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And we today, ladies and gentlemen, are loaded.
Let me just give you a little rundown, just a taste of what's coming.
It's going to be impossible to get all of this in.
For example, the opening monologue.
As I said one day last week from Los Angeles, whatever your favorite news story is today, the favorite thing, the thing that you just can't wait to hear what I think about it.
It may take two hours.
Who knows?
I don't even know when I'm going to get to all this stuff.
We're so jam-packed today.
It's going to be a major editing job.
Donald Sterling is back.
You know the old phrase, boy really stepped in at this time.
I was telling Snerdley earlier this morning, it's like CNN went out there and got two buckets of excrement.
And they sat Sterling down in the interview chair and they say, put both feet into buckets now because we know what's going to happen.
And he did.
This guy stepped in it.
The NBA has already issued a condemnation of what Sterling said about the revered and untouchable Magic Johnson.
But it's even better than that.
Rick Berry, the former star player for many teams in the NBA, was on TV this morning from Denver.
He said, what is it?
Why don't these Sterling people realize nobody wants them in the NBA?
What is this talk about selling the team to his wife?
Why don't they just get rid of it and get out?
Like LeBron James said.
Man, I tell you, CNN must have used a hashtag, Save Our Ratings, and Sterling responded to it.
Speaking of hashtags, you would not, you would, you know, I have become the villain in the kidnap girl story.
Your host, harmless, lovable little fuzzball El Rushbo.
I'm the villain.
Because, well, because I'm not joined the groupthink on this silly hashtag business.
You know, I'm a holdout for actually doing something.
You know, did Reagan put a hashtag up saying Gorbachev tear down this wall, hashtag wall down, whatever.
No.
What was there?
A hashtag?
Did MacArthur use a hashtag Japanese hashtag surrender now or else?
No.
It took action.
Anyway, there's a couple things on the hashtag store.
One of them is a front page magazine today, which is David Horowitz's website.
And this guy's theory, you think I'm a villain.
And wait till you hear this guy's theory on this whole story of Boko Haram and the Nigerian government and Obama and Hillary.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, I guess it was around dinner time last night.
I was in the early stages of show prep for today.
And I decided to take a break.
And I went to my hobby, my tech blogs, and it was stunning.
You know, the tech blogs are popularized and populated by young millennial types, hipsters, want to be hipsters, think they're hipsters.
And it's really kind of sad.
It's great exercise in groupthink and propagandizing.
They just, I don't think they've ever been taught critical thought.
They've been propagandized.
And there's a story that the Antarctic ice is melting.
And there's real fear among young people, real fear that they are going to die in the next 100 years.
Story says that the Antarctic ice is blake on the western side is breaking off.
And this is going to cause a four-foot level or rise in sea level in 100 years.
And I'm not kidding.
There is abject thinking almost, my computer monitor almost got wet with tears as I'm reading about this.
And yet there's another story from another news agency that talks about how Antarctic ice is greater and greater volume than it's ever been.
It's just, it's a dichotomy or a dilemma.
We also have Carl Rove speculating that Mrs. Clinton might have suffered some sort of brain injury back in December of 2012, which is progress.
Generally, Carl thinks it's the Tea Party that's crazy.
Now he's thinking maybe Mrs. Clinton is crazy.
What happened here, reportedly, Carl Rove told a conference near Los Angeles on Thursday, and here it is in quotes, 30 days in the hospital.
And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury.
We need to know what's up with that.
Close quote.
Now, according to Hillary's flags, have responded to this, and they said she wasn't in the hospital for 30 days.
She was only in the hospital for three days.
She was hiding the other 27 days from the congressional investigations into Benghazi.
But I remember her absence.
We all do.
She was off the grid like Obama was that night, the night of Benghazi.
She was off the grid for 30 days afterwards.
And Rose is serious.
He thinks the New York Times is going to have to ask her about it because she's a presidential candidate.
And he's now saying, well, I never said she had brain damage.
I just said she suffered some sort of an injury, and we need to get answers to it.
My reaction is this.
If Hillary has brain damage, what difference does it make now?
What possible difference does it make now?
How it happened?
Or even if she has brain damage.
If you're going to start going down this road with Mrs. Clinton, you've got to go back a lot farther than December of 2012.
I mean, you remember how Hillary couldn't remember where she put the Rose law firm billing records.
She couldn't remember how she got hold of those 900 FBI files that she and Bill had somewhere.
Her answer to most questions back then was that she couldn't remember, so forth.
So anyway, the left is fit to be tied over what Rove said about Mrs. Clinton.
Maybe he's walking back brain damage, but he thinks that she suffered some kind of catastrophic or very serious injury when she fell.
And we know that she fell.
She hit her head on something.
And he says she's wearing those glasses that you only see when people have suffered major brain damage.
So, let's see what else, Sterling.
The Chamber of Commerce head to the GOP, if you don't pass amnesty this year, don't bother running a presidential candidate in 2016.
Well, they're speculating that he might be joking, but I don't, he was very pointed.
This is not out of character.
It's not out of the ordinary.
The Chamber of Commerce has been saying things like this for the longest time.
And Boehner said we're going to get to this, and the House is going to move on it starting in August sometime.
So, Snerdley, what do you want to do first?
You want to get into the NFL draft?
No, it's just about football.
What is there to talk about?
No, Snerdley was out sick yesterday and is unaware of what happened here on the program regarding the.
You know, I seriously let me turn off the ditto cam here for just a second.
I seriously thought about apologizing for what I said yesterday when I got here today, but I'm not going to and you weren't here and you missed it and I'm not going to go back there it was.
Maybe I should apologize, you know, I just folks, it has gotten so easy, it's become so easy to tweak the media that that it's become sport uh, for me here.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out here and I'm going to figure out what we want to start with this glacier.
I'm telling you it.
You you may think no big deal, but you know I'm zoned in folks on the future of the country.
The future of the country is young people and it's stunning how propagandized they've become.
And it's also stunning, is very troubling too, about how so many of them, it seems at least the ones that that we come in contact with here via what they write people express themselves publicly, the lack of any ability to critically think and just accept whatever propaganda has been force-fed them in high school, if they went to college and so forth, but this this,
the genuine fear of what's happening in the Antarctic is real.
Oh, that's Barkly.
Barkley is not going to apologize and he's being credited for it.
Barkley called the women of San De San Antonio, since he called them fat pigs, and everybody got all upset.
He said, i'm not going to apologize for it.
Everybody knows i'm on television and I try to have fun and I make jokes and i'm not going to apologize.
If you're waiting for an apology, you're going to be waiting forever.
And they're applauding Charles for not succumbing to the political correct, politically correct pressures out there.
You can't keep up with these people.
Who's exempt and who isn't, who gets a pass and who doesn't and, as I said yesterday, who is it that's determining all of this anyway?
Who is it that's determining who gets the pass and who gets forced out?
Excuse me, this is breaking up, by the way folks, on the tail end of the six weeks that i've had this cold or whatever it is.
So we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come out and uh, get started with all the rest.
Mix your phone calls in too, and remember it's going to take a while to get to all this.
So be patient.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, the Department OF Justice announced yesterday folks, that it will monitor polling places in two Nebraska counties during the tuesday, Republican primaries for possible civil rights violations.
Attorney general Eric Holders.
Department OF Justice will assign monitors to patrol polling places, Republican primaries, possible civil rights violations.
What they think Nebraska is a third world country So they don't have time to investigate Benghazi.
They don't have time to investigate any IRS abuses against the Teach Party.
They don't have time to investigate Fast and Furious.
They dismiss cases against the new Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia.
But they've got time for this.
Civil rights violations in Republican primary in Nebraska.
The big race there, former Bush administration official Ben Sassa and former state treasurer Shane Osborne are vying in the Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Civil rights violation.
Okay, I'll probably get in trouble for this since I have become villainized in the drive-by media.
But just based on what I'm seeing, hearing, reading, I actually think that the millennial generation possibly is the most indoctrinated generation in our country's history,
the most propagandized by the left from the time they were born into pre-K all the way through elementary school, haskruel, and in college.
You're just going to have to trust me.
The abject fear and panic over a glacier split up in Antarctica is real.
Now, here are the details.
First story is from Reuters and its datelined Oslo.
Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible fall linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on Monday.
Six glaciers, eaten away from below by a warming of sea waters around the frozen continent, were flowing fast into the Emundson Sea, according to the report, based partly on satellite radar measurements from 1992 to 2011.
Evidence shows a large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat, said lead author Eric Rignott, University of California Irvine, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
That's a NASA group.
Now, the coastal ends of the glaciers rest on bedrock below sea level.
Anyway, that's that's the Reuters story from the Daily Caller.
Someone let Al Gore know the South Pole is, by the way, these stories are both from yesterday.
Well, it says May 12, 2014 here.
Michael Bass says, somebody let Al Gore know the South Pole isn't melting.
Antarctic sea ice coverage reached record levels for April, hitting 3.5 million square miles, the largest on record.
It was a cold summer down in Antarctica, sea ice coverage growing about 43,500 square miles a day.
Now, what are we supposed to make of this?
The Reuters story everywhere else in the drive-by media, the Antarctic is melting and there's nothing we can do about it.
And that seems to be the theme on the tech blogs that I read as a hobby.
These young people are really scared, folks.
I mean, that's how deeply embedded this entire hoax is with this generation.
And to me, it's a troubling thing.
They're literally scared.
It's meaningless.
Four-level sea level arise, four-foot sea level rise in 100 years.
And that's a guess.
Nobody knows that that's going to happen.
Nobody knows if this is normal or abnormal.
But you put it in the context of global warming, man-made all of this, and there's literal fear.
Every story written by a young person I read about this was filled with panic, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Every story, and there's not a thing we can do.
There's nothing we can do.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
There's nothing we can do.
Yeah, well, what did we do to cause it?
They think we did.
It's so massive.
It's impossible that we can cause it.
Let's say that Richard Nixon was hated.
He was reviled.
He was evil.
So everybody hates Nixon.
Let's say Nixon back in 1972 got hold of H.R. Halleman, who was also hated.
Said, H.R., you know what?
I don't like Antarctica.
I don't like the way it looks on the map.
I don't like that I can't go there.
It's too cold.
I want you to get a hold of our best scientists and come up with a way to start making the ice down there melt.
Okay, what would we do to make the ice melt or the North Pole take your pick?
What would we do?
There's nothing we could do.
And yet, a whole generation of people think that because of the way they're living, no, because of the way their parents and grandparents have lived that this is happening.
This is what they've been taught.
It's what they believe.
And their solution, every damn one of them, is to hope somebody in government has an answer, even though they all say there's nothing we can do about it.
It's irreversible.
No, there's nothing we can do about it.
Still, they're hoping that some central authority somewhere will have the compassion and the power and the ability to do something about it.
And yet, from the Daily Caller, we're told that the continent is growing new ice at the rate of 43,500 square miles a day, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
And furthermore, April 2014 beats the previous sea ice coverage record from April 2008 by a whopping 124,000 square miles.
So there are competing stories.
There are two different versions of what's happening down there.
The apocalyptic version automatically believed because of the propagandizing that's taken place.
And it was, I don't know, I don't know if I can convey this.
Some of you might be like, Rush, what's the big deal?
Young people are young people.
I know.
But this is serious because it's just more pessimism.
It's more there's no future.
It's more the best days of this country are behind us.
It's more losing faith in the world and humanity and so forth.
That's not good.
It's not good for them.
It's not good for anybody.
We need people with upbeat, positive attitudes about the future and an honest recognition of what you can and can't control and then adapt to it rather than just freak out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
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Let me take one more stab at this.
Sometimes even I, ladies and gentlemen, communicator par excellence, even I sometimes think that I fail to actually convey or really thinking about something.
And it's taking another stab at this whole global warming and how the millennial generation, not just them, but it seems like every one of them, it just bought it, hookline, and sinker.
It's a hoax.
Critical thinking, just the application of critical thinking would expose it as a hoax.
The application of critical thinking would lead people to question the science in this and to realize that all these claims are just balderdash.
But yet, embracing it makes them feel good.
Embracing the whole notion of climate change makes them feel good.
And I can't help but wonder if one of the reasons for the popularity of this whole climate change hoax is that in the end it justifies a smaller and more Spartan existence.
Because after all, since we caused it, we have to pay the price fixing it.
All of these horrible rotten things are to blame for destroying the planet.
Of course, people can be absolved of this sin by agreeing to support bigger governments and higher taxes and inept concepts like income equality and so forth.
In the process, you end up justifying a smaller, more Spartan existence.
And thanks to Obama's economy, that's what millennials are going to be stuck with anyway, is a Spartan existence.
I mean, we've got economic growth in the negative numbers now.
We've got 92.5 million Americans not in the labor force, not working.
We got more people working part-time than ever.
We've got more people on unemployment for longer than ever.
We have more people on food stamps than ever.
We've got more people living a Spartan existence in the world's greatest and most powerful economy than outside the Great Depression.
And this is said to be, by some in the regime, the new normal.
This is what you'd better get used to.
In fact, there's got a couple of soundbites.
Oh, from this French Marxist economist, Toma Picotty.
Toma Pikati says that the 20 years of economic boom following Reagan, that was an aberration.
That was the exception to the rule.
That's not real.
We need to go back to the tax rates and the lifestyles before Reagan got to the White House and started messing everything up.
He also said he's not a Marxist.
So he's a liar, number one, or else he just doesn't know himself.
So the real economic growth, the real growth in wealth, the absolute positive measurement of practically every economic statistic that matters, is an aberration now.
It was a fluke, in fact, I think is the word.
It was a fluke.
And that's not really the way America is.
And it's never really the way America was.
And so we have to return to this Spartan-type lifestyle, which the Obama economy is forcing on everybody.
So why not be noble about it?
Like not having a nice car.
This is the first generation in my memory that is proudly talking about not wanting a car, not caring about cars.
And there must be some sort of nobility in this.
There's some sort of Not a superiorist attitude, but we're way ahead of the game in terms of maturation.
We know that having a big card and ice, that's not the answer.
That was all phony baloney stuff.
So this noble self-sacrifice for the planet dovetails nicely with not being able to get a job anyway.
So turn what is a disastrous set of economic policies that lead to a disastrous economy into some noble Spartan lifestyle by supporting some cause that that lifestyle will serve to fix.
And that may be one of the attractions here.
I don't know.
But it bothers me because, like I say, the 20 years of Reagan, well, the eight years of Reagan and 12 years that followed, they were not an aberration.
They were not a fluke.
They were an example of what can be.
They were real.
Flukes don't last 20 years.
Accidents like that don't happen and last for 20 years.
We want the best for everybody on this program.
We want everybody to do well, to maximize their potential, to use their God-given freedom to be whatever they want to be, the best they can be.
And that doesn't seem to be part of their thinking.
All that seems to be impossible.
It really breaks my heart, folks, when I come across attitudes like this.
So unnecessary.
And that's why I started asking, how did it happen?
And I have to look at education.
I have to look at where did this inculcation of propaganda start?
Where did this blitz?
The first generation I've known that has lost faith in the country.
They're openly saying, not only have lost faith in the country, they've lost faith in themselves because they haven't succeeded like their parents did or grandparents or what have you.
It's a problem.
And it's being exploited for political power by the Democrat Party.
Anyway, it just troubles me.
And I don't quite know how else to say it.
It's rooted in my desire that this country be great.
That requires individual greatness.
It requires the pursuit of excellence.
It requires a whole bunch of things that have seemingly been weeded out of people by the education system in this country.
It's a troubling thing.
I mean, you've all got kids and grandkids are going to grow up.
What kind of country do you want them to have and be part of?
What kind of opportunity do you want them to have?
What kind of freedom do you want them to have?
All that matters to me.
We all want to have a legacy.
We all want our lives to be meaningful.
We all want to leave some vestige of our time on Earth that's positive as an example for others.
And knowing how easy it is to get caught up in pessimism, that's easy.
It's easy to get caught up in negativism.
It's easy to get caught up in can't.
Everybody can do it.
You don't need to read a book to learn how to fail.
We all know how.
But the lack of positive, inspiring, uplifting things.
A story about the Antarctic and a piece of ice breaking off can scare people to death and think that their world is over.
Man, that, to me, is a testament to how effective all of this propaganda has been.
Brief time out, we'll take it and come back, continue.
Much more here, the EIB network and El Rushbo back after this.
No, no, no.
This Antarctic melting ice story is everywhere and every story.
It's past the point of return.
Antarctic glaciers melting past point of no return.
Nothing we can do anything about.
Collapse of Antarctic ice sheet underway and unstoppable, but will take centuries.
That is the Washington Post.
And then here's the story that isn't everywhere in the Daily Caller.
Global cooling, Antarctic ice covering or coverage continues to break records.
So you have one group that's come out and said, Antarctic ice is breaking up.
It's melting.
It's going to be four degrees hotter in 100 years, and there's nothing we can do.
And that is automatically believed and received with panic.
Did we forget the group just last winter?
That group, remember the fun we had with this?
There was a group of people on a boat, a ship, and they went down.
They were on the way down to Antarctica to prove that it was melting, and they got trapped in the ice that they didn't know was there.
There was so much more ice than they thought was there.
They got trapped.
And so did two icebreakers, including a Chikom icebreaker, got trapped down there trying to rescue these people.
That was just last year.
It took three icebreakers to get down there and rescue these global warming people who went down there to prove that the place was melting.
Just last year.
So it doesn't take much to cause this panic and move the needle on this.
The pessimistic story automatically.
And I know that's not new.
Don't misunderstand.
That isn't new.
Pessimism is automatically believed.
But there are two stories today, and there's only one of them that's everywhere.
And the reason is, is because this is a political issue and it fits right in with the Democrat Party's political agenda.
And that's why it is everywhere.
Okay, hashtag.
And by the way, those of you on hold, hang in there.
We're coming to you.
Save our girls.
Hashtag.
I have become the villain in this story.
I am more responsible for whatever's happened here than Boko Harum is.
They are the kidnappers.
They are the mean people.
They are the bad people.
They are the ones who kidnapped about 300 girls.
They've converted 150 of them, maybe all of them, to Islam.
And I have become the villain because I just refused to join the media groupthink on this.
So I have here a couple of stories.
One of them from Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine, David Horowitz's piece.
And I just want to read you a pull quote from this piece.
The other piece, by the way, is in the Wall Street Journal and the headline, a selfie-taking, hashtagging teenage administration.
So you see, I am not the only one who thinks that hashtags are meaningless when it comes to genuinely dealing with a problem or solving it.
George Will even said this, but he's not villain-looking or acting, so they ignore him.
But this Daniel Greenfield piece, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton are not championing Bring Back Our Girls, that hashtag, because it's a hashtag in support of the kidnapped girls.
No, no, no.
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton are championing the hashtag Bring Back Our Girls because it undermines the Nigerian government.
I want you to brace yourselves for this guy's opinion.
Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine.
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, all of them, they're not trying to help the kidnap girls.
They're trying to bring down a government that hasn't gone along with their agenda for appeasing Boko Haram and Nigerian Muslims.
The hashtag politics are not aimed at the terrorists.
Now, the rank and file, the low-information people, average ordinary Americans on social media, this guy's opinion is not about them.
If you're just Joe Q six-pack and you're getting behind it, fine and dandy, you're doing your show and you care, getting around the issue.
But the leaders, the organizers, the people that are prominent, this guy's opinion is that the hashtag politics is not aimed at the terrorists.
It's aimed at helping them.
He says there's a reason why the media and so many leftists have embraced this hashtag, bring back our girls.
It's not a rescue.
The reason they're behind it is because it denounces the Nigerian government for not having already gotten the job done, even as the State Department stands ready to denounce any human rights violations during a rescue attempt.
Obama and Boko Haram want to bring down the Nigerian government and replace it with a leadership that is more amenable to appeasement.
It's the same thing that's happening in Israel and Egypt.
So let me translate.
Mr. Greenfield is saying here that the reason that the regime and Hillary and Michelle Obama and Barack are getting behind the hashtag movement is because they want governments that will tolerate and appease militant Islam.
Such is the fear of terrorism, such as the fear of what militant Islam can do, that the going theory is, if we're just nice to them, if we don't provoke them, if we show them we mean them no harm, that they won't do anything to us.
Don't misunderstand.
He's not saying that Michelle Obama and Barack Obama are sympathetic to militant Islam.
He's saying they're scared to death of them, and any government that doesn't appease them is making them more dangerous.
And so we've got to appease them.
That's why we've got to condemn this practically non-existent video for what happened in Benghazi and Cairo.
Making the point here that there's just total fear and that appeasement is the only way.
And by the way, he's right in terms of the way the left deals with enemies.
The left doesn't take them on.
The left appeases them.
The message is, look, we don't hate you.
Look at after 9-11.
What did the State Department do?
This was the Bush state.
They had a forum on why do the terrorists hate us.
What did we do to make them do this?
So this belief that we are causing this, there's also a belief that Boko Harem exists because a government is unfriendly to them and is trying to oppress them rather than be nice to them and accept them.
It's the government of Nigerians' fault here.
And if we could just get rid of that government, get a government in there that appeases, then they'll stop kidnapping girls.
That's this guy's opinion.
And he says it's not just their strategy for Nigeria.
It's their universal approach to Islamic terrorism.
It is why John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, it's why Kerry blamed Israel for the collapse of the peace talks of the PLO.
It's why Egypt is being pressured to free its Muslim Brotherhood detainees, and it's why the United States is never allowed to defeat Al-Qaeda.
And I'm reading quotes from this piece at Front Page magazine.
Obama is trying to bring down governments that fight Islamic terrorism, whether in Egypt, Israel, or Nigeria, and replace them with governments that appease terrorists.
This shared goal creates an alliance, direct or indirect, open or covert, between Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama and the PLO, Obama and Boko Haram.
Now, let's stop for a second.
Obama and the PLO versus Israel.
Who is Obama sympathetic to?
Kerry, PLO.
Muslim Brotherhood is in power in Egypt or was because of Obama.
And now the theory is that Boko Harem, they're not the bad guys.
The Nigerian government is.
And the purpose of the hashtag is aimed at destabilizing the Nigerian government because they're not properly appeasement-oriented toward Boko Haram or all of militant Islam.
Back in just a second.
Okay, look, what you just heard may be hard to believe, but ask yourself, why didn't Obama and Hillary do anything about Boko Haram when they had a chance?
Why did they not call it a terror group?
And Daniel Greenfield's theory is they resisted doing anything about Boko Haram because they believe that Boko Harem exists because of the oppression of Muslims by the Nigerian government.