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April 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Senator Elizabeth Warren.
She wanted to get in on the big press conference in Boston this morning, happened about 10.30.
The first words out of her mouth were praise for Obama and government.
The President of the United States has pledged his full support in all efforts to keep the city safe and to find the person who did this and bring them to justice.
We did not have to reach out to the president.
He reached out to us, Warren said.
He called a governor, he called a mayor, he called the members of congressional delegation, because the president is actively involved here and responding.
Well, that was newsworthy.
She had to tell everybody Obama was involved.
Because you know what he's actually doing today?
Obama's working the phones.
Obama is working the phones, trying to whip up votes for the Toomey Mansion Schumer gun bill in the Senate.
This is made to order.
Yeah, this was a bombing, but this shows that we've got to get serious here about average citizens and their weapons.
And we got to make sure that they don't have them.
You know, folks, violence can't be stopped.
There's sick people who don't care about laws.
Sick people who don't care about innocent people.
And I think it's kind of curious that there's this big push underway now to get people to actually give up their right to self-defense.
Violence can't be stopped.
The police can't stop it, laws can't stop it, cameras can't stop it.
It's going to happen.
So people want to feel free and able to take appropriate steps to protect themselves.
And have to constantly be on guard, but not being seduced or tricked or bullied into giving away their constitutionally protected right to protect themselves and their family from dangers that we all know exist, and yet that's exactly what's underway here.
The only people who are the targets of gun control legislation are people that do not break the law with them.
The only people being asked to give up their guns are the people who do not commit crimes with them.
By definition, the law abiding.
Because by definition, criminals are going to find a way to get guns or knives or what have you.
No matter the law.
The law doesn't stop people.
The police don't stop people.
I mean, not just their existence.
Sometimes the police succeed in stopping things, but people with criminal intent are not deterred, in large part by laws or by the existence of police forces.
And they're not deterred by the presence of cameras.
So what are we doing?
We are hell-bent on advancing legislation that's going to take guns out of the hands of people who are not using them in criminal ways.
and Gun-free zones, gun control laws are obeyed by people who won't hurt you.
Gun-free zones make people less safe.
Gun-free zones make places less safe.
Mr. Limbaugh, how could you say that?
This obviously not yes, it is.
A gun-free zone.
What do you think Adam Lanza chose that school for?
It's a gun-free zone.
He knew that nobody was going to have guns.
He knew that he was going to be able to fire his weapon for a certain amount of time until armed people showed up.
Because there weren't any there.
And if a young kid can figure this out, I dare say that an adult can too.
Gun free zones, oh, they're wonderfully well intentioned.
But you see, that's what we're supposed to examine.
We're supposed to examine the good intentions of the welfare state crowd, for example, even though it's been an abysmal failure.
War in poverty, great society, you name it, dismal failure, however you wish to measure it.
Except we're not supposed to measure the results.
We're not supposed to judge or calculate the effect of these programs by virtue results, only by virtue of the good intentions of the designers.
And so it goes with gun-free zones, gun control laws.
The good people are only trying to help.
The good people are only trying to make everybody safer.
The problem is gun-free zones, gun control laws end up being obeyed by people who won't hurt you anyway.
They make people in places less safe.
Criminals don't follow rules by definition.
We can have all the new gun control laws in the world.
All they're going to do is take guns away from people who are not criminals in the first place.
And it's going to make everybody less able to defend themselves.
Less able to protect themselves.
And that's what Obama's doing today.
He's working the phones, whipping votes for the Toomey Mansion Schumer gun control bill.
Taking advantage of the occasion.
Every day, there's new and overwhelming evidence we live in a dangerous world.
Reality hit Monday, folks.
Reality hit.
Reality hits people every day.
The reality is that we live in a dangerous world.
And on any given day, parts of this country are dangerous.
Gun control that lessens that reduces the rights of people to defend themselves.
Senseless.
What's the point of new gun laws that would not have prevented what happened at Sandy Hook?
I mean, even the architects of these new gun laws admit none of what they're proposing would have changed the outcome at Sandy Hook.
So why do it?
Because it's just it's a good thing to do.
It's like saving the planet.
It's like driving the right car.
It's just guns are bad.
Guns have bullets and bullets are bad, and guns have triggers and triggers are bad.
And then people pick up guns and triggers and they just fire them.
People die, it's bad.
We got to get rid of the guns.
Oh.
Okay, so that's the thought process.
It's just a good thing.
To hate guns?
It's just a compassionate, big-hearted thing to hate anything that's an instrument of violence.
Except for the people who engage in it.
Then we're going to find excuses for them.
We'll blame socioeconomic circumstances or a disability or some other thing.
And then we'll go out and blame everybody who had nothing to do with any of this simply because they have a gun.
And we'll point to them and say they represent the problem in America.
People who have guns who do not use them illegally.
What's the point of a new gun control bill that would not stop Sandy Hook?
What's the point of a new gun control bill that would not have prevented it?
Simple question.
What in this law, the Tumey Mansion Schumer gun control bill in the Senate, what in that law enhances your ability to defend yourself when confronted by a madman.
Nothing.
There's not there's nothing in this bill is designed to help you defend yourself.
Of course that's not the point of it.
Snerdily shouting.
It's not the point of it.
Of course, that's my point.
The point of it is to make you less capable of defending yourself.
The point of it is a guilt by association game that because you have a gun, you are a potential criminal.
Because you have a gun, you could wreak havoc on people.
You could snap, you could go nuts, something could happen, and you could start just wantonly pulling the trigger.
We've got to remove that possibility because you could go nuts one day.
And we are going to make sure that if you go nuts, you can't do anything to anybody.
So we're going to sit here and we're going to assume the absolute worst about the people in our country.
We are going to assume we're going to look at the people of this country with contempt, and we're going to ins we're going to assume that they've got all of these ill intents.
That they harbor evil.
They may not even know it.
They may not be evil now, but something could happen.
There could be a tax cut, and they could get really mad that their government's getting smaller, and they could go nuts.
That would be the Barney Frank school.
After wanton gun violence, don't you think the objective ought to be to help people better defend themselves in the presence of such criminals?
Rather than just the opposite.
John Kerry, Secretary of State, you know what he's doing.
We might have a terrorist act here.
I don't know.
Well, we do have a terrorist act in Boston.
We just don't know who yet.
John Kerry, amidst the threats to launch nukes by the Norks, went to Asia over the weekend and gave high priority to tada da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Anthropogenic global warming.
The Secretary of State is on a tour of the world warming, warning everybody about man-made global warming.
He is telling everybody the science is settled when it is not settled.
There is no science in global warming.
Mr. Limbaugh, that's typical of what you would do.
That's the most outrageous thing with anybody ever make no science of global.
You know how I know there's no science in global warming, folks?
Because they tell us a consensus of scientists agrees that X. There is no consensus in science.
See, I am the mayor of Realville, and science is not up to a vote.
It either is or isn't.
Whatever it is, it is or isn't.
But it's not up to a vote.
Global warming doesn't exist because a consensus scientist agrees.
Man-made global warming either is happening or it isn't, but it isn't up to a vote.
But it is being presented to you as a consensus of scientists.
Therefore, the science is not settled.
And besides that, we all know that it's a hoax now.
Just some people don't want to accept that.
It is.
The Secretary of State was talking to the Chaikoms in Beijing.
And the Secretary and his hosts, the Chaikoms, agreed to elevate the issue of man-made climate change to the ministerial level in bilateral discussion.
Now, why would the Chaikoms agree?
The Chiccoms are rubbing their hands together.
Will you believe our good luck?
Because the ChICOMs are not going to reduce their carbon emissions.
The Chicoms are not going to reduce their use of energy.
The Chicoms are not going to reduce their import of energy and oil.
The Chicoms are going to cut back on anything.
And they're sitting there talking to this doofus Secretary of State representing the world's only superpower, and this Secretary of State is telling the Chicoms how he intends to cut his own country down to size.
And the Chicons aren't going to have to do anything.
All the Chicoms have to do is sit there and tell this doofus, yes, we're doing the same thing.
You want bilateral talks on man-made global warming?
Fine, let's talk.
You're right.
The Chicoms can't believe their good luck.
The Norks don't have to fire any nukes at us.
The Secretary of State is going around the world agreeing with everybody that this country needs to be cut down to size.
It's too big.
It's destroying the planet.
It's causing man-made global warming.
And we're having bilateral talks about this at the Secretary of State level.
Kerry called climate change a global threat, as he addressed an energy cooperation seminar Saturday attended by the ChICOM State Councilor Yang Yi Chi.
And I'll guarantee you that Yang Yi Chi was going, gee whiz, this is our lucky day.
We are seeing the science of climate change come back to us now at a rate that's far faster and with far greater levels of damage than anything scientists predicted.
Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, said Kerry.
This is so wrong it's embarrassing.
Every prediction that's been made is coming true, but coming true bigger and more dangerous.
That is so wrong, it's folks, it's dangerously laughable.
United States and Japan share the view that anthropogenic climate change represents a threat to the security and the economic development of all nations, said our Secretary of State.
I guess the Japanese are.
Man, this is this is cool.
All we have to do is sit here and make this guy think we agree with him.
And he'll go home and cut his own country down to size while we sit here and do whatever we want.
You know the ChICOMs are gonna do that.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and start, and it's always a risk.
I must admit it.
It's always a risk.
It's a roll of the dice, but we're gonna start with phones when we get back here, so don't go away.
And we're back.
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So there's our Secretary of State John Kerry talking to the ChICOMs about man-made global warming.
It's the number one priority, if you can believe that.
The number one priority of the government of the United States in talking with the ChICOM and with the Japanese.
Man-made global warming and how we must stop it.
And how the United States is the leading perpetrator.
And we must have unilateral, bilateral, trilateral, multilateral discussions over dealing with this problem.
Uh just got a story from Reuters.
Headline, climate scientists struggle to explain warming slowdowns.
Scientists struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that's exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.
What is happening is that CO2 emissions are at a record high.
And the earth is cooling.
And they don't know why.
And they are in chaos.
Scientists are confused.
The consensus is threatened.
The very bedrock of their theory is as man increases output of CO2, greenhouse gases, the more sweltering, the hotter, the more toasty it gets out, except it's not happening.
A record amount of greenhouse gas.
And the warming has stopped.
It's getting cooler.
It hasn't warmed in 15 years.
The consensus is threatened.
Often focused on century long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow down starting around 2000.
Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or whether it's a more lasting phenomenon.
Translation, they are clueless.
They do not know because they have been living under flawed premises from the get go.
Their models are flawed, their thinking is flawed because it's political.
They believe that prosperous capitalism destroys.
They believe that capitalism creates destruction, that it leaves all sorts of damage in its wake.
Because capitalism leads to pollution and polluters and dirt and filth and smokestacks and all of the horrible rotten stuff.
And that leads to more greenhouse gases.
And that enshrouds the planet in a blanket, and we all get hotter and we're gonna die.
We're gonna die, we're gonna burn up.
We're literally gonna catch fire.
Except none of it's happening.
And as Reuters says, they are at a loss to explain it.
It's been a lie from the get go.
And maybe well intentioned, I don't even, but I don't even believe that.
I think it's been political from the get go to grow government, to raise taxes, to control people.
But it isn't working out.
And now their models, their long-range forecasts, turn out to be absolute bunk.
And still Kerry is singing the song in China.
Okay, I'm gonna get the phones here in just a second.
Just one more thing, one more thing from John Kerry.
John Kerry claimed yesterday that foreign students are not coming to the U.S. to study because they are afraid of gun violence.
Students in other countries assessing where to study abroad are increasingly scared of coming to the U.S. because of gun violence, John Kerry said on CNN, said he discussed the situation with officials in uh in Tokyo, said students felt unsafe in the uh United States.
They said that Japan's restrictive gun laws, which prevent private ownership of nearly all firearms, including handguns, said the Japan's safer.
People are not running around with guns.
Law-abiding people are not running around with guns.
Law-abiding people are not running around with guns.
Never mind, never mind that the Washington Post has pointed out that foreign students are coming to the U.S. in record numbers.
You know, folks, I'm telling you, the the the things that we get from this administration are breathtakingly wrong.
Breathtakingly so.
Secretary of State number one issue, man-made global warming, it's cooling.
It isn't happening.
The climate models have blown up, nobody can explain it.
CO2 at record levels, the temperature's dropping.
Now foreign students are afraid to come here because of the guns.
The bombs don't scare them.
But the guns do.
Anyway, let's go to the phones.
Napa, California.
Hi, Steve, you're first.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, whether the bombing in Boston was uh came from a foreign or a domestic source, I think it should be penned squarely onto Obama's chest.
So either his foreign policies has failed, so the Department of Homeland Security can't protect us.
Or his domestic programs have failed and his subjects are rioting in the streets.
But then I thought, either way, and you know what I've learned from him, either way, he's gonna twist this to advance his own agenda.
You know, he's still gonna wrestle away our rights.
Well, I think I think what you have to understand here, Steve, is that um if you listen to Elizabeth Warren and if you listen to Barney Frank, this incident in Boston is a success.
Big government, and Barney Frank said it.
He was asked for his reaction, and he praised big government.
I mean, if you listen to Barney Frank on my point is that a sane person would look at what happened in Boston as a failure of government.
Barney Frank's out there talking about it as a success.
But your point that regardless what happens, Obama's going to configure it in such a way to advance his agenda.
You're right.
And the media is going to be right in there helping him.
Did he hang up?
I think I heard a click.
Okay, we'll move on.
Don and Topeka.
Don, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
You bet, sir.
Proud student of the Limbaugh Institute.
I had another interesting read on the Reuters climatologist struggling to find an explanation.
I don't have it right in front of me, but in like the third paragraph, it says getting global warming is important for the short and long-term planning of government and businesses.
It makes no mention that global warming is important for the sake of science.
And I think it just gives truth to the lie that global warming isn't about science.
It's about um bringing in more government control over our every bit everyday life.
Global warming is important for the short and long-term planning of government and business.
You're right.
The Reuters story does say that.
Getting it right, it's important for government and business.
Well, you see, as far as even in the Reuters story, I mean, despite what they say in the opening paragraphs about scientists being confused and so forth, to these people of science is settled.
Let me explain it this way.
They believe that man-made global warming is happening.
Their models have all shown man-made global warming is happening.
That CO2 causes it, and that with a record amount of CO2, we should be warming.
Now we're not warming.
So rather than say, oops, we're wrong, they're looking at something they may have missed that would cause this temporary interruption in the warming process.
When it comes to the nitty-gritty, when it gets down to that, they're not going to admit they're wrong in their theory.
They're not going to admit that they're wrong in their projections and then their climate models are wrong.
They're now going to look for some culprit out there that is causing this warming to stop.
And that's why they keep referring to it as temporary.
They're not going to give this up.
This is a political issue.
This would be like uh uh the pro-choice people all of a sudden becoming pro-life.
It ain't gonna happen.
They're not gonna admit they're wrong.
Global warming, man-made particularly, man-made global warming is a political issue.
It's an ideological issue.
It is an issue of identification.
It's it's the way a leftist self-identifies.
It's as much a political issue is as tax increases are any other cause that the left has, global warming is just as etched in stone.
So it's not feasible.
It's not possible that they will look at this data and conclude that their premise is wrong.
They're going to look for some way to explain why the warming is temporarily arrested, that still maintains their original modeling forecasts, and projection.
The you know getting getting this right, uh the story says getting this right is essential for the short and long-term planning of governments and businesses, ranging from energy to construction, from agriculture to in insurance.
And there's a quote from this piece.
Some experts say their trust in climate science is declined because of the many uncertainties.
Richard Tull, an expert in climate change, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex in England.
My own confidence in the data uh has gone down in the past five years.
My own comfort I'm my confidence in the data is winning.
So there are some scientists scratching their heads and are worried here.
But the Democrat Party, the leadership of the of the left, it's just there's never global warming becomes climate change, climate change becomes climate uncertainty, uh climate uncertainty becomes climate uh uh extremes.
It's all gonna still be plugged into that model that man is causing horrible things, and we have to be restrained and controlled and taxed in order to stop it.
And they're not gonna give up on that at all.
David, big city, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I gotta tell you it's a great honor and pleasure to talk to my political mentor and the greatest mind in political analysis today.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
I've been trying for years to get through, and it it really makes me happy.
Oh, here you are.
Rosh, what I want to tell you is that I can't tell you exactly where I work, but it's a big city in Pennsylvania.
The Democrats uh pass the restrictions on our ability to communicate, so I can only tell you that.
I'm a I'm a fire chief, and uh what I can tell you is that the uh the mayor of my big city, a Democrat, in a long long-term Democrat stronghold has decimated the emergency services in our town.
While we deal with hundreds and hundreds of uh of murders a year and uh injuries and death of all Wait, wait, wait.
Hey, hang on.
Just a second.
Uh, because uh you know, you you say that your mayor has gutted emergency services, but I keep hearing these same people talk about the first responders and how much we have to support them and how much we have to make sure that they continually funded.
That's not true.
That's completely not true.
Anytime something happens, uh they love to lion eyes us, and you know, we're the salt of the earth.
And uh, you know, like Elizabeth Warren's disgusting photo up this morning, they they jump in front of a camera.
But in the back door, where in the back room when no one's looking, they're closing fire stations, they're cutting uh uh manpower, they're they're reducing our ability to do things that the public needs us to do.
And and really, Rush, emergency services are one of the really few services that the government provides that.
Well, wait a minute.
Why are they doing why are they doing this?
Well, they do it so they can divert the money to their social agenda.
You know, we're building uh an H rink next to our city hall here in an undisclosed big city, but we don't have money to uh open seven fire companies that are mayor closed.
Yeah, but buying votes.
That's what they're doing.
Ice rink next to City Hall in the big city while closing down fire stations.
Firehouses, right.
Stations.
They they cut companies out of station, they'll leave the uh they'll leave the doors open, but there's a there's fewer and fewer firefighters across the across the line.
Interesting.
Interesting.
All we hear from these people is first responders, first responders, they're first on the list.
We gotta make sure they're not cut.
We protect them, support them.
Well, everybody's curiosity is up now, so you'll be looking for uh an ice rink next to City Hall in a big city in Pennsylvania.
It's L Rushbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair to go to Los Angeles.
Steve, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing, Russ?
Very well, thank you.
Excellent.
I I've I've been a conservative since I was about sixteen years old.
I'm almost your age, so that's a long time of conservative.
And I've decided I I need to change my attitude and change my mind.
I need protection from the gov with the from with the government's uh protection here.
I've been a marathon runner in LA for actually I've run all the LA marathons since 1986.
I'm on what they call the legacy runners.
And I I'm about to propose a uh uh a new law that Governor uh uh that Senator Feinstein is gonna propose for us, I hope, uh, to uh ban pressure cookers and ball bearings because I need protection at these marathons that I run every every year.
Yeah, uh This is uh uh reaction uh ladies and gentlemen to the news that the bombs in Boston were pressure cookers, the shrapnel and ball bearings were pressure cookers inside black bags, and somehow this pressure cooker as a as a weapon and uh danger has escaped our guardians in uh in government.
And so you you are going to ask DIFI for a uh a ban on pressure cookers during marathons?
Uh I think a ban overall, and especially the high capacity uh pressure cookers.
Yeah.
Yeah, who knew who knew?
That's right.
Uh otherwise, you know, how can I how can we continue on with this?
I mean, if uh if you know, I I understand only the bad people will have pressure cookers if they're banned.
But uh, well, you know, pressure cooker.
What where do you get, for example, where where were if you wanted to get a pressure cooker, Steve, where would you go?
Well, the the probably the the greatest um location that anyone can access would be a Walmart.
Ah, yes or Target.
Walmart target ex enemies in their own right of freedom and unions.
And look unknowingly, weapons are on sale every day to anybody now.
Pressure cookers.
I can unregistered pressure cooker.
Yeah, I I can I can I can now imagine your fear as a marathoner, as a runner.
Because the copycats are everywhere out there.
Well, you think she'll uh she'll hear you on this?
Well, I sure hope so.
I am one of her constituents, so you know I should be able to get at least a letter through.
Well, I just want to warn you that in Cuba, and that's not a pressure cooker, but in Cuba.
They gave away rice cookers to the uh to the citizens.
Rice, but they still gave away the uh rice cookers.
Well, I don't know.
Background check on a pressure cooker may happen.
Could well have.
Do the mentally ill use pressure cookers?
I'm trying to think.
Um I think, you know, when I was growing up I saw one.
Um I think my grandmother had a had a pressure cooker.
If I'm not if if I'm not mistaken, I saw one being used on the it was on the top of her stove.
There was that's my grandmother.
Uh didn't know she was so dangerous.
I said a pressure cooker and it was on the top of the stove.
There was something in it.
I don't know what she had in it, but it was on top of the stove and it was smoke coming out of there.
It was uh something was escaping from it.
Well, yeah, if it would have exploded had the pressure cooker top not been on top of the pressure cooker, keeping the pressure inside.
But if if something would have happened and the she could have blown up the kitchen, everybody in it.
Private sales of pressure cook well.
I don't know how you stop that.
I don't know how how are you gonna stop a pressure cooker private sale?
Like uh my grandmother.
So my grandmother didn't like hers and went and wanted to sell it to somebody down the street.
How are you gonna stop that?
Uh uh I don't know unless you register them.
Then that'd be the only way you would know.
If there's an exchange of pressure cookers.
You know, from from one person to uh.
Well, that's another thing to you.
I was gonna was gonna mention that up.
I don't know why a private citizen needs ball bearings.
What in the name of Sam Hill does anybody in a in a private home in this country need with with ball bearings?
No, you won't find any ball bearings in my house.
I'm gonna get some now, but you wouldn't find any Ball bearings in my well, I take that back.
There might be ball bearings being used in the construction of the house or something, but I mean I do not have a supply of ball bearings.
We do have some here.
Well, that wouldn't, but we have some ball bearings here at the EIB Southern Command in the tech office.
But I don't think I've got any ball bearings at uh at home.
We do have monkey balls?
Buckyballs, but oh that's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The magnets in shape of ball.
They try to put those guys out of business, right?
The Buckyball guys.
You know, that guy called here.
Interesting.
Uh I just got a note here.
Fidel Castro just recently allowed pressure cookers to be sold in Cuba.
Well, he gave free rice cookers when there wasn't any rice, but he gave free rice cookers years ago.
There wasn't any rice.
Pressure cookers were against the law in Cuba until very recently.
I'm not kidding.
They were against the law.
Now they're legal.
You can buy one.
If you can find it.
From the New York Post, the Department of Homeland Security today has advised police agencies to be on the lookout for any pressure cookers on the street and deem them suspicious.
So keep a sharp eye out for any runaway pressure cookers, folks.
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