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Feb. 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 3, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, Snerdley, we are going to have a Super Bowl show.
Snurdly wants me to tell you who I've got, who we have on the uh Super Bowl show tomorrow, and I'm not gonna do that.
You know what would happen.
If I announce these guys' names, guess who calls them up?
Puts pressure on them not to appear.
So you'll just have to be patient and wait tomorrow to find out.
We have current and former players joining us tomorrow to discuss the Super Bowl as well as the Hutch.
Nobody can talk him out of it.
Nobody can frighten him.
The Hutch performed the wedding ceremony for Catherine and I. Me, and he'll be here with his annual Here's How the Steelers Are Gonna Lose Analysis of the Super Bowl.
He'll be representing the Packers tomorrow, more than likely.
That's the Hutch's natural proclivity, former linebacker for the Cowboys and the Seahawks.
Now the Hutch, he goes, he the Hutch played with the in the Jim Zorn era, played with the in fact, one of his uh close buddies is the Steelers linebackers coach, Keith Butler.
They are uh a close, close-knit group.
So um uh Hutch is too tall Jones at Harvey Toomey and Martin uh Jethro to Jethro Pew.
They couldn't think of a two for Jethro, so he just Jethro too Jethro.
Any rate, we're here at 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Here's what I was just talking about.
This is a story Cybercast News Service, the EPA Administrators, a woman named Lisa Jackson, she told a Senate committee that preventing children from being exposed to contaminated water could get could spare them from autism.
Jackson made a remark on Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in response to questioning by Senator John Barrasso of a Republican of Wyoming.
He asked if a recent executive order by Obama about regulations and the regulatory process means that the EPA can just put any rules in place it wants if the benefits outweigh the costs.
And she said, Yeah.
Now, they do not, folks, I don't care in what construct of our government or bureaucracy you want to sign on to, this does not.
it is This isn't right.
What this is really all about.
I mean, there is there is nothing that can't be regulated for the common good.
You see, under this rubric, under this umbrella, they can do anything as long as they say it's for the common good, including death panels.
So what it's really all about here is Obama giving an executive order that allows unelected people, these czars, if you will, and cabinet secretaries, to do whatever the hell they want.
He trusts them because they are him.
And he is they.
So the EPA administrator claims, claims.
There's no science here.
They say Rachel Carson, DDT kills kids.
Fine, we're gonna or kills animals, whatever the hell it did.
Get rid of DDT, and now 50 million people are dead from malaria.
And Rachel Carson to this day is is is celebrated.
And Obama has announced today that he will veto any congressional legislation to limit the EPA.
He's gonna veto it.
Veto it.
Make him veto so much stuff, send it up there.
I hope that they've got the energy and the um and the gumption to keep doing this.
EPA administrator claims regulating drinking water supply prevents kids from getting autism.
You see how easy this is.
Nobody wants a child to have autism.
Look, look at how uh you know I've if I even go down this road, the can of words I would open by talking about vaccinations and autism.
I mean, they've got people convinced that all these vaccinations have led to autism in certain children.
And I you don't even try to talk them out of it.
Not worth it.
They believe it.
So here comes the EPA.
Lisa Dax Claiming she can regulate the water supply, drinking water supply, so as to prevent kids from getting autism.
Have you ever heard?
Have you ever seen any science about drinking water causing autism?
No, seriously, I'm asking.
I don't have children, so I may have missed it.
Have to be open-minded about this.
Don, you have not seen it.
So this is out of the clear blue.
Just out of the clear blue, we gotta regulate drinking water because the public common good.
They don't have this power.
They are appropriating it.
In a related story, French news agency, the worst global recession in 80 years, did little to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and the ChICOMs made a major polluting leap.
U.S. figure show on Monday of this week.
Oh, by the way, let me read you one more passage from Lady Lisa Jackson story before I jump to the recession and emissions.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, autism is a disease that causes abnormal biology and chemistry in the brain, and that the exact causes of these abnormalities remain unknown.
Exact causes remain unknown.
I don't even think Robert Kennedy Jr. has claimed drinking water causes autism.
I mean, he's been out there on the edge on a lot of stuff, but I don't even think he's gone there.
Obama's January 18th executive order said in part, each federal agency shall propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that its benefits justify its costs, recognizing that some benefits and costs are difficult to quantify.
And as long as it benefits the common good.
Has anybody seen anything about autism being caused by tap water?
No, but guess what?
Your EPA is not going to regulate it.
Anyway, the worst global recession 80 years did little to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. carbon emissions dipped 8% in 2009 to 2006.
While in China, they jumped 32.5% for the planet as a whole.
Carbon emissions rose 5.2% in 2009 compared to 2006.
You know, it's almost as if the federal government listens to this program.
We have been saying for weeks that if the Earth's temperature is still going up, despite the fact that we're in the middle of a great recession, then that proves there's nothing that we mortals can do about it because the emission levels are down.
We're in the middle of a great recession.
Lo and behold, the U.S. Energy Information Administration comes out with a report to say, despite there being the worst recession since the Depression, we're still emitting more greenhouse gases.
Now, let's just accept this for the time being.
Even if this is true, doesn't it show the futility of trying to curtail such emissions?
If a near depression did not reduce emissions, what the hell kind of economic calamity is it going to take?
Do you want a lifetime of an economy like this or worse to save the planet?
It's going to have to be worse than this because this did not reduce...
Emissions still went up, so they've they've just nuked themselves.
If the worst recession, apart from the Great Depression, cannot put a dent in our carbon emissions, what hope is there for any of these picky unregulations and stuff that the environmentalists are clamoring for.
Obviously, folks, there's nothing that we mere mortals can do about this.
How many of you people have seen and remember the great movie Doctor Strangelove?
In fact, Grab uh Grab uh Grab uh Johnny Comes Marching Home Again from that one of my favorite musical bits is from that uh from that movie.
I'll kill you for it, not yet.
But in that movie, they they parody a lot of things.
Peter Sellers plays a number of different characters.
One of the characters he plays is Mandrake, a uh a Brit sort of exchange student in some wacko general's office.
And the general starts essentially World War III by believing that uh uh fluoride and other precious bot well, precious bodily fluids are being poisoned by the communists, fluoride among them, and he tries to convince Mandrake of this.
And it's it's amazing.
I'm thinking the cycle repeats now.
Now we have now we have tap water causing autism.
Now in the movie Dr. Strangelove, they parodied it.
It's black and white, it is hilarious.
It's a it's slim slim uh slim pickings.
It's uh it's just George C. Scott who plays Dr. Strangelove, who runs computafigures, showing that at the end of the world you'd need a hundred men for every woman, or a hundred women for every man, in order to perpetuate the population and rebuild it.
George C. Scott's eyes light up.
Of course, he wants to wipe the south the commies off the map.
I mean, uh and the the crazed general named Jack Ripper.
Colonel Ripper.
Have you ever seen a comedy drink a glass of water?
Mandrake, well, I I I can't say I have.
Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it?
They never drink water, right?
They know.
They have poisoned the world's water supply mandate.
They're poisoning our precious bodily flu.
So now we got the Obama regime and tap water leading to autism, all for the express purpose to gain total control here over it.
It's God, this is just these people never ever stop.
They're not going to be stopped until 2012.
When the B-52 was headed to Moscow to drop the bombs.
The crew are going through the checklists.
This was the tune that was played during the movie Doctor Strange Love.
I think it's how I learned to love the bomb.
It's from 1962.
I just got it in Blu-ray, as a matter of fact.
What do you mean, Blu-ray for when it's black and white?
When you have the chance to get the best, you get the best.
I mean, I am the best, and I have the best when I can get it.
I don't know.
Remember one time I used this music over a story about Obama.
Civil Rights Coalition, not happy about that.
It's a very good thing.
New York, by the way, has banned smoking in beaches and parks.
Outside.
And Times Square, yeah.
Everywhere now, essentially.
Okay, I'm not making it up.
After a bitter debate over individual liberties and the role of government, the city council in New York on Wednesday handily approved a bill to ban smoking in 1,700 city parks and along 14 miles of city beaches.
36 to 12 vote, the council passed the most Significant expansion of anti-smoking laws since Mayor Bloomberg pushed to prohibit smoking in restaurants and bars in 2002.
Now, when this was when this was first mentioned a couple of years ago, they laughed.
That rush, yeah, maybe stadiums indoors.
They're not gonna ban it in parks, they're never gonna go that far.
Right.
This is how the left work.
They never give up.
They never stop trying to gain more control over our lives.
They just wear you down and wear you down.
Okay, do it.
Just shut up.
Leave me alone.
And that's how they succeed.
By the way, does this does this ban cover marijuana cigarettes?
Especially medical marijuana cigarettes.
I bet it doesn't.
Bet it doesn't.
Would Bloomberg allow marijuana to be smoked on parks, beaches?
I don't know.
Anyway, that's the enforcement is another matter.
If they catch you, there'll be fines and fines and fines and so forth.
And eventually, if the law doesn't work, if you just keep violating it like the regime is violating the Constitution and the health care law, at some point they'll put you in jail.
It'll take years to get to that point, but that's where it's headed.
Sandra, in Clarksville, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, I'm here, and I'm very glad to talk to you.
And is it all right if I call you Rush?
Yeah.
Feel free.
I feel like we're friends.
Excuse me.
That's all right.
Here is my question.
Our country is very young and very new.
And we're expected to do a lot of things throughout the world.
That's right.
Yeah, I'm looking at Egypt, and I see that they have had some sort of organized government for 5,000 years.
Wouldn't you think they'd get it straight now?
It's perplexing.
Boy, you don't know it, but if it in in the in the hands of a much less qualified host, you have just laid a perfect trap for a less qualified host to stumble into and end his career.
I I've I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist with seasoning and experience, recognize the trap.
You may not even be aware of the trap that you've set here.
I didn't.
I'm just a personality.
You're just a person.
Okay, they've been around 5,000 years.
We've been around 250.
Can't they get it right?
Yeah, that is my question.
All right, well, who are they?
Anyone in Egypt who has the ability to do it.
Wait, well, who are the Egyptians?
The Egyptian people.
Yeah.
The people who live there.
Where is Egypt?
It's a country.
Where?
Excuse me.
Where is Egypt?
In the Middle East.
Technically, it's part of the Middle East, but actually it's on a continent.
What what continent is it on?
It's on the African continent.
Okay.
Now the less experienced host would end his career right here and there.
I know not to go there.
In answering your question.
I remember, I guess it was seventh grade junior high.
I even remember the teacher, Mrs. Langdon.
When she started teaching us about ancient Egypt, I got absorbed.
I became fascinated with the things I was learning about.
Well, King Tut uh mummies, the all of it, uh, and the pyramids.
I I became totally captivated by it.
And I remember asking uh what happened to it?
You know, why why 13 in the seventh grade?
What happened to it?
Why?
Because it was so advanced for its day.
Way advanced.
I mean, the Roman, when it was a Roman colony, it wasn't even close to what it was in the ancient Pharaoh Obama days.
And so the caller says, what happened to it?
They've been around 5,000 years.
The answer, folks, is really not complicated at all.
This is what happens to totalitarianism.
There has never been in Egypt a genuinely republican freedom government.
It just hasn't been.
I remember in the early days of this broadcast history, I'd get people calling here.
And even when I worked in Sacramento, I would get calls from people saying, well, African culture was leading the world at one time.
But then conquerors, conquistadores, and others came along and stole it.
Stole the culture.
Which always perplexed me.
You go someplace where there is a culture and then you steal it, right?
Well, what's to stop the people who had the culture stolen from simply keeping the culture going?
Culture is a behavior.
Culturism, you may steal the libraries, you might steal the churches or whatever, but you can't you can't steal the values.
How did that how did that happen?
You can you can adopt them, absorb them and so forth.
Um as you know, Obama and his father are concerned, what happened to everybody over there is Great Britain.
That's exactly Great Britain's what happened.
Great Britain is what happened to India.
Great Britain is what happened to uh Ethiopia, Great Britain is what happened to Egypt, they came and colonized everything.
Lord Mount Batten, Lord Mount, despised by the anti-colonialist, but he is Prince Charles' favorite human being, number one mentor, Lord Mountbatten.
So what happened to it?
Why haven't they matriculated the ball down the field and become what we be?
That's a question that I ask every time I make a public appearance.
Have you ever wondered why?
I don't care.
Egypt, Italy, it doesn't matter what nation you ask about.
They have all been around thousands of years.
The Chikoms in one degree are the Japanese, the Koreans, I don't care where you go, the Mongols, I don't care where you go in this world.
They've all been around longer as nations than the United States has.
How is it then that a population of less than 300 million people in less than 275 years came to rule the planet as a force of good economic output that had never before seen, lifestyles, standards of living, medical advancement, technological advancement, invention, the 20th century alone in this country.
How it's never before happened.
Why?
We're not, as I said, we're not better people.
We're not our DNA is not special.
We're not smarter, we're not better builders.
Well, the Romans were amazing builders with what they had to work with.
Why didn't it last?
Well, there are debates about that.
But regardless, nobody's ever come close to us.
And we've we're but a speck of sand on the human timeline compared to some of these other nations, like she said, Egypt and other African nations.
Five thousand years they've been around documented history.
Well, there has to be a reason.
There has to be an explanation for how we were able to do this.
And in that explanation, you're going to find many of the reasons why there is America hatred in this country.
Because there's a lot of guilt over the fact that we did this.
A lot of people think that the only way we could have become the superpower that we became was by stealing and misappropriating the things from other people, their valuable natural resources, their best and brightest minds.
We stole it for our own selfish reason.
There hasn't been a genuinely free Republican form of government in most of history for most of the world.
That's the answer we have.
That's American exceptionalism.
We're the first.
That's why those of us who love the Constitution genuinely love it.
Why we genuinely, call it a fetish, I don't care.
It's why we genuinely love it.
It is that special.
There's only one earth, and there's only one chance we all have to live on it.
We are Americans.
Never before in the course of human existence has there been a place like this.
And it's not because of where the place is.
It's a factor in certain ways, but whatever we don't have, we import whatever we have excess of, we practically give away to people.
Anytime a disaster happens on this planet, where do they look first?
Anybody around the world needs serious medical treatment.
Where do they go?
Hell, they'll they'll endow entire wings of hospitals to be treated here if they have to.
It's because of the Constitution, it's because of the structure of our government, the nature of our existence.
It's all there in our founding documents.
We have been the least shackled people in human history.
The full measure of human potential's been on display since the founding of this country.
Actually, since before the founding, because that was part of the founding of this country.
And it continues to be on display.
That is why so many of us cringe when we've got a president running around the world apologizing for this country.
Why we cringe when we see people who look at it, don't like it or hate it, and see the need to reform it.
And spread poverty spread misery so that everybody is equal.
Questioning our exceptionalism and suggesting that we need to find out what life is really like around the country, around the world, to see what we've been imposing on people.
And of course, it's the exact opposite.
I've said this before, I'll say it again because it's a great illustration.
I'm watching Phil Donahue.
It's the afternoon syndicated show, and he had Laura Dern on there.
She's 18 years old as uh as a guest, and she was practically hysterical describing what it's like to be an 18-year-old to get up every day with a threat of nuclear Holocaust happening on that day.
And Phil, of course, doing everything he could to relate and understand and wringing his hands and said, yes, were it not for the accident of his birth, he could be living in squalor and poverty in Mexico.
The accident of his birth.
Well, if he wants to look at it that way, fine.
But here's the difference.
Poor old Phil Donahue was overwhelmed with guilt over where he was born.
I remember watching, I was shouting at the TV, hey Phil.
Rather than feeling guilty, why don't you feel proud?
And why don't you do what you can to help spread our way of life to everybody else around the world?
That's what we want.
We want everybody in this country to experience the affluence, the opportunity that's possible here.
That's why we don't understand the constant drumbeat of running it down and ripping it to shreds and questioning its fairness.
It's it's uh validation.
Here we're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobia, it's just it's they're non sequiturs.
Those things do not equal what this country is.
So, yeah, it gets very frustrating if people want to tear this country apart.
And it gets very scary when so many of them who feel that way have now real positions of power.
Both in the Congress and in the executive branch.
Okay, I gotta take a brief time out.
Snurdley uh said I sounded somewhat confusing on the flowers and strawberries.
Did I sound confusing on that?
I didn't sound confusing on that.
I did not say that if John Dingle sent his wife some berries, it'd be dingleberries.
I don't know what you were thinking about.
I look at you've got Sherry's berries, and you've got Proflowers, the Rose.
I just suggested they combine them into one Valentine's, and they took me up on it.
One day only, just to see if it'll work.
And it's a it's it's a dozen roses and the chocolate cover strawberries.
It's 3999.
It's rushproflowers.com.
What's confusing about that?
Nothing.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now, apparently, uh, ladies and gentlemen, according to Jacob Tapper of ABC News, Hosni Mubarak has called Obama a very good man, but told him he didn't understand the culture of Egypt and what would happen if he left now.
And Hasni Mubarg, probably half right there.
He told ABC News he would like to leave office immediately, but that he can't.
Because of what would happen if he did.
Also, according to Mediaite, Fox News Greg Polcott and crew have been severely beaten and are now hospitalized in Cairo.
Now we were kidding before about the New York Times, of course.
This kind of stuff is terrible.
We wouldn't wish this kind of thing even on reporters.
But it's uh it's serious.
And you know, Anderson Cooper got beat upside the head ten times.
When he was uh when he was there.
Still feeling it, still feel sorry about reporters.
All think that the protesters ought to welcome them.
They're on the same side.
Peter in Seattle, you're great for holding on.
Thank you very much, and welcome to the program.
Thanks very much, Rush.
It's amazing to see with you.
My mom listened to your show back 20 years ago, and I can still hear her laughing in my head about you using the term feminazi.
So it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Thank you.
I just wanted to uh say something relative to giving the Egyptians time to get their revolution together and to have a clear plan for what the future holds.
What was the time between the Boston Tea Party in the United States and the time we wrote the Constitution?
What was the time between the Boston Tea Party and the time the Constitution was written in the United States of America?
Time is short.
You tell me.
Sixteen years.
Sixteen years.
And I just think if uh think about the Egyptian people, 30 years under Mubarak is the equivalent of us being 30 years under Jimmy Carter.
That is a lot of frustration.
Well, now that is an interesting way to put it.
Or 30 years under Obama.
Oh.
Not he's right, though.
The years are 1775, 1789.
Um so in this sense, are you supporting the Egyptian peoples?
I am supporting the Egyptian people, and the other thing is I think one institution they have that is tremendously powerful and positive for their country is the army.
Look at the restraint the army has shown and the respect it has for their Egyptian culture and their Egyptian people.
I believe that the army is a force that could be uh the stabilizing force during a period of transition.
You are you are very shrewd, sir.
You are not uh you're the first to mention it on this program, but you're not that is uh an interesting aspect of this is the position, the role that the Egyptian Army is playing and will play when uh when this is all over.
Thanks, Peter, very much.
I appreciate it.
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Mark, welcome to the program, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush, constitutionalist ditto.
Thank you.
By the way, how's that Mind Shaft Gap doing?
And don't mess with Coca-Cola.
Hey, by law, doesn't everybody have to buy the Limbaugh letter by now?
That's right, I wish.
Yeah.
Well, I'm calling back the I think the Obamacare law may be vague and uh capricious.
You know, think of an example.
The Green Bay Packers don't have to uh follow the rules for holding.
Doesn't apply, I mean applies to the uh Steelers, but not to Packers.
Well, it's the same with the uh Obamacare.
I mean, constitutionally, everything's supposed to be uniform taxes, uniform laws, but there's people getting waivers out there, and other people don't.
You know, insurance rates, the mandatory ones, are going to be different here than up at EIBI station in New Hampshire.
In between companies.
And the majority of states have said, now don't have to comply.
Why do I have to comply in California?
I mean, I think it's unconstitutional along those grounds.
Well, uh, when you start talking, if I understood you, if you start talking about the states first, the the states have far more leeway in such the if I understood what you were saying, I was having trouble under and I've got a I've got a time constraint problem.
I'm sorry, but I've got to take a break.
We'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away, folks.
ABC News reporter Brian Harton, uh Hartman threatened with beheading, covering the Egyptian mob in uh in Cairo.
Don't have more or time for more details, but an ABC news reporter has been threatened to be beheaded.
And we'll see you more uh tomorrow, folks.
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