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Oh yeah, you can just see it.
The drive-bys are just ecstatic and so happy to have Obama back home, back in Washington, back from Hawaii.
Now they can resume the soap opera.
Put him as the lead character, the Washington soap opera, back on the air.
And of course, income inequality and unemployment extension benefits happen to be the two plot lines of the soap opera today.
And they will be for as long as it takes to make people forget the misery of Obamacare and the misery of Obama economics.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country.
And right on schedule, right on schedule, the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it's completely unprecedented because they've got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda.
And they have.
It's called the polar vortex.
The dreaded polar vortex.
Do you know what the polar vortex is?
Have you ever heard of it?
Well, they just created it for this week.
And it's, of course, you can't.
Actually, there is a piece.
I've got a piece in the stack that actually makes the case that all of this frigid, chilling cold is due to global warming.
Strange as it may sound, it says.
Other wackos are saying it's a great example of climate change, but regardless, the agenda is that we're responsible.
We're causing it.
We have to pay the price.
And so any weather extreme now is said to be man-made, and therefore it fulfills the leftist agenda on this.
Now, in their attempt, the left, the media, everybody to come up with a way to make this sound like it's something new and completely unprecedented, they've come up with this phrase called polar vortex.
They've even got, if you've been watching television, they've created a graphic.
All the networks have it.
And it's basically considers a, it consists of a view of the planet if you are right above the North Pole.
And they put this big purple blob or blue blob or red blob, depending on the network you're looking at, over the entire North Pole.
And they call that the polar vortex.
It actually sounds like a crappy science fiction movie to me.
But anyway, that's what they're calling it.
And it makes it sound like the jet stream is being forced lower across the United States.
Something's history.
See, normally the polar vortex stays up there in the polar region.
But something is causing it to dip down like it's never happened before.
We've never had Arctic air blasts before.
And remember, now the key to all this is you have to understand one of the fundamental concepts of man-made global warming is ice melting at the poles.
One of the ways they have always sought to convince you that the world is warming is not the climate where you live, but rather where you aren't, where you can't see what is really happening.
So they tell you the ice is melting at the North Pole and the South Pole.
And then they publish pictures, which are fraudulent pictures of poor little polar bears stranded on three square feet of ice. that you are told used to be the North Pole.
That's how fast it's melting.
The polar bears are in deep trouble.
Al Gore participated in it.
It's an abject total fraud.
Well, obviously there is no melting of ice going on at the North Pole.
If they're going to tell us the polar vortex is responsible for this cold, that means record cold is also happening at the North Pole, which means there isn't any ice melting.
And we know about the global warming expedition that went down to the South Pole, to Antarctica, to prove that the ice is melting, and they got stuck.
And then the rescuers got stuck.
And then the people rescuing the rescuers got stuck.
But never mind that.
In none of the stories about the global warming expedition going to the South Pole needing to be rescued, not once did you see any reference to their mission.
They were just exploring the Antarctic, the news said.
No, what they were doing was going down to prove the ice was melting, and they got stuck in it because they ran into ice where they didn't expect to find any.
So no matter how they go at this, they're losing.
They're in the middle of a hoax.
They're perpetrating a hoax, but they are relying on their total dominance of the media to lie to you each and every day about climate change and global warming.
And so they've created a polar vortex.
And the polar vortex, something's happened.
And that cold air, which normally stays in the North Pole, it doesn't bother us.
Something's happening.
Something deeply mysterious and perhaps tragic is happening.
Whatever it is that keeps the polar vortex vortexed in the Arctic Circle is vanishing.
And that cold air is coming to us.
Normally it stays up there, but now it's down here.
How did it get here?
That's the deepening mystery.
That is the crisis.
That is what is man-made.
Man is destroying the invisible boundaries that keeps that air up there.
How did it get cold in previous winters?
Well, it got cold in previous winters, but see, as far as most people are concerned, this is as cold as it's ever been in their lives.
Well, but snerdly, I'm just killing you, their technique.
Forget truth.
The truth in the Democrat Party, the truth in the American left never intersect.
I'm just to most people, you take a 30-year-old.
To him, history began the day he was born.
He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years ago unless he told.
He doesn't care.
He thinks what's happening now is either the best or the worst, whatever it is, ever.
Everybody thinks that.
Everybody's historical perspective begins with the day they were born, unless they learn history, which is what we're about here, is teaching it.
So my point is you have a lot of people who are believing that this is as cold as it's ever been.
You might think that flies in the face of global warming.
Global warming is now climate change, and we folks are causing all of this.
You must understand the hoax continues.
So now we've got the polar vortex complete with graphics, a giant blue, red, whatever blob up there.
And it's escaping.
Whatever keeps it there isn't working anymore.
Oh, no.
And that's why we have these record colds.
And man is doing that.
This is how it works.
In truth, folks, this is why it gets cold every winter.
Arctic air finds its way down to us.
And some winters, the Arctic air comes further south sooner than in other winters, but it always happens.
That's why it gets cold.
Where does the cold air come from?
It always comes from the North Pole.
It always goes to Canada first and comes to us.
And it happens via the jet stream.
Now, the jet stream is part of this too.
The jet stream is dipping down lower across the United States.
That also said to be new and unique.
In reality, this happens every winter as well, to a greater or lesser extent.
But if they can make it sound new, this is the point.
If they can make it sound new and unprecedented, and they can blame it all on man, particularly Republicans.
They can blame it all on progress.
They can blame it all on success, which leads to excess.
Success means people use more than their share of things, like oil and fossil fuels, and they destroy the planet when they do this.
You may think this is ridiculous, folks.
I'm telling you, some low information people eat this up when they're told this.
There's an article.
I referenced this a moment ago.
It's in the Daily Beast, which is a Tina Brown website.
So it means the leftists love this site.
Global warming is freezing you is the headline.
It's journalistic malpractice.
I'm telling you, the truth and the left never intersect anymore.
It's just, it's stunning how everything, their entire agenda is based on one lie after another.
Global warming is freezing you.
And the article claims that man-made global warming is slowing down the jet stream.
And that's why the cold air is coming down.
Global warming is slowing down the jet stream.
They don't explain how.
They just say it must be.
Because see, they've bought it.
They have bought hookline and sinker man-made global warming.
They believe it.
I've told you, I read the tech blogs.
It's stunning, folks.
They believe it.
There's no questioning it in a lot of sectors, particularly millennials, young people, those who think they're experts in science.
There's no doubt.
They just believe it.
And so there has to be an explanation.
And whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.
Cold Arctic air.
Now, let's say that President Obama called his science advisor.
What was his science advisor's name?
Clapper?
No, that's the national security guy.
No, the science guy, the science guy is John Holdren.
Do you know what?
John Holdren was and is tight with Paul Ehrlich, the fraud behind the population bomb?
No, no, I kid you not.
John Holdren participated with Ehrlich in the bet that Julian Simon made with Ehrlich and Ehrlich lost it.
Holdren is as wacko-leftist as Ehrlich is.
Holdren's a science advisor.
So let's say this.
Say that Obama, because it's really hot, let's say it's August and it's 95 degrees and that's global.
And Obama said, we need to cool off Washington.
So he calls up Holdren.
He said, Mr. Holdren, John, I want you to take action now to slow down the jet stream so that whatever that Arctic air mass is comes down.
I want the autumnal blast now.
I don't want to wait till November for it.
So, John, do what you have to do to get the jet stream slowed down so that Arctic air comes south sooner to cool everybody off in August.
Could Holdren or anybody do it?
No.
It isn't possible.
There's not one thing you could do while leaving civilization untouched.
It's absurd.
But they're out there promulgating this stuff and taking advantage of every weather.
What they don't know is, this is either Gallup or Pew.
They've really, they've gone to the well too many times.
On the long list of issues in a poll, people were asked to rank in terms of importance.
Global warming is third from the bottom.
I mean, they've really shot their watt on this.
They've overdone it.
And the reason that this has happened is you can't go to this well, all of you.
You can't talk about warming and heaving and melting and rising sea levels while people are freezing their rear ends off.
And so they've really, but they're not giving up.
I mean, the left never does.
It is part of their agenda to grow government, raise taxes, limit freedom, and control people.
It's part of the, it's never going to go away.
They're never going to admit that they're wrong about this.
They're going to continue to promulgate this hoax as long as they can.
In fact, this Daily Beast story, which again is headlined, Global Warming is Freezing You, article ends by saying, Isn't science neat?
I guess it is.
If you can rewrite the laws of physics and if you can rewrite the laws of atmospherics to suit your political agenda, I guess science is neat.
Or if you can rewrite the terms of your religion to fit your agenda.
Gosh, I get religion would be neat too.
But then it wouldn't be science.
Man-made global warming has anything to do with science anyway.
By the way, speaking of all this U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker on its way to rescue the crews on the Russian and Chikom's ships that are now stuck in the ice in Antarctica.
There are two rescue ships stuck in the ice in Antarctica.
Why don't they ever try to get the jet stream to come from the South Pole?
You know, it's summertime down there now.
Why don't they get the jet stream from down there to counter the jet stream from the North Pole?
I mean, if we're doing something to cause a jet stream to slow down, let's speed the one up from Antarctica.
NFL football over the weekend, 42 million people watched the Packers and the Fortuners.
42 million people for a Sunday afternoon 4:30 start.
That's phenomenal numbers.
Now, granted, there wasn't much else to do, particularly in the frozen tundra north of the Mason-Dixon line.
You had to stay inside.
But still, a lot of people are talking about the Chiefs and the Indianapolis Colts.
Whoa, what a great game.
Rush, what a great game.
Do not count me among those who thought that was a great game.
It was fun to watch.
Don't misunderstand.
And I had no vested interest in it.
Didn't matter to me who won.
But I didn't think that was great football.
It might have been fun and energy, like ping pong, if you like watching ping pong back and forth.
But I don't count me among those.
A great football game was the 49ers and Packers.
That.
That was a football game.
That was a game.
I got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends El Rushball on top of everything that I should be.
Some things you don't want to be on top of.
By the way, folks, on this cold snap, all of the long-range weather I've been looking at, because I've been trying to find as much as I can of what the weather's going to be for the New York area first week of February for the Super Bowl.
And I have some desires there.
But point is, what some of the best weather prognosticators I am exposed to are saying is that after this cold snap, winter is going to moderate somewhat.
And it's not, the next 30 days is going to be normal or near above normal in a lot of places.
So let's look at this.
We have maybe three days of record-breaking intense cold.
And then, end of the week, places where it's zero are going to be 35 and 40, two or three days.
Okay, so what's somebody going to do to put the boundaries back on the polar vortex?
Somebody destroyed the boundary, polar vortex, something happened, a jet stream for three days here has moved south and it's freezing everybody, but only for three days.
And then all of a sudden the cold air is going to go back to the North Pole.
Now, if man is causing that, who's doing it?
And what are they doing?
Jack Frost?
You think Jack Frost is the culprit here?
Well, interesting.
No, it's a serious question.
George Bush's weather machine, who steered Katrina into New Orleans.
Yeah, it could be.
I mean, who's responsible?
If man is responsible for this cold snap, then how's it going to end up back in the 40s and 30s in places it's below zero today?
Who's going to change whatever it is they're doing and keep the cold air at the North Pole?
Well, it's a logical question.
If man's causing this cold snap, then who is the man behind the curtain that's going to end the cold snap?
And why?
Why doesn't he keep it cold?
Why doesn't the polar vortex stay vortexed?
Who's playing around with the jet stream?
Who's going to, quote-unquote, fix it?
Look at everybody's, what do you mean, Chiefs and the Colts?
I'm just telling you, last year and years prior, the Chiefs lost three players who were said to be concussed.
Last year, they would have kept playing.
Year before, they would have kept playing.
This year, they lost them.
And a couple other things.
Coach, Eagles fans know what I mean.
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I'm just telling you.
A lot of people think that the Kansas City Chiefs, Indianapolis Colts, great, great game.
There was no defense in that game.
How many people think that wasn't great football?
There wasn't any defense.
I don't know how a team up 38 to 10 in the third quarter loses.
Well, yeah, actually I do.
You got a coach that botched the clock management timeouts in the second half.
But I'm just telling you, the Chiefs lost three key players, Jamal Charles being the first, in the first quarter to concussions.
Last year, previous years, they would have come back in the game.
They were gone.
They lost a couple other people to hamstring and knee injuries.
That's part of the game.
Don't misunderstand, not claiming it's unfair, but the concussion business, some of these guys would have been back, and it would have made a difference.
In fact, in fact, in the Green Bay Fortuner game, you may not know this.
Brian Bulaga, who I think is the starting left tackle, maybe right tackle.
Blew out a knee in training camp and been on injury reserve the whole season.
They had a backup named Bakhtiari.
And in the game yesterday, the backup got a concussion.
Okay?
Fine.
But you know what he did?
He snuck past the doctors and the coaches, and he got back in the game.
And there were some people in the media who were really mad about that.
I'm not kidding you.
There were stories about this guy, Bakhtiari.
I think it was his last name.
Bakhtiari, yeah, he's offensive lineman, and he went out for an extra point try.
Even when a doctor's trying to determine if he had a cushion, he'd say, hold with you, and he went back out there.
He went back out there.
He somehow, and of course the news stories that, well, what are a bunch of doctors?
How a bunch of doctors going to stop a mad offensive lineman, 300 plus pounds.
If he wants to go back, he's going to go back.
But the media was livid that this guy was permitted back in the game.
Livid that he would even try to get back in the game.
The NFL just can't be serious about this concussion business.
They were going to let this kind of thing happen.
The guy didn't want to lose the game.
Anyway, I thought it fascinating that a guy might have suffered a concussion, tried and succeeded in putting himself back in the game.
And there were some people in media really upset about it.
Do you know Frank Luntz?
The pollster?
Frank Luntz, there's a story here at Media.
I just got this.
We'll get to the Obama soap opera in just a second because it's classic.
It's already begun.
I'll set the plot line for you here in just a mere moment.
Apparently, it's a profile of Frank Luntz, who, as you know, does political focus groups on Fox.
He assembles a bunch of people that are said to be a cross-section of America, and he gives them little electronic devices, and they register their opinion and other reactions as they're listening to things.
And then after what it is they're watching is over, Luntz goes in there and interviews them and has a group discussion with the focus group.
Now, the profile of Luntz in The Atlantic says that Luntz sunk into a depression following the 2012 election after Obama won.
Luntz described himself as less healthy now than he has ever been in his life, sleeping two or three hours at a time and fretting over the future of his career in political consulting.
The crisis began.
Luntz says, after last year's presidential election, when he became profoundly depressed, for more than a month, Luntz tried to stay occupied, but nothing could keep his attention.
Finally, six weeks after the election, during a meeting of his consulting company in Las Vegas, Luntz fell apart.
Leaving his employees behind, he flew back to his mansion in Los Angeles, where he stayed for three weeks, barely going outside or talking to anyone.
Well, if that's the definition of depressed, count me in, because that's me.
Sequestered and not talking.
That to me is freedom.
But for Luntz, it was the definition of depression.
He said, I just gave up.
I just gave up.
After the election, he seemingly realized Americans want to impose their opinions rather than express them.
That's a quote.
And that a divided country will find it harder to warmly receive his conservative sales pitches.
He says, I'm not good enough.
And I hate that.
I have come to the extent of my capabilities.
And this is not false modesty.
I think I'm pretty good, but I am not good enough.
The old Frank Luntz was sure he could invent slogans to sell the righteous conservative path of personal responsibility and free markets to anybody.
The new Frank Luntz is the author of the piece, Raggedy.
The new Frank Luntz fears that's no longer the case, and it's driving him crazy.
Now, according to the profile, Frank Luntz is considering breaking into Hollywood as a consultant, as he no longer works any existing political contracts and has apparently submitted many pitches to Hollywood Studios.
So according to this profile in The Atlantic, Luntz thought that his work with the focus groups and I guess advising candidates on how to talk and what say was going to lead to Obama's defeat in November of 2012, and it didn't happen.
And so Frank is now questioning his capabilities.
He says, I did as good as I could, but I'm not able to persuade people anymore.
I just, I'm not good enough.
I've come to the extent of my capabilities.
The old Frank Luntz was sure he could invent slogans to sell the righteous conservative path of personal responsibility and free markets to anyone.
The new Frank Luntz fears that's no longer the case.
So he can't do it.
Can't persuade me.
I didn't know that's what he was doing.
Snirdly, did you know that's what he was doing?
Did you, folks?
Honestly, now, again, not trying to be, I had no idea Luntz was trying to persuade people.
I thought what Luntz was doing was focus groups and learning what people thought about things and going on TV with it.
I didn't know that Luntz was trying to win anything.
I didn't know that Luntz was trying to come up with slogans.
I had no idea that's what Luntz was trying to do.
His focus groups were an attempt to persuade people of conservatism.
And get this from the piece.
Luntz, most of all, says he wishes we would stop yelling at one another.
He dreams of drafting some of the rich CEOs that he's friends with to come up with a plan for saving America from its elected officials.
Well, the no labels bunch.
I'm just telling you, I'm honestly surprised here.
I did not look, if Luntz was trying to affect the outcome of elections, he could have done those focus groups in an entirely different way.
Anyway, so Lunce is not going to try to go work for Hollywood.
He's rich CEOs and get them to run and so forth.
Depressed for three.
What?
I don't know who.
I don't know if he was Perot's pollster or not.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But he's lived in Hollywood for a long time.
This is not new.
I mean, he's been trying to get in his consulting firm with people in Hollywood.
That isn't really new.
I guess it is to the, I'm just, I'm literally surprised to learn that once was trying to, that doesn't make sense with what I saw.
That just doesn't.
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Great to have you with us, sir.
Rush, how are you doing?
I got a question on the NFL thing here, you know, as far as helmet-to-helmet contact.
I think, you know, the only way to solve it, you know, because I don't know what the protocol is for the doctors on the sideline to ask these players if they have a concussion or not, unless they have a dilated pupil or obvious brain damage.
I mean, most of them sound confused anyways off the field.
So I think, you know, asking them a question like, you know, what day is it or who's the president?
You know, I don't know what they do on the sideline, but I think just put like an accelerometer in their helmet.
And if you get a certain number of, you know, G-forces, you're out.
And, you know, last man standing wins the game.
You know?
I don't know.
It's kind of crazy.
How do they figure this stuff out?
Well, here's what they do.
Before the season starts every year, every player is given a rudimentary test.
It's not really an IQ test.
It's just, you know, who's your grandmother?
When was she born?
That kind of stuff.
And that's the concussion baseline.
And when the player has a concussion, he has to be able to answer all those questions or a certain percentage of them.
This among other things, but that's one of the things that they do.
And so what the players have begun doing is acting really stupid during the original test because they want to play.
So the players have begun, they've been lowering the baseline on purpose so that they'll more easily be cleared.
Now, the rule, when you have a concussion, you have to stay out three or four days.
What they ask them on the sideline, I don't really know.
Now, I will tell you this.
Jamal Charles was hurt in the first quarter of the Chiefs Colts game.
They played the replay.
Nobody could figure out where in that replay.
The announcers, nobody.
The viewers, we were told that Jamal Charles had a concussion.
They watched the replay.
No player hit his helmet.
So then they concluded, well, his head must have hit the turf on the way down.
But that didn't even look particularly vicious yet.
We were told he had a concussion.
So they cut away later to Jamal Charles being examined by doctors on the sideline.
And the sideline reporter, I don't know who it was.
It might have been Alex Flanagan, the NFL.
The sideline reporter actually intimated that the doctors can't figure out when it happened.
They're not sure what happened because they look at the replay and it doesn't look like Jamal Charles had hit anything, much less hard enough to cause a concussion.
He's out for the game.
My only point is that last year, year before, Jamal Charles would have been back in.
And there were two other concussions I think the Chiefs players suffered.
And they go on, they're gone.
Once that happens, concussion in the game, and you are finished.
If the team calls it a head injury, then you might have a chance player coming back.
But if it's called a concussion, and they've got doctors in the sideline now, they made a big deal about the doctors being independent, not paid by the teams, so that they're not working against the players' interests.
And if concussion is diagnosed, then that's it.
You're histwire, you're gone.
And you're not cleared until you pass what is called the concussion protocol all during the next week.
And that involves that baseline test that every player takes before the season starts.
Simple questions that just in the normal course of a day, you'd know the answer to.
What's your mother's maiden name?
When were you born?
So the players will get that stuff wrong on purpose to lower the base.
Some of them do.
Because they want to play.
They particularly want to play in the playoffs, as evidenced by the offensive lineman for the Packers, Bakhtiari, who said to hell with it, I'm going back in.
And he forced his way back in, irritating them.
Well, the player, they're champions.
They want to win a championship.
They want to play.
Snurdle is peppering me with if they're slaves and if they're being exploited by rich owners and so forth.
That's coming.
You just wait.
That's coming.
But the rudimentary concussion test is memory, concentration, and balance.
Those are the things that they examine on the sideline after a player has been concussed.
But the Jamal Charles, you go back.
If you've got NFL Rewind, I don't know if you do.
It costs money, but every NFL game is on it at a website.
You go back and look at it.
And I made a point because I didn't see the injury either.
And do not anybody say, you know, don't do a Pope thing on me here.
I am not saying there wasn't a concussion there.
I'm just telling you, nobody can see how it kind of like the Phantom Punch, Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston.
Nobody saw it.
Except Ali said he threw it.
Listen said, what?
Because he didn't know.
He was on the canvas.
And there's a phantom punch.
Nobody saw it, remember?
And Ali said, you didn't see it because it goes down.
Most punches are upper cuss.
This punch went down.
Nobody saw it.
And people said, Listen, took a dive.
Obviously, this took a dive.
No, no, no.
You just didn't see the punch.
I am not saying.
The only thing I'm saying is, and I'll repeat it, there's some injuries that happened in that game that in years past the players would have kept playing.
That's it.
I'm going to get in enough trouble for that.
Don't ask me to add to it.
President Obama returned to Washington from his 17-day vacation in Hawaii yesterday.
Great relief for the drive-by media, which can now resume their soap opera.
Several articles out today outlining the plot lines for the upcoming months of the soap opera in Washington that is called the news.
There is no news.
It's all a soap opera.
The plot lines are, can Obama successfully save Obamacare?
Can Obama overcome the mean Republicans and extend emergency unemployment benefits?
Can Obama do something about income inequality?
Those are the main plot lines of the Washington soap opera today.
Back with much more after this.
Oh, that's right.
I was, you know what?
I got screwed up.
I look at the clock and I've got more time than I thought.
So it's exactly what is happening, folks.
Can Obama, French news agency, Obama back from Pacific Break to face sea of troubles and the three areas extending, they've got to take the focus off Obamacare.
It continues to be a total disaster.
And so minimum wage, income inequality, and extending unemployment benefits.
Those are the soap opera plot lines.
You've probably already seen them talked about already in the news.
And we'll get to all the rest of it when we get back.