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Jan. 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Is that right?
Is that right?
I was just informed that a bunch of uh media people after the Richard Sherman incident were tweeting.
Boy, I can't wait to hear what Rush Limbaugh says about this.
It could turn me into an instant Richard Sherman fan.
So a bunch of these brain-dead inside the Beltway, so-called journalists, using their bigotry and prejudice, expected me to dump all over Sherman.
When in fact I may be the only guy not doing it.
I may be the only guy trying to explain to people some of this.
At least as best I can.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you here, El Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone, the telephone number you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
Big drought out in California.
It's uh 15 years ago it was a drought of the century.
I remember I'd go to California, and in the hotel rooms there'd be signs.
Please uh use the towels more than once if you can.
Please uh use half the amount of water you would in uh drinking from the faucet.
Please try to shorten the length of your shower by 50%.
Please there are all these signs all over the hotels.
And then it stopped.
I figured, well, the drought is over, but apparently not.
See here, I guess this is the uh Christian science monitor.
How does a newspaper succeed with the name Christian in it?
Why didn't the drive-by media hate this thing?
Oh yeah, Christian science.
Come on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's okay.
While much of the United States has experienced a weather year with fewer extremes and easing drought, the record-breaking California drought, the worst since 1895, except for uh 1995, which was the worst, is not leaving the region anytime soon, according to climatologists.
The unseasonably balm but dry weather in California is the result of an equally unprecedented high pressure ridge lurking offshore, blocking the typical winter storms needed to drop precipitation all along the left coast.
Now that's true.
I remember when I lived in Sacramento the wintertime, I mean well, it was the rainy season, you could see those storms coming in across the Pacific, and they would dump rain and snow in the northern part of California to snowmelt uh would then provide a lot of the water for the rest of the year, including for Southern California, which they had to steal it from Northern California, because it never rains in Southern California no matter what.
Anyway.
So the the upshot here is that that climate scientists are puzzled by the persistence of this ridge.
This high pressure ridge off the coast, it won't leave.
And it's blocking those much needed winter rainstorms and getting in there.
Well, I have a theory, ladies and gentlemen, and I would like to use the left's logic of causation in explaining my theory to explain this.
The left believes that man is causing climate change, right?
And the left believes that uh exorbitant levels of uh CO2 are creating greenhouse gases, which is making the earth insufferable.
In fact, they even maintain in this record cold and record snow that that doesn't mean that the world isn't getting warmer.
Uh even when scientists heading to Antarctica To discover the melting ice, get stuck in larger Antarctic ice than anybody knew existed and had had three different rescue attempts.
They still maintain that global warming is taking place, right?
So my theory is this.
Should we maybe consider the possibility that all of California's green efforts have indeed altered the climate?
Could it be that the high pressure ridge off the coast of California is man-made?
Let's look at this.
Californians, more than any other people in the country, believe this gobbledygook.
They believe man-made global warming.
They believe that driving electric cars can save the planet because they believe that driving fossil fuel cars is destroying the planet.
They believe in windmills, and they long have they believe in green energy and solar energy and wind energy, and they believe in reducing uh carbon footprint, and they believe that uh gasoline and oil are horrible and rotten and poisonous and vicious and mean and destructive.
And so Californians, more than any other, have acted to reduce their own carbon foot footprint in the so the possibility is that maybe that by tinkering with CO2 levels, maybe Californians have caused the high pressure ridge, and therefore the drought that is gripping their state.
After all, this drought began after years of California's greenhouse gas reductions, after years of tamping down emissions, after years of economic recession by reducing the prevalence of fossil fuels.
Could it well be that in the words of that famous pastor, California's chickens have come home to roost?
so Could it be that California's crazy have created a new fangled vortex?
And this is not a polar vortex.
This is the algor vortex.
This is a high ridge pressure they've created, which is causing their drought.
Oh, come on, Rush, don't be silly.
What do you mean don't be silly?
If we can cause the climate to warm, if we can destroy the planet, if we can by living our lives and progressing in our lives technologically, if we can end up heating up the planet, putting out all that CO2 and doing all this damage, then why the hell can't we cause a drought?
Yes, we can, Susu Swedo.
Yes, we can.
We can create a drought.
We did it.
I think Californians ought to be proud.
I thought that they ought to be claiming credit for it.
Governor Brown ought to be saying, see, this is evidence of what man can do in saving the planet.
I mean, I could sit here and say I can find some scientists who would agree with me.
I'm sure I get a couple of them to email me right now that would agree with my theory that all of these crazies and their newfangled vortexes and CO2 reductions have pretty much locked in that high pressure ridge.
So, Governor Brown, Californians, when you're looking for someone to blame, look no further than who you see in the mirror.
In fact, scientists are uncertain as to why the ridge has stubbornly refused to break down and allow incoming storms to hit land.
Climate change may be one of the many factors suggest Mr. Fuchs.
Amen.
Climate change, man-made Californians climate change.
Except what they thought they were doing to improve things is actually destroying the state.
I love it.
I have become a man-made convert.
A man-made global warming convert, because I can now explain the high-pressure ridge that is causing California to thirst.
You watch.
You think there'll be any takers on this theory?
Really?
No takers?
No taker.
Take it, take a shot at me.
I'm advancing theory.
I'm advancing the theory that they've espoused.
I am proclaiming that I think that maybe by tinkering and reducing their CO2 levels, they've created a high pressure ridge that won't move.
They've locked it in there.
High pressure deniers.
They're not going to believe it.
Aw, darn.
Here was my one effort to bridge understanding with them.
Bipartisanship, cooperation, level of understanding.
Using Governor Christie as his role model here.
I'm trying to forge an understanding with the people of California.
And help them to understand why it is they're dying of thirst.
And maybe they did it.
Because they do, they think they've been successful.
They think they're showing the way for the rest of the world.
Anyway, um see.
Uh Smithsonian Institute is the source of this next one.
Air pollution in China is spreading across the Pacific to the U.S. right into Washington and California.
The most tangible environmental impact of China's enormous manufacturing industry is very localized.
Remarkably bad urban air quality in China that occasionally closes screws, has entrepreneurs selling canned air and has caused an estimated 1.2 million premature deaths.
Air pollution in China is causing death and it is spreading across the Pacific to the U.S., but it's not getting into us because the high pressure ridge in California is blocking it.
So we're safe.
But I remembered seeing something recently.
Yeah, it was there was a story out of the United Nations, the intergovernmental panel on whatever, and they said that communism was the best way to fight global warming.
So I went back, and lo and behold, my memory was proved correct.
As it always is, UN Climate Chief says communism, best way to fight global warming.
And the poll quote, the UN Climate Chief, Christiana Figueres, stated earlier this week that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming.
She also said that the Chai Combs offer the best model.
Even though the Chai Combs are the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide and they struggle with pollution issues of their own, Ms. Figueres thinks that that means they are doing it right when it comes to fighting global warming.
I kid you not.
So here you have air pollution so bad that 1.2 million people claim to have died from it.
And the UN says that communism is the best way to fight global warming, even despite that.
And then I remembered I saw a map that some little tech blogger put together of the last 95 years of global warming.
And the map was the nations of the world color-coded and enlarged to show their impact on global warming.
And the red and orange colored nations were the greatest culprits.
They were the number one creators of destructive global warming.
And by gosh, if it wasn't true, every one of them was a capitalist country.
The United States was huge.
The UK was huge.
India was huge.
Japan was huge.
And among the smallest contributors were the were the ChICOMs and other communist countries.
And that, of course, is bogus.
They're the biggest contributors.
They have the most pollution because they've got the least technology or the oldest technology.
And so now you got the UN climate chief saying that uh communism, the best way to fight global.
That's what it's all about.
That claim right there, folks, in a nutshell, is what the whole issue of global warming is all about, the spread of communism, which uh for our purposes means expansive government, tax increases, uh uh more and more people dependent on government, total authoritarianism and totalitarian.
That's what it means.
That's what global warming is.
It's merely a platform to advance communism.
That's all it is.
It's not about science, it's not about warming.
It's not about the climate.
It's about convincing people that they, simply by living their lives with progress, are destroying the planet.
And in order to pay the price to make amends, in order to be absolved of that sin, you must agree for your government to become even bigger and more powerful, and you must agree to pay punitive taxes to make amends for the damage and the destruction you've written.
And that's all it is, folks.
That in a nutshell is what global warming is.
And not my words, UN Climate Chief, communism, best way to fight global warming.
While in communist countries get the greatest pollution, people are dying from it.
It's a scam.
It's a total left wing scam.
Textbook.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're heading back to the phones here at the EIB Network, and we have another young patriot, another ten-year-old young person, uh uh Leighton from Alexandria, Virginia, who uh has read or is reading Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and wants to talk about Hi Leighton.
I'm glad you called, and I really appreciate your holding on all of this time.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I do want to say first of all that you have been my idol since I was little.
I've been listening to your show since I was three years old, and you have inspired me to read you a book and call in to thank you for your wonderful writing.
Re uh I have been your idol since you were three?
Mm-hmm.
Whoa.
That is that is amazing.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
That's that is um that's really special, Leighton.
And I I own it, how much I appreciate that.
I I appreciate that more than you can possibly know.
Because A, it's just it's just really nice, but but secondly, I am um I'm really glad that you like the book.
Because we put a lot of effort into that book for people like you, because it's important to us, me, that people like you learn the truth of this country and and love it because it's certainly worth that.
So you are you are making my day here again.
Well, thank you for writing that wonderful book.
And on the back of the back of the book, I I agree, because it said that most people think history is boring, but you've changed my life in just that book.
Well, that is a you're 10 years old.
And this is scaring the Democrats.
They're listening to the 10 years old to have a book be life changing, is uh it's amazing.
Well, look, Leighton, uh do you have by any chance the audio version of the book where you can listen to it?
Because if you don't, I want to send you a copy of that.
I don't.
You don't.
And do you have a sister older or younger?
No.
You don't.
Well, you know.
Uh you well, uh, you have a brother.
Nope.
No, it doesn't matter.
I was gonna send you if you have a sister, uh, Ted T. Bear, but I'm I'm gonna send you one anyway.
I mean, it's it's uh it's an item from uh from the Rush Revere store.
And it's Ted T. Bear, and it's he's dressed up kind of like Rush Revere.
So, Leighton, hang on.
And Mr. Snerdley, the nice man who answered the phone when you called, uh, will pick up the phone and get your address so that we can send that out to you.
And thank you again very much.
Tom in Schumberg, Illinois.
You're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
It's a great day in America.
And thanks for your book, Rush Revere.
I have to tell you that on Christmas Day, my eight-year-old granddaughter not only read the entire book, but later on that evening she read it out loud to my five-year-old grandson.
And at that point I had to say, well, I'm doing my part to introduce them to the truth, and thank you very much for thank you.
Eight years old, and she's reading it out loud.
Yeah, eight years.
Well, her her mother, my daughter, is a teacher with a master's degree, and they're they're learning quite a bit at home as uh as well as in school.
That's great.
That's it.
Thank you very much for that.
The reason I called is to tell you it is a great day in America, because I believe Obamacare has been fixed.
It's been fixed by the doctors in Illinois, and here's what they're starting to do.
You come in for an appointment and you're hit with a multi-page questionnaire.
None of the questions have anything to do with your medical history.
They have everything to do with your financial ability.
They want to know about the equity in your home as well as the equity in your car.
What is your uh family income and what condition are you really in?
In the last page of the application, you're faced with the following thing.
You have to list all your major bank credit cards along with credit card numbers, expiration dates of the three-digit code on the back of the card.
Then you have to sign an agreement allowing the doctor to bill your credit card, whatever amount of money Obamacare won't pay for the bill for the treatment that you receive.
And when you sign this, it has to be witnessed by the receptionist at the desk, and then is immediately notarized by the office manager, so it's a done deal.
If Obamacare wants to pay $40 for a hundred and fifty dollar visit, the other hundred and ten dollars.
That is amazing.
How about that?
We were up against it on time there with our last caller Sherman, but let me tell you what he was talking about, because we have talked uh here on the program about how more and more doctors in hospitals are in one way or another opting out of Obamacare.
And one of the things that more and more doctors are doing is demanding to be paid up front before you get any payment, which is why all of the data that Sherman described that his doctor requested was financial.
A doctor wanted to know if his credit card, the patient's credit card was charged that it would uh be good.
This is how.
Folks, this is only dynamic reaction to statism.
So here comes Obama with his massive attempt to control health care.
And what the left and a lot of government people never stop to figure is that some people just are not going to be sheep and bow down, grab the ankles, and and and do it.
They're gonna find ways around it that will preserve their freedom, save them money, or in this case, keep them in business.
And so cash for hire is one of the dynamic responses to Obamacare.
If a doctor can create a patient clientele capable of paying on their own at least a portion of care that the Obamacare will not cover, and they get reimbursed for the rest, then they'll do it.
And that's why Sherman was saying that it was a great day because Obamacare is over, because the doctors that he is encountering in Illinois are finding already alternatives to it.
Now it's a bit uh Well, what's the word?
It's I think it doesn't mean that that Obamacare is over and has been defeated by any stretch.
Once the left sees the dynamic reaction, they they immediately try to tamp it down and penalize it or or or stop it, one way or the other.
It's an it's a never-ending game in cycle.
What he was saying was that there are some doctors as the hell with this and are finding alternatives, And they're they're in other words, they're mining for patients who will play ball that way.
And if they've if they have their own resources and are able to cover their own health care, they'll do it.
As a way of extricating themselves from this system that's going to make it bad for everybody.
So that's why he was optimistic about it.
Here is Bill in Bayfield, Colorado.
Hi, Bill, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
How do you do Rush?
Double flyover country dddos to you.
Well, double flyover.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I think you're a little bit off as to the reason why the uh Colorado initiative for education prior to marriage is basically.
What do you mean I'm a little bit off?
Who are you talking to me that way?
You got no right to talk to me and tell me I'm a little bit off.
You don't know what anything what you talking about, man.
What are you My Richard Sherman impersonation?
Yes, I got the impression.
Okay.
Simply put, uh I I'm like a little background.
I'm an election judge here and I've seen this happen many times.
What the parties do, liberal, conservative, democrat, etc., they put forth issues that try to drive single issue p people to the to the bo voting booth.
Republicans were quite successful in the eighties and nineties with the tax limiting issues and the right to life issues.
They got their people out.
Uh the demos in the last two election cycle have been wildly successful with the marijuana issue.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This makes sense.
And it drives these people that would I've got a next door neighbor who has never voted, went down to vote in the last election because it had the uh recreational marijuana issue.
Yeah, was this person a leftist?
Uh he is he's an artist.
Do I need to say more?
It's an artiste, right?
Okay, so it's a it's it's it's it's a combination voter registration, voter participation.
It's get people to the polls, and then when they're there, there are other things on the ballot they can also vote on, or it conditions them to show up the next time there is an election.
That's correct.
And you can expect the Republicans in this state to put forth some gun rights issues, and uh they're also probably on the Democrat side of this thing, there'll be some frack limiting issues come out as well over the next few weeks.
If both parties do it, how do you feel about it?
Because it's gonna be inclusive democracy.
I mean, more and more people voting and turning out do you like that or not?
At one time it used to just be the Republicans doing it.
The Democrats have discovered it over the last election cycle.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
The Republicans did this first?
They were the ones i it started out basically when they were pushing tax limiting issues.
And the first big one they pushed was when they they try or got the restrictions through on lottery money being spent for what they were originally wanting lottery money to be spent for.
But but was what the Republicans were doing strategically, they they were just singular issue focused, or were they also forethinking, for s being forward thinking and they were actually.
Republicans had these issues going.
We had Republican senators and the like in this state, which we don't have anymore.
Yeah, well, that's my point.
I d when you say the Republicans were first to do this, I was a little bit reluctant because I don't think they're that smart.
Now I do know that in California Prop 13, the battled initiative process, they and in Colorado too, they they were first in the battled initiative process, if you want to sign first.
And uh for their issue, but were they actually thinking long term that this is a way to increase voter turnout for another set of issues, or was it just in my and I've been in active in politics since the the 70s.
I in my discovery, I believe they've always thought that it was a means of driving single issue voters to the polls to pick up on other uh their candidates, if you will.
Well, that's encouraging.
I didn't think they were that forward uh actually I think it's a lazy way of doing it.
They they don't run call banks well in this state.
They don't go out and knock on doors.
They try to do it through ballot initiatives.
Well, there is that too.
But at least it's causing turnout.
The Democrats are now emulating it.
Yeah, sadly so.
Well, you can't stop them.
I mean, once they see that it's working, you're uh it's and you can you can you can pretty much now safely predict what issues that both parties would use to try to drive this turnout.
Like you say, gun rights will be up next for Republicans.
And the Democrats will come up with something war on women related.
Probably.
They've already done the gay rights or gay marriage thing here.
I I think they messed up passing that in the legislature because it would be an ideal Democrat voter initiative ballot issue.
True, could be.
Well, look, Bill, I appreciate the call.
I um I'm up against it on time and I have to go, but I I'm glad you got through today.
Well, thank you, sir.
You bet.
Thanks much.
I don't really.
You know, I've been thinking about a way to illustrate something I said earlier, talking about Richard Sherman and cornerbacks in the NFL and and how they play on an island.
Um their heroes are goats.
They're one of eleven, but I give you an example.
Do you remember two years ago?
Might have been three now, time flies, as a playoff game.
It would have been three years ago, three seasons ago.
Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos in the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A game goes into overtime.
The first play.
Tebow dumps a pass of seven yards over the middle, and it goes for a 93-yard touchdown or something like that.
I mean, and the Broncos won.
And of course, Elway was ticked.
Oh, no, they wanted to get rid of Tebow.
Here they won a playoff game.
Oh, geez, it didn't work out well.
But the story was that the cornerback for the Steelers, number 24 Ike Taylor, got all of the blame for that.
There were 11 guys on the field, and the cornerback who was assigned to cover that receiver got all the blame for blowing coverage.
Whatever it was.
Nobody on the defensive coordinator didn't get any blame for maybe having the wrong call.
Uh the linebackers didn't even get any blame for maybe underestimating Tebow.
Uh the team didn't get hit for being overconfident, thinking they're playing Tebow.
Hell, he can't beat us.
Um, it all was on Ike Taylor.
And Ike Taylor ended up after that game was tweeting.
Everybody apologizing and telling them how much he loved them and he's gonna make it up the next season because he was made to be the goat.
Because it was his guy that scored.
Those cornerbacks, I'm telling you, it's a different.
It's a I'm not saying that people don't have jobs like that.
But sometimes these guys, it's not a game.
It's it's their livelihood reputation.
And big thing now.
Respect.
That's a big big thing.
Speaking of football, you see the commission wants to uh eliminate the extra point.
Which means they're gonna have to figure out a way to replace the TV commercials they will lose in that spot break.
That'll be the only problem they've got.
Anyway, we'll talk about that tomorrow, folks.
We'll be back then.
See you.
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