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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, is the most listened to radio talk show in America.
It's the most talked about Radio Talk Show in America.
It's the uh most talked about host and talk show in America, and it's Friday.
That's because it's the fastest moving week in live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's right.
We're gonna get to a plethora of your phone calls in this busy broadcast hour.
Albone number 800-28288 to the email address.
Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
And I mentioned Jonah Goldberg's column at National Review.
I think it's also published concomitantly and coherently at uh the New York Post.
Concommittant?
That's not no, I didn't make up the word.
You've never heard of concomitantly?
Look it up.
It was published concomitantly and coherently with the with the 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.
Concommittant 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 uh our man in Washington, Rusted 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 the the the left, I don't 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 gonna agree with it, or you're gonna 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 this is the way uh proving by the way this is a religion.
This this is a 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, National Review Online concomitantly with the New York Times.
York Post, a writer for the website Gauker 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 tow 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 unless 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 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.
He credits Rochester Institute of Technology Philosophy professor Lawrence Torsello for getting this put them 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 seismologists 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.
Torsello and Weinstein want a similar approach for climate change.
Apparently, six seismologists 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.
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 Wexman 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 Times, 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 vowels are going to rise and all that's going to happen.
Notice that they always make these predictions to come true in a hundred 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, 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.
And 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.
Well, you sit here, and you can say, come on, Rush, nobody's gonna put you in jail over this.
Come on, Russ.
Are you really trying to get us afraid for you that you're gonna go to jail?
No.
What I'm telling you is that there are people who would do it if they could.
There did I just call your attention to what just happened to this poor guy out at Mozilla.
It's always been a 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?
Oh.
Uh well, in terms of persuasion.
No, no, you're you're not going to convince anybody that this is a banana republic is the problem.
It just is a well, but no, but my point is that you're not, you're not going to change any minds by saying, you know, these people are just like a banana republic.
Well, most people are going to think this could never be a banana republic.
This United States of America.
They're going to discard your characterization of this as uh like what happens in a banana republic.
They'll laugh at it if you make a joke about it.
But anyway, I got 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, El 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 talk about, like global warming.
You're knowing 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 uh 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.
Do you ever wondered how civilizations fall on the Mayans and and they they got a few years?
Wait, wait, wait, hold it.
Just a second.
Would you do 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 um I think that's what's gonna happen.
This whole thing's gonna crash, the Obamacare, all this all the all this stuff's gonna 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 you're if it may be honest, truthfully.
You're you're you're you're bouncing off of Ian's call yesterday in part.
Oh yeah, because what I what I'm saying is that if people run scared, there's gonna 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 and don't worry about what people think, then maybe there's hope, but I just all see it.
Give tell me how things are gonna crash.
Well, I mean, look at Obamacare.
Well, that's gonna do the to the medical system.
Right, it isn't gonna work.
This everything that they've ever put in place, all these social programs, all the stuff that they said was gonna make things better, it's nothing's worked.
Yeah, but but they're still functioning.
I mean, they're nowhere near crashing.
Well, eventually.
But I mean, I'm not talking, but I mean, this whole uh thing that happened with uh Brendan Ike is the late.
You know what you're talking about?
You're you're talking about the death of civilizations.
What is it that brings 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 just cultural.
It's just people get stuck on stupid, and then that's pretty much it.
And they're too worried, they're they're too worried about this social stuff and what's really important.
Well, okay, let's say if if 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 could they just continue to exist in rampant stupidity?
I mean, what they're what they're doing now with Firefox is I mean, how 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 how old are you, if you don't mind my asking?
I'm 45.
45.
That's all that I've been hearing since I've been born is we gotta fix education, we've got to fix this, we gotta fix that, and they've they don't do anything.
Yeah, I know.
And so every you know, you gotta remember that when people are taught all this crap, it doesn't go away.
I mean, there's something that's gonna have to happen where people that's that's my point.
When when they're taught this, it doesn't go away, yet you say it's gonna crash.
Oh, I'm just saying it's you know, theoretically, if if they were to ever get to a point where uh I mean the health system's gonna have to crash, everything's gonna have to, you know, basically they're gonna 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 gonna have something that has to bottom out before actually people figure it out.
That's my point.
Well, I know.
It you like essentially saying it's gonna fall apart before we fix it.
I would contend to you, it has fallen apart.
But it's still, I know.
But it's only gonna get worse, though.
Because even if they kind of start fixing things now, they're gonna have to go, they're gonna have to take back what what these people did in the last 40 or 50 years or so.
Uh-huh.
Okay, now we're getting something new.
So you think at some point they're gonna start taking back some of the benefits, some of the welfare benefits, some of it and that that's all the just you know all collectively, all this all this stuff.
That they put in the place.
Let me tell you something.
I look, 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.
And here we are, 17 trillion, and we're still trucking.
Now, I'm not trying to be argumentative with you, but I I would 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 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 we're we're on a dead-end course.
We're we're we're headed to nothing working.
Everything's gonna fail.
We're gonna bottom out.
And he was, I think, say we're gonna 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 five trillion, now it's gonna be the end of the country.
And here it is 55 years later.
And there's no end inside to it.
We're not getting a handle on it.
Nobody's engaging in any repair work or any policies that are gonna fix this, even change direction.
We're keep adding to the debt, we keep creating entitlements, we keep paying people not to work.
Uh it what's an unnatural circumstance.
Well, no, I don't I don't I don't know that in this case, I don't know that Obama's race is 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 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, I well, I look at I don't want to make this any more confusing than it is.
I'm just, you know, I I live in Realville, I'm a literalist.
When somebody tells me that we're gonna 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 gonna you think thousands of people aren't gonna 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 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 the 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 having the siestas and uh and all that.
I mean, when does this happen?
So I don't the 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 civilization, I think there's always going to be an America.
Even if the left wins everything, there's always going to be in America.
It just 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.
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 bottom out.
I want to talk about the Wednesday's and the Roman Empire in it.
Okay, well, what how's that actually going to happen here?
He had no answer, really.
Well, it's just gonna implode on itself.
What is gonna implode?
I mean, if even if we get to 20% unemployment, there are 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 uh it has been in the past.
And that's what we're trying to preserve.
Trying to get some sanity, we're trying to re-establish uh uh, you know, a moral code of decency and all that.
That's that's 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 I think what they 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 that when there is no right or wrong, when you're not allowed to uh 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 is taking place here.
Um yeah, Detroit clearly has collapsed.
Yeah, well, but Detroit's still functioning.
They still got a mayor, they got a city council, they got people live there to go to work.
Uh the Detroit still has a Detroit Lions, they got the Detroit Pistons, they got the Detroit Red Wings.
They still have the bridge, it connects them to uh to Canada.
Most of the people have gone.
Well, yeah, they've gone.
They've moved out.
But Detroit is is uh there's it's 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 with 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 uh I got to tell you about the audio book, the first Patriot 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 that narrated 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 Is that right?
I thought there were a lot of books on audio that were read by uh authors and professional narrators.
There are some, but this is a free service for the blind.
And uh, like I say, I read the free service to the blind, okay.
Yeah, and it's how I read the uh pilgrim books.
Um I uh just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed it because when you have a great narrator uh reading an unabridged book, it's fantastic.
And I love the fact that you dedicated the book to Vince Flynn.
Uh I'll miss him.
I really enjoyed the Mitchrap series.
Well, Vince Flynn uh did dedicate uh Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims to him.
He was well, in addition to just being a uh a close friend.
But 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 Jack Bowery Navy SEAL, and that's Vince.
That's that's who he was.
He was he was just a classic, tough, no nonsense, patriotic, uh 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 uh to him.
Now you're you're uh you're blind, and so you've you've you've heard me read the audio versions of the books, and those are children's books.
You still enjoyed them?
The the one book, Rush.
One book is 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 how did you hear me read the first one?
The through uh the 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 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 Tilgrim 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 is very well done.
Well, I I would you do you have the uh 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.
I thought it'd be fantastic.
Yeah.
I'd appreciate that.
But but you 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 that it's unabridged.
Not abridged.
You know, that is a big deal to people who can't read.
And people that aren't familiar with the audio books 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 emoting, 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 I must I'm gonna 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 it uh some days my voice wasn't all there, so we had to wait an hour or two till it came back.
And I am I've spent put a lot of effort uh in 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, uh my mother had a suggestion for you.
You have the Ted T bear on mine, which uh she loves.
And she had a suggestion for you.
You gotta make a stuffed liberty.
Well, you know what?
But here's the I know that that you 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 T, one if my land, two it by the Ted T Bear.
We were coming up with all kinds of products, which were variations on the and it it 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 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.
Snurley's gonna get your address so we can send you the audio of the uh of the of the second book and send him a Ted T bear.
Since his mom brought it up, send him as the Ted T. Bear.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Ha, welcome back.
L. Rushbo on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now, one of the one of the things that our caller, two callers ago, was talking about how did the Mayans collapse and uh Roma's what happened?
One of the things that he mentioned was that they're gonna have to start taking things back, meaning reduced benefits.
Well, the only thing Obama has taken back are signup deadlines, the employer mandate.
He's he's 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 gonna take back anything, uh, 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?
Well, let's just let's say Social Security.
Who's gonna do it?
There isn't a politician in the world that's gonna do it, who stands for re-election.
They're all gonna propose it ten years from now, fifteen years from now, whatever fix it.
No politician alive.
Well, there might be exceptions, but get my drift.
It would be uh it'd be a death sentence.
You imagine a guy running for office, I'm gonna have to cut back on Social Security by every junction a month for every recipient.
I'm gonna 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.
Now 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 Ike at Mozilla.
No comment.
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