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March 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
Greetings, folks.
How are you?
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
And here we are back at it for a full week of broadcast excellence.
Lots going on.
Lots to get into an amazing.
It really is.
And it's a teachable moment, and it is so instructive about situation that Matt Drudge has found himself in with the drive-by.
In fact, he calls them now the Obama media.
And I'll get into it in detail.
I just want you to know that it's coming up.
We also have a story out of the UK, aborted babies were used in incinerators to heat British hospitals.
Not kidding, not exaggerating.
It's in the UK telegraph, the bodies of thousands of aborted miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste.
Some even used to heat hospitals, according to an investigation.
The National Health Service Trusts have admitted burning fetal remains alongside other rubbish, while two others used the bodies in waste to energy plants which generate power for heat.
I guess the uh the solar panels in the wind farms aren't uh cutting it.
So we have a new form of energy provided by the left and the environmentalist wackos, and that is aborted babies.
And it is they who claim that we are whatever we are, extremists, uh mean spirited, uh what have you.
These people are consciousless.
They're just getting increasingly difficult to uh to describe.
Um CNN.
I I think we need perhaps, ladies and gentlemen, put a suicide watch on the whole network.
Because the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, called a press conference at 10 o'clock this morning, Eastern Time to announce that because of never before used investigative techniques, they have been able to confirm that Malaysian Flight 370 did indeed end up in a place it had no place being.
And nobody has any idea how it got there, but it is that area in the Indian Ocean, four hours southeast of Perth, Australia.
And they say it's the airplane because what they did, they found floating on the ocean surface round objects.
And you wouldn't have anything on a sizable boat that would be round.
Um the hull would not be round as anything, but but an airplane fuselage engine cowling, so they would all be oval-shaped or round, and so they're assuming that it is the airplane.
Now, CNN is just uh I I I predicted last week and the week before that when this day came that CNN would not accept it and would by no means stop, and they in fact they have pulled in their prime time superstars to be anchoring their coverage during the well, that's the primetime superstars, and I guess now went to lunch because the regularly scheduled people are on there now.
But I want before we get into all that, I want to take you back to March 14th, 10 days ago.
I made a joke.
And as so often is the case, when I make a joke about liberals, damned if it doesn't come true.
Here is me from March 14th on this program.
The one thing about this missing Malaysian jet that we will learn at some point is that global warming played a role.
Well, you sit in there, you poo-poo it and you laugh at it, but when this is all said and done, when everything, whatever it is is known, climate change, global warming will no doubt be inserted as a factor.
Even if that means that it caused a plane to slip into the space-time continuum.
So I'm holding here, folks, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a story from Mother Jones that ran three days ago.
It's Saturday Fleet Friday before the Malaysian Prime Minister announced that it was over.
By the way, they haven't.
I don't, does anybody know if they've really found anything yet that indicates but he just said it's over.
So this was three days before that.
Mother Jones, which is an accredited, fully appreciated ranking, cool and hip leftist publication.
One reason it may be harder to find flight 370, we messed up the currents.
How climate change factors into the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
That's why we haven't been able to find it, because our global warming, the climate change that we've caused, is so screwed up the ocean currents that we don't know where to look.
Now they haven't claimed global warming caused the crash yet, but they are now asserting that global warming, and note that they inject it into everything now as an explanation for everything that people can't understand.
Just throw that in there.
So it was 10 days ago I joked that global warming would be blamed for the missing flight, and we're getting there.
This article claims that global warming is making it harder to find the wreckage because the currents have changed.
Scientists say man-made climate change fundamentally altered the currents of the vast deep oceans where investigators are currently scouring for the missing airplane, setting a complex stage for the ongoing search for flight 370.
If the Boeing 777 did plunge into the ocean somewhere in the vicinity of where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, the location where its debris finally ends up, if found at all, may be vastly different from where investigators could have anticipated 30 years ago.
It is so bad that 30 years ago we'd have found this plane within days.
But since it's not 30 years ago, it's 30 years hence, and there's been so much climate change and so much global warming and so much man-made distortion of nature that where we think the plane should be is nowhere near where it's going to be because we have screwed up the planet.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
Don't even Snerdley is now arguing with me on the logical reaction to, well, if we know currents now, then why didn't we have a trunk change?
Don't even go there.
That's that's the sucker's bet is to get into a debate with about current.
Look, you ever heard of the Gulf Stream?
The Gulf's the Gulf Stream is basically what keeps the UK habitable.
The UK benefits the Gulf Stream goes from Gulf of Mexico down the southern tip of Florida, and it carries warm water north toward the British Isles.
And that warm water does affect, and there's no way we if we're going to destroy currents, the the the Gulf Stream should be non existent.
But it's still there.
You can see it, in fact, if you go out on a boat, you can actually see the Gulf Stream on the surface of the ocean.
It is that powerful a current.
And in fact, there what it does, folks, what the Gulf Stream does, it's actually a conveyor belt.
And on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, you see the Gulf Stream and it's traveling in a in a direction from the southwest to the northeast.
But underneath it loops back down and brings the colder weather, colder water up there south, and it's just a loop.
And there was a story about, I don't know, a year, two, three years ago, that we had destroyed the conveyor belt because of global warming, that there wasn't an incoming south.
And it turned out to be totally bogus.
It was a bogus report.
But this is nothing more than activism disguised as cool hip journalism.
I'll tell you know, we sit here and I talk about the low information voter.
But I'm going to tell you we got a bigger problem than that.
And it is illustrated in the situation with Matt Drudge and his Obamacare penalty tax payment.
We're dealing with genuine stupidity, ignorance, and lack of education at the highest levels of what is called media.
There is, I think, a natural assumption that people make that the media is made up of informed people.
That they may be biased, but at least they're smart.
I think we're going to have to change our perception.
They're not smart.
Their lack of curiosity and their left-wing bigotry and closed-mindedness has effectively shut them off from learning anything that is outside their comfort level.
They there are just some basic things like economics.
They don't get, they don't get the minimum wage destroys jobs.
It does.
They just don't get it.
They don't get how tax cuts increase revenue to government treasuries.
They don't get how tax cuts can increase employment.
They don't get to them, that is a political and partisan argument.
And it's not, it's economic fact.
But if there is anything that they think, any fact, any unassailable factual piece of information that they think is tied to conservatism, that it's automatically incorrect.
It's not qualified, and is thus disqualified.
And as such, these people have shut themselves off a tremendous amount of actual charted knowledge in the human experience.
And it's resulted in a profession that's popularly known by truly uh arrogant, condescending people who believe they know everything, and it is shocking how truly I think ignorant, uh, and in some cases maybe even stupid that they are.
And this Mother Jones story, classic, I mean, this is considered a very, very hip.
I mean, Mother Jones, oh, yeah, man, it's cool.
And I'm sure these people really believe this is this is the degree to which they have been brainwashed, combined with the religious fervor that they believe in their politics.
They really believe that global warming, man-made, has so destroyed natural ocean currents that it would lead to the fuselage and the wreckage not being found.
How else do you get a question from a CNN or could it be Mary Shaibo that a black hole swallowed up the airplane?
Now that is so in fact, you know what CNN's done?
We got sound bites coming up.
We'll take a break here.
CNN went out and found a supposedly objective media analyst to ask him about their coverage.
So CNN covered themselves, covering the missing airline.
You got to hear this.
So let me take a break.
We'll come back.
We've got the prime minister of uh of Malaysia.
Is it the Prime Minister or the President?
It is the Prime.
Okay.
I just, yeah, Prime Minister.
I want to get things right.
Uh say we'll have him announcing whatever, and then CNN investigating uh and analyzing itself after this.
Watch the leftists will simply call it recycling.
Incinerating aborted babies to heat UK hospitals.
Oh, yeah, it's just recycling.
The essence of recycling.
Okay, we go to the audio sound bites, and the Malaysian Prime Minister, His name is Najib Razak.
We have two sound bites.
It's last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth.
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites.
It is therefore deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that according to this new data, flight MH 370 ended in a southern Indian Ocean.
Now, I want to go back and remind you of a point that I made.
You might call it a prediction.
I said when all of these outrageous predictions were being made, guesses, what happened to the airplane...
I made a point, and this soundbite was all over television as learned analysts sought to analyze what I had analyzed.
And I said the problem with all this wild, meaningless over-the-top speculation is that whenever this airplane is found, a simple explanation is going to be given, and nobody's going to believe it.
Because of so much time, so much over-the-top media coverage, various conspiracies, conspiracy theories, you name it.
So now we have uh the Prime Minister Najibrazak saying it's over.
That's where it is.
It ended right there in the Indian Ocean west of Perth.
You think CNN's going to accept this?
Ha.
CNN, no way is going to I i they are at least another week at least on this, with experts disagreeing now with the Prime Minister who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Remember, Malaysia has been beat up throughout this as incompetent, backwards, uncivilized, and incapable of running an airline and keeping any kinds of accurate records.
I mean, everybody's been dumping on Malaysia in this whole investigation.
This guy comes out, this guy is the source authority on what happened.
I just warning you that the vast majority of media people who have got a lot of ratings and money invested in this are not going to let this be the final word of the story.
Now the next soundbite, the Prime Minister Najib Razak, asks the media to give the families privacy.
Militia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development.
For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking.
I know this news must be a hardware still.
I urge the media to respect their privacy and allow them the space they need at this very difficult time.
Yeah, good luck with that.
So let me give you another example or an example of what I think is an increasing body of evidence to substantiate a claim that there is rampant uneducation, stupidity, and ignorance at the highest levels of the drive-by media.
One of the reports about the downed airliner or the crashed airliner today, and it's a news flash.
It's one of these breaking news things.
It's got all kinds of bells and whistles attached to it.
The co-pilot, the co-pilot was making his first ever real flight in a 777 on this flight.
And of course, fact of the matter is that that's probably true for every pilot in one of these things.
They all learn and are type rated in simulators.
It's simply too expensive to take a, you know, everybody That flies a 777 to give them actual flight training in the air in one of these airplanes.
It's cost prohibitive.
They just couldn't do it.
They're not going to take one of these airplanes up with nobody in it, going nowhere, not delivering any cargo just to give flight time to a crew member.
How many times on this pro, we've told you the odds are that you get on an airplane and either the co-pilot pilot are literally flying it for the first time is not uncommon.
That's how good the simulators are.
Now, why don't they know this?
Why is this such a big deal?
It's a big deal because it's sensational.
It's a big deal because it maybe leads us to the fact that these idiot Malaysians put somebody not even qualified in that cockpit.
And that's not how it works.
You know, because you listen to this program more than the vast majority of people in the so-called big media.
Well, folks, the left's honeymoon with Pope Francis may be coming to an end.
Remember the Pope went out there and uh and released an economic uh encyclical or document in which I analyzed it as being almost Marxist, and this caused.
Oh, there were eruptions, there's a voluminous volcanic eruptions in the media.
Oh, dear.
And all of a sudden the left, which hates the Catholic Church, fell in love with the Pope.
Remember that?
Well, I mean, if if I come out criticize the Pope, the Pope's got to be a good guy.
So they fell in love with the Pope, Pope's a great guy.
But now, the Vatican's Chief Justice feels that President Obama's policies have been hostile toward Christians.
The Vatican Chief Justice says that Obama's policies have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization.
Now, this is the Vatican.
This is an official, doesn't have to be coming from the Pope in order for it to be official.
In an interview with Polonia Christiana magazine, transcribed by Life Site News, Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is the uh he's I'm not sure where he's from.
Uh, but he said that Obama promotes anti-life and anti-family policies.
So the Vatican is out now defending Christianity, defending itself, and this is going to cause a fissure between the media, which was falling in love with the Pope.
They weren't falling in love the Catholic Church.
Don't misunderstand it.
We're falling in love with the Pope.
They thought they really, here again is another classic illustration of the total ignorance.
They really think that they can make the Catholic Church moderate its tone.
They think they can bring the Catholic Church into what they call the 21st century.
They think that this Pope might actually legalize gay marriage, sanction it, church.
They think this Pope may actually allow women to be priests.
They think this Pope might actually lighten up on its pro-life position.
They really believe, they really think the Catholic Church is another political organization.
If they exert enough pressure, and if they get the right Pope in there, they can work on him and get him to bring the church forward into the 21st century.
And this from the Vatican Chief Justice is just a major, major slapdown.
The left is not going to be happy about this.
Here now the audio summit.
I promise this, so let's do it.
This is we got two more here to go, and then I'm going to start on the phones.
We'll get to the drudge business.
And also, ladies and gentlemen, I, your beloved host, am a finalist for an award as a children's book author.
The voting for that begins tomorrow, and I will provide you details here sometime during the program today.
CNN has decided because everybody's dumping on them.
And I'll tell you something.
This is how out of proportion CNN has become.
They have been in the basement ratings-wise for years, and they have been hell, they've been lowered in the basement.
they have been in the gutter.
And nothing they've done has changed their fortunes.
Piers Morgan didn't work.
Anderson Cooper 20 hours a day didn't work.
Nothing has worked.
The new crossfire, it hasn't worked.
Nothing has made people want to watch CNN.
And this plane went down.
And people started watching CNN, and CNN just, okay, that's the only thing we're going to do, and that's all they've done.
They occasionally break away for the first 10 seconds or 20 seconds of an Obama press conference, but then they're right back to the Jet.
So far, the only thing that's taken them away has been something to do with Obama.
I think there was one instance where they thought they could make a Republican look really bad.
They did that, but for the most part, they've stuck with it.
Now they have been 24-7 all day on this plane.
They have not reported one single word on the Washington mudslide ref rescue efforts.
And all those missing people.
We have some missing people because of a mudslide here.
CNN has not mentioned it.
Not one single other story has been broadcast on CNN in the last four hours.
Oh, they are.
They well, there they are.
They just broke away and they're doing the mudslide now.
They'll be with this for a minute or two and then right back to the jet.
Breaking news.
As predicted.
108 counted for.
I mean, look how fast.
The minute I mention it, they switched to it.
So they went and got a media critic to analyze.
See basically covering itself, covering the plane.
And they found a media critic who likes what they're doing.
The guy's name is Eric Wemple.
Washington Post media reporter, Brian Stelter, said, We heard an anchor at Fox say this week that overcoverage of a story like this corrupts the news business.
Overcoverage, I think, gets a bad rap on some of these sites and some of the critics, so it's overcoverage, as if simply going heavy on a story is a sin in itself.
We have to stop reflexively criticizing overcoverage or nonstop coverage.
I like it.
I think when news organizations make strong decisions to go heavy on something and they put resources behind it, oftentimes very good things happen.
They break news.
I like overcoverage.
I like it when news uh organizations obsess over something.
What could be better than that?
I like overcoverage.
What is it what it's something I found very interesting here in this fight.
Um when news organizations make strong decisions to go heavy on something and they put resources behind it, oftentimes very good things happen.
What does that mean?
Does that mean the media is supposed to make things happen?
Yeah, in their minds, they are the news.
They are there to impact the outcome of events, not just tell you about them.
So Eric Wemple, who is the media critic for the Washington Post on board with this whole notion of overcoverage.
He likes it.
He likes when news organizations obsess over something.
So then Brian Stelter said, okay, well, we've seen very clearly in the last couple of weeks big differences between cable news channels.
We've seen CNN go heavy on the plane.
We saw Fox belatedly pick up on the story, but avoided it for a while.
PMS NBC has been also on the story, at least in the ratings.
Maybe we're seeing more clearly than ever how different these cable news channels really are.
CNN is perfectly positioned to do this story.
It presents itself as a a way up the middle of this ideological cable divide.
There is nothing more non-ideological.
Two, it's an international story.
CNN is way more suited to carry out this story than its other it vests overseas.
If it doesn't do This.
It, you know, your leadership should be fired and marched right out of their offices.
It has to do this for survival for its future.
There is no other option.
It has to do this for its survival.
There is no other option whatsoever.
Because they're the only ones that can do it.
Non-ideological.
Have they covered this on an ideological basis?
I haven't watched it.
I don't know how that's possible.
They're liberals.
There has to be liberal tint to the way they've been covering this.
I don't know.
I shouldn't.
I haven't watched enough of what CNN's been doing.
I just I just know that's all they've been doing.
So they went out, they found a media analyst who loves what they're doing, praises what they're doing.
Um I don't know how long it took them to find this guy, but he's probably the only one.
We'll be right back after this, folks.
Do not go away.
L. Rushbo with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
What happened to that guy?
Uh we had a guy, he was from South Carolina, so what was his Owen was his name on it.
He wanted, he said, what gives you the right to talk about how stupid the media is when you didn't even graduate from college and they did.
Oh man.
I was all ready for that guy.
Then I look up next time I look at the caller roster and he's gone.
Did you tell him he was going to be first up?
Well, that's probably well, you probably scared him off.
Well, I mean, you had to do it.
I mean, you we always tell whoever's next, they're next.
And some people palpable fear takes over and they just hang up, which is obviously what this guy did.
Oh, well, an opportunity missed.
So we'll go next to Lisa, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
You're first, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, hi, Russ.
How are you?
Excellent.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to comment on your uh homework assignment that you gave us on Friday.
You know, let me ask you.
I I gave that homework assignment in the last ten seconds of the show, and you were still tuned in and heard it.
I was.
I I tune in as often as I can.
Well, I appreciate that.
And did you actually find the story and read it?
I did.
On Saturday, I stopped what I was doing.
I have to sit down and look this up, and I read through.
It was long, like you said.
Um, but I just thought it was neat and how it reminded me when I was growing up, we just played outside all day.
Um stopped in for lunch, let my mom know what we were doing, played again until dinner, no cell phones, no bicycles, no sunscreen, um, and and live to tell the tale.
Uh and you thrived in addition to living to tell the tale.
Absolutely.
And um, there are some differences.
I've I haven't yet gotten into this, but that's why I took the call.
If you weren't here in the last 10 seconds of the program on Friday, I I gave a homework assignment.
It's a very, very long piece that we linked at Rushlinboard.com by Hannah Rosen in the Atlantic.
It's entitled The Overprotected Kid, and it is about how we have raised baby boomers.
How much the the the decisions they made as parents have just been so overprotective that the kids they raised are not risk takers.
They're afraid of everything.
Their parents have made them afraid of everything, and that has led them to becoming more dependent and more expectant that others would make everything safe for them, and that everybody else would protect them.
Um and the the children of the baby boomers in many can all because they're you know, nothing is is universal, but vast majority of them are uh were overprotected and coddled, they're in timid, almost bubble wrapped.
And my childhood was like yours.
I was uh telling people after I'd given out the homework assignment, Lisa, that my typical day when I was a kid, leave the house as soon as I had eight o'clock in the morning, go play baseball or whatever, ride the bike.
I may not have been seen by my parents till five o'clock that afternoon.
I had a little transistor radio that I rigged up to to to to be attached under the speedometer of my bicycle so I could listen to radio like adults did in their cars.
And I drove all over town and I drove through stop signs without stopping and didn't get hit by did a lot all kinds of stupid stuff.
Um but but I I rode the bike everywhere.
It's not where a helmet.
No, no, there were no helmets.
There was no seat belts in the cars.
I didn't wear a helmet, any of this stuff.
In fact, my mother once I'll tell you my mother sent me to the snapping pack, which was what the the 7 Eleven's were back there, locally owned.
And uh you got to pick up some stuff.
And I was mad that I had to do it.
I thought the things I wanted is I took my bike and I wrote up the snacking pack, and it was a big sack, and I didn't have anything to carry the sack in the on the on the on the bike, so I had to hold it in my left hand as my left hand's on the on the handlebars.
And my left knee at one point in the trip came up and hit my uh the bottom of the sack and the front tire of the bike jackknifed, and I did a header off of the bike in a somersault, lucky I didn't in the middle of the street, and I got and I've had a little cuts and some bruises and abrasions, and I was just mad.
And I got the and the sack emptied out.
So I had to put everything back in the sack, drove home, and I couldn't wait to tell my mother what she had caused.
They said, Look what happened.
She said, What happened to you?
I'm all bloody.
So, well, go put some stuff on it, and that was it.
Absolutely.
There there.
Yeah, Macurachrome I did, but there was no, oh, are you okay?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Oh, oh, I gee, I really didn't mean I didn't, oh, it'll never happen again, little rhetoric.
I promise you, there was you idiot.
I didn't tell you to wreck the bike, I told you to bring the stuff home.
There was no, and it it's it's today that that if that if that had happened, the media would be on the scene of the accident.
The parents might be sued for irresponsive, uh irresponsible raising.
By the kid.
Yeah, the kid would do the law, the suiting suing, so uh it is it is but here's the difference.
There there we have to be we have to be fair, Lisa.
Uh-huh.
And while I'm out doing all this, and my brother too, as a kid, there were no neighborhood stalkers.
Well, my parents were not worried about me being kidnapped.
Uh they weren't worried about me being attacked by some vagrant for whatever reason.
Um no, there they didn't worry we're going to end up in a gang crossfire or anything of the sort.
And I'm sure, same thing for you and your child, but parents today, depending on where they live, worry about this.
I mean, we didn't have Amber Alerts, for example.
Right.
So there are some uh there are some things that have happened culturally, depraved things, which have caused parents to react in a way that's protective and overprotected.
But this piece doesn't uh this piece properly regards those as not normal things that have all it takes is for one circumstance like that to happen, and all of parenthood closes the ranks.
The bottom line is that it's bad for the kid.
It takes away risk, and you have to learn risk.
And the kid has to learn risk, failure, all these things, all these life lessons are not being learned because of being overprotected, and that leads to being dependent on others for your safety and even for your economic uh what did you get from the piece?
I I got the I got the same thing that you did and uh as an afterthought.
Maybe this is where the uh lussification of men started.
Um just not especially not letting the guys go out in the rough and tumble and and be boys.
I mean, kids in our neighborhood did that all the time.
We swung across monkey vines across the creek and made mud pies and all kinds of stuff and boys were boys.
Yeah.
We we waited for the rain and the snow to go play football and get muddy.
Right.
Waited and and uh yeah I I I remember I had I was bullied on the high school football team.
I was bullied in the first grade.
I I um but it it's different than the way it's reacted to differently today than it was that.
Well, I'm I'm flattered that you took the time because it it's a long piece, folks.
This piece, if you print it, comes out that depending on how you do it, 16 to 19 pages.
So, Lisa, thank you.
I appreciate she did the homework assignment.
First one ever assigned, by the way.
Here I think that I can remember it.
That's the tune.
I'll tell you one of the differences, one of the reasons why my parents and maybe yours didn't worry about all of those depraved people when I was a kid growing up is because the liberals at that time had not yet succeeded in thoroughly over sexing our culture.
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