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Hey, H.R., did you succeed in getting Mark Stein in here tomorrow?
Mark Stein is in here.
Folks, I have to take, it's a big day tomorrow.
I've been working on a project for close to a year, a super secret project going on behind closed doors and underneath the radar.
And tomorrow is a seminal day.
Tomorrow is a, you might say a day of fruition.
And I simply must be where this culmination will take place.
But we'll be back here on Thursday and Friday as normal.
But tomorrow, Mark Stein will be here to host the program.
Snirdly, a quick question.
Are you familiar with this Anthony Weiner business that's out?
I've had one email on this today, and the email said, go ahead.
Go ahead and talk about it.
And I frankly, I had to look into this.
I was not aware.
I don't tweet or tweet, tweet, whatever.
I do not, I don't, and I don't read Twitters unless I can't help it, unless somebody reports one in the context of something else that I'm reading.
So I had to really dig deep to find out what this thing is all about.
And the first thing I had to ask myself is, I guess they're calling it Wienergate.
Is Wienergate really big enough to investigate?
And the Wienergate story to me seems like it's hard to swallow.
There are just too many coincidences here.
I guess what the guy did, he's tweeting with some babe in Seattle, right?
Or twitting with some babes, tweeting with some baby in Seattle.
And he supposedly sends a picture of his bulging package in his underwear.
And he claims that it was hacked.
That he said it hacked.
It actually isn't him.
And so I don't know if the picture in question of Congressman Weiner's underwear is an example of stand-up comedy or not.
I don't know if it's an attempt to distract people from what's going on.
But I guess this, if any, well, you could say this does put the twit in Twitter because it got everybody captivated.
And I just, I'm looking to, I've looked at all these people analyzing this and they've put it on a timeline and chronology and it escapes me why this is such a big deal.
I saw the pick the picture is not that big a deal.
And I don't, well, even if it's, if it's not a hacker, look, I know if it was a Republican doing it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But this guy's already a weird little guy to me anyway.
And he just married Hillary's valet or valet, whatever, Huma, Huma Abidden married her not long ago.
I don't find her referenced in any of these stories, what she mentioned.
Could just tell us right now whether it's him or not.
Uh, not that, not that she would, but why.
Somebody tell me why it's a big deal, why it's yeah it.
If it's him, it's an ugly thing right, tweeting a picture of a bulging package uh, to some babe in Seattle.
Not his wife, if it's.
If it is indeed him and, by the way, I guess it's very, it's pretty, difficult to believe it isn't him, because he's claiming he was hacked and then not hacked immediately.
It happened while he was using Twitter, right?
It was hacked while he was using it, apparently.
Something like that.
Well, isn't that what he's claiming?
To some extent.
Anyway, I got some emails about this this morning before the program started.
I've received one email since the show started urging me to talk about it.
I looked into it and I don't know.
I didn't care.
Then I started looking at the people who do.
And I thought, who in the world has time writing about this?
I mean, I'm looking at thousand, two thousand word posts on what this all means and the timeline trying to determine whether or not Wiener is telling the truth about any of this.
What people are captivated by the whole Twitter thing?
Oh, oh, is that what it is?
That's what it is.
Oh, the whole Beltway elite is captivated by Twitter, period.
Oh, okay.
Well, then I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage because I don't Twitter or tweet.
That's the 140 characters max, right, per post.
Something like that.
Well, what if the tweeted girl in question, what if she says that Weiner has a small problem?
Would that be enough to convict?
Was anybody even angling for a conviction here?
And if this does not go to the FBI, if the Wiener case, if you're going to call it that, doesn't go to the FBI, will he be giving his constituents and his opponents the shaft?
In other words, are they going to be playing favorites here?
Simply because it might be Weiner.
So no matter how you slice this, I guess for people who are big into Twitter, this was a memorable weekend.
But all I know is Larry Craig, Larry Craig was drummed out of Congress for tapping his foot.
This is kind of your point, Snerdly.
Larry Kegg, Craig, was drummed out of Congress, and all he did was tap his foot in a bathroom.
Here you have a Democrat congressman who just married Hillary Clinton's valet, Huma Abadin, who's now apparently sending pictures of himself all over the place in his underwear.
Who else is doing?
Athletes are known for Brett Favre is accused of doing something like this.
Only he just used text.
He didn't mess with Twitter.
He just used straight text.
But what is the, here's a long story on this in the New York Post.
Too many coincidences in Wiener's tale.
And it lists all of these potential coincidences.
I guess the way for me to put this in perspective, you know, we were talking on this program last week about that period of time where my use of the theme song, My City Was Gone by the Pretenders, was challenged as I wasn't paying a appropriate license fee to EMI, who, Chrissy Hind, on the tune.
During that whole controversy, there's a guy named David Korn, who at the time was writing for the nation, who must have written a 1,500 or 2,000-word piece on legal ramifications of my not paying the license fee and how I was purposely doing this to avoid, it made me out to be the biggest cyber crook on the face of the earth.
I'm saying, how in the world do you get 2,000 words out of something as innocuous as me and my theme song?
And I said, it must be just the daily ramblings of the pseudo-intellectual mind.
How can you write so much about something like that?
And, you know, this is my reaction to this wiener and the twit thing.
I know, you're right.
The Beltway, fascinated, totally captivated by anything below the belt.
And maybe Huma doesn't know.
Sometimes the wife is the last to know.
But the bottom line is here, I had my hands full anyway with other stuff before we even got to the Wiener story, and it's just as...
All right, now CBS News.
Is it CBS?
Yes.
CBS News, ladies and gentlemen, has told us now why they are so ticked off at Sarah Palin not telling anybody where she's going.
I have it folding in my formerly nicotine-stained thing.
It's by Ryan Corcero.
It adds up to a dangerous situation, says CBS News producer Ryan Corcero.
Since Palin and her team won't share where she's headed, reporters and producers have little choice but to simply stay close to her bus.
This has resulted in scenes of the Palin bus tooling down the highway, followed by a caravan of 10 to 15 cars, including a massive CNN bus, all trying to make sure they don't lose sight of the Palin bus.
So she's creating a traffic nightmare.
She is putting people in harm's way by not telling anybody where she's going because she's created this caravan of press people, including the CNN bus, following her everywhere.
And that's just, it's too dangerous.
Ryan Coursero, the producer of CBS, I just hope to God that one of these young producers with a camera whose bosses are making them follow Sarah Palin as a potential Republican candidate don't get in a car crash because this is dangerous.
Holy smokes, how much traffic is there on the Memorial Day weekend on the interstate highway system anyway?
And now Sarah Palin's bus out there, these people have to stay close, you see, can't lose sight of the bus because she's not telling them where they're going.
She is presenting a traffic nightwear.
She's putting people in harm's way.
Folks, she has rendered them totally irrational.
She's making utter fools of these people as they're plunging to new depths to come up with anything they think is legitimate criticism of her.
This biggest stretch yet.
Back to the phones.
Jimmy in Polk County, Florida.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, thank you.
I just wanted to encourage and maybe offer some hope to the gentleman that called earlier who didn't think that winning the election was possible.
I want to suggest that by rebuilding and restoring the most fundamental part of our electoral process, which is our voting precinct structure, we can get the job done.
And I would encourage him and every one of your listeners to take a look back into their civics classes and see what they can find about getting involved in their local precincts, because that's where elections are truly won.
Well, the guy was calling from Kansas City, and he was, I put this guy in the category of total defeatist.
There's nothing we can do.
Not only is he from Chicago, in Chicago, they cheat, and the media will help them cheat.
There's nothing we can do.
It's impossible to beat Obama because of the Chicago machine, because of the media.
And I can't relate to that kind of an attitude.
If I had that attitude, I just quit.
Hang it up.
What's the point here?
I can't relate to people with the, I know they exist.
They're throes of depression or what have you.
But to me, it's a nonsensical statement.
I hate to sound brusque, if that's brusque, but to say that something 18 months away is a fait accompli and that there's nothing we can do about the outcome, one way or the other, just doesn't compute with me.
I'm not suggesting that it would be a waste of time to shore up and learn about the precinct process and all of that.
But believe me, our side's well aware of vote fraud.
Our side's well aware of the tricks that might be played.
It's not as though they were just sitting around waiting to be cheated on with no recourse.
You know, they are telling us they're telling us how fragile they think Obama's reelection.
It's costing them a billion dollars.
He's going to do nothing but campaign for a year and a half, and it's going to cost a billion dollars to get this guy re-elected.
Remember now, this guy was the Messiah.
This was the one.
All of the earthly problems that we had experienced in the past were going to be rendered obsolete.
They weren't going to exist as problems.
Believe me, there's not one thing in this campaign that the Obama administration, the Democrat Party, can point to and say, give us four more years to do more of this.
There's not one thing they can do.
The only thing they can say is, you can't afford the Republicans.
These people are going to tear up our brilliant policies who are just now starting to work.
We can't afford to change horses in the middle of the stream.
It was much worse than we thought.
You don't dare give it over to these people who don't care about your grandmother, who don't care about you.
All they care about themselves in Wall Street.
That's all they can do.
They cannot run a positive, agenda-oriented campaign.
You like our work on unemployment?
Fine.
You like 9%?
How about 11%?
You like the foreclosure rate?
How about we double it?
You like inflation?
How about it gets higher?
You like the price of gasoline?
How about gasoline goes up another buck?
There's nothing they can say about their agenda or things that have happened.
Give us four more years and we'll do even better.
Not one thing.
I'll guarantee you, if sitting president were a Republican with this track record, they would already be writing of the imminent defeat of that candidate, no matter who the Democrats nominated as the opponent.
I just cautioned, don't fall prey for this business that Obama's unbeatable, that he's above criticism.
We don't dare be critical of Obama.
The historical nature of his presidency is such that we don't do any of that.
I mean, those days are over.
The historical nature and aspect of this has long since settled in.
And now he's president of the United States.
And now he is and should be held accountable like any other president would be.
All these other surface characteristics, notwithstanding, they're irrelevant.
Color of his skin, all of that means nothing.
And it shouldn't.
Who's next?
Ned in Plymouth, Indiana.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Russ.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
You bet.
Hey, I want to echo your sentiments about Sarah Palin and Obama being beatable.
And the GOP and the left are going crazy over Palin's effect on them and her unwillingness to go with the flow.
And so I think ultimately what she's doing is she's going to have to confront the Republicans because if she can get the nomination, Obama is a cakewalk if it came to that.
So her biggest obstacle is going to be her own party and the rhinos and the GOP.
Well, I don't think there's any question about that.
I'm not sure that she's going to run.
I don't know that that's what this is about at all.
If she wants it, she can do another thing to the media, and she can just invite them all to a cup game and just walk out.
And all she's got to do is just throw out the first pitch and play that on the nightly news.
Obama's in hers, and I think you just got humiliation just right there in the picture in front of you.
Explanation, not needed.
Okay, Ned, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Al in Rockland County, New York.
You're next, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing?
Pretty well, sir.
Thanks very much.
I want to talk about Sarah Palin's bus trip.
I guess you remember how many times that when Katie Couric waylaid her on the trip when she was running for vice president, every place she showed up, there was Katie Couric getting her in the corner when she was in trouble and didn't have time to move, didn't have time to answer a question, right, trying to trick her up, trying to give her a bad way to go.
So she figures, you know, you fooled me once, it's my fault.
Fooled me twice.
I mean, you fooled me once, it's your fault.
Fool me twice, it's my fault.
She's on the other side of the coin now.
She's not telling them where she's going to be so they can waylay her again.
Oh, I see.
Your theory is why she's not telling them where she's going.
Yeah.
So they can't waylay her.
Yeah.
They got her three or four times on the last run.
Well, you may have a point.
I think she's outlasted Katie Couric.
I don't think Katie Couric's on her radar.
Katie, who?
Katie doesn't even have a job.
Has Katie has she finalized that deal?
She definitely has a talk show at ABC.
I don't know where she's got a show.
I know that's what she wants.
I know she's in talks.
I don't know that it's been finalized.
I haven't seen.
When does it start?
2012?
When does her syndicated show start?
The bottom line is, Sarah Palin is on her bus traveling around with a media convoy following her.
And we don't know where Katie Couric is.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, half my brain, tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, I know all about the story with Chris Lee, the married congressman who sends a picture of himself nude from the waist up.
Sends a picture out on the internet.
The woman that he'd met on the internet published online.
He's a Republican and he had to resign.
And Weiner has done this and he hadn't had to resign.
The thing that Weiner's face is not, well, they say his face is not in this picture.
They say that it's just a picture.
Well, I saw the picture.
It's wearing briefs, bulging briefs.
Only Huma would know, and maybe not even from this picture.
So a lineup wouldn't work here.
Folks, I don't know.
I heard about this today.
I really was not aware of it over the weekend.
I was off the grid, as they say.
It was really off the grid this weekend.
I first heard about this, I guess, last night when I started focusing on show prep today.
And I didn't think the Chris Lee thing was any big deal.
And I don't think this is.
It does not warrant top of the program interest in me.
Yeah, Hotel Maid in New York, all this stuff.
When you have a mindset like I do, they're all depraved.
There's not news here.
We know he's a Democrat.
We know that they're going to cover for him.
It's rules of the game.
It's how it is.
I'm in the process saving the country.
I don't have time to be distracted with stuff like this.
Weiner, to me, is an irrelevancy.
Where's my killer instinct?
Have you ever known me to get focused on this kind of, I want to beat people on policy.
I want to get rid of people on the illegitimacy of their ideas, snurdly.
And that's why this stuff is not at all appealing.
I am not a voyeur in any way, shape, manner, or form.
This stuff, well, yeah, I like stirring excrement around, but in a figurative sense, wouldn't post a picture of it on Twitter and send it around.
I mentioned earlier this piece that I read yesterday in the New York Post by Kyle Smith, Prophets of Doom.
It's nothing that we haven't talked about here on the program.
He lays it out, though, exceptionally well.
And his point is, boy, Harold Camping, what an idiot.
What an absolute idiot.
Harold Camping predicts the end of the world on May 21st.
Last week, the Christian radio station owner said that he was kind of right, though nobody noticed.
In any way, the judging will continue until October 21st of this year, when the world really and truly will be destroyed.
Probably.
Now, what you didn't know is, after his loony prediction, Camping was promoted to full professor at Stanford and rewarded with adoring mainstream media coverage, more than a dozen appearances on The Tonight Show, prestigious awards and praise from the Obama administration's chief science advisor.
Did you know any of that happened?
Oh, sorry, sorry.
I got one detail wrong.
It wasn't Camping who reaped those earthly rewards for his cosmic wackiness.
It was Paul Ehrlich.
In his psychedelically doomy 1968 catastrophe book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich argued that birth rates were out of control and would cause worldwide crisis.
I remember, folks, I was in Pittsburgh in 1972, working for a top 40 radio station at the time was owned by ABC.
1972.
And the Ehrlich book was 6869, Population Bomb.
And it was about how we're destroying the planet.
We're going to survive beyond the year 2000.
Program director made us read.
Well, he didn't make us, but I mean, look, when he calls you in, suggests it's important to read the book.
You do it.
It wasn't mandatory, but it's just like another program director I work for in Kansas City required me to read some book by Gail Sheehee called Passages.
Remember, I had, well, I had to go through the motions.
I had to make it look like I had read it.
I know.
I know exactly what Passages was, Snurdy.
It was the first of the Feminazi book.
Well, one of the first of the Feminazi, you know, get in touch with yourself wherever yourself happens to be kind of books.
But I remember these people telling me about the Ehrlich book in the early 70s.
I mean, for some reason, doom and gloom.
People glom onto that.
It's a magnet.
People are, it's amazing how susceptible people are to believing this doom and gloom stuff.
And yet, a book about eternal happiness and so forth, well, that's greeted with skepticism.
But the end of the world, oh yeah, when?
How can I sign up?
In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich argued that birth rates were out of control and would cause worldwide crisis.
He came by this not through divine revelation, but through divine equation, aka the liberal scripture of pseudoscience.
Ehrlich calculated using the equation I equals P times A times T.
That means that human impact on environment equals the product of population, affluence, and technology.
No room for imprecision there.
Conclusion.
In the 1970s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.
This is what Ehrlich wrote in 1968.
In the 70s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.
Nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the human death rate.
Ehrlich predicted England would cease to exist by 2000.
He meant the whole country, not just the soccer squad.
In 1970, he said in 10 years, all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.
Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
He said that by 1980, life expectancy in America would decline to 42 years.
Not quite getting the message, the world population both A continued to grow and B lived longer and healthier than ever.
Now, Ehrlich, in the face of all of this, has said, well, you know, I was kind of right.
And the worst you can say is that, like the preacher men camping, it's a little too early in my prediction.
I'm still right.
I'm still right.
I'm just a little early here.
Now, President Obama's point man on science, John Holdren, is a big believer in Paul Ehrlich.
And we've, as I say, we've talked about all this, but the way Kyle Smith lays this out, it's really fascinating.
text version of a speech that John Holdren gave in 2006 was accompanied by a footnote in which he praised Paul Ehrlich's call to end population growth, a key insight.
The elementary but discomfiting truth of it may account for the vast amount of ink, paper, and angry energy that has been expended trying in vain to refute the theory.
And there are Ehrlich men everywhere.
And Ehrlich is German for honest just makes it so much richer, doesn't it?
In 1970, when the first Earth Day caused the first spike in atmospheric baloney, Life magazine, 1970, First Earth Day, reported that in a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution.
By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by one half.
Now, Mr. Smith has it aside here to young readers.
Visible smog was the thing we were all afraid of before you became afraid of carbon emissions.
But there's always something that's going to kill us and wipe us out.
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson wrote at the time, in 1970, quoting with approval Dr. Ripley of the Smithsonian Institute that, quote, in 25 years, somewhere between 1975, or between, in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80% of all species of living animals will be extinct by the year 2000.
Time magazine quoted the ecologist Kenneth Watt as saying that there wouldn't be any crude oil left after 2000.
A scientist named Harrison Brown at the National Academy of Scientists said that the world would be out of land, or sorry, out of lead, zinc, copper, tin, gold, and silver by now.
Dead heat author Michael Oppenheimer, I first saw this guy on this week with David Brinkley.
I was in Sacramento.
It had to be 1984, 1985, Sunday Brinkley Show, and I saw this guy predicting global warming 20 years.
We only had a limited amount of time before it was going to forever alter life on the planet.
Now, he did say he couldn't conclusively prove it.
But if he was right, all this destruction would happen in 20 years.
And so, therefore, we had to start on remedial and start taking remedial steps immediately, whether he was right or not, because we couldn't risk being wrong, because it was all going to happen in 20 years.
Michael Oppenheimer, senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, said in 1990 that by 1996, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots.
A continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses, and shut down computers.
Now, they asked him about this recently.
He's still around.
And they asked Oppenheimer.
He said, look, on the whole, I stand by my predictions.
I was just a little early.
Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the University of East Anglia, said in 2000 that because of global warming, within a few years, children just aren't going to know what snow is.
Flurries will be a very rare and exciting event.
Heavy snowfall in England last year, of course, attributed to global warming.
Now, scientists love to see their names in print.
Coincidentally, they also love grant money in book deals and awards.
The easiest way to obtain these things is by alarmism.
Nobody ever made a dollar saying the situation in the future will be pretty similar to what it is now.
We don't really have that much to worry about.
You don't get rich doing that.
But his point is, Harold Camping did nothing different than Paul Ehrlich or any of these other scientists.
Not one thing different.
The difference is that Ehrlich is still a hero.
He was on the tonight show 10 or 15 times.
He did get an advanced professorship at Stanford.
And he's a leftist.
And these people still stand by this stuff.
In Time magazine and Life magazine in the 70s, you read there would be no United States by the year 2000.
The guys could not be more profoundly wrong, and yet they are still highly respected in their fields and on the political left.
It's just amazing.
And they're charlatans.
There's nothing scientific about them.
They're abject liars.
They make it up.
Oppenheimer, all these, they're nothing but a folks.
It's liberalism.
And liberals lie.
And that's how they earn money.
And it's how they keep you scared to death.
It's how they get you to agree to sit by with your taxes raised.
It's how they get you to accept the notion that you're responsible for it.
But you can be saved if you'll buy a Prius or a Volt or what have you.
If you'll just let the state control you, then you can be forgiven your environmental sins.
Elwood in Jackson, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program, Elwood.
How are you?
Wonderfully well, sir.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
I wanted to respond to the guy that's waiting for a miracle.
If he hadn't been at Walmart staring at the shopping carts, he might have noticed the midterm elections were a miracle.
The miracle's ongoing.
I'm part of it.
I've worked phones for conservative candidates.
I put out signs.
I was a poll watcher, and my wife will tell you, me doing something for which I'm not paid directly in cash is a miracle.
I like that.
You know, this guy's call.
A lot of you people are angry at this guy, but he has served a purpose.
He's served.
If you needed to be fired up, the guy fired you up.
Not saying you needed to be, but if you did need to be, having this guy call here and say, it's over, Chicago, me to you, we can't win.
That's all you needed.
And I am so happy so many of you are just fit to be tied because this guy is exactly right.
The miracle is happening.
November 2010 is when it started.
The midterm elections.
Why people can look success in the eye and not see it.
It's amazing to me.
But Elwood, you have hit the nail on the head.
You're exactly right.
Thanks much for the call.
No, I'm not taking off to meet with Sarah Palin tomorrow.
That's not the project that I've been working on for a year.
Not that at all.
It's just working hard on this secret behind the scenes under cover of darkness.
And a major stage happens tomorrow that I must be present for.