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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 said, 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 2FIT and El Rush?
Well, Rush Revere.
Just have grab what's handy.
Welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh 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 get it done again.
And we'll see.
Could be exciting.
Could be a massive improvement.
It will obviously help me distinguish where sound is coming from.
But the real key is will it improve speech comprehension, both in a quiet and noisy 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 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, income inequality.
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 run with the agenda, and that's it.
They get everybody on it.
And so we're going to, you know, if they're going to pound people with it, we're going to push back.
I don't care if I've been 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 going to push back on it.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Here we have a montage, which is this story that ran, let's see, inthehill.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 the 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 it, you've got the map of the country, 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 breasts are in the way.
And 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 Al Poop and his pants Roker 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 it, we got the sound bite coming up.
But we put a montage together of ABC's media people, NBC, Savannah Guthrie, Robin Roberts, Al Joker, Gail King, Megan Glaros, talking about all these weather people on TV being interviewed by Obama.
You're going 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 going to be interviewing the president today.
Al, how's it going?
Hey, it's good.
We just saw Bo.
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 going to 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 get one from somebody.
But 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 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 here's the story.
New York Times, October 2nd, 1997.
That's 13.
17 years ago.
Unbelievable.
17 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 complain that they pay scant attention to the issue, the 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.
But it's just 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 got to retry it.
Got to 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, male, and shorter than they appear on TV.
Like, do you believe that?
That's actually in the story.
That is actually in the story.
Let me read this to you again.
This is 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, comma, 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, 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, the New York Times, who were overwhelmingly white, male, and shorter than they got to do with anything.
Now, an 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 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, Steve Doocy, the jovial Fox News channel weatherman, asked Al Joker, the bullion NBC weatherman, just why it wasn't that the president of the United States Why It Was invited him over.
And Roker said, because of the Krispy Kremes.
And then he sobered up and told the 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 videotape of what happened this year.
17 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 we're at whatever it is.
We're 7 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 going to 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.
What do you mean, one-on-one?
It going to 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 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 got to pass a little gas here.
I'm walking by myself.
Who's going to 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 year and a half ago.
So this morning on the Today Show, the fill-in co-host, Willie Geist, is interviewing Larry King.
We're changing subjects now.
This is, I don't want to stay on the poop story long.
Really?
Come on.
I mean, do you believe Matt?
Al Joker reporting.
By the way, were you at the White House today?
Because Joker said that they saw a bull running around.
It 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, 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.
Well, the passing of gas might be a little more.
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 Larry King.
And Guy said, you've been very open about the fact you miss live TV.
You miss the daily interaction with the staff and with the guests.
And I've got to tell you, CNN's prime times are in 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 troll of the crew.
Great cash.
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 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.
Now, back to this global warming thing for one minute.
You know why this is actually being done, don't you?
Let me remind you, there's a huge billionaire out here, Democrat donor by the name of Tom Styre.
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.
$100 million donation that this guy, that's what he's willing to give in order to fight this.
$100 million.
So the story from 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, waterless terrain.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
We got to do global warming.
That's the story.
But the real reason is Tom Steyer And Obama's desire for his $100 million 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, Rosh.
Actually, it's Kevin from Attica, Ohio, but that's all right.
I'm sorry.
That's my mistake.
Sorry about that.
Okay, I wanted to say such an honor to speak with you somewhere.
My father is doing a tap dance.
You are definitely our knight in shining information.
I won't try not to be too long-winded here and wrap this up pretty quick.
As I explained to your gentleman before, I'm kind of an in-between gap of generations.
My father was a World War II merchant marine, and my mother was, I don't know, Vietnam-era person.
Now, when you mentioned about going back, talking about childhood, when we all hit under the table during the nuclear war warnings, I remember that vividly.
We would hide under the table and they would push a clicker over the announcement system, and we would all hide under the table.
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 something to that effect.
And there was a lot of folks that were trying to find some identity, and, you know, what could we do?
What could we do?
And I'm going to thought through that a little bit, and I'm not trying to be too confusing, but I believe that back during the days of Orson Welles 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.
This is probably why Hollywood and the liberals are so close.
Well, I'm sure that that played a role, but the idea of manipulating people for fear or with fear of anxiety is as old as humanity is.
It's an art that's been perfected by some, not used as well by others.
But I mean, your basic point is, 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, when callers lie to Snerdley, you don't want to be in the room.
And he didn't lie.
I mean, he wouldn't lie.
He just 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 so, you know, we're so in his theory, the kids of the baby boomers, the kids of the World War II generation, i.e. us, the baby boomers, have been on a long search for meaning.
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 wants to have meaning.
And, you know, I don't want to.
A made-up trauma can be just as traumatic as a real one.
Trauma is trauma.
If you talk yourself into it, if it's real, it's still going to have the same sort of stress point effect on you.
My only point in the comparison is that, 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 had it tough.
Well, we've really had it comparatively easy.
But at the same time, those of us alive today have not faced a government like this.
Our country hasn't been as precariously balanced.
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.
If you remember back when you baby boomers out there, when we were kids, there were two things really that I recall.
The nuclear.
Can I admit something to you?
I never got afraid of it.
I thought people with the bomb shelters were kind of, come on, especially ducking.
I was always a smart aleck malcontent.
And I remember telling teachers, you're 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, and I can't even remember, but 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.
If you're not old enough to remember that, that won't mean anything to you.
But Kevin 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.
Those people won wars for crime.
My dad, 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 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.
You bet.
First, I want to 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 we got a lot of laughs out of it.
Thank you.
That was the intention.
That's great.
It was fine.
I hated to see it go, and it's better than a lot of the TV that's on today, let me tell you.
It probably took a lot of time.
But listen, I'm calling in response to this guy who called about global warming.
And, you know, he really acted like he knew a whole lot about it because he has his master's degree in engineering.
And it kind of irked me the wrong way.
I heard him use a couple of terms, and I guess I was brushing to your defense, even though you don't need it.
And let me preface this by saying I'm not a scientist or I'm a financial planner.
I just meet a lot of interesting people.
But I was at lunch with three scientists, all three of them used to work for NASA.
They went in and started doing their own thing.
So they're pretty smart guys.
And one of them came up with this hurricane prediction model.
And 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.
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, we don't believe in global warming.
They said, but if you want to get a $2, $3, $5, $10 million government grant, he said, you believe in global warming.
Bingo!
He said, just follow the money.
And so they laugh about it, you know, and I hear these people talking about there's no money in it.
And I'm thinking, you know, it is.
It's just whatever government pursues.
Let me tell you something.
This is another thing, Bill.
After Hurricane Katrina, the global warming scaremonger crowd predicted Katina's all at Katrina's all-the-time now.
Every hurricane was going to 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 backtested his hurricane prediction model, and he's like 98% accurate over the last, I don't know however old the SOAD satellite data is.
And like I say, they just laughed about it.
And I did want to respond, too, because I heard you talking about what news reports.
And there, again, me being a financial planner, you're probably aware.
You're a 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.
But anyway, I enjoy listening to your show.
And thanks for taking my call.
Now, wait, before you go, Bill, what did these guys, one of them had hurricane forecasting models?
Is that what you said he did?
Yeah, he sure does.
Did he have one for this summer?
What's it going to be?
I'd have to ask him.
But this guy is.
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, you know, 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, try and make some money off of it.
And but yeah, he's one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
See, that's okay.
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 and the science is settled.
And of course, that's not even possible.
It was Max Mayfield that used to run the National Hurricane Center.
I remember 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 we're trying to figure out the Asian carp situation.
Right on, Daddy.
Oh, here we are back at it.
El Rushball with talent on loan from God.
Dang, I just think a microphone got my way.
All right, everyone.
Now, back to the phones.
John in Columbia, South Carolina.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
24-7 Dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much.
That means he's a subscriber to my website, folks.
Appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
I don't have the opportunity to listen to you live, so I always listen to yesterday's program.
So you've been the faithful front seat partner for me.
And the longer I listen, the smarter I get and the funnier you get.
Well, thank you.
That program's never out of date whenever you hear it.
So you're not, I mean, 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 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 shared with me about your cochlear implant, have you had any concern in regards to 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 very, very good question.
I remember I was going deaf and didn't know it.
Little things are happening.
For example, the ventilation fan in a room didn't sound as loud to me.
So I'd call a company and say, there's something wrong with the fan.
It's not working right.
And he'd come, 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 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 had a 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.
Certainly didn't know how fast.
And my voice was changing.
The cochlear implant saved 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.
The doctors all said that.
The cochlear implant, even 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 have to be able to hear yourself or you will not be able to speak as you do now.
So it is the implant, it's good enough.
I mean, my voice sounds the same.
I can tell when I'm hoarse.
I can tell enough to know that to keep my voice from deteriorating, 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 enjoy hearing you, and I just didn't know, like I said, the risk of adding another cochlear implant if that changes the feedback when you hear yourself.
No, it actually, it's a great question.
It actually saved that aspect.
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 people try to speak, but they can't make any sense of it.
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 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 just not trying hard enough.
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 this regard, because it's the only disability where the victim, as it were, is blamed for having the disability.
And it 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 I've got them.
I'm going to 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.
This is too rich, Kent, to let this go.
So we've got this, we've got all kinds of stuff still scheduled tomorrow.
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