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Sept. 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 27, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
It's El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
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Open Line Friday, a golden opportunity for you and for me, and maybe even the audience.
Because on Friday, whatever you want to talk about is okay.
It's not the case Monday through Thursday.
If you are a new listener, you have to look at me as a benevolent dictator.
And everything I do here is for the audience.
I do not want the audience to get bored.
And if I get bored, the audience will be bored.
Therefore, Monday through Thursday, we don't take calls from people who want to talk about things that will bore me.
But on Friday, aha, on Friday, I throw all that out as a concession to people who bore me.
And I give them the full opportunity to do so.
Whatever you want to talk about, it doesn't matter whether I care about it or not.
It's a golden opportunity.
It's a huge career risk.
Well, I don't think their career is at risk any longer.
I mean, after 25 years, but nevertheless, it still is a programming risk.
And it's one that we happily and gladly take.
So here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address lrushbow at eibnet.com.
All right, folks, if you're watching on the ditto cam, yesterday I am – oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, just a – wait, hold on.
Hold just a second.
Just a second.
I just got a note.
Does this apply to?
Oh, okay.
It does not.
So I'm sitting in my library, and I am in the process of winding down from some show prep.
And the door opens, and in walks Catherine, and she's all excited.
She's just beaming.
And she's got something in her hand.
And she's just excited as she can be.
She looks at me.
She says, here it is.
It's here.
I said, what?
What?
She said, the book.
And lo and behold, folks, there it is.
The first copy off the presses of the upcoming New York Times and everywhere else bestseller Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
There it is.
I just wanted to show you.
That's a real book.
This is not, it's a children's book in the sense that it's written for the 10 to 13 year old reader, but it's for everybody.
It's for parents and grandparents to buy and read with and give to the young crumb crunchers out there who are not being taught the truth about the basics of this country's history.
And particularly the founding of this country.
That has been so, pardon the term bastardized.
It has been so revised.
The multiculturalists have gotten a hold of the public school curricula.
They basically teach that this country was founded in an immoral, unjust way, and that the arrival of our ancestors led to the corruption of what was a pristine continent.
What was a great place with the indigenous peoples?
And our ancestors arrived here and began to be selfish and they used up everything and they just created havoc.
And that's what's taught now.
And it isn't true.
And the American story starts with the pilgrims.
And it's not just the story of the first Thanksgiving, but who they were, where they came from, why they wanted to leave where they were, what it was like, what they endured to get here, what happened when they got here, what was it that finally made it all work for them when they got here.
All of that is here in a true history story for young people who may, for the first time in their lives, and when reading this, hear this, may hear this story for the first time.
And it's the truthful story.
And now we have a copy of the book.
I'm holding it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers in my left hand.
And just to show you, it's a children's book, but it's a real book.
It's not some little pamphlet.
And it goes on till October 29th, as many of you know.
The pre-orders started, I don't know, three weeks ago, month ago.
And there is, I didn't know this, there is an advantage to pre-ordering, and that is the pre-order price at Amazon and iBooks and Barnes Noble is around $10.99, something like that.
The retail price of this masterpiece, $19.99.
So there is a financial incentive to pre-ordering.
But there it is, folks.
Here, tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to zoom in.
So proud of this thing.
I told people I'm so pretty.
They said, Rush, you've done this before.
You've had two books before.
I know, I know, but this, folks, this is exciting.
This is a whole new project.
Never done something like this before.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
And you can look as hard as you want.
You will not find my email address on that cover.
So don't worry.
I'm not blowing any security here.
Oh, okay.
Not tight.
Hang on a minute.
Let me zoom in a little tighter then.
Turning a ditto cam off to do the here.
We go.
There you have it.
Is that not pretty?
Is that not?
Now, there's a little blue reflection on it there coming from.
There we go.
That's the actual color representation right there.
Hubba hub.
And again, hardcover, e-book, and audio version on October 29th.
Pre-orders now.
And we're just so excited about this.
We got two of these.
We've got two copies that came in.
So they're off the printing press and they're on the way out.
Now, let me show you.
I'm going to show you one more thing.
Just going to open the book at random and show you that it is even printed in an historic way with age-old looking paper.
And there's some great illustrations of this thing, too.
So I don't want to hold it up too long because people read the pages.
But I just really, we're so excited about this.
Everybody that worked on it is extremely proud.
And there weren't too many.
But anyway, folks, there it is: Rush Revere, the icon of our wonderful little iced tea company, 2FIT, Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims' time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
Okay, now where are we?
We've got the continuing saga of the upcoming potential government shutdown, the either defunding or the delaying of Obamacare.
There is a pickup in the chorus from the inside the beltway types of don't try to stop it.
Let it just go ahead and implement and collapse.
It will collapse, they say.
It can't do anything other than that.
It is a boondoggle waiting to happen.
And they say this, instead of pushing back, instead of either trying to delay it or trying to defund it, let it go ahead.
Get out of the way.
And it'll implement, it'll be so bad that there's only one person and one party that'll ever get blamed for this.
And that's the Democrats and Obama because it's their policy.
It's their law.
We will see more on that as the program unfolds.
The United Nations, as forecast, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate or whatever, has predictably issued their latest report based on the hoax of man-made global warming.
And they say that it is getting warmer and that we are causing it.
This is, I think it's a blatant flood the zone technique.
We're not getting warmer.
Last 15 years, it has not gotten warmer.
Everybody's running around in the global science community, global climate and climate change, trying to explain why it hasn't warmed.
And they're using, well, it's been hurricanes and volcanoes and Sahara dust and so forth.
And it's, I don't know, folks, we live in an era where nothing is real except the nothing.
The real nothing is what's passed off as real.
And what is real is mocked and laughed at, made fun of, and discarded.
Al Gore even, said I had this in the stack for earlier this week.
Al Gore four days ago called for making climate change denial a taboo.
Al Gore said there needs to be a political price for climate denial.
A political, now, remember, we have a Constitution, and there is in the Constitution the Bill of Rights, First Ten Amendments, and one of them, the first one, freedom of speech.
And specifically, political speech was singled out as protected.
Global warming is a political issue.
And if you doubt that, the very people pushing it are all political people, be they scientists or otherwise.
But Al Gore is a politician.
He's not a scientist.
He has no formal scientific training.
He never has had.
He's a politician.
The number one advocate for global warming is a politician.
And here's a guy now who has made millions, multiple millions of dollars scaring people with this big fat lie.
It has been proven to be a lie and untrue.
He has made millions off of this.
And now he is suggesting that anybody who disagrees with him be punished or outcast or pay some kind of a price, public humiliation, or a tax increase or something.
And this is precisely the mental attitude of dictators and statists who don't tolerate dissent.
They want to criminalize dissent.
They want to criminalize people that disagree with them.
Al Gore apparently not interested in entering the arena of ideas and winning debates with any of this or any of the people that disagree with him.
Within the market system, we have to put a price on carbon.
And within the political system, he said, we have to put a price on denial.
You believe this?
A price on denial.
He said this at the Social Good Summit in New York City.
Al Gore said it is simply unacceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model.
He added, alleging what some oil and coal companies are doing, he said there needs to be a political price for denial.
He urged attendees at this social good summit to challenge denial of climate change in conversations in families and communities and elsewhere.
So we can win this.
We can win this conversation.
Winning a conversation can make all the difference.
Don't let denial go unchallenged.
Then Gore noted how racism and homophobia have become increasingly unacceptable.
So now, denying the politics of global warming is akin to racism and homophobia.
And it must be treated the same way.
Those of you, those of us, who dare disagree with Al Gore or any of the other politicians trying to advance the latest liberal cause of climate change are no different than racists and homophobes.
And we need to be called out.
We need to be made to pay a political price.
Now, this ought to, within its own context, fully explain just how political this issue is.
And it ought to fully explain that the proponents of this don't think they can defend it in these desired conversations.
Obama said we don't have a debt problem.
Is he a denier?
He said it.
He said raising a national debt doesn't mean we're incurring more debt.
Well, we need to, well, it's a taboo.
I mean, Obama's denying debt.
She has to pay the price for denying that we're getting more in debt.
It's absurd.
But Al Gore is dead serious, and so are the proponents, because they're like other leftists, folks.
They are intolerant of dissent.
Their objective is not to be civil.
Their objective is not to be bipartisan.
Their objective is not to get along and avoid a government shutdown or whatever.
Their objective is to silence however they can do it.
Any opposition?
Any dissent?
Take a quick break, quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue Open Line Friday on the EIB network.
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No, no, no.
I'm not concerned about it.
I think the cult of climate change, well, I was going to say it's in its final days.
The cult is not in its final days.
The polling data is such that the vast majority of the American people now do not buy this.
And for reasons that they're not the best, but we'll take them.
They associate climate with weather, and it isn't getting warmer.
There is no sign.
Nothing that has been predicted is happening.
Nothing since 1980 when all this really started, or none of it's happening.
There are no massive floods.
There are no massive earthquakes.
It's not swelteringly hot.
This was an unusually cool summer.
Most people look at the claims of climate change and oppressive heat and flooding and don't see any evidence.
Where is it?
These guys have had to change the terminology from global warming to climate change.
Any extreme weather is said to be because of that.
This thing, this UN report today of the IPCC, is a last gasp effort.
And everybody involved in this, from Al Gore on down on his side of the aisle, is simply looking.
There are two reasons.
They're making big money out of it.
They're establishing relationships with crony capitalists with it.
They're making big money.
And at the same time, they're advancing the liberal agenda, one of their objectives.
But in terms of actually creating a groundswell of public opinion and support, they're not.
But again, they're leftists.
That doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter whether it's the people who oppose them or support them.
They're going to do what they're going to do.
And they're going to keep at it.
So it's a last gasp effort in order to convince people that it's real.
But they are not going away.
Leftists don't give up anything once they get started on it.
Evidenced by what's happening in the country now, given the social agenda and the political agenda.
They just keep going.
They never, that's why they have to be defeated.
This whole idea of bipartisanship and compromise and getting along with them is silly.
There's no nothing to compromise with, and there's no opportunity for bipartisanship.
It's not what they're after.
They have to be defeated.
If liberalism is to be stopped, if the fundamental transformation of America is to be stopped, it has to be defeated, not worked with, not compromised with.
And that's not a radical statement.
It's simply a statement of fact.
Politics is about winning.
These are all political fights.
And people aren't doing this.
There's no compromise to please people.
It's not compromise so that people will have a functioning government.
It's all a trick.
Those of us who are diametrically opposed to the spread of liberalism, the advance of statism, the advance of socialism, we're called extremists.
Now, Al Gore calls us deniers and wants to make us pay a political price for it.
That's panic.
There's no question that that is panic.
But I'm sorry, folks, we're not extremists.
If anything, we're traditionalists.
If anything, we're preservationists.
We're trying to preserve the greatness of this country.
And in order to do that, these people are going to have to be defeated, not compromised with, not gotten along with, not given just a little of what they want.
Here's another little Little bit of ammo on the global warming side.
It is acknowledged by everybody, even the Algore types.
One of the reasons why they've been in such a panic.
It is not warmed in 15 years.
They even admit this.
Now, let me ask you a question.
If you have been warning people about global warming since the 1970s and 80s, and if you've been out telling people how really bad it's going to be, and you've been urging people to change the way they live, and you have been fighting who you think are evil polluters, and you have had some success in making them change the way they do business,
and if you have been constantly warning people of the absolute horrors that will result from global warming, such as floods and all this other stuff, rising sea levels, if a 15-year period goes by where warming doesn't happen, wouldn't you be happy?
And wouldn't you even maybe want to claim credit for it?
You've been working very hard on this since the 70s and 80s.
You've been getting people to change the cars they drive.
You have been trying to get people to stop using coal.
You've got people out there in small numbers, but still some are doing it, buying electric cars and hybrids.
And you've got all these companies doing green this and green that.
I mean, you could, you could, if you're a big advocate, you could claim a lot of success.
You've altered, you'd be lying, but you could claim a lot of success.
You could claim you've changed a lot of people's lifestyles.
You have done a lot to alert public consciousness about it.
And then all of a sudden, 15 years go by and it doesn't warm.
Wouldn't you be happy?
All of that horror maybe not going to happen.
Wouldn't that be good news?
I would think so, but why isn't it?
Why isn't the fact that it didn't get warmer for 15 years, why is that a problem?
And when you look at it that way, you see that this is nothing but politics.
And then you say, well, then maybe these global warming proponents don't want this to stop.
Maybe they don't want it to end.
Maybe they don't want to really succeed in stopping global warming.
It hasn't warmed in 15 years.
They could claim credit for it, and they could have claimed credit, and then they'd have had the help of the media.
They could have made even greater inroads in altering lifestyles by claiming credit for it.
But they didn't.
They got mad.
And they claimed that it was just a temporary interruption and started looking for wacko crazy excuses to explain why it didn't get warmer.
Well, I thought the objective of the global warming crowd was to arrest the warming, to stop it, to save us all, to save our planet, to save the poor people of the world.
And for 15 years, it hasn't warmed, and there wasn't one of them that was happy.
And there wasn't one of them that claimed success.
Every one of the advocates, every one of the prime movers immediately concocted reasons and excuses to explain that they weren't wrong, that it is going to get hot.
It's going to get sweltering hot.
It's going to get destructively hot.
It's going to get meltingly hot.
It's going to get so hot that the Arctics and the Antarctics are going to melt and we're all going to be underwater.
It's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
Send me your money now.
But it didn't happen for 15 years.
And so then came these cockamame-y excuses.
Well, yeah, there's a volcano we didn't figure on.
And Sahara dust.
And it might have been, yeah, the Pacific Oscillation.
Yeah.
El Niño or La Niña happened.
We didn't think it was going to happen.
Maybe our models missed.
There was no happiness.
There was no even claiming of success.
There was panic.
And then they started examining maybe their models were wrong.
Models?
Yes, climate models, my friends, computer climate models, where they claim to be able to predict what the climate is going to be 50 years from now, 100 years from now.
Can't predict what the weather is going to be with ontological certitude five days from now.
But climate, oh, no, that's easy.
Our models, we got that handled.
Models weren't right.
Abject panic set in.
That's why the IPCC has issued their report.
That's why Al Gore is out there.
That's why these people are pounding the pavement again because common sense is standing in their way.
Common sense has become their number one obstacle.
I think they blew it by not claiming credit for it.
Not in a political sense.
It's a political movement, folks.
Global warming, climate change is a leftist Democrat Party political movement.
If I could just make everybody believe that, it'd be the end of this.
But I think, you know, Al Gore wanting to somehow penalize people that disagree says it all.
Apparently, the science doesn't stand on its own.
Apparently, the science is not enough to persuade the world that we're getting warmer.
So we need a consensus of scientists who say that it is.
But then when you have a consensus, i.e., a vote, do you have science?
Let's say that some looney tune wanted to postulate that the earth is flat today.
Some looney turn, looney tune that, you know, some wacko from the 60s.
So let's say he went out and paid a bunch of scientists and he had a pool of 100 scientists and he found 55 of them to agree.
Consensus if scientists says the earth is flat.
But of course, you can have all the consensus in the world you want, but it isn't true.
And science has never been up to a vote, real science.
Politics always is.
And that's exactly what this is.
But I think their mistake was not claiming credit for it.
But they were so invested in their models, and they were so invested in the long-term politics of this.
The longer this goes, the richer they get.
They don't want it to end.
Let me give you another analogy.
I know this is going to rub some people wrong, but before I give you that, how about the race industry?
Do you think that the Reverend Dax and Al Sharpton would ever celebrate the end of racism in America if such a thing could be established?
If that day were to ever come, and many thought the election of Barack Hussein Obama represented that.
Many people have voted for the guy thought that's what his election would mean, the end of racism in America.
We've cleansed ourselves, they hoped.
Uh-uh.
This is easy as predicting it two and two is four.
The election of the first black president means any criticism of him is going to be called racism, and it's only going to get worse.
And that's what's happened.
But if we could ever get to that day where we could say that it's over, do you think Jackson would put up with it?
He's out of business, isn't he?
So's the Reverend Sharpton.
If there's no more racism, to show you how desperate they are, I have to take a Hispanic guy claim he's white in the Trayvon Martin thing just to keep the whole thing alive.
And then when there is real racism of the reverse kind, they ignore it because the racism really is another liberal Democrat political movement.
It is not an actual behavior exhibited by a majority of Americans.
It's a political movement.
The whole race industry is.
I'll give you another example with another question.
Let's say you've heard the old saw that if somebody in his basement created the internal, invented the internal combustion engine that really got 75 miles to the gallon, what would they do to this guy?
The old saw is they'd find a way to bury him and they'd find his invention, they'd bury it, and nobody would ever hear about it because the oil industry wouldn't be interested in it and neither would big auto.
Okay, let's say, let's head down the road.
How many charities, how many scientists, how many hospitals, medical institutions are devoted to the treatment of cancer?
And let's say, hopefully someday, that there is indeed a cure.
Do you think that it's going to be universally embraced?
Or will there be people?
No, no, no, we haven't cured cancer.
No, no, this guy's a charlatan.
There's no way we're going to cure cancer.
There's a whole industry that is rendered kaput.
No, this is not a cynical view.
This is strict human nature.
People live on this.
We're talking about the way people earn their living.
This is how Al Gore got rich.
It's how these scientists are making a living with their, they get their grants.
So many people, this global warming business, don't even have real jobs.
They run around with their hands out.
They're begging for donations.
They're begging for grants.
And in order to get the money, you have to tell the grantor what he wants to hear.
So if somebody's going to give you money to study global warming and they believe in it, you better have science that indicates that it's happening.
And you'll keep getting your money.
And you'll keep being able to buy food and cars and houses and so forth.
But it isn't honest.
This whole global warming movement is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the entire world, but specifically the United States.
You ever wonder why that is?
Why is the United States the number one target of these people who claim we have to dial it back?
We have to dial back our progress.
We have to dial back our technological advancement.
We have to dial it back.
Why is that?
Why is it that we have to pay all the increased taxes or the vast majority of the lion's share in order to fight this around?
Why is it that we have to do it?
This also be a United Nations assault on the United States.
Of course, it is all of these things.
It's all political.
And in every one of these things, we are up against the left, which embodies itself as the Democrat Party.
Pure and simple.
All right.
I'm going to take a brief time out here.
We'll come back in some audio soundbites of what's happening in the Senate today, vis-a-vis Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
And I want you to hear the opening prayer from the chaplain in the Senate today when we get back.
No, what I was going to say is, if I'm in a global warming movement, it hadn't warmed up in the last 15 years, I claim credit for it.
I say it's all the hybrids.
It's the reduction in coal.
I claim that everything that I've been advocating is the reason.
And then I say we need to do more of this.
I mean, if their objective is to downsize this country and downsize our lifestyle and downsell our progress, they had a golden opportunity, 15 years of no warming.
They could have claimed credit and made, had a pretty good chance of being supported by the media in advocating further lifestyle change.
But they didn't, did they?
Because they don't want the issue changing in any way.
They don't want the premise changed.
The premise is it's getting warmer and we're causing it.
And nothing is going to change that narrative.
Nothing.
Even if they can claim success in it.
The narrative, the template is it's getting warmer.
We're causing it.
We have to pay a price.
And it's never going to end.
Just like affirmative action will never end.
There will never be a day where somebody says, you know what?
Okay, we've had enough reverse racism now that we've evened the score and we're going to get rid of it.
And we're now at a level of play.
They will never happen.
The price will never be paid.
Senate chaplain is Barry Black.
He opened the Senate today at noon.
It's just getting ridiculous now.
This is part of the prayer to open the Senate.
Holy God, you created us for freedom.
So keep us from shackling ourselves with the chains of dysfunction.
Use our senators today to serve your purposes for this generation, making them ever mindful of their accountability to you.
Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis, empowering us to be responsible stewards of your bounty, using judicious compromise for the mutual progress of all.
Okay, so what is the leftist agenda in the news made it into the prayer today?
And that is, deliver us from governing by crisis.
You know how to do that?
Rachel, quick question.
Pop quick.
How would, if we wanted to deliver ourselves from the content governing by crisis, what will we do?
No, we would get rid of the Democrat Party.
Who is it that creates a crisis ever?
It's the Democrat Party.
They set the agenda.
They're the ones that define everything that happens every day in the media.
They're the ones trying to advance their agenda.
They're the ones we're trying to stop.
They are the ones that create crisis after crisis after crisis.
It has to be solved today, today, today, or tonight, tonight, tonight.
Everybody's constantly on that.
Democrat Party does this.
And then he says, Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis and empowering us to be responsible as stewards of your bounty using judicious compromise.
Who was it that just said yesterday and last night he wasn't going to compromise?
That was Barack Obama, who happens to be the chieftain, the president.
He said he wasn't going to negotiate.
No way.
And yet, Senate Chaplain was asking for deliverance to compromise.
Here's Mike Lee.
I'm going to get started on this.
Mike Lee on the Senate floor today.
He said, this is just the beginning of all this.
This is about this town, and it's about the American people and what they deserve, what they demand, what they expect, and what they have a right to, which is the right to live free of undue interference from their national government.
This vote is not the end.
It's not even the beginning of the end.
This is simply the end of the beginning.
I got that.
Washington may appear to have the upper hand at this moment, but it's essential that we remember that the American people will always have the final word.
Folks, let me ask you a question.
I want you to think about this as we go to the break.
It has been asserted by some in the conservative movement media that Ted Cruz is running a really mean scam on you.
Just a trick.
He knows that what he's advocating isn't possible.
He's just setting you up.
Do you feel tricked?
Do any of you feel like you're being scammed by what Cruz and Mike Lee are doing?
I want you to think about that.
I'm serious.
Yeah, the theory is that Ted Cruz knows that this defunding of Obamacare ain't going to happen.
Never was going to happen.
And you're just being tricked and used, and you're going to be sad and let down and enraged when you find that out.
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