Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It took five minutes.
Five minutes.
It only took five minutes before the Democrat Party politicized a tornado in Oklahoma.
They politicize everything, folks.
They rub their hands together in glee when there is a natural disaster that they think they can spin in such a way as to advance their political agenda.
And if any of you doubt that global warming is a political issue and not a science issue, then you must open your mind and consider why in the world, ask yourself why in the world,
five minutes after the news hits of this horrible destruction, a Democrat senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, runs out and starts talking about global warming and blaming the tornado on global warming.
Tornado activity in this country is actually down.
Temperatures have not risen for 15 years.
There is no warming taking place and certainly no man-made global warming.
Five minutes after the news of this tornado hits, a Democrat senator cannot wait to get hold of a reporter somehow, any way possible, and start shouting global warming.
What is the point?
What in the world is served by that?
What possible assistance can that observation be?
What does it have to do with anything?
Even, ladies and gentlemen, and I really don't even want to acknowledge this, but I'm going to for the sake of the discussion.
Even if there were global warming taking place, what point is made?
What is served by calling attention to it five minutes before we even know the death toll?
These people are just despicable.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Five minutes.
And then that chorus was picked up in any number of places in the media, internationally.
Excited that they could say that the tornado was the result of global warming.
I've had a story at the top of the stack for the past couple of days.
Well, this is, what is this, Tuesday?
Yeah.
So this is the second day.
I don't think I had it on Friday.
And the headline is, climate, it's from the BBC, by the way, and these are the biggest global warming political aficionados you'll ever run into.
The BBC is as far left as anything in this country, and they are invested totally in the idea of man-made global warming.
And a story from the BBC on the 19th of May, it was three days ago, two days ago.
Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming not as likely.
And here's a pull quote from the story since 1998.
There has been an unexplained standstill in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.
What do you mean unexplained standstill?
Unexplained only from their baseline.
And their baseline is the flawed, fraudulent projections made by their flawed models.
Nobody knows what the norm is.
Nobody's been alive long enough to know what the norm is.
We've been around tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, billions, who knows who's counting years.
Nobody knows what the norm is.
It's the height of folly to assume the norm is now when we're alive.
So they've got these models that projected all this warming, and the warming isn't taking place, so, oh my God, what's wrong?
Maybe nothing's wrong other than their stupid models.
Maybe nothing's wrong.
Maybe there is no standstill.
They have their models projecting warming over the next 100 years and it isn't warming.
They don't stop and think that their models are wrong.
There's something unexplained going on out there.
For 15 years, there has been this trend of no warming, and we've been fed a bunch of lies that we're all about to burn to death.
And five minutes after this tornado hits, the Democrats can't wait to use it to advance their political agenda.
By the way, the IRS commissioner, Miller, what's his first name, Mr. Snerdley?
Do you know off top of you?
Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller just admitted in a Senate hearing this morning, Senate testimony this morning.
Guess what he's admitted?
The targeting of conservative groups at the IRS was partisan.
He said so this morning.
Now, I guess the threat of perjury has a way of squeezing the truth out because it was only last week that Mr. Miller said there was nothing partisan about this.
This morning he says, yep, he admitted the targeting of conservative groups is partisan.
Of course, everybody knew that.
The shock was that he said, no, no, no, no, nothing partisan about it.
Well, now he's admitted that there is.
That being said, now that we're dealing with the truth and it was political, who is in charge of politics in this regime?
That'd be Barack Obama, wouldn't it?
It'd be Barack Obama in charge of politics in this regime, would it not be?
So the targeting, there's no question that Limbaugh Theorem, they're positioning Obama as he didn't know, and the higher-ups in the White House knew, all the way up to his chief of staff, but nobody told him.
They wanted him to not know.
They wanted him to have plausible deniability.
You know, folks, I can believe nobody told him.
Nobody had to tell him.
He knows what's going on by virtue of the people he put in the IRS.
He doesn't have to give anybody orders to spy on or harass conservatives.
Everybody he hires knows that's what the job is.
So I don't think it's a big deal whether he knew or didn't know.
It doesn't matter.
This is a guy to whom his supporters consider messianic.
You know what groupies are?
Groupies and people who idolize others will go out of their way.
We'll do anything to please their bosses.
And you've got a bunch of the sycophants.
You've got a bunch of those.
You got a bunch of groupies.
You got a bunch of sycophants.
And you've got a bunch of true believers in this regime.
And they don't need to be told.
They learned at age five to hate conservatives.
Then they had it in preschool, daycare.
Then they had it reinforced in kindergarten.
Then they got to grade school and they ratcheted up in junior high, high school.
If they went to college, they were told even more to hate conservatives.
Their whole life has been lived being told how and why to hate conservatives.
So then they get hired at the IRS.
What do you expect is going to happen?
They don't need an operations manual.
They are there to please Shea, Barack.
They are there to get noticed by the grand poopah.
They are there to impress.
They are there to do what they know their grand leader wants done.
That's how they advance.
That's how they get noticed.
That's how they define advancement and achievement, doing what the boss wants.
And they know what this boss wants.
They don't have to be told.
So whether he knew or not, whether they told him, it didn't matter.
Before Obama took office, the people that supported him knew exactly what the agenda was.
They're liberals, folks.
They believe in big government.
They told us that Obama was a grand unifier.
Remember?
2008, Obama going to unify the country like nobody ever had.
We'd never had a politician like this before.
We never had anybody African American.
Never had anybody.
What did Joe Biden say?
Clean.
Never that Joe Biden says clean?
We've never had a black guy like this in the Democrat Party.
Clean and articulate.
Joe Biden said, we never had it.
And we had a guy messianic.
We'd never seen anybody in politics like this.
He's going to bring everybody together.
Say goodbye to the politics of the day, the usual partisanship.
We're going to be bipartisan.
We're going to be kumbaya.
The world is going to love us.
We're going to get rid of torture.
All of that stuff.
This country's more divided or as divided as it has ever been, short of the Civil War.
So there's a new poll out in the Washington Post.
Americans are deeply divided over Obama's ability to bring the country together.
Imagine that.
Here's a guy, the great unifier, a clean and articulate black guy, finally, Joe Biden said.
And this guy walks the earth like no one has ever walked the earth before.
He's Mr. Magic.
He's a Messiah.
This guy can bring warring factions together like nobody.
And there are a lot of people who have voted for the guy on that premise, by the way, who believed that all the acrimony could be ended.
And now they've gone out and they've actually done a poll.
Let me read this to you again.
Americans are deeply divided over Obama's ability to unify the country.
That means Americans are divided twice.
They're divided, period.
They're also divided on whether or not Obama can unify us.
So we're double divided out there.
And the Washington Post poll proves that Americans are deeply divided, period.
And then Americans are also deeply divided over Obama's ability to bring the country together.
Washington Post says the latest sign that his pledge to end decades of partisan warfare is flagging.
47% of Americans say that Obama has done more to unite the country during his time in orifice.
45% say he's done more to divide it.
So we have an even split.
47%, the low-information voters, believe that Obama's done more to unite the country than anybody else.
45%, the information voters say he hasn't.
Still, that the country is split literally down the middle on Obama's ability to unite or divide is a telling indication that the man who pledged he could change Washington has struggled mightily to make good on that promise.
It was an empty promise.
He never intended to unite the country, not in the way people thought.
Obama and his campaign were mirages.
There was never any attempt by Obama to unite in love and commonality and agreement.
Obama's attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.
That was the unity Obama sought.
He sought a unanimous agreement with him that his opponents, I should say his enemies in his world, need to be neutered.
There was never any, never, ever any intent to take people who disagree with each other and find the resolution.
It's never happened anyway in the course of human history.
It's not going to happen.
You have to beat people into agreeing with you.
Ask the Germans.
Ask the Japanese.
You have to defeat them.
And they sign what's called terms of surrender.
And I don't know about you folks, but I'm not ready to surrender.
Therefore, I'm not ready to sign anything.
Therefore, I'm not ready to agree.
Therefore, I'm not ready to be bipartisan.
All this is smoke and mirrors.
As we speak, ladies and gentlemen, the Senate, some stupid, idiotic committee, is attempting to blame Apple Incorporated for the deficit for the national debt, employment, and tax fraud.
Hey, you should be careful.
The interesting thing is, is that nobody, and by the way, the Senate committee chairman here, whatever this committee is, is Carl Levin, Liberal Democrat, Michigan, but he has an echo.
He has a Republican echoing everything he says.
That would be Senator McCain.
Senator John McCain is joining in this senatorial effort to crucify Apple Incorporated over taxes.
You want the truth?
And by the way, I could probably spend a half hour telling you everything Apple is doing tax-wise.
I have spent a lot of time last night learning how Apple is using tax law.
They're not breaking it.
Nobody, nobody, not Carl Levin, nor any of his witnesses.
Nobody is accusing Apple of violating tax law.
And yet, they're being persecuted today.
They've got Harvard economists.
They've got Princeton tax specialists.
They've got all these expert witnesses.
They've got the committee.
The only person on the committee defending Apple and defending the concept of low taxes and limited government is Senator Rand Paul.
Apple Incorporated pays more taxes than any U.S. corporation.
GE ought to be up there explaining how they don't pay any tax on their multiple billion dollars of earnings.
Instead, it's Apple.
Apple pays $6 billion last year to the U.S. Treasury.
Put that in perspective.
That's $16 million a day Apple paid in taxes.
Apple pays 2.5% of all income tax collected by the U.S. Treasury.
One company pays 2.5%, $6 billion this year.
It'll be more next year.
There you go, Mr. Limbaugh.
You just love Apple.
That's all you want to do.
You don't want to throw your iPhone or your iPhone.
No, no, no.
I'm defending the premise here.
I'm defending concept.
I'm defending the founding of this country.
It's what I do, folks.
I get up and I look at the people or the things or the institutions that I think are great, that ought to model everybody else's behavior.
And I see them under assault.
I come here and defend them.
I don't care who they are.
I got to take a break, though, because of the formatting clock.
We're running out of time.
Be right back.
By the way, folks, my point, the point I just made to you about Obama and his sycophant groupies that work for him and all these agencies is in fact made in the Washington Post today by no less than Chris Saliza.
The story is how President Obama got out of balance on leaks.
And in this story, Saliza talks about the fact that there's clearly a tone set from the top.
And let me read this paragraph to you.
While Obama's senior team insists that these decisions were made independently of him, there's clearly a tone being set from the top down.
And it's a tone that Obama has long held, dating back to his days as a candidate.
Obama and his top campaign aides prided themselves during 08 and the 2012 races for their tight-knittedness and their lack of leaks.
Anyway, Saliza making the point that I made.
These people don't need instructions.
Obama didn't have to be told what was going on in the IRS.
He already knew.
That's why he put people there to harass his political enemies for the purposes of eliminating them.
And that's what the Tea Party audits were all about.
Now, we've got some audio soundbites coming up after the break coming up here at the bottom of the hour from people in Oklahoma in the aftermath of the tornado.
And I have a couple of stories, actually three, the climate slowdown, global warming.
There hasn't been any in 15 years.
And two stories on people puzzling over the declining tornado activity in the Midwest.
One from a TV station in Tulsa, weather trends show fewer tornadoes.
And USA Today, recently, with a story, tornado activity hits 60-year low.
That story on May the 10th, 11 days ago.
Sit tight.
Coming right back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh in fine form here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
So we are putting together some audio soundbites from the Senate.
What were we?
Grilling of Apple.
There are three Apple executives up there today.
The CEO Tim Cook, the chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, and one of their tax specialists.
I think the guy's name is Bullock.
But anyway, before we get to this tornado business, I just have to share this with you.
Because this little interchange here, this exchange between John McCain and Tim Cook, is an illustration that these guys in the Senate have not the slightest idea what they're investigating today.
During a light-hearted moment, Senator McCain said to the Apple CEO Tim Cook, Sir, there's only one thing I really wanted to ask you today.
Why do I keep on having to update all the apps on my iPhone?
Can't you guys fix that already?
That's a verbatim quote.
Senator McCain, who has served on the Commerce Committee.
My point is, this guy, this powerful, longtime senator, ought not be this ignorant, but he is profoundly ignorant.
Apps being updated on an iPhone means they're being improved.
It means they're being upgraded.
It means that they're being made better.
They're being made to do more and to work more efficiently.
Sometimes they're redesigned.
Senator McCain apparently thinks that app updates mean his phone is broken.
And this guy is sitting in judgment of whether or not Apple is a good corporate citizen.
Anyway, tornado.
It's a crying shame.
Natural disaster, they happen.
The true test in a natural disaster.
The people of Oklahoma know that they are in Tornado Alley.
The true test is the aftermath, how people deal with it.
And I have to tell you, from what I've seen, these people in Oklahoma are the backbone of the United States of America.
These people, I found the same thing, by the way, Catherine and I went to Joplin, Missouri with a whole semi-truckload of 2F by T last year around the 4th of July, shortly after the tornado had ripped half that town to shreds.
We found the people of Joplin were not crying and whining and moaning, and they weren't asking where FEMA was, and they weren't demanding that government show up.
They had rolled up their sleeves and they were already starting to rebuild.
And we went in and they had a big concert with a bunch of groups that came in, performed gratis.
It was a pretty big party barbecue.
As I say, we brought in a bunch of ice 2F by T.
I made a short little speech on American exceptionalism and how the people at Joplin were illustrating, demonstrating it.
Same thing in Oklahoma.
And you'll hear it here on the soundbites coming up.
Backbone of America.
They know what can happen there.
It's happened before.
This is a pretty bad one.
This was a huge tornado.
But I just want to remind you of three things.
Again, the BBC story, because it took five minutes, folks, and the Democrat Party was politicizing this.
The latest not to come out, Senator Boxer.
Senator Boxer is not the, see, see, this tornado means just global warming.
Okay, so what?
What do we do?
We're going to raise taxes.
What are we going to do?
All you Democrats, Sheldon White House, Barbara Boxer, what the hell could you have done to stop this?
Tell me, what has global warming meant to that tornado?
Is it bigger and more powerful because of global warming?
Is that what you want to try to convince people of?
That if somehow we had taken steps on your so-called climate change, that the tornado wouldn't have been as powerful, wouldn't have been as big, may not have happened.
What are you trying to convince people of?
You realize how absurd you people are five minutes after this disaster, and they're trying to politicize it for what purpose?
I'll tell you what purpose.
They want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars.
They want to dictate the way you live.
They want you to use one sheet of toilet paper, whatever.
That's an extreme example from Cheryl Crowe, but still, they want you giving up a little more your economic freedom.
They want you paying higher taxes under the guise that somehow those people in Washington, in conjunction with people at the United Nations, know everything there is about the climate.
And if you just give them more money while they're going to do magic things and make tornadoes and hurricanes and so forth go away.
Well, there's a problem.
There isn't any global warming, and tornado activity had been on the decline.
BBC scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short term.
Since 1998, there's been an unexplained standstill in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere.
Writing in Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades.
But long term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.
The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has been studied for several years now, the slowdown.
Earlier this year, the UK Meteorological Office lowered their five-year temperature forecast.
But this new paper gives the clearest picture yet of how any slowdown is likely to affect temperatures.
These people are simply throwing it up against the wall and seeing what sticks.
This is gibberish, folks.
There's an unexplained standstill based on what?
Why do they assume that what is happening now is normal and that anything above or below what's happening now is disaster?
They don't know what normal is.
There hadn't been anybody alive long enough to keep records long enough to figure out an average.
There's no science here.
This is all politics.
Unexplained standstill.
From what?
Okay, so they've got a bunch of computer models which are flawed, garbage in, garbage out.
And their computer models said that over the past 15 years, there'd be a one and a half degree rise centigrade in temperature.
It hasn't happened.
So uh oh, uh oh, there's an unexplained standstill.
There's nothing unexplained.
It's just the temperature hasn't changed.
It's easy.
There's no standstill.
There's only a standstill if you believe their garbage.
There's only a standstill if you believe their baseline based on their fraudulent models that there should have been a one and a half degree increase in temperature in the past 15 years.
So since what they predicted and what they thought was going to happen didn't happen, uh-oh, something's wrong.
No, no, no, no.
We're talking about nature, and these guys can't control it, influence it, whatever, and they never will be able to.
So there's that.
Then there's USA Today, Doyle Rice.
On May 10th of 2013, tornado activity hits 60-year low 10 days ago.
USA Today, how do these global warming wackos explain the lack of tornado activity up until yesterday's tragedy?
So up until yesterday's tragedy, tornado activity was on the decline.
Now all of a sudden, a tornado has happened.
Uh-oh, global warming.
Oh, uh-oh, it's getting really bad.
Oh, just like after Hurricane Katrina.
What did they predict?
Massive hurricanes, massive destruction.
Number of hurricanes in the U.S. plummeted.
After the shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, what did they expect?
Oh my God, gun violence is going to go through the room.
Oh my God, it's horrible.
We're all going to die.
Well, what did they find?
Gun violence is actually down, even including Newtown.
Ladies and gentlemen, look at, I mean this in the bottom of my heart.
You literally cannot trust anything these people tell you.
You certainly can't trust their predictions.
You cannot trust because it's all politics.
It's all designed to insult you.
It's all designed to fool you.
You're being spun on all of this stuff.
Doyle Rice.
Let me see what this USA Today story said 10 days ago.
Quiet tornado season forecast to last into next week at last, at least.
Anybody want to sue these people for malpractice?
Anybody in Oklahoma reading this story?
Oh, good, Dela.
I just read it in USA Today.
There ain't going to be any tornadoes the next couple of weeks.
We're safe, Mabel.
USA Today said so.
They got a bunch of global warming experts.
Unexplained decline in tornado activity is going to continue for the next two weeks.
Uh-oh.
What went wrong?
What went wrong is that these people do not know what they're talking about from the get-go.
It's gibberish.
They're making it all up every day.
And they're claiming that what they're making up and spinning is science.
And it's the furthest thing from science.
The tornado drought is forecast to continue at least through the weekend.
The USA in the past 12 months has seen the fewest number of tornadoes since at least 1954, says USA Today 10 days ago.
And the death tolls from the dangerous storms have dropped dramatically since 2011.
Yet there's global warming and we should have seen more tornadoes.
Fuck, the bottom line is that everything these people say, or pretty much everything, is literally disproven every day.
Just two years, back to the USA Today story here, just two years after a ferocious series of tornado outbreaks killed hundreds of Americans, the USA so far this year is enjoying one of the calmest years on record for twisters.
Through Thursday, tornadoes have killed only three Americans in 2013.
By the end of May 2011, 543 Americans had died.
That's a pretty big difference, folks.
By the end of May 2011, 543 Americans had died.
Through Thursday of last week, only three had died in just a two-year span.
The seven people killed from May of 2012 to April 2013 is the fewest in a 12-month period since five people died in September 19, sorry, 1899, according to Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.
The year-to-date count of tornadoes is probably approaching the lower 10% of all years on record, said Greg Carbon, warning coordination meteorologist with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman.
Why has tornado activity been on the decline?
Well, an unusually cool weather pattern from the Rockies to the East Coast, generally the lower temperature and or the drier the air, the lower the number of thunderstorms, said AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Soznowski.
Okay, so USA Today 10 days ago said nothing to see here.
No tornadoes are way, way down.
Three deaths this year by comparison, 543, same time two years ago.
And then from a Tulsa TV station, Jennifer Zeppelin, the chief meteorologist at KTUL-TV, weather trends show fewer tornadoes.
This is just five days ago, this story.
May typically has been our peak month for tornadoes, but after the warmest year on record, followed by an ongoing drought and cooler than normal temperatures, our weather has been anything but normal for the past 12 months.
Meteorologists with the National Severe Storms Laboratory track all the tornado stats of the U.S. have noticed an interesting trend over the last decade.
Fewer tornadoes.
The Tulsa meteorologist noted just a few days ago that while tornado activity is down, do not let your guard down.
And she was correct.
Got to take a break again, my friends.
We'll come back and roll right on.
Don't miss it.
We're just barely getting started here.
Say, all of you on hold on the phones, please stay there.
I'm going to get to you as soon as we can.
You're on hold for a reason, and it may be a while.
It won't be long.
I want you to hold up.
Mike Rabzan by 27.
This is the McCain back and forth, and he intended this.
Look at in good cheer.
He was trying to be convivial here, understand it.
But this is indicative.
This is John.
No, it doesn't make him less.
No, it just, I don't want people to.
He was not on the attack here, is the point.
Apple's been under assault this whole day, starting since yesterday.
Well, actually, New York Times last year, this has been building to this event now.
But I just want you to hear this exchange.
This John McCain with Tim Cook is the Apple CEO.
What I really wanted to ask you is why the hell I have to keep updating the apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that.
I thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Sir, we're trying to make them better all the time.
You know, just don't updating apps means that the developers are improving them, and there's a new version, and it's going to do more, and it's going to maybe be faster, and it's going to use less of your battery.
It's going to have more features to it.
App updates.
I can't wait to get app updates.
I love getting app updates.
I don't get enough of them.
I wish Apple was updating the iPhone far more often than they are, but McCain's only just buy it once.
He's like, never mind.
I want to play a soundbite from a montage of people who lost everything.
From last night and this morning, these are tornado victims in Oklahoma.
This is what I mean when I say that these people are the backbone of this country.
My security isn't in the things I own.
My security is in the Lord.
The last thing we lose in a situation like this is faith.
We have to hold on to faith and trust God every moment.
You salvage what you can salvage.
You thank God that he has another plan for you.
I'm a believer in Jesus, and by the grace of God, me and my children are alive, and our house is, we can repair it.
We prayed that God would save our house.
We also prayed that if God didn't, he would get us through, and he will.
By the grace of God, it's just amazing.
We know that God is good, and we know that there's people out there who are still alive, and we're going to find them.
The media, as you can imagine, could not understand any of that.
They were just shocked.
They were literally stunned that, of all things, people would be thankful to God after such a thing.
In the media's minds, at least if you're going to be thankful, be thankful to Obama, who's going to send in rescue aid, if that happens, by the way.
Talk to people in New York and New Jersey about all the aid for Sandy Hook and so on.
Let's see if that happens.
If you want it, Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the Civil Rights Coalition.