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Aug. 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 28, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know, the um the global warming crowd is back.
What was it?
The UN, the IPP, uh UPP, uh We PP cure, whatever the group is, the climate science group.
Ninety-five percent certainty now that the undeniable global warming is undeniably caused by human beings.
That was last week.
It is a hoax.
All of that, I mean, I don't know how else to say it.
All of that is just it's just wrong.
And these people know it's wrong.
The factual data contradicts virtually every claim they make.
And yet, for I have to tell you, you know, as I mentioned before, I read high-tech blogs and the high-tech bloggers, some of them think they're scientists.
And there are a couple of these blogs, whenever there's global warming news, they report it as though it's gospel.
It's young kids, well, young kids, they're 24 to 30 years old, and they buy into it totally.
They totally buy into.
Can't wait to be able to afford a Tesla, an electric car, they can't wait to have their own windmill in the backyard.
They believe that oil and man is causing global warming.
They don't even question it.
And they're not even aware.
Of course, these people think they're some of the smartest people in the world.
They don't even they're not even aware that the whole thing's been debunked.
Real science, Stephen Goddard, this summer, the U.S. has experienced the fewest number of 100 degree readings in 100 years.
The five hottest summers were 1936, 1934, 1954, 1980, and 1930.
And all of them occurred with a CO2 level below 350 parts per million.
Four of these summers were before the number one cause of global warming, SUVs, and fossil fuel burning vehicles.
Now, Al Gore made a big deal earlier a couple of weeks ago with the fact that CO2 levels have now gone past 400 parts per million this year, indicating that heat waves and carbon dioxide have nothing to do with each other.
And I'm telling you that these scientists who who who claim otherwise are just lying or they are dangerously incompetent.
There is no warming, and there hasn't been for 15 years.
And they chalk that up.
Well, it's volcanoes, and then other mitigating factors, it's just a temporary interruption.
But the one thing the only thing that you really need to know, these people are out warning us of global warming.
It's a very bad thing.
I mean, it's gonna destroy this, it's gonna forever change that, it might swallow up entire coastlines and islands.
It's a very bad thing to these people.
So any news that it isn't happening ought to be greeted with happiness, right?
But it isn't.
Any news that global warming isn't happening causes a panic and causes a crisis.
And that's because I say again as a broken record, global warming is a political issue.
It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is.
It's as big a political issue as health care is.
It is nothing more than another spoke in the wheel that advances the Democrat or leftist agenda.
It's not science, it has nothing to do with science.
It's simply called science because science is still an area where most people do not think it's been corrupted.
Do not think it's been politicized.
And I'm here to tell you virtually every walk of life that the Democrats or the leftists talk about is political and has been corrupted politically and is used to advance the agenda.
Seriously, if rising sea levels are going to forever alter or swallow up parts of New York City, wouldn't it be good that that isn't happening?
It would.
And they're not happy.
And you know what else?
They have been suggesting various ways to stop this warming.
Why not take credit for it?
If 15 years and no warming has taken place, why don't they say it's because of them and their efforts that they have succeeded in in having governments implement all around the world.
It's working.
And we just need to do more of this.
They don't even do that.
All they do is get their backs up and start lying even more.
I mean, it's it's to me that's the single biggest piece of evidence to refute them that there is.
Some warming would actually be good in some parts of the world.
Would actually be helpful to a lot of people.
Both in comfort and the production of food.
No, it's all bad.
It's calamitous, in fact.
And so why not be happy?
And why not take the credit?
Well, the answer is the political agenda depends on people believing they are responsible for it.
The political agenda depends on the left being able to convince you that you are causing it.
Thereby giving them control over your life to supposedly stop this disaster from happening, which is all this is about is a way to get you to agreeably give up your liberty.
And that's what's being interrupted.
The fact is that they need warming for the rest of their claims to be believed.
And when it isn't warming, they've got a problem.
That's how they come up with these really outrageous lies.
But it is a fascinating thing to me.
I must tell you, it's a fascinating thing to me to watch and to read and to see how otherwise intelligent people have just bought this without questioning it, hook, line, and sinker.
It's just it's it's all it's a learning exercise for me.
It it once again reminds me what we are up against.
It's just frustrating at the same time.
Because if they can be made, otherwise smart people can be so easily sucked in to believe something like this.
What else can they be made to believe in?
We already know.
Republicans are, conservatives are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
No question about it.
In fact, the Republicans run Congress.
That alone is justification for ignoring them.
When it comes to going to war.
When it comes to using maybe even a one-day nuclear strike on Syria.
Nah, we'd have to go through Congress.
The Republicans run it.
Everybody hates them.
We don't have to pay attention to they don't even support us.
So why should we go through them?
Meaning we're not about opposition.
I mean, any opposition to us is illegitimate.
We're not going to even acknowledge it, so says the president, so says the Democrat Party.
But ask yourself.
We are now at August 28th, and this story is absolutely true.
How many overwhelmingly abnormally hot days have captivated the media this summer in their reporting?
I don't remember, frankly, any.
I I don't remember a couple days in a row of the media talking about unusually warm days here or there, which means obviously that global warming is happening, because there haven't been any of these outrageously hot 100 degree plus days.
The evidence keeps mounting that the pro global warming people are nothing but a bunch of political hacks.
Okay, Martin Luther King, your phone calls, uh, the way the Democrats are dealing with this, all coming on the other side of this obscene profit timeout.
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What was I just heard?
Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta, has just proclaimed Trayvon Martin Luther King a martyr.
You're gonna hear that name a lot today, Trayvon Martin Luther King.
Okay, from uh CBS, eyeball news in Washington.
Would Martin Luther King Jr. support Obamacare?
Well, the president thinks so.
The president was on, and do we have I think we do.
I think we've got the sound bites of this.
Yeah.
Yeah, we yeah, let's start with number seven.
This is uh this is Barack yesterday on uh on the radio, Tom Joyner in the morning talking uh about the MLK event, and joyner said, What do you think that Martin Luther King Jr. would say about Obamacare?
Now that here's the thing.
Martin Luther King Jr. can now be used to promote anything.
And in the process, I think if these people on the left are not careful, they're gonna end up diminishing this man.
They're gonna commercialize this man in this speech, and they're gonna turn him and what he stood for into a commodity.
I mean, they're in the they're they're dangerously close to commoditizing this now.
But I think this is the height of self-absorption to have the president of the United States, what would Dr. King think of Obamacare?
You know, I based on what I have read of Dr. King.
Let me just say something here.
Dr. King said a lot of things besides this speech.
Dr. King, and Eric Erickson quotes him in in redstate.com.
Eric in a post today cites his favorite Martin Luther King speech, and I'm just going to paraphrase it here.
I don't have the thing in front of me.
But he said that in one of his favorite Dr. King speeches.
Martin Luther King made the point, no matter what you do, you do it the best it's ever been done.
If you're the street sweeper, if your job is sweeping the streets, you sweep those streets the way Michelangelo used a paintbrush.
You be the best you can be at it.
That is your job here, and you meet up on the right side of God at the end of your life.
You live your life in a productive, be the best you can every day kind of way.
And you meet up with God at the end of your life, and that's just square the deal.
Now, I have to tell you, I I think a man who believed that, that no work was illegitimate, that no work was beneath anybody, and that all work was such that it should be done the best it can be.
I do not think that kind of guy would sit there and be open to the idea of the government taking care of everybody.
If I were a devout follower of Martin Luther King, the question alone would bother me.
Why stop there?
What would Dr. King say about Benghazi?
What would Dr. King think of Obama's golf handicap?
What would he think of black unemployment today?
We kind of know that because his son, Martin Luther King III, has weighed in on it, and he's not happy about it.
What would Dr. King think of Barack Obama stripping African American students' school vouchers in Washington within the first six months of his presidency?
What would Dr. King think of Michelle Obama trying to determine everybody's lunch menu at every school in America and traveling on her own government jet to Spain with her own entourage for a vacation?
What would Dr. King think of Reverend Wright?
What would Dr. King think of President Obama sitting in a pew in Reverend Wright's church for 20 years and then saying, I didn't hear him say that?
They're commoditizing this man.
They're turning him into a billboard, an advertisement.
You can now use Martin Luther King to promote or sell anything.
So here's here's Obama's answer to Tom Joyner's question.
What would of Obamacare uh what would Martin Luther King thought of Obama care?
Oh, he'd like that.
Well, because uh I think he understood that uh health care, health security, uh, is not a privilege.
Uh it's something that a country as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.
I think he'd probably think it's something everybody should try to provide for themselves.
I mean, if Martin Luther King is a man who can say, if your lot in life is to street sweep the streets, and you do it the best you can, you sweep the streets the way Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel.
Whatever your job is, if it's taken out the garbage, you make wherever you're taking out the garbage, the cleanest place in the world.
A man who could tell people that that no work was beneath anybody, there was no dishonor in any work to do the best you can every day, max out, and then square up with God at the end of your life.
What would this man think of everybody being given a telephone?
What would what would he think of 50 million Americans on food stamps?
And look at what's happening.
Whatever question the Democrats want to ask about Martin Luther King, guess what?
He would totally support whatever the Democrat Party is doing and believes.
What would Dr. King think of ninety-five percent of black high school graduates unable to pass a standardized test?
What would he think of the dropout rate, African American dropout rate in New York City being 50%?
What would he think of the fact that 73% of African American kids are born to a single parent family?
Oh, he'd be all for this, Roush.
He'd understand why it's happening.
He'd understand the Republicans are making this point.
What would Dr. King think of all of the African American babies being aborted every year?
You know, this this is this is a I really think it's it's it's a near crime what is being done here to take the occasion of this man's great address and what he stood for and basically hijack it for President Barack Obama.
I would think if I were President Obama, I'd be a little embarrassed I can't stand on my own.
I'd be a little embarrassed that I have to have a bunch of people outside, oh yeah, Dr. King would be all for this.
Oh yeah, Dr. King would be 100% in on this.
Oh yeah.
It's just amazing to me.
I don't know what would Dr. King think of Obama's election year support of gay marriage.
Dr. King was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.
He was, among many other things, a man of the cloth.
So he's being hijacked.
And people who cannot possibly answer these questions are presuming to know.
Because this is no different to Wellstone Memorial or hijacking a funeral or what have you.
Okay, so on the radio, President Obama was asked, what would Dr. King think of Obamacare?
Oh, oh, he'd love, oh, he'd be right in there.
Oh.
He'd like that.
He'd understand health care, health security, not a privilege, and so forth.
Dr. Alvita King, the niece of the famed Martin Luther King Jr. is looking to block parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Dr. King's niece is looking to block Obamacare.
And this is a village voice.
As part of the Staten Island-based outreach organization, Priests for Life, King claims that the clauses mandating health insurers cover free contraception, have racist and eugenic roots.
Hello, Margaret Sanger.
So the niece of Dr. King opposes mandating that health insurers cover free contraception, as in the Catholic Church at Georgetown University, because she says Margaret Sanger is behind that.
That's the eugenics movement.
And while everybody thinks Margaret Sanger was into family planning, what she was into, dare I say it.
Margaret Sanger and her fellow eugenicists were really all about eliminating the black race.
They were some of the biggest white supremacists to ever come down the pike.
And Margaret Sanger is a liberal Democrat icon today.
They love her because she was for abortion.
Planned parenthood.
Why do you think that was?
If you wanted to get rid of people, what would be a way to do it that didn't appear to be a crime?
Just start a movement for those people to abort their children when they were conceived.
And pretty soon it wouldn't be any left.
Hey, I'm not making it up.
And here, right here, Dr. Alveda King, right here on the uh Obama just got through say, oh, Dr. King would love my health care plan, because he'd realize that people can't take care of themselves.
And he'd realize that health care is a constitutional right, and he'd realize that the rich aren't paying their fair share, and he would realize we got to tax everybody out of their own existence to pay for everybody to have health care.
Oh, yeah, he'd be he'd be down with that.
Well, Dr. King's niece is suing to block it.
And she's right, by the way, any biography of Margaret Sanger will tell you.
Do you know one of the first prototypes or planned parenthood was set up in 1929?
You know where?
Harlem.
The first, one of the first prototypes for planned parenthood.
1929 in Harlem.
Now, Dr. Alvita King made her uh statement here back on the 19th of August, nine days ago.
She said efforts to control the population always target minority and lower income group people.
And we are not going to sit still and allow this to happen.
So I think Dr. King's niece, much closer to him than Barack Obama.
And she's suing to stop it.
Here's Jack in San Francisco as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Cigar smoking dinner, Rush.
I want to talk to you about uh you speak often about uh the weak need Republicans uh being afraid of losing the Hispanic vote.
I think they ought to stop thinking about that and start thinking about uh coaching the private sector labor union uh people.
I can tell you I was uh I worked as a carpenter, I was a fireman, and I spent over 20 years working as a union representative.
I could tell you many, probably at least 40 percent of uh building trades guys, firemen, vote Republican, but I can tell you far more than that, probably 80 percent and 80 percent are truly conservatives.
Uh union people believe the boss should make money because the more money the boss makes, the more money's on the table if you try to bargain for a pay raise.
And I I think that uh if we if we differentiate between the private sector and the public unions, I think that the Republicans could get a lot more of the of the uh private sector union people to vote for them and make up for whatever they think they're losing with the Hispanic votes.
Uh well, it might it might work out mathematically, I don't know.
But the big problem there aren't, you know, organized labor is losing members left and right, but those that remain pay a hell of a lot of money in dues, and that all goes to the Democrats.
No matter how the member votes, his dues are donated to Democrat candidates and Democrat causes.
And that is something else that needs to change.
I mean, the union member needs to be able to opt out of his dues being used in political ways that he would not choose.
But you know, being a conservative union member is uh is almost like being an actor in Hollywood.
You don't dare say it.
Or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.
I don't doubt that in the private sector labor union movements that there are quite a few conservative oriented individuals and may in fact vote that way, but they they uh they're they're they don't dare go public with it, and their union dues are still used for Democrats.
You know, a lot of private sector union people are going to be losing their health care thanks to Obamacare.
Everybody that gets their health care from the job is at at some point or another down the road going to lose it there.
And everybody's gonna have to go to an exchange.
Don't forget, folks, who was it, Jimmy Hoffa, this Trump guy, and one other union leader sent all these letters to Pelosi and and Reed demanding that they be exempted from Obamacare because their union members are going to lose health insurance.
They wanted to be exempted from the uh from the notion that uh from the uh from the requirement uh they they they they wanted to preserve health care provided by the boss is what they want.
And that's at risk with Obamacare.
And they asked to be exempted from what's going to change that.
And they sent this letter to Reed and Pelosi, you guys are killing us.
You're gonna you're gonna kill us, you're gonna wipe out our union.
We can't survive this way.
And these union guys are gonna learn what every other Democrat supporter learned.
You either with us at the party level or at Sayonara.
Jack, I appreciate the call.
Here's Mary, Lincoln Park, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Ross, thank you for having me, longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to I was listening to you before saying how all the libs get the kids when they're young and in college and we're not in pop culture.
You know, I've been listening to you since I was ten years old, I'm now 32, and they've never gotten to me.
You know, I went to college, I graduated, I had to deal with all these creepy professors pushing their agenda on me, and you know, I just listened to my family and they instilled those values in me, and it's never changed.
Well never wavered.
You know, that sometimes works, but but a lot of uh lot of kids rebel against their parents just to do it.
And you know, I did rebel too in my own ways.
But in my moral values and you know what I see with going on with the country after 9-11, you know, th those are my values, and that's what I stuck to.
And no one changed me.
Well, I know what you're saying.
If you have if you have a really strong family, and if your mother and father are not afraid to tell you what's right and wrong, then you can resist what's going to happen to you in education.
I did.
I rebelled, though, just like you did, but my rebellion was not against what my parents believed politically.
You know, I I uh I wanted to be part of what they were part of.
You know, I wanted to be in the quote unquote the establishment in the 60s and 70s.
What I rebelled against was, you know, going to college as a must to have a future.
But I didn't rebel against their morality.
I didn't rebel against their politics.
I didn't rebel against their definitions of right and wrong.
But I did every every kid rebels in one way or the other.
I don't I don't deny that really strong parental figures can overcome later efforts by others, professors and friends, peers to change people's political points of view.
However, it's a fine line because a powerful, unafraid parent, unafraid to tell a child what's right and wrong, unafraid, you know, no moral relativism whatsoever.
This is it.
You run the risk of being an autocrat in that sense as a parent, and kids will rebel against that.
It it really can go either way.
There's no way of predicting it.
In your case, your strong family insured you give you boundaries against whatever assaults you got later on.
But there's no predictive to that.
It's uh sometimes what worked for you causes kids to hate their parents for a while.
I appreciate the call, Mary.
We've got a brief timeout, back with more after this.
By the way, we got Ted Cruz coming up for the first segment in the next hour.
Senator Ted Cruz will be here on uh primarily the subject of defunding Obamacare.
And of course, Senator McCain saying that people that want to do this are or are nuts because they don't remember what happened with the government shutdown in 1995.
Uh, we'll talk to Senator Cruz about that, whatever else comes up.
We've got him for the first segment.
In the next hour, Dr. Benjamin Carson has a piece in the Washington Times today about what Dr. King would think of things today.
Let me give you the pull quote from this story.
This column by Dr. Benjamin Carson.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment for Martin Luther King Jr. today would be the wholesale adoption of a victim mentality that makes people feel that they're entitled to being cared for by others rather than working tirelessly to create wealth and opportunities for their progeny.
The amount of wealth that resides within the black community today is staggering.
If the black community, like Jewish Korean and other cultures in America, learned how to turn over dollars within their own community at least a couple of times before sending them out in the larger society, they could create wealth.
Well, that dovetails exactly with the speech that Dr. King gave, talking about work.
The street sweeper.
That there was no work that was beneath anybody.
And if your lot in life was to sweep the streets, then you do it better than anybody ever did.
And whatever you do, you do it the best you can.
That's what God wants of you.
And then when you finish your life's work, you meet up with God and you square the circle.
My words, not his, but that's basically what he meant.
And that pretty much is what Dr. Carson here is saying, be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values.
But the biggest disappointment for him would be the wholesale adoption of a victim mentality.
I have to think that's far closer to what Dr. King would think, based on what Dr. King said, than what is being assigned to him today by a bunch of radical leftists who are trying to hijack the man and turn what he said into their own ideology.
I said that this day would end up being about Obama as far as the media's concerned, and lo and Behold, we have here a montage.
It's all about Obama standing in the same spot, standing on the same steps, the same place as Martin Luther King.
Here we go.
It's about 47 seconds.
A montage of the drive-bys, making the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech all about Barack Obama.
President Obama marks the anniversary of the march on Washington with his own speech from the steps.
The nation's first black president delivering a speech and standing where Dr. King did half a century ago.
He'll speak at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. said those famous words.
In the same place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his speech.
President Obama will speak from those very steps.
Barack Obama will speak from the same steps.
America's first African American president will stand on those exact same steps in the same place as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The nation's first African American president standing there in that sacred spot.
Dr. King was such a powerful speaker.
It would be hard to match, even for President Obama, who's also a powerful speaker.
I can't wait to hear what he has to say.
How many of you have uh been to the Lincoln Memorial?
I have.
I've been to those steps.
Wasn't any big deal.
Nobody stopped the press as hey, Rush Limbaugh's in the same steps that Dr. King was.
How many of you have been there?
Every one of you who have been to the Lincoln Memorial have been to the same spot that Barack Obama's gonna be today, but somehow an Obama's there.
Why, it's really, really special.
Mr. Limbaugh, we're with your authenticativity, of course it's special because Barack Obama is the first African-American president, and that's why I mean you know he's president of the United States.
This is the problem.
He's the president of the United States.
His policies and ideas are a disaster.
It doesn't matter what the color of his skin is.
All this romanticizing, you know, the historical aspects of this presidency, they were big, but for me, they were over with after the first day.
When I first heard the talk of the stimulus, okay, we got the historical aspect out of it.
Now we got to deal with a radical leftist who owns the White House.
Not a radical black leftist, not a radical African American left, a radical leftist.
I know they will never understand me.
They think this is sacrilegious what I'm saying here.
I mean, this is they folks, they do.
They think this what I just said is the most insensitive, the most sacrilegious, mean spirited, that just it they will never understand.
They really won't.
They're not just going to be robotic in their reaction to this.
They really don't understand.
They don't.
Yeah, they claim they want colorblind, and that's what I am, and they don't like it when they hear it.
And they also, you know, these people are totally into symbolism over substance, and I'm not.
I'm the mayor of Realville.
I am about the substance and not the symbolism.
No, Snerdley is right.
He says, Yeah, you've you've you've had it.
You can you can go home now, because you've taken care of you, done your business.
You are guaranteed to be the topic tomorrow.
Because they just they're not going to understand this.
And they don't.
They claim they want a colorblind society, and then when they are faced with it, confronted by it, they think it's racist.
They think being colorblind is racist.
They're just a bunch of fools.
They really are.
I gotta take a break, sadly, because this is a good riff.
I'm sure you wish it could go on too, but sadly it must stop.
What do you think would happen if Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas showed up at the Martin Luther King festivities today, actually up there on the steps of the Lincoln?
What do you think would happen?
He not just booed, they'd throw him out of there.
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