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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 go back to the Daily California, the 10 things you need to know about Pelosi.
This is the Scrool newspaper if you read this.
And Pelosi's coming into your commencement, they have these 10 things you need to know about her.
She keeps Ghirardelli 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 and 30 Rock.
She made a YouTube video with her cats.
Diane Furstenberg made a tote bag in honor of her.
She's a big fan of 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick's tattoos.
But she's cool.
See?
Pelosi's cool.
She's so cool.
She's hip.
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 correspondents dinner, the NerdProm last weekend, Pelosi said she's confident that the THICOMs 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, J.P. Morgan Chase just lowered the estimate for first quarter growth to a negative 0.8%.
Goldman Sachs lowered their estimate to negative 0.6%, which is to say that both J.P. 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, J.P. Morgan Chase, negative 0.08%, and Goldman Sachs 0.06 negative.
I mean, it just 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 somebody 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.
The new one is climate disruption.
Well, climate change, they can't get anywhere near a majority of people caring about this.
The economy remains everybody's number one concern.
So climate disruption is the next catchphrase that they're going to use in trying to persuade people.
But we have some soundbites of Obama being interviewed by these TV weather people.
And up first, 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, 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 yet.
Well, it manifests itself as weather.
I mean, 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 Niño slows the Earth's rotation on its axis?
Had you heard that, Brian?
El Niño.
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 change report came out, and what do they tell us it's going to 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.
Not kidding, folks.
But it's this here's so here you have this reporter, this formula just swallows it all, just eats it up.
The White House, the government, the government, the Obama administration, released a report.
Just believe it.
Just totally.
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.
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 going to 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 going to 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 going to be alive today.
I just, the whole thing just, 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 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 sounding this urgency for the last five years.
If we don't do more, we're going to have bigger problems, more risk of economic impact, and more risk of extreme weather events that can result in people losing their lives or losing their properties or businesses.
And we've got to have the public understand this is an issue that is going to 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 going to have bigger problems.
We're going to 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 going to 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 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've got to act al.
Does this mean, Mr. President, that you have a way of preventing these extreme weather events?
Yep, we do.
It's called raising taxes on the rich and EPA regulation on what you drive and things like that.
Oh, really?
So raising taxes and changing the cars people drive, that's going to 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 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 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 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.
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 climate change, meaning that if we can get our arms around climate change and stop it, we're going to 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 a 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 Z after her interview was on ABC's World News tonight, and she was all excited.
Well, Keystone's probably not going to be a determinant factor.
We're going to have to continue to increase 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 and there's big spaces here.
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 he 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 a determinant fact.
We're going to have to continue to increase solar, wind, we're using in other 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.
You can 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 Soundbi number 10.
Then she was 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 now.
Let me take a break.
Otherwise, there are going to be a short 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 RushLimbaugh.com just sent me a quick note.
Documents released Friday, and this is from July of 2010, folks.
So it's in the archives at rushlimbaugh.com.
Documents released Friday, 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 a 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 privilege to talk to you.
A long time listener, I consider you my silent inspirational business partner.
Hey, I love the way that you correlated the low-fat myth with people's unwillingness to have critical thinking and just with the global warming.
I've been a bodybuilder since the 80s and have been preaching about the low-fat myth forever, and people just don't want to listen.
I mean, I remember when the Atkins book came out, and 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 60s.
Yeah, I practiced the Atkins diet when it came out, and you're right.
There were people, you're going to kill yourself.
That's absolutely horrible.
You've got to have your vegetables.
You've got to have carbohydrates.
No, you're going to get diabetes.
And this stuff is so ingrained in people that they literally get mad at you when you violate what they think is a life-threatening dietary regimen.
I've gotten into arguments with family members who are dieticians.
I've gotten arguments with doctors, nurses.
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?
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.
She knows, well, why'd you bring that home?
Well, you know, it's low fat, it's good for you.
We'll turn it over.
Look at the label.
This first ingredient is sugar or fructose or corn syrup.
He said, kids are gaining weight.
Okay, what are they drinking?
Apple juice, pineapple juice, grape juice.
I mean, things that are just loaded with carbohydrates.
I used to get into talk to people and say, you know, what's bad about that French fry?
What's bad about that potato chip?
Oh, it's the fat and it's the salt.
No, it's not.
It's the potato.
Yeah, that's right.
Here's the thing, folks.
Look at it again.
Here's the thing.
Because Rick is absolutely, here's a guy who doesn't want any fat on his body or as little as what's he doing.
He's eating fat and protein.
He's not eating carbs.
He needs every, he's 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.
What is your body fat percentage?
You know, Rush, I couldn't tell you.
I'm about 5'7 and about 200 pounds, but I still, I'm in a size 33 pair of jeans if I can get the thighs to fit.
I don't know what it is.
I go downstairs to my basement like five, six days a week, and I train with my weights.
I watch what I eat.
It's got to be under 10%.
It's probably lower than, probably lower than that.
Rush, I feel good.
As long as I'm down there and I feel good, I eat what I want, though.
I'll order steak.
I'll have a beer if I want.
As long as I leave out the bread with the butter or I leave out the potato or have small portions of carbohydrates, 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 50 years.
People in white lab coats have told us for 50 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 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.
It's a shame, but science has become just as corrupt as any other institution that's touched by politics.
And it's got some protection because people think that science is unsullied.
People think science is untouched by politics.
And it's one of the most political 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.
It's your business.
If you want to be a vegan, you go right ahead.
Just don't, please understand what you're doing.
You're not making yourself healthier.
And don't preach to me about having to do what you do.
I'm not one who wants to control what you want your 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 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 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, they propose that we listen to John S. Kerry on the class day, the day before the graduation.
But unfortunately, we are otherwise occupied at that time because we don't want to hear Kerry speak.
Well, if you don't want to go, that's fine.
And I don't blame you.
I mean, some people, even if they're not afraid of it, you know, why subject yourself to this?
It's just going to be a bunch of claps.
We're not afraid of it, but we, you know, Kerry talks a lot, doesn't accomplish much, but says a lot of things and a lot of offensive things.
And his recent behavior has been particularly unfortunate.
And at least Yale has the class to not rescind an invitation even after he does something offensive, 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 basically calling Israel an apartheid state.
Right.
Which, of course, we know is not the case.
And he did that.
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 he then tried to deny it.
I am not going to sit here and allow people to categorize me.
Well, we don't have to allow us, sir.
You said it.
I think Kerry is one of these guys 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 a cock of the walk.
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 schoolgirls have been kidnapped by Islamist terrorists.
Our Secretary of State, John Forbes Kerry, 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 300 girls.
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.
I have right here to my former, it's a cybercast news service, and it was 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 healthcare.
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 seeking to disqualify.
Here you have Islamists who terrorize and kidnapped 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.
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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