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May 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks, how are you?
It's Thursday.
And how do we know that it's Thursday?
How do we know it's Thursday?
Very simply, the unemployment numbers from last week have been revised up.
Every Thursday that happens.
That's right, folks.
The unemployment number last week, which everybody was sort of happy about, guess what? Wasn't so hot.
The number was revised up.
How are you?
Great to have you here.
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So Joe Biden, Joe Biden is off the reservation.
Little Elizabeth Warren lingo there.
Joe Biden is going nuts.
Two days in a row now.
He's gone nuts.
I told Cookie, I want the Biden soundbites from yesterday.
Because you know what?
I saw.
I saw that.
We played these Biden soundbites where he was going nuts yesterday about people don't get us.
What do you mean we are against fairness?
What do you mean we don't want people to get wealthy?
What do you mean?
When you see it, when you see Biden's face, when you see his eyes, when you see his facial expressions, it, well, I wouldn't call it demonic.
I'd go deranged.
I mean, it's just, it's astounding.
So I said, Cookie, give me the bites again.
I want to play these bites again.
I'm going to paint an accurate video picture of what Bite Me looks like when he's going through this.
Speaking of Elizabeth Warren, folks, I've been thinking about this.
Why should she have to prove her heritage?
Now, remember, she's a liberal, and she has asserted, there's no documentation for this.
There's no evidence that she is 132nd Cherokee.
And she makes the assertion throughout her career because somebody in her family told her that somebody in her family way back when was Cherokee.
And so her ratio is 132nd Cherokee.
And the proof is in the cheekbones.
Remember that.
I got to think she's a liberal.
Why should she have to provide proof of heritage?
Liberals don't believe in documentation, anything.
Birth certificates, ID at the voting booth.
Sorry, couldn't help that.
They don't.
They don't believe in any kind of documentation whatsoever.
So here we have Elizabeth Low Cheekbones Warren, and she's a perfect liberal.
She wants membership without paying the dues.
Paying dues, that's for suckers.
Paying for anything, that's for suckers.
Only suckers actually use their own money to buy stuff.
So Elizabeth Low Cheekbones Warren has inserted herself into the Cherokee tribe like Obama inserted himself in the biographies of former presidents.
Did you see that?
I had this in the stack yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
At the White House website, there are presidential biographies, and Obama has inserted himself in them, in a lot of them.
Everyone but Gerald Ford.
He ties what FDR did to what he's doing today.
Well, whatever.
And so the RNC puts some pictures out.
Obama was there when we landed on the moon.
Obama was there.
When MacArthur got the Japanese to sign the treaty aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, Obama was everywhere.
Even Bob Beckel at Fox, a little nervous about this.
A lot of people in the Democrat side are nervous about it because, A, it indicates a profound insecurity.
Number two, it's an out-of-control ego.
Number three, it's not true.
And it's a, here, let's grab audio Soundbite 25.
It's the last one here in the stack.
This was last night on the five at five on the Fox News channel, a co-host and school marm Dana Perino.
And I say that affectionately.
School marm is she's got to control the class.
The roundtable of hosts, guests, or whatever on the five, and she's speaking with Beckel about changes to the White House's website biographies of past presidents to include blurbs about how Obama has capitalized on the efforts of those presidents.
What happens?
Whatever a former president is known for or did, Obama has inserted himself into the biography to show how he has capitalized and moved forward all of these great achievements in past presidents.
So Obama's slowjamming history is essentially what he's doing.
He's inserting himself in it.
It's laughable.
It's an indication of just an out-of-control ego, narcissism.
You name it.
So Dana Perino said to Beckel, on a serious note, somebody at the White House has too much time on their hands.
This is taxpayer money that pays for the salaries of people actually going back and doing this type of thing, inserting Obama into these biographies.
Bob, what about this?
Another serious note.
It is, Obama does enjoy a great deal of, people have a positive image of him.
He's very close here, this arrogance thing to grabbing hold.
And you've got to think through this right now, that what the Republicans are going to push is this line about him being arrogant, and you don't feed the beast.
Right.
And by that, Beckel means don't act arrogant.
Republicans are going to call you arrogant.
And Beckel clear, you can hear it in his voice.
You can hear it in his voice.
He knows the American people think Obama is arrogant and pompous, and he knows that this feeds into it.
And I wouldn't be surprised if it was Obama himself who inserted himself into biographies.
And if he didn't actually go online and do it, nobody can convince me that he wasn't involved somehow.
This wasn't the act of some eager beaver staffer wanting to impress.
You know, all things start from the top, and either somebody got the idea for this because of what they heard Obama say, or because they know him well and know that this would please him, or because he ordered it done.
It's one of those three things.
And it is arrogance on parade.
Let me give you an example of a typical Obama insertion.
President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, providing millions of elderly health care stability.
President Obama's historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost sharing, and provides discount on drugs.
So the reference to Obama is longer than it is to LBJ, who invented Medicare.
And by the way, that's nothing to write home about.
Wanting credit for inventing Medicare?
Not a good thing.
Here's another insertion.
On August 14th, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.
Today, the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure social-protected social security by cutting the payroll tax for employees, which is the only funding source for Social Security.
So Obama, he's inserting himself in all of these places.
Oh, I know it's beyond shame, but for every president, I don't know.
We'll find George W. Bush.
I don't have it right in front of me.
I've got, again, the pictures I can't show you that the RNC doctored up.
You know, Obama with George Washington crossing a Delaware.
Obama was there.
He's in the boat.
I mean, the pictures are fabulous.
And everybody is having fun laughing at that.
So people now laughing at the president of the United States because of what he's doing and because of what he's saying.
And our old buddy Bob Beckle warning Obama not to feed the beast.
People think that he's arrogant.
The amateur, the book?
Well, I don't know.
Stergly's asking me if I think the stuff in the book, The Amateur, is starting.
What do you mean, all gelled together?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I don't know if the image of Obama's turning with the mass of the public yet.
According to polling data, he's still remarkably loved, liked.
His popularity is in the 60s, his personal popularity, his job approval below 50 at 45.
Oh, by the way, Fox News came out with their poll yesterday.
Has Obama up 10?
Dick Morris went on Fox and said the Fox poll is wrong.
He said the Fox poll's full of it.
Here, I have that soundbite too.
Let me find it.
It's audio soundbite.
It's not 10.
It's not 11.
Where is it?
It's number 12 and 13.
And I got, you know, I'm a powerful, influential member of the media.
I advanced copy of the Fox poll, and it shows Obama up with women like, I forget, 15 points and Obama up over Romney by 10.
So last night, O'Reilly had Dick Morris in, questioned Fox News poll.
Here it is.
The election were held at a 46 for Obama, 39 Romney's at seven points.
And then the women is 10.
The margin in women that Obama has is 10.
And O'Reilly says, I asked the Fox News people about this, and they said at this point, because it's six months away, they want to get the mood of the country, and they went registered voters rather than likely voters.
It's a bigger tent.
Here's Morris' reply.
It generally doesn't make sense to do a survey where 40% of the people you're interviewing are not going to vote.
There is a real purpose to surveying adults, registered voters.
If you want to know how the election is going to come out, don't pay attention to that.
Well, so Dick Morris has basically told a Fox audience to pay no attention to the Fox poll because it's of registered voters, not likely voters.
And that means the sample is made up of 40% of people who are not going to vote.
So Morris wasn't through.
He had a little bit more to say.
I did a poll, 6,000 interviews with likely voters from May 5th to May 11th.
And margin of error less than half of 1%.
Every one of them a likely voter.
I have Obama behind Romney 52 to 42.
So Dick Morris goes on O'Reilly and debunks the Fox poll and touts his own.
And by the way, the Fox poll's the only one out there.
Even the New York Times, CBS, or ABC, Washington Post, NBC, Wall Street Journal, the Fox Poll's the only one that has Obama up.
Morris was clear.
Now, I didn't finish my thought here on Elizabeth Low Cheekbones Warren.
I mean, this is right.
I wanted to close the circle on this.
She has inserted herself into the Cherokee tribe just on the basis of something her mother, grandmother, told her.
But it's no different than Obama inserting himself in these presidential biographies.
It's the same exact thing.
You know why Elizabeth Warren should be admitted to the Cherokee tribe?
Because they don't have any non-Cherokee members.
Why should they allow women into Augusta National?
Because they don't have any.
Well, isn't that the liberal way of doing things?
The Cherokees are discriminating.
They ought to let Elizabeth Warren in because they don't have any non-Cherokees.
It's going to be affirmative action for the cheekbone challenge.
Let her in there.
She wants to be in the tribe.
The tribe doesn't have any non-Cherokees.
Who are they to say she can't join?
Let's just say you're eligible to vote.
Just say you're a minority.
Just say that you're one of the four greatest presidents in American history.
Just lie about it.
That's liberalism.
She's just acting to type.
What's strange here?
Okay, want to hear the Obama insertion into the George W. Bush biography.
Here you go.
In 2002, President George W. Bush's State of the Union was the first to be live broadcast on the internet.
In 2011 and 2012, President Obama's State of the Union speeches were available in an enhanced live stream version that featured infographics, charts, and data side by side in real time with the president's speech.
That's Obama inserting himself into the White House biography of George W. Bush.
Here is Obama's insertion into Jimmy Carter.
1977, President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy.
Today, the Department of Energy works with the Obama administration to drive towards innovation in energy and reducing the reliance on foreign oil with an all-of-the-above approach, which actually is very modest because Obama could have just said that his administration is the second term of Jimmy Carter, but they wanted to rein it in.
They didn't want to brag.
They finally got the arrogance and control of the Carter insertion.
They want to brag, so they just, Carter creates a DOE, but Obama who's the guy making it sing.
George W. Bush, first State of the Union live broadcast on the internet, Obama did it better 10 years later.
This is the kind of stuff.
Here's the insertion for George H.W. Bush.
President Barack Obama awarded George H.W. Bush the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for his commitment to service and ability to inspire volunteerism throughout the country, encouraging citizens to be a thousand points of light.
The administration continues, the Obama administration continues to promote service and civic engagement, honoring heroes of local communities as champions of change and fostering civic participation.
I mean, it literally is its ego out of control.
And by the way, this Department of Energy stuff in the Carter insertion.
I have here, ladies and gentlemen, a blog post.
It's a full-fledged story at the Huffington and Puffington Post.
World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report warns that by 2030, two Earths will be needed to sustain our lifestyles.
There is a single reason that they make this or give this warning.
And while I read this, I want you to ponder what that single reason might be.
Why might we need two Earths by 2030?
That's just 18 years from now.
Humans will need two Earths to support our lifestyles by 2030 because we are draining the world's resources so quickly.
Produced by the World Wildlife Fund, the Zoological Society of London, the Global Footprint Network, and the European Space Agency.
A 2012 Living Planet Report measures humans' ecological footprint on the planet.
At the moment, the picture is bleak.
This, according to Jim Leap, Director General, World Wildlife Fund International, with resources being drained 50% faster than they can be replenished.
He said, we're all familiar with the stories of what we're doing to planet Earth, the ways in which we're changing the climate, depleting the world's fisheries, destroying the world's forests.
None of that's true.
There is more forest area in this country than at the time of the founding.
Each time that stat is mentioned, the left goes nuts.
But here we get to the real reason this is happening.
Mr. Leap, Jim Leap, Director General, WWF International, says, the starting point for reducing our impact on the planet is to end our love affair with fossil fuels, the energy technology of the 20th century, and switch to renewable energy.
That shift alone will make a huge difference on our footprint on the planet.
So once again, an all-out assault on fossil fuels and oil.
You know, it could be argued.
No, I don't think it is arguable.
Life on Earth has never been better, has it?
For more people on Earth, life has never been better.
It's never been more full of up.
It's under assault, of course, but the life expectancy, medicines, all the, this is typical.
Bunk.
Anyway, got to take a brief time out.
Don't go away, folks.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the fastest week in media.
No five days go by faster than the five days this program is on the air.
I want to beg your indulgence for something.
Just for a second, I kind of glossed over this story that's on the Huffing and Puffington Post from the World Wildlife Fund, but I want to go back to it for just a couple of points.
I want you to stop when I read this opening sentence.
I want you to realize that the people behind this are dead serious.
Humans will need two earths to support our lifestyles in 18 years because we are draining the world's resources so quickly, according to a new report.
Now, to you and I, this is pure bunk.
It's insane.
College professors, high school teachers all over the country will likely pick this up and it will become part of the daily lesson plan.
It will be added to, just like Lexis and Nexus is a massive database of news stories.
And whatever is published today on APA say about me will end up in LexisNexis and it'll be there forever.
And lazy journalists will cite it, go back and look, oh, story about Limbaugh.
What else about Limbaugh?
Go find this stuff that's been in the database for 45 years and they'll run it.
Same thing here.
Need two Earths.
I want you to stop and think how literally ridiculous this is.
But these people, and they are full-fledged liberals, leftists, whatever, they mean it.
It is another in a never-ending series of crises that the people of this country are inundated with practically every day now in the media.
Now we're going to need two Earths.
It's all about climate change.
It's all about global warming.
It's all about our sinful, unacceptable use of oil and fossil fuels.
We are destroying the planet.
We are using up this planet's resources so quick we're going to need two planets to handle our needs.
These predictions have been made for over 100 years that we're running out of resources, that we're going to deplete the world of natural resources, minerals, food, and none of it has ever been true.
None of it.
They have a statistic in this story that is just technically ridiculous.
We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can provide.
That is not possible.
If the Earth can't provide the resources, how can we use them?
The simple fact of the matter is the Earth is providing the resources.
Paul Ehrlich back in the 70s predicted that by now there would be war, pestilence, famine because of too many billions of people.
We have shot past his prediction.
We have not run out of anything.
We continue to produce enough and more for what everybody needs.
Look at the growing countries of China and India.
Without getting into why, their economies are growing.
People there are buying cars.
They're driving cars.
They're buying gasoline.
They're not having any problem finding gasoline.
If they can afford it, it's available.
We're not running out.
Whatever the demands, economic or otherwise, lifestyle demands are, they are met, be it food or what have you.
Now, you might be able to go to a country and say people are starving, but that's not because the earth is being depleted.
That's because there's a dictatorship likely starving his people in order to maintain power.
Or you have a socialist or communist government, which has no idea how to create wealth and doesn't really want to.
The only thing in short supply in the world is capitalism.
We have an unequal, unfair distribution of capitalism.
There simply isn't enough of it.
There's way too much socialism in the world.
There's way too much Marxism.
There's way too much communism.
There is way too much dictatorship, which, by the way, is the way humanity, for the most part, has lived since we first began walking the earth.
Human bondage is the story of human civilization.
That's one of the things that is meant by American exceptionalism.
Not that we're better than anybody else, but that we are the first country to codify that freedom comes via our creation by God.
It is innate in us.
It does not come from other men, governments, people, what have you.
That led to the greatest country in the history of human.
The greatest standard of living.
The greatest upward mobility lifestyle opportunity.
Superpower status.
This country to this day is blamed for whatever these people at the World Wildlife Fund find wrong on the earth.
We're too big.
We're stealing.
Obama believes this.
We're stealing all those resources.
The earth is actually losing its resources, Mr. Limbaugh.
The United States is greedy and selfish and is stealing from all of these poor people.
And that's why they're a poor.
And that couldn't be further from the truth.
We're discovering more oil.
There is more oil available for use in the United States than there is in Saudi Arabia.
And that's not me saying it.
That's people involved in the oil industry and more than one group and more than one company.
These people are wacko nuts, but they believe this stuff and they teach this stuff.
And their students end up believing this.
To show you how tough the challenge is, before the bottom-of-the-hour break, as we're heading into the break, and I don't have much time, I said the fact of the matter is, life has never been better on earth than it is today.
And even Dawn frowned at me as though she didn't believe it.
I know why because she thinks her country is going down the tubes, and it is.
But even at that, compared to the rest of the world, we are still what Reagan called the shining city on a hill.
That's what we're trying to save, by the way, in getting rid of this current administration.
But by any measure, the amount of food, how in the world can you have an obesity problem in the United States if the world, if the earth doesn't provide the resources?
If there's a shortage of things needed for people to eat, drink, what have you, how can this be?
How can 88 million people afford not to work in this country?
They can afford not to work because the ones who do work see enough of their income siphoned off to be redistributed or redistributed to these people.
But you look at life expectancy, overall health, compared to 10 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
Nobody, nobody can argue that in economic terms it was better 50, 100, 150, 200 years ago, 1,000 years ago.
The case cannot be made by any practical measure.
But we're caught up in what's happening to us at present in our country politically.
And so when you say life has never been better, people scratch their heads.
I don't know because we're fearing losing this great place that we have.
But that's the only reason.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea.
I'm not being polyamish here.
All I'm doing is refuting the absolute hate speech that this article is and others like it.
Gonna need two Earths in 20 years, the way we're depleting.
These people have never been right in any of their predictions from Paul Ehrlich on.
They've never been right.
And all this is another branch of the global warming climate change movement because they're getting more extreme and more radical because people now realize it's a hoax, don't care about it, not as interested in it, and not willing to give up freedom and income in order to save the planet because more and more people realize it's not possible to save the planet anyway by giving up your income or by buying a different kind of car.
These people are looking more and more ridiculous each and every day, but to young skulls full of mush, this stuff gets soaked up, it gets believed.
Young idealist utopians think that there's something to this.
Drastic changes in lifestyle are needed to save the planet, save the country, save this.
Everybody wants to believe that we're in the midst of a catastrophe and a crisis.
It's a natural characteristic of human nature.
But the dead giveaway here is the starting point for reducing our impact on the planet.
See, we are the reason the planet's dying.
But it's not.
The planet isn't dying.
We are not depleting the planet.
There are more trees now than are needed because of companies like Weyerhaeuser.
If you're in the tree business, what do you need?
Trees.
They plant them left and right.
They plant far more than they ever chop down.
The starting point for reducing our impact on the planet is to end our love affair with fossil fuels, the energy technology of last century.
So once again, a senseless, insane, unintelligent, dumb, stupid assault on oil.
Oil destroying the planet.
And our use of oil is destroying the planet.
And you say, well, why do these people hate oil?
It's not that they hate oil.
It's that they have successfully demonized it to the point that it will allow them to assert more control over all of our lives and dictate our behavior.
Give them more power.
Take from us more of our money.
That's all this is about.
Got to take a break.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
You know what the real crisis is in this country?
You know what the real catastrophe is in this country?
It's not global warming.
It's not that we're going to need two Earths in 18 years.
It's none of this crap.
The real crisis in this country is out-of-control spending that is destroying the United States private sector because the solution to the world's problems is the United States of America continuing to lead the world as a bastion of freedom.
The United States is the solution to the world's problems.
A capitalistic free market, entrepreneurial pursuit of excellence, United States of America is the solution of the world's problems.
But with somebody like Barack Obama and his Democrat Party in charge, the United States will not solve anything, including our own problems.
Our own problems are being made worse, are being amplified.
Our country is going through a transformation where not only will we no longer be the solution to the rest of the world's problems, we will not be able to solve our own.
And that's what has to change.
Not our use of oil, not our use of fossil fuels, not our use of natural gas.
We don't have to get rid of airplanes.
We don't have to get rid of cars.
We don't have to start driving around with things powered by batteries.
We don't have to do one thing, the environmentalist wackos say.
What we have to do is get rid of liberals and socialists from positions of power who want to dictate their way of life to everyone else.
That's the catastrophe.
That's the crisis.
That's the biggest problem the world faces is the end of the United States of America as the lone outpost of freedom, guidance for greatness, pursuit of excellence and happiness.
That's why everybody, the rest of the world, wants to come here.
If not to live, but to go to our schools or to visit our hospitals or to visit our theme parks or whatever.
And many do want to live here.
That's the challenge we face, is reasserting the traditions and institutions that led to and defined the singular greatness of this country, which is all under assault.
These idiots say that we're using 50% more resources than the Earth can provide.
Logically, that's not possible.
If the Earth can't provide the resources, how can we use any of it?
Much less 50% more.
If you've got a cup of sugar, how can you use two cups?
If all you've got's one cup, how can you use two?
The real problem is that we are spending 50% more money than we have, if not more.
We're maybe spending 100% or 200% more money than we have.
In large part, because we're giving it away to loony tunes like these people at the World Wildlife Fund through research grants to come up with studies to tell us that in 18 years, we're going to need two planets to sustain us.
And they are serious.
These people are true believers.
10 years ago, ladies and gentlemen, the great Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental scam artist, the former Vice President Al Gore, claimed that we only had 10 years.
We only had 10 years to reverse global warming, and then it was over.
Now, in those 10 years, others have come along and said, we've got 20, we've got 5, we've got 15 years.
Others have come along, it's too late now, there's nothing we can do.
They've been all over the place.
But I just want to tell you, when he said that, I ordered Coco to put a 10-year countdown clock at rushlimbaugh.com.
And it's been up there every day since I ordered it up there.
And as we speak, there are only three years and 254 days left on our website doomsday countdown clock that we started when Gore said we only had 10 years left.
The bottom line is we're not going to get to 2030 anyway.
It's all going to be over in three years and 254 days.
If you want to believe Al Gore.
Here's the headline from Reuters.
Weekly jobs claims hold steady.
As jobs picture still murky.
And then you read the story and you find out that the unemployment number, unemployment number from last week was revised up by 3,000.
That's how you know it's Thursday.
Every Thursday, the previous week's unemployment number is revised upward.
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