party.
Uh they're all all the all the regulars, like Bob Schiefer looks like uh his pacemaker's about to explode, you know, as uh as Katie is doing her Katie is doing her wild abandoned dance on the dance floor.
It's out there on the internet somewhere.
But so she but when she wants to be serious, when she's not doing the Cougar Town dance uh on the at the CBS office party, she wears these reading glasses like Bill Clinton does.
You know, he when he has his spectacles pushed down the end of his nose, like he's trying to determine whether uh that's his uh 10 a.m. intern shuffling towards him uh uh across the broadloom, or you know, maybe it's a rabid armadillo that uh Al Gore uh brought in for the Earth Day Photo op.
You don't want to get confused on that.
So he when he has his spectacles pushed down on his nose, so does Katie.
And Katie did it when um she was uh telling us that the big story, the big under-reported story of the year, was uh the the rampant increase in Islamophobia.
And there's no Islamophobia.
This is like Nanny Bloomberg, the guy who can't plow the streets uh and whose first responder system now depends on the sanitation department leaving mountain-high stacks of uncollected trash outside ten-story apartment buildings for suicide New Yorkers to jump down onto.
Uh Nanny Bloomberg uh uh uh uh deplored the way uh at the at the time of the Times Square bomber said he was very worried that there could be a backlash against Muslims from the knuckle-dragging citizenry of New York that he has the misfortune to rule over.
Janetine Compatano, the Homeland Security Secretary after the Fort Hood thing said she was worried about that.
How many times the American people have to ace that test?
There's no problem here.
There's no problem with Islamophobia, but decadent, useless lefties want to solve problems that don't exist.
Mark Stein in for rush, more ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network, uh talking about the pansy left solving problems that don't exist, listening to Katie Couric, who has driven uh CBS news ratings down to I believe the lowest ever measured audience for a network newscast uh was recorded by Katie uh last year.
Uh that show it's it's it's uh it's it's sad uh that the very idea that they thought by hiring Katie would be a way to freshen up the show.
But i when you hear her saying, Well, I think one of the big unreported puts on uh her her uh serious thinker spectacles.
Well, I think one of the unreported stories of the year was the rampant ha Islamophobia.
Why not try this one, Katie?
You never know.
You might actually get get a few get a few viewers over over this one.
Carbomb in Egypt kills at least twenty-one outside Christian church.
Islamophobia, entirely fictitious epidemic.
Uh the targeting of Christians around the world is one of the great unreported stories in the American mainstream media.
Okay, you say, well, uh New Year Mass, you come out of New Year Mass in uh in Egypt and uh you get blown to pieces.
Who cares?
Egypt.
Okay, what about Iraq?
Because that's uh uh basically a uh dependency of the United States government.
That government is kept in power uh by uh U.S. uh.
military uh power.
And they have had uh uh uh two two Christians, this just the other day, two Christians killed uh in a campaign in the central Baghdad district of Al-Gadir on the uh on on the remaining Christian population.
When uh the United States liberated Iraq in uh 2003, there were between eight hundred thousand and a million Christians living there.
That number has halved.
It halved on our watch.
There was a massacre at a Baghdad Cathedral in October.
Um more than fifty people were killed.
These are real people, Katie.
It's not a fantasy problem like the like the fictional outbreak of Islamophobia from knuckle-dragging American rednecks that you think is one of the underreported stories.
But it's easy for you to put your serious thinker spectacles on the end of your nose.
Stop doing the cougar dance for 15 seconds and say this is one of the great unreported stories of the year.
Let's go to Scott in Los Angeles.
Scott, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Happy New Year to you.
Happy New Year, Mark.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Great.
Hey, there was a lady that called in.
I'm I'm in California here, the land of uh these mercury light bulbs, and I've listened to you refer to these as like curly fry light bulbs.
That's right.
And and the reason I was calling in is I think we need to start indoctrinating the left and calling these things and referring to them as Mercury light bulbs starting right now, and not call them the CLF or Curly Fry.
I think you need to start getting the point that these have Mercury in them, and they have put these into our house by law.
Right.
Right.
So just actually call them Mercury Light Bulbs.
Mercury light bulbs.
Please start referring to them that way because then we get to see.
I mean, they came in, they don't want Mercury Um thermostats in our house.
No.
They don't want the Mercury game boys thrown into the dumps.
They're terrible for society.
Yet I have in every time I flip on the light in my living room, we have recessed light bulbs.
I'm gonna have to have five Mercury light bulbs on in my house for each one of those times I flip on a light.
Right.
And and as you point out, uh the the left is so uh for example, secondhand children's books have had to be withdrawn from secondhand bookstores because of some particular type of printers ink that uh that the left has determined may uh have uh some particular health problems twenty, thirty years down the the the road.
If if your kid licks uh uh all the uh all the colored print off the book and he he's got like a thirty book a day habit that this could increase his risk from particular types of whatever uh uh over the over the course of his lifetime.
Uh the left is terrified about that, yet it's installing Mercury in every in every light bulb socket the United States.
Every place.
And uh and and as uh uh uh and as we said, you're in California.
Then the next earthquake, the next earthquake, even the mild earthquakes, that little one wherever it was San Diego a couple of years ago didn't really do a lot of damage, but it su certainly cracks a few light bulbs, doesn't it?
Even a even a small even a small earthquake, who is gonna have all kinds of toxic mercury uh all over your all over your living room, that the the federal government put the federal government more or less ordered you to stick in your light socket by order of the state.
That's true.
Well, you're right.
Mercury light bulbs.
Okay, maybe I'm being too kind on the government calling them curly fry light bulbs.
It's because it's true.
It's uh it's a sad but true fact that uh actually just being genial about this stuff doesn't always get you anywhere.
Maybe we need uh I I I ought to consult with Governor Palin.
She might just say, let's cut to the chase and call them death bulbs.
And she's not wrong on that.
Uh the curly fry light bulb, the mercury light bulb, says Scott in Los Angeles, as uh as as we examine uh George Orwell's pansy left and its preference uh for solving problems that don't exist.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein Infrarush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the ERB network.
By the way, just to go back to what Katie Kirk was saying.
I loved her solution for the rampant outbreak of Islamophobia uh in America.
She said, What we need is a sitcom, a Muslim sitcom like the Cosby Show.
Uh in fact, even here she's not really thinking outside the box, because there already is a Muslim uh sitcom up in Canada on the CBC called Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Uh and the only reason I know this is because when the Canadian Islamic Congress filled uh filed um uh f uh their hate crimes charges against me, uh they they cited as evidence of my Islamophobia uh my review of Little Mosque on the Prairie, which I'd failed to find sufficiently funny because it's uh it's a comedy about moderate Muslims and I'd only found it moderately funny, uh mainly because it's not comedy, it's it's propaganda.
I was asked about it at a speech in Washington and and I replied airily that Muslim is the new gay.
And that was that line was cited against me uh in the in in in the Canadian Islamic Congress indictment of me as an Islamophobe, but then I tried to explain that I meant it as a compliment and that only made things uh even worse.
Uh so so Katie is uh Katie is even even in this Katie is a little uh i i is a little backward because there already is uh as I said this uh this Muslim sitcom in which the Muslims get all the best lines and the non-Muslims are all uptight prejudiced drearily provincial hicks.
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