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March 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Oh man, the stick to the issues crowd is very mad at me.
The stick to the issues crowd, very, very upset with me.
I just checked the email.
You're spending too much time talking about that airplane.
You're spending too much time talking about all these kids in the book.
We don't care about that.
Stick to the issues.
Some of them, I mean, very mean.
They're being very mean to me in emails to me.
We don't care about the stupid book and those kids and the airplane.
Stick to the issues.
I'm going to cancel my subscription.
As William F. Buckley once said to a subscriber, cancel your own damn subscription.
I'm just kidding.
He did say that, though.
He got an angry mail letter from a subscriber at National Review.
You cancel my subscription.
He wrote back, cancel your own blank blank.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB.
Now, I'm just, you think it's universal love and devotion, and I'm telling you to stick to the issues crowd.
They get in gear.
It doesn't matter.
They do.
They all think they can do the show better than me.
They all think they could probably fly the airplane right better than the Malaysian crew.
Anyway, here's the phone number, our big remaining busy broadcast hour, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, last week, we did a morning update about a very rare tree growing in California.
It's called the Albino Camero Coast Redwood.
There are believed to be fewer than 10 of them growing on the entire planet.
And this particular albino redwood may be the largest of these rare trees, which would make it totally unique.
It's 52 feet tall, has green leaves and white albino sections, which is why the albino redwood.
Some would call it a biracial tree.
It's not all white, somewhat.
The tree stands in Sonoma County in a very small town, Katati, Katati, California, in Sonoma County.
If federal regulators have their way, the tree is going to be chopped down because the feds have determined the tree is too close to a proposed commuter train line and thus presents a safety problem.
So rare or not, the tree has to go.
Now, to soften the impact of the decision to chop down the biracial tree, a spokesperson for the commuter train line promises that thousands of cuttings will be taken from the tree before it's destroyed.
20 other redwoods will be planted around the area, but nobody can guarantee that those cuttings will take root.
And we'd have to wait years and years and years anyway for the trees to regrow to 52 feet.
So it may be chopped down to death without leaving any offspring.
You know, aborted while still rooted, if you will.
Now, what was remarkable about this to me, In the good old days, you go back to the late 80s and all the way through the mid-90s, there is no way a redwood tree would have been cut down for anything, much less something to make humans' lives more convenient.
If it had a spotted owl in it, if it was the home to some other rare, endangered species.
But there's no way they'd chop down a redwood tree for a commuter train.
In the old days, you'd have some lunatic climbing up the tree, living in it to prevent it from being cut down.
You'd have Martin Sheen and a bunch of Hollywood liberals setting up camp nearby, preventing the tree from even being reached by the saw.
You'd have people that be adopting the tree as their new cause, but now nobody cares.
For a commuter train, so what's happened is, you know, why all of a sudden it really is a 180.
And the answer is the commuter train.
The left values mass transit more than they do global warming or the nature.
Mass transit.
You know, the tech blogs, you know, the main thing they don't like about Apple Maps on the iPhone?
It doesn't have transit instructions.
They hate it.
It doesn't have transit.
It doesn't tell you how to get on the next bus or what have you.
I mean, these people are willingly throwing.
It's just mass transit, just total control.
It's the way the government can totally control the movement of the population.
And so here's a tree.
Now, the latest on this, transit officials in Northern California have now suspended plans to remove the biracial redwood tree to make way for railway tracks.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that Sonoma Marin area rail transit officials announced their decision last week, bowing to public pressure, to save the albino redwood tree in Katy.
Say the tree is only one of a handful of coast redwoods that have both albino and normal foliage.
I'd like to think that we played a role in saving the tree, Snerdley.
And stop and think if that's the case, that we might have played a role in saving a redwood tree.
And I am more than happy to save a redwood tree at the expense of some railroad tracks.
Mass transit railroad tracks.
Light rail, late rail.
What an absolute total boondoggle.
Have you ever seen, have you ever seen?
Show up, traffic light, all of a sudden, here go the warnings.
Don't cross as a train coming.
You look and it's a two-car light rail train and nobody's on the damn thing.
And it's just chugging up and down the tracks.
So anyway, we may have played a small role in saving a biracial tree in Sonoma County.
Which, of course, takes us to our global warming stack, UK independent.
Global warming will cause widespread conflict, displace millions of people, and devastate the global economy.
And there's a picture here.
The picture is a close-up of an African holding an ear of corn that looks totally rotted.
In the background is what looks to be a lake which has overflowed.
Looks like the picture's taken in the middle of a flood with some poor African holding up his ear of corn.
His route to success has been destroyed.
There is a leaked draft from the UN panel that the UK Independent has seen is the most comprehensive investigation into the impact of climate change ever undertaken, and it is not good news.
No, of course not.
Climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century.
See, this is what they always do.
By the end of this century, none of us are going to be alive.
Not one of us.
Well, I take that back.
2014, there will be some of us alive by the end of the century, but not very many.
They always tell us that the real damage and catastrophe comes long after we are gone, and that's to add guilt.
Look what you're doing to your children and grandchildren.
Look how you're destroying the environment for them.
And look at how what you're doing is destroying the planet for everybody.
But you're not going to live long enough to see it because you don't care.
They tried this in the 80s.
They tried it in the 90s.
And the story is replete with pictures of flooded shanties and poor towns.
Just classic.
Then there's this from the Daily Caller, an assistant philosophy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology wants to send people who disagree with him about global warming to jail.
The professor is Lawrence Torcello.
Last week, he published a 900-word essay at an academic website called The Conversation.
His main complaint is his belief that certain nefarious, unidentified people have organized a campaign funding misinformation.
Such a campaign, he says, ought to be considered criminally negligent.
Torcello has a PhD from the University of Buffalo.
He explains that there are times when criminal negligence and science misinformation must be linked.
The threat of climate change, he says, is one of those times.
So if there are people who disagree with this professor, put them in jail.
Forget debate.
Forget talking all night in a dorm.
Forget about the open and free exchange of ideas.
Forget waxing poetic over a keg.
Forget studying and exploring a different point of view.
Forget the absolute freedom to disagree with each other.
In today's college environment, there's only one way to think.
And if you don't conform, the tenured professoriate wants to put you in jail.
This is liberalism on drugs.
And it's, to me, an indication of panic setting in.
The LA Times, not long ago, announced a decision they were not going to publish any letters to the editor from global warming deniers.
Now, when people who want something to happen refuse to accept an opposition of one that's silenced, my contention is that they are in the throes of panic.
They have been unable to persuade people to agree with them.
They have been unable to convince people that what they're saying is right.
Now, one thing we know about the left is, one of their objectives is not.
We had a call yesterday.
It was a great question.
How come the left, how come Democrats never talk about wanting to cross the aisle to talk with us?
Why is there never any talk of any compromise with us by them?
Why is it always a one-way street?
And the answer is they don't want to debate anything.
They don't want to cross the aisle.
They don't want any bipartisanship.
Only these stupid Republicans want that.
The left, the Democrat Party, simply wants to eliminate the opposition.
Pure and simple.
That's the only way they can win.
The only way they can win is to criminalize their opposition because they can't, in the arena of ideas, prevail.
They cannot win.
From Gawker, another related story to global warming.
Guess what?
Everybody admits that if we take the steps that the pro-global warming crowd wants us to take in order to save the planet, we've got to have a carbon tax, which means a tax on energy, which means people are going to end up having less money.
And it also means that everything is going to increase in price, including food.
If you have a carbon tax, the costs of transporting food, distributing it, farming it, developing it, shipping it, everything goes up.
The way the left is dealing with this is to say rising food prices could be great for our health because it would force the obese to eat less and eating less would make them healthier.
Consider us, it says here, the average American consumer, couchbound, sluggish, overweight, grazing on a steady diet of heavy meals, hormone-laced milk, and refined sugars.
An economically required fast is the best thing that could happen to us.
Fast meaning don't eat.
This is not something about speed for those of you in Riolinda.
An economically required fast, enforced government starvation.
Let me speak it properly.
Government-enforced starvation could be exactly what's called for here.
Thanks to drought and various geopolitical factors that'll do nothing but bore action-oriented American shoppers, food prices are on the rise.
And they quote the Wall Street Journal.
In the U.S., much of the rise in the food cost comes from higher meat and dairy prices due in part to tight cattle supplies after years of drought.
In states like Texas and California, rising milk demand from fast-growing Asian countries.
But prices are also higher for fruits, vegetables, sugar, and beverages, according to government.
Hell, prices are higher for everything.
In futures markets, coffee prices have soared so far this year more than 70%.
Hogs are up 42% on disease concerns.
And cocoa has climbed 12% on rising demand, particularly from emerging markets.
Damn them.
And the emerging markets are a particular target of the global warming crowd.
You've got to keep them poor.
If we allow growth, economic growth in poor emerging markets, it's just going to, it's going to be more planetary destruction.
It's going to be more pollution.
It's going to be more global warming.
It's going to be more climate change.
So more expensive hogs, beef, milk, chocolate, sugar.
I mean, you, the consumer, can barely afford a bacon, cheeseburger, and chocolate milkshake anymore, which is great, all things considered.
Drink some water and call it a blueprint cleanse, America.
So the left, not even trying to argue anymore that raising taxes will not raise prices.
They're now admitting the obvious.
Now they're saying, you and me and this whole population, we are a nation of slothful, fat, obese slobs, and the best thing that could happen would be enforced starvation.
Brought on by higher prices.
Never mind what happens to the producers.
But this is who they are.
Now, this UK Independent story, they've seen the United Nations scare paper on global warming, and it is doomsday hysteria.
Favorite section is this.
Based on thousands of peer-reviewed studies and put together by hundreds of respected scientists, the report predicts that climate change will reduce median crop yields by 2% per decade for the rest of the century at a time of rapidly growing demand for just scare tactics, apocalyptic, all over the place.
It's designed to scare people into supporting big governments, designed to make people feel guilty for destroying the planet, so they'll accept higher taxes and more punitive government proposals and regulations, all for absolution of sin for destroying the planet.
They're losing ground, evidenced by the fact they want people to disagree with them now put in jail.
Back to the phones that go to Woodridge, Illinois.
This is George.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush and Megadittos.
Boy, I've been a long time listener.
Boy, this is like a thrill for me.
You wouldn't believe it.
Well, I appreciate that very much.
Thank you.
You know something, Rush?
I'm kind of paying attention to Obama and Putin and these sanction wars that they're having.
You know, Obama calls on his friends, the European countries, to wag their fingers and call Putin names.
They want sanctions on Putin to ruin his economy, to inflict harm on his people.
But what happens if Putin would call on his friends, the Chinese, the Chi-Coms, to call in, like, the American debt, the money that...
No, that's not going to...
They've got to worry about what Putin is polonium 210.
But, you know, who would out-sanction who when it comes down to these wars?
Well, didn't, but seriously, didn't the Russians announce some reverse sanctions on Kerry and Biden or whoever?
I mean, they're doing it.
And I think Putin's doing it to play the joke.
It's a silly game.
They're sitting over there laughing themselves silly.
He would?
He sanctioned me?
Well, okay.
I'm going to sanction our idiot vice president then.
But what I'm saying is, what would if Putin would talk to CHICOMs, their friends, his friends, Putin's friends, into calling in the American debt, the money that America owns the Chinese.
A, I think it'd be a mistake to assume that the Russians and the CHICOMs are tight allies, A.
But more importantly, the ChiComs, their own debt's at stake if they do something like that.
I mean, the ChiComs have a vested interest in our economy remaining strong because everything we buy is made there.
A lot of what we buy is manufactured by the CHICOMs.
So they're not, I don't think the Chikoms.
I understand what you're saying.
But if Putin got really serious about this, could he call on his allies to really wreak some havoc on us?
Theoretically, yeah.
But couldn't he call them the debt, like, but demand that they pay something, Try to hurt the American economy by calling in a certain amount of money to keep the Americans on their toes.
Don't think it works that way.
On paper, sure.
Could do it, might be interesting.
But I don't think that's the way at these levels that such retribution would occur.
Look, one thing the Chikoms could do, I didn't mean to poo-poo the caller, I just don't think that's going to happen, but one thing the Chikoms could do is stop using the dollar as the world currency.
They have threatened to do that.
Putin is threatening to do that now.
And I'll tell you something else, folks.
There is something that Obama and the European Union could do.
It's a very easy way to punish Putin in a way that would really matter.
They could kick him out of the IMF and the G8, which would mean it would cost Russia more to do business with the rest of the world.
They could do that.
He's not going to do that.
The fact that he's sanctioning all these individuals, they don't care, folks.
They think they have to make it look like you do.
They have to make it look like they care because they know you do.
He doesn't care.
Reducing America's standing in the world was the objective.
It's the original Limbaugh theorem.
If Obama wants this nation taught a lesson, if this nation's got to be brought down to size, it's not just going to happen domestically, economically, it's going to happen internationally as well.
Remember, Obama doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.
He doesn't believe in any of the things about the United States being policemen of the world or being the outpost of liberty or freedom in the world.
He's never, never believed that.
He doesn't think we've ever been a legitimate superpower.
He's been of the belief that that's been illegitimate and not warranted.
Get some sound bites to back this up here in just a second.
Grab audio soundbite number 10.
Here's Putin.
This is this morning in Moscow.
Putin's addressing a joint session of parliament about Russia, the Ukraine situation, international opposition to the Crimea vote.
And this is just a portion of what he said.
Our main partners and United States in their practical policy prefer not to use international law, but the law of the strong in what they're doing.
They believe in their uniqueness, that they can rule the world.
That they could always be right.
They act whatever they want and they could use force against sovereign states.
Were you able to hear that?
Let me see.
With me, I couldn't hear it.
If I didn't have a transcript, I wouldn't know.
I couldn't separate the two.
Were you able to?
Are you able to hear it?
Okay, if you were, the audience was.
But I'm going to just read it to you clean because that was Putin huffing and puffing back there with a translator.
Translators said that this is what Putin said.
Our main partners and United States in their practical policy prefer not to use international law, but the law of the strong in what they're doing.
They believe in their uniqueness, that they can rule the world, that they can always be right.
They act whatever they want, and they can use force against sovereign states.
So Putin is basically attacking American exceptionalism.
He's attacking the notion the U.S. is the outpost and the beacon for freedom.
He's basically saying, screw you.
You're not the hottest people around.
You're not the best people around.
You don't get to run the world.
You don't get to tell everybody else how to do things.
You don't get to stand up for freedom.
It's none of your business what I'm doing.
Screw you.
Now, back on April 4th of 2009 in France, Obama essentially said that he understood.
A correspondent from Time magazine.
I'm sorry, the Financial Times.
Guy's name was Ed Luce.
Said, Mr. President, can I ask you whether you subscribe to this screw of American exceptionalism that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world?
Or do you have a slightly different philosophy?
And if so, would you be able to elaborate on it?
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Except they don't.
But regardless, that answer is proof positive that Obama doesn't buy this notion that we are anything unique.
That we're not special.
We're not the lone outpost of freedom.
We're nobody's beacon.
We no, no, no.
We're no different than anybody else.
Yeah, we believe in American exceptionalism, but that means about as much to us as British exceptionalism means.
We don't care.
They think they're better, but we don't.
First president we've ever had that would openly say that.
He doesn't really care what Putin's doing, but he damn well knows he's got to act like he does for your sake.
Aiden in Omaha.
Aiden, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello, anybody there?
Testing 123.
Hello.
Hello.
Ah, there you are.
Aiden, how are you, sir?
I am good, thank you.
Well, it's great to hear from you, Aiden.
What's up?
Well, I was inspired by your book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims to build a Lego diorama that I shared with my class at Reader Elementary.
A Lego project that you shared with your class?
Is that what you said?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
A Lego Diorama.
And you were inspired to build that by Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims?
Yes, sir.
My grandfather gave me the book.
He thought I would like it, and I read it, and it really inspired me.
Really?
If you remember what it was about it that inspired you?
I am one of those guys that is very into history, so I like the way you express the book and all the characters.
And my favorite character was William Bradford because he is my 11th grandfather.
You are kidding me.
So you're one of those guys really into history.
Yes, sir, I am.
And William Bradford is your 11th grandfather.
That is special, Aiden.
Thank you.
How much did you know about your 11th grandfather before you read the book?
I just knew that he was a colonist, but when I read the book, I just learned a bunch of new things about him.
That's really cool.
Your 11th grandfather, and the book taught you things about him that you didn't know.
Yes, sir.
That is special.
That is so cool, Aiden, for me.
You do not know what a compliment you've paid me.
That is a you, we've had a lot of descendants, and you're one of William Bradford called.
You may be the third or fourth person who's called here that can trace their family back to William Bradford.
And let me tell you something.
I don't know what you know, but everything in that book about him is true and what he did in establishing Plymouth Colony.
And it is he was a great, great man and endured.
Aiden, that man and the people with him endured hardships that people alive today can't even imagine.
And they didn't give up.
You should be really, really proud.
And as you grow older, you're going to learn even more about him.
And you're going to be, that's something that you're going to want to feel very proud of, maybe even brag about.
Thank you.
No, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Now the stick to the issues crowd.
I'm going to be bombarded with emails.
I mentioned coming into the top of the hour here that I'd heard from the stick to the issues crowd, stop talking about the airplane in the book and stick to the issues.
So Snurgley made sure to find a young reader of the book.
Aiden, Aiden, are you still there, by the way?
Yes, sir, I am.
Aiden, you probably do not have the audio version of the book.
So I want to send you that.
And I also, do you have the new book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots?
No, sir, I don't.
Well, I'm going to send you that too.
So if you'll hang on, we need to get your address so that we can send you.
I'll tell you what, I'll do.
I'll send you the audio version of both books, and I'll send you the new hardcover, the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And really cool that you're related to William Bradford.
I'm glad that you called, and we will be right back.
You know, back to that Putin comment that I read to you because it was difficult for me to hear the translation along with Putin.
Here's this guy on the, you can't act like you're the big superpower.
You can't just do what you wanted.
It sounded exactly like what a liberal Democrat would say.
Vladimir Putin sounded exactly like the liberal Democrat talking about this country.
This is one of the things that has always amazed me.
You go back to the 2004 campaign, and you've got Mahmoud Ahmedinezad, president of Iran, out there ripping into George Bush and saying the identical things that John Kerry was saying.
Ahmedinezad criticizing Bush the same way that the Democrats were.
And Putin here was sounding exactly like a typical liberal Democrat, accusing the U.S. of doing exactly what he's doing.
Accusing us of doing what he's doing.
And of course, our reaction is, you know, one of hope.
No, no, no, it's not going to happen.
They just asked me if Obama would ever kick Putin out of the EU and they would sanction it.
There's no way there's too many people depend on their gas from Russia.
He who owns the gas rules Europe.
And that happens to be Russia.
Natural gas, the pipelines, and so forth.
Anyway, folks, have a great rest of the day.
Been fun being with you.
It always is, and we'll be back tomorrow.
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