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April 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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It is the fastest week in media, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the most listened-to radio talk show in America.
It's the most talked about radio talk show in America.
It's the most talked about host and talk show in America, and it's Friday.
That's because it's the fastest-moving week.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
That's right.
We're going to get to a plethora of your phone calls in this busy broadcast hour.
Tell me number 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Now, I mentioned Jonah Goldberg's column at National Review.
I think it's also published concomitantly and coherently at the New York Post.
Concommittent?
That's not, no, I didn't make up the word.
You've never heard it concommittingly?
Look it up.
It was published concomitantly and coherently with the New York Post.
Cohesively, too.
Meaning, it looks the same in the New York Post as it does at National Review.
Same words.
Climate activists uncaged.
What?
I told you it was a word.
Concommittent is a word.
They thought I was making up a word on the other side of the glass.
Gawker's Adam Weinstein suggests arresting those on the wrong side of the climate change debate.
By the way, our buddy Mark Moreno, our former, our man in Washington, rusted the TV show.
He's got a website called Climate Depot where it chronicles all of the leftist propaganda on this issue.
And apparently, two accredited concomitant climate scientists have come out and said that it's perfectly fine to exaggerate and lie about global warming impacts in order to get people's attention and money.
Perfectly fine to make it up.
Perfectly fine to exaggerate.
It's entirely within the bounds of propriety to really, really hype things to get people's attention, get their money.
Do you realize, folks, the left, I don't care where you find them, the global warming movement, militant feminists, militant gays, do you realize there literally is no moral foundation propping them up?
The whole notion of right and wrong, truth, fact versus lies and BS is irrelevant.
Whatever they believe is going to be what everybody else believes, no matter what it takes to make that happen, what they believe does not have to be true.
If they want it to be true, you're going to agree with it or you're going to be harassed and threatened and intimidated.
And they establish these rules for themselves no matter what it takes.
This threat is so existential that even if we have to lie, this is the way, proving, by the way, this is a religion.
This is oftentimes a technique that people use to permit evil and what they're doing.
If what you're fighting is indeed the essence of evil, then you are entitled to do anything to beat it back.
There are no rules.
And so this is what the left reserves for themselves.
That is, that we, everybody who opposes them, we are the essence of evil.
And so whatever they have to do to stop us is permissible, even called for.
So if we've got to exaggerate global warming to get people's attention and get money for it, then that's perfectly fine.
There is no moral foundation.
Right and wrong, justice, truth, irrelevant.
Our desired outcome is all that matters.
A writer for this is Jonah Goldberg writing here at National Review Online concommittingly with the New York Post.
The writer for the website Gawker recently penned a self-described rant on the pressing need to arrest, charge, and imprison people who deny global warming.
Now, in fairness, this guy, Adam Weinstein, doesn't want mass arrests.
Besides, in a country where only 44% of Americans say that there is solid evidence of global warming and it's mostly due to human activity, you can't round up every dissenter.
So this guy, see, he's reasonable.
He doesn't want to put everybody in jail.
Oh, no, no.
No, because he knows he can't put everybody who dissents in jail.
Fact-checking scientists are spared.
So is the man on the street who thinks Rush Limbaugh is right.
You all know that man.
That man's an idiot.
He only thinks what he thinks because he listens to Limbaugh.
He's too stupid to do anything other than choke the Earth's atmosphere a little more with his F-150 gassy exhaust.
So you people, you drive Ford F-150s or whatever, you're perfectly, you're not going to be jailed.
Don't worry about it.
You're just idiots.
It is I, the man poisoning your mind, that they want to imprison.
Weinstein's magnanimity ends there.
Someone must pay.
Weinstein suggests that the government simply try the troublemakers and spokespeople, put them on trial.
You know, the usual suspects, people like Limbaugh himself, as well as the ringleaders of political organizations and businesses that refuse to toe the line.
Those malcontents must be punished and stopped, says this guy at Gawker.
Now, I don't know why a guy at Gawker is getting the attention of Jonah Goldberg.
But, well, actually, I do, because he's not just a guy at Gawker, which most people have never heard of.
What it is, is this is going to become mainstream thought if it isn't already.
That is the whole point here.
Stuff isn't new.
We've been laughing at it for 25 years, but all the while, they have been deadly serious about it.
They really mean this stuff.
There ought to be trials.
There ought to be people like me put in cages.
To make an example, to show you idiots out there what awaits you if you get too vocal along with me.
Now, Weinstein says that this is an argument that's just being discussed seriously in some circles right now.
Credits Rochester Institute of Technology Philosophy professor Lawrence Torcello for getting this put-em-in-jail ball rolling.
Last month, Torcello argued, and we told you about this, that America should allow and follow Italy's lead.
In 2009, six seismatologists were convicted of poorly communicating the risks of a major earthquake.
And then, when an earthquake struck, the scientists were sentenced to six years in jail for downplaying the risks.
Torcello and Weinstein want a similar approach for climate change.
Okay, so apparently, six seismatologists downplayed the earthquake risk.
Then an earthquake happened, so they want to put these guys in jail.
Well, Ergo, I, and a few nameless others are opposing global warming.
When it happens, they want me put in jail, and it's happening now.
Put me on trial.
And Mr. Goldberg writes, this is a great standard for free speech in America.
Let's just agree that the First Amendment reads thus: Nothing in this clause shall be considered binding if it contradicts legal practices in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
The truth is, this isn't as new an outlook as Weinstein suggests.
2009, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman insisted that deniers in Congress who opposed the Waxman-Markey climate change bill were committing treason while explaining their opposition to it on the floor of the House.
That same year, Krugman's buddy at the time, Thomas Lupe Friedman, wrote that the CHICOM authoritarian system was preferable to ours, in part because it lets enlightened leaders deal with climate change.
And enlightened leaders get to put the people they disagree with in jail.
Now, if we followed Italy's lead, like this guy wants us to, for sentencing people for getting their predictions wrong about earthquakes, shouldn't we jail the global warming alarmists?
They're the ones whose predictions have turned out to be wrong, not mine.
They're the ones who are wrong.
They're the ones who are claiming that sea levels are going to rise and all this is going to happen.
Notice that they always make these predictions to come true in 100 years when none of us are going to be alive.
There hasn't been any warming for 15 years.
If you ask me, they, guys like this Adam Weinstein, are the fraudsters.
If anybody needs to be put in jail, it's them misleading people, if that's the route we're going to go.
But that's not what the jail is for.
The reason we're putting people in jail is not to punish them, it's to shut them up.
Shut them up, get rid of them, so they can't influence anybody else.
And by getting rid of them, you will frighten everybody else into speaking up so that they don't.
So you end up with no opposition.
Jail the prominent leaders of your opposition, and you have silenced all opposition, which is what the left is all about.
The way you sit here and you can say, come on, Rush, nobody's going to put you in jail over this.
Come on, Russ.
Are you really trying to get us afraid for you that you're going to go to jail?
No.
What I'm telling you is that there are people who would do it if they could.
I just call your attention to what just happened to this poor guy out at Mozilla.
It's always been an objective of mine to make sure people really, honestly understand who liberals are.
What the left is.
How is it different a Third World Banana Republic?
Well, in terms of persuasion.
No, you're not going to convince anybody that this is a banana republic is the problem.
This is a.
Well, but no, but my point is that you're not going to change any minds by saying, you know, these people just like a Banana Republic.
Well, most people are going to think this could never be a banana republic.
This is the United States of America.
They're going to discard your characterization of this as like what happens in the Banana Republic.
They'll laugh at it if you make a joke about it.
But anyway, let me take a brief time out here because there are other things in the news, such as, folks, there is a new poll out.
This is an amazing poll.
And I, Il Rushbo, predicted it.
I was, I think, one of the first to have the gonads, the guts, the courage to go in public on the radio, on air, behind the golden EIB microphone and say that the upcoming congressional elections could be a Republican wave.
And everybody, come on, Rush, it's not going to be a wave.
You don't know what you're talking about, Rush.
You need to stick to the things you're talking about, like global warming.
You're talking about politics.
Come on, Rush.
Don't be silly.
Even Republicans were saying that.
Well, NPR, Stan Greenberg, Carville, got a poll out, predicts a Republican wave.
Yeah.
Except when they went on PBS to talk about it, they didn't talk about that.
It's the most amazing thing.
So we've got that coming up, plus your telephone calls, all after this.
Back to the phones we go.
We're going to, I guess, Jeff in Monroe, Washington.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Good.
So I have a question for you.
Have you ever wondered how civilizations fall on the Mayans?
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
Just a second.
I can't understand a single word you're saying.
It's not your fault if you would just slow down a little bit.
Okay.
Try it again.
Have you ever wondered how civilizations fall?
Like where they look at the Mayans or something like that and they try to figure out what went wrong.
Yeah, in the case of the Mayans, they had goats in the street that they didn't control.
Right.
But I think that's what's going to happen.
This whole thing is going to crash, the Obamacare, all this stuff's going to just pretty much cease to exist, and then they'll have to unravel everything later on and figure out what happened.
Okay, so I know you're, if I may be honest, truthfully, you're bouncing off of Ian's call yesterday in part.
Oh, yeah, because what I'm saying is that if people run scared, there's going to be no record of what went wrong when everything does crash.
If you guys just say what it is and what's going on and don't worry about what people think, then maybe there's hope.
I just all see it.
Tell me how things are going to crash.
Well, I mean, welcome to Obamacare.
What's that going to do to the medical system?
Right.
It isn't going to work.
Everything that they've ever put in place, all these social programs, all the stuff that they said wasn't going to make things better, nothing's worked.
Yeah, but they're still functioning.
I mean, they're nowhere near crashing.
Well, eventually.
But, I mean, I'm not talking.
I mean, this whole thing that happened with Brendan Dyke is the late.
You know what you're talking about?
You're talking about the death of civilizations.
What is it?
Like the Romans, what happened?
The Mayans.
What happened to them?
And in the case of the Romans, there's all kinds of theories, decadence and just cultural.
No, I'm just saying in our time, though, it says people get stuck on stupid, and then that's pretty much it.
And they're too worried about this social stuff and what's really important.
Well, okay, let's, if we get stuck on stupid, if the stupid then elect the stupid and the country runs with stupidity at the helm, why, I mean, what is it about that that would necessarily make it crash?
Why couldn't they just continue to exist in rampant stupidity?
I mean, what they're doing now with Firefox is that, I mean, how, like, how much worse can it actually get?
Yeah, well, you know, something I've, I know what you mean.
See, I've been saying, how old are you, if you don't mind my asking?
I'm 45.
45.
That's what I've been hearing since I've been born is we've got to fix education, we've got to fix this, we got to fix that.
And they don't do anything.
I know.
So every, you know, you've got to remember that when people are taught all this crap, it doesn't go away.
I mean, there's something that's going to have to happen where people are.
That's my point.
When they're taught this, it doesn't go away, yet you say it's going to crash.
Oh, I'm just saying, theoretically, if they were to ever get to a point where, I mean, the health system's going to have to crash, everything's going to have to, you know, basically they're going to have to run everything into the ground before everyone can ever figure out what went wrong because now they're too worried about gay rights and this sort of thing.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's getting worse and it's getting worse and it's getting worse.
And it's going to have something is going to have to bottom out before actually people figure it out.
That's my point.
Well, I know.
Essentially, this thing is going to fall apart before we fix it.
I would contend to you, it has fallen apart.
But it's still awesome.
I know, I know.
But it's only going to get worse, though.
Because even if they try to start fixing things now, they're going to have to take back what these people did in the last 40 or 50 years or so.
Aha.
Okay, now we're getting something new.
So you think at some point they're going to start taking back some of the benefits, some of the welfare benefits, and that that's going to be...
All collectively, all this stuff that they've put in the place...
Let me tell you something.
I know what you're saying, but my experience is I'm 65.
You're 45 or 63.
I've been hearing my whole life how the national debt is going to destroy the country.
Here we are, 17 trillion, and we're still trucking.
Now, I'm not trying to be argumentative with you, but I think it's already crashed.
I think nothing is working the way it was designed.
Everything's broken.
And what is done at the leadership level?
They break it further.
Continue to build on the mistakes.
And they bake them in.
And it's still working.
Okay, I do not want to be misunderstood with this last caller.
I know exactly what he was saying.
We're on a dead-end course.
We're headed to nothing working.
Everything's going to fail.
We're going to bottom out.
And he was, I think, saying we're going to have to bottom out before anything is going to get fixed.
Now, all I'm saying, I want to know how this is going to happen.
And I happen to hold the same view that the course that we're on is going to equal catastrophe and destruction.
But at the same time, I've been hearing it my whole life.
My dad was telling when the national debt was $5 trillion, now it's going to be the end of the country.
And here it is 55 years later.
And there's no end in sight to it.
We're not getting a handle on it.
Nobody's engaging in any repair work or any policies that are going to fix this, even change direction.
We keep adding to the debt.
We keep creating entitlements.
We keep paying people not to work.
What's an unnatural circumstance?
Well, no, I don't know that in this case, I don't know that Obama's race is a factor.
I guess this is whether Obama's black or Martian, the number of Americans who expect to be taken care of and want to be is growing.
And there's a whole political party of all kinds of people that have been promoting that, the Democrat Party.
Obama's just the latest of a long line of leaders of that party.
But no, look, I don't want to make this any more confusing than it is.
I'm just, you know, I live in Rioville.
I'm a literalist.
When somebody tells me that we're going to crash, well, I know how.
What does that actually mean?
How does our system implode?
How does it collapse on itself?
But that's not going to happen.
You think thousands of people aren't going to get medical care in this country?
Well, let's take a look at the Western socialist democracies in the European Union.
The last I heard, Greece was finished, but planes are landing there and people are living there and they're getting health care there and they're eating and they're drinking there and they're going fishing and I have friends who are still cruising the Greek isles on boats.
Then I heard that Spain had 20% unemployment and they were about to bottom out and everything was going to hell in a handbasket and I've heard it about France and yet last I saw planes are still landing there in Madrid and rock concerts are still taking place and people are getting up and going to work and they're having the siestas and all that.
I mean, when does this happen?
So the whole thing about it collapsing to me, how many times that actually happened?
The Roman Empire collapsed.
The Mayans ceased to exist.
But it doesn't happen to every.
I mean, the Chinese are still the Chinese.
They've had their Ming dynasties, other dynasties.
They've had communism.
Same thing with the Russians and the Soviets and so forth.
But they're still there.
Now, I wouldn't want to live in any of those places.
Don't misunderstand.
And I'm not being purposely naive here to stoke conversation.
But if you're going to start talking about the death of a nation or the death of civilizations, I think there's always going to be an America.
Even if the left wins everything, there's always going to be an America.
It just, it may not be the America that was founded.
It may someday look nothing like the America that was founded.
But the actual manifestation of, say, Social Security failing, what more is it going to take?
Social Security has not been properly funded for decades.
The government can continue to print money and borrow money to pay for it.
And eventually there might be a 75% income tax rate.
I don't know who's going to pay it because there are going to be fewer and fewer people working.
And no, I'm not saying I'm throwing up my hands in despair and conceding anything.
Don't misunderstand here.
We're on the wrong track.
I want to get off the track.
I want to fix this.
Everything I stand for, I still stand for.
It's just a guy calls here and says, it's over.
It's going to butt him out.
I want to talk about the Wedding Mayans and the Roman Empire in it.
Okay, well, how's that actually going to happen here?
He had no answer, really.
Well, it's just going to implode on itself.
What is going to implode?
I mean, even if we get to 20% unemployment, they're going to be people that day getting up, going to work.
It may not be a country that offers the same opportunity for prosperity and all that that it has been in the past.
And that's what we're trying to preserve.
Trying to get some sanity.
We're trying to reestablish a moral code of decency and all that.
That's what I think most people, if you really could pin them down, they're really, when you start talking about the collapse of the country, I think what most people are really worried about is what the Wall Street Journal once called the guardrails that keep everybody on the road morally are gone.
And when there is no right or wrong, when you're not allowed to proclaim it or even know what it is, then you've got utter chaos.
And that's what I think a lot of people really fear is taking place here.
Yeah, Detroit clearly has collapsed.
Yeah, well, but Detroit's still functioning.
They still got a mayor.
They've got a city council.
They've got people who live there to go to work.
Detroit still has the Detroit Lions.
They got the Detroit Pistons.
They got the Detroit Red Wings.
They still have the bridge.
It connects them to Canada.
Most of the people have gone.
Well, yeah, they've gone.
They've moved out.
But Detroit is still there.
It's still on the map, is the point.
And there are people still being born there, and they still want to live there.
And they're still voting for the people who did that to Detroit.
They're still voting for the same party that destroyed the place.
The same party that destroyed the place continually is re-elected.
And, you know, every four years, people show up at City Hall and demand their Obamacare housing rent vouchers.
It's just what life becomes.
It's very sad, obviously, but I'm not trying to be depressing here.
You know, I'm just injecting it to reality.
If somebody says we're headed toward collapse, I want to know what that means in that caller's mind.
That's what I was getting at.
Here's Stephen in Murray, Utah, as we move on down the line here on Open Line Friday.
Hi, Stephen.
Hi, Rush.
I am blind, and I got to tell you about the audio book, The First Patriots that I finished.
My mom read it to me at first.
I enjoyed it so much, I picked up the audio CDs.
You have to understand that most of the books I get my hands on are from the state library for the blind.
That means they're narrated by prisoners or by a computerized voice.
It's not fun to listen to.
It's how I listen to the people.
Is that right?
I thought there were a lot of books on audio that were read by authors and professional narrators.
There are some, but this is a free service for the blind.
And like I say, I read the free service to the blind.
Okay.
Yeah, and it's how I read the Pilgrim book.
I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed it because when you have a great narrator, reading an unabridged book is fantastic.
And I love the fact that you dedicated the book to Vince Flynn.
I'll miss him.
I really enjoyed the Mitch Rap series.
Well, Vince Flynn did dedicate Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims to him.
He was, in addition to just being a close friend.
For those of you who never met Vince Flynn, I want you to think about any special forces character you've read about or any Army Ranger or Navy SEAL.
And that's Vince.
That's who he was.
He was just a classic, tough, no-nonsense, patriotic, no airs about him.
He was humble.
And he was constantly urging me to write another book since it had been so long since I had written one.
And so when I finally did, I dedicated that first one to him.
Now, you're blind, and so you've heard me read the audio versions of the books, and those are children's books.
Do you still enjoy the book?
The one book, Rush.
One book.
The second one, yeah.
Oh, you haven't got the second one yet?
I haven't got the first one.
Well, wait a minute.
How did you hear me read the first one?
Through a computerized voice, through the services for the blind.
Oh, I misunderstood.
I thought you.
So I got the second book on CD.
Have not heard you read the first one.
Okay, I may have to start over.
I'm totally.
Your book was read.
My book was read to you by my mother.
Yes.
By your audio book.
Then I got the second audio book.
But you haven't heard it yet.
I haven't heard the first Pilgrim book.
I haven't heard the Brave Pilgrim book read by you.
Okay, you've heard the second one, but you haven't heard the first one.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
And you liked it.
I liked it.
Yeah.
I really liked it.
It was very well done.
Well, do you have the CDs, the audio version of the first one?
Do you have it handy?
I do not.
Well, I'll send that to you.
That's where I was headed with this.
That'd be fantastic.
Yeah.
I'd appreciate that.
But these are children's books.
You're an adult.
What is it you like about these?
The fact that there's a good narrator reading it, and then it's unabridged.
Not abridged.
You know, that is a big deal to people who can't read it.
That's a big deal.
And people that aren't familiar with audiobooks don't get it.
They don't understand it.
And I think the fact of having a good narrator, that fact is sometimes overlooked by people.
A good narrator can make an audio book.
A bad narrator can break it.
Yeah, when that's the only way that you can experience the book, if it's somebody that's just in a monotone plowing through it without any inflection or feeling or eroding, it can be boring and laborious, actually, for you to have to experience.
Yes.
Well, you've made my day here because you know what?
I'm going to tell you something.
Stephen, the reason you made my, I am really proud of these audio versions.
Each one of them took about four days to do, of four hours each day.
And some days my voice wasn't all there, so we had to wait an hour or two until it came back.
And I am, I've spent, put a lot of effort into making every page sound like it was the first in terms of my energy level and all that.
Therefore, I am really appreciative of you noticing.
No problem.
And hey, my mother had a suggestion for you.
You have the Ted T Bear online, which she loves.
And she had a suggestion for you.
You got to make a stuffed Liberty.
Well, you know what?
Here's that.
Maybe.
I know how businesses work in advance.
And the Ted T. Bear was an idea we had two years ago to go with the two if by tea, one if by land, two if by the Ted T. Bear.
We were coming up with all kinds of products, which were variations.
And we conceived the Ted T. Bear before the books even became an idea.
And we'd made the investment in them.
So they're there.
And so now all that Liberty stuff, we've got so many things that we want to do that in given enough time.
And I'm adopting the Apple Incorporated philosophy, which is create a demand and then don't let people have it for a year.
Yeah.
And then when you do release it, make sure there aren't enough to go around.
Yeah.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
I want you to hold on.
Snarly's going to get your address so we can send you the audio of the second book and send him a Ted T-Bear since his mom brought it up sent him to the Ted T-Bear.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
El Rushmo on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now, one of the things that our caller two callers ago was talking about, how did the Mayans collapse and Romas, what happened?
One of the things that he mentioned was that they're going to start taking things back, meaning reduce benefits.
The only thing Obama has taken back are sign-up deadlines, the employer mandate.
He's waived everything.
He's moved all of the really harmful, punishing, deleterious, damaging aspects of this.
He's moved it all beyond any other election that will matter to him.
Robert Gibbs said that if they're going to take back anything, that it would be the employer mandate.
He said this yesterday.
Robert Gibbs said that if any aspect of Obamacare actually doesn't get implemented, it will be the employer mandate.
He actually said that yesterday.
But Obama's taking things back or delaying all these things, not to fix it, but rather not to harm the political impact to his party.
So let's take this further.
Okay, what other benefits might be cut?
Let's say Social Security.
Who's going to do it?
There isn't a politician in the world that's going to do it who stands for re-election.
They're all going to propose it 10 years from now, 15 years from now, whatever fix it.
No politician alive, though there might be exceptions, but get my drift.
It'd be a death sentence.
You imagine a guy running for office.
I'm going to have to cut back on Social Security by every $100 a month for every recipient.
I'm going to have to cut back on food stamps.
Can you imagine what would happen?
So these things are going to have to happen at some point.
And maybe they happen and they don't get announced.
They just happen.
And you've got what?
Maybe riots?
Because I'll tell you what it does look like.
You know what the collapse of America, as you and I know it, looks like?
It looks like the Great Depression.
It looks like people losing their savings and their pensions and investments because that's where the government will go to fund itself.
The government will take as much private sector cash as they can get their hands on.
It looks like people, the collapse, it will look like people who rely on government programs seeing those programs end.
It eventually will happen.
I don't know if I'll still be alive, but if this doesn't change, these things are going to happen.
The White House, when asked, I've got the audio coming up.
White House Press Secretary, when asked, had no comment about Brendan Icke at Mozilla.
No comment.
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