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May 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 6, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, I forgot I just didn't I didn't unpack the Rush Revere glasses.
We had some Steelers' glasses around it.
People asking on a dinner cam, why are you drinking a Steelers tumbler instead of two if by tea and El Rush Rush Revere?
Just have grab what's handy.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush limbo on the left coast for the rest of the week.
Get the brand new cochlear implant on the right side turned on, activated and programmed on Thursday, and probably have to go back Friday and uh and get it done again, and we'll see.
Could be exciting.
Could be a massive improvement.
Uh it will obvious help me distinguish where sound is coming from, but the real key is will it improve speech comprehension, both in a quiet and noisy uh environment.
And there's no way of predicting it.
Won't know until it actually gets turned on.
We map it and program it.
And uh see what happens.
Looking forward to it.
That's why we're here.
While we're here, we're having big yucks.
Lots of fun.
It's a fun place.
Happy to have you with us as always.
800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program right now on CNN.
Report climate change is here.
It's amazing.
Minimum wage, global warming, uh uh income inequality, uh, women don't pay.
I mean, it's just like clockwork.
And this is the daily media soap opera.
Script written in Washington and New York by the drive-bys in conjunction with the White House or the liberal leaders of the day, and they've run with the agenda, and it's it.
And they get everybody on it.
And so we're gonna, you know, if they're if they're gonna pound people with it, we're gonna push back.
I don't care if I'm pushing back for 25 years.
If they're going to keep lying, if they're going to keep trying to use all kinds of subterfuge, we're gonna push back on it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here we have a montage.
Um, which it's it's this story that ran, let's see, in the hill.com.
Obama to talk climate with meteorologists.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, President Obama will speak about climate change today.
Maybe already has with a number of national and local TV weather guys.
TV meteorologists.
They've all got the AMS seal of approval there, which means they paid the entry fee.
And they're all climate scientists now.
See?
All these TV Ken dolls and Barbie dolls.
I remember first time I realized what this is all about.
I was in Kansas City, and there was some weather babe that station hired it.
She was the talk of the town.
You know why?
Because she stood in the weather map.
And as she is, if you look at you got the map of the country, the whole country behind her, she's standing facing you, facing the camera while standing where the East Coast is.
And the minute she turned to her right to point out something happening in Kansas, her busts covered the whole country.
I said, wait a minute, she's got to move.
I can't see the country because b breasts are in the way.
And then I, oh, wait a minute, that's why she's there.
Well, you can smirk in there, but I'm telling you, you should have seen it as why she was there.
Anyway, that's who Obama's talking to today.
And so the media is all excited about this.
Because you see, the 2014 National Climate Assessment was released today, and it will be the focus of Obama's interviews.
And uh Al Poop and his pants Roker uh will be among those.
He did at the White House.
Don't blame me.
He pooped in his pants in the White House and bragged about it, laughed about we got the soundbite coming up.
But we put a montage together of uh ABC's media people, NBC, Savannah Guthrie, Robin uh Roberts, uh Al Joker, Gale King, Megan uh Glaros, uh, talking about all these weather people on TV being interviewed by Obama.
You're about to talk to the president of the United States later today about climate change.
Yes, and I'm very much looking forward to that interview.
Let's check in with Al.
He's down at the White House this morning.
He's gonna be interviewing the president today.
Al, how's it going?
Hey, it's good.
We just saw Bo.
Uh, he was out for his walk.
She will interview President Obama today.
All right, Megan Glaros.
Are you ready?
I am ready, yes.
We're gonna be talking about the first climate assessment that's been released in five years.
Oh, come on, they release one every year.
Sometimes two or three times a year we got one from somebody.
But this is this is pathetic, and it's hilarious at the same time.
Obama's doing a series of interviews because climate change is here.
Aiden, you report the 2014 National Climate Assessment.
It's all these weather people.
Obama's, it's a it's it's it's mass-produced interviews today.
It's the assembly line.
And the subject is Obamacare.
Sorry.
Take it back.
The subject is global warming.
The whole thing, folks, is a pre-planned, pre-programmed political push.
Bill Clinton did the same thing with weathermen back in 1997.
Al Joker was at that one too.
Here, let me read you.
New York Times October 2nd, 1997.
Clinton nudges TV forecasters on warming.
And uh here's the story.
New York Times, October 2nd, 1997.
That's the 13.
Seventeen years ago.
Unbelievable.
Seventeen years ago.
Same thing, history repeating.
Clinton nudges TV forecasters on warming.
On the theory that you do, in fact, need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Mr. Clinton invited more than 100 national and local television forecasters to the White House today for a chat with him and Vice President Al Gore, and for briefings on climate change from government experts.
The regime hopes that the forecasters will influence public opinion on climate change more than the journalists on the evening news.
Clinton aides complained that they pay scant attention to the issue.
Journalists.
Well, that was then this is now.
Now everybody's on board.
See, it's nothing but politics, folks.
There isn't any science.
The idea that Clinton or Obama is talking to scientists in these interviews.
And of course, the TV weather people, they're happy to be used.
I mean, it's access to the president.
They get bragging rights.
Uh, but it's it's just it's pathetic and it's history repeating itself.
The New York Times exposing how Clinton tried to brainwash everybody back in 1997, holding data today, only 34% of the American people even give a hoot, so they gotta retry it.
Gotta redo it.
Here's more from that New York Times story.
You, just in the way you comment on the events that you cover, may have a real effect on the American people, Mr. Clinton said this afternoon to the assembled TV weathermen, who were overwhelmingly white and male and shorter than they appear on TV.
You believe that?
That's actually in the story.
That is actually in the story.
Let me read this to you again.
This is night New York Times October 2th, 1997.
You just in the way you comment on the events that you cover may have a real effect on the American people, Mr. Clinton said this afternoon to the assembled broadcasters, who were overwhelmingly white male and shorter than they appear on TV.
You know, this is back in the days when the print people still hated the TV people, because the TV people hadn't figured out to make guests and experts out of the print guys.
The print guy, the print guy.
The print guys just jealous as hell of the vacant brains the TV people had, plus all the money they made.
The print guys thought they were the real deal.
They were the real journalists.
And here are these artificial Ken dolls and Barbie dolls on TV making all this money saying things written down for them in a teleprompter.
And so that's why you have a snarky comment like this.
17 years ago in the New York Times, who were overwhelmingly white male and shorter than they got T What's that got to do with anything?
Now ESPN started this.
Now you can't turn on the television without some print guy being an analyst or expert on something.
So They've made TV guys out of the print people, and they've uh they've forged some unity in that way.
Playing host to the nation's television weathermen was the most innovative step in a White House campaign to rally public support for new binding global targets for restricting greenhouse gases.
From the start of the piece, uh Steve Ducey, the jovial Fox News channel weatherman asked Al Joker, the ebullient NBC weatherman, just why it wasn't that the President of the United States or why it was invited him over.
And Roker said, because of the crispy creams.
And then he sobered up and uh told Fox viewers that Clinton wanted to talk about climate change.
It's all politics, folks.
It's just Okay, so let's go to the video tape of what happened this year.
Seventeen years later, here is Brian Williams last night.
Actually, no, it's this morning on the Today Show.
They aired a promo for tonight's NBC Nightly News.
Among the stories we're working on for tonight's NBC Nightly News, this major new report on climate change, Al Roker going one-on-one with President Obama talking about the growing threat.
Stop and think how pathetic this is.
Okay, here we are, and it we're at whatever this we're seven o'clock in the morning today, Eastern time.
And they already know what's going to be in the NBC Nightly News.
And it's gonna be a programmed package with the local NBC weather guy talking to Obama, and they breathlessly promote the new major report on climate change.
NBC working on tonight's NBC nightly news, Al Joker interviewing one on one with what do you mean one on one?
It's gonna be a debate.
Now let's hope that Al Roker doesn't get excited today, because the last time he got excited, it wasn't a pretty sight.
January 6, 2013, NBC's dateline, Al Roker's gastric bypass surgery, which was also promoted on the NBC Nightly News.
Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Al Roker talked about his gastric bypass surgery.
When you have a bypass and you're, you know, your bowel has been reconstructed, you think you're pretty safe.
And I probably went off and ate something I wasn't supposed to.
And as I'm walking to the press room, you think I gotta pass a little gas here.
So I'm walking by myself, who's gonna know?
Only a little something extra came out.
You pooped in your pants.
I pooped my pants.
Not horribly, but enough that I knew.
This was on NBC Prime Time Television date line on a report about Al Roker, January 6th.
This is a half a year and a half ago.
So this morning on the Today Show, the fill-in co-host, Willie Geist, is interviewing Larry King.
This is we're changing subjects now.
This is Well, I don't want to stay on the poop story long.
Really?
Come on.
I mean, did you read do you believe Matt?
Al Joker reporting.
By the way, were you at the White House today?
Because Joker said that they saw ball running around.
Must be the family dog.
Well, you know, I don't know why you would tell anybody.
And certainly with a straight face as though you're actually making news.
No, I'll tell you why, because Al Roker thought he was being helpful.
This is the, you know, if you're going to get gastric bypass surgery, be very careful, because you could get invited to the White House like I did and poop in your pants.
You could get fooled.
The f well, the passing of gas might be a little more than that.
They're trying to, this is their definition of helping people who may not know that they might poop their pants.
It's just you talk about dumbing down, and since we're on that subject, back to the today show, Willie Geist interviewing at Larry King.
And guy said, You've been very open about the fact you miss life TV.
You miss the daily interaction with the staff and with the guests.
I've got to tell you, seeing in prime times earned a little bit of flux lair.
I mean, your old spot opened up not long ago.
Piers Morgan was sent back to London.
If CNN called you today and said, Larry, we want you back, what would you say?
I'd have to do both.
I could not leave the internet.
I'm committed to it.
It's a wonderful trail of the crew.
Great cast.
But I'd be interested.
I'm a workaholic.
I'd be interested doing it.
The tough time I would have at CNN now, I think, would be doing this airplane story.
Because I think I'd crack up laughing.
I think I would have, you know, how many times can you cover a plane?
Six weeks, and all we know is it made a left turn.
What if they forced me to?
I would probably not want to do it.
I th I think it would get embarrassing after a while.
You know, it is embarrassing, and CNN knows it's embarrassing and they're still doing it.
Despite all of that, they are still doing it.
Um back to this global warming thing for one minute.
You know why this is actually being done, don't you?
Let me remind you, the there's a there's a huge billionaire out here, Democrat donor by the name of Tom Steyer.
And he spoke up in the last three weeks or four weeks expressing his dissatisfaction with the lack of action on climate change from Obama.
Hundred million dollar uh donation that this guy that's what he's willing to give in order to fight this.
One hundred million dollars.
So the story in the Washington Post is today, they showed Obama two pictures.
One of the Central Valley here in California, the drought, and over in Nevada, and Obama was so struck by the arid uh waterless terrain.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, we gotta do global warming.
That's the story.
But the real reason is Tom Steyer.
And Obama's desire for his 100 million dollar donation to the Democrat National Committee.
That's why it's all political.
That's why this is all happening.
So Obama evolved on climate change for the same reason he evolved on gay marriage.
Back to the phones we go, people patiently waiting.
This is Kevin in Attica, New York.
Hey, Kevin, thank you very much for your patience.
I appreciate it.
Great to speak with you, Ross.
Actually, it's uh Kevin from Attica, Ohio, but that's all right.
I'm sorry that's that's my mistake.
Sorry about it.
Okay, um, I wanted to say uh such an honor to speak with you somewhere.
My father is doing a tap dance.
Um you are definitely our knight in shining information.
Uh I will try not to be too long-winded here and wrap this up pretty quick.
Uh, as I explained to your your uh gentleman before, um, I'm kind of an in-between gap of generations.
My father was a World War II merchant marine, and my mother uh was uh a uh I don't know, Vietnam yeah person.
Now, when you mentioned about going back, uh talking about childhood when we all hit under the table during the nuclear war uh warnings.
I remember that vividly.
Uh we would hide on the table and they would push a clicker over the over the announcement system, and we would all hide under the table.
Um I wanted to make a comment that our generation kind of searches for legitimacy in this way.
When I was a kid, most of my older generation folks had been some form of a hero, either in war or or something to that effect.
And and uh there was a lot of folks that were trying to find some identity, and you know, what can we do?
What can we do?
And I'm about that a little bit, and I'm not trying to be too confusing, but I believe that back during the days of Orson Wells and his radio broadcast, combined with the phenomenon of the nuclear war fear, they found out that they could manipulate the public with all kinds of fears.
Um this is probably why.
And the liberals are so close.
Well, I'm I'm sure that that played a role, but the idea manipulating people for fear uh or with fear of things is old as humanity is.
It's uh you know it's it's an art that's been perfected uh by some, not used as well by others.
But I mean your your basic point is uh did you are you still there?
I heard a click or did you hang up?
He dropped.
Or did you hang up on him because he was not telling you.
Okay.
All right.
Because he wasn't quite on topic.
And Snerdley sometimes when when callers lie to Snerdley, you don't want to be in the room.
And he didn't lie.
I mean, he wasn't a lie.
He just he he wanted to say so much that he didn't get to his primary point, which was to tell me that he thought I was right in this generational difference.
The World War II generation faced genuine, real, everyday, life-threatening events that they had to beat back, and their kids haven't.
And and and so you we're so in his theory with the kids of the baby boomers, uh the kids of the World War II generation, I used the baby boomers, have been on a long search for meaning.
This everybody wants their life to have meaning.
Everybody does.
And that's, by the way, one of the ways the global warming crowd works.
You can save the planet by doing X, Y, and Z. It gives your life meaning.
Everybody everybody wants to have meaning.
And you know, I I don't want to a made up trauma can be just as traumatic as a real one.
Trauma's trauma.
If you talk yourself into it, or if it's real, it's still gonna have the same sort of stress point effect on you.
My only point in the comparison is that uh and I really mean it.
I think our generation had to invent some in order to give our lives meaning or to tell ourselves that we have it tough.
Well, we've really had it comparatively easy.
Uh but at the same time, those of us alive today have not faced a government like this.
We're not our country hasn't been as precariously balanced.
This uh this challenge is real in that regard too, so it works both ways.
Now, one more thing about our previous callers, Kevin from Attica, Ohio.
He made a really good point, folks.
Do you remember back when uh you baby boomers out there when we were kids?
There were two things really that I recall.
Uh the the the nuclear can I admit something to you?
I never got afraid of it.
I thought people with the bomb shelters were were kind of come on.
Especially ducking.
I was always a smart aleck malcontent.
And I remember telling teachers, are you really telling me that if a nuclear bomb goes off that this desk is going to protect, but still we had to do the drills and get it on.
I just I was never afraid of it.
The things I was afraid of when I can't even remember, but uh I remember I was afraid of polio.
That was the other one that constantly was just on television, the march of dimes, pictures of kids living inside iron lungs.
Uh if you're not old enough to remember that, that won't mean anything to you.
Um but but Kevin made it made a good point because even the things as kids we were afraid of, we had trust that our parents are going to protect us.
Or that the adults around us were going to protect us.
And I think that's missing.
That those people won wars for crime.
My dad, my his friends, they won wars.
They were rough, tough, they were no nonsense.
They were going to protect us, and I don't think that's the case.
I think more people think the government's going to protect them than their own parents are.
Not everybody, but I think it's an increasing number of people who think the government's a great protector.
Half of them don't even have two parents.
And uh that's the thing.
The government's doing both.
The government is the agent of fear and then offering the protection if you acquiesce to what the government wants.
In this case, Democrats.
I mean, that's the bottom line.
So I thought he made a good point, even though Snerdley was besmirching the guy to me off the air here.
Bill in Huntsville, Alabama, you're next.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, thank you, Rush.
I uh first I want to uh uh tell you how much I enjoy your show, never call it in, but I miss your old TV show.
I used to watch it when I was in college.
And uh we got a lot of laughs out of it.
Thank you.
That was the intention.
That's great.
Uh it was fun, and I hated to see it go, and it's better than a lot of TV that's on today, let me tell you.
It's probably took a lot of time.
But um listen, I'm I'm calling in response to uh uh this guy who called about global warming and um you know he really acted like he knew a whole lot about it because he had his master's degree in engineering, and uh kind of irked me the wrong way.
I uh I heard him use a couple of terms, and I guess I was rushing to your defense, even though you don't need it.
But uh, and let me preface this by saying I'm not a scientist or I'm I'm a financial planner.
I just meet a lot of interesting people.
But uh I was at lunch with uh three scientists, uh all three of them used to work for NASA.
They went in and uh started doing their own thing, so they're pretty smart guys.
And one of them came up with this hurricane prediction model, and uh the topic of global warming came up.
And I said, Well, hey, I've been reading that global warming has a lot to do with hurricanes in the newspaper, you know, increased hurricane activities tied to global warming.
Uh and these guys start laughing about it.
And now these are scientists, you know, smarter than I am.
I don't know anything about it, but they start laughing about it, and they said, they said, Bill, I said no.
They said uh uh we don't believe in global warming.
They said, but if you want to get a two, three, five, ten million dollar government grant, he said, you believe in government in global warming.
Bingo!
He said, just follow the money.
And uh so laugh about it, you know, and and I hear these people talking about there's no money in it, and and uh and I'm thinking, you know, it is, it's just whatever uh government uh pursuits.
Let me tell you something.
This is this is another thing, Bill.
After Hurricane Katrina, the global warming scaremonger crowd predicted Crettina's all Katrina's all the time now.
That every hurricane was gonna be one.
It was all because of global warming, and I remember the guy, Max, whatever his name, I couldn't remember his last name, but running the hurricane center kept saying, No, it has nothing to do with global warming, and nobody was paying any attention to him because he wasn't following suit.
There haven't been any major hurricanes in two or three years that impacted the continental United States.
They're just every prediction they make blows up in their faces.
When Al Gore shows up someplace to talk about how hot it's getting, it snows.
It's just incredible.
Everything blows up on them, and yet they just keep going because it's the way a lot of them are earning their living.
It's how Al Gore got rich.
It's how a lot of people are getting rich.
This really smart guy he's back tested his hurricane prediction model, and he's like 98% accurate over the last, I don't know how old the SO data like satellite data is.
And uh, like I say, they just laughed about it.
And um uh and I did want to respond to because I heard you talking about what news reports, and there again, me being a financial planner, you're probably aware you're knowledgeable guy, but what they need to report is you know the U.S. is in danger of losing their world reserve currency status, and also this age wave coming on us.
And um, but anyway, uh enjoy listening to your show.
And uh thanks for taking my call.
Thank you now.
Wait, before you go, Bill, what did these guys one of them was had a it had had hurricane forecasting models?
Is that what you said he did?
He does, yeah, uh he sure does.
And uh Did he have one for this summer?
What's it gonna be?
Uh uh I'd have to ask him.
But this guy is uh See, that's the difference.
If you lived in Florida, you would have asked if you got a guy predicting hurricanes, you would have asked him.
Well, he uh uh you know he's he's actually that's how I met the guy.
He came to me trying to buy some you know futures on commodities and you know trying to make some money off of it.
And um uh but yeah, he's he's one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
See, that's uh so you had lunch with three scientists today, none of whom believe in global warming.
And look, so you tell the left that well, they don't count.
They don't because the consensus is settled in the scientists settled.
And of course, that's not even possible.
Max Mayfield that used to run the National Hurricane Center.
I remember after during Katrina, after Katrina, even up congressional hearings.
Poor Max.
I'm sorry to tell you, but global warming has no evidence has anything to do with this hurricane or any other.
What about sea surface temperatures, Max?
No evidence whatsoever.
And he just got blown off and then he quit and he hadn't been heard from.
Probably over in Naples, wherever they were trying to figure out the Asian carp situation.
Right on, Daddy, oh, here we are back at it.
L Rushball with talent on lawn.
From God.
All right, everyone back to the phones.
John in Columbia, South Carolina.
It's great to have You on the program.
Hi.
24-7 Ditto's Rush.
Thank you very much.
It means he's a subscriber to my website, folks.
Appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
I uh don't have the opportunity to listen to you live, so I always listen to yesterday's program.
So you've been a faithful front seat partner for me.
And the longer I listen, the smarter I get, and the funnier you get.
Well thank you.
A program's never out of date whenever you hear it.
So you're not, I mean, you you're you're you're cool.
You're hip.
You're up to speed with things.
Well, my question was I've been interested about your cochlear implant.
Right.
I'm a I'm a physical therapist.
I work with people with disabilities, and the way you've explained the impact on hearing personally has given me some insight to work with my patients.
But my question was knowing what you said with me about your cochlear implant, have you had any concern in regards that the implant might affect the quality or loudness of your speech, that your voice could possibly change from that feedback we get from hearing our own voice?
Let me tell you what was happening.
It's a gr it's a it's a very, very good question.
Um I remember I was going deaf and didn't know it.
Little things were happening.
For example, the the ventilation fan in a room didn't sound as loud to me.
So I'd I'd call a company, say there's something wrong with the fan.
It's not working right.
And he comes, no, it's perfectly fine.
I didn't know I was losing my hearing.
And I also didn't know that my voice was changing.
And one of my um partners after a program one day came up to me and said, Look, this is the hardest conversation I've ever had to have with anybody.
And I'd been hearing that things are wrong with my voice, and I thought at the time it was a problem we we had a uh piece of techno gizmo called cash box that was intended to allow more commercials to be played, and I thought that it was what was speeding up my voice and so forth and making it sound different to people.
Turns out I was going deaf, I didn't know it yet, uh certainly didn't know how fast, and my voice was changed.
The cochlear implant saved.
Uh my voice would have eventually deteriorated to the point that nobody would have wanted to listen to me and I would have had to stop this.
Uh the doctors all said that.
The cochlear implant, uh, even you know, I'm a voice expert.
I know how my voice feels when I speak.
And I asked them, well, look at my memory of how I feel when I'm speaking properly.
Nope, that won't save you.
You you you have to be able to hear yourself, or you will not be able to speak as you do now.
So um uh it is the implant, it's good enough.
I mean, the the you know, my voice sounds the same thing.
I can tell when I'm hoarse, I can I can tell enough to know that to keep my voice from deteriorator, or wait a minute, are you telling me that my voice is deteriorating again and I don't know it.
I'm not saying that at all.
Are you calling from tomorrow, by the way?
No, sir.
I just uh I enjoy hearing you, and I just didn't know, like I said, the risk of adding another cochlear implant if that changes the feedback you when you hear yourself that No, it actually it's a great question.
It it it it it actually saved that aspect.
Uh now if the implant had not worked, and if it had not enabled me to comprehend speech, and it happens that way with some people, all they can hear is environmental sounds, and they hear the they hear people try to speak, but they can't make any sense of it.
It look, here's the problem with explaining this to people.
The one thing people cannot replicate is total deafness.
Cannot therefore understand it.
You can pretend to be blind, you can pretend to be paralyzed from the waist down, but you cannot pretend to be deaf.
There's no way you can artificially create that.
Even if you put yourself in a soundproof room, you hear something.
You can uh you hear yourself breathe or whatever.
Total deafness, people can't relate to it.
And that's why the deaf always get blamed for not hearing things because people can't.
You can hear me.
You're not trying hard enough.
Um, but in my case, if the implant had not been functional the way it is, yeah, exactly what you say would have happened.
But the implant saved it.
And if you work with people with disability, he knows what I'm talking about in in this regard.
Because it's the only disability where the the victim, as it were, Is blamed for having the disability.
And that took me a little while to figure out, too.
Anyway, John, I appreciate the call.
Yeah, there's some things I didn't get to today, but and I've got them.
I'm gonna do them tomorrow.
One of them is this.
David Remnick is an Obama biographer.
He's the editor of The New Yorker.
And he says in his conversation with Obama, he's learned that the world just seems to disappoint Obama.
The world is letting Obama down.
Well, this is too rich, can't to let this go.
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