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May 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, you go back to the Daily California, the 10 things you need to know about Pelosi.
This is the school newspaper.
If you read this and Pelosi's coming into your commencement, and they have these 10 things you need to know about her.
She keeps Ghiradelli chocolate in the office.
She's worth a boatload of money, known to eat ice cream, knows Brad Pitt.
She's appeared on Top Chef in 30 Rock.
She made a YouTube video over cats.
Diane Furstenberg made a tote bag in honor of her.
She's a big fan of 49er quarterback Colin Campernick's tattoos, but she's cool.
See?
Pelosi's cool.
She's so cool.
She's hip.
That's that's all that garbage means.
That's not the 10 things any soon-to-be big-time adult needs to know about Nancy Pelosi.
Those are harmless things that don't get anywhere near telling anybody about who Nancy Pelosi really is.
At the White House correspondence dinner, the Nerd Prom last weekend, Pelosi said she's confident that the Chicoms are not overtaking us as the world's strongest economy.
She didn't say how she knew it.
She just said, come on, lighten up.
There's no way that that's going to happen.
Meanwhile, just today, JP Morgan Chase just lowered the estimate for first quarter growth to a negative 0.8%.
Goldman Sachs lowered their estimate to zero negative 0.6%, which is to say that both JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are now saying we had negative growth in the first quarter, despite the Obamacare spending.
The regime put out 0.1%, one-tenth of a percent growth in the first quarter of the economy, and they blamed it on the weather.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, negative 0.
or 0.08%, and Goldman Sachs .06 negative.
That's heartless, and it's cruel, and it is so unnecessary.
I want to pick up with one subject we left off yesterday.
Obama, as you know, gathered together or something appeared with a whole bunch of TV meteorologists about climate change, about the new White House report on global warming.
By the way, there's a new term now.
It's global warming's out, climate change is it.
The new one is climate disruption.
Well, climate change and it they can't get anywhere near a majority of people caring about this.
They just they just the economy remains everybody's number one concern.
So climate disruption is the is the next catchphrase that they're going to use in trying to persuade people.
But we have some sound bites of Obama being interviewed by these TV weather people.
And up first, uh, well, no, before we get it, we got one soundbite from CNN.
And it's Jake Tapper speaking to one of their correspondents, Tom Foreman, about the White House National Climate Assessment Report that was released yesterday.
Jake Tapper says, now let's look at the future, Tom.
Let's look at the year 2100.
What is the report saying will happen if we do something or if we do nothing?
Now stop there.
We are in 2014.
So the White House has a report telling us what's going to be the weather.
In 86 years, now I want to ask you.
If you turn on your local news affiliate, your favorite local eyeball news affiliate, and the local weather guy comes on and seriously gives you a weather forecast.
For 86 years from now, are you going to believe it?
If he gives you a forecast, I mean a an explicit definitive with the high temperature, the low temperature, percentage chance of rain, whatever, in next year, same date next year.
Are you going to believe it?
Not seasonal averages.
If he tells you exactly what it's going to be, no way you're going to believe it.
Are you going to believe a weather forecast 50 years from today?
No, but see, they said, well, on the climate rush, that's not the weather.
Well, it manifests itself as weather.
I mean, what uh may not be the study of the sciences may not be the same, but climate change manifests itself as weather.
Droughts and snowstorms and rainstorms, sinking or rising sea levels and melting glaciers and all that, those are all going to have impact on the weather.
I saw a story.
Do you know that El Nino slows the Earth's rotation on its axis?
Had you heard that, Brian?
El Nino.
It's only temporary because when El Niño goes away, the Earth picks up the speed and makes up what it lost.
Absolute crock.
If that ever happens, folks, we are in heap big doo-doo.
Anyway, let's go and listen.
Tom Foreman first, answering Jacob Tapper's question.
Okay, the White House climate rechange report came out.
And what do they tell us it's gonna be in 86 years, Tom?
The report is saying if we do something, the effect continues, because it's not all man-made.
They're not saying that.
They're saying there are other effects.
If we do nothing, they're saying you still get a four to five degree increase in temperature.
That is if we do something, if we do something, that's what you get.
But if you do nothing, they're saying it's much worse.
Eight to nine degrees.
So it's part science, part politics, Jake, but very pointed.
Why doesn't somebody go back to 1985 and examine what these same people were saying it was going to be today?
And then learn that they didn't know what they were talking about then.
Because what they're saying is going to happen at 2100, it was going to have started by now.
And it hasn't.
There hasn't been any warming.
Sea level isn't rising or blowing.
The Arctic ice is bigger than it's ever been.
The polar bears, there's so much, it's threatening them, in fact, so much ice.
Not enough water for them to get to.
I'm kidding, folks.
But it's this subs.
So here you have this reporter, this formula just swallows it all.
Just eats it up.
Go to the White House, the government, the government, the Obama administration.
Released a report.
Just believe it.
Just totally this is this is I have never been one of these people to automatically believe this kind of stuff.
That's why I'm sort of a loner, because I have nothing in common with a whole lot of people.
I just, I am not a follower of conventional wisdom.
I just it just I intellectually I can't.
This is so absurd.
I would be embarrassed to go on TV and honestly say what this guy said last night.
I would be embarrassed.
Well, Jacob, let me tell you what I learned today.
That even if we don't do anything, temperatures are gonna go up four to five degrees.
That's if we do nothing, that's bad enough.
If we do no eight to nine degrees if we do nothing.
If we do something, four to five degrees.
And that's bad enough, Jacob, but if we don't do anything, it's gonna be intolerable.
So, how smart are these people?
Even if we do something, we still have a disaster.
And they're telling people who aren't even gonna be alive today.
I just I the whole thing just it it boggles the mind.
So now let's get to the real wizards of smart, the local TV weather people talking to Barack Obama.
This is a today's show today, Al Joker interviewed Obama.
And Al Joker said, why has it taken so long to get to this point where you are sounding this urgency?
Well, I tell you, we've been signing this urgency for the last five years.
If we don't do more, we're gonna have bigger problems, more risk of uh economic impact, and more risk of uh extreme weather events that can result in people losing their lives or losing their properties or businesses.
And and we've got to have the public understand this is an issue that is gonna impact our kids and our grandkids unless we do something about it.
And of course, Al Joker is sitting there smiling or nodding knowingly and swallowing it syllable by syllable.
And if you parse this, well, I tell you, Al, we've been sounding this urgency for the last five years.
If we don't do more, we're gonna have bigger problems.
We're gonna have more risk of economic impact.
The biggest risk to our economy is the guy Al Joker was talking to.
We don't need to wait for global warming.
Three more years of this guy, and we may not have an economy.
We don't need to wait on whatever global warming is going to do.
Now we're gonna have more risk of economic impact, more risk of extreme weather events.
Oh, have we found a way to prevent those, Mr. President?
Have we literally found a way to reduce the number and risk of extreme weather events that can result in people losing their lives or losing their properties or businesses?
You see, that's never happened before.
The weather has never blown up anybody's business.
A tornado, you know, tornado hurricanes never killed anybody yet.
And if we don't, if we don't start caring about this pretty soon, that is going to start happening.
So if we don't act real fast, the economic impact and people's loss of life and their businesses being drowned and destroyed, so we gotta act, Al, does this mean, Mr. President, that you have a way of preventing these extreme weather events?
Uh, yep, we do.
It's called raising taxes on the rich and uh EPA regulation on what you drive and uh things like that.
Oh, really?
So raising taxes and changing the cars people drive, that's gonna prevent extreme weather.
That's what they want people to believe.
There isn't a single human being.
There's not a single thing anybody can do to prevent a hurricane from forming.
There's not a single thing we can do to steer one away from us when it does form.
There's not a single thing we can do to dissipate one once it does form.
There's not a single thing we can do about a tornado ditto.
There's not a see it, thunderstorm clouds and a line of squall.
There's not a thing we can do, and we've never been able to, and we're never going to be able to.
And the idea that the way Americans are living is responsible for these extreme weather events is insulting.
It ought to be insulting to everybody.
Up next, meteorologist Ginger Z, this is ABC's world news tonight.
Meteorologist Ginger Z interviews interviewing Obama.
And Ginger Z said the new report, the climate situation we're in, it seems pretty dire, Mr. President.
What do you think you can get done in the next two years?
This climate assessment that's been done uh over the course of four years really establishes that climate change is already affecting Americans all across the country, in every region, although in different ways.
Yeah.
Uh climate change is, huh?
Affecting Americans all across the country in every region, although in different ways.
Climate change is doing this.
Really?
So now anything that happens in the weather is tied immediately to climate change, meaning that if we can get our arms around climate change and stop it, we're gonna stop all these horrible weather events.
This is what they're actually asking people to believe.
And the sad thing is there's a whole host of low information people that apparently swallow this, although it isn't a big number.
This is the truly comforting thing is the number of people that think this is top drawer issue is tiny, a single digits.
But it doesn't stop these people from trying to gin this up.
Okay, so then Ginger Zer interview was on ABC's World News tonight, and she was all excited.
Well, Keystone's probably not gonna be a determinant factor.
We're gonna have to continue to uh increase uh the solar and wind power that We're using and other renewables.
This is not some faraway thing.
We can do something about it.
That's my fault.
I got look at the piece of paper.
I can't follow it so small in big spaces here.
That she asked Obama a question about the Keystone Pipeline.
It is will your legacy include a decision on that Keystone Pipeline proposal?
Now, this is one of the reasons why Obama wants to talk to these people.
Because he knows that they're just going to fall right in line and ask him every softball question that he wants.
So she feeds him a line about Keystone so we can talk about alternative clean energies.
Mr. President, will your legacy include a decision on that Keystone pipeline?
Well, Keystone's probably not going to be determined fact.
We're going to have to continue increased solar wind.
We're using another renewables.
It's not some faraway thing.
Yes, it is.
There isn't one drop of anything out there that will replace oil.
Not one.
We can't replace oil with wind.
We can't replace it with solar.
I mean, you could replace it with nuclear, but we're not going to put reactors in cars, and we're not going to put reactors in airplanes to power them.
There's literally.
This is so absurd.
Now the next after all this, then she was on.
It's up to sound by number 10.
Then she was she was uh uh all excited, and she was asked the highlight of the interview, and it was that Obama asked her a question.
And then something interesting happened, Diane.
The president actually asked me a question.
He wanted to know which storm was the worst that I had ever covered.
My answer hurricane Sandy and Katrina.
Wow.
What big news that was.
Holy smokes, Ginger Z was actually asked a question by the president in the global warming segment, and he wanted to know what the biggest worst storm was that she had ever covered.
My answer, Hurricane Sandy and Katrina.
And that's worth what to the viewer.
I don't know, folks.
This is just let me take a break.
Otherwise, there are going to be short sort segment to follow, and I don't like that.
So we'll do it now and we'll be back and move on after this.
Don't go.
Well, well, well, looky here.
Coco Jr. at uh Rushlinbaugh just uh dot com just sent me a quick note.
Documents released Friday.
And this is uh this is from July of 2010, folks.
So it's in the archives at rushlimbaugh.com.
Documents released Friday, the four years ago by the Nixon Presidential Library.
Show members of Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
Advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the Nixon administration, urged the Nixon administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere decades before the issue of global warming even came to the public's attention.
Here is the nub.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned Richard Nixon in 1970 that unless the Nixon administration took drastic action to limit greenhouse gases, it would be seven degrees warmer in the year 2000, And parts of America would be underwater.
In 1970, this is five years before the famous Newsweek cover on the coming Ice Age.
Moynihan in 1970 warned Nixon to act on global warming or parts of the country would be underwater.
In fact, here's what he wrote.
This could increase the average temperature near the Earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit, which in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet, goodbye New York, goodbye Washington, by the year 2000.
14 years ago.
In 1970, Nixon was told we got to act now, or by 30 years from now, 2000, New York City's gone.
Washington's gone, and we're going to have temperature raise of seven degrees.
There's nothing that has changed.
There's nothing new.
The predictions are the same.
They never come true.
All of these predictions of doom and gloom and destitution never come true.
What does happen?
While all of these predictions are out there, liberal policies are put into place and they do cause havoc.
And they Ehrlich was also in the 1970s.
And back to the phones we go to reward people patiently waiting.
And this is Rick in Orfield, Pennsylvania.
Hi.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Rush, it's a it's a privilege to talk to you.
I want a long time listener.
I consider you my uh silent uh inspirational business partner.
Um I love the way that you uh correlated uh the low fat myth with people's unwillingness to have critical thinking and and just uh with the uh with the global warming.
I've been a bodybuilder since the eighties and uh and have been preaching the loaf about about the low fat myth forever, and people just don't want to listen.
I mean, it I I remember when the Atkins book came out, and uh I remember getting mad at myself because I was thinking myself the only thing Atkins did was document what bodybuilders had been doing since the sixties.
Yeah, I I I practiced the Atkins diet when it came out, and you're right.
There were people you're gonna kill yourself.
That's absolutely horrible.
You can't you've got to have your vegetables, you've got to have carbohydrates, and I said, No, you're gonna get diabetes, you can't and you know this stuff is so ingrained in people that they literally get mad at you when you violate what they think is uh life-threatening dietary regimen.
I've gotten into arguments with with family members who who are dietitians, I've gotten arguments with doctors, nurses.
Um my first bodybuilding contest was in 1984.
I was eating over 6,000 calories a day and lost 30 pounds in six weeks.
It's an easy, it's an easy concept to understand.
And that's because you probably were not eating any carbs, so you had to burn stored whatever for energy, right?
Abs absolutely.
There are only three macronutrients.
You either got fat, carbohydrates, or proteins, and only one of them is an energy source, and that's carbohydrates, and fat on your body is nothing but stored energy.
But you know, I'll see people, my own wife.
She go to the store, she'll bring home this stuff, low fat, low fat.
You know, why'd you bring that home?
Well, you know, it's low fat, it's good for you.
That's we'll turn it over, look at the label.
This first ingredient is sugar or fructose or corn syrup.
Kids are gaining weight.
Okay, what are they drinking?
Apple juice, pineapple juice, grape juice.
I mean, things are just loaded with carbohydrates.
I used to get into talk to people and say, you know, what what's bad about that French fry?
What's bad about that potato chip?
Oh, you say it's the fat and it's the salt.
No, it's not.
It's the potato.
Yeah.
That's right.
Well, it it's true.
Here's here's the thing, folks.
Look at again.
Here's the thing.
Because Rick is absolutely right.
Here's a guy who doesn't want any fat on his body, or as little does not know what's he doing?
He's eating fat and protein.
He's not eating carbs.
He needs every uh is as much muscle mass as he can get.
And he's not eating any carbs.
He's eating fat and protein, and he's probably very lean.
And I what what what is your what is your uh uh body fat percentage?
You know, I Rush, I couldn't tell you.
I'm I'm about five foot seven and about two hundred pounds, uh, but I still uh I'm in a size thirty-three pair of jeans if I can get the size to fit.
I I don't know what it is.
I I can answer my basement like five, six days a week, and I and I and I train with my weights, I watch what I eat.
It's gotta be under 10 percent.
It has to, it's probably lower than uh probably lower than that.
Rush, I feel good.
As long as I'm down there and I feel good.
I I eat what I want, though I'll order steak, I'll have a beer if I want.
Uh as long as I leave out the bread with the butter, or I leave out the potato or have small portions of carbon hydrox.
Maintaining a weight is relatively easy, but most people just they don't want to think about it.
Well, it's not look at this has been science for fifty years.
People in white lab coats have told us for fifty years.
And then we go to the doctor's office, and they have told us.
And then we've got all this cholesterol medicine, and we have all of it.
It's just people they they not only become aware of it, they become evangelists.
They want to save you from committing suicide by eating all these horrible things.
The point here, folks, again, in spending time in this, is that this, just like global warming, is presented as science.
And there wasn't anything scientific about the way Ansel Keys went around and established this idea that saturated fats cause heart attacks, heart disease, and clogged arteries.
I it it's a it's a shame, but science has become just as corrupt as any other institution that's touched by politics.
And it's it's it it it's got some protection because people think that science is unsullied.
People think science is untouched by uh by politics.
And it's it's one of the most political uh disciplines out there anymore.
Hell, half the people in science who earn a decent living do it by getting grants from various places to further research to prove a political point or to advance a political agenda.
The only effort here, honestly, I don't care what you eat.
I really don't.
Your business.
If you want to be a vegan, you go right ahead.
Just don't it please understand what you're doing.
You're not making your health yourself healthier and you're and don't preach to me about having to do what you do.
I'm I'm not one who wants to control what you I want you free will.
And I don't want you living and believing a bunch of lies.
And I want you to be able to spot who is lying to you the moment they do.
That's really the objective here.
I really if I can wave a magic wand, it would be that people can spot tainted political statements the moment they hear them.
Corrupt political, understand the political nature of practically everything around them.
If if if we could pull that off, we could stop liberalism in its tracks.
Because it would be demonstrated as fraudulent before a liberal even opened his mouth.
Anyway, Rick, I appreciate the call.
This is Cheryl in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yeah, you bet.
I just called because I heard you commiserating with people earlier about the um unfortunate choices they had for their commencement day speakers.
And I was calling to pile on and say, I think Yale is taking the cake this year.
My son is graduating, and we have to listen to John F. Kerry.
Or actually, do you propose that we listen to John F. Kerry on the class day, uh the day before the graduation, but um unfortunately we we are other uh otherwise um occupied at that time because we don't want to hear Kerry speaking.
Um, I don't know if you know if you don't want to go, that's fine.
And I don't blame you.
I mean, it some people, even if they're not afraid of it, you know, why why subject yourself to this?
It's just gonna be a bunch of clap tracks.
But we, you know, Carrie talks a lot, um, doesn't accomplish much, but says a lot of things and a lot of offensive things, and um his recent behavior has been particularly unfortunate.
And um at least Yale has the class uh to not rescind an invitation even after he does something offensive, um, unlike Rutgers, where they're just giving in to their liberal And the offensive thing that you're talking about is what?
Well, one of the most recent ones I thought was his um basically calling Israel um an apartheid state.
Right.
Which, of course, we know is not the case.
And um, he did he did that.
He he did that in private.
It wasn't intended for anybody to hear other than the trilateral commission and the one worlders in there, the new world order crowd.
And somebody taped it and it got out, and uh he then tried to deny it.
I am not going to sit here and allow people to categorize me.
Well, we're gonna have to allow us, sir.
You said it.
I I think Kerry is one of these guys.
Uh thinks he's the smartest person in the world and is actually a blithering idiot and doesn't know it.
Those are the worst kind.
They're also the funniest.
They take themselves so seriously.
They really, I mean, they think the cats meow.
They are just the cock of the walk.
They ju and and in truth.
People snicker and laugh at them behind their back once they finish.
Now, I'll give you an example here.
There is a story occurring out there that is not getting much reportage at all.
Amid a swelling international outcry, we're not hearing much about it here, over the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist terrorists.
You haven't seen this story reported in the U.S. You haven't?
I'm shocked.
Well, it's all over the international media.
Hundreds of Nigerian scrubel girls have been kidnapped by Islamist terrorists.
Our Secretary of State, John Forbes Carey, who served in Vietnam over the weekend pledged U.S. support for efforts to locate and rescue the girls.
He said the kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime, and we will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes and to hold the perpetrators at justice.
This is just not how terrorism is done in the 21st century.
No, he didn't say that, but he may as well have.
It's what he says about Putin.
And then listen to what he said about the Islamists who kidnapped these girls.
I'm not making this up.
John Kerry on the Islamic terrorists who kidnapped three hundred girls.
I honest to God, I'm not making this up.
He said, quote, they don't offer anything but violence.
They don't offer a health care plan.
Really, Mr. Secretary, you mean if the kidnappers had a health care plan, it might mitigate the circumstance some?
I am not making it up.
Right here's in my formerly, it's a cybercast news service.
And it is in the UK Daily Mail.
On the Islamic terrorists who kidnapped 300 children, they don't offer anything except violence.
They don't offer a health care plan.
They don't offer schools.
They don't tell you how to build a nation.
They don't talk about how they will provide jobs.
They just tell people you have to behave the way we tell you, and they will punish you if you don't.
It sounds like the Democrat National Committee platform to me, minus the health care.
But honest to Pete.
He's talking about Islamist terrorist kidnappers and saying one of the things bad about them is that they don't offer a health care plan to their victims.
Or to any other terrorists.
Terrorists do not have Obamacare.
So they're really bad people.
And they don't build schools for the girls that they've kidnapped.
He doesn't mean...
He's talking about for themselves and their own children and all that.
But this is how he's...
He's seeking to disqualify.
Here you have Islamists who terror uh terrorize and kidnap 300 girls and John Kerry, in hopes of explaining what rotten scum they are.
The first thing he points out is they don't offer a health care plan.
It's just you.
That is condensed idiocy.
And they don't build schools.
So he is comparing militant Islamist terrorists to what?
Obama and the compassion of Democrats?
We have a health care plan.
Those kidnappers, those terrorists, they don't.
So I guess if they had a health care plan, it wouldn't be quite as bad to be kidnapped by them.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time.
There is none left.
But doesn't matter.
There's always more, and there's always tomorrow, and we will be back.
And see you then 21 hours from now.
So I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day, productive night, whichever.
Remember, terrorists do not offer health care plans.
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