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May 31, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And that's because the views expressed by the host in this program are rooted in a daily relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
Great to have you with us.
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Hey H R. Did you 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 um I 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.
Snerdley, a quick question.
Are you familiar with this Anthony Wiener business that's uh?
Um I I've got I've I've had one email on this today, and the email said, go ahead.
Go ahead and talk about it.
And I've I frankly uh I had to I had to look into this.
I I was not aware, I don't tweet or twit uh 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 uh that I'm reading.
So I I had to really dig deep to find out what this thing is um is is all about.
And the first thing I had to ask myself is uh I guess they're calling it Wienergate.
Is it is Wienergate really big enough to investigate and this this 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 babe in tweet with some baby Seattle, and all of a sudden he sends he supposedly sends a picture of his bulging package in his underwear.
And he claims that he was hacked.
That he said it hacked, it's it actually isn't him.
And so I I don't know if if the picture in question of Congressman Wiener's uh underwear is an example of stand-up comedy or not.
I don't know if it's an attempt to distract people from uh 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 I've I've you know I'm I'm looking to I've looked at all these people analyzing this, and they've put it on a timeline and chronology, and uh it it escapes me why this is such a big deal.
I I 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.
And but this guy's already a weird little guy to me anyway.
Uh, and he just married Hillary's valet or valet, whatever, Huma, who abaddon married her not long ago.
I don't find her referenced in any of these stories, what she meant.
I mean, she could just tell us right now whether it's him or not.
Uh not that not that she would, but why tell 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, uh 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 uh to some extent.
Anyway, I got I got uh 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.
I I really and I then I started looking at the people who do.
And I thought, who in the world has time to writing about this?
I mean, I've 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 uh this what people are captivated by the whole Twitter thing.
Oh.
Oh, is that what it is?
That's what it is.
Oh, that's just the whole Beltway elite is captivated by Twitter, period.
Oh, okay.
Well, then I'm in somewhat of a disadvantage because I don't Twitter or or tweet.
Uh that's the you get 140 characters max, right, per post.
Something uh something like that.
Well, what if the tweeted girl in question?
What if she says that Wiener has a small problem?
Well, you know, would that would that would that be enough to convict?
Was anybody even angling for a uh a conviction here?
And if if this does not go to the FBI, if if the Wiener case, if you're gonna call it that, doesn't go to the FBI, will he be giving his constituents and his opponents the shaft?
In other words, if they're gonna be playing favorites here, simply because it might be uh might be Wiener.
So I get 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 this is kind of your point, Snertley.
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 Abaddon, who's now apparently sending pictures of himself all over the place.
Uh in uh in his underwear.
Who else is doing this is um this is the athletes are known for Bret Favre is accused of doing something like this.
Only he just used text.
He didn't mess with Twitter.
He just used uh with straight text.
But I I what is the here's uh 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 um 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 is I wasn't paying a uh 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 the uh the daily ramblings of the pseudo-intellectual mind.
How can you write so much about something like that?
And uh, you know, this my reaction to this wiener and the twit uh 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 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 here folding in my formerly nicotine-stained finger.
It's by uh Ryan Coursero.
It adds up to a dangerous situation, says CBS News producer Ryan Coursero.
Since Palin and her team won't share where she's headed.
Reporters and producers have a 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, because 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 nightware.
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 uh EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, thank you.
I just uh wanted to encourage and uh maybe offer some hope to the gentleman that called earlier who didn't think that uh winning the election was possible.
Um I want to suggest that uh by rebuilding and restoring the most fundamental part of our electoral process, which is our voting precinct structure, um, we can get the job done.
And I would encourage him and every one of your listeners to uh to take a look back into their civics classes and and uh see what they can find about getting involved in their in their local uh precincts because that's where elections are truly won.
Well, the guy was called from Kansas City, and he was he was uh I I'd put this guy in in the category of uh 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 uh I can't relate to that kind of an attitude.
If if if I had that attitude, I just quit.
Hang it up.
What's the point here?
I can't relate to people with that I know they exist.
They're uh throes of depression or or what have you.
But it to me it's a nonsensical statement.
I hate to hate to sound brusque, if that's brusque, but to say that something 18 months away is a fate accomplished, and that there's nothing we can do about the outcome, one way or the other, just doesn't compute with me.
You know, you can I'm 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 it might be played.
It's not as though they were just sitting around waiting to be cheated on with no recourse.
You know, I the the they are telling us, they're telling us how fragile they think Obama's re-election.
It's costing them a billion dollars.
He's gonna 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, we're 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 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.
Oh, blah, blah, blah.
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 eleven?
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 book?
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 I I'll guarantee you, if 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 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 gonna run.
I don't know that that's what this is about at all.
If she wants, she can do another thing to the media, and she can just invite them all to a to a cub game and just walk out, and all she's gotta do is just throw throw out the first pitch and play that on the play that on the nightly news.
Obama's in hers, and I think you you just got humiliation just right there in the picture in front of you.
Explanation not needed.
Okay, Ned, Thanks for the call.
I uh 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 Pellin's bus trip.
She, you know, I guess you remember how many times that Katie Cork waylaid her on a trip when she was running for vice president.
Every place she showed up, there was Katie Cork 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 it 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 showing the other side of the coin.
Now she's not telling 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 it three or four times on the last uh run.
Well, you may have a point.
I think she's out lasted Katie Courig.
I don't think Katie Couric's on her radar.
Katie Who?
Katie doesn't even have a job.
Has she has she has Katie?
Has he finalized that deal?
She definitely has a talk show at ABC.
If she the Oprah, I don't know where she's got a show.
I 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 is 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.
Mm.
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 uh picture out on the uh internet.
Uh the woman that he'd met on the internet, published online, he's a Republican and he had to resign.
And Wiener has done this and he hadn't had to resign.
The thing that Wiener's face is not.
Well, they say his face is not in this picture.
They say that it's just a picture of well, I saw the picture.
It's uh wearing briefs, uh bulging uh briefs.
Uh only Huma would know, and maybe not even from this picture.
So uh not you lineup wouldn't work here.
I folks, I don't know.
I I um 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 that it does it does not warrant top of the program interest to me.
Yeah, hotel made in New York, uh all this stuff.
When you have a mindset like I do that are all depraved, there's not news here.
This really we know he's a Democrat.
We know that they're gonna cover for him.
Uh it's rules of the game.
It's uh how it is.
I'm in the process saving the country.
I don't have time to be distracted with stuff like this.
Wiener to me is in 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, snerdly.
And that's why this stuff is not at all appealing.
I am I am not a voyeur in any way, shape, manner, or form.
This stuff uh Well, yeah, I like stirring excrement around, but uh in a figurative sense.
Wouldn't post a picture of it on Twitter, you know, and uh and and send it around.
I mentioned earlier this uh 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 that 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, 1972, working for a top 40 radio station at the time was owned by ABC.
1972.
And this 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 Sheehe called Passages.
Remember that 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, I know exactly what passages was, Snerdley.
It was the first of the Feminazi books.
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 uh the people telling me about the Ehrlich book in the early 70s.
I mean, some for some reason doom and gloom, people glom onto that.
They l just 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 agreed with skepticism.
But the end of the world?
Oh yeah, when?
How can I, 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 ten 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 man 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 Holderin, 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.
A text version of a speech that John Haldron 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 discomforting 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, a 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.
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 warning 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 of future would 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 ten or fifteen 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.
They're 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.
That'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.
Lwood in Jackson, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program, L. Wood.
How are you?
Wonderfully well, sir.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
I want 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.
Um I 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 liked it.
You know, this this guy's called I know a lot of you people are angry at this guy.
But he has served a purpose.
He 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 El Wood, you have hit the nail on the head.
You're exactly right.
Thanks much for the call.
No, I'm not.
I'm not taking off to meet with Sarah Palin tomorrow.
That's uh 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.
So Mark Stein graciously has agreed to be here.
Uh, and I'll be back Thursday and Friday.
Can't wait.
See you Thursday, folks.
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